No. 708. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1838. PRICE 5D. RAILWAY FROM STONE TO RUGBY. WE, the undersigned Owners and Occupiers of Lands on the projected Line of Railway from Stone to Rugby, do hereby declare our dissent from the scheme, and that our determination to oppose it by every means in our power remains unaltered; convinced that it is an un- justifiable interference with, and invasion of private pro- perty, being wholly uncalled for, and unnecessary for the accommodation of the public. December 1838. Harrowby, Sandon Hall I'ulk Greville Howard, Elford Hall Charles Wolseley, Wolseley Hall George Chetwynd, Grendon Hall H. M. Chadwick, Marvesyn Ridware Theophilus Levett, Wichnor Park William Dyott, Freeford Sophia Place, Weddington Castle Dempster Heming, Caldecote Hall J. W. Boughton Leigh, Brownsoever Hall Charles Newdigate Newdigate, Arbury Hall Elizabeth Sparrow, Bishton H. M. Chetwynd, Bishton Gerard Thomas Andrews, London Ann Levett, Whittington Thomas Levett, Packington Hall William Tongue, Comberford Hall R. R. Bloxham, Vicar of Bulkington J. T. Parker, Rector of Bilton James Oldham Oldham, Bellamour Charles S. Landor, Rector of Colton John Moore, Vicar of Alrewas William Hiekin, Clerk Audmore John Baggaley, Alrewas Cottage Richard Jee, Hartshill Mary Jee, Hartshill M. E. Lythall, Hartshill James Roberts, Clerk, Witherley Ralph Thompson, Witherley Joseph Tavernor, Hartshill Samuel Hanson, Coton House Thomas Walker, Newbold on Avon Thomas Oldacres, Brown Fields Charlotte Sparrow, Bishton E. W. Oldacres, Clerk, Brown Fields Francis Smith, Rector of Grendon Richard Alkin, Hartshill Stafford S. Bnxter, Atherstone Samuel Wright Gardner, Clerk, Lanover George Webb, Marvesyn Ridware Thomas Lakin, Alrewas Hannah Hitchcock, Lanellin Humphrey Jarvis, Whittington James Bird, Lichfield Jos. Bishop, Coton Edward Pallet, Coton William Charles, King's Bromley Samuel Woodcock, Tamworth Ann Bassett, Tamworth Thomas Wheely, Tamworth William Freeman, Tamworth Francis Poole, Tamworth Robert Spare, Tamworth William Weston, Tamworth John Ordish, Amington Isaac Hall and Ann Hall, Amington Edward Bowman, Fisherwick Thomas Brown, Elmhurst William Bevins, l'radley William Chamberlain, Huddersford Thomas Capper, Bunning's Mill Jane Godwin, Lichfield John Strathem, Whittington Thomas lilson, Whittington Arthur Southal. Whittington John Wood, Whittington Samuel Sedgwick, Whittington Hannah Heatheote, Whittington William Yates, Curborough Ann Alsopp, Witherly Edward Nuthal, Oiton Jos. Miles, Caldecote John Ordish and Thomas Farmer, surveyors of the highways for Amington Samuel ltoby, Alvecote Priory Samuel lloby, surveyor of the highways of the parish of Shuttington William Shilcock, Shuttington Mary Ilopley, Shuttington Thomas Freeman, Amington Samuel Mallabey, surveyor of the roads, Grendon Luke Faux, Sheepy Magna Stafford S. Baxter, Owen's trusteeship John Wilkinson, Hartshill Richard Jee, as trustee for J. Jee, a minor Jos. Tavernor, surveyor of the highways, Hartshill J. Roberts, surveyor of the roads, Witherly Thomas Walker, surveyor of highways, Newbold Thomas Warner, Bulkington William Orion, Bulkington Ann Ortori, Bulkington William Jervis, Bulkington Thomas Rogers, Bulkington Richard Rogers, Bulkington Thomas Rogers, surveyor of Bulkington highways William Oiton and John Warner, surveyors of Weston highways John Atkins, Barnacle John Atkins, surveyor of roads of Barnacle Thomas Swinneiton, surveyor of Caldecote highways Thomas Arnold, Coombe Fields Arnold's trustees for the late Thomas Arnold John Jephcott, surveyor of Marston Jabet highways Joseph Gilbert, Shilton Josh. Gilbert, surveyor of highways, Shilton William Bindley, surveyor of highways, Ansty Daniel Bolton, Shilton Maria Bolton, Shilton John Johnson, Shilton John Bray, overseer of Shilton George Ortori, Shilton Thomas Hull, overseer of highways, Warton Richard Bassett and Wm. Holyoak, surveyors of highways, Polesworth Sampson Smith, Mancetter Wm. Goodman, Mancetter Joseph Robottom, Weddington Richard Wood, Weddingtou Thomas Swinnerton, Caldecote Wm. Swinnerton, Caldecote Susannah Miles, Ilartsliill Wm. Lapworth, Ilartshill John Wood, Pinwell James Holyoak, Grendon Thomas Felthouse, Grendon Thomas Ratlibone, Grendon Samuel Mallabey, Grendon John Baker, Grendon Edward Wylde, Grendon Thomas Wright, Shuttington George Austin, Shuttington Robert Orton, Warton John Chilwell, Warton Ann Norman, Polesworth Charles Bassett, Polesworth James Wood, Polesivortli Wm. Mottram, Polesworth Daniel Bay ley, Polesworth Wm. Bomber, Polesworth Henry Lees, Polesworth James Gilbert, Polesworth John Hartshorn, Polesworth John Bomber, jun., Polesworth John Lun, Polesworth Thomas Hartshorn, Polesworth Joseph Bond, Polesworth Thomas Jacques, Polesworth John Cox, Polesworth John Bomber, Polesworth Richard Nixon, Polesworth Richard Fletcher, Polesworth John Ames, Polesworth Richard Mottram, Polesworth John Brown, Dordon John Harris, Newbold- on- Avon Thomas Walton, Little Harborough Martha Tuckey, Little Harborough Francis Grimes, Combe Fields Isaac Atkins, Combe Fields John Wright, Shilton John I- Iancox, Shilton Robert Carter, Shilton George Orton, Shilton Thomas Croft, Shilton John Jackson, Shilton John Johnson, Shilton Mi'esent Aldridge, Shilton John Tew, Shilton James Atkins, Shelton Richard Clements, Shelton Samuel Hinman, Shelton William Edmonds, Shelton William Herbert, Shelton James Atkins, Shelton Joseph Loveitt, Shelton Martin Handel, Shelton Joseph Orton, Shelton John Wright, Shelton John Brown, Tamworth John Somrners, Tamworth Wm. Spencer, Tamworth John Freeman, Tamworth George Brown, Tamworth William Skellett, Tamworth William Starkey, Tamworth Thomas Fairfield, Tamworth Ann Marriott, Tamworth John Capewell, Tamworth William Logan, Tamworth Mary Allsop, Tamworth Jane Ragdale, Tamworth C. Brown, Tamworth Thomas Silvester, Tamworth John Poynton, jun., Tamworth William Allsop, Tamworth Thomas Gozzard, Tamworth Thomas Walton, Tamworth Peter Allsop, Tamworth Solomon Truman, Tamworth Benjamin Allsop, Tamworth William Wi lcox, Tamworth James Hall, Tamworth Thomas Bleadon, Tamworth William Harris, Tamwoith James Allen, Tamworth Edward Smith, Rugeley William Taylor Smith, Rugeley L. Birch, Rugeley George Warner, King's Bromley Robert Woolley, King's Bromley Joseph Booth, Fulfern William Gozzard, Whittington Charles Nevill, Packington Thomas Wright, Ilob's Hole Stephen Phillips, Fisherwick Daniel Riley, Whittington Thomas Lawrence, Hainstall Ridware John Somers, Seedy Mill Charles Marshall, Haunch John Sedgwick, Shaw Lane John Scott, Armitage William Brown, Armitage Thomas Birch, Bishton Aaron Johnson, Bishton Richard Whenlock, Bishton Elizabeth Turner, Bishton Joseph Braddock, Little Haywood John Smith, Little Haywood John Harrison, Little Haywood Jane Reay, Little Haywood Thomas Hawkins, Little Haywood George Hall, Little Haywood George Nevill, CoHvick Sampson Shelley, Little Haywood Thomas Emery, Little Haywood John Leadbeater. Colwick Ann Collett, Great Haywood Samuel Smith, Great Haywood John Mottershaw, Great Haywood Phillip Dale, Great Haywood Samuel Buttery, Great Haywood Mary Tooth, Great Haywood Richard Eaton, Gieat Haywood William Hulse, Great Haywood John Tooth, Great Haywood Ann Bond, Great Haywood Thomas Holding, sen., Great Haywood Richard Wallis, Hansacre William Cartmail, Ilansacre Hugh Nevill, Whittington Thomas Bellfield, Whittington William Chapman, Whittington John Smith, Whittington John Meacham, Whittington James Cheadle, Whittington Joseph Neel, Whittington Thomas Topliss, Whittington William Wood, Whittington John Gould, Whittington William Mouseley, Whittington Joseph Wakelin, ' Whittington Samuel Saugton, Whittington William Neal, Whittington Sampson Allsop, Whittington Luke Chapman, Whittington William Bellfield, Whittington John Greenhough, Whittington Francis Nevill, Whittington Joseph Pickering, Whittington Mary Till, Whittington George Neale, Whittington John Neale, Whittington Samuel Bird, Whittington Morton Gray, Whittington Samuel Bird, jun., Whittington Geoige Harvey, Hansacre Ann Harvey, Hansacre Mary Harvey, Hansacre W. Moreciolt, Hansacre Francis Wood, Hansacre John Bradbuiy, Hansacre Joanna Pipe, Ilansacre William Robinson, Armitage Charles Brown, Armitage Thomas Somers, Aston Hays John Boulton, Aston Hays Peter Smith, Tuppenhurst J. S. Sanders, Hill Ridware John Potts, Mavesyn Ridware Thomas Bromsgrove, Hill Ridware Elizabeth Wood, Hill Ridware Walter Cope, Hill Ridware Thomas Jackson, Hill Ridware Richard Peters, Hill Ridware Thomas Grove Clerk, Marvesyn Ridware John Paskin, Fradley William Shemmonds, Alrewas Thomas Genders, Alrewas Williem Smith, Alrewas Henry Shemmonds, Alrewas Samuel Paskin, Fradley Thomas Paskin, Fradley Joseph Cope, CUT borough Robert Mokes, Elmhurst Samuel Smith, Elmhurst Charles Hall, Wichnor. John Baggaley, as trustee of the late John Thome- worth. William Middleton, Alrewas Richard Bettson, Alrewas Thomas Gray, Alrewas Joseph Vertue, Alrewas Mary Anson, Alrewas Daniel Dagley, Alrewas William Price, Alrewas John Haddock, Alrewas Henry Cooper, Alrewas John Cosby, Alrewas John Daulman, Alrewas Thomas Edden, Fradley William Daulman, Alrewas John Cooper, Alrewas William Stretton, Wichnor William Dawson, W ichnor John Cooper Poyser, King's Bromley J. Walker, King's Bromley John Winter, Alrewas Thomas Jefferies, Coton Robert Bradburn, Tamworth Thomas Argyle, Tamworth Thomas Biddle, Tamworth Richard Pipe, Tamworth John White, Tamworth John Hastilon, Tamworth Richard Atkins, Tamworth William Redfern, Tamworth Thomas Mace, Tamworth Wiliiam Atkins, Tamworth Joseph Bradley, Amington William Ordish, Amington John Shorthouse, Amington Charles Haywood, Amington Sarah Lucas, Wigginton Sarah Proudman, Coton James Haskew, Surveyor of the highways for the town- ship of Wigginton Robert Mason, Hopwas George Day, Coton John Stevens, Coton Jane Dampney, Wigginton John Harris, Wigginton Matthew Ingle, Wigginton House CHRISTMAS BALL. AT DEE'S ROYAL HOTEL, BIRMINGHAM, JANUARY 4, 1839. iVf R. CRESSHULL begs to inform bis Friends ITJB. and the Public that his ANNUAL BALL is fixed to take place ON FRIDAY EVENING NEXT. Mr. C. has the pleasure also to announce that he has engaged Mr. HAYWARD as Leader ot the Band on the occasion, and that it will he full and complete in every department. The Music will consist of the new Quadrilles, Gallopes, and Waltzes, by Strauss, as performed at Her Majesty's late Balls; the most admired Chorusses, parti- cularly the Laughing Chorus, the celebrated Waltz on the Cornet- a- Piston, and every novelty of the season. The whole will he conducted on such a liberal plan as cannot fail to afford a high treat to the lovers of music and dancing. liekets, including Tea, Coffee, and Cards, Gentlemen's, 6s.; Ladies', 5s.; double Ticket to admit a Gentlemen and Lady, 9s. Tickets may be had at the Royal Hotel; at Mr. Sabin's Music Warehouse, Bull Street; at the Assembly Rooms, No. 10, Old Squaie; and at Mr. Cressliull's residence, 73, Parade. COUNTY FIRE OFFICE RETURNS, TWENTY PER CENT. NOTICE is hereby given, that the above return will be allowed to such persons as have completed seven years' insurance during the last year, in their next payments to us of premium and duty. Wm. SUMNER, agent at John Buckerfield — Win. Plummer —„- Wm. Tite John Laing — Samuel Hoitt—. Robert Maunton „„„ John Merridew J, W. Buchanan—. W. F. Wratislaw James Whitehead Thomas Ashwin Henry Elvins- Birmingham Alcester. Atherstone. Coleshill. Coventry. Henley- in Arden. . Kineton. . Leamington. Nuneaton. Rugby. SiHUham. Stratford- on- Avon. Warwick. DISTRICT FIRE OFFICE OF BIRMINGHAM, No. 61, NEW STREET, next to the POST OFFICE. CAPITAL, £ 300,000. Trustees. Joshua Scholefield, Esq, I Willi, m Beale, Esq. M. P. I William Haines, Esq. Directors. William Chance, Esq., Chairman. Esq., Deputy Chairman. Mr. Samuel Haines Mr. Edward Middleton Mr. Thomas Pemberton Mr. John Gibson Reeves Mr. John Brearley Pnyn Auditors. i Mr. James Augustus Labron William Beale Mr. Benjamin Barns Mr. Thomas Clark Mr. John Dadley Mr. Matthew Dixon Mr. William Harding Mr. Samuel Kempson THE Directors beg to take tliis opportunity of acknowledging the increasing support of their towns- men and the neighbouring district, for whose protection this Office was specially establishes; and to state, that the public may rely upon effecting Insurances with them on the most safe, liberal, and Uonour. abJ ® principles, founded upon the ample guarantee of a numerous, wealthy, and resident proprietary. The TERMS of INSURANCE are fully as favourable as those of any other office, IN ADDITION TO WHICH, extends the following advantages, viz. ALL LOSSES are promptly paid in Cash, the Company not interfering with the re- building or re- instating any pro- perty destroyed. LOSSES BY FIRE OCCASIONED BY LIGHT- NING ARE MADE GOOD. POWERFUL ENGINES are kept on the premises, 61, NEW STREET, witli experienced Engineers and active Firemen, who are at all times ready at a moment's notice, and whose valuable assistance i3 on all occasions at the gratuitous call of the public. NO CHARGE is made for POLICIES amounting to £ 300. and upwards, or for those brought from other offices. All particulars relating to Insurances may be procured, free of expense, at the Office, 61, NEW STREET, Bir- mingham ; and of the several agents. RECEIPTS for Policies falling due on the 25th instant, are now ready for delivery at the Office, and by the under- mentioned Agents of the Company, to the renewal of which the Directors beg to direct the attention of the public. By order of the Board of Directors, HENRY LOWE, Secretary. Mr. Horatio Barnett, Solicitor, Walsall; Mr. John J. Bateman. Leamington; Mr. Jsoeph Greaves, Solicitor, Warwick ; Mr. William Gillard, Lichfield; Mr. James Hadduck, Kingswinford ; Mr. T. L. Leonard, Worcester , Mr. J. W. Puckle, West Brothwich ; Air. Thomas Simpson, Wolverhampton ; Mr. Samuel Sellman, Bilstonj Mr. Henry Willis, Kidderminster; Mr. James Morris, Dudley. THE ONLY CURE FOR CORNS AND BUNIONS RAMSBOTTOM'S CORN and BUNION SOL- VENT. By the use of this valuable remedy imme- diate relief from pain is obtained, and by its successive application for ashortperiod, the mostobstinate Corns are entirelyremoved without recourstto the dangerous opera- tlons of cutting or filing. The proprietorpledgeshimself that it does not contain caustic or anyotherarticle that will inflame the skin; being white it will not stain the stocking; and the advantage it has over plaister is mani- fest, anil fullyappreciated, as the very high recommenda- tion bestowed upon it by everyindividual that basused it testifies. Price Is. l£ d. and 2s. The various counterfeits that are attemptedto be im- posed upon the public in lieu of this invaluable remedy, render it i mperativelynecessary fbr purchasers to ask for S. Ramsbottom'sCorn and Bunion Solvent, and to see that it has the signature of" S. Ramsbottom" written upon the label that is pasted on the outside of the wrapper of every genuine bottle, in addition to the name of the article, and words sold by Hannayaud Co. 63, Oxford- street, being the name and address o I the proprietor's wholesale agents. The following letter from Air. John Winficld, of Bir- mingham's one of many hundreds of the same tenor: — Gentlemen— Having read an advertisement in a Birmingham paper, I wasinduced topurcliasefrom your agent, Mr. Mailer, Ann- street, a bottle of Ramsbottom's Corn- and Bunion Sol vent;— after a week'sapplieation I found it had the deBired effect. I have since re. commendedit to many of myfriends. You are at liberty to make any use you please of thiscommunication Your obedient servant, Birmingham, Augusts, 1836. JOHN WINFIELD. Mr. Phipp. of Westbouru- road, Paddiugton- green, writes lie 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, nntil tie was recommended to try Ramsboltoin's Corn Solvent, which entirely cured him, and that he has not been troubled with tliein since, and will be most happy to answer any personal enquiries as to its efli. cacy. ALSO FROM DR. GHENVILLE. Dr. Grenville presents bis compliments to Messrs. Hanriayand Co., and begs to add bis testimony ( publicly) to the effn- aey of Bams bottom's Corn Solvent, which tie purchased at their shop, when in London last season: it completely answers the purpose, the danger possible to arise by cutting them too deep is avoided, and it is far more agreeable than plaister. Sold by appointment by W. Wood, High- street,; R, Matthison, 71, Edgbaston- street; Hodgetts, Spiceal- street; Watts, Snowhill; and Guest, Steelhouse- lane; and by the principal patent medicine vendors in every other town in the kingdom. TO MERCHANTS, FACTORS, AND SILVER- SMITHS. SAMUEL CLARK, Silversmith, 53, Great Hampton Street, Birmingham, respectfully informs his Friends and the Public, that he lias purchased the old- established business of Mr. THOMAS LAWRENCE, and earnestly solicits a continuance of the liberal support received by his pre- decessor. THOMAS LAWRENCE begs respectfully to in- form his Friends and the Public, that he has disposed of his business, as Silversmith and Manufacturer of Gold Ever- pointed Pencil Cases, to Air. SAMUEL CLARK, as above, and embraces this opportunity of offering them his sincere thanks for their liberal support, and also of request- ing a transfer of their favours to Mr. Clark. LONDON AGENT, Mr. George Groom, 16, Thavies' Inn, Holborn. THE YORKSHIRE FHtE ANJJ LIFE IN- SURANCE COMPANY, ESTABLISHED AT YORK 1824, AND EMPOWERED BY ACT OF PARLIAMENT. CAPITAL £ 500,000. rj^ HE steady and increasing support which this Com- JL pany has received is the best proof of the confidence which the public reposes in its stability aud liberality. INSURANCES falling due on the 25th DECEMBER, should be paid within Fifteen Days of that date, otherwise the Company will cease to be liable for the sums insured. The receipts are in the possession of the Agents. No charge is made for Policies, where the Insurance is removed from another office. AGENT FOR BIRMINGHAM, Mr. W. D. WHEELER, Solicitor, Waterloo Street. MIDLAND COUNTIES RAILWAY. CALL FOR AN EIGHTH INSTALMENT OF £ 10 PER SHARE. Making £ 60 per Share called up. Office, High- street, Leicester, December 26, 1838. RPHE DIRECTORS of the MIDLAND COUN- JL TIES RAILWAY COMPANY, having, in pursu- ance of the provisions of the Act ol Incorporation, passed a resolution, calling for an eighth instalment of £ 10 per share, to be payable on or before the 21st day of January next, the proprietors are required, in conformity with such resolution, to pay the sum due on their shares to one of the following bankers: — London— London and Westminster Bank Liverpool— The Bank of Liverpool Manchester— The Bank of Manchester Birmingham— The Birmingham Banking Company Leicester— The Leicestershire Banking Company Nottingham— Alessrs. I. and I. C. Wright and Co. Derby— Alessrs. Crompton, Newton, and Co. Loughborough— Messrs. Thorp, Middleton, and Oliver. Should the call remain unpaid after the appointed day, the bankers have been severally required to demand interest thereon, after tiie rate of five per cent, per annum from the 21st day of January to the day on which the payment shall be actually made. By order, J. F. BF. LL, Secretary. EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY COMPANY. SIXTH CALL OF £ 3 PER SHARE. NOTICE is hereby given, that the Directors have this day made a CALL of £ 3 per Share on each Share in the capital stock of the said Company, payable on or before the 14th day of January, 1839, to any of the under- mentioned bankers of the Company : — London and Westminster Bank or any of its branches. Bank of Liverpool. Liverpool Borough Bank. Alanchester and Liverpool District Bank. National Provincial Bank, Bath. National Provincial Bank, Birmingham. National Provincial Bank, Boston. West of England and South Wales District Bank, Bristol East of England Bank, Great Yarmouth. Cheltenham and Gloucestershire Bank. Wilts and Dorset Banking Company, Salisbury. Western Bank of Scotland, Edinburgh. Western Bank of Scotland, Glasgow. Royal Bank of Ireland, Dublin. Alessrs. Harveys and Hudsons, Norwich. Alessrs. Bacon, Cobbold, and Co., Ipswich. Alessrs. Alexanders and Co., Ipswich. Alessrs. Alills, Bawtree, and Co., Colchester. Alessrs. Sparrow and Co., Chelmsford. Messrs. Lemon and Co., Brentwood. Alessrs. Brodie and Co., Salisbury. By order of the Board, J. C. ROBERTSON, Secretary. Office, 4, Adelaide Place, London Bridge, Dec. 18, 1838. BETTS'S PATENT BRANDY. IT cannot be matter of surprise that the extraor- dinary patronage with which this favourite beverage has been honoured— a patronage brought about by those two distinguishing features, its essentia! purity, and striking similarity in flavour to that of the finest French Brandy-*, should have called into activity many pretenders, whose efforts, like those of their annual predecessors, promise the same abortive results, from the total failure in all attempts at producing an article with the slightest pretension approach it in quality. To guard the public against being misled, and to assure them of the utter futility of all such attempts, J. T. BETTS and Co., need only state that the peculiarly wholesome pro perties of their Brandy— attested by many eminent Che- mists, and frequently published since its introduction in 1829— are secured by Patent Right, which, in itself, forms a sufficient guarantee if purchasers be careful to establish the identity of the article. The Distillery, No. 7, SMITHFIELH BARS, LONDON, is tilt only Establishment of J. T. BETTS & Co. The Agents appointed for this district of country are Mr. JOHN SKELTON Birmingham. Mr. Thomas Duiham Lichfield. Air. John Dell Coventry. Mr. C. S. Clarke Wolverhampton. Air. GeorgeJull Leamington. Mrs. Elizabeth Biddle Stourbridge. Air. Thomas Cook Worcester. Mr. Hugh Martin Tewkesbuiy. Mr. Henry Pointer Cheltenham. Sir. James II. Lockyer Rugby. from whom, respectively, the Patent Brandy may be ob- tained, either pale or coloured, on the same terms as at ths Distillery, viz., for quantities not less than Two Gallons Eighteen Shillings per Imperial Gallon, of the highest . ega' strength, for cash on delivery. GOUT, RHEUMATISM, LUMBAGO, PAINS IN the HEAD and FACE, & c., cured by the use of COTON'S SCIATIC B A LAI and other SCIATIC AIE- DIC1NES, which, after thirty years'experience, are uni- versally acknowledged to be the most safe and effectual remedies of the day. ( Copy.) . Tilly I, 163S. 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 forluuately tried your Sciatic Bhlm; a few bottles of which restored me to perfect health thirteen years ago, mid 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. and 2s. 9.1. each. Sold by the Proprietor, 23, George street, Sloane square, Chelsea, by whom vendors can bo supplied. AGENTS FOR WARWICKSHIRE : Birmingham— Air. Alalier, 5, Congreve street. Aris's Gazette ollice. Air. Wood, 78, High street. Leamington— Air. Merridew, Lower Parade. OOPING COUGH cured without Inward Medi- cine, by the use of ROCHE'S EMBROCATION. Alany thousands of children are cured annually by this remedy ; on the first attack, an immediate application of the Embrocation will prevent the complaint taking any hold of the constitution, and a few times may completely cure. In most cases, one bottle will produce the desired effect j and no remedy can be so well calculated for children as this, for it requires no medicine to be taken inwardly. In no case can this medicine be genuine unless signed on the wrapper, " J. Roche," and on the Stamp, " Evan Ed- wards, 67, St, Paul's." Price 4s. and £ 1 2s, per bottle. OPENING OF THE NEW ROYAL HOTEL, NEW- STREET, BIRMINGHAM, ON AIONDAY LAST, DECEAIBER 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 house, which is of modern erection, consists ofexten. sive suitesof 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 Towii Hall, News Rooms, Society of Arts, Theatie, and other public institutions of the town. The NEW ROYAL HO- TEL is, in fact, UNEXCELLEII, if equalled, as a FAMILY HOTEL, by any other similar establishment in the king- dom. Alessrs. SMOUT and LAAIBLEY 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 NEW, and of the most appropriate and elegant description. In announcing that the NEW ROYAL HOTEL is now ready for the reception of visitors, Alessrs. SMOUT and LAAIBLEY 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 them with their support and patronage. HOT, COLD, AND SHOWER BATHS. The POSTING and FUNERAL Departments con- ducted in a superior manner, and C A RS kept for the accommodation of visitors. BURTON ALE STORES, CORNER OF CHERRY STREET AND UNION PASSAGE, BIRMINGHAM. BASS, RATCLIFF, and GRETTON, Brewers, of Burton- upon Trent, have taken the premises situated as above, and have appointed Air. EDWARD TITLEY their agent for Birmingham and its vicinity. The Stock of ALE at these Stores will always be ready for immediate use, and be delivered in the same genuine state as if forwarded direct from the brewery; and BASS and Co. trust, of such quality as to meet the entire appro- bation of purchasers, and insure a continuance of their favours. E. TITLEY invites the attention of the public to the cele- brated ALES for BOTTLING of Messrs. BASS and Co., particularly the PALE ALE so much recommended by medical gentlemen in London and elsewhere. December 24. 1838. COLVER AND Co's. TEA WAREHOUSE, 33, HIGH- STREET, BIRMINGHAAI. To Families, the Clergy, Hotel Keepers, Large Schools, Sfc. IT is now more than twelve months since we opened this establishment, upon a principle which has for its basis, that of supplying the public with Teas on better and cheaper terms than had been previously attempted by any- other house in Birmingham. The undertaking was generally regarded by the trade and the public as an important one, and it required to be seen whether the consumers of the article would view with apathy and mistrust the appeal which we made to their individual interests, or at once respond to it; arid we are happy in stating, our anticipations have been abundantly realised in the result. It will be perceived by our list of prices, Bolieas, Fine Pekoes, flavoured Congous, superfine Hysons, and Impe- rials, have all experienced a slight advance; whilst good common Congous, Congous with strength, possessing Sou- chong flavour, Twankays, common Hysons, Souchongs, and Pekoes, are cheaper, varying from 2d. to 4( 1., and 6d. per lb. We respectfully call attention to our present list of prices. BLACK TEAS. d. Bohea . per lb. Good Bohea, Congou kind of leaf Good ordinary Congou , , STRONG BREAKFAST CON- GOU, very useful FINE STOUT CONGOU, black- ish leaf, on the Pekoe flavour STOUT RICH CONGOU, Pekoe Souchong flavour Lnpsang Souchong, rich blackgleaf Finest Congou, ripe Pekoe Sou- chong flavour . GREEN TEAS. Common Twankay. or Hyson Skin per lb. Fine bright curled leaf Twan- kay, Hyson kind . FINE BI. OOAI Very fine Hyson kind, or Genuine Hyson Good Hyson, full flavour, even leaf , . FINE HYSON, brightish leaf —, — Preferable, strong, even brightish leaf —. SUPERFINE HYSON, full rich delicate flavour Young Hyson, small wiry leaf Preferable ditto Hyson flavour , Fine Young Hyson, strong, burnt, small bright leaf FINEST OUCH A IN, small, close wiry leaf, Gunpowder flavour Fine Imperial, round pale leaf Small leaf Gunpowder — Fine Gunpowder, strong burnt flavour , — Finest Gunpowder, small bright close twisted leaf, Hyson flavour, s. s. 2 10 to 3 d. O & 3 2 3 8 recommended. 4 0 recommended. r « commended. 5 0 recommended. d. s. d. s. 6 to 3 8 to 3 10 0 recommended. 4 6 4 8 5 0 recommended. 5 6 6 0 to 6 6 recommended. 4 0 4 4 recommended. 5 0 recommended. 6 6 7 0 recommended. It will be seen that common Green Teas are at lower prices, but the most impoitant difference is in the Con- gous at 4s. and at 4s. 6d. per lb., both of which will be found very deserving of notice as economical Teas. COFFEE. s. d. s. d. 1 6 to 1 8 1 9 to 1 10 2 0 recommended. 4 recommended. Common Coffee ~~ per lb. Jamaica Coffee and best Ceylons Fine Jamaica Coffee . . Rich old Aloclia COLVER AND Co,, 33, High street. INFLUENZA AND FEVER. ) R. NORRIS'S DROPS are a certain remedy for Fevers, Colds, Influenza, and all diseases that'arise from obstructed perspiration. The medicine here recom- mended to the practitioner, and the public, possesses qua- lities of the most mild and beneficial nature; it is composed of articles known to be the most anti- putrescent, combined with the ingredient known to the profession, as the only certain antidote for fevers of every description. When thy disease is produced either from cold, obstruction, bad air, swampy and damp situations, or putrid miasma, whether malignant or epidemic, or by other causes, this medicine is certain in its operation and effects, it produces the most gentle and salutary perspiration, and by a specific quality, peculiar to itself, not only expels the disease, but restorer and invigorates the system. These celebrated drops have had the unbiassed testimonies to their invariable effects, o numbers of the nobility, gentry, and medical men of this kingdom, and the extensive demand for them from the West Indies and America, prove that in those countries they are held in equal estimation. The genuine will have engraved on the Government Stamp," Thomas Norris Moore." Sold in bottles at 2 « . 9d., lis., and family bottles at 22s. each, by Southall, Shillitoe, Wood, Banks, Clarke and Sons, Edwards, Martin, Harris, Belcher, Adkins, Jackson, and Wattleworth, Birmingham; Brougb, Nigkolls, and Davis, Kidderminster; Haines, Bromsgrove; Hopkins, Henley; Loveitt, Coleman, llollason, Merridew, and Willerton, Coventry; Knight, Nuneaton; Beech and Peakes, Atherstone; and by most dealers in medicine. 8 THE . BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL, DECEMBER 22. NEWS OF THE WEEK. DOMESTIC. THE METROPOLIS. Sir James Rivett Carnac, Bart., M. P. for Sandwich, lias been appointed Civil Governor of the Piesidencyof Horn- bay, in the room of the late Right Hon. Sir Robert Grant. Sir James is a lame East India proprietor, and chairman of the Board of Directors for the present year. The sa- lary is 10,000/. per annum, with considerable patronage. PROVINCIAL. GUN ACCIDENT.— AS Mr. Cooke was talking to his son, whilst out shooting, on Saturday, holding his gun cocked in his hand, the piece went off, lodging the whole contents in the face of Mr. Cooke, jun. The sufferer was taken to the nearest surgeon, who dressed his wounds, and gave some faint hope that the unfortunate young man may not lose the sight of both his eyes. CORN LAWS The Manchester Chamber of Commerce adopted, on Thursday, a petition drawn up by Mr. Cobden, " for the repeal of all laws relating to the importation of foreign corn, and other' foreign articl. es of subsistence, tind to carry out to the fullest extent, both as affects agriculture and manufactures, the true and peaceful principles of free trade, by removing all existing obstacles to the unrestricted employment of industry and capital." NEW POOR LAW The Huddersfield Board of Guardi- ans, after holding out against the Poor Law commissioners for more than twelve months, have at last gained the day. At the end of last week, Mr. E. Chadwick, the secretary to the Poor Law commissioners, wrote to the guardians the decision of that body, in which they allow the board to ap- point fourteen relieving officers, at the salaries and under the circumstances they proposed ; and they also consent to the guardians using their discretion us to the giving out- door relief to such parties as they may deem to be deserving objects of favour. In consequence of these concessions, the guardians have consented to act and have advertised for relieving officers.— Huddersfield Gazette. At the meeting of the Chelmsford Board of Guardians, on Thursday, Colonel Wade, the assistant commissioner, attended. On it being mentioned to him that the guardi- ans were determined to persevere in relieving the able bo- died labourers, whose families were too large to subsist upon the pittance afforded by the present rate of wages, and that the parishes of the union had voluntarily assessed themselves to enable the guardians to effect this object, the colonel said that the Poor Law commissioners would not approve of such voluntary assessment, and would visit them with an increase of the averages. If the inhabitants of the union chose to do an act of charity of this description, they should do it by voluntary subscription, and not by a volun- tary rate, which was contrary to the orders of the commis- sioners Chelmsford Chronicle. TODMORDEN Great interest had been excited in conse- quence of Sir F. Roe and Mr. Maule having arrived from London, and being closeted with the magistrates during a veiy long sitting on Monday. The following is the cause. A country constable and two of the London police went to Mr. Fielden's mill to see if they could recognise any per- son among his workmen, when these people, having no warrant, were seized by the authorities of the mill, and de- tained for some time as trespassers. A detachment of the military was immediately sent for, and the officers delivered up to them on their making the demand. Sir Frederick Roe and Mr. Maule have been sent down by Lord John Russell to see if they cannot fix criminality on several influ- ential gentlemen, who are known to be averse to the Poor Law Amendment act. Mr. Fielden has demanded of the magistrates that the parties concerned in the riots might be admitted to bail, which they have refused to accede to; he will, therefore, make an application to the judges for n pe- remptory order, calling upon the county magistrates to show cause why they refuse to accept bail in a case of misdemea- nour. The majority of the guardians have resigned, and the others, who are afraid of the loss of life or property, will tender their resignations at the next meeting, instead of again sitting at the board. — Sheffield Iris. The magistrates at Todmorden having convicted the three overseers in heavy penalties for re'using to obey the mandates of the Poor Law guardians, Mr. Cobbett made an application to the board on Monday for a copy of the conviction, in order that he might serve notice ot appeal against it. The magistrates said that they had not got the conviction, and, after some delay, it was acknowledged that 110 conviction had been drawn up ; but til it a copy of the minutes had been sent to the Crown lawyers in London, in orper that the conviction might be drawn under authority there. All that. Mr. Cobbett could obtain was, that when the conviction drawn out by counsel at rived he should have a copy. — Halifax Guardian. UNIVERSITY OF DURHAM. — A professorship, which pro mises to realise the most important results, as regards the advancement of science, is about to be established in this university, viz , a Protessorship of . Mining, an endowment which has long been a desideratum in this country ; and from the peculiarly favourable position of Durham— in the heart of the great mining districts of England— the students will, at all times, have the advantage of bringing their theo- retical instruction to the test ot actual experiment. SrsEi).-— On Wednesday week one of the engines on the Sheffield and Rotherham railway performed the distance in live minutes and a quarter. SCOTLAND. TOTAL SHIPWRECK. — On Friday last, the Maryann Crai/ t, of Dumfries, about 40 tons burthen, laden with coals, left Maryport for the Nith ; and finding it was impossible to reach the place ol her destination, owing to the stormy, nature of the day, she attempted to run to either Balcarry bay or Gibbshole, but as she was too late lor the tide, she put out her anchor, which gave way, when she was drilled on the rocks at Mulloch end, near the Isle ol Heston. Im- mediately after she struck, M'William, one of the hands, attempted to jump from the boom to a rock, but did not succeed ; at the next wave, however, he gained his point, on winch he cried to Jardine and Bell, the other hands, to fasten a rope to the ladder and push it towards him, and tllUS lie would endeavour to rescue them from theii perilous sifuaiion, but was answered that there was no rope, as every thing on deck had been swept overboard, accompanied with a request that he would go into the country to seek assist- ance. M'William accordingly went to seek assistance, but found none, aud on returning found that the vessel had be- come a total wreck, and that his comrades had met a wa- tery grave. The disaster occurred about 10 o'clock p. m. The deceased belonged to St. Michael street of this town. Their corpes were found next day and brought hither. Jardine has left a widow.— Dumfries Times. MR. TEMPLETON I. ast night ( Friday, the 2tst) out old and respected friend Mr. Ryder, commenced what we most sincerely hope will prove 11 successful season. The company was not so complete as Mr. Ilyder had intended, arid as it will be to- night, but the deficiency was amply atoned for by the presence of Mr. Templetort, of Drury- lane. This gen- tleman appeared last night, for the first time, in Aberdeen, and made an impression which will not soon be forgotten. We were quite prepared, from his high fame as the able coadjutor of the Malibran, in Bellini's opera, fur a great treat; but we must confess that the reality far exceeded our most sanguine expectations. His voice may be character- ised as exceedingly powerful; in the ni'ddle tones it has all the manliness of Donzelli— its higher notes remind us ot Rubini. Hif falsetto is the best we ever heard, and he has frequent recourse to it, but always with great taste. The song from Gustavus, " I love her, how I love her!" was executed in a masterly manner. Some of the rapid passages we would almost have thought beyond the capability ot the human voice, but they came from him as from the fingers of a Herz, on the piano forte. " Theie lives a young l, is- ie" is a very preity ballad— the music, we believe, by l) e Pinna; it was sung by Mr. Templeton most effectively. Next fol- lowed " My Nannie, O !" one of the best songs ever Burns wro'e. Through the discernment of Mr. Templetouit has been brought on the stage, where, hitherto, it has been too much neglected. Mr. Templeton appeared again iu that lively little piece " The Waterman," and Irs songs were rapturously cheered. " The jollv young waterman" was encored ; and " Farewell, my trim- built wherry," which, iu our opinion, was one of the best somis of the evening, cave the singer an excellent opp utuni'y of displaying the higher qualities of his vo ce. " The Bay of Biscly," which wus the concluding song ofthe evening, may be regarded as Mr. Tenipleton's master piece, and the aii'iience, by enroling and enthusiastic cheering, showed that they so appreciated it. Ilis continued shake on the upper A, with the chest voice, was quite electrifying. Upon the whole. Mr. Tern- pleton, as a singer and actor, tully hears out the high cha- racter which lie has obtained both in the metropolis and the provinces.— Aberdeen Herald. IRELAND. A PARAIIISE.— Your stupid Englishman retires to bed after his daily labour is ended. Your livelier Milesian then only lays himself out for pleasure, and betakes himself to shoot at a Justice of the Peace, or still better, to amuse himself with a too- roo among the Peelers. Do you go out to dinner? Calculate at being fired at when returning. Do you require a physician? The odds are that the honest doctor is qualified for a patient himself before he leaves your lawn. Do you delight iu hunting? You will find the monotonous period of waiting at the cover side agreeably diversified by the occasional whistle of a musket bullet from some ambushed Rockite; and if you venture to send a horse out to be shod, your groom returns solus to acquaint you that the quadruped is no more, and that the gentleman who dispatched him sent you his regrets that he was so unlucky as to miss yourself; but by the assistance of the Blessed Lady— for they are a pious and relisious race— he hoped to be more successful on a future opportunity. Are you fond of a quadrille? Ascertain before you attempt your fust chassez, that the ball room windows are bricked up, and a guard of honour stationed at the door. , Are you, untor- tunately, a parson? Insure your life to the uttermost far- thing you can raise— arrange your affairs— perfect your will — and, if you be curious in posthumous renown, prepare your epitaph : then demand one thirtieth of your tithe, you are a dead man to a moral certainty, and your heirs, execu- tors, and assigns secure of opulence within a fortnight.— Maxwell's Wild Sports of the West. THE PRECURSOR SOCIETV.— We are to have a fourth ver- sion of the Constitution of the Precursor Society ! We told the agitators, from the first, that their plan would not do. They, however, vowed that each version was oracular; and they will swear that the fourth is infallible. Should a fifth, or a sixth, or a sixteenth, come, they will do the same; and, as we were blackguaided at the first, so will tie at the last, if we venture to eschew humbug, and respect principle aud common sense. It is truly mournful. The agitation — it is in vain for any man to try to shut his eyes to the fact — is laughed at. It has no weight. It was a gross blunder from the first; and it is now floundering on the sport of Toryism, and the regret of all who wished that Mr. O'Con- nell had exerted his vast powers iu the right direction. But we shall say no more, for the present, about a subject so deplorable. We are to have a new constitution, iu which the repeal is to be better burked, extent of the suffrage more modified, and anti- tithe agitation placed on a new footing. People of Ireland, prepare for what is coming, and make ready to swear by the last of four constitutions, given within four months.— Northern Whig. MISCELLANEOUS. PEACEFUL STRIKE.— In our former article, we pointed to its working in India, where it had long been a custom. We instanced the moral codrage of the Hindoos, as shown in the practice of it even to the death; and we called upon our countrymen to resort to it, in so far as intoxicating liquors, tea, and tobacco, were concerned. We shall this week give an instance of its efficacy, in another quarter of the world, and in civilised society. We quote the following passage from the Abbe Rayual's History of the American Revolution, iu the sixth volume of his History ofthe Indies, page 266: — " The year 1764 saw the birth ofthe famous stamp act, which forbid the admission, in courts of justice, of any iiistiument which should not be written on paper marked and sold for the profit of the British treasury. The whole English provinces of North America are inspired with in- dignation at this usurpation of their most precious and most sacred rights. By a unanimous agreement, they renounce the consumption of whatever was furnished them by the mother country, till it should withdraw this illegal and op- pressive bill. Even the women, whose weakness might have been feared, are the most ardent to sacrifice the sub- serviences of their dress, and ornament; and the men, ani- mated by this example, gave up, on their part, other conve- niences and enjoyments. Many husbandmen quit the plough, to form themselves to the industry of the workshop ; and wool, flax, and cotton, coarsely wrought, are sold at the price which would before have purchased the finest clothes and the most beautiful stuffs. This kind of conspiracy stuns the government. By the clamour of the merchant, whose wares have no vent, its inquietude is increased. The enemies of the ministry keep up these discontents; and the stamp act is revoked, after two years of a convulsive agitation, which, in other times, would have kindled a civil war." Shall this lesson be lost on the British nation? And must we yield the palm of energy and moral courage, as well to tlia Americans as the Hindoos? We hope not. We are sure that, if they only reflect on the position they are now placed in, and temperately weigh the means yet at their disposal for bringing about a better and happier state of affairs, they have courage enough to adopt them, and per- severance enough to carry them out into practice. The articles we have specified are those which pay the highest taxes to government, and which can not only be the most easily dispensed with, but the total abandonment of which would add incalculably to the resources of the operative, and mightily increase his moral power ; bjut we need by no means stop here— every article of luxury, tending to create a false taste, and all of which are heavily taxed by govern inent, should at once be abandoned. Nurses, carriages, dogs— all should be laid aside, where not employed in increasing the wealth of the nation ; for no man has a right to call himself a Radical, who indulges himself in such luxu- ries, while the population around him is starving ; nor has he any right to be considered a patriot, who, for the sake of such senseless gratifications, supplies to a bad government the means of tyrannising over tile people. That some opposition would be made to the giving up of the use of tea— a sober and a wholesome beverage— was to be expected ; but surely, with so great an object in view, and with coffee ( or a substitute, which brings hilt a small revenue to government, a temporary disuse of it may be submitted to. Relative to this very article, we have again recourse to the work already quoted from; and as the cir- cumstance occurred nine years after the successful resistance of the stamp act, it affords another admirable example of a united community sitting dliurna upon government. The following are the expressions ofthe Abbe ltaynal, vol. 6, p. 268: — " The ministry, deceived by their delegates, believed, un- doubtedly. that the disposition ofthe new world was alteied, when, in 1773, they ordered the collection of tlie duty upon tea. " At this news the indignation became general in North America. In some provinces, formal thanks are agreed upon to be given to such masters of vessels as would not suffer this production to make any part of their cargo. In others, the merchants, to whom it win consigned, refuse to receive it. Here he is declared an enemy of his country who would dare to vend it. There they are stigmatised with the same reproach who shall keep it in their stores. Many provinces solemnly renounce the use of this elegant beverage. A still greater number burn what they had remaining of this leaf— till then the object of their delight. The tea sent to this part ol the globe was valued at five or six millions; and not a single chest of it was landed. Boston was the principal theatre of this insurrection. Its inhabitants destroyed, in their very port, three cargoes of tea, which arrived from Europe." With such heroic examples of unanimity and fortitude before them, we cannot think so vilely of the Radicals ol Great Britain, as to doubt their resolution to pursue the same course. We would rather attribute the fact of their not having done so already, to the; efforts of designing men, who, by dividing, have succeeded in leading them astray, and withdrawing their minds from the contemplation of the only certain means of obtaining their freedom. Are the members of the National Convention prepared with any better plan, by which to bring the government to their senses? If not, let them adopt this — gire it the sanc- tion of their names.— True Scotsman. HYDROPHOBIA In Odell resides an extraordinary person named Thomas Wells, who professes to cure this distress- ing malady in any stage. Mr. Wells does not fear the bite of any animal in a rabid state, and professes himself willing to administer the medicine to such animals — Cambridge Independent Press. A WARNING. We have been hitherto told that the ob- ject of the convention in London, to which delegates are now electing by the Chartists, is to wa'ch over and enforce the views of the National Petition. The speech of Mr. Abram Duncan, however, on his recent election at Dum- fries, indicates more extensive objects He said—" They wilf asceitain the various divisions ot the British army, and where stationed, how they are likely to be occupied, the dispositions and feelings of those who are remaining at home with regard to the present movement, the amount of bullion in the banks, the probable amount of paper iu the hands ofthe working population of the British empire, the arrangement of a certain day when all will be demanded in cold, the practicability of arranging for a month of holydnys, that the people may arrange what ought to lie done." We call upon the multitude who have hitherto been blindly fol- lowing the Chartist leaders, to pntise and reflect upon this proposal to tamper with the army. It is what no government can permit to tie done; it htings the government and the party attempting it at once into hostile collision. One overt act <; t this kind will be the ^ itruul for indictments for treason- a' » ' e practices— it may be lor a suspension of the Habeas Corpus. — Glasgow Argus. — [ is the learmd editor really se. ious when describing tin attempt to ascertain the stations ot the various divisions of ' he army, reguhir'y published in the Naval and Military Magazine, or the opinions of the men in respect to universal suffrage, us ground foran indict ment of treason? Will he have the goodness to poin: out the provision of the Treason act that is violated by the in quiry ?— E. B. J.] RAILWAYS IN PRUSSIA. — An important law 011 the subject of railways has just been promulgated by the Prussian go- vernment. The most important points are these: — A rail- way must be approved of by the government, not only iu its general plan but in its details— to prevent undue speculation, any one who takes a share must pay 40 per cent, on the nominal capital before he can dispose of it, nor cari he dis- pose of it at all without the consent of the company, who may refuse to take any one else in his place— at the end of thirty years the government may, if it pleases, take the pro- perty into its own hands, 011 paying to the shareholders a certain amount proportioned to the profits ol the preceding five years. After the railroad has been four years in action, the government has the right of naming other persons or companies besides the company of which it is the property, who shall have the right of running carriages upon it, on paying a certain sum fixed by government. The post is to be conveyed gratuitously, and as many persons as the post office sends with a free past.— Mechanics' Magazine. AMERICAN PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE. The Liverpool steamer, which arrived on Thursday in fourteen days from New York, brought the President's message to Congress, delivered 011 the 4th inst. It is an elaborate document, and extends to a length that precludes the possibility of giving it entire. The President commences by congratulating Congress on the favourable circumstances under which they meet— on the abundant harvest — the peace and prosperity of the country— and on the general health ofthe citizens, ascribing all to a superintending Pro- vidence, which calls lot; their gratitude. He then entets at large into foreign affairs. The amicable disposition of ah governments with which the States have an habitual inter- course is dwelt upon ; and in reference to Mexico, which at the date ofthe former message was the only nation that could not be included in such a statement, an advance has been made in the adjustment of differences, which it is hoped will speedily lead to the resumption of diplomatic intercourse. The subject of the Canadian rebellion, and the conduct of American citizens in affording support to it, is dwelt upon at length. The Ptesident at once admits '' that many citizens of the United States have associated for the purpose of making hostile incursions into the Canadas," and then he proceeds to detail the measures put in force to sustain the law and to punish those offenders. The following is an ex tract from that part of the message: — " I had hoped that the respect for the laws and regard for the peace and honour of their own country, which have ever characterised the citizens of the United States, would have prevented any portion of them from using any means to promote insurrection in the territory of a power with which we are at peace, ami with which the United States are desirous of maintaining the most friendly relations. I deeply regret, however, to inform yon that this has not been the case. Information has been given me, derived from official and other sources, that many citizens of the United States, have associated together to make hostile incursions from our territory into Canada, and to aid anil abet insur- rection there, in violation of the obligations and laws of the United States, and in open disregard of their own duties as citizens. This information has been in part confirmed by a hostile invasion actually made by citizens of the United States, in conjunction with Canadians and others, and accompanied by a forcible seizure of the property of our citizens, and an application thereof to the prosecution of military operations against the authorities and people ot Canada. * • # * # * * A state of feeling on both sides of the fronter has thus been produced which called for prompt and vigorous inter- ference. If an insurrection existed in Canada, the amicable dispositions ofthe United States towards Great Britain, as well as their duty to themselves, would lead them to main- tain a strict neutrality, and to restrain their citizens from all violations of the laws which have been passed for its enforce- ment. But this government recognises a still higher obliga- tion to repress all attempts on the part of its citizens to dis- turb the peace of a country where order prevails, or has been re- established. Depredations by our citizens upon nations at peace with the United States, or combinations for com- mitting them, have, at all times been regarded by the Ameri- can government and people with the deepest abhorrence. Military incursions by our citizens into countries so situated, and the commission of acts of violence on the members thereof, in order to effect a change in its government, or under any pretext whatever, have, from the commencement of our government, been held equally criminal 011 the part of those engaged in tlietn, and as much deserving ol punish- ment as would be the disturbance of the public peace by the perpetration of similar acts within our own territory. By no country or persons have these valuable principles of international law— principles the strict observance of which is so indispensable to the preservation of social order in the world— been more earnestly cherishedfor sacredly re- spected, than by those great and good men who first de- clared, and finally established, the independence of our own country. They promulgated and maintained thern at an early and critical period of our history; they were subse- quently embodied in legislative enactments of a highly penal character, the faithful enforcement of which ' has hitherto been, and will, I trust, always continue to be, regarded as a duty inseparably associated with the maintenance of our national honour. That the people of the United States should feel an interest in the spread of political institutions as free as they regard their own to be, is natural; nor can a sincere solicitude for the success of all those, who are at any time, in good faith, struggling for their acquisition, be imputed to our citizens as a crime. With the entire free- dom of opinion, and an undisguised expression thereof on their part, the government lias neither the right, nor, I trust, the disposition to interfere. But whether the interest or the I'onour of the United States require tlmt they should be made a party to any such struggle, and, by inevitable consequence, to the war which is waged in its support, is a question which, by our constitution, is wisely left to Con- gress alone to decide. It is by the laws already made crimi- nal in our citizens, to embarrass or anticipate that decision by unauthorised military operations on their part. Offences of this character, iu addition to their criminality as violations of the laws of our country, have a direct tendency to draw down upon our citizens at large the multiplied evils of a foreign war, and expose to injurious imputations the good faith and honour of the country. As such they deserve to be put down with promptitude anil decision. In those passages of the message which treat of finance, the President attacks the United States' bank, recommends the sub- treasury schemes, and defends generally his own policy with respect to the currency. The whole message, compared with former documents ofthe kind, is deficient in interest. MEETING OF THE CHARTISTS. [ We quote the following from a hostile source— the Cheltenham Chronicle; it i;, however, the only source at the moment patent to us.] On Monday evening last a public meeting' was held at the York Hotel, for the purpose of taking into con- sideration the question of universal suffrage. The meeting was but thinly attended, there not being more than eighty or one hundred individuals present. W. P. Gaskell, Esq., was in the chair. The Chairman stated that they were indebted for the present meeting to the fact of Mr. Collins, of Birming- ham, being 011 his way to attend a grand demonstration of the working classes at Bristol, It was no small advantage to the working classes of Chel- tenham to have the advice and opinion of that gentleman on the subjects which had called them together, as he had been much trusted by that important body, the Birmingham Politi- cal Union, and had been sent by them to rouse the the people of Scotland on the subject of the National Petition and the People's Charter, with what success they would learn from himself. The meeting was likewise honoured by the pre sence of a deputation from the Working Men's Association at Cirencester, where, it being a district which was almost entirely agricultural, there was, of course, a great mass of ignorance, and the services of such a body were exceedingly valuable. This meeting was understood to be merely pre- paratory to a great meeting, which, he hoped, would soon be held at this place, and at which the working classes would give their sanction to the National Petition and the People's Charter. On the present occasion they wished to get the opinion of the meeting on the question of uni- versal suffrage, which was the most important feature of ' the People's Charter. He hoped they would talk over and consider the matter previously to the holding of the great meeting, that they might be able to form a correct opinion upon tiie subject. Mr. Gaskell concluded by making a few remarks, in which he attempted to trace the whole of the social evils which existed in the world to the " government of the many by the few." Iilv. Benlield moved a resolution, expressive of the opinion of the meeting, that the House of Commons would never be what it should be till the members were chosen by universal suffrage, and tiH the elections should ire annua1. The resolution was seconded by Mr. Spackman. Mr. COLLINS was then introduced to the meeting by the chairman, and was received with great cheering. After a few introductory remarks, in which lie com- mented upon a letter which appeared in one of ( he Cheltenham papers last week, and contended that the people of this country were now in a ( it situation to be entrusted with the elective franchise, he said— It would afford him great pleasure to comply with the request which had been made to explain the origin and pio- gressof the present movement. In the beginning of the last year, upwards of 13 000 able- bodied men, in Birmingham alone, were totally destitute of employment. A requisition was got ttp by these persons to the master manufacturers and others, to unite together with the men and endeavour to ascertain what was the cause of such a deplorable state of things. About three thousand of them responded to the call; and after several meetings had been held, a resolution was passed that a deputation should he appointed to carry the result of their delibeiations to Lord Melbourne, and explain to him tile situation in which the working classes of Birmingham were placed. There was a considerable diver- sity ol opinion 011 the subject of the alleged distress. Some said they did not think it was so great as was pretended— others that it was not greater than the usual amount of dis- tress which existed at all times. He himself had the fortune to be in a good situation, but lie saw hundreds around him who were in a state of the greatest misery. With t he view of taking steps for bringing the matter before the public, he took an opportunity of visiting the whole of the families, one by one, residing in one of the streets of Birmingham chiefly occupied by the labouring classes. He made in- quiries relative to the members in the different families, how many were in and how many were out of employment; and the result was, that after visiting no fewer than fifty families, he found only one man in the whole street who said he had no reason to complain. In some instances he found families who were subsisting on 3s. 6d. a week— others were totally without ( ood or bedding of any kind— and in general there was the greatest distress. He published the result in one o( the Biimingham newspapers, and shortly afterwards a meeting of the inhabitants was called, and 5,0001, subscribed in aid of the distress. Not long afterwards a deputation, con- sisting of fifteen individuals from that town, among whom were the members for the borough, and several of the mas- ters and men, waited upon Lord Melbourne upon the subject of the distressed state ofthe workmen. His lordship ad- mitted that they had made out a strong case of distress, and said he sympathised with them, though he did not know that he could do anything for them, as the House of Com- mons were set against any measure for the amelioration of the country, Mr. Attwood then told his lordship that if such were the case, then they would change the House of Commons, and get a House of Commons which would really represent the people of Britain. That was the origin ofthe present movement, and when the deputation returned to Birmingham the plan was devised. He ( the speaker) was appointed to visit the people of Scotland, for the purpose of organising the plan among them, which, he was happy to say, he had done with singular success. During the time that he was in that country he had attended, at an average, three meetings every day, and travelled some thousands of miles, and in no single instance did he meet one who had denied the justice of the principles which he advocated. Mr. Collins then went on to detail to the meeting some further information regarding '. he National Con- vention, which it was in the contemplation of the Chartists to establish, and the means by which tliey proposed to acquire the objects which they had in view. The resolution was put by the chairman and carried unanimously; as was also another resolution for a public meeting of the working- classes during the course ofthe ensuing month. DINNER TO MR. WILLIAMS, M. P. On Monday last, William Williams, Esq., M. P., ad- dressed liis constituents from the balcony of the City Hotel, Coventry, upon the nature of his votes during the last session. In the evening a public dinner took place; the following are a few of the principal guests : Mr. S. Whittem, who presided, Wm. Williams, Esq., M. P., Joshua Seholefield, Esq.. M. P. for Birmingham, Aid. Mayo, Richard Hands, Esq., Wm. Clarke, Esq., Messrs. Cooper, Smith, Goode, Buckney, Taunton, and John Robinson. After the cloth was drawn, the chairman said, the first toast he should propose he was sure would be re- ceived with enthusiasm, and would- meet their cordial approbation. " The people, the only legitimate source of all autho- rity and power." The next toast was, " The Queen," three times three. The Chairman said, he should call on them again, and a very respected friend of theirs, Mr. David Smith would speak to the next toast, which was the " Rights of labour," the recognition of which can be the only safeguard and protection of property. Mr. SMITH acknowledged this toast at some length, but which our limits preclude us from giving. The CHAIRMAN then gave the health of " William Williams, Esq.," three times three ; who, after return- ing thanks, gave " the ladies ot Coventry." The next toast was " the health of Joshua Scliole- field, Esq., the member for Birmingham," three times three. After the cheering had subsided, he arose and said— It was with very sincere pleasure he had received the honour of their invitation that evening. He could not find words to express bis gratitude to them for the honour they bail done him 011 this occasion. He was glad to see him self surrounded by so marry of the middling class, among whom he had moved, and had his being; and, thanks to the blessing of God, upon hi- own industry he had risen to that station which he now held among his fellow countrymen. He was not only glad to see the middle, but so many of the working class mix together on that occasion. lie was always sorry to see any difference of opinion between masters and workmen— between labourers and employers. Their interests were both united, inseparably connected, as his fellow colleague, Mr. Attwood, told the men of Birmingham, always to consider themselves in the condition of links in a chain, indissoluble connected. He woti'd ask them what use was the em- ployer without the labourer, or vice versa 9 All men could not be masters, and they never could expect to flourish as masters, unless they made one common cause with their workmen. Any distinction that is made between their interests must arise from a state of tilings not rightly ad- ministered. He who would call himself the lord of a thousand acres, would be a poor wretch in the midst of it, did he not have persons to cultivate those acres. Tlrey had heard their honourable member state the way in which the questions were disposed of in the House of Commons, aud lie was soriy ( 0 sny it was too true. He did not see much to hope for in the present way of legislating; and unless things were speedily altered, he did not know what might be the consequences. He would give them one instance. His friend, Mr. W., had mentioned the pension list. It was his ( Mr. S.' s) lot to be last session one ofthe com- mittee for an enquiry into the pension list, anil a more dis- agreeable duly he never performed. If any worthless creature was found undeserving, his claims were advanced through thick arid thin. The more barefaced the case appeared, the more right, it seemed, the man had to be kept on. Was any one in danger pf being struck off, and the case a flagrant one, that is, the pensioner possessing a great property, independent of his pension, the next night such a swarm would come down for the purpose of voting in his favour! But, amongst the number, did there appear any poor devil, there was no one who cared for him, no matter how great his distress might be. There was one curious case, he did not rightly recollect the name. It was a most flagrant one— it was without a parallel— it was, in fact, a perfect sinecure— the man had done nothing for i'. He was also a person in possession of a large fortune. This was a compensation of 2,500/. per annum for some place abroad. Well, ( said he, Mr. S. ) this mart has never been to the place. You will strike him off, that's clear. The man is veiy wealthy besides, so that it will make no difference to him. He holds two or three situations, independent of this. But, alas, would they believe it, when the day of trial came, whether tie should remain on or not. down came Sir James Graham, and stated it would Ire preposterous to strike that man off; it was a marriage sett'ement, settled on his wife. lle( Mr. S ) thought this a very comical argument. But he was allowed to remain. I his was only a specimen. He could have given many more, had it been needful. Auothei question, upon which lie had made up his mind to oppose throughout, was the question of the New Poor Law Amend- ment act. If they will, not take away the pay of the rich pauper, they otulit not to touch the poor pauper. Every Mage of the Poor Law Amendment bill lie opposed. It was or. e of the mo., t iniquitous and unjust acts that had ever pus « ed that house ; and, as he told tlitrn. they would never be able to carry it into execution. I le told Lord Althorp, " it von venture to carry it out, I will take my leave of B r minghiim." Now, tliw was uttered in a way of threat. He would not leave his fellow- townsmen in their sorrows, after having shared with tlretn in their prosper ity. If he did, he should be ashamed of himself. They had made a law, that no relief should be given to any person out of doors. ( No, 110. ) They must come into the house. I n that case, if the poor man should have any opportunity presented to him of regain- ing his station in society, he could not avail himself of it, through the trie iking up of his home. He must say, the Parlia- ment that could pass such a law, merited the execration of every hottest man. The corn laws, of late, at Birmingham, had made rather a conspicuous figure. They had a meeting, at which Mr. Paulton had been lecturing. He was a very able advocate lor the repeal of this odious tax ; and to hear the details would make every individual shudder with fear, from what they might have to expect. Here we had a great national debt, and a dreadful loss of trade. The ministers must be madmen, if they expected this state of things to last much longer. The leason they had not agitated this question, ( though it is undoubtedly one of great good, still he must give the men of Birmingham credit for the course they had pursued) he must say, they were afraid it was a question with which they were going to be cheated. Could they get a reformed House of Commons, they should soon be able to remove every nuisance. He was satisfied, if they got a reformed Parliament, they would soon be in a state to reform the corn laws. They wanted, at Birming- ham, to begin at the beginning; and unless they did reform the reformed Parliament, this country would be brought into such a state of danger— nay, they were on the very brink of it— that he could not tell what would be the end of it. For, look in what a way the business of the House of Commons was carried on, night after night, listening listening to prosey lengthy debate*. They might just as well sieep. He could assure them, he had many nights gone home to his pillow— aye, he could say a hundred nights — and said to himself, if this be legislation, what a fool X must be to leave my home and my business for it. Unless Par- liament did something better for them, it was no use being in such a corrupt house. That was not only the feeling of himself and Mr. Attwood, but of the few honest men who were in that house— he believed that there were not more than twenty. Then if it was at any time what they eallW a great question, a question of Irish tithes for instance, they were all alive ; every man then would be at his post. But if they wanted to meddle with the sinecures, the pensioners, or the church, they would begin to cry murder. England was very much priest ridden, and law ridden; it was a question with him whether they were most priest ridden or law ridden. His friend thought priest, but he was most in- clined to think law ridden. He would give them one in- stance. It was a matter of fact worthy of relating, and a single fact was worth more than a hundred theories. It had been his misfortune to be involved in a chancery suit; and it had been such an expense to him he applied to the defendant's attorney, and said, that if he would tell him what money he should give him to put an end to it, because he was quite sick of the trouble and expense, he would not mind giving 100/., as a refresher, to put an end to it. " Oh," said the lawyer, " don't put yourself in a fret, we can put an end to it or keep it on for seven years; it is quite a little freehold." The suit had lasted, said Mr. S., three years; and any honest upright chancellor might have decided it in three hours. What with lengthy papers, replies, and he hardly knew what, they had continued it when he had expected it was almost at an end. Down would come a volume of papers, aud he would say— what is coming now, 1 have read all this before? " Oh, sir, there is some little change in a word ;" and really there was no end to it. But the nation was not a little priest ridden also. At Birm- ingham they were going to build ten churches, which were a portion of thirty they had in contemplation to build. A friend of his gave 500/. He said to him, he thought it was a large sum of money, and if he could afford to give it it showed he had a liberal spirit, especially while there were so many churches in Birmingham empty; but being 011 the voluntary principle he did not care how many churches they built. Not altogether voluntary, said his friend, he that gives the greatest sum of money is to have the patronage or presentation. This put him In mind of the back bone men in Liverpool. There was a back- bone club, and it was to support the return of Mr. Canning. One man gave 2,000?., and those who gave the greatest sum had the first vacancy that offered itself under government to put a friend into power. They were back bone men, and they had value re- ceived for their money. He was quite sure, from what he had stated, they did not stand in need of arty further infor- mation from him to convince them that things were going on very wrong. He had a confidcnce that nothing could shake; though things were in this state, they would rise superior to their difficulties; and, did they but act wise and prudent, they would, in the end, eventually overcome them. Let them remember the motto of his friend Attwood, that " union is strength." They must take right objects and pursue a right course— they must have their minds suffi- ciently informed. He would say, he discouraged any sort of violence being used—( cheers)— it was worse than useless to attempt it unless they were . veil prepared— and only then, when the government hail become so violent and intolerable, that honest men were compelled to unite in their own defence. They had moral power enough, there only wanted that moral power exerted with firmness. He would say petition, agitate, put them to the blush; shame them if you can. If they wont move as fast as you could wish, tell them of it. Tell them you are not to be cheated or deluded by parties, by Whigs or Tories. For among all the interests in the House of Commons, the interests of the people are least looked to. He would defy any man to point out to him one day out of an hundred, or one measure out of a thousand, that was passed for tire general good. He felt the more pleasure in addressing the men of Coventry, for orr a former occasion when they were at a pinch, he came over at their invitation, rather than they should have a tax palmed on them. From that time he considered himself as a sort of link in the same chain.. ( Cheers.) Another reason, Coventry was a manufacturing town, and hail the same interests at stake us Birmingham, they were all manufacturers interested in oneeommon good, called on to make head against oppressive laws. He be- lieved the time was not far distant, if there was not some alteration they would suffer to that extent that could not be predicted. Go into some of the manufacturing districts, it was appalling for any body to witness the falling off in trade, he would mention Lancashire, the cotton districts, how the sale of the manufactured goods had diminished. The cotton was spun ill this country arid exported, so enabling other countries to manufacture their own goods, without sending to this country. He was in the American trade, and he was shocked to find how much the sule of manufactured goods had diminished; we send out the ma- terials to enable them to manufacture ' heir own goods. The English labourer works for his bread by the sweat of his brow, in preparing the raw materials; and they ( the- Americans) do the finishing part, and have till the profit. What is to be the state of the working pnpu'ation, if such a state of things is allowed to continue? Ic had been so aptly said that evening by Mr. Smith, that a government should enable a man to get not merely food ami clothing, but also sufficient leisure to think, and improve the intellectual poweis of his mind, They called other nations slaves, buS lie considered the English the greatest slaves upon the face of the earth. He had travelled iu America, and on the greater purt of the continent, and never, not even in the West Indies, did lie see such slaves as in England. At Birmingham, the poor nailers work sixteen hours for six- teen pence ; was not that slavery ? It was quite cerlnin ha could not get sufficient food for himself and family. Then, what security had the poor man to look forward to, when old age should come on ? Why, a workhouse! After paying a high compliment to Mr. Williams, for the manner in which he conducted himself in the House of Commons, Mr. S. gave " the town and trade of Coven- try." He sat down amidst loud cheers from all parts of the room. His speech seemed to make a deep im- pression 011 the minds of all present. Mr. RILAND HANDS returned thanks for the manner in which Mr. S. had spoken of Coventry, and the toast he had proposed, which was drunk with three times three. The next toast was " the health of the Right Hon. E. Ellice." Mr. WILLIAMS returned thanks on behalf of Mr Ellice. Song, by Mr. Bampton, " the Old British Oak." Mr. WILLIAMS gave " the health of the glorious 1748 Independent electors who had returned him at the last election." Three times three. The next toast, " the Irish nation ; may she be free from faction, and enjoy all the rights, as Englishmen, we claim for ourselves." " The liberty of the press" was duly honoured. The meeting was addressed by Mr. D. Buckiiey, in a very powerful speech. Messrs. Taunton and Goode also addressed the meeting. The convivialities of the meeting were kept up till a late hour, and all went off with the greatest eclat. FENCING. — Among many p'easing anecdotes which the late Charles Mathews recounts of his early career, the fol- lowing, whilst it produces 11 general laugh, w ill serve lor the more serious anil salutary purpose of a caution to young Thespian adventurers against the crude propensities by which they are too often exposed and misled:—" Now, it so happened that I had a passion for fencing which nothing could overcome; and this friend of Melpomene and mine learnt the exercise at the same academy with myself. Therefore, for the delight of exhibiting my skill and legi- timate love of the art, I kindly consented to tnke the infe- rior, insipid part of Richmond, who does not appear until the fifth act of the play ; I stipulating, however, as usual, for a good part in the afterpiece. I care I for nothing ex- cept the last scene of Richmond, but in that I was deter- mined to have my full swing of carte and tierce. I had no idea of paying seven guineas and a half without indulging my passion. In vain did the tyrant try to die after a decent time— in vain did he give indications of exhaustion— I would not allow him to gire in. I drove liiin by main force from any position convenient for'his last dying speech. The audience laughed— I heeded them not. They shouted— I was deaf. Had they hooted, I should have lunged on in unconsciousness of their interruption. I was resolved to show them all my accomplishments. Litchfield frequently whispered, ' Enough !' but I thought with Macbeth— Damn'd be lie who first cries hold! enough! I kept him at it; and I believe we fought almost literally, ' a long hour by Shrewsbury clock.' To add to the merri- ment, a matter of fact fellow in the gallery, who, in his in- nocence took everything for reality, and who was completely wrapt up and lost by the very cunning of the scene, at last shouted out—' Dang it! why donl he shoot him!"" rriK BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL, DECEMBER 29. 3 CORPORATE ELECTIONS IN BIRMINGHAM. On Wednesday the elections for the various wards Birmingham, under the Municipal act, took place, and certainly a more decided expression of popular opinion never was evinced. Each ward in the town was contested hy Tory candidates, every one of whom were defeated. The elections commenced in the dif- Went wards precisely at nine o'clock in the morning, Sunder the superintendence of deputy returning offi- cers, and the poll was kept open until four o'clock, • when the boxes were conveyed to the committee room of the Town Hall, aud their contents examined by W. Scholefield, Esq., the returning officer, and the following was declared the result of the elections. We give the names of the disappointed as well as successful candidates, for the sake ot making the con- trast more complete. LADY WOOD. Tory List. Radical List. T. Clarke, jun J, Belts . Benjamin Hadley . S. Shakespear P. H. Muntz F. Matcliett. 66 65 63 D. Ledsam I 11. Harris It. W. Wintield ALT SAINTS. 2- 21 , 158 135 T. Lane, . Beynon„ 25 15 10 104 66 Mr. Sbakespear was placed upon both lists. HAMPTON. G. V. Blunt J. Meredith— H. Jennings T. C. Salt H. Court . A. Law den » ™ 159 — Pemberton . 159 W. II. Bates . 157 S. Kempson ST. GEORGE'S. 12-) I It. Hollis 127 J. B. Oram 121 I— Waddy F. Clark J. Hard man, 6. Lucas ~ S. Beale R. C. Mason J. H. Cutler ST. PAULS. D. jun. „ 162 ~ 150 ~ 141 ST. MARYS. Malins, jun — Souter — Marshall— 172 142 140 Phillips , S. Allport . Mr. Beale was in both lists. MARKET HALL. T. Aspinall. T. Clowes ™ T. Bolton R. H. Taylor J. Drake- 173 163 163 — Warden J. B. Payn Tlios. Perkins. ST. PETERS. 412 I — Butler., W. Scholefield. W. Hairold C. Geacb S. Button 283 . 282 . 281 . 275 266 — Osborn Westley Richards. W. Phipson— — Lucas ™ 72 72 68 109 106 85 129 128 124 35 33 87 , 83 , 78 . 218 217 . 210 . 210 . 202 lawful and constitutional manner, to make a change, and hence he could not conscientiously subscribe to the declaration. He really felt he would not be doing right to take that declaration in the morning1, and vote against church- rates in the evening. To do one thing as a councillor, aud another as a man, was too nice a distinction for his plain understanding; and rather than run any risk, he would take all the consequences of a prosecution for not taking the declaration. ( Hear, hear.) Mr. DRAKE said lie was prepared to take the decla- ration, although he should petition and protest against church- rates. Mr. PARE did not see any difficulty in taking the declaration. They only declared they would not in- jure, the church in their corporate capacity; but they did not surrender their private judgments or individual rights as citizens. He should not hesitate to vote against church- rates, although he should take the de- claration. Wm. Chance and Francis Lloyd, Esqrs., magistrates, then entered the room, and the declaration and oath of office were read over to all the councillors, and sub- scribed to by each, with the exception in respect of the former, of Mr. Sturge and Mr. Charles Sturge. Mr. HARROLD, previous to taking it, said he had re- considered the matter, and after what he had heard from his friends around him, he had made up his mind to take the declaration. After the signing of the declaration, lists containing the names of the persons whom the councillors wished to elect as aldermen, were handed in, and Messrs. Geach and Francis Clark were appointed scrutineers. After a lengthened and rigid examination of the votes, the following gentlemen were declared duly elected aldermen of the borough. We give the names, the number of votes for each, and the wards to which the gentlemen were respectively assigned. No. of voters. 34 Mr. Taylor was on both lists. ST. MARTIN'S. J. Rodway T. Phillips T. Weston W. Middlemore J. Sturge W. Pare Mr. C. Sturge C. Scholefield _ H. Van Wart T. Hill 110 108 105 . THOMAS'S James James F. R. Welch , 199 Jos. James — 144 W. Lucy — 119 Middlemore was in both lists. EDGBASTON WARD. L 180 1 It. T. Cadbury—, 179 . 169 Haines | J. Ferreday~ DERITEND AND BORDESLEY. R. Wigley . W. Ingall „ W. Jenkins, J. Ilawkes . J. Field R, Riley J. Pierce J. Cornforth , Th. Hickling. W. Page _ C. Truman — F. . Page „ . 461 450 . 446 . 397 387 . 385 T. Beilby S. Thornton - E. Banks I. Marshall W. Sumner T. N. Fuller . DUDDESTON AND NECHEI. LS. 520 512 504 492 496 489 W. Gammon J. Haycock „ Jos. Robins—... J. Swingler-, ~~~— G. J. Green — W, Cratklpw Tff* f Tfft * Y1 109 100 93 84 77 68 , 26 24 . 21 452 444 442 441 427 40 § Names. Benjamin Hadley, P. H. Muntz, ' 43 John Meredith, 26 C. C. Scholefield, 32 Samuel Beale, 21 William Harrold, 23 Thomas Bolton, 41 W. Scholefield, 40 Samuel Hutton, 25 * J. T. Lawrence, 25 Joseph Sturge, 34 II. Van Wart, 21 William Jenkins, 30 William Ingall, 27 '• William Gammon, 24 John Betts, 24 Those marked with an asterisk were not of the coun- cil when elected. Besides the gentlemen who were appointed aldermen, the following received the votes placed opposite to their respective names:— Wards. Ladywood Ail Saints' Hampton St. George's St. Mary's St. Paul's Market- liall St. Peter's Do. St. Martin's St. Thomas's Edgbaston { Deritend and Bordesley { Duddeston cum Nechells. William Jennings William Wilcox, Thos. Clark, jun. Thomas Philips, C. Sturge, Capt. Moorsom, John Pierce, William Phipson, 20 19 18 16 14 13 12 11 Thomas Weston, Abel Peyton, Joseph Walker, Reuben Wigley, William Beale, James James, Mark Perkins, Henry Smith, 10 10 9 7 6 6 5 4 Three or four others weie named in individual lists. The council then adjourned until five o'clock. At During the day, although the utmost activity and bustle prevailed 111 the town, not the slightest unplea- santness 01' interruption took place. The fact was, the whole proceeding was commenced and carried on with a species of religious decorum, which reflects the highest credit upon the inhabitants. The contest in St. Paul's ward was throughout the day very sharp. At ten o'clock in the morning Mr. Malins was a- head; about twelve o'clock lie lost ground, and although every possible exertion was made during the day, the poll closed upon him in a minority. At Duddeston cum Nechells there was also sharp running through the day, but as will be seen by the return, the race ended in a triumphant majority for the reform candidates. I11 this, as in nearly all the other wards, the Tories in the morning declared victory as certain. THURSDAY MORNING. The newly elected towtl councillors met, pursuant to notice from the returning' officer, in tile . large com- mittee room of the Town Hall, for the purpose ? f taking the necessary declarations of office, and elect- ing the aldermen for the different wards. The return- ing officer having taken the chair, observed, that the first thing they would have to do would be to subscribe to the declarations. It was deemed necessary that two justices of the peace should be present, and he liad accordingly given notice to two gentlemen, who would be in attendance at eleven o'clock, Mr. WESTON wished to know how it was intended to proceed with the election of aid ermen; whether they were to be elected from the councillors or from gentlemen in the various wards not in the council. He was of opinion they would best carry out the popular principle which had placed them in their pre- sent position by electing them from the council; and thus affording the people an opportunity of again ex- ercising their franchise in the election of new mem- bers. He was afraid, if they acted otherwise, they • would subject themselves to the charge of exercising a right which ought to rest with their constituents. He hoped they would not throw any discredit upon the principles which had called them into, existence as a corporate body. Mr. JENNINGS was of opinion it would be a dis- grace to them to elect for alderman any man who had been already rejected by their constituents. Mr. STURGE considered the principle of popular election was so sound that it ought not to • be de- parted from 011 any account. He thought the al- dermen ought to be elected from the council. Mr. MUNTZ agreed with the previous speakers, that the election ought to be purely popular, and, for that reason, that it would not be proper to elect men who had been rejected by the constituency. At the same time he considered it would be unwise to reject good men in the various wards, who might not have solicited the burgesses, and who, if they had, might in all pro- bability have obtained their suffrages. Mr. PIERCE said he knew it was the wish of his constituents that Mr.' Wilcox should be elected an alderman. That gentleman had been requested to put himself forward as a candidate for councillor, but lie declined, although 110 man stood higher iu the esti- mation of the people. ( Hear.) The conversation here dropped ; the returning officer again directed the attention of the council to the de- clarations aud oaths; anil having read over the decla- ration, which says that the councillor shall not do anything, by virtue of his office, to weaken the church established by law, Mr. IIARUOLD said he certainly should not take that declaration. ( Hear, hear.) Mr. STURGE said ho was in the same situation. When he was told by his friends that it was in tended to put him in nomination, he told them he could not subscribe to the declaration in support of the established church; and if he should be returned he must refuse to do so, and abide the consequence of his refusal. He had so strong a feeling against church establishments—( hear, hoar)—- he felt so convinced that they were injurious, and that there would be 110 real peace in this country so long as the present system ex- isted, that he was determined to do all he could, in * five o'clock the council again met, and the returning officer again took the chair. A number of burgesses, and others, were present. Mr. BOLTON said lie had no objection what- ever to the attendance of burgesses at their de- I liberations; lnit he thought it would be better for them ' to abstain altogether from any expression of their feelings during any debate that might take place. Their object was to make the council a deliberative body, and that could be best effected by the absence of all unnecessary excitement. Mr. HADLEY proposed that special accommoda- tion should be provided for the gentlemen of the 1 r^ ss—( hear, lieai)— who might think proper to attend and take notes. The CHAIRMAN said he should now proceed to take the declarations of the aldermen He accordingly did so; and all subscribed to tliem except Mr. Sturge, who said, as lie had fully stated his reasons in the morning for the course he had pursued, lie should not again enter upon them. He should only again say, he was fully prepared to take the consequence of liis refusal. Mr. MUNTZ then rose and said, he understood their next duty was to elect the mayor; but before he proceeded to the nomination of the gentleman he intended to propose, he must request that the re- turning officer do, pro forma, leave the chair, and that 2}< dton do take it. This aiTang£ n'iCnt'ia;" ng ') een 8' one into, Mr. MUNTZ continued. ' He had to propose to them a gentleman to fill the office of mayor, who, lie | felt confident, would meet tlieir entire approbation. When . he mentioned the name of the distinguished individual, any remarks upon his able, impartial, and excellent conduct would be un- necessary. Without further observations, therefore, he would propose William Scholefield, Esq., as a fit and proper person to fill the office of mayor for the ensuing year. ( Loud, long, and continued applause.) Mr. LAWRENCE seconded the nomination. He rejoiced most heartily in the opportunity they had given him to second the appointment of his excellent friend, Mr. Scholefield. ( Hear, hear.) There was, he believed, only otic opinion amongst all classes, relative to the competency of that gentleman for the office. ( Hear, hear.) I11 every sense, and by every 011C, he was admitted to be entirely qualified for it. He ( Mr. L.) should, therefore, follow the example of his friend, Mr. Muntz, and content himself with allowing the merits of Mr. Scholefield to be his only recommenda- tion. ( Applause.) The CHAIRMAN observed, in putting the motion, he must say it had his most hearty concurrence. ( Hear, hear.) There was 110 one who had witnessed the public career of Mr. Scholcfield, who did not feel thoroughly satisfied that he was a gentleman admirably qualified for the office. His past conduct was the bset guarantee1 for the future, ( Hear, hear.) The motion was then put and carricd, with loud and most hearty applause, which lasted for some time. After which, Mr. Alderman MEREDITH moved that the mayor do now resume the chair. ( Great applause.) The MAYon then resumed his seat, amidst renewed and vehement- acclamation. Silence being restored, he said, he could not suffi- ciently thank them for the honour they had conferred upon him. Words were wanting to express the feelings lie entertained at that instant. He should, indeed, be guilty of hypocrisy, if lie said he had not been prepared for being proposed to fill the office of mayor ; but lie must confess he was not prepared for such a unanimous and cordial reception as he had met with. They , had all been busily and laboriously engaged during the day, and it would ill bccome him to detain them by any lengthened remarks. He thanked them most sincerely for the honour conferred upon liim, and begged leave to assure them, he would do his very best to merit a continuance of their good opinion. Mr. HADLEY wished to know, if it was suffi- cient to have carried tlic election of the mayor by acclamation. He wished, above all things, to retain their excellent mayor; and he could make doubly sure of liim, by carrying his election strictly in accordance with the act of incorporation. Mr. IIARROLD thought they could not make too sure, and he proposed that the appointment be put to a show of hands. A show of hands was then taken, and the result was, as before, a perfectly unanimous decision. Mr. Geacli and Mr. Meredith then read over tlie declarations, which the mayor subscribed. Mr. MUNTZ then rose and said, the next business they had to transact, was the appointment of a towii clerk. Mr. STURGE wished to know how far it. was indispensably necessary to go 011 that evenii);>' with the appointments. He thought it would be well if they took a little time to consider, before they filled up all the offices. They must not go through tliem hastily, and I10 should most likely feel it necessary to move an adjournment. Mr. HADLEY thought they had better not adjourn, without making the necessary appointments. Mr. BOLTON rose and said, the gentleman he had the honour to propose to fill the office of town clerk, was so well known to them, that he need say little in his favour. He was a gentleman of high honour and respectability, and a man of more than ordinary talents. He was a gentleman of great energy of mind, and sound discretion. He need hardly add he alluded to Mr. W111. Redfern. ( Loud applause.) He had always stood forward 011 all great occasions, when the public cause required the aid ofhjs talents or his purse. ( Ap- plause.) The obtaining of the corporation had been attended with great labour, and required much talent as well as professional knowledge ; all this Mr. Red- fern bestowed upon the work, and thus had showed himself well qualified for any public trust to be created under the charter. Mr. MUNTZ seconded the nomination. He said, he understood there was another ( gentleman to be put in nomination. He would not pretend to be competent to say, which of the gentlemen were in point of legal knowledge, best qualified for the office. The only rea- son n hy he seconded the nomination of Mr. Redfern was, because he knew that gentleman had always endeavoured to do all the good he could for the benefit of the town: and because he had laboured most zealously and perseveringly for the purpose of procuring the charter of corporation, under which they were then assembled. Mr. STURGE supported the nomination. He had a very high opinion of Mr. Redfern's legal knowledge. ( Hear, hear.) He thought they should always find him the ready, able, and willing advocate of the weak against the strong. Mr. HAD LEY proposed Mr. Solomon Bray. ( Hear, hea'.) It was not his intention to enter into any com- parison between the two candidates, because he thought tw > uld be bad taste. Of Mr. Bray he could say, that ' or the last ten years he had known him to be incessant in his labours to promote the great work of reform in which they had been engaged. Since the year 1829, be h id known liim to bo a constant and unassuming labourer in the cause, and great benefit he had conferred upon it. He was also most able and sedulous as a pro- fessional man, and a gentleman of the strictest punc- tuality. Mr. SALT seconded the nomination, observing that he had been for years intimate with Mr. Bray, and he could say, that in point of ability, zeal, and punctuality, he did not know his equal. He was a man of the strictest honour—( hear, hear)— and he stood deservedly high as a thorough good Reformer. ( Hear, hear.) The MAYOR said, he felt himself in a difficult situa- tion with respect to the candidates. He knew and re- spected them both. ( Hear, hear.) It would be unj list, however, towards Mr. Redfem, if he did not say, that he knew his exertions to gain the charter had been in- cessant; morning, noon, and night, lie had laboured in the struggle. The name of Mr. Bray was then put, and negatived by a large majority. Mr. Redfern's name was next put, and his appointment was carried unanimously amidst applause. Mr. STURGE then said, if it was intended to proceed with any other appointments, he should feel it his duty to move an adjournment, to afford time for a due con- sideration of the parties and the office. Mr. HARROLD was of opinion they ought to have time to consider the appointments before making them. Mr. RODWAY thought, if fit and proper persons were proposed that evening, they might as well proceed at once to their election. ( Hear, hear.) If persons un- known to them, or unfit for the office, were proposed, then they ought to adjourn for further consideration,' ( Hear, hear.) Mr. MUNTZ concurred 111 opinion with Mr. Rod- way ; and, acting 011 that impression, he should at once propose to them a gentleman to fill a highly im- portant office— the office of Registrar to the mayor's court. It was a situation that must be filled up, and any delay would be unnecessary, if not injurious. It was a situation that must be not only filled, but well filled. The gentleman he proposed to the officc was Mr. Robert Kellie Douglas. ( Hear, hear.) He knew some objections might be raised against that gentle- man, but lie eared not, because he knew there was 110 man more fully qualified, in every possible manner, for the situation. He had watched Mr. Douglas's conduct for the last two years, during which he had the honour of his acquaintance, and he had invariably found him a man of the strictest honour, the greatest blished ; that officer would be paid by the fees of the CO li t. . Mr. WESTON strongly supported Mr. Douglas, be - cause lie knew 110 man better qualified. Mr. M UNTZ having briefly replied, aud reiterated his strong opinion of Mr. Douglas's fitness, as well as the strength oi his claims 011 tiie consideration of the council, over those of the young gentleman who was placed in competition with him, Mr. STURGE said, a communication had just been put into bis hands, which would save all further dis- cussion ; inasmuch as it enabled him to withdraw his motion in favour of Mr. Morgan. ( Applause.) The Mayor then put Mr. Douglas's nomination, which was carried unanimously, with loud applause. WILLIAM REDFERN, Esq., town clerk, then rose to return thanks, and was warmly applauded. He said he begged to express his best thanks for the high and distinguished honour they had conferred upon him. He could promise them, whether he was in office or out of office, it should be the pride of his life to pro- mote the happiness and honour of his native town. Mr. DOUGLAS thanked the mayor and council most sincerely for the honour they had done him. From an early period in life lie had been a traveller, and he had come at length almost to doubt whether he should ever find a resting place in the world at all. He had now, however, by their kindness, found anchoring ground. So long as they liad a mayor, they would, of course, have a mayor's court, and so long also would they have a registrar; and as their corporation had perpetual suc- cession, if the registrar were to live for ever, they would still live together. ( Laughter.) He would again beg them to accept his warmest thanks, and his assurance that it should be liis earnest endeavour to show, that he was not altogether undeserving of the kindness they had shown to liim. Mr. BETTS then said, lie rose, on the part of Mr. Edmonds—( hear, hear)— to propose him as a proper person to fill the office of clerk of the peace. ( Cheers.) It was his most anxious desire, and the anxious desire of his l'ellow- townsmen, to see that man filling an office for which he was so well qualified. ( Hear, hear.) He had watched Mr. Edmonds in prosperity and ad versity, and he could confidently say, taking him all in all, he did not know his equal. ( Applause.) He had every qualification a man could be required to have. Only let them look to his advocacy of the principles of civil and religious liberty, at a time when people hardly dared to say their souls were their own! Then lie stood forward, as the bold, manly, and daring advocate of the public rights. ( Applause.) Mr. GAMMON begged leave most cordially to second the appointment. Mr. HARROLD said they had then before them the oldest man in Birmingham who stood forward upon the platform of religious liberty. ( Applause.) He knew Mr. Edmonds a youth of promise, and he rejoiced to say, he had realised all the expectations he then enter- tained of him. He had shown himself throughout the firm and unflinching friend of liberty. He had suffered imprisonment in the cause. ( Loud applause.) And it was much easier to talk about it, than endure it with courage. ( Hear, hear.) He had no doubt, if they placed liim in the situation named, he would discharge the duties honestly, fearlessly, aud with zeal and ability. ( Applause.) He could assure them, most heartily, he rejoiced at having it in his power to render him any service, and he hoped they would feel as he did, and return him unanimously. ( Applause.) Mr. HADLEY said lie had known Mr. Edmonds twenty- five years; and during that time many a hard and difficult battle he had had to light, and manfully and honourably he did fig'ht them. ( Applause.) Not only had the people of Birmingham reason to rejoice at the result of the labours of Mr. George Edmonds, but the friends of freedom all over England. ( Applause.' He had been one of the great pioneers in the battle of freedom, and well had he discharged his duty. After all the labours and sufferings he had to encounter, he ( Mr. II.) was bound to say, no man could have come through the fire with cleaner hands. ( Applause.) He did hope they would not overlook his services. They liad an opportunity of rewarding him, and they would be guilty of gross ingratitude if they did not, ( Hear, hear, hear.) Mr. RODWAY said he liad known Mr. Edmonds thirty years, and a man possessing greater integrity he be- lieved did not exist. Mr. JENNINGS spoke of Mr. Edmonds in similar terms of approbation. Mr. FRANCIS CLARK wished to know if it would not be necessary first to procure the quarter sessions, and then appoint the clerk of the peace. The TOWN CLERK thought the grant of the quarter sessions ought to precede this appointment. Mr. HARROLD agreed . that it might be better to get the sessions first; but lie hoped, whenever they were got, that Mr. Edmonds would not be forgotten. ( Hear bear, hear.) Mr. BETTS agreed to the postponement of the queS- punctuality, and accuracy. It might be said he was tion, in full hope that, whenever the time arrived, Mr not a Birmingham man; but he knew well his con- duct, since his residence anwue-. t { jje! 11) ftU( j iJe col) jci say, it had been such as deserved, and had received the approbation of the men of Birmingham ( Hear, hear.) He knew that if it had not been for the la- bour and ability of that gentlemen, they would not be then sitting there as a corporate body. ( Hear, hear.) Again, it might be said, none but a legal gen- tleman ought to fill the office. To this there was the plain answer— 110 such condition was required by the act. The act provided that a legal man might fill it, out not that he must. Mr. JENNINGS was anxious to second the motion. He said, if it was a service to them to get a corpora- tion, by which they could reform the local abuses of the town, then it seemed to him to follow, as a matter of course, that they ought to give their support, in every proper manner, to the gentleman who, more than any other, had been instrumental in procuring that corporation for them. ( Hear, hear.) Mr. STURGE said, lie felt himself in a difficult situa- tion. He was as willing as any man to acknow ledge the great services of their friend Robert Douglas; but before he knew of that gentleman's intentions he h id promised to propose liis friend, William Mcrgan, solicitor. He, therefore, begged leave to propose that gentleman as a fit and proper person to fill the office. Mr. RILEY seconded the nomination. He had pro- mised to support Mr. Douglas, but when, subsequently, he heard of Mr. Morgan's becoming a candidate, he could not refuse him his support, because of the great esteem in which he held Mr. Morgan's father. Mr. MASON supported tlie claims of Mr. Douglas, whom he bad always found to be a man of the greatest ability and industry. Mr. MERIDETII had intended, if he had not been anticipated, to second the nomination of Mr. Douglas, as a gentleman eminently competent for the office. Mr. SALT said, iu all the course of his life he never knew a man of greater integrity or genera! abilities, or more eminently qualified for the situation now under discussion. Mr. BOLTON said he had worked by Mr. Douglas, side by side, in tbefctruggle for the corporation, and he could say, he found him indefatigable. He was never absent from liis post. Mr. RODWAY said, as their object was to get the best man, his object in rising was to support Mr. Douglas, bccairsc he believed liini to be the best man. lie did not exactly agree in all things with Mr. Douglas, but that was not the question. The question was, whether or not lie was competent to fill the office' He ( Mr. Rodway) believed he was in every respect competent, and lie also believed he was a man of the strictest integrity, and for these reasons he supported him. In answer fo. questions by Mr. Francis Clark and Mr. Weston, the town cler'f, who had entered the room during the discussion, said the situation of registrar was indispensably necessary, if there was a court esta- Edmonds would be appointed. ( Hear, hear.) From this wish there was not a single dissentient voice raised; so that Mr. Edmonds may be considered as virtually appointed. On the motion of Mr. W. Pare, Mr. Hutton, Mr. Lawrence, Mr. Harrold, and Mr. Francis Clark, were appointed a committee, to look out for and procure a proper room in which to hold the meetings of the council in future. The council then adjourned until Monday morning. formation of the robbery 011 Sunday morning, he and Spittle and Howie went to Mr. Dugdale's house, and ex- amined the premises, after which they went to a house in Lirass Street, Newtown Road, occupied by the prisoner. On entering they found the prisoner sitting at the fire witli his wife, in the act of drawing the cork from a wine bottle. The bouse consisted of a kitchen, bed room, and attic. When the prisoner saw them he laid down the bottle and pulled something out of his pocket, upon which he caught hold of him, and found it was a silver toothpick ( which he then produced). He then searched the bed room, and found a pair of kid gloves, and a penknife, and in a cupboard there was found a pack of playing cards. Spittle said that he found some wine, besides that which the prisoner had in his hand when they entered. He took from the prisoner's feet a pair of boots. Mr. Howie stated that he found in the prisoner's house two pieces of blue worsted stockings, the tops of which had been cut away from them. Mr. Dugdale identified the toothpick, penknife, and gloves as his property. He then proceeded to state that his private sitting room and library had been broken into and ransacked. His writing desk and drawers had been broken open and his papers cut and knocked about. In one of the drawers which the thieves had opened there was some money, but fiom some cause they did not see it. One of the servants produced the tops of a pair of blue worsted stockings, which corresponded exactly with the pieces found by Howie. A turnscrew, which was found in the prisoner's house, was also produced, and was stated to have fitted exactly in the holes made iu the desk and drawers in Mr. Dugdale's sitting room. It was also proved that the length of the boots taken from the prisoner corresponded precisely with foot marks in the lawn before Mr. Dugdale's house. The prisoner was fully committed. ROBBERY OF A BANK Box, CONTAINING 2,000.—./ an. es Randall, the coachman of the Holyhead mail to Birming- ham, was brought up and examined in the private loom, on a charge of having stolen a box, belonging to the Comercial Bank, containing bank notes, and other moneys, to the above amount. The ca< e excited much interest, and there were a areat many witnesses present in connection with it. The first person examined was Mr. Morris, who stated that he lived at Shiffnal, and kept an inn. He also kept a mail, which ran from Newport to Shiffnal. On Saturday he received, from his boy, a box belonging to the branch of the Commercial Bank, to be forwarded to Birmingham. There was a brass plate upon the box, upon which was en- graven the words " Commercial Bank." At the usual hour the Holyhead mail arrived. The prisoner was the driver. He ( Mr. Morris) carried out the box to the coach, and placed ir, part in the hoot and part on the box. He told Llie prisoner to take care of it, as it was a box of great value. The prisoner said he would, and the mail started, and he never saw any more of the box. John Trow stated that he was a porter at Wolverhamp- ton, and attended upon the Holyhead mail, when it arrived in that town, about twenty minutes past nine o'clocki: night- The prisoner was the driver. When the mat. stopped, a gentleman got off the box. He had occasion after that to take something out of the boot, and, in doing so, he saw a box. When he removed what he wan ed, he put the box down into the bottom of the boot, and pliced two other articles upon it. Mr. William Johnson stated that he lived in Denbyshire. On Saturday he travelled by the Holyhead mail from to Moxley, between Bilston and Birmingham. He travelled from Shrewsbury to Moxley outside, and he did not see any box given out from the coach between Wolverhampton and Moxley. When the coach stopped at Wolverhampton, he went into an hotel to h ue 6ome refreshment, and could not tell what might have been given away whilst he was in the house. Thomas Lamb said he had been horse keeper at Wed- nesbury on Saturday night to the Holyhead mail, and when the prisoner drove up, no passenger left the coach, nor was there any box handed dovn. The prisoner drove on to Birmingham. Walter Price, guard of the mail, stated that he accom- panied it from Shrewsbury to Birmingham on Saturday. When it arrived at Sliiffnal there was a box pi t a", the bottom of the prisoner's foot place. He heard Mr. M > rris tell him it was a bank box, and that he must take care of it. When they got to the Castle Hotel office, in I irm'ng- liam, they missed the box, and it could not be found. Mr. Benjamin Scott, book- keeper at the Castle Hotel office, stated that the prisoner arrived at Birmingham at twelve o'clock, with the mai1. It was his duty to see the passengers all off the coach, to see his parcels delivered in the office, and wait until it was ascertained if they were correct. When the coach first stopped lie went into the office, but he soon left, and went away for about ten minutes, and { then came back. When he came back he nsked him where the bank box was, upon which the prisoner said it had been given in. They again looked for it through the office, but it could not be found. The prisoner then left. John Palmer, police officer, stated that he went to the prisoner's house, shortly after the box was missing at the office. He told the prisoner he cams in search of the box, upon which he replied, that it was put upon the coach ac Shiffnal, and he knew nothing more of it. He found upon the prisoner eleven sovereigns, and about fifty shillings in silver. Mr. Brown, manager of Messrs. Waddell and Dretner" ton's coach office, staed that he was at the office soon after the mail arrived. The prisoner was not there then, but he soon came, and told him be had only just lelt the office to look after some sausages. When the coach drove up, the prisoner went away and returned again. Mr. John Grunston deposed that lie was clerk to the Commercial Bank. On Sunday he saw the prisoner in custody at Sliiffnal. The prisoner then told him that lie saw the box put upon the coach at Shiffual; but it was the impression upon his mind $ hat it never left Shiffual. He said be had nO doubt it would turn out to he in the firm. Mr. Gooden, who was present, asked the prisoner what he meant, to which he replied, that they had been guilty of similar tricks.. The prisoner was remanded until Thursday. THURSDAY, DEC. 27. Randall was again brought up and committed to take his trial for the above robbery. He was afterwards admitted tg bail. PUBLIC OFFICE. MONDAY, One. 24. ( Before Joshua Scholefield, Esq., M. P., William Beale, and J. T. Lawrence, Esqrs.) PASSING FORGED NOTES. — A man named Edward Mat- thews was charged with passing a forged five pound Bank of England note. Mr. John Philips, grocer, Camden Street, stated that on the previous Wednesday, the prisoner came into his shop and ordered a quantity of grocery, candles, & c., for a Mr. Sloan, Kenion Street. When the goods were made up and placed before hitn on the counter, he handed a five pound note in payment. He ( Mr. Philips) suspected it was bad, and he told the prisoner he must detain him in custody. At the moment, Mr. Gater and another gentlemen came into the shop, and he asked Mr. Gater to detain the prisoner, whilst he went out to make inquiry about the note. He had not, however, left the shop many minutes, when the prisoner ran out of it and made liis escape. Iu the evening he gave the note, marked with his initials, to Jones the streetkeeper. The note then produced was the same. Smith, the streetkeeper, stated that he apprehended the prisoner on Saturday, and charged him with having offered lite note to Mr. Philips. The prisoner denied all knowledge of Mr. Philips, and said he bad never been in Camden Street. Mr. Philips fully identified the prisoner as the man who had offered liim the note. The prisoner was committed. The magistrates wished the ruse to he made known, in order that other parties in the town, upon whom had notes had been passed, might have an opportunity of ascertaining whether the prisoner was the man who hid defrauded them. George Brown was charged with breaking into and robbing Blyth Hall, the residence of Stratford Dugdale, Esq., M. P. The first witness examined was Mary Williams, house- keeper to Mr. Dugdale, who deposed that, at six o'clock on Saturday evening, she fastened the window of the china closet in her master's house, and at eleven o'clock at night the family retired to bed. About half past seven o'clock in the morning, when she came down stairs her attention was directed to the china closet, arid on examining it she found that the window had been forced open, and a basket of Ieuiou3 and oranges had been removed, together with some wine, which she left safe the night before. She then went down the lawn, and there found lying 011 the ground some of the fruit she had missed. Surah Baxter stated that when she came down stairs, about h. ilf past six o'clock ou Sunday morning, she found the hall door propped open by the hall mat, and other doors leading out of the hall also open. She immediately gave the alarm, and Mr. Dugdale came down, when it was discovered that nearly all the rooms in the lower part of the house had been rummaged. Wm, Hall, the officer, stated that having received in. DUELLING EXTHAOREINAHY We visited the Danish set- tlement of Serampore on Saturday last, and were informed by several respectable ihhabitants that, some time back, two young East Indians, named J. H, S. and S. M.,\ vho had been taking copious libations of the rosy god, in a fit of jealousy entered into a dispute about a Miss ; words became high, and insult was heaped upon insult, until it ended iu Mr. J. II. S. challenging » lr. S. M. to fight aduel. Out these two gallant young heroes went, not 011 a com- mon, but on the high road. Pistols not being available guns were substituted, actually loaded with powder, aud, it is said, ball. Fifty paces being measured by the seconds, our two young heroes took tlieir stations. The word was given to fire; pop went the guns, but very wide of the marks, anil no mischief was done. The guns were loaded a second time, and our heroes, nothing daunted at their former ren- contre, seemed determined to have another shot at each other; hut the seconds interfered, fearing that their prin- cipals might make a sad mistake and hit them, instead of each other. The parties then shook hands and parted.— Bengal Hurharu. ILLIMITABLE DEMAND FOR BEADLES In the new Ceme try, at Birmingham, the following unique inscription, affixed to boards, meets the eye of the visitor while traversing the walks:—" Single interments, including beadles, and ail expenses, 7s. Gil." Now that vacancies among the honour- able fraternity of beadles are then so easily created, we con- gratulate tne brotherhood upon their frightening prospects- for who does not see, in the above mode of disposing of the surplus hands, that the demand for such labourers must in- definitely increase, and that these wages consequently must reach to a very high point, ere long. We should expect that the half- starved beadles in this city and throughout the coun- try,— for it is to be feared there are many such, will tender us a vote of thanks for communicating to them the above announcement, so important to tlieir interests Scottish Pilot PHYSICAL CHANGES IN MAN. — It is an acknowledged fact iu medical science, that man undergoes a continuous, though imperceptible corporeal change, and that an entire physical renewal takes place several times in the course of an ordi- nary life time; the changes arising from the variable in. fluences of the seasons appear not so generally familiar, hut it is 110 less important to know, that with the periodical de- cline of the year a slight but gradual relaxation takes place throughout the surface of the skin, and is shown more par- t; cularly at the roots of the hair, which, but for a judicious stimulative treatment is apt to thin and fal! off. For the strengthening and renovating of this important auxiliary to beauty, ti e most valuable modern discovery has been proved to be Ohlridge's Palm of Columbia, the effects of which in thickening, preserving and renovating the human hair, are no. v indisputably established. OLDRIDCE'S BALM causes Whiskers and Eye brows to grow, prevents the hair from, turning grey, and the first application makes it curl beau, tifully, frees it from scurf, and stops it from falling off. Abu 11 dance of certificates of the first respectability are shown by the proprietors, C. and A. OLDRIDGE, 1, Wellington Street, Strand, where the Balm is sold, and by most of the respectable Perfumers and Medicine Venders. Price 3*. 61., 6s., and 1 Is., per bottle. No other prices are genuine. Some complaints have reached the Proprietors of a spu- rious Balm having been vended; they again caution the public to be on their guard against the base impostors, by especially asking for OLDBIDGR'S BALM OF COLUMBIA, 1, WELLINGTON STREET, STRAND, LONDON. 8 THE . BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL, DECEMBER 22. BOROUGH OF BIRMINGHAM. IWILLIAM SCHOLEFIELD, Esquire, appointed • to act as RETURNING OFFICER at the first Election of Councillors of the Borough of Birmingham, do hereby publish and declare that the following persons have been duly elected COUNCILLORS of the Borough of Bir- mingham, in pursuance of and according to the directions contained in the Royal Charter of Incorporation of the said Borough, graciously accorded by Her Majesty, and bearing date at Westminster, the thirty- first day of October, 1838. No. 1.— LADY WOOD WARD. Benjamin Hadley Thomas Clark, junior John Betts. No. 2.— ALL SAINTS' WARD. Samuel Shakespear Frederick Matchett Philip Henry Muntz. No. 3.— HAMPTON WARD. George Vernon Blunt William Jennings John Meredith , No. 4.— ST. GEORGE'S WARD. Thomas Clutton Salt William Court Alfred Lawden. No. 5.— ST. MARY'S WARD. Samuel Beale Robert Crump Mason Joseph Horatio Cutler. No. 6.— ST. PAUL'S WARD. John Hardman, junior Edward Lucas Francis Clark. No. 7.— MARKET HALL WARD. Thomas Clowes Thomas Bolton Thomas Aspinall. No. 8.— ST. PETER'S WARD. William Scholefield James Drake Charles Geach William Harrold Samuel Hutton Robert Henry Taylor. No. 9.— ST. MARTIN'S WARD. John Rodway Thomas Weston Thomas Phillips. No. 10.— ST. THOMAS'S WARD. William Middlemore Joseph Stnrge William Pare. No. 11.— EDGBASTON WARD. Henry Van Wart Clement Cotterill Scholefield Charles Sturge. NO, 12.— DERITEND AND BORDESLEY WARD. Reuben Wigley William Jenkins John Hawkes William Ingall John Field Robert Ryley. No. 13.— DUDDESTON CUM NECHELL'S WARD. John Pierce John Cornforth William Page Thomas Hickling Fairbrother Page Charles Truman. And that the same is the first Election of Councillors of the said Borough, under, and by virtue of the provisions con- tained in the said Charter— Witness my hand this twenty- sixth day of December , 1838. WILLIAM SC HOLE FIELD, Returning Officer. TO THE INDEPENDENT BURGESSES OF LADYWOOD WARD. GENTLEMEN, PERMIT us to return you our grateful acknow- ledgments for the honour you have conferred upon us, in electing us to represent you in the first Municipal Coun- cil of the borough ; and, further, to assure you, that so long as we continue to hold the honourable station in which you have placed us, we will ever devote ourselves to a strict per- formance of our duties, and exert our utmost ability to ad- vance the interests, and secure the prosperity, of the borough. We have the honour to be, Gentlemen, Your faithful and obliged servants, JOHN BETTS, THOMAS CLARK, jun., BENJAMIN HADLEY. Birmingham, December 28, 1838. To Mr. John Henry Rodgers, Chairman, and Mr. R. L. Bayfield, Secretary, of the Committee for securing the ieturn of Liberal Councillors for Ladywood Ward. GENTLEMEN, We beg thus pub icly to return you, and the members of the Committee generally, our most grateful thanks for the spirited and indefatigable manner in which you have exerted yourselves, to secure our election as Councillors for the above ward, and to assure you, that it shall ever be our study to prove to you that your confidence has not been misplaced. We are, gentlemen, Respectfully, Your obedient servants, JOHN BETTS, THOMAS CLARK, jun., BENJAMIN HADLEY. Birmingham, December 28th, 1833. HAMPTON WARD. JOHN MEREDITH GEORGE VERNON BI. UNT WILLIAM JENNINGS ™ ,,,— THOMASPEMBERTON W, H. BATES S. KEMPSON 153 169 157 72 72 68 TO THE INDEPENDENT BURGESSES OF ST. MARTIN'S WARD. GENTLEMEN, 7" E beg to express to you, publicly, our sincere acknowledgments for the distinguished honour of being appointed your representatives in the Municipal Council. We beg to assure you that our most anxious en deavours will be directed to watch over and guard the public interests of the Ward, and on all occasions to advocate those principles which have for their object the general welfare. We are, gentlemen, Your faithful servants, JOHN RODWAY, THOMAS PHILLIPS, THOMAS WESTON. December 27, 1838. TO THE FREE AND INDEPENDENT BURGESSES OF DUDDESTON AND NECHELLS. DEAR FRIENDS, WE now appear before you in a proud situation, being returned by the greatest number of burgesses in all the borough, not sycophant- like, fawning upon you to thank you for the high honour you have done us ill re- turning us to the Town Council, but to congratulate you upon the great triumph of principle over the combined efforts of wealth, station, and influence; aided by the willing exertions of their jacks in office, whose salaries are paid by you for other services. Over all these enemies you, like working men, have most gloriously been victorious. Our advice now is to you, that, in proportion to your victory, so let your generosity, as Englishmen, be extended to your neighbours. You can afford to be generous. Do, then, rise superior to all the little bickerings of an electioneering contest, and again cultivate the kindly offices of neighbourly intercourse, and so carry the, great principle you advocate, viz., " Peace on earth, and good will to all men," into practical operation. In conclusion, we beg to assure you that the confidence you have reposed in us shall never be abused ; but that, to the best of our ability, we will fearlessly and honestly dis- charge the various duties devolving upon us; and when we can no longer serve you satisfactorily, the moment we are called upon by a majority of your number, we will cheer- fully give back the sacred trust you have confided to our care into abler and better hands. JOHN PIERCE, JOHN CORNFORTH, WILLIAM PAGE, THOMAS HICKLING, CHARLES TRUMAN, FAIRBROTHER PAGE. December 27th, 1838. ALL SAINTS' WARD. AMEETING of BURGESSES will take place on MONDAY EVENING NEXT, the 31st instant, at the COM- MERCIAL INN, Great Hampton Street, for the purpose of proposing a fit and proper person to represent the above Ward in the Town Council, in the room of Mr. P. H. Muntz, who has been elected an Alderman of the said Council. EDGBASTON WARD. THE BURGESSES in the REFORM IN- TEREST, are requested to attend a meeting at the Edgbaston Tavern, Lee Bank Road, on Monday, December 31st, at six o'clock in the evening, to adopt measures for securing the return of Liberal Councillors, in place of Van Wart and C. C. Scholefield, Esqrs. elected Aldermen. RELINQUISHING THE RETAIL TRADE. WESTALL, WESTALL, and Co., most respect- fully announce to their Friends and the Public generally, that they intend to RE- OPEN their Premises on MONDAY NEXT, the 31st inst. Having prepared their WHOLE STOCK for IMME- DIATE DISPOSAL, as they are relinquishing the Retail Trade, FURS, MERINOES, SHAWLS, DRESSES and every variety of STOCK for domestic uses required at the present season of the year, will be submitted on such terms as can only be proffered under similar circumstances ; the chief object being a rapid sale and clearance of the WHOLE RETAIL STOCK. WESTALL, WESTALL, and Co., cannot allow the opportunity to pass of tendering their grateful acknowledg- ments for the very generous and extensive support which their Establishment has experienced for a long series of years— support which they now request an extension of for a limited period; assuring their friends of their intention to keep good faith with them in reference to the REAL ADVANTAGES which they pledge themselves to offer on the present occasion. N. B. During the period occupied in the disposal of the Stock, FUNERALS will be furnished, and FAMILY MOURNING supplied, subject to the same reductions as all other goods. TEMPLE ROW, Next door to Dee's Royal Hotel. rpHE TO THE ELECTORS OF HAMPTON WARD. GENTLEMEN, . , WE point to tlie very large majority by which we have been returned as Councillors of Hampton Ward, with equal gratitude to those amongst you who honoured us with your independent and liberal support, and of joy for the distinct evidence which it affords of the attachment that is borne by you to the good cause of reform, not merely in its more dazzling and imposing form of a national movement, but where its necessity comes home to your every day observation in the shape of abuses to be put down and practice? ! q be amended, Gentlemen,— We beg to assure you, that while we are not unmindful of our general duty as citizens of this great city, we shall be ready, at all times, to the best of our ability, to testify our sense of your great kindness by a most sedulous devotion of our time and attention to the peculiar claims of Hampton Ward. We are. gentlemen, Your most obedient and faithful servants, JOHN MEREDITH, GEORGE VERNON BLUNT, WILLIAM JENNINGS. Birmingham, Dec. 27, 1838. QjPLENDID and extensive HO ItTICULT URAL BUILDINGS TO THE INDEPENDENT BURGESSES OF ST. PAUL'S WARD. GENTLEMEN, V1TE beg to return you our sincere thanks for the If honour you have' this day conferred upon us by electing us Members ot the Council of this Borough. Having accepted the ttust you have confided in us, on the terms stated in your resolution, it is unnecessary for us to do more than to assure you, that our best services shall be given to carry out the important principles which we hold in common with yourselves. We are, gentlemen. Your obedient servants, FRANCIS CLARK. JOHN HARDMAN, jun., EDWARD LUCAS. Birmingham, Dec. 26, 1838. SHAKSPEARE ROOMS. ON MONDAY , DECEMBER 31, GREAT MAGICIAN'S ENTERTAIN- L MENTS will be under the patronage of COL. TOWN SEND AND THE OFFICERS OF THE Uth LIGHT DRAGOONS. And on TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, And FRIDAY, JANUARY 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th, 1839, They will be repeated, with several old favourite tricks, being the GRAND JUVENILE WEEK. Brilliant and Mysterious Feats of Necromancy, of such an order to give pleasure and delight to the numerous Juvenile Parties that nightly crowd the boxes. tggf Notwithstanding the overflowing houses that nightly attend the " Magician's Performances," he must shortly close, having prior engagements to fulfil in London. Those desirous of witnessing this positively unrivalled Entertain- ment should embrace the present opportunity. Doors open at seven. Curtain rises at eight o'clock pre- cisely. Boxes, 2s.; Pit, Is.; Gallery, 6d. No half price but to children under twelve years of age, to Stalls and Pit. Boxes may be engaged at the rooms daily from eleven to four o'clock. TO THE BURGESSES OF MARKET- HALL WARD. GENTLEMEN, WE highly appreciate the distinguished mark of your good opinion, in having elected us by so flatter, ing a majority of your suffrages, to serve as Councillors under the Charter of Incorporation, and we beg to assure you that it will be our aim to justify your confidence by a faithful discharge of the trust to which you have appointed us. We are, most respectfully, gentlemen, Your obedient servants, THOMAS ASPINALL, THOMAS BOLTON, THOMAS CLOWES. 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, the 3rd of January next. PRINCIPAL VOCAL PEFORMERS:— MISS BIRCH, - MISS BRUCE, Mr. BAKER, Mr. PEARSALL, and Mr. MACHIN. LEADER OF THE BAND Mr. H. SIIARGOOL. PRINCIPAL SECOND Mr. A MELLON. PRINCIPAL VIOLONCELLO Mr. WOODHILL. CONCERTANTE DUET, PIANO FORTE Mr. C. FLAVELL and Mr. HOLLINS. ORGAN.. Mr. HOLLINS. CONDUCTOR Mr. M UN DEN. The entire Orchestra will consist of upwards of Two Hun- dred Performers. MORNING SCHEME.- ACT I. OVERTURE .. 1 RECITATIVE— Mr. PEARSALL, " Comfort ye" AIR—" Every valley" . .„ ™ ™ „ CHORUS—" And the glory"- ™ ™ . ™ ,. ™ — RECITATIVE— Mr. BAKE It, " Behold a Virgin" AIR AND CHORUS—" 0 thou that tellest" RECITATIVE— Mr. MACHIN, •• For behold" . AIR—" The people that walked" ]> CHORUS—" For unto us" ™ . . RECITATIVE— Miss BRUCE, " He was cut AIR—" But thou didst not leave". ™ , ™ ™ . CHORUS—" Let all the angels of God" AIR— Miss BIRCH, " I know that my Re- deemer liveth" ~ — | GRAND CHORUS—" Hallelujah" ™ ™ , ™ .. J RECITATIVE— Mr. PEARSALL, " Deeper and deeper still" AIR—" Waft her angels" ( Messiah,) Handel. 1- Handel. Beethoven. RECITATIVE— Miss BRUCE, " Ye sacred! priests" , | AIR—" Brighter scenes I seek above" I SONG— Mr. M ACHIN," Tears such as tender | fathers shed" — — J AIR— Miss BIRCH, " Holy, holy" GRAND CHORUS—" Hallelujah to the Father" ACT II. OVERTURE .. " 1, AIR— Mr. PEA RSALL, " Ere infancy's bud" I AIR— Miss BIRCH, " How long are the \ ( josertft \ days" ..... r , i/ y w DuET- Miss BIRCH and Mr. MACHIN, I '' " Sole stay of iny declining age" I CHORUS—" Ye warriors hide your glory" J AIR— Miss BRUCE, " Song of the quail" Beethoven. DUET— Miss BlRCIIand Miss BRUCE, and") per( l0[ es CHORUS, " Gloria in excelsis" ™ , j * SEMI- CHORUS—" „!!!:} HAYDN- the> l Calcott. WINE AND SPIRIT ESTABLISHMENT, No. 102, DIGBETH, BIRMINGHAM. FEGERTON and Co., from Peters's, ( formerly • with C. II. Cope) grateful for the numerous favours received, respectfully tetuin their friends thanks, and hope by sending out the same articles which appear lo them ( by the increase of their business) to have given such general satisfaction, to merit their fu'ure support. Purchasers visiting the Loudon markets may be supplied with tasting samples of between one and two hundred pipes and hogsheads of Wine, of the most splendid cha- racter. Strong London Gin, from 8s. 6d. to 12s. Old Rum, Irom 13s. to 16 « . Prime Brandy, 30s. to 32s. An extraordinary Wine Brandy, for private family use, 18s.. almost equal to French. Rectified Spirits of Wine, fifty six over proof, at 20s. per gallon. F. E. invites public attention to his prime Bottled Port at 36s. per doz., generally sold at 42s. HOT HOUSES AND DR. A R NOTT'S STOVES AT THE TOWN HALL IRON FOUNDRY. BOTANICAL and are always being constructed at the above works. Dr. ARNOTT'S STOVES, very superior make and appearance, on the true principle; cannot be easily damaged or get out of order. Nearly every description of WARMING APPARA- TUS is constantly being got up ; together with every thmg connected with Botany and Horticulture, from the cheapest Hand Glass to the most elaborate Conservatory. The Proprietors of the Works, Messrs. DAFT and SON, have as high references as can be had. Paradise street, same side as the Town Hall, Birmingham, SUPERIOR INN, BREW& llY, MALTHOUSE, AiS D PREMISES. be LET, 01- SOLD for the term of fourteen JL years, that desirable and extensive Inn, the RED LION, situated in the most densely populated part of Tipton, now in the occupation of Mr. Richard N: cl< lin, the proprietor, who is retiring from business. The House consists of five excellent lofty cellars, nine spacious bed rooms, lodge or club room, 45 ft. by 28, front tap rocm, large parlour, back parlour, convenient bar, liquor shop, back kitchen, extensive brewery upon the first prin- ciples, mashing forty bushels of malt each brewing, malt- room, with engine to grind malt, pump water for the brewery, and for manufacturing soda water and lemonade, & c. This House commands a very extensive in and out door custom ; one Lodge and two I. ifj Clubs hold their meetings alternately every Monday evening, and unions other es- tablishments who constancy aiiend ; likewise an excellent five quarter malthouse and extensive buildings, formerly used as a foundry, with engine power and all the necessary nppara'us; if not required may be converted, at a small expense, into shopping, or any other purpose that reqniie< room and convenience; large yard and private jaid, with a never failing spring ot excellent water conveyed to every part ol the premises; a very extensive garden fenced by a high wall, in the highest state of cultivation, planted with the choicest fruit trees; productive vinery, wairn water baths, gazabo, & e. Also another large premises adjoining the house, occupied as a nail warehouse, which may, at a small expense, be con- verted into a comfortable dwelling house; in fact, the property is capable of being extended or divided to advan- tage, a* may be most convenient lor the occupiers. Two pieces of garden land adjoining will be let to the parties if required. Few opportunities like the present offer to the capitalist an established business so extensive and profitable as this. It possesses every convenience for a gentleman desirous of entering into the wholesale brewing of Ale and Porter, manufacturing of Soda Water, Lemonade, & e.; also, the Wine and Spirit Trade, having extensive vaults, with com- modious slate bins, superior bottling apparatus, & c. Coming- in from £ 800 to £ 1,000. For particulars, and to treat for the same, apply to the proprietor, who will show the premises; or to Mr. JESSE WRIGHT, Auctioneer, Dudley; if by letter, post paid. P. S. Two small Public Houses to be let in Dudley. Applylo Mr. WIUQHT, as above.' ( Gug Mannering) BIRMINGHAM POLITICAL UNION, flPICKETS for the Quarter commencing the 1st of A January, 1839, may be obtained at the Journal office, New Street, or of JOSEPH HOLL, Secretary. NATIONAL RENT— BIRMINGHAM. ALL Persons having Collecting Books, are particu- larly requested to make return of the amount received on Tuesday evening, Jan. 1, 1839, between the hours of Six and Nine, at the Public Office, Moor- street, in order that the same may be forthwith vested in the name of the Trustees. JOSEPH HOLL, Secretary, Political Union. TO THE MEN OF BIRMINGHAM. MEN AND BRETHREN, IINTENDED to have addressed you, through the medium of this day's Journal, on a very important sub- ject, but I have been too ill this week to do it. Yours respectfully, Dec. 28, 1838. T. EAST. INTRODUCTION AND gentle Spring" — SoNG- Mr. MACHIN, " These as A iV— Mr. PEAR SALIT" ™ ™ ™ TRIO AND CHORUS—" Heaven all bounteous"? a j DUET— Miss BRUCEand Mr. PEARSALL, rna!> a"' " Oh what various charms" . J SONG— Miss BIRCH, " Praise the Lord;"") ORGAN OBUGATO, Mr. IIOLLINS „ {- Handel CHORUS—" The Lord shall reign"' ( Israel in | EVENING SCHEME— ACT I. OVERTURE Mozart. CHORUS—" Music spread thy voice around," Handel. RECITATIVE— Mis-- BRUCE, " Before my eyes'! beheld him" . > Weber. AtR—" Softly siuhs" ( Freischutz) J SONG— Mr. MACHIN, " As I view those \ gem„ i scents" — J ' " Tue Student's Serenade," ( Gipsu's Warning) Benedict. ARIA — Miss BIRCH, " Io 1 udia" ( Iorquato~\^ Donizetti ORGAN VOLUNTARY— Mr. HOLLINS. DUET— Miss lilRCll and Miss BIIUCE. 1 a(< " SII l'aria" ( Figaro , } SONG— Mr. PEA KSALL, " Oh ' tis a glorious ) \ yeher sight" ( Oberon) / GLEE— Miss BRUCE, Mr, BAKER, Mr.-) PEARSALL, and Mr. MACHIN, j- Goss. " There's beauty on the mountain" — J THE TRAMP CHORUS— SOLO, Miss 131UC11 ( [ jis} l0p. ACT II. OVERTURE Rossini. SONG— Miss BRUCE, " Pretty fairy" Linkood, SONG — Mr. BAKER, " Like a dream of my') , childhood" . / DuET- Miss BIRCH and Mr. M ACH IN,\ Rossini. " Dunqtie io son" - ™ . CONCERTANTE DUET, OK; two GRAND PIANO") FORTES, Mr. C. FLAVELL and Mr. VHertz. HOLLINS SONG— Mr. PEARSALL, " The Maid ofknight. MADRIGAL—" III the merry month of May"— Dr. Cooke. SoNG- Mr. MAC IIIN, " When time bathlj^ bereft thee" „ ™ J DuET- Miss BRUCEand Mr, PEARSALL\ T,,„ " O maiden fair" ™ . ™ ~ j- Lfis/ top. SONG — Miss BIRCH, " Deep in a forest dell," 1 Harnett. ( Mountain Sylph)—. J SOLO AND CHORUS—" God save the Queen." Admission to the Floor, 2s, 6d.; Great Gallery, 4s.; and Reserved Seats in the Side Galleries, 6-., which may be se- cured on application at Messrs. Allen and Lyon's, Bennett's Hill. One ticket will admit two children under twelve ye irs of age, in the Morning only. Tickets may be had at the different Music Shops and Booksellers. Also Books fo the Words, price Sixpence each. Doois will be opened in the morning at ten o clock, and the performance begin at eleven ; in the evening at six o'clock, and the concert will commence at seven precisely. The Hall will be well aired, and all draught to the Gal- leries will be prevented. fiHHE Commissioners in a Fiat in Bankruptcy bear- H ing date the 19th day of May. 1WB, awarded and issued forth against GEORGE TONKS. tile elder, STE- PHEN TONICS, and GEORGE TONKS the younger, of Bordesley, in the parish of Aston, near Birmingham, in the county of Warwick, latnp manufacturers, dealers, chap- men arid copartners; intend to meet this present- Saturday, the 29th of December instant, ( by adjournment from the 22d day of December instant) at twelve o'clock at noon, at the Hen and Chicken? Hotel, New street. Birmingham; to make a dividend of the joint estates and effects of the said bankrupts, when and where the creditors who have not already proved their debts, are to come prepared to prove the same, or they will be excluded the benefit of ilie said dividend and all claims not then proved will be disallowed. ROBERT W. WEBIU „ ,• • 1>. & R. WELLS. J bolll, tors- BIRMINGHAM AND EDGBASTON PROPRIE- TERY SCHOOL. PRINCIPAL— JOHN RYALL, L. L. D., of Trinity Col- lege, Dublin. CLASSICAL MASTER— Rev. C. H. MATURIN, M. A., Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. COMMERCIAL MASTER— Mr. F. B. RIBBANS, F. S. A. FRENCH MASTER— Mons. MELIOT. ASSISTANT MATHEMATICAL MASTER— Mr. J. W. TAP- LIN. ASSISTANT CLASSICAL MASTER— Mr. RIBBANS, Jun. MUSIC MASTER- Mr. THOMAS MUNDEN. DRAWING IS TAUGHT BY THE COMMERCIAL MASTER. THE COMMITTEE announce that the SCHOOL will RE- OPEN on Monday, January 21st, 1839. The terms are £ IS per annum, payable quarterly in ad- vance, including Stationery and Drawing Materials, but not including printed books. The pupils whose parents desire it can dine at the School, at an expense of £ 7 per annum, also payable quarterly in advance. The Rev. C. H. Matmin, Mr. Ribbans, and Mr. Tap- lin have permission from the committee to receive pupils of the school to board with them ; the terms may be known on application to those gentlemen respectively, or to the honorary secretary. Every information may be obtained by applying personally, or by letter, post paid, to the Honorary Secretary, Bennett's Hill, Birmingham. J. C. BARLOW, Committee Room, Edgbaston, Hon. Secretary. Dec. 21, 1838. TO CORRESPONDENTS. EDMUND STREET COMMERCIAL SCHOOL. SMITH respectfully informs his friends that • his SCHOOL will RE- OPEN on MONDAY, the 14th of January next, at half- past eight o'clock for nine precisely. A card of terms may be obtained at the School- room. Enlarged Prospectuses of a New Institution, entitled THE BIRMINGHAM ATHENiEUM, FOR the advancement of Literature and Science, are now published, and may be had, gratuitously, of all the principal booksellers, at the newspaper offices, and at the residence of the Secretary, Mr. PITMAN, 19, New- hall- street. Just published, price One Shilling and Sixpence, THIRD EDITION. MORAL CONTRAST. By F. BOLINGBROKE RIBBANS, F. S. A., one of the Masters in the Birming- ham and Edgbaston Proprietory School. Also, price One Shilling, INSTRUCTIVE COPIES. Selected from Dr. Johnson's Critical Remarks on Shaks- peare's Plays. London : LONGMAN anil WHITTAKER, and all booksellers. A WHOLESALE PLAYING CARD WAREHOUSE. JAMES GUEST, 93, STEELHOUSE LANE, BIRMINGHAM. ASTE CARDS, 8d., 10d., and Is. per Pack; DOMINOES, ALMANACKS, POCKET BOOKS, CHRISTMAS PRESENTS, & c., in great variety. CARDS AND ALMANACS, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. J. FAULKNER AS on SALE a quantity of NEW and SECOND- HAND CARDS, WASTE CARDS, at 11. 10.1. i. per pack. ALMANACS and CHRISTMAS PRESENTS in great variety. 74, DALE END, OPPOSITE MASSHOUSE LANE. and ' £ 100. £ 50. and £- 25 SOCIETY. ELD at Mr. TAYLOR'S, Golden Lion, Inn, Aston Street, Birmingham. Treasurers, Birmingham and Midland Bank. The ninth night of meeting will take place on Monday evening next, December 31st, 1833, from eight o'clock till nine, when there will be the eigh h sale. Alter this night a premium will be required upon entering. Nights of meeting, once a fortnight. Payments, £ 1 for each £ 100 share, and other sums in proportion. GEORGE FOX, SURGEON DENTIST, RESPECTFULLY informs his friends and the public, that he has removed from Paradise Street to 7, Easy Row. He trusts, by strict attention, combined with his practical knowledge, to secure a continuance of their favours. 12th month, 27th, 1833. LOOKING GLASS AND PICTURE FRAME MANUFACTORY, 30, PARADISE STREET, BIRMINGHAM. rinHOMAS TURNER, Carver and Gilder, rcspect- JL fully informs the public of Birmingham and the sur- rounding towns, that he manufactures every description of article connected with the above, on the premises, and under his own immediate superintendence, whereby he is enabled to get Uiem up at the lowest possible prices, and quality warrat ted. Three quarter PORTRAIT FRAMES, as good as can be made, at 19s., £ 1 5s., and £ l 9s. each, with every other description, plain and ornamental, at London prices. OLD FOREIGN CIGARS. IT is acknowledged by all who have tried them, that the finest Old FOREIGN CIGARS to be obtained in Birmingham, are at M ELLON'S, 71, NEW- STREET, cor tier of Christ Church Passage. gSgr 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. r Is. 9d. each. 2s. 2s. 3d. 3s. 3s. 6d: 4s. 6d. 10s. 8s. 13s. ** » Mr. Brindley's letter is an advertisement * « • We have several books on our table claiming for a notice; but they must per force wait till next week. BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1838. THE MAYOR AND THE TORIES.— A correspondent of the Thursday's Tory paper, with as little of th? spirit or the practice of truth in him as the journal he addresses, asks if it is correct that the returning officer canvassed for votes. The worthy manager answers not that it is not correct, but that the returning officer had a legal right to do so, though its exercise was an act of indelicacy ! While thus affixinghis signature to a forged document, in order to give it a little more circulation, he draws, at the same, time, a false bill in his own name. The returning officer conveyed voters to the poll in his own car! Conveyed voters! Let us see how this second fabrication is put down. Mr. Scholefield, in a letter to the Advertiser, says— To the Editor of the Advertiser. Sir— Your paper of the 27th instant states that, at the late municipal election, I canvassed for votes, and conveyed voters to the poll. The first statement is literally without at shadow of truth ; the latter is, in spirit, equally devoid of foundation. I never canvassed for a single vote, and the only voter I conveyed to the poll was one of my deputy re turning officers ( Mr. Arthur ltyland), who, like the other gentlemen who so kindly and ably actedformeon that occa- sion, very justly stipulated that he should be relieved in the course of the day, for the purpose of recording his vote. With reference to the charge that I allowed my name to be used as that of a candidate for the office of councillor, I have only to observe that, having expressed to the gentle- men who did me the honour to nominate me, my decided disinclination to appear as a candidate, I felt that when my objection was overruled, as invalid, my further interference would have been wholly unwarranted. Confiding in your impartiality for the insertion of these few lines in your next paper, I am, Sir, Your obedient seivant, WILLIAM SCHOLEFIELDV December 28, 1838. Such is the tale of conveying the voters. Late in the evening of publication, the slanderer of the return- ing officer had applied to Mr. Scholefield for informa- tion touching the election, and he had received the in formation he applied for, as he himself acknowledges, in an official form, and with the utmost courtesy of manner— he received it before it was communicated to the councillors themselves, and his return, in the very next paragraph, is to sanction one slander and coin another. There is one phrase of the mayor's letter which, we confess, a little amused us— he confides in the impartiality of the Advertiser! Of its impar- tiality the attack upon himself— a gentleman who has done his ministering so gently as to give offence to no man, Whig, Tory, or Radical, unless it was, perhaps, the latter, who may have thought him too meek and gentle, and that at a moment when he was conferring on the Advertiser a most unmerited and uncalled for favour— is a tolerable specimen. UMBRELLAS. CHILDREN'S SIZE, with Cane Ribs, from Is. 6d. BOY'S SIZE, WITH CANE RIBS ... LADIES ditto ditto LARGE ditto ditto BOY'S ditto WHALEBONE RIBS ... LADIES ditto ditto LARGE ditto ditto C H A 1SE U M B R E LL A S ditto LA D1 ICS SIZE, LUTESTRING, ditto LARGE ditto ditto JOHN BOYCE, Manufacturer, 95, Smallbrook stree', Birmingham. N. B. Country dealers and the trade supplied. Um- brellas recovered and repaired on the most reas inable terms. PHILLIPS AND TIPLADY, No. 3, GEORGE YARD, LOMBARD STREET, HAVE now the following SHIPS loading in London, which will SAIL on the appointed dates. New York, Havftlinn, New Orleans, Calcutta, Sydney, Barbadooa, Cape Good Hope, Calcutta, Clinton, Madras, Clyde. SHIP. President, liner slilp, Chase, Washington, Kyle, Tropic, Agnes, Alfr'- d, Tamerlane, Pekoe, Stratheden, Ariadne, J. M. Chad wick, 550 J. Ritchie, W. R. Benson, J. Fletcher, John King, D. Laniont, J. Jameson, D. McKenzie, J. Gillies, A Cheape, G. Mac Lcod, 220 503 331 382 137 295 427 S89 500 454 ;. DATR OF SAlLtNG. 7th Jan. 10th - 1st — 1st — 5th — 5th — 5tll — 3lst — 5th — 1st Mar. 1st Jan. Any Goods intended for shipment by the above Ships will be received entered at the Custom House, and cleared on instructions being forwarded as above. PSEUDO ENTHUSIASM. — Dowton, too, kicked up a great dust in the bouse where Shakespeare was born. The old woman who shews it remembered him well. He must have been delirious. He desired to be left alone :—' There, go ; I cannot have witnesses ; I shall cry; and so— eh 1 What 1 the divine Billy was born here, eh? The pride of all nature has been in this room ! I must kneel 1 Leave me! I don't like people to see me cry.' While alone I suppose Shake- speare's spirit appeared and inspired him, for he produced the following couplet, which appears on the wall, where there are ten thousand names written, and five hundred, I think, that I know amcngst them: — ' With sacred awe I gaze these walls around, ' And tread with reverence o'er this hallowed ground.' Bannister, too, went there, after dinner, for the third time in one day ; threw himself upon the bed in which the dear, lying old woman, swears Shakespeare was born— nay, shows the chair he was nursed in. But Jack threw himself in his drunken raptures on the bed, and nearly smothered two children, who were asleep, till his raptures awoke them.— Mathews. The condition of a public writer during the turmoil of a local election, and more especially a local elec- tion of so general and exciting a character as that from which we are yet barely free, if we ought not rather to say, that we are still in some measure involved in it, is far from enviable. He is not unnaturally looked to for the expression of triumph or consolation as the case may require, and the more elaborate still in either casf; as the victory or the defeat is complete or otherwise. The adequate fulfilment of iiis anticipated exertionB re- quires much abundance of sober leisure, while, by the more exigent of the expectants, his every minute is all too little for information and counsel before the cris; s, and for congratulation, or the contrary, after it has passed. We Lave mixed not a little in person, an< I largely, as was due, in sympathy, in the affairs of our locality during the now waning week; and we find ourselves driven to the last syllable of our recorded time, ere we can steal from exterior engagements one hour of leisure, to note the progress of the fight, or to give utterance to one breathing of honest joy on its glorious issue. It is, besides, of the very nature of great success as of remarkable failure, that it seeks for ex- pression rather in silence than in words. Where the stream runs deep it makes no noise. We speak, we believe, no more than the thoughts of thousands of our fellow- townsmen— for we are no longer a sojourner im Birmingham— when we say, that the events of the last three or four weeks, wear to our imagination the semblance of a pleasant dream. First came the never to be forgotten day when the charter arrived. The pledge of many a hope; Reward of many a prayer. Th » charter which we had waited for so long, and apparently to so little purpose, and which our enemies had so often and so loudly foretold we should never obtain. Then came the burgess list and the objec- tions ; the one cramped and cabined by the evil spirit of a bill which might more properly be denominated a bill of restriction, than of enfranchisement; the oth « r seeking by all foul and vexatious appliances to destroy, if possible, by an outward assault, that which was already so sorely damaged from internal weakness— what the locust had not eaten, the palmer worm caiae to devour ! Then came our most unlooked for escape from that enemy, whose considerate mischief was, happily for us, so pleasantly balanced by his in considerate ignorance. Then came the squabbling in St. Peter's and in Duddeston, the peevishness and com- plaining of some pretended friends, and the open rat- ting of others; the difficulty of meeting the demands of some parties, and the impossibility of eradicating the pre- judicesof others. All these, in succession, formed a chain of goods and bads, of swee\ s and bitters; now a link of gold, and now a link of iron; that would have exhausted the patience of a patriarch, and puzzled the calculations of a chess player. We had, indeed, good hopes, from the commencement of the effervescence, that in time the mixture would work itself fine, from the mere effect of its own movement; but, then, the time for that necessary operation seemed'so considerable iV 8 THE . BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL, DECEMBER 22. as to induce not small fears, that tlie whole of the spirit might evaporate before it was completed. So late as the morning of Wednesday— and the feeling was a general one— had any one offered, two to one that ten Tories should he returned, we should have refused the odds; had he offered ten to one that one Tory would he returned, we would have equally refused the odds. Such was the confidence of the enemy; and such, we are not ashamed to say, was the power of our own { jfuhts. That we should gain the day we never doubted. "" We had all experience in our favour. In all former contests with the Tories, the latter had heen beaten by large majorities. They had been beaten by two to one in all the Parliamentary contests. In the guardians' election they were beatan by three to one— though, to be sure, in that case, we had the benefit of the ballot. It was impossible, by any division of the town, that the numbers of a minority could be augmented; but still their influence might be concentrated in one place, though weakened in another. In Edgbaston, for in- stance, aristocratic Edgbaston, that place of comfort, when the prudent lord of the manor had taken such pains to shut out rates and rads— was it not to be ex- pected that when this court end was severed from the lanes and alleys, smoky, sticky, and dirty, of busy Birmingham, that here Tory power would be in the ascendant ? And no technical flaw had interposed to prevent the penal clauses of tlie Municipal bill from going forth to their effect in this quarter. Mr. JOHN SWINNERTON CUDLIPP had avoided tlie hole into which Mr. JOHN PALMER, TERRACE, SO inno- cently put his blundering foot. Again, in St. Peter's, where the same jaundiced spirit, which sent forth the green list had been working S3 successfully, where the lists of candidates had been modified, and mended, and multiplied, until it would have required a carding ma- chine to disentangle their complexities, what hope of a rational or prosperous issue was to be entertained ? We do not mention Duddeston, where Reformer was seen contending against Reformer, in most unnatural warfare, and with all the bitterness of brethren's anger; nor St. Martin's, where the same disgrace- ful proceedings were going forward with an infinitely lesser excuse; nor St. George's, nor St. Paul's, where the worth and the wit, as well as the wiles, of the To- ries were unsparingly exerted. Passing by these marked cases, and regarding merely the desperate ac- tivity with which the ( action every where worked, the tact in such matters which they so generally get cre- dit for, and, above all, the dirt necessity imposed upon them, if they were any longer to remain an integral part, however small, of political Birmingham, to get, at least, a fair footing in the corporation, could it have beeu believed that they would not find within its pre- cincts space enough to plant even a single foot? that out of forty- eight candidates, all of them, by their selves or their friends, and not a few by both, canvassing, caballing, cajoling, coercing, ! not one, not a solitary one, should be returned ? Who could have expected such a consummation, however devoutly to be wished for ? In Manchester the return was equally decided ; but there the Tories contended for 110 victory ; and if they had, it would, at best, have been party against party. The party of the peo- ple had as little power as they had interest in the matter. We would point a moral, in passing, for the consideration of our Manchester Radical friends. Why are they so powerless and we so powerful ? Why do they, with difficulty, make a show in one ward only, and a stand in none ; while we influence all, and carry the majority ? Because we are plain business men ; and while they are declaiming about guns and swords— heaven save the mark— we are employing the never- failing resources of sedulous waiting, of active industry, and all- compelling reason, to accomplish our purpose. Why are they only heard at a distance, and weak as children among their own immediate neighbours, while we, who are most influential abroad, are all but all- powerful at home ? Because we so conduct ourselves as sober, discreet, and reasonable men, as to gain the affections of the workman, without rousing the fears or sacrificing the respect of the master; because in our known habits, so frequently exhibited, the town has a guarantee, not only that we will aim at practical ends, but that we will c'. ioose wise and prac- tical means for their attainment. Passing from this to the more immediate purpose of our remarks— the defeat of the Tories has wanted nothing to make it gratifying. They have been driven out in every ward in such a way as insures their entire and absolute ex- clusion. They have been driven out, for the most part, by plain, honest, single- hearted men, who have as little interest as they have inclination, to abuse the important trust committed to thei r guardianship. They have been driven out by the people. The in- triguing of the one faction is not more certainly de- stroyed by the events of Wednesday, than are the intrigues of the other. Henceforward there is a full and relying confidence between the directors of the municipality and the subjects of their direction. We shall have no more election disturbances, however we may have, as Mr. ANNESI. EY, the Tory's " ever- lasting" friend has promised us, other election con- tests. We shall have no magistrate calling upon the military to murder the people ; and indicting them be- cause by their respective lenity they contrived to ap. pease the passionate crowd without a breach of the peace, of which be was the conservator. Nor do we anticipate less of solid advantage in other respects. Hitherto we have had many doers in our borough, and, by consequence, much work done badly, and much not done at all. We shall now have a concen- tration of energy; and, if not in disposition, at least in practice, a more consistent honesty of management; for we shall have the great, and, we regret while we say it, we fear tlie only safeguard of public honesty— a strict and limited responsibility. It requires 110 prophet to foresee that, under such a system, there must be ail economy which, ensuring a steady devo- tion of the public funds to the public benefit, must, either comparatively or absolutely, lead to great public saving. Either the town will procure at the cheapest rate, numerous advantages which it does not now possess, or, adhering to its present ad- vantages, it will obtain these at a much cheaper rate than it now does. The council has only yet begun its labours, if, indeed, it can be said to be in fair work- ing trim ; but the little that it has done, it has done well. The principle on which the aldermen have beeu selected is sound every way. We almost regret that it was at all departed from. It may, in one or two wards, appear somewhat hard, to call on the burgesses to go through the fatigue of a fresh election so soon after the first; but it is infinitely better to subject them to a certain amount of inconvenience, than even in appearance, to assimilate a popularly- elected town council, to the close corporations by which the borough has so long b « en cramped, if not crushed. Of the appointments of mayor and town clerk, we believe there is but one opinion, that both gentlemen are eminently qualified for the offices they have been appointed to fill, and both eminently de- serving of all the honour that their fellow- townsmen have in their power to bestow. Of the only other ap pointment yet made, we shall only say, that the indi- vidual so gratifyingly chosen, will bring to his duties habits of disciplined labour, not of few years growth, nor of few years trial; and that with these, and his very humble talents, he does not fear that he will be able adequately to fill a situation which asks for little but a close and steady attention. It has often been a matter of reproach, that the services of public men, and more especially of those who are connected with the press of the country, are rarely acknowledged, even by the greatest admirers of liberal principles. By the appointment in question, Birmingham has shown itself to be free from this reproach. It has equally shown itself above the petty prejudice which, in the distri- bution of honours, would exclude all who are not children of the soil from a participation. It is not without a justifiable pride, as well as gratitude, that we record the public approbation, so heartily and unanimously bestowed by a large body' of most re- spectable gentlemen, the chosen of a most populous and most intelligent community upon one who, only three years ago, was equally unknown in person and reputation to every one of his present kind friends ; who came amongst them with no recommendations of wealth or place— with 110 introduction to their notice; and who has won their regard, simply by a straight- forward and independent assertion of his principles, and by an assiduous discharge of the humble duties which have, from time to time, been imposed upon him. Such favours, so conferred, and for such consi- derations, are not to be measured by their vulgar amount, or the importance of the parties on whom they light, but are to be viewed as a stimulus and an encouragement to high, as well as humble, aspirants in a course of honest and consistent conduct. There is another appointment, which may be considered as virtually, though it has not been actually, made. We allude to that of Mr. EDMONDS to tlie Clerkship of the Peace. No political man better deserves every reward that his grateful townsmen can confer— 110 man in Birmingham has deserts of so old a standing as Mr. EDMONDS has. Apart altogether from his absolute capacity for the office, which is about to be conferred on him, and which alone would entitle him to claim it, his services and sufferings in the great cause of liberty, which is now touching on its consum- mation, give him a right to consideration which no soundly- constituted, popular body could neglect ; and which, happily for their own character, not less than for the vindication of truth and justice, the Town Council have shown a most honourable desire to ad- mit. ^ There is still one important office, immediately connected with the council, to be filled ; to which, how- ever, not wishing, in the smallest degree, to interfere with the claims of the two honourable gentlemen who are understood to be candidates; or, perhaps, we should rather say, who are made, by tlieir friends candidates, we shall not further allude. We con- clude these long and, we fear, somewhat desultory remarks on the formation and first acts of our munici- pal corporation, with a most sincere wish that, as it has begun in good faith and sound discretion, so may it go on reaping, as it proceeds, the great reward of its patriotic exertions, the affectionate regards and confi- dence of the great town whose affairs it is appointed to watch over. _ By the Hibernia, which arrived at Liverpool yester- day, in sixteen days from New York, files of papers to the 10th inst. have been received. The following are extracts: — MONTREAL, MONDAY, DEC. 3— Reports were in circula- tion yesterday, that the brigands and pirates had made fresh incursions into Upper Canada, and got severely beaten at Maiden by the British force9. It was also reported, on the authority of a letter from Toronto, that the American steam- boat United States had been taken possession of, and sent somewhere for a cargo similar to that landed at Prescott; and that the British steam- boat Cohurg had been despatched in pursuit of her, with orders to sink her. Another letter mentions that two steam- boats and eleven schooners, full of armed men, were seen on the American shore, opposite Amherstburgh ; and a letter from London states that the 32nd regiment, stationed at that place, were under orders to proceed to Amherstburgh. The Kingston Herald of the 27" li ultimo says, " that the court manial lor the trial of ihe prisoners taken in the late affair below Prescott assembled yesterday, according to or- ders, and adjourned over until to- day. Othersix prisoners we're brought up by ihe ISrockville ou Wednesday, having been captured by the militia. About 200 rebel prisoners were removed on Saturday from the common gaol, which had become too crowded, to a store at Pointe a Callieie, which has been fitted up as a place ol confinement. It is calculated that between 600 and 700 persons are at this moment incarcerated in consequence of their connexion with the recent rebellion. This is an in conveniently large number, and sound policy, as well as justice, calls for a more summary mode of tiial being adopted than the one which at present " drags its slow length along." We are assured that there are many in confinement who are innocent of the crimes laid to their charge, and against whom no evidence of a criminating kind can be adduced. This is not improbable, considering the excitement of the times; and there is, in all conscience, a sufficient number of guilty in the power of the government to be made examples of, without the least necessity existing of one hair of the heads of the truly guiltless being injured. The sooner, then, the cases of the latter are investigated the better, and it would be desirable to have a commission of inquiry, com- posed of intelligent and honest men, for this purpose. It must be allowed on all sides, that the conduct of the government last year, in keeping political prisoners in gaol for nine months, without trying one of them, and then dis- missing them under the galling mockery of an amnesty, was most disgraceful to any powerful government. It was more in keeping with the trickery of an imbecile despotism than becoming a generous and free people. The Canadians uni- versal!^ complained of the proceeding, and naturally attri- buted it to fear. Let there he room for no such complaint in the present case; let no man have it in his power to say he had 110 trial ; but let justice be speedily and effectually dealt out to one and all— no shuffling and scorned amnesty a second time. Punishment loses much of its moral force when ill- timed. It should follow closely and irresistibly 011 the fqotsteps of the crime, to exercise the most salutary influence. It has more or less of wanton cruelty in it to sacrifice life at an improper season, when the effect, by way of warning or ex- ample, would be very much le9s than if the crime and the punishment were exhibited in close juxta- position. In ad- vocating, then, as we do, speedy justice to all the guilty, it is not from any bloodthirsty disposition, but in order that every life which may be offered up to the violated laws ofthe country may tell with the greatest possible effect upon those who are inclined to follow criminal courses. It would be infinitely more humane to exhibit now an awful example of the evils of rebellion, and by so doing effectually check its spirit, than for the country to be annually liable to it, in consequence of mistaken lenity being shown the guilty. We confess we have great doubts of the tedious proceedings now in progress against the rebels will be productive of all the good they certainly might, if less dilatory. It is not yet too late for the legislature to remedy this defect, and devise means for the speedy and efficient dispensation of justice to the prisoners, who fill the gaols to overflowing.— Morning Courier. The United States papers, received by the Hibernia, detail some rather warm disputes in Pensylvania be- tween the Whigs and the Democrats. The former party are charged with 110 less than an attempt at phy- sical revolution. So much for money bills. The fol- lowing details some of the particulars:— REVOLUTION IN PENNSYLVANIA— LATEST AND IMPORTANT FROM HARRISBURG.— We have just received an extra of the Harrisburg Telegraph, dated December 6, p. m. It con- tains an address from a majority of the senators, detailing the outrageous conduct of the Tory mob, in driving the people's representatives from the capitol. In allusion to the speech of a Mr. Brown, of Philadelphia, not a member of the sesate, and whom the mob insisted should address that body, the senators say that this proposition, for the sake of peace, was agreed to. They then add— " Mr. Brown having pledged his honour to Messrs. Miller and Fraley, senators from Philadelphia, not to u- e any in- flammatory remarks, made a speech which he professed to be intended to subdue the excitement in the galleries, and to induce the mob to disperse, but the warmth of his feel- ings carried him into great impropriety of speech, declaring that we were in the midst of a revolution, and that there was an end of the constitutional government; occasionally invoking them, in a supplicating manner, to he quiet, and asking whether they were prepared to trample the consti- tution and laws under foot, and shed the best blood of the commonwealth to attain their ends. To these questions the mob responded, 1 Yes, yes ; we will, we will;' and accompanied their assent with horrible cries of ' Give us blood, if we cannot have our rights.' " The address of the senators to their fellow- citizens con- cludes thus:— The unlawful and riotous assemblages of the misguided and dangerous men have been continued several times at the State Capitol and court house of the county of Dauphin, and the senate is now unable to proceed with their legiti- mate functions, and they accordingly announce to the peo- ple of the state, that their representatives cannot with safety attend tlie halls of legislation until the riotous and lawless assemblages, by which they are now threatened with vio- lence, are quelled by the arm of the constitutional power of the state, or a return to reason and duty shall induce them to disperse. The Extra also contains an address to the people of Pennsylvania, signed by T. S. Cunningham, speaker of the House of Representatives, giving a detail of the outrages of the aforesaid mob on that body. We quote some impor- tant passages:— Officials of the general governments are now present, instigating these illegal and dangerous proceedings. What are the objects of these outrages? Nothing less than a treasonable attempt to destroy the present government, and erect another in its stead. It is perfectly well known that a new constitution has heen adopted by the people of this commonwealth, which must be established by force. accord- ing to the requisition of the late convention, and the acts of the legislature. The senate and house are prevented by force from assembling, and this object must be defeated — the people reduced to the deplorable condition of being without a constitution of their own selection, and governed by an unlawful assembly, who choose to prescribe the man- ner and form in which the authorities of the land shall discharge their functions. " We repeat that it is the design of certain persons to oven urn the laws, to defeat the inauguration of governor, and the proclamation of the adoption of the new consti- tution. " The pretence of all ihese acts of outrage is, that certain members of Ihe senate and house have been admitted, on the returns known to the law, to take their scats without having been duly elected. This report is utterly false. En- deavours are being made to overawe the senate and house by violence, in order to prevent the disclosure of the enor- mous frauds perpetrated in the county of Philadelphia. They know that these frauds can be proved— that they dare not invite an investigation, and are resolved to seat their partisans by force ; prevent the regular meeting of the legis- lature until after the time allowed for the investigation of the elections by law ; thus concealing those frauds, while the returned members from the city and county of Phila. delphia ask and earnestly desire this investigation." MR. Fox MAULE.— The Under- Secretary was enter- tained, a few days ago, by his ex- constituents, of the county of Perth. He seems to have been most eloquent on tlie subject of the Radicals, or, as the new- fashioned name goes, the Chartists. We give the following, as a specimen of Mr. Maule's caste and information :— Against that act is arrayed a class of men with whos doctrines I would be sony to be associated. ( Loud and continued cheers.) These men were actually aided and assisted by Ihe Tories at the last general election ; and the Tories availed themselves of the opposition to the New Poor Law act to secure the leturn of members to the House of Commons of their own opinions. ( Hear, hear.) I trust, there is not one person, from the south to the north of Scotland, who will show the slightest concurrence in the wild and revolutionary doctrines of ihe Chartists. ( Great cheering. ) I was in hopes that, whilst those men were allowed to meet and to discuss their opinions in public without interruption, they would have been content to abstain from acts involving a breach of the law ; and so long as they did that I perfectly agreed with what my noble friend at the head of the department in the government to which I belong said at Liverpool, that it was less dangerous for the state to permit such opinions as those to be publicly known, that men might publicly repudiate them—( cheers) than by directing the force of the law against individuals who were scarcely worthy of notice, and by giving them the character of political mai tyrs—( cheers) — raise them in Ihe eyes of their ignorant followers. ( Cheers.) So long as they pursued that course— so long as their language was moderate, and their actions free from violence, the govern- ment allowed them to go unmolested —( plieers)— but they bad proceeded now to such incendiary language, and that language and these doctrines having heen realised at Ashton- on- the- Line, by the burning of a factory, that it was im- possible longer to be tame spectators of the revolutionary orations of Stephens and his followers. ( Great cheering. ) Well, what is the effect of this burning ? The proprietor, no doubt, will lose some thousand pounds: but this loss will be probably covered by insurance on the buildings. Who, then, are the real sufferers? The four hundred families who are thrust upon the world to starve. ( Cheers, and ciies of hear.) The first act of this revolutionary party falls not on the order of society whom they would assail, hut the blow is levelled against, and acts with too sad an effect on the poor who are unable to stand it. We need not say, that it is now conceded, by the Whig Lancashire journals, that the fire at Mr. Hig- ginbottom's mill was purely accidental. Really, these ministers, high and low, live iu a state of most com- fortable ignorance. We have given elsewhere such a report of Mr. Scholefield's speech at the Coventry dinner as we have been able to procure. We cannot pledge ourselves for its accuracy, as we had no reporter present. A letter of Mr. Attwood on Ireland will be found in another page. MR. AARON.— It will be most welcome news to many of our readers— friends of Mr. Aaron— to hear that a letter has been received via Bristol, by the ship Elizabeth, that all 011 board the Hashemy were well on the 2ud of November, and they were then making way in " grand style." On that day the ship was in lat. 3 deg. north, " long. 21 deg- 20 mill. west. We need ouly refer to the rich scheme of the con- certs, for the aged housekeepers. Mr. Smith's lecture is pressed out by passing matter. THE VACANCIES— EDGBASTON WARD.— 111 this ward there are two vacancies The gentlemen who have been mentioned as worthy to supply them, are Captain Moorsom, a most honourable and worthy gentleman ; Mr. Bartholomew Redfern, and Mr. J. Salt, both activg and unflinching Reformers; and Mr. Martineau. ST. PETER'S.— The candidates at present named to supply the vacancies in this ward are, Mr. Mont- gomery Martin, of Dale- end; Mr. David Barnet, of the highly respectable firm of Neusladt and Barnet ; Mr. I. Webster, of High- street; and the late Low- Bailiff, Mr. Abel Peyton. ST. THOMAS'S.— Mr. Smith, the active and most zealous chairman of the joint committee of Messrs. Sturge, Middlemore, and Pare, will be proposed for the vacancy, and probably elected without opposition. ALL SAINTS.— Mr. Lutwycbe, a sound Reformer, and an excellent worker, will, we hear, be proposed for the vacancy, with a certainty of succcss. — MARKET HALL.— Mr. Smith, of Smallbrook| Street, the chairman of the Liberal committee, will b elected, we believe, unanimously. — HAMPTON.— Mr. Thomas Whittle, the guardian a most respectable man, a good Reformer, and a mos sedulous attendant on public duty, is, we believe, in tended to be proposed for this ward. — ST. MARY'S.— Mr. William Stone, also a guar dian, and an excellent worker, as well as a sound Re| former, is mentioned for St. Mary's. — LADYWOOD.— Mr. Thomas Hadley and Mr Francis Room have, we believe, been already pro- posed for Ladywood. — BORDESLEY.— We have not heard any candi date mentioned for this ward; but the voters can b< safely left to make their own choice. THE RAILWAY FROM STONE TO RUGBY.— We in tended fully to enter into the question of the utility 0: this railway in our present number, but the multiplicity and diversity of the week's engagements have left us' little space and less time for the purpose. We view the question, of course, as one of general principle. We are shareholders in neither the work in esse, nor in the work in posse. Our only question is for the public. The proprietors can well attend to their own case. And the first enquiry, touching the contemplated rail- way, is, what satisfactory ground is assigned for it? We do not ask how it may be assailed, but how it is defended. The notion of competing railroads is one which only the wildest visionary would dream of. Indirect competition there may be ; but to plan, much less to perfect, one line for the express purpose of in- terfering with another, would argue a waste of means, which only the sternest necessity could justify. The new line is said to be a few miles shorter. How much time would it save? Five miles in a road that is travelled over at the rate of ten miles an hour, may be worth saving; but what is the value of live miles in a road which is travelled over at the rate of forty miles an hour? If a denser population could be accommodated — if some neglected manufacturing district could be reached, and a saving of distance at the same time com- passed, we should commend the plan; but what de- fence csfn be made for a line which 011 purpose turns aside from both population and trade, to enable nothing and nobody to be carried to their destination five minutes sooner than they otherwise would be? But the evil of such plans are never entirely negative, though they may not benefit their friends, they, for the most part, do some mischief to their opponents. The Stone and Rugby line may not and will not divert such an amount of traffic from the London ancl Grand Junction as to prosper the Stone and Rugby, but it may attract so much as to interfere, not a little, with the property of the London and Grand Junction. Were any public purpose to be gained by this, we re- peat we should be the very last to fiud fault with it. Were the proprietors of the two most magnificent works in the world to suffer thereby; though that suf- fering ought not lightly to be contemplated, especially by us Birmingham men, still, if any - portion of the community gained an equivalent advantage, we should not complain. But we have a right to complain of wanton injury, of injury by which the public not only gain nothing, but which, as far as we can at present judge ofthe contemplated undertaking, the public will be actual losers. TEMPERANCE SOCIETY.— The annual meeting ofthe Temperance Society took place 011 Monday evening last, at the Town- hall. Although the weather was most unfavourable, the meeting was well attended. Daniel Ledsam, Esq., was called to the chair. Mr. John Cadbury read the report, which contained many interesting particulars, aud, among others, that at least three hundred drunkards in this town had been re- claimed by the operations of the society, who, with their families, were restored to comforts and happiness to which tliey had long been strangers. That a set of the tracts issued by the Birmingham society bad been received by a benevolent individual at Si. Petersburg!), upon whom they made so great an impression that, at his death, shortly afterwards, he left a sum, in roubles, amounting to 44/., and the legacy was accompanied by a donation, from another person, of 11. It also stated that the societies continued to increase in Great Britain and Ireland, ill other parts of the world, and particularly in America, where opposition to the prin- ciple had now almost entirely ceased. As a proof of the success of the cause in America, an instance was subsequently mentioned, in which one of the largest manufactories was now carried 011 by the savings of the men— who had formerly been notorious for drunkenness— their employer had withdrawn his own capital from the business, and allowed the men 7 per cent, interest for their money. It was also stated that the sum computed to be spent in drink was sufficient to find eight quartern loaves a week, during the year, for more than 22,000 families, and that while America was saving 50,000,000/. a year, through the change which the societies had wrought there, this country was spending double that amount on intoxicating liquors. ASPHALTE.— A correspondent says—" We have no- ticed with some interest ihe adaptation to pavements in this town of the Asphalte of Seyssell, a material lately introduced into the country, the merits of which seem, as yet, to be but little understood and appreciated ; or we should much wonder that a body of gentlemen like the commissioners, do not more extensively avail them- selves of it for the public benefit. Few specimens seem at present to hare been laid; and, though attended in one or two instances with the usual disadvantages natural to the introduction of a new material, appear to possess, in a high degree, the desideratum of a very agreeable . surface to traverse, great durability, and beauty of appearance; and we have viewed with sur- prise the progress in pavement made in one of our principal thoroughfares, the Broad- street, as we do not recollect to have seen a more disreputable looking specimen of stone pavement than that recently put down there. Understanding that the asphalte might have been employed at as cheap, if not cheaper, rate to the inhabitants, than this very rough, unsightly, and dis- agreeable stone, it leads us to suppose that the commis- sioners must, 111 this instance, have neglected to exer cise their general discretion in such matters, as not to have employed for this great thoroughfare, a material capable of greatly surpassing their present adaptation." — We should hardly think of appealing to MW' com- missioners with much expectation of success whatever were the proposal; but we entirely agree with our cor- respondent's opinion as far as we have seen it in use, that the asphalte is a very superior material for paving. SUTTON COLDFIELD.— On Friday, the 21st instant, a parish meeting was held in the Town Hall, Sutton Coldfield, to consider the propriety of remonstrating with the Poor- law commissioners against their pro- posed intention of vesting the proceeds of the sale of the workhouse, in the names of the chairman, vice- chairman, and treasurer of the Aston Union, instead of those gentlemen resident in the parish of Sutton Cold- field, whose names, at the special request of the poor law commissioners themselves, had been chosen at a parish meeting in March last. After some short dis- cussion a letter of remonstrance was proposed and car- ried unanimously. Another resolution was then brought forward to the purport, that the practical effect of the New Poor- law had been to prevent the parishioners from knowing the state of their own affairs, and, therefore, that the parish officers be W. , - Jelgian stoppage is now doubling the general convulsion and agony; and, to complete the work, usury, that deceit- ful maintainer of Parisian dissipation, is tumbling, scattering wreck and ruin around her. The fugitives from the general destruction are every day augmenting in numbers, in all ranks and places. Tlie general cry is— devil take the hindmost. The opera has its com- position, as well as the Exchang- e.— Times, ( Paris, 1 22nd Dec. NATIONAL RENT. Trowbridge, Wilts, Dec. 20, 1838. Sir,— I have this day, on behalf of the Trowbridge National Rent Committee, paid to Messrs. Phillott, Lowder, and Co., bankers, iu Trowbridge, the sum of £ 5, to be placed with Messrs. Prescott, Grote, and Co.,. to the credit of the interim trustees of the National Rent- WILLIAM ROSE, Secretary. To Robert Kellie Douglas, Esq. Strathaven, 24th Dec., 1838. Sir,— I have this day lodged with the agent of the Glasgow Union Branch here, on behalf of the Strath- aven Radical Association, the sum of seven pounds, to be placed with Messrs. Prescott, Grote, and Co., to the credit of the interim trustees of the National Rent,, and am your most obedient servant, JOHN WILSON, Secretary to the Strathaven Radical Association. R. K. Douglas, Esq. [ We have also received a draft for 10/. from Irvine, which we have duly forwarded.] NATIONAL RENT.— The benefit society which meets at the Duke of Marlborough, Mount- street, ( Mr. Wood) have transmitted to us £ 2 12s. 7Jd., being a contribu- tion to the National Rent, which we have handed over to the interim treasurer for Birmingham. IMPROVEMENTS— BURIAL GROUNDS. Sir,— Having a great respect for your paper, I have been induced to offer a few remarks 011 the subject of a letter, which appeared in your last number. The au- thor of this letter has signed it " Pro Bono Publico;" and the principal subject treated on, is the proposed new street to the Railway Station ; but the writer has introduced into it matter in reference to the burial ground, which, I think, must be revolting to every well regulated mind. To make a coarse joke about the resurrection of the dead, and the redemption of mankind, and to handle it with such indecent levity, is very unbecoming in one who professes from his signature to write for the public good; and I am surprised that as your own produc- tions are so free from every thing of this kind, that you gave it a place in your paper. I have never observed in the compositions ofthe editor of the Journal, a want of respect for the religious feelings or opinions of the public at large. The destiny of man after this life is a subject to be approached and considered with the greatest reverence and humility. To the Christian, even with a full share of faith and hope, death is an awful change. To the philosopher, with a large endowment of the in- tellectual faculties and moral sentiments, and with every reliance on the wisdom and goodness of his maker, death is an awful mystery. Infinite wisdom has not placed this matter within" the sphere of the mental capacity of finite creatures; the researches of philosophers and mathematicians are hero at fault; but enough is known to establish in every well regulated mind, of every creed, the most profound reverence;, and I envy not the state of that man's mind who can make this a subject for vulgar ridicule and jesting. I have put my own name to these remarks, as T disapprove of anonymous publications. It' you insert jhein, and you have no objection, I will next week trouble you with my views respecting town improve- ments and approaches to the Railway Station. THOMAS WESTON. 20, High Street, Dec. 25, 1838. [ Our excellent correspondent only does us justice in believing that we should be the last to jest 011 such a subject. The expression in our former correspon- dent's letter we did not alter, simply from an indispo- sition to meddle in any way, though it might be for the purpose of correction, with the communications sent to us, unless when we are specially solicited to do so. It must be apparent to every one who thinks fairly 011 these matters, that nothing can be more un- just than to mix us up with the varying opinions of our miscellaneous and numerous correspondents; and yet we find the highest claimants to religious principle almost invariably acting 011 the principle that we are so mixed up.— E. B. J.] SECOND EDITION. Manchester. Ten o'Cloi k. Thursday evening. This mousing two Bow Street officers arrived in this neighbourhood, armed with a warrant Irom the Secre- tary of State, for the apprehension of the liev. J. R. Stephens, of Ashton- under- Line. The caption was ef- fected without the least uproar, or even suspicion, till the thing was effected. He was conveyed to Worsley for examination, and from ibis circumstance there can he little doubt that this arrest is in consequence of some proceedings at Leigh, about two or three weeks since, on which occasion it is well known that the speech ( which, has not, appeared in any journal) was unusua ly piquant, LONDON GAZETTE. BANKRUPTS, GEORGE GLAD WYN, grocer, Ilillei icay, Essex, January 15 and February 8, at tlie Bankrupts' Court Sols Messrs. Rixon and Son, Jewry. street. ELIZABETH BURCHATT, lodging bouse keeper, Eihvardes. Bquare, Kensington, January 4 and February 6, at the Bankrupts' Court. Sot Mr. Hanley. Lothbury. JOHN HUDDLESTON, builder, Nottingham, January 10 and February 8, at the George IV. Inn, Nottingham. Sol.. ' Mr, Wol-' ston, Furnivat's- inn, Holborn; and Mr. Smith, Nottingham WILLIAM BENJAMIN REEVE, victualler, Brighton, JnnSaryS and February 8, at the Town- hall, Brighton. Sot, Mr Faithful) King's- rond, Bedford. row. JAMES FAIRFIELD and WILI. IAM OLIVER, tailors, Manchee. ter, January 1( 1 and February 8, at the Commissioners' Rooms, Manchester. Sots. Mr. Still, Lincoln's Inn, London, and Messrs. Rowley and Taylor, Manchester. JOHN CRESSWELL, Sen., coal. merehnnt, Canterbury, January 3 and February 8, at the Guildhall, Canterbury. So/. Mr. Kirk, Sy . monds Inn, Chancery Lane, Loudon, and Mr, Wilkinson, Canter- bury. CHARLES TERRY, quill merchant, Shoe Lane, London, January 17 and February 8, nt the Bankrupts' Court. Sols Messrs, A » ):~ hurst and Gninsford. Cheapsfde. PHILIP ROGER ATCHERLEY, mercer. WhiMnnvh, 8ak> u January 14 and February 8, at the Sliire Hall, Shrew sbury, Messrs. Vincent and Sherwood, Temple, London, aud Mrju- i Harper and Jones, Whitchurch, Salop. / I 6 IHE BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL, DECEMBER 29. vn » » « i& iiM. iMUHim tiirnrig^ wwiwii jjjjjjiMiiii POETRY. BEN BLUFF; PATHETIC BALLAD. " Pshaw! you are not on a whaling voyage, where everything that offers is game."— The Pik t. Ben Bluff' was a whaler, and many a day Had chased the huge fish about Baffin's old bay; But time brought a change his diversions to spoil, And that was when gas took the shine out of oil. He turn'd up his nose at the fumes of the coke, And swore the whole scheme was a bottle of smoke : As to London, he briefly deliver'd his mind, " Sparmicity," said he— but the city declined. So Ben cut his line in a sort of a huff, As soon as his whales had brought profits enough, And hard by the docks settled down for his life, But, true to his text, went to Wales for a wife. A big one she was, without figure or waist, Slore bulky than lovely, but that was his taste; la fat she was lapp'd from her sole to her crown, And, turn'd into oil, would have lighted a town. Bat Ben, like a whaler, was charm'd with the match, And thought, very truly, his spouse a great catch; A fletih- and. blood emblem of plenty and peace, And would not have changed her for Helen of Greece. For Greenland was green in his memory still; He'd quitted his trade, but retain'd the good. will j And often, when soften'd by bumbo and flip, " Would cry till he blubber'd about his old ship. No craft like the Grampus could work through a floe, " What knots she could run, and what tons she could stow; And then that rich smell he preferr'd to the rose, By just nosing the hold, without holding his nose. Now Ben he resolved, one fine Saturday night, A snug arctic circle of friends to invite, Old tars in the trade, who related old tales, And drank, and blew clouds that were " very like whales." Of course, with their grog there was plenty of chat, < 0/ canting, and flenching, and cutting up fat; And how gun harpoons into fashion had got, And if they were meant for the gun. whale or not ? At last they retired, and left Ben to his rest, By fancies cetaceous and drink well possess'd, When, lo! as he lay by his partner in bed, He heard something blow through two holes in its head! " A start!" mutter'd Ben, in the Grampus afloat, And made but one jump from the deck to the boat! " Huzza! pull away for the blubber and bone— 1 look on that whale as already my own!" Then groping about by the light of the moon, He soon laid his hand on his trusty harpoon ; A moment he poised it, to send it more pat, And then made a plunge to imbed it in fat! " Starn all!" he sang out, " as you care for your lives— Stern all, as you hope to return to your wives— Stead by for the flurry! she throws up the foam! Well done, my old iron, I've sent you right home!" And scarce had he spoken, when lo! bolt upright The leviathan rose in a great sheet of white, And swiftly advanced for a fathom or two, As only a fish out of water can do. " Starn all!" echoed Ben, with a movement aback, But too slow to escape from the creature's attack ; If flippers it had, they were furnish'd with nails— " You willin, I'll teach you that vomen an't whales!" " Avast!" shouted Bon, with a sort of a screech, " I've heard a whale spouting, but here is a speech!" " A spouting, indeed .'— very pretty !" said she ; "" But it's you I'll blow up, not the froth of the sea J" To go to pretend to take me for a fish! You great polar bear— but I know what you wish— You're sick of a wife that your hankering balks, You want to go back to some young Esquimaux!" " O dearest!" cried Ben, frightened out of his life, " Don't think I would go for to murder a wife I must long have bewail'd"— but she only cried " Stuff! Don't name it, you brute, you've be- whaled me enough!" " Lord, Polly!" said Ben, " such a deed could I do ? I'd rather have murder'd all Wapping than you ! Come, forgive what is past." " Oh, you monster!" she cried, " it was none of your fault that it pass'd of one side!" However, at last she inclined to forgive; " But Ben, take this warning as long as you live— If the loye of harpooning 6o strong must prevail, Take a whale for a wife, not a wife for a whale." Hood's Comic Annual. GLEANINGS. PLAYING.— It is a popular error, that actors earn their money easily, and that no labour attends their vocation. This mistake has led many an idle, unqualified person into the profession, and afterwards upon the profession, in the way ol charity. According to the preceding letter, in a moderate morning's work four bonis are occupied in the wear and tear of mental as well as botlily power; and in the evening, from six till twelve the performers mind and per- son are again upon the continual stretch of anxiety and fatigue. Ten hours out of the common labourer's term for work is here accounted for; but it often happens that the whole twelve are so occupied ; in addition to which, many, after their long day and night of toil and excitement, are under the necessity of stealing hours from requisite repose, in order to acquire matter for future occasion. Little won- der should there be that so few excel, when often there is scarcely time allowed for more than learning the words of their characters. Ilo> v, then, can study, without which excellence was never attained, or popularity preserved, be expected. It is a common observation of simple people, lifter witnessing any striking performance of length, ( and this was often applied to Mr. Mathews's peculiar talent,) " I wonder how he remembers it all." They should father wonder how he found time in the first instance to bccome acquainted with what his memory afterwards furnished to Iiis hearers. Air. Mathews's habit, from his earliest profes- sional life, ( which commenced at the ageof seventeen,) was to sit up all night, and as many nights as he found it requi- site, to study for any particular purpose, for he really studied. Can it be a matter, then, of surprise that such fatigue should at last show itself in a complicated form ? His life was that of a blacksmith, with this difference, that his mind con- stantly lifted an anvil as well as his body.— Mathews. COOKE ON PVNCH AND THE PASSIONS.— Mr. Mathews described Coolie's excesses not as habitual; yet, when once lie exceeded the hounds of strict sobriety, the fit would be of long continuance, and was succeeded by as long an abstinence, for lie would then drink only water for weeks together, shrinking with disgust from anything more potent, and speaking with unaffected loathing and contempt of a drunkard. In his natural mood he was most refined, bland in his manners, simple arid gentlemanlike in his habits, full of kindness to everybody, and ready to do service to all who' required his aid; chai iable to imp: u. lence, ii it is possible - so to be. The following anecdote h. is bfetn related before, but always imperfectly ; and as Mr. Mathews was the only witness to the scenc, his version of it, from my memory, may be relitd CJI. On the iirglit in question, Cooke had performed Sir Archy M'Sarcasm in Love a la mode; and fhe young actor had Jjeen en trusted with Mordecai. During the early part ot the night, the host was a most charming companion. He feelingly entered into the young man's embarassing situation with Daly, and offered to frank him home it lie would con- sent to return to his respectable family, and give up the uncertain result of the trial he was making as an actor, but without any effect upon the aspiring candidate lor dramatic fame. After supper, whisky punch, which wasa novelty to Cooke, who had never before been in Ireland, ( though by some erroneously supposed to he an Irishman,) was introduced, and he evidently was quite fascinated with the pleasing beverage. He grew gradually more animated in its praise ; declared, as lie sipped and sipped, that there was nothing like it! it was the nectar of the gods! His spirits increased in animation; and jug after jug was brought m. ' I he young man had very early cried, " Hold, enough !" Cooke, however, knew not satiety when once the brimming cup had been emptied. Another and another would then succeed, and the last be welcome as the former. Mrs. Byrn, up to a certain time, felt hound, both by duty and interest, to supply her distinguished lodger with wiiat he called for; but at last, the night growing old, and her eyes not growing young, she felt disposed to give them rest; and, entering with the sixth jug, inquired respectfully, " whether Mr. Cooke would want anything more?" At this momentber lodger was warmed up intothe most eontentedofbeings. He glanced at the capacious vessel just replaced upon the table, and believing its contents sufficient, exclaimed, " Nothing more, my good Mrs. Byrn; nothing more." Mrs. Byrn wished her two lodgers a good night, and retired. Cooke refilled his glass, and being somewhat sentimental, advised — admonished his young friend; above all, cautioned him to be industrious in his profession, sober in private, and not to allow company, " villainous company," to be the ruin of his youth. And thus he lectured on sobriety, till glass after glass vanished, and with it the reality of the virtue he so eloquently recommended. At last the jug was again empty. Mr. Mathews rose to go. " You shan't stir; we'll have another croosken lawn, [ white pitcher | my dear fellow, and then you shall go to bed. I have much more to say to you, my good boy. Sit down. You don't know me. The world don't know me. Many an hour that they suppose I have wasted in drinking, I have devoted to the study of my profession ; the passions, and all their variations, their nice and imperceptible gradations. You shall see me delineate the passionsof the human mind." The power of the whisky punch, however, acted in dia- metric opposition to the intent on his strong and flexible features, and only produced contortions and distortions, of which he was unconscious. He, nevertheless, endeavoured to illustrate the passions, while his visitor was to guess them. " What's the meaning of that, eh V " said the tra- gedian, with a most inexplicable twist of the face. " Sir," said the timid spectator, puzzled what to call it. Cook reiterated, " What's the meaning of that?" What passion does it expiess ? Does it not strike you at once ? There! What's that ? " While he to whom he appealed could only say, " Very fine, sir 1" " But," persisted Cooke, " what is it?" He was then answered—' Oh! I see, sir; anger to be sure!" " To be sure you're a blockhead!" said Cooke, showing him the genuine expression of what he imputed to him before. " Fear, sir ; it was Fear! Now, then, what is that?" " Oh, sir ! that, I think, is meant for Jealousy." Again the passionate man declared the guesser was wrong. " Jealousy ! Pooh, man! Sym- pathy ! « You're very dull. sir. Now I will express a pas sion you can't mistake. There! What's that?" Fearing to increase Cooke's anger by another misconcep- tion, the young man apologised, blamed the portion he had swallowed of the punch ; declared that it had stolen away his brains, and left him unfit to judge of Cooke's represen- tations. But Cooke was not in a humour to be put off. " Look again, sir! " he exclaimed, in a terrific voice; and he then made up a hideous face, compounded of malignity and the leeiing of a drunken satyr, which he insisted upon being guessed; and his visitor, trembling for the conse- quences of another mistake, hesitatingly pronounced it to be" Revenge? " " Despiteo'erwhelm thee! " cried Cooke, in his most tragic rage. " Revenge ! Curse your stupidity! That was Love ! Love, you insensible idiot! Can't you see it is Love?" Here he attempted the same expression, in order to strike conviction of its tiuth ; when a, mixture of comicality with the first effect so surprised the risible muscles of the young man, that he laughed outright. This infuriated the delineator of the passions almost to madness. " What, sir! Does it make you laugh ? Ami not George Fredeiiek Cooke? ' born to command ten thousand slaves like thee !' while you'll never get salt to your porridge, as an actor. Who am I, sir? " curving his aims, just as if pre- paring to make a minuet bow ( his well- known attitude when dignified). " Doubtless, a very great actor, sir," al- lowed Mr. Mathews. " Very well, then. Do you mean to insinuate that I can- not express the passion of love?" " I beg your pardon, sir; the whiskey punch has stupified me." Cooke accepted the excuse. " Tiue, true; ' tis out." ( His guest wished he was out too.) " Mistress Byrn, my love, another jug 1"— Life of Mathews. THE BAGPIPE In Scotland, the use of the bagpipe seems gradually to have superseded that of the harp ; but this process, we should think, must have taken place chiefly within the last two hundred years; previous to which, we doubt very much whether the natives of North Britain were more distinguished for their partiality for the bagpipe than their southern neighbours. Even Shakespeare, al- though he talks of the " drone of a Lincolnshire bagpipe," and of a " Yorkshire bagpiper," has nowhere associated that instrument with the Scots; and when we go back several centuries anterior to this, we find it used in both countries by the same class of persons. Chaucer's Miller played upon it— " A bagpipe well couth he blowe and sowne ; " and " Will Swane," the " meikle miller man," in out " Pe- blis to the Play," calls for it to assist in the festivities of the day. " Giff I sail dance, have doune, let so, Blaw up the bagpipe then." Indeed, although we are justly proud of our ancient profi- ciency on the harp, and adhere unhesitatingly to our claims to supremacy on that head, we are much disposed, upon a candid consideration of the facts, to resign to the English the palm of superiority in this less refined description of music, about the time to which we refer. The pipers who are mentioned in the lord high treasurer's accounts, seem almost uniformly to have been natives of England. Thus, 13th July, 14S9, there is a payment of eight pounds eight shillings " to Inglis Papyris I hat com to the castel yet and playit to the king." Again, in 1505, there is another pay- ment to " the Inglis pypar with the drone." It should be added, that while the bagpiper formed part of the musical establishment of the English sovereigns anil noblemen dur- ing the sixteenth century, we find no such musician re- tained in the Scottish court. Our monarchs had probably not much relish for this sort of pipe music; and although the result of our investigation of the word " chorus" has had the effect of clearly convicting our first James of being a performer upon that unprincely instrument, ( for which the only precedent we can find in history is that of the emperor Nero) we should remember that he had most probably acqu: red that, as well as other accomplishments, in England, where he received the rest of his education. We do not conceive, upon the whole, that the bagpipe has ever been a very favourite instrument in Scotland, except in the highland districts ; and we may state this with con- fidence as to one part of the country— a royal burgh, which we have already had occasion to name, and where the ma- gistrates actually prohibited the common piper from going his rounds, in terms by no means complimentary to the in. strument. Our readers will be less surprised at the supe- rior refinement here exhibited, when they are informed that these were the " musical magistrates" of the city of Aberdeen, whose praises have been so loudly trumpetted by Forbes, the publisher of the " Cantus," in his dedication of that work. " May 26th, 10- 30. The magistrates discharge the common piper of all going through the toun at nyclit, or in the morning, in tyme coming, with his pype; it being an ineivill forme to be usit within sic a famous burghe, and being often fund fault with, als weill be sundrie nichtbouris of the toun as be strangers." This instrument must have been the great Highland bag- pipe, blown with the mouth ; and all who have experienced its deafening effects will concur in the wisdom and good taste of the above regulations. Critically speaking, and holding it in the highest possible estimation for its utility in rousing the energies of the Highland soldiery, the sounds which it emits are certainly of a nature much better calcu- lated to excite alarm and consternation than to diffuse plea- sure Dauney. TRAVELLING SCENES My Tartar led off at a brisk trot, never opening his lips nor turning his head, except occasion- ally to see how I followed him across a stream. At about ten o'clock he turned off from the horsepath into a piece of fine pasture, and, slipping the biidie off his horse, turned him loose to feed, lie then did the same with mine, and, spieading my clonk on the giound for me to sit upon, sat down by my side, and opened his wallet. * * While we were sitting there a travelling party came up, consisting of five Turks and three women. The women vvcie on horse- back, riding crosswise, though there were so many quilts, cushions, & e., piled on the backs of their hoises, that they sat rather on seats than on saddles. After a few words of parley with my Tartar, the men lifted the women from the horses, taking them in their arms, aiul, as it were, hauling them off, not very gracefully, but very kindly; and, spread- ing their quilts on the ground a short distance from us, turned their horses loose to feed, and sat down to make their morning meal. Ail unusual and happy thing for me, the women had their faces uncovered nearly all the time, though they could not well have carried on the process of eating with them muffled up in the usual style. One of the women was old, the other two were exceedingly young ; neither ol them more than sixteen ; each had a child in her arms, anil, without any allowance for time and place, both were ex- ceeding'y beautiful. * * Notwithstanding their laughing face*, their mirth, and the kind treatment of the men, I could not divest myself of the idea that they were caged biids, longing to be free. * * Unfortunately, I could not undetstand a \ vord of their language ; and as they looked from their unbailed lords to my stiff hat and frock- coat, they seemed to legard me as something the Tartar had just anight and was taking up to Constantinople as a present to the Sultan. I endeavoured to show, however, that I was nor the wild thing they took me to be ; that I had an eye to admire their beauty, and a heart to feel for their servitude. I looked sentimentally. This they did not seem to understand at all. I smiled ; this seemed to please them better; and there is no knowing to what a point I might have arrived, hut my Tartar hurried ine away; and I parted 011 the wild plains of Turkey with two young and beautiful women, leading almost a savage life, whose personal graces would have made them ornaments in polished and refined society. Verily, said I, the Turks are not so bad, after all; they have handsome wives, ami a handsome wife comes next after chibouks and coffee. Caravans and camels are more or less associated with all the fairy scenes and glowing pictures of the east. They have always presented themselves to my mind with a sort of poetical imagery, and they certainly have a fine effect in a description or in a picture; but, after all, they are ugly looking things to meet on the road. I would rather see the two young Turk esses again than all the caravans in the east. The caravan is conducted by a guide on a donkey, with a halter attached to the first camel, and so oil from from camel to camel through the whole caravan. * * * One of the camel scenes, the encampment, is very pic turesque, the camels arranged around on their knees in a circle, with their heads to the centre, and the camel drivers with their hales piled up within; and I was struck with another scene; we came to the borders of a stream, which it was necessary to cross in a boat. The boat was then on the other side, and the boatman and camel driver were trying to get on board some camels. When we came up they had got three on board, down on their knees in the bottom of the boat, and weie then in the act of coercing the fourth. The poor brute was frightened terribly ; resisted with all his might, and put forth most piteous cries. « * They got him on hoard, and in the same way urged on board three others. They then threw in the donkey, and seven camels and the donkey were so stowed in the bottom of the boat, that they did not take up much more room than calves on board our country boats .— Stephens. Scio. Its fields( says Mr. Stephens) which once ' budded and blossomed as the rose,' have become waste places; its villages are deserted, its towns are in iuins, its inhabitants murdered, in captivity, and in exile. Before the Greek • evolution the Greeks ot Scio were engaged in extensive commerce, and ranked among the largest merchants in the Levant. Though living under hard taskmasters, subject to the exactions of a rapacious pacha, their industry and enter- prise, and the extraordinary fertility of their island, enabled them to pay a heavy tribute to the Turks, and to become rich themselves. For many years they had enjoyed the advantages of a college, with professors of high literary and scientific attainments, and their library was celebrated throughout all the country; it was, perhaps, the only spot in Greece where taste and learning still held a seat. * * In an unexpected hour, without the least note of prepara- tion, they were startled by the thunder of the Tuikish can- non; fifty thousand Turks were let loosq like bloodhounds upon the devoted island. * * Out of a population of one hundred and ten thousand, sixty thousand are supposed to have escaped, and thirty thousand to have been sold into slavery. Boys and young girls were sold publicly in the streets of Smyrna and Constantinople at a dollar a head. * * It was late in the afternoon when I lauded, and my landing was under peculiarly interesting circumstances. One of my fellow- passengers was a native ot the island, who had escaped during the massacre, and now revisited it for the first time. He asked me to accompany him ashore, pro- mising to find some friends at whose house we might sleep; but he soon found himself a stranger in bis native island : where he had once known everybody, he now knew nobody. The town was a complete mass of ruins ; the walls of many fine buildings were still standing, crumbling to pieces, and still black with the fire of the incendiary Turks. * * My friend proposed a ride into the country. We procured a couple of mules, took a small basket of provisions for a collation, and started. * * After a ride of about five miles we came to the ruins of a large village, the style of which would anywhere have fixed the attention, as having been once a favoured abode of wealth and taste. The houses were of brown stone, built together, strictly in the Venetian style, after the mode's left during the occupation of the island by the Venetians, large and elegant, with gardens of three or four acres, enclosed by high walls of the same kind of stone, and altogether in a style far superior to anything I had seen in Greece. These were the country- houses and gardens of the rich merchants of Scio. * * What a scene for the heart to turn to now ! The houses and gardens were still there, some standing almost entire, others black with smoke, and crumbling to ruins. But where were they who once occupied them ? Where were they who should now be coming out to rejoice in the return of a friend, and to welcome a stranger? An awful solitude, a stillness that struck a cold upon the heart, reigned around us. We saw nobody; and our own voices, and the tramping of our horses upon the deserted pavements, sounded hollow and sepul- chral in our ears. * * My friend continued to conduct me through the solitary streets; telling me, as we went along, that this was the house of such a family, this of such a family, with some of whose members I had become acquainted iu Greece, until, stopping before a large stone gateway, he dismounted at the gate of his father's house. In that house lie was born ; there he had spent his youth ; he had escaped from it during the dreadful massacre, and this was the first time of his revisiting it. What a tide of recollections must have rushed upon him '. — Stephens. HIGH LIFE BELOW STAIRS.— During breakfast 0' ie day, Lord Eardley was informed that a person had applied for a footman's place, then vacant. He was ordered into the room, and a double- refined specimen of the genus so detested by his lordship made his appearance. The manner of the man was extremely affected and consequential, and it was evident that my lord understood him at a glance; inoieover, it was as evident that he determined to lower him a peg or two. " WelUmy good fellow," said he^ " what, you want a lackey's place, do you ?" " I came about an upper footman's situation, my lord," said the gentleman, bridling up his head. " Oh, do ye, do ye?" replied Lord Eardley; " I keep no upper servants; all alike— all alike here." " Indeed, my lord !" replied the hireling, with an air of shocked dignity. " What department, then, am I to consider myself expected to fill?" " Department! department!" quoth my lord, in a tone like inquiry. " What capacity, my loid?" " . My lord repeated the word capacity, as if not understanding its application to the present subject. " I mean, my lord," explained the man, " what sliali I be expected lo do it 1 take the situation ?" " Oh, you mean if you take the place. I understand you now," rejoined my lord ; " why, you ' re to . do every thing but sweep the chimneys and clean the pig styes, and those I do myself." The gentleman stared, scarcely knowing what to make of this, anil seemed to wish himself out ot the world; he, however, grinned a ghastly smile, and, after a short pause, inpuired " What salary his lordship gave?" " Salary! salary!" re- iterated his incorri- gible lordship; " don't know the word,— don't know the word,— my good man." Again the gentleman explained— I mean what wages!" " Oh, wages!" echoed my lord ; what do you ask ?" Trip regained his self- possession at this question, which looked like business, and considering for a lew moments, answered— first stipulating to be found in hair powder, and ( on state oceasi ins) silk stockings, bags, gloves, and bouquets— that he should expect thirty pounds a- year. " How much,— how much?'' demanded my lord rapidly. " Thirty pounds, my lord." " Thirty pounds!" exclaimed Lord Eardley, in affected amazement, " Make it guineas, and I'll live with you." Then ringing the hell, said to the servant who answered it, " Here, let out this gentleman; he's too good for me— too good lor me;" and turning to Mr, Mathews, who was much amused, said, as tiie man made his exit, " Conceited, impudent scoundrel! soon sent him off— soon sent him off, Master Mathews!"— Mathews's Life. INCLCDON.— In the Course of travelling together, Mr. Incledon and my husband differed in few things more than in their tastes in eating. Ml*. Mathews liked the simplest fare; Mr. Incledon was always in search of an appetite ; and, therefore, was very fastidious about the wherewithal to tempt it. On one occasion, at some town where they stopped only to change horses, Incledon, according to a habit in which he indulged, sought out the larder, and seeing a small undressed loin of poik displayed through a glass window, with other delicacies, he fell deeply in love with it, and immediately applied coaxingly to the landlord ( a portly independent sort of person, with his hands in his waistcoat pockets), to be allowed to purchase it to carry onwards. Mine host abiuptly refused ; lie could not sell it— he should want it for his dinner customers, Stq. ; hut in proportion as the landlord seemed unrelenting, Incledon's anxiety became stronger; he asked what the joint would be charged to his dinner customers, and then held out the sum with an addi- tion ; but the sulky landlord was inexorable. The epicure increased his temptation until at last he offered double the worth of it; and Mr. Mathews, ashamed of the childish behaviour of his chum, left him with the landlord to settle the important matter as they might, and walked on, telling the servant to wait for Mr. Incledon, with the carriage, and overtake him on the road. In a short time he saw it ap- proaching with Mr. Incledon, who, after my husband had seated himself, and the horses were proceeding, took out a handkerchief from a pocket of the carriage, with some ap- pearance of mystery, and deliberately placed it upon his knees, with evident satisfaction opened it, and revealed the coveted little loin of pork ! " Well," said his friend coldly, what, you prevailed at last ; how did you manage to coax that surly tellow out ol it?'' Incledon twinkled his eyes. ' Charles Mathews," said he, with something of solemnity, ' I did not prevail. My dear boy, the man was a brute ; I offered him all the silver in my pocket. I had set my heart upon the thing, my dear Charles Mathews. I could n't have eat any thing else, my dear boy; so what do you think I did? Don't be angry, Charles ( and here he looked like a child who knew he had done wrong and dreaded the punish, ment for his fault), don't be angry ; a man like yourself can have no idea what I feel, who want little delicacies to keep up my stamina. My dear Charles, the man was unfeeling." In this way did Incledou prepare his companion for the truth, and depreciate his wrath. The fact was, lie had watched the landlord's absence, entered the larder unper- ceived, and bore away the tempting prize, leaving the already proffered double its value in its place Mathews's Life. KIGHT SCENE— Three Turks were sitting round a brazier of charcoal frying doughballs. Three rugs were spread in three corners of the cabin, and over each of them were the eternal pistols and yataghan. There was nothing there to defend; their miserable lives were not worth taking; why were these weapons there ? The Turks at first took no notice of me, and I resolved to go to work boldly, and at once elbowed among them for a seat around the brazier. The one next me on my right seemed a little struck by my easy ways, he put his hands oil his ribs to feel how far my elbow had penetrated, and then took his pipe from his mouth and offered it to me. The ice broken, I smoked the pipe to the last whiff, and handed it to him to be refilled ; witii all the horrors of dyspepsy before my eyes, I scram- bled with them for the last doughball, and, when the at- tention of all of them was particularly directed toward me, took out my watch, held it over the lamp, and wound it up. I addressed myself particnlaily to the one who had first taken notice of me, and made myself extremely agreeable by always smoking his pipe. After coffee and half a dozen pipes, he gave me to understand that I was to sleep with him upon his mat, at which I slapped him on the back and cried out, " Bono," having heard him use that word ap- parently with a knowledge of its meaning. I was sur- prised in the course of the evening to see one of them begin to undress, knowing that such was not the custom of the country, but found that it was only a tempoiary disrobing for sporting purposes, to hunt fleas and bed bugs ; by which I had an opportunity of compaiing the Turkish wi ll some I had brought with me from Greece; and though the Turk had great reason to be proud of his, I had no reason to be ashamed of mine. I now began to be diowsy, and should soon have lallen asleep; but the youngest of the party, a sickly and sentimental young man, melancholy and musical, and, no doubt, in love, brought out the common Turkish instrument, a sort of guitar, on which he worked with untiling vivacity, keeping time with his head and heels. My friend accompanied him with his voice, and this brought out my Tartar, u ho joined in with groans and grunts which might have waked the dead. But my cup was not yet till!. During the musical festival my friend and intended bedfellow took down from a shelf above me a large plaster, which he warmed over the brazier. He then unrolled his turban, took off a plaster from the back of his head, and disclosed a wound, raw, gory, and ghastly, that made my heart sink within me. 1 knew that the plague was about Smyrna; I had heard that it was on this road ; I involuntarily recurred to the Italian prayer, " Save me Iroin the three miseries of the Levant— plague, fire, and the dragoman." I shut my eyes ; I had slept but two hours the night before; had ridden twelve hours that day on horseback; I drew my cloak around me; my head sank upon my carpet- bag, and I fell asleep, leaving the four Tutks playing at cards on the bottom of a pewter plate. In the morning my Tartar, with one jerk, stood me « p- right on the floor, and holding me in that position until I got awake, kicked open the door, and pointed to my horse standing before it ready saddled and bridled. In three hours I was crossing the caravan bridge, abridge over the beautiful Melissus, on the banks of which Homer was born ; and picking my way among caravans, which for ages have continued to cross this bridge laden with ail the riches of the East, I entered the long- Iooked- for city of Smyrna, a city that has braved the reiterated efforts of conflagrations, plagues, and earthquakes; ten times destroyed, and ten times risen from her ruins; the queen of the cities of Ana. tol a; extolled by the ancients as Smyrna the lovely, the crown of Ionia, the pride of Asia. * * In half an hour I was in the full enjoyment of a Turkish bath ; lolled half an hour on a divan, with chibouk and coffee, and caine out as fresh as if I had spent the last three weeks training for the ring. Oh, these Turks are luxurious dogs. Chi- bouks, coffee, hot baths, and as many wives as they please. What a catalcgue of human enjoyments.— Stephens. ErHEsus— The general character of the road is such as to prepare one for the scene that awaits him at Ephesus; enormous burying grounds, with thousands of head- stones shaded by the mourning cypress, in the midst of a desolate country, where not a vestige of a human habitation is to be seen. They stand on the road side as melancholy telltales that large towns or cities once existed in their immediate neighbourhood, and that the generations who occupied them have passed away, furnishing fearful evidence of the decrease of the Turkish population, and perhaps that the gigantic empire of the Ottoman is tottering to its fall. For about three hours before reaching Ephesus, the road, crossing a ticli and beautiful plain watered by the Cayster, lies be- tween two mountains; that on the right leads to the sea, and on the left are the ruins of Ephesus. Near, and iu the immediate vicinity, stoiks were calmly marching over the p! a; n, and building among the ruins ; they moved as if seldom disturbed by human footsteps, and seemed to look upon us as intruders upon a spot for a long time abandoned to birds and beasts of prey. * * It was late ill the after- noon when I arrived at the little coffee- house at Aysalook; a caravan had already encamped under some fine old syca- mores before the door, preparatory to passing the night. I was somewhat fatigued, and my Greek who had me in charge, was disposed to stop for the morrow ; but the fallen city was on the opposite hili at but a short distance, and the shades of evening seemed well calculated to heighten the effect of a ramble among its ruins. * * We moved along in perfect silence, for besides that my Turk never spoke, and my Greek, who was generally loquacious enough, was out ol humour at being obliged to go on, we had enough to do iu picking our lonely way. But silence best suited the scene; the sound of the human voice seemed almost a mockery of fallen greatness. We entered by a huge and ruined gateway into a piace distinctly marked as having been a street, and, from the broken columns strewed 011 each side, probably having been lined with a colonnade. I let my reins fall upon my horse's neck ; lie moved about iu the slow and desultory way that suited my humour; now sinking to Iiis knees in heaps of rubbish, now stumbling over a Corinthian capital, and now sliding over a marble pavement. The whole hill side is covered with ruins lo an extent far greater than I expected to find, and they are all of a kind that tends to give a high idea of tile ancient mag nificenoe of the city. Tome, these runs appeared to, be a confused and shapeless mass; but ihey have been examined by antiquaries with great care, and the character of many of them identified with great certainty. I had, however, no time for details ; and, indeed, the interest of these ruins in my eyes was not in the details. It mattered little to me that this was the stadium and that a fountain ; that this was a gymnasium and that a marketplace; it was enough to know that the broken columns, the mouldering walls, the grass- grown streets, and tile wide extended scene of deso- lation and ruin around me, were all that remained of one of the greatest cities of Asia, one of the earliest Christian cities in the world. But what do I say? Who does not remember the tumults and confusion rained by Demetrius the silversmith, " lest the temple of the gieatgoddess Diana should be despised, and her magnificence be destroyed ;" and how the people, having caught " Caius and Aristarclnis, Paul's companions in travel," rushed with one accord into the theatre, crying out, " Great is Diana of the Ephesians ?" I sat among the ruins of that theatre— the stillness ol death was around me— far as the eye could reach, not a living soul was to be seen save my two companions and a group of lazy Turks, smoking at the coffee house in Aysalook. A man of strong imagination might almost go wild with the in tensity of his own reflections; and do not let it surprise you, that even one like me, in nowise given to the illusions of the senses, should find himself roused, and irresistibly hur- ried back to the time when the shapeless and confused mass around him formed one Of the most magnificent cities in the world ; when a large and busy population was hurrying through the streets, intent upon the same pleasures and the same business that engage men now; that he should in imagination, see before him Sr. Paul preaching to the Ephe- sians, shaking their faith iu the gods of their fathers, gods made with their own hands; and the noise and confusion, ai d the people rushing tumuftuously up '. lie very steps where he sat; that he should almost hear their cry ringing in his ears, " Great is Diana of the Ephesians;" and then that he should turn from this scene of former glory and eternal ruin to his own far distant land; a land that the wisest of the Ephesians never dreamed ol; where the wild man was striving with the wild beast when the whole world rang with the greatness of the Ephesian name; and which bids fair to be growing greater a? id greater when the last vestige of Ephesus shall begone, and its very site unknown. But where is the temple of the great Diana, the temple two hundred and twenty years in building; the temple of one hundred and twenty- seven columns, each column the gift of a king? Can it he that the temple of the " Great, goddess Diana," that the ornament of Asia, the pride of Ephesus, and one of the seven wonders of the world, has gone, disappeared, and left not a trace behind? As a traveller, I would fain be able to sav, that 1 have seen the ruins of this temple; but, unfortunately, I am obligedTo limit myself by facts. Its site has, of course, engaged the attention ot antiquaries. I am no skeptic in these matters, and am disposed to believe all that my cicerone tells me; * * He knew what was expected from him, and that his reputation was gone for ever if, in such a place as Ephesus, he could not point out the ruins of the great temple of Diana. He accordingly had his temple, which he stuck to witii as much pettinaciiy as if lie had built it him- self; but I am sorry to he obliged to say, in spite of his au- thority and my own wish to believe him, that the better, opinion is, that now not a single stone is to be seen. Topo graphers have fixed the site on the plain, near the gate of the city which opened to the sea. The sea, which once almost washed the walls, has receded or been driven hack for several miles. For many years a new soil has been ac- cumulating, and all that stood on the plain, including so much of the remains of the temple as had not been plun dered and carried away by different conquerors, is probably now buried many feet under its surface. It was dark when I returned to Aysalook. I had remarked, in passing, that several caravans had encamped there, and on my return found the camel diivers assembled in the little coffee- house in which I was to pass the night. I soon saw, that there were so many of us that we should make a tight fit in the sleeping part of the khan, and immediately measured off space enough to fit my body, allowing turning and kicking room. I looked with great complacency upon the light slippers of the Turks, which they always throw off, too. when they go to sleep, and made an ostentatious display of a pair of heavy iron- nailed boots, and, in lying down, gave one or two preliminary thumps to show them that I was restless in my movements, and, if they came too near me, these iron- nailed boots would be uncomfortable neighbours. And here I ought to have spent half the night in musing on the strange concatenation of circumstances which had broken up a quiet practising attorney, and sent him a strag- g'er from a busy, money- getting laud, to meditate among the ruins of ancient cities, and sleep pellinell with turbaned Turks. But. 1 had no time for musing; I was amazingly tired; I looked at the group of Turks in one corner, arid regretted that I could not talk with them; thought of the Tower of Babel and the wickedness of man, which brought about a confu> ion of tongues; ol camel- drivers, and Arabian Nights' Entertainments ; of home, and my own comfortable room in tiie third story; brought my boot down with a thump that made them all start, and in five minutes was asleep.— Stephens. CHIME IN FRANCE IN 1836. - In 18.36, the courts of as- sizes decided iu 5,300 cases. In 1835,5,228 had been sub- mitted to them, so that there was an increase for 1836 of 72. The casts of crimes against property amounted in 1836 to 3.742, while in the preceding year those courts only tried 3,457, or 8 per cent. less. On the other hand, how- ever, there was a diminution of 12 per cent, in the crimes against persons, their number, which was 1,771 iu 1835, having fallen to 1,558 ill 1836. The jury found true verdicts in 2,398 cases, pronounced 1,560 acq iittals, and modified 1,342 accusations. Those 5,300 cases In ought before the court of assizes 7,232 ac- cused ; in 1835, they had tried 7,223, The main proportion of accused to the general population was 1 out ol 4 633 inhabitants. This average was exceeded in 28 departments. In the department of the Seine it was 1 out ot 1.231 inhabitants, and in Corsica I out of 1,540. The departments which did not give that average were 58 in number. In the Cher, for instance, there was only 1 ac- cused for 12 037 inhabitants; in the Aude, 1 out of 11,710; in tiie Drome, 1 out of 11,315; in the Landes, 1 out of 10 553; in the Upper Alps, 1 out of 10,089. The number of individuals charged with crimes against persons was 2 072, or 29 per cent.; that of accused of crimes against properly, 5,160, or 71 per cent. 1,339 females were accused of crimes, or on an average, 19 for every bundled accused. Of these, 24 per hundred had had natural children, or led a disorderly life previous to the commission of the crimes for which they were pro- secuted. In these are not included 100 charged with in- fanticide. Of these 7 232 accused, 96 were under 16 years of age ; 1,256 from 16 to 21; 1,190 from 21 to 25; 1,220 from 25 to 30; 1,017 from 30 to35 ; 876 from 35 to 40; 551 from 40 to 45 ; 373 from 45 to 50; 258 from 50 to 55; 184 from 55 to 60; 107 from 60- to 65; 58 from 65 to 70; 42 from 70 to SO; and 4 from 80 and upwards. On an average 35 per 100 were under 25 years of age ; 31 from 25 to 35 ; and 34 upwards of 35. Of the 7 232 accused, 4,306 ( 60 per cent.) were unmar- ried ; 2601 ( 36 per cent.) were married ; 324 ( 4 percent.) were widovveis. 2,309 of the married accused ( 81 per cent.) had children; 502 ( 19 per cent.) had none; 251 widowers had children ( 77 per cent.); 73( 23 per cent.) had none. Of the 7,232 accused, 508 had ha< f natural children, or lived in concubinage, 192 were men and 316 females. 197 of the accused were born out of wedlock. Of the 7,232 accused, 273 weie foreigners, 4,073 inhabited rural districts, 2,830 lived iu towns, 4,239 ' could neither read nor write, 2,073 could read and write imperfectly, 665 read and wrote well, and 955 bad received some education, 1,152 lived in idleness, 2,227 worked on their own account, ann 3,853 worked for others. Of the 7,232 accused, 4,623 were sentenced— viz., 30 to death, 148 to hard labour for life, 751 to hard labour for a limited time, 764 to imprisonment, 2,094 to mere correc- tional penalties, and 26, being under 16 years of age, were confined in houses of correction. The jury brought in a verdict of " Attenuating circum- stances" in favour of 2,472 culprits. Were it not for the in. dulgence of the jury, 172 would have been capitally sen- tenced, and 245 to hard labour for life. 9 of tlie capital offenders were pardoned, and 21 executed. The acquittals pronounced by the courts of assizes were 2,609, or 36 per hundred. Among the accused of crimes against persons, 45 per 100 were discharged; and among the accused of crimes against property, 32 per hundred. 35 men out of every 100 were acquitted; the proportion of females was 30. 33 per 100 of the individuals acquitted were totally illiterate, 38 per 100 could read and write imperfectly, 43 read and wrote well, and 57 per 100 had re- ceived some education. The number of contumacious accused, in whose cases the courts of assize had to decide, in 18: 36, was 642. Of these eight only were acquitted; all the otners were sentenced to degrading penalties, and 30 to death. Of the 197 culpiits of this class, who were apprehended or delivered themselves up, in 18.36, upwards of one- half ( 101) had been acquitted ; 40 were sentenced to degrading penalties, and 56 to cor- rectional penalties. The number of political offences and prosecutions of the press had undergone a considerable decrease. In 1831 it had been 671 ; in 1832, 602; in 1K33, 356; in IS34, 219; in 1835 177 ; and in 1836, only 96. 125 persons were impli- cated in those 96 prosecutions, viz., 78 accused of offences ot the press, and 47 of political offences. Of the former, 50 ( 64 per 100) were acquitted, of the latter 31 ( 66 per 100.) ' I lie number of accused, convicted by the jury, on the majority of one vote, 7 to 5, was 221. The Courts of Correctional Police decided, in 1836, on 123.489 affairs, and on the fate of 178 573 accused, which is an increase of 10,264 cases, and 13 687 individuals, over 1835. The number of robberies has increased since 1836 by up. wards of one third. It rose from 11,893, ill 1835, lo 14 02!', in 1S36. 33 677 ( 19 per cent.) of the whole number of cul- prits were females. Out of the 178,573 accused, 21,232 were acquitted, and the remainder were condemned— viz., 116 619 to a fine; 37,153 to imprisonment; 511 were children under 16 years of age, who were confined iu houses of correction ; 36 were young vagrants, placed under the surveillance of the police; arid 22 sentenced to demolish buildings constructed too near the forests of the state. Appeals were entered into againstO 605 of those judgments, 3.748 of which were confirmed, and 2 857 dismissed or modified. The proportion of relapses ( recidives) underwent no change in 1836. Of the 7,232 individuals tried by the courts of assizes, 1,486 had been previously convicted for other offences, giving an average of 21 per 100 on the whole. Among these, 191 were females; 945 had been condemned once, 296 twice, 139 thrice, 52 four times, 28 five times, 14 six times, 7 seven times, 2 eight times, and 3 nine limes. In the Courts of Correctional Police the number of re- lapsed cases tried in 1836 was 9,530; and tiiat of individuals implicated therein, 8,196; several having been tried two, three, four, and five times in the same year. 1,637 were females. Between 1832 and 1836 the 3.398 condemned were liber- ated from the bagnes of Brest, Toulon, and Rochefort; and 23,807 from the central prisons : of the former 646 were tried anew, during the five years ( 19 per 1(? 0); and of the latter 5,488, or 21 per 100. The difference in favour of tiie bagnes is the more remarkabUe, as the population of the central prisons contains females, who are less liable to relapse than men. The minister then proceeds to give the returns of other minor eases, and a table of the space of time the accused remained in prison previous to their trial. The number of jurymen in France, in 1$ 36, was 204,855, and of electors 180,063. According to an official report, lately addressed to the King by the Minister of Justice, the number of accidental deaths in France during 1836, amounted to 6,529, or 037 more than in 1835. One- half of the persons who so perished were drowned. In 1836, 2,340 individuals committed suicide, being nearly seven per day, and 35 more in 1835. Of these 1.775 were men, and 565 females. The department of the Seine ( Paris and its suburbs) furnished alone more than a sixth of the whole number— 425: 11 of those suicides were under 16 years of age, ( five of them were residents of the department 8 THE . BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL, DECEMBER 22. 00 per cent. 11 — 2 — 7 21 16 — of the Seine); 15 > were sep uagenarians, and 37 were above 80 years of age. The proportion, as respected the trades and professions of the suicides, wpre— 1st class Labourers and workmen 2nd class. — Artisans 3rd class Bakers, butchers, and porkvenders 4th class Hatters, tailors, and washermen Sth class Merchants 6th class Carmen and carriers 7th class.— Innkeepers and servants 8th class.— Liberal professions 9th class. — Persons without profes- % sions the whole number 789 drowned themselves; 672 hanged - rffr strangled themselves; 478 killed themselves with fire- arms ; 156 by suffocation with charcoal ( 122 belonged to the department of the Seme); 87 put an end to their existence with cutting instruments; 47 took poison ; 94 threw them- selves from elevaied places, and 17 had rectu- se to other means of destruction. In 1836, as in 1835, the month of July was the one in which the most suicides occurred, and December furnished the fewest. If divided into periods of three months each, it will be seen that suicides are more Irequeut in the spring and summer months than in those of autumn and winter, of which the following is the proof:— There were suicides in December, January, and February 451 September, October, and November 489 March, April, and May 647 June, July, and August 753 The motives assigned for these suicides were various. The greater number proceed from mental diseases; next follow, domestic grief, physical sufferings, misery, and loss of fortune. A great proportion was likewise occasioned by the immoderate use of wine and spirituous liquors. AMERICAN EXPORTS AND IMPORTS IN 1833— The exports during the year ending September 30, 1838, are computed to have been 103,136, OOOd. Of these, about 90.666, OOOd. wtre of domestic, and 12,470, OOOd. of foreign, origin. The former have diminished from the previous year 4,998,414( 1. and the latter, 9,384 962d. The imports for the Batne year were 112,000, OOOd. These are 28,989,217d. less in value than those of the previous year, being nearly 78,000,000 less than those under the enormous overtrading and other overactions which cha- racterised 1836. For farther particulars reference may be had to the table annexed. It is an interesting fact, that during the last three yeats more than 66,000, OOOd. annually, or an average of near nine- tenths of our whole domestic exports, have been derived from agriculture. More than seven- tenths of our whole population are probably employed in that useful pursuit. JUSTICE TO IRELAND. Few men can hare laboured more in the service of Ireland than I have done, and certainly none more sincerely or dis- interestedly. In the strange and disastrous jears which succeeded the late war— from 1816 to 1823— years in which, for the first time in the history of all mankind, the BLESSING or FBACX was found worse than the CURSE OF WAR— in those strange and disastrous years I never tailed to tiling befoie the eyes of the ministers, and of almost every public man in either House of Parliament, proof upon proof that the distressing and alarming increase in the miseiies and crimes of Ireland was occasioned solely by the secret » m\ fraudulent attempts of the government to compel the Irish people to pay their PAPER RENTS, DRHrs, AND TAXES, in STANDARD GOLD !! or in paper convertible into standard gold!! I repre- sented to them twenty timesov « r, that, during the suspen- sion of the metallic standard of value. the rents of land in Ireland nad been doubled and trebled in paper money; that such rents amounted to full one half ol the whole agricul- tural produce of Ireland, even when the prices of such pro- duce were estimated in paper money that, when such prices came to be estimated in gold money of full weight and fineness, a reduction of one half in such prices would in- evitably take place; and that thereby the payment of the rents of laud in Ireland would require the whole instead ol one half of the whole produce of Irish agriculture to ilis • charge theru; aud that thus the whale of the millions of Irish farmers and labourers would be driven into a state of of ruin and destruction. I represented further that the law, as it then stood ( and even now stands), allowed no permanent or real mitigation of this terrible stateol things, because it compelled the landowner to destroy the farmer under penalty of ruin from the mortgagee, and compelled the farmer to destroy the labourer under penalty of ruin from the landowner; and that thus all classes of men would be, ultimately, armed against each other, until the common miseries of all should, at last, compel all to unite in one common resistance to the. law.'.' These are undeniable truths, now known to all men, and, I fear, always known by ullpublic men, although, apparently, overlooked and concealed by the ministers of the crown, by the leaders of each faction in Parliament, and by the public press. Since I have been in Parliament I have heard hundreds and hundreds of debates respecting Ireland, but they were almost all little better than mereuiindand water. They treated upon a hundred little subjects which had but little to do with the real interests of Ireland, or with the happiness or misery of the Irish people; hut they never touched the great and vital subject from which three fourths of tjie miseries of Ireland procced. In the spring of the yar 1833 I had the pleasure of meet- ing Mr. O'Connell at the Thatched House Tavern, in St. James's Street. I had then, as I still have, but little as- sistance from public men of any parly; but I had then a sincere gratification in hearing Mr. O'Connell declare to a meeting of about fifty members of Parliament and others, that " upon his honour and his conscience, he did believe that three fourths of the miseries of his unhappy country weie occasioned entirely by that accursed bill— viz., Peel's Bill of 1819!!" Mr, O'Connell, at the same time, illus- trated this great truth in a way most impressive, but almost Seculiarto himself, by stating, " that, if the American woods ad never been allowed to be cut down without every man being compelled to use a golden axe, the American woods would have remained in their primeval state to this day!!'' In following up this beautiful illustration, I remarked myself that, in my humble judgment, " in the present state of society, to compel al the transactions of life to he effected in a golden medium of exchange was very much like compelling every labourer to use a golden plough and a golden spade in the cultivation of the eaitli, and putting every child to death that had the the misfortune to be born without a golden spoon in its mouth I" In the House of Commons I doubt if there is a single member who has voted more frequently and consistently in support of Ireland than I have done, from the first moment when I formed one, in a minority of five Englishmen, who voted against the address to the Crown, which recom- mended the IRISH COERCION BILL, to the last opportunity which occurred, iu which I thought it my duly to protest against the third reading of the IRISH I'oo. t LAW BILL. 1 never failed to support the cause of Ireland, although, I must confess, that, upon some occasions, I was obliged to make use of spectacles to enable me to perceive as it were, the minitude ol subjects to which Irish gentlemen attached a vehement importance. These little differences made no difference with me. I always acted with the most cordial and benevolent feelings towards Ireland, and in ihese cordial and benevolent feelings I am perfectly sure that the ENG- LISH PEOPLE always supported me. I protested against the IRISH POOR LAW BILL in the House of Commons on the following grounds: — First, that it was a delusion upon the Irish people, professing to give relief, but scarcely removing a drop ot water from the ocean of Irish misery; inasmuch as it only proposed to relieve eighty thousand persons cut of two millions and four hundred thousand persons acknowledged to be perishing from destitution in Ireland Secondly, that it w as a fraud upon the unhappy Irish tenantry, inasmuch as it compelled thein to pay one- lialf of the poor- rate, instead i/ t charging the whole upon the landlords, us is done in England; and, thirdly, that it was an act of ciuelty, injustice, and oppression, towards the few unhappy wretches to whom it pretended to extend re- lief. I then stated to the House of Commons, as 1 had of'en stared before, that " the giant grievance of Ireland was bitter grinding povertythat from this fatal source all her miseries and her crimes proceeded ; that the Irish people were perfectly able and perlectly willing to maintain them- selves, provided they were permitted to do so; and that there was no difficulty in giving justice, and peace, and pios- perity, and contentment to Ireland without real injury or injustice in uny quarter, provided only that the WILL to do so existed in that House, and that such WILL was enforced with a firm and powerful hand. I then proceeded to point out the principal measures which were really necessary for the relief of Ireland. First, I said, you must rectify the currency in Ireland, as you must in England. That great measure will at once make the currency balance the rents, debts, and obligations which it has to discharge, and the labour which it has to employ. It will place labour in the same state of employment and of wages as existed during the ten years average, ending ( lie late war, or even in a much better state. It will place pro- ductive industry generally in the same state. It will thus relieve full one- half or, perhaps, two thirds of the existing misery of Ireland. Secondly, you must pass a law to limit and restrain the power of landlords in ejecting tenants of land in Ireland. In Jersey and Guernsey, no landlord can eject a tenant, without the tenant's consent, so long as the enant pays u fixed stipulated corn- rent, converted into mo. ney at the market prices of the day. In this way all improve- ments become the property of the tenant as they ought to be; . and if the landlord wishes to obtain possession of the land, he must make his bargain with the tenant, and pay him a just and reasonable consideration. Thus the law protects the tenant in the enjoyment of the fruits of his own industry, which cannot be either tw sted or forced out of his hands. The landloid is not injured ; for, by the improve ments of the tenant, he gets every day a better security for the value of his land, in which the tenant becomes interested, and, in those happy and well governed islands, is generally a part proprietor, a tenant, aud a labourer at the same time. Establish a system of this kind iu Ireland, or some other system of a similar nature— give protection to the tenant for his improvements on the land— and you will quickly produce a wonderful change in that unhappy country. You will have no occasion for agricultural societies. Nature herself will produce agricultural improvements, which no art can give. The Irish landlord will get his own, and the tenant will get his own; but the property of the tenant in his land will quickly become as great as that of the land- lord ; the labourer will he fully employed and well paid, both agriculture and manufactures will flourish, and Ireland will soon blossom like a garden. But; thirdly, you must drain the IRISH BOGS. YOU must not regard the low pride and the miserable prejudices of the Irish landlords, who will tell you of their entails and of the territorial dignity which their families derive from extensive, although almost worthiest possessions. You must pay them the full and just value of these possessions; or you must pay that value twice over, and take them into your own hands. Mr. Nimmo, the government engineer, reported to Parlia- ment, twenty years ago, that there are five millions of acres of BOG LAND in Ireland, three millions of which are capable of being drained upon a large scale, at the expense of only one pound sterling per acre ; and would then be worth at least twenty pounds per acre!! He reported further, that these three millions of acres were not worth one pound sterling per acre in their present state ! You will thus gain a property worth sixty millions sterling, at an expense of only six, or eight, or, perhaps, ten millions sterling. You must, of course, drain these three millions of acres of land, and place them in a state of cultivation ; and then you should sell them to Irish labourers, in lots of perhaps five, or ten, or fifty acres each, upon five or ten years' credit, as they sell land in Canada, and in the United States ; and you will thus draw hundreds of thousands of Irish labourers from the overstocked markets of Irish industry, and conveit them at once into so many prosperous, independent, and contented proprietors and cultivators of the soil. But, fourthly, after three great measures of this kind, essentially just and necessary, you will still find, possibly, much labour unemployed, and more ill rewarded in Iieland. What, then, must you do ? Can you not take a leaf out of the negroes' book? You borrowed twenty millions sterling to give liberty to eight hundred thousand blach slaves in the West Indies ; can you not borrow twenty millions more. to give liberty to eight millions of white slaves in Ireland ? You borrowed this money for the' negroes, and you gave it them. I will not ask you to give it to the white slaves of Ireland. I will only ask you to lend it them, in sums of from £ 5. to £ 50. each, upon five or ten years' credit; and I will forfeit my life if you lose one single penny by this great and most beneficial measure, provided you have first rectified the cur- rency. I will mention one fict to the house in proof that they have no loss to fear from such loan. In the year 1822, when the distress of Ireland, to the lasting honour of the English people, produced in England a public voluntary sub- scription of five hundred thousand pounds for its relief, it was found that about sixty thousand pounds still remained in the hands of the trustees after the ieliel of tiie pressing distress of Ireland had been effected. Under the wise and benevolent advice of one of the best philanthropists of the age, this sum of sixty thousand pounds had been employed, for the last ten or fifteen years, in granting loans of £' 5 and £ 10 and other small sums, to Irish labourers and tradesmen of good character and conduct, hundreds of whom, by means of such assistance, had been enabled to get forward into a state of comparative comfort and independence. And what loss did the house think had been sustained by the excellent charity in question, in lending these small sums in Ireland, during the last ten or fifteen years? The trustees had lately reported that there was really a positive profit gained of lull ten thousand pounds !! II, then, the loan of sixiy thousand pounds among the Irish labourers, under the disastrous cir cumstances of the last ten vears, had produced a profit, how could the house expect that the loan of twenty millions among them, under prosperous circumstances, could produce a loss? The circulation 6f money thus brought into acti- vity would increase alike production and consumption, and give general prosperity throughout Ireland. Nothing can be so beneficial as the facility of obtaining loans for the uses ol industry, so long as any number of labourers remain unem- ployed. But after all these great, and just, and necessary measures are adopted, yon will sti'l find, according to the order of nature, that much misery and distress will still exist in Ire- land. The measures which I have recommended will quickly reduce the pauperism of Ireland to one fifth of its present amount, and will quickly double the means at present applicable to its relief, lint still, much distress will, of course, remain; and, to relieve this, you must have recourse to a large, liberal, and benevolent system of poor laws. Under such circumstances, the buitlien of such a system would be a mere trifle. But even now, in the present state cf things, a large and liberal system of poor laws in Ireland would not be one half so great a burthen as many gentlemen imagine. It would, at the worst, merely compel the Irish gentry and nobility " to set their shoulders to the wheel, " and then they would soon find out that four- fifths of the Irish paupers would very easily and plentifully maintain them- selves. The wants of Irish labourers nre veiy humble aud very few— course food, coarse clothing, and coarse lodging. Four- fifths of the paupers of Ireland will produce every year more than four times the quantity of these humble necessaries of life which their wants require, provided the Irish gentry will but supply them with the cavital and the credit which are necessary to set their industry in motion. To compel the Irish gentry, therefore, to maintain the Irish poor, either as paupers or as labourers, would he but an ideal burthen. It would only compel them to give activity to their stagnant masses of capital in employing their stagnant masses of labour, and ihe cost of all this would be quite as likely to be a gain to themselves as a loss. At any rate it is the duty of this House to give justice to Ireland and pro- tection to the Irish people, anil not to suffer any selfish dog- in- the- manger" interests of the Irish gentry to stand in the way of this great duty. I have thus pointed out five of the measures which I deem conducive to this great object; and if all, or some of. them, should not be adopted by this House, I trust that the day is not distant when I shall see another House that will adopt them. These, my dear sir, are the five measures which I recom- mended for the relief of Irish distress, and the prevention of Irish crimes aud disturbances. Of course, there aie other measures which would be highly beneficial; but, in my humble judgment, any one of these five would do more real justice to Ireland, arid give more real prosperity and contentment to llie Irish people, than all the measures which the refotmed Parliament has ever adopted, or, in its present state, is ever likely to adopt for the relief of Ireland. NAPOLEON used to say, " Everything should be done for the people ; but nothing by them." In Ireland nothing is done/ or them, and but little that is worth having is done by them. THOMAS ATTWOOD. Ryde, Isle of Wight, Dec. 15, 1838. Southey, the Poet Laureate, will, it is stated, be married next June, to a literary lady of considerable eminence, but the poet's junior by more than twenty years. ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. A COMMON IMPOSTOR. Sir,— In your paper of Saturday last, the following was stated as having taken place ; hut was entirely devoid of truth. " On the 14th instant, at Edgbaston Church, hy the Rev. Mr. Pixel], Mr. Joseph Hickman, of Warstone- lane, to Miss S. Cook, of Blakemore- terrace." This is the second time my name has appeared in your paper, in like manner, and, in both cases, has been put in without my knowledge. I shall use all my endeavours to find out the party; aud if I should be so fortunate, I will do all in my power to make an ex- ample of him ; not only on my own account, but for the credit of your paper. I shall feel greatly obliged if you will contradict it in your paper of Saturday next, as not having taken place ; by so doing, you will greatly oblige, Your obedient servant, JOSEPH HICKMAN. Warstone- lane, Birmingham, Dec. 27, 1828. [ We shall be happy to give Mr. Hickman evsry faci- cility in tracing the impudent and stupid scoundrel who has annoyed him and imposed upon us.— E. B. J.] TIIE MECHANICS' INSTITUTION. LETTER II. I hope you will allow, Mr. Editor, that common rec- titude of'feeling would have induced the committee to compensate, as far as possible, for the disadvantages of the room, by having it open at least daring some portion of every day, in order to consult the convenience of the members, and to avoid unnecessary delay in ob- taining books. If, however, you are not aware of the fact, you will doubtless learn with surprise that, during the last quarter, three hours per week, an hour and a half on Monday, and an hour and a half on Friday evening, was all that was allowed for 600 members, ( the number, as I was informed by the Secretary, be- longing to the institution last quarter.) to obtain and change books— the privilege of referring to the books while at the library being altogether out of the question. In this regulation, I think I may say with perfect justice, we meet with the same disrespect for the mem- bers, the same indifference to the interests of the In- stitution, and the same wand of inferiority resting upon it, in comparison with similar institutions. The libraries of the Mechanics' Institutes with which I am acquainted, or of which I have heard, are open at least during three hours on the evening of every day, Sunday excepted. Let us take three, of each of which, at differ- ent times, I have been a member, viz., the Institutions in Nottingham, Wolverhampton, and Lichfield. Not- tingham, for a considerable number of years, has pos- sessed a spacious and commodious room, open to the members from seven till ten every evening. Wolver- hampton also contains an admirable room, of large dimensions, open during the same hours, besides a dis- tinct reading room. Lichfield has not only a room sufficiently spacious, but the room and the general accommodations are really tasteful and elegant, and are accessible to the members during four hours of every day. The first of these towns is about one- fourth the size of Birmingham, the second about one- sixth, and the third about one twenty- fifth; and the number of membes, though by n< j. means proportionably inferior, is still considerably inferior to that of the Birmino- ham Institute. Here, then, we have the extraordinary, I could almost say, the monstrous, anomaly of Birming- ham, with 600 members, only allowing three hours per week for those purposes for which other Institutions, whose members are much less in number, allow eighteen; that is, in the Birmingham Institute only that space is allowed, rr was allowed, during the whole u eek, which is allowed every evening in the Institu- tions referred to. Now, either we must accuse these Institutions of the most profuse and unjustifiable travagance, of the most prodigal and Criminal excesis, in the time appointed for keeping the library open, or it must be granted that the Birmingham sins by defect. Whether the managers of the above Institution's, or the managers of the Birmingham Institution, be the cul- pable party, none will doubt for a moment, except the gentlemen who constitute the Birmingham committee, and their particular friends. The inconveniences and the generally disagreeable effects of the regulation I have frequently experienced, and I have heard the same complaint from all flic members to whom I have spoken, distinguished, as the members of the Birmingham In- stitution unquestionably are, for the meek and passive virtues— heaven knows they need them. It is certainly a wise dispensation in the economy of Providence, that habit inures, if it does not reconcile, us, to ( very kind of endurance; but to construe this reason for resisting improvement, would, in multitudes of instances, confer perpetuity upon tyranny and oppression. I insist the more strongly upon this regulation, as indicative of the views and feelings of the committee, because I con- ceive that till the sophistry in the woild cannot assign a plausible reason for it.' And, although, during the present quarter, the time has bfen changed from three to five hours per week, the boon has been dealt out with too sparing a hand to infer any material alteration in the conferring party. I assure you, Mr. Editor, that I feel the task I have undertaken to be far from an agreeable one; but I am compelled to extead still further the list of grievances. I never knew, nor heard of an Institution that had ex- isted for the most moderate length of time withoit possessing printed catalogues of the library. I am fo incorrigibly obtuse, that I cannot be persuaded that- it was not the duty of the committee to provide cata- logues; and I am equally so in refusing to admit the impossibility of finding persons in Birmingham capable of making catalogues, and of printing catalogues; yet the Birmingham Institution is actually destitute of the obvious convenience, a few fragments'and pieces being all that these unmerciful gentlemen seem disposed to bestow upon us. To my own knowledge, for the last half year, catalogues have been promised, and promised, and promised again, and I have learnt from others that - the same course ha? been pursued formore than a year, and yet up to the time that I am writing, we have ob- tained nothing but promises. It is really painful to be obliged to refer, and re- refer to these manifest indica- tions of the light in which the gentlemen of' the com- mittee view the members, interests, and character of the Institution, but it is as needful to be done as it is painful. I do hope and believe that these gentlemen do not deliberately design to degrade and sink the In- stitution in every possible way; yet it is, and shall be, and must be, for a lamentation that such should be the unhappy consequences of their conduct. It may, perhaps, be said, that there are two points in reference, to which all unqualified praise must be given to the institution and its conductors, viz., classes and lectures. Here, however, I anf at issue with the persons who adopt this opinion. Of the classes I can- not speak from personal knowledge ; but the report that has reached me is every way favourable, and I heartily rejoice in their prosperity, and have sincere pleasure in awarding the due meed of praise to the committee for the part they have taken in contributing to their success. But upon the lectures I am con- strained to make a few remarks. Although I am, by no means, an enemy to lectures as a vehicle of instruction, yet, with the exception of those subjects which admit of illustration by experiment, I am far from thinking them the best possible vehicle. It is nothing derogatory to many living lecturers of merit to observe, that upon almost. till subjects we pos- sess abundance of books, at least equal, and, in some instances, superior to the lectures with which they favour us ; and books we can peruse again and again, until we are masters of their contents. I conceive the principal advantage of lectures is, that they serve to excite attention to subjects in which we were previously devoid of interest, and induce us tojextenil our acquain- tance with such subjects bv private study. But were the benefits derived from lectures greater than they can be supoosed to be, I should still be disposed to think the imparlance assigned them, and the sums expended upon them, in the Birmingham Institution, altogether disproportionate and unjustifiable. I cannot answer for the correctness, of the statement ; but I have been told, that during the last quarter the sum of sixty pounds was expended upon lectures. The necessary consequence is, to narrow and impoverish the resources in reference'to every other object'; and if the room at present occupied by the library, ' such a limitation of the secretary's salary as prevents a more frequent attend- ance, the absence of the most interesting- and useful periodicals, and the few accessions of new books, are attributable to the cause, the evil assumes a serious character, and becomes of portentous magnitude. The usual defence of the disproportionate attention bestowed upon this department is, that lectures are loudly de- manded by the members, and that numbers purchase tickets with an exclusive view to the lectures, seldom or never paying a visit to the library. The reply is obvious. In attending the lectures there is nothing to degrade or repel ; only let this be true in relation to the library, and, unless I am under an infinite mis- take, we should see an immediate change in the pre- ferences of the subscribers to the institution. It would be a miracle greater than we are warranted to expect, if so many circumstances working together to sink the library ( hy far the most important part of the institu- tion) did not produce their natural and legitimate effects ; and there is little ground for astonishment that rival institutions are rising into existence, and that assistants in shops, and others accustomed to a portion of respectful treatment, should evince no excessive eagerness to join the Birmingham Mechanics' Institute. A MEMBER OF THE BIRMINGHAM MECHANICS' INSTITUTE. [ The writer has noted some verbal errata in letter first, which, unfortunately, we have mislaid. They were not of serious importance. After the answer of Mr. Smith, we shall not give Letter 3, as we at first intended. The " member" is plainly deceived.— E. B. J.] BIRMINGHAM MECHANICS' INSTITUTE. THE CONVENTION. Sir,— The eventful period is rapidly drawing nigh, for the assembling of the real representatives of the people iu the National Convention ; when the destiny of Whig and Tory despotism and tyranny will be pro- claimed to the world, amidst the triumphant shouts and gladdening cheers of a brave, patient, and gene- rous people. Millions of patriots, and nations of free- men, shall congratulate and bless us. No longer shall we be pointed at with scorn and derision by freemen of foreign climes, and distant republics. We have been bitterly and basely deceived ; and we have been too long cajoled and trifled with, by the ruthless ban- ditti of universal plunderers, public swindlers, and wholesale human butchers, who have hitherto claimed with unblushing villainy the keys of the national treasury. Sir, the bravery and heroism' of the people will soon again be tested. They will show my Lord Melbourne that Birmingham is all England ; and they will also show him a real House of Commons, one that is not against us, but one which will force my Lord Noodle and my Lord Doodle to tremble in their shoes ere long. But to support that " National House of Commons," we must support the National Rent; and in doing that, I am very sorry the nation has neglected its duty. Towards the sum of two thousand pounds and up- wards, there are only between seven and eight hun- dred pounds collected, and the period for closing is near at hand. This is the richest country in the world ; and amongst a population of nearly thirty millions, only seven hundred pounds have been collected by the people, solely to defend their own cause; while the miserable, poor, degraded Ireland, contributes annually to the pockets of one individual— the ambitious aud hypocritical knave, O'Connell— the enormous sum of 14,000/. to 16,000/. As to his own precursor juggle, he actually boasts of raising to its funds ere long, the sum of one hundred thousand pounds! Look at that picture, then on this. England and Scotland, amounting to a population of near thirty millions, cannot raise more than a few hundreds for their own emancipation ; while the poor Irish, amounting in population to about eight or ten millions, have actually raised the enormous sum of nearly 100,000/. during the present year. This, sir, deserves repeating. Oh, shame upon the people for neglecting a { solemn duty. What will they do, sir, if their delegates wont assemble, or if they cannot as- semble for want of the necessary funds ? Why, sit down peaceably upon their seats, and submit to be branded as slaves, cowards, and traitors to their own happiness; and will be again hurled from the sunny heights of prosperity and glory, to the hellish depths of abject slavery. If the people were to fight as bravely, with Stephens and Oastler at their head, with their bludgeons and their pikes in hand, as they have fought with the National Rent book in their hand, verily they would be a gallant people ! They must do their duty. The laggard and the idle must be forced to yield to the entreaties and commands of the people. Will the people do their duty if their own delegates are gently handed from Palace- yard to the Tower? Will the people do tiieir duty by preventing the recur- rence of such diabolical designs of their foes, as fell upon the head of Wat Tyler, in the reign of Richard the Second? And will the nation do its duty by strictly avoiding all little petty jealousies and private bickerings, by adopting the glorious motto of Thomas Attwood, " Peace, law, and order;" and strictly avoid being led astray through bloody incitements and harangues of spies and traitors ? We must not notice the gabbling of O'Connell about bringing his deluded countrymen to prevent us from answering these questions in the affirmative— we must not mind incitements to bloodshed aud burnings— we must not mind royal, or rather Whig, proclamations, to put us down, so long as we strictly obey the law— and lastly, we must not beneath our united majesty by noticing the savage grinning and reproachful sneers and insults of the middle classes, who, I am perfectly sure, arc the real enemies of the people; but we must look to ourselves, and ourselves alone, the main pillar, prop, and foundation of the empire— as the people ac- tually arc the foundation of all society— for redress of grievances. We must depend upon our own untired exertions for a glorious and splendid victory. The day of retribution is at hand ; our tyrants tremble at the near approach of the Sth of February, 1831). Go on, sir, in your noble and unwearied career, and every tyrant combined shall quake with fear, from the loud echo of millions who have sworn to be free. I re- main, sir, your obedient and humble servant, A MEMBER OF THE BIRMINGHAM POLITICAL UNION. Birmingham, Dec. 20, 1838. [ Where did our correspondent learn that 700/. had been raised ? We are not aware that one- tliird of that sum has been raised.— E. B. J.] BURNS. Sir,— Of all the poets that ever wrote, none have done so much service to any cause as Robert Burns. The reason is obvious. They wrote from a fanciful notion— a theory— which they would scarcely hope or wish to see realised. Burns wrote from an ardent de- sire to alleviate the evils under which his kind laboured ; and he brought an independent spirit, a most powerful mind, and a tender heart, into the great work of rege- neration. There may, sir, it appears to me, be many of the working classes of the present day, who have not read the works of my countryman. I hope there are but few ; but I have long considered that a more general acquaintance with them would give additional argu- ments to the Reformer to pursue his onward course ; and, therefore, as a Scotchman and a Radical, it would give me great . pleasure to see occasionally parts of some of his poems inserted in your Journal. I might instance " A' that, and a'that," " The birth- day ad- dress to the King," " Man was made to mourn," " Epistle to a young friend," or the colloquy between Lnath and Ctesar, u here they comment on the vices of the great. Much and deservedly as they are known, I would wish to sec them extended to the very extremity of the globe, believing that the more they are read the more they w ill be admired, and the more service they will pcrlorm to the cause of freedom. If you should deem this worthy of consideration, it would sincerely gratify A HIGHLANDER. [ We entirely agree with our correspondent in his estimate of Burns ; of all the poets of modern days lie had a soul the most full of nature; and his out- breakings, in consequence, instead of dying down with passing fashions, seem destined to grow iu interest as they grow in years. But there is the lamentable drawback, for general purposes, of his writing in a dialect which even iu Scotland is far from being national; and which falls upon English ears, for the most part, like a trumpet of uncertain sound. There are exceptions in his works— poems which, though of Scottish structure, are yet capable of being read and relished by Englishmen. Some of these we may pro- bably, acting on our corraspoadent's hint, from time to time extract.— E. B. J.] Sir,— I regret that any " member" of the above- named institution should have written the letter which appears in your Journal of last Saturday; and without waiting for any more of his " items " f proceed to no- tice the present one, and to call a " halt" to his charges aud surmises. The object of liis letter is to assert, that " the conduct of the managers of the Mechanics' Institute tends to manifest an entire want of respect for the members of the Institution, to limit its numbers, and to cripple its usefulness, and to stamp upon it the indelible brand of comparative inferiority." The ground of this serious charge is, that the com- mittee of this Institution, having, some time ago, agreed for the purchase, on favourable terms, of the long- established " AIITIZANS' Library," which, in addi- tion to their own library, formed a collection far too large to b « deposited in the room of the Old Meeting- street School, hitherto so occupied; determined to re- move the smaller one to the locality of the larger one, and to submit to the disadvantages of a confined anil inconvenient situation, until they could remove the whole to a place eligible as its permanent receptacle. Of course, a " MEMBER of the Institution" cannot be ignorant of the fact, that a BUILDING FUND has long been slowly, very slowly accumulating; that after nu- merous and weary applications, the total has reached about half the amount of the single donation of Mr. R. V. Yates, or that of Mr. Molyneux, of Liverpool, to the Institution of that place ; that with such prospect of suceess in the way of donations, it would have been madness to launch into expenses for the erection of a building, and for the purchase of " globes, maps, and encyclopaedias ;" that the concerts at the Town Hall, offering excellent music at the cheapest rate, have been hitherto tolerably successful; and that, when the " mem- ber" was writing his letter, the lease was actually pur- chased of a house and premises for the purposes of the Institution. All these things, I say, must have been known to your correspondent, or his ignorance is inexcusable, if lie be really a member of the Institution ; and if not a member, his assumption of the title is, to say the least of it, an uncalled for, and rather impertinent, interfer- ence. The entire letter, however, exhibits a state of com. plete ignorance of the history, progress, and present state of Mechanics' Institutions. Had the writer been at all gifted with the power of making judicious in- quiry, or of judging and of comparing facts, he would have perceived that the " magnitude" of a town does not necessarily imply the existence of " superior facili- ties and encouragements for the pursuit of knowledge," that precedent is always but an indifferent mode of argument; that in Birmingham, the constant influx of junior subscribers to the Institution has made if. absolutely imperative to support, in as full efficiency as the funds would admit, the valuable system of CLASS INSTRUCTION as a distinguishing feature; while, at the same time, experience has shown that the eclat and display of frequent and expensive courses of lectures has been necessary to prevent the ever- fluctuating num- bers from sinking into insignificance. The premises in Newhall- street will be opened in a few weeks; and I do hope that the expectations of the committee, as to the results of the measure, may be fully gratified in its result. I also trust the letter writer, whether member or not, will think proper to attend the approaching annual general meeting, when the production of the accounts will show that those who had the charge of the funds, when they found that they reached the minimum of available amount, lost no time in making such arrangements for the LIBRARY, and for every branch of the Institution, as might realise the wishes of themselves and their constituents, both as to accommodations and to intellectual advantages. I am, sir, & c. W. IIAWKES SMITH, ( one of the Committee of the Birmingham Mechanics' Institute.) Dec. 24, 1838. GKNEHAI. HOSPITAL, DEC 2T Physician and Surgeon of the Patients of the week, Dr. Eceles and Mr. A, Jukes. Visitors Mr. James Turner and Mr. W. Harrold. In- patients admitted, 24; out, 81. In- patients discharged, 28; out, 73. Remaining in th* house, 174. STATE OF THE WORKHOUSE UP TO DECEMBER 17. Wo- INFANTS. Men. men. Boys. Girls. Male. Fein. Total. In the House 179 193 6 13 18 12 428 Admitted since .... 5 13 1 1 ] 2 J3 Born in the House 1 I 184 211 7 14 21) 14 450 Dlsehgd, absconded, 12 14 1 2 5 3 37 Total 0 f 172 197 6 12 15 11 41 Nnmlier of Cases relieved last week Nil in tier of Children In the Asylum... * Of whom a men and I woman died. ... 2,763 ... 319 MARRIAGES. On Christmas Day, by license, at the Scotch church, by the Rev. Robert Wallace, Mr. John Turner, of Liverpool, to Miss Jana Greig, of this town. On Monday last, at the register office. l\ Ir. Joseph Fletcher, of Han Isworth, to Miss Susannah fiaugll, of Birmingham Heath. On Sunday last, at St. Martin's, in this town, Mr. R. T. Adams, of Wolveihampton, to Miss Hannah Molton, of Coleshill, in this county. On Thursday last, at Wa'sall, Mr. Peter Tickers, to Elizabeth, widow of the late Mr. Thomas Wall, of the same place. On Christmas Day, at St. John's, Wolverhampton, Mr. Richard Tyrer, to Harriet, daughter of Mr. Hodges, of the Penn Road. On the 20th inst., at Biadley, Mr. Henry Saben, of Kid- derminster, to Mary, eldest daughter of Mr. liarlow, of Dearusdale. • ^ On Saturday last, at Daventry, Henry Lipscomb, Esq., to Frances Mary, eldest daughter of the lale Charles Rat tray, Esq., M. D., of Daventry. Oti the 2lst inst., at Oxenden, Northamptonshire, Philip W. Newsam, Esq., of Warwick, to Elizabeth Catherine, eldest daughter of the late Rev. T. Mercer, of Hackleton, near Northampton. On the 22ud inst., at Cumner, Berks, Mr. John Dormer, of Misterton, Leicestershire, to Miss Harriet Richards, daughter of Mr. S. Richards, of Hiriksey Hill, in the county of Berks. On the 19th inst., at the church of Sr. Mary le Strand, London, Charles Crudgington, Esq., of Kidderminster, to Mi- s Pond, of the ls'e of Ely. On Tuesday last, at St. Mary's church, Haddington, Mr. Thomas Ellis, of Sheffield, to . Miss Sarah Keziali Dunn, of Wycli Street, Loudon. DEATHS On Christmas Day, in George Street, Edgbaston, Har- riet, relict of the late C. Cope, Esq. On Monday last, at Rugeley, in her 2, » ih year, Anne, wile of Mr. John Hoiton, solicitor, late of Bradford Street, in this town. On Friday last, agetl 23. Mary Ann, eldest daughter of Mr. Henry Bevingron, of Surrey Square, London, and grand daughter of the late Mr. John Wheeley, of Edg- baston. On Friday last, Mr. I. C. Johns, of Bristol Street school, in this town. On the 23ul inst., much regretted by her family and friends, Mrs. Charles Emery, of Witchall Mill, King's Norton, aged SO. On Wednesday last, Mr. Francis Avery, of Red Hill, near King's Norton On Thursday last, Mr. John Finden, butcher, of Baf- sall, aged 66. On the I4tn instant, Mr. Barnett Lowe, of King's Nor- ton. aged 49. On the 20th instant, Mrs. Harris, wife of Mr. J. W. Harris, of Wolverhampton. On the 20th instant, Mr. William Bentley, tailor, oi Queen Street, Wolverhampton. On Sunday lait, at Tipton, Alfred, youngest son of Mr. Richard Bradley. On Tuesday week, John Muscott, Esq., of \ Vest0nbur5v aged 76. O11 Tuesday la9t, Mr. Jjhn Margetts, auet- ioHeer, of Warwick, aged 64. 8 TOE BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL, DECEMBER 29. LONDON GAZETTES. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21. DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY. BENJAMIN BRIGGS, grocer, Chatham. BANKRUPTCY ENLARGED. JOHN MUNDAY, artificial flower maker, Wood- street, Cheap- side, from December 25 to January 1. BANKRUPTS. Bankrupts to surrender at the Court of Commissioners, BasinghalLstreet, when not otherwise expressed.] FRANCIS FIDLAR HAND GREEN, woollen draper, Tottenham, court. road, Jan. 8 and Feb. 1, at the Bankrupts'Court Sols. Messrs. Turner and Hensman, Basing. lane. Pet. C- r. Fitzherbert Alford, BasinghalLstreet, warehouseman. Seal December 18. THOMAS BENJAMIN KING, licensed victualler, King- street, Aldgate, Jan. 4 and Feb. 1, at the Bankrupts' Court. Sol. Mr. Ivimey, Chancery- lane. Pet. Cr. Thomas King, Kng's- cottage, Hornsey- road, gent. Seal. December 20. JACOB RAY, builder, St. Dunstan's. hill, Jan. 8 and Feb. 1, at the Bankrupts' Court. Sol. Mr. Ashley, Shoreditch. Pet. Cr. Josiah John Lunlley, Shoreditch, auctioneer. Seal. December 19. WILLIAM I) AVIES, builder, Leominster, Jan. 3 and Feb. I, at file King's Arms Inn, Leominster. Sol. Mr. Smith, Chancery- lane. Pet. Cr. Francis Collins, Leominster, gent. Seal. November 20. - 10HN BATES, clothier, Almondbury, Yorkshire, Jan, 8 and Feb. 1, at the George Hotel, Huddersfield. Sols. Messrs. Rickards and Walker, Lincotn's- inn- fields. Pet. Cr. Thomas Robinson, Birkby, Huddersfield, gent. Seal. November 26. WILLIAM EDWARDS, china and earthenware manufacturer, Blackford- bridge, Leice.- tershire, Dec. 29 and Feb. 1, at the King's Head Inn, Loughborough. Sols. Messrs. Clowes and Wedlake, Temple Pet. Cr. Frederick Erasmus Edwards, 4, Southampton, place, Euston- square, gent. Seal. December 17. WILLIAM GRANT, watch maker, Haymarket, Jan. 8 and Feb. ), at the Bankrupts'Court. Sols.' Messrs Brooksbank and Farn, Gray's- inn. square. Pet. Cr. John Brydie, 4, Farringdon str_ eet, accountant. Seal. December 19. GEORGE GREEN, earthenware manufacturer, Kilnhurst Pottery, Rotherham, Yorkshire, . Jan. 1 and Feb 1, at the Town- hall, Shef- field. Sol. Mr. Rodgers, Devonshire- square. Pet. Cr. John Barker, Hannah Rawson, and Thomas Dunnage, Sheffield, lead merchants. Seal. December 14. DIVIDENDS. 3. SAUNDERS, jun., Paternoster- row, bookseller, January 14. D. FRANCIS, Goswell. street- road, surgeon, January 14. J. CATES, jun, Beaumont- street, Marylebone, surgeon, Janu- ary 14. J. GRANT and J. REID, Mansell- street, Minories, shipowners, January 11. • 3. MILLER, Drury- lane, stationer, January 11. T. C. MATHESON, Mansell- street, Minories, and Burr- street, East Smithlield, si p nvner, January 11. Iv. ARMISTEAD, Liverpool, straw hat manufacturer, January 11. W. J. COCKERILL, Poultry, music seller, January 11. • G-. B. HARDIMG, Cannon- street, paper hanger, January 12. J. D. STEVENS, Two Waters, Hertfordshire, paper maker, Janu- ary 12. W. ELKINS, Oxford- street, bookseller, January 11. H. JONES, Hunley, Staffordshire, china manufacturer, January 11. T. COMPSON, Hales Owen, Shropshire, tanner, January 15. G. LO WTHI AN, Exeter, draper, January 29. J. T. THRISG, Warminster, Wiltshire, scrivener, January 9. J. COWGILL, II. SAND1FORD, and J. BARLOW, January 17. R. SENIOR, Manchester, aud W. SENIOR, Glasgow, manufactu- rers, January 17. E. JONES, Sxvausea, Glamorganshire, linen draper, January 18. CERTIFICATES, JANUARY 11. J. B. Falkner, Liverpool, share broker— W. J. Walker, Thurston. land, Yorkshire, clothier— R. Nioholson, Leicester- place, wine mer- chant— J. B. Law, Bow- lane, Cheapside, warehouseman— T. Royle, Manchester, muslin manufacturer— R. A. Eaton, Luttey. mill, Wor- cestershire, miller— H. E. Moscley, West Ham, Essex, licensed victualler. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED R. Hall and T. Beesley, Garstang, Lancashire, joiners— Ravens- croft and Co , King- street, Holborn, and Higlustreet, Notting. lrill, cabinet makers— T. Marvvood, jun., B. L. White, and T. Carr, Sun. ierlaud, Dili ham, printers— Griffee and Palmer, Cloak- lane, brash manufacturers— W. H. Dikes and W. Gibson, Kingston. upoil. Hult, ship builders— W Bevan and W. Whitehead, Dulcinfield, Cheshire,' ironfounders — Kilburn and Co., Elland, Yorkshire, ironfourtders— J. Grattoa and J. W. Gratton, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, maltsters— S. A. Hurton and F. W. Griffiths, Liverpool, letter press printers— J. aud J. Brooke and W. Stott, Halifax, Yorkshire, ironfounders ( so far as regards John Brooke and W. Stott)— G. Porter and W. T. Arnold, Sydney— I. H. Kyan, T. Green, and J. M'Carty, Battersca, distiller's— A. Schloss and E. Alipress, Great Russell. street, Blooms- bury, stationers— J. and A. Moorhouse, Oldham, Lancashire, butclr. - ars— Lambert and Bond, Liverpool, vinegar brewers. . ASSIGNMENTS. Elizabeth Athey, Alnwick, spirit dealer. James Bullock, Devizes, grocer. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 25. DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY. WILLIAM BARTLEY, money scrivener, Liverpool. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. JAMES BO WERMAN, shopkeeper, Castle Carey, Somersetshire BANKRUPTS. DAVID DAVIES and RICHARD FERDINAND COX, coal own. crs, Oxford, January 15 and February 5, at the Bankrupts' Court. Sols. Mr. Chaplin, Gray's- inn. square; and Messrs. Richards and Motteram, Birmingham. Pet. Cr. Robert Pike, St. John- street, Oxford, sheriff's officer. Seal. December 15. THOMAS WHARTON, house carpenter, Lancaster, January 4 and Febr nary 5, < it the Royal Oak Inn, Lancaster. Sols. Messrs. . Loftus and Young, New- inn j Mr. Wilson, Kendall; and Mr. Baldwin, Lancaster. Pet. Cr. John Wilson, Kendall, gent. Seal. December 18. WILLIAM THOMAS DOORNE, bookseller, Torquay, Devon- shire, January 12 and February 5, at the New London Inn, Exeter. Self. Messrs. Clowes and Wedlake, King's- bench- walk, Temple j and Mr. Laidman, Exeter. Pet. Cr. William Poulton, Torquay, gent. Seal. December 14. JOHN NUT! ER and ROBERT NUTTER, corn merchants, Cam- bridge, January 10 and February 5, at the Red Lion Inn, Cam- bridge. Sols. Messrs. Egan, Waterman, and Wright, Essex- street, Strand; and Mr. Adcock, Cambridge. Pet. Cr. William Gladwin, Billerieay, farmer. Seal. November 23 GEORGE ELD, miller. Coventry, January 10 and February 5, at the King's Head Inn, Coventry. Sols. Messrs. Austen and Hob- son, Gray's- inn; and Troughton and Lee, Coventry. Pet. Cr. Henry Lee and Thomas Ball Troughton, Coventry, gents. Seal. December 18. DIVIDENDS. T. RANKIN, draper, Epping, Essex, January 15. J. ANDERSON, merchant, Winchester- house, Old Broad- street, January 15. C. BASAN, licensed victualler, Strand, January 15. B. VERRINDER, coal merchant, Davies- street, Berkeley- square, January 17. ' G. PALMER, tailor, Southampton, January 17. B. SEWELL and W. GARROD, drapers, Hackney, January 17. H. GRACE, painter, Regent- street, January 17. W. P. WILLIAMS, draper, Newton Abbott, Devonshire, Janu- ary 17. C. BAILEY and W. II. POTTER, wholesale druggists, Gailick- Mil, January 15. W. AT WOOD, watch maker, Lewes, Sussex, January 16. J. LLEWELLYN, draper, Carmarthen, February 14. S. HUGO, maltster, Truro, January 18. J. HARRIES, timber merchant, Carmarthen, April 4. D. DAVIES, victualler, Manchester, January 36. CERTIFICATES, JANUARY 15. G. Martin, builder, Oxford- street— J. Saul, schoolmaster, Green- rew, Cumberland— M. Groucott, dealer in glass, Leamington Priors, Warwickshire. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. • U. Collyer and T. R. Sabine, window blind manufacturers, Brigh- ton— J. Taylor, sen., and J. Taylor, juu., tailors, King- street, South, wark— W. Borradaile and J. Middleton, King's Arms- yard, Cole- tuan- street— J. M. Hervey and G. R. Burnell, iron founders, Thames Foundry, Brick- lane, St. Luke's— J. R, and T. Newbery, table cover manufacturers, Percy- street, Bedford- square— C. Bosworth and R.- Norton, brick makers, Upton, Nottinghamshire— J. T. and 11. B. Coles, paper makers, Wells, Somersetshire— T. B. Jervis and R. Baguley, manufacturers of striped cottons, Manchester— A. Bohte aad W. Muller, tailors, Sackville. street, Piccadilly- J. Holt and W. Benson, iron founders, Liverpool. ASSIGNMENTS. William Kilburn, John Hutchinson, and James Taylor, Elland, Halifax, iron founders. The following is the statement in Messrs. Sturge's circular : — PRESENT PRICES OF GRAIN. Birmingham, December 27, 1S. 18. s. d. s. d. WHEAT, English, White, per bushel of621b Old Irish, White ~~ — none BARLEY, English, Malting, per Imp. Quarter ^ Irish — — Grinding, per Quarter of 3921bs — OATS, English, White, per Imperial Quarter Welsh, Black aud White, per : il2lbs Irish,( weighing41 to421bs.) do. ( 37 to391bs.) . do. BEANS, English, Old, per bushel of( 55lbs. Irish —,„ none Foreign PEAS, Boiling, per Imp. Quarter — Grinding, per Quarter o( 392lbs FLOUR, English, Fine, per Sack of280lbs.~ Seconds WHEAT, English, White, per Imp. Bushel . Old English, Red — Old Irish, White, per601 bI Red ^^ nominal O1 d — nomina I Foreign BARLEY, English, Malting, per Imp. Quarter^- « . Irish ^.^^^^^^^^ none Grinding, per Quarter of 392lbs. OATS, English, White, per Imp. Quarter Welsh, Black and White — —~ Irish( weighing4l to421bs); per Qr. of312lbs. ( 37to39lbs.) BEANS, English, Old, per Imp. Bushel New ——— Irish . Foreign. PEAS, Boiling, per Imp. Quarter Grinding, per Quarter of 3921bs. , FLOUR, English, Fine, persack of280lbs, Seconds 10 6 to 11 6 10 6 .. 11 4 10 2 .. 11 0 10 0 .. 11 2 0 0 .. 0 0 0 0 .. 0 0 8 6 .. 10 8 10 4 .. 11 4 36 6 .. 39 6 0 0 .. 0 0 31 6 .. 33 6 ' 21 0 .. 34 0 23 9 .. 24 9 26 6 .. 28 6 24 6 .. 25 6 24 6 .. 26 0 5 6 .. 5 10 4 9 .. 5 2 0 0 .. 0 0 4 10 .. 5 6 46 0 .. 55 0 30 0 .. 33 0 64 0 .. 67 0 58 6 .. 61 6 rter 22, 1838. s. d. s. d, 10 0 to 10 6 0 0 .. 0 1) 9 9 .. 10 2 II 0 .. 0 0 0 0 .. 0 0 0 0 .. 0 0 0 0 .. 0 0 8 0 .. 10 6 31 0 .. 37 0 0 I) .. 0 0 31 0 .. 34 0 24 0 .. 34 0 23 0 .. 25 0 25 0 .. 27 0 23 0 .. 25 6 23 0 .. 24 6 5 2 .. 5 8 4 4 .. 4 9 0 0 .. 0 0 4 6 .. 5 0 48 0 .. 66 0 28 0 .. 31 0 63 0 .. 65 0 60 0 .. 62 0 Mumbles, 100 hnriels of oysters, Southan and Son— Venus, Port Talbot, 60 tons of copper and tin, Southan and Son— Prospect, Bath- urst, 606 pieces of timber, 13 deals, and 9 cords of lathwood, Price and Co Blucher, Tenby, 42 tons of coals, to order— Fame, Neatlu 45 tons of copper, Partridge and Co.— Tredegar, Newport, general cargo, Southan and Son— Velocity, Littlehampton, 9J5 pieces of beech timber, Birmingh< am aud Gloucester Railway Company— Bri- tannia, St. Ubes, oranges and cork, Phillpotts and Co.— Halcyon, Mumbles, 120 barrels of oysters, Southan and Son. EXPOKTS : The Three Sisters, for Waterford, with 160 tons of salt/ from Gopsil Brown; 30 dozens of mats, J. and C. Sturge— North Ash, Lontlon, 9( 5 tons of bar iron, 30 tons of pig iron, and 35 tons of clay, Kendall and Son— James and Sarah, Cardiff, 20 tons of salt, Gopsil Brown — George, St. John's, N. B., 250 tons of coals, Jesse Sessions— Penelope, St. Clear's, 85 tons of salt, Gopsil Brown— Earl Grey, Carmarthen, 34 ton3 of salt, Gopsil Brown— Hibernia, Ports- mouth, 82}^ tons of bricks, Kendall and Son— Jane and Mary, Bos- castle, 49 tons of salt, 2 tons of soda, and 6 tons of bricks, Southan and Son— Belinda, Swansea, general cargo, Southauand Son— Provi- dence, Minehead, 26 tons of salt, Southan and Son. WORCESTER WEEKLY AVERAGE. Qrs. Bush. Wheats Barley ~ Oats Beans „ Peas 1054 , 672 . 31 , 296 . 33 d . 79 I . 34 2i , 26 5 . 42 3i . 34 Hi Wheat Barley „ Oats Peas Beans ^ GLOUCESTER WEEKLY AVERAGE. Qrs. Bush. 243 452 — 354 13 ~~ 139 d . 78 4 . 34 10 . 24 6 . 40 0 , 39 7 Birmingham, December 27, 1838. At Gloucester market on Saturday Wheat fully maintained . the prices of the previous week. At Worcester Is. per quarter advance was obtained. Barley and Oats were also Is. dearer. Beans unal- tered, with less offering. Peas again rather lower. This week, owing to Christmas, & c., very little has been done in the corn trade. Wheat Barley, and Oats, are saleable at more money. Peas dull, and Beans unaltered. At this day's market the little Wheat sold was at an advance of 2s. to 3s. per quarter. Malting Barley Is. per quarter higher. Grind- ing more enquired for. Beans unaltered. Peas dull. Oats a slow sale, at a rise of Is. per quarter. HARVEY'S BARK PILLS WITH SARSAPA- RILLA, For Strengthening the Constitution and Purifying the Blooa. fB^ HESE Pills are obtained solely from Peruvian 1- Bark and Sarsapariila, 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 every 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 ot the digestive organs; when such is the case, as in all diseases arising from debility, these Pills will be found 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. Sold wholesale by Barclav and Sons, London, arid retail by M. Banks, druggist, W. M. Shillitoe, druggist, and Wood, Birmingham; J. C. Price, druggist, Tamworth; Ilollason and Merridew, Coventry; Heathcote, stationer, arid Harper, druggist, Warwick ; and by most medicine vendors in the kingdom. In boxes Is. l^ d. and 2s. 9d each. T IMPORTS INTO GLOUCESTER From the 1 Mh to the Z5th ins/. Wheat. Oats. Barley. Beans. Qrs Qrs 189Qrs Qrs Coastwise.. 855Qrs 198Qrs - Qrs Qrs Foreign.... Ors Qrs Qrs Qrs Peas. Flour. Rye. Vetches. Qrs Sacks Qrs Qrs Coastwise,. Qrs Sacks Qrs Qrs Foreign.... Qrs Sacks Ors Qrs WARWICK, SATURDAY, DEC. 22.— Wheat, per bag, old 30s Od to 32s Od ; new, 2 » s Od to 31s Od ; Barley, per quarter, 34s 0d to 38s Od i grinding, 29s Od to 36s Od ; Oats, 30s Od to 34s Od j New, 26s Od to 29s Od J Peas, perbag. Os Od to 0s Od ; Beans, 16s Od to 17s Od; new, 13s Od to 15s Od; Vetches, 0s Od to 0s 0d; . Malt 60sOd to 64s Od per quarter. HEREFORD, DEC. 22.— Wheat, per bushel Imperial measure 10s 9d to lis 2d. Ditto, new, per bushel, 10s 4d to 10s9J. Barley, 4s 5d to 4s 8d. BeanB, 4s Od - to 4s 8d. Peas, 0s Od to 0s Od VetcheB, Os Od to 0s Od. Oats, 3s Od to 0s Od. CrrELTENIIAM, DEC. 20. — Wheat, 10s Od to 10s 6d per bushe Ditto, red, 9 » 6d to 10s Od. Barley, 4s Od to 5s Od. Oats, 3s 9d to 4s 6d. Beans, 5s 6d to 6s Od. Hop INTELLIGENCE.— Worcester, Dec. 24.— Prices per cwt.:— East Kent pockets, £ 4 10s. to £ 88s. ; ditto bags, £ 4 4s. to £ 7 7s.; Mid Kent pockets, £ 3 15s. to £ 8 83. ; ditto bags, £ 4 0s. to £ 7 7s.; Weald of Kent pockets, £ 3 10s. to £ 5 5s. ; Sussex pockets, £ 3 3s. to £ 4 10s.; Yearlings, £ 2 10s. to £ 4 4s.; Old £ 0 0s. to £ 0 0s. J Old Olds, £ 1 Is. to £ 2 2s. CROSSTHVVAITE AND CO.' S OCCULT LOZENGES, For the cure of COLDS and COUGHS, INFLUENZA, SORE MOUTHS and THROATS, CONSUMP- TION, ASTHMA, SHORTNESS of BREATH, DISPERSION of PHLEGM, HOARSENESS. WI1EEZ1NGS, and all affections of the CHEST and LUNGS, and are an infallible remedy lor the HOOP- ING COUGH. ^ HE OCCULT LOZENGES are a preventative and destroyer of the incipient seeds of corrupt con- sumption, and in confirmed Asthma or Chronic diseases of the Chest, they afford immediate relief, as well as irt all Pul- monary Complaints. For Hooping Cough tliey are infalli- ble, generally curing that dreadful complaint in the short space of fourteen to twenty days. Tire composition ot these Lozenges are not only agreeable, but of so innocent a nature, that they may be given with perfect security to the most delicate infant, as well as to the robust of all ag% s, with a positive certainly of success; they invigorate and strengthen the lungs. Persons occasionally taking tliein are fortified against cold and inflammation. Twenty years' experience has placed tlieir beneficial ef- fects beyond the shadow of a doubt, having in no one in- stance during that long period fallen short ol tile desired result. Prepared ( only) by the Proprietors, Crosstliwaite and Co., Thavies Itia, Holborn, London. In boxes, 2s. 6d. each, duty included. N. B None are genuine but tlios signed by the proprie tors on the government stamp. Full directions for each complaint, including the method of giving them to infants, enclosed with every box. • Sold by Wood, 7S, High street; Banks, 5, High street ; Sumner and Portall, Shillitoe, and Flewitt, druggists, Bir- mingham. Stevens and Sort, Aleester. Peake, Atherstone. Rolllason, Coventry. Herring, and Newby, Leamington. Heatlicote, Hodgkinson, and Harper, Warwick. Bara- clouglr, Nuneaton. Lapwortli, Stratford. Smyth, Wed- nesbury. Tunley, West Bromwicli. Valentine and Co,, Walsall. Parke, Wolverhampton. Turner and Hollier. Dudley; and by all Druggists and Medicine Venders throughout 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 artd most efficacious medicine in the world for Coughs, Colds, Asth- mas, Hoarseness, Impeded Respiration, Difficult Expecto ration, Soreness or Rawness of the Chest artd 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 iespira- tion. It will be found invaluable to persons who are obliged to travel in the fogs arrd damp air, and 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, suc. lt 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 late 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 extraoidiriary cures effected by it in Northampton and neighbourhood, have spread its virtues far and wide. A Mrs. Tressler, residing irt Bull- lane, Northampton, was afflicted in July, 1835, with a dreadful Cough, and severe pain in her side anil chest, and she wishes the pro- prietor to make known to llie public, that his Chemical Es- sence of Linseed quite cured her violent Cough, and also the pains in iter 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 artd slight cough, with sore throat, which Simco's Chemical Essence ol Linseed cured very speedily. Sold in bottles, price Is. lkl., 2s. 9d., and 4s. 6d. each. Sold by Banks, Bull ling; Shillitoe, Wood, High street; Matthison and Co., Edghastorr street; Knott, Harvet, Martin, Dale end; and Clark and Son, Birmingham ; Banks, Park, Wolverhampton ; and Twinberrow, Learning, ton. Wholesale in London by Boddington and Co., Bar. clay and Son, and Sutton and Son ; also by Simco, North- ampton. FRANKS'S SPECIFIC SOLUTION OF COPAIBA. WITHIN a period of two months upwards of tlnee 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 Surgeonv, 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 cast's of discharges in. the male aud female ; and the results warrant my srating, that it is an effica- cious remedy, and one which does not produce the usual unpleasant effects of Copaiba. ( Signed) JOSEPH HENRY GREEN. 4f>, Liticoln's- inn- fields, April 15, 18'!.">. By Bransby Cooper, Esq . F II. S., Surgeon to Guy's Hospital, and Lecturer on Anatomy, fyc., 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 gonorrheea, for which disease Mr. Cooper has prescribed the Solution, itr 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, gieeis, urethral discharges, spasmodic strictures, irritation of the kidneys, bladder, urethra, and prostate gland ; its purifying effects upon the general health render it particularly applicable irt all cases of relaxed fibre and nervous debility. Prepared only by GEORGE 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, Ciieapside ; Newberry and Sorts, St. Paul's Churchyard; Drew artd Heyward, Great Trinity lane; Mander, Weaver, and Co., Wolverhampton ; Mawhood, Evans, and Son, Liverpool; Dennis and Son, York. Scotland,— I. and II. Raimes, Leitli Walk ; Butler and Innis, Edinburgh. Ire- land,— at the Medical Ilail, 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. LONDON MARKETS. CORN EXCHANGE, MONDAY, DEC. 24.— Wheat, Essex Red, new 70s to 72s; line, 753 to 76s; old, — s to — 8; white, new, 76s to 78s -, tine, 78- 1 to 80s; superfine, 81sto81s; old, — s to — s.— Rye 50s to 54s.— Barley, 34s to 38s; fine, 40s to 4lsj superfine, — s to— a.— Malt, 52s to 58s; fine, 60s to84s— Peas, Hog, 38s to 40s, Maple, 40s to 4Is ; white, 40s to 44, ; lioilers, 4cls to 50s.— Beans small, 36s to 42s; old, — s to — s; Ticks, 32s to 36a; old, 89s to 41s; Harrow, 38s to 40s.— Oats, feed, 24s to 27s ; line, 28s to 29s Poland,- 273 to 28i ; line, 29s to 31s; Potatoe, 30s to 32s ; line 32s to 33s.— Bran, per quarter, 8s Od to 9s Od.— Pollard, fine, per do 14s. to 20s. GENERALAVERAGEPRICEOFIIRITISHCORN FORTHE WEEK ENDING DEC. 2- 3, 1838— Wheat, 78s 4J ; Barley, S6s 2d; Oats, 25s 5d ; Rye, 4Ss8d; Beans, 41s IOd ; Peas, 43s 9d. DUTY ON FOREIGN CORN FOR THE PRESENT WEEK. — Wheat, Is Od Barley, 10s lOd ; 0ats, 10s9d; Rye, 6s 6d Beans, 9s 6d ; Peas 5B Od. FRAMPTON'S PILL OF HEALTH. TO THE SUFFERERS FROM BILIOUS AND LIVER COMPLAINTS. rsnirE unexampled success of FRAMPTON'S PILL A OF HEALTH calls for particular attention.— These Pills give immediate relief itr all Spasmodic and windy com- plaints, with the whole train of well- known symptoms aris- ing from a weak stomach or vitiated bilious secretion, Indi- gestion, pain at the pit of the stomach, Bilious or Sick Head Ache, Heartburn, Loss of Appetite, Sense of Fulness after Meals, Giddiness, Dizziness, Pain over the Eyes, & c. & c. Persons of a Full Habit, who are subject to Headache, Giddiness, Drowsiness, and Singing in the Ears, arising from tootgreat a flow of blood to the head, should never be without them, as many dangerous symptoms will be entirely carried off by their immediate use. They are highly grate- ful to the Stomach, create Appetite, relieve Langour and Depression of Spirits, gently relaxing the Bowels, without griping or annoyance, removing noxious accumulations, ren- dering the System truly comfortable, and the head clear. The very high encomiums passed upon them by a large por- tion of the public, is the best criterion of tlieir merit, and the continual statements of tlieir good effects from all parts of the kingdom, is a source of the highest gratification. Sold by T. I'rout, 229, Strand, London; price Is. l£ d. and 2s. 9d. per box; and at Birmingham by Shillitoe, Wood, Collins and Co., Edwards, Flewitt, Sumnerand Co., Smith, Suflield, Gazette and Advertiser offices; — Dudley; Morris, Turner and Hollier ;— Wolverhampton ; Mander and Co., Simpson ;— Atherstone; Davis;— Walsall; Valen- tine attd Co.;— Kidderminster; Pennell;— Lichfield; Mor- gan ;— Bewdley; Morris;— Westbromwich ; Shillitoe; — Shiffnall; Harding; — Bfomsgrove; 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 I'rout, 229, Strand, London,' on the government stamp. PRICE OF SBEDS, DBC. 24 1' er Cwt.— Red Clover, English, 60s to 84s ; fine, 9Js to 100s ; Foreign, 56s to 80s; line, 90s to 95s.— White Clover, SOs to 70s; fine, 80s to 90s.— Trefoil, new, 20s to 23s ; fine, 26s to 30s ; old, 18s to22s.— Trefolium, 0s to 0s ; tine, — s to — s. — Caraway, English, new, 43s to 4Gs ; Foreign, 40s to 44s— Coriander, 13s Od to 21s Od. Per Quarter.— St. Foin, 40s to 44s ; line, 46sto48s+ Rye Grass; 28s to 35s ; new, SOs to 40s ; Paeey Grass, 40s to45s; Linseed for feeding, 5? s to 56s j fine, 58s to 63s ; di tto for crushing, 43s to 50s.— Canary, 90s to 100s.— Hemp, 38s to 42s. Per Bushel White Mustard Seed, lis Od to 15s Od ; brown ditto 15sOd to 22s ; Tares, 4s 6d to5s0d ; fine uetv, 5s 3d to5s6d. Per Lust.— Rape Seed, English, 36( to38?; Foreign, 3 41 to361 OILS.— Rape Oil, brown, £ 42 10s per ton; Ueflnea£ 43 IOs » Linseed Oil, £ 27 10s ; and Rape Cake, £ 6 10a Linseed Oil C ake £ 14 14s per thousand . COUNTRY MARKETS, & c. BIRMINGHAM MARKET. Com Market, December 27. This day's market was moderately supplied with ail hinds of grain. Wheat readily made an advance of 2d. to 3d. per bushel. Barley . or malting ill request at Is. to 2s. per quarter. No change in the ; alue of grinding parcels. Oats Is. per quarter higher. Beans aud X^ eas find buyers at fully the terms of this day se'nniglrt, WtlK'AT— perOitbs. j BEANS—- perlrag, lOscoregros s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d 10 10 Old 16 0 _ 17 8 New 14 6 — 15 0 i PEAS— per& ag of 3 Bush. Imp FORlHill'LNG. 0 White 18 0 — 19 6 Grey 16 ( i — 17 6 0 FOH GRINDING. per bag of 10 0 score 15 6— 16 0 White 16 6— 17 6 0 FLOUR— pe/ sae/ c o/ 2S0lis. net 6 Fine 60 0 — 62 0 6, Seconds..,. 55 0 — 57 0 White 10 Red 10 4 — 10 Irish 0 .0 — 0 E ARLEY— par Imp. Quarter For Malting 0 0— 0 For Grinding, per SO'Ms 32 0 - 34 Tl AL T— pei Imperial Bushel Old and new 0 0 — 0 • OATS- per 3016s. Old 23 0 — 27 New 23 0 — 24 ilish ' 23 6 - 26 HAV AND ST RAW Swithfeld.— Ilay, 68s Od to 105s Od ; Inferior — s to— s; Clover, 65s to 120s; Inferior — s to — s; Straw, 30s to 38s. Whiteehapel.— Clover, SOs to 115s; new, — s to — s; second cut, — s to — s; Hay, 84 to 100s ; new ditto, — s to— s; Wheat Straw, SOs to 36s. Cumberland.— FineUpland Meadowand Rye. grass Hay, 95s to 100s; inferior ditto, 65s to 90s ; superior Clover, I15s to 120s ; Straw, 36s to 40s per load of36 trusses. Portman'Market.— Coarse heavy Lowland Hay,— sto — sj new Meadow Hay,— s to— s ; old ditto. lOOsto 115s ; useful ditto, SOs to 95s; New Clover ditto, 1008 to 120 s ; old ditto,— s to — s ; Wheat Straw, 34s to 38s perload of36 trusses. SMITUFIELD, DEC. 24— To sink the offal— per81b.— Beef, 3s 8d to 4s 104 ; Best Down and ' Polled Mutton, 3s lOd to 5s Odj Veal 4, Od to 6s Od ; Pork ,4s 2d to 5s 6d ; Lamb, 0s Od to Os Od. NGWGATEAND LEAOENHAT. L.— By the Carcase.— Beef, 3s Od to 4s Od ; Mutton, 3s Od to 4s Od; Veal, 4s Od to 5s 4d ; Pork, 3s4d < o 58 Od ; Lamb, 0s Od to 0s Od. GLOUCESTER SHIP NEWS, From December 20 to December 26. IMPORTS: The William and Elizabeth, from Quebec, with 466 pieces of fir timber, 17 pieces of oak timber, 1,200 deals, and 1,720 staves, consigned to. Prico and Co— Betsey, London, 5 puncheons of wine, in bond, Johnsons Brothers and Co.; 50 casks of tallow and 5 puncheons of oil, Francis Mayer; 5 tons of hemp, W. Best and Co.; 6 tons of ironmongery, Hack and Britton; 5 puncheons of com. pounds, Kent and Sons; general cargo, Gopsil Brown— Abcona, 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 of the Skin, for cleansing and purifying the Blood, and for removing every species of RHEUMATISM, STIFFNESS or SWELLING of the JOINTS, RHEU- MATIC GOUT, and Rheumatic Pains in any part of the body. Scald Head, Ulcerated Sore Legs if of 20 years' standing. Sold in bottles, at 4s. Od. and lis. each. Also, DR. TAYLOR'S HEALING OINTMENT, In Boxes, price 2s. 3d. cacli, which is recommended to be used with the " Drops," aiid| guarantees 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 DAD FLESH that is ill 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 Son, York; and sold wholesale and retail by Mr. Batiks, 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, Ciieapside, London; arrd most other medicine vendors. IMPORTANT CAUTION TO MOTHERS AND NURSES. SPURIOUS imitations of " GODFREY'S COR- DIA L," being offered for sale by many vendors of me- dicines, in bottles similar to the genuine, anil in small quantities bf druggists, 8ic., purchasers should be particti lar in seeing that tiie proprietor's name—" Benjamin God frey Windtis, 61, Bishopsgate street,"— is engraved orr 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 cffioacy of this medicine, consider it the safest and best ( hat can be given to children; and if the mother of an infant take an occasional dose, as prescribed in the, directions, 6he would find it most beneficial both to herself and child. The true Godfrey's Cordial is only sold in bottles at If. and 2s. 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, A TREATISE on every Stage and Symptom of the Ve- nereal Disease, in its mild and most alarming forms, is published by ESSRS. PERRY and Co., Surg- eons, who may - be personally consulted, oil all cases of secrecy, from nine in the morning till ten at night, and on Sundays from nine till two, at No. 4, GREAT CHARLES- STREET, four doors from Easy- row, Birmingham; 23, SLATER- STREET, near DUKE- STREET, LIVERPOOL, and 2, BALE STREET, near St. Peter's Church, MANCHESTER. In all cases the utmost benefit is derved from Messrs. Perry and Co. having an interview with the patient, for it emables them at once, without requiring another visit, to ascertain the nature of the disease, and to administer such remedies as will effect a permanent and perfect cure, in a much shorter time than would otherwise be possible, even when all other means have failed; for the Venereal Dis- ease presents itself in so many different shapes, that their mode of treatment must be varied accordingly, completely eradicating every particle of the insidious disease; thus restoring the patient speedily to the greatest of all blessings — perfect and renovated health. The Treatise is given gratis with each box of PERRY'S PURIFYING SPE- CIFIC PILLS, with a full description of the abovS com- plaint, ILLUSTRATED BY ENGRAVINGS, showing the different stages of this deplorable, and often fatal, dis- ease, as well as the dreadful eti'ects arising from the use of mercury, accompanied with plain and practical directions for an effectual and speedy cure with ease, secrecy, and safety, without the aid oi' medical assistance; it also contains many valuable hints, and advice well worth knowing. CAUI'ION.— In consequence of their extensive prac- tice, some unprincipled persons have been irt the habit of representing themselves as from the firm of Messrs. Perry and Co., without having tije least authority to do so ; giving a spurious and deleterious preparation for Perry's Purifying Specific Pills: it is, therefore, highly necessary to caution the public against such nefarious practices, and to state Perry's Purifying Specific Pills can only he obtained genu- ine at Messrs. Perry and Co.' s residences, 4, Great Charles street, Birmingham; 23, Siaier street, Liverpool; . ami 2, Bale street; near Sr. Peter's Church, Manchester; as rio individual is allowed to sell them, on any pretence what- ever. PERRY'S PURIFYING SPECIFIC PILLS, price 2s. 9d. and lis. per box, are well known throughout Europe atul America, to he the most certain and effectual cure ever discovered, for every stage and symptom of the venereal disease, including gonorhsea, gleets, secondary symptoms, strictures, seminal weakness, deficiency, and all diseases of the urinary passages, without loss of time, confinement, or hindrance from business; they have effected most surprising rfHires, not only in recent and sevete cases, but when salivation and allother means have failed; and when an early application is made t'o Messrs. Perry, surgeons, for the cure of a certain disorder, frequently contracted ill a mo- ment of inebriety, the eradication is generally completed in a few days; and in the more advanced and inveterate stages of venereal infection, characterised by a variety of painful and distressing symptoms, a perseverance in their plan, ( without restraint in diet or exercise) will insure to the pati- ent a permanent and radical cure. It is a melancholy fact, that thousands fall victims to this horrid disease, owing to the tinskilfulness of illiterate men, who, by the use of that deadly poison— mercury, ruin the con- stitution, cause ulcerations, blotches on the head, face, and body, dimness of sight, noise in tile ears, deafness, obsti- nate gleets, nodes on the shin bones, ulcerated sore throats, diseased nose, with nocturnal pains in the head arrd limbs, till at length a geueial debility and decay of the constitution ensues, and a melancholy death puts a period to their dread- ful sufferings. Messrs. Perry continue to direct their study to those dreadful cases of sexual debility, brought on by an early and indiscriminate indulgence of the passions, frequently ac- quired without the knowledge of the dreadful consequences resulting therefrom, and which not only entail on its vota- ries all the enervating imbecilities of old age, and occasion tiie necessity of renouncing the felicities of marriage, to those who have given way to this delusive and destructive habit, but weaken and destroy all the bodily senses, pro- ducing melancholy, deficiency, and a numerous tra: of nervous affections. In these distressing cases, whether the consequence of such baneful habits, or any other cause, a speedy restoration to health and strength may be relied on. Messrs. PERRY and Co., Surgeons, may be consulted, as usual, at No. 4, Great Charles- street, Birmingham; and 23, Slater- street, Liverpool. Only one p ,' sonal visit is re- quired from a country patient, to enable Messrs. Perry and Co. to give such advice, as will be the means of effecting a permanent atrd effectual cure, after all other means have p: oved ineffectual. Letters for advice, ( post paid) and containing a remit- tance, will be immediately answered. MULREADDY'S COUGH ELIXIR. NE dose is sufficient to convince the most scrupu- lous of the invaluable and unfailing efficacy of JVJul- readdy's Cough Elixir, for the cure of coughs, colds, hoarseness, shortness of breath, asthma, difficulty of breathing, huskiness, and unpleasant tickling in the throat, night cough, with pain on the chest, & c. The paramount superiority of this medicine above every other now in use, for the cure of the above complaints, only requires to be known to prove the passport to its being, ere long, universally made use of for the cure of e^ iy " description of Pulmonary Affection. To those who are unacquainted with the invaluable pro-*-" perties of Mulread. dy's Cough Elixir, the following letters willexhibit 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 greatditficulty, attended with much coughing, which always kept my soft palate relaxed, and in a state of irritation, and the more I coughed the worseit was, arid 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 £ 3,000iri medical fees, but it would have done more— it would have saved my having had to swallow, from time to tl IKP, up wards of a liogsli^ ad oi their nauseous, and, as tlicy all proved, useless drugs. The agreeable flavour of the mediciue is a great recommendation: I think you ought to put it up and sell it to the public, and if any one should doubt its efficacy, refer them tome. 1 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 prow an enormous fortune to your grand, children. If you make up your mind to do so, as 1 am what the world styles an idle man, you may enlist me ill your service in any way that you think would be useful. But I should advise you to place the management iu the hands of one of the great medicine houses in London. Haunay's, iu Oxford- street, areheingadvertised in all the papers here, as wholesale agents for llamsbottom' 8 Corn Solvent, which, by the bye, ray girls all say is really a care, aud manyother medicines: 1 should say this would be a very good house, Oxford street being one of the most public situations In Lon. dou. All joiu me in kind remembrance to yourself and Mrs. M. Believe me, yours, very truly, T. Mulreaddy, Esq. ROBERT GRANT. Birkenhead, Jan., 1835. DearSir,— The bottle of Medicine you left for me the other daj has greatly relieved the wheezing 1 have been so long subject to i and I do not now find the cold produce the sensation it used previous to taking your- medicine ; it used formerly to nip me on gotng out. atrd I seemed as though I bad a string run through my body, and the breastand backbones were drawn together. If you will be so good as to give me another bottle, I am sure it will work a perfectcure. I am, sir, your mostobedient servant, T. Mulreaddy, Esq. NICHOLAS BROWK. Liverpool, Der., 1834. MydearSir,— You most assrtredlydeserve the thanks of society for presenting it with such an invaluable cure for Couglis. For years pnst. duringthe winter mouths, and nivvays on foggy day" have I heretofore been compelled to confine myself a close and sol tar y prisoner in my library, to pre vent the possibility of being temptt to join in conversation, the excitement of which always produce such violent paroxysms of coughing, that I have been in constant dread of sudrlen dissolution, by bursting of a blood- vessel. At the commencement of the present season, by your kindliberality, l com- menced hiking the medicine you sent, and have taken twelve bottles. After I had taken three, I could respire as vigouroosly as in the early partof my life, and I now believe that I was then perfectly cured— a core not to have been expected at my advanced age, 88 years— but I persevered in taking it uutil 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, butit must and shall be- done, and if you neglect to do it, my sincere wish ia that you may be lugged out of your retirement, and compelled to provide it in quantities equal to the boundless waters; and you may rely upon it, that I, a locomotive proof of its wonderful power, will spare neither time nor trouble to promulgate its efficacy, until you will find your cottage attacked by myriads of my former fellow, sufferers, for a share of your bounty, and I myself now apply for the first, trusting that your goodness will not suffer you to refuse me a pretty considerablequantity, and I promise to distribute it most usefully. Whenever you have made up for sale, send me one thou, sand bottles. Ever your sincere well- wisher, T. Mulreaddy. Esq. W. HUGHES. Mr. Mulreaddy begs toobserve, that to publish copies of the whole of the letters he has received of the above tenor, would require several volumes. The selection here pre- sented he consiiters 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. IIANNA- Y and Co., 63, Oxford- street, London ; and retail by every other respecta- blevendof of medicines in bottles at is. l% d. each. 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- pointmentat Hannay 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 tiie public can be supplied with every patent and public medicine of repute; and also with the perfumes of all the respectable London perfumers, with an allowance on taking six or more of any other article at the same time. Sold by appointment by Wood, High- street; R. Mat- tliison, 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. 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, beverageorexercise. They do not disagree with the stomach, nor cause any offensive smell to the breath, as is the case with allother medicines in use for these complaints, and after a cure ef- fected by the use of these pills, the party willnotexperience any return of the complaint, as generally occurs after taking Balsam of Copaiba, and other drugs of the like nature, which only possessing a local action, merelj suppressed the complaintfor a time, without eradicating it from the con- stitution, and the patient on undergoing a little more fa- tigue than ordinary, finds all the symptoms leturn, and that they are suffering under the complaint as much as at first, and are at last constrained to have recourse to these pills, as the only certain cure. They are likewise a mostefficient remedy for Pimpled Faces, Scurf, Scorbutic Affections, and all Eruptions of the Skin. Captains of vesselsshould make apointof always taking them to sea; their unrivalled effi- cacy in curing Scurvy being known throughout the world. l'liefollowingletter selected from numerous other pro- fessional recommendations for warded to the proprietor when he first offered these pflls to the public, may be considered interesting. From that eminenisurgeon, the late Joshua Brookes, Esq., F. R. S., Professor of Anatomy, & c. & c. Theatre of Anatomy, Blenheim- street. Dear Cooper,— I have tried your pills in numerous instances, and triy candid opinion is that tlrey are a most improved system of treat, asent for those peculiar complaints for which you recommend them, curing with rapidity, and with aeertainty that I had never before witnessed ; but what I consider their most invaluable property is, that they entirely eradicate the com plaint, and never leave those dis- tressing secondary symptoms ( that harass the patient for life) which usually arise after the ttse of those uncertain remedies, Mercury and Copaiba. I think you cannotfail to have a very large sale for them Believeine, yours, very truly, JOSHUA BROOKES. Dr. Rorragan presents his compliments to Messrs. Hannay and Co , and writes o 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 tlieir great efficacy Incuring sexual diseases, and they deserve well of the public profession. The Purifying Drop3 are also a- most valuable antiscorbutic medicine Dr. B. has found tliem to be a decided specific for those eruptions of the skiu which frequently appear at the rise and fail 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 vvlro have gratefullyreturned their thanks for a complete cure of gonorrbcea, by the use o Cooper's Botanical Pills, I beg merely to say, that I have experi- enced an entire cure from the small quantity of six boxes of those Invaluable pills, a very urgent and distressing species of the above disorder: and ray 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 mado 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 11 A N N A Y and Co.' s General Patent Medicine Warehouse, 63, Oxford- street, the corner of Wells- street, London, where the public can besuppiied with every Patent Medi- cine of repute, ( with' an allowance on taking six at one time) warranted genuine and fresh from the various makers. Orders by post, containingaremittance, Jiunctuallyatt ended to, and the change, if any, can be returned with the order. Sold by appointment by \\ r. Wood, High- street; R. Matthison, 71, Edgbaston- street; Hodgetts, Spiceal- street; Watts, Sriowhill; and Guest, Steelhouse- lnne, Birmingham; and by the principal medicine vendors in very other town in the kingdom. Printed and publislie by FRANCIS BASSETSIIENSTON* Fr. iNnEi. r., 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. BARKEH, 33, Fleet- street.— Saturday, Dec. 29,18S8.