No. 699. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1838. PRICE 5D. ASTON CHURCH RATE. THE Rate Payers of this Parish, who are opposed to Church Rates, aie requested to attend a Meeting to he held at the. Black Horse Tavern, corner of Woodcock- street. Prospect- row, on Monday evening next, at Seven o'clock precisely, to determine upon such measures as may lie considered necessary to counteract the illegal proceed- ings which took place at the Vestry Meeting on the 17th instant. 26th October, ,1838. TO THE CLERGY. THE Guardians of the Poor of the Parish of Bir- mingham are desirous of engaging a Clergyman of the Established Church, in full orders, as Chaplain to the Birmingham Workhouse, to which is attached an Infirmary, containing many sick patients. There is a convenient Chapel within the Establishment A general outline of the duties required maybe obtained on application to the Governor at the Workhouse. Salary £ 100 per annum. N. E. The duties to be performed will not preclude the Chaplain from entering into other engagements. Applications to be lodged with the Vestry Clerk, on or before the 19th November. Workhouse Vestry, October 25th, 1838. POTATOES PERSONS desirous of supplying the Birmingham Workhouse and the Asylum, with 900 Bushels of best POTATOES, are requested to send in samples and sealed tenders, on or before Wednesday, the 7th of Novem- ber, addressed to the " House Provision Committee." Any further particulars may be known on application to Mr. T. ALCOCK, Governor. Workhouse Vestry, October 25th, 1838. General Post Office. October 16, 1838. IVOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that Her Ma- _ L\ jesty's Postmaster General will be ready to receive Tenders, on or before the lOtii day of November next, at Twelve o'Clock, for Running a Mail Coach with Two Horses, between Coventry, Atherstone, and Asliby de la Zouch. . The Conditions may be seen on Application to the Post Offices, at Coventry, Atherstone, and Ashbyde la Zouch, or at the Office of the Surveyor and Superintendent of Mail Coaches, in London. The Tenders are to be Endorsed Tenders for the " Coven- try, and Ashby de la Zouch Mail Coach." Sealed up and addressed to Her Majesty's Postmaster General. By Command, W. L. MABERLY, Sec. F. C. COLMOllE, ESQ.' S, GROUND TENANTS. THE Ground Tenants of F. C. Colmore, Esq., are requested to pay their RENTS, which became due at Michaelmas last, on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd days of November next, at our office in Bennett's- hill, where attendance will be given from ten o'clock in the morning until five in the evening. BARKER AND SON. Oct. 6, 1833. GROUND TENANTS OF THE MOST NOBLE THE MARQUIS OF HERTFORD. THE Ground Tenants of the Most Noble the Marquis of Hertford are requested to pay their RENTS, which became due at Michaelmas last, on Thurs- day, Friday, and Saturday, the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd days of November next, at our office in Bennett's- hill, where attend- ance will be given from ten o'clock in the morning until five in the evening. BARKER AND SON. Oct. 6,1838. Just published in twelves, price 3s. 6d. cloth, HOARY HEAD AND THE VALLIES BELOW. By JACOB ABBOT, author of " The Young Christian," Published by HAMILTON, ADAMS, and Co., 33, Paternoster- row, and sold by B. HUDSON, Birmingham. THE IMPROVED ART OF GOVERNING THE HORSE. J. THOMPSON, < Reg. S. Major, from the 15th Hussars, and late Staff Corps of Cavalry,) RESPECTFULLY informs those Ladies and Gen- tlemen, that wish to attain the tiue art of Governing the Horse with ease and elegance, that his RIDING SCHOOL, NEAR NEW HALL HILL, is open every day for private lessons; which include the use of the Leaping Bar. Gentlemen are taught to mount and dismount on either side of the Horse, to make it steady with flags, drums, kites & c., the report of gun or pistol, and under all circumstances of the field, road, 8ic. Families and Schools attended, for improved exercises on foot. gjr Ladies and Gentlemen may rest assured that the most gentle means are adopted by J. Thompson in his modes of instruction, so much so, that an invalid might practise them without danger or inconvenience. Ladies and Gentlemen hot provided with Horses, may he suitably accommodated therewith, and at a moderate charge - " VI7HEREAS a fiat in bankruptcy is awarded and issued forth against JOSEPH BETTRIDGE, of Birmingham, in the county of Warwick, timber merchant, dealer and chapman, and lie being declared a bankrupt, is hereby required to surrender himself to the Commissioners in and by the said fiat named and authorised, or three of tliem, on the thirtieth day of October instant, and the twenty seventh day of November next, at one o'clock in the afternoon of each of the said days, at Dee's Royal Hotel, in Temple- row, in Birmingham afoiesaid, and make a full discovery and disclosure of his estate and effects, when and where the creditors are to come prepared to prove their debts, arid at the first sitting to choose assignees, and at the last sitting the said bankrupt is required to finish his exam- ination, and the creditors are to assent to or dissent from the allowance of his certificate. All persons indebted to the said bankrupt, or that have any of his effects, are not to pry or deliver the same but to whom the Commissioners shall appoint, but to give notice to Messrs. TAYLOR, SHAHPE FIELD, and JACKSON, solictors, 41, Bedford- row, London WILLIAM BARLOW, Solicitor. Bennett's- hill, Birmingham, Oct. 15, 1838. or to RADICAL CURE OF CORNS, WITHOUT CUT- TING, OR THE LEAST PAIN. MONSIEUR . T. PICARD, from Paris, has the honour to announce to the inhabitants of Birming- ham and its vicinity, that he undertakes the total eradication of CORNS, BUNIONS, and every hard substanceon < r between the Toes, without cutting, by means of an elixir of liis own composition. The operation is performed in the short space of two minutes, without the least pain, and the patient may resume his dress and occupation, with the satis- faction of carrying the corn or root in his hand. Mons. P. is in possession of a great number of flattering testimonials, granted to him in France and other foreign parts, and by distinguished physicians and surgeons, which have been given twelve months after the cure. The Doctor will give attendance daily from eight to ten in the morning, and from three to five in the evening, at his residence, at Mr. B. HANSON'S, 13, Cannon- street, Bir- mingham. All letters, post paid, will be instantly attended to. CORNS. DICKER'S OPIATE CORN PLASTER, for the removal of Corns, Bunions, and all hard fleshy sub- stances on the feet. It is admitted by the thousands who have tried it, and the most sceptical, to be the only remedy ever offered to public notice; it acts both as an opiate and solvent, by relieving the most excruciating pain, and gradu- ally dissolving the callous or homy substance. Prepared only and sold by Wii. DICKER, chemist, 235, Strand, next door to Temple Bar, London, in boxes Is. ljd. each. Sold also by Messis. J. M. Knott, Wood. Flewitt, and Shillitoe, High- street, Birmingham ; Harper, Hodgkin- son, and Roberts, Warwick; Stanley, and Newby, Lea- mington ; where likewise can be procured DICKER'S AROMATIC ESSENCE, an instant relief for the Tooth Ache, in bottles Is. l^ d. each. BARRACK CANTEENS. Office of Ordnance, London, 24th October, 1838. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the Can- teen in the undermentioned Barrack is TO be LET, upon the following conditions, to the 30th of September, 1839: — No person but of unexceptionable character, nor any person who will not undertake, bona- fi. de, to reside in the Canteen, and conduct the business thereof in his own per- son, will be approved; and two sureties will be required for the regular payment of the rent, and of all sums which may become due in respect of the said Canteen, and for the due performance of the several conditions and stipulations of the lease. The revenue or other licenses to be paid by the tenant. The person whose proposal shall be accepted ( and his sureties) must execute an Indenture of Lease,— must pay the Stamp Duty, the amount of which, and all further par- ticulars, may be known by applying at this Office, or to the Barrack Master at the Barracks. The names of two respectable persons, with their christian names, professions, and places of abode, who will join the tennnt in executing the indenture as his sureties, must be inserted in the proposals ; and no proposal will be attended to which is not accompanied by the written consent of the Persons named to be the proposer's sureties. Sealed proposals, addressed to the Secretary to the Board of Ordnance, with the words " Tender for Canteen," written on the outside cover, will he received at this Office at or before twelve o'clock at noon of Monday, 12th No- vember next, after which hour any proposal received cannot be noticed. By the Mutiny Act Canteens are not liable to have Troops billetted on them. I RENT OF THE CANTEEN AS A STATION. | DWELLING. Birmingham. | Fourteen Pounds per Annum By order of the Board, R. BY HAM, Secretary. ARESPECTABLE BENEFIT SOCIETY, com prising Sixteen Persons, with a Fund, are willing to treat with another upon equal terms. Apply at the Printer's. FREDERICK EGERTON AND CO., ( LATE DAVIS,) Wholesale and Retail Wine and Brandy Merchants, 102, Diybeth, Birmingham. IN soliciting the attention of the Trade and the Public to their annexed List of Prices, beg to state that their many years'experience in the trade, together with their connection with the leading Shipping Houses in the Fo- reign and London markets, has enabled them to lay in a Stock of WINES and SPIRITS of the very highest qua- lity, and at prices that ( without assuming any exclusive superiority) will bear comparison with any house in the kingdom, no matter how great its pretensions. PRIVATE FAMILIES AND ECONOMISTS will find it to their advantage to inspect F. E. and Co's Stock, where the lead ing feature is FIRST RATE QUALITY, combined with the lowest possible remunerating profit to the retailer. To THE TRADE, whose consumption does notwarrant the frequent visiting of the London markets, F. E. and Co. offer the advantage of their experience, as by purchasing largely they are enabled to put them on a footing far supe- rior to those Houses whose expenses for Representatives, & c., compel them to lay on enormous profits on second rate articles. As the limit of an advertisement prevents their entering more fully into particulars, they respectfully request " one trial," winch they feel confident will fully bear out all that could be said in a more lengthy detail, of the advantages they now offer to the trade, and consumers in general. Per dozen. PORT.— From the wood— agennine Opor- to Wine — 28s. Crusted, fine quality 30s. to 33s. Ditto, superior, three to five years in bottle 36s. to 42s, N. B A Bin of " Offley's" se- lected old Port, warrantedeight years in bottle, not to be sur- passed — 52s. SHERRY From the wood, excellent quality — 28s Superior Pale, old, in bottle — 30s. Ditto, highest quality, pale or brown 36s. to 42s. Curious Old Brown, much appre- ciated by the Connoisseur — 48s. MARSALA and BRONTI, excellent Dinner Wines — 28s. Ditto, Ditto. Woodhouse's Ship- ping — 30s. CAPE MADEIRA, of the highest class — 20s. CAPE SHERRY, very pale and superior — 24s. LISBON, dry and rich, Holford's Shipping, first quality — 36s. BUC. ELL A S, full flavoured, very superior — 42s. TENT, real liota — 42s. CHAMPAGNE, CLARET, MOSELLE, and all other Wines at equally low prices. FOREIGN SPIRITS. Per gallon. COGNAC BRANDY. Hennessey's Shipping 29s. to 30s. Ditto, ditto, very old and superior ... — 32s. Curious Old Champagne Brandy, pale — 34s. Ditto, ditto, ditto, warranted fifteen years old — 40s RUM Wedderburn's highest marks — 16 « . Ditto, ditto, very old, pine- apple flavour 13s. to 16s. HOLLANDS, " SCHIEDAM" — 32s. BRITISH SPIRITS. LONDON GIN 8s. to 10s. Ditto, ditto, stipeiior cordial — 13s. Ditto, ditto. Old Tom — 14s. Fine WINE BRANDY 12s. to 16s. SCOTCH WHISKY 14s. to 16s. Ditto, ditto, small- still Farintosh 16s. to 20s. Every description of Cordials, equally cheap anil good. Londo- i Double distilled and White Wine PICKLING VINEGARS. CAUTION. — F. E. wishes it to be distinctly understood that this Establishment has no connection with any other firm in Birmingham. He deems this announcement neces- sary from the fact of Peters and Co. having put forth a circular wherein they thought it necessary to introduce his name. BETTS'S PATENT BRANDY. NPRIE peculiarly wholesome properties of BETT'S PATENT BRANDY secured exclusively to this favourite beverage by PATENT RIGHT, and the total failure in all attempts at pro- ducing an article with the slightest pretensions to approach it in quality, afford the best evidence that it requires but a wider trial of its merits, to extend that patronage, which is already without parallel in the annals of trade. THE PATENTEES are therefore most anxious that the pub- lie should compare the PATENT BRANDY with the finest sam- ples of Foreign production ; being assured that such compa- rison will further establish its decided superiority over every other spirit. The high Chemical Testimonials in its favour frequently published since its introduction in 1829, and its constant use by many thousand families in every class of society, lead di- rectly to the conclusion, that it will at no distant period, rival the consumption, if it do not altogether supersede, the use of French Brandy. The Distillery, No. 7, SMITHFIELD BARRS, LONDON, is the only Establishment of J. T. BETTS & Co. The Agents appointed for this district of country are Mr. JOHN SKELTON Birmingham. Mr. Thomas Dmlnm Lichfield. Mr. John Dell - Coventry. Mr. C. S. Clarke Wolverhampton. Mr. GeorgeJull ™ . 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. SOCIALISM. rj^ HIS DAY IS PUBLISHED, No 1, New Series, J price Twopence, of THE NEW MORAL WORLD. J. GUEST, Steelhouse- lane; CLEAYK, London; HKYWOOD. Manchester; and all booksellers. NEW MUSIC. Just published, and may be had at the principal Music Shops, rr< HE following NEW PIANO- FORTE LES- JL SONS, by Mr. SIMMS, Organist of St. Philip's Church, and Trinity Chapel, Birmingham :— " Theme Tyrolipiine," with variations. " Waltz Rondo," ( Effusio di Momento.) " Introduction and Polacoa."— Inscribed to Moscheles. " Hymn to the Setting Sun."—( The words from James's Historical Romance of " Attila.")] Also may be had of the same Author, " Introduction and Brilliant Rondo."— Inscribed to the Right Hon. the Countess of Bradford. " Introduction and Fantasia."— Inscribed to the Right Hon. the Countess of Plymouth. " Bohemian Melody," with Variations.— Inscribed to the Right Hon. the Countess of Dartmouth. Also a new edition of the celebrated Introductory Hymn, " Lift up your heads," as sung by the childien of the Blue Coat Chaiity School in Birmingham. NEW ANNUAL FOR 1839. This day is published, riMlE ANNUAL of BRITISH LANDSCAPE J- SCENERY. Embellished with twenty plates, from drawings by Copley Fielding, D. Cox, & c. The literary part by L. A. TWAMLEY. Large 8vo., 12s. handsomely bound. " This is a most beautiful work. The illustrations are chit- fly from diawings by those eminent artists, Cox and Fielding, the whole of which are admirably engraved. The letter- press, by the author of " THE ROMANCE OF NATURE," is highly interesting; many of the descriptions being at once graphic, eloquent, and full of poetic feeling. Nor is its excellence its sole recommendation— for here we have a large volume, with twenty plates, elegantly bound, fortwelve shillings."— Plymouth Herald. " This is a desirable addition to the number of our an- nuals and one which will, doubtless, meet with as much success as any one of them.!'— Court Journal. " There are landscapes in this volume of most exquisite character. * * We can conscientiously recommend the work."— Examiner. ORR and Co., London; and WRIGHTSON and WEBB, Bir- mingham. Sold by all bookselleis. Just Published, neatly bound in cloth, price 4s. BICKERSTETH'S CHRISTIAN TRUTH, or Family Guide to the Chief Truths of the Gospel, a Pocket Edition, comprising 512 pages; also in 21 numbers, at 3s 7d., or five parts at 4s. ' Ibis work has been in the course of publication the last four years; it consists of the following subjects, viz .: — Part I., price 9d. 1. The Holy Scriptures. 2. The Great God. 3. Creation. 4. Providence. Part II., price 9d. 5. Redemption by Christ, fl. Inter- cession of Christ. 7. The Holy Spirit. 8. The Work of the Spirit. Part III., price 9d. 9. Christ, our Life. 10. Christian Privileges. 11. Christian Graces. 12. Repentance and Faith. Part IV., price9d. 13. Christian Holiness. 14. Affiic tions. 15. The Christian Conflict. 16. Spiritual Joy. 17 Prayer. Part V., price 19. 18. Praise. 19. The Creed, the Ten Commandments, and Lord's Prayer. 20. Forms of Prayer. 21. Hints for Prayer. Individuals wishing to complete their sets may obtain numbers or parts ofS. STAUGHTON, Hertford; or L. and G. SEELEY, Fleet- street, London. Also the Thirty- fifth Thousand of BICKERSTETH'S CHRISTIAN PSALMODY, containing a collection of above 800 Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs; for public, family, and private worship. Dedicated by permission to the Lord Bishop of Lincoln. Sold at 2s. in cloth ; embossed roan, 2s. 6d.: calf, 3s. Twelve copies for£ l-, or Twenty- fivefor £ 2. Large edition : cloth, 4s. 6d.; roan, 5s. 6d.; coloured calf, 6s. 6d. *,* Clergymen writing ( postpaid) to Mr. STAUGHTON, Hertford, maybe supplied at a lower rate. Just Published, containing 100 pages, closely printed, Demy 8vo., Price 6d. HANNAY AND DIETRICH SEN'S ALMANACK, Court Register, and Book of General Information for the Year 1839. fff^ HE following opinions of the Press, of this - I. A LM AN A CK, for the past year, are given, to exhibit in some measure the character of the work. Stimulated by the very large sale it obtained, the proprietors have added twenty eight pages additional lor the next year, forming in the whole 100 pages. In addition to the matter contained before, there is given a Chronological summary; the Army List is given Alphabetically, and an Alphabetical List of the Royal Navy is added; also, the Queen's Household is given in full, and the whole of the other matters have been re arranged, so as to render it as complete as possible. " This is by far the cheapest as well as one of the most useful Almanacks that we have yet seen, it contains seventy- two large octavo pages for sixpence, and is peculiarly adapted for country circulation from the nature of its con- tents. We may particularly allude to the full list of fairs and provincial banks. The daily notice of Astronomical phenomena is a very valuable feature."— Gloucester Chro- nicle. " A new Almanack, containing a mass of general inform- ation on a variety of subjects— meteorological, chronological, legal, political, military, commercial, and agricultural,— ami eminently superior in its astronomical department,— has been published by Messrs. Hannay and Dietrichsen; at a price, too, which even in these days of cheap literature, is scarcely less remarkable than the publication itself."— Watchman. " This is, without exception, the cheapest book we ever saw— seventy- two closely printed octavo pages for sixpence. To specify its contents would far exceed the space we can spare; it seems to contain almost every thing an Almanack can have, and in the astronomical department stands unri- valled."— True Sun. " tlannay and Dietrichsen's Almanack and Book of Ge neral Information for 1838, is a remarkably handy diary, and conveys more minute and extensive information about the heavenly bodies than almost any other we know. But it is also a general vade mecnm of useful intelligence, such as on domestic or business affairs we continually need reference to."— Bath Gazette. " This Almanack is the cheapest and most comprehensive publication of the kind which has ever come under our no- tice, How such a mass of useful matter, extending to seventy- two closely printed pages, can be sold for sixpence we are puzzled to know. This Almanack can hardly fail to have a most extensive circulation."— Bath Chronicle. " Having occasion to refer to the recently issued Almanack of flaunay and Dietrichsen, we were more forcibly struck than on a former inspection, by the immense accumulation of valuable varieties of intelligence comprised in its pages, anil by its palpable superiority, in extent of useful inlorma lion, correctness and arrangement, over all that compete with it. Its lists, accounts, and calculations,— whether mi- litary, legal, political, commercial, chronological, meteorolo- gical, or, above all, astronomical— are most ample and accu- rate, and constitute it the cheapest production of the season." — Court Journal. " How this work, consisting of some seventy pages, and printed in small type, can be sold at so cheap a rate com- pletely puzzles us; moreover, the time and labour required to collect such a host of useful information must have been very great, and cannot possibly be remunerated save by a large sale. Besides the usual items of an Almanack, we have a Chronology of remarkable events, the Queen's Household, Lotds, Commons, Land Forces, the Universi- ties, Bankers, & c., & c. The List of Fairs is by far the best that ever was printed."— Weekly Magazine. Published by Hannay and Dietrichsen, 63, Oxford- street, London, Price 6d., and maybe had of all booksellers, sta- tioners, and newsvendors in the kingdom. Sold in Birming- ham by J. Watts, News Agent, Snow- hill. THEATRE ROYAL, BIRMINGHAM. IT is most respectfully announced that Mr. BUT- LER, of the Theatres Royal Covent- garden and Drury- lane, is engaged FOR FIVE NIGHTS ONLY, and will make his first appearance on Monday evening, October 29, 1838, in the character of HAMLET. MONSIEUR PLEGE, the celebrated ROPE DAN- CER, will also appear on that evening; and Mr. T. THOMPSON will exhibit his NAPOLEON STA- TUES, & c. Mrs. DEACLE will, likewise, appear. On MONDAY EVENING, October 29, 1838, will be performed HAMLET. Hamlet Mr. BUTLER. Ophelia Mrs. DEACLE. Polonius - Mr. SIMPSON. After which, T. THOMPSON'S LIFE OF NAPOLEON, IN BRONZE STATUES. To conclude with the wonderful performances of MONSIEUR PLEGE ON THE TIGHT ROPE. On TUESDAY, MACBETH, With the whole of the original music. Macbeth „—... Mr. BUTLER. Lady Macbeth.. - Mrs. DEACLE. Mr. SIMPSON. Hecate With the NAPOLEON STATUESand MONSIEUR PLEGE'S performances. Lower Boxes 3s.— Upper Boxes 2s Pit Is Gallery6d. Half price to the Boxes only, at nine o'clock. Stage Manager, Mr. SIMPSON. J. G. EARP. 74. HIGH- STREET, BIRMINGHAM, RESPECTFULLY returns thanks to his friends and the public generally, for the liberal support he has received at their hands, and begs to inform them, that in consequence of the increased business at his Liverpool House, he has DISPOSED OF his Birmingham Esta- blishment to Messrs. H. WAREING and Co., for whom he solicits their future favours. H. WAREING AND CO., TAILORS, DRAPERS, Sfc., 74, HIGH STREET, IN soliciting a continuance of the patronage con- ferred on their predecessor, Mr. J. G. EART, respect- fully beg to inform their friends and the inhabitants gene- rally that they have purchased a most extensive variety of FASHIONABLE GOODS from the London and other markets, and flatter themselves, from their unremitting ex- ertions and economic charges, they shall merit the same. A Suit of Clothes at six hours' notice. Macintosh Goods of every description. BIRMINGHAM SOCIETY FOR THE PURCHASE OF WORKS OF LIVING ARTISTS. SECOND YEAR, 1838. COMMITTEE. Francis Lloyd, Esq., Sutton Coldfield, Chairman. Esq., Esq., Westley Richards, Edgbaston. William Scholefield, Edgbaston. Charles Shaw, Esq., Edg baston. J. W. Unett, Esq., The Square. Joseph Walker, Esq., Cres cent. Charles Birch, 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- row. J. E. Piercy, Esq., Warley Hall. J. G. Reeves, Esq., Moor- street, Treasurer. Rev. Hugh Ilutton, Edgbaston, Secretary, RULES. AN annual subscription of one guinea constitutes a member; but each member may multiply hissubscrip tion to any amount, to have proportioned privileges, men- tioned below. After the payment of all expenses 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 so 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 his prize, to any amount, for the purchase of any work of higher value. Every member shall have one chance in the balloting, for 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 inseit 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 Aits, by whom receipts will be given. ( Signed) HUGH IIUTTON, Secretary. Committee room, Society of Arts, September 5, 1838. HOWQUA'S AND MOWQUA'S TEAS. CELEBRATED ri^ HESE TEAS consist of one description of Black, - 1- the genuine Howqua's Mixture, and one of Green, Mowqua's Small Leaf Gunpowder, and are sold in Chinese Catty and half Cattay packages. The GENUINE HOWQUA'S MIXTURE is an ad- mixture of a variety of the choicest Black Teas, the same as drank by the celebrated Chinese tea merchant, whose name it bears, and is distinguished from every other sort by a fine natural aromatic fragrance, combined with great strength and briskness, and is far more nutricious and whole- some than any hitherto offered to the public. MOWQUA'S SMALL LEAF GUNPOWDER. This delicious Gieen Tea is grown only on one estate, and possesess a rare and delicate flavour, being without excep- tion the finest Green Tea grown in China. Genuine Howqua's Mixture 7s. 6d. per Chinese Catty, containing one pound and a third of a pound, being at the rate of as. 8d. per lb ; Half Catties, 4s.; Mowqua's Small Leaf Gunpowder 10s. 8d. per Chinese Catty of the same weight, being at the rate of 8s. 2d. per lb.; Hall Catties 5s. 6d. These Teas are the best, the cheapest, and most useful of any imported into this country. The Importers, Brocksopp and Co., 233 and 234, High- street, London, have appointed the following Agents for the sale of the above Teas:— Agents for Birmingham, RICHARD DOIDGE, confectioner, 88, Broad- street. J. V. WILKS, 39, Whittall street. Leamington ™ .. ™ . ™ Messrs. Mallory and Mann. Warwick ™ . ™ . ™ . ™ , Samuel Mallory, tea dealer. Boston J. R. Bull, tea dealer, Market- place. Horncastle Mark Holdsworth, tea dealer. Spalding William Yarrad, tea dealer. ALTON, near Cheadle James Edwards. Worcester ™ . ™ ™ ~ Harding, Brothers, tea dealers. Sleaford , . George Flint. Crow- land J. Marfleet, tea dealer. Stamford Wm. Smith, Red Lion square. Grimsby George Shepherd, tea dealer. Grantham Edward Wilkinson, tea dealer. N. B. Only one Agent will be appointed in each town for the sale of these Teas. Apply, post paid. MISS JANE FLETCHER BEGS most respectfully to annouce that, at the earnest solicitation of her numerous friends, she will give A CONCERT AT DEE'S ROYAL HOTEL, ON WEDNESDAY EVENING, THE 31ST OF OCTOBER, 1838. PRINCIPAL VOCALISTS: • MISS HAWES, MISS ASTON AND MADAME INEZ. MR. HOLLINS, MR. BAKER, And MR. ATKINS ( of the London Concerts). PRINCIPAL INSTRUMENTAL PERFORMERS: MR. LINDLEY, ( Who will perform a Giand New Fantasia on the Violon- cello.) MR. C- FLAVELL Pianoforte. Mr. ELSTON Haip. Leader of the Band Mr. H. SHARGOOL. Conductor Mr. MUNDEN. The Concert to commence at Seven. Tickets, Seven Shillings each, may be had of Miss Jane Fletcher, 27, Newhal]. street; of Messrs. Munden and Came. on, Mr. Flavell, Mr. Shargool, Mr. Sabin, Mr. Smith, and Mr. Fletcher, music- sellers; at the newspaper offices; and of Messrs. Allen and Lyon, booksellers, Bennett's- hill. NORTH UNION RAILWAY. THE Public is informed that the NORTH UNION RAILWAY will be opened for the Conveyance of Passengers and Parcels between PRESTON, WIGAN, PARK- SIDE, NEWTON, LIVERPOOL, ami MANCHESTER, and all the usual intermediate Stopping Places, on the 31st of October, 18: 38. The First- Class Trains will consist of Carriages carrying six inside, and will stop only at EUXTON- I. ANE and WIGAN, on the North Union Line. The Mixed Train will consist of both First and Second- Class Carriages, and will set don n and take up Passengers at all the Stations on the North Union and Liverpool and Manchester Railways. FARES'. From Preston to Liverpool or Manchester. First- CIass Coach, whether in First Class or Mixed £ s. d. Train — — — 076 Second- Class Carriages ™ » .050 Children, under ten years of age. First Class 0 4 0 Ditto ditto Second Class ™ 0 2 S Infants, in arms ™ _ „„ Free. Gentlemen's Carriages, 4 wheels 15 0 Ditto 2 wheels 10 0 One Horse , 0 12 6 Two Horses " tin the same box, belonging to the / 1 4 O Three Horses J same owifer ™ . \ 1 8 Q From Wigan to Liverpool or Manchester. First- Class Coach ™ . ™ , 0 5 Second- Class Carriage, 0 3 Four- wheeled Carriage ™ . ™ . i o Two- wheeled ditto o 15 One Horse o 10 Two Horses 1 in the same box, belonging to the/ 0 18 J" " i l 2 Three Horses J same owner ~ — — Mixed. — — — First Class. ~ — Mixed. — — — First Class. From Manchester to Preston. H. M. 7 30 A. M. Mixed. 9 15 A. M. First Class. 3 0 P. M. Mixed. . First Class. The following, until further notice, will be the HOURS of DEPARTURE for the TRAINS travelling between LIVERPOOL, MANCHESTER, WIGAN, and PRESTON : — From Preston to Liverpool or Manchester. H. M. 7 0 A. M. ™ . 8 45 A. M. 2 30 P. M. 4 45 P. M. From Liverpool to Preston. H. M. 7 15 A. M. Mixed. | 9 0 A. M. First Class. 2 45 P. M. Mixed. j 5 0 P. M. — First Class. [ 5 15 P. M. ON SUNDAYS. MIXED TRAINS only will run, namely, one in the Morning, and one in the Evening. H. M. The Morning Train will leave Preston at 6 30, A. M. Liverpool— at 7 0, A. M. Manchester, at 7 0, A. M. The Evening Train will leave Pi'eston at 5 0, P. M. Liverpool at 5 30, P. M. Manchester, at 5 30, P. M. The Travelling between London, and Birmingham, and Preston, will be conducted by the following Trains : — H. M. H. M. Frone London — at 8 30, A. M. and 8 30, P. M. From Birmingham, at 3 0, A. M. and 5 0, P. M. From Preston to Birmingham and London, at 2 14, A. M., and 5 18, P. M. Although the above are the only Trains ( being for the conveyance of the Mails,) which are in immediate connexion with trains on the Grand Junction and London and Birming- ham Railways, passengers may proceed in either direction, atr other hours of the day, by booking to Newton Bridge, and there waiting the arrival of the next Train passing towards their destination. The most convenient Trains for this purpose are FROM PRESTON. » • M- H. M. 8 45, A. M. First Class, to proceed by the Grand Junction— First Class, at Newton Bridge, at 2 30, P. M. Mixed, to proceed by the Grand Junction Mixed, at Newton Bridge, at 4 45, P. M. F> irst Class, to proceed by the Grand Junction First Class, at New- toll Bridge, at FROM BIRMINGHAM. 10 0, A. M. 5 0, P. M. 6 30, v M. P. M. P. M. 6- 0, A. M., Mixed, to proceed by the North Union, at Newton Bridge, at 3 30, 11 SO. A. M. First Class— ditto ditto, at . 5 30, The IIMES of DEPARTURE will be punctually kept, and the doors of the Booking Offices will be closed precisely at the time appointed for starting, after which no Passenger can be admitted. The Booking Tickets for the First- CIass Trains are num- bered to correspond with the seat taken; the places by the Mixed Trains are not numbered. The attention of Passengers is requested to the legal notice exiiibited at the different Stations, respecting the limitation of the Company's liabilities for the loss or damage to luggage, and they are particularly recommended to have their luggage properly directed. Caipet bags and small luggage will be placed under the seat opposite that which the owner occupies, and other luggage will be placed on the roofs of the cairiages, or in the boots. Gentlemen's carriages and horses must be at the Stations at least a quarter of an hour before the time of departure, and previous notice should be sent, to ensure carriage trucks and horse boxes being in readiness. Passengers intending to join the Trains at any of the in- termediate Stations, are requested to be in good time, as the Train will leave each Station as soon as it is ready, the main object being to perform the whole journey as expeditiously as- possible. All persons are requested to get into, and alight from the coaches, invariably from the. left side, as the only certain means of preventing accidents from Trains passing in an opposite direction. The Company's porters will load and unload the luggage, and. put it into or upon any omnibus, or other carriage, at the. stations. No fees or gratuities allowed to be taken by guards, porters, or other persons in the Company's service. No smoking will be allowed in any of the First- Class Coaches, even with the consent of the passengers. No person will be allowed to sell liquors or eatables of any kind upon the line, and the Company earnestly request the public will co- operate with them in enforcing this regulation, as it will be the means of removing a cause of delay, and greatly diminish the chance of accident. The charge for parcels will be from Is. upwards, according size and weight, including booking and delivery. Notice is also hereby given, that the BRANCH RAILWAT to NEW SPRINGS, in the Townships of Haigh and As- ptil, commonly called the NEW SPRINGS BRANCH, will at ihe same time be opened to the public. By order of the Directors, JAMES CHAPMAN, Secretary. Preston, 19th October, 1838. 258 rHE BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL, OCTOBER 27. NEWS OF THE WEEK. FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. Mas. CHARLES MATHEWS.— Tlie debutof Madame Vestris in this country was made last evening at tlie Park Theatre to an immense house, whose curiosity was stimulated to the utmost. She was welcomed with enthusiastic applause, not surpassed since the days of Geoige Frederick Cooke. The house was literally packed an hour before the curtain rose. Hundreds, if not thousands, went away without gain- ing admittance to the lobby. On her appearance it was evident she laboured under great trepidation and alarm ; she was instantly greeted with cheers from all parts of the bouse, which dispelled her fears, and she went through her parts with great spirit and life; her songs were nearly all encored. Her husband wss received with great favour; and when the curtain fell, they were called for with cheers, and appeared agreeably to the call, when they were both an. nounced to perform for several nights in succession, which announcement was received with shouts of applause.— New York paper. THE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE Our ladies here [ Hanover] are busily engaged embroidering a set of drawing- room fur niture for their beloved Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. I have seen some of the patterns, which are most elegant; and, I do think, that however great their affection for their Viceroy and his family, the hope of vexing and annoying others by this token of their love to them, is almost as great as the more amiable feeling. The women are, without ex- ception, the most violent opponents of King Ernest, who, it must be allowed, does nothing to propitiate them.— Morning C/ ironic, e, DOME STIC. PROVINCIAL. THE STEAMER LIVERPOOL This fine vessel left the Mersey on Saturday, on her first voyage across the wide Atlantic, and we have only to hope that the whole of her trip may prove as auspicious as was its commencement. The interest excited in tiie public mind by the comparative novelty of a steamer sailing for America, combined with the fineness of the day, caused the piers to be lined with thousands of persons anxious to witness her departure. It was high water at twenty minutes past twelve, and soon after that time the gallant vessel swung round with the tide, and there was a general cry that she was off! She, however, remained a short time longer at anchor, sur- rounded by a crowd of river steamers and ferry boats, full of spectators, each eager to have a last glimpse at the great leviathan. She looked remarkably well, her immense bulk contrasted strongly with the Liliputian dimensions of the vessels by which she was surrounded, whilst her deck pre- sented a most animating spectacle. Her numerous pas- sengers were all above board, moving their handkerchiefs, and making the usual signals ol farewell to their friends ; whilst the busy crew were skipping about from place to place, making the necessary preparations for getting under way. At one o'clock precisely the word was given to " go on a- head," the ponderous machinery was put in motion, the paddle wheels revolved, and she was fairly on the road, if we may use the expression. Owing to the haze, the smoke from the numerous steamers on the river, and the rapidity of her motion, she was, in a very few minutes, lost to the view of the spectators. MEETING AT PLYMOUTH. — On Monday se'nnight, the men of Plymouth assembled to identify themselves with the move- ment. The Whig press is quite at a loss to account for the formidable array which they presented, thinking that the " discontent was confined to the north of England." They did assemble, however, at the Long Rooms, Stonehouse, and had hardly proceeded to business when the rooms, which contain 2,500, were found incapable of accommo- dating the multitude assembled, and an adjournment to the outside was resorted to. The meeting was then addressed in a most spirited manner by several leading Reformeis of the three towns, and arrangements entered into for getting up a demonstration on a much larger scale. On Monday last, a lady, accompanied by her brother, a member of the Irish bar, while walking in the Long Walk with the expectation of seeing Her Majesty, dropped her gold watch, but did not discover her loss till some time after, but no sooner was the discovery made than the lady and her brother commenced a diligent search, but without success. The next morning the loss was proclaimed by the town crier, and a reward offered for its lecovery, but with no better success. The gentleman, as a sott of forlorn hope, in the afternoon again paced the walk, and there, strange to say, he discovered the lost treasure. The watch had not sustained the least injury, although the spot, on which it was found was entirely cut up by horses' feet— Windsor Express. LORD BROUGHAM— I see by a paragraph in your paper of yesterday, some anxiety has been excited as to the health of Lord Brougham. You may allay such fears. The noble lord may be seen daily on the Marine Parade here [ Dover] in excellent health and spirits.— From a Correspondent of Wednesday's Sun. DR. WARREN The Bishop of Chester has promised ordination to the above gentleman, who, it is almost unne- cessary to state, was for a time considered as the head of a party, who, some two years since, seceded from the Wes. leyan Methodists, and which party have since been desig- nated as the Associated Methodists. From his party, how- ever, he seceded about twelve months since, on the alleged ground that the constitution, or body of laws by which they were governed, were too democratic. The rev. gentleman is now taking those preliminary steps essential to his formal recognition as a ministei of the Established Church. Sir Oswald Moseley, Lord of the Manor of Manchester, has generously given a site in Every- street, Ancoats, on which it is intended to erect a church, of which Dr. Warren is to he the minister. LONDON AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY.— On Thursday evening last, an accident happened upon the London and Manchester Railway, which was unfortunately attended with loss of life. The occurrence took place at the War- rington junction, in consequence of the engine of the lug- gage train being thrown off a switch which had been in- securely fastened. The result was, that the tender and five or six waggons, some containing pigs and other general merchandise, were thrown over. The engineer escaped by leaping off the engine. The fireman was thrown among the pigs, and narrowly escaped with his life, being drawn from amongst them in a complete state of exhaustion. The poor fellow" who had the care of the pigs, and was thrown amongst them at the time, was unhappily not so fortunate, a number of the animals falling upon him, he was suffocated before assistance could be rendered him. About fourteen of the pigs were killed by the carriages falling upon them. FIRE. A very extensive fire broke out about seven o'clock on Monday evening, at Harrow School, which en- tirely destroyed the residence of Dr. Wordsworth, tlie Head Master, and of Mr. Colenso, the Mathematical Master; these premises extend over a frontage of 160 feet, with a depth of 40 feet, and an altitude of 60 feet. The damage is estimated at 10,000/. The business of the school will not be impeded by the conflagration. OPENING OF THE NORTH UNION RAILWAY.— This rail- way, intended as a continuation of the Grand Junction line from London, and as a direct line Iroin Manchester and Liverpool to Preston, was opened from end to end on Monday. The line, it is expected, will be open to the public next week. The mails are not expected to run upon it prior to the 9th of next month. NEW JUNCTION CANAL.— On Tuesday last a highly re- spectable meeting of merchants and manufacturers, and of gentlemen connected with mining operations in the neigh- bourhood of Walsall, took place in the Town- liall of that horough, for the purpose of taking into consideration a pro- position for the junction of the Birmingham canal, near Park- street, with the Wyrley and Essington canal, at the Birchills. Joseph Cowley, Esq., the Mayor, was called to the chair; and P. Potter, Esq., addressed the meeting in support of the plan. Mr. Potter noticed that the cost of the undertaking was not likely to exceed 15,000/., and mentioned that, taking the minimum of the present traffic, which was about twenty boats per day at 3d. per ton, it would pay ten per cent, on the capital expended. Allow- ing two per cent, for curient expenses, a clear profit of eight per cent, would remain. Mr. Potter also noticed the distance that would be saved in going to and from several places, and concluded by expressing a strong opinion of the usefulness of the undertaking. The remain- ing resolutions were moved and seconded by Mr. C. F. Cotterill, Air. Marshall, Mr. Darwall, Mr. Whitgreave, and others. The result of the meeting was that a com- pany should be formed, with a capital of 20,000/. to be raised by 800 shares of 25/. each; that a provisional com mittee be formed; and that Mr. R. Jesson, jun., and Messrs. Darwall and Potter were to be instructed to give the necessary parliamentary notices. THE LATE GREAT FIRE AT LIVERPOOL. — From the official report of the Fire Offices relative to the extent of the in- surance on the property destroyed and consumed at the late calamitous fire at Liverpool, it appears that nearly the whole is covered by the following amount ol insurances : — Liverpool Fire Insurance Office, 24,000/.; Royal Exchange, 22.000/.; Sun, 19,000/.; Manchester, 14.000/.; West of England, 13.000/. ; Phoenix, 7,000/.; London, 6,000/. ; Yoi k and North of England, 5,000/.; Guaidian, 4 000/.; Scot- tish, 3,000/.; Yorkshire, 500/.; Alliance, 2,000/— Total, 119,500/. The extent of the loss was estimated at 120,000/. DISTRESSING ACCIDENT.— As the Hon. C. Forester, M. P. for Wenlock, was pheasant shooting on Wednesday, in Lord Forester's coverts, Willey Park, with Col. Clement Hill, late of the Guards, they separated, but were shortly after unconsciously brought to the vicinity of each other, when, on Mr. Forester firing at a pheasant, part of the charge entered the eye and face of Cololiel Hill, who fell, and, suffering intense agony, was conveyed to Willey Hall Mr. Sutton, surgeon, of Shrewsbury, was immediately sen1 for, who is of opinion that the eye may be saved, and reports his patient to be going on favouiably. SCOTLAND. APPREHENDED Loss OF ANOTHER STEAMER, WITH HER PAS- SENGERS AND CREW.— The intense feeling manifested by the public on the loss of the Forfarshire steamer has not yet subsided; and we fear we have to communicate information of the loss of another steamer, under, il possible, still more distressing circumstances. The Northern Yacht steamer sailed from Newcastle for Leitli on the morning of Thursday last week, the lltli inst., and, under ordinary circumstances, would have arrived here the same evening. She has not, however, been since heard of. It was supposed that she was driven out to sea during the dreadful gale which prevailed on Thursday afternoon, and has either been cairied to the op- posite coast, or, what is more probable, has perished in the storm. Had she put into one of the intermediate ports, some communication would, ere this, have reached the owners. In the accounts which were published in the papers of yesterday, it was stated that there were upwards of thirty passengers on board ; but we are glad to say that this rumour is not correct. The number of passengers was only ten, besides the crew, of whom there were twelve or fouiteen, one a woman, tiie stewardess, and the most gloomy appre- hensions are entertained respecting their fate. From the enquiries we have made, we learn that the Northern Yacht was seen by the lighthouse keeper on the Fern Islands to pass on Thursday afternoon, at four o'clock, but have not heard that she was seen by any vessel on any part of her course. Two Newcastle steamers, which sailed subse- quently, have arrived at Leith, without obtaining any news regarding her except the particulars here detailed. One of them, the Neptune, belonging to the same company, ex- amined the coast up to last night ( Friday.) Various con- tradictory reports, however, ate circulating on the subject. The master of a sloop laden with hei rings from Shetland states, that he saw a steamer and four or five other vessels labouring under the violent gale of Thursday week, while he was crossing the Peutland Frith, and that shortly after the whole disappeared. Another account states, that cries were heard by the inhabitants of Bass Rock from persons in a vessel in distress; a third, that part of a wreck was seen near the Fern Islands the day before yesterday; but the arrival of a steamer yesterday from Berwick, brings no ac- counts whatever regarding the unfortunate vessel. It was currently stated, last night, that intelligence had been re- ceived that, after being driven about at sea for several days, she had, at length put into Scarborough Bay, but we have not been able to trace the report to any satisfactory source. Under these circumstances it were idle to speculate further as to her probable fate. From the length of time, however, that has now expired since the day of sailing, the worst may be apprehended.— Scotsman. MISCELLANEOUS. A Western rri3n, being asked the number of inhabitants in the town wheie he lived— some Babylon, or Troy, or Palmyra, which was a wilderness five years ago— answered, " why, about 5,000 when I left; but I have been absent nearly a month, probably 8,000 now."— New York Whig. INFANT SCHOOLS There are now in England, it is thought, about 500 infant schools, the whole number wanted being about 6,000. Whatever may be said of other seminaries, to these there can be no serious objection. Instead of taking labouiers from industry, the absence of infants at school enables their mothers to attend to a profitable employment; and most enviable will that member of a reformed Parlia- ment be, who shall bring before the legislature the details proper to promote the establishment of institutions which, duly managed, will secure universal applause. LEAP A leaping match was decided over a ditch or stell at Middlesborough, near Stockton, on Friday last, between Mr. Thomas Rudd of that town, and Mr. James Price, alias Stiff, of London, Rudd allowing Price 3% inches, which was won by the latter; the Stiff ' un leaping 20 feet 4 inches, and Rudd 19 feet. 10 inches.— Durham Ad- vertiser. COLLECTIVE WISDOM.— We assemble Parliaments and councils, to have the benefit of their collective wisdom ; but we necessarily have, at the same time, the inconveniences of their collected passions, prejudices, and private interests. By the help of these, artful men overpower their wisdom, and dupe its possessors; and, if we may judge by the acts, arrests, and edicts, all the world over, for regulating com- merce, an assembly of great men is the greatest fool upon earth .— Franklin. CAUSE AND EFFECT Nay tells a humourous story, that, after the patiently exploring commissioners, at the end of thejr long examinations, deliberately confessed their utter inability to account for the Goodwin Sands, an old man gravely asserted Tenterden steeple to be the cause, for that those sands first appeared the year it was erected. And the slightest interview with the mass of mankind, any hour will prove the race of Tenteiden philosophers to be far from extinct. VALUE OF THE HUMAN BEING In the poor man, walk- ing through our streets, with haggard countenance and tottering step, we ought to see something greater than all the opulence which surround him. On this foundation of respect for every mind, are built all social duties, and none can be thoroughly performed without it— Clianning. BOOKS Books are the corrosive sublimate that eat out despotism and priestcraft; the artillery that batter down Castle and dungeon walls ; the ferrets that ferret out abuses; the lynx- eyed guardians that tear off disguises; the scales that weigh right and wrong ; the thumping makeweights thrown into the balance, that make force and fraud, the sword and the cowl, kick the beam ; the dread of knaves, the scoff of fools ; the salt of the earth, the future rulers of the world.— Hazlilt. A Brahmin crushed with a stone the microscope that first showed him living things amongst the vegetables of his daily food. The spirit of the Brahmin still lives in Chris- tendom. The bad principles of our nature are not bounded by caste or climate, and men are still to be found, who, if not restrained by the wise and humane laws of their country, would try to stifle by personal violence, and crush by brute force, every truth not hatched among their own conceits, and confined within the narrow fancies of their own ignorance. — Professor Sedgwick. A French diplomatist gives the following description of a Russian coronation:—" It was a fine ceremony, the Emperor having his father's assassins at his side, his grand- father's assassins before him, and his own assassins behind him 1" Charles II. once observed of a gentleman with a very retentive memory, that he thought he might, out of his store, produce an amusing book of good sayings. " Yes," rejoined Rochester, who stood at the king's elbow, " pro- vided he inserted none of his own." " You had better ask for manners than money," said a finely dressed gentleman to a beggar boy who asked him lor a'ms. " I asked for what I thought you had most of," was the reply of the mendicant. WHERE WILL THESE CHANGES TERMINATE?— We will tell you first where tliey will not terminate. They will not ter- minate at any imaginable prospective point of Whig legisla- tion ; they will not terminate while a mean, skuiking, hollow hearted party is pursuing a characteristic policy. While the objects of government have respect to the interests of any party, be that party Whig or Tory, they will not terminate. As long as the aim of our governors is only to keep up appearances— to seem not to be the benefactors of the people — to remove only present and obvious causes of complaint affecting the security of their own position, but to leave the germs of future calamity undisturbed in the ground, indiffe- rent what bitter fruit may spring up for the country when they shall no longer be there to eat of it; as long as they regard government as a trade in popular lights, in which they sell, and the people buy justice, and they have no bet- ter object than to drive the hardest bargain with the poorest customer ; as long as they beggar the bees to pamper the drones ; as long as they are shocked if church pews are not in proportion to souls, but are not shocked if loaves are insufficient for mouths; so long as they uphold a property qualification, and then take good care that non- electors shall have no chance of coming by property; in short, as long as they cheat, lie, and pick pockets, fawn, and bully, dupe the people,— so long these changes will net terminate, so long the Reformers will not be satisfied. Those easy country gentlemen to whom some temporary r se in the wages of " labour, some brisk market, lucky bop season, or what not, is never wanting as an argument to jus- tify adherence to the old system of things, and to give weight and probability to a grave charge against Radical politicians of fomenting disaffection and spreading groundless discon- tent, must form a curious estimate of the intelligence of tlie country— or merely betray the limited nature of their own— if they would narrow the great question of populir claims to these petty bounds. But they cannot even show as they could do in good old Tory days, that the people are well fed ; haggard faces fiom lantern jaws mutter contradiction on every side. Let us whispera word in your ear, good landed gentlemen: there must be more men of a hundred a year, and fewer men of sixteen thousand, before these changes can terminate. " Then you advocate reform with a view to revolution? These are your ulterior views ? You have shown the cloven foot of disloyalty ?"— We answer, if a gradual change in the relation of power and property, to the extent here intended to be expressed; that is to say, a change which, ill the course ol time, legally, and by tile natural operation of laws passed by a legislature duly representing tile sense of the country, shall effectuate a new and more equable distribution of the wealth, and resources of that country; if such a change in the affairs of a nation be a revolution, ( and undoubted y is one,) then we advocate reform with a view to revoiu tion. If we throw out every argument based on abstract princi- ples— the rights of man, natural equality, and so forth— aud confine our views 6olely to the facts of the day, the actual state of public interests, the prospects and condition ol society, we can still arrive at no other conclusion than this, that a great radical change in our political affairs is to come, sooner or later, and with more or less peril to the national peace. If we desired it not and had rather remain as we are, still, seeing this broad coming shadow so distinctly defined, we should feel impelled to recognize it, and should prepare ourselves to deal with the coiiesponding substance of such an adumbration in the best manner we could. Hut we desire it most strenuously; and fear it not. We desire it, because we are persuaded that it comes to substitute right for wrong, and truth for falsehood— to silence the squabbles of faction, and establish new and better standards of public spirit. And we fear it not, because, in the first place, we do not subscribe to the estimate of the English character, which, as we observed last week, seems to form the main ground of the apprehension with which both Whigs and Tories evidently regard the growth of the popu- lar power; and, in the next place, we never thought that justice began injustice, or benefits injuries, in the case of any people, and that if such effects have, in any age or country, seemed to flow from such causes, it was not, in reality, from those causes that they flowed, but from other very different causes, connected with them, that lay less patent to observation,— as, for example, the justifiable resent- ment of long injuries when justice has not been ( as history may choose to say) granted, but extorted. Danger there unquestionably is in all great improvements of the popular power ; but danger in posse, not imminent essential danger — danger if wrongfully dea't with— danger if resisted on false grounds. It would be difficult to name the instance in which i he people have ever gained their point in the teeth of rea son. It would be equally difficult, however, to name the instance in which they have been successfully foiled when they have had reason on their side. Both these facts, if you admit them— and you must— deserve to be treasured up » • valuable materials for political philosophy. The reason is no less valuable to know; and is this. Whatever gives moral courage, leads to physical power, to resolution and energy; the sense of right inspires this moral courage in its highest state. On the other hand, the consciousness of wrong unnerves the mind, relaxes determination, and leads as inevitably to discomfiture. There is only one road to victory for nation or individual; and that is, though Mr. O'CONNELL may have said the same a score of times, to be in the right.— Spectator. A WEST INDIA COURT OF JUSTICE From these people good breeding or refinement cannot be looked for; rude and boisterous contradictions must be expected and pardoned ; but notwithstanding my being thus prepared, I confess 1 could not witness without amazement the extraordinary scenes occasionally exhibited in their courts of justice- scenes to which, in comparison, those at out own Middlesex sessions, or even those at the Recorder's Court at Co k, shine resplendent with dignity. The lie is frequently given from the bench to the bar, and of course retorted from the bar to the bench: the Secretary for the Colonies has frequent appeals from the mutual recriminators, and the Governor- General of the islands is occasionally called upon to suspend a judge. All, therefore, is anarchy, violence, and vulgarity, in the higher courts, and increased anarchy, violence, and vulgarity, in the minor. Sometimes one magistrate orders the constables to conduct a brother magistrate to the gaol; while he that is thus sentenced seizes the constable by the throat, and defies his enemy to fulfil the threat. All this in the presence of numerous gangs of slaves, whom the party to which these well conducted gentlemen'belong represent as inaccessible to reason, and to whom subordination < r obedience to the laws cannot be taught. The following ex. tract from a journal, detailing one of these occurrences, will amply corroborate what I have advanced:—" Mr. Daniel Hart appeared befoie Dr. Madden this day, charging an apprentice with a robbery to the amount of five shillings. Dr. Madden : There is not a shadow of proof against the accused, and I shall at once discharge him Mr. Hart: 1 am a magistrate, and Dr. Madden : I cannot permii you, nor any one else, to come into my court, aud attempt to browbeat me by violence. You must conduct yourself with propriety, or I shall insist on your leaving the office— Mr. Hart: I will not leave the office till I please. I am a magistrate as well as you, and will remain until I choose to go. — Dr. Madden: You shall not, if you conduct yourself improperly. Constables, put Mr. Hart out of the office.— Mr. Hart ( to the constables): Put me out, if you dare. Recollect, lam one of your employers. I am as good as Dr. Madden. — Dr. Madden: Constables, I call upon you, and upon all present who are special constables, to put Mr. Hart out. The constables stared and stood motionless. Dr. Madden called upon Mr. Mitchell, the reporter for the Despatch, and who is a special constable, to put Mr. Hart out. Upon Mr. M. going up to Mr. Hart, Mr. H. seized him by the collar, and gave him iu charge to the constables, with orders to take him to the cage; and they would cer- tainly have done so, had not Dr. Madden gone out into the piazza and rescued him !" Before tiie reader has recovered from his astonishment at this truly West Indian forensic scene, I will plunge him into still greater, by introducing to his acquaintance a celebrated judge of one of the colonies. Through what channel be obtained the appointment, I will riot stop to inquire; suffice it to say, that he was an Irish- man, piqued himself upon his Hiber nian humour and accent, and buined to rival in facetiousness the renowned Lord Norbury, of punning fame. This might have been tolerably harmless, but he was at the same time otie of the most reso- lute characters in existence ; living publicly with a harlot; drunk at all periods; night alter night found insensible from liquor, in the public streets, and in the mottling bearing, even on the judgment- seat, the matks of recent and beastly debauchery. Can the mind of man imagine a more de- grading spectacle than that of such a person pronouncing the stern sentence of the law? One anecdote of his judicial conduct in court will be sufficient. A respectable individual appeared before him, to give evidence in an important suit. He was unfortunately severely crippled and maimed from woutids received, as I was told, in tiie service of his country. What an excellent subject for the judge's ribaldry— for the judge's wit! After mimicking aud confusing the poor man for a length of time, he gravely inquired his name. " Parry- more, my lord," was the reply. " A pretty fellow, by Jasus, to be a paramour," responded ' my lord ;' " I would lave my wife night and day with you for all the harm you could do to her. A paramour, indeed ! and bad luck to your sowl." This wit was superhuman. The judge brogued out a true Milesian shout: the bar shook with ecstacy; the spectators left in disgust; arid the poor victim of this heart- less buffoonery was carried out of court in a fit. Et ainsi finit la seance Hodgson. EARL DURHAM AND LORD BROUGHAM— These noble- men— by the bye we are wrong in giving the second of them that appellation, because he has the magnanimity to disdain the title lie holds, and regrets the position he has attained in the House of Lords— these noblemen are likely to be brought in direct opposition, in the next session of Parlia- ment, and to try their mental capabilities, adversely. They are about the same age, we think, Lord Brougham being the senior, and started in life from nearly the same point; Earl Durham being born of a respectable family in the county of Durham, named Lambton ; and Lord Brougham being sprung from a respectable family of the name of Brougham, long known in Westmoreland. They received their education, the first, Earl Durham, at Eton; the second, Lord Brougham, at Edinburgh. At their first outset in life, Earl Durham chose the military profession, and was, we believe, for some years in the 10th dragoons. Lord Brougham chose the legal profession, and devoted himself to literature conjointly, working iu the double ca- pacity, with equal aptitude and facility. The families of Lambton and Brougham were far from being rich, in the infancy of these eminent men. The family of Brougham was not so formerly, nor is it at present.. The family of Lambton was, about forty years ago, embarrassed, and far from affluent; but through the fortunate discovery of an ex- cellent vein of coal on their estates, Mr. Lambton, now Earl Durham, rose suddenly into wealth. He married Eail (• rey's daughter, and that nobleman thought him a fit and proper person to receive the honour of a peerage. Lord Brougham studied aud laboured hard at his profession. He rendered himself eminent by his defence of Queen Caroline, and by other and various talents, and services to the cause of free discussion and freedom; and having unfortunately united himself with the Whig administration, gained a barony, and has lost that which every person has lost, who has joined that administration— a considerable portion of his early reputation. There is, however, this difference be- tween the two noblemen in the nature of their titles ; Lord Brougham having acquired his title by the fair aud honour- able exertion of his talents; Earl Durham having acquired his, because he had a coal- mine on his estates, which gave him wealth and consideration, and rendered him too rich an individual for the crown to refuse him any bauble he might covet. Lord Brougham and Earl Durham have always been Reformers, exeriing themselves in the Hous? of Commons many years ago, in a series of measures for the improve- ment of our institutions, and for the benefit of the people. The Earl of Durham is an avowed advocate of the ballot, but he neither carries bis opinions of the necessity of re- form so far as Lord Brougham, nor does he display that unwearied activity in the pursuit of the measures he in- tends, as Lord Brougham. Of late years the Earl of Dur- ham has been seldom seen in the House of Lords, and has seldom appealed openly at the meetings of the people; and if one might judge from his acceptance of a peerage ; from the admiration he has expressed for the Emperor Nicholas ; and from the known pride and determination of his cha- racter, which we may reasonably suppose arise chiefly Iroin his title and his estates, we shall not, we believe, be very erroneous when we surmise that his lordship is just as much a friend to real reform, and no more so, than Lord John Russell, or Earl Radnor, or any other nobleman, who is notorious for having advocated what he never intended, and praised what he never admired. It may be admitted, that of Earl Durham and Lord Brougham, the former has, at present, the advantage of a supposed higher and fiimer character, because the Whigs have laboured hard to blacken the reputation of the latter ; and his own measures, in some respects, especially in the case of the Poor- law hill, have rendered him odious to, and distrusted by the Radicals. Yet his unfortunate union with the Whigs, and his Poor- law bill set off his head, there can be no comparison between the two men in every particular that can render them estimable to real Reformers. In abilities there can be no comparison— in eloquence there can be no comparison— neither is there any comparison in utility ; for if Lord Brougham should arrive at the point of driving the Whig administration from their places during the next session of Parliament, he will do a much greater service to his country, than the Earl of Durham could do by lending them his support, which we much fear will be the case. The Earl of Durham's return to this country, at the present moment, is a very important circumstance, and may have great weight in throwing out or keeping in the Whig ministry. If he should take the insult put upon him by the Indemnity bill as a serious matter, he may set himself to do his best to dis- seat them, and thence bring about that much to be desired event.— Brighton Patriot. THE NATIONAL RENT— IMPORTANTPUBLIC MEETINGS. On Monday night a very numerous meeting of the work- ing classes belonging to the Finsbury district, was held at the Hall of Science, City- road, for the purpose of taking into consideration the resolutions agreed to at the great Bir- mingham meeting respecting the collection of the national rent. The assembly- room was so densely crowded that it was almost impossible to procure even standing room. At half- past eight o'clock Mr. Mitchell, a member of the Working Men's Association, was called to the chair. Mr. Cameron rose to propose the first resolution. The time had come when they were called upon to take their business in their own hands, and he trusted they would do so, not in name, but in reali'y. ( Hear.) Tile Radicals of Birmingham, to whose indefatigable exertions the cause of liberty was so much indebted, had called upon the Radicals ot En- land to assist them in carrying into effect one of the best measures that had ever been suggested or proposed since the passing of the Reform bill. ( Cheers.) Should they respond to the call? ( Cries of Yes.) They were called on, then, by their Birmingham friends to collect a national rent, in order to carry out the People's Charter. ( Cheers.) A collection of sixpence each from those indi- viduals who were favourable to their cause would soon real ise a very considerable amount. ( Hear, hear.) They were not called upon to give a precursory shilling for an indefinite object—( hear, hear)— but merely sixpence each, lor the promotion of those measures best calculated to relieve them from their political degradation. ( Loud cheers.) It was very certain that they could not much longer be denied the principle ot universal suffrage— the country was now in an excited state— the work of agitation was going admirably on, and even Lord John Russell himself, at ' Liverpool, where he had been coolly received, did not fail to adveit to those demonstraiioris, without evincing any wish to see them put down; but, on the contrary, he recognised the right of tiee discussion. ( Cheers.) It bad been given as an argument against universal suffrage, that it would be dangerous to the peace and welfare of the community. It was asserted by t- e r enemies, that the use they would make of this privilege would be to wrest it to their own destruction, and, if this were the case, why didn't they let them try. ( Hear, hear, and a laugh.) It was said that it would produce universal discord, that all their institutions would fall into decay, that the national debt would be washed away by a piece of sponge, and the oligarchy be divested of their honouis and dignities. ( Hear, aud laughter.) Now, he did not think that they would be such fools as to destroy the property which they themselves had taken so much trouble to create. ( Cheers.) Let the working classes get their rights, aud tliey would willingly abandon all claim to the titles. ( Hear, hear.) Titles, as at present used, were nicknames— mere misnomers— continuous diseases, for they descended from generation to generation, and survived the mortal wreck ot their inheritors. ( Loud cheers ) What, he would ask, would be the first great benefit which they would derive from universal suffrage ? Why, they would be able to pro- cure an universal education, aud in the second place, labour would meet with its due reward. ( Hear, hear.) Let them, then, he conjured them, he true to themselves, exercising nothing but kind and benevolent feelings towards all parties, aud they would soon find themselves rewarded in the in- ci eased welfare and happiness of the country. Sir. Cameron sat down amid loud cheering, after proposing the first reso- lution, which was to the effect— That the meeting approved of the principles of the People's Charter and the National Petition, as well as of the necessity of supporting the National Convention of Delegates," chosen by the different districts to promote those objects, and therefore deemed it a necessary duty to assist them with funds to render their labours effective. They, therefore, resolved, " I hat a Na- tional Rent Committee lor the district of Finsbury should be forthwith formed, for the purpose of assisting in the col- lection of such fun. d, agreeably to the resolutions passed at the Birmingham meeting." Mr. Watson seconded the resolution. It was stated that universal suffrage was objectionable, inasmuch as the work- ing men were ignorant, and could not make a proper use of the privileges which it would confer. What right, he would ask, had the persons who argued thus to sit in judgment upon the intellect of tlie people? ( Hear, hear.) They had no justification whatever, for let the working men be ever so ignorant, he would warrant that they would not stultify themselves by returning a Parliament constituted like the present. ( Cheers.) Mr. Stathem proposed that a committee of twenty eight persons should he appointed to conduct the collection of the district, with leave to add to their numbers. Mr. Vine briefly seconded the resolution, which was carried unanimously. He stated that the collection books would be regu'arly stamped with the seal of the treasurer and secretary, in order that the people might not be imposed on by sharpers, who were always on the alert to seek opportunities of levying imposts for their own sordid purposes. On Monday night, also, a public meeting of the inhabitants of Hoxton, Haggerstone, and Slioreditch, was held at the Haberdashers' Arms, Pitfield- street, Hoxton New Town, for the purpose of making arrangements for the collection of the National Rent. The room in which the meeting was held was densely thronged. At eight o'clock the chair was taken by Mr. Dyson. Mr. Boggy proposed the first resolution. Mr. Hartwell said, with the contents of the National Pe- tition they were all acquainted, and the People's Charter merely embodied that petition iu the form of an act of Par- liament. The forty- nine delegates who would be appointed, would have to incur various expenses. They would have to wait upon the members of Parliament, to impress upon them the necessity of voting for the People's Charter; and it would also be necessary to send missionaries to those parts of the country where the principles of the charter may not be sufficiently known. For these purposes a gieat deal of correspondence would be necessary, and a great deal of expense would be incurred. For these causes the people should assist them. He concluded by seconding the reso- lution, which passed unanimously. Mr. lletherington said that the National Charter, of which he had spoken to them, was unanimously adopted at the different public meetings throughout the country to which it had been submitted. The forty nine delegates of whom they had heard, would watch in London, aud pro- mote the success of the National Charter by every means in their power. They would watch the members of Parlia- ment before they went to the House of Commons, and en- deavour to get their assent to the charter, and if they were refused they would write to the constituents of such mem- bers, and explai* to them what a bad member they had got to represent them. The people were now, for the first time, taking practical steps to obtain their rights. A committee was then appointed, for the collection of tlie National Rent in the district, after which the meeting adjourned. The new suspension bridge over the Danube, between Buda and Pest, which will be begun the next spring, is a collosal undertaking. Two piers of granite and tlie red marble of Neudorf, 35 feet thick, and 150 feet above the level of the foundation, will support the whole structure. There will, consequently, be three openings for the water to pass through, the middle passage being 640 feet in width, and each of those at the sides 270 feet, making in all 1,110 feet. The en- tire length of the bridge will he 1,600 feet. Cast- iron beams will support the platform, which is to be 37 feet wide— viz., 25 feet for the carriage way, aud 6 feet for eacli foot- path. The whole w ill he suspended by 12 chains, weighing together upwards of 2,000 tons.— French paper. GREAT RADICAL MEETING AT HAWICK, AND COMPLETE DEFEAT OF THE WHIGS. Oil Monday, 7th October, Messrs. Fraser and Duncan by special and repeated invitations from the Radicals and- the Abstinent Society of Hawick, attended and addressed meetings both of the one and the other. On their arrival at twelve noon, they found the streets crowded anxiously awaiting their coming. Thatanxieiy was at once peculiar and intense. On its being ascertained by the crowd, who surrounded the coach, that Messrs. F. and D. had arrived, the shout of triumph was laised, loud and long. The cause of this deep anxiety was the fear of their non- arrival, and the published intention of the Whigs to move a corn lav ® amendment to the motion for universal suffrage. The amendment party formally announced their intention by a printed bill, of which the following is a copy:—" Notice. A public meeting having been called, to be held on the Com- mon Daugh on Monday first, the 8th instant, at two o'clock p. M., to take into consideration the propriety of adopting the national petition, those who consider the petition to be premature and inexpedient, are respectfully requested to at- tend, and decide upon an amendment that will be proposed." Such, then, was the manly courage of the Hawick Whigs, who anticipated victory to attend their footsteps. Nor were the Radicals sure but the Whigs would gain it. The Baillie of Hawick will be gratified by our giving publicity to the fact, that he refused to call the meeting, though re- quested to do so by a respectable number of requisitionists, stating, that had it been a meeting for the abolition of the corn laws, he would have consented. But the people are too wise to be caught in this Whig trap. They proceeded, despi te of the Baillie, with their arrangements for the meet- ing. At two o'clock, the people, with the committee, went in procession to the meeting. Many banners waved on high, and the Hawick instiumental band, with its pathetic airs, gave life and order to the movement. The meeting was from 2000 to 3000. The Corn Law party had proposed to erect hustings for themselves alongside of the people's. They were assuied it would be unnecessary, as they would be granted the privilege of the latter. Not satisfied with this assurance, we were surprised to see hustings erected at the outskirts of the meeting, during the time of the proceed- ings. There they stood, in their solitary glory, none seem- ing to have the pluck to mount aloft. The people now and then cast a wandering eye on this precious symbol of Whig folly, on this scarecrow, which they, no doubt, expected would frighten the Radicals out of their senses. Meanwhile, the corn law heroes were seen moving about in solemn conclave, determining what should be done. The Chair- man at length received a bulletin, requesting accommodation lor the noble inoveis and seconders of the amendment. This granted, up they came. Not a cheer did they receive. A thousand eyes flashed with anger; but no frowning voice was raised. The speaker. Mr. Dodds, went on. He dealt some very heavy but civil blows on the three redoubtable corn law champions. The feeling of the meeting became strong and powerful against them, yet still they seemed dis- posed to tiy their strength. Getting impatient, they de- manded the speaker to stop, toallow them to proceed. He treated their impertinent request with scorn. " You speak against time," said they. " The time is mine," said he, " and wait till I am done." Efforts were now made by the people to scowl them from the hustings; but the speaker interposed, and all was again peace. They began to ex- amine their paper bullets, which they, brave soldiers as they weie, intended to fire at the people ; but having got ample proof before their eyes that they would not take effect, they walked quietly off the hustings to the tune ol " Bundle aud Go," amidst the frightful groans and hootings of the meet- ing. The business again went on iu peace. The resolution for univeisal suffrage was carried by acclamation. Oh, no!" there were no less than six dissentients. The cheering was now loud aud enthusiastic. The routine of business being tone over, the meeting broke up ; but in a twinkling, the corn law hustings were removed to another part of the tlaugh, and, surmounted on the same, were seen the same trio hailing the approach of the people, determined that though last they would yet be first, and carry off the honours and laurels of the day. The com laws down the people's throats they were determined to thrust. They made their obeisance, and commenced their oration. Meanwhile, the meeting was filing off with the music; and ill circumventing ihe locomotive hustings, Messrs. Fraser and Duncan sprung up beside their antagonists. The dismay of the clique was now complete. They stormed and fumed at this untoward' event. " The hustings are not yours— you have no business here," said they. " We have." said the unwelcome intru- ders, " we shall move an amendment on your motion." The uproar among the people was now tremendous. Their ex- citement was at the highest pitch. All done on the hustings was to the people dumb show. Mr. Fraser made repeated attempts to address the meeting to procure a hearing for the three helpless and unsupported men, who as often inter- • upted him, denying his right to speak at all. " You are no gentlemen," said they; " you are pretty men to go round and agitate the country." •< Wont you allow me to procure you a hearing?" said Mr. F. " It is our meeting, you have no right to speak." " Speak you. then, and we shall not in- terrupt you, though you should continue till twelve at night. When jou finish, we will move an amendment on your corn law motion." Alter a great deal of altercation of this kind between the parties on the hustings, the corn law men spuing off at a tangent— retreated a second time from the convulsed and now merry scene. Uproarious laughter rent the air. Shouts of victory issued trom a thousand voices, whilst the trio retreated, and gave up the factious contest. The meeting now moved off with their music and banners : t exulting with joy at the second ttiumphof principle over Whig juggling, they marched in proud procession from the one end of tile town to the other, before they quietly broke up. [ We extract the above from the first number of the " True Scotsman," of which we shall merely observe, that in externals it is a very handsome well got up journal, and from its business like tone seems destined to enjoy that per- manent success which its sound principles so lully deserve. - E. B. J. | MEETING FOR THE ELECTION OF CHURCHWARDEN. Thursday last, a meeting was held at the Town hall, for the purpose of electing a churchwarden for the parish of Birmingham. It will be in the recollection of our readers, that on Easter Tuesday last, at the annual election held in St. Martin's church, Mr. P. H. Muntz was proposed and seconded as the parish warden, and that a poll was com- menced on a preliminary point, but stopped before it was finished. A mandamus was applied for to the Court oJ King's Bench, to compel the rector to hold another meet- ing for the election of a warden ; and in compliance with this order, a notice, calling a meeting for Thursday last, waa posted upon tlie church doors on Sunday, hut no other notice whatever was given to the anti- church rate party. Notwithstanding the secrecy used, it soon became known, aud at eleven o'clock, the hour appointed for taking the chair, there were a considerable number of ratepayers assembled in the hall. A few minutes after eleven o'clock, Mr. EDMONDS said it was then the time appointed for taking the chair, and, as he understood, from very good authority, that the Rev. Mr. Moseley, the rector, did not intend to be present at the meeting, he should at once move that Mr. Thomas Weston do take the chair. ( Cheers and cries of no, no, from Mr. Allport and Mr. Welch.) Mr. Edmonds said it was quite clear that the meeting was decidedly in favour of the motion. ( Renewed cheers.) In order, however, to try it fairly, he should request that all who were in favour of it, should hold up their hands. The whole meeting, with few exceptions in the organ gallery, held up their hands. Mr. Edmonds then put the contrary of the motion, when some dozen hands were held up. Mr. Weston then proceeded along the front of the gallery, to the table and chair which hail been placed for the use ol the chairman, when Mr. Allport sat in down the chair, and would not allow Mr. Weston to take possession of it. On this act of discourtesy being noticed, great uproar was caused in the body of the hall. Silence being restored, Mr. WESTON said, according to the acts for the regulation of vestry meetings, the rector, if present, was entitled to take the chair; or, in his absence, the peipetual curate. In order that their proceedings should be conducted with strict legality, he should ask the authorities if the rector, or any perpetual curate, were present? Mr. JOHN ARNOLD, vestry clerk, replied that they were not. Mr. WESTON then said, as a matter ol course, he should take the chair, having been called to it almost unanimously. He wished to know if Mr. Allport, who had still possession of the chair, would give it up? Mr. ALLPORT said he would not; they knew that all they were doing was illegal. ( Uproar.) Mr. WESTON said, although he was prevented taking his proper place by Mr. Allport and his friends, tliey must bear iu mind that he had demtfnded'the chair, and that it had been refused; and they must also bear in mind that he was their chairman, and ought to be recognised as such. ( Cheers.) It was not for the vindication of his own right, that he stood forward, but to advocate their rights, and he hoped lie should not flinch from doing his duty. At this moment, Mr. Edmonds, Mr. Weston, and' another gentleman, took hold of the table, to draw it to the spot where Mr. Weston was standing, while Mr. Allport seized hold of the table, and tried, bnt in vain, to pull it from them. The cheering and uproar at this moment was excessive, amidst which Mr. ALLPORT said he demanded a poll upon the choice of chairman. There was not as yet any chairman. ( Uproat and cries of there is.) t'f 1 259 rHE BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL, OCTOBER 27. When the table hail been placed opposite lo the chairman, another specimen of Tory indecency was given by Mr. Edward Armfleld, who, having taken his seat where the chairman, if he sat at all, was of necessity to sit, refused to make way ; and loudly contended that he would not be turned out of his seat, for the chairman or any one. Mr. Armfield was offered every accommodation next to the chairman, but this did not satisfy him, and at one time we thought there would be an actual struggle to prevent the chairman f. om sitting down. With much difficulty, Mr. Arm- field was at length induced to waive his right to a special place in a public meeting, and the business went on. Mr. EDMONDS said he rose for the purpose of proposing a warden. ( Order, order, from Mr. Allport and Mr. Welch, followed by cheers.) Mr. Edmonds, in continuation, said he begged leave to propose, as a fit and proper person lo fill the office. Mr. Thomas Clutton Salt. ( Tremendous cheering for some time.) Mr. JOHN PIERCE said, he had great pleasure in second- ing the nomination. Mr. ALLPORT: Older, order. The CHAIRMAN said, it had been moveil and seconded that Mr. Salt should be elected parish warden. As many as were of that opinion would hold up their hands. With the exception of a few in the organ gallery, all hands were held up ; and the contrary of the motion having been also put, and no hands being held up. the Chairman declared Mr. Salt duly elected amidst great cheering. Mr. EDMONDS then moved the thanks of the meeting to the Chairman, for his conduct in the chair. Mr. DOUGLAS seconded the motion. He said, a gentle- man on the lelt had given him credit for more knowledge than he really possessed. That gentleman had said, that he ( Mr. D.) and his friends knew that what they were doing was illegal. Now he believed the whole of their proceedings that day had been perfectly legal, and per fectly regular. He would not, on any consideration, inter- fere with the rights of tbe gentlemen on the other side ; if they had thought proper to bring forward a Candidate they had an opportunity of doing so. If, however, they would act illegallv at the last meeting, and subject themselves to a mandamus'; if, incompliance with that legal process, they brought the people to that hall, and did not bring a chair- man with them, the people had an undoubted right to elect a chairman. ( Hear, hear.) If the gentlemen on the other side had chosen, they also could have proposed a chairman. They had not done so, and his ( Mr. D.' s) friends had. They had also elected a churchwarden for the parish, and no amendment had been proposed. Mr. ALLPORT: You have no chairman. Mr. DOUGLAS: Mr. Allport had such an excellent con- ceit of his own powers, that he thought there could be no chairman unless he happened to fill the office. Mr. ALLPORT: You can do nothing but talk. Mr. DOUGLAS: Mr. Allport told them they could do nothing but talk. He should like to know what Mr. All- port could do. The only thing he had done was to tell them that they were doing that which they knew was illegal. He ( Mr. D.) threw back that insolent imputation in his lace. ( Cheers.) Mr. Allport might say, if he pleased, that it was his opinion that they were acting illegally. His opinion, no doubt, would have all due weight with the njegting. ( Laughter.) Mr. AILPORT : I tell you that you do know you are acting illegally. Mr". EDMONDS: I tell you that you have told a gross falsehood. ( Cheers.; Mr. DOUGLAS said, he would tell Mr. Allport that the imputation of dishonesty conveyed in his assertion was sheer inpudence; and he could also tell him that it required rather more information than Mr. Allport had yet con- trived to get credit for, to enable him to pronounce either on what he ( Mr. Douglas) did know, or did not know. ( Cheers and laughter.) To put an end to the discussion and to the meeting, he seconded, with all his heart, the vote of thanks to the chairman. Mr. EDMONDS put the vote of thanks, which was carried with great applause. . Mr. WESTON said, he thanked them most sincerely lor their approval of his conduct, and, in return, could assure them that he should be always ready to come forward, and serve them whenever he could. Mr. WELCH: I beg leave to tell you, that a poll has been demanded upon the chairman. Mr. ARNOLD attempted to speak, hut could not be heard. Mr. EDMONDS said, he now called upon Mr. Arnold to record their proceedings. Mr. ARNOLD hesitated, upon which MR. EDMONDS demanded to know, if Mr. Arnold refused. Mr. ARNOLD replied he did not. He was placed in a difficult position. Mr. B. HADLEV wished to know if Mr. Arnold intended to record their proceedings. Mi- ARNOLD said, he had a duty to perform. He had to express his opinion respecting the legality of the pro- ceedings. ..„,,, <• Mr. DOUGLAS denied the right of the legal assessor of the parish to tender his opinion, unless called upon to do so. The meeting were not consulting him as to whether they were acting legally or illegally. They simply asked him to do his duty, and record their proceedings. Mr. ALLPORT said, he and his friend had asked him, and he ought to be heard. Mr. ARNOLD again tried to speak, but the meeting would not hear him. The CHAIRMAN said, it rested with the meeting whether their proceedings should be recorded or not. It rested vvith the meeting whether the parish books should be given into his hands or not. He wished all those who were of opinion that the parish books should he handed to him for the pur- pose of having their proceedings inserted in them should hold up their hands. . Nearly all hands were held up, upon which Mr. Weston said, " 1 demand the books." Mr. WELCH requested Mr. Arnold not to give up the books except to a person duly appointed churchwarden. Mr. EDMONDS: Then, Mr. Arnold, jou refuse to give up the books. Mr. ARNOLD: Yes. ( Great Uproar.) Mr. EDMONDS then took a sheet of paper and wrote down minutes of the proceedings of the day, and handed it to Mr. " Weston, the chairman, who read it over, and then said, the book having been refused by Mr. Arnold, it became neces- sary that their proceedings should be entered in some way, and Mr. Edmonds had, accordingly, entered them on a sheet of paper. He ( the chairman) had lead it over and signed it. Mr. EDMONDS said, it was an important fact, and ought to be known, that Mr. Arnold had refused to give up the books, or to authenticate their proceedings. Mr. ARNOLD said, he had qualified his refusal. Mr. B. HADLEY thought Mr. Arnold ought to state his reasons for refusing the hook. The CHAIRMAN said, ail their proceedings had been duly attested by his reply ; and he had only to thank ihem for the manner in which they bad elected him to the chair, and supported him while in it. Mr. EDMONDS again demanded to know if Mr. Arnold would give up the books to the meeting. Mr. ARNOLD: I will not. ( Great uproar.) Mr. DOUGLAS said, he wished to ask a question of the chaiiman. ( Hear, hear.) He had been given to understand that attempts would be made to render invalid that day's proceedings, and he wished to ask the chairman or the vesty clerk if any demand for a poll had been made in wri- ting and lodged in the hands of either. The CHAIRMAN: Certainly not. Mr. ALLPOKT: It is not necessary. Your motions have not been iu writing. The CHAIRMAN said, in consequence of what had taken place he thought it right to add a further memorandum to the narrative of the proceedings. He then read the follow- ing notice: — " 1 hereby certify, that no written demand for a poll on the question of who should be appointed chairman, was ever produced to me or this meeting. " THOMAS WESTON." He had now to request that they would treasure up in their minds the occurrences of that day, because some of them might be called upon to bear witness to the accuracy of the minutes he had read over to them. At this moment Mr. Salt entered the hall, and on being recognised, was received with loud, long, and continued cheering. Mr. DOUGLAS said, they hail been called upon to treasure up the lact that no written demand had been made to the chairman for a poll. Now he wished them also to treasure up that he had put it, not only to the chairman, but 10 the vestry clerk also, to say whether there had been any written de- mand for a poll prior to the chaiiman taking his seat, and he had been answered that no such demand had been made. ( Hear, hear.) Mr. EDMONDS then said, lie wished to be allowed to ex- press his regret that, owing to his having been treated with impudence, violence, and insult, by an individual in the pre- sent company, he ( Mr. E.] had been compelled to retort upon that individual with harshness. ( Hear, hear.) In his conscience he believed there was not another person in the place so stupid in intellect, so obtuse in feeling, so com- pletely unconscious of what was either decent or becoming in public matters. ( Cheers.) His conduct had been such th3t he ( Mr. Edmonds) owed him no apology for what he had either said or done in that matter. They would recol- lect that, at the last election, the persevering and uniform endeavour he ( Mr. Edmonds) had pursued was, to procure for every man opposed to him fair play; from the bottom of his heart he could declare, that he had studied all in his power to secure them from insult; so far did he carry his concern for them, that he was even blamed first by some of his own friends. Well he came to the meeting of that day vvith the same feelings. Mr. ALLPORT: I deny it. Mr. EDMONDS : When he came to that Hall, what did he find ? Why he first went to a room below, and there he was told that he could not enter, for that room was not intended tor his party. He then came up stairs, and what did he find ? Why, he foud around the chair the nucleus of the poor rate party occupying the seats which ought to have been left for the use of all the rate payers indiscriminately ; and, as soon as the business commenced, the man who acted as leader of the party had recourse to physieal force. He was the man who dared to lay hold of the chair, and prevent the man irom occupying it who bad been fairly elected to fill it by the meeting. ( Cheers.) What did they think of the man who could thus resort to physical force, and yet be so loud in denouncing it? But it was only iu accordance with the doings of the party. They had ever been the friends and advocates of physical force when they could employ it against the people. Twenty yeais ago he attended a meet- ing at the Public Office, and he there saw the only man who had the manliness to express his opinion, dragged out into the street by these Tories, and ill treated, so much so that he narrowly escaped with life. If they dared do so on the present occasion, there were men amongst them willing to do the same thing. ( Hear, hear.) Who could doubt it? Had they not exhibited a conduct which, according to the construction of the law at the late trial of Messrs. Muntz, Pare, Pierce, and Trow, would subject them to an indict- ment? ( Loud cheers.) He was encee ling glad to find that the people were so determined against church rates ; still, he must say, if they did not carry out their feelings by some substantial acts of justice towards Mr. Muntz and those per- sons who had been persecuted by the church rate pai ty, they would deserve all the evil that party could inflict upon them. If they did not show their consistency, and defray the expenses incurred by the emen, he hoped sincerely they would have imposed upon them a two shilling and sixpenny, nay, a ten shilling rate. He cared nothing for the man who could brawl at a public meeting, but who, when called upon to carry out his principles, shrunk back, and refused to con- tribute his quota towards indemnifying the persons who might suffer in his cause. ( Hear, hear.) He most earnestly called upon them to make the pecuniary sacrifice required for indemnifying the gentlemen whom he had named. He should now advise them to dissolve tbe meeting unless the gentlemen on the other side wished to say something in ex- tenuation of their rude and unjustifiable conduct. Mr. DOUGLAS said, he had not the least doubt they would he toid, by and bye, that that meeting was a mere party bu- siness got up by the Political Union. Now, he thought it proper, as O'Connell recommended, not only to be in the right themselves, but to put their enemies in the wrong. Byway, therefore, of a little hit of intelligence, he would read a circular which had been sent forth by the other party, and which would show pretty plainly where the organisation for party purposes lay. Mr. Douglas then read the follow- circuiar:— " Birmingham, October 23, 1838. 11 SIR,— We he to call your attention to the meeting ap- pointed to ha held at the Town Hall on Thursday next, at eleven o'clock, for the purpose of electing a parish warden. Mr. Brown, the present warden, will be put in nomination, and we hope you will assist in his election, by your punctual attendance at the Hall, and by recording your vote in his favour. " We also beg to remind you of the necessity of paying the poor's rate, granted in September last, before the elec- tion, to entitle you to vote; the rate may be paid either at the Workhouse, or at tee collector's house. " We are, sir, your obedient servants, " J. G. REEVES, " J. BROWN." Now, who, he would ask made Mr. Brown the present warden ? The fact was, these person^, never could tell the truth even by accident. But the modesty of these gentle- men surpassed all; who was the person giving all this advice about the election of Mr. Brown ? why no other than Mr. Brown himself. ( Laughter.) He had, however, a little more to tell them about that meeting, and he regretted the absence of the ltev.- Mr. Moseley, in as much as he would be compelled to introduce that gentleman's name in his nar- rative. He should give the story without a word of com- ment— More than three months ago he was honoured by a visit from the Rev. Mr. Moseley, who stated to him that he called to make something like an attempt at arrange- ment for the regulation and orderly carrying out the election of warden, which he ( Mr. D. ) considered had been illegally interrupted on a former occasion by the rev. gentleman him- self. The rev. gentleman was not only desirous that the election should be gone about, but that it should be con ducted with regularity and speed. He was, be said only prevented from making tbe necessaiy arrangements, by the absence of some gentlemen at the Warwick sessions; but that the moment they returned notice o( the meeting should be given. It was not his wish to interfere vvith the election, and he hoped every thing would be carried on legally and properly. He ( Mr. D.) told the rector that he was too humble an individual to enter into any arrangement, but that he was quite sure the gentlemen with whom he gene- rally acted would be most anxious to make any fair arrange- ment. In politics their object wtis peace, law, and order, in religious affairs they wished to be guided by the same. Upon this they closed, and the rev. gentleman was to send him word when the matter could be arranged. What was the result? Why, it was only by chance, and from a letter of a hiend at a distance that he heard of that day's meeting. ( Hear, hear.) So much for tbe amicable arrangement. And what did they think was the cause of the meeting being held then? Why, if the rev. gentleman ai'd his friends had waited a little while longer, they would have stood a good chance of taking a trip to London, for contempt of the order of the Queen's Bench. This was the manner in which they had been treated; they would not, however, return evil" for evil, nor should he have alluded to the circumstance, only it was necessary to refute the calumny that the pre- sent meeting was a Radical meeting. He would say, if the parish was in favour of a church rate there ought to be one. If they were opposed to it, why should it be imposed upon them? The gentlemen on the other side never met them but with miserable paltry legal quibbles. They well knew they were outnumbered in the present meeting, even under Sturges Bourne's act, by twenty to one. The object in refusing to strike at once, was that they might obtain such a delay as would enable thein to put a good plaster in the shape of a rate upon the shoulders ot the people. Amongst his ( Mr. D's.) friends, there had not been the least information of the meeting until Tuesday. It was only the night before he and Mr. Edmonds talked of the course they ought to pursue, without adopting any reso- lution respecting it; and it was only that morning that he asked Mr. Salt if he would consent to be put in nomination for the office of warden. There was no con- cert amongst them; and if the gentlemen on the other side would only open their eyes, they could not fail to see that the fact of the people collecting in such numbers without any organisation, was proof of the sincerity of their opposition. Common sonse would suggest to them the propriety of giving up the notion of so obnoxious a burden, and thus living in peace and concord with their neighbours. He perceived in their organ, whic h came out that morning, that it was stated that the Radicals were going to throw the parish into turmoil. He denied it. The Radicals wished to save it from turmoil. lie culled upon the gentlemen opposed to them, seeing they were in a very small minorty— seeing that they had not a chance of success, to come forward and say, like men—" As the election is plainly against us, we will give it up." What would they lose by so doing? Nothing. They could try the question once more, fully and entirely, at St. Martin's Church next Easter Tuesday. He was sure, let them ap- point whoever they might, they never could, if they pro- ceeded as they no. v ( lid, get a rate. It never would be collected. They should take a bit of his skin before he would consent to pay a rate obtained in the way they pro- posed to get it. It was not so much against the impost he contended, as against the mode of raising it. If a rate was fairly and legally obtained, he should not object to pay ; hut so long as they went oil raising such quibbles, so long as they treated the parishioners with such open contempt, so long as they refused them the books, to which, according to the opinion of Judge Parke, they were justly entitled, so long as they acted in that manner, they need not expect peace. If they met the people fairly, the people would meet them ; if not, they must take the'consequence. Mr. SALT returned thanks, amidst great applause. The CHAIRMAN said, nothing more retrained to be done by him, except to congratulate them on the result of the day's proceedings. He felt particularly thankful for their kind support on that occasion. He congratulated the meeting on its numbers and respectability, and above all, upon the result of their proceedings, fie was sure many of them must have made great sacrifices to attend that meeting. ( Hear, hear.) He was not surprised when he heard that the rector hail fixed upon Thursday for the day of meeting, because he well knew that would be a busy day with the people. It was a busy day with him, and being market day the most profitable in the week for his shop; nevertheless, the moment he beard of the meeting he determined on attending, let the loss or inconvenience be what it might. ( Applause.) They would have the satisfaction of knowing, that if they mad:; a little sacrifice, they would be amply repaid by the reflection that they bad made it in the cause of justice and truth. He again thanked them. He held in his hands a full minute of the day's proceedings, which he should always consider as a bond of union that would unite him and the people to- gether; and if at any future period they required his assistance, they would always he certain of having it. ( Applause.)— Mr. Weston then left the chair ; the people, however, continued assembled. Mr. B. HADLET observed, although the chairman had vacated his seat and the formal business was brought to a close, still he was of opinion that they had better remain in the hall. ( Hear, hear.) He believed that it was in- tended to play some dirty, paltry, Tory trick upon them, and they had better keep to their posts. ( Applause.) The church party having, by this time, considerably in- creased in numbers, look their stand oil the left of the organ gallery ; and it was generally believed that it was their iurention, when the people retired, to commence the pro- ceedings fie novo, to choose their own chairman and warden, and have him sworn in. The anti church rate party in conse- quence resolved on seeing out the game, and made up their minds to remain in the hall all night, if necessary, rather than afford an opportunity of getting up any ground of objec- tion to the election of Mr. Salt. The church rafe party, observing this determination on the part of the* people, began to move out of the hall one by one, and in about an hour and a half there was not one of them to he seen in the building. In the interval the Rev. T. M. M'DONNEI. L addressed the meeting. He congratulated them on the unchangeable spirit of opposition which they had manifested to church rates. They must, however, guard against being again taken by surprise. They had heard that day thai tbe present meeting had come upon thein by surprise. It certainly was to him a surprise ; for until be heard a poor fellowgoing about the town crying, " Down with the Tories, and long live the Queen,"— ( laughter)— he knew nothing about it. He had, also, to congratulate thein upon the choice they had made. He knew Mr. Salt well; and he knew that there was no man who, when he entered a right cause, had more courage to follow it up. ( Hear, hear.) He hoped they would that lay guard against any future accident, by appointing a com mittee to watch over the interests of the parish, and he always ready to oppose any attempt that might be made to interfere with their religious liberties. They had that day appointed a gentleman to net as their warden, and the ques- tion was, would they stick to him. ( We will; we will.) Were they, he would ask, sure of that ? ( We are; we are.) Well, he hoped so; but he must confess, if he judged ot their determination by the manner in which Mr. Muntz and Mr Pare, and their Iriends, had been suffered to bear, unas- sisted, all the consequences of an expensive and unrelenting prosecution, got up against them by the enemies of the peo- ple lor their advocacy of those principles which they had that day met to uphold, he must confess if he took their conduct towards these gentleman as a test, he must, he would have his doubts. ( Hear, hear.) He never felt more dissatisfaction than at seeing the manner these men had been treated by the town. He hoped those present would redeem the character of the men of Birmingham, and go loi ill determined that they would leave nothing undone to ndemnify those gentlemen for the great pecuniary sacrifices they must have inade. ( Hear, hear.) The amount of one fourpenny church rate would repay all their expenses; and surely, after so many years relief from that objectionable impost, they could not complain if called upon to contribute that amount, to save from loss the men who had devoted their time, their talents, their money, and their influence, to rid them altogether, and for ever, from the tax. The rev. gentleman went on to notice in detail some particulars of the trial at Warwick, and denounced the whole proceedings as inconsistent with the received notions of British justice. Mr. BOUI. TBEE addressed the meeting for a few minutes, hut in so low a tone, that we could not hear him at tbe dis- tance we were from him. It was now about half past one o'clock, and none of the church party returning, a search was made for them in all the lower rooms of the building; lest they should have hid themselves to wait tbe departure of the people. No trace of H em could he found, anil Mr. Samuel Hutton having an- nounced, amidst much laughter, that there appeared to be no suspicious characters about the house, tbe hall was cleared, and the doors locked. MLIETING OF THE WOMEN'S POLITICAL UNION. We have, in reference to the above meeting', received the following letter from Mr. Salt:— To the Editor of the BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL. Sir,— On entering' the Town- hall, at twelve o'clock, I found myself greeted as churchwarden. I think it is light, on this occasion, to make a straightforward declaration of the course I intend to pursue. No one, sir, feels more disgusted than myself at the unabated rapacity of the Church, which shrinks not from renewing perpetually these unrighteous contests, with an unrepentant fierceness of spirit, which not even the hopelessness of its cause can subdue. But I feel infinitely more disgusted with the party who cla- mour against the law, complain of its injustice, threaten resistance, and who support the system that perpetuates it— the system of exclusive legislation, that maintains old, and multiplies new, abuses. The leaders against the church- rates— why do I call them leaders ?— the busy whisperers, who seek in this little- go the alliance of the Radicals, have given them no aid or countenance; nay, they affect to de- spise the humble, but virtuous and intelligent, men who generously, and at every sacrifice, seek liberty and justice for all. The Radicals will assist them no longer in the paltry warfare against the rates. It is not for religion or liberty that these men clamour, but because the rate affects their little sectarian prejudices. With such men I have no sympathy, and to the in- dulgence of their party feelings I will not minister. A thousand wrongs, each anil every one more griev- ous than the church rates, undermine the strength of the country, and ruin the happiness of tbe people, and not one effort has been made by the middle classes to rectify a system so fertileof suffering. The monopolisers of political rights are traitors to every political duty. I have reasoned with them, I have implored them, I have appealed to their intellects and to their hearts. I have shown them the havoc , of misrule— bankruptcy for them, anil starvation for the labourer. While prosperous, selfishness rules them ; when iu difficulty, fear. The adder, is not more hopelessly deaf than these. I have appealed to tbe ministers, as they are styled, of the gospel, but none, in the blessed spirit of Christ, has given the sanction of his name to the cause of the poor, or sanctified it with his blessing. They see a system of legislation darken all hope with its double curse of poverty and wealth, degrading or cor- rupting all. They know that no religion can flourish in such a land. They, the professed mi- nisters of tbe Universal Father, look on men tor- tured by his brother man; see poverty trampled by the hoof of pride; and, instead of seeking to rectify these violent outrages oil the doctrines they pretend to teach, they blasphemously cant of the dispensations of Divine Providence. The congregations worship the priest, and the priest worships mammon, and no man worships God. " Therefore, thus saith the Lord of Hosts, concerning tbe prophets, behold I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink of the water of gall, for from the prophets of Jerusalem is pvofancness gone through the land. Hearken not unto them, they speak a vision of their own hearts, and not out of the mouth of the Lord." Hardened as Pharaoh, there is no mode of instruct- ing' tbe priests and the middle classes, but by curse and plague. The poisoned chalice must be returned to the lips of these under- tenants of tyranny. The system must be carried out in all its deformity, and oppression worked upon them, as it has been worked upon tbe people. We will consent to no particular class being re- lieved, to bribe them to sanction the wrongs inflicted on their neighbours. We must no longersteer a middle course, but carry out tyranny, or regain liberty. Let the middle classes make their election. They have made me churchwarden, and the middle classes shall either join us to destroy the system that maintains the rate, or a rate they shall have, and a heavy one, to make up for lost time. Their ministers may comfort them, by calling this a dispensation of Divine Provi- dence. I call it a blister, to rouse them from their torpor, and by tbe aid of the people, unless they repent, I will speedily clap it on their backs; for " when there is a respite, they harden their hearts." We will listen to none of their twitterings about re- forming this or that grievance, be it small or big ; the great grievance, exclusive legislation, that breeds all the rest, must be destroyed. These are our terms— a manly and cordial effort for Reform, or tbe blister. And let none dream of resistance. I am the people's warden. My authority is theirs, and I will vindicate it while it is vested in me. If any resist, I will most unhesitatingly sell them up; and they will find it a very different operation to he sold up with the people's sympathy, and to be sold up amid their rejoicing, that justice has reached the betrayers of their bounty. T. CLUTTON SALT, The People's Warden. [ From the casual absence of our own reporter, we did not get a report of the following meeting iu time for our last week's number.— E. B. J.] On Wednesday se'nnight the weekly meeting of theabove union was held. Mrs. LAPWOKTH was called to the chair. She said, as the men were fully aware of their present con- dition, and had resolved to extricate themselves from it, the women were ready to lend them their aid to comfort and assist them in their great and glorious designs. Some per- sons had said that they should have to fight for their rights and liberties, but she was of a contrary opinion. The members of the Political Unions were determined not to be llie aggressors; and the government knew their own in- terest loo well to attack the people. If they should do so, the men would not have to stand alone to meet them— the women would be by their sides— the volley that laid the man on the floor lifeless, should lay bis wife and chil- dren there too. ( Cheers.) She was determined on that course herself, and was glad that it met with the approba- tion of the meeting. There was once a time when the people of England fought lor kings and princes ; but now, if they fought at all, they would fight for their just rights. They had nothing to fear, and every thing to hope ; and she was sure, if they continued in the way in which they had begun, they were sure to prosper. Their motto ought to be, " God and our rights." ( Loud cheering.) A respectably dressed female asked permission to address the meeting, which, being granted, she went on to quote a number of passages of Scripture. Air. COLLINS said, that the meeting was purely of a po- litical character, and they could not allow any theological subjects to be introduced; at the same time, if the speaker wished to speak on any of those subjects which they were met to discuss, they should be most happy to hear her. She said, in reply, that, as such subjects did not meet with the approbation of the meeting, she would not press herself upon them. Mr. COLLINS next addressed the meeting at considerable length. He gave a glowing description of ( he meeting which was held in the West Hiding of Yorkshire, which, for numbers, enthusiasm, and determination, greatly de- lighted him. He was quite sure that the regeneration of this country might be accomplished, and speedily, too, without shedding one drop of human blood, by merely com- pelling their oppressors to relax their iron grasp from the throats, the comfort, the happiness, and the lives of the inhabitants. Whenever a country was regenerated by a bloody revolution, there were always some bold, designing men, who stepped In and took all the advantage which had been gained to themselves ; and such a country was a long series of years before it arrived at the same state of pros perity which it enjoyed prior to the revolution. The people had a power iu their own hands— a legitimate power, too— which, if they did not use in all legal ivays possible to secure their own freedom, they ought not to have it— they deserved not to be free. The government, said Mr. Collins, acted on the people thiough the medium of their pockets; for, as the late Mr. Cobbet used to say, " there was no getting to an Englishman's brains but through his pocket;" and he ( Mr. C.) was quite sure they had made the road clear enough ; but the people could also make the govern- ment feel by the same means. He alluded to the abstain ing from excisable articles. Mr. Fielden had said lhat he believed if Mr. Salt's plan were to be acted upon by one- third of the community, they would not see two years roll over their heads before the government would grant any thing which they demanded. If, for one week, there was not an anvil to ring, or a shuttle to move, it would cause such a convulsion, that it would paralyse the whole of Europe, a'nd such as was never before experienced. He had seen, in a Newcastle newspaper, an account of the last meeting of the British Association ; and it was there stated to be a satisfactory fact, that, in the mining districts, crime was not so prevalent as in other parts of the country; the reason was, because the miners were better paid lor their labour than many other labourers; and, therefore, there was less poverty, consequently, less incentive to crime. Now, that statement, coming, as it did, from men of rank and wealth) such as composed that meeting, possessed great weight. The judges of this country, who swallow up an amount equal to the salaries of three hundred woiking men, and who formerly only had the salaries of fourteen working men, had, when they had small pay, very little business to do, compared with what they now have; he- cause the vast amount which they now receive, then went lo the labouring classes; and be ( Mr. C.) would say, give them their former allowance, and they would very soon have little business again. It was a libel on human nature to say, that if the men had comfortable homes, crime would increase. How was it at present? Men were led to com- mit crime, because there was the possibility of escape ; and they knew if they should be detected, that the criminal fared better than the labouring man, ( Cries of Shame, shame.) It was manifest that the people of England were speedily descending from their low level to a still lower one; and they would soon come to the level of tbe Irish, unless they exerted themselves, and persevered in the glorious cause which they had undertaken. ( Hear, and cheers.) Mr. SALT here entered the room, and was most enthu- siastically received. After the cheering had subsided, he briefly addressed the meeting; and apologised for his late attendance, by observing that, on a Wednesday evening, he had another public duty to perforin, namely, to attend the meeting of Guardians at the Workhouse; therefore he feared that he should seldom be able to attend on that evening. It was unanimously agreed, that the weekly meetings of the Union should, for the future, he held on Monday even- ing instead of Wednesday, as heretofore. The meeting then separated. On Monday last, the weekly meeting was held, pursuant to the resolution which was passed at the last meeting. Mrs. LAPWORTH again presided. Alter a few brief remarks from the Chairwoman, Mr. COLLINS said, that the success of their cause mainly depended upon the virtue, the firmness, and the determina- tion of the people. It rested with them, whether their condition should be changed, from one of immense misery and destitution to one of prosperity; therefore, it was ne- cessary and important that the subject should be kept con- stantly before the public, and he was quite sure that til influence of the females was greater than that of the men. When there was a dread of the French invasion, the govern- ment made an appeal to the patriotism of the females, who, for a long time, were very much prejupiced against Bona- parte, and the others who wanted to deprive them of their liberty. But there was not much liberty now to be deprived of. They had, as Mr. Attwood had said, the liberty of choosing between the jail, the workhouse, and the grave. He held in his band a Newcastle newspaper, with a very curious hyeroglyphic contained in it. It was tile " tree of taxation," under which figure were represented tbe four classes of the community. The roots of the tree, from whence all the nourishment was derived, were the labour- ing classes. The roots which ihus afforded all the nourish- ment, had none of the fruit which fell from it. The next class were such as artists, clerks, counselled, & c., above which were the higher section, who were catching the windfalls which were blown down by two little cherubs. " Whig and Tory wind" were their names; and that pic- ture Mr. Collins considered to be a perfectly true picture of the present state of affairs. In this country, with a population of from twenty- five to twenty- seven millions of persons, by the aid of machinery, and the ingenuity of the inhabitants, they weie enabled to produce as many manu- factured goods as would take four hundred millions of per- sons to produce, by their own hand labour, unassisted by machinery. Was it not, then, a most abominable thing, that, with all that vast amount of ingenuity and talent, the people should be in a state of starvation. He hoped things would soon change; and he had no doubt hut that, with the blessing of God and by their united exertions, they would very soon effect that change. Mr. SALT next addressed the meeting. Me thought it well for them to know that the money collected for the national rent was not kept in the hands of au individual, hut placed in the bank. They were not doing any thing at the present time to expend it, except mutually informing each other respecting the state of the country; but when Parliament met, then would come the time for action then would come the tug of war, and it was proper that they should he provided with the money which would then be required; they must also have their minds prepared, be- cause, though no one need despair, they were far from hav- ing secured the victory. They stood in a different position iu 18- 31 to what they do now. In 1832, a large portion ol the middle classes was with them ; and though they were a feeble race and of doubtful virtue, yet they made a great show. They were actually cowards in their hearts, and came to the union for protection. But now they had all the middle class of society against them, and most bitter and hostile they were: the people bad only themselves to depend upon— it rested vvith them, and with thein alone, whether the victory should be accom- plished. The labouring classes were in a peculiar position. They had little money to spare, owing to the state to which they were reduced, and the public press, with a few exceptions, was under the dominion of the middle classes. Such was the situation of affairs; and if they did not suc- ceed, how much more severe would be the privations, the degradation, and the miseiy of the large mass ol the community. He had never forgotten the scene of last winter, when respectable matrons stood exposed to the scorn and pity of their fellow creatures, almost fighting for a piece of flannel. He trusted they would not forget that, for it would come again next winter, and every time it did come it would be with greater power arid effect, unless they gained their rights— unless they got the accursed taxes taken off— and unless they had a good and flourishing trade, which was now broken down by the great load of taxes with which they were oppressed. Mr. Salt proceeded to comment upon a placard which had disgraced the streets of Birmingham for a few weeks past. It was a notice that a number of girls, from nine to fourteen years of age, were wanted, to work in a manufactory. It meant from six to fourteen, for he himself had seen them at work. He ap- pealed to the mothers present, whether it was not a cruel system to drag the youthful mind into a manufactory at the tender age of seven, which was the time intended by nature and the law of God to give their lacuities and muscles the exercise they required to fit them for the pursuits of ma- turer age. It deprived them of their youthful sports, de- stroyed their spirits, injured their health, obliterated their beauty, and prevented them from receiving that education which it was necessary they should receive in youth, for the guidance of future years. The system with respect to the boys was similar. Instead of growing up brave and upright m - n, they were so worked and brutalised, that when they arrived at man's estate, they made bad husbands, and heat their wives. Drunkenness originated in the same way. The poor man, deprived of every thing to support the functions of the body, bad recourse to stimulants; he had no place for relaxation. The roads across fields were blocked up, tbe common land was inclosed, and there were only two places open on a Sund ly in which he might enter — the chapel and the public house. When they once lost their privileges and their rights, bow frightful a source of misery did it produce. It reminded him of a verse of Sir Walter Scott's, where he said, " And every devious step they strode, Still led them farther from the road." The Weekly Chronicle, in treating of liberalism, said, " that no government could make trade good;" but the people had found out that any government could make it bad, and therefore they were determined to prevent them doing that. In 1832, they had the whole of the yeo- manry with them, for as they were generally farmers, they were aggrieved by the low price of com, but now corn sold at a high price, they had forsaken them, and were certainly against them. But he trusted to the soldiers— they were as much injured as the working classes They had no pro- motion ; neither did the soldier know any, as there must be promotion in the army. They should let " Reform in the army" be their cry. He thought it would not be amiss if they were, in addition to the National Petition, to petition separately for a reform in the army. If they petitioned for the soldiers to have their grievances redressed, perhaps the soldiers might act reciprocally, and petition for the people to have theirs redressed also. Mr. Salt then resumed his seat, amidst loud applause. Mr. COLLINS said he would make a remark on an observ- ation which Mr. Salt had made, which was, " that they had now nobody hut themselves; in 1832 they had the middle classes with them, but now they were against them." He ( Mr. C.) would tell them that the middle classes were not with them in 1832 till they were frightened. They came alter having opposed the cause by all means in their power, and put themselves under the wings of the Union for pro- tection, and many of them who put down their names as subscribers have never paid their money to this time. Theirs was a holy cause, and if they continued with the same determination of purpose, and the blessing of God being with them, they must succeed, in despite all the oppo- sition af all the classes in the world. ( Cheers.) Mr. HADLEY was introduced to the meeting. He ob- served that he need not tell them how delighted he was to meet them. He took shame to himself that he had not engaged himself with his friend, Mr. Salt, in the formation of so public- spirited a society ; and he rejoiccd, unfeignedly rejoiced to find so much public spirit in the women of Brummagem— the town in which he was born, in which all his best and dearest interests were wrapped up. He re- joiced to find that they had not only the men with them, hut even the women, who manifested a much greater de- gree of enthusiasm, and he saw, by the light of their enthu- siasm, that the salvation of their common country was likely to be effected by their efforts. Without the exertions of the women he was sure that they should not win the battle they were fighting, but with their endeavours, added to those of the men, they should succeed to the full extent of their wishes. He was getting into years, and lie had not done so without gaining some experience, not only among men, but also among women, and he knew the great influ- ence which they had upon society. The men might say that he was under ( et icoat gove n nent, if they pleased, but he did not care about that; for by a wise and good woman he had no objection to be ruled. ( Cheers.) It was a pleasing sight to see them handed together tor so holy and righteous a purpose. They had before them an arduous task, but not an impossible one— a difficult task, but not one that could not be accomplished by their united exertions. ( Hear, hear.) The greater the difficulty the greater tbe honour, he thought, for their aim was to make the condition of their own order better; to elevate the people of their own class in the scale of society, and to ensure to them- selves a share of the comforts and conveniences of life, which they not only deserve, but which, as the industrious classes, they were justly entitled to. The time of trial was coming, and he, for one, was fully prepared to lesist with his utmost might every shilling of taxation which ( hey were at present compelled to pay. He declared that there was not one exciseable article which he would not abstain from. ( Cheers.) That was the doctrine upon which he meant to act himself, and he hoped they would forgive him if he re- quired them to act upon it also ; and if they did abstain, no govcrnire. it under heaven could stand against ( heir just de- mands : they had not only the cards in their hands, but the honours also, and they should win the game if they conti- nued to stand firmly one to another. ( Renewed cheers.) That was his honest opinion, and in whatever lociety he had been, lie had never concealed it; he was resolved, if the people were but true to themselves, to fight to the last inch of ground if it were necessary. It was a just and righteous object, and no party, whether connected with the government or not, dare attempt to put them down, or to keep them from expressing their opinions upon the subject. He would call upon them to stand steadily together in the ork of regeneration, and the time would speedily come when they should have to rejoice that they had had spirit enough to beard the lion in his den— to take the bull by the horns and to diminish the taxes which were crushing his fellow men and fellow- country women too. ( Loud applause.) The CHAIRWOMAN was sure that she could agree with the remarks which had been uttered by the former speakers. They, she said, were fully bent on doing all in ( heir power to advance their cause. The fault should not he with them if they did not succeed, for they would use all their earnest endeavours to accomplish and achieve their great undertak- ing. She would recommend every one to adopt the plan mentioned by Mr. Hadley ; in fact, she had partially adapted it herself, prior to the time of trial. If the gove- rn- mcnt were determined to build union workhouses for them to end their days in, she, for one, was determined to prevent them, by not using exciseable articles of any description— if tiiey could not do without them for a month or two, how was it possible that they could do without when they came to the workhouse to terminate their days ? She"-" " Dished to learn that the- on cvcry jms| lel of ^ shillings and sevenpehee duly; so she and her family had declined drinking ale. If all acted in that way, they would soon compel the higher classes to remove the burdens from them, for by the people's wants came their cares. Mr. COLLINS remarked that it was a fact that sixty mil- lions of taxes were drawn from the inhabitants of this country, which could not be the case without causing great privations, even if it was taken from all according to their ability to pay; but when it was taken in an unfair propor- tion, and by far the greatest share from those who were the least able to pay it, the misery, of course, would be so much the greater. Mr. SALT briefly referred to the unjust system of hand la- bour being taxed so heavily, while machinery was not taxed at all. Wherever machinery was introduced the labourers were left to perish, If any person held a situation und § r government, and had nothing to do, as was the case with Mr. Stapleton, for 80( M. a year; when he was no further wanted, instead of paying him 800/. a year for nothing, they gave him a compensation^ annuity of 1200/. a year for taking his situation away. Now, when the labourer was deprived by machinery of the means of existence, did he have com- pensation ? Certainly not. The consequence was, that he was obliged too seek another trade, and ( hat tended greatly to deteriorate the price, & c., of it. He had always thought that they should not go through life without lifting their thoughts to the God who ruled all things, and from the in- fluence of whose Holy Spirit they derived every good thought. He intended to have a holy day, and to have the Town- hall, and he would find a Christian minister who would be present on tbe occasion— a man who declared the truth, for truth only came from his lips. He ( Mr. S.) would invite, in the course of the week, the Rev. Mr. Price, of Needwood, who was persecuted at Kidderminster,' and they daie not refuse the Town hall for such a purpose. All the men and all the women should have a holy religi- ous ceremony, to call down the blesiing of God upon their labours. Their minds would be impressed with the so- lemnity of the proceedings, and their example would be followed by many others. Birmingham was the first to have a Political Union. Birmingham stood first as the great advocate of liberty. Birmingham was the first to have a Female Political Union, and that union was the first to pay towards tbe National Rent, and Birmingham should be the first town to have a great and holy ceremony performed in it. The room was filled by attentive and respectably- dressed females, and the greatest enthusiasm and interest was evinced by all present. The meeting separated about nine o'clock. 4 TIIE BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL, OCTOBER 27. BIRMINGHAM ROYAL SCHOOL OF MEDI- CINE AND SURGERY. ASPECIAL GENERAL MEETING of the Go- vernors of ths Institution will he held on Tuesday November 30th. , . , The Chair to be taken at Two o'clock precisely. WILLIAM SANDS COX, Honorary Secretary. Paradise- street, October 26th. BEACH AND M A S C H W I T Z, 43, NEW STREET, BIRMINGHAM, BRITISH AND FOREIGN FURNITURE] AND CARPET WAREHOUSE. TOWN HALL, BIRMINGHAM. Patronised by the Right Hon. Sir ROBERT PEEL, Bart., M. P.; the Rev. W. MARSH, M. A.; the Rev. J. G. BREAY, B. A.; the Rev. THOMAS NUNNS, M. A.; the Rev. M. W. FOYE, M. A.; and other Ministers of the Establishment. MR. BIRD will give a Third ASTRONOMICAL LECTURE, with the GRAND ORRERY, on TUESDAY EVENING NEXT, October 30th, to commence at half past Six. Appropriate pieces of Music will be played on the ORGAN by Mr. G. HOLLINS in the intervals of the lecture. Admission to the Side Galleries One Shilling each. Tickets may be obtained of Mr. COBDRN, Ann- stieet; Messrs. BIRD and Co., chemists, Phillip- street; Mr. SSOWELL, New- street; Mr. PITMAN, 19, Newhall- street; of the Lecturer, 20, Hagley- row ; and at the Town Hall. BIRMINGHAM CANAL NAVIGATIONS. NOTICE is hereby given that the next GENE- RAL MEETING or ASSEMBLY, of the Com- pany of Proprietors of this undertaking, will be held at the Company's Office, in Paradise Street, on Friday, the 9th of November, I83S, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon, when all and every the said Proprietors are requested to attend, cither in person or by proxy. JOHN FREETH, Clerk to the Company. N. B— The chair to be taken at twelve o'clock precisely. October 26th, 1838. " 1H7ANTED, a PARTNER, who can advance from £ 700 to £ 1,000 in an old established manufacturing trade, in full work, and with large orders from impoitaut houses now in hand. The profits are good, and the pay- ments prompt. Principals only will be treated with. Apply to Mr. THOMAS SMITH, accountant, 6%, Cannon- street, Birmingham. PLAYING CARDS. rpiE BEST MOGUL PLAYING CARDS, with A figured and coloured backs, only 2s. per pack ; usually sold at 2s. 6d. or 2s. 9d. WASTE, or cut corners, at lOd. per pack. Also, ALMANACKS, POCKET BOOKS, and ANNUALS, for the year 1839, of every description, Oiders from the country, with a remittance, punctually ex- ecuted. Hawkers and Dealers supplied. JAMES DRAKE, 52, NEW- STREET, BIRMINGHAM. TO COIlltESPO N DENTS. 1 The mail for Sheffield, by which the Sutton in Ash- field papers are conveyed, close3 at twelve o'clock on Friday night, and the Journal is published at six o'clock on Saturday morning. It is, therefoie, impossible for our paper to reach Sutton in Ashfield till Sunday. This notice will suffice for another correspondent, who talks of our posting our newspaper on Friday alternoou. 1 Thomas Buchan and his coadjutor, George Manson, are bungling knaves. The Birmingham sparrows are too old to be caught with their chaff. BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL. TO THE LADIES. IS NOW OPEN, the EMPORIUM, No. H, NEW- STREET, two doors from High- street, with a matchless STOCK of superior FURS, consisting of bHAWbS,] CAPES, MUFFS, BOAS, & c. The Proprietor, being a Manufacturer, is determined to sell the VERY BEST QUALITIES at the VERY LOWEST FRACTION, lor Cash. , . Ail kinds of Furs cleaned, repaired, and altered to the present fashion. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1838. HAT ESTABLISHMENT, 86, HIGH STREET. JSUFFIELD respectfully announces to his friends • and the public, that he is constantly receiving fresh supplies of HATS, which he is offering at the following unusually low prices : — LIST OF PRICES. Waterproof Beaver Ditto Ditto Prime London Stuff Hats Ditto Ditto . Superfine at —— Extra Superfine at. 10 12 15 18 21 Not to be superseded by any other house in the trade. WANTED, a YOUNG. WOMAN to assist in a Shop, who understands the Hosiery, Stay, and Ready- made Linen Departments. The strictest investiga- tion as to character will be required. Address, A. B., Post Office, Wolverhampton. his TO GOLD CHAIN MAKERS. WANTED, a steady, good WORKMAN. Apply at Mr. BROWN'S, Gold and Silver Chain maker, Upper Hockley- 6treet, Great Hampton- street, Birmingham. TO STEEL PEN MAKERS. " M^ ANTED, a GOOD WORKMAN in the above » » line. He must be competent to take the manage- ment of a quantity of presses; the tools he will not be required to make, as a regular tool maker for years, has been kept on the premises for that purpose only. None need apply but who has worked in the above line for these last two or three years; his habits sober and steady. A constant place, and good wages ttiven. Apply to 120, Constitution- hill, Birmingham. TO COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS. ** TANTED, an experienced TRAVELLER, one fl that has been principally engaged with Jewellers, Silversmiths or Stationers, the connection is old and of the first respectability. None need apply but those who have been at least three or four years on the roads, security will he required. Address, post paid, to L. D., at Mr. Smith's, Chemist, Lothbury, Loudon. SAVING IS GAINING. THE only place to buy cheap LACE GOODS, MILLINERY, ARTIFICIAL FLOWERS, GENTLEMEN'S SILK STOCKS, & e., & c., is at the Manufacturer's, J. PIDGEON, 67, HIGH STREET, NEAR NEW STREET, BIRMINGHAM, where every article is sold retail at the wholesale price. An APPRENTICE WANTED. REMOVAL. EDWARD FOULKES, PAINTER, & C., respect- fully informs bis friends and the public in general, that he has removed from41, CON£ REVE- STREET, to No. 44, GREAT CHARLES- STREET, corner of New market- street. LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY. MESSRS. WADDELL, STOVIN, and BRE- TH ERTONS, being authorised by special appoint- ment of the Directors, to take in and book PARCELS and GOODS for the Railway, at their respective offices, namely, the SWAN. HEN AND CHICKENS, and CASTLE HOTELS, respectfulfy inform the public that every possible attention will be paid to insure the mo3t punctual and speedy transit of Goods entrusted to their care. OMNIBUSES, under their superintendence, ply to and from their offices, the principal Hotels and Inns, and the Bailwny Station, for the departure and on the arrival of every train, at the charge of Sixpence per passenger. Birmingham, Oct. 1, 1838. IRON- BUILT BOATS FOR SALE. TO BE SOLD, . substantial Iron- built CANAL BO ATS, welj adapted for the Iron, Coal, or Stone trade. For Particular, apply, if by letter, post paid, to Messrs Piekford and Co., Manchester. SALE THIS DAY, OF ELEGANT HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE IRISH LINENS, Table Cloths, two fine toned PIANO FORTES, six octaves, by eminent London makers, and other valuable property, at No. 16, UPPER TEMPLE- STREET, Birmingham, commencing at Ten o'cloc k. JOHN RODERICK, Auctioneer. Offices, New- street and Bannett's- hill. SALE OF VALUABLE GEMS. riiObeSOLD by AUCTION, on FRIDAYNEXT - M- the 2nd day of November, 1838, at the Sale Rooms No. 16, Upper Temple- street, Birmingham, at eleven o'clock precisely, consisting of Cornelian Brooch and Seal Stones, Tops and Drops, Garnets, Turquoise, Amethyst, Topazes Rubies, Emeralds, rough and cut Diamonds," Agate Knife Handles, and a great variety of different Gems, well worth the attention of the Trade,- Lapidaries, Jewellers, Factors, and others, the property of an old established firm dissolving partnership. Catalogues may be had on Tuesday next, of JOHN RODERICK, Auctioneer. Offices, New- street and Bennett's- hill. SALE AT HANDSWORTH, THE LAST HOUSE IN IIAMPSTEAD- ROW. TO PARTIES FURNISHING, BROKERS, AND OTHERS. TO be SOLD by AUCTION, by W. PARKER on Monday next, October 29t! i, on the premises as above, the whole of the excellent and modern HOUSE HOLD FURNITURE— comprising mahogany four- posi bedsteads, with rich moreen hangings, prime goose feather lieds, sheets, blankets, counterpanes, mahogany chests of drawers, dressing and wash- hand tables, swing glasses, bed- side carpets, mahogany dining and other tables, eha'rs Brussels floor carpets, sofa, the usual kitchen and culinary requisites, and other effects. Sale to commence at ten o'clock in the morning, under the usual conditions. Catalogues are now ready, to be had at the Auctioneer No. 33, Lionel- street, or at the place of sale. BELGRAVE BUILDING ESTATE. HIGHGATE, NEAR BIRMINGHAM. JT^ HE Lots of LAND staked out, and intended fo X SALE by AUCTION, on Tuesday next, October 30, having been principally DISPOSED OF by PRI- VATE CONTRACT, is' POSTPONED to Tuesday November 6th, when the Sale by Auction will he holden at Four in the afternoon, at the Waggon and Horses, Moseley road, and a further portion of this valuable and highly de sirable Freehold Estate will be staked out and arranged in Twenty eligible Lots, of twenty- two yards aud eleven yards frontages. COVENTRY. FREEHOLD ESTATE. TO be SOLD, by PRIVATE CONTRACT, by Messrs. WOO'LLAMS and CARPENTER, r compact FREEHOLD ESTATE, with substantial Farm house, requisite out- buildings, and upwards of fifty- seven acres of productive Meadow, Pasture, and small part Arable Land, in the occupation of a highly respectable tenant, chief part exonerated from and land- tax redeemed, and part tythe free, situate within two miles of the city of Coventry, with the advantage of water carriage, by canal- which adjoins the propeity. Particulars of Messrs. WOOI. LAMS and CARPENTER. E'tatc Agents and Auctioneers, No. 16, Old Burlington- street, London, where a plan of the Estate may be seen. PRIME CIGARS. TO TOBACCONISTS, PUBLICANS, AND OTHERS. Wholesale Warehouse, 105, New street, Birmingham, CHARLES RYLAND respectfully invites ' Friends and the Public to an early inspection of his prime Havannah, Cabana, Silva, Dos Amigos, Woodville, Regalia, fine old Cuba, and other FOREIGN CIGARS, which he has lately made large purchases from the choicest selections in bond ; and having arranged with the most re- sectable Vendors and Cigar Brokers in London for a con- stant supply, he confidently assures them that he shall be enabled to SERVE the TRADE and others with any quantity, upon such reasonable and advantageous terms as limited traders could not afford to do. Liberal allowances will be made to purchasers of 61bs. or upward<, varying according to quantities purchased. C. R. has also a great variety of Cigar Cases, Snuff Boxes, Instantaneous Lights, & c., which he offers upon terms equally reasonable. DURABILITY, FASHION, AND ECONOMY, IN BOOTS AND SHOES. BOSTOCK and MATTHEWS, 99, HIGH- STREET, ( four doors below the Swan yard,) most respectfully inform the Public, that their Warehouse is replete with Goods suitable to the approaching season, comprising every I'arieiy of LADIES', GENTLEMEN'S, and CHILD- HEN'S BOOTS and SHOES, for durability and style of Workmanship not to be surpassed, and for quality and price unequalled. Families who have been accustomed to pay high prices iri order to secuie a satisfactory article, are particularly re- quested to put these professions to the strictest test, as the Proprietors are not only enabled to sell at the LOWEST MANUFACTURING PRICES, but are also desirous that their establishment should be noted for the most SER- VICEABLE AND FASHIONABLE ARTICLES. SjSgT Gentlemen to whom a good fit and good quality in Wellington Boots are an object, are requested to compare the prices at this Establishment with those they have been in the habit of paying. THOMAS STANTON, Agent. 99, High- street, Birmingham. An Experienced CLICKER WANTED in a wholesale manufactoiy. JOHN COPE, CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST, 43, HIGH- STREET, BIRMINGHAM, N announcing to his Friends his retirement from — business, begs to return his sincere thanks for the many marks of preference bestowed upon him, and to acquaint them that lie has disposed of his trade to Mr. W. M. SHILLITOE, of 69, High- street, to whom he takes the liberty of requesting a transfer of their support, feeling confi- dent that every effort will be made by him to give satisfac- tion. W. M. SHILLITOE RESPECTFULLY informs the inhabitants of Bir- mingham and its vicinity, that he has purchased the business lately in the possession of MR. JOHN COPE, 43, High- street, and hopes, by strict care and personal atten- tion to every department of his trade, to merit the continu- ance of the support so long bestowed upon his predecessoi, as well as that shown to himself at his present establish merit. W. M. S. wishes also to observe that it is his intention ultimately to remove his business from 69 to No. 43, High- STL* 661 » A vacancy for an APPRENTICE presents itself. Agent for Jeffrey's celebrated Oral Respirator. SERVING ON JURIES.— It is not generally known that parties described in the lists of persons qualified to serve on juries as merchants, bankers, or esquires, avoid the inconvenience of serving on petty or common j uries. The statue of James Watt, by Sir Francis Chantrey, is now placed in the building erected for it in Union- street, Greenock. It is what is technically called an eight- foot figure, and the posture is exactly the same as that of Watt's statue in George- square, Glasgow. The figure is of statuary marble, and weighs upwards of two tons, and the pedestal, which is of Sicilian marble, weighs about three tons. On the front of the pedestal is the following inscription from the pen of Lord Jeffrey:—" The inhabitants of Greenock have erected this statue of James Watt, not to extend a fame already identified with the miracles of steam, but to testify the pride and reverence with which he is remembered in the place of his nativity, and their deep sense of the great benefits his genius has conferred on mankind. Born xix January, MDCCXXXVI. Died at Heatlifield, in Staffordshire, August xxv, MDCCCXIX. A letter of the 2nd instant, from Weimar, says, that in the house formerly inhabited by Goethe, and which belonged to him, still exist, precisely in the same state left by him at his death, his bedchamber, his study, his library, and his rich collections of objects of natural history, antiquities, coins and medals, works of art, See., which are visited by all strangers of distinction, and which were lately inspected in all tlieir details by the emperor and empress of Russia. The government of Weimar is said to be negociating with Goethe's heirs for the purchase of all these objects, and the house which contains them, for the purpose of forming a national museum, which is to bear the name the illus- trious deceased. The collections are estimated at the value of 80,000 thalers, or rather more than 11,500/. I AM AN AMERICAN CITIZEN.— We derive the fol- lowing gratifying facts from an account of a late visit to the Museum of the College of Surgeons, in Dublin, by a correspondent of the Worcester [ Mass.] Spy:— " To obtain admission to the Museum, an introductory note from one of the members of the society is generally required. I was unaware of the fact previously to going, and, consequently, was unprovided. But, upon stating that I was an American, I was immediately ad- mitted. This is not the first instance in which my being a foreigner, and American, has obtained for me privileges which otherwise would have been refused. In former days, the declaration ' lam a Roman citizen' was an fegis of protection to those who could say it with truth. Now the similar one,' I am an American citizen,' not only ensures protection in this country, but opens to our countrymen places, which, in some in- stances, are closed to Englishmen. It gained admis- sion for me into the House of Commons, on a day when the crowd was so great, and the demand for seats so numerous, that the Speaker had refused to grant the privilege to many who had requested it— the day upon which the consideration of the message was before the house. In several other instances have I been more than usually thankful that I could say, ' I am an American citizen.'" On Easter Tuesday last, the parishioners were in- vited to meet in St. Martin's Church, for the purpose, amongst other things, of electing a church warden. The impossibility of taking a fair or satisfactory poll in St. Martin's Church, induced certain of the vestry to move for an adjournment till the next day, and to the Public- office. The rector determined that the question of adjournment must be decided by a poll. It was gone into by his directions; and the result was, an adjournment till the next day, and to the Public- office, of the poll, whose object was to determine whether any such adjournment should take place. The preliminary poll, which, it seemed, did not even then bring home to the rector the necessity of the ad- journment, which had already taken place, was ab- ruptly closed ; and the vestry dismissed, without notice or intention of re- assembling. The purpose for which it had been called had not only not been entered upon ; but the question, whether it should be entered upon, had been not yet decided. This was playing with time after a very pleasant fashion it must be confessed. Some gentlemen, who wished the business of the parish to be proceeded with; and who did not perceive in the conduct of the rector any earnest desire that way, applied for a mandamus, calling upon him and his advisers to hold a vestry, in order to complete the work which lie and they had so strangely interrupted. The mandamus was granted and served. Two months, three months, four months, elapsed, without a compli- ance with the wishes of the parish, or the orders of the court. The last moment of the recorded time ap- proached, when the return to the mandamus must be made; and then, at length, with the grace of necessity and a wholesome fear of consequences, the parishioners werejonce more called together. This second meeting was held in the Town- hall on Thursday. • Now, it might have been supposed— the inconveni- ence of delay having been so sensibly felt on the for- mer occasion— that some means would be taken, with a view to accelerate business on this. The great cause certainly of the delay, and subsequent dissolution of the vestry held on Easter Tuesday, was the determination of the rector to take a poll on every question, prelimi- nary or conclusive. And what was the first movement of the rector's friends on Thursday ? To demand a poll on a question so essentially preliminary, that a poll upon it, was, in the nature of tilings, absolutely impracticable. The rector declined being present. The air of the Town- liall does not, we presume, suit him. It is redolent of Political Unions, and universal suffrage. He, therefore,— Left the foul business for folks less divine. Now the law says, that when the rector or perpetual curate, if there be one, are both absent, in such case the parishioners shall elect a chairman to preside over the meeting. Will it be ciedited, that the rector's friends, having counselled the rector to absent himself, and having thus put upon the meeting the neces- sity of electing a chairman to fill the place, which it was his duty to fill, should, the moment a chairman was elected, demand a poll under STURGES BOURNE'S act. and, as a matter of course, a scrutiny on the question of that election ? We are not now dis- cussing the legality of the demand. We believe it was illegally made— too late in point of time, and alto- gether defective in point of form. But we speak of it merely in reference to the spirit of factious delay which it indicated. Suppose such a poll to be attempted, what is the necessary result? The vestry is no vestry at all till the chairman is chosen; it cannot, of course, be ad- journed. A poll, in such a parish as Birmingham, re- quires not a day, or part of a day, but a number of days. To say that the poll might be limited to the meeting, is nothing to the purpose. A resolution may, perhaps, effect such a limitation, but who is to put it? Who is to assign the times or places, when or where, the poll is to begin or end? Suppose the poll inter- rupted, and the meeting broken up, as it must be by the intervention of night, who is to re- commence the one or to re- assemble the other ? These are but a few of the unanswerable questions which must be answered, in order to put such a proposition as that of the rector's friends in a practicable or possible shape. To go on— suppose these unanswerable difficulties surmounted ; suppose the age of miracles restored, for the peculiar benefit of the parish of Birmingham, we are still as far from the end as ever. If, at any step of our progress towards no conclusion, the rector should take into his head to pay the vestry a visit of one minute, not only do the entire functions of the elective chairman cease, but when the rector shall have again retired, the nomination must be renewed, the poll once more gone into, and the scrutiny scrutinised after pre- cisely the same fashion as if none of these processes had been previously thought of! If— and it is an important if— if a rector was, either in justice or reason, or in obedience to any other prin- ciple that binds ordinary humanity, compelled to ad- minister the law for the people in the same fashion that he administers it against them; if he were com- pelled to go to a poll on every question, essential and non- essential, which a rate- payer might see fit, in the exercise of his parochial duty, to raise— then the weapon of delay would be fairly wielded— then we would defy the most zealous high Churchman that ever received an episcopal blessing, to carry an election, to carry a rate, or to carry anything. We would under- take, with an honest, justice- dealing chairman, withou for a moment departing out of the regular course of business, merely by acting on the interpretation put upon STURGES BOURNE'S act by Mr. MOSELEY and his friends, to continue polling to the day of doom; and to adjourn the scrutiny to a future opportunity. But we have no such honest, justice- dealing chairmen. Our chairmen put what motions they please, what way they please, and they reject what motions they please, without troubling themselves or their hearers with a reason. It is only when we are about to get a chairman who will hold the scales evenly, that the system of delay comes into vicious operation. In a word, under the rule laid down by Mr. MOSELEY, when the rector is in the chair, he can do what he likes, when he is not in the chair, the parish can do nothing at all. Now, we doubt not, that, to such enlightened friends of the church, as the gentleman who sought to provoke a riot in the Town- hall on Thursday, by violently pre- venting Mr. WESTON from taking the chair, to which he had been called by a most triumphant majority, this may appear to be a remarkably satisfactory state of things. But did they, for once, contrive to reflect upon the matter— always supposing that they are capable of reflection upon any thing— tliey would see that no system which is, from beginning to end, one tissue of contra- diction and absurdity, can be long beneficial for any purpose or to any party. Assuming the propriety of a money qualification, we have always held, that a strong argument might be founded on that assumption, for a plurality of votes. So long, therefore, as the principle of a money qualification is recognised, we should not seriously quarrel with such a plurality. But, surely, it is plain to the meanest apprehension, that whatever reasons maybe adduced for the application of STURGES BOURNE'S act to the question of a rate or of a warden, there is as little use as room for it, in such questions as that to which it was sought to be applied on Thurs- day, or that to which it was in part applied on Easter Tuesday last. The only excuse, indeed, that a fair- spoken Church man can plead, is, that such is the law. No position can be more false. If it be the law, how happened it that, up to Easter Tuesday last, the rector had never dreamt of its existence? How happened it, that at Aston, on Easter Tuesday last, no such law was once mooted ? In how many parishes have such vexatious attempts at delay been made ? We rather think our local Tories possess a sorry precedence that way, as they do in most ways that are dirty and doubtful. But, if it were the law, all practice bears us out in saying, that the law would, no more in that case than in thousands of others, require enforcement, were the parties possessed of ordinary discretion. Much is said, and commonly by those who are least regardful of it, about the advantages of conciliation. Certainly, in respect to parochial matters, conciliation is as much a matter of interest as of propriety. What does the church gain by the exhibition of such a zeal as was apparent on Thursday? Does it ensure a rate ? or the prospect of a rate ? If it did, there would be something worth bullying and bellowing for. As it is, the church party are but sowing the wind to reap the whirlwind. days, will solve the difficulty. The Globe stated that Parliament must be called together ; and relying on its authority, we repeated the statement. It would seem, however, that this is not necessary, so that, till February, all is right. The mostingenious speculation which has originated in the resignation, is that of the Sun, which gravely asserts, that universal suffrage must be dropped, and the movement must come to a dead stop, from the superior importance of the question to which the resignation has given rise! We trus^ our Radical friends will duly appreciate this intelli- gence. We find the following paragraph in the Advertiser of Thursday— " Considerabledoubts are entertained, whether, not- withstanding the decided manner in which ihe Court Journal mentioned the fact, that a Charter of Corpo- ration has been granted for this town. It has trans- pired that the Court Journal's authority was not de- rived from any more authentic source than that of an underling in a Radical attorney's office— and it is also known that Lord Calthorpe received a promise, a Whig ministerial promise, certainly, but still a pro- mise, that nothing final should be determined upon during the present recess."— From a Correspondent. That the correspondent is a known one is plain from a leading article in the same journal, in which the information is alluded to— " We have learned that a pledge was given to a nobleman intimately connected with the borough, by Lord Lansdowne, that no Charter should be issued during the rccess; and that the paragraph inserted in ( lie Court Journ I on this subject, had no better foundation than the authority of a clerk in the office of ' our dearly beloved' Joseph Parkes, Esq. If so, all may yet be well." Now, this is a Tory statement, certainly, but still a statement of apparent authority. And we must say, small as is our opinion of Whig promises, that tysuch a promise have been given, especially to a lord, it seems only fair to infer that it will be kept. We agree in the concluding remark, that if the promise have been given, and if it be kept, " all may yet be right" with the learned editor's friends. We are the more readily disposed to this, because, supposing the two ifs to fail, it would necessarily follow, that all must be wrong with him and them. We shall possibly have some- thing more to say on the subject in our next number. The newspapers have not yet entirely recovered from the surprise into which the arrival of the Great Western, and the news that she brought from Canada, had thrown them. It seemed so very singular that Lord DURHAM, a person of great sensibility, excellent understanding, and more pride than any gentleman, at present out of England, should have felt aud resented the treatment he received from the Whig ministers— or, to put it more generally, it appeared so marvellous, that any one, being a member of the Under or Upper House of Parliament, should have heart and head enough to act with decision and independence, under any treatment; that the editors were altogether at a loss for a gauge, by which to measure and estimate the case. A geologist who had discovered a mas- todonton's jaw ill a block of primitive limestone, would not have been more " conglomerated." It was quite hors des regies. Accordingly, some of these sapient persons, after vainly striving to doubt the fact of the resignation, have been casting about for arguments to induce Lord DURHAM to reconsider it. He would not give up the colony in its delicate position ! He was too patriotic. He would not give way to his natural resentment of the conduct of his wavering friends! He was too magnanimous. Lord MELBOURNE should make the amende. What could he do, when his old friend Lord BROUGHAM, and his new friend the Duke of WELLINGTON, were both down upon him? Aud the QUEEN should write a letter with her own little hand, to the pettish governor, to conjure him, by all that was pretty, to forgive poor dear Lord MEL BOURNE'S blunders, and keep his place, like a love! It is true, long before these wise and creditable sug- gestions could have reached America, Lord DURHAM must have reached England, but what of that? If time and space were to be annihilated, in what wor- thier cause could they suffer? In the meanwhile there are rumours, that ministers have been casting about to meet the crisis which Lord DURHAM'S untoward resolution threatens to produce. Lord SPENCER, the Court Circular informs us, and it is authority, has been to Windsor. We cannot sup pose that it was his lordship's skill in the matter of oxen, which took him thither. The QUEEN has enow of black cattle to manage, without seeking to increase the number. The probability accordingly is, that the gossips speak correctly when they describe Lord SPENCER as invited to Windsor with a view to his finishing the work which Lord DURHAM has so has- tily broken off. But Lord SPENCER knows his com- pany— And sacred keeps his honour and his ease. Some other expedient must, therefore, be had re- course to. Lord STANLEY, it was hinted by one of onr provincial cotemporaries, had also been summoned to assist; but this has been contradicted. He was so conciliatory in Ireland, that he could scarcely fail in Canada. A very few weeks at most, perhaps a few A letter appeared in last week's Journal, touching the alleged mortality of infants in the parish Work- house. There has been no meeting of Guardians since; but the subject has not escaped notice, and we believe that returns arc now being made out, with a view to show the precise facts of the ease. The sub- ject is of very grave importance, and has been repeat- edly under the notice of the Guardians, though hitherto we regret to very little purpose. The best wheat in Birmingham market on Thurs- day was 10s. 4d. per bushel, or 82s. 8d. per quarter. Yet the importation average is only 64s. 3d. We said that the average prices of wheat would keep low, while bread notwithstanding was high. WESLEYAN SUNDAY SCHOOLS.— The foundation of a new school in Vincent- street, Balsall Heath, is to be laid on Monday afternoon, by John Wright, Esq. MEETING OF THE COUNCIL.— The council met on Tuesday evening. There was no motion for discussion before the meeting, and the proceedings were uninter- esting. Mr. Salt gave notice that he should on Tues- day, the 30th October, bring forward a petition for the removal of the grievances of the army, and for the making ample and honourable provision for the old age of the soldier. At the close of the business, Mr. Feargus O'Connor came into the meeting, being on his way from London to Carlisle, and spoke at considerable length on the progress of the present movement. NEW MAGISTRATES.— George Whieldon, Esq., of Wilton, Northamptonshire; Richard Gee, Esq., of Hartshill; Gvstavus Thomas Smith, Esq., of Coldi- cote ; and the Rev. Thomas Lea, of Bishop's Itching- ton, qualified and took the oaths as magistrates of Warwickshire, at the late sessions. COURT LEET.— At the Court Leet of the Lord of the Manor held on Wednesday, the following gentlemen were appoiuted manorial officers for the ensuing year:— High Bailiff.— James Turner, Esq. Low Bailiff.— John Francis, Esq. n J, ( Mr. John Boulton, draper, Temple- row. constables. jMr_ Thomas clivCj stanifortli- street. Headborough.— Mr. Thomas Perkins, Spiceal- street. Flesh Conners.— Mr. William Ludlow and Mr. T. Tutin. Ale Conners.— Mr. John Maehin and Mr. J. W. Carter. Deritend Constable.— Mr. Thomas Wells Ingram, Bradford- street. Miss JANE FLETCHER'S CONCERT.— It is with pleasure we see among the numerous attractions of this concert the name of the veteran Lindley, whose per- formances have always called forth the warmest appro- bation. CAUTION TO CARMEN.— Richard Langford was fined at the Public- office, on Monday last, by Daniel Led- sam, Esq., in 20s. and costs, for charging Is. ( id. instead of Is. for a fare, from the Hen and Chickens, New- street, to the London and Birmingham Railway Station. Committed for want of payment of fine. Mr. Ledsam declared it to be his intention to impose the highest penalty upon all future cases. ROBBERIES BY PERSONS IN GOOD CIRCUMSTANCES. — At the Public- office, on Monday last, Mr. Richard Dorricutt, a carpenter living in King Edward's- place, and stated to be possessed of some property, was com- mitted to take his trial for stealing a deal board, the property of Mr. Sweet, a builder. About two o'clock on Sunday morning last, lie was met in New John- street by the watchman, with the board on his shoulder, and, on being questioned respecting it, he dropped the board and ran away. The watchman succeeded in taking him, and the property was sworn to by the pro- secutor. Dorricutt was admitted to bail, to answer the charge at the sessions, himself in 100/., and Mr. Robert Kenton, publican, Little Charles- street, in the like sum.— At Dudley, on Friday last, a Sir. Paskin,. formerly a schoolmaster, but now a maltster, was com- mitted to take his trial for stealing 2J yards of striped kerseymere from an auction room, in Wolverhampton- street, in that town. He was admitted to bail, himself in 200/. and two sureties of 100/. each. STRIKE OF THE GUN FINISHERS.— The gun- finishers, of this town, have turned out for an advance of wages. We do not pretend to be sufficiently acquainted with the merits of the question at issue between them and their employers, to give an opinion; but we arc credibly informed that the case of the men is one of peculiar hardship, and, if truly described, cannot fail to excite the strongest sympathy. They have i& ued a very tem- perate and matter- of- fact address, in wliieli tliey set forth the cause of difference between them and tlieir employers. If the statements are correct, we can only say, that it is much to be regretted by all parties, that the state of the gun- trade should be such as to render the manufacturer unable to pay a higher price than that which will enable one- third of the workmen to earn more than 6s. 9d. per week. We trust the affair will speedily be brought to a close. One house, Messrs. Tipping and Lawden, of Constitution- hill, have, we are informed, much to their credit, given the required ad 261 rHE BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL, OCTOBER 27. vance ; and it is to be hoped the other employers will follow their example. The following extract from the address of the men will show the wretched condition to which they have been reduced:— " Let us, therefore, now come to the earnings under one shilling and three- pence per gun, the present pi ire. The solitary individual, who could finish twenty guns, would earn thirteen shillings per week ; the man who could fiui. » h fifteen guns could earn eight shillings and eight- pence per week; and the third of the trade who cannot finish more than ten guns per week, could not earn more than six shillings and nine- pence per week. Under these circumstances the men applied for an advance, and fixed their demand at one shil- ling and ten- pence per gun, unwilling to place their em- ployers in the situation of being unable to compete with any other market. They were met by some with an assurance that they would willingly pay if all would, and by others that they would not give the required advance. In this condition the men met, and resolved at once to strike, and throw themselves on the justice of their cause and the humanity of their fellow- towiismen, rather than continue to work, and at the same time endure the misery and degra- dation to which that scale of wages had reduced them. They fearlessly assert that the above statement is correct. If it can be disproved by their employers, they will give up the contest. Thus are 200 of them at this moment, many of them with large and helpless families, without the means of subsistence, anil they look forward with confidence to the support of the public." MILITARY RIOT.— The Coventry Herald of yester- day gives an account of a serious and most disgraceful riot by the soldiers now quartered there, on Monday last. It appears the soldiers had obtained leave ( a droll leave) from Monday night till Tuesday morning. The riot began about ten at night. The violence was chiefly directed against the police, but several of the inha- bitants also were severely hurt. Altogether, the assaults seem to have been of the most brutal and unprovoked character. On Wednesday last week, two hundred of the citi- zens of Glasgow presented a handsome piece of plate to Robert Dalgleisli, Esq., late provost of that city. The testimonial consisted of a large splendid plateau, with massive candelabra of gigantic proportions for a centre piece, supported by a couple of Bacchuses resting on a tiger, of very exquisite workmanship and beautiful finish, together with a large richly chased silver coifee- trav, and four smaller sized silver trays. We notice this mark of respect for the honourable gentleman prin- cipally because the plate, which was very much ad- mired, was made at the manufactory of Mr. Collis, of this town. BANK OF ENGLAND.— Quarterly average of fhe weekly liabilities and assets of the Bank of England, from the 24th July to the 16th October, 1838, both in- clusive, pursuant to the act 3 and 4 W. IV., cap. 98. LIABILITIES. Circulation £ 19,359,000 Deposits 9,327,000 ASSETS. Securities ...£ 22,015,000 Bullion 9,437,000 £ 28,680,000 £ 31,452,000 Downing- street, Oct. 19, 1838. SIGNS OF THE TIMES.— On the arrival of despatches from Canada, by the Great Western, on the 18th, Lord Melbourne came from Windsor, was in Downing- street a few hours, and hurried off to Windsor again. The Liverpool steamer was detained two hours on the 20tli, to convey to Canada despatches, in answer to those brought on the 18th. On the 22( 1 Earl Spencer has an interview with Lord Melbourne, and immedi- ately proceeds from Downing- street to Windsor. On the 23d there are rumours in London of the resignation of Lord Glenelg, and of the appointment of the Duke of Richmond or Sir Wilmot Horton to succeed Lord Durham. Oil the same day the journals announce that Lord Brougham and Vaux is at Dover; and a general impression prevails that Parliament will be speedily called together.— Brighton Gazette. DIOCESE OF NORWICH.— The number of benefices in the diocese amounts to 863. The number of in- cumbents to 646. The number of citrates, not incum- bents, to 215. Of the above- mentioned incumbents, Sl3 reside in their parsonage- houses, 106 in their parishes, though not in parsonage housses; there be- ing 326 benefices without parsonage- houses, and 162 with parsonage- houses, but unfit for residence. The number of licenses for non- residence is 237, of whicli 202 are on account of no houses or unfit houses. On account of ill health, 29, and 6 only for causes not specified. With respect to income, there aie in the diocese— 33 benefices below 50/. per annum ; 99 vary- ing from 50?. to 100/.; 108 from 100/. to 150/.; 99 from 150/. to 200/.; 163 from 200/. to 300/.; Ill from 300/. to 400/.; 90 from 400/. to 500/.; 72 from 500/. to 600/.; 32 from 600/. to 700/.; 24 from 700/. to 800/.; 14 from 800/. to 900/.; 6 from 900/. to 1,000/.; 6 from 1,000/. to 1,200/.; 5 from 1,200/. to 1,500/.; 0 from 1,500/. to 2,000/; and 1 above 2,0001.— The Bishop of Norwich's recent Charge. IMPROVED RAILWAY CARRIAGES.— An intimate friend has obliged us, by making a personal inspection ofMr. Coles's improved locomotive or safety carriage for rail- roads; and the following is his report. In the first place, greater simplicity, which is the test of excel- lence in all machinery, stamps the utility of the inven- tion before us. The next, and by far the more im- portant part of the principle of Mr. Coles's carriage, is the almost perfect removal of all friction from the axles, by which means a carriage of equal power, and an engine of less force, propelling an equal weight, by the application of steam or otherwise, may travel a hun- dred miles with treble the velocity, and with the use of one- fourth of the quantity of oil and fuel, than the present constructed carriages can safely do twenty- five miles, without risk of firing! The great feature, then, is the saving in fuel, and expenses of construction; an engine of five- horse or six- horse power being competent to perform the work of one of fifteen or twenty, with the application and use of the anti- friction wheels, upon the plan adopted by Mr. Coles for his single pair ground- wheel carriage. These constitute the leading principles of the Accelerator Carriage, as we have chosen to call it. The principle is precisely analagous with that by which any great weight can be raised by the lever action of multiplied wheels or pulleys, and with comparatively a small degree of power, produced by the rotary motion or revolutions of a large wheel upon a lesser, and thereby increasing its revolutions in the proportion of sixty or more to one upon its axis. Every practical mechanician and engineer is aware that the multiplication of wheels can be carried to an almost unlimited extent, as the means of removing friction ; and it is singular that a principle so generally well understood should not have been thought of in the invention of railway carriages. Mr. Coles has, how- ever, now secured this design by six patents, inclusive ot England, France, and America; and it is to be hoped lie will reap the reward of his toil, cost, and in- genuity. When this carriage is set in motion, instead of the' four ground- wheels carrying the weight or superincumbent bearing on the nut or collar from the single pair, the pressure works upwards upon the rim of the large friction- wheels; and on the axle of which wheels, instead of the lower ones, as in the present con- structed carriages, the entire weight of the carriage and its contents fall. The axle of the lower is met by the rim of the upper frlction- wliecls, which work upon a fixed steel axle, firmly screwed to the back of the frame, and are thus designed to carry the whole weight of carriage, passengers, luggage, & c., and also saving the inuneated friction produced by the carriages with four wheels upon the rails in present use, with increased power of turning, and far less liability of being thrown over the rails. It stands to reason that the difficulty of turning, or yielding to any inequalities of pressure, must be greatly increased by the use of four wheels, whilst the jolting and concussion are in relative pro- portion. in the models shown, the power is sufficiently and accurately tested, by the application of weights and pullevs, both in the use of the anti- friction wheels and without them ; but, as might be expected, the whole tribe of interested engineers, with hardly an exception, are opposed to Mr. Coles' invention. We learn, how- ever, that several scientific men of the first eminence, and a government surveyor from the Ordinance De- partment, after deliberate inspection, have pronounced themselves in favour of its superior pretensions; and for these considerations, we feel the public has a right to the first attention, rather than the monopolous and exclusive patronage of individuals, by having the in- vention of Mr. Coles fairly tried.— Bristol Gazette. Earl Spencer arrived in town at two o'clock yester day afternoon from a visit to the Queen at Windsor Castle. The noble earl remained an hour in town, and then left on a visit to the Earl of Leicester, at Holk- ham.— Court Circular of Thursday. CHANGE OF OPINION.— At the Court of Revision, at Lynn, Mr. Munro, the revising barrister, dccided that the street in which a voter lived being omitted in his description did not render the vote bad. Mr. Drake, who had taken these objections, on hearing Mr. Munro's decision, apologised to the voters whom he had brought forward to sustain their votes, telling them that Mr. Munro had decided such votes to be bad at the last year's revision, and had struck the names off the register. Mr. Munro denied that he had done so, but on referring to the last year's notes, he found that several had been struck off ' for want of their residence being duly described, on which he exclaimed, " I will answer no more questions on the subject."— Lincoln Chronicle. THE CHURCH AND THE MONARCHY.— We, for our parts, with all devoted and loyal attachment to the crown, conceive the church to be an institution more sacred and vital to this Protestant monarchy than the croivn itself.— Times. Dr. LUSHINGTON.— We are glad to find that the Reformers of the Tower Hamlets are determined to support their late representative, Dr. Lushington. It will be further necessary to keep in mind, that if the Tories have not hitherto been able to effect a lodgment in that borough, it has been principally from the fact that no divisions have existed amongst the general body of the Liberal voters, and that to ensure the success of their candidate the same spirit must still pervade them. The Tories are silently at work, in the hope of being able to play in the east of the metro- polis the same game which has neutralised the exten- sive and wealthy borough of Marylebone. [ This is from Thursday's Globe. From its tone we conclude that a Tory member will set for the Hamlets.] The emperor Nicholas returned to St. Petersburgb on the 9th instant. PENRITH AND CARLISLF. RAILWAY.— This proposed line promises to go on under more favourable auspices than any other yet commenced or projected in the kingdom. Nearly, if not all the great landholders in the neighbourhood, have cordially engaged in it.— Preston Observer. IRISH RAILROADS.— It is understood that the Duke of Leinster, Earls of Shannon, Glengall, Kemnare, Lords Viscount Hawarden, and Lismore, with many other influential noblemen and gentleman, have re- solved to take up the question of Irish railways, in order that such may be undertaken under the auspices of government and commissioners.- » - iSW< 7tern Reporter. A shock of an earthquake was felt at Cobleutz on the 14th instant, but was so short in its duration, that the direction in which it proceeded could not be ascer- tained. The Duke of Sussex, who is at present on a visit to Lord Dundas, at Upleatham, in Cleveland, lias accepted an invitation to a public breakfast, at Mid- dlesbro'- on- Tees, on Thursday next, the 25th insiant, at half- past one o'clock. Lord Dundas, the Lord Bishop of Durham, and most of the surrounding- nobi- lity and gentry, are expected to be present.— Tijne Mercury. Mr. Thomas Barrett Lennard, of Rottingdean, Mr. Joseph Montifiore, of Worth- park, and Mr. David Salomons, of Broome- liill, Tunbridge. wells, who have lately been added to the commission of the peace for this county, took the oaths of qualification at the Lewes sessions. This is the first instance, we believe, of Jews being put into the commission of the peace.— Brighton Gazette. THE DUKE OF BUCCLEUCH.— A great sensation has been produced by the announcement that the Duke of Buccleuch is about to leave this country with the in- tention of sojourning two years on the continent. A number of servants and workmen have been discharged at Dalkeith, and ( he princely establishment which his grace supports in other quarters will no doubt undergo a similar reduction. It is not disguised that bis object is to repair the inroads which he has made on his splendid patrimony by recent great outlays of various kinds. Many of these have been on improvements which are creditable to him, and will ultimately repay him ; but there are others as to which opinion will be more divided.— Scotsman. Go A- HEAD.— Look back upon your history, see what there is that has not been carried by resolution and perseverance. I came not here to flatter you— I came not here to buoy you up with false hope— but to tell you that if you enter seriously and steadily upon the demand of that which justice would give you, you cannot ultimately fail. ( Cheers.) You will be dis- appointed if you think to gain much hastily, perhaps by any single advance you could describe, or calculate upon ; but everything has a beginning— every march is begun step by step ; yours is the first step here, the second will follow ; you will stand one by another— you will gain the assistance of the better part of the other classes—( cheers)— aud see if the time does not come when we look back upon this day with gratitude to Him who gives us resolution to persevere unto the end. ( Cheers.) And what are you here for? You are here to ask the right of having, not everybody's share, but your share in making the laws you are to obey. ( Cheers.) It is said you would legislate for all? It is a foul calumny. You demand only to have the fair effect of your influence; after it has been strained upwards through that of all the other grada- tions in society— you ask that your poor man's vote shall go as far as a poor man's vote lllay finally be worth. Because you are the numerical majority, does it follow that you must carry all before you ? Do you carry anything like all now ? Is there any fear that you will be too powerful? Do not you see daily and hourly your influence directed by your masters— by those with whom you are connected in your trade and business— they have influence over you ; has anybody said they ought not? You only demand, then, that you shall have a honest share in the composition, which makes the difference between free men and slaves. ( Loud cheers.)— Colonel Thompson at the Hull Meeting. A FATHER SHOT BY HIS SON.— On Monday week, Mr. Samuel Davies, ofWelsbpool, auctioneer, was out with his youngest son shooting, and while beating their way homewards, the father was a few yards in advance of'his son, who had a gun on full cock undei his arm; when, lamentable to relate, the destructive instrument went off, and lodged tiie whole charge iii the side of the unfortunate father, the deadly contents of the gun carrying a portion of the clothing with if. It is quite impossible to describe the excessive mental agony of the poor youth when he wifuesscd the con- sequence— his kind, indulgent, and affectionate parent weltering in his blood, and, as he supposed, life rapidly ebbing away. He threw himself alongside his suffer- ing parent, and cried most bitterly, by which a woman was attracted to the spot, where lay father and son locked in each other's arms. The conscious parent begged the woman to bear witness that if he died there his son was quite innocent of the deed, showing even in death that parental fondness is paramount to every other consideration ; forgetful of his own acute feelings, his first effort was to rescue the spotless inno- cence of his son from suspicion. The poor man lingered one week, when death put an end to those sufferings which had been borne with firmness and re- signation. The youth remains in a state bordering on distraction ; he was the youngest and favourite child, and loved his father to adoration. It was some time before Mr. Davies's faithful dogs would permit any one to approach him, but having at length succeeded, he was carried home, when his first object was to settle his worldly affairs.— Worcester Paper. THE THEATRE. Templcton's short engagement terminated last night. We have seen him, during the week, in El- vino once more ; in Captain Macheath ; Lorenzo, in the Merchant of Venice; aud Steady, in the Quaker. Of his performance of Elvino we have already spoken. It is the best, at this moment, on the British stage. In the very different parts of Macheath and Steady, and in the very different music, some of it the best specimens of the old ballad music of Scotland, and some not the worst of the modem ballad music of England, Mr. Templetou is equally at home, as in the convoluted runs and liquid cadences of Bellini. Macheath has been generally personated by females. It is a favourite part of Vestris. Why a bold ruffian, and the captain of a band of ruffians, as bold and re- gardless as himself, should purposely be so personated, it would not be easy to say. Mr. Templeton acted the part, and looked it, ( which no female can,) with remarkable spirit and correctness; and he sung the lovely airs—" Cowden- kuowes," " Bonny Dundee," and the rest, with the most touching grace and sim- plicity. " When the lads of the village," the delight- ful melody of which never gets out of the ears when once it has entered them, he also gave with great sweetness and effect. Templeton's middle tones are of uncommon power, almost too much for such a theatre as that of Birmingham ; aud his lower are round, full, and well marked. But the great beauty of his voice is the falsetto, which is one of the most clear, even, and sweet, that we have ever listened to. Sinclair's, in his best days, and only then, might equal it in purity. It may appear presumptuous, cer- tainly it is superfluous, for a provincial journalist to enter into a detail of the merits of a gentleman, whose cha- racter as a fini- hed singer has been, for a number of yeais, so entirely established; but we feel grateful for the pleasure that Mr. Templeton's visit has afforded us, and anxious so to express our sense of his very great merits, as to induce him, at as early a day as possible, to visit us again. He quits Birmingham, we hear, for the north, where he will appear for the first time since be commenced his brilliant and successful professional career in our southern land. The people of Edinburgh pride themselves not a little on their critical skill ; and their opportunities for its exercise have been frequent and favourable. Templeton and Wilson are both of the modern Athens; so is Mrs. Wood ; Sinclair is Scotch also. Mr. Templeton, in exhibiting before an Edinburgh audience, has, there- fore, no common ordeal to pass through. But the Scots are " kindly," as well as critical. YVe wish him such a hearty welcome as his merits deserve; and doubt not that he will receive it. Miss Crisp played Polly, and played it delightfully, to Templeton's Macheath. In the Quaker she appeared as Lubin; and, but that her very pretty face was rather too pretty for a young farmer, she left nothing to be desired, either in her acting or her songs. She is a young lady of much performance, and much promise; goes through her part with great spirit, and, at the same time, with most becoming ease; and we have no doubt, if, with " eyes so bright and voice so melting," she be allowed to remain on the stage, she will, at no very distant period, be one of its most distinguished ornaments. The Merchant of Venice introduced Mrs. Deacle in a new character. She played Portia— well. The cha- racter requires considerable discrimination; and it affords fair scope in the feminine part in the early, and the male part in the latter scenes, for the talents of the actor. We liked Mrs. Deacle better as a judge than as the mistress of Belmont. She seemed to gather power from her assumed character; her utterance was more precise and empliatical; and her manner more decided. The address to Shyloch, beginning—" The quality of mercy," was delivered with equal grace and gravity, and tolcl accordingly. The whole trial scene was, indeed, gone through with great spirit and propriety. Mrs. Deacle's voice, perhaps from want of exercise, is deficient in strength, and when she speaks rapidly, her enunciation is somewhat indistinct, at least it seemed so where we were placed. This is a defect, which the self- possession of a moderate practice on the boards, and due attention, will easily remedy. Mrs. Deacle's face is round and fair, the eyes bright and well set, the mouth beautifully chiselled, the nose slightly aquiline. The entire features are very pleasing as well as very pretty. Her figure is good, and her deportment lady like. We should say, that with diligent and well- directed study, this lady has all the requisites of entire success; and without study, and pretty hard study, the highest requisites are, for the most part, useless. Mrs. Deacle was very well received throughout, and deserved it. Shyloch was played by a gentleman, being, as we were told, his first appearance. From his evident ac- quaintedness with the stage, we should doubt this. He had chosen, or was fortunate enough to possess the appropriate name of Macklin— a name, we need not say, famous in the history of the character. Mr. Mack- lin is a good looking, middle sized man, with well marked, somewhat Jewish, features. His figure was concealed by the costume he wore. His voice is powerful, rather than pleasing; and he tasked its power too much— his passion, running into rant, and his rant into roaring. Yet amidst this waste of energy, there was apparent no small aptitude for the part, which a little chastening may bring out. The celebrated scene with Tubal, for instance, was, up to the last line, excel- lent. That line, however, marred all that went before. In the trial scene, Mr. Macklin acted with more mo- deration, and, consequently, with more effect; but the revulsion, from assumed success to utter defeat and ruin, was too slightly marked. On the whole, the appearance of this gentleman was favourable; lie has still a mighty stride to make before he attains the height he aims at; but we think he may hope in time to make it. The play was well cast in all its parts, and went admirably of!'; indeed it was " quite refreshing." Tem- pleton did what he had to do admirably. Then Miss Crisp was such a lovely Jessica .'— a very Jew's eye! and Miss Cross enacted Nerissa with so much archness! Nor must we forget the Gratiano of Mr. Forde, an ex- ceedingly clever and natural piece of acting. The theatre is vastly improved, and the company improves with it. The pit, the great test, hardly af- forded standing room on Thursday night, and Thursday is decidedly an " off night." The company is only weak in its vocal department. If Templeton should pay us another visit in the spring, we trust the manager will get a col- laboratricc for Miss Crisp. Two voices, even though they be good ones, are rather too few to sustain an opera. In the interval between the play and entertainment on Thursday, Mr. Thompson gave what he calls his statues of Napoleon; and also, along with two pretty and in- teresting children, several other tableaux vivans. They are very clever and effective, and elicited much ap- plause. We observe that Mr. Butler is engaged for next week, and Monsieur Plege. Mr. Butler debuts on Monday with Hamlet, Mrs. Deacle being Ophelia. The manager is determined to deserve success, and that is, after all, the only certain way to get it. PUBLIC OFFICE. The tomb- stone of Agnes Sore], the beautiful mis- tress of Charles VII., which was formerly placed in the Abbey of Jumieges, has just been discovered in a house at Rouen. It bears an epitaph with the date of her death, 1449. LET THE WORLD MATCH THIS.— From the first time Rice jumped " Jim Crow" in old Kentuck up to the present date, he has sung 37,000 verses in the United States, England, and Ireland. During the great run of " Oh, Hush!" at the Bowery Theatre, he sang 100 verses each night, always upon some new subject. His encores are generally seven or eight times a night, and frequently he has been made to return ten times of a night. He " turns about" three times to each verse, so, by multiplying 37,000 by three, we find tliathe has " wheeled about and turned about" 111,000 times— nearly as often as the little magician.— New York Paper. MONHAV, OCT. 22. ( Before D. Ledsam and IV. Beale, Esqrs.) Mary Ann Hayes and Mary Ann Halfpenny, two unfor- tunates, were charged with fighting iri the street. Charles Smith, the streetkeeper, stated, that on the Friday before the prisoners were fighting in New- street, opposite the Free Grammar School, and had collected around them a large concourse of persons. They were removed from that place, and they went to the corner of Temple- street, where they resumed the fight, and continued beating one another in the most disgraceful manner, until they were taken into custody. They were well known as a great nuisance in the streets. Two letters were handed in from the head master of the Grammar School, complaining, as we understood, of the annoyance to which the school was subject, from the great number of dissolute women who infested the flags at night, opposite the school. Mr. Ledsam said the nuisance complained of must he abated ; and, as an example, he should order the prisoners to be committed to the House of Correction for one month. John Ashford, a hardened young thief, was charged with picking pockets, in New- street. Mr. Fisher stated that, on Saturday night, as he was walking up New- street, he felt a hand in his pocket, and, on turning round, he saw the prisoner with his handkerchief in his hand. He caught hold of him and took it from him, and then gave him into custody. It was not, however, his wish to have him indicted. Mr. Ledsam said he should commit him for three months as a rogue and vagabond, and to lie kept to hard labour. The prisoner: Thank you. sir; I don't care for that. Mary Godwin and Mctry Denham, two prostitutes, were charged Willi annoying the passengers in one of the leading streets on Saturday night. The prisoners were committed for one month. Edward Douglas and William Williams were charged with entering and robbing the dwelling house of Mr. Downs, of North wood street. Mr. Downs stated that, on the morning of the 17th inst., he left home, and did not return until evening, when he found the front door of his house open, and no one within. He went up. stairs, and discovered that a box in his bed- room had been broken open, and the contents, consisting of a quantity of wearing apparel, had been stolen. Informa- tion was given at the pawnbrokers' shops ; and on the fol- lowing day the prisoner Douglas went to the shop of Mrs. Parker, in Bartholomew- street, and offered a woman's cloak, his property, in pledge. Mrs. Parker, knowing from the hand- bill she had received, that the article had been stolen, detained it, and gave the prisoner into custody. Hall, the officer, stated that when Douglas was brought into the prison, he asked him where he got the cloak ; upon which he told him that he received it from the pri- soner Williams, who gave it to him to pledge. He then apprehended Williams, who acknowledged that he did give it to Douglas, and said lie found it iu the stieet The prisoners were committed to the sessions. Emanuol Hughes ami WHliam Roberts were charged with breaking into and robbing a warehouse belonging to Mr. Simons, bacon dealer, of Dale- end. Joseph Caldwell stated that be was salesman to the prose- cutor. On the 13th instant he Iccked up his employer's warehouse, iu Bishop- street, at the back of the Engine public house, and on the following Monday morning he went down, and found it had been entered, and a quantity of bacon stolen. Mr. Greemvay stated that he resided opposite the ware- house. Oil the morning of the 15th, about half past five o'clock,• lie saw the piisoners, and a young man, named , go up a yard adjoining. Roberts bad something in his apron resembling a chaw I of bacon. He gave informa- tion to the streetkeepers, who immediately went in search of the prisoners, Harrison and Priddy stated that they went to the house of the prisoner Roberts, where they found him and Hughes, and another man. As soon as they entered, the oilier man made his escape out through a window. They secured the prisoners, and examined the house, when they found a huge quantity of cbawls of bucon, and nine picklock, and three other keys. Caldwell identified the bacon as the property of Mr. Simons, and the prisoners were committed. Charles Mason was charged with robbing a lodging house. Mrs. Ann Williams stated that she kept a lodging house in George- street. On the 8th instant the prisoner came to her house and asked for lodging. He told her he worked for Mr. Spicer, in Snow- hill, and that he would have to go to work very early in the morning ; and if she could accom- modate him, he would go to bed immediately. She asked him two shillings per week, and he agreed to pay it, and went to bed. Iu the morning he got up before six o'clock, ami broke open her son's box, from which he stole two suits of clothes. Mr. Beale said the offence, of which the prisoner was guilty, was one of the worst description. Half the poor travellers who came into the town would be lost if it were not for the accommodation afforded by lodging house keepers. It was a most wicked offence to go into a house in the manner the prisoner had done, and rob the person who had rendered him what she thought a great service. He ordered him to he committed to the sessions. CORN LAW FALLACIES. Colonel Thompson, whose zeal and abilities, as well as political soundness, have no greater admirers than our bumble selves, has, under his running title of" Corn law fallacies," subjected the remarks iu our last number, on the immediate consequences of a repeal of the corn laws unac- companied by other measures, to what he, no doubt, con- siders a conclusive as well as unsparing criticism. The colonel's censures come once a day; our defence must be content to follow, if at all, at its usual laggard pace of once a week ; and, iu the present case, from a pressure of other engagements, we are compelled to postpone it beyond the usual period. But really the colonel's arguments, though abundantly humourous, are so little formidable, that we do not think we risk much from the postponement. To prove the sincerity of this opinion, and to show the gallant colonel, in a discussion about corn and gold, what entire reliance we place on the sagacity of our " button makers," we insert the article, in order that it may be thoroughly read and marked before we attempt to anawer it; if, after such thorough reading and marking, our readers should deem any answer necessary : — 154.— Not only would four- fifths, at least, of the land now in cultivation cease to yield a rent, but one- half of the land now cultivated would cease to be tilled at all. Let us see ho v this would operate. In estimating the traffic between the men of the country and the men of the town, it is necessary, if we would get at the truth, to put out of sight the distinctions of labourers, farmers, and landlords. We can dispense with rents, we can dispense with wages, with profits, in those shapes and under those names ; but we cannot dispense with production. For every bushel of wheat that the soil of England pro- duces less, a purchaser to the amount of a bushel of wheat is taken from the English manufacturer. Reduce the tillage of England by one- half, and you reduce the home trade of England one- half. If the agriculturist have not to sell, he cannot buy.—- Birmingham Journal, October 20, 1838, ANSWER— The statement of consequences is enormously exaggerated. But let that pass. For argument's sake let it be admitted, that no objection shall he made to that. " For every bushel of wheat at famine price that the soil of England produces less, a purchaser to the amount of a bushel of wheat at famine price is taken from the English manufacturer." The words iu Italics aie what wanted adding. If Birmingham were surrounded with a wall of brass, for the sake of confining the people to such corn as should be grown in flower- pots on the tops of houses, and getting more hours' work for a peck of wheat in conse- quence, the men of Birmingham might equally be told, that for every peck of wheat less that was produced in flower- pots, a purchaser to the amount of a peck of wheat was taken from the Birmingham manufacturer. But surely the men of button would never stand this. They would cry, " To the d— 1 with such purchasers, and let us open our gates to out doois corn." 155._ We shall not complicate this view by an attempt to calculate the consequence of the overflow of superfluous agricultural labourers upon the town population. That manufacturing wages must fall from that cause also, is too plain to require proof.— Id. A.— It would he very hard to persuade the men of buttons to cry out for keeping fast their gates, lest the waterers of flower- pots should come and increase the labourers in the button trade. They would see that an effect of this kind would take place to a certain extent, but for every flowei- pot waterer added to the button makers, a demand for fifty button makers would be created by opening Birmingham to supply buttons for the world. 156.— We rest the case simply on the fact— that the quan- tity of agricultural produce being immensely diminished, the demand for manufactured goods, against which that produce is now exchanged, must experience a corresponding diminu- tion.— Id. A.— The quantity of corn grown in flower- pots being immensely diminished by opening the gates, the demand for buttons for the breeches of the flower- pot growers must experience a corresponding diminution. The mistake is in thinking that the button maker wants only to exchange his buttons, and does not care for what. That he is just as ready to exchange a gross for a peck of wheat under the system of shutting up the gates, as for a bushel under an open trade. 157. — But, the diminution will be made good out of the increase ot onr foreign trade, it is answered. Let m see. Observe, we speak not of ultimate, but of immediate issues. It IS a constant defect in the reasonings of economists, oilier- wise so round and unassailable, that the element of time is never remembered in them Id. A — It is always easy to have a gird at the politica' ecoto- mists. " Let us see," then, what comes of it in the piesent instance. 158. — We are told that the ports being open, the inhabi- tants of Poland will exchange their wheat against our cot- tons. Two, three, five, ten years hence they may; but what will happen this year, and the next? The Polish farmer, and the Polish lord, have already all that their manner of life, and the desires and wishes which years have confirmed into habit, incite them to seek after Id. A— The Poles have no more got used to doing without English manufactures, if they could get them, than our starving manufacturers have to doing without Polish corn. One set may be starved in back and the other in belly; but depend on it, neither side have got used to it, if they knew how to help themselves. 159 — We must eradicate old habits, we must implant new desires and wishes, befoie we can hope materially to extend our commerce in Poland or elsewhere.— Id. A. — Allow a Hull captain to take out a cargo of Birming- ham goods, and freely sell the corn he buys with the roubles his goods will fetch ; and see whether he will be stayed or stopped by this philosophy. 160. — And, in the meantime, we must purchase wheat with gold; because there is no other commodity for which the owners will, iu the meantime, exchange it. Here comes in another element that tile economists, in their calcula- tions, do not seem even to dream of. A single bad harvest will, in three months, drain the Bank of England of its last sovereign. What then conies next?— Id. A— You are to be prevented buying corn, then, lest you should buy corn with gold. This is the paternal caution that is felt for you. But whv are you not prevented from buying hemp, lest you should buy hemp with gold ? And what if you should buy hemp with gold, what is the conse- quence, but to make a new trade in gold ; and " what comes then?" If gold pieces go out, the value of those that re- main at home must rise, and this must cause a trade to bring in materials for more from the places where gold grows. The trade with gold abroad, can go on no longer than the gold is worth more to us abroad than it is at home. The, whole, therefore, resolves itself into a currency fal- lacy, for which the Birmingham peoole will be as famous as as ever they were in their time forbad halfpence. 161.— Why, the inevitable consequence, as soon as the drain sets fairly in, woul J be a restriction of discounts; as it proceeded, their entire refusal; what comes after that we have mo'e than once experienced by approximation— the extinction of all trust and credit in the kingdom, and a national bankruptcy Id. A—- It has been shown that where there is a drain out there is a drain in ; and faster than there was a drain in, beyond a certain limit, the gold would not go out. The people of Birmingham might as well be advised to stop their trade in everything else, and live on their buttons. The hypochondriac who was afraid to leave his chair, be- cause he should leave his bowels sticking to the place, was only a type of the caution proposed to them. 162— We do not, in setting these things before the pub lic, seek to repress or discourage the discussion of the corn laws; we do not seek to oppose their repeal. We merely wish to show the inevitable result of their repeal, if unac- companied by other measures Id. A.— That is to say you wish to puzzle the question witli the currency fallacy, and so frighten people into postpone- ment. Nothing further. 163— We should not have dwelt upon the difficulties of this question, which so many men, so many women, and so many children, have, for the'last five months, been canvass- ing, with quite as much confidence as knowledge, did not we believe and trust that there is a safe road out of them. Whether the people and the economists will take that road, or, rather, allow the monetarians to take it for them, we cannot say— we hope they will. Id. A.— The Lord preserve us fiom the money- doctors! The Horse Guards B1 ties know n great deal more about the matter. There would he no persuading the private gen- tle men of that distinguished corps, that they weie deeply concerned in having twice as many pieces of money for their daily pay, each piece to buy half as much as now ; or that other people were to be as much interested in it either. 161— For the present, we think, we have said sufficient, were there no other grounds on which to rest our argument, to show that they who counsel the postponement of every other question in order to agitate the repeal of the corn laws, know exceedingly little of the consequences which they are so earnestly labouiing to bring about Id. A. — Perhaps rather lamely proved. Nobody wants to postpone any thing; nothing that is good is in such hurry to come. But do not let us he persuaded to go on with Birmingham, shut up, and kept on flower pots, for fear the sky should fall upon our heads on altering. And if there is all the peril now, when is it to be less? Are we waiting for a deluge of paper money, to be issued by private bankers, who put the amount into their pocket? LATEST NEWS. Journal- office, four o'clock. From the arrangements which we have just made, we shall be able in future to give the Gazette of Friday as well as of Tuesday; and thus to save an en- tire week in the publication of this important depart- ment of our news. LONDON GAZETTE. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20. DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY. JOHN PORTER, merchant, Liverpool. GEORGE FOLEY HODGKINSON, East India merchant, Feuchurch. street. THOMAS DORRELL, grocer, Bermomlsey. square, Southwark. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. CHARLES PRICE, lamp manufacturer, Clerkenwell- green. BANKRUPTS. WILLIAM HAND, tanner, Endon. Staffordshire, November 8 aud December 7, at the Leopard Inn, Bnrslem. Sols. Mr. Wards, Burslem ; and Mr. Wolston, Fnmival's Inn, London. JAMES EVERETT STOREY, bookseller, Manchester, November 1- 2 and December 7, at the Coramissioners'- rooms, Manchester. Sols. Messrs. Adlington, Gregory, Faulkner, and Follett, Bed- ford- row, London ; and Mr. Makiuson, Manchester. WILLIAM SCOONS, innkeeper, Maidstone, Nov. 5, atone, and Dec. 7, at eleven, at the Bankruptcy Court. Sol. I. ackington, Ironmonger- lane, and Fry and Loxley, Cheapside, London. CERTIFICATES, NOVEMBER 26. T, Potter, carpet manufacturer, Kidderminster, Worcestershire. — W. Nockells and J. Barsham, oxalic acid makers, Marsh- gate- lane, Stratford, Essex.— W. Lon)?, ironmonger, Warraihster, Wilt- shire J. R. Greer, merchant, Bristol.— J. Woodhams, victualler, Grange- road, Bermondsey, CORN EXCHANGE, FRIDAY.— The arrivals of most descriptions of corn and flour this week have been moderate, and of flour there is a fair quantity. The demand for wheat continues, and prices are again higher than on Wednesday last, so that the trade may be reported full 3s. per quarter dearer than on Monday. Barley retains its firmness, and supports former rates. Beans and pease are unaltered. Flour has met with a better call since Monday, at the advance of Monday. Oats are more brisk than at the beginning of the week. The arrival of the Liverpool packet ship George Washington, and the London packet ship Wellington — the former was to leave New York on the 7th inst., and the latter on the 10th inst.— are looked for with great anxiety, as it is generally expected that they will bring some important information from Canada ; and, as the wind has continued blowing from the west- ward for these three days past, we may expect to hear the arrival of one of them by to- moirow.— London, Friday, four o'clock. THE BANK.— There was a prevailing idea in the course of yesterday, that the Bank direction were going to reduce the rate of interest; in consequence of which we waited until a late hour at the Bank, for a notice on the subject, which, up to the present hour, has not made its appearance; therefore we may conclude that the Bank direction will continue, as heretofore, the rate of interest upon discount at 3J per cent.,' and upon loans 4 per cent.— Sun of yesterday. Cape of Good Hope papers of the 29th of August contain a trial for a libel. The action was brought at the suit of the Hon. J. B. Eden, against the editor of the South African Commercial Advertiser, damages laid at 400?. The court gave a verdict for the plaintiff, damages 20/. From the papers of the 25th of August, we find that on the Eastern frontier there seems to be now a hope and an expectation entertained by the public generally, that government will succeed in its grand object of tranquilising and keeping quiet our formidable neigh- bours the Cadres. 6 r H E BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL, OCTOBER 27. POETRY. THE GREEK WIFE, BY JOHN KEN YON. I love thee best, old ocean ! when Thy waters flow all rippingly; And dimpling lake, in inward glen, May seem almost the type of thee ; And when long- lingering lights of eve Pause o'er thy waves, that hardly heave ; And anchored vessels, seen afar Athwart the bay, with slanting shrouds, And crossing lines of rope and spar Hang pictured on the yellow clouds ; While silence, from the placid shore, May count each beat of distant oar , And spirit airs — or so they seem — Are whispering of some far- off land j For then doth Fancy love to dream Along thy visionary strand. And winnt* th tender thoughts from thee, — Perchance too tender— gentle sea! No mother- home is world of ours For dreamy tenderness alone, But a rough school; and sturdier powers, That wrestle with the sigh, the groan ; And thoughts heroical and free Are thy bold teaching— stormy sea! And, hence, not all unploased I view, Yet with 110 meanly safe delight, Yon chafing surge of inky hue, And foam, which, ominously white As the white garments of the grave, Toss on the black and greedy wave. And all beneath this dark- browed sky, By lightning flashes shown more dark, I watch, with onward straining eye, Yet saddened too, yon Grecian bark, Whose stoutest hand scarce holds the helm Mid whirling waves that rush to whelm. That bark to aid, a torch's light Is gleaming through the troubled air. She lifts it there! In wild affright, A wife— a mother— lifts it there. For him, who, spite of coming wreck, In calmness treads his splitting deck. And yet one pang he scarce may brook- He knows who lights that dangerous strand- Oh, might lie gather one last look ! Clasp but once more that loving hand ! And doth Love die, indeed, with breath ? Or rules he in the realms of Death ? She too— could feet like wishes fly- Would rush to tread that deck with him; Again she rears the torch on high, But, half extinct, the torch is dim, Or flickers useless light behind, Back driven by the cruel wind. If that brave bark may triumph yet, No guardian spirit comes to tell; Or if the prayers, in terror met, Bend vainly, now, o'er yonder swell, As when, on that disastrous night, Abydos saw the failing light. If that brave bark may triumph yet, We know not how decreed above j But this for lesson sure is set, That courage firm and faithful Love, Or if they live, or if they die, Have each fulfilled their mission high. Where faithful Love, where Courage glows, The patriot Virtues find their birth, And thrive in home's serene repose, Till bursting from the household hearth, Through a whole land her every son At duty's call upstarts as one. Through what a bitter tract of time Hast thou not mourned, iEgean wave! Each dweller of thy storied clime, A struggler now— and now a slave- In war— in peace— struck down, or vext, By Roman, first— by Moslem next. Yet faithful Love ne'er fled the shore, And Courage old still lingers there; And fresh sprung Freedom, more and more, Shall nurture in her generous air High souls of women and of men, Till Salamis revive again! LITERATURE. BRITISH AND FOREIGN REVIEW.— We noticed the contents of this able periodical in our last number. Amongst the articles enumerated, that 011 the power and policy of Russia is full of ingenious argument and interesting facts. Whether the apprehensions, that Russia in her aggressive spirit may, at no distant day, seriously endanger our possessions in the East, are real or fanciful, is a subject of fair discussion. The object of the reviewer is to show the permanent advances of Russia in Asia, and the necessary con- sequences of those advances; and he handles his case with much ability. We give ail extract from this paper, which possesses an interest independent of its connection with the question at issue :— RUSSIAN RESOURCES.— It is very true that the Russian employes are ill paid, and with some few exceptions, venal and corrupt 10 a degree which will scarcely be credited in England; but although the internal administration of the country is placed in such bad hands, their diplomatic agents are patterns of perfection, and nobody will now presume to question the efficiency of the Russian diplomacy, which we are constantly experiencing to our cost. Family connexion, political party, or any similar considerations, have 110 influ- ence on the appointment of the Russian ambassadors, resi- dents, and charge d'affaires: capacity is the only test by which those charges are distributed, without regard whence the individuals entrusted with them cotne, or who they are. it is well known that Russia has, ever since the time of Peter the Great, employed foreigners in places of trust, either in the diplomatic or military service, and that their talents and superior education have materially advanced her power. Osterman created the foreign department, over which he presided for many years, having attained the high- est rank in the civil service, that of chancellor; Field- Marshal Munich illustrated the reigu of the Empress Anna Ivanovna by a series of brilliant victories; the Jacobite Keith defeated the Swedes, and established the Russian in- fluence in that country; Salderu fomented, with the greatest success, the troubles in Poland; Elphinstone, Greig, and Mackenzie destroyed the Turkish fleets. Even in our times, the most efficient men in the Russian service have been and are foreigners. Diebitsch was a Silesian ; Capo d'lstrias a Corfiote ; Pozzi di Borgo is a Corsican ; Austettin an Alsa tian, 81c. If the Russian cabinet has been able to find such capable individuals to fill military and diplomatic offices, why should it he in want of able administrators, who may give a speedy developement to the Transcaucasian posses- sions? Russia has alredy made a very successful experiment in employing foreigners to organise and administer her new provinces. The Due de Richelieu created Odessa in a few years, and converted the deserts bordering on the Black Sea into a flourishing country, whose progressive developement affords to Russia the means of maintaining there a large military force, ready at a moment's notice to pounce on the Turkish empire. Count Maison succeeded, by his persever- ing efforts, in civilising the tribe of the Nogais, andconvert- ing into an agricultural people those children of the desert, who had led a wandering life from time immemorial. What is to prevent Russia from finding individuals of superior talents and great energy, who may attain honour, wealth, and power, by converting these beautiful countries into a most flourishing colony; whose natural resources, once brought into full play, will riot only cover all expenses of government and defence, but even enable Russia to main- tain there, without any additional charge, an armed force sufficient to ensure her a paramount influence over the ad- jacent provinces of Persia. Turkey, and the several domi- nions of Central Asia, from which her Transeaucasian possessions are separated only by the Caspian sea? Russia expends now annually, for the maintenance of her Trans- caucasian possessions, about 410,000 paper roubles, or something between 16,000/. and 17,0001, more than she derives from them. We have already sufficiently demonstrated, that the pre- sent revenue of above 200,000/. sterling which Russia draws from the above mentioned provinces, may be increased, by proper management of the resources of the country, to an extraordinaryextent. It may be objected, tliat to obtain the results which Russia might anticipate from an improved state of her Trauscaucasiau provinces, capital is necessary, and that Russia is poor, and cannot incur the great expense required by the considerable outlay, which is indispensable in order to obtain the above mentioned results. Unluckily, the poverty ol Russia, and her inability to raise money, is mere idle talk, as long as her paper is much above par on the Exchange of London, as well as on those of the principal commercial cities of Europe. Russia will find means to attain her gigantic but well calculated schemes in the very pockets of those Englishmen, against whose commercial and political interests those schemes are directed the dan- gers with which our dominion in India, and our commerce over all Asia, are threatened by the growing power of Russia, are appreciated only by few, very few indeed ; whilst every- body understands that five or six per cent, is a very eligible investment for his money. But let us suppose that our countrymen, whom neither the mining speculations of South America, nor the Greek and Spanish loans, nor any bubble at home or abroad, have been able to cure of their specula tive mania, grow at once wise, and refuse to lend money to Russia; let us suppose that such an improbable event should happen— will it prevent Russia from finding money else- where ? It is very true, that England is the richest country in the world, that there is more capital here than in any other country; but it is a gross mistake to suppose that it is utterly impossible to raise a loan without recurring to the Exchange of London. Holland has much unemployed capital; its monarch found as much money as he wanted to carry on a foolishly obstinate quarrel, the object of which was evidently hopeless. There has been also much capital created, in different parts of the continent, by the long wars alimented by the subsidies of England. Those wars occa- sioned an enormous waste of stores, ammunition, & c. ; but the money which was paid for those stores and ammunition, or expended by the troops for various objects and necessaries of life, was not lost; it only changed hands, and flowing from the coffers of the belligerent powers into the pockets of contractors, served to create new capitals where they did not formerly exist. We repeat, therefore, that should Rus- sia fail in obtaining money in England, she will have no difficulty in finding, 011 the Exchanges of Amsterdam, Ham- burg, Frankfort, Berlin, & c., ample means to give the neces sary implse to the native energies of her Transcaucasion possessions. The loan of 150,000,000 Polish florins, or 3.750 000/., which she raised three years ago with the greatest facility, and without applying to England, is a sufficient proof of what we have now advanced. The finances of Russia, although certainly very inconsiderable if com- pared to the immense revenue of the British empire, are by no means in a despicable condition. The expenses of the wars with Persia and Turkey were paid by the contributions imposed on the two above mentioned powers by the treaties of Turkmanschay and Adrianople. The agricultural and manufacturing industry of Russia has considerably increased, and given a proportionate addition to the revenue. As a proof of increased industry and wealth, we may adduce the revenue from the post, which in 1822 amounted to 8,752,703 paper roubles, and in 1831 to 10.773 303. The complete exclusion of foreign manufactures, although contrary to all sound principles of commercial policy, increased the exports, during the same space of time, 35 per cent. Russia, which formerly imported nothing but manufactured goods, im ported in 1831 to the value of about 200,000,000 roubles of raw material for the use of her manufactures. The whole amount of the produce of the manufactures and mines of Russia was estimated in 1831, by the official returns, at 509,574,379 roubles. The interest of money lent by the government bank to the land owners has been lately re duced from five to four per cent. ; and the assignats of Russia, which had amounted in 1817 to the sum ofmillions, were reduced to the amount of 595,776,310 in 1835. We have made this digression on the resources of Russia, to prove to our readers how incorrect are those statements which represent that conntry in a state of such weakness, as to preclude the idea of any danger which may threaten the liberties of Europe and our commercial interests from that quarter. Russia may be still weak, comparatively to the strength which she ought to have, considering the immense resources she possesses; but the weakness of Russia is that of a giant who labours under an illness, produced, not by an organic defect, but by an improper regimen. Let this regi- men be chnnged from a preposterous into a judicious one, and the giant, whom we contemplate in a state of apparent debility, will at onee assume a strength capable of breaking down all obstacles that impede his progress. Europe will learn, when it is too late, the real power of the Northern Colossus, who, once awakened to the full sense of his force, will trample over all the liberties and interests of civilised Europe. The other papers are, all of them, worthy of a re- peated perusal. MARGATE.— Margate is a town, supposed by the more cultivated among the cockneys to be still on tile Kentish coast; and this is nearly the only fact relating to its where- about which can be asserted with any degree of certainty. The changes which the last twenty years have effected in the relations of time and space, have created a confusion in the geographical notions of the citizens, touching this their paradise, out of which they have not yet had time to emerge into anything like a clear and definite conception of its bearing and distance from Capel- court. Twenty years ago, the distance of Margate Irom London by land was about seventy- two miles:— what it actually is very few people know;— what it may be twenty years hence nobody can possibly tell. The accuracy of the past distance which I have attributed to the place, could have been attes1 ed by ninety- nine out of every hundred travellers who then visited it,— their own evidence being corroborated by that of six dozen of as respectable mile- stones as any in all Eng- land, each and all of unimpeachable veracity. Of its pre- sent distance, it is impossible to speak with the decision befitting the importance of the subject; since, upon the most minute, as well as extensive researches, which I have been enabled to make, I have not heard of one person, in his or her right senses, who has lately made an over- land tiip to Margate. Such an event, indeed, is not within the memory of the oldest post- house on the road; and, although I have been told that the driver and grind of the royal mail ( the only two individuals who are even suspected of going that way) might say something to the point, it is still lar from improbable that they perform part of their journey by the Great Western, or tile London and Birmingham, or some other of the numerous railways,— all of which profess to carry you, by the shortest cut, to anywhere and every- where you may desire to be carried to. For the future distance of the place, still less can be said even than for its present; that is a secret which is concealed within the ) bosoms of time and the railroad projectors: and, reduced by the patriotic rivalry of the latter, it may, in the course of next summer, be only fifty miles— or thirty— or ten— or, in shott, ( such are the wonderful lea's which the joint powers of iron and hot water are capable of performing) no distance at, all! By water ( Cochnice, sea) the distance, both past and present, from London to Margate, may be calculated with a nearer approach towards accuracy. Let us take for the basis of our calculation the chart, which gives us eighty miles,— taking for granted, at the same time, eighty miles to have been the old distance ; and since, according to the travelling interpretation of the term " distance," it is taken to mean " time," and the average difference of time con- sumed upon the voyage, by the old system of canvass and the riew system ot scalding wafer, being as about four to one, Margate may now he said to count no more than twenty miles from the metropolis ! My own first sea- trip to the place in question, which was performed in a thing called a hoy ( a sort of Billingsgate slaver, licensed to carry as many as its inhuman commander might choose to cram into it), endured for seven and thirty mortal hours; and, but for some lucky change in the wind, was expected to last through seven and thirty more :— my last, in a steamer, was accomplished in about six hours and a half! " We are late to- day," said some one to the captain, as we touched the jetty. " Why, sir," replied the captain, in a tone of excul- pation, " you know wind and tide were dead against us for the greater part of the way" (!) I thought of my Billings- gate slave- ship, and wished the unconscionable complainant —- did I wish him worse than he deserved ?— on board of her for seven arid thirty hours. The manufactures of Margate consist chiefly of eau de Cologne, French pomatums, and French perfumety in general. French artificial flowers, and the lighter articles of French millinery, from Paris, are also made here in great abundance. But Margate does not aspire to the making of French watches and clocks, or ol French jewels and trinkets; these are the produce of Bir- mingham and Sheffield. Its French work- boxes, dressing- eases, and toys, again, it derives from Tunbridge; whilst Worcester has tiie honour of supplying it with all its French porcelain, especially the best specimens from the Sevres manufactory. Neither, I believe, are the real Ilavannah cigars made in the town— at least there are no large plan- tations of cabbages within a convenient distance of it. All hese articles are purchased in great quantities by the vi- s'tors from the metropolis; and it they can but lie procured duty free," at the depot, authorised by the commissioners I her majesty's customs to sell smuggled goods, seized and confiscated, they are carried off with an avidity which is truly astonishing. The commerce of Margate is comprised under the preceding head ; and 1 am not aware that the place is remarkable for i^ s natural productions— if we ex- cept shrimps, cock'e shells, bathing- women, and a few other marine curiosities. Of the population of Margate it is difficult, if not impossible, to form any idea. My own set- tled opinion is, that, of population, properly so called — that is to say, a number of persons who dwell in a given place, fiom year's end to year's end— it has none at all! It is true that, if you visited Margate ten years ago, or five— last year or this, you may always have read certain names over certain doors ; as. for instance Snackettand Shacki'ft, Shumtnery and Dutnmery, Twitchener and Switchener, Munns and llunns and others; which would seem to givr a sort of local identity to their possessors. This, however, proves nothing in favour of a settled and established population, and I speak this advisedly. It happened to me, a few years ago, on Christinas day, to be shipwrecked at Ramsgate. The next day, prompted by curiosity to see how Margate looked in the winter, I paid the place a visit. Did you ever chance to go through Tunbridge Wells at the same season ? The one old woman you may have seen creeping along the pantiles, every one of its shops being shut: the one man ringing his bell at the close doors of the " Sussex," which, after a delay of five minutes, are opened to him by the waiter, grown fat from compulsory idleness; the other one man pacing up and down outside the " Kent," waiting for the arrival of the coach, which passess through now only twice a week— these are a crowd, a crush— this is gaiety running into riot, compared with what Margate presented. All was closed— not a living creature was to lie seen— not a sound was to be heard, save the melancholy echo of my own footsteps as I paced the desolate streets. Had I chosen to run away with the town— pier and all— I might have done so; for not even a town keeper was left in charge of it to say me nay. Yet there were the same names — the Dummerys and the Shummerys, the Shacketts and the Snacketts— but no apparent proprietors of them. What then could have been done with them ? I lately took the liberty of putting that question to one of the natives; but the answer I received from him convinced me that it is a sore subject with them. All he replied was, " Stuff, sir ! " Being thus driven to my own resources for a solution of the difficulty, I will state it as my belief that, at the termi- nation of one season, the resident population are all packed up, and carefully put away somewhere, till the commence- ment of another. But the accidental population of Mar- gate ( the visitors) at the height of the season must be in- calculable. This opinion is grounded upon the fact that, of children alone, of which about one third are babies in arms, it would require, if not defy, the power of Babbage's calca lating machine to state the number. Oh, Herod !— it may be doubted whether so many are to be seen together on any other spot on the whole habitable globe. Then add to these the requisite allowance of wet nurses and dry- nurses, in charge of such as can, and such as cannot, walk for themselves; the due proportion ( allowing nine little chil- dren to a family) of fathers, mothers, elder brothers, and sisters, uncles and aunts, to say nothing of independent spinsters and bachelor visitors— again I assert the tempo- rary population of Margate is incalculable. The salubrity of the place is unquestionable ; yet I have heard doubts expressed concerning it, from the circumstance of parents who are blessed with more children than they know well what to do with, bringing or sending them ( here. The loss, however, of those " future men and women," a^ they have been interestingly called, is small; for including those tha1 have accidentally dropped over the pier, fallen from the cliffs, or been lost out of bathing machines, it seldom ex- ceeds, I am told, six hundred in a season Poole. ARAB DWELLINGS.— I11 a palace, or large house, there is generally a wide bench of stone, or a wooden sofa, within the outer door, for the accommodation of the door keeper and other servants. The entrance passage leads to an open court, and, for the sake of preventing persons at the entrance, or a little within it, from seeing into file coutt, it usually has two turnings. We may, therefore, understand the motive of the king in seating himself in the place here described to have been a desire that he might not, if disco- vered, be supposed to be prying impertinently inio the in- terior of the palace. Respect for the privacy of another's house is a point that is deemed of so much importance that it is insisted upon in the Kur- an, in these words :—" O ye who have become believers, enter not any houses, besides your own bouses, until ye shall have asked leave, and saluted their inhabitants; this will be better for you; per- adventure ye will be admonished. And if ye find not in them any person, enter them not, until leave be granted you; and if it be said unto you, ' Return,' then do ye re- turn; this will be more decent for you ; and God knoweth what ye do. But it shall be no crime in you that ye enter uninhabited houses wherein ye may find a convenience." When a visitor finds the door open, and 110 servant below, he usually claps his bands as a signal for some person to come to him ; striking the palm of his left hand with the fingers of the right; and even when leave has been granted him to enter, it is customary for him, if he has to ascend to an upper apartment, to repeat several times some ejacula- tion, such as " Permission!" or, " O Protector," ( that is, " O protecting God!") as be goes up, in order that any female of the family, who may chance to be in the way, may have notice of his approach, and either retire or veil herself. Sometimes the servant who precedes him does this in his stead— Lanes' Arabian Nights. ARAB CAROUSALS.— The prohibition of wine, or, rather, of fermented and intoxicating liquors, being one of the most remarkable and important points of the Mohammadan religion, it might be imagined that the frequent stories in this work, describing parties of Muslims as habitually in- dulging in the use of forbidden beverages, are scandalous misrepresentations of Arab manners and customs. There, are, however, many similar anecdotes interspersed in the works of Arab historians, which ( though many of them are probably untrue in their application to particular indivi- duals) could not have been offered to the public by such writers il they were not of a nature consistent with the cus- toms of a considerable class of the Arab nation. In investigating this subject, it is necessary, in the first place, to state, that there is a kind of wine which Muslims are permitted to drink. It is properly called " nebeedh" ( a name which is now given to prohibited kinds of wine), and is generally prepared by putting dry grapes, or dry dates, 111 water, to extract their sweetness, and suffering the liquor to ferment slightly, until it acquires a little sharpness or pungency. The prophet himself was in the habit of drink- ing wine of this kind, which was prepared for him in the first part of the night; he diank it on the first and second days following ; but if any remained on the morning of the third day, he either gave it to his servants or ordered it to be poured out upon the ground. Such beverages have, therefore, been drunk by the strictest of his followers ; and Ibn Khaldoon strongly argues that nebeedh thus prepared from dates was the kind of wine used by the Khaleefehs Maroon Er- ltasheed and El- Ma- moon, and several other eminent men. who have been commonly accused of habi- tually and publicly indulging in debauches of wine properly so called ; that is, ol inebriating liquors. Nebeedh, prepared from raisins, is commonly sold in Arab towns, under the name of " zebeeb," which signifies " raisins." This I have often drunk in Cairo; but never could perceive that it was in the slightest degree fermented. Other beverages, to which the name of " nebeedh" has been applied ( though like zebeeb, no longer called by that 11 tune), are also sold in Arab towns. The most common of these is all infusion of licorice, and called by the riatne of the root, "' erk- soos." The nebeedh of dates is sold in Cairo with the dates themselves in the liquor; and in like manner is that of figs. Under the same appellation of " nebeedh" have been classed the different kinds of beer now commonly called " boozeh," which have been mentioned in. former pages. Opium, hemp, & t\, are now more frequently used by the Muslims to induce intoxication or exhilaration. The young leaves of the hemp are generally used alone, or mixed with tobacco, for smoking; and the capsules, with- out the seeds, enter into the composition of several intoxi- cating conserves. By my own experience I am but little qualified to pro- nounce an opinion respecting the prevalence of drinking wine among the Arabs ; for, never drinking it myself, I had little opportunity of observing others do so during my resi- dence among Muslims. I judge, therefore, from the con- versations and writings of Arabs, which justify me in assert- ing that the practice of drinking wine in private, and by select parties, is far from being uncommon among modern Muslims, though certainly more so than it was before the introduction of tobacco into the East, in the beginning of the seventeenth century of our era; lor this herb, being in a slight degree exhilarating, and at the same time soothing, and unattended by the injurious effects that result frjm wine, is a sufficient luxury to many who, without it, would have recourse to intoxicating beverages merely to pass away hours of idleness. Tile use of coffee, too, which be- came common in Egypt, Syria, and other countries beside Arabia, a century earlier than tobacco, doubtless tended to render the habit of drinking wine less general. That it was adopted as a substitute for wine appears even from its name, " kahweh," an old Arabic term for wine; whence the Turkish " kahveh," the Italian " caffe," and our " coffee." * . * # One of my friends, who enjoys a high reputation, rank- ing among the most distinguished of the ' Ulama of Cairo, is well known to his intimate acquaintances as frequently in- dulging in the use of forbidden beverages with a few select associates. I disturbed him and bis companions by an evening visit on one of these occasions, and was kept vvait- ing within the street door while the guests quickly removed everything that would give me any indication of the manner in which they had been employed ; for the announcement of my ( assumed) name, and their knowledge of my abste- mious character, completely disconcerted them. 1 found them, hewever, in the best humour. They bad contrived, it appeared, to fill with wine a china bottle, of the kind used at that season ( winter) for water; and when any one ol them asked the servant lor water, this bottle was brought to him; hut when I made the same demand, my host told me that there was a bottle of water 011 the sill of the win- dow behind that part of the deewan upon which I was seated. The evening passed away very pleasantly, and I should not have known how unwelcome was my intrusion, had not one of the guests with whom I was intimately ac- quainted, in walking part of the way home with me, ex- plained to me the whole occurrence. There was with us a til rd person, who, thinking that my antipathy to wine was feigned, asked tne to stop at his house on my way, and take a cup of " white coffee," by which he meant brandy. Another of my Muslim acquaintances in Cairo I fre- quently met at the house of a ir. utual friend, where, though he was in most respects very bigoted, he was in the habit of indulging in wine. For some Lime he refrained from this gratification when I was present; but at length my pre- sence became so irksome to him, that he ventured to enter into an argument with me on the subject of the prohibition. The only answer I could give to his question, " Why is wine forbidden ?"— was in the words of the Kur an, " Be cause it is the source of more evil than profit." This suited his purpose, as I intended it should ; and he asked, " What evil results from it?" I answered, " Intoxication and quariels, & c." " Then," said be, " if 11 man take not enough to intoxicate him there is no barm;" and, finding that 1 acquiesced by silence, he added, " I am in the habit of taking a little ; but never enough to intoxicate. Boy, bring me a glass." He was the only Muslim, however, whom I have heard to argue against the absolute interdiction of inebriating liquors — Lane's Arabian fr ights. ARAB LOVE OF THE ROSE.— An anecdote may be added, to show the estimation of the lose in the mind of an Arab. It is said that Rowh Ibn iiatim, the governor of the pro- vince of Northern Africa, was sitting one day, with a female slave, in an apartment of his palace, when a eunuch brought him a jar full of red and white roses, which a man had offered as a piesent. He ordered the eunuch to fill the jar with silver in return ; but bis concubine said, ' O, my lord, thou hast not acted equitably towards the man ; for bis present to thee is of two colours, led and white.' The Emeer replied, ' Thou hast said truly;' and gave oiders to fill the jar for him with silver and gold ( dirhems and dee- nars intermixed.) Some persons preserve roses during the whole of the year, in the following manner. They take a number of rose- buds, and fill with them a new earthen jar, and, after closing its mouth with mud, so as to render it impervious to the air, l. ury it in the earth. Whenever they want a few roses, they take out some of these buds, which they find unaltered, sprinkle a little water upon them, and leave them for a s'- ort time in the air, when tliey open, and appear as if ju- t gathered. • * Roses are announced for sale in the streets of Cairo, by the cry of • The rose was a thorn ; from the sweat of the prophet it blossomed;' in alusion to a miracle recorded of Moham- mad. ' When I was taken up into heaven,' said the pro- phet, ' some of my sweat fell upon the earth, and from it sprang the rose; and whoever would smell my scent, let him smell the rose.' In another tradition it is said, ' The white rose was created from my sweat on the night of the Mearaj ; and the red rose, from the sweat of Jabraeel; and the yellow rose, from the sweat of El Burak.' The Per- sians take especial delight in : : ses; sometimes spreading them as carpets or beds 011 which to sit or recline in their revellings. But there is a flower pronounced more excel- lent than the rose; that of the Egyptian privet, or Law- sonia in^ rmis. Mohammad said, ' The chief of the sweet- scented flowers of this world an,! of the next is the faghiyeh;' and this was bis favourite flower. I approve of bis taste; for this flower, which grows in clusters somewhat like those of the lilac, has a ino- t delicious fragrance. But, on ac- count of discrepancies in different traditions, a Muslim may, with a clear conscience, prefer either of the two flowers next mentioned. The prophet said of the violet, ' The excellence of the extract of violets, above all other ex- tracts, is as the excellence of me above all the rest of the creation; it is cold in summer, and hot in winter;' and, in another tradition, ' The excellence of the violet is as the excellence of el- Islam above all other religions.' A deli- cious sherbet is made of a conserve of sugar and violet- flowers. The myrtle is the rival of the violet. ' Adam,' said the prophet, ' fell down from Paradise with three things; the myrtle, which is the chief of sweet scented flowers in this world; an ear of wheat, which is the chief of all kinds of food in this world; and pressed dates, which are the chief of the fruit! of this world.' The anemone was monopolised for his own enjoyment by Noaman Ibn El- Mundhir ( King of Kl Heereh, and contemporary of Mo- hammad), as the rose was afterwards by El- Mutawekkil. Another flower much admired and celebrated in the East i* the gilliflower. There are three principal kinds; the most esteemed is the yellow, or golden coloured, which has a delicious scent both by night and day; the next the purple and other dark kinds, which have a scent only in the night; the least esteemed, the white, which has no scent. The yellow gilliflower is an emblem of a neglected lover. The narcissus is very highly esteemed. Galen says, ' He who has two cakes of bread, let him dispose of one of them for some flowers of the narcissus; for bread is the food of the body, and the narcissus is the food of the soul.' Hippocrates, too, gave a similar opinion. The following flowers com- plete the list of those celebrated as most appropriate to add to the delights of wine:— the jasmine, eglantine, Sexille- orange flower, lily, sweet- basil, wild thyme, buphtlialmum, chamomile, nenuphar, lotus, pomegranate flower, poppy, ketmia, crocus or saffron, safflower, flax, the blossjms of different kinds of bean, and the almond. A sprig of Oriental willow adds much to the charms of a bunch of flowers, being the favourite symbol of a graceful female.— Lane. THE WEST INDIES. — A very exalted station is held by the tradesmen of the different islands, or, as I should more pro- perly term them, the storekeepers; for it would be an affront of the deepest dye to designate their shops by other than the epithet of store. Many of these gentlemen possess sugar estates; heavy mortgages on most of the pro- perties; are slave owners, and consequently, in every sense ol the word, planters as well as tradesmen. These are. in- deed, men of might; all the ready money ofthe colonies is in their possession; and one word from them would imprison half the settlements. They and their clerks constitute chiefly the exquisities of the West Indies, for them sigh the lovesick Creoles,— for them manoeuvre the matchmaking ma- mas. They are the stewards of every ball, the setters of every fashion, " the observed of all observers." \ stranger, unaware ofthe importance of these characters, is nota little surpiised on entering for the first time one of the stores, and purchasing an article at a tithe of the sum originally demanded, to receive an invitation to dinner, in terms pro- tecting and condescending, f om the not very cleanly nor particularly honest personage behind the counter. Unhappy man, if he exhibit astonishment or fail to acknowledge with gratitude ( he attention ! A cartel would be the inevitable result; for these gentry are mighty punctilious in points of honour ; and, notwithstanding 1 heir surcharges and uncouth- 1 ess of appearance, the shopmen standing behind the coun- ter are nobles of the land, pei haps bearing the highsouuding rank ofthe Honourable Charles Sugar- Cane, member of His Majesty's Council; or Lieutenant General Molasses, Com- mandant of the Royal Plantation Ilussars. So it is: in the shops of the West Indies are to be found more Ilonourables thaneverattended a levee at St. James's- and few garrison towns in England could array so many offi- cers as are occasionally to be seen tippling in the rum shop of Barbadoes and Trinidad. * * * * I have listened with astonishment to the rancorous senti- ments issuing Irom female lips, whenever in society the dis- courss happened to turn upon the negroes. Ladies, who in England would have almost fainted at the bare idea of treading even upon a spider, will, after a very few months' residence in the colonies, converse in an unconcerned tone on the number of lashes which had been inflicted during the morning on their own or their husbands' slaves. I particu- larly remember entering rather suddenly a room without being announced, and there I beheld a negress on her knees before her young mistress, beseeching, with agonizing elo- quence, that the flogging to which she had been ordered might be remitted. I heard her remind the mistress, that the same breast had given them suck, that their infancy had been passed together, - that they had married at the same time, at the same time became mothers, and that from her milk the children of both had received sustenance. The reply was a cold, stern refusal of pardon. I even yet feel the chill which crept through my frame, when the poor woman, perceiving my presence, dashed herself at my feet, and, convulsingly clasping me, implored my mediation. I was successful : but, to rise to the highest honours of my profession, I would not supplicate a mortal as I supplicated on this occasion. I have seen young and lovely women turn from chanting the most sentimental songs, to issue directions for the im- mediate whipping of a slave who had mislaid a piece of music ; and then revert to their warbling, unmoved by '. he cries of the victim undergoing the punishment in the yard. I have likewise seen negro servants appear with their shoulders all scarred and festered from the recent lash, and been lispiugly tokl by their respective mistresses ( mild and gentle beings, too, strange as it may seem, where the odious " biacks" were not concerned,) that these records of Eng- lish female humanity had been impressed on the " worthless" creatures for being absent when they were required to fan away mosquitoes. I have known of ladies, and those, too, of rank and repu- tation in the society of the place, who were in the habit of oflen with their own hands inflicting corporal punishment on their slaves; and in one instance, in the island of Trinidad, the lair executioner performed the operation with such determined vigour and severity, as to render it incum- bent on government to bring the circumstance before the judicial authorities. » » • » » Almost every island is graced with its First Judge and its Second Judge, its Attorney- General and its Solicitor- General, with barristers and attorneys to repletion. Govern- ment have extreme difficulty in inducing gentlemen of any talent or reputation at the English bar to accept, even the highest professional appointments in the'West Indies ; as, independently of the noxious climate, and still more noxious society to which they would lie exposed, the different sala- ries have been reduced to so miserable a pittance, that the holders, so far from being enabled to lay up a trifle for the • winter ol life, would find it barely possible to exist with common respectability. Thus tile individuals filling impor- tant legal offices, are too often personally connected with the colonies, by possessing therein sugar plantations ; which consideration alone has led them to take the situations; or they are of so ruined a fortune, perhaps reputation, as to render an absence from their country desirable. In either case, it may be doubted whether they are exactly the cha- racters to mete out justice, " without partiality, favour, or affection." But the evil stops not here. In their train fol- low a band of satellites, whom it would indeed he impossible to paint to the life. They resemble that class of persons quaintly designated in England hedge- attorneys ; and as their briefs come wholly from the planters, who have like- wise the power of distributing, what is even more esteemed, martial rank, they are prepared to find good law for every act of villainy and oppression. Against these odd « , what can avail the voice of the poor negro, crying for redress? From these people good breeding or refinement cannot be looked for; rude and boisterous contradictions must be expected and pardoned : but, notwithstanding my being thus prepared, I confess I could not witness without amazement the extraordinary scenes occasionally exhibited in their courts ol justice— scenes to which, in comparison, those at our own Middlesex sessions, or even those at the Recorder's court at Cork, shine resplendent with dignity. The lie is frequently given from the bench to the bar, and of course retorted from the bar to the bench: the secretary for the colonies has frequent appeals from the mutual recriminators, and the Governor- General ol the islands is occasionally called upon to suspend a judge. All, therefore, is anarchy, violence, and vulgarity, in the higher courts, au l increased anarchy, violence, and vulga- rity, in the minor. Sometimes one magistrate oaders the constables to conduct a brother magistrate to the gaol; while he that is thus sentenced seizes the constable by the throat, and defies his enemy to fulfil the threat. All this in the presence of numerous gangs of slaves, whom the party to which these well- conducted gentlemen belong represent as inaccessible to reason, and to whom subordination or obedience to the laws cannot be taught. — Truths from the West Indies. TRAVELLING IN THE EAST. — My own equipment was, however, somewhat improved in point ot compactness from its state when I left Semlin. Tau; ht by experience, I bad made further provision against the cold. Two pairs of stockings, one of fleecy hosiery, such as gouty subjects wear, and the other of large thick worsted, covered my lower extremities ; and over these were drawn the thick Tatar stockings and large boots I had already found SO use- ful. 1 had cutdovvn my Turkish sliulvvHrs toil more manage, able size; and they, with cotton and chamois leather drawers, besides a pair of English cloth pantaloons, bid fair to guarantee my lower man from the nipping blasts. That chamois leather forms an excellent protection for the travel- ler, for it assists greatly in keeping out the wind, which, after all, is his worst enemy in cold weather; but it should be worn above the ordinary flannel, and not, as some persons have erroneously imagined, next the skin : indeed, it is best, at. I believe, over flannel, shirt, and all: but wear it as thev will, I should strongly recommend those who are likely to be exposed to much cold never to be without it. A stout flannel- lined long- skirted riding- coat, and a fur cloak, or rather gown, which I had procured at Frankfort, promised well for excluding the enemy from the ' nobler parts,' as they are called, including, I presume, that important organ the stomach, to ' keep the cold out of' which, by a liberal internal application of cordial drops, is the zealous business of many a good old gentleman at home. But as my furs alone would have made a poor defence against rain or falling snow, I bad provided myself with a good Macintosh india- rubber cloak, which now did worthy service. My upper works were guarded by a travelling fur- cap, and sundry shawls and wrappers were at hand to comfort ears and nose in case of need. » » » » . I was calculating with some satisfaction on a peaceful stage, as we rode quietiy along; but no sooner bad we cleared the broken country, than ' AI lah e- ullah! ' once more roared the Tatar ; ' Hoo- hoo hoo— eyah !' echoed Soorajee, down comes the shower of blows, and off start the horses again full tilt. Again setting teeth and knees, I stuck close to my saddle and prepared for a tumble, horse and man. Soon did we approach a ridge of rising grounds, which it was not unreasonable to imagine would bring us up ; but " quite the contrary ," a renewed volley of heavy thumps on the croups of the beast, and a fresh and louder roar from Soorajee and Tatar, was all the notice taken of this new feature of the road. Up sprung the horses, and away go their riders like hey go- mad, over height and hol- low, bill and dale: " the d— 1!" muttered I, internally, as I gathered up the reins with a firmer gripe, and looked at the gallant Tartar sitting like a rock, his looser garments flying in the wind, and the load horses shrinking and skipping from his formidable whip, and bending and squattering along, so that I expected every moment to see their slender limbs snap and fly from tinder them. It was more like a gallop 01 the " wild huntsman," than any horsemanship of mortal strain. My blood curdled more than once as I saw the little animals urged down steep descents with sharp turns, where a false step would have tilted them over the rock, and every moment I looked for an accident. And false steps there were in abundance; but though clown on knees, on breast, on riose, the skill of the Soorajees, and spirit of the beasts saved the tumble and recovered them when one would have sworn it was impossible. At last, by the blessing of Providence, we gained the height, where there was a bit of a plain, and then away we scoured aaain. For a while, not a word ; the dirt flew in large clods from the heels of the horses, spattering the lace and hitting heavy thumps on the breast ofthe hindmost of the party; and 1 instinctively inclined to the left, out of the wake of the rest. Itecrossing the river, which we now left, we ascended the valley of a tributary stream to another tremendous pass, rendered still more formidable by the obscurity ofthe night. Our approach to it seemed to be through the very bowels of tile mountain, in the bed 01 a furious torrent, where no man could have imagined a path to have existence; and from which, turning tip a narrow fissure, we scrambled on in the daikness, leaving all to the instinct of our horses, till we emerged, far above, upon the very brink of a black abyss, along which we still continued ascending by a narrow, rocky, zigz path, paved here and there, but without any parapets, for a height of, I suppose, six or seven hundred feet. It was a frightful tug. You must know that the Turks do notfrost orslni pen their horses' shoes, as we do, to keep them from slipping on the iee; and here all was ice or melting snow: and the track was on the very verge of the precipice; there was no getting off to lead the horses, or walk; we did not even dare to stop. It was neck or nothing; a breathless scramble up— up; often holding on by the mane to keep from slipping off behind. Nothing but the conviction of this, and of my own helplessness, embarrassed with great boots glued to the stirrups by ice, and our heavy cloaks frozen rigid as a board in their folds, could have kept me in the saddle. The descent was not so long, but fully as dan- gerous, and even more horrible, for there you were con- stantly looking down into the black yawning gulph, from whence the far- off sound of the winter torrent came roar- ing up in fits as the wind sighed down the glen. The sce- nery was magnificent— perhaps darkness increased the effect. I do not know whether the mountains are very lofty, but the clouds were circling round each tall spiry cliff, as if they were propping the heavy sky. Daylight might have detracted from the grandeur and gloom— it scarcely could have lessened the toil or the danger ; and as well as I love mountain passes and mountain scenery, I never desire to cross the Drekler- daugh pass again in a stormy winter night. — Fraser. We copy, from a communication in the Journal of Commerce, the annexed description of a new invention by Mr. Robert Grant, of Maine, which is important to all connected with the construction and management of railroads and locomotives, if it actually possesses the recommendations enumerated:—" In the first place, the truck is guided by the car body with such mathe- matical precision, that the wheels will, 011 a smooth plain, without rails, or flanges to the wheels, trace any curve of not less than seventeen'feet radius to the eighth of an inch. They require no more power of draught on a curve than on a straight line, and will entirely do away with all lateral action on the straight track, thereby dispensing with one quarter of the force of traction in that case, and in passing a curve with one half. It is impossible to run them off the track after the locomotive has passed safe; they cost no more than other cars, will last as long again, and will not wear out the track more than one half as fast; they will be more easy, every way safer, and one quarter, if not one- third, of the expense of constructing and working railroads will be saved."— New York Commercial Intelligencer. 7 DEAF AND DUMB INSTITUTION. Yesterday the anniversary of i lie above invaluable insti- tution was held in the Town- hall. Owing to a heavy shower of rain at eleven o'clock, the hour appointed for holding the meeting, we regret to say that many were pre- vented from attending; and the meeting was by no means so numerously attended as on former occasions. At twelve o'clock the Right Hon. Lord Hatherton, on the motion of Richard Spooner, Esq., took the chair, and opened the business in a brief but appropriate speech. His LORDSHIP said, they were assembled on the occasion of the twenty sixth meeting of the subscribers to the insti- ' tution for the instruction of deaf and dumb children. He would have very gladly yielded to any other gentleman the honour of presiding, but he had not thought himself at liberty to refuse the request made upon him, to take the chair, because there was no man who felt more deeply the importance of the institution ; nor was there one more im- piessed with the obligation which every Christian lay under, of contributing, to the extent of his means, to the improvement of all mankind. Besides, there was no one more prompt to acknowledge that every man, blessed by providence with the use of his faculties, was bound to do all in his power towards alleviating the misery of those whom it had pleased God to deprive of those faculties. It was generally the custom of the advocates of the various institutions to adduce reasons in support of the societies they represented. Fortunately, however, the institution for which he then appeared, required little to be said in its favour. It required no arguments to convince them, that without such institutions, the severest afflictions of human nature must go without a remedy. A broken limb, or any such accident, could be repaired by the skill and humanity of an individual; but the evils under which the objects of that institution suffered could not be cured, and their pri- vations could only be mitigated. With respect to the utility of such institutions he need only say, that the wealthiest gentleman in the kingdom, with the most ardent affection for his son, could not procure for him, under such an affliction, anything like the advantages that were to be found in these schools. It was from these feelings, that from the first time he became possessed of property, he be- came a subscriber to the institution which they had that day met to support. ( Hear, hear.) He regretted to say, that the report they would soon hear read, would announce to them the distressing fact, that there were in England and Wales alone, not less than 8,000 of their fellow crea- tures deaf and dumb, whilst riot more than 500 of them were provided for by public institutions. He trusted the promulgation of that awful fact would lead to increased ex- ertions on the part of the friends of suffering humanity. ( Applause.) The Rev. JOHN RILAND read the report, from which it appeared that fourteen children were admitted since the last meeting; thirteen discharged, and there are in the esta- blishment at present foity eight children ; twenty- six gills and twenty- two boys. JOHN RKAD COKRIE, Esq., M. D., moved the adoption of the report, observing, that having been one of the founders of the institution, and having had so many oppjrtuiiities, during the last twenty- six years, of addressing them on the importance of such institutions, he could add litile to what he had already advanced. One reflection might be, perhaps, worth making, and that was, that by supporting the present institution they could do no wrong. Mistaken charity often encouraged the evil the donor would wish to cure ; but in reference to the objects that day before them, there could be no mistake. ( Hear, hear.) RICHARD SPOOUER, E- q., with his accustomed eloquence supported the resolution. The accounts were then read by E. T. Moon, Esq. BENJAMIN GUEST, Esq., moved that they should pass. The Rev. JOSIAH ALLPOKT, seconded the motion, and begged leave to mention one tact, lie thought ought to be generally known. Lately a number of deaf and dumb per- sons ill London had formed a society tor the purpose of as- sisting all those similarly afflicted. He believed one of the most respectable conveyancers in London was at the head ofthe society. Their general meeting ha J lately been held, and the whole of their proceedings were carried on by mem- bers of the society, all of whom were deaf and dumb. Now. he would say, it was his opinion, that if the nation would only provide lor the education of the 8,000 at present afflicted, they would, in a short time, establish institutions and provide for all those who might hereafter stand in need of succour. ( Hear, hear.) The examination of the children was then proceeded with, and, as usual, reflected the highest credit on the zeal and great abilities of their indefatigable and affectionate teacher, Mr. Du l'uget. Lord Hatherton having left the chair, and the Right Hon- Lord Dartmouth having been called to it, the Rev. William Marsh moved the thanks of the meeting to his lordship, which, on being seconded, was carried with applause. His lordship returned thanks, and the meeting broke up. Sir Robert Peel was expected to have been present, but the honourable baronet did not come. PROPAGATION OF CHRISTIAN KNOW- LEDGE SOCIETY. A meeting- of this society was held in the Town- hall on Tuesday evening, Mr. Pakington, M. P for Droitvvich, in the chair. The principal speakers were the honourable Chairman, Rev. Mr. Kyle, Rev. Mi- March, Rev. Mr. Nunns, and Rev. Mr. Campbell, one of the society's agents. We give the speech of this last gentleman, as likely, from its facfs, to be most in- teresting to our readers. The Rev. A. M. CAMPBELL, one of the agents to the society, commenced by observing that as the meet- ing had resolved that religious instruction should never be separated from education, lie should have no diffi- culty in persuading them that the natives of our colo- nies ought not to be left in utter destitution. He felt the force of what had fallen from his rev. friend, when he contended for religious education amongst their countrymen at home; and while he agreed in this, every argument in its support showed that means of religious instruction should be provided for their less fortunate fellow- countrymen abroad. ( Hear, hear.) The attempt was now made at a time, when, as re- garded three of their most important fields of labour, a great crisis had arrived. He alluded to Canada, the West Indies, and New South Wales. With regard to Canada, in whose spiritual welfare their hou. chair man had manifested so deep an interest, a new consti- tution was proposed, and which, whether it would be for good or for evil, he knew not; but this lie did know, that if the present opportunity for providing for the religious education of that people were lost, a hun- dred years might elapse before such another opportu- nity presented itself. ( Hear, hear.) The- negro had recently obtained the blessings of freedom—( cheers)— while the people were just becoming acquainted with the abominations of Australia. As to Canada, he knew of no ground upon which spiritual aid could be refused by the government to that colony, unless, in- deed, upon the voluntary principle, which he supposed they would all join with him in repudiating. ( Hear.) When colonies were able to support their own govern- ments, civil and military,— their judges, their soldiers, and their sailors,— then, perhaps, they ought to be called upon to support their own Church Establish- ment ; but at the present time, when the Canadas were unable to defray these expenses, they ought not to be called upon to support a religious establishment. It was the duty of the government to provide the for- mer, it was, if anything, still more imperative upon them to provide and support the latter. ( Cheers.) The rev. gentleman proceeded to read extracts from authentic documents, showing the spiritual destitution of many parts of Canada. In one instance a settler declared he had not seen a church for twenty years, and begged that religious instruction might be pro- vided for iiis children, to preserve them from embracing infidelity. In other instances, for want of Protestant places of worship, the natives and emigrants joined the Church of Rome. The Society was exerting itself to remove this crying evil, and they had determined to send out forty clergymen to the West Indies to meet the spiritual necessities of the recently- emancipated negroes. ( Cheers.) All that had been said or written ofthe evils which had resulted from emigration to some parts of Australia, was perfectly true; and when, in addition, they considered that the whole land was co- vered with felons, destitute ofthe means of moral im- provement, let them consider what a heavy debt of re- sponsibility this country incurred. A committee of the House of Commons, constituted of the leaders of all parties, had recently come to an unanimous report respecting the evils which had resulted from transportation to New South Wales; and any thing so monstrous as the statements therein given of the state of things in Australia was never before heard of. The question now was, what was to be done ? During the last year the society had sent out twenty clergymen to Australia, and the bishop had recently written, and stated that he required twenty more. The committee had promised to send them ; but that - provision would prove inadequate, aud all agreed that the convict sys- tem must be put an end to; and that our hardened convicts should not be sent out to pollute and poison the uniustructed inhabitants of the new world. If that day should arrive, and he did not despair of see- ing it, he did not doubt that the government of the country would find it much cheaper to support clergy- men in Australia, than to maintain hordes of gaolers, and other force necessary for the security of a demo- ralised and demoralising penal colony. ( Cheers.) After some further observations to the same effect, the rev. gentleman proceeded to speak with regard to the West Indies, and said he was delighted so know that the negro was now free. ( Cheers.) When the Eman- cipation act passed, the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts took up the question, and four years ago they sent 50,000/. to afford additional spiritual accommodation and instruction of the slave population in the West Indies. ( Cheers.) He would mention a proof of the advantage which had resulted from this act of the society. In the fij> t instance, the society were unwilling to pay more than one- half of the stipends of the clergy. The bishop of Jamaica, however, requested that for a time the full allowance might be granted, and he doubted not, that eventually the clergy would be supported, if not entirely, almost wholly, by their congregations. To this the society assented, and he was happy to say that the expecta- tions of the bishop had been fulfilled. Three years ago, not a farthing was paid towards the support of the clergy sent to the West India islands, while now they contributed two- thirds ofthe whole amount. With regard to the East Indies, he was in duty bound to say, that twenty years ago he entertained little hopes of good from the efforts of the Propagation So- ciety; but he confessed that he had been misled by the confident expectations of those who were supposed to be best acquainted with the character and habits of the native population of that country. He ( Mr. C.) was a young man in 1813, when the renewal of the East India Company's charter was discussed in Parliament; but he recollected that the Marquis of Wellesley, Mr. Hastings, and others, 1 expressed their belief at that time, that the Hindoos would never be the purchasers of our manufactures, and siill less was there any pro- bability of their being converts of Christianity. In support of the latter opinion, reference was made to the manner in which the Christian religion bad then been hitherto received by the natives? By the Portu- guese, and other Roman Catholic nations, who had exhibited not the Cross hut the Crucifix— the Inqui- sition, and its chains and prisons. No wonder religion did not prosper when introduces] in such a form, and accompanied by such practices. The rev. gentleman went on to say, that ( or many years the comparative ill success of Christianity in India was, in a trreat de- gree, to be attributed to a defect in the education of its ministers, - and that it was not until within t|( e last twenty years that a spiritual teacher had been em- ployed who had received a cauipeteut ministerial educa- tion. He next proceeded to state, that under the auspices of the late Bishop Middleton, a missionary college had been established in India; that subse- quently ( we understood at the present moment) thirty well educated missionaries were employed, and that there were now 20,000 native inhabitants of Calcutta, perfectly well acquainted with the English language, and able to read and understand a closely reasoned sermon preached in the English language. ( Cheers.) Education in the East was not confined to religion alone; tliey were instructed in the arts and science; and it was unnecessary to say, that when the Hindoos became acquainted with science, the absurdity and falsehood of their idolatries would be at once made manifest, and exposed. The question then was, would the Christian population of England, after overthrow- ing the idolatrous opinions of the natives of the East, leave them a prev to infidelity? ( Hear, hear.) He would not detain them further, but he could not con- clude without urging upon them, not as an agent for the Society only, but as a Christian minister, deeply interested in the cause they were met to promote, the necessity of prosecuting the work in which they were engaged with renewed vigour. In the course of a few years the English language would be spoken by the in- habitants of half the habitable world. This was a con- sideration that be hoped would produce a proper effect, and induce the Christian public of Great Britain to more strenuous efforts for the Christianisation of the world. The rev. gentleman concluded a long and eloquent speech, of which the above is a mere analysis, by moving the third resolution. ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. VESTRY MEETING. Sir,— Permit me, through the medium of your columns, to express the surprise, and I may add indig- nation, I felt on entering the Town- hall this morning-, to which I had been summoned to perform an important duty, on finding that I had to thread my way through a double file of police- officers, at least a dozen, three of whom were thief- takers, and the other street- keepers; and my surprise was not at all diminished on finding myself in the room, with at least half- a- dozen others. For what purpose, may I ask, was this posse re- quired ; and by whose orders w ere they there? If it were to prevent disorderly persons from intruding- upon the meeting, would not two or three have been amply sufficient, as there was only one entrance ; and might not the others have been well employed in pre- venting the many nuisances daily committed in out- back streets and lanes? The presence of so many of these men, sir, was an insult to common sense and decency, and an impeach- ment ofthe intentions of the parties who attended the meeting. What! cannot a respectable body of indi- viduals assemble for a legal purpose, without passing, as it were in review, before those whom they pay to perform their duties? It is well known that our Radical friends have no need of their presence or assistance, their good conduct always insures for them safety and respect. Nor cati I see what the Tories could want them for, unless it were to keep under sub- jection some of the more turbulent spirits of their party— the men who deprecate the mention of physical force, but who hesitate not to avail themselves of it when it serves their own base contemptible purposes. Leaving my question in your hands, I am, sir, your's respectfully, 25th Oct., 1838. A RATE- PAYER. [ We really do not know who sent the police- men to the hall; but from the manifest disposition of two or three Tory gentlemen in the organ gallery to riot, we, at one time, thought that their interposition would be called for in order to keep the peace.— E. B. J.] THE MUNTZ SUBSCRIPTION. Sir,— Having lately callcd at several respectable rooms in Birmingham, I was much pleased at the interest taken in behalf of those excellent men, Messrs. G. F. Muntz, Pare, and others, who lately have sacrificed so much time and pecuniary loss in defence of the people's rights, & c. But my principal object in writing- is to inform you of the general com- plaint that is made at not having subscription lists placed in different rooms ill the town, and that the cause is not sufficiently public; in fact, some of them seem to think the subscription is done away with alto- gether. Hoping you will, in your next paper, make what observations you may think proper, so that it may further the good cause, and remunerate those much esteemed, but injured, men, 1 remain, Sir, Yours, respectfully, W. H. B. Birmingham, Oct. 25th, 1838. THE STOCKS. Sir,— On last Thursday, Oct. the 18th, I was passing along Moor- street, and on looking into the yard of the Public- office I saw a man in the stocks. He ap- peared to have passed the meridian o/ life, seemed much ashamed of his degraded situation, aud evidently belonged to the democracy. Now, sir, I hope you will do me, and my degraded countryman, the favour to make a few remarks on this ancient relic of torture; and, if it is in your power, please to let us know what this unfortunate being had been guilty of, that he must be thus exhibited to the wanton gaze ofthe rabble. It may have been, that he was guilty of abusing females, disturbing families, assaulting and mal- treat- ing his fellow- men, or other vicious conduct, a la Waterford ; but I do not recollect reading that ever any of these noble or gentle persons who have hereto- fore amused themselves in such sports, were thus de- graded in the stocks. By the way, if it is an unfit punishment for such conduct, it must, in common rea- soning, be unfit for all persons who so conduct them- selves. I have no wish to see the Marquis of Waterford in the stocks, or any other such like nobleman, or gentle- man, or poor man. I abhor and detest the sight of the stocks; and wonder that our nation, and particularly our own enlightened town of Birmingham, are not ashamed of them. In passing through Coleshill I observed not only the stocks but a pillory set up, in the centre of the Market- place; and, as is usual, very near the church. I thought the pillory was cast out of our land, and was vexed to see it as a certain insulting nondescript thing, set up to frighten poor people into abject sub- mission to a certain insulting nondescript set of per- sons, who delight in tyrannising over their fellow- creatures. These few broken sentences may bring out some- thing upon the subject from some person who can ex- plain the meaning of the continued nuisance, and shame our tyrants out of its use. I am, sir, your's obliged, 21st Oct. 1838. A FREQUENT READER. THE RELIGIOUSNESS OF RADICALISM. Men, measures, and all earthly interest pass away ; but principles are eternal. Truth, justice, and goodness, par- take of the Omnipotence and iminutableness of God, whose essence they are. In these it becomes us to place a calm, joyful trust, in the daikest hour. DR. CHANNING. It is said, " The object which the Radicals have in view cannot be obtained, for the masses, however strong in numerical force, cannot effect any one object with- out the assistance of the middle classes, who are, one and all, ( except a few Radical leaders,) averse to uni- versal suffrage. Now, to me it appears, that the Radicals have had the courage and goodness to act upon the highest principle of human nature, which is, the most holy rights of man, and it is the everlasting G ospel— it hath reason for its support, and Scripture for its advocate. The misfortune is, that man hath not embraced, nor acted upon this glorious principle, before these awaken, ing times. The strong demand of justice and human- ity is, that man should do his duty, regardless of con- sequences; fur under his present fallen state there is no good for liim without a mixture of evil. Most assuredly the great Jehovah is our advocate; for, " hath not God chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom, which he hath promised to them that love him ?" For the king- dom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the most high ( principle), whose king- dom is an everlasting kingdom, which all dominions shall serve and obey." And God hath promised " to raise up the poor out of the dust, and lift the destitute out of the dunghill, that he may set him with princes, even with the princes of his people." Now, if these wise and benevolent purposes of the Deity are ever to be fulfilled, they must be done through the agency of man, and universal suffrage may effect it. And can the poor be made free, wise, and happy too soon ? Surely ( he cause of the Radicals is just, humane, and compassionate— it is holy and Christian- like! Of course, the principles of the oppositionists must be the sad reverse. If the Whigs be Reformers, " I know their works, that they are neither cold nor hot, so then beeause they are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I spue them out of my mouth." Pride and prejudice look down with an eye of con- tempt on the leaders of the Radicals, but the working classes do not want leaders of the first- rate talents, but honest men— men of business, of prudence, and common sense ; and such are they. It cannot be imagined that the pride and power of the aristocracy, supported as they are by the middle < classes, will bend to the will of the common people till they are met with a fearful threat, or some demon- stration of force. It is written in the last two verses of the Old Testament, " Behold, I ( Jehovah) will send you Elijah the prophet, before the coming of the great and dread- ful day of the Lord; and be shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the child- ren to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse." Now, Elijah was a Radical Reformer in ancient Israel, and his spirit is actually abroad in this land of God's adopted new Israel. And the Radical fathers have turned their hearts to their ignorant children, and those poor children in knowledge have turned their hearts to their compassionate fathers. So that this union of hearts hath saved the nation from the curse of God, and what greater curse could happen to its than anarchy or civil war ? Before a new heaven and anew earth can be formed, that shall give to man righteousness, peace, and as- surance for ever, everything that is irrational, or in- consistent with pure Christianity, must be swept away with " the besom of destruction." And if the example of England should be followed by all Europe, it will make a great and dreadful day for " the proud, and all that do wickedly ;" and effect a political and religious " earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth; so mighty an earthquake, and so great!" GEO. CARPENTER, A Reformer of ninety- two years of age. Gravesend, 22nd October, 1838. line," inasmuch as it facilitates eomm uiication with one locality only. I have taken some pains to make myself acquainted with the merits of the various plans projected; and, to me, it appears evident that the line which would afford the greatest facility of communication to all the central parts of the town, is that which has been projected from the end of New- street, and is generally known as Mr. Edge's plan. Indeed, I believe there are to be found very few persons who have considered the sub- ject, and whose judgments are unbiased by interest, who entertain a different opinion. There is one very important circumstance in favour of Mr. Edge's line, which the commissioners appear to have lost sight of altogether, which is, that it is the least expensive of the whole, by several thousand pounds, and entered in their minute hook, from a valuation by their own surveyor. This fact is, per- haps, not generally known, but certainly ought not to be overlooked. In addition to the line which has re- ceived the approval of the general body of commis- sioners, two other bits of patchwork are also recom mended, or rather hinted at in the report; one is to make a street from the bottom of Bull- street, leading into New- street, opposite the Free School; the other is to carry a street from High- street, opposite New- street, to the bottom of Carr's- lane, in Moor- street; just taking so much of Mr. Edge's line as would incur the greatest portion of the expense of that entire line, without much benefit to the public; the other, namely, that from Bull- street to the Free School, would swell the expense to nearly double that of Mr. Edge's line, without affording a tithe of the conveniences to the public. What can be the motive for this tinkering policy, it is not easy to guess. It has, indeed, been remarked, that it exhibits a desire to please all. This reminds me ofthe tale of the old man and his ass, who, " by endeavouring to please everybody, pleased no- body, and lost his ass into the bargain." Query! Will this be the fate of the commissioners? It is especially important to notice, that at the meeting of commissioners, specially convened to re- ceive the reports, an enquiry was made as to what notice must be given to the public in case they should apply for an act of Parliament during the next session; to which it was replied, that three advertisements in a Birmingham newspaper would be sufficient. Now, I can hardly suppose that the commissioners would think of applying for an act in a case of such vast im- portance, without first taking the sense of the rate- payers upon the subject; it is, however, quite needful to be on the look out. I am, sir, your obedient servant, A LOOKER ON. SHOP SHUTTING. APPROACH TO THE RAILWAY STATIONS. SIR,— Many persons, who take a deep interest in the improvement of the town, were for some time anxi- ously waiting for the report of the Railway Approach committee of commissioners, which was appointed on the 5th of March; and having taken no less than seven months to cogitate upon the subject, it was quite natural for the public to expect a document of some importance, worthy of the important subject under consideration, and creditable to the body by which the committee had been appointed; and it is, indeed, no wonder that universal disappointment should be felt at the puny report which has at length been produced. It is not my desire to indulge in strictures upon the conduct of the committee, or of the general body of commissioners; but it is quite impossible, by any legitimate mode of reasoning-, to discover upon what principle of calculation they have arrived at their con- clusions. The committee report that " they are of opinion that the line from the station to tin: Red I, ion gateway, in High- street and Dale- end, is the most desirable line for an approach to the railway stations;" but they are not kind enough to tell lis why? I am sorry for this, because men of plain common sense cannot understand it. Now, if the convenience ofthe public generally is the object to he attained, it must be quite evident to all that it is not " the most desirable SIR,— I beg, through the medium of your widely circulated journal, to solicit the attention of the drapers and their assistants, in Birmingham, to the measures that have been adopted in London, and other towns, relative to an earlier cessation from business. I call upon the assistant drapers in this town to follow the good example already set them, and to be unanimous in their endeavours to obtain that liberty so justly due to them. Let it be effected; and other measures for their benefit will follow, as a matter of course; they will he able to destroy that system of oppression which lias reduced them, both morally and physically, to the position of mere slaves ; they will be able to raise themselves in the scale of society, and move in that sphere, to which they, as a body, collectively, are en- titled. I believe that none but those who are cdlous to every feeling, except self- interest, will deny that ten hours are quite enough for any man to labour, exclu- sive of the time allowed ( or rather that should be al- lowed) for meals ; yet the assistant draper is engaged in business from seven in the morning until ten and eleven at night, and frequently to a later hour, averag- ing fifteen hours daily labour, showing how necessary it is to change the present system. Again, labour for a longer period than ten hours, blunts alike the feelings and the intellect; destroys the relish for life; is in- jurious to the health and constitution ; and stifles the inclination for mental cultivation and improvement; consequently, the assistant drapers are not only de- barred the means of recreation, but some of the best and most elevating sources of enjoyment, which are to be obtained from the pursuit of knowledge, and tend to raise man in the estimation of his fellow- beings. It does not become men, the majority of whom have had a good education, and are intelligent, honest, and industrious, to remain passive in a position so degrad- ing. Let them act like men, and unite. " Remember, union is strength!" There is nothing in their demands unreasonable, unjust, or prejudicial to their employers; or of a cha- racter which can be, upon right principle, denounced. Let me prevail upon them to co- operate with their brother assistants; to be firm and energetic; to adopt immediate measures; and show that they, the assistant drapers of this large and important town, are deter- mined that they no longer will be slaves; and they will remove that stigma which so tenaciously adheres to their name. I am, sir, & c., AN ASSISTANT DRAPER. . New- street, October 24, 1838. TRICKS UPON SHOPKEEPERS. SIR,— The widely extended circulation of your valuable paper has prompted me to make choice of it as a medium through which I might make known to the public generally, but more especially to small shopkeepers, and those who are newly commencing in that line of general business, the system of a gang of swindlers who are going about the country. A friend of mine, who was opening a small shop in the grocery line in this town, was, on Monday last, called upon by a commercial traveller, staling himself to be from the firm of Davis and Co., of Whitechapel, Lon- don, pencil, & c., manufacturers, and dealers in paper. He informed my friend that the firm for which he travelled had an extensive sale for their improved pencils of a certain description, anil exhibiting a large printed placard, describing the utility, use, and price; and that the shopkeeper, if be chose, might be ap- pointed sole agent for the sale of these pencils in this town. He said lie carried a stock of pencils with him, and showed his samples, some of which bore the im- press of " Davis and Co., London ;" and he informed my friend, that by purchasing a gross of each sort, he would have three dozen of each given in ; and that he would, by paying cash down, which they invariably had for pencils, have them at half the selling- price. After showing his samples of paper, and receiving an order for a few reams, which he said he would write for that evening, and that they gave six months' credit on paper ; and should theagentnot find the whole of the pencils go off quickly, they, the firm, would take the remainder back, and deduct the sum from the paper which he should send; and that an advertisement would be put in the paper published in the town, at the expense of the company, for four weeks, stating that they had appointed the said shop- keeper their agent for the sale, & c., & c.; I am sorry to say, that by these specious promises, his in- cessant talk and general bearing, he completely threw my friend off his guard, ultimately ending in his pur- chasing pencils to the amount of 41. and odd, some of which he may never sell; but this, Mr. Editor, was only feeling his pulse, as the sequel will show. The circumstance which I have described occurred in the bustle and hurry in getting ready for opening shop; or he would not have succeeded in " bilking" my friend, who has seen something ofthe world. By enquiries, I suppose, he then ascertained they were strangers in the town. He supposed, he said, they would want some blacking; and as he should, in a few days, be at Leicester, and meet Day and Martin's traveller, with whom he was acquainted, he would tell him to call; and, by the bye, there was a gentleman from Homan's steel pen manufactory, Cheapside, Lon- don, who was staying at the same house with him, he would tell him to call, perhaps they might dispose of a few. Well, in a few hours after, while they were busy in their preparations, in stalks the other traveller with the steel pens, stating that be had been recom- mended by a Mr. Alexander ( the other traveller) and exhibiting his pattern cards of pens, " Z. Homan's manufacture, London," ( India rubber steel pens,) at three shillings and five shilling per gross, wholesale; to be sold by retail, at 6d. and Is. per dozen, or 5s. and. 7s. per gross. It appears my friend seemed doubtful whether they would be disposable articles, the traveller was, of course, assured to the contrary. My friend pre- tended he had no money at hand, but was told by the traveller he would take provisions, such as tea, See., for any quantity be might choose to take, small or large, or, which he said nothing could be fairer, or he would take one half the amount in cash, and the other half he would give credit for until he returned in six months. However, as my friend did not then feel disposed to deal with him, he said he would leave a card or two until his return, as he had to visit a few of the sur- rounding villages. My friend opened his shop oil Saturday last, and, as a matter of course, put these cards of pens in the window. During the day a gentleman callcd, and after casually examining several articles, such as pencils, See , & c., he spied the said cards of pens, and requested to look at theiu; aud, after examining and trying them, pronounced them tolerably good, in his opinion, and stated that he was connected with a scholastic establishment in the town, which used tlieni largely, and wished to know if they had a stock, or could procure tbeni; it being too much trouble and inconvenient for them to send to London, he should be glad if they could procure them in town. He requested to be allowed to take a few to the establishment, to ascertain if they would give satis- faction, and he would return in a few hours, and give an order, provided they could have tliem on Monday or Tuesday, as they were particularly in want of them. According to promise, he called and informed my friend that the principals of the establishment were much pleased with them, and had requested him to give anorderfor twenty gross of the best, provided they were not more than 8s. per gross, and fifteen gross at 4s. 6d. per gross. My friend's wife, upon this ( not small) order being given, began to repent of their not having purchased some, as " you see, my dear, if we had purchased them we should not have been imposed upon," and my friend began to think little miss- fortune was changing her name to good fortune, as the other pencil and paper traveller had informed him that he would make 200/. per annum by the agency; and my friend assures me that the general appearance ofthe travellers, but more especially of the said usher, was such that they would almost deceive that dark, gentlemanly traveller, who practised upon Mother Eve, of yore. But to conclude, in the evening in stalks the pen traveller, smoking his cigar, in anticipation, no doubt, of receiving a round sum as his weekly wages; but thanks for the usher's large order, which had caused a resuscitation of the reflecting powers of my friend in the interval, " it would not do." So after quizzing him a little, be sneaked out, saying he would call some other time. I have thought it my duty, Mr. Editor, as a philan- thropist, to give the greatest publicity possible to this method of swindling, there being a gang of them going the round of all the towns and villages in the kingdom, to entrap the uninitiated small shopkeepers, but more especially the female part; and should I be so fortunate by this proceeding as to fustrate their vil- lainous maneeuvres in one instance, I should think myself amply rewarded. Should you think the foregoing remarks require any comment, you would oblige, by so doing, an admirer ofthe Journal. Respectfully yours, AN INHABITANT. BIRMINGHAM DISPENSARY, OCT. 26.— Sirl, patients relieved 325 j midwifery cases, 14. GENERAL HOSPITAL, OCT 26.— Pliysieian and Surgeon of the Patients of the week, Dr. Male and Mr. A. Jukes. Visitor W. lieale, Esq., and Rev. J. Garbett. In- patients admitted, 54; out, 123 In- patients discharged, 31 j out, 82. Remaining ia th » house, 179. STATE OF THE WORKHOUSE UP TO OCTOBER £ 3. Wo. INFANTS. Men. men. Boys. Girts. Male. Feiu Total. 1/ 2 196 5 11 13 15 412 Admitted since 8 7 • 2 3 4 4 28 Born in the House 1 I ISO 203 7 14 18 19 441 Dlschgd, absconded, 11 8 2 5 3 Tot il o f each 172 ,92 5 14 13 16 4 Numbcrof Casesrelieved last weeti 2,827 NumberofChiidren in the Asylum 331 * Of whom 3 men, t woman, and 2 children died. MARRIAGES. On Thursday last, at Witherley, by the Rev. John Mitchell, George Fessey Wills, Esq., of Upper Bodington, Northamptonshire, to Catharine Mary, second daughter of Samuel Mallabey, Esq., of Grendon, Warwickshire. On Tuesday last, at Haudsworth, by the Rev. Daniel Walton, Mr. Ebenezer Crompton, of the White Hart Inn, St. George- street, sixth son of Mr. Robert Crompton, of Upper Tower- street, to Miss Eliza Newman, of the same jllace. On the 22nd inst., at Edgbaston, by the Rev. J. G. Breay, 13. A., Thomas, second son of John Lant, Esq., of Eastern Green, to Lydia Mary, daughter of Mr. W. Bower, of Newhall- street. On Tuesday last, at Aston, Mr. Thomas Scudamore, druggist, of Edgbaston- street, to Miss Millichap, daughter of Mr. George Millichap, of Aston- street. On Wednesday, the 24th instant, at St. Martin's church, by the Rev. C. Arnold, Mr. James Davis, of Cambridge- street, to Sarah, youngest daughter of Mr. James Marshall, of Great Charles- street. On Saturday last, at St. Martin's church, by the Rev. M. W. Foye, Mr. S. Taylor, of Prince Edward's Island, to Miss Chamberlaine, of Warwick. On the 17th inst., Mr. Thomas Buffery, to Miss Ellen Sanderson, both of this town. On Tuesday week, at the parish church of Yardley, by the Rev. J. Jones, perpetual curate of Cradley, the Rev. J. Jones, B. A., Curate of Heytesbury, Wilts, to Esther Maria, youngest daughter of Mr. Henry Gwyther, of Yardley. DEATHS On Wednesday, after a few days' illness, Mr. Joseph Turton, of Gosta Green, a man universally esteemed for kindness and benevolence. On Sunday last, in the 53id year of his age, much re- spected, Mr. John Crowder, of Ashby Magna, Leicester- shire, and only brother to Mr. W. W. Crowder, of this town. On Friday last, suddenly, at Leamington, Miss Atkins, of that place, sister ol Mrs. Bache, of Moor- street, in this town. Oil Sunday, the 21st instant, Ellen, infant daughterof Mr. Samuel Sutton, of Birmingham Heath. Lately, Henry Raband, lor many years a faithful and confidential servant of Messrs. Robins, auctioneers, of this town. On Saturday last, aged S4, Mr. Ralph Hilliard, of Wharf- street. On Saturday last, aged 20, after a long illness, Mr. Henry Peter Pendrill, of St. Martin's place. On Monday last, aged 77, Mr. William Paiker, of Nut- hurst, near Hockley House, a worthy and honest, man. On the 22nd inst., Mr. Joseph Shaw, of King- street, Wolverhampton, aged 82 years. On the 13th inst., at her residence, 17, Milverton Cres- cent, Leamington, Lady Jane, wife of Lieutenant- General Sir Colin Campbell, K. C. B., Lieutenant- Governor of Nova Scotia, aged 48. On the 17th inst., altera short illness, at the house of her aunt, Mrs. Bent ley, at Ufracombe, Emma, second daughter of John Corser, Esq., of the Oaks, near Wolver- hampton. On the 12th inst., deservedly regretled by a large circle of friends. Mr. William Tasker, of Stratford upon Avon, in the 69th year of his age. 8 THE BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL, SEPTEMBER 8. 7 LONDON GAZETTES. FRIDAY, OCTOBER ID. BANKRUPTS. [ FA* Bankrupt* to surrender, at the Court of Commissioners, Basins: inll. strpet, when not otherwise expressed. 3 JOSEPH LAWRANCE, Bucklersbury, Manchester warehouse, man, October 20 and November 27, at the Bankrupts' Court. Sols. Messrs. Fox and Cheek, Basinghall- strect. Pet. Cr. George Meek, Josiah Wilson, and Daniel Button, Cateaton- street, Black, well- hall, factors. Seal October 16. GEORGE ANDERSON, Queen's- buildings, Brompton, wine mer. chant, October 30 and November 30, at the Bankrupts' Court. Sol. Mr. Gargrave, Buckingham- street, Strand. Pet. Cr. Edwd. Perkins, W^ ymnutb- streft, Portland- place, and Chesfield- lodge, near Stevenage, Herts, esq., and J. S. Liverrnore and J. Bailey, Mincing- lane, wine merchants. Seal. October 16. JOHN BR ADS SAW, Manchester, provision dealer, November 2 and 30, at the Commissioners'- rooms, Manchester. Sols. Messrs. Johnson, Son, and Wetherall, Temple. Pet. Cr. Edward Thomp. son, Manchester, salesman. Seal. September 20. EDWARD SHARP, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, draper, Oc- tober 31 and November 30, at the George Inn, Melton Mowbray. Sols Messrs. Bell, Broderick, and Bell, Bow Churchyard Pet. Cr. John Hardesty, Francis Nalder, Frederick Harris Nalder, and John Spall. Cheapside, London, warehousemen. Seal. Sept. 21. FRANCIS DIGGON, sen., Thetford, Norfolk, tanner, October 2f, and November 30, at the Anchor Inn, Thetford. Sol. Mr. Dufaur, Queen Anne- street, Cavendish- square. Pet. Cr. Wm. Kenney, Great Massingham, Norfolk, wool merchant. Seal. October 3. RANDLE HARTILL, Willenhall, Staffordshire, ironmonger, No- vember 3 and 30, at the Swan Inn, Wolverhampton. Sol. Mr. Dove, Somers- plare West, New- road, and Carey. street, Lincoln's- inn. Pet. Cr. John Marshall, Wm. Marshall, sen., and Wm. Marshall, jun., Walsall, ironmasters. Seal. October 9. DIVIDENDS. J. WATSON, Crawford. street, linen draper, November 12. J. E. HARRISON, Nottingham, hatter, November 12. It. WILKIN, Wigton, Cumberland, cattle dealer, November 14. S. SKINNER, Greenham, Berkshire, brewer, November 10. J. WATSON, jun., Marton, Lincolnshire, saddler, November 12. J. PRINCE, Chesterfield, leather dresser, November 13. K. KINEH, Manchester^ warehouseman, November 12. It. FARGUSON, Pet worth, Sussex, linen draper, November 13, G. BALDING, SoHthampton, currier, November 12. H. WRIGLEY, Halifax, Yorkshire, silk waste spinner, Nov. 13. J. NEWTON, Manchester, licensed victualler, November 26. W. BOLDEKSTON, Liverpool, grocer, November 15. CERTIFICATES, NOVEMBER 9. G. Cole, Oxford, wine merchant— J. Austin, St. Mary Magdalen, Sussex, builder— J. Heaword, Brinks way, Lancashire, cotton manu- facturer. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Drayson and Clarabut, Sandwich, Kent, drapers— Ashworth and Gimber, Great Carter- lane, licensed dealers in beer— J. and J. Rolls, Canal- bridge, Old Kent road, floor cloth manufacturers— J. Decost » ud T. Middleton, Elizabeth- street, St. George's in- the- East, bottle beer merchants— Atkinkson and Aldren, Lancaster, grocer3— M'Knight Brothers and Co., Shiffnall, Shropshire, linen drapers— J. and J. G. Briggs, Leicester, coach proprietors— J. H. Langworthy and E. N. Gabriel, Roll's- buildings, Fetter- lane, veterinary surgeons — J. B. Collins and T. Humphreys, Birmingham, chemists— Moore, Hard wick, and Co., Leeds, and J. Moore and Co., Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, merchants— Moore, Hardwick, and Co., Leeds, and Moore, Edwards, and Co., Bahia, Brazil, merchants— J. and T. Wade, Lud- ford, Shropshire, paper makers— E. Holland and R. Fallows, Wigan, Lancashire, linen manufacturers — M. Earl and Son, Kingston. upon. Thames, lightermen— Dean, Sedgwick, and Townsend, St. Paul's- churcli- yard, and St. Etienne, France, warehousemen— J. Scholefield and T. M. Jones, Birmingham, nail manufacturers— H. Willis and S. B. Green, Brewer- street, Golden- square, dancing masters— A. and 4k R. Nield, Shaw- Edge, Lancashire, cotton spinners— Greenwood and Foalds, Bradford, Yorkshire, clog makers— J., D., and C. F. Yorke, Peterborough, Oundle, and Thrapston, bankers ( as far as regards J. Yorke)— R. Healey and Co , Rochdale, Lancashire, cotton spinners— J. Boyce and Son, Aston, Warwickshire, brassfounders— R._ Bur- lingham and Co., Evesham, Worcestershire, ironmongers ( as far as regards R. Burlingham)— T. Deakin and G. Procter, Lane End, Staffordshire, manufacturers of earthenware— W. Benzie and E. Allen, Liverpool, cart owners— J. Hall and Co., Thainwell. gate, Durham, tanners. ASSIGNMENTS. James Smith, Northampton, gardener. Sarah Williams, St. Asaph, innkeeper. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23. DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY. OCTOBER 19. — ALEXANDER ROBERTSON, Halifax, Yorkshire, tea dealer. OCTOBER 23.— WILLI AM DRAKE, George. street, Buckleridge- street, St. Giles's, licensed victualler. BANKRUPTS. MARTHA ING, Mount- pleasant, Clerkenwell, licensed victualler, November 2 and December 4, at the Bankrupts' Court. Sol. Mr. Pile, Hatton- garden. Pet. Cr. Donald Logan Anderson, 5, Beaufort- building3, gent. Seal. October 18. PHILLIP GRESLEY, Golden- lane, licensed victualler, November 6 and December 4, at the Bankrupts' Court. Sol. Mr. Armstrong, Red Lion street, Clei ken well. Pet. Cr. Bentley M'Leod, Stock- well, Surrey, brewer. Seal. October 22. JOHN JAMES, Birmingham, baker, November 3 and December 4, at Dee's Royal Hotel, Birmingham. Sols. Messrs. Gatty and Turner, Red Lion- square. Pet. Cr. Joseph James, Birmingham, gent. Seal. October 18. JOHN EDMONDSON, Maraden, Lancashire, miller, November 22 and December 4, at the Swan Inn, Bolton- le- Moors. Sols. Messrs. Milne, Parry, Milne, and Morris, Temple. Pet. Cr. Geo. Grad- well, Preston, corn merchant. Seal. September 25. JOSEPH CLTFFE, Woodbank, Cheshire, auctioneer, November 1 and December 4, at the Green Dragon Inn, Chester. Sol. Mr. Chester, Staple- inn. Pet. Cr. Wm. Garner, Liverpool, car pro- prietor. Seal. October 3. THOMAS WILLIS, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, victualler, No- vember 5 and December 4, at the Angel Inn, Great Yarmouth. Sol. Mr. Helme, Raymond- buildings, Gxay's- inn. Pet. Cr. Da- vid Hills, Read Robert Hills, Joseph Underwood, and Joseph Geldart, Norwich, wine merchants. Seal. Sept. 26. DIVIDENDS. C. ALLEN, Isleworth, brick maker, November 13. L. ALLEN, Great Coggeshall, Essex, tanner, November 13. J. BUMPUS, Newgate- street, bookseller, November 14. J. CRAIG and J. DAVIES, Basinghall- street, merchants, Nov. 14. T. PARKIN, jun., and D. BROWN, Hatton. court, Threadneedle- street, ship brokers, November 14. A. GOLDSCllMID T, C. W. STOKES, and E. MEYER, Great St. Helen's, merchants, November 14. J. arid J. B. KEN WORTHY, Ironmonger- lane, warehousemen November 13. W. P. LANDER, Sloane street, Chelsea, surgeon, November 14. W. HUSKISSON, Haggerstone, chymist, November 13. E. SMITH, Roche.- ter, linen draper, November 13. B. PARNH AM, High- street, Shad well, and Liverpool, sail maker, November 15. W. DAVIES, Queen. street, Mavfair, tailor, November 15. G. POCOCK, Booth. street, Spital fields, manufacturing chymist, November 15. W. MALLET, Lawrence- lane, Cheapside, warehouseman, Nov. 15. H. SIFFKEN, Bush- lane, merchant, November 13. W. STAMPER, Cockermouth, Cumberland, tin plate worker, November 14 E. CLARKE, Leamington Priors, Warwickshire, builder, Nov. 15. J. R. and E. TAYLOR, Masborougb, Yorkshire, earthenware ma- nufacturers, November 14. T. S. MARSTON, Kenilworth, Warwickshire, carpenter, Nov. 15. G. BLENK1N, Kingston- upon- Hull, merchant, November 14. W. V. WI'. KES, Birmingham, factor, November 13. B. BUCHANAN and D. LAIRD, Liverpool, merchants, Nov. 15. J. WRIGHT, Liverpool, grocer, November 15. CERTIFICATES, NOVEMBER 18. G. Tuck, Cleveland- street, Fitzroy- square, grocer— P. Beanti- ment, Williugton, Northumberland, builder— H. Wilby High. town, Yorkshire, card maker— C. George, Paddington- street, Marylebone, builder— J. J. Wilcock, Hovingham, Yorkshire, surgeon— W. Wake- man, Shenstone, Staffordshire, wharfinger. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. M. Beswick and C. Gittings, Norwich, ale merchants— A. M. Cox and E. Clare, Liverpool, milliners— Finch, Swindlehurst, and Co., Preston, Lancashire, roller makers— Johnson and Warren, Salford, Lancashire, and Warren and Johnson, Altrincham, Cheshire, timber merchants- S. and B. F. Evans, Finsbury- place, tailors— G. Thorpe, J. R. Glossop, and J. E. Middleton, Sheffield, merchants— Foyster and Co., London, and Eye, Suffolk, wagoners— T. Clarkson and J. Broughton, Bolton. le- Moors, Lancashire, comb makers— Forsyth and Kirkby, Leeds, carvers— T. Smith, S. Hyde, and J. Lenox, Billiter- square, merchants— J. Rushton and Co , Oporto, Portugal— W. Gray and Co.., Leith, merchants. GsssrasaaaasEEC^^ PRICE OFSEEUS. OCT. 15. — Per Curt.— Red Clover, English, 5') s to 65s j fine, 70s to 80s ; Foreign, 48s to 60s; fine, 65s to 70s. — White Clover, 50s to Sto; tine, 63s to 70s.— Trefoil, new, 18s to 21s; fine, 22s to 25s - f old, 16s to 21s.— Trefolium, 8s to 10s ; fine, Ms to 13s.— Caraway, English, new, 42a to 46s; Foreign. Osto 0s— Coriander, 8s Od to 10s Od. Per Quarter St. Foin, 40s to 44s ; fine ,46s to48s ; Rye Grass, 28s to 30s; new, 30s to 31s ; Pacey Grass, 0s toOs; Linseed for feeding, 50s to 56 « T; fine, 56s to 60s ; ditto for crushing, 40s to 5tte— Canary, 60s to 65s.— Hemp, — s to — s. Per Bushel.— White Mustard Seed, 9s Od tol3s0d; brown ditto 15-? Od to I3s ; Tares, 4s 6.1 to5s0d ; fine new, fc* s0d to7s 01. Per Last.— Rape Seed, English, 36' to38/; Foreign, 34J to 36/. OILS.— Rape Oil, brown, £ i> 0s per ton ; Re& nea £ 43 10, Linseed Oil, £ 28 10S ; and Rape Cake,£ 6 10s.— Linseed Oil Cake £ 12 12s per thousand. LONDON MARKETS. IktiND STB* W Smithjield— Hay, 65s0d to 115S Od ; Inferior — s to — Sj Clover, to 132s; Inferior — s to — s; Straw, 33s to 40s. Whitechapel.— Clover, 80s to ! 30s ; new, 50s to 120s ; second cut, — sto— a; Hay, 80 to 110s; new ditto, 70s to 100s i Wheat Straw, 30s to 36a. Cumberlar, « i.— FineUpIand Meadow and Rye. grass Hay, 110s to 115, ; inferior ditto, 90s to 100s ; superior Clover, 120s to 128s ; Straw, 46s to 48s per load of 36 trusses. Portman Market.— Course heavy Lowland Hay,— sto — s; new Meadow Hay ,80s to 90s ; old ditto, 100s to 118 s ; usefulditto, — 9 to — s; New Cloverditto, 100s toi26s; old ditto, — s to — s ; Wheat itraw, 40s to 47s per load of 36 trusses. SMITIIFIELD, OCT. 15— TO sink the offal— perSlb.— Beef, 3s 4d to4s2d; Best Down and Polled Mutton, 3s lOd to 4s 3< i j Veal Is Od to 4s lOd ; Pork, 4s 2d to 5s 6d ; Lamb, 0s Od to 0s Od. NEWGATE AND I. BADENHALL.— By the Carcase— Beef, 2s lOd to 3B6d; M itton, 3s2dto 8s lOd; Veal, 3s 0d to 4s 8d ; Pork, 4s Od to 5s 4d ; Lamb, 0s Od to 0s Od. COUNTRY MARKETS, & c. BIRMINGHAM MARKET. A fair supply of Wheat to this day's market, with a very brisk de. mand, at all advance of fid. to 8d. per bushel. Barley remains scare?, with a ready sale, at Is. to 2s. above the rates of last week, both for malting and grinding. Oats fully maintain the terms of this day se'nnight. Beans, both old and now, 6d. per bag dearer. White boiling Peas Is. per bag higher. WHEAT— pej « 2Mi. s. d. i. d. White 9 9 — 10 3 Red 9 4 - 10 0 Irish 9 0 — 96 BAR LEY— per Imp. Quarter. For Malting 0 0— 00 ForGrlnding, per 31) 2/ 6* 32 0 — 34 0 M ALT— per Imperial Bushel. Old and new 0 0 — 0 0 OATS— perSQlbs. Old „ 23 0 — 27 0 New 23 0 - 24 6 Irish 23 6 - 26 6 Corn Market, October 2"). BEANS— per bag, I < l more gross s. d. s. d. Old 16 0 — 17 0 New 14 6 — 15 6 PEAS— perbag of 3 Bath. Imp. FOK BOILING. White 18 0 — 19 6 Grey 16 6 — 17 fl FOR GRINDING, per bag of 10 score 15 6 — 16 9 White 16 6 — 17 3 FLOUIt— per sack ofimis. net. Fine 60 0 — 62 0 Seconds 55 0 — 57 0 The following is the statement in Messrs. Sturge's circular : — PRESENT PRICES OF GRAIN. Birmingham, October 18, , s. d. WHEAT, English, White, per bushel of « 2lb 9 8 Old " " English, Red CORN EXCHANGE, MONDAY, OCT. 22.— Wheat, Essex Red, new 62s to G5s ; fine, 65* to 62-:; old, — s to — 9; white, new, 64s to 68s; fine, 68s to 70s; superfine, 72s to 73s; old,— sto— a Rye, 30s to 36s.— Barley, 30s to 34a; old, 35s to 36s; superfine, — a g Malt, 50s to 55s ; line, 56a to 58s.— Peas, Hog, 35s to 37s ; Maple, 37s to 3Ss ; white, 40s to 43s ; Boilers, 44s to 47s Beans, small, 34s to 36s; old, 38i to 40s; Ticks, 30s to 33s; old, 34s to 37s ; Harrow, 33s to 35".— Oats, feed, 21s to 24s ; fine, 24s to 2f Poland ,23a to 25s; fine, 26s to 27s; Potatoe, 30s to 31 a ; line, 31s to 32*.— Bran, per quarter, 8s Od to9s0d.— Pollard, fine, per do 14s. to20s. GENERAL\ VERAGEPRICEOFBRITISHCORNFORTHE WEEK ENniNG OCT. 20, 1838.— Wheat, 65s 7d ; Barley, 30s Bd; Oats, 22s 5d j Rye, 34a lid; Beans, 39s Id; Peas, 40s 8d. DUTYON FOREIGNCORN FORTHE PRESENTWEEK.— Wheat, 22sSd Barley, 15s 4d ; Oats, l3s9d; Rye, 16 « 9d ; Beans, Us Od ; Pea Hi Od. Old Irish, White Red ~ Old Foreign . ^ none ~ none . none BARLEY, English, Malting, per Imp. Quarter . Irish . Grinding, perQuarter of3921bs..~~ OATS, English, White, per Imperial Quarter Welsh, Black and White, per 3121bs— Irish, ( weighing 41 to 421bs.) do. — ( 37to39lbs.) do. Black—.—. . ~~ do. — BEANS, English, Old, per bushel of651bs New ~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.-~~~. I rish~ w. —.~~.~~.~~. PEAS, Boiling, per Imp. Quarter — Grinding, per Quarter ol 392lbs FLOUR, English, Fine, per Sack o( 2801bs Seconds 9 0 0 0 7 33 0 , 29 21 23 26 22 22 5 4 none 0 . 4 10 . 46 0 . 30 0 . 58 0 . 55 0 . 1838. s. d. to 10 4 .. 10 6 .. 10 0 .. 10 .. 0 .. 0 .. 0 .. 10 .. 38 .. 0 .. 32 0 .. 34 0 .. 24 0 .. 27 0 .. 24 0 .. 23 6 .. 5 9 .. 5 0 .. 0 0 .. 5 6 .. 55 6 .. 33 0 .. 60 0 .. 57 0 Gloucester, October 13, 1838. WHEAT, English, White, per Imp. Bushel 8 Old 8 English, Red ™ 8 Old 8 Irish, White, per601bs nominal 0 Red ..^ nominal 0 Old nominal 0 Foreign —. 6 Irish Grinding, per Quarter of392lbs OATS, English, White, per Imp. Quarter Welsh, Black and White — ( 37 to391bs.) . Black~~. ™ ~ ™ ,~ » BEANS, English, Old, per Imp. Bushel ~ Foreign,—.~-~~~.~~~~~.~~~ PEAS, Boiling, per Imp. Quarter Grinding, per Quarter of 3921bs. ~ FLOUR, English, Fine. persack of2801bs~ Seconds — — 5 4 ~ wojie 0 4 d. s. d. 4 to 8 9 6 .. 9 0 0 .. 8 6 6 .. 8 9 0 .. 0 0 0 .. 0 0 0 .. 0 0 6 .. 9 6 0 .. 32 0 0 .. 0 0 0 .. 28 0 0 .. 28 0 0 .. 22 0 0 .. 25 0 6 .. 23 0 6 .. 21 6 0 .. 5 3 0 .. 4 3 0 .. 0 0 6 .. 5 0 0 .. 50 0 0 .. 31 0 0 .. 58 0 0 .. 54 0 WORCESTER WEEKLY AVERAGE. Qrs. Bush. Wheat 724 4 Barley ™ 592 4 Oats 350 0 ,„ Boaris 177 4 . s. d. . 68 6$ . 31 4} . 24 0 . 37 11J . 45 4 Wheat Barley Oats ~ Peas ~ Beana GLOUCESTER WEEKLY AVERAGE Qrs. Busli. 438 4 674 0 0 0 . 0 0 s. d 64 9 30 6 23 8 0 0 0 0 Birmingham, October 25, 1838. At Worcester market on Saturday Wheat was 3s to 4s per quar- ter dearer; at Gloucester considerable sales were made, at an ad. Vance of 2s. per quarter. But little Barley offering, and prices for both malting and grinding were rather higher. Oats sold at about the prices of the previous week. Old Beans dull, at former rates ; new in demand. During the present week Wheat has found buyers, at a further improvement of 3s. to 4s. per quarter, good red having realised 10s. per 62lbs. Malting Barley a good deal enquired for, and Is. to 2s. per quarter dearer; current price 34s. to 36s. per imperial quarter. Grinding very scarce, and Is. per quarter higljer. A few Oats have changed bands at about last week's currency. Old Beans neglected; new wanted. Peas fully as dear, and all descriptions are in demand. The supply of Wheat being moderate at this day's market, it was readily taken off at fully the above noted advance; best English red selling at 10s., aud white 10s. 3d. per 621bs. Malting Barley a free sale, at 2s, per quarter more money. Grind- ing Is. per quarter higher. Beans in improved demand. Peas again a good deal enquired for. Little progress couid be made in Oata, but lower terms were not submitted to. IMPORTS INTO GLOUCESTER From the 10th to the 17th inst. Wheat. Oats. Barley. Beans. Ireland 2! Qrs 474CQrs Qrs Qrs Coastwise.. 43lQrs Qrs Qrs Qrs Foreign.... 12000rs Qrs Qrs Qrs Peas. Flour. Rr/ e. Vetches. Ireland..;.. Qrs Sacks Qrs Qrs Coastwise.. Qrs Sacks Qrs Qrs Foreign.... Qrs Sacks 530Qrs Qrs sar » : GLOUCESTER SHIP NEWS, From October 18 to October 24. IMPORTS : The Swift, from Miramichi, with 647 pieces of timber, I 2 deals, and 9 cords of lathwood, consigned to Price, Wushboume, and Price— Albatross, Malaga, 25 boxes of almonds, 30, 40%, and 8H boxes of raisins, 94 boxes and 133 chests of lemons, 100 pails of figs, .160 barrels of grapes, fill, 40J, and SI'M boxes of muscatels, 15 cases of castoons, and 25 baskets of melons, Southan and Son and Daniel Meadows ; 7 quarter. casks of wine, to order— Grecian, Waterford, ! K0 barrels of oats and 40 barrels of wheat, J. and C. Sturge; 933 barrels of oats, Phillpotts and Co. ; 138 firkins of butter, Joseph Morris— Mary Ann, Waterford, 766 barrels nf oats, 154 barrels of barley, and 20 live pigs, J. and C. Sturgo— Elizabeth, Waterford, 1184 barrels of oats and 100 barrels of barley, J. and C. Sturge; 216 barrels of oats, Infl barrels of wheat, and 30 firkins of butter, M'Cheane and Bartlett— Emerald, Wexford, 1157 barrels of oats, J. and C. Sturge— Myross, Cork, 455 barrels of oats, Phillpotts and Co. - O. Cambridge. Cork, 412 barrels of oats, 200 barrels of barley, and : On firkins of butter, M'Cheane and Bartlett; 309 barrels of oats and 150 tirkins of butter, Wait, James, and Co.— Jane, Cork, 570 barrels oats, 226 barrels, and 10 sacks of barley, Wai', James, and Co.; 50 firkins of butter, M'Cheane and Bartlett— Sarah, Nevvry, 76 tons of oats, Phillpotts and Co Emerald, Scilly, 484 quarters of wheat, Fox, Sons, and Co.— Susannah, Charlestown, 95 tons of iron ore, Southan and Son — Abeona, Mumbles, 140 barrels of oysters, Southan and Son— Fame, Neath, 45 tons of copper and 3 packs of wool, Fart. ridge and Co Anthony, Odessa, 1250 charges of hard wheat, J. and C. Sturge. ExPOttTS : The Convention, for Memel, with 4S6 tons of salt, from John Forater— Slaney, Newport, Wait, James, and Co.— Providence, Barnstaple, 57 tons of salt, Southan and Son— Henry, Shoreliam, 77| tons of salt, Gopsil Brown— Minerva, Pembroke, 41% tons of salt, Gopsil Brown— John and William, Carmarthen, 30 tons of salt, Gop- sil Brown— William and Ann, Carmarthen, 18 tons of salt, Gopsil Brown; 100 quarters of wheat. J. and C Sturge— Ariel, Yarmouth, 46 tons of iron, Kendall and Son— Ellen, Sandersfoot, 17% tons of salt, Gopsil Brown— Elizabeth and Ann, Highbridge51 tons of salt, 5 tous of soda, and 6 tons of bricks, Southan and Son— Elixa, Fowey, 56% tous of salt and 3 tons of bricks, Gopsil Brown — Newport Trader, Newport, 28 tons of flour and sundries, Southan and Son- Fame, Neath, 18 tons of salt, Gopail Brown; I6J tons of iron. Ken. dall and Son; 2$ tons of cheese, S. Bowley ; 7 tons of sundries, Southan and Son— Hero, Bideford, 53 tons of salt and 3} tons of bricks, Southan and Son— Gloucester Packet, Carmarthen, 23% tons of salt, Gopsil Brown— Henrietta, Dublin, 57 tons of stone, Thomas Davies ; 27 tons of bark, Thomas Slatter— Jane and Ann. Dublin, 37 tous of bark, Thomas Slatter ; 17% tons of iron, Kendall and Son- Sapphire, Newport, 10 tons of sundries, Sonthau and Son— Har- mony, Waterford, 170 tons of salt, Gopsil Brown— Union, Barn- staple, 39 tons of salt, Gopsil Brown— Christy Jane, Barnataple, 32 tons of bark, Thomas Slatter. THEONLY CURE FORCORNS AND BUNIONS RAMSBOTTOM'S CORN and BUNION SOL- VENT. By the use of this valuable remedy imme- diate relief from pain is obtained, and by its successive application for ashortperiod. the most obstinate Corns are entirely removed without recourseto the dangerous opera- tions of cutting or filing. The proprietorpledgeshimself that it does not contain caustic or any otherarticle that will inflame the skin; being white it will not stain the stocking; and the advantage it lias over plaister is mani- fest, and fullyappreciated, as the very high recommenda- tion bestowed upon it by everyindividual that hasused it testifies. Price Is. ljd. and 2s. The various counterfeits that are attemptedto be im- posed upon the public in lieu of this invaluable remedy, render it imperatively necessary for purchasers to ask for S. Ramsbottom'sCorn and Bunion Solvent, and to see that it lias the signature of" S. Ramsbottom" written upon the label that is pasted on the outside of the wrapper of every genuine bottle, in addition to the name of the article, and words sold by Hannayand Co. 63, Oxford- street, being the name and address oi the proprietor's wholesale agents. The following letter from Mi. John Winficld, of Bir mingham, is one of many hundreds of the same tenor: — Gentlemen— Having read an advertisement in a Birmingham paper, I wasinduced to purchase from your agent, Mr. Maher, Ann- street, abottleofRamsbottoin's Corn and BunionSolvent;— after a week ' s. ip plication Ifoundit had the desired effect, lhavesiuce re. commended it to many of my friends. You are at liberty to make any use youpleaseof thiseomraunication.— Yourobedient servant Birmingham, August6,1836. JOHN WINFIELII. Mr. Phlpp, 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 Ramsbottom's Corn Solvent, which entirely cured him, and that he has not been troubled with them since, and will be most happy to answer any personal enquiries as to its effi- cacy. ALSO FROM DR. GRENYILLE. Dr. flrenville 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 hy cutting them too deep is avoided, aud 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, Steelhouse- lane; and by the principal patent medicine vendors in every other town in the kingdom. WARWICK, SATURDAY, OCT. 20 — Wheat, per bag, old 26s Od to 29s Od ; new, 24s Od to 27s 0d ; Barley, per quarter, 28s Od to 36s Od ; grinding, 32s Od to 34s Od ; Oats,- 26s Od to 33s Od; New, 26s Od to 20s0d; Peas, per bag, 0s Od to 0s Od ; Beans, 15s Od to 10s Od; new,— s Od to — s Od ; Vetches, 19s Od to 23s 0d; Mall, 56a Od to 648 Od per quarter. HEREFORD, OCT. 13.— Wheat, per bushel Imperial measure, 8s 6d to 8s 9d. Ditto, new, per bushel, 8s 3d to 8s9J. Barley, 3s 9d to 4s Od. Beans, 4s 6d to 4s 9d. Peas, 4s Od to 4s 2 i Vetches, 0s Od to 0s Od. Oats, 3s Od to 0s Od. CHELTENHAM, OCT. 18.— Wheat, 8s 6d to 9s 3d per busliel Ditto, red, 8s 3d to 8s 6d. Barley, 3s 3d to 4s 3d. Oats, 3a Od to 4s Od. Beans, 5s 3d to 5s 9d. Hop INTELLIGENCE.— Worcester, Oct. 20.— Prices per cwt.:— East Kent pockets, £ 5 15s. to £ 99s. ; ditto bags, £ 5 10s. to £ 7 15s.; Mid Kent pockets, £ 4 15s. to £ 9 8s.; ditto bags, £ 4 103. to £ 6 6s.; Weald of Kent pockets, £ 4 10s. to £ 6 0s.; Sussex pockets, £ 4 10s. to £ 5 15s. j Yearlings, £ 4 4s. to £ 5 5s.; Old £ 0 Os. to £ 0 0s.; Old Olds, £ 1 Is. to £ 2 103. A TREATISE on every Staye and Symptom of the Ve nereal Disease, in its mild and most alarming forms, is published by | V| ESSRS. PERRY and Co., Surgeons, who mnv lvX 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; 23, SLATKU- STREET. near DUKE- STREET, LIVERPOOL, and 2, BALE STREET, near St. Peter's Church, MANCHESTER. Ill all cases the utmost benefit is derved from Messrs. Perry and Co. having an interview with the patient, for it emables them at once, without requiring another visit, to ascertain the nature of the disease, and to administer such remedies as will effect a permanent and perfect cure, in a much shorter time than would otherwise be possible, even when all other means have failed ; for the Venereal Dis- ease presents itself in so many different shapes, that their mode of treatment must be varied accordingly, completely eradicating every particle of the insidious diser. se; thus restoiing the patient speedily to the greatest of all blessings — perfect and renovated healih. The Treatise is given gratis with each box of PERRY'S PURIFYING SPE- CIFIC PILLS, with a full description of the above com- plaint, I LLUSTRATED BY ENGRAVINGS, showing the d'tferent stages of this deplorable, and often fatal, dis- ease, as well as tiie dreadful effects arising from the use of mercury, accompanied with plain antl practical directions for an effectual and speedy cure with ease, secrecy, and salety, without the aid of medical assistance; it also c jntains many valuable hints, and advice well worth knowing. CAUTION.— In consequence of their extensive prac- tice, some unprincipled persons have been in the habit of representing themselves as from the firm of Messrs. Perry and Co., without having the least authority to do so ; giving a spuiious and deletetious preparation for Peiry's Purifying Specific Pills: it is, therefore, highly necessary to caution the public against such nefarious practices, and to state Perry's Purifying Specific Pills can only be obtained genu- ine at Messrs. Perry and Co.' s residences, 4, Great Charles street, Birmingham; 23, Slater street, Liverpool; and 2, Bale street, near St. Peter's Church, Manchester; as no individual is allowed to sell them, on any pretence what- ever. PERRY'S PURIFYING SPECIFIC PILLS, price 2 « . 9d. and lis. per box, are well known throughout Europe and America, to be the most certain and effectual enre ever discovered, for every stage and symptom of the venereal disease, including gonorhsea, gleets, secondary symptoms, strictures, seminal weakness, deficiency, and all diseases of the urinary passages, without loss ol time, confinement, or hindrance from business; tliey have effected most surprising cures, not only in recent and severe cases, but when salivation and all other means have failed; and when an early application is made to Messrs. Perry, surgeons, for the cure of a certain disorder, frequently contracted in a mo- ment of inebriety, 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 distressing symptoms, a perseverance in their plan, ( without restraint in diet or exercise) will insure to the pati- ent a permanent and radical cure. It is a melancholy fact, that thousands fall victims to this horrid disease, owing to the unskilfulness of illiterate men who, hy 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 geneial debility and decay of the constitution ensues, and a melancholy death puts a period to their dread- ful sufferings. Messrs. Perry continue to direct their study to those dreadful eases of sexual debility, brought on by an early and indiscriminate indulgence of the passions, frequently ac- quired without the knowledge of the dreadful consequences resulting therefrom, and which not only entail on its vota- ries all tiie enervating imbecilities of old age, and occasion the necessity of renouncing the felicities of marriage, to those who have given way to this delusive and destructive habit, but weaken and destroy all the bodily senses, pro- ducing melancholy, deficiency, and a numerous train of neivous affections. In these distressing cases, whether the consequence of such baneful habits, or any other cause, a speedy lestoration to health and strength may be relied on. Messrs. PERRY and Co., Surgeons, may be consulted, as usual, at No. 4, Great Charles- street, Birmingham; and 23, Slater- street. Liverpool. Only one personal visit is re quired from a country patient, to enable Messrs. Perry and Co. to give such advice, as will be the means of effecting a permanent and effectual cure, after all other means have pioved ineffectual. Letteis for advice, ( post paid) and containing a remit- tance, will be immediately answered. NOT ICE. HEREAS a most unfair system of oppression is manifested by the lower grade of Medical Practi- tioners towards Mr. Morisou and liis Medicines, we, the undersigned, hereby declare that we have for some years past used ourselves and administered to others, the before mentioned Medicines in all cases of disease, and are of opinion, first, that they are a cure for all curable diseases, and secondly, that the theory upon which such Medicines are administered is the only true one ; the whole of which we are ready and willing to verify whenever called upon In conclusion, we cannot but regret that in such an import- ant question to mankind generally, the Medical Profession should cautiously abstain Iroin all fair and impartial investi- gation of the subject. ROBERT LYNCH, M. D. RICHARD TOTHILL, Surgeon to the Exeter Hygeian Dispensary, Heavitree, near Exeter. JOHNSON LINCOLN, Surgeon, R. N., Northallerton, Yorkshire. September 21, 1838. BE WARE OF COUNTERFEITS. J. WADELTON, General Agent for Warwickshire, 22, Snowhill, Birmingham. SUB- AGENTS IN BIRMINGHAM: Mrs. Mason, Islington- row; Mrs. Billingham, Gosta- green, Miss Corbett, Coventry; Mr. Smith, Southam; Mr. Bettisou, Leamington; Mr. Heathcote, Warwick; Mr. Hiley, Tamworth; Mr. Rowley, Wolvey; Mr. Davis, Atherstone; Miss Biid, Poleswoith. MOXON'S EFFERVESCENT MAGNESIAN APERIENT. Pj^ HIS mild, agreeable, and efficient purgative is - I- univeisally appioved ami recommended by the Faculty as the best corrective of disordered state of the Stomach, Head, and Bowels, and the safest remedy for Gout, Piles, Fistula, Gravel, & c., and for obviating the injurious effects of the stronger drastic purgatives; lor this latter purpose it should be taken the mottling following. If frequently taken duiing the heat of summer and autumn, no medicine is bettur calculated to prevent or speedily remove those dan- getous disorders Cholera Morbus, Dysentery, Diarrhoea, aud other troublesome affections of the bowels. Perusal of the following letter is particularly requested : — To Mr. Moxon,— Dear sir, I am quite out of your invaluable me- dicine. the Magnesian Aperient; six months ago I recommended it to a gentleman who had been a dreadful sufferer from the Gout, he in- forms me since lie took it regularly he has not had a single attack or even the slightest symptom. Let me recommend you to impress up. on the minds of all sufferers from morbid sensibility of the stomach and bowels, the necessity, the absolute necessity, of taking a tea. spoonful of it regularly every morning; taken in th; 1 manner I have described, it never interferes with the avocations of the day, and it invariably creates an elasticity of mind, and a flow of spirits, which gives a zest to every enjoyment, l"- sides it enables the invalid to en- joy many of those luxuries with impunity, from which he must otherwise be debarred, and without which life is irksome aud dis- tressing The moment I get out of bed I take a tea- spoonful of your Panacea, winter aud summer, ( during this severe storm I have never omitted it) and instead of it producing any cold sensation in the stomach, it invariably creates a genial glow, a pleasurable warmth, and I go down stairs to breakfast with an appetite that would do no discredit to a plough boy, and I now enjoy a state of health to which I have for years been a stranger. Will you have the kindness to send me a large bottle, packed in a box, directed for me, Fleece Inn, Darlington. WILLIAM WRIGHTSON- HoHghton- le- Spring, Feb. 14th, 1* 38. Sold in bottles at 2s. 9d., 4*. 6d., and in family bottles at lis.,( with aground- glass stopper) containing the quantity of five of the 2s. 9d. size, being a saving of tweuty per cent, to the purchaser. Wholesale agents — BARCLAY and SONS, 95, Farringdon- street, London; J. and 14. R A IMES, Edinburgh. Sold by all Druggists and venders of medicine throughout the Empire. SIMCO'S GOUT and RHEUMATIC PILLS have now attained the highest pitch of celebrity, they are applauded by all ranks ol society, from the nobles of the land, to the humbler in life, as the best, the safest, and the most effectual remedy ever discovered for the cure of Gout, Rheumatic Gout, or Rheumatism. These Pills claim a twofold superiority over all other Gout medicines ever offered to the public, a certainty of cure, and a re establishment of health, at a trifling expense. The visible improvement in the general health, after a few days' doses, is remarkable. Again, no particular rules or re- strictions ai e necessary— the principal action of the medicine being confined to the nerves, muscles, and tendons; never- theless, the Pills wonderfully strengthen the tone of the stomach, sharpen the appetite, and facilitate digestion. They seldom produce perspiration, purging, or sickness, consequently every person may pursue his or her usual avo- cation, let it be what it may. Gawcutt, near Buckingham, Jan. 25th, 1836. Mr. Simco Sir,— My brother William was with me last week, when he brought me a box of your Gout Pills, since which I have been taking six pills per day, and am happy to inform you that I am better than I have been for years ; it is many years since I was able to walk up stairs, on account of Rheumatic Gout, but I am sincerely thankful to say, that since taking your pills, which is only seven days, I am now able to go up stairs with the vigour I formerly used to do, and instead of eating only three or four times a week, I eat three or four times every day, with a keen appetite. I will thank you to inform my brother, William Holton, Lower Mounts, Nor- thampton of my improved state. lam, sir, yours respectfully, Crown Inn, Gawcutt. THOMAS HOLTON. Sold in boxes, price Is. l^ d. and 2s. 9d. each— the former containing doses fot five, and the latter for fifteen days. The genuine have " J. Boddington" written on tile Go- vernment stamp. Sold by Banks, Bull ring; Shillitoe, Wood, High street; . Matthison and Co., Edgbaston street; Knott, Harvet, Martin, Dale end; and Clark aud Son, Birmingham ; Banks, Park, Wolverhampton ; anil Twinberrow, Leaming- ton. Wholesale in London by Boddington and Co., Bar- clay and Son, and Sutton and Son ; also by Simco, North- ampton. RINGWORM EFFECTUALLY CURED. A certain and most speedy Cure for this insidious and dis- tressino Disease man now be had. BEATSON'S RINGWORM LOTION will tho- roughly and safely eradicate every species of the malady and Scalled Head in the short space of fourteen days, how- ever malignant or long standing. This invaluable Lotion is now extensively used and recommended by Medical men throughout the kingdom, and employed with unvarying success in most of the principal Schools. It contains nothing of an injurious, burning, or offensive quality, and the cure is effected simply by applying it to the parts for a few minutes, mornine and evening. Ample directions for the treatment of the Disease and the use of the Lotion, together with many highly respectable testimonials, are given with each bottle, price 2s. 9d. Pints lis. May be had of all the principal Druggists and Medicine Venders in the kingdom :— be sure to ask for BEATSON'S Ringworm Lotion ; the great success of it having tempted many unprincipled persons to vend a substitute under the name of " Ringworm Lotion." The genuine has the Pro- prietor's Name and Address on the seal over the cork, and outside the wrapper, as follows : S. L. BEATSON, Practical Chymist, 18, Thornton- street, Hoisleydown, London. AGENTS— Birmingham, BANKS, High- street; W. JACKSON, Union- street. ASHLEY COOPER'S BOTANICAL PURIFY- ING PILI. S 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- nerea] diseases, in either sex, curing in a few days, by one small pill for a dose, with ease, secrecy, and safety. Their operation is imperceptible, they do not require theslightest confinement, or any alteration of diet, beverage or exercise. They do not disagree with the stomach, nor cause any offensive smell to the breath, as is the case with all other medicinesin 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 loca' action, merelystippressed 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; he symptoms return, and that they are suffering under the complaint as much as at first, and'are at last constrained to have recourseto these pills, as the only certain cure. They are likewise a mosteffieient remedy for Pimpled Faces, Scurf, Scorbutic Affections, and all Eruptions of the Skin. Captains of vesselsshould make a point of always taking them to sea, their unrivalled effi- cacy in curing Scurvy being known throughout the world. The following letter selected from numerous other pro- fessional recommendations for warded to the proprietor when he first offered these pills to the public, may be considered interesting. From thateminerasurgeon, the late Joshua Brookes, Esq., F. R. S., Professor of Anatomy, & c. & c. Theatre of Anatomy, Blenheim- street. Dear Cooper,— I have tried your pills iri numerous instances, and my candid opinion is that they are a most improved system of treat, meutfor those peculiarcomplaintsfor which you recommend them, curiwg with rapidity, and with a certainty that I had never before witnessed; but what I consider their most invaluable property is, that they entirely eradicate the complaint, and never leavethose 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 feels called upon to add his testimony to their great efficacy incuring sexual diseases, and they deserve well of the public profession. The Purifying Drops are nlso a most valuable antiscorbutic medicine. Dr. II. 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 12,1838. Gentlemen,— I cannot express the feelings which induce me to forward my name, in addition to those who have gratefullyreturned their thanks for a complete cure of gonorrhoea, by the use of Cooper's Botanical Pills, 1 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 recommendation 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 m: ide public my residence may be omitted I am, gentlemen, your much obliged and obedient servant, JOHN HARRISON. Ashley Cooper's Botanical Purifying Pills are sold in boxes at 2s. 9d. and 4s. 6d. each, wholesale and retail, at HANNAY and Co.' s General Patent Medicine Warehouse, 63, Oxford- street, the corner of Wells- street, London, where the public can besupplied with every Patent Medi- cine oflepute, ( with an allowance on taking six at one time) warranted genuine and fresh from the various 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, Spieeal- street; Watts, Snowhill; and Guest, Steelhouse- lane, Birmingham; and by the principal medicine vendors in | every other town in the kingdom. BLAIR'S GOUT AND RHEUMATIC PILLS. Cure of rheumatism of forty years' standing, at Maims, bury, Wilts. To Mr. Prout, 229, Strand, London. SIR,— I feel that I am performiug a duty, to acknowledge publicly the very great benefit which I have derived from taking BLAIR'S GOUT AND RHEUMATIC PILLS, after having been afflicted with rheu- • inatisin in my left hip, thigh, shoulders, head, and arms, for forty years— for a long period the pain was so great that I frequently started up in bed— in fact, for seven years before taking BLAIR'S Pll. l. s, I had little or no rest, night or day, although I had the best medical advice, both in aud out of the army. I now am happy to say that I am free from this painful disease, aud have been so for three months. These pills were recommended to me by my brother in Bath, who has been cured by them of gout or rheumatism of long standing, and advised me to lose no time in applying for them to your agent, Mr. Walker, druggist, Malmsbury, which I did, and after taking live boxes am completely cured. Witness my hand this 22nd February, 1838. HENRY WILKINSON, Upwards of seventeen years of the Royal Marines. Mr. Walker, chemist, Malmsbury, will testify respecting the authenticity of this letter. The above is another proof of the great efficacy of this excellent medicine, which has called lortli the grateful thanks and approbation of all classes of society. From many of the highest branches of the nobility to the poorest peasant, they have happily been the means of giving a de- gree of health and comfort, which, in most cases, have not been enjoyed for years; they effectually relieve the most acute fit ol gout in a few hours, and seldom fail to enable the patient to resume his usual avocation in two or three days, and if taken on the first symptoms, the patient is frequently left in doubt as to the reality of the attack. And there is another most important effect belonging to this medicine— that it prevents the disease flying to the biain, stomach, or other vital part. Sold by Thomas Prout, 229, Strand, London ; and by his appointment at Birmingham, by Shillitoe, Wood, Collir s and Co., Edwards, Flewitt, Sumner and Co., Smith, Suf- field, Gazette and Advertiser offices; Dudley, Morris, Tur- ner and Hollier; Wolverhampton, Marnier and Co., Simpson; Atherstone, Davis; Walsall, Valentine and Co.; Kidderminstej, Pennell ; Lichfield, Morgan ; Bevvd- ley, Morris; Westbromwich, Shillitoe; Shiffnall, Harding; Biomsgrove, Maund ; Warwick, Bayley, Harper, Hodg- kinson, Roberts; Bridgnorth, Nicholas; Coventry, Wileys and IJrown, Merridew, Rollason, Loveitt; and all respect, able medicine vendors throughout the kingdom. Price 2s. 9d. per box. Ask for Blair's Gout and Rheumatic Pills, and observe the name and address of " Thomas Prout, 229, Strand, London," impressed on the government stamp, affixed to each box of the genuine medicine. 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 iny soft palate relaxed, and in a state of irritation, and the more I coughed the worseit was, and it, in its owu turn, produced a constant excitement of coughing. I am naw about, to the wonder of my friends and neighbours, entirely free from cough. One small phial of your inestimable medicine, teu years back; would have saved me not less than £ 3,000 in medical fees, but it would have done more— it would have saved my having had to swallow, from time to time, upwards of a hogshead of their nauseous, and, as they all proved, useless drugs. The agreeable flavour of the medicine is a great recommendation: I think you ought to put it up arid sell it to the public, and if any one should duubt 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 iu 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 housesin London. Hannay's. iu Oxford- street, are being advertised in all the papers here, as wholesale agents for Ramsbottom's Corn Solvent, which, by the bye, my girls all say is really a cure, and manyother medicines. 1 should say this would be a very good house, Oxford street beiug one of the most public situations in Lon. don. All join me iu 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, and I seemed as though 1 had a string run through my body, and the breaataiid backbones weredrawn together. If you willbeso good as to give me another bottle, I am sure it will work a perfect cure. 1 am, sir, your mostobedientservant, T. Mulreaddy, Esq. NICHOLAS BROWN. Liverpool, Dec., 1834. My dearSir,— You most assuredly deserve the thanks of 9ociety for presenting it with such an invaluable cure for Cougha. For years past, during the- winter mouths, and always on foggy day{ have 1 heretofore been compelled to confine myself a close and soli- tary prisoner in my library, to prevent the possibility of being tempted to join in conversation, the excitement of which always produced such violent paroxysms of coughing, that I have been in constat t dread of sudden dissolution, by bursting of a blood- vessel. At the commencement of the present season, by your kind liberality, I com. menced taking the medicine you sent, and have taken twelve bottles. After I had taken three, I could respire as vigourously as in the early partof my life, and 1 now believe that 1 was then perfectly cured— a cure uot to have been expected at my advanced age, 80 years— but I persevered in taking it until 1 had consumed the whole twelve bottles. Your situation m life, 1 know, places you beyond the necessity of preparing an article of the kind for sale, bntit must and shall be done, and if you neglect to do it, my sincere wish is that you may be lugged out of your retirement, and compelled to provide it in quantities equal to the boundless waters; and you may rely upon it, that I, a locomotive proof of its wonderful power, will spare neither time nor trouble to promulgate its efficacy, until you will find your cottage attacked by myriads of my former fellow, sufferers, for a share of your bounty, and I myself now apply for the first, trusting that your goodness will not suffer yon to refuse me a pretty considerablequantity, aud I promise to distribute it most usefully. Whenever you have made up for sale, send me one thou- sand bottles. Ever your sincere well- wisher, 1. Mulreaddy, Es^. w. HuailEs. Mr. Mulreaddy begs to observe, that to publish copies of the whole ofthe 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. 1 l^ d. each. Purchasers shou'ii 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, and sold byhis ap- pointment at Hannay and Co.' s, Patent Medicine Ware- house, 63, Oxford- street, London. Price Is. l^ d. and 4s. fid. Sold wholesale and retail by HANNAY and Co., 6S( Oxford street, London, wholesale Patent Medicine Ven- dors and Perfumers to the Royal Family, where the public can be supplied with every patent and public medicine ai repute; and also with the perfumes of all the respectable London perfumers, with an allowance on taking six or more of any other article at the same time. ( Sold by appointment by Wood, High- street; It. Mat- thison, 71, Edgbaston- street; Hodgetts, Spiceal- street; Watts, Suowhili; Guest, Steelhouse- lane; and hy the principal patent medicine vendors in eveiy other town in the kingdom. Printed and publislie by FIIANCIS 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, Oct. 27,1838.