No. 706. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1838. PRICE 5D. AT a MEETING of MEMBERS of the POLI- TICAL UNION, held in the Public- office, on Thursday evening, December 13th, 1838, It was unanimously resolved, That there be now appointed, by this meeting, twenty- one persons, as a committee, to be called " The Managing Committee for the collection of the National Rent," for the town and vicinity of Birmingham, and that the said com- mittee be requested to carry into effect the following reso- lutions : — 1. That a public appeal be made to the whole of the in- habitants of Birmingham and its vicinity ( by placard, advertisement, and the town crier), and that penny subscriptions, and upwards, will he received at a range of tables, to be set out in the Bull- ring, on the first convenient Monday, between the hours of nine in the morning and three in the atternoon; such day to be called " The Great Rent Day." The tables to be attended by the constituted authorities of the National Rent. 2. That a box be placed at the door of the Public- office, for the purpose of receiving donations to the National Rent, and the members of the Union he respectfully requested to contribute to the same. 3. That all friends of freedom be requested to join in appointing " A Great Rent Day," in the most public part of every city, town, and borough, in the United Kingdom, in aid of the National Rent. 4. That these resolutions be inserted in the Birmingham Journal, the Northern Star, and the London Dispatch. JOHN COLLINS, Chairman. EDWARD BROWN, Secretary. Birmingham, Dec. 13,1838. NORTH WARWICKSHIRE ELECTION. THE Birmingham Committee for conducting the late Election on behalf of Sir Gray Skipwith, Bart., and Charles Holt Bracebridge, Esq., being desirous of winding up their accounts before the close of the year, re- quest all persons who have any claims upon them to forward a written statement of the same to the Chairman, Mr. WM. KEDFERN, Solicitor, Paradise- street, forthwith, in order that they may be examined and certified ; after which they must be presented for payment to the Treasurer, Mr. THO- MAS CLARK, jun., 55, Lionel- street. Observe— All claims must be made on or before the 31st instant, as the accounts will be made up to that day, and the balance disposed of. N. B. This notice will not be repeated. CORN, SEED, AND MANURE DRILL MANU- FACTORY. ESTABLISHED IN 1800, AT PEASENHALL, NEAR YOXFORD, SUFFOLK. JAMES SMYTH, Jun., begs to return his sincere thanks to noblemen, gentlemen, and agriculturists, for their very liberal and extended support, and most humbly solicits a continuance of the same, assuring them that Drills as heretofore are constructed upon the most improved principle and best workmanship, warranted. Upwards ol 2,000 Corn, Seed, and Manure Drills having been made at this manufactory, and in part very particularly by J. S.' s guidance, and having had seventeen years prac- tical experience, flatters himself to be the manufacturer of the best and upon the most approved principle. J. S. has trow for stock 200 Drills of a particular quality. J. S. will attend the following places to receive orders, at which places he will exhibit a model drill: — Warwick, Black Swan, Saturday, Dec. IS. • Wolverhampton, Swan Inn, Wednesday, Dec. 19. Stratford- on- Avon, Red Horse, Friday, Dec. 21. Much Wenlock, Raven Inn, Monday, Dec. 17. Shiffnal), Jerningham Arms, Tuesday, Dec. 18. Shrewsbury, Talbot Inn, Thursday, Dec. 20. N. B,— Lists of prices, with upwards of 1,500 references, may be had at the above places or at the manufactory. THE ENGLISH" AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY, AND SMITH FIELD CLUB. THE FARMER'S MAGAZINE, price One Shilling and Sixpence, published on the 1st of January, 1839, will contain an Original Essay on the Turnip Fly, an extra sheet ( sixteen pages), Gratis, giving an accurate report of the proceedings at themeetirrgof the English Agricultural Society, wh'ch will be held at the Society's Rooms, on the 18th instant; as also a full account of the Smithfield Club Meeting, a list of the prizes, the speeches at the dinner, & c., & c. It will be embellished with an Engraving of the Animal which will obtain the First Prize at the Smithfield Show, of Hrukaway, the celebrated Irish horse, and a plate and description of the East Lothian Stubble Rake. It contains One Hundred and Sixty Columns of letter- press, gives a faithful report of the proceedings of the lead- ing Agricultural Societies; records all Practical and Scientific Improvements in Husbandry and Farm Managemeut; con- tains authentic reports of the State of the Crops, and the proceedings of Local Agiictiltural Societies; a monthly review of the Corn Trade; with the latest accounts of the Hop, Wool, and Meat Markets. The FARMER'S MAGAZINE, Vol. VIII., price 10s. 6d., is just published, in royal 8vo, cloth boards, uniform with Vols. I. to VII., and may be had, by order, of all booksellers. Office, 24, Norfolk- street, Strand, London. IMPORTANT TO ALL CLASSES!!! A CHRISTMAS PRESENT. CONSIDERABLE Sums of money and other pro- perty, having already been recovered through the re- publication of Advertisements for HEIRS AT LAW and NEXT OF KIN in the WEEKLY TRUE SUN Newspaper, the proprietors of the above iournal will pre- sent to their readers on SUNDAY, the 23rd ot DECEM- BER instant, an ALPHABETICAL INDEX to the NAMES of rill Persons mentioned in the Advertisements for Heirs at Law and Next, of Kin, which shall have been republished in the WEEKLY TRUE SUN up to the 20th of December, with Numerical Refeiences to a Record of the Original Advertisements kept at the WEEKLY TRUE SUN Office. Office, 386, Strand. Orders received by all newsmen and booksellers in town and country, to whom early orders should be given. General Post Office, 5th December, 1833. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that Her Ma- jesty's Postmaster General will be ready to receive tenders, on or before the 24thdayof December next, at twelve o'clock, for running a Mail Coach, with Two Horses, between Wolverhampton and Ludlow. The conditions may be seen on application to the Post Offices at Wolverhampton, Ludlow, and Birmingham, or at the Office of the Surveyor and Superintendent of Mail Coaches in London. The tenders are to be endorsed, tenders for the " Wolver- hampton and Ludlow Mail Coach," sealed up and addressed to Her Majesty's Postmaster General. By command, THOMAS LAURENCE, Assistant Secretary. BRISTOL AND EXETER RAILWAY OFFICE, 30. Broad street, Bristol, 5th Dec., 1838. NOTICE is hereby given, that certain SHARES in ARREAR on the Fourth Call, having been, by a Re- solution of the Board of Directors, declared FOR- FEITED, the Notices of Forfeiture thereof have been transmitted to the respective Registered Proprietors. The numbers of such Forfeited Shares may be ascertained on application at this Office. By order of the Board, J. B. BADHAM, Secretary. DREDGE'S HEAL- ALL, or celebrated Embroca- tion, lias long been known throughout the West of England, as the most efficacious Remedy for Rheumatism, Rheumatic Gout, Lumbago, Pains in the Limbs and Nurnbr ness, Sciatic and Paralytic Affections, Tooth- Ache and Fuce- Aclie, Sprains and Bruises, Fresh Wounds or Cuts, Burns and Scaids, Spasms and Cramp, Stiffness of the Joints or Neck, Frozen Limbs, Chilblains before they are broken, and HOOPING COUGH. It is likewise an infallible Cure for that dangerous disor- der the Quinsey or Sore Throat, in which it was never known to fail after a few hours's application. It is also ail excellent » t medv for Whitlows, so common on the fingers of Country People who are exposed to the cold ; and is confidently recommended to all who may suffer from any of these complaints. Observe That none can be genuine unless the Stamp affixed to each bottle contains the name and address of BARCLAY and SONS, No. 95, Farringdon- street, who have purchased the property in this valuable article from the Executors of the inventor, WILLIAM DREDGE, late of Wish- ford, Wilts. Retail price, Is. l£ d, and 2s, 9tl, per bottle. INCORPORATION OF BIRMINGHAM. SAINT GEORGE'S WARD. ' T'HE BURGESSES of thfs WARD friendly to the Electionfotf / CLUTTON SALT, Mr. WSLLI AM COURT, and ytir. Alfred lawden, are respectfully invited to meet the Committee at the Nel- son Tavern,^ AVeaman- street, on Monday evening next, at ENRY POWER, Chairman, JOHN POWELL, Secretary. Committee Room, December 13,1838. seven o'clock precisely. INCORPORATION OF BIRMINGHAM. TO THE BURGESSES OF ST. GEORGE'S WARD. GENTLEMEN, BELOW you have appended a list of resolutions passed at a General Meeting of the Ward, numerously attended; for the purpose of nominating Inhabitants of the Ward for the Town Council, in opposition to those gentle- men proposed by the Central Committee, none of whom were resident in the Ward. A verbal inaccuracy may possibly occur in the wording of the resolutions, in consequenceofthechairmanofthe meeting, Mr. ( Seorge Edmonds, who was previously pledged to sup- port the nominees of the Central Committee, having re- fused to surrender the original minutes of the meeting offi- ciary deposited in his hands as chairman. The substance arid spirit, however, of thb resolutions are most correctly retained, and the wordin/ also, as far as it can be remem- bered by the prop « e^ janiseconders, has been faithfully adhered to. j [ fj The committee exeettlingty regret iihat a necessity should exist for exposing So shameful an ajttempt on the part of Mr. Edmonds, to destroy the fijfee. exercise of your indu- bitable rights of representation. Committee Ro'Ooi, Dec. 14, If ) 11G i'S WARD. le Burgesses of this Ward, t fee house of Mr. Harrington, 1 h- street, on Wednesday, the IN THE CHAIR, an undoubted right the Town Couucil, would be improper ST. G At a General Meetirf numerously attended, hel the Gun Maker's Arms, in 12th instant, i Mr. GEORGE EDM The following resolutions wfre Resolved unanimously, That the Burgesses of this Ward to select their own representatives and that any interference with that and dictatorial. Resolved, i This meeting is decidedly of opinion that the Councillors for the Ward should life Inhabitants of the Ward. Resolved,— Thajf Mr. HICHARD HOLLIS, Mr. J. B. ORAM, and M/ J. M. WADDY, are fit and preper persons to represent this Ward in the Town Council. Resolved,- That this meeting do form itself into a committee, with power to add to its numbers, to carry the foregoing resolu- tions into effect. N. B. The committee will meet at Mr. Harrington's, Gun Makers Arms, Bath- street, on Monday evening next, at seven o'clock. ST. PETER'S WARD. AT a numerous and respectable MEETING of the BURGESSES of this Ward, called by advertise- ment, and held at the Golden Lion, in Aston- street, on Monday, the 10th instant. It was uitcntimtiusly reserved, That im ( ohsequence ol/ the resignation of Mr. JAMES JAMESSis ( Wndidate for/ the representation of this Ward, in the Mi& iripal Council/ Mr. Wl- LLIAM HARROLD be nominate 1 in bis stea/ EDWARD MONTGOMERY, MARTIN, Chairman. WILLIAM CORAH, Secretary. INCORPORATION OF BIRMINGHAM. ALL SAINTS WARD. THE Committee for conducting the ELECTION of the LI& E. RAL CANDIDATES, finding that an unwarrantable, has' been . made use of Mr. SHAKSFEAR'S name in con irfxion with tbajory Candidates, take the ear- liest oppojti nlM qt informingttoe. Burgesses, that they have authori^ ia NWLR. SHAKSFEARIO JTENJ; his having authorised any such ft! : of his name. Vote, Bit i, for the consistent advocates of, popular and lesponsil/ le1 ; overnment, Mr. P. H. MUNTZ Mr. SAMUEL SHAKSPEAR Mr. FREDERICK MATCHETT. Committee- room, Great Hampton- street, December 14, 1838. INCORPORATION OF BIRMINGHAM. ST. PETER'S WARD. AT a numerous antl respectable MEETING of the BURGESSES of the above WARD, held at the Woolpack Inn, Moor- street, on Wednesday evening, the 12th of December, for the purpose of making arrangements to secure the election of proper persons as the representa- tives of St. Peter's Ward in the Town Council, Mr. E D W A RID BACH, of Bull- street, - IK THEJHA^, the following resofuUpnsmtrffimssed unanimously : — 1.— That in tlief opjiijirtfof this meeting, it should be ob- served as a princjjpftf that 110 gentleman should he leeom- mended lo repr^ ent the Ward in the Town Council, who is not either a resident dr a qualified burgess in the ward. 2 That tkijfollowmg gentlemen be recommended to the burgesses as thetmwt eligible persons to represent them in the Town Council of the hprough. Mr. WESTLEY IIICII A RDS, gun manufacturer, High- street. — E. A. BUTLER, glothier, High. street. — S. W. LUC A S, wholesale confectioner, New- street. — R. H. TAYLOR, draper, Bull- ring. — W. II. OSBORNE, wine merchant, High- street. — W. PHIPSON, metal roller, Fazeley- street. 3 That the burgesses present do form themselves into a committee to carry the foregoing resolutions into effect. 4 That the above resolutions be advertised in the Bir- mingham papers. E. BACH, Chairman. The chairman having left the chair, It loas resolved unanimously, That the best thanks of the meeting were due to Mr. BACH, for his impartial conduct during the proceedings. W. E. HUNT. This afternoon will be published, ripHE MUNICIPAL CORPORATION ACT, at - IL large, with an Index. Price 8d. A LETTER to JAMES JAMES, & c., on his strange conduct as an active Street Commissioner, and a candidate for the Municipal Council. Price Id. Printed by J. RUSSELL, and sold by other booksellers. *„* Waste and Duty- paid Playing Cards, and a large stock of Books, Stationery, & c., selling cheap. GOUT, RHEUMATISM, LUMBAGO, PAINS IN the HEAD and FACE, & c., cured by Ihe use of COLON'S SCIATIC BALM and other SCIATIC ME- DICINES, which, after thirty years'experience, are uni- versally acknowledged to be the most safe and effectual remedies of the day. ( Copy.) July ], 1838, Sir,— For upwards of twenty years I laboured under severe con- stitutional Rheumatic Gout, and no medicine was ever productive of beneficial effect until I fortunately tried your Sciatic Blilm; a few bottles of which restored me to perfect health thirteen years ago, and since that period I have had no return of the attack.— I am, sir, yours, obediently. EDWARD CARTER. Mr. Edward Coton. 14, Chelsea- market. Sciatic Balm, in bottles, at 2s. 9d.; or Sciatic Pills, in boxes, at Is. l^ d. and 2s. 9d. each. Sold by the Proprietor, 23, George street, Sloane square, Chelsea, by whom vendors can be supplied. ACENTS FOR WARWICKSHIRE : Birmingham— Mr. Maher, 5, Congreve street. Aris's Gazette office. Mr. Wood, 78, High street. Leamington— Mr. Meriidew; Lower Parade. selves to support ELECTION OF COUNCILLORS FOR ST. PAUL'S WARD. AT a MEETING of BURGESSES of ST. PAUL'S WARD, held at the CHAPBI, INN, Great Charles- street, on MONDAY, It was unanimoi That the Burgesse; the electkrptof " LINS, Jun. MARSHALL, and Mr. WILLIAM SOUTER, to the" Munieipal Council, and they earnestly recommend them to the favourable consideration of the Burgesses gene- rally, as most eligible persons to represent the opinions and interests of the inhabitants of this Ward. / * B. P. BARTLEET, / Chairman, Committee- room, Dec. 5th, 1838. P. S. The committee meet every Wednesday evening, at seven, at the Chapel Inn, Great Charles- street. AGED AND DISTRESSED HOUSEKEEPERS- CHARITY. THE SEVENTY- FOURTH ANNIVERSARY of the MUSICAL PERFORMANCES for the Benefit of the above CHARITY, will take place in the TOWN- HALL, Birmingham, on THURSDAY, January 3rd, 1839. 1 GENERAL HOSPITAL, BIRMINGHAM. Committee Room, 14th Dec., 1838. AQUARTERLY BOARD of GOVERNORS of this INSTITUTION will beholden on Fridaynext, the 21st instant, at twelve o'clock at noon, when the com- pany of the Governors generally is requested. By order of the Weekly Board, WM. MILLER, Secretary. BIRMfNGHAM GENERAL CEMETERY. WHOSE PROPRIETORS who have not yet re- X ceived their Dividends, as already advertised, are hereby informed that they may receive the same, on appli- cation at the Office of the Secretary, Mr. Joshua Ham. mond, Bennett's lull, on Thursday and Friday, the 20th and 21st instant, between the hours of Ten and Four o'clock. The Deed of Settlement will also be ready for their execution, it being important that the same should be enrolled in the Court of Chancery as early as possible. Primed copies of the Deed will be ready for the Pro- prietors. OPENING OF THE NEW ROYAL HOTEL, NEW- STREET, BIRMINGHAM, ON MONDAY LAST, DECEMBER 10th, 1838 ' "" ESSRS. SMOUT and LAMBLEY have the ho- - — nour to announce that, in consequence of the great and increasing influx of visitors to Birmingham, combined with the present limited Hotel accommodation in the town, they have been induced to take the splendid establishment in NEW STREET, known by the name of " THE NEW ROYAL HOTEL," _ The bouse, which is of modern erection, consists ofexten- sivesuitesof elegant, airy, and spacious apartments, is situated in a comparatively retired part of the most fashionable street in the borough, and immediately contiguous to the Town Hall, News Jtooms, Society of Arts, Theatre, and other public institutions of the town. The NEW ROYAL HO- TEL is, in fact, UNEXCELLED, if equalled, as a FAMILY HOTEL, by any other similar establishment in the king, dom. Messrs. SMOUT and LAMBLEY pledge themselves to the Public that no effort has been wanting on their part, nor expense spared, to fit up the house in a style correspond-' ing with its appearance and capabilities. The FURNI- TURE throughout is ENTIRELY RJSW, and of the most appropriate and elegant description. In announcing that the NEW ROYAL HOTEL is now ready fur the reception of visitors, Messrs. SMOUT and LAMBLEY beg to assure the nobility, gentry, and the public in general, that every attention will be paid to the convenience and comfort of those who may honour then- i with their support and patronage. HOT, COLD, AND SHOWER I! A TILS. The POSTING and FUNERAL Departments con. ducted in a superior manner, and CARS kept for the accommodation of visitors. OLD FOREIGN CIGARS. IT is acknowledged by all who have tried them, that the finest Old FOREIGN CIGARS to be obtained ill Birmingham, are at MELLON'S, 71, NEW- STREET, cor ner of Christ Church Passage. Igf Only try them. PUBLICANS will effect a considerable saving in pur- chasing their Cigars at the above Establishment. An in- spection of the prices and quality is respectfully solicited. About 2,000 English, Scotch, and French Snuff Boxes, selling at half- price. T~ 1FE ANNUITIES to INCREASE INCOME.— Hi Tables of Rates for the purchase of Annuities at the Royal Union Annuity Office, may be had on a single sheet. 5, Lancaster- place, Waterloo Bridge. Letters to be post paid. BETTS'S PATENT BRANDY. 1l^ HE peculiarly wholesome properties of BETTS'S A PATENT BRANDY, secured exclusively to this favourite beverage by PATENT RIGHT, and the total failure in all attempts at producing 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- lic should compare the PATENT BRANDY with the finest sam- ples of Foreign production; being assured that such com- parison will further establish its decided superiority over every other Spirits. The high Chemical Testimonials in i( s favour frequently published since its introduction in 1829, and ifs constant use by many thousand families in every class of society, lead directly to the conclusion, that it will, at rio distant period, rival t he consumption, if it do not altogether supersede, the use of French Brandy. The Distillery, No. 7, SMITHFIELD BARS, LONDON, is the only Establishment of J. T. BETTS& CO. The Agents appointed for this district of country are Mr. JOHN SKELTON„ Mr. Thomas Duiham Mr. John Dell Mr. C. S. Clarke Mr. GeorgeJull Mrs. Elizabeth Biddle SI r. Thomas Cook Mr. Hugh Martin Mr. Henry Pointer Birmingham. Lichfield. Coventry. Wolverhampton. Leamington. Stourbridge. Worcester. Tewkesbury. Cheltenham. Rugby. Mr. James H. Lockyer from whom, respectively, the Patent Brandy may be ob. tained, either pale or coloured, on the same terms as at the Distillery, viz., for quantities not less than Two Gallons, Eighteen Shillings per Imperial Gallon, of the highest legal strength, for cash on delivery. THE CHETAPEST AND BEST MEDICINES FOR COUGHS, COLDS, AND ASTHMAS. ^ HURCH'S COUGH DROPS, for recent Colds, obstinate Coughs, and confirmed Asthmas, stand un- rivalled. Its reputation for years past, and the various testimonies of its efficacy, is a sufficient proof of the estima- tion in which it is held for all Asthmatic Affections, recent Colds and Coughs, however obstinate, and disorders of the Breast and Lungs. Congealed Phlegm, Acrimony in tire Fluids, and Obstructions iu the Glands, are gently and safely discharged by easy expectoration. It never disagrees with the stomach; a common Cold yields to its benign in- fluence in a few hours, and when resorted to before the complaint is far advanced, all danger of Consumption is certainly prevented. CHURCH'S PECTORAL PILLS. When, with the Cough or Cold, there is great uneasinesss and shortness of Breath, attended with Wheezing, the Pectoral Pills should be immediately taken, as they will speedily produce relief. The Drops 2s. 9d. and4s. 6d. per bottle; the Pills Is. ljd. and 2s. 9d. per box. The genuine will have engraved on the government stamp, " EVAN EDWARDS, 67, St. Paul's." Sold by Southalls, Shillitoe, Wood, Banks, Clarke and Sons, Edwards, Martin, Harris, Belcher, Adkins, Jackson, and Wattleworth, Birmingham; Brough, Nickolls, and Davis, Kidderminster ; Haines, Bromsgrove ; Hopkins, Henley; Loveitt, Coleman, Rollason, Merridew, and Willerton, Coventry; Knight, Nuneaton; Beech and Petikes, Atherstone; and by most dealers in medicine. December 14th, 18.38. JUST RECEIVED, from the house of Richardson, Sons, and Owden, Lisburn, Ireland, No. 24. About 30 pieces of fine Lawns, 6% yards long, 5s. 6d. 25. 24 pieces ditto" 5s. lOd. 26. 24 pieces ditto 6s. lid. 27. 24 pieces ditto 7s. 9d. 28. 24 pieces ditto 8 » . 6d. 29. 24 pieces ditto 8s. lid. 30. 24 pieces ditto 9s. 6d. 31. 12 pieces ditto 10s. 3d. 32. 12 pieces ditto 10s. 9d. 33. 12 pieces ditto lis. 6d. 34. 12 pieces ditto 13s. 6d. About 40 pieces very fine Irish Linen at 30s., 31s. 6d., 35s., 36s., 39s., 42s., 44s., 50s. and 55s. the piece, all of them without dress, and warranted full lengths, 25, 26, and 27 yards long. Will be received in a few days, ( being now on their way from Dundee) nearly 10,000 yards of yard wide Carpeting, at a price hitherto unheard of, one shilling and threepence per yard. It is expected they will have arrived by Thursday next. Stair Carpetingsat 8i4d. Printed Druggetts, 3s. lid. Best Damasks, Is. 7l4d. Quilts, full size, 16s. 6tl. Towels, 8s. 6d. and9s. 6d. the dozen. Seamless Sheeting, 20% d. per yard. Toilet Covers. Also from London, About 100 new patterns in Washing Prints, 4s. 6d. the dress. The same quantity at 4s. lid. About 200 best Chintzes, fast colours, at 5s. lid. the dress, usually sold at 9s. 6d. Nearly 1,000 pair of Lined Gloves, with fur cuffs, at 6i^ d. per pair. Best- Angola Shawls, 2s. each. 100 pair of Blankets, at 5s. 9d , 6s. 9d., and 8s. 9d. Scarlet Cashmere Scarfs, Is. 6d. each. Black Lace Veils, 6s. 6d. Square Shawls, ditto. Long Scarlet Shawls, 24s. 6d. each, generally sold at three guineas. FURS. Squirrel Boas, 13s. 6d. to 30s. Fourteen real Sables, at three guineas. Fur Shawls from 24s. Squirrel Lock Capes, 10s. 6d. Squirrel Back Muffs, 25s. 6d. Sable Muffs, 80s. Lynx and Musquash Boas, 10s. 6d. Bear and Goat Fringes. Black Silk Velvets, 6s. 6d. THE LONDON SILK WAREHOUSES, 61 and 62, Bull- street, Birmingham, W. EDWARDS, Proprietor. P. S. It has been learned with regret, that during the late lengthened absence of Mr. Edwards, from Birmingham, many ladies were treated with great incivility by the young men left in charge ol the business, it is respectfully submitted to those ladies, that every one of those then employed has been parted with, and a number of Assistants engaged, whose characters stand high for civility and attention. A clever ASSISTANT Wanted. January next will be published the following editions, royal 8vo., of ROBSON'S DIRECTORY for LONDON and BIRMINGHAM, airanged in three parts, exhibiting the merchants, manufacturers, and traders uf Birmingham and its environs; comprising Coventry, Dudley, lledditcb, Stourbridge, Walsall, Wednesbury, and Wolverhampton. Under the following distinct arrangements : — First THE STREET KEY, with filenames and pro- fessions arranged in street order, anil numerically. This is entirely new, and of gteat importance to those who require to send out circulars, lor election purposes, Sic., & c. Second— ALPHABETICAL DIRECTORY, being the names arranged alphabetically, with the professions and residences attached. Third— CLASSIFICATION OF TRADES; com- prising vaiious lists of . all in each trade or profes- sion. Forming a treble Directory of Birmingham and its en- virons, with a map of the County of Warwickshire, 20i£ in. by 16% in. THE RAILROAD, COACH, WAGGON, VAN, VESSEL, and STEAM CONVEYANCE LIST, will give ( in addition to tlie licensed list of coaches) an account of all railroad communications with each place— their branch communication, and Ihe route of mail and other coaches, with time of the mails' arrivals at each town, both up and down journey. London and Birmingham Directory, subscribers, 25s. ; non subscribers, 30s. Birmingham Directory, subscribers, 12s. 6d.; non- sub- scribers, 15s. ROBSON'S LONDON AND COUNTRY DIREC- TORIES. THE COUNTRY DIRECTORY, and TOPOGRA- PHYof the TWELVE FOLLOWING COUNTIES: — Beds, Bucks, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Herts, Hunts, Kent, Middlesex, Norfolk, Suffolk, Surrey, and Sussex. With Maps, 20l/ in. by 16V, in. THE LONDON DIRECTORY for 1839, with the SIX COUNTIES COMPRISING the NORFOLK CIRCUIT; viz., Bucks, Beds, Hunts, Cambiidgeshire, Norfolk, and Suffolk. With Maps, & c., as above. THE LONDON DIRECTORY for 1839, with the SIX HOME COUNTIES; viz., Essex, Herts, Kent, Middlesex, Surrey, and Sussex, with Berks, and part of Bucks. With Maps, & c., as above. THE LONDON DIRECTORY, CLASSIFICA- TION of TRADES, COURT GUIDE, and PEER. AGE, for 1839, together or separate. THE ROYAL COURT GUIDE and PEERAGE, POCKET EDITION, patronised by Her Most Gracious Majesty, and the Duchess of Kent. The w hole of the above, corrected lo the end of Novem- ber, may be had in two volumes. Prospectuses for insertion, received before the end of No- vember, will be published in these works. Whole page, 3/ s 3s.; half- page, 11. 11?. 6( 1.; one- third of a page, 21s. W. ROBSON and Co., Directory and Court Guide Office, 16, George street, Mansion House, London. rjHHE PHRENOLOGICAL JOURNAL, No. JL ' LVIIL, being the Fifth Number of the NEW SERIES, will be published on the First of January. Continued quar- terly. Price 2s. 6d. Amongst the contents of this number are the following rticles : — Phrenology in the Eneyclopsedia Britannica. Exposure of Dr. Roget's Attack on Phrenology. The Phrenological Association. Phrenology arid Men of Science. Progress of Phrenology in Germany. Development of Sir Walter Scott's Head. Pathological Cases. Character and Skull of Eugene Aram. Sidney Smith's " Principles of Phrenology" ( Reviewed.) Notices of New Works.— Intelligence, & c., & c. London : SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, and Co. IMPORTANT CAUTION TO MOTHERS AND NURSES. SPURIOUS imitations of " GODFREY'S COR- DIAL," being offered for sale by many vendors of me- dicines, in bottles similar to the genuine, and in small quantities by druggists, & c., purchasers should be particu- lar in seeing that the proprietor's name—" Benjamin God- frey Windus, 61, Bishopsgate- street,"— is engraved on the government stamp, whereby alone they may be assured they are about to administer the genuine medicine. Many thousands of persons who have proved the efficacy of this medicine, consider it the safest and best that can be given to children ; and if the mother of an infant take an occasional dose, as prescribed in the directions, she would find it most beneficial both to herself and child. The true Godfrey's Cordial is only sold in bottles at Is. and 2'. each ; and by the above caution purchasers may easily distinguish it from the spurious and worthless coun- terfeits which are shamefully imposed on them. Agent for Birmingham, W. WOOD, bookseller, High street. THEATRE ROYAL, BIRMINGHAM. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT CF MR. MONRO. By desire of the INDEPEADENT ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS. FOR THE BENEFIT OFMR. T. WH1TTALL. ON WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1838, wi'ii he presented Colman's Historical Play of THE BATTLE OF HEXHAM; OR, THE QUEEN AND THE FREEBOOTER. Incidental to the piece, GLEE— WHEN AttTHUR FIP. ST IN COURT BEGAN. By particular desire, the favourite Song of RORV O'MORE, by Mrs. BOTTRILL. To be followed by the Petite Comedy of IS HE JEALOUS? To conclude with the romantic Melo- Drama of RAYMOND AND AGNES; OR, THE BLEEDING NUN. Tickets may be had at the various Lodges; of Mr. Whit- tall, 39, Queen- street; and at Turner's Printing- office. Lower Boxes 3s Upper Boxes 2s Pit Is Gallery 6d. Half- price to the Boxes only, at nine o'clock. The doors will open at half- past six, and the performance commence precisely at seven. The Box office is open from eleven till four, where tickets and places may be secured. Box book- keeper, Mr. Brooke. Stage Manager, Mr. SIMPSON. THEATRE ROYAL, BIRMINGHAM. FOR THE BENEFIT OF MR. T. J. OUSELEY, TREASURER. | VTR. OUSELEY, Treasurer of the Theatre Royal, LVJL has the honour lo announce that his BENEFIT will take place on MONDAY EVENING NEXT, De- cember 17, 1838, when he most respectfully requests tha favour of the patronage and support of his friends and the public. The performances selected for the evening, are the Tra- gedy of BRUTUS; OR, THE FALL OF TA RQ UIN. Lucius Junius Brutus , Mr. FORDE. Tarquinia Miss ALLISON. Tullia Mrs. W. H. ANGEL. After which, the Ballad Farce of the TWO GIIEGORIES. Mr. Gregory Mr. SIMPSON. Gregory ™ Mr. W. H. ANGEL. To conclude with the verv laughable Farce of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, BY ADVERTISEMENT. Harry Alias Mr. W. H. ANGEL! Sir Pater Teazle Mr. W. H. ANGEL ! ! Dr. Endall Mr. W. H. ANGEL ! ! ! Sam Dabbs Mr. W. H. ANGEL! i ! t An Actor , Mr. W. H. ANGEL! ! ! !! TUESDAY, the GOLDEN FARMER, OF AGE TO- MORROW, and RAISING THE WIND. WEDNESDAY, The BATTLE of HEXHAM, IS HE JEALOUS? with RAYMOND and AGNES. THURSDAY, MACBETH, and CATCHING AN HEIRESS. FRIDAY, VIRGINIUS, to conclude with CLARI. Lower Boxes, 3s Upper Boxes, 2s.— Pit, Is Gallery, 6d. The box plan may be seen, places secured, and tickets obtained, on application to Mr. BROOKE, at the Box- office, between the hours of eleven and four o'clock ; or of Mr. OUSSLEY, No. 6, Exeter row. Stage Manager, Mr. SIMPSON. VOCAL ACAUE. VIY, ASSEMBLY ROOMS, 10, OLD SQUARE. MR. W. ELLIOTT, Organist of the New Meeting- House, Moor- street, has the honour to announce, that it is his intention to open an ACADEMY for teaching VOCAL MUSIC to adults, in classes, at the above Rooms, on MONDAY, January 7th, 1839. The Class for Ladies will meet on Monday arid Wednes- day afternoons, from half- past five to seven; and the Class for gentlemen on the same evenings, from eight to half- past nine. The object will be, to enable persons, although pre- viously unacquainted with Music, to sing airs or songs readily at sight, or to take a part in Duets, Glees, oc Choruses, with or without accompaniments. The Course of Instructions will consist of foity- eight progressive Lessons to each Class separately, and will be completed in six months. The Terms will be One Guinea and a Half for the entire Half Year; and no quarterly pupils can be received, as it is impossible to impart a satisfactory knowledge of music in one quarter only, arid the lessons of the second quarter would be unintelligible to those who had not studied those of the first. W. E. repectfully reqnesls those ladies and gentlemen who may feel disposed to favour him by their attendance on his instiuctions, to signify their kind intentions, by leaving their names and addresses at his residence, 15, Severn- street, Suffolk- street, as early as possible, and before the close of the present year, as the number of Pupils will he limited to twenty five persons of each sex. Piano- Fortes Tuned and Repaired. An excellent second hand Six- octave Cabinet PIANO- FORTE, on Sale. November 27th, 1838. ~ UMBRELLAS. * CHILDREN'S SIZE, with Cane Ribs, from ls. 6d. each. BOY'S SIZE, WITH CANE RIBS ... Is. 9d. each. LADIES ditto ditto 2s. LARGE ditto ditto 2s. 3d. BOY'Sditto WHALEBONE RIBS ... 3s. LADIES ditto ditto 3s. 6d; LARGE ditto ditto 4s. 6d. CHAISE UMBRELLASditto 10s. LADIES SIZE, LUTESTRING, ditto 8s. LARGE ditto ditto 13s. JOHN BOYCE, Manufacturer, 95, Smallbrook- street, Birmingham. N. B. Country dealers and the trade supplied. Um- brellas re covered and repaired on the most reasonable terms. SAUNDERS'S PATENT METALLIC TABLET AND RAZOR STROP. With four sides of progressive Jineness, for producing a very keen and smooth edge on Razors. GSAUNDERS, of New York, begs to inform the a gentlemen of Birmingham, that Messrs. OSBORN and SONS, Cutlers, Surgical Instrument Makers, and Sil- versmiths, Bennett's- hill, adjoining the Post office, have, from a conviction of its superiority, undertaken the SOLE AGENCY for the sale of the above TABLET STROP in this town and neighbourhood. The Tablet combines the properties of both hone and. strop, requiring no oil or other fluid, is very durable, and in its use extremely simple. Twenty years' trial has proved its efficacy throughout the United States of America; it is hoped that its qualities will prove its best recommendation in England. GOOD NEWS TO THE AFFLICTED. DR. TAYLOR'S VEGETABLE ANTISCORBUTIC AND RHEUMATIC DROPS, ARE strongly recommended in all cases of SCOR- BUTIC and SCROFULOUS AFFECTIONS, Eruptions ol the Skin, for cleansing and purifying the Blood, aud for removing every species of RHEUMATISM, STIFFNESS or SWELLING of the JOINTS, RHEU- MATIC GOUT, and Rheumatic Pains in any part of tha body, Scald Head, Ulcerated Soie Legs if of 20 yearn' standing. Sold in bottles, at 4s. 6d. and Us. each. Also, DR. TAYLOR'S HEALING OINTMENT, « In Boxes, price 2s. 3d. each, which is recommended to be used with the " Drops," and'guarautees its success with any sore it may be applied to. It will bring the foulest ULCER. into a healthy state in a few days, abolishing every disagree- able smell or BAD FLESH that is in the sore. The Ointment is likewise recommended to be rubbed upon any Eruptions of the Skin, or Dry Scurvy, Pimples of the Face, Scald Heads, & c. The above valuable Medicines are prepared from the ori- ginal recipe, ( as purchased from " Dr. Taylor,") by Dennis and Sort, York; and sold wholesale and letail by Mr. Banks, Druggist, High street, and Mr. Wood, Bookseller, Bir- mingham; Alexander and Gibbons, Wolverhampton; Mr. Highway, Walsall; Mr. Morris, Dudley; Mr. White, Bil- ston; Mr. Dawson, Stafford; Mr. Enwards, Lichfield; and by Butler, 4, Cheapside, London; and most other medicine vendors. THE BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL, N O V E M B E R 5* 4. 15 NEWS OF THE WEEK. FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. ROMANCE IN CANADA A Miss Strange, niece of llie late member of Parliament of that name in the Upper Ca- nada Legislature, was engaged to be married to a Mr. Du- cent, merchant, residing at the head of Lake Ontario. A correspondent of the Rochester Democrat thus tells how the enamoured swain sped his wooing:— The day was fixed for the union of the happy pair. I3y previous arrangement they were to be married early in the morning, and immediately take passage for New York, on tlie- ir way to Scotland, to visit their friends. The Scotch minister in Kingston then being absent, Mr. Ducent brought a favourite patson with him, and arrived at the lady's house in the evening, anxiously waiting for the dawn of day, when he was to be- come the husband of the fair, the accomplished Isabella Strange. The trunks and bandboxes weie all packed and read)-, in one of which was deposited by the lady's uncle, for her especial use, 500/. Bping thus arranged, and just before the parties retired to rest, a young gentleman of Kingston stepped up to the intended bride and bade her good by, remarking at the same time, he " supposed this was the last time he should have the opportunity of saluting Miss Strange," and immediately left the house. Morning came, and everything was in readiness for the solemnization of the nuptial vows, when it was observed that Miss Strange did not make her appearance. The servant was despatched to the lady's room, and returned with the as- tounding information that she was not there, and what was still more surprising, " her bed was not ruffled !" A letter was found on her table which disclosed the mystery. She had been induced by her fiiends, contrary to her own free will, to engage herself in marriage to Mr. Ducent, but had given her heart to the young man above alluded to, and they that night, with the trunks, 500/., and all, fled to Gravelly Point, in this state, and by five o'clock in the morning, she who was to have been Mrs. Ducent, had become Mrs. SJ'Lean. THE WAR WITH CIRCASSIA.— Upwards of twenty vessels engaged in the trade between Circassia and Turkey arrived during the last four weeks at Sinope and Samsoon, and an equal number have taken their departure with return car- goes for the coast of Abasia. The statements made to me by the numerous eyewitnesses I have had the opportunity of speaking to since their arrival here, fully confirm the accounts I have sent to your paper of the disasters the Rus sian fleet encountered in the memorable storm of June tiie lltl', as we 1 as of. the signal defeatof General Sass's division on the banks of the Sliak washer. According to the most me- derate computation, the number of vessels forming part of the Russian blockading squadron that were thrown upon the coast, amounts to twenty- six. As the larger proportion of these were cutters and schooners, the very vessels which gave most annoyance to the Circassian traders, their de- struction is looked upon by them as far more important than that of an equal number of men of war. The quantity of ammunition and military stores the Circassians recovered from the wrecks is sufficient to enable them to carry on the warfare during several campaigns. The best proof of the abundance of these materials in Circassia is, that merchants from that country, who hitherto looked on those articles as the most profitable speculation, have this year entirely de- clined purchasing either lead or powder. — Letterfrom Con stantinople, Nov, 17. According to the New York papers last received, a for- midable rival to Mr. Riddle's bank was milking progrets under the title of the " New York Banking Company. ' At the head of this undertaking was Mr. John Delafield, formerly managing director to the Phoenix Banking Com- pany, the doings of which were of a nature so eqvivocal as to have been the subject of an inquiry before a committee of the state legislature, by which, as was noticed at the time, the prosecution of various parlies connected with the bank had been ordered, of the result of which, however, nothing since has been heard. Mr. Uelafield enjoys the reputation of being as capable a financier as Mr. Iliddle himself. The capital of the new bank is to be 20,000,000 dollars, of which 1,000,000 was paid up. , SUPPIY OF GRAIN.— Our harbour, which ti few days since was full of vessels, is now almost without any, and we are now waiting with impatience the arrival of others, to carry off, before we be shut up by the ice, the immense quantity of grain lying in our stores. Upwards of 150 ves- sels from England, independently of those navigating under ether flags, are hourly expected, our merchants having al- ready received notice of their departure. A strong north- westerly wind which has blown since the 21st. may probably have prevented many from reaching our harbour. Freight, particularly for Marseilles and England, is extremely high. — Odessa Gazette, Nov. 23. BELGIUM AND THE FOUR POWERS.— The Belgian papers are very warlike; they talk of raising the army to the lull war establishment of 110,000 men, in which case the minis- ter will require an additional credit of twelve millions of francs to meet the increased expenses. But these prepara- tions can lead to nothing serious, if it be true, as was re- ported here last week, and as is now positively asserted in the Dutch papers, that the king of the French has given his consent to the ultimatum of the Four Powers, although he has not actually signed it, and that he will not oppose the execution of the treaty, even should force be resorted to for that object. [ It'is just possible that the attempt of Prussia to take possession of Luxembourg may be re- sisted, but not very likely. The Belgians, like many nearer home, are more warlike upon paper than in the field E. 15. J ] Miss SHIRREFF IN AMERICA.— The Sheriff, last evening, ( Oct. 5), arrested a whole audience, and kept them for three hours, and dismissed them on their o wn recognisances to appear again at the National.— New York Star. This allu- sion is to the vocalist. She never could lidve kept the audience thus in duresse had she not given her notes as security Philadelphia Gazette. So decided n hit has the new opera made, that the stage manager at the National lias been bound over to keep the piece. — Albany Evening Journal. Pierre Rene Clioudieu, who had been a member of the Convention, died in Paris on Sunday last, in the 77th year of his age. The third session of the twenty- fifth Congress of the United States was to commence on Monday the 3id of De- cember, and the members were already beginning to wend their way towards the seat of government. The Presidents speech, no doubt, will be anxiously looked for in a few days ; and, should the Liverpool steamer wait to bring it, it may be expected during next week. RrcoMPENSE.— The amount of salvage awarded toCaptain Busbell for his eminent services in saving the French brig, Ajax, and its valuable cargo of oils, & c., has been adjudged by the Courts of Boulogne at the insiguilicent sum of 40/. The vessel was fallen in with on the voyage to Boulogne, water logged, and was taken in tow and salely harboured by Captain Ihlsiieil.— Kentish Gazette. [ The French are an unthinking people; they look upon the praise of a good action as d it were something substantial. We weigh cla- rity alter a different fashion.] DOMESTIC. THE METROPOLIS. Deshe Ronsselle, the Frenchman, who had been accused of attempting to assassinate the soi disant Duke of Nor- mandy, has been discharged, the duke declining to pro- e- cute. Rousselle applied to the magistrates ol Union hall on Saturday to grant him a certificate of his acquittal of the charge. The applicant sa; d that he had applied to the French ambassador for the means of returning to France, but that his excellency had refused unless he brought him such a certificate. The magistrate said, that the applicant had not been acquitted, but only discharged for want of proof. If a certificate to that effect would serve him, he might have it. Rouselle said, that if he were not sent back to France he should starve in the streets here, as no one would employ him. The bench expressed a conviction that the certificate would effect the applicant's purpose, and he retired. ANTI- CORN LAW ASSOCIATION— 1' his association having resumed its weekly meetings, is steadily and satisfactorily pursuing its inquiries, by winch it has already been enabled to accumulate a mass of information, which, as containing many new facts tending to place the iniquitous character ol the Corn- laws in the fullest possible light, it is the intention of the chairman, Colonel Thompson, to publish in a series of tracts. Lectures are also intended to be given a lew - weeks before the opening of Parliament, by the leading liberal politicians ol the day; so that the whole strength ot the association and its friends being concentrated on the one prand object, little fear need be entertained as to the result. The farmers who have been consulted have, with scarcely any exception, expressed themselves favourably inclined. Sir William Molesworth, G. Grote, Esq , M. P., J. Hume, Esq., M. P., John T. Leader, Esq., M. 1'., D. W. Harvey, Esq., M. P., W. Theobald, Esq., and W. Tail, Esq., are among those who have promised their co operation; anil it is expected that Lord Brougham and other liiends of the people in the Hon « e of Peers, with whom a correspondence lias taken place on the subject, will render their aid in the good cause Sun. THE NAVY — Some alteration in the system of manning our fleet, is imperatively called for; else, in case of a sudden war, impressment is not to be thought of, the government will be reduced to the necessity of a lavish expenditure in the shape of an extravagant bounty; which, moreover, will not always secure the service of the seaman, who, by the very bounty, will have been furnished with an additional in ducement to desertion.— Government Paper. The Solicitor General, Mr. Serjeant Talfourd, Mr, Wightman, Mr. Eile, and several other gentlemen are spo- ken of as likely to obtain the seat upon the bench vacant by the death of Sir J. A. Paike. Should rhe Solicitor General obtain the appointment, Mr. Serjeant Wilde is thought likely to be his successor.— Government Paper. The average of the last six weeks, published to- day, is 73s., or Is. 6d. higher than the average of Jhe previous six weeks. We regret, however, to state, that the rise of the average of the week is to- day no less than 2s. 5d. Last Thursday it was 73s. Id. ; to day it is 75s. 6d — Sun of Thursday. The members of the Westminster Reform Society agreed on Wednesday to an address to Lord Durham, on the sub- ject of householder suffrage, triennial Parliaments, and ballot. PROVINCIAL. NOVEL WATCHHOUSES On some farms near Salisbury moveable watchhouses are made use of to prevent depreda- tions among the flocks and other exposed property. A wagon is covered in with thatch, and each end boarded up and fitted with a door ; the back of the waggon is drawn up close to the sheepfold, and thus affords a comfortable lodg- ing for the shepherd and boy, thereby rendering the crime of sheepstealing almost impossible. There can be little doubt that the adoption of so easy a mode of watching agri- cultural property will become general— Wiltshire Indepen- dent. THE LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY— The train which left Birmingham at half- past seven o'clock, on Satur- day morning, met with a serious accident soon after leaving the Harrow station from the bursting of the engine- pipe, by which it was unable to proceed on its journey for a con- siderable period. The engine which had sustained the injury proceeded as well as it could to town, with the view of procuring another, and the train was left on the railway until the next arrival from Birmingham, which was not until half- past one o'clock A. M. For half a mile, it appears, the train had been off the trains, and, as was found on inspection during the delay, large pieces of the ironwork were broken off the edges of the trams. The passengers were in great consternation, and expected, from the contact of someothei trains, that they should be seiiously injured. Happily, however, from the arrival of the train mentioned above, their fears were, to a considerable extent, allayed ; for, notni h standing the disagreeable mode which was adopted— namely, that ol propelling the tra n from which the engine had been detached, and which had left fbr town in a dilapidated state, they arrived safely at Euston- square between three and four o'clock. HORRIBLE ACCIDENT On Wednesday an accident of the most appalling and singular nature happened at Messrs. Wheeley's iron works, Brettel lane, Stourbridge. A boy, named Nash, about nine years of age, employed at the rolls, at the above works, on Wednesday, it being a wet day, had placed a bag upon his shoulders to protect himself from the rain, when in passing the rolls the bag was caught by them, and his head being drawn between them, it was severed from his body, and his brother, eleven years of age, who was employed on the other side of the rolls, picked it up in his hands. MANCHESTER COTTON TRADE, FRIDAY EVENING— The demand for printing calicoes continues unabated, and a further advance, corresponding with the advance of cotton, has taken place this day se'nnight. The demand for prints is unex ainpled, the chief of which ate for the Brazils, United States, and East Indies. Fustians aie also in excellent demand, and the prices understood to be remunerating. Yarns dull, and must continue so till nearer spring. At present there is no inducement to buy, on account of the closing of the continental rivers. REFUSAL oi TIIE GUARDIANS TO ACT. — A misunderstand- ing has arisen between the assistant poor law commissioner and the board of guardians, as to the mode of apministering relief to the V° or of Great Yarmouth, ill consequence of which the board at its meeting on Thursday, passed the fol- lowing resolution :—" That if the guardians of the parish are not to have any discretion in affording relief to the poor, either out- door or in- door, or in clothing, the guardians will not attend to the business of the parish, but the poor law commissioners must attend to it themselves." MANCHESTER.— The election of councillors for this bo- rough is now on the eve of taking place. The Tories, or rather those who have hitherto been considered the heads of that party, have advised that no opposition should take pi ice, inasmuch, as any such proceedings on their part might seem to sanction the charter as a valid instrument; and which eminent counsel, they assert, maintained as being utterly worthless. This advice the more ardent of the body refuse to act upon, and instead of an undisputed victory on the part of the Reformers, a fierce contest is now an- ticipated. Tin BURGLARY AT WHITTINGTON— The two Lichfield policemen, Moore and Yerl, have succeeded in apprehend- ing the perpetrators of the burglary and attempt at arson and murder at Whittington, near that city, iu a bouse about a mile from Coventry, on the road to Foleshiil ; and on Wednesday night, about half past ten o'clock, they were safely lodged in Lichfield jail. On the following morning they underwent an examination at the Guildhall, Lichfield. The prisoners gave their namss Joseph Newberry and Jo- seph Taylor. The court was crowded almost to suffoca- tion, so great was the anxiety to see these two desperadoes. Moore and Yerl stated the difficulties they had met with in capturing the prisoners, and produced two of the watches, and a silver- gilt frame of an eye- glass, which were identified by the servant girl, several pawnbrokers' tickets, and other articles. The girl most positively swore to the identity of the men, and gave her evidence in so ciear and collected a manner as to elicit the warmest commendations of the bench. Each of the prisoners made a declaration to the effect that they were guilty of the burglary, but not of set- ting the house on fire. The prisoneis were then lemanded until Monday, when it was hoped that Mr, and Mrs. Wood would he iu a fit state to be removed to have their deposi- tions taken. The ruffians have since confessed, and been committed for the three- fold crime of arson, burglary, and attempt at murder. A falf amount of business is still doing in the cloth and cop markets; yet neither of them quite so lively as they were a week ago. In the bundle- market higher prices are sought alter, but hitherto with little success, as to realisa- tion. In hand- loom fabrics the same struggle is going for. ward, and, to a great extent, similarly unsuccessful; jet could the manufacturers be sufficiently firm, it is hipefl that in couseqtience of the very light stocks, which are on hand . a tolerable advance would, ere long, be secured. — Blackburn Standard. EXPEDITION Messrs. J. and T. B. Crompton, paper manufacturers, of Farnworth Mills, near this town, received an order on Thursday for a quantity of paper, which was to be delivered on the following day. The machine at their woiks commenced operations yesterday morning. The quantity made was 15001bs., aud the whole was delivered for shipment last night in a vessel which is to sail this morning. The whole of the time for manufacturing this paper did not exceed twenty- four hours Bolton paper. Upwards of GO/, has been subscribed for the widow ot Thomas Adsley, who was killed by the late explosion of Mr. flail's powder mill; and upwards of 89/. for the widows and families of the three men who were at work in the mill. Upwards of 100 labourers have been employed during the last few weeks, excavating on a new site in Mr. Hall's grounds lor tile erection of a new corning- house, more remote from adjacent roads or fie'ds, and surrounded by embankments of earth Kentish Gazette. A CLOSE CODGER. — On Saturday se'nnight, at Middleton, an old veteran cock- feeder, named Sammy Hilton, was on his death- bed, when he was visited by another of the same fraternity from the neighbourhood of Oldham. " Well, Sammy," said the Oldhamite, " aw suppose thaw know ut thaw as no lung to live'" " Aw reckon not," answered the old man. " Well, Sammy, aw summon to ax thee before thaw dees; it will b; o' no use to tliee, neaw ut thaw art for deeing. Aw want to see if thaw will tell me, as a secret, whot thaw used to give thy cocks for a springer before they were going to feiglit— us it will be o'greot use to me ?"— " It never shall." replied the dying man. " for I will never tell either thee or any other person." The Oldham cocker had to return home again, sadly disappointed that fie had not got the springing secret. Sammy died the same day.— Blackburn paper. RICK BURNING — On Saturday evening, about half past seven o'clock, a barley- stack, the produce of fourteen acres, and also a large clover stack, on the farm of . Mr. John Ablitt, at Lavenham, at some distance from any building, were di- covered to be on fire, having apparently been ignited at the same time, in opposite diieciions; and the whole of the former, with the greater part of the latter, was consumed— Suffolk Chronicle. THE QUEEN. — Next Tuesday being the day fixed for the arrival ol the Court at Brighton, packages are daily arriving at the Palace from Windsor. It is said to be Her Majesty's intention to remain there till the commencement of the session. Strauss, the musician, was taken suddenly ill during his second visit to Leicester lately, on his tour from the Norih to town, lie was attended by two medical men, who ad- vised his immediate departure for the continent. ALLEGED INCENDIARISM IN LANCASHIRE.— A fire broke out in the extensive cotton mill of Mr. Jowett, at Ashton. under- Lyne, on Saturday night, by which one half of the building ami its machinery was totally destroyed, and nearly four hundred persons have been thrown out of employment by it. There is too much reason for believing the fire to be the work of an incendiary. Mr. Jowett has rendered him- self obnoxious to the Chartists and physical force men of this neighbourhood, by his own antipathy to torch- light meetings ; and still further, as a magistrate, by the com- mittal to prison, a few weeks since, of a boy employed in a portion of his mill, rented by Messrs. Higglnbottom, foi having been found at meal times amusing himself with lucifer matches among materials of a very inflammable nature. The ravages of the fire were evidently looked upon with satisfaction by a large concourse of people assembled, who refused, with brutal oaths, when asked to assist at the engine. During the time the fire was burning, a man was discovered, by some wsmen, wading through the reser- voir of Messrs. Buckley's factory, in Ashton, towards a window that had been broken that evening; but lor what purpose can only be surmised. The fellow pretended to be drunk, anil said that he had fallen into the water; but the fact is, that he had had to cross gardens and a five feet wall. He was taken to a cottage near, where his clothes were dried, when it was discovered that he had lucifer matches in his possession. When told of it, he remarked that a good many lucifers would be id requisition before that night week. — Letter in a London paper of Thursday. What appears to be a less partial account says— As to the cause ot this fire, it remains at present unknown, though there are various rumours prevalent in Ashton and the neighbourhood on the subject. Messrs. Higginbottom state that they know nothing, in connection with the appearance of the premises, that should lead them to suspect that it is the work of an incendiary; but, at the same time they are equally at a loss to conjecture how it could have originated by accident. Placards having been put up here, as in other places on the coast, for seameu to enter into the navy, about thirty men and boys belonging to this town offered themselves, and have been accepted. They left Brighton on Saturday last, in the Victoria revenue cutter, which had arrived in our roads on the moining of that day, for the purpose of con- veying them to Portsmouth.— Brighton Gazette. ARNOTT'S STOVES.— A large stove, on Dr. Arnott's prin- ciple, was erected, early in the week, at the south end of the news room. On Wednesday morning the stove had, by some neglect, got over- heated, and John Finlay, one of the assistants in the room, incautiously opening the door, the hot hair rushed out, scorching his lace, burning his hair, and injuring his eyes. Apprehensions, we are sorry to say, are entertained that his eyesight will be permanently affected.— Liverpool Albion. IRELAND. THE PRECURSORS.— Mr. O'Connell returned on Wednes- day morning from Carlow, where he was yesterday enter tained at dinner by a numerous body of the gentry and freeholders, and where he achieved the triumph of securing the adhesion of a number of new Precursors, including Mr. Keogh, late high sheriff for Carlow. At two o'clock this day a numerous meeting of the Dublin Precursers was held in the Corn Exchange. Mr. O'Connell addressed th- meeting at considerable length. In alluding to a diffii ulty which some individuals, warm'supporters of the present ad- ministration, had made with regard to becoming Precursi rs the lion, and learned gentleman observed, that he neither courted that administration, nor set them at defiance. I'liis sentiment was loudly cheered. He proceeded to state that he would so modify the Precursor Society, that the most jealous individual in it, of any tendency in the society towards securinglegislative independence for Ireland, would riot be left the smallest pretext to discountenance anypeison from becoming a member of the Precursor Society. The first objection to which he was desirous of referring, was urged against that rule of their society which seemed to imply an adhesion to the English Radicals on the question of universal suffrage. The conduct of the English Radicals was such, that scarcely any honest man in Ireland would consent to co- operate with them in anything. For himself, he was not to be shaken in his opinion, that every man who had attained the legal age, and was of sound intellvct and unstained by crime, was entitled to the franchise. There were many members of the Precursor Society who enter tained a different opinion. Tliey were all, however, de- sirous of 6ome extension of the franchise, and the resolution which they had adopted on that subject would be modified so as to meet the views of all classes of Reformers. The next objection was to the resolution with regard to the extinction of the rent charge. He wished that to be understood in the sense that there should be an appropriation ofl the tithes to useful and popular objects, after making a further reduction in the amount. With regard to the question of repeal, he would pledge himself in the remodelled constitution to meet every objection upon that score— An inhabitant of Liver- pool, an bumble tradesman in appearance, stated the fact, that the names of upwards of a thousand Precursors would be returned from Liverpool, and then went on to speak in commendatory terms of the principles of the English Ra- dicals, complaining that they had been much misrepresented. The violent language of Oastler he attributed to persecution, which he had experienced from the Wesleyan Methodists, whom he designated as bitter Tories.— Mr. O'Connell re- pudiated the missionary efforts of this emissary of the Ultra- Radicals, as he designated him. He distrusted any man who would praise such men a9 Oastler, Stephens, and Fear- gus O'Connor; and declared, amid tremendous cheering, that Danton, Murat, and Robespierre had been praised in his presence. These men ta'ked of a revolution. If they attempted a rising, he ( Mr. O'Connell) would head an Irish legion himself, and drive them back to their foul dens.— [ Fudge !] — Correspondent of Courier. Mr. Francis Wayland, son of Mr. George Wayland, of Ballywater, who was wounded by the assassins at the lime of Mr. Cooper's murder, died at Ins father's residence on Thursday morning, alter lingering several months from the effects of the shot he received on that occasion. THE O'CONNELL TRIBUTE Last year the amount of the tribute in Dublin was 1 339/. ; yesterday, as far as accounts could be made up, the contributions in the different places of Catholic worship iu this city were 1,587/, being nearly 250/. above the preceding year. It is very remarkable that the combining workmen combined vigorously against the collection. There were very few coppers, but, despite their resistance, the contributions are likely this year to bit greater than ever.— Mercantile Advertiser. MISCELLANEOUS. POST OFFICE EVASIONS.— The present rates of postage have induced a general practice— Of saving postage. Of evading it, and of suppressing or withholding cories- ponderrce which would otherwise be written. The description of correspondence suppressed or with- held are such letters as the following : — Letters advising ol the drawing of bills or small ac- counts. Letters transmitting statements of small accounts. Letters containing small orders. Letters correcting errors and advising of many smaller points. Letters acknowledging the receipt of many that are now left unacknowledged. Letters requesting explanations of ambiguities, and to answer the ever- occurring exigencies of business, which would bear and repay a postage ol Id., and would immensely facilitate business, by enabling it to be done offhand, and done well, because done quickly. They also suppress letters— By inducing travellers to postpone the transmitting of or- ders home until they can get a number of orders to commu- nicate in the same letter. By the well- known practice of transmitting orders for different houses to one, so written that they can be cut off into slips, and distributed by the house to whom they are superscribed, thus compelling tradesmen to trouble parties who have no interest in the orders they are asked to circu- late, and unnecessarily exposing business transactions to third parties. Tile modes of evading postage now practised, and which these rates have induced, are— By sending letters in parcels, boxes, and trusses. By availing themselves of each other's parcels. By commercial travellers. By persons, when known to be going to particular places. By steam- vessels. By sending circulars in large parcels to be put into local penny posts. By nearly all houses who are in the habit of sending par- cels at stated rimes to Loudon or other places. By converting every house or establishment, having branch establishments, into a sort of auxiliary post office through its parcels, tor ad its retainers, friends, and con uexions— Ashurst. TATAR JOURNEYING " Griffins," to use a well known Irnliiin syrionyine lor the elegant English expression " green- horn" sometimes made sad mistakes iu their outfit on such occasions. I have heard of tiglu doe- skins and smart new top- boots, and knowing Newmarket cut coats, being selected as iha fittest costume tor a Tatar journey. Only think of the beautiful white tights and top- boots among the Servian bogs and mountains, mud, knee deep, and on nags that scarce have height enough to clear the legs of their riders from the poriidge iu which they wade! 1 Have heard of a certain traveller, a cabinet courier too, though accustomed more to carriage work than journeys on horseback, who, in spite of all friendly admonitions to the contrary, would start from Semlin iu tins Melton Mowbray sort of turn- out. It was rainy weather, with mud galore, as Paddy would say; and a few stages convinced him of his mistake, for the doe- skins were reduced to the consistency of tripe; and as for the boots, there was no telling their condition, nor that of the legs they encased. To add to his misfortunes, the vicis- sittule* of cold and heat, wet and dry weather, together with so unwonted a spell of humping on a rough trotter, produced such an effect upon his nether man that the dead and living leather formed so intimate a union, that there was no sepa- rating them, sorely to the discomfort of the owner. Eng- lish pluck and bottom, however, cariied him through, though to the serious damage of the latter. After a rapid journey he reached Constantinople, and tendered his despatches to the nobleman at that time our representative there. " Pray sit down, Mr, ," said his polite Excellency. " Thank ,( ou, my Lord," replied the traveller, " but," with an expres- sive gesture, " I can't. "— BaiUie Frazer. PHYSICAL FORCE— EDINBURGH MEETING. We take the following- report of the proceeding's at tli is meeting' from the True Scotsman of last Saturday. We give the speeches at length, because of the very great importance of the meeting. The resolutions were agreed to by a meeting of delegates from nearly every quarter of Scotland; the letters and deputations approving of them being about sixty in number. We arc entitled to regard the sentiments of tiie speakers, but more especially those of the resolutions, as the sentiments of the Scottish people, so far as they can be expressed by the Radical Reformers there. The meet- ing possessed also an extrinsic importance from the character of its chairman, one of the established clergy- men of the Church of Scotland, a class of persons least of all likely to mingle in matters of doubtful legality. We perceive, by the Glasgow papers, that Mr. Purdie, whose independent spirit no one can more highly ap- preciate than we do, objects to some of the resolutions, particularly that in which persons who counsel phy- sical violence are denounced as unfit associates in the great work of political regeneration. We confess we see nothing objectionable in the denunciation. The Convention must take its stand somewhere. If phy- sical force is illegal, dangerous, and likely to prove destructive of the cause, then the Convention must at once put down, and witli a strong hand, all attempts at introducing the question of physical force into its deliberations. And what way more effectual than by refusing to co- operate with its advocates ? Mr. Purdie thinks Mr. Stephens ought to have been heard before he was condemned. He is not condemned in the re- solutions, though he is named in the speeches. The condemnation in the resolutions is general. If Mr. Stephens has been misrepresented or misunderstood, if he can show that he is, like Mr. Purdie, an enemy to physical force, then he is free from the condemna- tion ; which, after all, is no more than an amplification of the resolution previously come to by the Birming- ham Union, at whose meeting Mr. Stephens was much more roughly handled, and quite as unequivocally de- nounced, as at the Calton- hill meeting. We may just remark, in respect to the report that follows, that the resolutions having been, in the first instance, agreed to by the meeting of delegates, it was thought best to submit them to a public meeting, and that at two or three hours notice a meeting was accordingly assem- bled on the Calton- hill. Dr. Fyfe, delegate, proposed the chairman, and in doing so, said, lie bad only to name the individual to receive for him the unanimous support of this great meeting; that gentleman was, the Rev. Patrick Brewster, of Paisley—( loud and con- tinued cheering)— a gentleman who, it was well known, took a deep and active interest in the cause of human happiness, human improvement, and universal liberty. ( Immense cheering.) Mr. Hogg, of Selkirk, seconded the nomination. The rev. gentleman then rose, and was received with thunders of applause. His admirable address to the meeting was listened to with intense and solemn interest, which was greatly heightened by the stillness and sweetness of' night resting over the imposing scene. He spoke nearly as follows:— Gentlemen, I thank you for the 1 o'lour you have done me. I regret that there are not here higher names from which to select your chairman. The honour of presiding at your meetings is not yet so much coveted as it will be. The day will come, when it may be deemed safer to sit here, when the young giant of Radicalism shall have grown up at d ex- panded ro his full dimensions ; then there will be no laok of honourables, and right hoiiourables, too, to claim his ac- quaintance and obey his summons. The object of the pre- sent meeting is to consider certain resolutions, which have been framed and agreed to by delegates from the Radical Associations of Scotland, now assembled in Edinburgh. These resolutions condemn, in the strongest terms, all appeals to physical force, and pledge us to renounce all con- nection and co- operation with those who make, or approve of such appeals. They will now he submitted to you, in the hope that they may go forth to the country, stamped with the sanction of this meeting. In the passing of these reso- lutions, by the assembled delegates, representing, as tliey do, the sentiments of the great majority of the Radical Associations of Scotland, and, I may add, of the people of Scotland, 1 have to congratulate you on the first victory of the Radical cause— a victory, blood'ess, as I trust will be all our victories— a victory of wisdom over folly— of reasoh over madness— of the men of moral might over the advocates of physical force— such a victory as is the sure precursor of a final triumph. The government have at last taken the field against the physical force men, but not till the Radicals had defeated them. ( Laughter.) We have come here this evening in support of the government, armed with an array of peaceful resolutions— a moral artillery, which will put to flight the poor remnant of our discomfited friends— the heroes of the '' bullet and the bludgeon/ the " rifle and the pop- gun," and will sweep the field clear of the Stephenses and the Oastlers— I will not say the Feargus O'Connors, for I have a notion that Feargus O'Connor, with all his delin- quencies, is an honest man, and one honest man we cannot spare from so good a cause. Willi that same artillery we will construct a battery, which will render our position im- pregnable ; and Irom that position, and with the aid of that battery, we will assail the citadel of corruption; and, defended as it is, by all the munitions of physical force, we will stoim it and will drive out from it the misrepresentatives of this great nation, and will supply their place with more capable or more honest men. 1 will no longer detain you from the business of the meeting. I beg to introduce you to Mr. Burns, who will move the first series of resolutions. Throughout the whole of Mr. Brewster's speech he was loudly cheered. Mr. BURNS, delegate from Dundee, said— Fellow- countrymen— The object of this meeting is of im- mense importance. Physical force never succeeded in establishing the people's claims for justice. It has only removed one despot to lift another into his place. It is very easy to speak of employing physical force when wanning one's toes before a fire. Even if we succeeded iu wresting our rights from the ruling powers byits means, the demoral- ising influence of the struggle would disqualify us for their beneficial exercise. Besides that moial means are amply sufficient to accomplish our objects, they can never be ex- hausted. When supposed to be so, tlen is the time when they will stand forth in all their efficacy. To neglect them for inferior motives, is like those parents who use physical means only to correct their children, without pointing out to them the why and wherefore of their conduct; and thus producing the very worst members of society. ( Cheers.) To gain our object without the destruction of a single life, witliout the shedding of one drop of human blood, would crown our success with immortal honour. ( Great cheering.) The Christian religion supplies motives for action, which tends to save rather than destroy, and, since its prominent and governing motive is love, its spirit must be diametrically opposed to all vengeance and violence of every kind. ( Cheers.) By acting peaceably we shall vex and disappoint our greatest enemies ; and we shall prove to all, that our conduct is as superior to theirs as are the motives that ac- tuate it. ( Cheers.) Aboveall things, therefore, we should repudiate every appeal to physical force, if we are desirous to reap the fruits of our labours; and most ol you, I should think, would like to see how the thing worked after our success; but, it you get a bullet through your heads, you could not then, you know, have that satisfaction. ( Laughter and cheers.) Dr. Fyfe, delegate from Crieff-— Mr. Chairman and gentlemen,— it is n trite saying, that " oppression will make a wise man mad," and sure I am, that any man who is acquainted with the state ol our coun- try must admit, : hat the working classes in it are grievously oppressed. Is it not oppression, when thousands of them a e subject to a pittance of food altogether inadequate tu maintain that state of health and vigour requisite lor their labours? ( Cheers.) Will'any man say, that the system of government is not oppressive, which denies to man his ne- cessary food, which diminishes the value of labour, renders food dear, and di ives thousands of the working classes out ot employment? ( Cheers.) But, sir, while I am con- vinced that the present system of government is a system of oppression, and calculated to drive the oppressed to extre- mities, I am not one of those who would remove that system by physical foiNo, sir, I would call upon the middle class of society to come forward immediate!/, and lend the aid of their moral influence, for the purpose of removing that oppressive system. ( Cheers.) Are they not convinced that the people are oppressed? Why, then, stand aloof from the people? ( Cheers.) Are they not aware of the danger to which they subject the nation by their neutrality? Do they not remember that period in the history of ourcountiy, when, by the neutrality and supine indifference of the middle classes, and the then professed Reformers, our country was involved in all the horrots of civil war? Let them come boldly forward, then, to the aid of the woiking classes, and the dangers of civil war will speedily be removed. ( Cheers.) To do so is not only their duty, but also their interest. Let them only consider how rapidly commerce and manufacture ate departing from our country. Have the middle classes no interest in the commerce and manufacture of this coun- try? Is it no concern of theirs, though these depart from it? I miintainthat afl classes of society are deeply interested iu the prosperity of trade and manufacture of this empire; and I would, therefore, not only call on the middle classes, but also on the landowners, to come forward and aid the work- ing classes in their noble attempt to remove that system which is rapidly forcing the departure of our trade and manu- facture. When these depart, the people must follow, and if the people follow the departed and departing trade, who will eat the corn of the landowners ? ( Cheets.) And if there be none to eat the produce of the soil, how can the farmer pay the land- owner his rent ? And if rent be not paid, liow can the landowner subsist ? But, sir, it is not only the duty arrd interest of the middle classes, and of the landowners, to come forward to the aid of the working classes, but I say, it IS even the duty and interest of placemen and pensioners to do the same. If trade and manufacture depart, and the « people of necessity follow, what is to become of the fifty millions of annual taxes? Whence and from whom are these taxes to be raised? Labour is the source Of all wealth and property, from what other quarter then can the taxes be raised? ( Cheers.) And if the taxes be not raised, what is to become of our placemen and pensioners? Do they not see, that, but for the labour- rng classes, they must perish? Let all classes, therefore, do their duty, and then the working classes will be soon put in possession of their natural and just lights. I cheerfully se- cond the resolutions that have now been submitted to this meeting. ( Great cheering.) Mr. Abram Duncan spoke to the resolution— These resolutions were the most important yet submitted to any public meeting, since this movement for universal suffrage took its rise; they were not the resolutions of any local committee, expressive of their individual opinions— they were the resolutions of men, many of whom never saw each other face to face before— of men gathered from the east, west, north, and south— they were the resolutions of the representatives of the people, sent here with special in structions to record the sentiments of the national will upon the ail engrossing question of moral and physical force— what ought to be condemned, and what ought to be approved of, to the people's advantage iu the present struggle for their rights. These resolutions occupied their grave deliberations the greater part of last night, and nearly the whole of this day. They have given the resolutions their most earnest and patient attention, as if it were the last act— the highest duty they were called upon to discharge in this life, They felt the responsibility of the trust committed to them ; and they have discharged that trust, as men who know they are responsible to the highest authority on earth— that is, the national voice. ( Cheers.) They have now thought proper to submit these resolutions to your deliberate consideration, trusting you will re- echo and give the stamp of your autho- rity to their deliberations. They have avoided the eiror, too often indulged in by some of the pseudo- patriots in com- mittees, of trifling their time away in personal squabbles, rather than in developing and applying great principles to existing circumstances. Moral torce they now proclaim as fully adequate to accomplish our present purpose. Physical foree they disclaim as neither required nor useful iu their warfare. ( Cheers.) He would ask them what was meant by moral force? Their meeting here this night was in de- fiance of government. The government hated such meet- ings, and would put this down if they dared. But this meeting was a proof that moral public opinion was stronger than statutes, law, or Lord John Russell's letter. Tyrants do not love to have their delinquencies exposed to public reprobation. ( Immense cheering.) Had you come armed with pistols, swords, and scythes, as physical force advocates recommend, the military from the castle would have come among us, to interrupt our proceedings, and bloodshed would have ensued. I ask any sane man if this would have advanced the cause of reform, ameliorated our institutions, given bread to the starving, or knowledge to the ignorant? ( Cries of No, no.) There are many infamous laws upon the British statute book. What do these rest upon? ( Hear, bear.) Physical force. ( Cheers.) Tliey are thus become a dead letter. Through your moral determination not to sub. mit to them, knowledge, when accompanied with wisdom, is more than a match for all the physical force iu the world. These resolutions call upon you to increase and perfect this knowledge, as the only means to overthrow tyranny, ensure its destruction, and fitting the people lor a permanent, and' not a momentary triumph. Some men of high sensibility, and quick temperament, are impatient of this process of attaining oar object. They ask for a broadsword to cut down the barrier, and extirpate the foe. ( Hear, hear, and cheers.) Let us reduce the question to its lowest and most palpable standard; that is, how we can secure our object at the least possible expense. Aims do not spring from the ground—( hear)— they must be bought and paid for. No Radical can equip himself properly to take the. field under a guinea a head; let this sum be expended upon the moral means we have at present at our command, as an agency against bad government, and our rights will be conceded to us before one month. ( Cheers.) Well, so far as we know of armed insurrections, what has been the result ? The man" sympathies brought info collision by civil war are harassing in their contemplation. On the contrary, the more actively we are engaged in a moral struggle against the tyranny of government and bad institutions, the more scope is given to the better faculties of our nature. Thus political agitation creates a wide field for the higher palriotic feelings of our souls, and proves to what extent our powers of mind may be enlisted upon the side of human improvement— the end of all political agitation. * These are the sentiments ami lofty aspirations expressed in these resolutions, and no ambition this world can gratify would seek a more exalted theme, or a more proper theatre on which to display them. ( GteaS cheering.) With these brief expressions ot his approbation of the resolutions, he bade them good bye. Mr. William Brisbane, Hawick— Mr. Chairman and fellow Radicals,— It has devolved upon me to move the adoption of the second series of reso- lutions, which is based upon the means to be employed for the attainment of our libeity— viz., by moral power; be- cause we think that the language employed by some of the English speakers, tends more to baibarise than to civilise the human mind. We are, therefore, met here to night, to declare, in the most solemn manner, to our friends in England and Ireland, that Scotland, to a man, is for moial power. Verily, it well becomes a delegate from Hawick to talk of moral power, say some of you, when such a proof exists at this moment within yon gloomy walls ( pointing to the Calton gaol) of our physical propensities! But let me tell you, it was through infatuation these men became the prey of faction ; for at our great meeting for the adoption of the National Petition and Charter, all was peace on our part— all was safe— there was no " winging," no " milling." This shows, when the people have the management, that all is secure. It is only when factions rule, that the people become outrageous, and property is endangered. Thus, I think, the time has now arrived, when the people ought to have the reins of government in their own hands; in other words, they ought to possess universal suffrage. But, say yon, when your petition is rejected, will your moral power men sit down contented? ( Cheers.) I say no. It will only be a fresh stimulant to action. We will not sit down, and brood over our misfortune— we will not cower beneath the dark wings of despair. No; the bold spirit of the boiderer will appear in all its ancient terribleness. But do not mistake me, I say no blood— blood is the thought of a demon, not of man, whose soul is, in reality, stamped with the image of God. I can say, at least for the borderers, that we are determined to blunt every moral weapon, ay, to the very hilt, before we even think, much less speak, of physical power; and when they are spent and blunted, it will then be for us to consider whether we should again sharpen our moral weapons, and try them again on the patience of the people. We wish not to avenge, but to re- dress our wrongs. Such is the spirit which actuates the men of the border. I have now to thank you for your toleration, and beg leave to move the second series of resolutions. Mr. Jolm Mitchell, in seconding the sccond scries of resolutions, said— Mr. Chairman and fellow- countrymen,— I beg leave most cordially to stcond the resolutions which you have now heard read, as they point out the best and surest means of improving our piesent condition. Hitherto our exertions have been vain and fruitless. For want of proper union and determination, our hopes of deliverance have been too long placed upon a vile faction that has basely deceived us; hut the delusion hath passed away. Now, the people are up in. their majesty and in their might, and no faction, however powerful, can long prevent them from enjoying their just rights. But, my friends, the people have been exhorted by those who profess to be their friends, to have recourse to- physical force for the attainment of their Ireedom, although nothing would more assuredly bring ruin and defeat llian such a course; but let the Radicals of Scotland, with one voice, declare their abhorrence of physical force— not the dread of the coward— the men of Scotland were never jet known to turn their backs on the loe— but the firm con- viction that the abandonment of peaceful means, is the abandonment of our just and holy cause ; the sabre and the bayonet are the unhallowed weapons of the tyrant. We seek justice and freedom— not the blood of our oppressors. Let us tell the men of the north of Eng- land, that our love of liberty is as stjong as theirs, and that we are equally determined to obtain it. Let us implore them to abjure the idea of physical force; let them muikthe men who would lead them to universal suffrage through bloodshed and death, as most dangerous and daring enemies - y let us get knowledge— not arms. Let it be said of every true Radical, that the Patriot's spirit is filling their hearts ; They have girt up their loius for the fight; And they've sworn, without bloodshed, to conquer their foes, By the power of their moral might. Let the banner of universal suffrage be unstained with one 8 THE . BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL, DECEMBER 22. drop of human blood. ( Cheers.; Now are we ill the right path to freedom, and well do our enemies know it, and ull their cunning will be exerted to lead us astray; but, while we obey the laws, our power is irresistible. Let us on, then, with peaceful determination, and victory, great, glorious, and triumphant, shall crown our patriotic exertion. ( Cheers.) Such, my friends, are the sentiments of the Radicals of Aberdeen ; and, in conclusion, I beg once mite to assure you that I have the greatest pleasure and satis- faction in seconding the reso'utions. ( Clieets.) Mr. James Hamilton, jun., delegate from Storehouse, Lanarkshire, spoke as follows— ' Mr. Chairman, friends, and fellow- country,— If I had consulted my own ease, my own comfort, or, perhaps, my interest, I might not have appeared before you this evening, cr have occupied the honourable, and highly responsible situation I now fill, of addressing so many thousands of my countrymen, assembled this evening, on so short a notice, to hear what the delegates of the Scottish Convention have to say to Ihem upon the all- important subject of what we deem the best, the safest, and the surest, nay, the soonest, way of obtaining our rights, as men, and our birthright, as human beings. I appear before you in the character of the delegate, or deputy, or, if you will, humble representative of the inhabitants of Stonehouse— of that small, insignificant place, which is but a speck upon the map of Scotland— ( cheers)— after having sat in close deliberation with my fellow deputies, from other and far more important towns and villages in Scotland, to consider what were the best measures to adopt in the present awfully important crisis of our country's history, and by means of the press, circulate throughout Scotland, England, and Ireland, the resolutions we have unanimously agreed to and adopted; and also to lay before you, for your approval and adoption, these reso- lutions. My fellow- countrymen, it cannot be concealed, that some ardent friends, and most important and able advocates of the people's rights— friends I wish to call them, and friends they are, and allies I hope they will continue to be— for we cannot spare either friends or allies in the great snuggle in which we are now engaged. I say it cannot be denied that these friends have shown more zeal than pru- dence in the advocacy of the means to be employed for the attainment of the great ends contemplated ; and they have disp'aved more zeal than prudence, every one of you must have discovered— at least every one of you who are news- paper readers— and I trust all of you are newspaper readers; for I hold that newspapers are the book of God's providence, which every man ought to read and study, and see what God is doing in our own country, and in the world— I say, then, that in and from this book of Providence, I saw what every one of you must also have observed, that these friends and allies, from their great zeal and want of pru- dence, were endangering the great cause. I would ask you, what made the blood of a Wilson flow upon the scaffold at Glasgow ? What deprived the country of the services of a Hardy ? And how stand the annals of our country's history in regard to deeds of blood and ciuelty? What has retarded the progress of Reform ? The doctrine of physical force. What is one of our great complaints against our present rulers? That they are physical force- men, and have ruled by might, and not by reason ? Shall we, then, fall into the same error ourselves that we are condemning in others? I hope, for the honour of Scotland, we shall learn from the past that moral force constitutes the weapons of our war- fare. Now, my friends, have you used all the moral means inyourpower? ( No, no.) Are you willing to use all the moral means in your power? ( Yes, yes.) You have de- clared to me that you have not used all the moral means in your power yet, but you have also declared that you are re- solved to use all the moral means you possess, for the attainment of the great ends contemplated in the present movement. This is so far well; but when do you contem- plate performing this great, this important duty? Do you say to- morrow ? Delays are dangerous. Procrastination is the thief of time. Whatsoever you have to do, I wish all of you to commence this very night; and all of you who have not signed the National Petition, must sign it this very Rev. P. BREWSTER.— My friends,— I cannot sufficiently express the very great satisfaction which I have received from the unanimous assent you have given to the resolutions which have been submitted to you, and from the exmplary manner in which you have conducted yourselves this evening.— Such displays of moral power, as has been well said, will carry more terror to the hearts of your enemies than hundred thousand armed Radicals. The men of war care not for an armed foice. War is their trade, and hey well know how to wield it, when the plunder is to be protected— war, with its fierce passions and red right arm, is their weapon— the destroyer and demoraliser of man, degrading its wretched instruments, and training up a host of hired slaves— not to defend, but to enthral and oppress their own countrymen. Possessing the government of the country, the masters of that force array it on the side of law and order, and all who are opposed to them are held up and denounced as disturbers of the peace, producing, in a large and influential portion of tiie community, that feeling of nsecurity, and that fear of a convulsion, which is the strong- hold of the people's oppressors. ( Cheers.) Let the people dislodge them ; let the people henceforth become the con- servators of the peace, and let their oppressors, if they will, be the breakers of it— then shall your strength be irresisti- ble. ( Cheers.) Allow me to say a single word on Tory. Radicalism— where is it to be found ? There may possibly be some of it among the followers of Stephens and Oastler, but there is none of it among the men of Scotland. For my own part, I have no sympathy with Tories; I have no con- fidence in Tories; I will never co- operate with Tories for any political end, because I know that their object would be to frustrate mine. Neither can I say that I have any con- fidence in the Whigs. ( Cheers.) I will not trust the men who lavished twenty millions of money, drained from an over- toiled people, on the felon oppressors of the poor negro, and call it justice. But bad as the Whigs are, they are better than the Tories ; the Tories would long before now have attempted to break up our union. The Whigs are pledged to obey the voice of the people— keep them in, therefore, and make them do your work. ( Cheers.) We have already compelled them to emancipate the black slaves, and, with God's help, we will compel them to set free the white slaves also. ( Tremendous cheering.) Mr. B. then bid them good night, and dismissed the meeting. » night. Let not your eyes close, nor your heads touch a pillow, till you have performed this pressing, this important duty. It is said that already 1,500,000 have signed the petition. Well, if such numbers have done so, and suppose they contribute a halfpenny per week— which every man, I think, may do if he is willing— that will amount to 3,125/. After a few more remarks, he ( Mr. H.) concluded, by leaving the resolutions in the hands of the meeting, and thanking them for their patience and attention. Mr. FRASER next came forward and said— Men of Edinburgh, a vote of thanks to Mr. Duncan and myself has been embodied in the resolutions now before this grand meeting. I therefore feel myself called on to say a few words regarding our instrumentality in getting up a meeting of delegates. I feel, though a very humble individual, and possessing talents and information a vast deal less than hundreds who may be here present, that I now occupy a very commanding position, and may be ab'e to exercise more influence on the Radical cause than any other single individual in Scotland, simply by the power of the press— the True Scotsman— the only decidedly Radical press in Scotland. Such being the case, I felt it necessary to make up my mind regarding the course now to be pursued on the question of physical and moral force. I have advocated the exclusive use of the latter, and denounced any appeal to the former, at a hundred meetings during the last six months. On this subject my opinions are decidcd. Knowing the views of a great many Reformers of Scotland on this sub- ject, I thought, as well as Mr. Duncan, the time was come when the united voice of Scotland should be publicly de- clared. Hence the circular issued in Mr. Duncan's name and my own. It merely suggested; it did not dictate. It called for an expression of opinion 011 the part of the Uni- versal Suffrage Associations of Scotland, regarding the pro. priety of a delegate meeting. The answer was decisive. ( Great cheering.) Out of sixty letters, received from as many Associations, all, not coolly, but warmly concurred in the proposed objects of the meeting, with the exception of seven. It was, then, the Associations who decided on having the meeting— not we. 1 can appeal to the reverend and patriotic chairman, and to the delegates now before me, befjre whom these letters were placed, and to whom they we e read, as to the truth of my statement, and as to whether or no, when assembled with them, we in any de- gree acted the part of dictators. We have been charged with dictating. The charge is false. We have the recorded approbation of the gentlemen before us, regarding the pai t we have acted in this matter. Whilst, then, my motto i » Peace, Law, Order, and my determination is to advocate moral means alone in the present struggle; and whilst in this determination I know I am opposed by some of our Radical friends, I here solemnly declare, before congregated thousands, that so long as I have a control over the True Scotsman, it will ever advocate the great principles of the National Petition and the People's Charter. In contending for these great principles, our weapons should be those of peace, and not of war— of reason, not ol violence— ol'per- suas; on, not of arms. My confidence is unbounded in the lulness and adequacy of the moral means possessed by the people for the attainment of their rights, and none else shall I advocate and countenance. ( Cheers.) 1 have been charged myself as an advocate of physical force, I deny it. I3ut, supposing the charge true, I am now bound, by these resolutions, to obstaiu from doing so in futuie. After a few words from Mr. DUNCAN, chairman of the Edinburgh Universal Suffrage Association, Mr. HAMILTON said— Friends and leilow countrymen,— The pleasing duty now devolves upon me of moving a vole of thanks to our worthy chairman, the Rev. P. Brewster, for his able and efficient discharge of the duties of chairman to this meeting. My friends, I lament my inability to do justice to this great, this good man— this minister of the people, who, whenever duty called him, consulted not wiili flesh and blood, but gallantly stepped into the gap to stop the effusion of blood— scorning alike the contumely and sneers that might be given him from pretended friends and open foes, if he might be but instrumental in bringing to a successful termination, the great struggle, without the shedding of one drop of blood. ( Immense cheering.) Our rev. chairman is, perhaps, theonly minister of the Church of Scotland who has declared for the people; and I believe there is not another minister within, nor connected with, any Dissenting body in Scotland, that would have accepted the chair he now occupies. ( Cheers.) And has be dis- honoured or demeaned the office he holds by so doing ? ( Cries of " No, no.") My friend here, our worthy chair- man, is one of the very few ministers ol any denomination who do not think their characters lowered, or their duties less important, because they relate to political duties and privileges. You will find the most ol them, when you speak to Ihem upon such subjects, treating them with con- tempt. But to be serious, if 1 tell them they ought to speak of political duties and political rights, they mostly turn round, and say— We have only to instruct the people in spiritual duties. Then, I would ask, are they not, as mi- nisters of Jesus, to teach the people all their duties, the duties they owe to themselves, their fellow creatures, their country, the world, and their God? How, then, do minis- ters stand aloof from the present movement, and not teach, guide, and instruct, and direct the people. I believe they are mostly afraid of the people. And why, because few of them have done their duty to the people. But my friend, our worthy chairman, is one of those ministers who have declared for the people, and is ready to teach them their whole duty in politics, morality, and religion ; therefore, we should esteem him very high for his work's sake, and for the very efficient discharge of the duties of the situation you have placed him in this evening; and I move the thanks of this meeting accordingly to him. ( Given with three times three rounds of most enthusiastic cheering.) Mr. FINLAYSON, of Edinburgh, seconded the vote of thauks. The following are the resolutions agreed to by the dele- gates, and confirmed by the meeting: — " That this meeting deem it quite unnecessary to express any opinion, whether or no it be constitutional for the :> eople to have arms, and to use them in their own defence; jecause they have a full conviction, that in the present struggle for liberty, the exercise of moral power is com- pletely adequate to obtain it, in defiance of all opposition." ' That this meeting, relying with unshaken confidence in the efficacy of the many moral means the people possess for the achievement of their rights, unequivocally denounce, in the strongest terms, any appeals to physical force, any ex- hortations to purchase arms, being fully persuaded such appeals tend to diminish the vast influence of moral power — to draw the people aivay from its use— to rouse and keep alive the lowest and worst feelings of their nature— to tempt them, smarting, as they are, under a sense of manifold wrongs and sufferings, to make unlawful attacks on persons and property, disgust and alienate tlx best friends ot human freedom, and to bring disgrace 011 the sacred cause in which the people are so honourably engaged." " That this meeting is of opinion, were the people to use with wisdom, vigour, and perseverance, peaceful and con- stitutional means only in the present struggle— use them with becoming dignity, determination, and earnestness, no government whatever could long resist their just claims to civil and political equality." " That the thanks of this meeting are eminently due to Mr. Thomas Attwood, Mr. Seholefield, Mr. Brown, Mr. Leader, and Mr. Fielden, all M. P.' s, for their decided advocacy of Universal Suffrage, and their already expressed determination to support the People's Charter; whilst this meeting deeply regrets to find many professed Radicals, also members of Parliament, utterly indifferent to, and silent regarding the present movement, and that in Scotland there is not one solitary member on the side of the people." That this meeting express their cordial and decided ap- probation of the determined and successful stand, lately made by the Birmingham Union, in opposition to the advo- cates ot physical force, and their well- timed censure and rebuke of violent and inflammatory language." ' That this meeting, moreover, most decidedly and un- equivocally condemns the conduct of all those who have used such language, as both illegal in itself, and as highly injurious to the people's cause; and that we expressly repudiate and renounce all connexion with such individuals, and with all who approve of their conduct; and will not in any respect recognise them, or co- operate with them, either directly or indirectly, either personally or by deputy, as associates or allies in this movement, till they have retracted the language and disowned the principles they have incul- cated, or approved of, in reference to physical force; until they have given ample and satisfactory assurance to the people in Scotland, whose general sentiments we now re. present, that they will abstain from such conduct in future; and we, in our own name, and in the name of our constitu- ents, disclaim all connexion with that very small portion of our countrymen who have not yet seen it to be their duty to co- operate with us in the objects of the present meeting, as expressed in this and the foregoing resolutions." ' That this meeting, deeply conscious the success of all the means now adopted, by the people for the attainment of liberty, depends very much on the extent and perfection of their organisation, most strenuously recommend every asso- ciation to divide its respective localities and towns into districts, for the purpose of urging every working man, and every friend of Reform, to whatever class he may belong, to join their associations." " That this meeting would urge, in a most pointed and emphatic manner, the absolute necessity of every member paying his assessment to the funds of his association with rigid punctuality, so as to enable it to carry on its operations with ease,- vigour, and benefit to the peopfe them- selves." ' That were only one and a half millions of the people ( the number said to have already signed the National Pe- tition) to subscribe one halfpenny per week, the amount would be 3,1' 25/-— a sum which, if turned to pioper account, would be adequate to secure, in a peaceful manner, the present demands of the people. This meeting would, there- fore, strongly recommend, that a portion of that money so collected, be appropriated to the purchasing of tracts on morals, science, and politics, and the employment of lec- turers on these subjects; and to teach the importance and necessity of self- reform, as the great and only source from which can ever spring social and national happiness, good government, pure and vjrtuous institutions." " That this meeting, in urging the people to go on, con- quering and to conquer, in the mighty cause in which they are embarked— a cause that embraces within i; s ample grasp interests of the highest importance to human improvement and human happiness— solemnly cull on the people to con- duct all their proceedings in peace, in order, and in strict accordance with law; call on the people to preserve inviola- bly the sacredness of life and property; that all their pro- ceedings be guided by the dignity of reason, by prudence, and with a feeling of good will to all, even to their political foes." " That the thanks of this meeting be given to Messrs. Fraser and Duncan, lor their timeous and judicious sugges- tions, contained in the circular forwarded by these gentle- men to the Radical public of Scotland, by means of which this meeting of delegates has been convened." MEETING OF THE FEMALE UNION. POLITICAL A MUSICAL PARSON Dr. Ford, the rector of Melton, was an enthusiast in music, very singular in his manners, am! a great humorist. His passion tor sacred music was publicly known, from his constant attendance at most of the musical festivals in the kingdom. I have frequently met him, arid always found him in ecstasies with Handel's musics especially the " Messiah." His admiration of this work was cat ried to such an excess, that he told me lie never made a journey from Melton to Leicester that he did not sing it quite through. Ilis performance served as a pedometer by which he could ascertain his progress on the road. As soon as he had crossed Melton Bridge he began the overture, and always found himself in the chorus, " Lift up your heads," when he arrived at Brooksby Gate; and " Thanks be to God," the moment he got through Thurmaston tollgate. As the pace of his old horse was pretty regular, he contrived to conclude the Amen chorus always at the cross in the Belgrave Gate. Though a very pious person, his eccentri- city was, at times, not restrained even in the pulpit. It need not be staled that lie had a pretty good opinion of Is is own vocal powers. Once, when the clerk wes giving out the tune, he stopped him, saying, " John, you have pitched the tune too low— follow me." Then, deal ing up his voice, he lustily began the tune. When the psalmody went to his mind he enjoyed it; and, in his paroxysms of delight, would dangle one or both of his legs over the side of the pulpit, during the singing. When preaching a charity sermon at Melton, some gentlemen ot the hunt entered the church rather late. He stopped, and cried out, " Here they come ; here come the red coats : they know their christian duties: there's not a man among them that is not good for a guinea." The doctor was himself a performer, had a good library of music, and always took the " Messiah" with him on his musical journeys. I think it was a Birmingham festival that he was sitting with his book upon his knee, humming the music with the performers, to the gieat annoyance of an at- tentive listener, who said, " I did not pay to hear you ling." " Then," said the doctor, " you have that into the bargain." — Gardiner. At the weekly meeting of this union, which was held on Monday evening last, Mrs. Lapworth occupied the chair. Altera few remarks from the chairwoman aticj others re- specting the propriety of voting a donation from the funds ol the union towards paying the expenses of Messrs. Muntz and Pare, Airs. Oxford moved, and Mrs. Giles seconded, the fol- lowing resolution'. " That all moneys in the fund of the Women's Union, after the expenses aie paid, be forthwith added to the Na- tional Rent." The resolution was carried unanimously. Mr. COLLINS said lie should ( eel a pleasure in reading to the meeting the address from the Female Political Union of Nottingham to the women of England. The leading of the address nas followed by loud applause, after which, Mr. COLLINS observed, that he looked upon the ideas of the women of Nottingham, with regard to the pur- chasing of swords, as an exuberance of the warmth of their feelings. It was quite certain that the law of the land allowed every man to possess arms, and every man might please himself about possessing them. It was no harm to have them hanging in the house; but it was decid- edly illegal for any person, society, or body of men to per- suade the people to arm for any political purpose. It was directly contrary to the constitution, and was much calcu- lated to injure the cause. By recommending any thing so illegal, they were liable to be seized and transported. It would give the government a plea for pouncing upon them, and hurrying the country into such a state, tl. at could not be wished for by any one. He could assure them, if they followed the plan which had been laid down— he alluded to the diminishing of the revenue— and the men of Scotland were with them, from one end to the other, 011 that point— in three months, or even less, no government could stand against them. It was impossible for any government to be able to stand against the united moral exertions of the people. They must take their stand, and persevere in a legal and peaceable mariner, giving neither the military nor the lawyers any pretext for coming among them, and then they must accomplish their objects. During the last week a letter had been received from Bristol, at which place it was intended to hold a meeting the day before Christmas- day, and they wished a deputation from Birmingham to be se t. At Loughborough, the Female Political Union in- tended to hold a tea party on Christmas day; they were going on spiritedly there. lit fact, he ( Mr. C.) did not know any part of either England or Scotland but where the cause was progressing to the utmost of their hearts' desires. With regard to their own tea party, there was some doubt whether the hall could be had for the day proposed, as it would probably be wanted for the election of the town councillors and aldermen about that time. Mr. Salt was to meet the commissioners that day, for the purpose of learn- ing when they could have the hall; and all due notice of the time would be given of it. Nothing should be wanting that he could do to make them comfortable and happy, and he sincerely hoped that, 011 that occasion, they should have Mr. Attwood to preside. ( Loud cheers.) Mrs. LAPWORTH announced that the tickets for the next quarter would be ready to issue next week. She wished to call the attention of the meeting to a second letter, which had appeared in the Journal of last week, respecting the death of the infants in the workhouse. Surely the poor, and those who occupied the workhouse from chance or from neces.- i'. y, must feel as much from the loss of their infants a< the great and rich. Shew idled to stir up the public mind to cause the mortality of these infants to be satisfac- torily accounted for. None of them could tell how soon it might be before they should be brought to the workhouse. What a state to be reduced to ! To have their husbands and h. b; s separated from them ; and for their babes to die as unheeded and uncared for as dogs. She was sure that the ladies who so humanely interested themselves on be- halt of the blacks— if they were iri the habit of reading the newspapers— if any of them looked into the paper.— they would be shocked that in their own town, and under their own eyes, there was such 1111 evil as the mortality of the in- fants born in the Birmingham workhouse. While their charitable intentions were being felt abroad, instances oc- curred at home which she hoped would be satisfactorily accounted for in reply to the letters. ( Applause.) Mr. COLLINS wished to make a few remarks 011 the sub- ject of the letter referred to by the chairwoman. It charged the guardians of the workhouse with having neglected their duties; and it stated that 110 child born in the work- house during the last twenty years, had lived to attain the age ol Two years, unless they had been taken away very soon. ( Cries of— Shame.) And further, that no child which had been received into the workhouse under six months of age iiad lived, unless it had been shortly removed. One of the guardians had admitted this to be quite true, and he attributed it to the bad quality of the milk with which they were fed. Others attributed it their being taken away fiom their mothers, and placed under the care of girls; and all who knew any tiling of the management of children, knew the soothing effect of the mother's voice. Another stated that he thought it was in consequence ol the mothers not having had sufficient nourishment— all confessed the truth of the statements. During the last six years, out of severity- five children born in the workhouse, seventy [ twenty?] have died, and the remaining five are not yet two years ot age. It ought to be noticed; and it was the bouuden duty of the faculty to answer the question. Mr. Collins then went on to notice the poor laws, and the laws for national education, which, he said, were but apologies or excuses for what ought to he. When every man enjoyed the fruits of his labour— when four- fifths were not taken away in the shape of taxation— when poor laws were not necessary— and when educational laws weie not necessary — then men had the means of living comfortably, and of supporting their families. But when the government took four- fifths of their earnings away, then it became necessary to make arrangements lest the people should be starved to deaii, and to offer an apology, by giving national education, because they had deprived the people of the power of pro- viding it themselves. If the working classes had the means they would take care to provide in every respect for the comfjrt and education of their children. The root of all that evil was in bad legislation, and the country would never be in a happy and prosperous state till the time when they obtained possession of the House of Commons: then they could make laws suited to the state of the country. After alluding to the fact of their having gained by their exertions in 1832, the franchise for the 10/. householders, Mr. Collins said, now they would endeavour to get the franchise for themselves. Some doubted whether the people had virtue and perseverance enough to accomplish their wishes, but he had no doubt of the virtue of the people. He had gone through the whole length and breadth of the land, had witnessed the spirit manifested at public meetings, and had conversed with many, and he thought that it was not a love of change, but a love of their country and a comfortable fireside, which induced them to persevere. Mr. Collins concluded by tracing the present movement back to the time when the distress was so great in Birmingham, that 13,000 workmen were out of employment. They must get their grievances redressed, and the regeneration of their country effected. Mrs. LATWORTH thought that the necessity was very great for obtaining their demands. Had they only obtained vote by ballot seven years ago, they should not have been in the unpleasant situation in which they now were; neither would they, in all probability, have been now asking for universal suffrage. She also thought that vote by ballot would be much wanted in Birmingham, with respect to the corporation affairs; for many persons were, at the present moment, disquieted in their minds, and afraid of offending their masters and employers by giving their votes. She hoped the ballot would soon be introduced into all parish, as well as national, affairs. The weekly contributions for the National Rent having been announced, tho meeting broke up. be carried on with spirit, or the convention, upon which all their hopes rested, would fail. They could not expect the members of that body to meet and carry on their proceed nigs, unless sufficient money was paid in to defray their expenses. The eyes of all the Reformers of England were upon the national rent of Birmingham; and if it was not forthcoming, it would be a disgrace to the union. He wished them to recollect that their all rested upon the con- vention ; and that if the present measure failed, there was no hope left for the working men. He, for one, should be disposed to give up all politics if it failed—( bear, hear)— arid for that reason he was most anxious that it should not fail. Mr. COLLINS said he agreed with Mr. Watson as to the importance of the collection of the national rent; and he also agreed that the time for the collection of that rent was very short, seven weeks being the longest time which could elapse before the delegates met in London. All lliis he was aware of; still he thought it would not be quite prudent for the members of the delegation to call meetings for the collection of money for themselves. The members of the union, in compliance with a suggestion thrown out last week, had agreed to meet every Thursday evening, and lie had no doubt they would attend to Mr. Watson's wish. Mr. WATSON said, in that case his object would be answered, and he should feel satisfied. The CHAIRMAN said he was clearly of opinion that the council ought not to interfere with the collection of the national rent. They were aware that many members of the council were members of the convention ; and he, for one, could not think of attending meetings to raise money for the payment of his own expenses. It was altogether the business of the Reformers of Birmingham to collect the rent. The members of the convention were going to act as their servants, and it would be too much to require them to collect the money for their own use. He never could, in accordance with his principles, give liis time, either as a member of convention, or member of Parliament, without remuneration ; and he should leave the raising of the money to those in whose service he was to be engaged. ( Hear, hear.) If the men feft alive upon the point, they would meet themselves, and assist Mr. Watson. Mr. EMES was also of opinoin that the council ought not to be required to collect the national rent. He admitted the importance of the rent, and he hoped it would be raised spiritedly. He also hoped the convention would do its duty. He felt persuaded that if they, and the members of the council, felt as he did, they would never give up the struggle until they obtained the franchise for the men before him. ( Applause.) Mr. CUTLER said he was not sorry that the questioa had been brought forward by Mr. Watson, because it was an important consideration, and the disussion upon it would do good. It was well known that they set out foi the at- tainment of universal suffrage— that is, for an alteration in the law which would benefit every man in the community. Such being the case, it was not too much for the council to expect that the people themselves would take up the sub- ject, and supply the means of carrying 011 the struggle in which they had embarked. He had always told the men that they must depend upon their own exertions, and he then repeated it. He, therefore, called upon every man, however humble, to give his assistance ; to consider that the success of the cause depended upon his individual exer- tions, and lose no opportunity of furthering it. With re- spect to the council taking up the collection of the rent, it was his opinion they could not take it up. Indeed, they ought not. They would have enough to do without col- lecting tjie money, because he believed, in his conscience, a more important body never met in England. When they should meet, they would be set upon by all parties; and if not well supported by the people they must fail. If, when the convention met, they found themselves not supported, they, of course, must abandon their business, and all their hopes must be abandoned. Let, therefore, every man in Birmingham pay his one penny a week, and ample funds would be raised. He felt convinced the working men could not pay large sums, nor were they required; but they could contribute pence, and they would be sufficient if paid gene- rally. Mr. WATSON withdrew his motion, in expectation that the members of the union, when they met on Thursday, would take up the subject. Mr. IIOLL, the secretary, stated, that since their last meeting he had received, 011 account of the national rent, 10/., making the total amount paid ill from Birmingham 57/. He had also to acknowledge the receipt of 10s. from Mr, Trueman towards the national rent, and 10s. from the same gentleman towards the funds of the union. He was happy to say that an increased excitement was going on in every part of the empire. He might say the whole of the princi- pality of Wales was aroused. At Lewes, in Sussex, they were arousing the agricultural labourers, and it was fully expected that great good would be done in that county. He had received information from Bromsgrove, which showed him that the cause was progressing in that quarter. At the time of the agitation of the Reform bill they could not procure more than twelve hundred signatures in favour of it, and now they iiad obtained two thousand signatures to the National Petition. Mr. Holl then read a long and well written address from the Reformers of Reading, which was warmly applauded, Mr. JOHN PIERCE then briefly addressed the meeting in proof of the increasing spirit amongst the people throughout the country, and dwelt particularly upon the astonishing progress the cause of universal suffrage had made in Wales, where he had lately attended a great demonstration. There being no other business before the meeting the council adjourned. PUBLIC OFFICE. MEETING OF THE COUNCIL OF THE POLITICAL UNION. On Tuesday evening the council met. There weie few councillors present, and no business of any importance was before the meeting. Mr. Benjamin Hadley having taken the chair, referred to the minute book, upon which stood a no; ice of motion by Mr. Watson, relative to the better collection of the national rent in Birmingham. Mr. WATSON then rose and said, he came to the meeting with an intention to press his motion, because he considered it one of importance ; but since he sat down a friend of his suggested to him, that it might be as well if he would postpone it for a short time. As they were aware, the object of his motion was to secure district meetings, for the better collection of the national rent. It had been sug- gested to him that as there were many committees sitting in the town to carry on the municipal election, it would be difficult to get persons to act in the manner he wishes. He did not wish to interfere with their arrangements, and he would not press his motion, if it was deemed improper at that time. Although he was willing thus to withdraw it, iie must say he considered the collection of the national rent of much greater importance than either municipal elec- tions, or the settlement of any church rate question. He was aware that the settlement of a church rate was of im- portance, inasmuch as it tended to cripple a state church, which had caused a great deal of misery to the nation, and kept the people in ignorance, still it was not of so much importance as universal suffrage. By the attainment of that measure they would be able to get rid of church rates, j and all other grievances, and without it they never could get more than temporary relief. The national rent must MONDAY, Drc. 10. ( Before J. T. Lawrence, Esq.) William Bayliss was charged with stealing brass from his employer, Mr. Dyer, of St. Paul's square. James Andrews, foreman to Mr. Dyer, stated that the prisoner had been in the service of his employer. For some time past, a quantity of brass was weekly being missed, and the prisoner became suspected of stealing it. On the pre- vious Friday, he sent the prisoner of an errand, and while he was away, he ( Andrews) went to his jacket and found in his pocket some brass. He took no notice, but let the prisoner go out of the factory to his dinner, and when he got about forty yards from the premises, he followed and took him into custody with the property in his possession. The prisoner acknowledged the robbery, and he gave him into custody. The prisoner was committed to the sessions. Samuel Bisliton was committed for stealing a rabbit, the property of Paul Priest. Thomas Bell was charged with stealing a quantity of cop- per, the property of the Grand Junction Railway Con - pany. Thomas Tully stated that lie was a dealer in mari; e stores, in Dudley street. On Saturday, the prisoner, who was a s'ranger to him, called at his house and offered a piece of metal for sale. He asked him if it was his own property. He replied it was— that he was an engineer upon the rail- road— that they had an accident that morning on the line— and that the metal he offered for sale had been wrenched off the engine, and was of no use, except for old metal. He ( Tully) then bought the copper, and the prisoner went away. I11 the eveninc of the same day, the prisoner came again, with a large and valuable piece of copper. He then suspected lie had stolen it, and he apprised Smith, the street keeper, who took him into custody. Thomas Chataway, a brazier, in the employment of the Company, proved that the prisoner had been employed un- der him as a labourer, and that the copper found in his possession had been stolen out of the Company's work- shop. The prisoner was committed.— The magistrates, on the application of Mr. Edmonds, consented to admit the pri- soner to bail. Mary Leech was charged with robbing Jonn Rowland of 4/. 15s. The prisoner stated that he was a plate layer on the Lon- don railroad, and a stranger to Birmingham. On the night of the 6th of September last, he was standing at the corner of New street, when he was accosted by the prisoner. He desired her to go away, upon which she became abusive, and he was obliged to stiike her with a small stick he had in his hand. On the following evening he was going home, when he was again met by the prisoner, who threatened to give him into custody for striking her. He was afraid she would do so, and in order to make friends with her he told her he would give her a share of a quart of ale. The pri- soner consented, and they repaired to a public house, and sat down together. They had not been there long when she put her hand into his pocket and took out his money. He immediately made an alarm, and the prisoner ran out of the house, and could not be taken until within the last few days. The prisoner was committed. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13. { Before J. 7\ Lawrence and \ V. Beale, Esyrs.) THE INFORMERS. — A number of retail brewers and others were called to answer informations laid against them by Mackie the informer. Mr. Edmonds attended for some of the parties and was about to proceed, when it was stated that Mackie was not forthcoming. He, however, on being repeatedly [ called, came into the court and stated, that he wished the cases to be put off. He had that morning met a girl whom he did not know, who told him that Cameron, his witness, was sick and unable to attend. Mackie was then sworn and de- posed to the above. Mr. Edmonds said, he had reason for saying that Cameron was not sick, and that Mackie did not wish to go on with the cases. He submitted that it was leally too bad thati number of persons shoul 1 be compelled to lose their time in attending from day to d ly upon such men. It WES a hatd case. The magistrates adjourned the cases until Monday, ard the parties left the office complaining bitterly of their loss time and expenses. John Bashford was charged with stealing eighty- five ash plants from a plantation near the Pebble Mill, belonging to Lord Calthorpe. Mr. Spencer, solicitor, attended and proved the case againatt the prisoner, who was fined in the sum of 9,'. 12s. 6d. anditi default of payment was committed to the House of Correc- tion for two months, to be kept to hard labour. IMPORTANT TO PAWNBROKERS.— Five pawnbrokers ap- peared on informations laid against tlrein by a man named Wyatr, one of a new gang of informers who have arrived ir » Birmingham from London. The first case called on was against Mr. Simon Samuels. Mr. Edmonds attended for him. The information charged the defendant with having taken in pledge from Thomas Jones three yards of holland, upon which he lent the sum of one shilling, and that he delivered to him a note or memorandum, part written and part printed. Nevertheless ihat he did not fairly and legibly write, nor cause to be wiittsn, in or upon the said pawn- ticket the particulars required by law, namely— a proper de scription of the said goods so received in pawn or pledge aa aforesaid, the name of the sai I Thomas Jones by whom the said goods were so pawner', a id the name of the street and number of the house while tae said Jones did at the time abide. Mr. Samuels pleaded rot g lilty, and Jones on being sworn stated, that on the3rd of December he went to the house of Mr. Samuels and pledged three yards of holland for one shilling. He gave his name Thomas Jones, 13, Digbeth. The ticket he then produced he re- ceived from Mr. Samuels. The ticket was then examined by the magistrates and Mr. Gem, the clerk, all of whom pronounced the hand writing illegible. Jones was then cross- examined by Mr. Edmonds, but beyond the fact, that he was a common informer, that he and Wyatt and others had lately arrived in the course of their profession, from London, and that like others of the fraternity, he sometimes went by one name and sometimes another, nothing was elicited to shake his evidence. Mr. Lawrence said, the object of the act appeared to be to prevent persons from losing their property. Since he had presided as a magistrate, he had known many instances where orders had been made for the delivery of goods to persons, end the pawnbrokers could not find them ; and he supposed these mistakes often arose from the careless manner in which the tickets were made out. Wyatt: It is my intention to proceed in all such cases. I intend to prove before I leave Birmingham, that the Pawnbroker's act is a nullity, that the pawnbrokers in place of taking only five per cent., are iu the habit of receiving twenty, thirty, forty, and fifty per cent, from the poor. Mr. Edmonds: I beg to say, we shall appeal against any conviction that may take place. Wyatt: I know that. Before we left London we were told that there was a phalanx against us. I know there is a society. Mr. Lawrence: The object of the act is to protect the poor, and we shall convict in the highest penalty, which i » 10/. Mr. Edmonds: If it was the poor person that had suffered, who was the complainant, the magistrates might act so. Mr. Beale, the magistrate said, it was a case of importance to the poor of the town, and they must attend to it. Mr. Edmonds: The magistrates never inflict the highest penalty in the first instance, and under such circumstances! Mr. Lawrence: Before the penalty was stated we were told there would be an appeal. It is not for a rich body of men to club together to resist the laws in such a manner. Here is a law clearly violated and which is intended to le resisted. Mr. Edmonds : It is not a poor person that is injured. Mr. Lawrence: If I am not mistaken a poor person left this office not long since to obtain an article from Mr. Samuels and it could not be found. Mr. Edmonds: There is a man come from London for the express purpose of making money and oppressing the inhabitants. Wyatt: I was sent for to come down by a number of in- fluential persons to put the pawnbroker's act in operation in Birmingham. Mr. Lawrence : Since I have been 011 the bench various complaints have been made by the poor against the pawn- brokers, and without going into the motives of complainant, I must say that I rejoice some steps are being taken to cause the act to be complied with. On re- consideration of the case we shall reduce the penalty one- half, say 5/. The other four informations, which were against Mr Mannox, Mr. D. Myers, Mr, George Ryder, and Mr. Myer Myers, were all proved, with the exception of one, and the parties fined in penalties of 40s. each. The tickets were all clearly* illegible, and could not be read by any person except the writer. In the case of Mr. Myers, of Moor- street, the informer's witness swore that he took him, as interest, one penny for three shillings for three days. Mr. Myers said, he could prove he had offered the witness a farthing out of the penny. The informer denied it. Mr. Samuels and Mr. Myer Myers entered into sureties to appeal against the convictions at the sessions. Thomas Cole was charged with robbing his master, Mr. Parrock, of Livery- street. It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner had been a servant in Mr. Parrock's employment, that he lived in a house in his yard in Livery- street, kept the keys of the store rooms and premises, and unlimited confidence had been placed in tiim. For some lime past various articles ot value had been missed, and almost every person who had access to the place was suspected, except the prisoner. A few days ago, Mr. Parroelc received information that the prisoner had offered a new saddle for sale to Mr. Ulse, Wharf- street. He immediately made the necessary enquiries, when he found that a saddle had been stolen out of his store room, and afterwards found that it was the one offered for sale by the prisoner. Cole was committed to the sessions. BURGLARY.— James Lau'ley, George Hine, and John Jones were charged with housebreaking. A young woman named Eliza Francis stated that she resided in Ravenhurst stieet. On the previous evening, at six o'clock, she left her house iu company with a servant girl, having previously secured the doors and windows. The side door was locked and the front dcor was latched. About eight o'clock she returned home, in company with Mr. George Holmes, and when she got near the house she saw a light in one of her rooms up stairs. She and Mr. Holmes, on going to the door, found it open, and on enter- ing, saw two of the prisoners standing in the parlour, and presently the third man came down staiis. The two whom they first saw rushed out, and she seized hold of one ol them and Mr. Holmes the other. The man whom Mr. Holmes caught hold of wrestled with him, and they both fell down. Some persons came up to their assistance, and two of the prisoners were taken into custody, arid the other escaped, but was afterwards taken. On examining her house, she trussed two watches, with gold chains, two brooches, salt, and other spoons, and one sovereign. The prisoners, when iu the house, had stockings drawn over their shoes. Some of the property, a bundle of skeleton keys, lucifer matches, and a crowbar, were found upon the prisoners, and upon the ground where they were scuffling with her and Mr. Holmes. George Westwood and Joseph' Smith were committed for stealing ten pigeons belonging to Mr. Oxford, of Moor- street. Edward Scragg was charged with using threatening lan- guage to bis employer, Mr. Joseph Westwood, gun manu- facturer. The offence was proved, and the magistrates would have committed the prisoner to gaol in default ofsuretie*, if Mr. Westwood had not kindly consented to take his own recognisance. THE ROE DEER— In the Highlands of Scotland, the ma- jestic stag is still to be numerously found, and also the most beautiful variety of the tribe known in the United Kingdom, the rce. The roe is met with in the lowlands of Scotland, where it affords diversion with a pack of hounds, before which, however, it is not able tostand up like the fox, or the red deer. The roebuck often runs a few rings, like rf hare, and, like the latter, depends more on its cunning than its powers of progressive motion, lor eluding the pursuit of the hounds. A roebuck, alter wandering out of Scotland, passed through Cumberland, and various parts of the north; of England, and at length sought refuge in the woody recesses upon the banks of the Tyne, between Prudhoe Castle and Wylam. It was repeatedly seen, and repeatedly hunted ; and by its cunning and artifice ( frequently swim- ming the river) it succeeded in baffling its pursuers for some time. It happened that during the rigour of a severe winter, being pursued, it crossed the river npon the ice with some difficulty, and being much fatigued by its exertions was taken alive. It was kept, up for some weeks, and again turned out, but the confinement had deprived it of all cunning and activity— it seemed to have forgotten the places where before it had secre'ed itself; and, after running for a short time, it lay down in a brook, weere it was killed by the hounds. — Sportsman for December. 8 THE . BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL, DECEMBER 22. SUBSCRIPTION FOR MESSRS. MUNTZ, PARIS, PIERCE, AND TROW. THE Working- Men's Committee for promoting the above Subscription, have gratefully to acknowledge the receipt of the following sums, viz.: 1838. Nov. 19. From hook No. 44, by MRS. OX- FORD £ s. d. 19. From book, No. 20, by Mr. Woolley — 19. From Mr. Clive's manufactory, Clive- land- street 20. From Messrs. Phipson and Evans's ma- nufactory' Newhall- street . Dec. 1. From book, No. 29, by Mr. Wm. Aston 3. From hook, No. 33, by Mr. Win. Sun- derland — — 3. From hook, No. 13, by Mr. J. G. Whit- field 3. From book, No. 66, by Mr. John Wil- liams 0 9 0 6 0 2 1 10 0 5. From hook, No. 54, by Mr. Hedges ™ 6. From book, No. 14, from the Little House, Broad- street — 10. From hook, No. 39, by Mr. Geo. Lowe 11. From book, No. 20, by Mr. Woolley, ( second payment) 12. From book, No. 19, by Mr. Joseph Catley 12. From hook, No. 6, by Mr. Henry San- sum, and the united exertions of Mr. Mincher and Mr. Brown 13. From book, No. 22, by Mr. William Taylor • 13. From Mr Swan, Swan Inn, New John- street 13. From hook, No. 17, by Mr. J. Horsley 13. From hook, No. 25, by Mr. Tyrer 13. From book, No. 45, by Mr. Griffin 13. From book, No. 81, by Mr. C. Buck — 14. From the Temperance Coffee House, Mr. Wilkins, Dale- end 14. Fiom hook, No. 28, Mr. Markall 14. From book, No. 8, Mr. Currier 14. From hook, No. 52, Mr. John Smith— 14. From book, No. 77, MRS. SARAH WILLIAMS 14. From book, No. 66, Mr. John Williams ( second payment) — — Fer Mr. Sansum, omitted last week in error, From Two Benefit Societies held at Mr. Mincher's, Turk's Head, Steel- liouse- lane 6 0 0 18 1 15 6 19 0 19 11 0 0 15 0 1 7 4 6 2 10 2 9 0 16 1 10 1 11 0 11 2 19 VENTRILOQUIST. R. NEWMAN will give his LECTURES on MONDAY EVENING, December 17, and the five fol- lowing nights, at Birmingham. , For particular see hand- bills. 15 0 3 0 0 1 0 0 From the Union Gilt Society, meet- ing at tlie Lion, Thorp- street 1 10 0 The committee respectfully request all sums collected for the above purpose, in books and lists supplied by them, may be paid over as early as convenient. The further sums received from Benefit Societies will he published next week. JOHN TRICKETT, Chairman. Committee Room, Town Hall Tavern, Ann- street, 14th Dec. 1838. GTURNER solicits the favour of an inspection • of his Stock of Witney Blankets, Counterpanes, ond Furniture, together with 200 pieces of Rich Damask Moreens, all warranted. 133. NEW STREET, WORCESTER STREET. MARRIAGES. TVTOTICE is hereby given, that a separate building, 111 named " The Scotch Church," situate at Islington, MI the parish of Birmingham, in the county of Warwick, in the district of Birmingham, being a building certified according to law as a place of religious worship, was, on the 13th day of December, 1838, duly registeied for so- lemnising marriages therein, pursuant to the act of 6th and 7th Wm. 4, c. 85. Witness my hand this fourteenth day of December, 183S, WM.. PARE, Superintendent Registrar. GENTEEL HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, LARGE GLAZED SHOW CASE, Large SHOW GLASSES, about Sixty Hundredweight of Brown and White WINDSOR and other SCENTED SOAPS, Cases of EAU DE COLOGNE, with a Variety of other PERFUMERY, A T NO. 84, DALE END, BIRMINGHAM. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, on the Premises, on MONDAY, TUESDAY, and WEDNESDAY NEXT, the 17th, 18th, and 19ih days of December, com- mencing each morning at Ten o'clock. Other Particulars in Catalogues, to he had of JOIIN RODERICK, Auctioneer. Offices, 54, New street. The Household Furniture will he sold on Monday. N. B. Appioved Bills will he taken in payment of Stock, on purchases of 20/. and upwards. SALE OF 230 BOXES OF PRIME HAVANNAH CIGARS, UNDER A DEED OF ASSIGNMENT. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION by S. BLOORE, Jun., on TUESDAY NEXT, the 18th of Decem- ber, on Premises, 105^. New street, Birmingham- Two Hundred and Thirty Boxes of Prime HAVANNAH CIGARS, including Woodville, Silvas, Cavallos, Regalias, Fellons, Kings, and Flints ; Chinsurah, Bengal, and Ja- panese Peifumed CHEROOTS; sotneprime Amsterdam KNASTKR TOBACCO, elegant GERMAN PIPES, & c.— Sale to commence at Eleven o'clock precisely. The whole will be sold in lots suitable to private Gentle- men, Retail Purchasers, and the Trade. Catalogues are now ready, and samples may be seen at the office of the Auctioneer, New street, Birmingham, on Monday next. S. Bloore, jun., respectfully invites the attention of gen- tlemen, Innkeepers, and Tobacconists, to the above excel- lent stock of Cigars, which are pure and fine, and con- signed to him for peremptory sale. COUNTRY RESIDENCES. TO LET, in the Wellington- road, in the Parish of Handsworth, and within three minutes walk of the church. These residences are ju- t erected, and will be eompL- ted, and may be filtered upon at Lady Day next. For fine scenery, and salubrity of air, the situation is not to be surpassed. Each residence contains two cellars, dining room, break, last room, butler's pantry, and large kitchen, below stairs; drawing room and five sleeping rooms, up- stairs; and also two- stall stables and lock- up coach houses, with commodi- ous yards, gardens, and suitable out- offices complete. For terms, apply to Mr. Chamberlain, on the premises ; or to Mr. C. T. Lutwyche, 27, Cox- street, St. Paul's. GRAMMAR SCHOOL, AUDI. EM, NANTWICH,( SOUTH CHESHIRE). rgAHE ANNUAL EXAMINATION in Classics and JL Science will take place on Monday, the 17th instant, at eleven o'clock, A. M. ; on which occasion the attendance, not only of the friends of the institution, but also of those who feel interested in the cause of education, is respectfully solicited. Audlem, Dec. 8, 1838. TO IRON AND TIN PLATE WORKERS, BROKERS, AND OTHERS. Sale at No. 36, Hill street and 91. Suffolk- street, Birmingham. rpO be SOLD by AUCTION, by S. BLOORE, jim., JL on FRIDAY NEXT, December 21st, on the premises as above, late in the occupation of Mr. Isaac Green, deceased, the whole of the working tools u « ed in the iron and tin- plate trades, together with the stock of stoves and piping, coal hods, draught plates, a « h and fire pans, and other sheet iron wares, a few articles of household furniture, books, and other effects. Sale to commence at half past ten o'clock precisely. Catalogues may he had at the offices of the Auctioneer, 105J, New- street, Birmingham, on Monday next. N. B. At twelve o'clock will be offered, on the premises, S6, Hill- street, the Good will of the Trade. PROTESTANT D1SSENTE US' AND GENERAL LIFE AND FIRE ASSURANCE COMPANY. TEMPORARY OKF1CES, NO. 17, CORXHILL, LONDON. CAPITAL, ONE MILLION. TRUSTEES. ( With a Scat at the Board.) Thomas Challis, Esq. I Thomas Wilson, Esq. Thomas Piper, Esq. DIRECTORS. William T. Beeby, Esq. George Bousfield, Esq. Andrew Caldecott, Esq. John Easthope, Esq., M. P. John Edger, Esq. Joseph Fletcher, Esq. Richard Hollier, Esq. Charles Ilindley, E » q , M. P. John Pirie, E* q., Alderman Thomas B. Simpson, Esq. Charles P. Villieis, Esq. HI. P. John Wilkes, Esq. Edward Wilson, Esq. SECRETARY. Dr. Thomas Price. AS many Fire Policies will be renewable at the ap- proaching Christmas Quarter, the Directors beg to remind their Friends and the Public that they are now in full operation, and are prepared to receive Fire Risks of all descriptions, including Chapels, School Rooms, Goods and Shipping in Docks, Farming Stock, & c., at the same re- duced rates as other respectable Companies. No charge is made on t he transfer of Policies from other Offices. Two Tables of Life Premiums, calculated expressly for this Office, have been prepared— the one giving an interest in the profits of the Company, the other not. Further Particulars may he obtained on application to the following agents: — • Mr. Joseph Phipson, 48, New street. » Rev. J. Sihree. . Mr. J. Price. » Mr. T. Hammersley. KidieJmiiister Thomas Baylis. StotffhridgeJ. F. Watkins. WHOLESALE RIBBON TRADE. ESHILTON respectfully informs his Friends and • the Public of Birmingham and its vicinity, that he is enabled to offer Goods at as low a price as any house in the trade; and those Dealers in Ribbons who have not yet favoured him with a trial, he very respectfully solicits them so to do, feeling assured they will find it to their own in- terest to continue their oiders. E. S. takes this opportunity of returning his grateful thanks to his friends for their kind commands, relying with confidence on a continuance of their favours. 60, Moor- street, Birmingham. Birmingham. Coventry. ™ . Evesham Han WILLIAM MOORE, GRAND TURK INN, BELL STREET, BIRMINGHAM, RESPECTFULLY informs Commercial Gentlemen and the Public in general, that he has entered upon the above Inn, which he has fitted up in the most comfort- ale manner, and hopes, by attention, and keeping on hand a Stock of fine old WINES and choice SPIRITS, to merit a share of their patronage. An ORDINARY every day at One o'clock. Good Stabling and accommodation for Travellers. WANTED, a GOOD STOVER in a Japan Manufactory. Apply 59, Bradford street. TO BEST GOLD FINGER RING MAKERS. ANTED, a first- rate WORKMAN in the above line. Apply at 288, Summer- lane. W £ 50 SOCIETY VJ67ILL commence at the WHITE HORSE CELLAR, » * Constitution- hill, on WEDNESDAY NEXT, December 19, 1838, on improved principles. Payments for a full Share 5s. 3d., and in proportion down to a £ 20 Share. Any person becoming a member will much oblige, Yours respectfully, JOHN CHAMBERLAIN. £ 100, £ 50, AND £ 25 SOCIETY HELD at Mr. JOHN TAYLOR'S, GOLDEN LION INN, Aston- street, Birmingham. Treasurers- Birmingham and Midland Bank. The eighth meeting will take place on Monday evening next, December 17, when there will be the sixth sale. Nights of meeting once a fortnight, payments £ 1 for each £ 100 Share, and in proportion for other sums. NEW BANKING SCHEME. One of the boldest and most singular projects to which paper money making has ever given rise has lately been proposed in France, where it has been received with a cer- tain kind of favour by speculative theorists, if not by the public at large, and if carried into effect may be instrumental in creating a system of paper money on a scale so gigantic as far to eclipse all that has been witnessed in that way, either here or in the United States. It is known that the Post- office in France, as here to a certain extent, charges itself with the remittance into all parts of the kingdom, to the armies, the colonies, and even to various stations out of it, such as Alexandria, Smyrna, and Constantinople, of small suits of money paid into at the piincipal or subordinate post- offices. For the consideration of 5 per cent, a mandat or post- office order is delivered to the party requiring it, payable at sight in any of the localities designated, providing the sum does not exceed 100 francs ; otherwise a previous letter of advice from the Post- office is necessary. The mandat can neither he negotiated nor transferred; the hearer cannot demand payment after the expiration of two years dating from delivery; this term expired, the mandat is annulled without prejudice to the rights of third parties, and saving a renewal of the order. Should the amounts not be demanded for the space of eight years after date, they are forfeited to the state. With such restrictions, it is but rarely that recourse has been had to the French post- office for the transmission of funds from one part to another, and in any case only for insignificant sums. On this account, it is said that representations have been frequently made against the exliorhitancy of the commission tax of 5 per cent, with which the service was charged. Under these circumstances, it has been proposed to re- duce the commission to a- half percent., which would secure to the government, through the Post- office, the monopoly of the transmission of funds from one part to another. This, however, is the least important part of the scheme put tor- ward. It is further suggested that the mandats given out should he allowed to circulate in the same manner as notes to bearer; to be payable on presentation in the chief towns of departments; when above 100 francs at one day's sight in the chief towns of districts ( arrondissements), and at two days' sight in all other minor post- office establishment!! The title or mandat to be available during tluee years, and afterwards only to be subject to a previous verification, without risk ot foifeiture at all. In this manner, it is ob- served, that real bank- notes ( veritable billets de bar. que) would come to be established in a new shape. These notes, it is assumed, would circulate everywhere, and soon replace the use of coin or specie in the greater part of money anil business transactions. Supposing that this innovation could be introduced with as much facility as the author ( M. de Lavergne) takes for granted, the results, it is argued, are so manifestly advantageous as not to be mistaken. France, as a Paris journal remarks, is almost the only country in Europe where deep- rooted prejudices have hitherto frus- trated all attempts to create a paper money circulation placed on a solid basis , without speaking' of England, almost all the German states, and even Russia, have managed to sub- stitute paper as an intermediate agent of circulation for a large portion of specie qualified as a " sterile agent," and thus by " signs" of value less costly contribute directly to the'" work of production." It is made rather a matter of complaint, singularly enough, that four milliards of francs in silver and gold ( about 160,000,000?.) should be requisite in France for the regular routine of commercial affairs— an amount which might advantageously be reduced one half, and to which desirable consummation the project in hand, it is said, might powerfully assist. Such is the plan which is now occupying attention in France, where, as lias been shown on various occasions under this head, hanks and paper money are now of almost every day creation. It may he doubted, after all, whether the combination thus put forth will he likely to excite the public appetite iu that country for paper money. The 1' ost- oflice being part of the machinery of government, paper issued by it other than for direct realisation by individuals, must long be subject to the discredit or prejudice still ope- rating in the minds of the people against paper money of any description, hut how much more especially of that which would he essentially a government paper money, and therefore more immediately liable to all the odium still remembered an I felt against the government assignats of former days Times, of Monday. SECOND EDITION. LONDON GAZETTE. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14. DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY. THOMAS BENJAMIN KING, licensed victualler, Aldgate. BANKRUPTS. HUMPHREY STEVENSON, luce warehouseman, Gutter- lane Decernt: or 19 and January 25, at tile Bankrupts' Court. ROBERT NEECH, jun., cattle dealer, Pakefield, Suffolk, January 1 and 25, at tlio White Lion Inn, Beccles. JAMES GUA HAM, draper, Manchester, December 29 and January 25, at the Commissioners'. rooms, Manchester. HALL KERR, tailor, Woolwich, January 8 and 25, at the Bank, rupta' Court. WILLIAM JOHN DELANCEY ARNOLD, coal merchant, Nor. way- wharf, Westminster, December 21 and January 25, at the Bankrupts' Court. JOSEPH GUY, carpenter, Gloucester. place, Vauxhall- road, Lam- beth, December 20 and January 52, at the Bankrupts' Court. EDWARD FRANCIS TUKE, boarding- house keeper, Sydney, bouse, Homerton, Dec. 21 and January 25, at the Bankrupts' Court. DWIN BOWSER, draper, Llanolly, Carmarthenshire, Dec. 27 and Jan. 25, at the Mackworth Arms Inn, Swansea. WILLIAM PEARSALL, pearl button maker, Birmingham, Dec 2( i and Jan. 25, at the New Royal Hotel, Birmingham. TO CORRESPONDENTS. %* A voter who has been deprived of his vote in conse quence of his living in a house where the rates are paid by the landlord, wishes to know by what means he can he again put on next year's list. Nothing is easier. All that he has to do is to tender his rate to the overseers at the woikhouse; and, if it be accpted, to see, at the same time, that the name is entered in the grand levy book ; or, if it be not accepted, to obtain a written re- fusal of the tender given. According to the form in which the grand levy book is now kept, the name of the tenant ought to appear in every case. He is entitled to deduct the amount of his rate from his rent. "„* Dramaticus was too late. *,• Mr. Wheelwright's case, as he states it, is one of great hardship, we admit, but he had an opportunity of bringing forwaid his evidence when the cuse was gone into. He is not aware that, in attacking the officer, he is, in reality, impugning the justice of the Bench. BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1838. We have given in another page, a paper from the Spectator of last week, on the subject of the corn- laws. We are induced to do so, and to offer a few w ords of comment on the general argument, chiefly on account of the authority that attaches to any paper from a quarter, which is freer than any other in Eng- land from accidental or interested biasses, and which rarely expresses opinions that are not carefully exa- mined ; as well as on certain views of the corn- laws, which the writer imputes to the Birmingham Radicals, of which, by- the- bye, he is, almost of necessity, igno- rant— no report having, we believe, been published, save only our own brief summary of the incidental and spirited discussion that followed the termination of Mr. PAULTON'S second lecture in the Town hall, in which discussion the views alluded to were pretty clearly set forth. Passing from an introduction, in which the writer endeavours to show, that a free trade iu wheat, though by no means insignificant iu its operation, would not affect the agricultural interest so seriously as has been calculated, we come to certain compensating re- turns by which the said free trade would be accom- panied— 1st. The increased prosperity of our towns, arising out of an increased trade, would, as in similar instances it has already done, convert many a bank- rupt lord of the soil into a prosperous gentleman ; it being an admitted fact, that the best farmer pays little for his land compared with what the citnays for his paddock, his garden ground, or the site of his house. Now, the answer to this argument is too obvious to have escaped so acute a person as the author of the Spectator article— namely, what consolation will be derived by the proprietor of land at a distance from towns for the diminution of his rental, from the in- creased rental of the proprietor of land in the neigh- bourhood of towns? There is no getting rid of the plain fact, that if wheat be imported at 5s. a bushel, a very large proportion of the wheat lands of Eng land must cease to yield any rent; and the value of all of them must suffer a great decrease. The w » riter speaks of " sandy and barren tracts" purchased at prices which the rich acres of the most fertile spots iu Eng- land and Scotland could not command; but, supposing only rich and productive tracts to be so purchased, and this would be more in point, what proportion would these tracts bear to the tracts not so purchased ? Would it be as one to ten thousand ? We doubt greatly if it would. By what appliances, then, is it proposed to conciliate the nine thousand nine hundred and ninety- nine losers, in this most unequal bargain ? 2nd. We arc told, that if a free importation of wheat were permitted, the wages of the operative, which now suffice to purchase bread only, would en- able him to purchase beef also; and it is assumed, that he must purchase beef from the English grower. Thus, the proprietor of land in the neighbourhood of towns, would find compensation in the appropriation of his acres to the uses and luxury of the merchant; and the proprietor of land at a distance from towns, would find compensation in the rearing of cattle. We are not prepared to state even approximately the dif- ference of value of the best lands when employed in rearing and fattening cattle, and when employed in raising wheat; but we venture to assert that the latter process, under present circumstances, yields by far the greater return. Besides, if we suppose animal food to rise in price, in that case the operative will be unable to purchase; ifitdonot, then the one compensation, like the other, will, in practice, he no compensation at all. But, in both of his schemes of compensation, the writer appears to us to proceed on DATA that are en- tirely unsound. In the first place, he prodigiously over- estimates the importance of a free trade in wheat, on the general commerce of tlie country. The entire external trade oi' the empire may he taken at fifty millions in round numbers; the internal trade cannot be less than two hundred millions. The greatest importation of grain of all kinds, in any one year, has not amounted to five millions of quarters; but let it he granted, that, under a free trade, the importation of wheat alone would amount to five millions of quarters. This would give, at 40s. a quarter, an increase on our entire commerce of 4 per cent. This calculation proceeds, he it observed, oil the hypothesis, that no decrease would take place in our internal commerce from the free importation of foreign wheat. How great, and how speedy would be the increase of our towns; and how general the conver- sion of barren and sandy tracts into paddocks and country boxes, from an increase of one twenty- fifth on the general commerce of the empire ? We fear that, even in the most favourable localities, the conversion of the bankrupt laird into the prosperous gentleman, would progress very slowly, if at all. The expectation of benefit to be derived from a new distribution of the wages of the operative, seems equally hopeless. We shall not stop to ask, whether a fall in the price of food must, of necessity, he accompanied by a fall in the price of labour; it is enough for our purpose, that those who advise a free trade in wheat, anticipate a fall of wages, as a natural consequence. Without such a fall, how, in fact, should we compete with the foreigner, any more than we do now P It is of small use to open our ports to the corn of foreigners, if we are not pre- pared to offer them, in return, manufactured goods as cheap as they can get them elsewhere. When the Odessa merchant lias sold a cargo of wheat in London, it would be folly to ask him to accept, in return, a cargo of printed cottons, for which we charged him five and twenty per cent, more than would tlie merchant at his own door. The result of our prices would necessarily induce him to exchange his wheat against English sovereigns; and to exchange the sovereigns against the manufactures of Moscow, instead of those of Man- chester. Wages, then, must fall, in order that any part of the anticipated benefits of a free importation of wheat may be realised. And if wages fall, where is the operative to find the means of purchasing that animal food, out of the demand for which the landlord is to receive a return in full for the falling off in the demand for bread ? But there is a greater error than all this in the Spec- tator's argument, ft proceeds, from beginning to end, on the showing, that if the landlord can be cajoled into an abandonment of the wheat growing monopoly, he may retain, unquestioned, a monopoly in every other description of food. Now, laying aside altogether the consideration of principle, which, it is plain, is as much violated by the non- importation of animal as of vege- table food, by what means does the writer propose to recommend his very narrow and isolated plan of relief to the public, any more than to the landlord ? We have, in various parts of the country, heard of an anti- corn law agitation; but the writer in the Sj> ectator is, for anything we know, singular in recommending an anti- wheat law agitation. It is true, for the sake of brevity, people are in the habit of drawing their illus- trations chiefly from the state of the wheat market; I but the argument, as well as the agitation, has been | always directed against the entire of those laws by which the importation of the necessaries of life is re- stricted or forbidden. This was the state of things against which the whole of Mr. PAULDING'S elaborate argument was directed; and the conclusion at which lie arrived was, that all restrictions iu the importation of food— be it vegetable, be it animal— were injurious, and ought to be removed. We come now to the argument as respects the Bir- mingham Radicals. They are represented as adopting, as a principle, ( italicised in the article) that the corn laws " can well wait" till universal suffrage is carried. We are told there is in Birmingham, at the present moment, a flush of prosperity, we suppose by way of accounting for our adoption of this principle; that there is a more rational persuasion iu other parts of the country ; that the abolition of the corn laws ( that is, the wheat laws) is a practical question, which may be carried even next session; and that, " to postpone the accomplishment of a great good until some other more comprehensive benefit can be obtained, is the reverse of practical wisdom"— a truth which it does not require much in- genuity to discover. Now, we must be permitted to inform the writer, that it is no principle of the wise men, nor of any portion of the Birmingham Radicals, wise or foolish, that the corn laws can well wait until universal suffrage is obtained. But they do hold it to be a political truth, which admits of something very like mathemati- cal demonstration, that, until the composition of the Commons House shall be radically changed, the corn laws repeal cannot be urged with even a semblance of probable success. They remember the manner in which these laws were passed, and in the face of what strenuous opposition; they have seen how they have been maintained; they have not forgotten the language of ministers on the subject, nor the votes of members ; they believe that three- fourths of the Lower House are so absolutely dependent on those laws, some for life and all for luxury, that no argument would prevail on them to give them up; and that, if they did so, no vote of a House of Commons, so slightly connected with the people as the present is, would prevail on the Upper House to join in the repeal. Taking these facts into consideration, it is the firm opinion of the Birmingham Radicals that universal suffrage, whether it come in seven years or seventy years, is more easily and speedily attainable than a repeal of the corn laws, on the plain ground, as they conceive, that though Parliament may be as obstinately bent against the one change as the other, a wider and more powerful combination can be entered into for the attainment of universal suffrage, than for the repeal of the corn laws. This was admitted in the discussion at the close of Mr. PAULTON'S lectures. The gentle- man who seconded the resolution for a Birmingham Anti- corn- law Association admitted it in express terms. By what ingenuity, under such circumstances, was the inference to be avoided, that it was more reasonable to prosecute the existing agitation for the suffrage than to enter on a new agitation for the repeal ? There were other arguments which had their weight with the meeting, and the chief of these, as urged by Mr. SALT, was directed against the assumption that, corn being cheap, the purchase of it must, ex necessi- tate, be of proportionate facility. Mr. SALT noticed, in contradiction of this assumption, the § condition of the working classes only a very few years ago, when it was notorious that though corn was as low, if not lower, in price, than any freedom of importation could reduce it to, the working classes were suffering thegreatest privations, and many of them starving. Mr. SALT'S cases were peculiar, and perhaps the writer of the Spectator might be able to explain them plausibly, if not satisfactorily. But what will he say to the case of a country, whose food of all kinds has, for many years, been so abundant as to form a very large article of export— a case where it is plain corn laws neither have, nor can have, any operation— what will he say, when told of that country, that its inhabitants are the poorest and worst fed in the civilised world— and that within the last twenty years they have at times suffered all the horrors of an absolute famine, the export trade continuing and augmenting notwithstanding? Now, this is a case with which the writer must be ac- quainted— it is not a distant one, nor is it doubtful. We allude, of course to the case of Ireland, from which we have seen ship loads on ship loads of wheat daily arriving at Liverpool, at a moment when the wretches, by whose labour it was reared, were endea- vouring to support a miserable existence on the weeds with whieli the rocks of the ocean were covered, and which only the reduction of the duties oil barilla had mercifully left them. These, then, were the reasons why the Birmingham Radicals thought fit to refuse their assent to an agita- tion wliieh they considered to be, at best, useless; and which, by distracting the public attention, at an im- portant crisis, from matters of more vital concernment, might, they feared, be injurious as well as useless. Of their validity it is notour intention to enter into any examination; our purpose is explanation, not defence. One word, at parting, on the commercial argument in favour of a repeal of the corn laws— an argument which, admitting these laws, as we had always done, to be bad in principle and in practice, we must say, has been most absurdly strained. If we are to listen to the repeal advocates, the entire difficulties that beset our foreign trade, is the result of the corn laws; and only put an end to them, and our difficulties will cease, as amatterof course. " You cannot ex- port manufac- tured goods," is the constant cry of these gentlemen— and for why?" Because you won't import corn." Now, what if we imported corn as free as air— corn, of all possible imports, is that which can be least ex- tended. Barley we might, perhaps, consume iii some- what larger quantities than at present, were barley cheap and the malt tax removed; always granted that the tee- totallers would allow us; but by what ap- pliances are we to extend the consumption, and, with the consump; ion, the demand, for wheat? Nay, sup- posing— and this is what the advocates for repeal always suppose— supposing the condition of the masses to be essentially bettered by the repeal, in proportion to the amelioration, the demand for wheat would diminish. The workman, who earns forty shillings a week, con- sumes less bread than lie who earns ten shillings ; fewer loaves suffice the wealthy than are required for the poor. The amount of the commerce to arise out of the repeal of tlie corn laws, admits of a very precise calculation; and it could suffer no increase, save only from the slowly increasing population of the importing country. The case is very different when the article to be imported is a luxury, or one that is contributive to the arts, and where, consequently, the use is not re- stricted by natural laws. Take off, for instance, the sugar monopoly; let the importation of that article be free, without respect to the country producing it, and a greater accession to our foreign commerce would, in a very short time, be the consequence, than would result from the repeal ol the corn laws. And the relief to the poor man would, proportionally be quite as great. For what cares he, after all, about the superscription on the burden that is laid upon his shoulders? whether it bears the name of landlord's tax, or negro whipper's tax, or CHANCELLOR of the ExcHE « UER° stax? Wlmt matters it to the party robbed in to which particular pocket the money of which he is plundered may happen to be dropped ? What imports it to the labourer whether his breakfast or his dinner is attacked, so that his day's enjoyment is effectually curtailed ? He can buy him a bit of butcher's meat as easily out of the savings of a cheap pot of ale, as of a cheap loaf of bread. The malt duty cuts as deeply into his comforts as does the corn law; and to him the abolition of the one would be quite as great a boon as the abolition of the other. S'ime kind friend has sent us a copy of the Northern Liberator, a very ingenious and able paper, tvhich we receive regularly, in which he has marked, for out- especial notice, an article on " moral force," very pleasantly ridiculing the notions on that question of the Birmingham people. As a bit of humour, the article has every title to our commendation; and, as such, till we are better instructed, we must beg to regard it. It is impossible, we think, for the witty writer to have been serious when he described the charitable contribution levied on the worthy nephew of tlie literate canon of Oviedo, when on his journey to Penaflor, as a specimen of " moral force." It is not a few years since we read LE SAGE'S tale; but, if our recollection serves us, Gil describes the mendicant as having a musket, as long as a pike— dont il me couchait en joue, " which he levelled at my head." Now, does the worthy editor of the Liberator wish it to be understood, that, if some knight of the road were to make up to him while wandering by the banks of the Tyne, and to put a pistol to ' his breast and demand his watch " for God's sake," that, when he handed over the ticker to the " beggar's" importunity, he would consider himself as merely yielding to moral force? Would he not, in such a case, at the earliest possible opportunity, call to his aid the policeman, for the purpose of prevailing upon his moral friend to adopt, for the future, some other form of persuasion ? We rather think he would. __ The rector of St. Martin's did a good thing last Friday iu a courteous manner. The Birmingham Tories never do good things even by chance, and their manners are the reverse of courteous. It was, there- fore, to be expected that they should grumble at the rector, because, in opposition to all legitimate rule, he dared to act like a Christian and a gentleman, and more especially when the objects of his consideration were the bulk of his parishioners. Yet, as these men with the serpent's tooth, have also a little of the ser- pent's cunning, we confess we did expect that their grumbling would be, if deep, not loud. We thought they would content themselves with cursing Mr. MOSELEY'S liberality in their hearts, or, at the most, that the overflowings of their anger would be restricted to their select meetings. They have for once disap- pointed us. Whether it be that the humiliating figure which they cut in the revising barrister's court coming iu aggravation of their ludicrous exhibition in the To wn Hall, had pained them beyond all power of re- tention, we know not— but they do cry most loudly, and iu plain language too. " When in our last ( says the Advertiser) we ex- horted the friends of the establishment to rally round the rector, we little imagined that the noble answer which they made to our call would be rewarded, and that too with the advice of Mr. ARNOLD, with the utter and disgraceful abandonment of the cause which they were summoned to support. Such, however, is the humiliating fact;— such the treatment which zealous Churchmen, in their efforts to uphold the efficiency and purity of the establishment, have received at the hands of those from whom they had every reason to expect better things." The mortification, it seems, was increased in a tenfold degree by the fact, that " at no former period was victory more certain." What the expectations of success at former periods may have been, we cannot say; but. for a party that always loses, we must allow, that they exhibit in general a very comfortable assu- rance. " We speak not upon our own authority only, but upon the authority of many from whom on church questions we widely differ, when we assert, that had the rector, as in justice to himself and the sacred in- stitution of which he is a minister he ought to have done, taken a poll of thost present, the election of Mr. BROWN would have been carried by a large, if not an overwhelming, majority." It is as well that the Advertiser does not speak en- tirely on its own authority, seeing that it might pos- sibly be demurred to. The following requires no au- thority :— " There are other considerations of a scarcely less mortifying description than the one we have just men- tioned. The laudation of the rector, by such a motley crew of church destructives, instead ol being repu- diated by the rev. gentleman, was received in a manner which naturally led its bestowers to believe that he was pleased with the insincere adulation with which he was bemired." This was, indeed, the most awful part of the day's proceedings. To be vituperated by the loyal and con- stitutional is very awful; but what is that to the praise of the Radicals and the Whigs! Mr. ARNOLD comes in for his share of the party's displeasure : — " The only reasons assigned by the RECTOR and' the VESTRY CLERK for the pusillanimous conduct they pursued, were the inconvenience and annoyance to which a contest would subject them. No doubt it would have exposed them to much vexation; but surely that can be no reason— even if the inconveni- ence were a hundred- fold greater— that the Church should be sacrificed, and its zealous defenders be treated with inconsiderate contumely, to save the trouble and spare the feelings of two of its most responsible officers. It was the duty of the RECTOR and Mr. ARNOLD, at whatever cost, to defend the Church from'the machinations of its most avowed enemies. To parley even, with open and malignant foes, was bad enough, but to surrender upon the ene- mies' own terms was degradation indeed." The " spirit of genuine liberty" has not, however, evaporated. J' We hope the result will prove, that so far from being dispirited by the late inglorious desertion of its interests, the members and friends of the Church will feel it to be their imperative duty, more zealously than, ever, to rally round its just anil righteous standard. We are gratified to state, that no member of the Loyal and Constitutional Association assented to the withdrawal of Mr BROWN as one of the candidates.''' Poor Mr. BROWN would have been done Brown indeed, had that been the case. The condition of favourites is notoriously insecure. There is, however, this plain distinction between the favourites of the many and the favourites of the few — that the many, when tiiey quarrel with their leaders, can easily obtain a fresh supply. As their idols are mostly made by themselves, when they break up one set they have only to fashion another. The leaders of the few, on the contrary, are essential to their several cliques. When they are withdrawn, the party almost, of course, tumbles to pieces. They give power, but they do not get it. So, we have no doubt, will it hap- pen in the present case. The repudiation of such powerful friends as the reverend RECTOR and Mr. ARNOLD, by the ultra- Tories, will only serve to ex- pose the utter weakness, as well as folly, of the latter. Respectable men, like those from whom they want to separate, are the salt of the party, which, once ab- stracted, leaves them where tliey naturally ought to be— cast forth, and trodden under feet of men. Mr. JAMES JAMES.— This gentleman has addressed' the following letter " to the burgesses of St. Martin's Ward:"— TO THE BURGESSES OF ST. MARTIN's WARD. Gentlemen,— You have been considered by the " Central Committee" as incapable of exercising the right of private judgment iu your own concerns. These gentlemen have also concluded that there were no individuals within the ward worthy of the honour of lepresenting you iu the council. You have resented this treatment, and, in the spiiit of genuine English liberty, determined1 to act for yourselves. It is perfectly obvious, however, that your resistance of dictation has provoked the displeasure of those who sought to exercise it. Having done me the honour of putting me in nomination for this ward, I beg leave to say, that I was not aware of my being put in nomination for St. l'eter's Ward; indeed, 1 had not the least expectation that this would be the case; nor were any of my personal friends present, as represented- in the Journal of to- day, at the meeting alluded to. I beg further to say, that it never has been my intention to seek the honour of representing the burgessei of St. Peter's- Ward. 8 THE . BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL, DECEMBER 22. The Editor of the Journal has to- day insinuated that m> principles have changed. Gentlemen, your application to me was mutually understood to he altogether irrespective of political considerations; hut I feel that I should deserve to he despised by every honest man, if I did not distinctly avow that I am now what I ever was, anil I refer, without hesitation, to tny public conduct, as the best illustration ol my principles. In conclusion, allow me to say, I have not been without intimations that some one of the situations of honour which every citizen might honestly covet, was accessible to me; but I had not the vanity to think that I was either entitled to it, or could properly discharge the duties involved in its possession. I am, gentlemen, your most obedient servant, Bradford- street, Dec. 9, 1838. JAMES JAMES. The quarrel of the " Editor of the Journal" with Mr. JAMES is soon adjusted. The Editor is not much in the habit of insinuating either good or evil— insinu- ation is the weapon of prudent men. He may some- times assert more hastily than he ought. He does not, however, deem his present assertion over- hasty— that Mr. JAMES has, by his conduct in respect of the incor- poration, pretty clearly proved a truth that had been many times insinuated, namely, that in political mat- ters Mr. JAMES has no principles to change. But our dispute with Mr. JAMES matters little. The part of Mr. JAMES'S letter that is at once painful and offensive affects not us, of whom, as common game, lie may assert or insinuate what lists him ; but a body of gentle- men equal, we will not say superior, in station, intelli- gence, and reputation to Mr. JAMES himself— we mean the Central Committee. Mr. JAMES is a grave, delibe- rate man; he is, in a stricter than ordinary sense, a reli- gious man. He is fully aware of the heavy offence which that man commits " who taketh up a reproach against his neighbour ;" yet he does not scruple to take up a reproach against a number of honourable indivi- duals, nor to lend the weight of his character to the grossest misrepresentations, for the purpose of aggravat- ing that reproach. The two first sentences of Mr. JAMES'S letter contain two as injurious slanders as ever were penned. It is wholly, utterly, basely untrue, that the Central Committee, or any of its members, ever asserted, privately or publicly, directly or indirectly, that the burgesses of St. Martin's Ward, or of any other ward, were incapable of exercising the right of private judgment in respect to their representatives in council, or that they asserted any thing to that purport or effect. It is wholly, utterly, basely untrue, that the Central Committee ever asserted, publicly or privately, directly or indirectly, that there were no individuals within St. Martin's Ward worthy the honour of repre- senting tlis burgesses of that ward in council in the Borough Council. What amount of displeasure the determination of the Tories of St. Martin's Ward, to put in nomination Mr. JAMES and his t vo Tory col- leagues, may have given to their friends we really do not know— it has not, in the smallest degree, displeased their opponents. We are quite sure we express the sentiments of all sincere Reformers when we say, that their most earnest wish is, that the Tories in St. Mar tin's Ward and in every Ward in the kingdom may be allowed to follow their own ways, certain, as all sincere Reformers are, that the ways of these disciples of " genuine liberty" have but one termination ; and, if we have another wish on the subject, it is, that every liberal of Mr. JAMES'S complexion may, like that gentleman, be persuaded to march along with them. CANADA.— The insurrection in Upper Canada seems to have been suppressed even more easily and speedily than it was got up. The patriots, notwithstanding their success ou the 14th, do not appear ever to have ven- tured beyond their first position, which was attacked two days after by sea and land; and, after a brisk cannonade, such of the patriots as had not fallen or got away, surrendered. A very great number of them are said" to be natives of the United States. Their fate was undecided when the Great Western, which arrived , at Bristol on Friday, left New York, which was on the 23d ult. Such risings are pleasant exemplifications of the physical force principle; and yet the poor Cana- dians had really nothing else for it— in the first in- stance certainly. A press of matter at a late hour lias compelled us to omit several articles that will appear next week. The Isle of Wight Union have republished Mr. Att- wood's letter on physical force in vindication of their principles. We need only refer to the Edinburgh meeting re- ported in another page. The importance we attach to it will be seen from the space that we have as- signed to it. Sir Francis Burdett intends to honour the Loyal and Constitutional Association with his presence on Tuesday, at a grand dinner, to be given in the Town Hall. He comes down on the invitation of Mr. Edward Armfield, citizen and button maker, who is exceedingly anxious for " a concourse of patriots of patrician rank!" MR. PERKINS, BULL- RING.— We have got into more controversy this week than we have space or desire to notice ; anil, amongst others, with this gentleman. We allude to his letter in the Advertiser of Thursday, merely for the purpose of correcting a small error of fact that has crept into it. Mr. Perkin's nomination as a councillor was not the spontaneous act of the bur- gesses of Market- hall Ward, nor the act of the bur- gesses at all. At the public meeting at the Nelson Tavern, where his name was proposed, not a dozen of hands, from sixty persons, of which the meeting con- sisted, were held up in his favour. The spontaneous act of the burgesses was entirely to reject Mr. Perkins. He owes his nomination to a very select party of To- ries, called privately and held privately. THE TEN NEW CHURCHES.— We cannot see what reasonable objection any one can urge against the proposed erection of new churches. If it were pro- posed to lax the community for the building and en- dowing of them the case would be otherwise. A cor- respondent, who demands that, by way of equality, of the ten, five should be established churches, and five dissenting places of worship, forgets that the dis- senters are not forbidden to imitate the augmentive example of their church brethren. They may at once rise to the equality they desire, by furnishing the requisite funds. Our townsman Whittall takes bis benefit on Wed- nesday next; the little he has had to do has been most respectably done; we have heard lie is capable of better tilings than have yet been intrusted to him. We heartily wish him success; and, supported by the " Odd Fellows," we think he has little to fear. SUTTON.— This extraordinary performer on all kinds of instruments, natural and artificial, live and dead, continues to attract very numerous and respectable audiences; and, we must say, from the cleverness and cleanness of his conveyancing, no man could better deserve public patronage. The conversions and passes are absolutely marvellous— we had almost said mira culous. As it has been remarked in the Birmingham papers, that the hairdressers are trying to come to a resolution to close their shops on Sundays, we are requested by Mr. Elmore, Bull- street, to state, that whatever deci- sion others may come to, he is determined to continue to close, as be always lias done, on the Sahbatli day. THE HAIRDRESSERS.— We perceive from a hand bill that a portion of the hairdressers of Birmingham have come to a resolution to shut their shops on Sun- day. With the theological argument ( or such an ar- rangement we have nothing to do. It belongs to graver columns than ours to discuss it. But as a so- cial rule of great moral and physical value, we think the rest of the seventh day ought to be pre- served from violation, as far as it is possible to do so without marring its purpose— the well- being of the community. We suppose the hairdressers will still shave on Sunday the small number of individuals that cannot shave themselves. Filth and godliness are DO kinsfolk. The governors of the General Hospital have re- ceived from Messrs. Grissell and Peto a donation of ; and from Mr. J. W. Tarleton a donation of 51. LIVERY- STREET CHAPEL.— We understand that the Rev. James Alsop, who has been supplying the pulpit of this place of worship during the last fifteen months, bat received a unanimous call from the members of the church to the pastoral office, which was approved and confirmed at the close of the service last Sabbath evening, by a congregation of about six hundred per- sons. A correspondent observes, that it would be an amus- ing scene, if any honest man at the ensuing Tory feed were to ask old Glory if he were the same man who came down to Birmingham to be present at the New- hall- hill meeting of the Political Union, of which he was for some years a member! It will be recollected that, on that occasion, Sir Francis told Mr. Attwood that he would stand on the crown of his head if it were to serve the cause. We hope his Tory friends will not ask him to perform such a feat on Tuesday to serve their cause— the head has grown so soft of late that it might be dangerous. RACING AT BIRMINGHAM.—( From a correspondent.) — At the conclusion of the eight days annual drill of the Queen's Own Regiment of Worcestershire Yeomanry Cavalry, Lieut.- Colonel Shortliouse matched his cele- brated mare, Shortweight, against Captain I'imley's br. h. The Plasterer, for £ 50. a- side, to come off the first Tuesday in December ; and it came off on Tues- day last, on the Birmingham and Solihull race course. Two miles. Shortweight was admirably trained by Mr. G. Jaylegs, veterinary surgeon, of Bradford- street, Birmingham, whose son rode lier well, and is veteri- nary surgeon to the regiment. The Plasterer was trained and rode by Will Darby, the trainer and jockey for Mr. Bindley, of the Repository, Birmingham. At twelve o'clock the horses came to the post; 6 to 4 on Shortweight, and freely taken. The Plasterer took the lead at a rattling pace, but was soon headed by Short- weight, who kept the lead and won easily. After the race, the colonel declared his intention of giving the sum he had won for the purchase of a silver cup, to be run for at the next Birmingham and Solihull races, by members of the Yeomanry residing in Birmingham and the Eastern Division of the county of Worcester. In the evening, Colonel Sliortliouse entertained his brother officers and a few friends, at his residence, Cleaver- house, Jamaica- row, when it was arranged that a stee ple chase should take place among the officers of the regiment early next year. During the evening, a stee- ple chase match was made between the colonel's Long- waist mare and Mr. T. Scuddamore's filly, by Cheese- monger, over four miles of the heaviest ground that can be found near Birmingham, on the 4tli of January next. BIRMINGHAM LIBRARY.— The annual general meet- ing of this institution, was held at the Library, on Wednesday last, the Rev. G. O. IJemvicke in the chair. The notice convening the meeting having been read, the chairman proceeded to read over, seriatim, the various items of the librarian's account, which had been duly examined and certified by the auditors, Mr. Samuel Hutton, and Mr. T. Clark, jun. A vote of thanks to those gentlemen having been proposed and carried, Mr. Hutton rose to acknowledge the com- pliment, and to suggest the propriety of having the accounts of the library made up and submitted to the future auditors, at least once in every three months, in order to the attainment of greater accuracy and sim- plicity. Mr. Clark said he entirely concurred in the remarks of his colleague, Mr. llutton, and be hoped their successors would be empowered to introduce a new system of keeping the accounts, which he was sure would prove very advantageous to the library, in as much as the present system was very defective and unsatisfactory. The Rev. Mr. Allport then moved, and the Rev. Mr. Nunns seconded a resolution, to the effect that Mr. Hutton and Mr. Thomas Clark be re- appointed auditors for the ensuing year, and that they be empowered to make such alterations in the mode of keeping the accounts as they may deem advisable. Mr. T. H. Lowe subsequently proposed a resolution of which he had given previous notice, namely:— " That this meeting, considering the condition into which the library has fallen, do authorise the com- mittee to immediately repair it in a good and proper manner, so as not only to secure it from further dila- pidation and decay, but render it more worthy of the name of the Birmingham Library." This gave rise to a lengthened discussiou, in w hich Messrs. Wills, J. Ryland, T. Clark, Reece, and several other gentle- men took part, and in the course of which, a letter from Mr. A. Ryland, secretary to the committee for erecting the proposed Commercial Rooms, in Water- loo- street, was read, suggesting the propriety of a conference between the two committees, with a view to the ultimate establishment of both institutions on the same site. The debate terminated in the with- drawal of Mr. Lowe's motion, and the passing' of a resolution requesting the committee of the library to take the matter into consideration at an early period. The meeting broke up at half- past five, when about fifteen gentlemen retired into the committee room, to scrutinise the nomination lists for the new committee, when the following appeared to be the result:— Votes Dr. Booth 340 Rev. J. W. Downes 290 Rev. J. Garbett 246 Rev. J. Allport 244 Rev. G. O. Fenwicke 231 Rev. J. A. James ... 224 Rev. T. Nunns 221 Dr. Birt Davies 219 Rev. J. Kentish 200 J. T. Lawrence, Esq. 185 £ s. £ s. 10 0 Edward Bach 2 0 10 0 W. H. Bates ... 3 0 10 0 J. E. Wilkes ... 5 0 10 0 James Turner 2 0 5 0 T. and J. M. Knott 5 0 5 0 J. Cope, ( Sand Pits) 5 0 Thomas Lee 10 0 Isaac Anderton ... 5 0 Robert Wheeler ... 5 0 5 0 John Aston 3 0 5 0 T. Lewis 1 0 5 0 — Palmer 3 0 5 0 Edward Wright ... 1 1 5 0 B. Chesshire and Son 0 0 J. H. Clarke 1 0 5 0 Thomas Lowe ... 1 0 5 0 J. Podmore 1 0 5 0 John K. Booth ... 5 0 5 0 Thos Hensman ... 1 1 5 0 R. W. Gem 5 0 5 0 T. Lingeti 1 1 5 0 Geo. Smart 1 1 5 0 W. Roberts 1 1 Votes Rev. S. F. Morgan... 184 Rev. H. Hutton 171 Rev. I. P. Lee 136 Dr. Bell Fletcher ... 123 Mr. P. M. Twells .. 121 Mr. T. Knott 117 C. Tindal, Esq 117 W. Scholefield, Esq. 108 Mr. John Aston 102 Rev. S. Gedge 102 Wednesday evening introduced us to two aspirants to histrionic fame, in the persons of a gentleman and lady — the latter a fair townswoman. Although success is not always the criterion of merit, yet it is generally considered, in the theatrical profession, as an infallible proof of the actor's claims to admiration. Our readers may, therelore, form a just estimate of the talents of the stage- struck hero, when we state that he was actually driven from the stage by the unanimous voice of the audience, his assumption of the part of Rolla, in the play of Pizarro, being such that not even the gods could tolerate. Of the fair debutante, Mrs. Bottrill, justice compels us to speak more favourably. Her per- sonation of the character of Little Piclde, in the Spoiled Child, was full of spirit, vivacity, and archness. As a vocalist, she ranks far above mediocrity; her chaste and exquisite performance of the part of Ger- trude, in the Loan of a Lover, a few nights since, having fully established her pretensions to musical talents of no ordinary nature; and we prophesy that, should this lady ever make the stage her profession, she will, at some future time, become one of its brightest ornaments.— Correspondent. FIRE.— A fire, attended with a very severe loss to a most industrious and respectable man, Mr. Charles Jameson, cork- cutter, Moor- street, took place on Mon- day evening. It appears that a spark Hew out of the <; rate in the attic, ill w hich was a quantity of dry cork. The whole immediately ignited, and before any assist- ance could be obtained, the flames presented an alarm- ing appearance; and the engine of the Birmingham Fire Office was promptly upon the spot, when the ap- pearance of the flames excited great alarm ; and a good supply of water having been obtained, with great exertions on the part of the firemen the progress of the flames was speedily arrested. The engines and fire- men of the other offices shortly arrived, and rendered essential service. Jameson's stock, which was consi- derable, was wholly consumed, and many articles of wearing apparel were stolen in the confusion which occurred; and as be is, in consequence of the loss he lias sustained, reduced to a state of extreme destitu- tion, a few influential gentlemen have kindly under- taken to nren a subscription on his behalf, and it is to be hoped his unfortunate case will excite the sympathy of the public. Subscriptions will, we understand, be received by Mr. Kenway, Crooked lane; Mr. Cooper, White Horse, Moor street; Mr. Bavlis, 27, Moor- street; and Mr. James Howie, Moor- street. The re- spectable hank of Taylor and Lloyd have humanely added 31, to the list of subscriptions. ATTACK UPON A POLICE OFFICER.— On Sunday even- ing last, as Wesson, the police officer, was returning home through Allison- street, he was met By two fel- lows, one of whom struck him on the arms and shoulders, and pushed him off the flags into the horse road. The other fellow then rushed at him, and struck him a dreadful blow upon one of his eyes, either with bis fist or a stick; and they both made their escape before Wesson could recover from the effects of the blow, or call for any assistance. His eyes were greatly swollen, and he was much stunned. One of the men had on a light coloured jacket, and an oil- case cap; and the other an ordinary dress. Wesson is unable to assign any reason for the assault. The men did not appear drunk, as far as he could perceive. ANTI- CORPORATORS.— A correspondent sent us some time ago the following list of subscriptions for defray- ing the expenses incurred in opposing the grant of a Charter. As a curiosity, we now publish it. We may observe, that though the name of Mr. Chesshire appears in the list, there is no sum affixed to it. Whether Mr. Chesshire had been assessed by his fel- low Tories and refused to pay, or whether the omis- sion is merely accidental ou the part of our correspon- dent, we do not know :— J. F. Ledsam James Taylor J. W. Unett ... James Lloyd Daniel Ledsam ... John Mabson J. Meredith, ( for- merly of the Old Square, now of Gloucestershire) Edward Armfield Clement Ingleby Henry Meredith Charles Shaw Win. Haines, ( the Commis. clerk) John Stubbs James Busby ... J. W. Whateley ... John Homer W. H. Osborn ... Geo. Barker Geo. Whateley ... TRIBUTE OF RESPECT TO MR. J. G. PASKIN.— The pupils belonging to Mr. Paskin's commercial academy Cfamphill, have presented him with a beautiful gold watch, of the value of twenty guineas, as a tribute of respect for his great attention to their improvement. The watch was manufactured by Mr. Boddington, of Birmingham, and bears upon the case the following inscription:—" Presented December 1, 1838, to Mr J. G. Paskin, Camphill School, Bordesley, by his pupils, as a token of their respect." The following address accompanied the present:— " Dear Sir,— It is the earnest wish of our fellow- pupils, that we should convey to you their sincere thanks for the kindness and attention they have re- ceived at your hands, during the period they have been wills you, and, at the same time, to ask your acceptance of this watch, as a token of their respect and esteem. Wishing you health and prosperity to wear it, we assure you, that we feel great pleasure in having the honour of presenting you with this mark of your pupils' respect; and, in conclusion, we beg leave to subscribe ourselves— your affectionate pupils, " SAMUEL SPENCER. " ISAAC HILL. " Dec. 1,1838. "& c.,& c." To the above Mr. Paskins made an appropriate re- ply, observing that words would fall infinitely short in expressing what he felt on that occasion. They had, in their address, desired him to accept their thanks for the kindness they had received from him. In reply, he would remind them, that the favours they had en- joyed under him, if any, had arisen from their dutiful deportment, and ready compliance with his wishes. He hoped they would persevere in that good conduct, and repay, by a daily increase of knowledge, their pa- rents, for the handsome manner in which they had enabled them to offer to him so handsome a tribute of esteem. TIPTON CHURCH RATE.— The first blow was struck against liberty of conscience in Tipton Thursday, by the seizure of the goods of Mr. Thomas Round, an active and charitable dissenter of that place, for church- rates. This is the second rate of 2s. in the pound, which has been granted in a short period. It is hoped that this persecution, which is to be followed by others of a similar character, will have a tendency to en- lighten the minds of the hitherto blinded inhabitants of that parish to a sense of the r wrongs. Some wag pasted the following doggrel lines on the clock taken from Mr. Round's premises,— O Mother Church! Mother Church! Thou real religion scorner, How could'. t thou move my weakly frame Out of its peaceful corner. How couldst tliou brave my dire revenge, Or scorn my pitious moan, Couldst see no likeness in our fate, We both are going down. And though thy constitution's bad, And my case has a blot on, My works are sound as any belt While thine have long been rotten. My frame tho' shook by thy rude hands, My injury thus meaning. Will soon resume its healthful play While thine is past all cleaning. And tho' I'm doomed to end my days In vile captivity; Yet every hour in twenty-' our, I'll strike a blow at thee. Old mother Church, unholy Church, How odious is thy name ; And every hour, with all my power, I'll sing aloud thy shame. ( From a Correspondent.) SIR JAMES ALLEN PARK.— On Saturday afternoon, Sir James Allen Park, one of Her Majesty's Justices in the Court of Common Pleas, whose illness we an- nounced a few days ago, expired at bis residence in Bedford- square, in the 73d year of his age. The cause of death was a violent internal complaint, which on Tuesday it was thought had been subdued, but which returned with still greater virulence on Thursday, and terminated fatally. PRAYING FOR THE DEAD— A few weeks ago one Mary Woolfrey, a widow, was cited before the Court of Arches, for having engraved on the tomb stone erected to her. husband, a prayer for the repose of his soul. The party citing was a Rev. H. S. Breeks, par- son of the parish. On Wednesday, Sir Herbert Jen- ner dismissed the citation with costs. So much for Breeks. Lady Durham has, as a matter of course, resigned her place as one of the Ladies in Waiting; her Lord no longer being an attache of the ministers. LORD DURHAM'S SUCCESSOR.— The vacant sove- reignty of Canada lias been bestowed on Sir John Col- borne. The Globe says :—" The appointment of Sir John Colborne, as Governor- General of Canada, vests in that gallant officer all the powers which were vested in the Earl of Durham, both as to their nature and ex- tent— powers which we feci persuaded, will he exer- cised with honour to himself, and advantage to the colony; of which he has already given satisfactory earnest, in the promptitude and skill with which he has met the recent emergencies." MRS. CHARLES MATTHEWS.— Vestris and her hus- band have been compelled to bid adieu to America, on account of the hostility of the American press on ac- count of some expressions said to have fallen from tliem while at Saratoga, a place which it appears they never visited! INSOLVENT COURT, PORTUGAL- STREET, Nov. 28th —( Before Mr. Commissioner Bowen.) Samuel Grigg, the younger, late of Hospital- street, Birmingham, applied for his discharge under the act, and was op posed in person by Mr. W. Malone, also of Birming- ham, tailor and draper, on the ground of a vexatious defence, and putting the said W. Malone to unneces- sary expenses. Remanded for four calendar months from filing; his petition. DR. TAYLOR'S DROPS.— Many extraordinary cases of cures, from the use of this truly valuable medicine, have been performed in this neighbourhood ; and, from their increasing sale, we have no doubt of their being very soon placed at the head of all other remedies for the complaints they are recommended for. ( Vide advt.) COURT OF REQUESTS.— DEC. 14. SCHOLEFIELD V. BAUGH. Mr. Edmonds stated the demand to be for 8s., the price of a burgess list, furnished by Mr. Scholefield to the defendant. On the 12th of November last, the overseers wrote to Mr. Scholefield for twelve burgess lists, Mr. Scholefield forwarded the lists, accompanied with a note, in which he said that one of the lists was for the gratuitous use of the overseers, and requested payment by the bearer of 41. 8s., for the other eleven. To this the overseers returned for answer, that the payment of the demand of 41. 8s. must be postponed until it was determined from what fund it was to be defrayed. Further correspondence ensued, and ulti- mately Mr. S. had thought it bis duty to enforce pay- ment. by this action. He ( Mr. E.) said that he would this day state, as he had done the previous Friday, that be believed the overseers resisted the claim solely be- cause they thought it was their duty to do so, and he was sure that every gentleman who knew Mr. Schole- field, w ould believe that he had adopted these proceed- ings solely from a sense that be was bound upon principle to enforce payment. Mr. Edmonds then argued at considerable length, that as the overseers had been furnished with these books at their request, they must be liable to pay for them. Mr. Scholefield was deputed bv the crown to prepare a list of burgesses to vote at the first election, under the charter. Mr. Scholefield was now in the same situation as the over- seers would next year be, and if next year Mr. Schole- field were to request the overseers to furnish him with twelve copies of the burgess list, he ( Mr. E.) was quite certain that he would be found liable to pay for them. Mr. Scholefield bad gratuitously furnished the overseers with copies of the lists of objections and claims, with respect to which it was possible that their evidence might be required before the barrister. He bad also furnished them gratis with one copy of the burgess list, though their office of overseers gave them no right to demand even that. If the twelve overseers were entitled to demand a copy each of the burgess list, so also were each of the guardians entitled, for they were all overseers in every matter except the making and collecting of a rate. Mr. E. then called Mr. Bynner, the vestry clerk, who proved ihe sending of the order to Mr. Schokfield, and also that the lists were delivered and taken possession of by the over- seers Mr. Suckling, on behalf of Mr. Baugh, said that whatever remarks might have been made by Mr. Edmonds, be ( Mr. S.) considered the conduct of Mr. Scholefield towards the overseers as severe, oppressive, and premature. The present summons was taken out on the 30th of November; the books bad been sup- plied only on the 12th, and he must say, that when all that the overseers requested was a short delay, that was an indulgence which might have been granted them. Mr. Suckling' then contended that, in the pre sent case, the suit must be dismissed, because the overseers had ordered the books in their joint capacity, and ought, therefore, to have been sued in a joint form of action. Mr. Edmonds replied to the objection of Mr. Suck- ling— thai, with respect to suing all the overseers jointly, that was impossible. One of the overseers ( Mr. Derby) bad paid for his book; another ( Mr. Ratcliffe) was not present at the meeting when the books were ordered. These parties could by no con- trivance be made liable. The present claim bad no- thing to do with the defendant's duty and office as overseer. He had no more to do with the book than any other individual. The commissioners ( Messrs. Boucher, Moore, Cart- wright, B. Chesshire, Whittle, Tutin, sen., and Tutin, jun.,— Messrs. D. Malins and John Hollingsworth having declined to adjudicate—) consulted in private with Mr. Arnold for some minutes, when Mr. Arnold observed, that they were unanimously of opinion that all the overseers ought to have been sued jointly for the whole amount, and not each for his share, and therefore the present case was dismissed. Mr. Edmonds then said he would withdraw the othercases, and proceed in the hundred court. Mr. Suckling said that was unnecessary, as they would pay the money. We understand the money was immediately after wards tendered to Mr. Scholefield. WAR WITH RUSSIA. [ The following letter from our excellent member appeared in the last number of the iVews.] My Dear Sir,— You have done me but justice in your remarks in your letters in the Neivs, oil my long- continued efforts to arouse the House of Commons and the Government, to a sense of the necessity of checking the insolence of Russia. For the last six years I have omitted no opportunity of proving that the longer the necessary measures for this object were neglected or delayed, the more certain and the more disastrous must be the war, to which such neglect and delay must in- evitably lead. I pointed out, year after year, insult upon insult, breach of faith upon breach of faith, en- croachment upon encroachment, and aggrandisement upon aggrandisement, on the part of Russia. I pointed out how twenty line- of- battle ships in the Baltic would have saved Poland in 1831, without firing a gun; I pointed out how twelve line- of- battle ships in the Dar- danelles' would have saved Turkey in 1834, without war; I pointed out the absolute necessity of vindi- cating the honour and the interest of England, and of compelling Russia to preserve the faith of treaties, and to abandon the Delta of the Danube, and Circassia, and the important military dis rict of Akaltzika; and, above all, to give up the infamous and destructive treaty of Unkiar Skelessi ! It was all waste of time and labour. The three reformed Houses of Commons proved themselves more sordid, more stupid, and more indifferent to the country's honour and safety than any of the most corrupt iftuses which our old borough- mongering system ever produced. I entered Parliament under the impression that I was going among a band of gentlemen and patriots, the elite of the British nation, sent there by their countrymen under circumstances of high enthusiasm. I will not describe the bitterness of my disappointment, when I found myself surrounded by men, alike indifferent to their country's honour, and even to her safety; men ignorant of the sufferings and the wrongs of the people, and apparently occupied only with the low and miserable squabbles of party or with little pet- tifogging objects, or with sordid and selfish views of their own. But we changed the Parliament twice. True. But we made no change in its character, unless it might, be for the worse. I still found the same sordid indiffer- ence to the domestic misery and the foreign shame of the country. When I spoke to them of the danger of CONSTANTI- NOPLE, the Ministers smiled, and stated that " thxg never heard of any such danger," and they were sup- ported by the House! At that very moment, SCUTARI, which is a suburb of CONSTANTINOPLE, was actually in the possession of a Russian army! 1 spoke to them of ihe treaty of Unkiar Skelessi, and insisted on its abrogation. The Ministers answered, that the very moment it was known, " it had become a part of the public law of Europe, and could not be altered. Why, then, did they not seize the Dardanelles, as I often told them they might then have done ? I spoke to them of the necessity of saving Circassia, and of closiag the Caucasus, which constitutes the GATES OF ASIA, against the Russians. The Ministers answered, that Circassia was given by Turkey to Russia, in the treaty of Adrianople, although they knew at the time that Turkey had no right to give it, and th it Russia teat under contract with England not to receive it. I demanded why Russia had been permitted to equip a fleet of twenty- seven line- of- battle ships in the midst of a profound peace, and to threaten the shores of Eng- land, at a time when England could not possibly mus- ter six line- of- battle ships to meet them ? The Minis- ters answered, that " they had no right to interfere with Russia in her naval establishments ."' But feel- ing that this was a weak point, the Ministers added, " that Russia was our friend, and had no hostile in- tentions towards us!" I answered, that " whether Russia was oar friend or our enemy, was of no conse- quence at all; that if we permitted her to acquire dominion over us ; and that he who trusts his freedom to a tyrant, from that moment becomes a SLAVE." I read to them the important parts of Captain Crawford's pamphlet. I proved to them that the Russian fleet might " within a fortnight burn Sheerness, and sweep the English Channel, with a broom at the mast- head, as Van Tromp did." I insisted upon the necessity of their fitting out twenty line- of- battle ships, and of adding twenty thousand more seamen to the navy, by means of proper bounties and other inducements. I might just as well have preached to the winds as to the Reformed House of Commons. All had got some lit- tle miserable matters in their heads ; all, or nearly all, whether Whigs, Tories, or Radicals, were equally in- different to the honour and the safety of their country. And now, what is our position ? It is this— If the late news from India had arrived three months earlier than it did, we should, before now, have had a Russian fleet of twenty- seven line- of- battle ships BURNING SHEERNESS, and THREATENING LONDON, without the possibility of producing more than five or six half- manned line- ofbattle ships to meet them! This is out present position, a position shameful and dangerous to the last degree, and unknown in English history for the last seven hundred years, excepting once for a short period, during the reign of that base scoundrel, Charles the Second. The letters of that distinguished sailor, Captain Napier, and the testimony of other eminent naval authorities, now confirm this fatal and disgrace- ful truth ; and even the public press, " the best possi- ble public deluder," which always concealed my hum- ble warning from the public eye, is now compelled generally to acknowledge it. And what do the public think was all the answer that I obtained from the Ministers of the Crown? Upon more than three different occasions they answered me, amid the cheers of their Whig, Tory, and Radical supporters, that " I was desirous of war with Russia, in order that I might obtain paper money far myself, and good orders for arms for my constituents." I never condescended to notice low ribaldry of' this kind; but if I had thought it consistent with the con- duct of a gentleman to retort charges o( personal in- terest, I should have had but little difficulty in kindling fires which would have made the earth too hot for the soles of the feet of many gentlemen around me. Many of these gentlemen, as the late Lord Liverpool himself declared, had doubled, and even trebled, their rents in paper money, and yet they continued to exact nearly the full payment, in standard gold, ( mm their unhappy tenants, instead of receiving only 10s. Or 6s. 8d. in the pound, which was all their just right! Others had lent consols to the government at the price of 60 in paper money, worth only 30 in gold money, and were, at the very time, cooily and cruelly drawing from this defrauded and distracted nation, 94 in gohl money, instead of 30! The very ministers themselves had doubled their own salaries in paper money, and were coolly pocketing the whole amount in standard gold! And yet these were the gentlemen w ho bad the auda- city to insinuate charges of personal interest against ME ! Yes, if I had been disposed to retort personal charges, I might have considered the gentlemen around me, as so exceedingly busy in pocketing, securing, and con- cealing the plunder which the conversion of paper money into gold had placed in their hands, that they had no leisure, no eyes, no ears, no heads, to attend to any other object. The national honour, the national interest, the national safety, the misery or happiness of the people, the cries of exasperated millions, the social volcano opening under their feet, and the Russians thundering at their gates, ALL might have been repre- sented as having no interest for THEM !! I contented myself wi h reminding them how much their conduct resembled, in some respects, that, of their Saxon ancestors, at the worst period of their degeneracy and degradation, who, when the Danes were upon them, were so exceedingly base and stupid, that, instead of taking up the bow and the spear, and the battle- axe, they fell down flat upon the ground, and began to sing the psalm, Lord, how they increase that trouble me" — and in this shameful position they were butchered ! I did not fail, also, to remind them of the prophecy of DAVID HUME, who, seventy years ago, foretold that the national debt would be the destruction of Eng- land ; that the members of that House would become more interested in supporting the value of that debt, than in supporting the" honour and the in terest of their country; and, strange to say, that DAVID HUME foretold the very conduct of Russia to- wards England at this day, for he expressly stated, " that foreign nations, for a time, would be mindful of the ancient power and dignity of England, that they would be fearful lest the English people should be roused, by open insults, to take their affairs into their own hands, and that, therefore, they would use a measured insolence in their aggressions." This, my dear sir, is the very state of things which now exists. The Russians have used " a measured insolence in tkeir aggressions;" but the day of their " insolence" is drawing to a close. Goaded for year after year, with unregarded sufferings, miseries, in- juries, and oppressions of many kinds— insulted, threatened, and endangered abroad, and afflicted at the same time with domestic misery and foreign shame, " THE ENGLISH PEOPLE" have at last risen up, in the majesty of their strength, to declare, so- lemnly and finally, that THIS STATE OF THINGS SHALL COME TO AN END. If the ministers of the Queen meet this declaration in a proper spirit, if they take the necessary measures to restore liberty and prosperity to the people, and to vindicate the honour and the interest of England, all will yet be right; but if the ministers, or the Parliament should persist in opposing themselves, like bulwarks of sand, to the gieat and overwhelming tide of PUBLIC OPINION, they will, most assuredly, and most deservedly, be swept away. With regard to the present foreign crisis, I have only further to say, that although twenty additional line- of- battle ships, and twenty thousand additional seamen would have been sufficient for our security two years ago, yet I fully agree that now double that number of additional ships and seamen are abso- lutely necessary for the national safety; and that, if double that number are not provided, and well exercised, within five months, by the first day of May next, when the dissolution of the Baltic ice will release the Russian fleet, I do most sincerely hoj> e that the ministers will lose their heads! Ryde, Isle of Wight, Dec. 1, 1838. THOMAS ATTWOOD, 8 THE . BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL, DECEMBER 22. GLEANINGS. BSUMAM AM D'ISRAELI — I met Lord Durham once or tnwevvhen in London, and once at dinner at Lady Bles- Biagton's. I was excessively interested on that occasion fcj the tactics of D'lsiaeii, vvlio had just then chipped his enseal shell, and was anxious to make an impression on 5t) Durham, whose glory, still to come, was confidently &* Mt>) d in thilt blight circle. 1 rather fancy that the dinner waawade to give Vivian Grey the chance; for her ladyship, tteatvolent to every one, has helped D'Israeli to " imp his wag,* with a devoted fiiendship of which he should im- ItasSy in his maturest work, the delicacy and feivour. Wo- Bfefnare glorious friends to stead ambition ; but effective as t& ey nil can be, few have the tact, and fewer the varied ® is » s ol the lady in question. The guests dropped ill, an- MMMM'ed hut unseen, in the dim twilight; and, when Loid X& ik » m came, I could only see that he was of middle sta- tute, anil of a naturally cold address. Bulwer spoke to but he was introduced to no one— a departure from the • EsSem of that maison sans tjine, which, wag either a tribute te& s lordship's reserve, or a ruse 011 the part of Lady Bles- sfctgt » » to secure to D'Israeli the advantage of having his amgaaintance sought— successful, if so, for Lord Durham a& ti dinner requested a formal introduction to him. But fibs jD'Orsay, who sparkles, as he does everything else, out Mle, and in splendid defiance of other's dulness, the soup aadlsrst half hour of dinner would have passed off with the assist! English fashion of earnest silence. • I looked over my afiecs at the future premier, a dark saturuine man, with very Sisei hair, combed veiysmooth, and wondered how a heart, wafetiie turbulent ambitions, and disciplined energies which vnh* stirring, I knew, in his, could be concealed under that yefished and marble tranquillity of mien and manner. He ajeie ! o Lady Blessington in an under tone, replying with jisacid serenity that never reached a smile, to so much of S" © jsa>' s champagne wit as threw its spaikle in his way, aesd Bulwer and D'JUraeli were silent altogether. I should kitt foreboded a dull dinner if, in the open brow, the clear s& say eye. and unembarrassed repose of the beautiful and • ajaessive mouth of Lady Blessington, I had not read the JpJCitiise of a change. It came presently. With a tact, of the subtle ease and grace can in no way be conveyed adkit description, she gathered up the cobweb threads of con stisiition going on at different parts of the table, and, by the appm- iit accident, flung them into D'Israeli's fingeis, the ribands of a lour- in- hand. And, if so coarse a figure illustrate it, he took the whip- hand like a master. It aari S! i appeal to his opinion on a subject he well under- afe> « f) » and lie burst at once, without pieface, into that fiery Wfciaol eloquence which, hearing many times alter, and al i* i.)) i with new delight, have stamped D'Israeli on my mind aaS& s most wonderful talker I have ever had the fortune to He is anything but a declaimer. You would never i& iak him on stilts. If he catches himself in a rhetorical MMncf, lie mocks at it in the next breath. He is satirical, amifmpuiuus, pathetic, humourous, everything in u mo- 1; and his conversation 011 any subject whatever, em- the omnibus rebus, et qiiibusdam aliis. Add to this, Sfej ® D'lsraeili's is the most intellectual face in England— jjleVjiegular, and overshadowed with the most luxuriant SSM3SS of raven black hair; and you will scarce wonder that, atsHtng him for the first time, Lord Durham was ( as he was « ag* « ti'd to be by the Aspasia ol that London academe) K& i » ; essed. He was riot carried away as we were. That aree& l have been unlike Lord Durham. He gave his whole HeJsi) to the brilliant meteor blazing before him; but the teisseope 01 judgment was in his hand— to withdraw nt justsasaie. He has evidently, native to his blood, that great qp& iiiy of a statesman— retenu. D'lsraeli and he formed at tfes* moment a finely contrasted picture. Understanding his perfectly, the author deferred constantly and adroitly asst& e opinion of his noble listener, shaped his argument by Sis- jaggestions, allowed him to say nothing without using it sst& e nucleus of some new turn to his eloquence, and all litis with an apparent effort against it, as if he had desired fcfex& ircss himself exclusively to Lady Blessington, but was tSMSjjelled by a superior intellectual magnetism to turn aside pay homage to her guest. With all this instinctive management, there was a flashing abandon in his language asstiehuice of illustration, a kindling of his eye, and, what I before described, a positive foaming at his lips, which, ataiJasted with the warm but clear and penetrating eye of Durham, his calm but earnest features, and lips closed Hereout compression, formed, as I said, a picture, and of an act& i worth remembering in poetry. Without meaning any :& ss « spect to D'Israeli, whom I admire as much as any n? an England, I remarked to my neighbour, a celebrated artist, Slai ft would make a glorious drawing of Satan tempting an OMisaBgel to rebel.— 2V. P. Willis.—[ Fudge.] S& 33EHT HALL.— Though Mr. Hall was great as a writer, powerful in conversation, yet as a preacher he was in- iisUfcble. My townsman, Gerrard Andrews, Dean of Can- Istriary, was a line orator. Ilis style, like that of the Bishop Usmdaff, was bold and energetic. With a fine open gesjsstnciiition, and great good sense, he powerfully pene fcratwl his hearers; but Mr. Hall impressed you with the atst- that he was an inspired man. He began with hesitation, ae- fefow and feeble tone. So great was the action of his Eiii in lessening the vital functions, that he could scarcely i& a- ajbe. His voice " trembled beneath the images his fancy cs.' Histi, and would have pouted forth a more copious stream aot been overawed by his imagination." Ashepro- ataisd his voice gained strength and flexibility, his utterance a » .-: siBe more rapid, and so neat was his delivery that I have fcL^ imrtly heard twenty and thirty syllables in a breath. he had got fairly into his subject, and had launched fciEsstf, it was a display of human intellect which no words a& a. d « scribe. His hemming cough then left him, and by & 3iag back a little in his pulpit, he acquired a pendulum- like mst~ 34) » , tl: at seemed to steady him in his discourses. A 5813011 n marking to Mi. Hall, that he reminded him of Mr. jfiiU/ iii^ on, of Cambridge, he replied, " Sir, Mr. Itobinson fcdti a musical voice, and was master of all its intonations; Ikfr bad wonderful self- possession, and could say what he jtessed, when he pleased, and how he pleased ; while my neieeanil manner were naturally bad, and far from having a » l£ command, I never entered the pulpit without omitting fee ssy something that I wished to say, and saying something si& t I wished unsaid. Besides all this, I ought to have Known, that for me to speak slow was ruin." " Why so?" wonder that you, a student of philosophy, should a- k « Ei?£ ia question. Vou know, sir, that force, or momentum, ewtjui'itly as the body and velocity; therefore, as my miee is feeble, what is wanted in body must be made up in taiaeity, or there will not be, cannot be, any impression." We- have had all the short- hand writers from London, to Jfcw down his sermons, but the moment ( it might be said ) iki had go' under weigh they invariably laid down tiieir pens ia, » 2) azement and despair. Indeed, nothing but an active atawi and close attention could keep tip with him, so as to tate > 11 his ideas as he uttered them ; to write them down impossible. His powers of amplification were un- united ; lie would tun through eight or ten epithets in a beaath, each one enhancing the grandeur of the thought. Wk* 11 afiived at this state, it was evident lie was dead to all asexual objects, and was revelling among the magnificent isanges of his fancy. * * » # # When I called upon Mr. Hall I generally found him ttdth a book in one hand and a pipe in tile other; and ofien in such agony with the pain in his back, that, to alleviate it, jStt would lie his whole length upon the floor; even in this Tjesition 1 have found him smoking and reading. He told sa that he had read more of Latin and Greek than of his awa language; and, in a conversation he had with Mr. fSneen, he said, " Do you know, sir, for the last five or six wae& s, I have read from live o'clock in the morning until or eight at night. I mean literally reading, sir, all Sfcat time, without ever going out, except now and then 011 ste. evening." He looked pale; I said, " Sir, you will only mjtii'e your health by such hard study." Oh, sir," he rt- plseil, " I find I am obliged to do so; I have no pleasure in talking out, and it occupies my mind; besides, sir, you HSXHV I have many reading men in my congregation, and I jEtiSt keep the upper hand. I should not like any of my hewers to know more than myself, f have given up reading saatlern publications, they are so verbose that I can get tew i&- » > from them ; yet when I take one up I cannot lay it ton till 1 have read it through, sir; then I am vexed and i& ssjtisfied at the waste of time ; besides, i like to go to tike- originals, sir, and drink at the fountain of knowledge fSe& dvur. PRIESTLEY Dr. Priestley, it is acknowledged, was a So- iisiim ; but it was not under that character that he was ® Ksi> gi- ed. It was 11s the friend of liberty, the victim of i » ieler. iiice, and the author of some of the most brilliant U& jlesopliical discoveries of modern time, ( or which he was iiWbia: ed throughout Europe, and his name enrolled as a lafisaber of the most illustiious institutions; so that my isJcgy was but a leebie echo of the applause which re- steaded from every civilised portion of the globe. And • us we suddenly fallen back into the darkness and ignorance j. the middle ages, during which the spell of a stupid and icfeeliiig uniformity, bound the nations in iron slumber, ttfii it it become 11 crime to praise a man for talents which Su whole world admire, and for virtues which his enemies atisfe.- jed, merely because his religious creed was erroneous ? -. uything could sink orthodoxy into contempt, it would bt, its association with such gothic barbarity of sentiment, sacbreptile meanness— Robert Hall. SiEXJ. rNG.— The Woods of Lancashire are a distinguished at/^ ily for character, wealth, and talent; the eldest son, j^ iik Wood, has been returned member of Parliament for . Preston, several times, and proved himself a steady sup geftev of civil and religious liberty. A laughable circutn- once took place upon a trial in Lancashire, wliere tile- head of the family, Air. Wood, sen., was examined as a • aiiSHSSs. Upon giving his name, Ottiwell Wood, the judge, atSiiiassing the reverend person, said, " Pray, Mr. Wood, how do you spell jour name?" The old gentleman re- plied— 0 double T 1 double U E double L Double U Double O D Upon which the astonished lawgiver laid down ins pen, saying it was the most extraordinary name he had ever met with in his life, and, after two or three attempts, declared he was unable to record it Gardiner. Sill JOHN FUANKLIN At the time I visited Lincoln shiie, thousands of acres in the fens produced nothing but reeds, peat, gee e, and wild fowl; and I never entered the White Hart at Spilsby, but 1 dined off a wild duck; the finest thing, in my estimation, the country produces. I well recollect spending a winter's evening in this comfortable inn, and meeting with a fine young chivalric fellow, whose whose manners bespoke him no ordinary person. He was the eldest son of a shopkeeper in the place, of the liaine ol Franklin ; and though he had no opportunities of seeing the world but by his occasional trips to Manchester to buy cotton goods, he had acquired intelligence and manners that one would little expect to find in such a comer of the world. He invited me to breakfast, and I was much pleased with his two amiable sisters. In a recess, close to the fire, was a diminutive piano forte, by which I introduced myself, playing a canzonetta of Haydn's. Amongst the ladies' drawings, I was shown a portrait of a brother, then studying in Cambridge. This gentleman afterwards resided in my own town, became eminent at the bar, arrived at the title ol Sir Willingham Franklin, and died chief judge in India. My heroic friend, the shopkeeper, died soon afterwards; but another brother I then noticed serving behind the counter, is, I believe, the celebrated Sir John Franklin, of the North Pole.— Gardiner. ILELFEA MUSICALS John, the son of Mr. George Strutt, who resides at Belper, possesses a refined musical taste, and has rendered bis neighbourhood as famous in that science as any district in Germany * * An idea of the magnitude of their concerns may be gathered from the following circumstances:— About the year 1820. wishing to retire from business, they proposed to any persons who would purchase their works at a valuation, that they would give the paities a bonus of 150.000/. To give a higher taste to the work- people at Belper, Mr. John Strutt lias formed a musical society, by selecting forty persons, or more, from his mills and workshops, making a band of instrumental performers and a choir of singers. These persons are regularly trained by masters, and taught to play and sing in the best manner. Whatever time is consumed in their Studies, is reckoned into their working hours. On the night of a general muster you may see five or six of the forgemen, in their leather aprons, blasting their terrific notes upon ophicleides and trombones. Soon after the commencement of this music school, it was found that the proficients were liable to be enticed away, and to commence as teachers of mu? ic. To remedy this, the members of the orchestra are bound to remain at the works for seven years. Mr. Strutt has ingeniously contrived an orchestra, with the desks and boxes containing the instruments, to fold and pack up, so that, with the addition of a pair of wheels, the whole forms a carriage, and, with an omnibus for the peiformers, he oc- casionally moves the corps de musique to Derby, or the surrounding villages, where their sei vices are required for charitable occasions. The liberality with which this musical establishment is supported is as extraordinary as its novelty. As an incentive to excellence, when he visits town, he oc- casionally tildes half a dozen of his cleverest people with him. who are treated to the opera and the concerts, to hear the finest performers of the age— Gardiner. CIVIL WAR.— I resided in the lines from the commence- ment of the revolution until the winter of the year 1780, when my lather's house was burnt, by order of the British general. The county of West Chester, very soon after the commencement of hostilities, became, on account of its exposed situation, a scene of the deepest distress. From the Croton to Kingsbridge, every species of rapine and law- less violence prevailed. No man went to his bed but under the apprehension of having his house plundered or burnt, or himself or family massacred, before morning. Some, under the character of Whigs, plundered the Tories; while others, of the latter description, plundered the Whigs. Parties cf marauders, assuming either character or none, as suited their convenience, indiscriminately assailed both Whigs and Tories. So little vigilance was used 011 our part, that emis- saries and spies of the enemy passed and repassed without interruption. These calamities continued undiminished until the arrival of Colonel Burr, in the autumn of the year 1778. He took command of the same troops which his predecessor, Colonel Littlefield commanded. At the moment of Colonel Burr's arrival, Colonel Littlefield had returned from a plundering expedition ( for to plunder those culled Toiies was then deemed lawful), and had brought up horses, cattle, bedding, clothing, and other articles of easy transportation, which he had proposed to distribute among the party the next day. Colonel Burr's first act of authority was to seize and secure all this plunder; and he immediately took measures for restoring it to the owners. This gave us much trouble, but it was abundantly repaid by the confidence it inspired. He then made known his determination to suppress plundering. The same day lie visited all the guards, changed their position, dismissed some of the officers, whom he found totally incompetent, gave new instructions. On the same day, also, he commenced a register of the names and characters of all who resided near and below his guards; distinguished by secret marks the Whig, the timid Whig, the Tory, the horse- thief, and those concerned in, or sus- pected of, giving information to the enemy. He also began a map of the country, in the vicinity of the fort; of the rouds, by- roads, paths, creeks, morasses, & c., which might become hiding places for the disaffected, or for marauding parties. This map was made by Colonel Butr himself, from such materials as he could collect on the spot, hut principally from his own observation. He raised and established a corps of horsemen from among the respectable farmers and young men of the country, of tried patriotism, fidelity, and courage. * * # * * A few days after the colonel's arrival, the house of one Gedney was plundered in the night, and tile family abused anil teriified. Gedney sent, his son to make a representation of it to the colonel. The young man, not regarding the orders which had been i- sued, came to the colonel's quar- ters, undiscovered by 1 he sentinels, having taken a secret path through the field for the purpose. For this violation of orders the young man was punished. The colonel im- mediately took measures for the detection of the plunderers; and though they were ail di- guised, and wholly unknown to Gedney, yet Colonel Burr, by means which were never yel discbsed, discovered the plunderers, and had them all secured within twenty four hours. Gedney's family, on re- ference to his register, appeared to be Tories; but Buirhad promised tlia' every quiet man should be protected. He caused the robbers to be conveyed to Gedney's house, under the charge of Captain Benson, there to restore the booty they had taken, to make reparation in money for such articles as were lost or damaged, and for the a'ann and abuse, the amount of which the colonel assessed, to be flogged ten lashes, and to ask pardon of the old man ; all which was faithfully and immediately executed.— Life of Aaron Burr. TORONTO There reigns here a hateful factious spirit in political matters, but for the present 110 public or patriotic feeling, 110 recognition of general or generous principles of policy : as yet 1 have met with none of these. Canada is a colony, not a country; it is not yet identified with the dearest affections and associations, remembrances aud hopes of its inhabitants: it is to them an adopted, not a real mother. Their love, their pride, are not for poor Canada, but for high imd happy England ; but a few more generations must change all this. We have here Tories, Whigs, and Radicals, so called ; but these words do not signify exactly what we mean by the same designations at home. You must recol- lect that the first settlers in Upper Canada were those who were obliged to fly from the United States during the re- volutionary war, in consequence of their attachment to the British government, aud the soldiers and non- commissioned officers who had fought during the war. These were re- compensed lor their losses, sufferings, and services, by grains of land in Upper Canada. Thus the very first elements out of which our social system was framed, were repugnance and contempt for the new institutions of the United States, and a dislike to the people of that eojjntry,— a very natural result of foregone causes; and thus it has happened that the slightest tinge of democratic, or even liberal principles in politics, was for a long time 11 sufficient impeachment of the loyalty, a stain upon the personal character, of those who held them. The Tories have therefore been hitherto the influential party; in their hands we find the government pa tronage, the principal offices, the sales and grants of land, for n long series 0! years. Another party, professing the same boundless loyalty to the mother country, and the same dislike for the principles and institutions of tiieir Yankee neighbours, may be called the Whigs of Upper Canada; these look with jealousy and scorn on the power and pre- judices of the Tory families, and insist on the necessity of many reforms in the colonial government. Many of these are young men of talent, and professional men, who find themselves shut out from what they regard as their fair pro- portion of social consideration and influence, such as, in a small society like this, their superior education and charac ter ought to command for them. Another set are the Radi- cals, whom I generally hear mentioned as' those scoundrels,' or ' those rascals,' or with some epithet expressive of the utmost contempt and disgust. They are those who wish to see this country erected into a republic, like the United States. A few among them are men of talent and educa- tion, but at present they are neither influential nor formid- able. There is among all parties a general tone of complaint and discontent— a mutual distrust— a languor and supine- ness— the causes of which I cannot as yet understand. Even those who are enthusiastically British in heart and feeling, who sincerely believe that it is the true interest of the co lony to remain under the control of the mother country, are as discontented as the rest: they bitterly denounce the ig- norance of the colonial officials at home, with regard to the true interests of the country : they ascribe the want 01 capital foi improvement on a large scale to no mistrust in the resources of the country, but to a want of confidence in the measures of the government, and the security of pro perty.— Mrs. Jameson. CANADIAN MILITIA.— The whole house was in unusual hustle, for it was the 4th of June, parade day, when the dis- trict militia were to he turned out; and two of the young men of the family were buckling on swords and accoutre- ments, and furbishing up helmets, while the sister was offi- ciating with 11 sister's pride at this military toilette, tying on sashes and arranging epaulettes; and certainly, when they appeared— one in the pretty green costume of a rifleman, the other all covered with embioidery as a captain of lan- cers— I thought I had seldom seen two finer looking men. After taking coffee and refreshments, we drove down to tile scene ot action. On a rising ground above the river which ran gurgling and sparkling through the green ravine beneath, the motley troops, about three or four hundred men, were marshalled— no, not marshalled but scattered in a far more picturesque fashion hither and thither: a few log- houses and a saw- mill on the river bank, and a little wooden church crowning the opposite height, formed the chief features of the scene. The boundless forest spread all around us. A few men, well mounted, and dressed as lancers, in uniforms which were, however, anything but unilorm, flourished back- wards on the green sward, to the manifest peril of the spec- tators ; themselves and their horses, equally wild, disorderly, spirited, undisciplined : hut this was perlection compared with the infantry. Here there was no uniformity attempted of dress, of appearance, of movement; a few had coats, others jackets; a greater number had neither coats nor jackets, but appeared in their shirt sleeves, while or checked, or clean or dirty, in edifying variety! Some wore hats, others caps, others their own shaggy heads ot hair. Some had firelocks ; some had old swords, suspended in belts, or stuck in their waistbands; hut the greater number shoul- dered sticks or umbrellas. Mrs. M * * * told us that on a former parade day she had heard the word of command given thus—' Gentlemen with the umbrellas, take ground to the right! Gentlemen with the walking sticks, take ground to the lett!' Now they ran after each other, elbowed and kicked each other, straddled, stooped, chattered; and if the commanding officer turned his back for a moment, very coolly sat down on the bank to rest. Not to laugh was impossible, and defied all power of face. Charles M. made himself hoarse with shouting out orders which no one obeyed, except, perhaps, two or three men in tiie front; and James, with his hoiseiuen, flourished their lances, and gal- loped, and capeied, and curveted to admiration. * * The parade day ended in a drunken bout and a riot, in which, as I was afterwards informed, the colonel had been knocked down, and one or two serious and even fatal accidents had occurred ; but it was all taken so very lightly, so very much as a thing of course, in this half civilised community, that I soon ceased to think about the matter Mrs. Jameson. RESERVES— There are great differences of opinion, and a good deal of bitterness of spirit, prevailing on this subject, so often brought under discussion, and as yet unsettled. When Upper Canada was separated from the Lower Province ( in 1791) one seventh part of the lands was set apart for the maintenance ot the clergy, under the name of Clergy Reserves ; and the Church of England, as being the church by law established, claimed the entire ap- propriation of these lands. The Roman Catholics, under the old conditions by which the maintenance of their church was provided lor 011 the conquest of the colony, also put in their claim, as did the Presbyterians on account of their in- fluence, and the Methodists on account of their number. The inhabitants, meantime, through the legislature, peti- tioned the government, that the whole of the clergy reserves should be appropriated to the purposes of education, for which the funds already provided are wholly inadequate, and are ill managed besides— but of this hereafter. If the question had been left to be settled by the House of As- sembly then sitting, the Radicals of 1832, there fs no doubt that such would have been the destination of these reserves, which now consist of about two millions of acres out ol fourteen millions, settled or in course of cultivation, and in- definitely increasing as more and more land is redeemed from the unmeasured, interminable forest. The govern- ment at home sent over to the legislature here a cession ol the crown lands, and a recommendation to settle the whole question ; but we have now a House of Assembly differ- ently constituted from tiiat of 1832, and the preponderance is altogether the other way. 1 am now aware that there exist three parties on this subject: — First, those who would appropriate the whole of these reserves solely to the main- tenance of the Church of England. This is a small but zealous party— not so much insisting on their own claim, as on the absolute inconsistency aud unrighteousness ol allow- ing any other claim. A second party represent that the Church of England consists of hut a small number of the colonists; that as no profession of belief ( quakerism ex- cepted) can exclude a man from the provincial legislature, so each religion tolerated by the state should he by the state maintained. They exclaim against disuniting religion and education, and insist that the reserves should be divided in shares proportionate to the number of members of each church,— among the Episcopalians, Presbyterians, Roman Catholics, Wesleyan Methodists, and Baptists. This party is numerous, but not unanimous. In hostility to the ex- clusive pretensions of the episcopal church they are agreed, but they seem to agree in nothing else; and some numer- ous and respectable sects are altogether excluded. A tiiird party, and by far the most numerous, require that the main- tenance of the clergy should be lett, as in the United States, to the voluntary aid of their congregation, and the entire produce of the lands reserved for the education of the peo- ple Mrs. Jameson's Canada. PILGRIMS.— On the 12th of August last there arrived in Berlin, upon a wretched Russian waggon, three strangers, who, with their long beards, and the whole character of their attire, might have been taken for Russians of the lowest class. Upon inquiry they proved to be Chahlee Christians who had taken this route, having journeyed overland to St. Petersburg!), to go to England, their avowed purpose being to lay before the Bible Society of London the distressed slate of the Christian communities in the Persian province of Azerbaijan and in the vicinity of the Lake of Urmiyah. Their names are David Gabriel, fifty years old; Jussuf Johannes, aged thirty; and Gabriel Sliabriz, aged twenty- six; the latter called himself nephew of the Bishop of Tabriz. They were scantily supplied with the necessaries for so long a journey, and soon attracted the notice of the benevolent inhabitants of Berlin, who procured them free board and lodging during tiieir slay there, sent them to a correspondent at Hamburgh, and engaged for them a pas- sage to England. The writer of this account, aided by Prof. Petermann, the orientalist, and Carl Ritter, the geographer, and an interpreter of the name of Oculi, who spoke Turkish, took great pains to get from these travellers ample details of the state of their country, respecting their own personal situation and property, the civil institutions under which they lived, and mure especially the state and doctrine of the Chiistian chutches in that part of the East. All who saw and conversed with them were much pleased with their general demeanour, the candour and freedom with which they replied to the numerous questions which were put to thein, arid the moral habits they seemed to have brought with them from a country enjoying, among many political privations, the advantages of a state approaching to primi- tive simp. icily. They had been acquainted with Colonel Monteith, who travelled through their country in 1829, and Colonel Shiel in 1837; they were fully competent to give information respecting the relative geographical position of the various towns, villages, & c. in their own country ; the eldest had been at, and could give a fair account of Shirnz and Abu Sliehr, the youngest had been in Arabia; they dis tincily declared themselves to be Protestants, living in the diocese of the Bishop of Seimas, hut under the superin- tendence of the Patriarch Mar Simun, at Kochannes, near Julainerik. Some circumstances occurred to cieate in the minds of a few who saw them, a suspicion that the tale these Chaldees told was not in all points the true one; but the apparent contradictions, the writer thinks, were of a very trifling nature, and the result, 011 the whole, much in their favour To the above narrative may be added that these three poor Chaldees airived in London on the 1st of Sep- tember; they showed their letters and documents to ( he British and Foreign Bible Society, who, after a full and mature consideration ol all the circumstances of the case, were of opinion that the men were not authorized to come to London to make demands they professed to he the bearers of; at the same time, owing to the benevolence of some few individuals, they were not allowed to want, and a passage was taken for them on board a vessel to return to Constantinople, on their way to their homes; this at first the Chaldees thankfully accepted, but they afterwards changed their minds, without clearly explaining for what reason ; consequently, the passage money was forfeited, and the Chal- dees left London, after a stay of nearly two months, to beg their way home; it is believed via Paris and Marseilles.— Alhenaum. CROTCH About the year 1782, young Crotch was brought to Leicester as a musical prodigy, being then not more than live years old. He was brought first to our house, and played the piano- forte as he sat upon his mother's knee. At that time there were riot more than two or three piano- fortes in the town or neighbourhood ; mine was esteemed a good one, made by John Pholman, I suppose in Germany, and before any were made in England. Upon this instru- ment Crotch first exhibited his extraordinary talent in Lei- cester. I laid before him Handel's organ concertos, which, witin ut difficulty, he played at sight. He was a delicate, lively boy, and, next to music, was most fond of chalking upon the floor. 1 was much sui prised to see how readily he sketched a ship in full sail, during which I stiuck some notes on the piano, forming a contused sound, and requested lie would tell me the notes of which it was composed. This he did instantly, while so employed. A concert was con- vened of the amateurs at the Exchange for his benefit, at which he performed several pieces to the admiration ol the audience. After this, he exhibited his talent upon the violin, which he played lett handed, and being very small of his age, he stood in a chair to lead the concert. In one of the pieces, he stopped Mr. Tilley, who was the principal violincello, and pointed out a passage— infant as he was— that our grave performer had played incorrectly. Such early indications of talent gave high expectations of future great- ness, and had he not gone into the schools to be saturated with the rigid harmonies of the ancients, wnich sealed up his genius, we might have boasted of a native Mozart.— Gardiner. OLD TIMES. — At this time every village had its wake, and the lower orders were compaiariveiy in a state of ease and plenty. Then every place was proud of its maypole and spacious green, kept for sports and pastimes; but what contributed to their solid comforts was the common and open field, upon which they kept their pig and poultry, and sometimes a cow. When the wake came, the stocking- maker had peas and beans in his snug garden, and a good barrel of drumming ale. To these comforts were added two suits of clothes, a working suit and a Sunday suit; hut, more than all, he had leisure, which, in the summer time, was a blessing and delight. The year was chequered with holy days, wakes, and fairs; it was not one dull round ol labour. Those who had their frames at home seldom worked more than three days in a week. The maypole, with its pastimes, and the games of singlestick and wrestling, have now disap- peared. These were the sports of the ruder part of the peasantry; the artisans, who were more cultivated, had their amusements at home ; they were members of the village choir, and on the wake Sunday, every one that had a voice, and could lend a hand with hautboy, bassoon, or flute, re- paired to the singing loft in the church, to swell with heart and voice the psalm or anthem; the clowns below gaping with mute surprise. These harmless recreations are for ever gone. The quavering strains of Arnold, Transur, Knapp, and Bishop, we hear no more.— Gardiner. CANADIAN INDIANS.— There are a great number of Indians, Ottawas, and Pottowottomies, who receive annual presents from the English government, and are residing on the frontiers of the American settlements, near Lake Michigan. These people, having disposed of their lands, know not where to go, aud it is the wish of our government to assemble all those Indians who aie our allies, and receive our annual presents, within the limits ol the British territory— and this lor reasons which certainly do appear very reasonable and politic. There aie three thousand seven hundred Indians, Ottawas, Chippewas, Pottowottomies, Winnebagos, and Menomonies, encamped around us. The issue of the presents has just concluded, and appears to have given uni- versal satisfaction; yet, were you to see tiieir trifling nature, you would wonder, that they think it worth while to travel from one to five hundred miles, or more, to receive them ; and by an ordinance of the Indian department, every indivi- dual must present himsell in per- on to receive the allotted portion. The common equipment of eacli chief or warrior ( that is, each man) consisted 01 ihree quarters of a yard of blue cloth, three yards of linen, one blanket, half an ounce of thread, four strong needles, one comb, one awl, one butcher's knife, three pounds til tobacco, three pounds of ball, nine pounds of siiot, four pounds of powder, and six flints. Tile equipment of a woman consisted of one yard and three quarters of course woollen, two yards and a half of printed calico, one blanket, one ounce of thread, four needles, one comb, one awl, one knife. For each child there was a portion of woollen cloth and calico. Those chiefs who had been wounded in battle, or hud extiaordinary claims, had some little articles in extra quantity, and a gay shawl or handkerchief. To each principal chief of a tribe, the allotted portion ofgoods for his tribe was given, and he made the distribution to Ilis people individually; and such a thing as injustice or partiality on one hand, or a murmur of dissatis- faction on the other, seemed equally unknown. There were, besides, extra piesents of flags, medals, chiefs'guns, rifles, trinkets, brass kettles, the choice and distribution of which were left to the superintendent, with this proviso, that the expense on the whole was never to exceed nine pounds sterling for every one hundred chiefs or warriors. While the Indians remain 011 the island, which is generally about live days, they receive rations of Indian corn and tallow, ( fat melted down;) with this they make a sort of soup, boiling the Indian corn till it is of the consistence of porridge — then adding a handful of tallow and some salt, and stirring it well. Many 11 kettleful of this delectable mess did I see made, without feeling any temptation to taste it; but Major Anderson 6ays it is not so very bad, when a man is very hungry, which I am content to believe on his testimony, On this and on the fish of the bay they live while here Mr. Jameson. NEW SETTLEMENTS It hat just been 6aid, that the pro- gress of society in what is termed a " new country," is a little peculiar. At the commencement of a settlement there is much of that sort of kind feeling and, mutual interest, which men are apt to manifest towards each other when they have embarked in an enterprise of common hazard. The distance that is unavoidably inseparable from education, habits, and and manners, is lessened by mutual wants and mutual efforts; and the gentleman, even while he may maintain his charac- ter and station, maintains them with that species of good fellowship and familiarity that mark the intercourse between the officer and soldier in an arduous campaign. Men, and even women, break bread together, and otherwise commingle, that in different circumstances would be strangers; the hardy and roueh living of the forest, apparently lowering the pretensions of the man of cultivation and mere mental resources to something very near the level of those of the man of physical energy and manual skill. In this rude inter- course the parties meet, us it might be, on a sort of neutral ground, one yielding something of his superiority, and the other hiving claim to an outward show of equality, that he well understands, however, is tiie result of the peculiar cir- cumstances in which he is placed. In short, the state of society is favourable to the claims of mere animal foice, and unfavourable to those of the higher mental qualities. This period may be termed, perhaps the happiest of the first century of a settlement. The great cares of life are so engrossing and serious, that small vexations are overlooked, and thepetty grievances that would make usseriously uncom- fortable, in a more regular state of society, are taken as matters of course, or laughed at as the regular and expected incidents of the day. Goodwill abounds; neighbour comes cheerfully to the aid of neighbour; and life lias much of the reckless gnyety, careless association, and buoyant merriment of childhood. It is found that they who have passed tin 1 ugh this probation, usaa'ly look hack to it with regret, and are fon.- l of dwelling on the rude scenes aud ridiculous events that distinguish the history of a new settlement, as the hunter is known to pine for the forest. To this period of fun, toil, neighbourly feeling, and adven" ture, succeeds another, in which society begins to marshal itself, and the ordinary passions have sway. Now it is that we see the struggles for place, the heartburnings and jealous- ies of contending families, and ihe influence of mere money. Circumstanceshave probably established the local superiority of a few beyond all question ; and the society of these serves as a goal for the rest to aim at. The learned professions— the ministry included, or what by courtesy is so called, take precedence— as a matter of course, next to wealth, however, when wealth is at all suppoited by appearances. Then commence those gradations i f social station tiiat set institu- tions at defiance, and which as necessarily follow civili- sation as tastes and habits aie a consequenoe of indul- gence. This is, perhaps, the least inviting condition of society that belongs to any country that can claim to be free and removed Irom barbarism. The tastes are too uncultivated to exetcise any essential influence; and when they do exist, it is usually with the pretension that notoriously accompanies infant knowledge. The struggle is only so much the more severe, in consequence of the late ptile mele, while men lay claim to a consideration that would seem beyond tiieir reach in an older and better regulated community. It is during this period that manners suffer the must, since they want the nature and feeling of the first condition, while they are exposed to the mdest assaults of the coarse- minded and vulgar; for as men usually defer to superiority that is long established, there being a charm about antiquity that is sometimes able to rei ress even the passions, in older com- munities the marshalling of time quietly regulates what is here the supject of strife. What has just been said, depends on a general and natural principle, perhaps ; but the state of society we are describing has some features peculiar to itself. The civilisation of America, even in those older districts that supply the emigrants to the newer regions, is unequal one state possessing a higher level than another. Coming as it does from different parts of this vast country, the popu- lation of a new settlement, while it is singularly homoge- neous for the circumstances, necessarily brings with it these local peculiarities. If to such elements there be added a sprinkling of Europeans of various nations and conditions, the effect of the commingling, and the temporary social struggles that follow, will occasion no surprise.— EveEffing- ham. NEW PARCHMENT.— M. Pelouze states, that if a piece of paper be plunged into nitric acid at l. S of density, and left in it a sufficient time for saturation, say two or three minutes, and immediately washed in plenty of water, a species of parchment is produced, which is impervious to damp, and is extremely combustible; and that the same change takes place in cotton and linen stuffs. BHM JONSON— In the present case, we think that the received idea is an error in criticism. For, when we spealc of " judgment," we must mean judgment in reference to the entire drama, not to a mere arrangement of scenes, ( which are little more than its mechanism,) but to the construction and development of characters, the conduct and style of the dialogue, and the general truth and completeness of the play. Now, taking a'l these things into consideration, there cannot, we conceive, be a doubt as to the immense supe- riority of Shakspeare. In the management of his scenes, Jonson is frequently injudicious, inasmuch as he is very prolix and inactive, making little or no progress in the Story; whilst the speeches, as in " Catiline," and other dramas, are tedious beyond those of any contemporary writer. He is injudicious, where he introduces into his dramas a multitude of characters who throw no light upon the story, and lend no interest to it, occupying space that had better have been bestowed upon the principal agents of the plot. lie is injudicious, because he has selected sub- jects of temporary fashion and interest as the ground- work s for the display of his humour; instead of resorting to those qualities of the mind, which, however they may vary with circumstances, are, nevertheless, permanent in themselves, and matters of interest to all men. Again, the very prin- ciple and essence of a play consists in its attracting the sympathy of the audience, for one or more of the persons of the drama; and yet there is scarcely a male, and not one female character in the entire range of Jonson's plays, con- cerning whose fate we trouble ourselves even for an instant. It is these drawbacks that,— notwithstanding much good and some beautiful writing, notwithstanding an abundance of sententious sayings, and great deal of wit and humour,— have banished the dramas of Ben Jonson from the English stage. And yet, the works of our author richly deserve the atten- tion of every one desirous of becoming acquainted with English literature. For he is a sound and sensible thinker, at all times. His style is, for the most part, pure and natural; sometimes, indeed, degenerating into vulgarity, ( we mean, beyond what the subject requires,) but rarely exhibiting one of those signs of bombast and pretension which distinguish a weak writer. If Jonson did not feel the highest inspiration of-' the god," he was, at least, free from the false afflatus. He had no affectation, no hypocrisy. He never lent himself to mean or dishonest purposes. His objects were to brand vice and ridicule folly; aud he dill this with a vigorous hand. Generally speaking, he is sen- tentious, witty, humourous, learned, observant, and acute ; rich in illustration; frequently airy and fanciful; rarely pa- thetic; anil never sublime. In enforcing a proposition, however, he accumulates sentence after sentence, thought after thought, till the original idea is lost, or looks im- poverished. amid st the wealth with which it is surrounded. This not only injures the idea, but mars the truth of his characters. It is the fault even of Sir Epicure Mammon's splendid visions. There is nothing savouring of luxury which the lloman writers have put upon record that he does not treat us with. A true epicure would have had a more select taste, we think, and have contented himself with fewer delicacies. At all events, he wouiil not have placed all things upon a level; for that shows that he had a true relish t, r none. He who appreciates wines, likes the best wines, which are few. He who really loves " the sex," loves but one woman— at a time. « • » As moral satires, or as histories, putting upon record the manners and humours of the age in which he lived, Jonson's plays are extremely valuable. But we cannot prevail upon ourselves to entertain great respect for his( mere) DRAMATic talent. For his characters do not represent men and women, with the medley of vices and virtues common to human nature about them ; but each is the personification of some one single humour, and no more. There is no fluctuation— no variety or relief in them.— Procter. THE CORN LAWS.— An impulse given to the pros- perity of towns must add to the wealth of landowners, to an extent impossible to limit. It consists with our know ledge, and many of our readers will confirm the statement Irom their own experience, that the spread and increase of a population called into being by, arid sub- sisting on foreign trade, lias converted many bankrupt " lords of the soil" into " prosperous gentlemen." The best farmer pays a poor rent in comparison with him who needs land for his paddock, his garden, or his mansion. Sandy and barren tracts have been purchased for ware- houses and docks, at prices which the richest acres in the Isle of Thanet or the Carse of Gowrie would not com- mand. The money saved in bread would, as respects the great bulk of consumers, be laid out in animal food, another produce 0! the soil. Even supposing wages remained at the same low rate, the expendituie for food would not be reduced by the cheapness of flour; but they who must re- quire nourishing sustenance would have the power to pro- cure it. Thus the health and comfort of the great bulk of the community would be promoted. When the extent of the foreign population fitted for the use and enjoyment of articles which can be produced at lower rates and of better quality in England than elsewhere, is considered, we discern the folly of estimating the advantage which the community might derive from foreign trade, by the exist- ing amount ot exports and imports. As it is, the " gross returns" of exports are greater than those received from wheat; and if it were a mere calculation of pounds, shil- lings, and pence, there would be more wisdom in sacrificing the home growth of wheat than the produce of commerce abroad. If it is true that the abolition of the corn laws would not have that ruinous effect upon the agricultural interest which is apprehended, it follows that they who depend for employment and support upon the agriculturists, have no claim upon our prospective pity, in the event of the land- owner's monopoly being swept away. It does not strengthen the case ol the corn law people to make exaggerated state- ments ol the numbers working for the home trade in various mechanical and manufacturing employments. The pre- sumption that the domestic trade of the country must suffer when artisans and manufacturers have cheap instead of dear bread, and purchase beef instead of flour from landowners, has no basis in fact. Instead ol handing over to the corn law advocates the masses who labour to supply the wants of the agriculturists, we claim them as a portion of the en'ire community, certain to benefit in their fair de- gree from any change which tends to create a larger quantity of things useful and desirable to mankind. Herein lies the grand mistake of those who support prohibitions of the trade in food or any other article. They forget the general rule, that the more there is for the mass, the better each individual must fare. If for the money now paid for bread, the labourer can get bread and meat, of course he is benefited. The com laws tend to restrict the growth of wheat abroad, and the manufacture of things to be ex- changed lor wheat. Suppose that there were no increase of population requiring land in a variety of ways, the de- maul ! ui animal food would compensate the landowner for the lo s ot that other part of the produce of his property, imported in return for cottons and hardware. The land- owner would buy his own bread at a cheaper rate, and almost every article consumed in his establishment would be charged >. t a diminished price. The limit to produc- tion would be the natural one of demand; but as it is found, that men, by combined industry, can raise a super- fluity, if restrictions on human exertion were removed there might always lie abundance. The recurience ol un- favourable seasons would be rendered almost innocuous by the possession, on an average of years, of excess over want. Tlieie lias been enough of preaching on this subject. Tile time for action has arrived— when good wheat costs 80s. to 85s. a quarter, and theie is no probability of u reduction in price. But we do not see anything like a general movement in the country for the repeal of the corn laws. In Birmingham, indeed, it has been resolved to postpone agitation 011 that subject till universal suffrage shall have been achieved. Some wise men whom the Birm- ingham Radicals follow, have adopted the principle, that such " small matters" as the corn laws can well wait for ad- justment till they have carried universal suffrage. Had they not better leave principle out of the question, as well 11s common sense? Whatever may he thought of it in Birm- ingham just now, where, we understand, there is a tempo- rary flush of prosperity, the more rational persuasion in other parts of the country is, that though universal suffrage is likely at some time or another to be carried, that time will not be soon ; whereas the abolition of the corn laws is a practical quest ion, which might, perhaps, be carried even next session. To postpone the accomplishment of a great good until some other more comprehensive benefit can be obtained, is the reverse of practical wisdom. The chance — a hopeless chance— of forcing the charter from the middle classes so early, suy, as seven years hence, is a poor apology and recompense lor semi- starvation now, and the progres- sive decline of trade with foreign countries. There is a probability that, with earnest efforts, the corn monopoly may be overthrown even i( i the approaching ses- sion. There is cause for alarm to the selfish class, which clutches present profit, at the risk of starvation to the mul- titude, out of the existing laws. The price of wheat is rising throughout the country. There is 110 prospect of a large supply to lower it. The consequence will be, nay is, extensive discontent, which must become formidable. The masses will soon clamour for cheap bread. Now, then, is the time for the middle classes to press their demands. The landed aristocracy will scarcely venture to refuse them in the present temper of the millions, and with the prospect ot continued scarcity, which may amount to famine. The constituencies should act upon their members. Every vote is valuable in the present state of parties and of public affairs. The combination of circumstances is singularly favourable for a vigorous assault 011 the trade- destroying monopoly.— Spectator. 8 THE . BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL, DECEMBER 22. BIRMINGHAM MUNICIPAL COURT. REVISION On Tuesday last Horatio Waddington, Esq., the bar- rister appointed to revise the burgess list, for the borough of Birmingham, ( under the newly granted Charter of In- corporation,) opened iiis court at the Public Office in Moor- street. The court room was crowded. Messrs. Hebbert, Smythies, and Cudlipp, appeared on behalf of the Conser- vatives, ynd Messrs. W. Redfern, Bray, Barlow, Ryland, and Douglas, in support of the Radicals. The objections served by the Conservative party, were said to he about 850; those by the Radicals did not amount to more than 20. The barrister huving called upon the returning officer appointed in the Charter of Incorporation to produce the burgess list, > W. Scliolefield, Esq., in presenting it. took the opportu- nity of alluding to certain imputations which he said had, in the public press, and in private circles, been thrown out, upon the manner in which the list had been prepared. He gave the charges to which he referred an utter and indig- nant denial. Allusion had even been publicly made to the short correspondence he had had with the learned barrister; but he need hardly say, in the presence of the learned gen tleman, that his object was merely to obtain certain expla- nations necessary to the discharge of his duty, and that the information lie had received was perfectly satisfactory. With the Deritend and Bordesley, Duddeston and Nechells, and Edgbaston lists, he might be allowed to say, lie had nothing to do. The preparation of those lists he entrusted to the overseers of their parishes, with a strict injunction that in their formation they should adhere to the terms of the act of Parliament. He had hoped he should have been able that morning to furnish the court with the grounds upon which the Aston list was made out, but he regretted that owing to some circumstance he had been disappointed. This, however, was less to be regretted, a « there were no objections to any voters in that parish. With regard to Birmingham, he had in the first instance intended to en- trust the preparation of the lists to the collectors of the i poor rates, For this purpose he had summoned these per- sons to meet with him, at the workhouse, on the morning ofthedayon which the Charter was expected to arrive; but, unluckily, it did not reach Birmingham till late in the afternoon; and he was then unable to obtain the assistance he sought for. The following morning, when he repeated his application, he was informed, that the collection of a rate was so pressing, that he could not conveniently have the services of the collectors. Under those circumstances he consulted Mr. Knight, a guardian of the poor, and a gentleman who, upon all hands, was allowed to be well ac- quainted with tiie affairs of the parish, particularly in con- nection with the payment of the poor's rates. The plan which, in conjunction with Mr. Knight, he ( Mr. S.) adopted, was not, indeed, made by the overseers, but con- sidering the short time allowed for the preparation and the printing of the list, he thought it the least liable to objec- tion. They simply took the Parliamentary list of voiers, and to this added the names of all persons occupying houses under the value of 10?., who were rated to the poor. This he ( Mr. S.) was aware was not an infallible plan, but lie humbly conceived that it was the best which could be adopted. He instructed Mr. Underwood ai^ l Mr. Renaud to make out the list in the way he had stated, and he ( Mr. S. ) declared that he never made but one alteration, and that was one for which he thought his friendjMr. Douglas would not thank him. Believing that that gentleman was not qualified as a voter, he bad removed his name from the list. Mr. S. concluded by observing, that whatever imperfections or errors the list might exhibit, he had acted with strict im- partiality in its formation. He had proceeded upon the principle of extending rather than contracting the privilege of the franchise ; hut he had, in doing so, been entiiely unin- fluenced by any party or personal consideration whatever. Mr. Hebberi said, he was very happy to lieur the expla- nation offered by Mr. Scholefield, although his observations were, he thought, irregular, and, he believed, unprecedented on such occasions. He and his friends attended the court with no view of making a charge against Mr. Scholefield ; with such charges they were in no way connected ; nor did they hold themselves, in the slightest degree, responsible for tliein. The Barrister said, he agreed with Mr. Hebbert, that Mr. Seholefield's statement foimed 110 part of the business upon which they were met; hut still lie thought that the explanation that gentleman had given, must prove highly satisfactory to all parties. Mr. Douglas said, he believed Mr. Scholefield, hail re- moved his name from the list, because he was informed that the Tory party intended to make a dead- set against him. He had made no claim, although he had a good vote, having paid the poor- rate for three years, simply because he did not care anything about it. A conversation then look place, when it was arranged that they should proceed with the Birmingham list alpha- betically, taking on the first day the cases of those who were present, and not striking off, on the ground of ah. sence, those who did not answer to their mimes. It was understood that the voters objected to in Edgbaston would have notice when the list wonld be taken. The first person objected to, who answered to his name, was Nehemiah Buckler, when Mr. Redfern having calied upon the defenders of the notice to prove the service of it, Mr. Hebbert said, if they were called upon to prove the notice in every case, he should insist upon their going on with the first name on the list. He certainly should not consent to any arrangement for the convenience of the other side, unless some indulgence was granted to the party for which he and his friends appeared. Mr. Douglas begged to say, that he was instructed to appear on the part of a great number of burgesses, and that he should require proof the notice in every case. Mr. Hebbert then called upon the court to commence with the first name, and proceed through the whole list alphabetically. He appealed to Mr. Redfern, and others of the gentlemen employed on the other side, whether in the County Registration Court, when the cases of voters were taken in the manner proposed, the proof of notice of objection, except in particular cases, was not dispensed with. Mr. W. Redfern denied that any such arrangement had ever been made. The Barrister said, he understood both sides mutually to arrange that the cases of burgesses present should be taken that day; it appeared to him that such an arrangement would be convenient to all parties. Mr. Hebbert said, if, after the course pursued by the gentlemen opposite, this arrangement was binding to day, it did not follow that it would be binding to- morrow. The Barrister.— 0,110 ! certainly. Mr. Douglas undeistood that the court had decided to take the cases of those burgesses who were present; the learned gentleman ( Mr. Ilebbert) wished to take those who were absent. James Gale ( as we understood) was then called, but did not make his appearance for some minutes. On his arrival, lie deposed that he served a notice of objection at the hous » of Nehemiah Buckler on the 20th of November. The fol- lowing is a copy of the notice :— To Nehemiali Buckler. " I hereby give you notice, that I object to the name of Nehemiah Buckler, house and shops, Constitution- bill, in the parish of Birmingham, being retained 011 the Burgess List of the Borough of Birmingham. Dated the twentieth day of November, in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty- Eight. ( Signed) JOHV PALSIES, Place of abode, Terrace. Property for which rated! H as in Burgess List J Mr. W. Redfern rose and said, he had now to state an objection which, he submitted to the court, would be fatal to the validity of the notice. If the court would have the kindness to refer to section 17 of the 5th and 6th of William IV., it would see that every burgess objecting to the name of a person remaining on the burgess list, must do so in writing, according to the form No. 3, in schedule D ; that form requiring that, to the signature of the objector, should be added his p ace of abode, and the property for which lie, the said objector, was rated. Now, looking at the notice under discussion,— he would not say that the residence ol John Palmer was improperly described— his friend, Mr. Barlow, would shortly argue that point— but he contended that it did not set forth the property for which lie was rated. The Barrister.— Let us see lor what it states him to be rated. Mr. Redfern It was true, that the notice said Air. P. il- mer was rated for a house," but where it was situated, or 111 what street, court, or alley, it was to be found, it gave them 110 information. For aught they knew, it might lie at the Land's End 01 John O'Groat's house. He submitted, that this was not enough to satisfy the requirements of the act of Parliament, and more especially, when they consi- dered the object which the legislature had in view. The object was, that any burgess whose name was placed on the list might, when objected to, have the opportunity of iden- tifying the party by whom the objection was made, as one whose name was 011 the burgess list. The law, he contend- ed, would not allow parties to be dragged before a court, as they now were, except by some person who had himself an interest in the result of the registration. Now, possibly it would be said, that the notice did contain the place of abode of Mr. Palmer, and that it likewise stated him to be rated for " a house;" but he would ask, was that sufficient? He contended that, inasmuch as the notice signed '- John Pal- mer" did not contain any description of the property, and the street or lane in which it was situated, that the notice of the objection was bail. Tiie Barrister Is the " Terrace" well known in Bir mingham ; for, of course, I know nothing ah mt it ? Mr. Redfern, Mr. Douglas, and Mr. Bray, said that there were many terraces in Birmingham; and the one where Mr. Paltner resided was known by the name ol " Summer- hill Terrace," and not " Terrace" alone. Messrs. Hebbert, Smythies, and Cudlipp, on the contrary, contended that its proper name was " Terrace" only, and that it was so termed on the plate placed by the commis- sioners on the corner house. Mr. Douglas said, unless the place of abode of the objec tor, and the property for which he was rated, were properly described in the notice, how was it possible for any person to know which of the John Palmers who were on the bur- gess list made the objection ? On looking at the list, he found a John Palmer in New- street; John Palmer in Dig « belli; John Palmer in Moor- street; John Palmer in Lower Hurst street; and John Palmer, Wellington- road, Edg- baston. How were, he should be glad to be informed, burgesses to know which John Palmer it was, unless his re- sidence and the property lor which he was rated, were pro- perly described in the notice? There was another mostim- portant consideration. If the court would look at theburgess list, it would find that one of the columns was headed " Na- ture of the property rated." Now, it might be contended by the other side, that giving what they termed the abode of the objector, iiis qualification— a house— it followed that the house must he that in which lie resided. But Birming- ham was peculiar in this respect. Under a local act, the poor rates of almost all houses under 12/ a- year were com- pounded for ; so that it might, and frequently did happen, that a person was not rated for the house in which lie re- sided, but for another house of which he was the owner, the rate of which was above 12f. There was, therelore, nothing to indentify the John Palmer having his abode at Terrace with the John Palmer who was rated there for a house. He begged the court likewise to consider that the present was a highly penal proceeding. The whole act was an act of enfranchisement ; the purpose of an objector was to deprive a citizen of the right to which he had a prima facie title ; and therefore the forms of notice required by the act ought to be rigidly construed and strictly adhered to. The Barrister.— If there is no such a place as the Terrace, there is 110 description at all. Mr. Douglas next referred to the interpretation clause, and contended that the present was no ease of " misnomer," of " inaccuracy of description," as contemplated by the clause, and the word " Terrace" alone would not be com- monly understood in Birmingham as " Summer- hill Ter- race," where Mr. Palmer resided. In conclusion, lie begged to say, that when a party, whether it be Conservative, Whig, or Radical, attempted, by issuing wholesale objections, merely to annoy good voters, for party purposes, and with the slightest knowledge of the parties, or examination into their claims, he trusted the court— Mr. Hebbert objected to the course of observation appa- rently about to be pursued by Mr. Douglas. The Barrister thought obsei vations like those upon which Mr. Douglas was entering had better be avoided. It was a mere question as to the interpretation which ought to be given to the act of Parliament. At any rate, any obser- vations of the kind to which he alluded would have no influ- ence upon his judgment. Mr. Douglas wished merely to mention that he had seen a circular letter, signed by the learned gentleman himself, ( Mr. Hebbert) and others, in which they offered to with- draw any notices of objection, which might, " by mistake," have been served upon their •• Iriends." Mr. Hebbert would save M>'. Douglas the trouble of bring- ing forward any proof of what he asserted, he ( Mr. II.) fully admitted it. Mr. Barlow contended tha' Mr. Palmer's place of abode was not sufficiently described, it was called in the notice simply " Terrace," when it was well known as " Summer- hill Terrace." The Barrister thought it wouhf be best to call wit- nesses as to the name by which the place was commonly known. Mr. Barlow said, if it was competent for liirn to do so. he would call witnesses; but he did not think it was ne- cessary. Tiie Barrister was of opinion that the onus lay 011 the ob- jector to prove the correct description of his abode. Mr. Hebbert called Mr. Underwood, tiie clerk of the Grand Levy Book, who deposed that the place where Air. Paitner resided was perfectly well known as the Terrace." It had been entered in the Grand Levy Book " Terrace," for many years. He had seen the word '' Terrace" upon the plate on the first house. On cross- examination by Air. Edmonds and Air. Redfern, witness stated that he had never knou n it called " Summer- hill Teirace," nor " Sandpit's Terrace." Mr. C. Smith, of Smallbrjxk street, was then called by Air. Redfern, nnd swore that lie had never known that it had been called by any other name than " Summer- hill Terrace." Cross examined by Mr. Hebbert: Did not know it as " The Terrace," on Summer- hill. Mr. Bynner, vestry- clerk, said he had known it by the name of Terrace" alone for many years, and it had been so termed in the Grand Levy Book tor tiiirfy years. Mr. Douglas explained that the town, for the purpose of collecting the rates, was divided into districts, and each ( lis trict had a book. Now the Terrace was in Ladywood dis- trict. and in all probability it was entered in the Grand Levy Book " Terrace" alone, because there was no other terrace in that district. There were many terraces in o: her parts of the town, such as St. George's- tenace, Bristol- teriace, Colmore- terrace, & c. Mr. Watson, of High- street, said for the last thirty years be had known it by tiie name of the " Terrace" alone. It was the first built in Birmingham, and consequently had always gone by that definite name. Mr. Barlow said he had another objection. He contended that even if Terrace was its only designation, still the word " Birmingham" ought to have been added. The Barrister: There is something in that objection, as, according to the act, the party objecting may reside anywhere within seven miles of the borough. Air. Barlow said such was the fact, and under these cir- cumstances, unless a full and accurate description was given of bis place of abode, how was any person to find out and identify the objector ? Mr. Douglas said there was " a Terrace" at West Brom- wich. Air. Edmonds observed, the the object of the legislature, in rendering it necessary for objectors to give a full descrip- tion of their abode and rateable properly, was in order that the parties objected to might ascertain whether or not the objector had a right to make the objection. The Barrister apprehended that any person 011 the burgess list, whether he had a right to he there or not, was qualified to make an objection. Mr. Hebbert said the point which had been so elaborately argued by his friends 011 the other side, was, after all, a very simple one, and he could not help thinking they were conscious of the weakness of their case, from their very la- borious attempts to mystify it. The question was, whether or not such a description had been given of Mr. Palmer's place of abode, and the property for whicli he was rated, as was required by the act of Parliament, and set forth in No. 3, schedule D. He begged leave, therefore, to direct the attention of the court to the precise terms in which the no- tice is drawn :—" I hereby give you notice that I object to the name of Thomas . of Brooke's Farm, in the parish of-—— , ( describe the person objected to, as de scribed in the burgess listJ being retained 011 the burgess list of the borough of —— Dated the day of in the year . Signed John Ashton. ( Here state the place of abode and property for which he is said to be rated in the burgess list.) He fully agreed with Air. Douglas, that the object contemplated by the act of Pailiament was, to afford the person objected to full information as to the party making the objection, and also of his right to do so. Now, if the court would compare the notice served upon Air. Buckler with the burgess list, they would find that Air. Palmer had described his place of abode precisely in the same terms as those used to describe him in the list. It had also been said, on the other side, that the property rated ought to have been more fully described, but he contended that if the description corresponded with that on the burgess list, they had done all that the act requiied, and the notice was to all intents and purposes good. On turning to the description given in the burgess list, and in the notice, they will find the rateable property, in both documents, termed " house." With regard to the question, whether or not the " Terrace" was known by that name alone, he need hardly say, that they had most satisfactorily proved that it was peifectly well known by that designation. There could, therelore, be no difficulty in any person identifying Mr. Palmer by the description given, lor if Air. Buckler, or any other person, had turned to the burgess list, they would find that the two descriptions exactly corresponded:—" John Palmer, house, Terrace." The Barrister: You mean that if the notice and the bur- gess list mere compared, there could be 110 doubt as to the identity of the objector. Air. Ilebbert: Exactly. The act requires that the notice shall be correspondent with the description in the bur- gess list. With that requirement they had complied, and, if any doubt remained upon a pet son's mind, a reference to the list would have immediately removed it. Mr. Smythies said, the question before the court con- sisted of two parts. First, whether the word " Terrace" was a sufficient description; and secondly, whether the word " Birmingham" ought to have been added to the sig- nature to the notice. With regard to the first part he would draw the attention of the court to the evidence. Assertions having been made on the other side, which were denied to be correct by him ( Air. Smythies) and his friends, evidence was called for by the court, and a witness was examined, who, from the situation which he held, was necessarily well informed upon the subject, and might be presumed to be perfectly unbiassed by party feeling, a witness upon whose evidence the most perfect reliance appeared to have been placed by the opposing party at the commencejuient of his examination. That witness was one of the overseers. The testimony given by him was, however, entirely in favour of his ( Mr. Smythies') proposition, namely, that " Terrace" was fhe proper and well known desciiption of the place in which Air. Palmer's house was situated. This evi- dence was corroborated by other evidence equally unex- ceptionable. The result of this examination not being satisfactory to the other side, they looked around them, and foitunately were enabled, in that crowded court, to find one person, a Mr. Smith, who was able to swear that he had always known the place inques ion by the name of" Summer Hill Terrace." But, he would ask, would the court ad- mit evidence of such a nature to outweigh the unexception- able evidence which had been given in lavour of his ( Air. Smythies') proposition? He presumed not; he would rather presume that it had been satisfactorily proved to that court, that the description terrace," was sufficiently defi- nite to fulfil the purposes of the act of Parliament. As to thesecond part, whether the word" Birmingham" ought to have been added to the signature of the notice; it appeared to him that the only way to arrive at a correct solution of this question was by referring to the origin from whence the question arose. He begged to refer, therefore, to the form of notice pointed out by act of Parliament. [ Air. S. then read the form of notice already given.] Upon referring to the burgess list it would be found that the description in the notice exactly coincided with that in the list, and, there- fore, that the act of Parliament had been literally complied with. But it had been said that this description wns not sufficiently definite. It might be so; but was Mr. Palmer answerable for the errors in the burgess list? Had beany control in the formation of tiiat list? Certainly not; and therefore he could not be bound or prejudiced by its errors. It appeared to him ( Air. Smythies) that it was the duty of the objector to copy his description as it appeared in the burgess list, whether correct or incorrect, and that the only duty which devolved upon the supporter of the objection, was to correct the objection by his description in the notice, with the name and description upon the list. He would even assert that the description in the list was the only description which could he adopted by the objector, and that, had that description been incorrect, and a correct, but different, description inserted in the notice of objection, that notice could not he supported. Mr. Smythies after- wards drew the attention of tiie court to the peculiar word- ing of the directions in the form given by the act of Par- liament, and contended that the question arose out of an error committed in the framing of that act, and that it was only necessary to insert the place of abode when inserted in the list, and that to render it necessary to insert the place of abode in addition to the description of the property for which the objector appeared in the list to be rated, the instructions should be—" here insert his place of adode, together with the property for which he appears to be rated in the burgess list," instead of the words which aie in the form, " here insert the place of abode and property for which," & c., but in the form given lor the formation of the list, the place of abode is not inserted, consequently, it is not necessary to insert the place of abode in the notice of objection, and therefore there is 110 occasion for the word " Birmingham" in the objection. Mr. Cudlipp suid that the interpretation clause of the Municipal act, sec. 142, would remove the difficulty. It was thereby enacted that no misnomer or inaccurate de- sciiption of atiy person in any roll list, or notice, should hinder the. full operation of the act, provided that the de- scription of such person or place be such as to be commonly understood. Now, the operation of the act was merely to show the party objected to where to find the person object- ing, and by referring to the burgess list, made out according to the provisions of the act by the returning office, at page 48, the objector thus appeared, " John Palmer— bouse— terrace." Had there been John Palmer alone, or ' ndeed any other person, simply thus described in the burgess list, there might have been something in the objection of the other side; but it appeared that the very next name in the burgess list was " H. Pemble— house— teirace." So that the place of abode and qualification was directly set fotth in the notice, from the list furnished by the returning officer, and consequently every enactment of the act had in this respect been clearly fulfilled. The Barrister said the right of objection was of great importance. The formation of the list was in the bands ot the overseers, and unless burgesses had the power to object to peisons whose names were improperly placed upon it, the list might possibly contain the names of many who had no right to exercise the privileges of a burgess. On the ol her hand, it was certainly desirable that objections should not be wantonly made. Under the circumstances, the points which had been so fully argued were so very import- ant, that he should like time for consideration before lie gave his decision. He should, therefore, adjourn the court until the following ( Wednesday) morning, when he would give his judgment. The court accordingly adjourned. addition ; but it is unnecessary to express any opinion upon that subject, as my decision proceeds upon the ground ol the omission to state that the Terrace is in Birmingham ; had that been done, I should have wished for further evi- dence as to its being sufficiently described as " Terrace" alone. It is not necessary, for the purposes of the present case, to pronounce a decided opinion upon the second ob- jection, but I am strongly inclined to think the notice bad upon that ground also. For some reason, which appeared sufficient to the legislature, the objector is to state, in his notice, the property for which he is said to be rated in the burgess list; and it seems to me that the fair and reasonable interpretation of that is, that he should not confine himself to what the nature of the property is, as in the present in- stance, but should also show wheie it is situated, according to the description of it in the burgess list. I do not, how- ever, say that I am entirely free from doubt upon this point. Upon the other it is my decided opinion that this notice cannot be supported." Mr. Hebbert said that the decision of the Barrister was fatal to the whole of the notices of objection signed John Palmer, and, of course, he and his Iriends mHst abandon them. There were other notices of objections, signed " William Parker, house and shop, Islington." He pre sumed the gentlemen opposite did not intend to go on with those objections. Mr. Douglas said they should not go 011 with them. Mr. Redfern denied all knowledge of the objector. The Barrister observed, the notices signed " William Parker" were still worse than those signed " John Palmer." These objections were, of course, also abandoned, and the Court proceeded to take the cases of such of the Edg- baston burgesses as happened to he present. The final result will be found below. There were a few cases of extreme hardship against some highly respectable Reformers. The first case was that of Air. Blackburn. He claimed to be retained upon the list, having been ob- jected to by Mr. Cudlipp, the solicitor. It appeared from Mr. Blackburn's statement that he had been a resident in Edgcaston upwards of three years, and had paid rates duiing the whole of the time, and received receipts in his own name. From some cause, however, his name did not appear in the Grand Levy Book, and his vote was disal- lowed, the Barrister observing, that rating and paying were indispensably necessary to qualify a person to vote. It was a hard case, but there was 110 remedy. He did not, however, know whether the rates so paid were not recoverable. He must refuse the vote. Mr. Redfern said he should then appeal to Air. Cudlipp and his friends, if, by every consideiation of justice, they were not called upon to abandon the objection. There was a respectable gentleman, whom, they knew, had an un- doubted right to a vote, and he would appeal to the justice of the case. Mr. Smitheys said they appeared merely as agents, and had no power. He understood there were other cases of a similar kind, and if he gave way in that case, others would expect the same indulgence, and he had no power in the matter. Air. Redfern said Air. Cudlipp, the objector, had power in the case. He feared, however, the strength of his par- tisanship would? get the better of his sense of justice, and that Air. Blackburn must lose his vote. The case there ended", and Mr. B.' s claim was rejected. There were other persons in the same situation, who also lost their votes amidst the strong disapprobation of all present. THURSDAY. The court resumed its sitting. There was r. o case of im- portance. The following is a summary of the proceedings down to the close of the business this day:— Total number of objections considered, 151; of which were withdrawn, with or without argument, 86; retained after argument and proof of, qualification, 23; expunged after argument and proof, 32; adjourned for further consideiation, 10. WEDNESDAY. The court opened at ten o'clock, when the Barrister stated that he was now prepared to give judgment in the case of Nehemiah Buckler. The learned gentleman then pro- ceeded to read the following decision, which, seeing its im- portance, he stated that he had thought fit to reduce to willing : — " This was a question as to the validity of a notice of ob- jection which had been given to Nehemiah Buckler. The two principal objections which were taken to this notice are these. 1st. That the word Terrace is an insufficient de- scription of the place of abode of the objector. 2ndly. That 1 he word house is not a statement of the property for wh; ch the objector is said to be rated in the burgess list, within the meaning of No. 3, schedule ( D) which gives a form of notice of objection, the Municipal Re- form act, providing in sec. 17, that the notice shall be in that form, or to the like effect. In forming my opinion upon this case, I have not proceeded upon the ground that these notices are to be looked at with an extraordinary degree of strictness, 11s having a tendency to abridge and curtail civil rights, and to inflict personal inconvenience upon individuals. The modern doctrine in courts of law is to overlook all such considerations, and to construe all acts of Parliament according to the fair sense and meaning of the words employed in them, whatever may be the conse- quences of the adoption of such a construction. Looking, then, with this view at this act of Parliament, I find that the legislature has expressed in the clearest terms its in- tention, that a party who objects to the vote of another, should give that person, not merely a notice to appear on the day of revision and prove his right, but certain addi- tional information which regards the objector himself. It is quite unnecessary to speculate on the motives which induced the fiamers of this act to require this. It is sufficient to observe that they display some anxiety upon the subject, as, not content with enacting, in sec. 18, that all persons shall be retained on the burges i list, to whom no objection shall have been duly made, they proceed in the same section to provide that no name shall be expunged from the list, ' un- less notice shall have been given, as hereinbefore enacted,' clearly showing that their intention was, that no notice should be valid, which was not in substance the same as that given in the schedule attached to the act. The words of that schedule are as follows. ( The learned gentleman here read the notice from the schedule, as given in Air. Hebbert's speech.) The first question that can arise lieie is, as to the meaning of the expression, ' the place of abode.' Now, as no place of abode appears upon the bur- gess list, there is but one mode of construction which can yive those words any meaning at all, and that is, to read the passage as if it had been ' the place of abode of the objector.' It must be admitted, that any other interpreta- tion would be equivalent to striking out that important ex- pression altogether— which would be plainly violating the intention of the act of Parliament. Such being, then, the undoubted meaning of these words, is the place of abode of the objector stated in this notice? Now, a mere state- ment that a person lives on a Terrace, or at a place, or in a street called Terrace, or the Terrace situite somewhere or other, which is all that appears upon the face of the notice, is, in my opinion, totally insufficient; indeed, it was hardly contended that, of itself it would have been a com- pliance with the spirit of the act, but that it sufficiently ap- peared by implication that this Terrace was within the parish of Birmingham. But, even supposing that a notice, clearly had upon the face of it, for not expressly stating in what parish or hamlet, or other known district, the objector tesides, could be made good by implication, it is clear that none such arises in the present case. The very utmost that can be implied here, is, that the objector, being upon the burgess list, does reside, or ought to reside, in some one of the parishes or hamlets, which make up the borough of Birmingham, or somewhere else within seven miles of the said borough; and I suppose that it will be hardly con- tended, that if so vague a description had appeared in terms upon the face of the notice, it would have been sufficient; s'ill less, therefore, can it avail, where it is to be raised by a process of reasoning, it is said, however, that as it ap- peared by the notice that the objector was rated for a house, the voter was to infer that he lived in such house, and that, consequently, 011 searching the list of voters for tiie different parishes in the borough, he would at last have discoveied that " Terrace," in the notice, meant a place in the parish of Birmingham, sometimes, or, perhaps, com- monly, known by that name. I am of opinion that lie was not bound to enter upon any inquiry or investigation for the purpose of obtaining that information which the act of Par- liament, in express terms, requires the objector to furnish to him. It is my opinion that, if the notice does not give the proper information upon the face of it, the voter may treat it as a nullity, and rely upon the provisions of the act of Parliament for his protection. There was some con- flicting evidence as to whether the place in question is, or is not, known by the name of Terrace alone, without any The names of the parties expunged were— Cole, W. H. Ryland road. Etheringlon. Joseph, ditto Hamley, Christopher, ditto Mason, Joseph, ditto Cleaver, Joshua, Monument lane. Fori est Alexander, Hagley road. Osborne, Thomas. ditto Moyse, George, Frederick street, Whitfield, Henry, George street. Cook, John, Spring vale. Finch, John, ditto Ward, William, ditto Chantrey, T. G., Sun street. Knight, David, ditto Kimberley, Stephen, Lee crescent. Slaney, Thomas, ditto Blackburn, James, Lee bank. Hawthorn, Joshua, ditto Richards, Samuel, ditto Sutton, George, ditto Surmau, Joshua ditto Vincent, Joseph, ditto Booth, Charles, Balsall Heath road. Kendrick, W., ditto Loach, J., jun., ditto Tarse, James, ditto Allen, J. AI., Bristol road. Rogers, J. H., ditto Salt, Abraham, ditto Smith, Thomas, ditto Woodward, J., ditto Morris, Charles, Russell row. ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. ST. PHILIP'S CHURCH- YARD. Sir,— I am somewhat surprised that the monument erected in St. Philip's church- yard, to the memory of Mr. Robert Owen, should not be kept in a better state of preservation, considering the very munificent sum bequeathed to that noble institution, the Hospital, witli a request that the governors should keep his monu- ment in thorough repair— the least that possibly could be done, to show that respect due to such a noble be- nefactor. Trusting the few hints given will have due effect, I remain your's, & c., Dec. 1- 2,1838. A VISITOR. MACHINERY OF REFORM. Sir— When any thing mighty is to be done, the first act of a wise workman will be to provide himself with proper and efficient implements; therefore, if any real reform of existing abutes be expected, w ith- out first procuring election by ballot, those who do ex- pect it will be grievously disappointed. Had the ballot preceded the Slave Emancipation act, the twenty millions given to the holders of stolen pro- perty ( human beings) would have been saved, and the emancipation would have been more complete. If the corn laws are to be altered 011 the plan of the Somer- setshire baronet, ask to have it done now ; but if justice is to be done, there must be 110 duty, fixed or unfixed, and to obtain this— to obtain a really free trade in corn, subject to 110 duty whatever, save the expenses of importation, and which Mr. Jacob has shown to be just 20s. per quarter, I say, to obtain this, there must be a House of Commons really elected by the free choice of the people, and that can only be done by the ballot. It will be wise, therefore, to bring the whole force of the people to bear upon the ballot; and this can be best done while the people are suffering. Therefore, let the cdrn laws remain— let everything else be post- poned until the ballot becomes the law of the land. I do not approve of universal suffrage, but I approve educational suffrage. But for those who think uni- versal suffrage would be the cure- all, and that it can be obtained, to seek it in preference to corn law agi- tation is, I think, very natural. If work is to be per- formed, first get the machinery in order, with proper materials, and then procecd— this, I consider, is work- manlike. I am, sir, your obedient servant, A MEMBER OF A BALLOT UNION. DOMESTIC EDUCATION. SIR,— The ignorance and depravity existing amongst a great portion of the working classes, in contrast to the extensive diffusion of knowledge, the rapid progress of civilised and useful arts, is lamentable. I am aware that institutions are in existence, which have for their object the moral and intellectual improvement of the community, but they have, unfortunately, only par- tially succeeded; and it is my humble opinion, that more simple methods must be adopted than a literary society is capable of furnishing. And, as at the present time there is a great necessity for removing the evils which the want of education entails, permit me to suggest that a society should be formed, composed chiefly of young men; the object of which should be lo visit the houses of mechanics', and familiarly con verse, and, if necessary, afford gratuitous instruction in arithmetic, writing, morals, and religion. To tinse who are actuated by charitable motives, the sacrifice off time and self- ease would not be considered, if compare! to the happy results which might arise from suck » plan; and I am quite sure that many young mea m Birmingham are competent, and would be willing co- operate in effecting this great good. The rules far the government of such a society are so simple, that tiie common sense of its members could easily frame thexa. Let it not be imagined that any thing disrespectful IB intended to the Mechanics' Institution, far from it— that society have conferred many benefits to Birming- ham ; but it is unable to lay the foundation stone of education to the illiterate, or exhort the working ckssss to the practical observance of evangelical piety. If, sir, you approve of this plan, and the sentimentis expressed, please to insert this letter in your journal; if you deem it unnecessary, I shall yield to your grcalar discrimination. I remain, sir> your humble servant, A WORKING MAN. December 12tli, 1838. [ We see much good in the plan; but will it wori? We fear it may he said of it as of too many plans, tluS it is a watch without the mainspring— every thing 8 » look at, but nothing to go.— E. B. J.] THE INTENDED NEW STREET. Sin,— The subject of an intended new street from the railway station to the centre of the town, havio » been so many times brought before the commissioners, for their consideration, and nothing conclusive haviajj been determined upon, I beg leave, as a disinterested person, but a well- wisher to the town of BirminghsuB, so pre- eminent for her spirit of improvement and inde- pendence, to offer an opinion upon this important sub- ject, trusting that our new street, when formed, shall meet with the admiration of her inhabitants, and shall call forth the praises of every visitor to this now int- portant town. It is to be hoped that the commissioners will lay aside all interested motives, which, it is evi- dent, have, at various times, actuated them, and stami forth as men ought to do upon such an important busi- ness; and not for one commissioner to stand tip, and though not actually, yet impliedly, to say, I should like it to terminate opposite my shop, at this end of Bull - street; for another, I should like it to terminate opposite my shop, at the other end ; and for another to say, I should like High- street widened, and make it more conspicuous. Let all these interested feelings be forgotten, and, with the sole and only object of bene- fiting and improving the town in the best manner pos- sible, imitate and follow the praiseworthy conduct of Mr. Cadbtirv, who, at the last commissioners' meeting; stated, " that it was well known that he possess © ! property in the direction in which it was proposed t » make one of the streets; and, therefore, as a consistent and honest man, he could not vote upon the question respecting this particular line; and he onlv hoped that those commissioners who possessed property u& other lines, would act in the same manner." Let them consider which would be the least expen- sive, and the grandest entrance to the town, and I think they will be of my opinion, that the one projiosed by Mr. Edge, from the end ol New- street, is certainly the best— making one grand and commanding street through the centre of the town, running from ihe rail- way station to the Five- ways gate, almost without* single turn. In conclusion, allow me to press upon the commis- sioners tlie importance of giving this subject their attentive consideration, as which ever line may be determined upon, will be attended with great expense to the public; and the best means of satisfying that public, will be to form such a street as, when opened, may vie with any other street in the kingdom, and cause them not only to pay cheerfully for its construc- tion, but be able to give the commissioners ( heir fail meed of praise, in exercising their sound judgment, unfettered and unprejudiced by party views, or indivi- dual emolument. A DISINTERESTED TOWNSMAN. Birmingham, Dec. 13, 1838. [ Does not the " Disinterested Townsman" think it would be as well to leave the new street to he obtained by the inhabitants, who are to walk in it, and pay foe itp- E. B. J] BIRMINGHAM DISPENSARY, DEC. 14.— Sick patients RELIEVE 425; midwifery cases, 17. GENERAL HOSPITAL, DEC. 14.— PfiysiclRn and Sunrenn of TFC « Patients of the week. Dr. Eccles and Mr. Hodgson. Vieitort Mr. James Turner and Mr. tV. Harrold. In. pntients admitted, ® ?; out, 91. In- patients discharged, 28; out, 87. Remaining ia tl< « house, 178. STATE OF THE WORKHOUSE UP TO DECEMBER 10. Wo- INFANTS. Men. men. Boys. Girls. Male. Fein. TxttaL 188 207 11 13 17 14 t « Admitted since 4 8 3 ti Born in the House 19J 215 11 13 20 14 « J Diseligd , ah » conded, 31 11 17 5 2 Total of each 179 IDi B 13 18 12 « S Numbe r of Cases relieved lust week Numbei ofChildren in tiie Asylum * Of whom 1 man died. .. 2,790 .. 3U MARRIAGES. On the 27th ult., at Halesowen, Mr. Henry Ferriie, draper, to Miss Eliza Brettell, of Islington, Halesowen. On the 5th inst., at St. Mary's, Lichfield, by the Rev T. Levett, air. James Webb, of Stafford, to Jane Frost Mor- gan, eldest daughter of Mr. Thomas Morgan, of Lombard- street, Lichfield. On the 5th inst., at Cherrington, John Weaver, Esq,, of Atherstone, to Harriet, third daughter of the Rev. T. V. R. Nicoll, rector of the former place. On the 5th inst., at Twickenham, George Jelf, Esq., eldest son of Sir James Jelf, of Oaklands, in the county of Glouccstei, to Mary Emily, only surviving child of the late Ralph Sneyd, Esq., of Abbot's Bromley, in the county of Stafford. On the 27th ult., at Ross, by the Rev. J. J. Yorke, Sir Edmund Walker Head, Bart., of Monriington- on- Wye, son of the Rev. Sir John Head, to Anna Maria Yorke, of Lincoln Hill House, daughter of the late Rev. lJhilip Yorke, and niece to Earl Somers. On the 8ih inst., at Bride- Kirk, Cumberland. Lord Teignmouth, M. P., to Caroline, third daughter of Win. Browne, Esq., of Tallantine Hall, in that county. On Monday last, at St. Martin's Church, Mr. Wi'liam Healing, of Lichfield street, to Miss Elizabeth Edwards, of the Aston road. On Monday, tiie lOih inst., at St. George's Church, Birmingham, John Appleton, E^ q., of London, to Miss C. Moore, niece of the late Mrs. J. Smith, of the Bristol road, Edgbaston. DEATHS On Saturday, the 8th inst., Mr. Charles Armfield, aged 3- 1 years. On Wednesday, aged 37, Frances, wife of Mr. Joseph Singleton, chemist, of this town. On the 7th inst., in the 25th year of his age, Henry, only son of the late Mr. T. Marnier, of Prospect row. On Thursday, in the 47th year of her age, Harriet Frances, wife of Mr. W. May, of Lower Clapton, London, and daughter of the late Mr. B. Stokes, of this town. On the 10th inst., Maria, eldest daughter of Christopher Wood, Esq., of Oaken Terrace. On the 8th inst., aged 61, Catherine, wife of Mr. E. Alien of Codsall. O11 the 9th inst., in the 73rd year of his age, Mr. M. Evland, sen., of Walsall. On Saturday last, Sir James Allan Paik, one of Hep Majesty's Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, in the 73rd year of his age. On Thursday week, at his iesidence at Longdon, the Rev. Henry Binfield, domestic chaplain to the Marquis of Anglesey, and perpetual curate of Araitage and Fare- well, in his 77th year. On the 4th inst., at Lichfield, Mrs. Ann Aslnvell, ia her 85th year. On the 5th inst., Mr. John Bate of Nurton Hill, aged 72 years. On the 1st. inst., at the Lodge, near Evesham, Thos. Blayney, Esq., Deputy Lieutenant and Clerk of the Peace for Worcestershire, in the 77th year of his age. 8 THE . BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL, DECEMBER 22. LONDON GAZETTES. Old Irish, White .— Red Foreign Red FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. WILLIAM WOODROW, innholder, Yeovil, Somersetshire. BANKRUPTS. Bankrupts to surrender at the Court of Commissioners, Motintrtnll- itreet, when not otherwise expressed."} CHBISTOPHER ANNET COLLIS, licensed victualler, Chipping- till, Wjtham, Essex, Dec. 18 and Jan 18, at the Bankrupts' Court. Sola. Messrs. Vandercom and Co., Bush- lane, Cannon- street. Pet. Cr. William Anuett Smith, Beech- street, victualler. Seal. De. « ecaber4 GEOH& E HOLDEN, stiffner, Salford, Lancashire, Dec. ' 21 and Jan. J8> si the Coramissioners'- rooms, Manchester. Sols. Messrs. Vin. ceataud Sherwood, Temple. Pet. Cr. William Glasgow, Man. cheater, engineer, Thomas Walker, Salford, corn dealer, Job Smith, Salford, provision dealer, and William Collier, Salford, ma- chine EDaker. Seal. November 24. JOHN REVELL, hosier, Sheffield, Dec. 18 and Jan. 18, at the Toara- hall, Sheffield. Sols. Messrs. Jones, Trinder, and Tudway, John street, Bedford- row. Pet. Cr. William Barker and Samuel Adorns, Nottingham, hosiers. Seal. November 22. DIVIDENDS. G. HENLEY, Strand, cheesemonger, December 17. Y. H ALL, Great Portland- street, woollen draper, December 28. J. HA " WORTH and S. DAVIS, Manchester, ironmongers, De- cember 31. J. CHIBS31 AN, Leeds, victualler, December 31. C. DICKINSON, Dover, paper iminufacturer, January 1. W., J., and W. HIRST, Gomersal, Yorkshire, merchants, Janu- ary J. BARKER, Titchfield, Hampshire, miller, January 2. J. OSBORN, jun., Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, ironmonger, Janu- ary ea T. WALLACE, Pentwyu Iron- works, Monmouthshire, grocer, Hewrrthpr 31. H. M4KAY, Manchester, tailor, December 29. CERTIFICATES, DECEMBER 28. G. Or bell, Romford, Essex, horse dealer— H. Orbell, Romford, Enex, innkeeper— W. S. Gladhill, Clerkenwell- closp, japanner— W. Coirs, Taunton St. Mary Magdalen, Somersetshire, shopkeeper—- T. Yon**?, Nailsea, Somersetshire, tailor— G. Field, Hemel Hempstead, Herlfwsishire, paper maker. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. F. jnMrnell and J. Hull, Manchester, power loom manufacturers— feloif& U and Grower, Goole, Yorkshire, linen drapers— J. and E, Waltefry, Humberston, Lincolnshire, farmers— Coulters and Pullan, BTxMiml, Yorkshire, worsted spinners— R. Dale and Son, Manches- ter, fc « E » t and shoe manufacturers— Beattie, Lorrain, and Moat, New Wiod » » : r, grocers— Parsons and Co., Brighton, florists— Mason and Cronos, Hill- street, Blackfriars- road, antimony refiners — L. XcMiua^ nnd L. Roiley, Rugby, Warwickshire, ladies' school pro. prietiM"^— J. Knight and R. Haft'enden, Chiddingley and Heathfield, Sussex, / armer8— J. Wightman, S. R. Toms, and C. Collins, IHHcban*, silk printers— Hall and Potter, Great Charlotte. street, JJl& rkfjiars- road, fishmongers— Lake and Evans, Bridgwater, Som- exsetalur?, nurserymen— Cote3worth, Cochran, and Co., Mexico— A, Adlaiflar/ d D. Hayes, Wardrobe- place, Doctors'- Commona, engrav. ers—. BwiTiiin and Fossick, Fitchett's- court, Noble- street, Cheapside —' W, CWbham and Co., Hertford and Ware, barge owners ( as far as regard? C. Cobham)— Ballantyne and Co., Edinburgh, printers. ASSIGNMENTS. Benjamin Baker, Peckham, linen draper. Js& z » fireaves, Newport Pagnel, innkeeper. John Hatchence, Salisbury, upholder. TVHfiara Kimber, Brompton. road, livery stable keeper. JI& B Willcox, Alnwick, brewer and innkeeper. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11. DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY. GJEOBGE ELD, Foleshill, Coventry, miller. GEOKGE GLAD WYN, Billericay, grocer. WILLI A M BENJAMIN REEVE, Brighton, victualler. HGB1IRT TABOR, Hoxton, shipowner and master mariner. BANKRUPTS. THOStfAS CLEGG, Wigan, Lancashire, ironfounder, December 29 aad January 2- 2, at the Victoria Hotel, Wigan. Sols. Messrs. JaStawn and Co., Temple; and Higson and Son, Manchester. Pet. Or. Charles Clegg, Manchester, timber merchant. Seal. No- 30. © AYH> FAIRHEAD, Witham, Essex, baker, December 18 and Jxaazry 22, at the Bankrupts' Court. So/ s. Messrs. Brooksbank sua 3* arn, Gray's- inn. square; and Pattison and Cutts, Witham. JhpL Cr. Thomas William Butler, Daniel Harvey Piper, and. Tfewaas Hoffguard Shoobridge, Witham, and Benjamin Edward Iira< nat> re, Great Baddow, Essex, millers. Seal. November 12. GEOSKE GRAY, Brunswick- street, Stamford. street, Blackfriars- ' rind& i Surrey, livery stable keeper and riding master, December 19 Jwauary 22, at the Bankrupts' Court. Sol. Mr. Lang, Fen- street. Pet. Cr. William Peck, Gravesend, surveyor. December 5. HKS8¥ POOLE, Carnarvon, Carnarvonshire, innkeeper, Decem- ber 23and January 22, at the Sportsman Hotel, Carnarvon. Scls Jftps& rs. Lowe and Co., Southampton- buildings; and Mr. Roberts, CaaKurvon. Pet. Cr. William Williams, Mount- pleasant, Llan- Carnarvonshire, innkeeper, Seal. November 14. £ l€ fi&£ X) RICHARDSON, Birmingham, publican, December 18 aaoA Ji& aary 22, at Dee's Royal Hotel, Birmingham. Sols. Messrs. Ifesrjse and Ensor, Gray's- inn; and Mr. Smith, Birmingham. JTeL l£ tr. John Fowler Richardson, Birmingham, tailor and draper. Sral iietember 7. 30SE3PB ROBERTS, Warwick, corn dealer, December 21 and Ja& saxy 22, at the George Inn, Warwick. Sols. Mr. Nelson, New- port, Middle Temple ; and Mr. Morris, Warwick. Pet. Cr. Chapman, Warwick, corn dealer, and Edward Lowe, Har- tea- y, Warwickshire, farmer. Seal. November 14. JA SELLERS, Yeovil, Somersetshire, druggist and grocer, CsKWBi& t.- r 20 and January 22, at the Antelope Inn, Dorchester. && Messrs. Douglass and Cragg, Verulam. buildings; and Mr. Tim^ g, Yeovil. Pet. Cr. James Kemp and James Cousins, 69, Thames- street, wholesale tea dealers. Seal. November 13. OI3YER THOMAS JOSEPH STOCKEN, Walham- green, Middle- sex fc- rewer, December 18 and January 22, at the Bankrupts' C* wa3. Sol. Mr. Fyson, Tokenhouse- yard. Pet. Cr. Edward ClE8r2i-?>, Ware, Herts, maltster. Seal. November 21. WILLIAM WYLLIE, Castk'bar park, near Ealing, Middlesex, December 17 and January 22, at the Bankrupts' Court. Si*, S Messrs. Freeman and Bothainley, Coleman. street. Pet. Cr. Hi'suiy Powell, Fenchurch- street, oilman. Seal. November 29. DIVIDENDS. IV". KUNFREY, Northampton, wine merchant, January 7. T. G. SAMSEY and S. LANCASTER, Mark- lane, wine merchants, Jsfea » ? y 3. W, JUNES, Shrewsbury, shoe maker, January 14. F. ayaSONDS, Bildeston, Suffolk, miller, February 6. A. HACK Ell, Canterbury, builder, December 31. D. Merthyr Tydvil, Glamorganshire, linen draper, Janu- YSMI. ADGOLD, Brentu ood, Essex, corn dealer, January 3. CERTIFICATES, JANUARV 1. X Fenner, Bishopsgate- street- within, leather factor— T. 3, ower- street, Islington, butcher— J. Harries, Carmarthen, toi& i- i sawchant. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. J. .1. Campbell, Ormskirk, Lancashire, gardeners— C. A. and J. Cy^-, DevOuport, chymists— Horsfield and Co., Rochdale, Lanca- • j& Bv, 5aiters— Williams, Royle, and Breeze, Llanfyllan, Mont- ® oe » * rjs? jire, attorneys ( as far as regards J. Williams)— Wallis and CTo^ isas, STury- lane, and Church- lane, Whitechapel, general dealers — W. and WT. Thompson, Sheffield, merchants— T. Stirling and LaodX Tapley, St Ann's- place, Limehouse, purveyor of filtered wadtar— Sooth, Garratt, and Co., Liverpool, Chester, and other p3ae » « - :, t& far as regards G. Stafferd)— J. Whittle and Co., Preston Lauiis- iire, maltsters— R. Such and W. Morrison, Watling- street, mwlawi » # men— W. Hargreaves, R. Marsden, and S. Johnson, stone masons— T. Hodgson, Lancaster and Greeta- bank, J. Tpyler, Lancaster, and J. Rumney, Thornton, York- kuid surveyors— Casey, Ferguson, and Co1., Glasgow, silk swsniaijts. ASSIGNMENTS. Collins, Cong. resbury, Somersetshire, grocer and draper. Jhib ® , Hunter, Plymouth, draper and tea dealer. WiSSwn Skimier, Heathfield, Sussex, farmer and miller, • fe& a Sfcott, BLshopsgate- strett- wiihout, oilman. White BARLEY, English, Malting, per Imp. Quarter . Irish .— Grinding, per Quarter of3921bs.^~ w OATS, English, White, per Imperial Quarter w Welsh, Black and White, per : 312lbs Irish,( weighiug41 to 4211) 8.) do. ( 37 to 391bs.) do. Black do. BEANS, English, Old, per bushel of() 5lbs PEAS, Boiling, per Imp. Quarter Grinding, per Quarter of 392lbs. FLOUR, English, Fine, per Sack of280lbs Seconds • 10 0 .. 10 wus. 10 0 0 .. t) 0 0 0 .. 0 0 8 6 .. 10 4 10 4 .. 10 9 34 0 •• 38 6 0 0 .. 0 ( 1 31 0 .. 33 6 SI 0 .. 34 0 23 9 .. 24 9 2a 6 .. 27 e 23 0 .. 24 6 24 0 .. 25 0 5 6 .. 5 10 4 9 .. 5 2 0 0 .. 0 0 4 10 .. 5 6 48 0 .. 56 0 30 0 .. 33 0 04 0 .. 07 0 5S 6 .. 62 0 COUNTRY MARKETS, & c. Gloucester, DecemterB, 1838. s. d. s. d WHEAT. Enjliah, White, per Imp. Bushel 10 0 to 10 6 Old 0 0 .. 0 0 English, Red ™ ^ 9 9 Irish, White, per 601ba nominal 0 0 Red ^ nominal 0 0 () 1 ii — —— notuiH't! 0 0 Foreign B A RLE Y, English, Malting, per Imp. Qaarter ™ ,„ 31 0 Irish none 0 0 Grinding, per Quarterof3921bs. 31 0 OATS, English, White, per Imp. Quarter 24 0 Welsh, Black and White 22 6 Irish ( weighing41 to 421 bs); per Qr. of3121bs. 28 0 10 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .. 10 6 37 0 0 0 34 0 32 0 24 0 28 0 25 0 24 0 5 8 BIRMINGHAM MARKET. Corn Market, December 13. A tjii supply of all kinds of grain to this diiy's market. The trade ruled dull, and the best samples sold at a reduction of SL per bushel; while inferior lots were offering at 4d. to 6d, IwjIaBStf!, below the terms of last week. Barley, both malting and per quarter below the rates of this day se'nnight. Opts fn[ t. itaincd their former prices. Old Beans quite asdear j uew *> S* L7. h< » a reduction of 6d. per fang, with few buyers. Peas un- mlii- iiiS; i> Tatue. ( 37 to 391bs.) .23 0 BEANS, English, Old, per Imp. Bushel S 2 New — 4 3 .. 4 8 Irish none 0 0 .. 0 0 Foreign 4 6 .. 5 0 PEAS, Boiling, per Imp. Quarter 48 0 .. 56 0 Grinding, per Quarter of 392lbs. 28 0 .. 31 0 FLOUR, English, Fine, persack of 2S01bs - 63 0 .. f5 0 Seconds 60 0 .. 62 0 WORCESTER WEEKLY AVERAGE. Qrs. Bush. g. d Wheat 691 6 79 11a Barley 850 2 34 4 Oats 0 0 0 0 Beans 435 5 41 Of Peas — 133 0 ... 40 5J Wheat, Barley , Oats ™ Peas — Beans , GLOUCESTER WEEKLY AVERAGE. Qrs. Bush. . 489 . 457 , 1353 0 . 451 J. d . 78 10 . 33 10 . 23 11 . 0 0 . 42 0 Birmingham, December 13, 1838. At Gloucester market on Saturday the supply of Wheat was large, but the rates of the previous week were fully maintained. Barley Is. per quarter higher. Oats and Beans the turn dearer. At Wor. cester the supplies were also large, and Wheat, Barley, Beans, and Peas were Is. per quarter lower. No alteration in Oats. Wo have had but little Wheat offering during the present week, and our millers being short in stock, the currency of last week has been obtained for the parcels which changed hands, and 10s. 4d. per 621bs. was given for fair new red. Malting Barley sells slowly at 353. to 37s. 6d. per imperial quarter ; extra fine Is. per quarter more. Only retail sales are reported in Beans and Peas. Best new white Irish Oats find buyers slowly at 26s. 6d. to Q s. 6d. per 3121 bs. At this day's market the supply was good, and fine Wheat nearly supported the prices of this day se'nnight, but secondary descrip- tions were Is. to 2s. per quarter cheaper. Malting Barley dull, wi'hout alteration in value; For the fe w Oats disposed of, last week's rates were obtained. Beans dull, but not lower; In Peas little doing. IMPORTS INTO GLOUCESTER From the bth to the 11 th inst. Wheat. Oats. Barley. Beans. Ireland 30Qra lS. MQrs 255 Qrs Qrs Coastwise.. 516Qrs 253Qrs Qrs Qrs foreign.... Qrs Qrs Qrs Qrs Peas. Flour. Rye. Vetches. Qrs Sacks Qrs Qrs Coastwise.. Qrs Sacks Qrs Qrs Foreign.... Qrs Sacks Qrs Qrs WARWICK, SATUROA Y, DEC. 8. — Wheat, per hag, old 28s Od to 31s Od ; new, 28s Od to 31s Od ; Barley, per quarter, 34s 0d to Odj grinding, 29s Od to 36s Od ; Oats. SOs Od to 34s Od; New, 26s Od to 29s Od; Peas, per bag. Os fld to 0s Od ; Beans, 16s 0d to 17s Od ; new, I3s Od to 15s 0d;; Vetches, 0s Od to 0s Od; Malt 568 Od to 68s Od per quarter. HEREFORD, DEC. 8.— Wheat, per bushel Imperial measure 10s 3d to 10s8d, Ditto, new, per bushel, 10s 4d to 10s9d, Barley, 8 5d to 4s lOd. Beans, 4s Od to 4s 8d. Peas, 0s Od to 0s 0d Vet bes, Os Od to 03 Od. Oats, 3s Od to 0s Od. CHiLTENHAM, DEC. 6. — Whent, 9s 6d to 10s 3d per bushe 1 itt red, 8s 9d to 9s 6d. Barley, 3s 9d to 4s 9d. Oats, 2s 9d ti, 4S fd. Beans, 5s 3,1 to 5s 9d. Ho ' INTELLIGENCE Worcester, Dec. 10 Prices per cwt.: — Ei Bt Sent pockets, £ 4 10s. to £ 8 8s. ; ditto bags, .£ 4 4s. to £ 7 7s.; Mid Kent pockets, £ 3 15s. to £ 8 8s. ; ditto bags, £ 4 0s. to £ 7 7s.; Weald of Kent pockets, £ 3 10s. to £ 5 5s. ; Sussex pockets, £ 3 3s. to £ 4 ins.; Yearlings, £ 3 10s. to £ 4 4s. ; Old £ 0 0s. to £ 0 Os,; Old Olds, £ 1 Is. to £ 2 2s. LONDON MARKETS. CORN EXCHANGE, MONDAY, DEC. 10 Wheat, Essex Red, new 68s to 70s ; line, 73s to 75s ; old, — s to — s; white, new, 76s to 78s ; fine, 78s to 80s; superfine, 81sfo8ts; old,— s to — s— Rye, 32s to 40s.— Barley, 32s to 36s; tine, 37s to 38s; superfine, — s to — s.— Malt, 50s to 58s ; fine, 60s to 63s — Peas, Hog, 38s to 40s Maple, 41s to 42s; white, 40s to 48s ; Boilers, 50s to 54s.— Beans, small, 36s to 42s; old, — » to — s; Ticks, 30s to 36i; old, 38s to 41s ; Harrow, 38s to 40s,— Oats, feed, 24s to 26s ; line, 27a to 28s Poland, 26s to 28s; tine, 29s to 30s Potatoe, 30s to 32s ; fine 33s to 34s— Bran, per quarter, 8s Od to9s 0d,— Pollard, fine, per do 14s. to 20s. GENERAL A VGRAGEPIMCEOFBRITISHCORN FOR THE WEEK ENDING DEC. 8, 1838.— Wheat, 73s Id ; Barley, 3 < s 7d ; Oats, 24s 3d; Rye, 42s 5d ; Beans, 40s lid ; Peas, 44s Od. DUTYON FOREIGN CORN FOR rue PRESENT WEEK.— Wheat, 6sSd » Barley, I2s 4d ; Oats. lasSJ; Eye, 12s Cd Beans, 9s6d; Peas' 6- 6d. pieces of pine deals, 1556 standard staves, and 700 West India pine staves, J. M. Shipton— Mosquito, Teigrimouth, 80 tons of pipeclay, Russel and Wall— Recovery, Cork, 944 barrels of oats, Viuing and Son— Brothers, Milford, 40 tons of coals, to order— Victory, Sanders- foot, 36 tons of coals, Smith— Penelope, Waterford, 370 barrels ol corn, J. and C. Sturge— William and Ann, Carmarthen, 2027 barrel.- of oats, J. Colinburn ; 53 firkins of butter,\ Morgan and Semple— Jano and Mary, Milford, 57 tons of coals, J. George— Tredegar, Neath, 85 tons of coals and iron, Southan and Sou— Mary, Amster. dam, oil cake, J. W. Hentig— James and Sarah, Cardiff, 33 tons o iron, Kendall and Son— Hope, Dundalk, 393 barrels of oats, Phill. potts and Co.— O. Cambridge, Pembray, 115 tons of coals, John George— Tyne, Waterford, 580 barrels of oats, Phillpotts . and Co. ; 446 barrels of barley, J. and C. Sturge ; 100 firkins of butter, S, Bow. ley; 20 firkins of butter, 20 bales of bacon, and 1 firkin of lard, M'Cheane and Bartlett; 52 bales of bacon, 104 firkins of butter, and 1 hogshead of lard, Joseph Morris; 30 bales of bacon, Wait, James, and Co John and Mary, London, 516 quarters of wheat, to order— Ilibernia, Youghall, 857 barrels of oats, Vining and Sons— Castilian Maid, Denia, 600 boxes, 600 half- boxes, and 2,800 baskets of raisins, and 20 boxes of almonds, Kendall and Son— Ospray, Marsala, wine, Johnsons and Co.— Abeoua, Mumbles, 100 barrels of oysters, Southan and Son — Union, Swansea, 20 tons of copper, Southan and Son— Sarah, Swansea, general cargo, Southan and Son— Kitty, Amster- dam, oilcake, J. W, Hentig— Jane, Cardiff, 62 tons of coke, John George. EXPORTS ; The Pheasant, for Waterford, with 203 tons of salt, from Gopsil Brown— Harmony, Cardiff, 14$ tons of flour and 8 tons of sundries, Southan and Son— Fame, Neath, 33 tons of iron, Kendall and Son ; 12 tons of sundries, Southau aud Son— Dorothea, Amsterdam, J. W. Hentig— Elizabeth, Cardiff, 1 puncheon of gin, J ihnsons and Co.; 7 tons of sundries, Southan aud Son ; ironmon. gery, 1. R. Heane— Industry, Newport, J. M. Sliipton— Breeze, I- ewport, 40 tons of salt, Southan and Son— West Hendon, London, 420 una of salt, Gopsil Brown— Perseverance, Cardiff, 15 tons of salt and*, tons of sundries, Southan and Son— Duchess of Glouces. ter, Newport, 29 to is of iron, Southan and Sou— Victory, Bideford, 31 tons of salt, Sou han and Son— Tredegar, Newport, 36 tons of flour and 14 tons of sundries, Southan and Son. PRICE OF SEEDS, DEC. 10. — Per Cwt.-— Red Clover, English, 56s to 70s ; fine, 75s to 88s ; Foreign, 48s to 65s; fine, 70s to 84s White Clover, 50s to 60s; fine, 63s to 70s.— Trefoil, new, 19s to 22s; fine, 23s to 25s j old, 17s to 22s.— Trefolium, 0s to 0s j fine, — s to — s. — Caraway, English, new, 43s to 46s ; Foreign, 40s to 44s_ Coriander, 13s Od to 21s Od. Per Quarter St. Foin, 40s to 44s ; fine, 46s to43s ; Rye Grass; 28s to 35s ; new, 30s to 40s ; Paeey Grass, 40s to45s; Linseed for feeding, 52s to 56s ; fine ,58s to 6: 1s ; ditto for crushing, 43s to 50s— Canary, 90s to 100s— Hemp, 38s to 42s. Per Bushel.— White Mustard Seed ,11s Od to 15s Od ; brown ditto 15s Od to 22s ; Tares, 4s Od to5s0d ; fine uew, 5s 3d to5s 6d. Per Last.— Rape Seed . English, 36( to38/; Foreign, 34? to 36( WBI « _ perOMlt. s. d. s. d. TStSfia 10 4 - 10 10 Eei... 10 4 - 10 8 iri « :< i 0 0— 0 0 ii — per Imp. Quarter. 3Rw Malting 0 0— 00 HffGBinding, S02/ bs 32 0 — 34 0 — per Imperii* I Bushel. CM Mid new 0 0 — 00 ® i'W— verS9lbs. 1KB. 23 0 — 27 0 Ttaw 23 0 — 24 6 JjisA 23 6 — 20 6 B E A NS— per bag, 10 score g rot s. d. s. d Old 16 0 — 17 New 14 6— 15 PEAS— perbag of 3 Bush. Imp FOR BOILING. White 18 0 — 1!) 6 Grey 16 6— 17 6 FOR GRINDING. per bag of 10 score 15 6 — 16 0 White 16 6— 17 6 FLOUR— persack o/ 280JSs > ie Fine 60 0 — 62 3 Seconds.... 55 0 — 57 o OILS.— Rape Oil, brown, £- 11 10s per ton; [ termed £ 43 0s ; Linseed Oil, £ 27 0s; aud Rape Cake,£ 6 10s.— Linseed Oil ake £ 15 0s per thousand. HAY ANDSTRAW— Smithjield.— Hay, 63SOd to 105s Od ; Inferior — s to— s; Clover, 60s to 115s; Inferior — s to — s; Straw, 2Ss to 36s. Whitechapel.— Clover, 80s to I12s; new, — s to — s; second cut,— s to — s; Hay, 80 to 94s ; new ditto,— s to— sj Wheat Straw, 30s to 34s. Cumberland.— Fine Upland Meadow and Rye- grass Hay, 105s to 110s; inferior ditto, 90s to 95s ; superior Clover, 110s to 120s ; Straw, 34s to 36s perload of 36 trusses. Portman Market.— Coarse heavy Lowland Hay,— sto — s; new Meadow Hay,— s to— s ; old ditto, 100s to 115s ; useful ditto, 80s to 90s; New Clover ditto, 100s to 120s ; old ditto,— s to — s ; Wheat Straw, 30s to 38s perload of 36 trusses. HARVEY'S BARK PILLS WITH SARSAPA- RILLA, For Strengthening the Constitution and Purifying the Blooa. fg^ HESE Pills are obtained solely from Peruvian 1- Bark and Sarsaparilla, so prepared as to contain in a highly concentrated state, all the medicinal properties of each of these valuable medicines, by a judicious combination of which so greatly are their restorative virtues increased, that in eveiy instance where either of the above medicines is required, these Pills are decidedly preferable to any other preparation. Indigestion, head ache, loss of appetite, langour, nervous depression of the spirits, & c., invariably arise from weak- ness of the digestive organs ; when such is tiie case, as in all diseases arising from debility, these Pills will be fouud a permanent cure, and in all eruptions of the skin, occasioned by an unhealthy state of the blood, they are highly bene- ficial. Prepared and sold by G. Cubitt, Upper Market, Nor- wich. So'd wholesale by Barclay and Sons, London, and retail by M. Banks, druggist, W. M. Shillitoe, druggist, and Wood, Birmingham; J. C. Price, druggist, Tamworth: Rollason and Merridew, Coventry; Heathcote, stationer, and Harper, druggist, Warwick ; and by most medicine vendors in the kingdom. In boxes Is. and 2s. 9d each. FRANKS'S SPECIFIC SOLUTION OF COPAIBA. WITHIN a period of two months upwards of tillee hundred patients were successfully treated at the Metropolitan Hospitals, with FRANKS'S SPECIFIC SOLUTION OF COPAIBA. By Joseph Henry Green, Esq., F. R. S., one of the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons, Sargeon to St. Thomas's Hospital, and Professor of Surgery in King's College, Lon- don. I have made a trial of Mr. Franks's Solution of Copaiba, at St. Thomas's Hospital, in a variety of cases of discharges in the male aud female ; and the results warrant my stating, that it is an effica- cious remedy, and one which does not produce the usual unpleasant effects of Copaiba. ( Signed) JOSEPH HENRY GREEN. 46, Lincolll's. inn- fields, April 15, 1835. By Bramby Cooper, Esq., F. R. S., Surgeon to Guy's Hospital, and Lecturer on Anatomy, SfC., Sfc.; and others most eminent in the medical profession. Mr. Bransby Cooper presents his compliments to Mr. George Franks, and has great pleasure in bearing testimony to the efficacy of his Solution of Copaiba in gonorrhoea, for which disease Mr. Cooper has prescribed the Solution, in ten or twelve cases, with per- fect success. New. street, Spring Gardens, April 13,1835. This invaluable medicine is confidently recommended in all cases of gonorrhoea, gleets, urethral discharges, spasmodic strictures, irritation of the kidneys, bladder, uretlna, and prostate gland ; its purifying effects upon the ganeral health render it particularly applicable in all cases of relaxed fibre and nervous debility. Prepared only by GEOEGE FRANKS, surgeon, 90, Black- friars road, London ; and may be had of his agents, Barclay and Sons, Farringdon street; Sutton and Co., Bow Church- yard ; Edwards, St. Paul's Churchyard; T. Butler, 4, Cheapside ; Newberry and Sons, St. Paul's Churchyard ; Drew and Heyward, Great Trinity lane; Mander, Weaver, and Co., Wolverhampton ; Mawhood, Evans, and Son, Liverpool; Dennis and Son, York. Scotland,— I. and R Raimes, Leith Walk; Butler and Innis, Edinburgh, Ire- laud,— at the Medical Hall, 54, Lower Sackville street, Dublin; and of all wholesale and retail patent medicine vendors in the United Kingdom. In bottles at 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d., and lis. each. Mr. Franks may be consulted daily until two o'clock. Caution The public are protected against counterfeits by the name, " George Franks, Blackfriars road," being engraved on the government stamp attached to each bottle. Sold by appointment, by Mr. Maher, 5. Congreve street, Birmingham ; Merridew, Coventry; and Bowman and Law, Manchester. MOXON'S EFFERVESCENT MAGNESIAN APERIENT. ' SpiIIS mild, agreeable, and efficient purgative is - 1- universally appioved and recommended by the Faculty as the best corrective ol disordered state of the Stomach, Head, and Bowels, and the safest remedy for Gout, Piles, Fistula, Gravel, & e., aud for obviating the injurious effects of the stronger drastic purgatives-, for this latter purpose it should be taken the moining following. If frequently taken during the heat of summer and autumn, no medicine is better calculated to prevent or speedily remove those dan- geious disorders Cholera Morbus, Dysentery, Diarrhoea, and 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 he 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 „ f it regularly every morning; taken in the 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 }? ives a zest to every enjoyment, besides 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 and dis- tressing. The moment I get out of bed 1 take a tea- spoonful of your Panacea, winter and summer, ( during this severe storm 1 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 WRIGIITSON- HoHghton. le. Spring, Feb. 14th, 1838. Sold in bottles at 2s. 9d., 4s. 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 percent, to the purchaser. Wholesale agents— BARCLAY and SONS, 95, Farringdon- street, London; J. and R. RAIMES, Edinburgh. Sold by all Druggists and venders of medicine throughout the Empire. SMITHFIELD, DEO. 10— To sink the offal— per81b — Beef, 3s 6d to 4s 8d; Best Down and Polled Mutton, 3s lOd to 4s lOd; Veal 4s Od to 6s Od ; Pork, 4s 2d to 5s 4d ; Lamb. Os Od to 0s Od. NEWGATEAND LEADENJIALL By the Carcase— Deef, 3s Od to 3< 10d; Mutton, 3s 0d to 3s lOd; Veal, 4s Od to 5s 4d ; Pork, 3s 4d to is lOd ; Lamb, Os Od to 0s Od. GLOUCESTER SHIP NEWS, From December 6 to December 12. IMPORTS: The Elizabeth, from Amsterdam, with oil cake, con- signed to J. W. Hentig— Bodalog, Aberdovey, 50 ton3 of slates, Gopsil Brown— Albion, Port Madoe, 50 tons of slates, Thomas— Lydia, Quebec, 19 pieces of oak timber, 170 pieces of white pine Tin S> lk> wing is the statement in Messrs. Sturge's circular : — PRESENT PRICES OF GRAIN. Birmingham, December 13, 1838. s. d. s. d. Sk'HivVr, English, White, per bushel of62! b 10 4 to 10 10 Old 10 4 .. 11 0 1 timber, 1402 pieces of deals and planking, and 12 cords of latluvood, 0 8 .. 10 J, M, Sliipton— Silvia, Quebec, 367 pieces of red piue timber, UC3 ASHLEY COOPER'S BOTANICAL PURIFY- ING PILLS are established by thirty years'experi- ence, are prescribed by most of the eminent Physicians and Surgeons in London, and are always administered at several public hospitals, as the only certain remedy for Gonorrhoea, Gleets, Strictures, and all other forms of Ve- nereal diseases, in either sex, curing in a few days, by one small pill for a dose, with ease, secrecy, and safety. Their operation is imperceptible, they do 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 tise for these complaints, and after a cure ef- fected by the use of these pills, the party willnotexperience any return of the complaint, as generally occurs after taking Balsam of Copaiba, and other drugs of the like nature, which only possessing a local action, merelysuppressed the complaint for a time, without eradicating it from the con- stitution, and the patient on undergoing a little more fa- tigue than ordinary, finds all the symptoms return, and that they are suffering under the complaint as much sis at first, and are at last constrained to have recourse to these pills, as the only certain cure. They are likewise a mostefficient remedy for Pimpled Faces, Scurf, Scorbutic Affections, and all Eruptions ofthe Skin. Captainsof 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 forwarded to the proprietor when he first offered these pills to the public, may be considered interesting. From that eminent surgeon, the late Joshua Brookes, Esq., F. It. S., Professor of Anatomy, & c. & c. Theatre of Anatomy, Blenheim- street.. Dear Cooper,— I have tried youi pills in numerous instances, and my candid opinion is that they are a mostimproved system of treat, ment for those peculiar corapiaintsfor which you recommend them, curing with rapidity, and with a certainty that 1 had never before witnessed; but what I consider their most invaluable property is, that they entirely eradicate the complaint, and never leave those dis. treBsingsecondary symptoms ( that harass the patient for life) which usually arise after the use of those uncertain remedies, Mercury and Copaiba. I think j ou cannot fail to have a very large sale for thei Believeme, yours, verytruly, 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 theirgreatefiieacyineuring sexual diseases, and they deserve well of the public profession, ' t he Purifying Drops are also a most valuable antiscorbutic medicine. Dr. B. has found them to be a decided specific for those eruptions oi the skiu 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 gratefully re turned their thanks for a complete cure of gonorrhoea, by the use of Cooper's Botanical Pills, I beg merely to say, that I have experi- enced an entire cure from the small quantity of six boxes of those invaluable pills, a very urgent aud 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:, de public my residence may be omitted— I am, gentlemen, your much obliged and obedient servant, JOHN HARRISON. Ashley Cooper's Botanical Purifying Pillsare sold in boxes at 2s. 9d. and 4s. 6d. each, wholesale and retail, at HANNAY and Co.' s Genera! Patent Medicine Warehouse, 63, Oxford- street, the corner of Wells- street, London, where the public can besupplied with every Patent Medi cine of i epute, ( 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. Matthisou, 71, Edgbaston- street; Hodgetts, Spiceal- street; Watts, Snowhill; and Guest, Steelhouselnne, Birmingham; and by the principal medicine vendors in every other town in the kingdom. INFLUENZA. — RELIEF IN A FEW HOURS, A CURE IN A FEW DAYS. SIMCO'S CHEMICAL ESSENCE OF LIN- SEED is universally allowed to be the best and most efficacious medicine in the world for Coughs, Colds, Asth- mas, Hoarseness, Impeded Respiration, Difficult Expecto- ration, Soreness or Rawness of the Chest and Stomach, Consumptive Cough, and Pulmonary Affections. — Asth- matic persons who have been cured by this Essence, de- clare that prior to its use they had not been able to lie down in bed for twenty nights, on account of impeded respira- tion. It will be found invaluable to persons who are obliged to travel in the fogs and damp air, aud will cure children's coughs in two days. If any person afflicted with a cold, will take two full- sized tea- spoonsful of this Essence, in a little warm rum and water at night, such person will in the morning find himself almost well. The wonderful and surprising good effects in cases of Influenza and Coughs are well known; abundant opportunities of hue have been afforded, and nearly one thousand bottles were sold by the late proprietor, within fourteen days in the month of February, 1837. It is gaining universal patronage, and is highly spoken of; the extraordinary cures effected by it in Northampton and neighbourhood, have spread its virtues far and wide. A Mrs. Tressler, residing in Bull- lane, Northampton, was afflicted in July, 1835, with a dreadful Cough, and severe pain in her side and chest, and she wishes the pro- prietor to make known to the public, that his Chemical Es- sence of Linseed quite cured her violent Cough, and also the pains in her chest and side, and that she considers it the best Cough medicine ever prepared. John Foster, Kingsthorpe Lodge, desires that it may be made public that his wife was afflicted with a bad cold, which occasioned pains in all her limbs, and much fever and slight cough, with sore throat, which Simco's Chemical Essence of Linseed cured very speedily. Sold in bottles, price Is. ljd., 2s. 9d., and 4s. 6d. each. Sold by Banks, Bull ring; Shillitoe, Wood, High street; Matthison and Co., Edgbaston street; Knott, Harvet, Martin, Dale end; and Clark and Son, Birmingham ; Banks, Park, Wolverhampton ; and Twinberrow, Learning, ton. Wholesale in Loudon by Boddington and Co., Bar- clay and Son, and Sutton and Son; also by Simco, North, ainpton. THE ONLY CURE FOR CORNS AND BUNIONS ¥ g AMSBOTTOM'S CORN and BUNION SOL- VENT. By the use of this valuable remedyimme- diate relief from pain is obtained, and by its successive application for ashortperiod, the mostobstinate Corns are entirelyreinoved without recourseto the dangerous opera- tions of cutting or filing. The proprietoi pledges himself that it does not contain caustic or anyotherarticle that will inflame the skin; being white it will not stain the stocking; and tiie advantage it has over plaister is mani- fest, and fullyappreciated, as the very high recommenda- tion bestowed upon it by everyindividual that has used it testifies. Price Is. IJd. and 2s. >• The various counterfeits that are attemptedto be im- posed upon the public in lieu of this invaluable remedy, render it imperativelynecessary for purchasers to ask for S. Ramsbottom'sCorn and Bunion Solvent, and to see that it has the signature of" S. liamsbottom" written upon the label that is pasted on the outside of the wrapperofevery genuine bottle, in addition to the name of the article, and words sold by Hannayand Co. 63, Oxford- street, being the name and address of the proprietor's wholesale agents. The following letter from Mr. John Winficld, of Bir- mingham, is one ofmany hundreds of the same tenor: Gentlemen— Having read an advertisement in a Birmingham paper, I wasinducedtopureliasefrom youragent, Mr. Maher, Ann- street, a bottle of Itamsbottom's Corn and Bunion Solvent;— after a week'sapplication I found it had the desired effect. Ihavesince re- commended it to many of my friends. You are at liberty to make any use you please of thiscommunication Your obedient servant, Birmingham, Augusta, 1836. JOHN WINFIELD. Mr. Phipp, of Westbourn. road, Paddington. green, writes he had been so severe a sufferer from corns, as to be quite a cripple, requir- ing the aid of two sticks to walk with, for many months, until ha was recommended to try Ramsbottora's Com Solvent, which entirely cured him, and that he has not been troubled witli them 6ince, and will be most happy to answer any personal enquiries as to its efti. cacy. ALSO FROM DR. GHENVILLE. Dr. Grenviile presents his compliments to Messrs. Hnnnay aud Co., and begs to add his testimony ( publicly) to the efficacy of Rams bottom's Corn Solvent, which he purchased at their shop, when in London last season : it completely answers the purpose, the danger possible to arise by cutting them too deep is avoided, and it is far more agreeable than plaister. Sold by appointment by W. Wood, High- street,; Ri 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. MULREADDY'S COUGII 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 ol 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 eveiy description of Pulmonary Affection. To those who are unacquainted with the invaluable pro- perties of Mulreaddy's Cough Elixir, the following letteis 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 1 was unable to breathe, unless with great difficulty, attended with much coughing, which always kept my soft palate relaxed, aud in a state of irritation, aud the more I coughed the worseit was, and it, in its own turn, produced a constant excitement of coughing. I am now about, to the wonder of my friends and neighbours, entirely free from cough. One small phial of your inestimable medicine, ten years back; would have saved me not less than £ 3,000 in medical fees, but it would have done more— it would have saved my having had to swallow, from time to time, upwards of a hogshead of their nauseous, aud, as they all proved, useless drugs. The agreeable flavour of the medicine it a great recommendation: I think you ought to put it up and sell it to the public, and if any one should doubt its efficacy, refer them tome. I shall have the pleasure of being with you in a few days, when I shall press on your consideration the propriety of making it up for sale; it would prove an enormous fortune to your grand, children. If you make up your mind to do so, as 1 ain what the worldstyles an idle man, you may enlist me in your service in any way that you think would be useful. But I should advise you to place the management in the hands of one of the great medicine houses in London. Hannay's in Oxford. street, arebeingadvertised in all the papers lier. e, as wholesale agents for Ramsbottom's Corn Solvent, which, by the bye, my girl3 all say is really a cure, and manyother medicines. I should say this would be a very good house, Oxford street beingone ofthe mostpublicsituationein Lon. don. Alljoin me in kind remembrance to yourself and Mrs. M. Believe me, yours, very truly, T. Mulreaddy, Esq. ROBERT GRANT, Birkenhead, Jan., 1 Dear Sir,— Tiie 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 lin< i the cold produce t he sensation it used previous to taking your medicine; it used formerly to nip me on going out, aud I seemed as though I had a string run through my body, and : he breast and back bones weredrawo together. If you will be so good as to give me auotherbottle, I am sure it will work a perfect,'. ure, I am, sir, your mostobedientservant, T. Mulreaddy, Esq. NICHOLAS BROWN. Liverpool, Dec., 1834. MydearSir,— You most issurcdlydeserve the thanks of societj for presenting it with such an invaluable cure for Coughs. For years past, during the winter mouths, and always on foggy days, have I heretofore been compelled to confine myself a close and soli tar y prisoner in my library, to prevent the possibility of being tempted to join in conversation, the excitement of which always produced such violent paroxysms of coughing, that I have been in constant dread of sudden dissolution, by bursting of a blood- vessel. At the commencement, of the present season, by your kind liberality, I com. meneed taking the medicine you sent, and have taken twelve bottles. After Iliad taken three, I could respire asvigourously as in the early partof my life, and I now believe that 1 was then perfectly cured— a cure not to have been expected atmy advanced age, 8( 1 years— but I persevered in taking it until I had consumed the whole twelve bottles. Your situation in life, I know, places you beyond the necessity of preparing an article of the kind for sale, but it must • and shall lie done, and if you neglect to do it, my sincere wish is that you may be lugged out of your retirement, aud compelled to provide it in quantities equal to the boundless waters; aud 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 considerablequailtity, and I promise to distribute it most usefully. Whenever you have made up for sale, send me one thou sand bottles. Ever yoursincere well- wisher, T. Mulreaddy, Esq. W. HUGHES. Mr. Mulreaddy begs toobserve, that to publish copies of the whole ofthe letters he has received of the above tenor, would require severul 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. HANNAV and Co. ,63, Oxford- street, London ; and retail by every other respecta blevendorofmedicines in bottles at Is. l% d. each. IggT Purchasers should observe that it is wrapped up in white paper, on which, in a blue label with white letters, are printed the words,— Mulreaddy's Cough Elixir, pre pared by Thomas Mulreaddy, Liverpool, and sold byhisap- pointment at Mannay and Co.' s, Patent Medicine Ware- house, 63, Oxford- street, London. Price Is. and 4s. 6d. Sold wholesale and retail by HANNAY and Co., 63, 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 ol 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; R. Mat- thison, 71, Edgbaston- street; Hodgetts, Spiceal- street; Watts, Snowhill; Guest, Steelhouse- lane; and by the principal patent medicine vendors in eveiy other town in, the kingdom. FRAMPTON'S PILL OF HEALTH, Price is. l% d. per box. THIS excellent Family PILL is a Medicine of long tried efficacy for correcting all disorders of the Stomach (. ml Bowels, the common symptoms of which ate costiveness, flatulency, spasms, loss of appetite, sick headache, giddiness, sense of fulness after meals, dizziness of the eyes, drowsiness, and pains in the stomach and bowels. Indigestion producing a torpid state of the liver, and a consequent inactivity of the bowels, causing a disor- ganiMitiou of every function of the frame, will, in this most excellent preparation, by a little perseverance, be effectually removed. Two or three doses will convince the afflicted of its salutary effects. The stomach will speedily regain its strength ; a healthy action of the liver, bowels, and kidneys, will ratiidly take place, and instead of listlessness, heat, pain, and jaundiced appearance, strength, activity, and re- newed health, will be the quick result of taking this medi. cine according to the directions accompanying each box; and it taken after too free an indulgence at table, they quickly restore the system to its natural state of repose. Persons of a full habit, who are subject to headache, giddiness, drowsiness, and singing in the ears, arising from too great a flow of blood to the head, should never be with- out them, as many dangerous symptoms will be entirely carried off by their immediate use. For females, these Pills are most truly excellent, removing all obstructions; the distressing headache so very prevalent with the sex; depression of spirits, dulness of sight, ner- vous affections, blotches, pimples, and sallowness of the skin, and give a healthy and juvenile bloom to the com- plexion. As a pleasant, safe, easy aperient, they unite the recom- mendation of a mild operation with the most successful effect, and require no restraint of diet or confinement during their use. And for elderly people they will be found to be> the most comfortable medicine hitherto prepared. Sold by T. Prout, 229, Strand, London; price Is. I£ d. and 2s. 9d. per box; and at Birmingham by Shillitoe, Wood, Collins and Co., Edwards, Flewitt, Sumner and Co., Smith, ' Stiffield, Gazette and Advertiser offices;— Dudley; Morris, Turner and Hollier;— Wolverhampton; Mander aud Co., Simpson ;— Atherstone; Davis;— Walsall; Valen- tineand Co.;— Kidderminster; Pennell;— Lichfield ; Mor- gan ;— Bewdley ; Morris ;— Westbromwich ; Shillitoe ;— Shiffnall; Harding; — Bromsgrove; Maund ;— Warwick ; Bayley, Harper, Hodgkinson, Roberts ; — Bridgnorth ; Nicholas;— Coventry; Wileys and Brown, Merridew, Rollason, Loveitt;— and by the vendors of medicines generally throughout the kingdom. Ask for Frampton's Pill of Health, and observe the name and address of " Thomas Prout, 229, Strand, London,' on the government stamp. UNFAILING SUCCESS, during a period of ONE HUNDRED YEARS, has fully established the ex- cellence of BARCLAYS' ORIGINAL OINTMENT in the cure of that disagreeable disorder the ITCH, which it never fails to effect in ONE HOUR'S APPLICATION. This safe, speedy, and effectual remedy has been in ge- neral use for upwards of one. hundred years, without a single instance of its having failed to cure the most inveterate cases. It does not contain the smallest particle of mercury, or any other dangerous ingredient, and may be safely used by persons of the most delicate constitution. The public are requested to be on their guard against noxious compositions sold at low price?, and to observe, that none can possibly be genuine unless the name of the Pro- prietors. BARCLAY and SONS, are engraved on the stamp affixed to each box; great danger may arise from the neglect of this caution. Sold wholesale arid retail by BARCLAY and SoNs( the only successors to JACKSON arid Co.) No. 95, Furringdon street, London, price Is. 9,1. duty include^; and, by their appoint- ment, by all vendors of medicine. JOYFUL NEWS TO THE AFFLICTED. 0 WEN'S BRITISH DROPS. r| HHIS is a medicine decidedly superior to all others, .1. as a safe and effectual cure for the following disorders, namely, n certain disease, the scrofula or king's evil, scurvy, leprosy, scald bead, dropsy, scorbutic eruptions, local de- bility, wounds, ulcers and all impurities of the blood. The immense number of amazing cures which have been per- formed by these drops, ( alter all other remedies iiave been tried in vain,) which is a convincing proof they are not to be equalled by any other medicine ; in fact, the proprietor of these drops never knew a single instance of their failing to cure the inrst inveterate cases, if a fair trial wasgiven them. They, immediately strike at the root of the before named diseases, and expel all invidious poison from the system, and also purify the whole mass of blood, through which peculiar advantage they effect a cure. Many pounds maybe fre- quently saved by a timely use of these drops— they are free Irom the smallest particle of mercury or any other pernicious ingredients. A case of six years standing effectually cured by Owen's British Drops. Coalport, Jan. 20, 1838. Dear Sir,— The purport of this letter is to acquaint you of a won- derful cure of an inveterate scrofula in iny face, performed by your purifying British Drops, after being under the treatment of several medical advisers for a great length of time, and after trying their utmost skill upon me, they dismissed me as incurable, but Provi- dence directed me to your excellent drops, and, bv the use of a feu- bottles, completely restored mo to an enjoyment of that health and comfort to which I had long been a stranger. 1 am, with many thanks, your obedient servant, E. PRICE. Another proof of the efficacy of these Drops. Chclmarsh, Feb. 4, 1838. Sir,— Sojne time ago I had the misfortune to contract the venereal disease, and, regardless of its baneful effects, I suffered it to remain in the system until it reached an alarming height. I made applica- tion to a medical practitioner, who had recourse to the most power- ful mercurials : instead of cuiing the disease, reduced my person to a very weak state. I subsequently had the advice of two other medical practitioners, without deriving any benefit; still getting worse and weaker. I applied to you, and by taking five bottles of your valuable drops, I received a sound cure— so much for that de- structive poison mercury. I remain, your humble servant, D. O. These Purifying Drops are prepared and sold by the proprietor, Linley Villa, near Broseley, Shropshire. Sold also by Wood, bookseller, High- street, Birmingham; Wilks, bookseller, Walsall; Parke, booksellir, Wolver- hampton; Walters, Dudley; Hemming, Stourbridge; Griffiths, Ludlow ; Watton, Shrewsbury; Brough, Kidder- minster and Stourport; Hannay and Co., 63, Oxford- street, London ; and by most medicine vendors, in square bottles 4s. 6d. each. N. B. None are genuine but those bearing the signature of " E. Owen, Linley Villa," on the government stamp. Printed and publishe by FRANCIS BASSETSHENSTON* FLINDKLL, 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, Dec. 15,1838.