THE XltH VOL. XXII.— No. 1131. " THE CENTRE AND FOUNDATION OF THE CONSTITUTION OF ENGLAND IS LIBERTY."— CAMDEN. PRICE A\ d., OR 5S. PER QUARTER. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY ROBERT LEADER. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1841. No. 41, HIGH- STREET, SHEFFIELD. A CARD. MR. PORTER, SURGEON, No 1, SURREY STREET. SPECIAL MISSIONARY SERVICES. ON LORD'S DAY, Sept. 26th ( TO- MORROW,) the Rev. T. PENNOCK, Missionary from Jamaica, West Indies, will Preach in STANLEY STREET CHAPEL, in the Morning, at Half- past Ten ; and in the Evening, at Six o'Clock, in SURREY STREET CHAPEL. Ou MONDAY Evening," a PUBLIC MISSIONARY MEETING will be held in SURREY STREET CHAPEL, to commence at Seven o'Clock, when the Rev. T. PENNOCK, and other Ministers, will address the Meeting; and Collections will be made after each Service, in aid of the Mission to the Emancipated Negroes. GREAT REDUCTION IN CARPETS, PAPER HANGINGS,& c. WBRAILSFORD begs to solicit attention to his » valuable STOCK, which consists of an Assort- ment of CABINET FURNITURE, of good Manufac- ture, in the newest Style; Brussels Carpets, of new pat- terns, at 3s. lOd. per yard; Stair and yard- wide Carpets; Passage Floor Cloths, of good quality, at 3s. 2d., yard wide ; Oil Painted Table Covering, at Is. lOd. per square yard. Also in Stock, 2000 Pieces of Paper Hangings, of 140 various patterns, at lOd. per piece and upwards. W. B. returns sincere thanks for past favours con- ferred, and hopes, by strict assiduity, to obtain a portion of public support. N. B.— The Cabinet Department is conducted under the Superintendence of a person ofgreat practical knowledge. COFFINS MADE TO ORDER. 7, George street, Sept. 24th. SHEFFIELD LITERARY & PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. LECTURES ON PAINTING. THE Proprietors and Subscribers are respectfully in- formed that a COURSE of SIX LECTURES, on PAINTING, will be delivered by B. R. IIAYDON, Esq., in the Music HALL, on the Evenings of the £ th, 6th, 8th, 11th, 13th, and 15th of October, 1841. HENRY BOULTBEE, 1 Secretaries WILLIAM LUCAS, J Secretancs September 24th, 1841. SHEFFIELD MEDICAL INSTITUTION. THE MEDICAL SESSION, for 1841- 2, will com- mence on FRIDAY, October 1st, when a PUBLIC INTRODUCTORY LECTURE will be deliveied by Mr. TURTON, at Eight o'Clock in the Evening. All further Particulars may be known by applying to Dr. FAVELL, Howard street. LOHDON OYSTER ROOMS, WATSON'S WALK, SHEFFIELD. PASHLEY begs to announce that his arrangements • in London enable him to heve a daily supply of th BEST NATIVE OYSTERS; And receiving the same by Railway communication, it ensures their freshness, by being delivered at his Estab lishment a few hour » after leaving the Metropolis. Those Friends who may favour him with their Orders, can have any quantity sent direct from Town, by intorm ing him T) vo Days previous to the time required. Out doors Is. and Is. 3d. per score. In the Rooms ...... Is. 4d. do. Barrels 6s. and 8s. each. Double Barrels 16s. do. Private Oyster Room up Stairs. Wines and Spirits, the celebrated India Pale Ale, Burton and Home Brewed Ale, London Bottled and Draught Porter, & c. A T GRAND FETE THE BOTANICAL GARDENS. NAVAL EIIOAQEMENT, AND STORMING OF ST. JEAN D'ACRE. THE Public are respectfully informed, that M BY WATER has engaged to give a Display of his unrivalled FIREWORKS next MONDAY, 27th Sept, when among other new and splendid devices, he will ex, hibit a Representation, on a large scale, of the renowned NAVAL ENGAGEMENT between the SHANNON and CHESAPEAKE. The STORMING of ST. JEAN D'ACRE will also be repeated, with considerable and effective additions. The Committee regret the inconvenience occasioned at the last Exhibition, by the delay at the commence ment, which was owing to the short time which Mr, Bywater had to prepare the splendid Piece, the Storming of St. Jean D'Acre; but as these arrangements are completed, he will commence next Monday with his usual punctuality, and exhibit that Piece to far greater advan- tage than on the former Evening. Should the weather prove favourable, the Exhibition will be announced by the Bells being rung at One o'Clock. The Fireworks to commence at Half- past Six. By the polite attention of Colonel CHARLTON, the Splendid BAND of the QUEEN'S BAYS will be in attendance at Four o'Clock. Admission, One Shilling; Children, Half- price; Sub- scribers, Free. EBENEZER SMITH, Secretary. N. B.— Particulars in the Hand- bills. Mc PATENT SOLAR LAMPS. WM. & GEO. STACEY, General Ironmongers, Bell Hangers, Gas Fitters, fyc., OST respectfully call the attention of their Friends, and the Public generally, to the advan- tages which the newly- invented SOLAR LAMP pos- sesses over all others hitherto introduced. It will burn Oil of the commonest kind, with great brilliancy, without the least smoke or offensive smell. Very littie attention is necessary, and the effect desired is altvays certain. In point of economy, the advantages are very great; the largest sized Lamp will give as much light as Six ordinary Mould Candles, whilst the cost of the oil would not ex- ceed that of two such candles. They have on hand an assortment of Table and other Lamps, which they invite their Friends to inspect. New Heads, ( upon the Solar principle,) fitted to Old Lamp Pillars. Fruit Market, Sheffield, 23rd Sept., 1841. TO THE CONSERVATIVE PUBLIC. TO meet the wishes of a large number of Conservative Friends, the Party into whose hands the SHEFFIELD PATRIOT has finally fallen, have resolved, that on and after the 2nd of OCTOBER, the Paper shall be Published EARLY EVERY SATURDAY MORNING, instead of Tuesday, as heretofore. The First Number- under the new arrangements, will be GRATUITOUSLY PRESENTED TO REGULAR SUBSCRIBERS. All Orders, Advertisements, and Communications, are requested to be addressed to T. MICKLETHWAITE No. IS, Haymarket, Sheffield. TO BE LET, And may be entered upon on the 5th October, APRINTER and BOOKBINDER'S SHOP, situate in York street. On account of its public and cen- tral Situation, it would be found suitable for any other Bu- siness, and might be easily altered for an Attorney's Office. Any Person having a few NEW GAS SHARES to dispose of may hear of a Customer, by applying to Mr. JONATHAN BUXTON, Highwway Office, who has the Let- ting of the above- named Shop. Royal EXCHANGE ASSURANCE Of HOUSES and GOODS from FIRE. 21, Lombard street, London. ( Established by Royal Charter, in the reign of King George the First.) For Assuring Houses, Buildings, Goods, Farming Stock, fyc., from Loss or Damage by Fire ; and also for the Assurance of and granting Annuities on Lives. THE Insurance Duty of 3s. per Cent, on Farming Stock having been repealed by an Act of the 3rd and 4th William IV. the Company's Agents are autho-- rised to accept New Insurances, and also the renewal of existing Policies, on " Agricultural Produce, Farming Stock, and Implements of Husbandry," at a Premium of Two Shillings per Cent., without the average clause. Persons whose annual Premiums fall due on the 29th inst., are hereby informed that Receipts are now ready to be delivered by the Company's Agents; and the par- ties assured are requested to apply for the renewal of their Policies on or before the 14th of October, as the usual fifteen days allowed for payment, beyond the date of each Policy, will then expire. " ., THOMAS TOOKE, Esq., Governor. WILLIAM SAMPSON, Esq., Sub- Governor. BARTHOLOMEW JEFFERY, Esq., Deputy Governor. DIRECTORS. Henry Bainbridge, Esq. Geo. Pearkes Barclay, li CAPITAL HOTEL AND POSTING- HOUSE rg^ O BE LET, called the CASTLE HOTEL, and J. beautifully situated in the fashionable and well- frequented Watering place of Leamington Spa, War- wickshire. It has been established upwards of Twenty Years, and is now Let in consequence ol the death of the late Proprietor. The surviving Relatives having other Business to attend to, will endeavour to meet the offers of a respectable Person on the most liberal terms. For particulars, apply on the Premises; or of Mr. J. W. BAKER, Hanover Buildings, Sheffield. WATH- UPON- DEARNE. TO BE LET, with immediate Possession, advanta- geously situated in the principal Street of the popu- lous and thriving Village of Wath, a HOUSE and SHOP, with WAREHOUSES, Stable, Garden, and every other Convenience. These Premises have for upwards of Twenty Years been occupied in the Grocery and Drapery business, and present a very favourable opportunity to any one wishful to commence in that line at Wath. Application to be made to Mr. JOHNSON, Wine and Spirit Merchant. Wath, near Rotherham, 23d Sept., 1841. REDUCED FARES. SHEFFIELD to HULL; for 5s. NORTH MIDLAND RAILWAY. NOTICE. CHEAP TRAIN From SHEFFIELD to HULL every Morning, and from HULL to SHEFFIELD every Afternoon. THE Public are respectfully informed, that on and after MONDAY, the 6tli September, Passengers will be conveyed through to HULL by a Train leaving Sheffield, at Six o'Clock in the Morning, and to SHEF- FIELD by a Train leaving Hull, at Two o'Clock in the Afternoon ( Sunday's excepted.) Fares from Sheffield to Hull, or from Hull to Sheffield: First...... Second Third Class. 12s. 8s. 6s. By Order, HENRY PATTESON, Secretary. Sheffield Station, 6th Sept. 1841. John Chr. Lochner, Esq. Sir J. Wm. Lubbock, Bart. Chas. Jn. Manning, Esq. The Hon. J. T. L. Melville. Henry Nelson, Esq. Ed. Howlev Palmer, Esq. John H. Pelly, Esq. Abraham G. Robarts, Esq. Charles Robinson, Esq. Sir Samuel Scott, Bart. William Soltau, Esq. Robert Thorley, Esq. Octavius Wigram, Esq. AGENTS. SHEFFIELD - Mr. GEORGE TURTON, Shrewsbury road. Bradford ........ Mr. Thomas Ashworth. Deu- sbury Mr. Titus S. Brooke. Halifax Mr. Jas. Edward Norris. Huddersfield Thomas Pitt. Ripon John Jackson. Skipton . Thomas Brown. William Brown, Esq. Edmond S. P. Calvert, Esq. William Davidson, Esq. John Deacon, Esq. James Gibson, Esq. Riversdale W. Grenfell, Esq. William T. Hibbert, Esq. Lancelot Holland, Esq. Sir G. G. de H. Larpent, Bart., M. P. Corroboration of the Innocent yet Relieving Proper- ties of BLAIR'S GOUT AND RHEUMATIC PILLS. TO MR. PROUT, 229, STRAND, LONDON. Hawley, near Bagsbot, Jan. 11th, 1841. SIR,— It is now twelve months since I made you ac- quainted with the very extraordinary benefit I had derived by taking Blair's Gout and Rheumatic Pills, which were kindly recommended to me by Major Birch, of Crondale, near Farnham, who humanely came to my house to take my affidavit that I might receive my half- pay, being then laid up with one of my serious attacks. I then forwarded to you the garrison order by which I was invalided home from Newfoundland, after many years of great suffering. I now beg further to say, that within the last twelve months I have had several attacks, hut have, thank God, with the assistance of the Pills, been always able to ward them off without much pain, and have not once had a return of those weakening perspirationB which formerly afflicted me, and am now in excellent comparative health. I also have to inform you that Mr. George Maynard, of Cove, near Farnborough, Carrier, having witnessed the effect of Blair's Pills on me, and being himself at- tacked with Gout, tried the Pills, and obtained immediate relief. If you please you may publish this additional proof of the value of this Medicine. I am, Sir, your's truly, J. MASTERS. GARRISON ORDER ABOVE ALLUDED TO. ( CERTIFICATE.) St. John's, Newfoundland, 12th March, 1838. Conformably to a Garrison Order, dated 9th March, 1838, for the Assembly of a Medical Board, to take into consideration the state of health of Lieut. Masters, R. V. C., and to report accordingly. We, the under- signed Staff Officer and Civil Practitioner, forming the Board authorised by that order, after a strict examination of the case of Lieutenant Masters, consider him as en- tirely unfit for military duty.— Lieut. Masters has for several years been afflicted with Rheumatic Gout, which has produced serious functionary derangements of his stomach, liver, and other viscera, and finally given rise nfirmity, weakness, and enlargement of the articula- tions, especially of the ancle joints; his general health and constitution is much impaired, and therefore, in our opinion, he is incapable of further service.—( Signed) ANDREW FERGUSON, M. D., Staff- Assist.- Surg. EDWARD KIELLY, Surgeon. This valuable Medicine is sold by Thomas Prout, 229, Strand, London ; and, by his appointment, by Robert Leader, Ridge and Jackson, Whitaker, Wreaks, Slack, Machon and Co., Lofthouse, Powell, May, Hartley,, Sheffield; Woodhead, Roberts, Chesterfield' ; Brooke and Co., Stafford, Walker and Co., Faulkner, Doncaster; Cardwell, Gell, Lawton, Smith, Dawson, Wakefield; Sissons, Worksop; Gething, Langley, Mansfield; Wright, Macclesfield; Sims, King, Stockport: Price, Priestley, Pontefract; Walters, Alfreton ; Whitham, Ashbourne Rhodes, Snaith; Grasby, Bawtry; Fell, England, Spivey, Huddersfield; and all respectable Medicine Venders hroughout the United Kingdom j price 2s. 9d. per box, TO THE PUBLIC- NO sooner is a Medicine well established in Public favour than a host of Imitators arise, who, for the sake of gain, not only wrong the Proprietors of the Genuine Medicine, but inflict a serious injury on the unwary pur- chaser of their base counterfeit trash. These observations apply with increased effect to the medicine which is now so well known as " PARR'S LIFE PILLS." This famous remedy has been established by undoubted proofs of its efficacy, and by a mass of Evidence and Testimonials which no other medicine ever yet called forth. These facts have had the effect of producing a very large sale — more than 15,000 boxes per week. When this large sale came to the knowledge of some unprincipled persons, who for the sake of gain to themselves, and reckless of the injury it, may do to others, are attempting to foist on the incautious various imitations, supported by the most ENORMOUS SYSTEM OF LYING ever yet printed ; and in or- der that purchasers may be able to detect these frauds, care must he taken to look at the Government Stamp pasted round each box, and be sure it has the words " PARR'S LIFE PILLS" in white letters on a red ground engraved therein, and form part of the stamp ; also that'' Mr. Ed- wards, 67, St. Paul's London," is printed with the direc- tions wrapped round each box. S3 » Ask for PARR'S LIFE PILLS, and enquire for the little book, containing the Life of Old Parr, thirty- two pages, with engravings, also the numerous testimonials, which may be had gratis on application to A. WHITAKER, Iris Office, and of all Agents and respectable venders throughout the United Kingdom. Read the extraordinary cases of cure published in the Sheffield Iris every week. CORNS, BUNIONS, & c. THE Difficulty of procuring a Remedy that is really beneficial in eradicating those painfully hard and callous substances called CORNS, has been lont; felt by the Public. The Proprietor of the ANTI- CALLOSITY, or RUSSIAN CORN AND BUNION PLAISTER, feels great confidence in recommending it as the most certain cure for all Callous Swellings on the Feet that has ever yet been invented. By the use of this Plaister, immediate Benefit will be found, and in a short time a Radical Cure will be effected, not by cutting ( which is generally attended with danger,) but by gradually dis- persing the Hard or Soft Corn, and entirely removing those painful throbbings so severely felt at every change of weather. Sold, with full Directions for Use, in Boxes, Is. ljd. and 2s., at SANGER'S Medicine Warehouse, 150, Oxford street; and by all respectable Medicine Venders n Town and neighbourhood. IMPORTANT TO LADIES. KEARSLEY'S ORIGINAL WIDOW WELCH'S _ FEMALE PILLS, so long and justlv celebrated for their peculiar virtues, are strongly recommended to the notice of every lady, having obtained the sanction and approbation of most Gentlemen of the Medical Profession, as a safe and valuable Medicine in effectually removing obstructions, and relieving all other incon- veniences to which the female frame is liable, especially those which, at an early period of life, frequently arise from want of exercise and general debility ot the system : they create an appetite, correct indigestion, remove giddi- ness and nervous headache, and are eminently useful in windy disorders, pains in the stomach, shortness of breath, and palpitation of the heart: being perfectly in- nocent, may be used with safety in all seasons and climates. The following is the opinion of Dr. Osborne, an emi- nent practitioner of Du- blin, and Physician to Sir Pa- trick Dun's, and the Mercer's Hospital. In one of his recent lectures, reported in the Dublin Medical Journal, he makes the following remarks on this Medicine : — " THE WIDOW WELCH'S PILLS.— These Pills have an extensive sale, and are in high and long established re- pute, as an effectual remedy in removing obstructions, See. in females. One of them was given to a young lady under my care, with the desired effect following on the same nigh:; and three other cases came to my knowledge, in which a similar result followed their use." CCS* It is necessary to inform the Public that KEARS- LEY'S is the only ORIGINAL and GENUINE MEDI- CINE of this description ever made, and has been pre- pared by them for more than FIFTY YEARS ! I Purchas- ers are particularly requested to remark, that, as a testi- mony of authenticity, each Bill of Directions contains an affidavit, and bears the signature of " C. KEARS- LEY," in writing, and each box is wrapped in white paper. Sold, Wholesale and Retail, by J. Sanger, 150, Oxford street, London; and by all respectable Medicine Venders in the Town and neighbourhood. fTlHE RED ROVER COACH COMPANY, in re- X turning thanks for the liberal support afforded them to the present time, beg to inform their Friends and tha Public generally, that they are, in conjunction with the THORNE STEAM PACKET COMPANY, now conveying Pas- sengers from Sheffield, Rotherham, and Doncaster, to Hull, at the undermentioned unusually low Rate of Fares,— namelv. - namely, Coach. Sheffield to Hull Outside .. Do. do. ..... Outside .. Do. do Inside ... Rotherham to Hull .... Outside ~ Do. do. Outside Do. do. Doncaster to Hull.... Do. Do. do Outside do. ...... Inside. Packet. • Fore Cabin.. Best Cabin.. • Best Cabin.. . Fore Cabin.. Best Cabin.. Inside Best Cabin.. Outside Fore Cabin.. . . Best Cabin.. . . Best Cabin.. s.'- d. 5 O 6 O 0 6 6 6 6 6 6 NEW WORK on DEBILITY, & c. JUST PUBLISHED, Price 4s. ; or sent by Post, free, 5s., To the Sufferers from Bilious and Liver Complaints. rpHE unexampled success of FRAMPTON'S PILL _ of HEALTH calls for particular attention.— These Pills give immediate relief in all Spasmodic and Windy Complaints, with the whole train of well- known synip- toms arising from a weak stomach, or vitiated bilious secretion, Indigestion, Pain at the Pit of the Stomach, Bilious or Sick Head- ache, Heart- burn, Loss of Appe- tite, Sense of Fulness after Meals, Giddiness, Dizziness, Pain over the Eyes, & c. & c. Persons of a full habit, who are subject to Head- ache, Giddiness, Drowsiness, and Singing in the Ear6, arising from too great 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, and Apoplexy often avoided. They are highly grateful to the Stomach, create Appetite, re- lieve languor and depression of spirits, gently relaxing the bowels without griping or annoyance, removing nox- ious accumulations, rendering the system at perfect ease, and the head clear. The very high encomiums passed upon them by a large portion of the public, is the best criterion of their merit, and the continual statements of their good effects from all parts of the Kingdom, is a source of the highest gratification. Sold by T. Prout, 229, Strand, London, Price Is. l| d. per Box; and by his appointment, by Leader, Ridge and Jackson, Whitaker, Wreaks, Slack, Machon and Co., Lofthouse, Powell, May, Radley, Sheffield; Woodhead, Roberts, Chesterfield ; Brooke and Co., Stafford, Walker and Co., Faulkner, Doncaster; Cardwell, Gell, Lawton, Smith, Dawson, Wakefield ; Sissons, Worksop ; Gething, Langley, Mansfield; Wright, Macclesfield ; Sims, King, Stockport; Price, Priestley, Pontefract; Walters, Alfreton; Whitham, Ashbourne; Rhodes, Snaith ; Grasby, Bawtry ; Fell, England, Spivey, Huddersfield ; and all respectable Medicine Venders throughout the United Kingdom; Price Is. l| d. and 2s. 9d. per box. Ask for FRAMPTON'S PILL of HEALTH, and observe the name and address of " Thomas Prout, 229, J Strand, London," on the Government Stamp. SELF- PRESERVATION; a Popular Inquiry into the Concealed Causes of those obscure and neglected Disorders of the Generative System, originating in cer- tain solitary habits, youthful excesses, or infection, and terminating in Nervous Debility, Local or Constitutional Weakness, Gonorrhae, Syphilis, Indigestion. Insanity, and Consumption. With Practical Observations on the Anatomy, Physiology, and Diseases of the Reproductive Organs, and plain Directions for their perfect Restora- tion. By SAMUEL LA'MERT, Consulting SURGEON, 21, Faulkner street, MANCHESTER, Matriculated Member of the University of Edinburgh, Honorary Member of the London Hospital Medical Society, Licentiate of Apothe- caries' Hall, London,-& c. & c. Published by the Author, and Sold in London by S. Gilbert, 26, Paternoster row; Courier Office, Manchester; Watts. Snow hill, Birmingham ; Advertiser Office, Hull; Lawson, York ; Kelly, Sheffield; Review Office, Notting- ham; and by all Booksellers. The design of this Work will be tolerably obvious from its title. Addressing itself to the once thoughtless youth, whose follies have entailed upon incipient manhood, De- bility or Disease, the means of escape and restoration are faithfully unfolded. Parents, guardians, heads of fami- lies, and schoolmasters, are by no means accurately aware of the nature and extent of the evils it is the object of this book to pourtray; nor are the true causes of physical degeneracy, imbecility, and juvenile mortality, justly esti- mated or even correctly suspected. The necessity of renouncing the felicities of Marriage is a state to which imaginary fears have secretly doomed many who have too hastily concluded themselves hope- lessly unfit for the sacred obligations of wedded life. To such, among others, this essay- addresses itself; and by its perusal many questions may be satisfactorily adjusted that admit of no appeal even to the most confidential friend. To fan the 6park of hope, to dissipate ground less alarm, to restore failing confidence, and point to the means of securing a happy old age, is no trifling recom- mendation of an effort directly tending to the social and moral welfare of all classes of the community. That eminent Surgeon, the late Sir Astley Cooper, in his published Lectures, observes:—" If one of these mi- serable cases could be depicted from the pulpit, as an il- lustration of the evil effects of a vicious and intemperate course of life, it would, I think, strike the mind with more terror than all the preaching in the world."—" It is all very well, for sentimentalists, to declaim about a no- tice of them, but justice, morality, and the preservation of health, as well as the perpetuation of the human race, demand it." TESTIMONIAL.—" It is the best book extant upon the subjects on which it treats; it is carefully written, and contains nothing but what is of practical value."— Man- chester Chronicle, May 1, 1841. In pointing out to persons of both sexes the frightful evils both to body and mind, inseparately attendant upon the absence of self- control, the warning beacon is held up to nature; and the treacherous quicksand is faithfully de- lineated, upon which have been wrecked the hope and promise of many a noble youth, now lost to usefulness, affection, and self- respect. Mr. La'Mert is to be consulted daily, at his residence; and country patients are requested to be as minute as possible in the detail of their symptoms, age, general ha- bits of living, and occupation in life of the party. The communication must be accompanied by the usual con- sultation lee of iSl, without which no notice whatever can be taken of their application; and in all cases the most inviolable secrecy may be relied on. 21, FAULKNER STREET, MANCHESTER. Sold, it KELLY'S, News Agent, Campo lane Sheffield. JUST PUBLISHED, in Demy Svo.' BY MESSRS. PERRY & Co., Consulting Surgeons, 4, Great Charles street, Birmingham, and 44, Al- bion street, Leeds, Illustrated bv Eight Fine Engravings, THE SILENT FRIEND, a Practical Treatise on Syphi- . itic Disease in their mild and most alarming forms, in- cluding observations on the baneful effects of Gonorrhoea, Gleets, and Strictures, representing the deleterious in- fluence of Mercury on the external appearance of the Skin, by Eruptions on the Head, Face, and Body; to which are added very extensive observations on Debility, Drought on by youthful impropriety, all its attendant sympathies and dangerous consequences considered, with mode of Cure. The whole accompanied by explanatory Engravings, with general instructions for the perfect restoration of those who are incapacitated from entering into the holy state of Marriage, by the evil consequences arising from early abuse, or syphilitic infection. This invaluable Work will be secretly inclosed with each Box of Perry's 1' urying Specific Pills, ( Price 2s. 9d,, 4s. 6( 1. and lis. per Box.) and the Cordial Balm of Syriacum, ( Price lis. and 33s. per Bottle,) and is point- ed out to suffering humanity as a Silent Friend, to be consulted without exposure, and with assured confidence of success. PERRY'S PURIFYING SPECIFIC PILLS, Price 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d., and lis., per Box, are well known through- out Europe and America, to be the most certain and effectual cure ever discovered for every stage and symp- tom of the Venereal Disease, without " loss of time, con- finement, or hindrance from business. They have effected the most surprising cures, not only in recent and severe cases, but when salivation and allother means have failed; and when an early application is made to these Pills for the cure of the above complaint, frequently contracted in a moment of inebriety, the eradication is generally completed in few days. They are particularly recom- mended to be taken before persons enter into the matri- monial state, lest the indiscretions of a parent are the source of vexation to him the remainder of his existence, by afflicting his innocent but unfortunate offspring, with the evil eruptions of a malignant tendency, and a variety other complaints, that are most assuredly introduced by the same neglect and imprudence. May be had of all Booksellers, Druggists, and Patent Medicine Venders in Town and Country throughout the United Kingdom, the Continent of Europe and America. Observe, none are genuine without the signature, of R. L. PERRY and Co. Messrs. PERRY expect, when consulted by Letter, the usual Fee of One Pound, with- out which, no notice whatever can be taken of the com- munication ( postage pre- paid.) Patients are requested to be be as minute as possible in the detail of their cases. The CORDIAL BALM of STf RIACUM ( Price lis. and 33s. per Bottle,) is intended to relieve those Persons who, by an immoderate indulgence of their passions, have ruined their constitutions, or in their way to the consummation of that deplorable state are affected with any of those previous symptoms that betray its approach, as the various affections of the nervous system, obstinate gleets, excesses, irregularity, obstructions, weaknesses, total impotency, barrenness, & c. The £ 5 cases may be had, as usual, at either of the Establishments, which is a saving of £ 1. 12s. PERRY'S PURIFYING SPECIFIC PILLS, price 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d., and lis., famous throughout Europe for the cure of Scurvy, Scrofula, Old Wounds, and for Lues Venerea, are mild and speedily efficacious in recent as well as the most obstinate cases. Messrs. PERRY expect, when consulted by Letter, the usual Fee of One Pound, without which, no notice what- ever can be taken of the Communication, ( postage pre- paid.) Patients are requested to be as minute as possible in the detail of their cases. Messrs. Perry and Co., Surgeons, may consulted as usual at 4, Great Charles street, ( four doors from Easy row,) Birmingham, and 44, Albion street, Leeds. Only one personal visit is required from a country patient, to enable Messrs. Perry and Co. to give such advice as will be the means of effecting a permanent and effectual cure, after all other means have proved ineffectual. N. B.— Country Druggists, Booksellers, Patent Medi- cine Vendors, and every other Shopkeeper, can be sup- plied with any quantity of Perry's Purifying Specific Pills, and Cordial Balm of Syriacum, with the usual allowance to the Trade, by most of the principal wholesale Patent Medicine Houses in London. The RED ROVER Coach leaves'the TONTINE and PERCIVAL'S COACH OFFICES, Sheffield, at Five o'Clock ; the Crown Inn, Rotherham, at Half- past Five o'Clock ; and the Rein Deer and New Angel Coach Offices, Don- caster, at Seven o'Clock every Morning ( Sundays ex- cepted.) PILLTNAPOLITAINBS, Prepared by the Inventor, DR. J. HALLETT, No. 2, Eyre street, near the Music- Hall. THE most safe, certain, and speedy Remedy ever discovered for the Cure of Gonorhcea, Gleets, Stric- ture, Weakness, Pains in the Loins and Kidneys, Irrita- tion of the Bladder and Urethra, Gravel, and other dis- orders of the Urinary Passage, frequently performing a perfect cure in the short space of three or four days. Youth of either Sex, who have practiced secret vice, and thereby relaxed and debilitated the whole nervous system, will find these Pills the most powerful, certain, and effectual restorative, which effects a cure when other Medicines have proved unavailing. Each Box is marked with the Seal of the Author, accompanied by a bill and an instruction which bears his Signature. The Napoli- taines Pills are sold in boxes at 2s. 9d. and 4s. 6d. tach. A most VALUABLE and CERTAIN MEDICINE, DR. HALLETT'S GOLDEN ANTI- VENEREAL PILLS, famous throughout Europe for the cure of every stage and symptom of a CERTAIN COMPLAINT. These Pills are mild but powerful, and speedily efficacious in recent as well as the most obstinate cases. The direc- tions are full and explicit, being rendered easy to every capacity, by which all persons, of either sex, are enabled to cure themselves with safety and secrecy, in a few days, without confinement or hindrance of business. 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JUST PUBLISHED, The 7th Edition, price 3s.; and sent free on receipt of a Post Office Order, for 3s. 6d.; MANHOOD •. the CAUSES OF its PREMATURE DECLINE, with Plain Directions for its PER- FECT RESTORATION; addressed to those suffering from the destructive effects of excessive indulgence, solitary habits, or infection; followed by observations on the treatment of Syphilis, Gonorrhoea, Gleet, & c., illus- trated with Cases, & c.; by J. L. CURTIS and Co., Consulting Surgeons, London. Published by the Authors, and sold by BALLIERE, Me- dical Bookseller to the Royal College of Surgeons, 219, Regent street; STRANGE, 21, Paternoster row, London; Guest, Birmingham ; Shillito, York; Hobson, Leeds; Sowler, 4, St. Ann's square, Manchester; Philip, South Castle street, Liverpool; Machen and Co., 8, D'Olier street, Dublin; Duncan, 114, High street, Edinburgh; and to be had of all Booksellers. This Work, a Seventh Edition of which is now pre- sented to the public, 10,000 copies having been exhausted since its first appearance, has been very much improved and enlarged by the addition of a more extended and clear detail of general principles, as also by the insertion of several new and highly interesting cases. The book, as has been already stated, is the result of very ample and daily increasing experience in a class of diseases, which, for some unaccountable reason, have been either altogether overlooked, ortreated almost with indifference, by the ordinary medical practitioner. The proverbial and well known rapacity of unqualified practitioners, who traffic on the health and credulity of patients, has been encouraged and aroused by this supineness, on the part of the regular surgeon. In order to obviate the pernicious effects sure to result from the practices of such pretenders, the authors have for a considerable time devoted them- selves exclusively to a certain class of diseases ; of the necessity of so doing, they were further convinced by feel- ing that tact, in investigating the latent sources of many diseases, which arise from secret practices, can only b ® acquired by an exclusive and undivided attention to thi » department of medical practice. The numberless in- r stances daily occurring, wherein affections of the lungs, putting on all the outer appearances of consumption, which, however, when traced to their source, are found to result from certain banefuMiabits, fully proves that the principle of the division of labour is nowhere more appli- cable than in medical practice. We feel no hesitation in saying, that there is no member of society by whom the book will not be found useful, whether such person holds the relation of a parent, a preceptor, or a clergyman.— Sun, Evening Paper. Messrs. CURTIS and Co., are to be consulted daily, at their residence, No. 7, Frith street, Soho square, Lon- don. Country Patients are requested to be as minute as pos sible in the detail of their cases.— As to the duration of the complaint, the symptoms, age, general habits of living, and occupation in life of the party; the communication must be accompanied by the usual consultation fee of £ 1, without which, no notice whatever can be taken of their application; and in all cases the most inviolable secresy may be relied on. Sold by KELLY, News Agent, Campo lane, Sheffield. SHEFFIELD AND ROTHERHAM INDEPENDENT. SEPTEMBER 25, 1841. POPULATION RETURNS FOR 1841. BOROUGH OF SHBSTIBLD. HOUSES, 1841. 1831. POPULATION, TOWNSHIPS. Inha- t Unin- Build. Popula- Males. 1841. Total. bitcd. labited. mg. tion. Femls, Sheffield 14,101 2209 95 59,011 33,574 34,393 67,967 Brightsd. Brlow. 206- 1 250 18 8968 4926 5163 10,089 Attereliffe 88 > 81 3 37- 11 2128 2028 4 156 Eeelesl. Bierbv.. 4035 498 51 14,279 9829 10,176 20,005 Nether Hallam.. 1116 159 2.5 4668 3654 3621 7275 Upper Hallam.. 257 23 0 1035 681 718 1399 Total ...... 22,753 3223 192 91,708 54,792 56,099 110891 S.* UNION. Sheffield.... 14,101 2209 95 59,011 33,674 34,393 67,967 Brightsd. Bierlow 2064 250 IS 8968 4926 5* 63 10,089 Attercliife 830 8-. 3 3711 2128 2028 • 1156 Handsworth .... 571 32 11 2338 1438 1424 2862 Total ir, 6i6 2575 127 74,055! 42,066 43,008 8.5,074 E. f UNION. Ecclesall Bierlw. 4035 498 51 14,279 9829 10,176 20,005 Nether Hnlliim.. 1416 159 25 4668 3654 3621 7275 Upper Hallain .. 257 23 0 1035 681 718 1399 S6( 12 0 1747 1009 898 1907 115 7 0 527 283 276 559 Totley 80 2 1 351 226 182 408 15 7 0 88 37 38 75 Total 1 6278 708 77 22,695 15,719 15,909 31,628 * Sheffield Union. t Ecc'esatl Bierlow Union. INCREASE IN POPULATION SINCE THE LAST CENSUS WAS TAKEN. Borough of Sheffield 19,189 Sheffield Union 11,016 Ecelesall Bierlovv Union 9,033 LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY. Oil Sunday, the autumnal sermons on behalf of this society were preached in Queen street, Nether, and Gar- den street chapels, by the Rev. Mr. Morton, from the East Indies ; the Rev. Mr. Miall, of Bradford ; and the Rev. T. Smith, of Nether Chapel. On Monday evening, the meeting was held in Nether chapel, and was nume- rously attended. After prayer by the Rev. W. B. LANDELLS, the Rev. T. SMITH was called to the Chair, and opened the meeting. The great cry formerly was, where could they find entrance for missionaries, and where could they find men. They had now abundant opportunities for missionary exertions, and men panting to go, with all the necessary organiza- tion ; but now the call was for the means of carrying out their plans for the diffusion of the Gospel. The Rev. W. H. STOW ELL moved the first resolution, to the effect, that since the conversion of the world was committed to the church, as there were men ready to go oi( t to preach the Gospel to the heathen, it was incum- bent on every good man to contribute, as God had pros- pered him, to this cause. He remarked that there had been but one mind on earth capable of conceiving all that was meant by the term, " the world," and he gave the command, " Go ye in to all the world, and preach the Gospel to every creature." The world at that time had its systems of edu- cation, science, morals, and religion, yet it presented to the mind of the Saviour a spectacle of sin and misery that called forth all the compassion of the Infinite Mind. Every motive that existed then to prosecute the work en- joined by the Saviour, was of increased power now; our facilities were greater, and our duty therefore more impe- rative. If they compared the state of missionary labour now with what it had been at any former time, they would find much to stimulate their gratitude, and put to shame those who, professing to be friendly to the cause, were- yet sparing and lukewarm in its support. He had sometimes inquired whether there might notbe exaggera- tion in the accounts they had of the success of Christian missions. Yet in that state of mind he had come to this conclusion— that though the world might not speedily be brought into conformity with what a holy imagination delighted to contemplate, yet it was an undoubted fact, that no sort of impediment to the progress of the Gospel had not been overcome, not by miracle, but by God's blessing on the humble and patient, and self- denying efforts of missionaries. There had also been opened out a communication between Christians and those other parts of the world where the Gospel was com- paratively unknown. There was a time when the British trader or traveller were to be found on almost every shore, but the preacher of the Gospel only rarely. Now, however, wherever tliey went, the probability was, that they would find the representatives of the missionary zeal of the Christian church. Nor was the benefit that had been produced, besides the conversion of men's souls by the efforts of missionaries, at all to be overlooked. They could tell of the introduction of litera- ture, of the press, of the germs of civil and religious liberty, which, springing up and ripened by the blessing of the God of missions, would produce glorious fruit by and by. Who was it that told the negro slave he was a man— that told the planter the slave was his brother— that told the British public of the guilt of their connivance at slavery— that knocked at the door of Parliament, and roused public opinion, till the last fetter fell from the hands of the slaves, and the first song of freedom re- sounded through the islands of the west ? He had recently read of two wealthy Hindoos, one of whom had founded an asylum for the blind, and the other a hospital for lying- in women. Was it ever known in the history of the woi- ld that Hindooism produced such fruit as this before ? Was this the natural result of Hindooisin ? Was it not the effect of contact with Christianity ? One great benefit Eroduced by Christianity was, the multiplication of cheap ooks. It had been calculated that there were not fewer than 100,000 persons who had been converted through the medium of Christian missions. Hece was a population equal to that of this whole town, and he was convinced that the estimate was much too low; nor could they suppose that less than the same number were already in the man- sions of the blest. The Rev. Mr. MORTON, missionary from the East Indies, seconded the resolution. He would remind them that, on this great question, emphatically, they acted lor eternity. He urged that God, by his providence, had especially marked out this country as designed to take the lead in all measures for benefitting the minds and bodies of mankind, and he had no doubt that if Great Britain withdrew from doing its duty in this respect, God would remove this country from its present station. For what purpose had God given us, by such astonishing means, our vast empire in India ? Was it for any secular or ordinary purpose ? No j the purposes of God were wise, holy, beneficent, and vast. God's design was to restore to himself the whole race of man. Was Russia the country to convert the world ? Russia was half savage herself, and the people of the East were convinced that if Russia could replace England's power in the East, the event would be most unhappy for them. Should America convert the world ? He was satisfied America would, if we flinched. But America had not the resources and the in- fluence of Great Britain, which were necessary for the work. On Britain, then, the work devolved, and let them consider the means. Let them consider what the working classes alone could do. The Odd Fellows amount to 175,000 per- sons, in 2750 lodges, and they last year raised a contribu- tion amounting to £ 166,333, for the purpose of relieving each other in sickness— a sum nearly double the income of this society, for the last year. Last year, the statistics of excise shewed a produce of 8 millions from the duty on spirits, and 2 millions from tobacco, and the cost of these two items to the people was not less than 52 millions. Compare this with what Great Britain did for the heathen world. Many persons were surprised that from the East Indies they had not the. same tidings of missionary success as from the West. But the fact was, that there had been as many missionaries among the half- million people of Jamaica alone, as amid the hundreds of millions of India, where there were several cities equal in population to the whole of Jamaica. In the West, the missionary could understand the people, and make them understand him. But in the East, a missionary must labour eighteen months or two years before he could speak the language, and then it would cost him at least two years more before he could acquire such a degree of accuracy as to avoid the most ludicrous mistakes, of which Mr. Morton gave seve- ral examples. Another great difficulty in the East was, the want of words in the Eastern languages to express many of the ideas of Christianity. At present, the society had been compelled to refuse the services of no less than twenty willing persons for want of the means. Let them look at China, Cabool, Persia, Georgia, Circassia, & c., and the events that were occurring in those countries, opening the way for missionaries. When the army of the Indus entered Affghanistan, a number of pious soldiers aet about preaching the Gospel to the people, thus shew- ing how God was making use of the wrath of men to extend his kingdom. All India was opening, and the virus of European infidelity was being poured in among the people, making it the more incumbent on them to send out missionaries in greater abundance. The universal complaint of all the missionary societies was that they were in debt,— in debt, while upon strong drink and to- bacco the people of this country were spending a million a week. Under these circumstances, let them consider | heir duty, and practise self- denial. Mr. Morton pro- ceeded- to enforce this topic by a variety of striking and happy incidents, shewing the moral advantage of self- denial, and warning against the love of money. The Rev. Mr. MIALL, of Bradford, moved the second resolution. The meeting had taken the solemn and sa- cred pledge to regard the Missionary Society in all the views iliat could render it interesting to us. Let them look back to the time when this country was heathen, and ask whether they were prepared to go back to that state of things. Would they not say they valued the Gospel above all other things ? Then, they should remember it was of the same importance to others. As a Christian, these missionary efforts were to him the source of con- firmation. They found the power of the Gospel the same wherever preached— purifying the conscience, purifying and enlightening the mind ; and ihus they had proof that, among people whom the Apostle could never have known, all equally needed the Gospel. They read of ancient martyrs. There were martyrs now among the Christians of Madagascar. The devotion of the missionaries was another attestation of the power of religion, for lie could not conceive that any other power than that of God could have produced such effects. The questiou, then, was, whether they, having all these confirmations of Christi- anity, were prepared to go back from the word of the Lord ? What would be their criminality if, having the Gospel entrusted to them, to go, through them, to the awakening of the world, they neglected to pass it on to others ? They heard much of the distress of the present time, and they often saw that, when the means of the Church seemed to fail, the demand became greater, so that the only hope was a deeper appreciation of the Gospel, and the diffusion of a spirit of self denial. Amid manu- facturing and commercial distress, could they forget that when all was troubled and perplexed, the one thing that changed and altered not was especially valuable, and must be the more cherished ? It was the more important with circumstances for them to discharge their duty. They had sent missionaries out, and they were pledged to sup- ply all that was needful to support and sustain them in the work. He moved that, unfavourable as the times might be, it was important that the funds should be increased, and that zealous measures should be taken to inciease the effort. The collection was then made ; antl the meeting was afterwards addressed by the Rev. Messrs. BAYLEY, HOB- SON, ( Missionary from Jamaica,) and others. On Tuesdayevening, a tea- meeting was held in Queen street school- room, which was well attended. The collections of this anniversary amount to £ 80. TOWN- HALL. W. J. TUESDAY.— Before HUGH PARKER, Esq. BAGSHAWE, Esq., and J. C. ATHORPE, Esq. RATING OF WHEELS.— Mr. Parker and Mr. Bagshawe were occupied for a considerable time in hearing the ap peal of Mr. Wm. Parker, against the rating of Park wheel. Mr. Palfreyman for the appellant, and Mr. Pierson for the overseers Mr. Palfreyman read th notice of appeal, which alleged, that Mr. Parker was not the occupant of the premises in respect of which he was rated, and that the rate was not fair and equal; it gave notice, therefore, of the appeal to the Magistrates in this special sessions, and in the event of their declining to en- tertain it, to the Quarter Sessions ... Mr. Pierson dis- puted the authority of the special sessions to entertain this case, on the ground of a proviso in the Act of Parliament that the justices in special sessions shall not inquire into the liability of any hereditaments to be rated, hut only whether the premises are rated at the fair value. The notice further alleged, that the rate was unequal and informal; but in making such an appeal, it was necessary to refer to some other ratings, by comparison with which this charge was to be supported; and it was further necessary to give notice to the other persons so rated of the evidence intended to be given in relation to the property they oc- cupied. He had a further objection with respect to one rate now appealed against, that the notice of appeal in re- lation to it was not given in time. The appeal against a rate must be made to the next quarter or special sessions, and this rate was made in February. The notice of ap- peal was not given until May, there having been both a quarter and a special sessions in the interval... . Mr. Bagshawe remembered this case having been before him on a former occasion, and he recommended the payment, of the rate then made; but that in future rates the over- seers should take the matter into consideration, and meet the equity of the case.... Mr. Palfreyman said, that was when the overseers presented a rate for signature.. .. Mr. Barlow said, he conveyed that recommendation to the overseers, and they could not entertain it Mr. Parker asked, was there a dispute about the liability to the rate in this case ?.. .. Mr. Palfreyman replied, certainly. The reason that they now" came kefore the Magistrates with notices relating to two rates was, that it was understood that the matter should be settled in special or quarter sessions, and this was the first opportunity they had had of going into it. As to the rate of February, he contended that by agreement between the parties, that, as well as the other rates, should abide the event. It was a serious question, both to the town and to individuals, that was now raised— namely, the right of the owners of wheels oc- cupied by others to he rated for them. The question was not as to the liability of the premises to be rated, but whether the person rated should be the owner or the oc- cupier. As to the latter part of the notice, relating to inequality and informality, he did not rely upon that. Those words were put in to meet any contingency that might arise, but it was not on them he should rely. He contended that the petty sessions had power in this case. The question of the liability of persons to be rated was not reserved to the quarter sessions by the act authorising these special sessions. He read the clause of the act, to the effect that four times a year, and by adjournment, as they might see fit, the justices should hold special ses- sions, to hear and determine all objections made to the rates on the ground of inequality, unfairness, or incorrect- ness in the valuation ; but they were forbidden to enquire as to the liability of hereditaments to be rated. The question now was, not as to the liability of premises, but of persons Mr. Bagshawe: Before the Magistrates issue a distress warrant, it is right for them to ascertain whether the person from whom the rate is claimed be rightly rated. He understood that Mr. Parker had al- ways paid the rates, but in consequence of a considerable portion of the premises being unoccupied, he now applied for relief. But the steam power, he supposed, was the same Mr. Palfreyman said, it did not require the same power to work half as to work the whole wheel. The in- come of the wheel, were the whole let, would be £ 1300 a year; but it was now only about £ 700. Yet the full amount of rates was required. He urged that Mr. Pierson's ob- jection to the present tribunal was hard upon his client, as it would drive him to a more expensive court. He ar- gued that the persons actually renting and occupying the place were the persons legally liable to be rated".... Mr. Bagshawe said, certainly the only person from whom pay merit of the rales could be enforced was the actual occu pier, although it was usual for landlords to compound with the overseers for the payment.... Mr. Palfreyman said, his client's hardship was, that the overseers would not make a composition with him, but required payment of the full rate.. .. Mr. Barlow said, here the owner alway: paid the rates Mr. Bagshawe: But he need not un less he chooses... . Mr. Parker thought the act appointing these special sessions was designed to give them all the power the quarter sessions had had, except in those par- ticulars reserved specially for the jurisdiction of the quarter sessions. He thought, therefore, they might go into the case. This was not a question relating to the liability of hereditaments, but of persons... . Mr. Pierson suggested that the clause of the act did not authorise the Magis- trates to inquire into the liability of persons. The only jurisdiction they had, was in cases of unequal rating Mr. Bagshawe . But there must first be a legal rate, and a person liable to be rated Mr. Roberts, jun., one ol the overseers, said, this was a case of vast importance to the town, for if the exemption claimed by Mr. Parker were allowed, other wheel proprietors would make the same claim, and these buildings would have to be re- valued for every rate made Mr. Bagshawe remarked, that when an owner of houses compounded for the rates, he could not be compelled to pay them; and was not Mr. Parker considered to be in a similar situation ?.... Mr. Palfreyman said, Mr. Parker occupied part of these pre- mises as rolling mills, and he was rated for the whole pre- mises ; but he let various rooms to other parties, of which they had the entire control Mr. Pierson said, the case was precisely similar to that of a person who should take a house, and let the rooms for lodgings... . Mr. ; Parker asked if Mr. W. Parker had troughs iu the hulls?.... Mr. Palfreyman contended, that the case was similar to the chambers occupied in the inns of court by individuals, each having control over bis own, which were considered as separate tenements, though in one building. These, for purposes of felony, rating, and voting, were considered as separate. He argued that the parts of the wheel not in Mr. Parker's occupation must be considered as separate tenements. When trade was good, it was more conve- nient for the owner to pay the rates for the whole, but for several years the property had been half unoccupied, and it was a serious case for Mr. Parker, whether he was still to pay rates for the parts unoccupied and producing nothing. Part of the hulls did not open into the yard of the wheel, but upon an open piece of land, and part upon the ground between the wheel and the river, which had been open until lately; but lo keep children out there had been a wall, with a door, bailt at each end. Of those doors, for the convenience of all the occupiers, the engine tenter had the key, because he was always there early in the morning. One range of the hulls was occupied by Messrs. Frith, in which Mr. Parker had nothing but the shaft run- ning through.. .. Mr. Parker asked who occupied the moving power? . Mr. Palfreyman said, his client occu- pied that, hut in the unoccupied hulls there was not even a shaft turning. The connexion of the engine with those rooms was then entirely cut off... . Mr. Parker: Do you consider the hulls separate tenements?... . Mr. Bag- shawe : Is it not competent to Mr. W. Parker to let off part of the place, leaving the tenants to pay the rates?.. Mr. Palfreyman contended that it was, and said, if Mr. Parker, finding he could not let the hulls for grinding, should convert part of them into houses orstables, would not the occupants then be clearly liable for rates?... . Mr. Parker said, if these places were to be considered as sepa- rate tenements, he would ask if they had ever given a set- tlement ?... . Mr. Crosland: Never.... Mr. Palfreyman said, they had not done so here, but this was nearly the first time the question had been mooted.... Mr. Pierson said, a similar question in relation to the Soho wheel had been tried and decided in Mr. Charles Adam's time, but was decided against the appellants Mr. Parker asked whether, to make up a ten pound oc- cupancy, the rent paid for the moving power could be taken into consideration ?..- Mr. Palfreyman said, in the places occupied by Mr. Frith, all the machinery was his own. In regard to the mills occupied in a somewhat si- milar manner in the clothing districts, the revising bar- risters had decided for the first year that the occupancy did not give the tenant a right to vote. But subsequently under the advice of Mr. Justice James Parke, they had reversed that decision, and had allowed a £ 50 occupancy to qualify for counties, and a £ 10 for the boroughs.. . Mr. Crosland said, at the last revision, the barristers had de- cided that where a landlord occupied part of premises opening into an enclosed yard, the yard was to be consi- dered as the landlord's curtilage, and the whole in his occupation... . Mr. Palfreyman said, in this case all the doors were not within the curtilage. If a felony were committed, the prosecutor must be the actual occupant... Mr. Parker thought the better course would be to take the matter to the Quarter Sessions, whence a case might go to the Queen's Bench. He had always been in the habit of considering that where the working of a place depended on one engine, for the use of which the tenants paid, the proprietor having the management of the engine was the occupier... . Mr. Palfreyman said, where ihere was no occupier, there was no moving power.... Mr. Crosland said they were prepared with evidence that the owner was the occupant... Mr. Parker said, the overseers had the power to alter every rate if they thought proper.. Mr. Palfreyman replied that was all his client asked. . Mr. Bagshawe said, Mr. W. Parker's complaint was, that while the income of the place was reduced from £ 1300 a year to one- half, he was paying the full rate, and he asked to have his rate reduced in proportion to the amount un- occupied.. . Mr. Crosland admitted the hardship, but con- tended that the overseers had no authority to relieve it... Mr. Palfreyman said, bis client did not want exemption, but only a mitigation of the rate according to the amount unoccupied. Where the rooms were even partially occu- pied, he was content to pay for them.... Mr. Bagshawe thought there was equity in the claim... . . Mr. Crosland said, whenever property was separate so as to constitute in itself an entire tenement, then if unoccupied, it would be returned as such. But when part of a building was occupied, they could cot return the unoccupied part sepa- rately Mr. Parker said, if this alteration were made, others would make the same claim, so that the effect would be, that a greater number of rates must be demanded than at present. So that it must come to this at last, that this kind of property had greatly declined in value... Mr. Bagshawe asked if each hull would be considered as separate if the shaft were removed ? Mr. Crosland said they would be like the rooms of an inn... Mr. Bagshawe: Suppose Mr. Bicklev were to divide the Tontine by party walls, leaving one side unoccupied, would you continue the rating of the whole?.- Mr. Crosland replied in the negative.... Mr. Palfreyman said, in the case of this wheel, many of the hulls had doors opening out of the building. . Mr. Parker referred to the question, whether the owner could exercise upon the tenants the power of distraint ? Mr. Palfrey- man said he could, and moreover that he could only turn them out by the process of ejectment Mr. Crosland asked, who was to be deemed the occupier where there were several tenants to one room?... Mr. Bagshawe said Mr. Parker was admitted to be the occupier of such rooms. . - Mr. Palfreyman said, where a room was partly occupied he did not claim exemption. His client had no desire to raise the question of his right to be rated if the overseers would come to some terms, and allow him to compound for the rates of the premises.... Mr. Parker said he had always held the opinion, and now saw no reason to alter it, that in point of law, the party to whom the great moving power belonged, and by whom it was managed, was in point of law the legal occupier, and the tenant paid him a consideration in the shape of rent, for the use of certain parts of the machinery. He had never known of a settlement resting upon such an occupation; and in making out a ten- pound rental, the hire of moving power was to be left out of the considera- tion. He thought that neither magistrates nor lawyers had considered these hulls as tenements. If Mr. Parker was to be considered the legal occupier, then came the question whether the overseers had power to make a re- duction of the rate ? He thought the points had better be decided by a case from the Quarter Sessions to the Queen's Bench. As to the question whether a reduction should be made for the depreciation of the value of the property, it could not be done in one case without being also done in all.... Mr. Crosland admitted the hardship of the case, but there were many difficulties about it. They did not know where it would end if it once began Mr. Bagshawe: The question of the real occupier was one of considerable doubt, and he thought it should be taken to a higher court. It was questionable whelher the Magistrates were entitled to give a decision in such a case, and it was so important to the town that he thought it would be best settled by a special case. In Somerset House, though there was one entrance, the different parts were considered as separate tenements. So also, it had been contended, was the tap room of the Tontine Mr. Palfreyman said, ifaplae originally one, were divided into several, the rate must be divided in proportion... . Mr. Bagshawe said, in the case of a felony, it appeared the prosecutor would be the actual occupant, and not Mr, W. Parker. He thought Mr. W. Parker had sufficient grounds to appeal to the Sessions, and that they were not competent to decide it. Both the Magistrates concurring in this, the case was withdrawn.... Mr. Palfreyman expressed his hope that the overseers would not at present proceed further as to the rate of Fe- bruary ; if so, it could only put Mr. W. Parker to the ad- ditional expense of appealing against the conviction. ROBBERY BY APPRENTICES.— George Parsons and Chas Alexander Hooley, young men of respectable appearance' apprentices of Air. Harrison, German silver manufacturer' Scotland street, were charged with robbing their master. Mr. Harrison stated that Parsons had been bis apprentice for about four years, and had been employed in the ware- house as a German silver filer. Hooley has been appren- tice about three years, and employed in the warehouse as bookkeeper, but latterly as a filer. They both resided in Mr. Harrison's house, adjoining the warehouse and work- shops. On the 30th August, Mr. Harrison went a jour- ney, leaving the two prisoners at home. On the 2nd Sep- tember, William Shallcross, his manager, came to him at Liverpool, and he returned home on Saturday, the 4th. On examining the warehouse, he misssed a German silver bread basket, grape scissors, spoons, set of ivory table knives and forks, plated snuffers, German silver snuffer- trays, and a variety of other articles. One German silver teapot had been used as a pattern, and bad a private mark on it. On the following day, Mr. Wild applied to him, and on the Thursday following, shewed him three ivory table knives and forks, similar to the set he had missed; a hammer, a chisel, and a gold key, which he knew to be his. On Monday he saw a box at the Town Hall, con- taining the goods he had before described, and a great va- riety more. The box and its contents were produced, and he identified them as his property. He identified as the hand- writing of Hooley, the direction," Mr. Wm. Spurr," & c., upon a card produced.... William Shallcross, of Shales- moor, bookkeeper, manager to Mr. Harrison, left the warehouse on the evening of the 31st August, and Parsons was then there. He had seen Hooley during the day. The next day, both the prisoners were missed, and Shall- cross also missed a variety of articles from the warehouse. He then went to Mr. Harrison, to Liverpool, and on re- turning made a further examination of the warehouse, and found that other articles also were missing. He identified the contents of the box, as Mr. Harrison's property. He spoke to the marks on a variety of articles... . John Fee, of Whiteeroft, proved that on Tuesday afternoon, the 31st August, Parsons desired him to go to the gates at seven in the evening, for he wanted to speak to him. Fee went at the time, and got the servant to call Parsons out of the house. Parsons gave him a penny, and told him to go on the street. Parsons followed, and enquired if he could borrow a wheelbarrow. Fee obtained a barrow, and took it to Mr. Harrison's gates, when Parsons brought out a square box, put it into the wheelbarrow, and told him to wheel it away. Fee stopped at the bottom of Paradise square, when Parsons came up and told him to wheel it to Gamble's waggon- warehouse, and say it came from Mr. Briggs. _ Fee did so, and in going on Bank street after- wards with the barrow, Parsons came out of the coffee house, and gave him twopence for bis trouble Rachel Adamson, servant of Mrs. Dunhill, landlady of the Duke of York public house, at Selby, proved that on the fore- noon of the 1st September, the two prisoners came into the house, and asked for pen, ink, paper, and two bottles of ginger beer. They then said they did not want the paper— they had a card that would do. One of them then wrote a direction on a card, and they then told Mrs. Dun- hill a box would come to her house that night or the next morning, from Sheffield, with directions to remain till called for. They were going to Portsmouth, and she was to take the direction off the box, and put on the card they gave her. They gave Mrs. Dunhill 3s. 6d. to pay for the carriage, saying if there was anything over, she might keep it for her trouble. They desired her to send the box by the first packet to Hull, and having staid twenty mi- nutes, went away. The next morning, a railway por- ter brought the box, addressed to " Mr. William Mar- shall, to be left at the Duke of York Inn, Ouse- gate, Selby, till called for." The carriage was 2s. The girl took the direction off the box, and put on that which the prisoners had left. Hick, the constable, took the box into his possession, and received also the direction which the witness had taken off. She identified the box produced as the same.... David Hick, of Selby, chief constable, proved, that in consequence of information he had received about some robberies at Manchester, he went with the railway porter to the house where he had left the box, and there found it. It was directed " Mr. Wm. Spurr, ( to be left at the coach- office till called for,) Portsmouth. By way of Hull; care of Brownlow and Pearson; to be forwarded immediately." He also re- ceived from the last witness the other direction produced. He opened the box in the presence of a magistrate, and found that it contained a quantity of German silver goods. He communicated with James Wild, constable, of Shef- field, and on Monday brought the box here Mr. Wild applied to Mr. Harrison in consequence of a letter he re- ceived from Hick. He also wrote to Portsmouth, and on Monday last, he went to Portsmouth, where he found the two prisoners in custody. He told them they were charged with robbing their master. Parsons saiil he took the goods and packed them, but Hooley knew about it. He received from the constable at Portsmouth a chisel, ham- mer, three table- knives and forks, and some other articles which Parsons said were Mr. Harrison's... When asked by Mr. Parker what they had to say, Parsons said the evidence of the witnesses was true Hooley denied that he assisted in getting the goods away, or that he knew anything about it till they were sent to the carrier's. .... Mr. Parker: But you were with Parsons at Selby r .... Hooley: Yes; I knew all about it there.... Mr. Harrison said he had had Hooley before the Bench a few weeks before, as a disorderly apprentice... . Mr. Parker said, it was a lamentable thing that two young men, who had had the best opportunity of doing well, should so far have forgot their duty as to act thus. It was a very great aggravation that they were in a situation of trust, and, instead of taking care of the property left in their charge, they had been guilty of purloining it. The case was of so aggravated a character, that he did not see any way of disposing of it with justice to all parties, but by commit- ting them for trial at the Assizes. He took this course, not only that they might meet the punishment they richly deserved, but that others placed in similar situations of trust might be warned by their example against availing themselves of such facilities for robbing their employers. Mr. Parker informed Hick that the prosecutor and the public were much indebted to him for the vigilance which had led to the detection of the prisoners. Richard Gillott was charged with robbing the ware- house of Mr. Revitt, razor manufacturer, of Meadow street.... Wm. Revitt, jun., manager to his father, proved that on Friday night, the 17th instant, he left the ware- house soon after eight o'clock, leaving a warehouseman and girl to lock up. The next morning, he was sent for about nine o'clock, and found upon the warehouse door marks of its having been broken open. He missed from six to eight gross of razors with various marks, and wrapped in parcels. On Sunday morning, he came to the police office, and saw about four gross of the razors.... Edward Boothroyd, of Daisy walk, cutler, said that on Sunday morning, about seven, he called up Christopher Jowitt, a companion, living at the top of Daisy walk, and and while he dressed himself, Boothroyd went into a privy in a yard just by. He observed a white- han- dled razor on the stone of the cellar window of an un- occupied house. He looked down the cellar window, and saw a paper of razors on another stone, and there was a large quantity wrapped and unwrapped under the sinkstone in the cellar. lie put the parcel and the odd razor to them, and came to the police office. A po- liceman accompanied him, who fetched the razors out of the cellar, and also found the prisoner in the house. The cellar window was open, but the other doors and windows of the house were closed Isaac Bradwell, of the Hol- lins, a blade forger, employed by Air. Revitt, proved that on Thursday morning, the prisoner, and another man named Curling, came to Mr. Revitt's yard, and asked if one George Ibbotson worked at Jepson's, in that yard. Bradwell enquired, and found no such person worked there. . .. Thomas Alatthews, policeman, accompanied Boothroyd to the house, where he bad seen the razors. He got the razors out, and going up into the house, he found the prisoner concealed in one of the rooms. The prisoner said he lived in the house next but one, and had not been in more than five minutes. He found in the prisoner's pockets a knife and some lucifer matches. No person could enter the house by the cellar window with- out seeing the razors.— Committed. SERIOUS ROBBERY.— Ann Heeley and Joseph. Heeley were charged with stealing a large sum of money, the property of William Stead, butcher, who deposed : — On Sunday evening last, the 19th instant, myself and Georgo Barton went to the chapel of the Wesleyan Proprie- tary School, and from there we went to Flather's public house, in Broad lane; and on leaving there about ten o'clock, we had a walk ; and about a quarter before twelve o'clock, we were coming down High street, and met with the prisoner, Ann Heeley and another girl. They asked us to give them a glass, and we went into the Queen dram shop, in Mulberry street, where I paid for a glass for the female prisoner, and Bar- ton paid for the other girl. We then came out of there, and walked with them up High street, Church street, and Bow street, and called in at Hamilton's public house, at the bottom of Bow street, where we had another glass each, and while we were there, I took £ 125 in notes out of my trousers' pocket, and put them into my fob. Twenty of the notes were folded up and tied with a piece of thread, and the other five were folded up in a purse, in which were three sovereigns and four half- sovereigns, the gold being at one end and the notes at the other— they were all £ o promissory notes; some were of the Sheffield Bank, but I don't know the numbers. The female pri- soner was not near to me when I removed the notes out of my pocket into my fob. I bad some loose silver in my trousers' pocket. We came out of the public house and went with the girls on Holly lane. They wanted us to go into a house, but we refused. We went with them on a lane by the side of Carver street chapel, and a watch- man came up, and ordered the girl away from Barton, who was standing with her at the bottom of the lane. She left him, and Barton walked about in Carver street, while I and the female prisoner were standing in the lane. We were in the lane perhaps about ten minutes, and as soon as I took my hands from her I felt outside my fob, and then put my fingers inside, and I found my £ 125 was gone, the gold remaining. I seized hold of her and said, " You have got my money." She denied it. I told her I should give her in charge to the watchman if she did not turn it up; and I had not said much more before the male prisoner, who was without his coat, and a woman of the name of Ann Ward, came to us. The male prisoner said, " Hallo! Hallo ! what's amiss," and collared me. I told him he had nothing to do_ svith me. He said he had, and had seen me before, and he tried to pull me away from the female prisoner. I told him I would call for the watch. I kept hold of her, and we walked on to the top of the lane. The male prisoner again tried to get her from me, and I called " Watch." He then let us alone, and we walked on the lane behind the chapel which comes into West street; and when we got to the end of the lane, the male prisoner said to me, " Now, you must let her go." I said I should not. George Barton then came up, and I told him the girl had robbed me, and the male prisoner and Ann Ward said they would go and help Barton to look for the money. The female prisoner said she was sure the money would be found in the lane, if they would go and look, and asked me to give her a chancS1, and the money would be found. They went into the lane, leaving me and the prisoner, and directly the male prisoner returned to us, and forced me to leave hold of her, She ran on the lane. I followed and caught her, and George Barton then came up, and called out, " Watch." The male prisoner went away, and I delivered- the female prisoner to two watchmen, and we went into the lane where 1 missed the money, but could not find it. After the female prisoner was lodged in the Town Hall, I and Barton went with the watchman and apprehended the male prisoner at a house in Red croft. He at first said he had not seen me before, and then said he had helped to look for the money. After I put the notes into my fob, in West street, 1 kept my hand outside my fob, and I felt the notes in the fob a few minutes before I missed them ; and no other person except the female prisoner had been near me. I was standing with the female prisoner about ten minutes, before I missed the mo- ney George Barton, labourer, Crookes, corrobo- rated the statements of the prosecutor, and said that when he and the male prisoner went to search for the money, as soon as he had begun to feel on the ground, lie again missed the male prisoner. He then heard a scuffle in the lane where he had left Stead, and the female prisoner and he were going to them, and met the male prisoner leaving them. He then called the watch, and Stead gave the woman into custody. The male prisoner went away, and he came along with the watchman and the female prisoner down West street, and at the end of Holly lane, he stopped to pick up two pieces of paper," and a man who was standing at the end of the lane, asked him if he had found some £ 5 notes. Witness said he should like, and gave the man the two pieces of paper he had picked up. He afterwards went with the watchman to a house in fled croft, and there saw the male prisoner. The two pieces of paper he had picked up in Holly lane, were upon the table iu the house. He was without coat when witness saw him with Ann Ward by the chapel, and the man who was standing at the end of Holly lane had his coat on. It was the male prisoner, but he did not ob- serve it at the moment.... James Wilson, policeman, proved taking the female prisoner into custody at the hand of Stead, after hearing the cry of " Watch," and the apprehension of the male prisoner at the house in Red croft. He was in bed, an< l at first denied having seen Stead, and then said that he had helped him to seek the money.— The prisoners were both committed for trial. 1 MONEY MAKKET. TUESDAY.— The following notice for a funding of £ 5,000,000 of Exchequer Bills, w- as posted this morn- ing at the Stock Exchange and Bank of England:— " Treasury Chambers, Whitehall, Sept. 21, 1841. " It having been considered advisable by the First Lord of the Treasury and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, to fund a portion of the outstanding Exchequer Bills charged on aids and supplies, dated in March and June last ( or in any antecedent month, provided the same have not been advertised to be paid off,) not exceeding five millions, in Three per Cent. Consolidated Annuities ; sub- scriptions for the same will be received at the Bank of England, from nine o'clock in the morning to one o'clock, p. m., on Friday, the 24th, Saturday, the 25th, and Alon- day, the 27th instant. The terms upon which it is pro- posed that the Exchequer Bills should be funded, are, that one hundred and twelve pounds and two shillings, Three per Cent. Consolidated Annuities, shall be given for every one hundred pounds principal of Exchequer Bills; and that the interest on the said Three per Cent. Consolidated Annuities so to be created, shall commence from the 5th of July, 1841. It is proposed that the par- ties intending to subscribe to this funding, shall deliver sealed letters at the Bank of England, specifying the sums for which they intend to subscribe, accompanied by sealed parcels, containing in Exchequer Bills, a deposit of £ 20 per cent, on such subscriptions; and that at one o'clock, or as soon after as possible, on Monday, the 2? tli instant, the Bank shall declare the total amount proposed to be subscribed for, allotting to each party, in case the whole of the subscriptions should not exceed the amount of five millions, the whole sum which he may have of- fered to subscribe ; and in case the whole amount offered to be subscribed shall exceed five millions, then such pro- portion only of the sum tendered by him, as the sum of five millions may bear to the whole sum offered to be sub- scribed, retaining in such case the deposit of £ 20 per cent, only upon such amount. The further instalments will be payable as follows, viz.:— £ 20 per cent, on or be- fore the 8th of November; £ 20 per cent, on or before the 20th 6f December; £ 20 per cent, on or before the 31st of January, 1842; £ 20 per cent, on or before the 14th of March, 1842. Subscribers will be allowed to pay Exchequer Bills in advance, and to receive the inter- est upon the amount of Exchequer Bills for the first in- stalment, from the date of the bills up to the 27th of Sept.; and upon the amount of the bills for each subsequent in- stalment, from the date of the bills up " to the day when the instalment would have become due. Subscribers will be allowed the option of paying money in lieu of Exchequer Bills, to the extent of one- half of the amount of the Ex- chequer Bills subscribed for, upon paying 12s. for every £ 100 so paid in money. Subscribers paying money will be allowed interest at the rate of 2| d. per cent, per diem., from the day of deposit up to the days on which the instal- ments are payable. Subscribers completing their whole payments on or before the 2nd of January, 1842, will be entitled to the first half- yearly dividend on the said con- solidated annuities at the 5th of January, 1842. Scrip receipts will be issued by the Bank in the usual manner." The terms on which this funding is proposed, do not af- ford tempting prospects to subscribers ; for, by receiving £ 112. 2s. of Three per Cent. Stock for every £ 100 of Exchequer Bills and the premium, they would get neither more nor less than their stock at the closing price of the day, at least, there is not above one- sixteenth of a mar gin. Had the Chancellor of the Exchequer allowed £ 112.10s. of stock for the £ 100 of Exchequer Bills and the premium, he would have found his lists far more speedily closed. The Stock Exchange cannot be expected to come forward readily on such very close conditions. THE MARCHIONESS OF CAMDEN.— The above- named lady has been appointed one of the ladies- in- waiting to her Majesty. There is rather a curious circumstance with reference to her connection with the Court of Queen Victoria, which occurred when her Majesty came to the throne. As Princess Victoria, the Queen was a resident at Ramsgate six years ago. During her sojourn there, she became acquainted with Miss Murray, the daughter of the Bishop of Rochester. The Princess and Aliss Murray being about the same age, became very intimate. When the court of the Queen was in progress of formation upon her accession, she expiessed her pleasure that " Miss Murray should be one of her maids of honour." On the morning after this expression, a letter was received at Buckingham Palace, from a Lady Elizabeth Murray, in Scotland, requesting an appointment lor her daughter as one of the maids of hoijour. Through some unaccount- able mistake, the writer was believed to be the parent of the young lady whom her Majesty had so specially named. She therefore received an answer, by return of post, sig- nifying her Majesty's consent to her daughter's appoint- ment. The denouement was not long in taking place; for in a few days, instead of her Majesty's very beautiful and wished- for friend, another young lady made her ap- pearance at court. Explanations ensued, but it was con- sidered too late to annul the appointment. Not long afterwards the daughter of the Bishop of Rochester mar- ried the Marquis of Camden, and she is now principal lady of the bedchamber, and one of the few female ap pointments of the court that give general satisfaction.— Glasgow Chronicle. [ This tale has been contradicted.] The third Poor Law Commissionership, vacated by the appointment of Mr. Lefevre to the Board of Trade, was not filled up by the Whigs previous to their retire- ment. BANCK'S AND Co.' s BANKRUPTCY.— We understand that the probable amount of the liabilities of this estate is estimated at .-£ 80,000, of which £ 20,000 have been proved by the Bank of Manchester. The assets are said to amount to .£ 23,700, besides doubtful debts, so that the estate at present shews the probability of a dividend of 4s. or 5s, in the pound.— Manchester Chronicle, \ m SEPTEMBER 25, 1841. SHEFFIELD AND ROTHERHAM INDEPENDENT. i PROVINCIAL NEWS. STATE OF TRADE IN MANOHESTRR.-- There has been a tolerable good demand for yarn since yester- day week, and on Thursday and Saturday last, an ad- vance ofabout l- 8th perpound was obtained on de- scriptions of yarn, which had previously been greatly depressed. Yesterday, the demand was not quite so active as on the preceding Tuesday, but the market was perfectly firm and steady. In the goods market there has been a fair demand for shirtings, domestics, and long cloths ; and good forty- inch shirtings are scarce, and somewhat firmer in price. Fustians were not so much inquired for as they have been for some weeks past, and printing cloths of all kinds con- tinue dull, and much depressed in price.— Guardian, Wednesday. WEST- RIDING REVISION.— On Friday and Satur- day, Robert Charles Hildyard and Frederick Robin- son, Esq., and the Hon. Richard Denman, barristers, attended at the Court House, for the purpose of revi- sing the lists of voters within the Wakefield polling district. There were no new features in the proceed- ings, and they were altogether void of interest. The following is an analysis of the revision :— Liberal ob- jections, 350; ditto'substantiated, 143;— Tory objec- tions, 365; ditto substantiated, 123— Liberal gain, 20. LEITH— FOREIGN GRAIN.— We last week noticed the unprecedented importation of foreign grain. The arrivals since then have been still more numerous, not fewer since Saturday than a hundred foreign vessels having within these three days entered our harbour with grain, and, at the time we write, numbers are appearing in the roadstead. The docks, eastern and western, are literally crowded with shipping— a nar- row passage is just kept for those going out and in, otherwise the docks might be crossed over the vessels lying abreadth. There never was such a number of _ ships in the docks at one time before. The appear- ance is Iiker the crowded port of the Thames, or the great docks of Antwerp, than any thing we have seen. Vast numbers these three days past are visit- ing our harbours to witness this great assemblage of shipping from the continental ports. The great varie- ty of " build" forms a striking feature in the group— the tall masted German, the burly rounded Dutchman, and theslim tapered Prussian, contrast finely with the massive British barque lying alongside.— Scotsman. All our docks are now so crowded with ships, that the flag, announcing that no more can be admitted, has been flying for some days. This is, in a great measure, to be attributed to the numbers of foreign vessels, loaded with wheat, which have arrived within the last few days.— Hull Rockingham, of Saturday. RIPON.— The late glorious weather has cleared off the ground the bulk of corn in this neighbourhood, and the later crops in particular, in the very best con- dition. ATTEMPT TO SHOOT LORD HOWIOK.— At the close of the poll at Sunderland, Lord Howick was chaired. He was seated in an open carriage, elegantly decora- ted, and drawn by four horses, preceded by a band of music, and a numerous display of flags, banners, & c., and attended by a number of respectable friends in carriages and other vehicles, and a very great num ber of persons on foot. Nothing of importance hap pened while the procession was passing through the streets of Sunderland and Bisbopwearmouth, but when passing through Monkwearmouth, many persons in the procession became alarmed at the appearance of a gun being presented at Lord Howick by a man named Liddell, who occupied a place at the front chamber window of his own residence, which is a public- house, in Whitburn street. He had exhibited the colours of the Attwood party during the election from his windows. When the gun was first observed, Liddell was heard to use some threatening words, which were not all distinctly heard, but were under stood to be something like " You d— d thief, I'll shoot you." He was seen in an attitude as if drawing the trigger, and a flash and smoke proceeded from the pan, butthegun did notgooff; he drewin the gun from the window, and did something to it, and again pre sented it towards Lord Howick, whose carriage was then passing; an alarm was given, and the horses drove past quickly. Smoke was again seen to pro- ceed from the gun, but it again missed fire. A great many stones were then thrown from the house by per- sons inside, many of which struck persons in the pro- cession, but none were seriously injured. Previous to the gun being presented, no attack was made upon Liddell's house, but afterwards a general attack was made; the windows and furniture were all destroyed, and the house completely gutted. Liddell was taken into custody by the police officers. The gun was found and the contents drawn; they consisted of a pellet of chewed paper, and an ordinary charge of coarse powder. A great many stones were found col lected in the house. Liddell was brought up for examination at the Mayor's Chambers on Saturday when several witnesses were examined, amongst whom were Sir H. Williamson, Bart., B. Ogden, Esq., & c. & c. He was remanded for further examination till Tuesday last, and admitted to bail, himself in .£ 80 and two respectable sureties in £ 40 each. The Wiltshire Independent, in an article on the condition of the poor, states that the distresses of the people are such, that it has become necessary to sta tion watchmen with fire- arms in the fields, to prevent the labourers from carrying off the corn. Such are the blessings which the agricultural labourers derive from the Cora Law. It appears by the following statement, that the Duke of Buckingham has been supplying money to his labourers to enable them to migrate to Manchester, in order not to be starved in their native parish. This is the state to which the corn monopolists have reduced England— famine stalks alike over town and country. The Duke of Buckingham kindly assisting his labourers with a portion of the means of migrating to Manches• ter, to prevent their being starved in their native parish. JAMES HAYNES, a working man, made an application to the ratepayers of Brill in vestry assembled, a few days • ago, under peculiar circumstances. He had a wife and five sons, nearly all men grown, an industrious sober family, who befonged to that parish. Six years since, from his being unable to obtain employment in his na- tive town, the parish had advanced him a few pounds to enable him and his family to get into Lancashire, he pledging himself not to return for three years ; he went into the manufacturing districts, and for some time was enabled to support bis family, himself, and his wife com- fortably ; things got worse, some of his family being out of work, and his distress increasing in Lancashire, he a few months since, with his wife and family, returned to Brill, hoping to find things better for agricultural labour- ers than when he left; but although it was summer, him- self and family have suffered great distress from their inability to obtain employment as agricultural labourers. The winter was drawing on, and nothing but the work- house— which was much against his feelings— or starva- tion was staring him in the face ; he now, as a dernier re- sort, applied to the parish, soliciting that six pounds might be given him to assist him and family once more to get to Manchester, and be would not come back again, wfrom his having kept his promise the first time, and having borne a good character, it was decided that a sub- scription should be commenced among the principal rate, payers ( farmers) to raise the sum, and thus prevent the heavy burden which must fall on the parish by the parties becoming chargeable to its funds. The money has been raised among the occupiers in the parish ; his Grace the Duke of Buckingham ( a great part of whose domain around his residence at Wotton is in Brill parish, and who is consequently a considerable ratepayer in the same,) yesterday put his name down to the subscription for one pound, and thus the family will once more be able to escape into Manchester immediately, where, bad as things now are, they say they hope and are satisfied they shall be able to do better than in their native town Brill. After such proofs as this, what becomes of the Duke of Buckingham's assertion, that the condition of the agricultural labourers in Bucks is good 1 A few weelis, and hundreds will be out of employ, and half Starved in this ' pattern country.'— Globe. [ Yet one of " the complaints of the landlords against the manufacturers is, that they collect the people in large towns.] The recent case of adulteration of flour at New- castle- under- Lyne, has been investigated in that town. Mr. Bull has been fined in the full penalty of £ 20 and costs, the case being fully made out, and the eighteen sacks of the adulterated'material were ordered to be buried. Mr. Octavius Duncombe, brother to the Hon. W. Duncombe, now called to the House of Peers under the title of Baron Faversham, by the death of his fa- ther, was elected on Tuesday for North Yorkshire, without opposition. PRECOCIOUS SHOOTING.— A boy, about sixteen years of age, apprentice to John Perry, patten ring maker, Darlaston, had courted for some time a girl not more than fourteen years old, daughter of John Bavley, bricklayer, who has lately transferred her af- fections to another lad about the same age. This so preyed upon the first, that he vowed revenge, and on Saturday evening last, soon after nine o'clock, he pro- ceeded to carry his intention into effect. The object his adoration, seated with several others at an open window, for the benefit of the evening breeze, and little dreaming of danger, was busily occupied working the eylet- boles up the back of a new cotton ' ress, when she was electrified by a report loud as a discharge of artillery, accompanied by the cries of a child, some three years old, who had received the con- tents of a pistol in its shoulder. Fortunately, for Miss Bayley," he fired from the opposite side of the street, and took aim at her through the doorway of the room in which she was seated, or most likely she would not have escaped. The voung rascal ab- sconded immediately. From the examination of the wounded child by the surgeon, it appears that the pis- tol could not have been loaded with any thing more than powder, as nothing but wadding could be found in the wound.— Staffordshire Examiner. A NEW ISLAND.— For a long series of years an island has been gradually forming between Whitton- ness and Oyster- ness, in the Humber, and its present extent, if we are correctly informed, is not much un- der 300 acres. Mr. Read, of Burton Stather, has taken it from the woods and forests, or in other words the Government, and on Thursday week entered into possession. Several steamers were plying between it and the adjacent coast the whole day, and many of the neighbouring gentry visited " Read's Island," the name by which the new settlement is to be henceforth distinguished. The surface is covered with a fine crop of grass, and about a hundred head of cattle are al- ready feeding where nothing but fishes fed before.— There is, as yet, but one house, the occupier of which is the person appointed to look after the cattle. How are we to account for the systematic prostitu tion of the press by the Tory journalists to the vile purpose of running down the characters of public men ; an evil which has now attained the height of a crying nuisance? It cannot be supposed that the fault lies wholly with the Editors of these journals, who con- sult of course the views and interests ofthe employers, and the taste of their readers. The truth is, that what isicalled Conservatism is a very ill- natured and uncom fortable creed. It is essentially at variance with the interests ofthe communityand the progress of society It quarrels with the inevitable course of events. It is consequently attended by an angry distrust and a constant feeling of danger. Hence, Conservatives, even the most exemplary in all the charities of life, are almost uniformly ill- tempered politicians. If two gentlemen are differing on politics, and one is evi- dently losing his temper, you may be sure he is a Tory. This ill temper, we are disposed to think, is at the bottom of the morbid appetite for rabid abuse and reckless slander, to which the Tory journals pan- der, and which grows by what it feeds on. The man who hates is always the injurer; and " the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God."— Lon- don Patriot. NAPOLEON'S REMAINS.— The wishes of theFrench nation have been realised by the removal of the remains of Napoleon from St. Helena fo Paris. His fate fur- nishes a remarkable instance of the instability of hu- man greatness— his death, of the great effects result- ing from trifling causes. This hero of a hundred battles, who had fearlessly faced a thousand deaths, could not muster sufficient courage to take a dose of medicine, and there is no doubt that his dislike of physic remotely caused his early dissolution; since, rather than take some simple remedy, he allowed dis- ease to gain the ascendancy over his constitution, and his death was the result. Persons cannot be too watchful of their state of health, and may, bv occasion- ally using a mild laxative, and by being always provi- ded with a safe and efficient medicine, such as Framp- ton's Pill of Health, enjoy the two greatest blessings of this world, health and long life. The requisition for the Southwark meeting was signed by the representatives of above a hundred of the most respectable and influential firms in the Borough. The Town hall was on Monday densely crowded, and the meeting seemed to be animated by one fee'ing. CIRCULATION OF SHEFFIELD NEWSPAPERS. Number of Stamps issued to the Sheffield Newspapers for the years 1839 and 1840, and for the first quar- ter of 1841. ( Official Return.) 1841. 1839. 1840. Independent, Mercury.... Iris Patriot .... Jan. to Mar. 108,500 118,500 25.500 90,750 90,000 22,500 44,000 39,500 8,500 29,000 24,000 SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. CRICKET.— On Tuesday last, a match was played at Mr. Babb's cricket ground, Rotherham, between the Britannia and the Union clubs, which terminated in favour of the former by one inning and 54 runs. After the match, the players, accompanied by a large number of friends, retired to the house of Mr. Babb, the Pack Horse Inn, where a sumptuous dinner was provided for the occasion. A band of music, as well as the ringers of the Parish Church, with the hand bells, were in attendance; and the day was spent with great conviviality. The following is the score :— BRITANNIA. Barnby, bowled by E. Oxley I Blaelunoor, ditto S. Eamshaw 11 Oldfield, ditto E. Oxley 33 Salt, ripp out 9 Beaumont, bowled by S. Earnshaw 11 T. Jenltinson, ditto ditto 0 Hird, caught by ditto 13 Oldham, not out 5 Runhlortli, bowled by S. Earnshaw ....*>.... 20 Thompson, caught by T. Oxley 2 Wolatenholme, bowled by E. Oxiey 2 Bye I Wide ball 1 Total 109 UNION. Second Innings. bowled by Old Held 0 leg before wicket 10 caught by Thompson 0 bowled by Oldfield 2 ditto ditto 2 caught by Thompson O bowled by Oldfield 0 ditto ditto 0 run out 2 bowled by Oldfield 0 not out < 5 First Innings. Marshall, b. by Oldfield .... 2 Dent, run out 7 Woodyer, st. by T. Jenkinson 3 T. Oxley, b by Oldfield .... 0 S. Earnshaw, ditto l E. Oxley, run out 2 F. Jenkinson, b. by Oldfield 1 Johnson, not out 3 Pearson, b. by Oldfield l Broadhead, b. by Rushforth 8 W. Earnshaw, b. by Oldfield 6 Total ... Umpires— Messrs. Babbi James Webster. 34 Total 21 1st innings 34 Total at both innings 55 nd DONCASTER MEETING.— At a meeting of the Stewards, and other noblemen and gentlemen, at the Club House, Doncaster, on Friday week, Mr. Clarke, of Newmarket, was appointed judge, in the room of Mr. W. Lockwood, of York, who had resigned the office. It was then agreed that the Great Yorkshire Handicap of 25 sovs. each, with 200 added by the Corporation, should be run on the St. Leger Course, the second horse to receive 100 sovs. out ofthe stakes; the third to save his stake; to close and name the last day of the Neivmatket July Meeting, and the weights declared the second Monday following. There are already seventy- two subscribers to the Great York- shire Handicap, and seven to the Municipal Stakes of 500 sovs. each. The Cup is to be of the value of 300 sovs., with 50 sovs. for the second horse; the weights to be as follows— three- year olds, 7st. ; four, 8st. 511); five, 8st. 121b.; six and aged, 9st. 21b,; mares and geldings allowed 31b.; the winner of the St. Leger 51b., and the second 21b. extra. The races next year are to commence as usual on Monday, and to last five days. It was also agreed that for the St. Leger of 1843 the second horse should receive 200 sovs. out of the stakes, and the third should save his stake. No public money is to be given except with the consent of the stewards, unless three horses start. THE MARQUIS OF WESTMINSTER'S STUD.— The racing stud of the Marquis of Westminster was removed from the stables of Mr. John Scott, on Monday last, and is in future to he placed under the management of Mr. Os- borne, at Delamere Forest. The sole reason for the adoption of this change is to be found in the desire of the Noble Marquis to have his race horses nearer Eaton Hall, in order that he may enjoy the gratification of oftener see- ing them. Robert Stewart and Thomas Henderson, of Glasgow, commission agents, September 24 and October 15, at the writing- chambers of D. and J. Wilkie, Glasgow. [ FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE OF TUESDAY, SEPT. 21.] DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY. Sept. 21.— Hubert Chilver, of Ipswich, Suffolk, cabinet maker. Sept. 21.— John Nield, of Quick, Yorkshire, Jas. Nield, of Dukinfield, Cheshire, and John Nield, jun., and John Holt, of Chavlesworth, Derbyshire, cotton spinners. BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED. John Wm. Bevil, of Cheltenham, general agent. BANKRUPTS. TO SURRENnER AT BASINGHAI. I, STREET. Wm. Hithcock, of Regent street, Middlesex, linen dra- per, October 4 and Nov. 2; solicitor, Mr. Alfred Jones, Size lane. TO SURRENDER IN THE COUNTRY. Richard Potter, late of Gisborne park, Yorkshire, but now of Birkeacre and Manchester, and John Potter and James Potter, of Manchester, cotton spinners, October 2 and Nov. 2, at the Commissioners rooms, Manchester ; solicitors, Messrs. Atkinson and Saunders, Manchester. Hugh Mackay, of Liverpool, and Archibald Fraser Mackay, of Glasgow, merchants, October 9 and Nov. 2, at the Clarendon rooms, Liverpool; solicitors, Messrs. Lowndes and Co., Liverpool. Richard Kay, of Halton, Yorkshire, grocer, Sept. 27 and Nov. 2, at the Commissioners' rooms, Leeds; solici- tors, Messrs. James and Hamilton Richardson, Leeds. Robert Neech, sen., of Kukley, Suffolk, farmer, Sept. 23 and Nov. 2, at the King's Head Inn, Beccles; solici- tors, Messrs. Reynolds and Palmer, Great Yarmouth. James Moss Sperling, of Halstead, Essex, scrivener, October 5 and 6 and Nov. 2, at the Three Cups Hotel, Colchester; solicitor, Mr. Edward Daniell, Colchester. Joseph Butler, of Walsall, Staffordshire, saddlers' iron- monger, October 16 and Nov. 2, at the Swan Hotel, Wol- verhampton ; solicitor, Mr. Samuel Smith, Walsall. Wm. Drinkwater, of Salford, Lancashire, Woollen cord manufacturer, October 7 and Nov. 2, at the Commission- ers' rooms, Manchester; solicitor, Mr. John Hewitt, Man- chester. Wm. Beastall, of Nottingham, draper, Sept. 30, and Nov. 2, at the George the Fourth Inn, Nottingham ; soli- citors, Messrs. Payne and Cann, Nottingham. DIVIDEND. October 14.— Wra. Birch Price and John Edwards, of Shrewsbury, bankers, at the Shire ball, Shrewsbury. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Joseph Gilbert and George Frasi, of Golden lane, iron founders. Wilson Overend and Wm. Cook Russell, of Sheffield, surgeons. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. David Paterson, of Brueefield, by Dunfermline, yarn bleacher, Sept. 28 and October 19, at Mrs. Hutton's Inn, Dunfermline. David Widdotvson, of Dundee, haberdasher, Sept. 28 and October 18, at the Royal Hole], Dundee. Wm. Duff, of Dundee, merchant, Sept. 24 and October 18, at the British Hotel, Dundee. Robert Montgomery, of Johnstone, cotton spinner, Sep- tember 27 and October 18, at the Saracen's Head Inn, Paisley. Margaret Sim, of Glasgow, provision dealer, Sept. 24 and October 15, at Mrs. Brown's Tavern, Glasgow, latter sold at former prices, but green Clover a shade lower. ROTHERHAM, September 20.— There was only a mid- dling supply of Mutton to this day's market, but that of Beef was good; the attendance of buyers was numerous, the market was middling brisk, and nearly all was sold up at the annexed prices.— Beef, 7s. to 7s. 6d. per stone; Mutton, 6d. to fi} d- per lb. Cattle, 240 ; Sheep, 1870. SMITHFIELD, LONDON, September 29.— The supply of Cattle at market this morning was large, many of which arrived by steam in fine condition, the demand on the whole was good, fine qualities fully supported last Mon- day's prices, the middling and inferior sorts rather higher. Of Sheep and Lambs the supply was also large, the de- mand good for the former, and sold well at last Monday's prices, the latter not so much in request, being considered rather out of season. Of Calves the supply was short, the demand became brisk, the best qualities fully realised 6' s. per stone. Of Pigs the supply was middling, the de- mand brisk; fine, young porkers were much in request, and sold well at the present prices. Other sorts a good trade. Beasts, 3400 ; Sheep and Lambs, 24,290: Pigs, 318; Calves, 144. LIVERPOOL, M onday, Sept. 20,— There has been a good supply of Sheep, with a few Lambs, at market to- day, and a good demand for prime. Best Beef, 6| d., down to 5d. Best Wether Mutton, 6jJ.; Ewes, and inferior quality, from 6jd- down to 5d.; and Lambs, 6jd. per lb. There were a few Beasts and Sheep left unsold at the close.— Number of Cattle at market;— Beasts, 1492; Sheep, 6507. Cattle imported into Liverpool, from the 13th to the 20th September Cows, 3048; Calves, 29; Sheep, 4667 ; Lambs, 41 ; Pigs, 1656; Ho. ses, 43. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. INSPECTOR'S WEEKLY CORN RETURN. An account of the Quantities and Prices of British Corn sold in Shef- field Market, from the returns delivered to the Inspector, by the Dealers, in the week ending Tuesday, Sept. 21, 1841, computed by the Standard Imperial Measure of 8 Gallons to the Bushel. Imp. Measure Total Quant- BANKRUPTS. [ FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE OF FRIDAY, SEPT. 17.] PRICES OF SHARES. RAILWAYS. Paid up. Present Price. £. s. a. £. s. d. Birmingham and Gloucester 100 0 0 59 10 0 Birmingham and Derby.. 100 0 0 77 0 0 Chester and Birkenhead .. 50 0 0 36 10 0 Chester & Crewe Junction 45 0 0 60 15 0 Cheltenham & Gt. Western 62 10 0 35 0 0 Eastern Counties 2.3 0 0 8 5 0 Great Western 65 0 0 80 10 0 Grand Junction 100 0 0 202 0 0 Hull and Selby 50 0 0 40 0 0 Leicester and Swannington 50 0 0 53 10 0 London and Birmingham.. 90 0 0 158 0 0 London & S. Western, av. 50 0 0 55 0 © Lancaster and Preston ... 42 0 0 28 10 0 Leeds and Selby 100 0 0 97 0 0 Liverpool and Manchester 100 0 0 199 0 0 Ditto, quarter shares 25 0 0 47 0 0 Ditto, new half shares 50 0 0 88 0 0 Midland Counties 100 0 0 75 0 0 Manchester and Leeds... 70 0 0 56 10 0 Ditto, new shares ... 30 0 0 29 10 0 Manchester & Birmingham 40 0 0 22 15 0 Manch. & Birm. Extension 7 0 0 5 2 6 North Midland 100 0 0 65 0 0 Ditto, new half shares ... 50 0 0 32 0 0 Sheffield and Manchester.. 72 10 0 27 10 0 Sheffield and Rotherham . 25 0 0 32 0 0 Ditto, new half shares .... 7 10 0 10 10 0 York and North Midland.. 50 0 0 70 0 0 BANKS. Huddersfield Banking Co. 10 0 0 26 0 0 Leeds Banking Company.. 15 0 0 20 0 0 Leeds and West Riding .. 5 0 0 10 0 0 Leeds Commercial 500 4 10 0 Liverpool Union Bank .... 10 0 0 10 10 0 Liverpool Banking Co. .. 10 0 0 8 2 6 Manchester & Liverp. Dis. 15 0 0 10 0 0 Northern and Central 10 0 0 3 10 0 South Lancashire 7 10 0 5 40 Sheffield Banking Company 65 0 0 95 0 0 Sheffield and Rotherham.. 4 0 0 7 0 0 Sheffield and Hallamshire.. 3 0 0 3 5 0 Sheffield Borough Bank .. 5 0 0 5 0 0 Yorkshire District 17 10 0 9 15 0 CANALS. Barnslev Canal ... 160 0 0 275 0 0 Chesterfield 100 0 0 140 0 0 Huddersfield, average 57| 0 0 28 0 0 Lancaster, average 47| 0 0 29 0 0 Leeds and Liverpool 100 0 0 750 0 0 Sheffield 100 0 0 75 0 0 MISCELLANEOUS. Leeds & Yorksh. Insurance 10 0 0 10 10 0 Manchester Fire & Life ditto 10 0 0 9 0 0 Rotherham Gas 15 0 0 26 0 0 Rotherham Water Company 25 0 0 45 0 0 Sheffield Old Gas 24 0 0 42 0 0 Sheffield New Gas 22 0 0 26 0 0 Sheffield Waterworks ... 100 0 0 175 0 0 Sheffield Cemetery 13 13 0 8 17 6 Sheffield Botanical Gardens 13 6 8 6 0 0 Sheffield Fire Office 10 0 0 22 10 0 R. MUNCASTER, Sharebroker, Sept, 24, 184L 3, George street, Sheffield. Wheat. Barley Oats-..- Rje ... Beans -• Peas •' < irs. 166 10 111 0 0 0 bis. 7 0 0 0 0 0 Total Amount. £. 572 12 133 0 0 0 Price ^ Q Imp. Measr. PRICES OF METALS, & c.-~ IaoN, British— Bar.. .. ton 0 Do. Cargo in Wales Hoops Sheets, single Pig, No. 1 Do. in Wales. Foreign— f Swedes, cn. bd. .. ) Russian, com. Duty 30s. ) per ton. t STEEL, British- • London, Sept. 17- 0 0 P. S. I. C. C. N. D. to toil . ton . ton . ton 0 0 to . . ton . " ton ton ton 7 0 6 5 9 10 10 10 - Blistered, ( various qualities) ton ton ton 25 45 45 Shear dp. do. Cast do. do. Foreign— (" Swedes in kgs. bd. Duty 20 Do. Faggots, bd. .. percent. (. Milan COPPER, British— Cake .. 0 C Tile 0 C Sheets H). 0 ( Foreign— ( dy. 37s. cwt.) .. 0 ( TIN, British— Blocks Bars Banca, .. ., .. .. 0 Straits, 0 Tin Plates, i. e. ( box) .. .. 1 i. x. do. .. .. 1 0 to 1) 0 to 0 0 to .. ton .. ton .. ton 0 to 0 to Hi to 0 to .. cwt. .. cwt. 0 0 to 0 0 to 10 0 to 16 0 to 5 4 12 14 15 18 45 84 84 18 10 19 0 ( Others in proportion.) LEAD, British— Pig ton Sheet ton Shot .. .. ton Red ton White ( dry) .. .. 0 0 0 to Do. ( gd. in oil) ... .. 24 0 0 to Foreign— Spanish ( dy. 40s. per ton) .. ton SPELTER, 0 0 0 to For delivery .. .. 32 0 0 to English Sheets .. .. ton 41 0 0 to Quicksilver—( dy. Id. per lb.) bd 0 98 96 0 0 3 4 3 3 1 2 20 21 22 21 26 30 20 31 15 31 15 43 0 0 3 11 SHEFFIELD POST OFFICE. ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE OF MAILS, £. 3 1 1 0 0 0 DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY. September 16.— Julius Csesar Mott, otherwise Julius Mott, of Loughborough, Leicestershire, wine and spirit merchant. BANKRUPTS. TO SURRENDER AT BASINGHALL STREET. Jacob Mill, of Crosby- hall chambers, Bishopsgate street Within, City, merchant, September 28 and October 29; solicitors, Messrs. Oliverson and Co., Frederick's place, Old Jewry. Daniel Rowland, of Horsham, Sussex, linen draper, September 28 and October 29; solicitors, Messrs. Henry Willam and William Charles Sole, 16, Aldermanbury. Benjamin Howell, of Oxford- street, linen draper, Sep- tember 28 and October 29; solicitors, Messrs. Turner and Hensman, Basing lane, London. George Williams, of Aldgate, London, and of New Kingston, Surrey, linen draper, September 29 and Octo- ber 29; solicitor, Mr. William Henry Ashurst, 137, Cheapside, London. TO SURRENDER IN THE COUNTRY. Richard Potter, late of Gisborne Park, Yorkshire, but now of Birkacre, Manchester, John Potter and James Potter, of Manchester, cotton spinners, October 2 and November 2, at the Commissioners' Rooms, Manchester ; solicitors, Messrs. Atkinson and Co., Manchrster. Spencer Jupp, of Littlehampton, Sussex, corn mer- chant, September 27, at the Norfolk Arms Inn, Arundel, Sussex, and October 29, at the Dolphin Hotel, Chiches- ter; solicitor, Mr. George Balchin, Arundel. Richard Rhodes Walker and Robert Joseph Peel, of Manchester, Scotch and Manchester warehousemen, October 8 and 29, at the Commissioners' Rooms, Man- chester; solicitors, Messrs. Sale and Worthington, Man- chester. Thomas Ragg, late of Bristol, but now of Birmingham, hosier, October 1 and 29, at the Waterloo Rooms, Bir- mingham; solicitor, Mr. Thomas Stanbridge, Birmingham. George Forster, of Newcastle uponTyne, woollen dra- per, October II and 29 atone, at the Bankrupt Commis- sion Rooms, Newcastle- upon- Tyne; solicitor, Mr. Ions Hewison, Newcastle- upon- Tyne. Richard Saville, of Longton, Staffordshire, haberdasher, October 8 and 29, at the Castle Hotel, Newcastle- under- Lyme, Staffordshire ; solicitor, Mr. George Young, Longton. DIVIDENDS. October 16.— Henry Gibbs and John Gibbs, of Bir- mingham, button makers, at the Waterloo Rooms, Bir- mingham. October 16.— John Sheppard, Edgbaston, Warwickshire, manufacturer of plated wares, at theWaterloo Rooms, Bir- mingham. October 18.— Samuel Knight, of Manchester, merchant, at the Commissioners' Rooms, Manchester. October 21.— James Knight, of Manchester, merchant, at the Commissioners' Rooms, Manchester. October 16.— James Blanch, of Bath, ironnmoger, at the White Lion Inn, Bath. November 10.— Thomas Greaves, of Kin'gston- upon- Hull, ironmonger, at the George Inn, Kingston- upon- Hull. October 19.— William Blundell and Robert Falk, of Liverpool, merchants, at the Clarendon Rooms, Liverpool. October 11.— Edward Edwards, of the Menai Foundry, Anglesey, ironfounder, at the Britannia Tavern, Car- narvon. October 19.— Samuel Knight and James Knight, of Manchester, merchants, at the Commissioners' Rooms, Manchester. CERTIFICATE. October 8— Thomas Hardcastle, of Sheffield, printer. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Rozas, Braga, and Hatfields, of Pernambuco; Had- field, Braga, and Co., of Liverpool; Araando, Hadfields, and Co., of Bahia, merchants. William Jenkins and Charles Tatnlin, of Bridgwater, Somersetshire, blacksmiths. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. James Morrison, of Paisley, machine maker, September 21 and October 15, at the Saracen's Head, Paisley. John Taylor, of Perth, printer, September 23 and . October 14, at the George Inn, Perth. SHEFFIELD, September 21.— Wheat, 23s. to 27s. 6d.; Beans, 16s. to 18s. 6d.; Peas, 15s. 6d. to 16s. 6d. per three bushels ; Oats, 22s. to 27s.; Barley, 32s. to 37s. per qr. LONDON CORN EXCHANGE, Monday, Sept. 20.— We continue to enjoy very favourable weather for harvest operations, and the crops of grain and pulse are now nearly all gathered in throughout England, whilst in Scotland and Ireland rapid progress is being made with cutting and carrying. At this day's market we had a fair display of Wheat samples on the Kentish stands, but from Essex the shew was small, and though the quality and condition of many of the samples were rather bet- ter, the millers acted cautiously, and factors had to sub- mit to an abatement of Is. to 2s. per quarter on the rates of this day se'nnight before any progress could be made in sales. From abroad, we have again to report a very abundant supply, having, however, a good attend- ance of purchasers from the country, and holders show- ing no disposition to force business. The currency of Monday last was tolerably well supported, and the trans- actions were rather considerable. The best town made Flour was obtainable at 60s., and the ship marks at cor- responding rates. Barley was scarce, and maintained its previous value. The retail business done in Malt was likewise at former rates. With Oats we were moderately supplied, but the dealers holding off, the trade was doll, and the sales made were at 6d. to Is. per quarter below last Monday's quotations. Beans and Peas hung heavily on hand, and each of these articles was procurable at an abatement of about 2s. per quarter. Imports from Sept. 13th to Sept. 18th inclusive.— Wheat, 173,638; Barley, 13,646; Oats, 25,033; Beans, 3040 ; Peas, 5839; Malt, 5424: Tares, 305; Linseed, 2833 ; Rapeseed, 468 ; Flour, 9554 sacks, 6622 barrels. LONDON CORN EXCHANGE, WEDNESDAY.— Few Eng- lish vessels have arrived since Monday, but a considerable number of Foreign, with wheat. There was a fair demand for good Foreign Wheat, at Monday's prices. In other Grain not much done at the last quotations. Flour dull in sale. DONCASTER, September 18.— The weather since our last report has been all that could be desired for harvest operations, and the Corn has been secured in excellent condition. Our supply of Wheat to- day was large; for old, last week's prices have been realised; new, which is not yet generally in good condition, was somewhat lower. Oats were not plentiful, but fully equal to the demand. Beans were rather duller of sale. In Barley not much doing, except for fine samples, which made as much as 40s. per quarter. CHESTERFIELD, September 18.— Wheat receded in price fully Is. per quarter. New Wheat continues coming to hand with a decided improvement in condition and quality. Oats at last week's quotations, bright mealers being in demand. HULL, Sept. 21.— A good supply of new Wheat, which met a fair demand at Is. per quarter decline; foreign as last week. Beans and Barley support their price; Oats difficult to sell, even at less money. LEEDS, September 21.— Wheat in good supply, and Is. per quarter cheaper. Oats and Shelling without varia- tion, but Beans Is. lower. LYNN, September 21.— There was a good supply of Wheat at this market, but the quality being very inferior to last year's, the trade was dull, at a reduction of Is. per quarter. Barley was also about Is. lower. No alteration in other articles. WORKSOP, September 22— We had a very large attend- ance at to- day's market, with a great quantity of both old and new wheat shewn by the farmers; but millers refused to purchase at last week's prices, consequently little or no business done. Old Wheat, 27s.; new, 25s. No Malting Barley shewn. NEWARK, September 22.— Our market to- day has been very small indeed, and what little business was done, was at a small decline. The Barley trade was very flat. BIRMINGHAM, September 23.— At this day's market there was a large supply of farmers' Wheat; the trade ruled dull in Old and dry New, at the prices of this day se'nnight; damp samples were offering Is. to 2s. per qr. lower. Fine Malting Barley realised an advance of Is. per quarter, and we have had a good deal doing in Grind- ing parcels. Oats sold slowly at the rates of this day se'nnight. Beans but little enquired for, and Egyptian are 6d. per 1961bs. cheaper. Peas fully as dear. HOPS. LONDON, September 20.— The market is firm, and the demand improving. A fair business has been done at full rates, the trade appear disposed to get into stock. The duty is estimated at £ 165,000 to £ 170,000. HAY, CATTLE, & c. SHEFFIELD, September 21.— There was an abundant supply of green Clover brought to market this day, but | the quantity of Hay and Straw was not large. The London, Birmingham, and.. Western Mail, Derby, Manchester, Liverpool, Belper, Alfreton, Ches- terfield, Rotherham, Bakewell, Buxton, 8ic. J Barnsley, Wakefield, Leeds, Dewsburv, Hud- dersfield, Halifax, Brad- ford, Rochdale, Man- chester, Liverpool, York, Hull, Selby, Scotland, Ireland, & c., & c _ and Rotherham, Bawtry, Don-"] caster, Gainsbro', Louth, I Lincolnshire, and Nor- j folk, & c., & c. J Dronfield and Chesterfield. Jrrival Due. 18 A. M. De- parture. 8 : 0 P. M. 5 : 18 A. M. .. 7 : 0 A. M. 45 P. M. .. 8: 0 P. M. 7 : 48 P. M. .. 5 : 30 P. M 7 : 0 P. M. .. 9: 0 A. M. OFFICE Opens at 8 A. M., from November 6th to March 5th ; and at 7 A. M., from March 6tli to November 5th. OFFICE Box closed One Hour before the Dispatch of any Mail; but Letters, & c., will be taken in at the Window, on paying a Fee of Id. for the First Half Hour i 2d. for the Third Quarter; and 6d. past quarter. SQ- OFFICE CLOSED AT 10 P. M. NORTH MIDLAND RAILWAY. The following 3re the Hours of Departure from the SHEFFIELD STATION. H. M. DOWN TRAINS, NORTH. 6: 0 A. M. 1st, 2d, and 3d Class Train to York, Leeds, Manchester, and Hull. 8: 45 A • M. 1st, 2d, and 3d Class Train to Leeds, Manchester, and York. 10: 45 A. M. 1st, 2d, and 3d ClassTrain to Leeds, Manchester, York, Darlington, and Hull. 2; 0 P. M. 1st, 2d, and 3d Class Train to Leeds, Manchester, York, Darlington, and Hull. 4 : 30 P. M. 1st and 2d ClassTrain to Leeds, Manchester, York, and Hull. 5 : 30 P. M. 1st, 2nd, and 3d Class Train to Leeds and Manchester. 7 : 30 P. M. 1st, 2d, and 3d Class Train to Leeds. ON SUNDAYS. 8 : 45 A. M. 1st, 2d, and 3d Class Train to Leeds, Manchester, York, and Hull. 4 : 30 P. M. 1st, 2d, and 3d Class Train to Leeds, Manchester,& York. 8 : 12 P. M. 1st, 2d, and 3d Class Train to Leeds. UP TRAINS, SOUTH. 7 : 30 A. M. 1st, 2d, and 3d Clas3 Train to Derby, Leicester, and London. 8 : 45 A. M. 1st, 2d, and 3d Class Train to Derby, Birmingham, Gloucester, and London. 10 : 45 A. M. 1st, 2d, and 3d Class Train to Derby, Nottingham, Birmingham, and London. 0 P. M. 1st, 2d, and 3d Class Train to Derby, Nottingham, Birmingham, and London. 3 : 45 P. M. 1st, 2d, and 3d Class Train to Derby and Nottingham. 5 ; 30 P. M. 1st, 2d, and 3d Class Train to Derby. 12 P. M. 1st and 2d Class ( Mail) Train to Derby, Birmingham, Gloucester, Leicester, and London. ON SUNDAYS. 3 : 45 A. M. 1st, 2d, and 3dClassTrain to Derby, Leicester,^ London. J : 20 P. M. 1st, 2d, and 3d ClassTrain to Derby, Nottingham, and Birmingham. !: 30 P. M. 1st, 2d, and 3d Class Train to Derby. ): 12 P. M. 1st and 2d Class ( Mail) Train to Derby, Birmingham, Gloucester, Leicester, and London. The 8h. 45m. A. M. and 5h. 30m. P. M. Down Trains, and fh. 30m; A. M. and 5h. 30m. P. M. Up Trains, call at all the Local Stations on the Line. SHEFFIELD & ROTHERHAM RAILWAY. SHEFFIELD TO ROTHERHAM. Every Morning, ( Sunday excepted,) 8 30; 9 30; 10 30: It 30 i 12 30. Every Afternoon, ( Sunday excepted) 1 30; 2 30; 3 30; i 30; 5 30 { 6 30: 7 30; 8 30. Sunday Trains, 9 and 10 Morning; 1 30 ; 2 30 ; 4 30 ; 5 30 ; 6 30 ; 7 30 ; 8 30 Evening. ROTHERHAM TO SHEFFIELD. Every Morning, ( Sunday excepted,) 9 0; 10 0 ; 11 0 ; 12 0. Every Afternoon, ( Sunday excepted,) 10; 2 0; 30; 40; 5 0; 6 0 ; 7 0; 8 0; 90. Sunday Trains, 9 30 Morning; and 1 0 ; 2 0; 40; S 0; 6 0; 7 0 ; 8 (; 9 0 Evening. On Monday Mornings, an early Train will leave Sheffield at 7 30, and return from Rotherham at 8 o'clock. SHEFFIELD PUBLIC DISPENSARY, Sept. 20. Admitted during the week, 62 Discharged, « « •• « » .. .. 29 Remaining on the Books, •• -• .. •- .. .. .. 665 Physicians, Dr. Harwood, Dr. Favell, and Dr. Bartolome. Surgeons, .... Mr. Gregory, Mr. Wright, and Mr. Martin. Surgeons- Accoucheur, • • • • Mr. Walker and Mr. Turton, House- Surgeon, Mr. Law. ECCLESALL BIERLOW UNION, Sept. 20, Inmates in Ecclesall Bierlow Workhouse, on last report, 194 Ditto in Nether Hallam Poorhouse •. « •• 62 Admitted since « -• ... 4 Discharged and died during the week •• 2 — 2J8 Number of inmatesin the corresponding week of last year, 258 PAYMENTS TO THB OUT- POOR : Inmoney "••"••"••".•""-£ 50 11 6 In bread 15 19 0- 66 10 « Payments in the corresponding week of last year, in money.. 72 5 1 In bread 15 18 9— 88 3 10 4 SHEFFIELD AND IlOTHEItHAM INDEPENDENT. SEPTEMBER 25, 1841, SALES BY BARDWELL AND SONS. VALUABLE LEASEHOLD PROPE At UPPEHTHORPE. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, BY T. N. BARDWELL AND SONS, ( By Order of the Mortgagee, with power of Sale,) At their Auction Mart, High street, Sheffield, on THURS- DAY, the 30th Day of September instant, at Four o'Clock in the Afternoon, subject to Conditions of Sale to be then produced, ALL that commodious and convenient MESSUAGE, or DWELLING- HOUSE, situate at or near Upperthorpe, and fronting to an intended New Street, to be called Oxford street, with the Out- Offices, Flower and Kitchen Gardens thereto belonging, lately occupied by Mr. Thomas Haigh, and now by Mr. J. S. Nanson. The House is substantially built, and finished in a very superior manner, and contains Three Rooms on the Ground Floor, Four Bed Rooms, a Dressing- Room, conve- nient Closet, and Two good Cellars, and is fitted up with all useful and necessary Fixtures. The Land, including' the Site of the House and Build- ings, contains 648 superficial square yards, or thereabouts, and is held under a Lease, granted by the late Mr. George Addey, for the Term of 800 Years, from 25th March, 1839, at the Yearly Kent of £ 9. 5s. 3d. The Tenant will permit the Premises to be viewed, and further Particulars may be had on application to the AUCTIONEERS; or to Mr. GEGKGE WATSON, Solici- tor, Norfolk row. Sheffield, September 17th, 1841. TO JOINERS, BUILDERS, & c. Extensive Sale of Ready Wrought BALTIC BAT- TEN FLOORING BOARDS, SCOTCH FIR BOARDS, Sfc. SjC. > TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, BY T. N. BARDWELL & SONS, On TUESDAY, Sept. 28th, 1841, at the Canal Wharf, in Sheffield— Sale to commence at Ten o'Clock ; UPWARDS of 20,000 Feet of 1- inch and lj- inch FLOORING BOARDS, of various dimensions, cut from Battens, and well seasoned, planed, groved, tongued, and ready for immediate use; 1000 Twelve- Feet SCOTCT FIR BATTENS; a quantity of l|- inch SCOTCH FIR BOARDS; nearly 20,000 Feet 1- inch ditto ; and from 2000 to 3000 Feet f- inch ditto, various widths; all perfectly dry, and of excellent quality; and will be Sold in Lots to suit Purchasers. Approved Bills, at Three Months, will be taken for Purchases of i£ 20 and upwards, or an allowance for all Cash. September 20, 1841. COLLEGE STREET, ROTHERHAM, Grocer's Stock, Fixtures, Horses, Gig, Carts, and Wag- gon, Drug, Milch Cow, Gears, a portion of Household Furniture, New Dinner Services, & c. & c. SALES BY SCHQFIELD AND SON. VICTORIA TAVERN, SCHOOL CROFT. VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, Capital Bievving Vessels, Fixtures, Malt Mill, Beer Engine, & c. & c. SCHOF1ELD and SON are directed TO SELL BY AUCTION, On the Premises, at the Victoria Tavern, School Croft Sheffield, on MONDAY, the 27th Day of September, 1841, at Ten o'Clock in the Forenoon, MHHE valuable EFFECTS, comprising large Wrought JL Iron Pan, Copper Pump, Cooler, five large Tubs, several Hundred Gallons of well seasoned Casks, Cisterns lined with Lead, excellent Malt Mill, nearly new; four- pull Beer Machine, with extra Piping; Seats and Ceiling, Counter, with Cupboards and Drawers; quantity of Lead Pipes and Taps, Bells, Gas Apparatus, twenty- three Plated Pints, Ladder, Hop Seive, Gantries; also, a quan- tity of Household Effects, Bagatelle Board, Glass, Fen- ders, Painted Tables, Metal Spittoons, & c. & c. N. B.— The above may be taken at a fail- Valuation, any time previous to the Sale ; the House is spacious, in a good situation, at a low Rental, and free from any Brewery, and the Effects in first- rate condition. For further particulars, apply to the AUCTIONEERS, Music Hall, Sheffield, or on the Premises. SALES BY MR. STEVENSON. BUILDING MATERIALS. Superior HARNESS, SADDLES, & c SCIIOF1ELD AND SON WILL OFFER BY AUCTION, At the Music Hall, Sheffield, on TUESDAY, the 28th Day of September, 1841, at Eleven o'Clock in the Fore- TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, BY MR. STEVENSON, Up in the Premises, Fargate, Sheffield, on MONDAY and TUESDAY, September 27th and 28th, 1841, THE whole of the BUILDING MATERIALS of the Premises lately occupied by Mr. Anthony Whitaker, and others adjoining, comprising Windows of various de- scriptions, with Shutters complete; Doors, Ceilings, Floor Boards, Joists, and other Effects. SIXTY THOUSAND FEET OF MAHOGANY AND ROSEWOOD, In Logs and Veneers, forming the most splendid Assort" ment ever consigned to the town— many of them adapt: ed for the most costlv Furniture. OSGATHORPE HOUSE, AND OSGATHORPE COTTAGE. MR. WAKE, the Owner of these Properties, is de- sirous to Sell one of them, and would sell either. Tickets to view, and further information, may be had on application to Messrs. BARDWELL and SONS, Auc- tioneers ; or to MESSES. WAKE & SON, Solicitors, Sheffield. The Cottage, which Mr. Wake occupies, can only be shewn on particular days, to be fixed beforehand, but the House which is unoccupied, maybe inspected on any day 20th September, 1841. M R. FIVE Sets of Superior GIG and PHAETON HAR- NESS. Also, Three Excellent Shaftol Saddles, and Three Sets of Kersey Horse Cloths. VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, Large Cheval Glass, Reclining Chair, Mangle, & c. STEVENSON Is directed to SELL BY PUBLIC AUCTION, At the Canal Wharf and Warehouse, Sheffield, on WED- NESDAY, September 29,1841 ; TWENTY- FIVE LOGS OF HONDURAS MAHO- GANY; 25 do. of SPANISH do.; 5 Tons of ROSEWOOD PLANKS, from Bio, the heaviest and largest Dimensions in the Country ; 10,000 Feet of SPA- NISH CUBLS, and rich mottled ; with an Assortment of Rosewood Veneers; 2,000 Feet of Splendid Amboyna and Birds' Eye Maple VENEERS and PLANKS, with the richest Chrystalized MOTTLED LOG ever landed Also, a quantity of HARD WOODS. Approved Bills at liberal dates will be taken in Pay- ment. Refreshments will be provided for Purchasers. The Auction will commence at Ten o'Clock in the Forenoon. COMMODIOUS AND CONVENIENT PREMISES, in Arundel Street. TO BE LET, with Immediate Possession, part of the extensive WAREHOUSES, STABLES, and Premises, situate in Arundel street, Sheffield, now in the occupation of Mr. Gamble, Carrier, namely, the Ware- house and Stables, with Hay Lofts over the same, situate on the South East side of the Yard, together with one- half of such Yard; and also two large Cellars under the Ware- house, with entrance thereto out of Arundel lane. The Premises are well adapted for'a Carrier, ( the Busi- ness having been carried on therein for a great number of years,) or for a Merchant, or Manufacturer, or any other Business requiring much room, and possess the advantage of being near the centre of the Town. A Tenant may be accommodated with a Dwelling- House and Cottage, if required. Mr. Gamble will shew the Premises ; and for further particulars, apply to Mr. SAMUEL LAYCOCK, Hair Seating Manufacturer, Millsands; or to 3MB. WATSON, Solici- tor, Norfolk Row. Sheffield, September 24th, 1841. T E A. MANY Families finding it difficult to obtain good Tea, B A L L A N S and CO. beg to inform them, that their Warehouse is established for the Sale of TEAS, COFFEES, and SPICES only,— that their whole attention is devoted to the selecting and procuring the Finest and Choicest Flavours that are imported into the London, Liverpool, and Bristol Markets; and Fa- milies may at all times depend upon obtaining, at this Warehouse, the Best Qualities of Teas and Coffees, on the most reasonable Terms. Common TEAS .... 4s. 2d. per lb. Good Family TEA 4s. 8d. per lb. Much Finer Ditto 5 O „ Rich Full- flavoured 5s. 4d. per lb. HOWQUA'S MIXTURE Imperial GUNPOWDER Finest Small Leaf GUNPOWDER Good Family COFFEE Rich Full- flavoured Ditto ....'... Is. 6s. 0< J. ... 6s. Od. . Is. Od. 8d. 2s. Od. Best TURKEY 2s. 4d. SCHQFIELD AND SON WILL SELL BY AUCTION, , N MONDAY, the 4th Day of October, 1841, at " Three o'Clock in the Afternoon, a variety of Valu- able EFFECTS. — Particulars in fdture Advertisements. O TO BANKRUPT'S EFFECTS. BE SOLD BY AUCTION, BY T. N. BARDWELL & SONS, On Monday, October 4th, 1841, on the Premises of Mr. Townend, ( who is giving up Business,) in College Street, Rotherham;— APOWERFUL Brown Draught Mare, 9 years old; a well- bred and useful Brown Mare, 5 years old ; a tilted Waggon, with Ladder; an excellent new Cart, a tilted Cart, a capital Drug complete ; a Milch Cow, in Calf ; Shaft and Sling Gearing ; a capital Stanhope Gig, with patent Axles; excellent Saddles and Bridles; Horse Covers, & c. Also, GROCER'S STOCK and FIXTURES, Coffees, Soaps, Rice, Brown and Coloured Papers, Stock of Brush- es, Ginger, Seeds, Sulphur, Chocolate, Blue, Black Lead, Fuller's Earth, Rosin, Peppers, & c.; capital Counters, Flour Bins, excellent Weights and Scales; Malt Mill, Coffee Mills, Sack Barrows, Oil Cisterns, Corks, Mea- sures, Nests of Drawers and Shelves; a Crane, Tea Can- nisters, Currant and Raisin Sieves; Chains, Candle Rails, Landing Gantries, Ladders, Casks, and Tubs, & c. & c. Also, a portion of HOUSEHOLD EFFECTS ; Five new blue Dinner Services; an Eight Days' Clock, Oak and Mahogany Tables, Churns, Carpets, Kitchen Requi- sites, & c. The Stock, Fixtures, & c,, will be Sold at Ten o'Clock; the Horses, Waggon, Gig, Carts and Cow, will be Sold at Twelve precisely. Sheffield, Sept. 24th, 1841. CHURCH STREET, SHEFFIELD. ELEGANT ROSEWOOD & MAHOGANY FURNITURE; For Drawing, Dining, and Lodging Rooms; a brilliant toned Cottage Cabinet Piano Forte, by Collard and Collard ; China and Glass; valuable Brown Mare; fashionable Cab Phaeton and Harness, Hackney and Side Saddles, and other Effects. T. N. BARDWELL & SONS, Are directed by W. C. RUSSELL, Esq., ( who is leaving Sheffield,) TO SELL BY AUCTION, WITHOUT reserve, at his Residence, in Church street, Sheffield, on WEDNESDAY, October 6th, 1841, precisely at 10, on account of the great number of Lots; A DRAWING ROOM SUITE, of solid Rosewood, covered with Drab Damask, and per- fectly modern, including Eight Chairs, Couch, Loo Table, Pair of Card Tables, lined with Drab Cloth ; A HANDSOME CHEFFIONERE, with Statuary Marble Slab, and Gilt and Crimson Silk Door; splendid Brussels Carpets, Occasional Tables; COTTAGE CABINET PIANO FORTE, by Collard and Collard, of most brilliant tone, new from the Makers, very recently in most perfect condition; Rosewood Music Stool, handsome Fender and polished Irons, Cabinet Ornaments. DINING ROOM FURNITURE, comprising a Set of Spanish Mahogany Isatent Telescope Dining Tables, 12ft. long, and 5ft. 4in. wide, on Carved Legs ; a Set of Ten and Two Armed Mahogany Chairs, with Hair- cloth Covers ; Paper Tea- Trays, Fenders and Fire Irons, Japan Plate Warmer, Mahogany Supper Tray and Stand ; MAHOGANY LIBRARY TABLE, with II Drawers, fitted with Bramah's Patent Locks; complete Oak Pattern Oil Cloths, Entrance Hall Furni- ture ; RICH GLASS AND CHINA, Stair and Landing Carpets, Brass Rods, Printed Linen Cover. LODGING ROOM FURNITURE includes lofty Four- posted Spanish Mahogany Bedsteads, with Dimity Hangings; complete French Bedsteads, with Chintz and Dimity Hangings; grime Feather Beds, with Bolsters and Pillows, Hair and Wool Mattresses; Spa- nish Mahogany Wash and Dressing Tables, with Drawers, French Polished ; very complete Painted Tables, Cham- ber Services, Mahogany Cupboards, Child's Crib, with Mattress, & c., very complete ; a small French Bedstead, with Mattress, & c., for ail Invalid's Room; Mahogany Chest of Drawers, Cane- seated Chairs, Floor Carpets, Witney Blankets, capital Quilts and Counterpanes, Ma- hogany Night Table. WING WARDROBE, Painted, with Drawers and sliding Shelves, Mahogany Box and Swing Dressing Glasses, & c. A CAB BODIED PHAETON, remarkably light, with a moveable Seat behind. A VALUABLE BROWN MARE, Seven years old, 15£ hands high, by Hetman, perfectly quiet in harness; a Set of capital Gig Harness, a new SideJSaddle, several Hackney Saddles, Double and Single- Reined Bridles, Horse Clothing, & c. IN THE KITCHENS. Capital Dressers, with Drawers; Washing Machine, Tubs, Brass Pans, Saucepans and Steamers, Copper Helmet'Coal Pan, several Sets of Ivory. Handled Knives and Forks, and the usual Culinary Vessels, and other Requisites. The whole of the above Furniture, & c., has been very recently purchased, and is in the best possible condition. Catalogues, with the order of Sale, will be published, and may be had on and after Wednesday, the 29th inst., on application at the Auction Mart of T. N. BAIIDWBLL and SONS, High street, Sheffield. September 24lb, 1841. Valuable LAW LIBRARY, large Wing Book case, and Bracket Clock. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, By Messrs. SCIIOFIELD & SON, At the MUSIC- HALL, Sheffield, on MONDAY, the 4th Day of ' October, 1841, at Ten in the Forenoon ; ASELECTION of Valuable LAW BOOKS; also, a handsome Mahogany Bookcase, with Cupboards and Drawers; Bracket Clock, and other Effects. The above may be viewed on the Saturday ( this Day,) preceding the Sale. KNOWLES HILL, CROOKES MOOR TO BE SOLD BY PRIVATE CONTRACT, all that Plot of Valuable BUILDING LAND, ad- joining the Road from Sheffield to Fullwood, opposite the South Sea Hotel, and fronting Nile street and Peel street, containing 1763 superficial square yards, with FOUR MESSUAGES or DWELLING- HOUSESerected thereon, not quite finished. There is an excellent Bed of Clay in the Land, and the Owner is desirous either to sell the Land, or to Let it on Building Leases, with the privilege of getting and making Bricks. The Price, and all other Particulars, may be known on application to Mr. JOHN GREAVES, Marble Mason, Fitzwilliam street, Sheffield ; or to ME. BABSBB, So- licitor, Rotherham ; or < any Tuesday,) at bis Offices, 12, Bank street, Sheffield. September 23rd, 1841. SALES BY MR. JOHN WOOD. LAUGHTON - EN LE TO • MORTHEN. BE SOLD BY AUCTION, BY MR. JOHN WOOD, At the Ball Inn, in Laughton- en- le- Morthen, on THURS- DAY, the 30th of September instant, at Five o'Clock in the Evening, subject to Conditions of Sale, ALL those Two Copyhold TENEMENTS, with the Gardens thereunto belonging, situate at Laughton- en- le- Morthen, in the several occupations of John Pye and John Barker. Further Particulars may be known on application at my Offices, in Rotherham". J. W. POTTER, Solicitor. Rotherliam, 22nd September, 1841. GUILTHWAITE. fBAO BE LET, with immediate Possession, from Year fl_ to Year, or for a Term of Years, a comfortable DWELLING- HOUSE, with a neat Garden in front, well stocked with Fruit Trees, pleasantly situated at Guilthwaite, in the Parish of Whiston, and near Rother- ham, as the same was late in the occupation of Mr. Win Parkin, deceased, and now of his Widow. The House is in good repair, is replete with Fixtures, and comprises Two Front Rooms, Kitchen, with Three Chambers, and excellent Cellaring. The Rent and further Particulars may be known on application to MH, BADGER, Solicitor, High street, Rotherham. September 15th, 1841. MR. ISAAC ROW BOTH ART, DECEASED. ALL Persons to whom Mr. ISAAC ROWBOTHAM, late of Tenter street, in Sheffield, Grocer and Chandler, deceased, stood indebted at the time of his death, are requested to transmit or deliver particulars of their demands, with the nature of their securities ( ifany,) to Mr. JOHN ROWBOTHAM, ( oneof the Executors named in the will of the deceased,) on the Premises, in Tenter- street aforesaid, in order that the same may be examined and discharged. And all Persons who stood indebted to the said Isaac Rowbotham at the time of his decease, are requested to pay the amount of their respective Debts to the said John Rowbotham without delay. By order of the Executors. GEORGE WATSON, Solicitor. Norfolk row, September 17th, 1841. COCOA.. Is. Od. per lb. | B ALLANS WAREHOUSE, TEA CHOCOLATE.. Is. 4d, & CO., ANGEL- STREET. TO LET, THAT Old- Established and Good- Accustomed Public House, known by the Sign of the BALL, situate in Oborne street, Bridgehouses. The Rent is moderate, and the Valuation very low. For Particulars, enquire on the Premises ; or of WARBURTON, TURTON, & Co., Don Brewery. Sheffield, 20th Sept., 1841. S1 FREEHOLD COTTAGES, In the Crofts, Rotherham. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, BY MR JOHN WOOD, At the Butchers' Arms, in the Crofts, in Rotherhara, on THURSDAY, the 7th Day of October next, at Six o'Clock in the Evening, subject to Conditions of Sale, AL L those Eight COTTAGES, with the Yard and Out- Buildings thereto belonging, situate in the Crofts, in Rotherham. now in the several occupations of Widow Broadhead, Thomas Arundel, and others. Further Particulars may be known on application at my Offices, in Rotherham. 3. W. POTTER, Solicitor. Rotherham, 22nd September, 1841. ICKLES, NEAR ROTHERHAM. O BE LET, with immediate Possession, either from year to year, or for a term of years,— all that capital MESSUAGE or DWELLING- HOUSE, situate at Low Ickles, near Rotherham, with the Stable, Car- riage House, Cowhouse, Yard, well- stocked Garden, walled round ; large, and productive Orchard, and near TEN ACRES of GRASS LAND, by which the House is surrounded, as the same were late in the Occupation of Mr. J. B. Marsh, and since of Mr. Henry Downing. The above Dwelling- house is about ten minutes' walk from the Parish Church of Rotherham, on the Sheffield Road, and comprises Dining, Drawing, and Sitting Rooms, large Kitchens, and six Bed Rooms, with good Cellaring. The Rent and all other particulars may be known on application to MR. BADOER, Solicitor, High Street, Rotherham. Rotherham, Sept. 15, 1841. FREE PUBLIC- HOUSE. TO BE LET, the old and well- accustomed Public- House, known by the Sign of the BALL, in Carver street, with large and commodious Quoit and Skittle Ground, together with Brew- house and other Conveni- ence. The present occupier leaving on account of ill health.— For particulars, enquire on the Premises. Sheffield, Sept. 25,1841. NOTICE. HE great number of Bodies brought from othe Parishes to he buried in ECCLESFlELD CHURCHYARD, having occupied the Ground there to the injury of the Parishioners, it became necessary to put a check upon the practice. The Parishioners, therefore, being assembled in Vestry, passed the following Resolu- tion : — " That the Vicar be requested to demand the Fee of One Pound for the Interment of any Body in the Church- yard which maybe brought from other Parishes; except- ing those having Family Vaults." This Resolution will be strictly enforced. ( Signed) ALFRED GATTY, Vicar. JOHN B. BROWN, 1 JOHN JEFFCOCK, ( Church- WM. FREDERICK DIXON, f wardens. MARK MAUGHAM, } Ecclesfield, 22nd September, 1841. BALBY AND WORKSOP TURNPIKE ROAD. NOTICE FOR LETTING TOLLS. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the TOLLS arising at the several Toll Gates upon the Turn- pike Road from Balby, in the. County of York, to Work- sop, in the County of Nottingham, called or known by the names of the Balby Bar, Pinching Lane Bar, Edling- ton Lane Bar, Wadworth Bar, Malpass Hill Side Bar, and Carlton Bar, will be LET BY AUCTION, either togetheror separately, in Lots, to the best Bidder or Bidders, for the term of one, two, or three years, at the discretion of the Trustees, at the House of THOMAS GARDINER, the Red Lion Inn, at Tickhill, in the County of York, on SATURDAY, the Ninth Day of October next, at Twelve o'Clock at Noon, in the manner directed by the Acts passed in the third and fourth years of the Reign of his late Majesty King George the Fourth, " For regulating Turnpike Roads;" which Tolls are Let toge ther for one year, which will expire on the Thirteenth Day of October next, at the Rent of £ 650 over and above the Expences of collecting them, and will be put up either together or separately, at such Sum or Sums as the Trustees shall think fit. Whoever happens to be the best Bidder or Bidders, must at the same time pay down one Month's Rent in advance, and give Security, with sufficient Sureties, to the satisfaction of the Trustees of the said Turnpike Road, for payment of the Rent at which such Tolls shall be Let in advance Monthly, and for performance of the Terms and Covenants, in such manner as the Trustees shall direct. No Bidding will be received, unless the Sureties attend personally, and with the Taker, Sign an Agreement for payment of the Rent in advance Monthly, and perform- ance of the Conditions. By Order. SEHB7 OWEN, Clerk to the Trustees of the said Turnpike Road Worksop, 3rd September, 1841, RAWM A R S H. TO BE SOLD BY PRIVATE TREATY, EVEN very substantially built and comfortable DWELLING- HOUSES, in Chapel street, in Raw- marsh, near Rotherham. LOT 1.— FOUR several TENEMENTS or DWEL- LING- HOUSES, with Garden Ground adjoining, now in the respective Occupations of Thomas Stones, Thomas Ward, George Smith, and Joseph Hoult. The Site of this Lot contains about 480 superficial square Yards. LOT 2.— THREE other TENEMENTS or DWEL- LING HOUSES, with Garden Ground adjoining, now occupied by George Yeardley, Henry Nicholson, and Charles Kitson, respectively. The Site of this Lot contains about 3- 50 superficial square Yards. Part of the Purchase Money may remain on Security of each Lot, if an accommodation to the Purchaser. Apply to Mr. HARROP, Builder, Wath; or at the Offices of MR. NICHOLSON, Solicitor. Wath, September 23rd, 1841. To SPIRIT MERCHANTS, & c. TO BE SOLD, THE LEASE of a valuable DWELLING- HOUSE and BUSINESS PREMISES, in the Spirit Line, situate in Upper Fountain place, City road, London, The Lease is unexpired for a term of upwards of Thirteen Years, at a low Rental, and possesses every Convenience for carrying on an extensive Business, which also possesses the advantage of a capital Connexion in Sheffield, Bir- mingham, Dudley, Wolverhampton, Manchester, Leeds, and other provincial Towns. Application to be made to SCHOFIELD and SON, Va- luers, Music Hall, Sheffield. RAWMARSH. TO BE SOLD BY PRIVATE CONTRACT, THE following valuable Freehold ESTATE, lately belonging to Mr. John Broughton, deceased, situate in Rawmarsh aforesaid, consisting of all that substantially Stone- built MESSUAGE, or DWELLING- HOUSE, with the Yards, Gardens, Stable, Cow House, Gig House, and all other suitable and convenient Out- Offices, very pleasantly situated in the healthy and improving Village of Rawmarsh, as the same were late in the occupation of Mr. John Marriott, and now of Mr. Wm. J. Brunt. Also, Two COTTAGES adjoining, occupied by George Liver- sidge and Wm. Turner, and a Butcher's Shop, by Joseph Marcroft. Also, all that valuable Close of GRASS LAND, lying in front of the said Premises. tf| This Land is supposed to contain excellent Beds of Coal and Clay. The Site of the Lot contains about Four Acres, and having an extensive Frontage to the Town street of Rawmarsh aforesaid, is well adapted for Building purposes. The Tenants will shew the Property, and all further Particulars may be had on application to MR. C. IT. COWARD, MR. HOYLE, or MR. BADGER, Soli- citors, Rotherham. ROTHERHAM. TO BE SOLD BY PRIVATE CONTRACT, Together, or in the following or such other Lots as may suit Purchasers, THE following FREEHOLD ESTATE, lately be- longing to Mr. John Broughton, deceased, situate on Westgate Green, and at the bottom of Westgate, in Rotherham, adjoining the new diversion of the Rotherhdccf and Sheffield Turnpike Road:— LOT 1.— All that capital MESSUAGE or DWEL- LING- HOU. SE, replete with all useful Fixtures, with a small Court or Garden in front, pleasantly situated at the entrance to the town of Rotherham, from the Sheffield road, nearly opposite the Baptist Chapel, comprising large Dining and Drawing Rooms, five good Bed Rooms, Store Room, excellent Cellaring, two spacious Kitchens, Laundry, Brewhouse, and other requisite and convenient Out- offices, and a private Yard, as the same were late in the occupation of Mr. Stevenson, Railway Contractor, and since of Mr. George Outram. Also, a COTTAGE ad- joining, late in the occupation of William Stocks. And also, all those three substantially Stone- Built MESSUA- GES or DWELLING- HOUSES, with the Yards and Conveniences thereto belonging, now in the several occu- pations of Samuel Lister, Elizabeth Middleton, and Job Peace. The site of this Lot contains about 698 superficial square yards. LOT 2.— All that GIG HOUSE and Four- Stalled STABLE, capable, at a trifling expense, of being con- verted into two or more Dwelling- Houses. Also, all those Two DWELLING- HOUSES, occupied by Wm. Dransfield and Mary Hawke. Also, all that Timber and Wood YARD, with two large and substantial Stone Buildings, now occupied as JOINERS' SHOPS, by Mr. Richard France, Joiner and Carpenter. This Lot has a frontage of 146 feet, and the site contains about 906 superficial square yards. LOT 3.- All that Plot of valuable BUILDING LAND, containing 910 superficial square yards, having a frontage of 134 feet to the Rotherham and Sheffield Turnpike Road, and abutting, East, on Land belonging to Mr. Richard Woodhead ; West, on the Turnpike Road; North, on Lot 2; and South, on the Wheathill Estate. FREEHOLD ESTATE, At Handsworth Woodhouse, in the Parish of Handsivorth. TO BE SOLD BY PRIVATE CONTRACT, ( IN ONE LOT,) ALL that MESSUAGE, DWELLING- HOUSE, or TENEMENT, with the Barns, Stables, Cow Houses, Folds, Yards, and Out- Buildings thereto belong- ing, lying and being in Handsworth Woodhouse aforesaid; and also, all that COTTAGE HOUSE and GARDEN, thereunto adjoining ; which said Premises, including the Ground on which the said Buildings stand, contain together, by estimation, 1R. 6P., or thereabouts, more or less; and also, all that ORCHARD and GARDEN, situate near thereto, containing 1A. 3R. 39P., or there- abouts, more or less; and also, all that Close, Piece, or Parcel of LAND, or GROUND, situate, lying, and being in Handsworth Woodhouse aforesaid, also adjoining the before- described Premises, anciently called or known by the name of" Upper Croft and Bank," and now or lately of " Top Croft," containing, by estimation, 6A. 3R. 32P., or thereabouts, be the same more or less. And also, all that other Close, Piece, or Parcel of LAND, or GROUND, adjoining the before- described Premises, anciently called or known by the name of the " Great Croft," but now or lately the " Bottom Croft," containing, by estimation, 12A. 3R. 1P., be the same more or less. The Buildings are in good repair, and the Land is of a very rich and productive quality, the whole commanding beautiful prospects of the surrounding Neighbourhood. There are Beds of excellent Coal beneath the whole of the Land, capable of being worked to great advantage. Early Possession may be obtained. To view the Property, apply at the Residence of the Misses Hodgson, upon the Premises ; and to learn the Price and other Particulars, to Mr. WHEATLEY, or Mr. JAMES HODGSON, both of Rotherham, the Devisees; to Messrs. BARDWELL and SONS, Auctioneers, Sheffield; or, to MR. C. SI. COWARD, Solicitor, Rotherham, at whose Office a Plan of the Estate is deposited. Rotherham, Sept. 22,1841. To be SOLD by PRIVATE CONTRACT, THREE several Lots of excellent PROPERTY, situate in different parts of the Town of Sheffield. Any person wishing to invest the Sums of .£ 700, £ 300, or £ 200, will find this a favourable opportunity, as the Owners are disposed to sell, to pay the Purchaser an immediate Interest of at least 7£ per cent., after deduct- ing for all reasonable contingencies, and which Interest would be considerably augmented by the improvement of Trade. For particulars, apply to JAMES HARRISON, Architect, Sycamore Street, Sheffield, who can with confidence re- commend the above Properties to his Friends and the Public. 1, Sycamore Street, Sept. 24th, 1841. TO BE LET, with immediate Possession, from Year to Year, or for a term of Years, the above MESSUAGE or DWELLING- HOUSE, ( late in the occupation of Mr. Stevenson,) comprised in Lot 1; and the Tenant may be accommodated with the Stable and Gig House, or take the Dwelling- House alone. Further particulars may be known, on application to MR. C. 1. COWARD, MR. HOYX. E, or MR. BADGER, Solicitors, Rotherham. Rotherham, Sept. 16, 1841. TO BE LET; Together, or in Compartments to suit Tenants, with Immediate Possession, THE extensive PREMISES, lately occupied by Messrs. Taylor and Son, Surgeons, situate in Nor- folk street, Sheffield, nearly opposite the splendid Show- Room of Messrs. Rodgers and Sons, Cutlers to the Queen. The Ground Floor consists of two Rooms, fronting Norfolk street, one of which is 27ft. by 18ft., the other is 14ft. by 9ft., communicating with a Vestibule and Stair- case, 27ft. 6ins. by I0ft„ and 30ft. high, ( lighted at the top by a Dome Light,) behind which is the Hall, 23ft. by 18ft.; Kitchen, 14ft. 6ins. by 14ft. 3ms., in which are the requisite Fixtures. The Second and Third Stories are ascended by means of an elegant Stone Staircase, the steps of which are 4ft. long ( with Iron Balustrading.) These Suites consist of lofty Rooms, the same sizes as those on the Ground Floor, with Dressing Rooms, Closets,. and the additional Rooms over the Gateway. There are Four good Cellars, entire Yard, with Out- Offices complete. Coach House and Stabling may be had if required. The above Premises are adapted to many important uses, where large Rooms are required, such as the General Merchant, the Wholesale or Retail Dealer; would answer for a first- rate Lodging House, for Public Offices, or any of the respectable profession. For further particulars, apply to Mr. JAMES HARBISON, Architect, Sycamore street, Sheffield; or to Mr. JOHN HANSON, Builder, who are authorised by the Owner to treat on liberal terms. 1, Sycamore street, Sept. 22nd, 1841. INSOLVENT DEBTORS TO be heard at the COURT- HOUSE, Sheffield, on MONDAY, the 18th day of October next, at Ten o'Clock in the Forenoon, precisely:— EDWARD HOBSON, late of Pitsmoor, near Shef- field, and of Norfolk street, in Sheffield, and previously of Burton head, Attercliffe road, Sheffield, Yorkshire, Scissorsmith. WILLIAM MOOR, late of Walker street, Wicker, Sheffield, Yorkshire; previously of Leicester street, and formerly of Allen street, both in Sheffield aforesaid, File Hardener. GEORGE FOX, late of New George street, Sheffield, Yorkshire, Labourer; and previously of Russel street, in Sheffield aforesaid, Street Setter, Carter, and Beerhouse Keeper. GEORGE LINLEY, ( sued also as GEORGE LINDLET,) late of Regent terrace, in Sheffield, previously of Crookes, near Sheffield, and formerly of Westfield terrace, of Trafalgar street, of Occupation road, and of Fftzwilliam street, all in Sheffield, Yorkshire, Shearsmith. HENRY GUEST, late of Trinity street, Sheffield, Yorkshire, Bone Button Manufacturer ; previously of Bridgehouses, of Gibralter street, of Garden street, of Coulston crofts, of Meadow street, and of Dun street, and formerly of Copper street, all in Sheffield, Yorkshire, Bone Button Manufacturer and Smallware Dealer. ALFRED HANCOCK, late of Harvest lane, Sheffield, Yorkshire, Scissorsmith ; previously of Saint Philip's street, and formerly of Bower street, both in Sheffield aforesaid, Scissorsmith. JAMES WHITELEY, late of Sargeant's row, Wicker, Sheffield, Yorkshire; previously of New George street, and of Pit street, both in Sheffield aforesaid ; and for- merly of Clough field, near Sheffield aforesaid, Table Blade Grinder. WILLIAM WADSWORTH, late of Meadow street, Sheffield, Yorkshire, Joiner and Builder; previously of Meadow street aforesaid, in partnership with one WILLIAM CARSON, as Joiners and Builders, and formerly of Leices- ter street, in Sheffield aforesaid, joiner. GEORGE JOHNSON, late of Dun street, in Shef- field, and previously of Ecclesfield, near Sheffield, York- shire, Screw and Bolt Maker. REUBEN RODGERS, late of Norton, near Sheffield, in the County of York, Cordwainer; and previously of South street, in Sheffield aforesaid, Cordwainer. CHARLES WOOD, late of Rockingham street, Shef- field, Yorkshire, Spring Knife Cutler; previously of Gar- den street, in Sheffield aforesaid, Spring Knife Cutler and Beerhouse Keeper; and formerly of Kenyon street, of Charlotte street, and of Garden street aforesaid, all in Sheffield aforesaid, Spring Knife Cutler; and carrying on the Business of a File Cutter by his Wife. JOHN LINDLEY ( sued also as JOHN LINLEY,) late of Headford street, previously of Fitzwilliam street and of Balm green, and formerly of Green street, all in Shef- field, Yorkshire, Snuffer Brusher and Jobbing Grinder. BENJAMIN FURNISS, late of Henry street, Park, Sheffield, Yorkshire, Table Knife Cutler ; previously of Lord street, Park, Sheffield aforesaid, Table Knife Cutler, Shopkeeper and Beerhouse Keeper; and of Bernard street, Park, in Sheffield aforesaid, Table Knife Cutler only ; and formerly of Weigh lane, Park, Sheffield afore- said, Table Knife Cutler and Beerhouse Keeper; and of High street, Park, in Sheffield aforesaid, Table Knife Cutler only. JOSEPH HELLEWELL, late of Charles street, Sheffield, Yorkshire, previously of Hermitage street, and of Lead Mill road, and formerly of White rails, and of Charles street, allL in Sheffield aforesaid, Table Knife Grinder. GEORGE WOODHEAD, late of Fitzwilliam street, Sheffield, Yorkshire, Butcher and Beerhouse Keeper, and having a Sale Shop for Meat in the Shambles, in Sheffield aforesaid. WILLIAM KIRKBY, of Lee croft, Sheffield, York- shire, Beerhouse Keeper; and previously of Rocking- ham street, in Sheffield aforesaid, Publican. JOSEPH TYZACK, late of Broad street, Park, Shef- field, Yorkshire, Die Sinker; previously of Tennant street, Islington, and of Prince's row, Hick's square, both in Birmingham, Warwickshire; and formerly of Charles street, of Regent terrace, and of Carver street, all in Sheffield aforesaid, Diesinker. THOMAS KEENAN, late of Pea croft, Cooper ; previously of Back fields, of Bailey street, and of Fitz- william street, Cooper and Beerhouse Keeper; and for- meily of Carver street and of Back fields aforesaid, all in Sheffield, Yorkshire, Cooper. WILLIAM WISTOW ( sued also as WILLIAM WHIS- TOW,) late of Bath street, in Sheffield, Yorkshire, White- smith and Jobsmith ; and previously of Porter street and of Rockingham street, both in Sheffield aforesaid, White- smith and Jobsmith. WILLIAM HOLMES, late of Crimacha, in Fullwood, Sheffield, Yorkshire, White Metal Smith ; previously of Upper Hallam, Sheffield, and of Leicester street, Shef- field aforesaid ; and formerly of Brown lane, Charles street, Sheffield aforesaid, and of Dobbin hill, and of Grey Stones, both in Ecclesall, Sheffield aforesaid, and of Lei- cester street, Sheffield aforesaid, W^ ite Metal Smith. WILLIAM WORRALL, late of Division street, Shef- field, Yorkshire, Tea Dealer and Tobacconist; previously of South street, in Sheffield aforesaid, Tea Dealer and Tobacconist; and of Corn hill, in Sheffield aforesaid, out of Business ; and of Greville street, Hatton garden, London, and of Jerusalem passage, Saint John's square, Clerkenwell, London, agent in the Ironmongery Business ; and formerly of Cornhill, in Sheffield aforesaid, Commer- cial Traveller; and of Shales moor, in Sheffield aforesaid, Grocer and Flour Dealer, and having at the same time a Grocer and Flour Dealer's Shop in Pea croft, in Sheffield aforesaid. GEORGE CHEETHAM, late of Solly street, Sheffield, Yorkshire, Journeyman Grocer; previously of Hanover street, Sheffield aforesaid, Brewer's Traveller; and for- merly of Rockingham street and Portobello street, Shef- field aforesaid, Grocer, Corn Dealer, and Beer Retailer; and of Trippit lane, and of Broad lane, both in Sheffield aforesaid, Journeyman Grocer. M'CARTHY STEPHENSON, 6, Furnival's Inn, Holborn, For WIIi 1.1 AM BINNBY, Sheffield SEPTEMBER 25, 1841- SHEFFIELD AND ROT HER HAM INDEPENDENT. SCOTCH TABLES BEER. THE SCOTCH TABLE BEER may now be had of the undersigned, in Bottle. The success which attended our introduction of this most agreeable and popular Beverage at Hull Four Years ago, and the wi6h expressed for it by many of our Sheffield Customers, have induced us to bring it before the notice of the Pub- lic in Sheffield. Its wholesome character and low Price have occasioned our sending it from Hull, in considerable quantities, to different parts of England, to London and into Wales. Sold in quantities* not less than Two Dozen reputed Quarts, at 3s. per Dozen; or Four Dozen Pints, at Is. 9d. per Dozen. GUINNESS'SDUBLIN STOUT, in Cask and Bottle. CAMPBELL'S Splendid SCOTCH ALE, in Bottle, ALLSOPP'S INDIA PALE ALE, Ditto. 03" Observe— READY MONEY. GEORGE JEFF & CO., Agents for Guinness's Dublin Porter. Post- Office Vaults, Sheffield. DANCING. MR. SEALE begs to inform his Friends and Pupils that his EVENING CLASS will be Resumed on 1iext WEDNESDAY. Hours of Attendance from Eight till Ten. Private Classes as usual. Assembly Rooms, Norfolk street, Sept. 24th, 1841. WANTED, IN a small Family near Sheffield, a steady FEMALE SERVANT. Apply to the PRINTER. WANTED* ARESPECTABDE Youth, as an APPRENTICE to the Razor Trade, who will have an opportunity of ac- quiring a thorough knowledge of the Business. — A Pre- mium required. Apply to S. S. MIDDLETON, and Co., 14, Charles street. CAMPBLETON LAWYER'S celebrated Old WHISKY. SAWYER'S SCOTCH WHISKY, sold full strength, as Distilled, at 20s. per Gallon, or in Casks of 14 Galls, at 18s. This splendid article can be had onlv from J. SAWYER, at the Wine and Spirit Vaults, No. 2, HIGH STREET, where may be had also, Reid and Co.' s Brown Stout PORTER, Burton and East India PALE ALE, & c. British WINES in every variety, at 13s. per Doz. ; the smallest quantity Sold on the same Terms. High street Wine and Spirit Vaults, Sheffield. TO BE DISPOSED OF, AN OLD- ESTABLISHED BUSINESS in the SAW and FENDER TRADE. Enquire cf Messrs. MARSDEN and DOWNEND, West Street. The PREMISES to be LET or SOLD. Sept. 24, 1841. WANTED) APERSON who has served his time in a Country Factor's Warehouse, and has a thorough knowledge of Cutlery in general; also of Bookkeeping, & c. Refer ences as to character and ability will be required. Apply by Letter, 167, Post Office. LATEST NEWS. WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET, FRIDAY. We are well supplied with Wheat; the trade is very firm, and for Old the full rates of this day se'nnight are obtained, with an extensive sale ; New goes off slowly, at Is. per quarter decline. Barley in limited demand; prices for New, 32s. to 35s. per quarter. Oats and Shelling are pretty steady in value. Beans dull, without variation in prices. IMPERIAL AVERAGES OF GRAIN. Wheat. •• Barley. • • Oats. •• Rye. .. Beans... Peas. July 30.. 70 Aug. 19.. 72 Aug. 26.- 74 Sept. 3.- 74 Sept. 10.. 44 Sept. 17.. 64 Aggreg. - Aver.... .72 d... s. .34 6.. 23 .35 11.. 23 .37 0.. 24 .39 1.. 24 .39 10.. 23 .39 2.. 23 d.... s. d,.. s. 9.. 35 11.. 41 6.. 36 3.. 42 7.. 38 3 .44 3.. 40 I.. 44 6.. 39 1.. 44 d... s. 5.. 44 1.. 43 3 .46 0.. 45 .. 48 6.. 37 11.. 44 10.. 47 9 Duties 2.. 38 5.. 23 11.. 38 7.- 43 11.. 46 0 8.. 4 10.. 12 3.. 12 6.. 5 0.. 1 0 ORGAN. TO BE SOLD Cheap, a fine- toned FINGER OR- GAN, with two Stops, suitable for a Room, or small Place or Worship. Apply 36, Church Street, Sheffield. OFFICE TO LET. ACONVENIENT ROOM, 39, Fargate, opposite Mr. Eadon's Repository, suitable for an Attorney or Collector. Rent low. Apply on the Premises. H. R. EVATT, Surgeon Dentist, 56, Queen Street, Sheffield, SUPPLIES ARTIFICIAL TEETH, from a Single Tooth to a complete Set, answering all the purposes of Articulation and Mastication. H. R. E. fills Decayed Teeth, so as to prevent further decay. MONEY MARKET, Thursday.— The English Funds have been steady to- day, with little business doing ; Consols for the Account having been quoted at 89J to % throughout the day. Exchequer Bills experienced a further improvement of Is., being quoted at ] 5s. to 17s. prem. Consols for money were sellers, and New Three and a Half per Cents. io g. In the Share Market, the business was principally confined to Brightons, which at one period declined to 6| discount, from which price they rallied, and closed at 5g to | discount. Birminghams gave way £ l per share, being quoted at 64 to 6 prem.; South Westerns, 50| to 1J per share ; Great Westerns, 11 to 12 prem.; Manchester and Leeds, IB to 11 dis.; Blackwall, 10J to | per share... . English Funds— Three perCent, Consols, 89|| J § ; Three and a Half per Cent. New, 98| g J § : India Stock, 247£ 6| ; ditto Bonds, 1 4 pm,; Consols for Account 89 § 2f; Exchequer Bills, £ 1000, 14 16 1.5 pm.; ditto £. 500, 17 I pm. j do. Small, 17 15 16 pm. Railways- Great Western, 76 § ; do. New, 54 ; ditto Fifths, ; London ami Brighton, 44J g 4 S| 4} g : London and Blackwall, 10 ; ditto New, £ i. 6s. 8d. ; London and Birmingham, 154 l> i\ London and Croydon Trunk, 13$ ; North Midland, 66 ; ditto New, 32 ; York and North Midland, 74. DRAM SHOP AND PUBLIC HOUSE TO LET, THE Old- Established PUBLIC HOUSE, known by the Sign of the ROYAL UNION, in Silver street head. The House has recently undergone extensive alterations, and is well adapted for carrying on a lucrative _ . , Business. The present Occupier, who has done_ a good | Founded A. D. 1815, on the Original Basis of the SCOTTISH ( WIDOW'S FUND) LIFE ASSURANCE, Trade, is leaving" solely on account of his entering into one of the Sheffield trades. For Particulars, as to Valu- ation, Rent, & c., enquire of H. BOLSOVER, on the | Sheffield, September 24th, 1841. TO BE LET, JV1TII IMMEDIATE POSSESSION, THAT well- accustomed PUBLIC- HOUSE, the COCK, in Broad street, Park; having two large Club Rooms, Quoit Yard, and Skittle alley. Rent low. Head Office,- LONDON EQUITABLE. - EDINBURGH, 5, St. ANDREW SQ. lt. PRESENT ACCUMULATED FUND EXCEEDING ONE MILLION & FORTY THOUSAND POUNDS. ANNUAL REVENUE EXCEEDING ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY THOUSAND POUNDS. rHE ORDINARY BENEFITS of Life Assurance, without any special reference to the peculiar ad- Valuation not exceeding £ 30. Apply to, Mr. W. BRAD- I vantages afforded by this Institution, are of themselves LEY, Baker's hill; or on the Premises. SALE BY MR. ASKHAM. TO On BE SOLD BY AUCTION. BY MR. JAMES ASKHAM, the Premises, No. 16, Dixon lane, Sheffield, on SATURDAY and the following Business Evenings. AN Extensive Stock of well- selected JEWELLERY Cabinet and Japanned Work, quantity of French Clogs, China Ornaments, and a general Assortment of Fancy Articles. amply sufficient to induce those who have relatives or fa- milies dependent on them, and who are duly impressed with the uncertainty of life, to have recourse to it, no less as a matter of duty than of interest. In illustration of this, a few actual cases are here quoted from the Society's Books, which will be found to place in a very strong view the benefits of Life Assurance, particularly as they may be secured through the medium of a connection with this Society, viz.;— LONDON TRADE REPORT. THURSDAY EVENING.— The markets remain in a dnll state for most articles, and prices have still a downward tendency. The imports were to a fair extent.. .. Sugar— The market was quiet to- day for West India, and the purchases amounted to only 300 hogsheads and tierces, but former rates were supported. Bengal was, however, in fair demand ; and 2200 bags, at public sale, sold at 62s. to 68s. 6d., for low to good white, being full rates Coffee— There was little passing to- day in any kind of Coffee, and prices were barely sustained. At auction, 1800 bags of Laguayra sold at 88s. to 43s. per cwt.... Rice— The market is in a quiet state for East India, and at public sale 3.00 bags of Bengal sold at 10s. 6d. to lis. for good middling white, being rather lower Saltpetre— The demand is dull, but prices are firm ; at auction, 1000 bags of Calcutta taken in at 28s., being the full value Tea - The market is quiet, but prices are supported, and Is. is the value of Company's Congou, cash Tallow— There was little done to- day, and prices are lower. P. Y. Candle, 48s. 3d. per cwt. HOUSE OF LORDS. THURSDAY, Sept. 23.— The Earl of DUCIE pre- GrEAND CONCERT. Mr. N. SWIFT, ( Teacher of Singing >) BEOS respectfully to inform his Friends and the Public of Sheffield and its Vicinity, that he has made arrangements for giving a CONCERP, in toe | MUSIC HALL, on TUESDAY, September 28, 1841, when he intends to introduce a number of the finest btees, Madrigals, and Catches, ancient and modern, many ol | which havenever been performed inSheffield; interspersed with Solos, Songs, Duets, & c. Mr. S.' s object being to give as pleasing a variety as possible of really good Eng- lish Music. Mr. Swift will, on this occasion, be assisted | by that eminent Vocalist, Mrs. SUNDERLAND ; also by Miss SAUNDERS, ( Pupil of Mr. Swift,) Messrs. RYALLS, FLINT, J. and W. GILBERT, INKERSALL, And other Members of the Sheffield APOLLO GLEE SOCIETY- In addition to which, Mr. SEALE has kindly consent- 1 ed to play a Solo on the Violin; and Miss JONES, ( her first appearance in Public,) will perform a Fantazia on [ the Piano Forte. Mr. E. JONES will preside at the Piano Forte. Tickets : Saloon, 3s.; Gallery, Is. 6d.; to be had at all the Music Shops; of Mr. GREAVES, Printer, Angel street; and of Mr. SWIFT, 36, Fitzwilliam street. Books of Words, 6d. each, to be had at the Doors, on | the Evening of Performance. Doors to be opened at Seven o'clock, and the Per- formance to commence at Half- past Seve « precisely. TO CABINET CASE, CABINET MAKERS, AND VENEER DEALERS. IMPERIAL SAW_ MILLS, London. THE peculiar recommendation of these Mills over any other, is the improved Machinery by which a greater number of Veneers are cut out of each inch of thickness than are cut by other Saw Mill Establishments The produce is from 12 to 13 Veneers in every inch. Specimens may be seen, and every information obtained on application to G. TUMMON & Co., Agents, Soho Wheel, Coulson crofts, Sheffield. LARCH, SCOTCH, ELM, AND OAK POLES. TO BE SOLD BY PRIVATE CONTRACT, du- ring the present and following Months of October, a large number of the above- mentioned POLES, which are now being taken down in the Black Carr and Limbs Plantations, nearDore; and five miles from Sheffield. Persons desirous of Purchasing, are respectfully re- quested to apply to Mr. JAMES GILLINGHAM, the Wood- man, at Mr. John Unvvin's, Dore. Dore, September 21st, 1841. . to CO CJ1 < 35 Cn CJ1 ^ Age at Entry. 1815, Jan. 1816, Mar. 1817, Nov. 1818, June 1821, Mar. 1822, April 1823, Dec. Date of Assurance. 1837, Feb. 1834, Nov. 1831, April 1832, April 1835, Dec. 1832, Oct. 1832, Dec. Date of Decease. H ^ M M i- t5 ® « oo> fc. cocoooto£ J CO Interval between Assurance and Decease. 1 OOOWtOM J fcO Oi Cn GO CO en >-• Cn to oooooooo- O O C-"- © o © © o © O © O © C " ocoooooP* Original Sum Assured. Co to to Co — to ct CJI c i- a) ^ ui. o © - » co m en oo ft cocseoeoo^—• P* Amount of Addi- tions by way of BONUS. Ki 1— 1 — 1—' QOvIC- O)-^, 00 Cn CO — Qo Cn fc. 0 0 to Co 01 01 Go y5 H^ a^ cOQ! 8 uawteoM-.?- Total Sum Paid. TO BE SOLD, ON most advantageous Terms, the Old Established POSTING and HACKNEY COACH BUSI- NESS, carried on for a number of years by Mr. WM. BRADLEY. A Purchaser would only be required to take part of the Stock at a Valuation, and would have all in- terests and advantages of Order6 received at the Commer- cial Coach Office, and Baker's Hill Establishment. Apply ss above. September 9th, 1841. The CAUSES which have led to the extraordinary prosperity of this Office, and which have enabled it to de- clare so large Additions, may be easily traced :— It was founded and has all along been conducted on the sure basis of calculation. The safety of the DATA from which its Tables of rates are deduced, had been amply proved by the long and successful experience of the EQUITABLE. The selection of lives has been rigidly attended to. Its funds have been successfully invested. It has been uniformly prompt and liberal in its settle ments. It is wholly free from the burden and conflicting inte- rests of a PROPRIETARY. WHILE, from the operation of these causes, thisOffice has been enabled to economize to the utmost in behalf of the Assured, the COST at which the valuable benefits of LIFE ASSURANCE are obtained, its advantages are by no means limited to this: — ITS LARGE and rapidly increasing CAPITAL and REVENUE have long since opened up, and still secures to it, in a progressively increasing ratio, all those sources of profitable business which the most favoured Proprietary Bodies, or Trading Insurance Companies, can command. The important difference is to be found, and to be found only, in the APPLICATION of the Profits:— In Proprietary Companies their operation is exhibited in increasing the value of the Proprietor's Stock and raising their Dividends. In THIS INSTITUTION, as the PROFITS BE LONG WHOLLYTO THE ASSURED, their ope ration is seen in those LA « GE ADDITIONS, which, as in the case of the LONDON EQUITABLE, will undoubtedly render a Policy [ opened in this Office, and steadily kept up during the whole period of a prolonged life, a very valuable inheritance indeed. The Assured, if not seafaring by occupation, are al- lowed to pass during peace by sea from one part of Eu- rope to any other part of Europe, without license or extra premium. JOHN MACKENZIE, Managor. Edinburgh, September, 1841. AGENTS. LEEDS— William Ward, Attorney. MANCHESTER— Thomas Boothman, Junior, Cross street, King street. LIVERPOOL— Arther Oughterson and Co., Ecchange st., East. BRADFORD— George Rogers, Horton road. HUDDERSFIELD— D. Marsden and C. W. Sikes, Hud- dersfield Banking Company. sented a petition, from the Ministers meeting at the Con- ference of Ministers held in Manchester, on the subject of the Corn Laws. He begged to call the attention of their Lordships to the petition, as he looked upon it as well worthy of their consideration, not only on account of the number of signatures attached to it, ( upwards of six hun- dred,) but that it also represented the feeling of upwards of 700 more Ministers. This large body of Dissenters con- sidered the Corn Laws religiously wrong, because they ere opposed to the spirit of the Bible. The present peti- tion was the first of a series of movements on the part of the country, which would either be for good or for evil, according to the mode in which they were met by the Ex- ecutive Government. The Noble Lord having read se- veral extracts from the petition, observed that he could not but express the regret he felt at the postponing all inquiry into the distressed state of the country till the next year. It was an undoubted fact, that hundreds and hun- dreds, during the last year, had fallen into untimely graves in consequence of these laws; aud he felt convinced that, before they met again, thousands would have been added to those hundreds. He thought such a postponement a great responsibility for any Government to undertake, and one which he must confess he thought would not have been undertaken by a Conservative Government. He thought a fraud had been practised on the people by the Noble Earl ( Ripon) who had proposed the amendment to the Address. If there was no fraud, he thought the Noble Duke had no confidence in the troops he led, and that mutual confidence was an open question in the Cabinet. ( Hear, hear,) The Marquis of LANSDOWNE, in presenting a petition from Homerton, praying the House, without ad- ditional delay, to stop what the petitioners believed to be impending national misery and irretrievable ruin, ob- served that he had seen with great concern that her Ma- jesty's Ministers had not requested the attention of the House to that important inquiry which the people of this country had a right to expect, and for which the address lately agreed to by their Lordships had prepared them; because he believed that it was the duty oS Parliament to go into the inquiry, if it had been proposed. As it had not been proposed, however, by her Majesty's Mi- nisters, it was not his intention, or the intention of any other Noble Lord near him, to press the subject upon Parliament, but they would wait earnestly and anxiously for that declaration of opinion which must, sooner or later, proceed from her Majesty's Government. The Duke of WELLINGTON thought that if the Noble Lord had reflected, he would have been of opinion that it was impossible to enter upon any inquiry that could have been brought to a close between this and the probable termination of the session. Their Lordships then adjourned till Monday. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, THAT the Partnership lately existing between us the undersigned, WILSON OVEREND and WM. COOK RUSSELL, in the Business of a Surgeon, Apo- thecary, and Accoucheur, carried on at Sheffield, in the County of York, under the Firm of " Overend and Russell," has been Dissolved as from the Fourteenth Day of August, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty- one. Witne6 « our Hands, this Seventeenth Day of Sept., 1841. WILSON OVEREND, WILLIAM COOK RUSSELL. Signed in the presence of us, TUBS. GOULD, W, H. ALPAM. Sarah Arman, a prostitute, was committed for two months, under the Vagrancy Act. William Dickenson, of Calow, near Chesterfield, was brought up, charged with furious driving. It appeared that he was coming down the Park on Thursday, at a full gallop, and having taken the turn from Duke street into Broad St., knocked a lame old man down, who was crossing the road, and ran over his hands, and across his shoulders. The man was an Irishman, who appeared to be begging in the streets, but would not appear against Dickenson, al- though his hands were very much crushed.— Fined 40s. ank costs, part of which was to be given to the injured party. Andrew Blackburn, who had been several times remand- ed for running over two children, was again brought up Mr. Raynor produced the certificates of two medical men. stating that the children might now be considered out of immediate danger, but are very much maimed. Blackburn was again remanded. John Southwick was brought up for an attempt to admi- nister poison. Mr. Raynor said that from information he had at first received, he was led to suppose that the man intended not only his own destruction, but that of some of his children. One or two witnesses were examined, and it appeared that on Thursday, he got a man named " Wool- house to go with him to a druggist's shop, to purchase two pennyworth of mercury, telling him he wanted it to poison rats. He was not quite sober at the time. The man went home, and was seen to put something into his coffee, by a man named Broadhead, who was in the hoase, and asked him what it was ? He said it was meal; but Broadhead, suspecting it was mercury, took the bason from him, and the contents were thrown away. South- wick, on being interrogated by Mr. Parker, said he be- lieved he intended to have taken the poison, but did not know what induced him to think of such a thing. He was discharged with a reprimand. Henry Lofthouse, Charles Tanker, and Samuel Hallett, were remanded on a charge of felony. Joseph Taylor and William Parker, charged with fe- lony, were also remanded. John Ratcliffe Woodcock and John Woodcock, collec- tors, were charged with an assault by Jonathan Barton and Amelia " Walker, at the Jolly Colliers public house, in the Park. Mr. Palfreyman appeared for the com- plainant, Barton, who, it appeared, was the deputy of Mr. Ironside, sheriff's officer, to whom a warrant against Walker, the landlord of the Jolly Colliers, for the sum of £ 64. 17s., had been directed. In execution of the war- rant, Mr. Ironside had left his deputy on the premises; and the defendants, who had an attachment oij Walker's goods for a smaller debt, came in, and were endeavouring to remove some articles of furniture. Barton and Mrs. Walker interfered, and would not allow them to remove any of the goods when the assault took place.— They were ordered to pay £ 1. 13s. expenses. John Hobson, in custody on a charge of assaulting Matilda Moorhouse, with intent to crmmit a rape, was remanded till Tuesday. Francis Scott was charged with felony by Benj. Bell, scissor forger, of Harvest lane, to whom the prisoner was apprentice Ellen Bell, the wife of the prosecutor, proved, that on Friday evening, the 2d of July last, she locked the House, and took the key into her husband's shop. The prisoner was then working in the shop. When she returned, she did not see the prisoner, and in conse- quence of his not coming home about ten o'clock, she went up stairs and found that his best clothes were missing. She subsequently missed a silver watch, with plated guard attached to it, and a black silk cloak. She had not seen the prisoner from that day till the present time Benj. Bell, the prosecutor, corroborated the above siatements.. Samuel Grantham, shopman for Mr. Simpson, pawn- broker, proved, that on the evening of the 2d of July, the prisoner pawned a silk cloak for 9s., in the name of Jas. Thompson. The prisoner was brought from Wakefield, by Cooper, the gaoler, and the watch was found in his possession, as also the pawn ticket for the cloak. The prisoner was committed for trial. Peter Leadbeater was charged with felony by Robert Moran, at a lodging house in Nursery street. It appeared that the prosecutor" when he went to bed on Tuesday evening, put his pocket book, which was in two parts, and contained two sovereigns and a half, in his waistcoat pocket, under his pillow. He was awakened in the night by the prisoner, who brought him some ale to drink of. The prisoner then got into a bed in the same room, and about six o'clock in the morning, he was awakened by the prisoner getting up. He brought the waistcoat, and threw it on the bed of the prosecutor, and it fell between the bed and the wall. He felt in the pocket, and found that the half of the pocket- book which contained the money was gone Turton, deputy constable, apprehended the prisoner, who denied knowing anything about Moran's money. He searched for the missing part of the pocket- book, which he found, but it contained nothing.— The prisoner was committed for trial. 10 to I 12 to 1 16 to 1 20 to 1 TATTERSALL'S.— THURSDAY, September 23. THE CESARE WITCH STAKES. 9 to 1 agst Mr. Goodman's Orelia " 1 ' Mr. Payne's Welfare Mr. Bell's The Squire Lard Palmerston's Ilioua ( taken) Duke of Rutland's Flambeau ( taken) THE DERBY. Offers to take 5 to 1 about Scott's lot, and to lay 16 to 1 agit Lord Westminster's two; 18 to 1 agst Col. Anson's Attila ( taken), 25 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Brother to Phoenix ( taken), and 25 to 1 agst Mr. Scott's Lord of Holderness ( take 80 to 1.) The report that Lord Westminster had taken his horses from Scott's, and placed tliem under the care of John Osborne, proves to be correct; they are now at Eaton. Those, therefore, who bet against or back Scott's lot, will bear in mind that Auckland and William de Fortibus are no longer members of it. The room was this day thinly attended, and betting flat in the extreme. The Earl of Lincoln was on Monday re- elected for South Notts, as was Sir E. Knatchbull for East Kent. SALT BEEF FROM SOUTH AMERICA.— The new pro- cess for preserving meat by injecting salt into it by means of powerful pneumatic pressures, will shortly be put into operation at Buenos Ayres and other parts of South Ame- rica, where it is well known that cattle are extensively slaughtered for the exportation of their hides, the car- cases being completely valueless. The meat thus prepared will form an original article of export to this and other countries; and, should the speculation succeed, our pro- vision markets may be supplied with a new description of animal food at a vrry cheap rate. [ If the monopolists will let ns have it.] So extensive are the herds of cattle and sheep in the immense produotive regions of the Pam- pas, that a traveller in South America a few years since states the carcasses of sheep were_ used as fuel in heating furnaces,— Times, LIVERPOOL RACES. WEDNESDAY.- The St. Leger Stakes ( 8 subs.) were won by Mr. Bell's The Squire, beating Brother to Harpurhey.... The Pala- tine Handicap Stakes ( 25 subs.) were won by Mr. Graydon's Clinker, beating Sinollet, Thirsk, and five others.. .. The Selling Stakes ( 10 subs.) were won by Mr. Bell's La Sage Femme, beating Clem o'tlie Cleugh and eight others. TOfK- HAIL. FRIDAY.- Before H. PARKER, Esq. James Godbehere, in the employ of Messrs. Groves and Sons, saw manufacturersrwas charged by Wm. Prentice, commercial traveller, of London, with an attempt to de- fraud bim by the trick of cards. It appeared that Mr. Prentice was at Mr. Allender's public house, at the bot- tom of Workhouse croft; and Godbehere and another young man, and an elderly man, came into the same room. One of them pulled out some papers, which he supposed to be counterfeit notes, and began to count. Godbehere pulled out some cards, and having played the deceptive trick, the old man endeavoured to induce the complainant to bet, saying that he ( the old man) could do it, and he was sure that he ( Mr. Prentice) could do it. The other rejoined that it was a simple triok, but he was sure they could not do it. The old man urged the complainant to bet him £ 5, asked how much money he had, and, on fail- ing, wanted to persuade him to join him at . a bet. He refusing, and the two men, whose names he did not learn, finding that their intentions were perceived, bolted; and Mr. Prentice detained the prisoner, and, assisted by Mrs. Allender, the landlady, sent for a policeman, and had him taken into custody.... Mr. Bramley appeared for Godbe- here, and handed a note from Messrs. Groves and Sons, stating that up to the present time, he had borne a good character. He was asked how he learned the trick, and it appeared that he had been at Doncaster races last week, and had got into the company of the thimbleriggers there, who had taught him. He was discharged with a reprimand and caution as to his future character, Mr. Parker remarking that great praise was due to Mr. Pren- tice for his conduct in the transaction. William Hague, William Smith, and William Whit- taker, brought up on a charge of vagrancy, were dis- charged. INQUESTS BEFORE T. BADGEK, ESQ. The adjourned inquest on the body of Hannah Crosland, aged 54, wife of Joshua Crosland, landlord of the Wag- gon and Horses public- house, in Masbro', was held at the Court House, on Monday last. No additional evi- dence was taken, but the evidence of which we gave an abstract last week, as also the evidence of the medical men, was read over. From the evidence of Mr. Wilkin- son, surgeon, it appeared, that when he visited the de- ceased, on the 25th of August, she told him that her hus- band had thrown a paint brush at her, the brush striking a blow which knocked her down, and occasioned a wound in her head, and that she was trying to prevent him from painting up the windows. The wound in the head was a contused wound, the opening being about the size of a sixpence, and penetrating the integuments to the mem- brane immediately covering the skull. He attended from that time, and frequently had to caut'. on her to keep her- self quiet, and not to go into any current of air. He was sent for on the 5th of September, and found, to his sur- prise, for the first time, pain and stiffness of the jaw, and difficulty of opening the mouth. He asked her if she had taken cold, and she said she thought she bad the day be- fore. He had, along with Mr. Jackson, of Sheffield, and Mr. Shearman, of Rotherham, made a post mortem exa- mination of the body, and he attributed the death of the deceased to lock- jaw, taking place in consequence of her having taken cold during the progress of the healing of the wound. He thought lock- jaw would not have taken place if the deceased had attended to his directions Mr. Wm. Jacison stated that the description of the post mortem appearance given by Mr. Wilkinson was generally accurate, and he considered Mr. Wilkinson's treatment of the deceased was correct. He attributed the death of the deceased to lock- jaw, and inflammation of the brain, or of its membranes... - Mr. Shearman attributed the cause of death to lock- jaw, caused by the deceased being exposed to cold and damp, while under the influence of the wound, and in a highly excited state of the nervous and vascular systems. The wound mignt have been caused by falling against a wall... . After the reading of the evidence, the Jury returned the following verdict:—" That the said Hannah Crosland died of lock- jaw, caused by a wound in the head, but whether such wound was inflicted by a paint brush thrown at her by Joshua Crosland, her husband, or such wound was received by an accidental fall, the said jurors have not sufficient evidence to prove.".. . . The verdict was accompanied by a request that the Coroner would convey to Crosland the opinion of the Jury, that his conduct towards his wife on this occasion was highly improper and derogatory to his character, and that his habits of drunkenness are most disgraceful. An inquest was held at the Workhouse, on Thursday, touching the death of Wm. Sugden, aged 31, lately in the employ of Messrs. S. Parker and Co., brewers, Sheffield moor. He was labouring under delirium tremens, and had been removed to the asylum connected with the Workhouse, where he was found dead in bed on Thursday morning.— Verdict accordingly. EFFECTS OF DRUNKENNESS.-— An inqnest was beld at the Town- Hall, on Thursday, on view of the body of Ann Kelly, an old woman, the wife of John Kelly, an Irishman residing in Blaekwell's yard, Church street. On opening the inquest, the Coroner informed the jury that it was more than a month that day ( Thursday,) since he had occasion to hold an inquest on any body that had met with death from unnatural causes in the parish of Sheffield, a circumstance so rare, that it had never occur- red before during the twelve years of his practice ; and might probably never occur again. -.. Previous to view- ing the body, John Kelly, the husband of the deceased, who had been apprehended for the purpose of being so- bered, was brought up, and said— I am in the employ of Mr. Townsend, bookbinder. My wife and I had some drink together on Monday last. We went out together on Monday morning, to Heeley, and when we came back, I suppose we had some drink during the day. I don't know where we had it, but we had some at Clifton's. I was so drunk, I could not tell what time I went to bed. I left my wife up when I went to bed; and when I got up, about five or six o'clock, I found my wife on the house floor, as 1 thought, asleep. She snored and breathed hard. I then called in Wm. Whittaker, and he was the first person who came in. I know she was up when I went to bed. She had been drinking with me, and she was drunk. When I raised my wife up from the house floor, I placed her head on my knee, and found the back of her cap bloody and wet. I had not struck or kicked her. I have lost the best friend I had in the world. We lived by ourselves. No other person was in the house on Monday night Ann Short, of Blackwell's yard, Sheffield, sin- gle woman, said— Between two and three o'clock on Tues- day morning last, I heard either Kelly or his wife go up and down their stairs many times, and I heard Kelly tell- ing; his wife to get up. I heard him several times, but nobody answered, and then I heard a very great confu- sion, as if something was knocking over. I could not tell whether up stairs or down. Then all was still an hour and a half or two hours. John Kelly came to call me up about half- past five or six o'clock. I said I was coming, bilt I did not go, as he had often called me up beforetime to get him drink. About half past eight o'clock, I went in, and saw his wife laid on some chairs. She died on Wednesday, at about eleven o'clock. I saw Ann Kelly on Monday night, about eight o'clock. She was very fresh indeed, and her husband also. They now and then got drunk together. I never knew him ill- use her. I did not hear her cry out. The noise seemed as if something was tumbling over. I have seen her tumble down at odd times, when she was drunk... Nathaniel Waters, cooper, stated that he went into Kelly's house about six o'clock. Old Kelly was in, and a person named Whittaker and his wife. An old woman was laid on the floor, with her feet towards the bottom of the stairs. He asked what she was doing laid there, and Whittaker said she was tipsy, and fancied she had fallen down stairs. He then took ber up, and placed her in a chair. On looking round, he saw blood in two places on the floor. I then looked at Kelly. He was without coat, and both his shirt- sleeves were all over blood. I asked him how he came into that state, and he said he did not know. They were all tipsy toge- ther. There was a quart of ale stood on the table, and sixpennyworth of rum in a bottle. The woman breathed hard, and was in the same state on Wednesday morning. Witness saw them on Monday morning tipsy. They had been drunk on Sunday. The woman lay for 29 hours in an insensible state. She was cold and stiff when he lifted her from the floor.... Thomas Wm. Salters, apr prentice to Mr. Wild, surgeon, stated that about nine o'clock on Tuesday, the daughter of the deceased came to the surgery for some one to attend a woman who had met with ar. accident. Mr. Wild was busy at the time, and said he would rather not undertake the case. She had better get a recommendation for the Dispensary. The girl asked Mr. Wild to send some one to dress the wound, and said they would then apply to the Dispensary, and on those conditions Mr. Wild sent witness, who found a large wound on the head, which he dressed. There was no fracture that he could discover, but it had cut through, and the bone of the head was visible. He thought it had not been done by the fall, from its peculiar shape, but by what the wound had been inflicted he could not say. When he got into the house, her husband began to dance and sing, swearing his wife might as well go to h— in a good humour. He also said if witness could cure her, he would give him anything but his life. Wit- ness dressed the wound, but did not call again, because it had been arranged that they should apply to the Dispen- sary Whittaker and his wife were both examined, but it appeared they, too, were not sober, The daughter was examined, and corroborated the evidence of Mr. Wild's apprentice, and also said she believed her father would not strike her mother. She never saw him ill use her in her life.... Esther Kelly, an Irishwoman, who had washed and laid deceased out, " but who said she was " not an aporth related to them, though of the same name," also gave evidence. She accounted for some blister, which the Coroner had found on the feet of the de- ceased, by stating that when found, her feet were so cold, that they had placed the oven plate against them for the purpose of warming them. After the taking of the above evidence, the inquest was adjourned to yester- day, to give time for a post mortem examination, for the the purpose of ascertaining the cause of death. The adjourned inquest was held yesterday afternoon, at the Town- Hall. Robert Fanshaw, of Shalesmoor, optician, had been summoned in consequence of a report that he bad seen Kelly abuse the deceased on Monday night. The witness said he had seen it done on former occasions, but not for a few weeks past. They were a very drunken family. On Tuesday, Kelly turned his daughter, who was drunk, out of the house, and she said—" You've mur- dered my mother— do you mean to murder me." Mr. James Wild, surgeon had examined the body, and found a wound upon the head. The dura mater was strongly attached to the skull, and there was great softening of the brain from disease of long standing. He ascribed the death of the deceased to apoplexy, brought on by exces- sive drinkiug. The wound on the head, whether by fall or a blow, was not of a fatal character. There was no fracture of the skull.... The Jury found that Ann Kelly died from apoplexy, caused by excessive drinking. ... The Coroner then discharged Kelly with a severe reprimand. The Coroner remarked, that a more disgrace- ful disclosure of drunkenness in the family of the de- ceased, and in the neighbours, never came before him. An inquest was held yesterday, by T. Badger, Esq,, at the White Lion, Wicker, on the body of Mrs. Harrriet Andrews, of the Hare and Hounds, Nursery street. She was sitting up to iron, about a fortnight ago, when she fell asleep, and set her clothes on fire. She was dread- fully burnt, and after lingering till Thursday, died.— Verdict— Accidental Death. COURT HOUSE, ROTHERHAM. MONDA Y.— Before Lord HOWARD, M. P., and Col. FULLERTON. Henry Pierpoint and Edward Pierpoint, two brothers, were brought up by the police, haying been apprehended by Womack, fighting on the canal bridge, on Sunday, between twelve and one o'clock. It appeared that Wo- mack took Darnelly the policeman, to assist him in taking the defendants into custody, and the defendant, Henry Pierpoint, made very great resistance, and kicked Dar- nally over the ribs. He was convicted under the local police act, in a penalty of 40s., including costs, for as- saulting the policeman in the execution of his duty. Joseph IFatson was brought up, having been appre- hended on suspicion of stealing, by Jph. Empsall, watch- man, who met him on Sunday morning, abont one o'clock, in the CroftS, having in his possession a tame rabbit.— The rabbit place of George Jarvis, in the Crofts, had been broken into on Sunday morning, and a rabbit stolen, but he expressing reluctance to prosecute, the prisoner was committed one month, under the Vagrancy Act. Thomas Conolly was fined 5s. and costs, for being drunk and disorderly in the streets of Masbro', on Sunday. Thomas Atkinson, on the information of Darnally, po- liceman, was committed one month for vagrancy. James Waddington, labourer, of Rawmarsh, was fined 5s. 6d. and costs, for being drunk and disorderly. Henry Favell and George Jarvis, two drovers, were brought up, having been found by the watchman in the laithe of Mr. Shaw, of the Crown Inn, on Sunday morning, drunk and asleep. Mr. Shaw having been frequently an- noyed by persons sleeping in the laithe, had given instruc- tions to the watchman to take into custody any person he should in future find there. Mr. Shaw, however, not wish- ing to press the case, the defendants were discharged, on payment of costs. Wm. Fox was brought up on suspicion of stealing. He had been taken by Marshall, deputy constable, on Satur- day morning, between five and six o'clock, on the bridge, with between three and four stones of old sheet lead in his possession, which he had been offering for sale, and of which he could give no satisfactory account. Remanded, to give time to find an owner for the lead. Ebenezer Dutton was taken before Col, Fullerton, on Thursday, charged with being a deserter from the 29th Regiment of Foot. Womack produced the Police Gazet- teer, containing a description of the prisoner, from which it appeared that he had deserted from the depot, at De- vonport, five years ago, taking away with him part of his regimentals. He was committed to the House of Cor- rection till orders should be received from the War Office for his removal. Wm. Fox, in custody, on suspicion of stealing lead, was further remanded till Monday. A HINT.— Filberts and walnuts will be as fresh at Christmas as now, if put in jars and covered with sea- sand, or made air- tight with a bladder in a similar man- ner to pickles. 6 SHEFFIELD A1SD ROTHERHAM INDEPENDENT. SEPTEMBER 25, 1841. ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE. TO THE CORN LAWS: ARE WE TO HAVE A MEETING AT SHEFFIELD, PETITION THE QUEEN NOT TO ALLOW THE PRO- ROGATION OE PARLIAMENT UNTIL THEY HATE BEEN CONSIDERED ? TO THR EDITOR OF THE INDEPENDENT, SIR,— Observing, in the daily Liberal papers, accounts of meetings which have been and are being held, through- out the country, protesting against the prorogation of Parliament until the Corn Laws shall have been discussed, one cannot but be surprised at the apathy of those of our townsmen who usually take the lead in such matters, in not having got up a similar meeting here. How is it that we have not had one ? Why should an important manu- facturing town like Sheffield remain inert and inactive, when all the country appears to be actively alive to the subject ? Meetings have already been held at Manches- ter, Salford, Birmingham, Glasgow, Walsall, Southwark, Chelsea, Harwich, New Brentford, Whitechapel, Mary- lebone, Camberwell; by the Metropolitan Corn Law Association, and even at Tamworth l Poor, poor Sheffield, to be behind hand with the paltry pocket borough of Sir Robert Peel 1 Where are our public men, that Sheffield should have thus fallen ? Where has the good old English spirit that was wont to manifest itself at the time when the Reform Bill was mooted, and on any other occasion that occurred to call it forth, migrated to ? Is not the baneful effects of the Corn Laws felt here ? Have we no poverty — no distress— have we no unemployed, no wretched families, that are dragging on a miserable exist- ence, consequent upon a lack of a sufficiency of the prime necessaries of life ? Are not many of our shopkeepers daily closing their doors, unable longer to carry on ? Is not our trade, in almost all its branches, reduced to a state of unparalleled distress, and is it not deteriorating every day ? How is it that, in Sheffield, there are at present 3223 houses tenantless, but that more than one or two families are obliged to crowd together into one house, in consequence of being unable to pay the additional rent, and other claims which would otherwise come upon them ? There is distress, and a fearful amount, too, of distress in Sheffield. Then where are our Dissenting Clergy, who have attended the Ministerial Conference at Manchester, and who know that these are not mere chimerical inter- rogatories of the imagination, but that such things really do exist ? Where are our merchants, who feel the direful influence of these iniquitous and unjust laws ? And what is our Anti- Corn Law Association doing, that it does not shake off its lethargy, and vigorously and determinately bestir itself at this most important, this most critical juncture ? Sir R. Peel has given the people to understand, if they will but do so, what they may expect at his hands. And what is it ? So far as regards any attempt to benefit the country, simply nothing. In his opening speech, he pro- fessed, forsooth, to bring forward the subject of warming the two Houses of Parliament,— that their own delicate and susceptible persons may be comfortably provided for while the people are starving without;— that he intended to ask for the " supplies"—( whoever doubted that?) — that he should renew the Poor Law Act for a year ; that the royal kitchen gardens would be brought under con- sideration ; but that he had not had time to consider the subject, and should therefore not be prepared this Session to propose any measure for the permanent relief of the country: and, as if to put the finishing stroke to this pro- gramme ofinimitable piece of statesmanship, he proposes to prorogue until February ; so that a famishing people may meet the approaching winter, with all its rigours and inclemency, and an increasingly deteriorating trade, as they best can. Very consolatory this ! But why this delay of five months ? Is there any pro- bability tiiat, at the expiration of that time, he will be any better able to meet the passing exigencies of the country ? Decidedly not. Sir Robert is not that tyro in politics that he need to be told that he could carry a measure for the amelioration of its distresses, or, in other words, that he could entertain the question of the alteration or repeal of the corn and provision laws, as well now, every whit, as he can do five months hence. But his five months' crotchet is too glaringly transparent ; it is but a mere subterfuge of the wily Premier. The BUCKINGHAMS, the RICI- IMONDS, and the KNATCHBULLS, of the Cabinet, are not made up of such plastic stuff as to be so easily wrought upon by him, and coaxed to entertain a question which, above all others, they most mortally hate to hear mentioned; and, therefore, if he was disposed to effect any modification of the Corn Laws, he could not. This- he very well knows. He is the monopolist's Premier, the mere puppet of the aristocratical landowners ; he must do their bidding, or the moment he lays his finger on those laws to alter them, in any shape whatever, down he must come, for ( and here is the pith of it) those that " invested him with the power he holds, can, and will also, withdraw it!'' This he knows. If his mind is not yet made up, theirs is, and this he knows too. When Sir Robert and his faction were panting for power, and were straining the very heaven and earth of Tory tactics, to oust the late Administration, his partisans vauntingly said that, were he at the head of the Govern- ment, he would be able to " choose, to construct, and to carry his own measures.'' If, then, he can " carry" his own measures, why does he not— knowing, as he must 110, the alarmingly portentous aspect of the country, why does he not at once propose and carry a remedial measure? And not, having got the power which he so craved after, and pocketed his fee, withhold the prescription which he promised, and which the country has a right to demand at his hands. Unless he does ihis, the promises of himself and his coadjutors do but serve to shew that a sheer humbug has been practised upon the Queen and the country— that it was but a deliberate and solemn mockery of the people's sufferings, and it is no wonder if it draw down upon them their bitter, yet just execrations. After all that can be said, or supposed, however, as to what may be Sir Robert's reason for this unnecessary procrastination, the only conclusion that we can arrive at is, that it is nothing more or less than a shufile. He finds that he is in a dilemma. He dare not touch the subject of the Corn Laws, knowing that it would bring down upon him the ire of those by whose permission he holds the uncertain tenure of office. So he has recourse to this stratagem, deeming that it would hardly do to take the fee, and immediately acknowledge his incompe- tency to fulfil his promise; and thinking, doubtless, that he should be able to do it with a better grace, and savour- ing of something rather more like consistency, five months hence ; or, what is, perhaps, still more probable, fearing that if he was now to make that acknowledgment, the country would become exasperated at his chicanery, and would not bear it. Therefore, has he adopted this piece of specious artifice, supposing that the people, having gradually become inured to the most extreme destitution, — having dragged on through the privations of winter, and its asperities being somewhat softened and ameliorated by the time that Parliament would again have assembled in February,— he could then do it with less apprehension. Ha ! Sir Robert 1 it won't do. Lord John Russell met him nobly, and told him so ; so did Viscount Palmerston ; so did Mr. Cobden, Mr. Villiers, Mr. Ward, Mr. Bro- therton, and others; and the startling facts which they adduced, and sounded in his ears, and which are being reiterated from all parts of the country, will make him feel, whatever he may say, that he finds his present posi- tion anything but " a bed of roses." In bringing these remarks to a close, allow me, through you, to beg of my fellow townsmen to consider— seriously to consider the propriety of immediately convening a public meeting, to petition her Majesty not to prorogue Parliament until such time as the Corn and Provision Laws shall have been brought under consideration; and I would also respectfully ask them, whether, as a large and important town, they would think that we had done our duty to the country and ourselves, were we to neglect to do so ? Bearing in mind, then, that Sir Robert Peel is, according to his partizans and supporters, able " to choose, to construct, and to carry his own measures," let us ( again to make use of their own words)— let us " hold him in the fullest sense responsible for what he does and what he refuses to do," and oblige him, before Parliament is prorogued, to come to an issue upon this momentous topic. And notwithstanding that he has already, on more than one occasion, cast his eyes very knowingly and significantly over the occupants of the Ministerial benches, as much as to say, " here is my strength— do what you please,"- yet, the cause being a righteous one, and backed by an united and persevering people, shall prove tri- umphant, despite the boasted, yet contemptible " 91 !"— TRUTH and JUSTICE must prevail! Sheffield, Sept. 23, 1841. EPHON. I beg to remind you, Sir, that this lately Marquis of Chaudos, now Duke of Buckingham, and Lord Privy Seal in the Administration, said to be of the people's own choice, retains his influence in eight seats in the House of Commons— three for the county, two for Buckingham, two for Aylesbury, and one for Winchester, and this sub- sequently to a reform in the representation of the people. Another worthy, the Duke of Northumberland, had the mortification to find that of his four hundred fifty- pound tenants, two had the independence to vote against his Grace's interest; two units, Sir, not two hundred, out of the four, so that it is no wonder, with this unanimity of purpose, if not of principle, that the Earl of Tankerville and his Grace monopolized three- fourths of the represen- tation of their county, although the majority against Lord Howick was only sixty- two. I also beg to point out a fact to you which may not be generally known to your readers, showing how the majo- Boroughs, Scotch Irish - Universities, English. Irish .. Counties, English and Welsh .. Majority For. Against. For. Against, .156 170 0 14 21 0 19 20 0 4 . 4 0 4 0 . 2 0 2 0 .138 16 122 0 8 11 0 36 0 11 .362 274 139 48 48 91 lieve, proposed to make the pupils thoroughly acquainted with the whole in about six months. A variety of dia grams and ingenious mechanical contrivances are intro- duced to facilitate the progress of the pupils. The whole system is founded and carried out on the meaning at- tached to these seven syllables, Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La, Si, and this is so thoroughly worked into the mind and memory, that the meanest capacity may understand it. Yours, very respectfully, Sept. 4, 1841. J. PINDER. Irish Total numbers .... Deduct.. Total Tory majority .. Thus stands our representation in counties, universities, and boroughs, and who doubts but that the counties are equally in the hands of the Tory landed aristocracy as ever the rotten boroughs were in those of the borough- mongers ? But it is urged in defence of this clause, that the same rule of subserviency applies to the tenantry of Whig noble- men. I suggest, with this difference, that the landowners professing liberal principles, act up to their professions, and must do so in consistency with their declared public character, whilst monopoly and privilege are at once the bases and superstructure of Toryism. Can not 1 do what I will with my own ?— asks one, and hence they are only acting in unison with their declared public character, when carrying out those principles of exclusion and mo- nopoly to the very letter. Your anecdote, Sir, goes to shew how far the Noble Earl Fitzwilliam uses his property influence for political purposes, when you say that his tenant residing on the borders of Wentworth Park, partook of his election dinner at the expense of his landlord, and gave his vote to the Tory candidate, and he is still snugly seated upon his farm in perfect security, the Noble Earl in the meantime being thoroughly acquainted with all the particulars. I understand, also, that the agent of his Grace the Duke of Norfolk announced to the tenantry that they were quite at liberty to give their votes according to the dictates of their own judgment, with an assurance that neither should they come to any harm by so doing. And the result was, that the squires within the Duke's manors, most of them holding tenancies under his Grace, became regular elec- tioneering agents, committee men, presidents, vice- presi- dents, in short, practising in all the grades of office, secur- ing, by all possible means, the Tory Chandos triumph, and amongst the- rest even through the instrumentality of the Duke's own other tenantry. These gentry are letting their own land at from two to three pounds per acre and upwards, and holding farms of the Duke at about 25s. and 30s. per acre. One would have thought that gratitude would have won them over to silence at least. Contrast this conduct with this submission prevalent in what is called the Lordship of Wortley, and not a very inappropri- ate title, as it reminds one of " the lord and his vassals. The following circumstance will fully illustrate this part of my subject:— The father of a fifty- pound tenant is a zealous advocate of liberal principles, and a firm sup- porter of the noble house of Wentworth; and the son, from his boyhood, has been accustomed to reiterate— " Milton for ever;" but see him just transplanted ( I suppose I must have it so) within the lordship suddenly, as if magically, mounted on his pony, overwhelmed with blue favours, forgetting his father and his father's house, and shouting with Stentorian lungs - " Wortley and monopoly for ever!" Now, Sir, whether this complacency to Tory wishes arises from persuasion or per force, or from a voluntary surrendering all political privileges and principle under the £ 50 clause, I know not; but of this I am convinced, that this is the clause in that bill which has defeated its object, and rendered it nugatory. This is also clear that the property of the Whig aristocracy, owing to their libe- rality, is no adequate counterpoise or protection against an oligarchal usurpation of the people's rights— their right of representation ; because, as it appears by their skilful management and with the tenant- at- will power, the To- ries are enabled, at one shout, to stifle the voice of the people, and to carry to the Queen an answer as one com- ing from them, but with as little truth in it as the answer of Gahazi, the servant of the prophet Elisha, when he said, " Thy servant went no whither." It is impossible, Sir, to come at any other conclusion in proposing a remedy for amending this anomalous state of the representation, than that above all things it is de- sirable that the suffrage in counties be extended. The people have a claim to an addition to the franchise ; a claim to a vote that would neither be surrendered under a fifty pound farm, nor given in consideration of any indi- vidual profit; but one that would be used in perfect free- dom, because held under the most independent of all tenures, that of industry. It is not for the purpose of disorganising society, or even attempting any alteration in the form of Govern- ment, that I would ask for an extended franchise, and to add a different sort of voters to those at present forming the constituency; but, that they who contribute collec- tively to all the exigences of the country, who, by their numbers, their superior skill, and never- failing industry, are the life's blood and sinews of the State, that they should have a fair proportion of political power given them, ( not the mockery of it,) to be exercised by their representatives, in making laws, that muy be said to be binding upon what might seem to be their natural liberty, in their instituting protection, and conceding pri- vileges, to those orders and distinctions, which have become the ornaments and pillars of this glorious fabric, the British Constitution, which is only progressing towards its completion. It is, Sir, for these purposes and reasons that I would have the unenfranchised to become proper component parts of the fabric ; and the corner now wanting repair is the one called " virtual representation." I am, Sir, your most obedient Servant, A WEST- RIDING ELECTOR. TO THE EDITOR OF THE INDEPENDENT. SIR,— I request, through the the medium of your va- luable paper, to expose the disgraceful conduct of the committee of a Cow Club in the neighbourhood of Shef- field. This is an association of persons to indemnify each other from loss, but carrion club would be the more appro- priate name. They are in the habit of selling their dis- eased cattle to some unprincipled persons who call them- selves butchers, and the meat is afterwards exposed for sale at the eleventh hour. They have sold five since the commencement of the present year, two with cancers iu the head, which actually would make a man of strong nerves shudder with the thought; one of milk fever, another at parturition. No wonder at the bills of mor- tality being so full of fatal diseases, namely, abscesses, cancers, inflammation of the stomach, putrid fevers, & c. They lately sold one in the last stage of consumption forfl. 15s., which realised the mighty profit of a frac- tion short of one penny each share. Hoping that this notice will check such practices, I am yours, & c., A. Y. September 10,1841. TO THE EDITOR OF THE INDEPENDENT. SIR,— 1 should feel particularly obliged by your calling the attention of the inhabitants of Glossop road, beyond the police boundary, to the darkness of the road, which makes it unsafe, more especially at this season, ( after the races in the immediate neighbourhood,) to pass. I feel confident that in the event of some spirited iudividual making known that subscriptions were wanting, that more would be advanced in a short time than would be requisite for lighting the lamps for the season. Not doubting but that some will see the necessity of immediately entering into the matter along with myself, I remain yours, & e. W. S. Glossop road, above boundary, Sept. 1841. ARTS OF DESIGN. THE EXTENSION OF THE SUFFRAGE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE INDEPENDENT. SIR,— I see from your remarks upon the Hon. J. S. Wortley's boasted answer to the Queen, that tlje two mo- nopolists at the election received the support of 7783 fifty- pound votes, whilst the two Noble Lords received 3675, shewing a majority for Toryism of 3508; and this is only one sample of many other representatives of the Chandos clause, who have presented to her most gracious Majesty their answers as from her people. THE METHOD OF TEACHING SINGING. TO THE EDITOR OF THE INDEPENDENT. SIR,— I have extracted the following remarks on vocal music, from " Wilhem's Method of Teaching Singing;" published " by authority of the Committee of Council on Education;" a work which ought to be known through the length and breadth of the British Empire. " The Committee of Council on Education have charged Mr. Hullah with the duty of preparing, for the use of elementary schools, and for publishing under the autho- rity of their Lordships, a course of instruction in vocal music, founded upon and embracing all the practical points of the method of Wilbem. This method is at once simple and scientific; it contains no startling theories; makes no attempt at the very questionable ad- vantage of new musical characters; and rests its only claim to novelty upon a careful analysis of the theory and practice of vocal music. It is within the meaning of the Committee of Council that the method of Wilhem should be introduced into every school in this country; but in order that the scholar may be taught, it is neces- sary first to teach the teacher; and for this object, singing school for schoolmasters, has been opened in Exeter Hall. The instruction in this school is strictly confined to vocal music, on the method approved by the Committee of Council on Education. The classes are conducted by Mr. Hullah; they consist entirely of per- sons engaged in elementary education, either in day schools, Sunday schools, or evening schools; and the course of lessons is so arranged, as not only to impart to those who compose the classes such knowledge of the theory of music as is necessary for the art of singing, but espe- cially to enable them to turn their acquirements to ac- count, by teaching on the week days whatever they may have been taught themselves, or by enabling them to conduct with greater skill the sacred music of the Sunday school, or public worship." The work is divided into 50 chapters, and it is, I be- Of late years, the deficiency of the English in these arts has been prominently brought before the public. The following extract from a lecture on this subject, recently delivered by Hyde Clarke, Esq., E. L. S., is valuable .— " If there is anything," said the lecturer, " in which the English are notoriously deficient, it is in the arts of design. Standing at the head of European art for colour, carrying off the palm in copperplate and wood- engraving, the Eng- lish have the reputation of being the worst draughtsmen in Europe. Holding the rank of the first manufacturing nation in the world, we are not ashamed, to be dependent on foreign nations for a large supply of decorative manu- factures. Struggling to extend education, and priding ourselves on the practical nature of the instruction we give, we yet neglect the most practical and most natural mode of acquiring knowledge. This state of affairs is un- doubtedly productive of great evil; and although much has been said upon the subject, the root of the evil re- mains untouched, namely, the public ignorance of the im- portance of the question. ' To us— a peculiarly manufac- turing nation'— are the words of the Houseof Commons, ' the connexion between art and manufacture's is most impor- ant;' and yet how does the case stand ? In nearly every department of manufacturing art we are grossly deficient. Of silk manufactures alone we import a million a year, and it is not too ' much to say that, in the six or seven years, that the question of instruction in design has been agitated, ten millions have been expended by us in foreign artistic manufactures. In every branch of manufacture connected with art, we are suffering from the consequences of neglect, a fact with regard to which the evidence is most conclusive. In the silk trade the want of instruction is said to be particularly manifest. Mr. Morison says, that the new colours, as well as the new patterns, originate in Prance; and another witness, well versed in the sub- ject, says, that, as far as his acquaintance with manufac- tures goes, he believes they copy their patterns entirely from France, and, in doing so, if they introduce any alter- ations into them, they often spoil them. Dr. Bowring mentions a fact illustrative of the improved state of mat- ters:—' Notlong ago, at Court, in Paris, my attention was arrested by the extraordinary beauty of a shawl worn by the Queen, and by some ladies of rank; it was much more remarkable than any I had seen up to that time, and I was curious to ascertain the combination of causes which had led to the production of this striking garment. I discovered that the raw silk was the produce of France; that it came to England, where it was delivered over to our machinery; that here the weft was made which had been employed in the manufacture— a weft far superior to anything which could be produced in France, inasmuch as our machinery is far superior to theirs; the weft was exported from Eugland, delivered over to French tastfe ; and the combination of English mechanical with French artistical superiority— the union of our improved machi- nery with the exquisite sense of beauty of the other coun- try— had led to productions far more perfect, in my judg- ment, than anything manufactured before.' With regard to paperhanging, Mr. Crace says—' In Paris the work- men have a better eye for colours than ours; they ac- quire, as it were, an imperceptible education- taste from the splendid works so continually before them; yet not depending on that alone, the principal manufacturers there constantly retain able artists, who, besides drawing the designs, arrange the tints, and direct the working. Here, the task of the French artist falls to a mechanic, who, however able he may be as a workman, is still igno- rant as an artist. What is the result ?— the present mor- tifying comparison— can we now produce papers in which the flowers are so delicately tinted ?— can we arrange co- lours with the same science and harmony displayed ? I repeat that though the French manufacturers use the same simple machinery; yet that their productions are far be- yond our own— each tint, each shade of the numerous co- lours exhibited in the arabesques are stamped by a sepa- rate block.' Mr. Martin, the celebrated painter, com- plains of the want of correct design in the china trade, and the same complaint is general as to every species of decorative trade. Mr. H. says, with regard to the fancy trade at Birmingham, ' I believe it may be traceable to some French artists introduced into England by the late Mr. Bolton, of Soho, when he commenced the great plat- ing concern there; that he could not find in England de- signers and modellers for his purpose, and therefore re- sorted to France.'—' On what authority do you make that statement ?' ' On the best authority, both of master and workmen ; and indeed it was mentioned to me, that no skilful artist in Birmingham in those departments existed, the history of whose proficiency was not traceable up to those Frenchmen. Mr. Wyon, of the Mint, and others distinguished in the art, emanated from the school at Soho.' For how many things are we dependent on fo- reign workmen! The number of articles is great: clocks, ormolu, bronze, lamps, Berlin ware, Italian casts, German toys, Berlin worsted patterns, artificial flowers. But hav- ing stated in what our deficiency lies, I must protest against any supposition that it arises from incapacity on our parts, or from any superiority on the part of others. The true cause is stated by the Committee of the House of Commons:— It appears that the great advantage which foreign manufacturing artists possess over those of Great Britain, consists in the greater extension of art throughout the mass of society abroad. Art is comparatively dear in England. In France it is cheap, because it is generally diffused. In England, a wealthy manufacturer has no difficulty in procuring superior de- signs. Our affluent silversmiths have called to their aid the genius of Flaxman and of Stothard. But the manu- facturer of cheap plate and inferior jewellery cannot pro- cure designs equal to those of France, without incurring an expense disproportioned to the value of the article on which his labour is employed. According to the evidence of M. Guillotte, a maker of Jacquard looms ( a gentleman who does the fullest justice to the English manufacturers,) a French capitalist employs three or four artists, where in England one artist would supply eight or ten manufac- turers. This is exemplified in the process called by the French the ' raise en carte,' or the practical transfer of the pattern to the fabric into which it is to be wrought. It appears that in England the designer of the pattern and the person who applies it to the manufacture are distinct persons. In France, the workman is him- self the artist.' Another circumstance, which has a great effect, is the neglect of design as a branch of edu- cation. Art, as Mr. Stothard says, should be made the basis of education, and not literature of art. In Belgium, Prussia, Germany, Bavaria, and Switzerland, drawing is made a branch of education in the parochial schools. At Antwerp there are even Sunday schools. M. Bogaerts says ' There are a variety of means adopted for giving the peo- ple of Belgium education iu the arts. Our first schools are Sunday- schools: in them the children of the poor are instructed to the number, in the city of Antwerp, of from 7,000 to 8,000. Instruction is given, not only in reading and writing, but also in design. The children educated in such schools are therefore qualified ( so far as their future occupation may be connected with the arts,) for the exercise of such occupation. Since the institution of thesa Sunday- schools, the intelligence of the people has been greatly developed in reference to the arts. Those children in the Sunday- schools who shew a disposition for the arts, are encouraged to pursue it. Not only, there- fore, do they find encouragement in the workshop of the manufacturer, but ( if they have a taste for superior art,) in the studio of the artist. A vast number of painters at Antwerp have risen from the lowest classes of society. The next step is taken in the academies. The fine arts are taught in the academies ; but that part of academical instruction which is devoted to manufactures, is only fee- bly developed in them. The professors are paid by the city or town in which they lecture. Of all the schools of the academy, that which is most frequented is the school of architecture. There they learn perspective, the interior decoration of houses, and various branches connected with internal and external architecture.' These measures abroad are further seconded by schools for special pur- poses, as for silk weaving at Lyons; shawl designs at Paris; watchmaking and jewellery at Geneva ; iron ware at Berlin ; lace at Brussels, according to the nature of the manufacture. In France, instruction in design is even made a condition in articles of apprenticeship. From want of instruction, at present, there is often a waste of capital. With instruction what is the result? At Lyons it seems that there are 200 artists employed for the weav- ing department: and, in every case here where instruc- tion has been introduced, it has had the effect of giving workmen better wages, and even of creating new branches of trade. Having seen what has been done abroad, we have now to look at what has been the state of aflairs here. It was in 1835 when the agitation began, and in what condition were we then? Drawing was taught in the Harp Alley National School; we had two or three provincial schools ; and we had a good deal of drawing in boarding- schools which was good for nothing. It was on the 14th of July, 1835, that Mr. Ewart made a motion for a committee to inquire into the subject; in 1837 the Go- vernment School of Design at Somerset House was formed, to which has sincc been added a Normal School for school- masters, and for teachers in Schools of Design. The fees, to January, 1839, were 6s. per month for the day, and 4s. per month for the night: since then, 4s. and 2s. The School of the Society for Promoting Practical Design, iu Leicester square, was opened in 1838, having been founded by the late Mr. William Vialls, in conjunction with Pro- fessor Elmes and Mr. Hyde Clarke. Since then there has been a branch Government School formed in Spital- fields, and branches from the Society in Tottenham- court- road and New- road. In the country, there were now good schools at Edinburgh, Dublin, Manchester, Birmingham, Liverpool, Hull, and Newcastle. Another result had been a great extension in artistic education, and an in- creased purchase of collections of casts; also an increase of wqrks on decoration. The object had also been pro- moted by the Mechanics' Institutions, the machinery of which was well adapted to carry out this kind of instruc- tion. For our present advanced state we are greatly in- debted to Mr. Ewart, Mr. Vialls, Mr. Haydon, Dr. Bow- ring, Mr. Wyse, Mr. Dyce, Mr. De Mouchet, & c." The lecturer concluded with some remarks on the necessity for correct instruction in design— drawing from objects, and not from drawings— modelling, and its utility as a branch of instruction. He alluded to the bad practice of using instruments, and to the great aptitude for drawing displayed by eminent mathematicians ; as to materials, he deprecated the use of the pencil; black chalk, charcoal, slate, or black board were quite sufficient; and a boldness and breadth were the main things to be kept in view; the drawings to be on a large scale, and minuteness to be avoided; the best subject was the human figure ; but any natural productions, as foliage, & c., would be useful in the absence of casts. Very little instruction from mas- ters was wanted, but only application. He instanced the bad effects of copying from drawings in the case of board- ing- school drawings; for very few persons, after having been taught four or five years, could draw from a natural object. FTITPWIAL HNRLTAMETTT* HOUSE OF LORDS. MO NBA Y. — Lord BROUGHAM presented a pe- tition from the British and Foreign Anti- Slavery So- ciety, stating that various mining companies, in which British capital and skill were engaged, in Brazil and Cuba, worked their mines by newly imported slaves from Africa, and praying that the provisions of the act of the 5th Geo. IV., might be extended, so as to meet such cases. His Lordship presented another petition from the same society, praying for the suppression of slavery in the East Indies. Lord COTTENHAM entered into various details as to the course he intended to pursue with regard to the Bills relating to the Administration of Justice, which he had laid on the table at the commencement of the session. He with drew them for the present session. HOUSE OF COMMONS. FRIDAY. On the motion for a Committee of Sup- ply, Lord JOHN RUSSELL rose, and after referring to Foreign Affairs and the Irish Appointments, said,— We are now met in pursuance of an intimation, first given by the Right Honourable Gentleman, but in which the Members of Lord Melbourne's Government perfectly concurred, that as soon after the dissolution as possible, it would be desirable that Parliament should be re- assem- bled, in order to take into consideration the important affairs of the nation. ( Considerable interruption was here occasioned by the loud tone in which Sir Francis Burdett was carrying on a conversation with some Hon. Member on the Ministerial Bench. The voice of the Honourable Baronet completely drowned that of Lord John Russell for some moments, when loud cries of " Order" induced the Honourable Baronet somewhat to lower his tone.) The Noble Lord continued,— Her Ma- jesty was advised by her late Ministers, in the Speech de- livered at the opening of Parliament, to advise the House to take into its consideration the laws relating to the trade in corn. The importance of these considerations no person can doubt. Laws which embarrass trade, de- range the currency, and increase the privations of the great body of the community, supposing 6uch shall be their effect, ought at once to be altered. There can be no more solemn duty than for Parliament to alter those laws which have such a pernicious effect. In answer to that speech, we addressed the Crown, in these words— " We assure your Majesty that we are deeply sensible of the importance of those considerations to which your Majesty has been pleased to direct our attention with reference to the commerce and revenue of the country, and to the laws which regulate the trade in corn." Upon that subject, the House were unanimous. The House of Commons, however, thought it their duty to state to her Majesty that the Ministers did not possess their confidence, and they addressed Jier Majesty for the purpose of effecting a change of Government. The ad- vice of this House was promptly acceded to by her Ma- jesty, and the Right Hon. Gentleman opposite constructed the Administration which is now formed, having such an unalterable attachment to the Constitution in Church and State, and to the sliding scale—( laughter) - but this Ad- dress having been complied with by the Crown, it cer- tainly would seem that the time was come when these im- portant laws ought to be taken into consideration. ( Hear, hear.) Far be it from me, and I hope from any one in this House, to say that you should attend exclusively to measures and not to men. I think you ought to attend to both; but, at the same time, I think that men should not be substituted for all measures, but having the men in au- thority, you ought also to have before you the measures which they approve. ( Hear.) What, " then is the state of the case? The Right Hon. Gentleman states, and I am not disposed to quarrel with that statement, that much time has been lately occupied in the formation of a new Administration, and that he could not consider these im- portant points; but although that may be a good reason, as a plea for the last fortnight, it does not seem to be any reason for postponing, for five months, the consideration of these subjects. Let us consider the previous delibera- tions which the Right Honourable Gentleman, and those who act with him, have held on these points. It was upon the last day of April that the measures relating to Budget were announced, and that I gave notice the FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. LYNCH LAW MURDERS.— The St. Louis New Era gives the following particulars of the arrest and murder of a number of counterfeiters and gamblers :—" It seems that the section of country above and below the mouth of the White River, on the Mississippi, has been for years infested with gangs of gamblers and counterfeiters. Islands 67, 68, and 69, were notoriously resorts for them. The peo- ple of Coahoma country, Mississippi, and from the opposite side of the river, determined to rid them- selves of such pests; and our information is, that they succeeded in capturing from .50 to 15 of them. On the third of August, they placed them on board a trading boat, took her to an unfrequented place, so that there might be no witnesses, and shot and drowned them all. When the Baltic passed up, the citizens were on their way down the river, engaged in the laudable work of burning the houses lately occupied by the victims of their vengeance. No violtnce was offered to the families who were in them, but they were ordered to leave their homes for ever. It is further stated, that the cashier of the counterfeiting establishment was found in the river at Columbia, dead. All the implements of rascality were found about the premises of the murdered men. A large amount of counterfeit bank notes was discovered."—[ In comparison with the above cruel and damnable act of a mob, the crimes of the sufferers sink into insignificance, and the laws and good order of society have received a more dangerous blow than could possibly have resulted from a long life of crime,— New York Express.] MORE DREADFUL SACRIFICES OF LIFE IN AMERICA. — The frequent occurrence of accidents of every description in the United States, and the wholesale nature of the havoc of human life which they involve, are quite appalling to an European reader. There is some- thing unaccountable in the transition in a newly settled race, from the grave earnestness of their Anglo- Saxon or Teutonic kinsmen to the reckless energy and comparative indifference to life, which seems to mark the denizens of the excitable climate of the United States. Scarcely, says the Morning Chronicle's Philadelphia correspondent, had the American public recovered from the shock inflict- ed upon their feelings by the burning of the steam- boat Erie, and the sacrifice of two hundred and thirty- three lives, before we heard of an explosion of gunpowder at Syracuse, in the state of New York, by which thirty- one persons were killed and fifty- seven wounded, several of the latter mortally. On the Mississippi, the steamers Mis- souri and Marmion have been burnt accidentally; the Caroline sunk, and, worse than all, the Louisiana explod- ed, causing the death of sixteen United States soldiers who were on board, five of the crew, and eleven scalded. The Swan exploded below New Orleans on the 17th- killed four, wounded thirteen. At Syracuse, it appears that twenty- five barrels of gunpowper were secretly stow- ed away in a carpenter's shop. The jury which sat upon the bodies of the sufferers attributed the explosion to an incendiary, but the Chronicle's correspondent rejects this idea, and seems inclined to attribute the calamity to the spontaneous explosion of a quantity of'' loco- foco" matches, which are so notoriously liable to explode in the dry clear climate of the United States, that it appears the autho- rities at Baltimore will not allow them to be kept for sale in that city. It has been hinted that the twenty- five bar- rels of gunpowder were concealed in the State of New York, in connexion with some intended insurrection in Canada. ==) During the time Lord Congleton ( Sir H. Parnell, filled the office of Paymaster- General, reductions atWhite" hall and Chelsea Hospital had been effected to the ex- tent of .£ 35,000 a year, and due credit has not been given to Lord Melbourne for his voluntary surrender when he came into power, of the patronage of the highly prized offices of Treasurer of the Navy and Treasurer of the Ordnance. We may add, that within the last two months, during the time'the Hon. E. J. Stanley was Pay- master- General, an additional reduction took place in the Pay- office, by which the place of Assistant Paymaster- General was abolished ( the duties being « o satisfactorily performed by the accountant;) the Government thus sur- rendering the patronage of a place worth £ 1000 a year, which has been saved to the country. Indeed, the Whig Government, so far from having shewn a greedy desire to create patronage for selfish purposes, has at all times been most ready to surrender it, whenever by so doing { he public serviee could be benefited. of moving for a Committee of the whole House on the laws relating to the trade in corn. When I gave notice that I would introduce the subject in a month from that time, vf- ry strong expressions of surprise were uttered. It was said that although we had a right to consider the laws relating to corn, and although it was light that the Government should propose such measures, yet that the delay of a month was an intolerable evil, for which the Government of that day was justly censurable. ( Hear, bear, hear.) It was thought proper shortly after to bring forward a motion declaring that the then Ministers ought not to retain office, and the decision upon that motion prevented my proceeding with the question relating to corn. But from that time, the Right Hon. Gentleman has had four months to consider what course he will pur- sue, and he proposes now to add to those four months, five additional months, before he will communicate to the House pf Commons the measures which the Govern- ment think necessary on this subject. He does not say as he might, " We stand upon the present Corn Law, we think no alteration necessary;" on the contrary, he said we would not accept office, on the condition of being bound not to make any alteration in the Corn Law. It cannot be inferred from such expressions that he thinks an alteration necessary, and yet the Right Hon. Gentle- man who has certainly gone far with others in that ex- pression of indignation at delay, and who said, I ought to be obliged in some manner to bring forward the ques- tion in less than a month, adds eight months to that jcriod, and conceives that he is justified in asking for this ong delay. ( Hear, hear.) Sir, there are svmptoms in the construction of the Government itself which induce me to entertain very great doubts whether anv important alteration in the Corn Law will be effected. I am not al- luding to the construction of the Administration with a view to any personal remarks, but I cannot help noticing the appointment of the Duke of Buckingham. ( Hear.) Sir, this to me is a symptom that no considerable altera- tion in the Corn Laws will be effected by the present Government I have been told that when a sort of threat was uttered that the late Ministry should no longer hold office, because they had proposed an 8s. fixed duty on corn, and that any other Ministry which took a similar course would meet with a similar fate ; I have been told that there were none who demonstrated their approbation and acquiescence in that sentiment more loudly than the Noble Duke to whom I have referred. There are others who have not given any decisive pledge on the subject. The Right Hon. Gentleman himself has not been very explicit. [ Hear, hear.] There is a sliding scale ; but a sliding may amount to a prohibition, or may give less protection than a fixed duty. [ Hear, hear.] The Right Honourable Gentleman, therefore, and others, leave their opinions unknown, and have not given any indication of the nature of the measures they mean to propose. But, Sir, while I observe the Noble Duke to whom I have al- luded is a member of the Cabinet, there are others to whom the Right Honourable Gentleman has not given office, and who have expressed more liberal views with re- gard to free trade. I do not perceive Sir Geo. Murray, who had been Secretary of State for the Colonies in the Duke of Wellington's Cabinet, and was also a member of the Right Hon. Gentleman's last Administration, holding any place in the present Cabinet, and I believe he ex- pressed himself in favour of a fixed duty of 8s., and even less than 8s. [ Hear, hear, hear.] There had been a se- lection of those who gave a decided expression of opinion in favour of the Corn Laws— there was a selection of those in favour of prohibition—[ Hear, hear]— and there had been a neglect or exclusion of those favourable to free trade. [ Loud cries of " Hear !"] Was it possible that, in the present state of the country — expecting something to be done on the subject of the Corn- laws— was it possible, Sir, that those expectations of large and improved mea- sures should be put off for a period of five months ?— ( Cheers.) If such be the ease - if such be your intentions, then I say the arguments you used against the delay of a month, which was proposed by the late Government, fall with ten- fold force against yourselves. - ( Cheers.) It was better, for the sake of trade itself, that it may not be at a loss what to do— it was better, for the sake of agriculture, that it may not be depressed by unfounded fears, that you should declare your adherence, if you do intend, to the present law, and will make no alteration.- ( Hear, hear.) You may attempt some correction of the fraud in the averages, by which you may make the law more stringent. ( Cheers.) You may lower the pivot of the scaleby 4s.— that may be your intention; but if it is, why should it not be proposed in the month of October ? Why should the expectations of the country be set at nought, and this long SEPTEMBER 25, 1841. SHEFFIELD AND ROTHERHAM INDEPENDENT. delay of five months be interposed ? If it be your inten- tion to make no' alteration— if you intend to take a dif- ferent number of shillings, the pivot scale, or a scale more graduated than the present, then I say this length of time should not elapse but you should make up your minds at once.— ( Cheers.) This, I think, affects the character of the present Administration, and I think the measure sof the Right Honourable Gentleman should not be deferred for five months. For the sake of the House of Commons, it is important that [ this should be kept in mind, because though it is clear that the delay you propose is for the convenience of the Administration, it is equally clear that it is for the advantage of those who think [ that rents will be effected by a change in the Cora Laws.—( Hear, hear.) While such things continue, therefore, it cannot fail to be imputed to you, that selfish views have some in- fluence upon your decision, and that you do not act solely for the public good. - ( Hear, hear.) X think, therefore, that it will require that some better case should be made than the one brought forward by the Eight Honourable Baronet, to postpone the important questions to which X have alluded for so long a period. What is the state of the manufacturing interest P [ Hear, hear.] I do not wish to say anything which might be construed into a de- claration of my belief that any laws you can establish will prevent great distress from existing among the manufac- tufing districts. [ Hear.] I do not think any laws you can pass will prevent those fluctuations which may arise either from the state of our foreign relations, or from a long course of over- trading, or from accidents that may occur from time to time. But I think the duty of Par- liament is this— to be able to say that we at least have no part in causing the continuance of distress; and for this purpose I think it necessary you should be able to show that your duties and your restrictions are for some neces- sary object in the State. [ Hear, hear.] He contended that that House of Parliament was responsible for a great part of the distress of the country,— that our manufactures were in great danger. If the Government denied this, why not say so P — Lord John Russell thus concluded :— I, Sir, deeply regret the course to be pursued, for I am afraid it will not give satisfaction to the country, and es- pecially to those residing in the manufacturing districts. [ Hear, hear.] I feel ^ thoroughly persuaded that if, in- stead of pursuing this course, you had adopted those mea- sures which the late Government announced on the 30th of April last, they would have produced a revival of trade — ( Loud cheering)— and, in augmenting the revenue by such means, you would secure a still greater object, an increase of the comforts and happiness of the people. ( Cheers.) Nay, more by declaring to the whole world that you were about to interchange your products for theirs on a free basis, you would have contributed to the future peace of the world. ( Loud cheers.) For there can be no feeling so strong— no security equal to the feeling that one country derives benefits from the other—( Cheers) — and that if such intercourse be interrupted, it will cause far greater calamities than an ordinary war between hostile nations. ( Loud cheers.) It is not because our measures w. ould improve the revenue merely but because they would contribute to the peace of the world that I deeply regret their rejection, but even now, although they have been rejected, I think still that the Bight Honour- able Gentleman and her Majesty's present Government ought not at once to decide that they will not enter into the consideration of measures so important on the present occasion. ( Loud cheers.) Still, I feel per- suaded that if they have made up their minds to pursue that course, unwise although I think it, they will receive the support of that majority which recently placed them in office; but when the events of the year are reviewed, it will be found by the people of the coun- try that great advantages would have been derived from the fair consideration, instead of the abrupt rejection of those measures, and that in adjourning their consider- ation until next year, you adjourn all the benefits which would have flowed from them. It is not my intention on this occasion, or on any other, to propose any motion to the House, or to ask any division against the course pro- posed to be taken by the Bight Hon. Gentleman; but, as a Member of this House, I beg not to be held responsible in any way for the course which will most likely be pursued. Sir B. PEEL, after adverting to France and Ame- rica, said, I particularly regret that the Noble Lord de- clines to take the sense of the House upon the difference of our views. The House was elected under his auspices — ( Loud cheers)— and I wish he had taken its sense as to the propriety of the course which I mean to pursue. ( Hear, hear.) I think it would be no more than reasonable, if, after ten years, during which I have sat in this House as a private individual— I think that, on returning to office, it would be no more than reasonable that I should not be expected, within fourteen days, to propose a measure for altering all the laws of trade and commerce. ( Cheers.) I thought it would be seen that there was a necessity for obtaining official information, which would require time, and that it was but reasonable to permit me to have an interval in consequence. ( Hear, hear.) But if I am re- sponsible for not proposing the alteration of the Corn Laws in one month, what is to be thought of that Go- vernment - ( Tremendous cheering)— I say, what is to be thought of that Government, which held office for five years, and never, until the month of May, 1841, intimated a united opinion on the question ? Why, I ask, did you not call the attention of the House to them in the Queen's speech of 1840 ? Why reserve this question till you make an appeal to the people, and have been left in a mi- nority of 90. ( Great cheering.) You brought forward the Corn Laws in 1841, and in a way that was most cal- culated to prejudice the mind of the country with respect to them. ( Hear, hear, hear.) Of course there can be no doubt that the view you have taken with respect to that question is a philosophic one. ( A laugh.) No matter whether you raise one shilling or one million by the Com law duty you proposed, it was still your duty to call the attention of Parliament to those subjects which were drying up the national prosperity. ( Cries of " Hear, hear.") What reason could there be in 1841, at the com- mencement of the session, why you should not have in- serted in the Queen's speech some recommendation ana- logous to that which you inserted when you found you could do no otherwise ? ( Hear, hear.) You propose the alteration of the Corn Laws as a means of raising reve- nue, and your proposal is not a vague or general recom- mendation to take the Corn Laws into consideration; it can be no other than a recommendation to adopt the tax of 8s. a quarter on foreign corn. ( Hear, hear.) That was the proposal you made. Do you adhere to it now, or do you not? ( Hear, hear.) When you recommended in your Queen's speech, in August, 1841, that the Corn Law3 should be taken into the consideration of Par- liament, had your recommendation reference merely to some vague and indefinite enquiry into the ope- ration of the Corn Laws—( Cries of " Hear, hear")— had it reference to the specific proposition made by you in the month of May preceding, for a fixed duty of eight shillings upon the importation of foreign corn. If you say that you are not bound to adopt the fixed duty of 8s. a quarter, what must be your modesty in calling upon me to declare what measures I am prepared to adopt, if you already see reason to doubt the policy of imposing a fixed duty of 8s. a quarter on the importation of foreign corn. [ Cheers.] If you say that the subject is one still open to consideration— that a new Parliament may enter- tain new views on the subject, therefore justify me in maintaining my recent reserve—[ Cheers]- - until I shall be enabled to give permanent effect to whatever measures I may propose. He had been three years in office— he had had to form the Government of the country— he had had to conduct its foreign1 affairs— and now he was asked to bring forward a measure for the repair of finances, which he had inherited with a deficiency of upwards of five millions sterling for the past years, aggravated by a further deficit of two millions and a half for the present year. He then proceeded to argue, that, even if he had adopted the Whig budget, it would not have afforded any relief to the present exigency. The duty on timber, which was estimated in the budget to yield a large sum, would have produced nothing in the present year, unless the Government had violated the recommendation of Lord Sydenham, that the duty should not take effect until the subsequent year. The duty on foreign sugar would have been equally unproductive ; for the prices of British colonial sugar had for several weeks been so low, that, according to the calculation of the late Ministers them- selves, the foreign growers would not have found it worth their while to import it. And he endeavoured to show that a like deficit would have taken place in the projected levy upon corn. He feared he must look forward to yet further difficulties in future years; instancing the affairs of China, the growing tendency to expense in New South Wales, South Australia, and Canada ; the burden of his complaint still being, that, in all these difficulties, he re- quired time. Sir Robert eagerly seized Lord J. Russell's commendation of his Irish appointments, contrasting the praise with the anticipations of disaster he had heard pre- viously thrown out against his administration in that country. Sir Robert concluded by expressing his resolve to do justice in Ireland, irrespective of party support in the Commons; declaring that his only motive in accept- ing office, and making the sacrifices consequent upon it, was to 6erve his country, and thus earn an honourable fame. Lord PALMERSTON rose and said,— Whether the Right Hon. Baronet had given his reasons for his intended course, in a manner satisfactory to himself and to Hon. Members who sit behind him, he best can tell; but I take leave to say, that, having listened with great atten- tion to all that has fallen from him, I do not think that the reasons which he has assigned will be held to be satis- factory to the country at large. ( Cheers from the oppo- sition benches.) However the Right Hon. Baronet may plume himself upon that majority by which he is now sur- rounded, I tell him to refrain from reposing too great and unlimited a confidence in that support. He should re- member, that tKere is a country as well as a House of Commons—( loud cheers and counter cheers);— and let him not too confidently rely, that the opinion of that majority by which he is supported, even though technically he is entitled to represent it as the opinion of the country, will be borne out by the opinion of the public at large. ( Hear, hear.) With regard to his intended course as respected the Corn Laws, the Right Hon. Baronet's reply was anything but satisfactory. The Right Hon. Baronet says he has been out of office for ten years ; but he has not been out of the country; he has not been out of the active occupation of public affairs ; he has not been out of this House. ( Hear, hear.) He knows what every man knows has been passing in the country; he has given his atten- tion to the state of public affairs ; and, if any man is competent to form an opinion on the great interests of the country, especially regarding this question of the Corn Laws, I say the Right Hon. Baronet, by his habits, by his attainments, and by his pursuits, is competent to do so. But then he said, if he is to be reproached with not being ready with his opinion on the Corn Laws, what reproach ought not the last Government to incur, which remained in the office five years without having proposed any measure on the subject ? Really, Sir, I was somewhat surprised that the Right Hon. Baronet should condescend to use an argument applicable to every measure that has ever been proposed; for it is open to any man to say to those who propose any great measure, " Why, you are to blame for not having proposed this ten years sooner." Every measure has its period: there are circumstances which lead to the proposal of great measures; and it is no answer, nor any reproach, to those who propose them, to say that they have not done so at an earlier period than they have chosen. ( Loud cries of " Hear, hear." The Right Hon. Baronet gives us to un- derstand, that a change in the Corn Laws he is prepared to propose; but that he will not propose that change until he can do so as the head of an united Government. Now, looking at the character of his Government, and at the various members who compose his cabinet— looking, also, to the opinions of those who hold high offices in the Government, but are not members of the cabinet, if the Right Hon. Baronet is to wait to propose his change in the Corn Laws until he can propose it as the representa- tive of a united Government, I venture to predict, that he will require not merely the five months during which he wishes the Parliament to be prorogued, but a term somewhat nearer the five years which he reproached us with having expended in the consideration of this ques- tion. (" Hear," and a laugh.) Lord Palmerston then grappled with jthat favourite objection of Sir Robert's, which he had used with an air of triumph against Mr. Cobden and others, in the late great debate, and on Thursday again pressed into the service— to wit, the dif- ficulty of maintaining a fixed duty of 8s. with corn at 90s. a quarter in the country. Why, ( said Lord Palmerston,) what has the price in this country to do with the ques- tion ? If the Right Hon. Baronet had assumed prices to rise high in the countries from which the corn comes, then he might have argued that the duty, added to the cost price and the charges for freight, was too high to al- low of importation. But the higher the price rises here, if that rise of price is not accompanied by a correspond- ing increase abroad, the more inadequate any given amount of duty necessarily becomes; and therefore, the prospect of a bad harvest in this country, so far from being any reason why an 8s. duty should be abandoned, is, on the contrary, a reason why those who thought that duty too high may, on the contrary, think it would not be too high under the circumstances of the moment. ( Hear, hear.) Lord Palmerston observed ironically upon Sir Robert's statement of the difficulties he had encountered. However great the trouble may be which the Bight Hon. Baronet has had to go through in forming his adminis- tration, 1 do not think the House will admit that to be a sufficient reason for not attending to other things. When I see his Government, I can partly understand that trouble, and I am not in the least disposed to underrate it. (" Hear," and a laugh.) But we do not want him to states his measures now or to- morrow. Let him take the weeks which he says are necessary. All we contend is, that it is not fitting or decent that Parliament should to- morrow be sent to the right- about from that time to the 5th of February next, leaving the country in total igno- rance whether he proposes to stand by the Corn Laws as they are, or proposes to modify the sliding scale in a manner to which my Noble Friend adverted, or whether he has become a convert to our system of a fixed duty, which we intended to propose to Parliament. And in a similar strain, he observed, I do not think, with regard to the Corn Laws, any new light would be thrown upon it by ransacking the archives of the Board of Trade or the Foreign Office, because every one knows that every kind of information on that subject has long been before the public, and accessible to every man; and any one who cannot make up his opinion by what is now before the public, might spend his whole life without coming one moment earlier to any reasonable result. With regard to Sir Robert Peel's atrack on the late budget, Lord Palmer- ston denied that the opinion of Lord Sydenham for post- poning the timber duty, quoted by Sir Robert, had any bearing upon the measure proposed by Government, and therefore that elaborate objection fell to the ground. As to sugar, the calculation of the last Government had met both events; if foreign sugar were attracted by high prices, it yielded a large revenue; if an abundance of British colonial supply kept prices low, that abundance equally recruited the exchequer. He contended that the colonial expenses contemplated by Sir Robert Peel would not prove to be of the magnitude apprehended by him; and if the Right Hon. Baronet meant to postpone his financial statement until all the colonial governors should be perfectly within bounds, the House would have to wait a long time for his budget. Sir R. Peel bad pleaded the number of commercial negotiations now pending between this and various foreign countries; but, said Lord Pal- merston, the greater the number of countries with which we have unsettled negotiations relating to commercial in- tercourse, the more expedient is it that we should proceed without the loss of a ( lay to knock off the fetters which have hitherto crippled and embarrassed the commerce of the country. ( Hear, hear.) Reverting to the declaration of Sir Robert Peel, that he should not hold office longer than he was able to act upon bis own opinions and con- victions, Lord Palmerston concluded his speech with the following striking passage:— I have no doubt that the Right Hon. Baronet entertains those sentiments. Every- thing in bis past life tends to confirm the declaration he has made this evening ; but I should be sorry to consider the determination expressed on his part as any guarantee to the country that his opinions will practically be carried into effect. For when I contemplate the motley mass of opinions and sentiments prevailing amongst the great party by which he is supported; and when we know how widely the opinions of many of those upon whose support he depends, differ from those which he himself enter- tains,— I must say, that however satisfactory that declaration of bis may be, with regard to his own per- sonal opinions and intentions, I fear it cannot be considered by the country as any guarantee that he will be able to carry those opinions and intentions into practical effect. ( Hear, hear.) That, however, is a thing that time alone can show. I can only repeat, that I think the Right Honourable Baronet has not given any sufficient or satis- factory reason for abstaining now from stating the nature and character of the opinions which he may have formed ( Hear, hear,)— opinions which a nran of his knowledge • his capacity and attention to public affairs— must long since have fixed and settled in his own mind. ( Hear, hear.) The only inference that the country can draw from the sullen silence of the Government, and the pro- longed delay which is interposed to the progress of public business, is that the cabinet, of which the Right Hon. Baronet is the head, is not at present a united cabinet— ( Hear, hear,)— that at present the opinions of those who compose it and support it, are not united with those of the Right Honourable Baronet, and therefore that he feels the delay be mentious necessary, to enable him either to come before the House, as he says, the representative of a united Government, or to state to the country ( as he says in the other alternative he will,) that he is unable to go on with the administration of public affairs. ( Hear.) If that be fairly stated to the country— if the country be fairly given to understand that that is the reason for the delay, namely, that the Government are not agreed as to the measures to be proposed— that, upon the question of corn and free trade, there are divisions in the cabinet which he has not yet had the means of reconciling— then, certainly, the good sense and good feeling of the country would induce him to wait. Only I would submit, that, in that case, perhaps the result might be ascertained ear- lier than in February next; at least in October, as pro- posed by my Noble Friend. ( Hear, hear.) The cabinet must know what it means to do— what its own opinions are— what it intends to propose, and what it is determined to resist. What reason, then, for a delay till February ? ( Hear, hear.) The debate which followed, like that on the address, to which it bore a strong resemblance in several features, was signalised by powerful speeches from several Mem- bers from commercial constituencies, Mr. Villiers, Mr. Ward, Mr. Hawes, Mr. Cobden, Mr. Brotherton, Mr. Sbarman Crawford, and others ; the Ministerial Members still shrinking as before from a full discussion of the sub- jects passed by the opposition. Mr. WARD had no wish to lengthen a discussion which seemed to be confined entirely to one side of the House, but he had no hesitation in saying, that after the commu- nication which bad been made on that and the previous evening, he thought the sooner the proceedings of the House were brought to a close the better. Upon a former occasion, he had told the Right Honourable Baronet that he was one of those who considered that, having won his way to power fairly, be was entitled, on the part of so humble an individual as he ( Mr. Ward) was, to a very respectful consideration of any measure he might bring forward. He ( Mr. Ward) thought that he had stronger ground on that account to express the deep regret he felt that the Right Honourable Baronet did not afford him an opportunity of giving that respectful attention to any measures vvhatever. [" Hear!" and a laugh.) At the late general election, the constituencies were told that the battle against the Whig Government was fought on well defined principles by the Conservative party, and that on the meeting of the new Parliament the country would be told what those principles were. He ( Mr. Ward) there- fore had been looking for this period, not, indeed, for an explanation in detail of the financial measures which the new Government might deem it proper to propose, but at least for some explanation as to the course to be pur- sued in reference to a question to which the attention of the labouring classes in the great manufacturing districts was solely turned, and upon which, in fact, any future system of finance that may be adopted must necessarily hinge. As it was, however, the country had only one act of the Right Honourable Baronet to consider for the next five months, and that was not the question of how the people were to be supplied with food, but who the gen- tlemen were whom the Right Hon. Baronet had been pleased to associate with himself in the government of the country. ( Hear, hear.) And this certainly was not calculated to inspire any confidence of coming to a satis- tory arrangement upon the question of the Corn Laws, at any future time. The Right Honourable Baronet told the House, in the most honourable spirit, that he would not condescend to be the instrument of working out the ideas of other people on this question, but that he hoped to come forward next year as the organ of a united Cabi- net, and to propose an alteration of the Corn Laws in which all his colleagues should be agreed. Judging from the persons in the Cabinet opposed to any alteration of the Corn Laws— when they saw the Duke of Buckingham and the Honourable Member for Kent ( SirE. Knatchbull) who was opposed even to allowing foreign corn to be ground in bond—( hear, hear)— when they saw these indi- viduals in the Cabinet, he could not conceive how any one could expect great concessions on the subject of the Corn Laws; nor could he draw any inference favourable to an alteration of the present system from a speech which had been made by the Honourable Member recently appointed to the office of Vice President of the Board of Trade. He feared the effect of another winter, inasmuch as a great portion of the distress which existed would undoubtedly be attributed to the operation of those laws. That distress had not been exaggerated by the Honourable Member for Salford. He had on a former occasion mentioned the circumstance of there being in Sheffield 2000 houses un- occupied, and he thought at the time that it was just pos- sible some Honourable Members might imagine he bad overstated the number. He had, however, received a letter, two days ago, in which he was informed that, ac- cording to the abstract of the late census, no fewer than 3223 houses were untenanted in Sheffield. ( Hear," hear.) He feared that it would afford but little consolation to the country to know that the Right Honourable Baronet meant to delay producing his measures until he could do so with an united Cabinet. Mr. COBDEN'S speech was again most vigorous and effective, and was the means of drawing out the following very significant sentence from Lord SANDON, which clearly shows how much the country has to expect from the new Government in the way of relief from the corn monopoly. The Noble Member for Liverpool made this declaration:— He [ would venture boldly to assert, that the present commercial distress of the country was not attributable to the existing Corn Laws, or that any mate- rial change would be the result of their alteration. So far from any good resulting from the proposed change, as regarded the position of the labouring and manufac- turing classes of this country, he was quite satisfied that such change would be attended with quite a contrary effect. Mr. FIELDEN afterwards made a motion against vo- ting the supplies, until the House should have made some inquiry into the existing distress. The motion was seconded by Dr. BOWRING, but met with little support, being rejected by 149 to 41. Lord Sandon had, in the former Parliament, moved an amendment relative to the impolicy of permitting slave- grown sugars to compete with free labour. But the sugar refiners of Liverpool entertained a very different opinion from that of Lord Sandon. They had dropped the refin- ing of colonial sugar, and had taken to the more lucrative pursuit of refining foreign sugars in bond. Mr. Thornely concluded with an earnest appeal to Members on both sides of the House. Mr. YORKE had been exceedingly surprised by the speech of Sir Robert Peel on Friday night. He proposed that the House should attend to the ventilation of the new Houses of Parliament, and to the centralization of royal kitchen gardens— to pass the Poor Law— and then to go off to their accustomed avocations. Sir Robert Peel was now a physician, but conld not propose a remedy. On the motion of Mr. SHARMAN CRAWFORD, a division took place, on the question that the Speaker leave the chair, when there voted 136 to 22. The House then resolved itself into a Committee of Supply; Mr. GREENE in the chair. Colonel SIBTHORP, on the second vote being pro- posed, for civil contingencies, denounced the late Govern- ment as a jobbing Government, with special reference to the employment of Dr. Bowring on foreign missions. Mr. WILLIAMS complimented Col. Sibthorp on his economical zeal, and hoped he would, exercise it against the extravagance of his own party. Lord JOHN RUSSELL replied to some observations made by Mr. Williams, as to the expenses of the outfits of persons^ appointed to offices in the colonies, or else- where. Mr. WAKLEY expressed his regret that the House of Commons should pay so little attention to the voting of the supplies. Only a small number in the House were captivated with figures. The request of Sir Robert Peel, for time to propose his measures, was a reasonable one. His administration was one of great talent, and it en- joyed the confidence of a great majority of the wealth and intelligence of the country. _ Mr. FIELDEN replied to Mr. Wakley, and reminded him that redress of grievances used to precede granting of supplies. In the course of the evening, various Members ad- dressed the Committee on the different votes being pro- posed. One of these votes was for the expenses of the Caledonian canal, to which Mr. WILLIAMS called at- tention, entering at considerable length into the subject. Sir R. PEEL admitted the justice of Mr. Williams' objections, and agreed that the vote should be withdrawn, in order that the matter might be investigated. Another vote, for the expenses of the Home Depart- ment, raised a discussion on the appointment of Mr. Vi- zard, as solicitor to the Home Department... . Sir JAS. GRAHAM, in reply to Col. Sibthorp, who had brought the subject before the Committee, intimated that it was intended to terminate the appointment; and Sir THOS. WILDE vindicated the character of Mr. Vizard, and contended that such an appointment was essential to the conducting of public business Sir R. PEEL, in re- ply to Sir Thomas Wilde, stated that, from his own ex- perience, he did not thinksuch an arrangement necessary. _ Mr. WILLIAMS objected to the grant for secret ser- vice money, and, on a division, there were 144 to 7 in fa- vour of the vote. Mr. PLUMPTRE objected to the grant to Maynooth, on the ground that he could not vote the public money for the propagation of error. Some observations were made by Sir R. INGLIS, Mr. M. O'CONNELL, and other Members. Sir R. PEEL declared his intention of acting as he had always done with respect to this grant; and, after se- veral Members had spoken, Mr. PLUMPTRE pressed his amendment to a division, when there were 99 to 23 in favour of the grant. The votes having been gone through, the House re- sumed, and the SPEAKER took the chair. Some other business was transacted, and the House adjourned. M ON DA Y.— On the motion for going into a Com- mittee of Supply, Mr. OTWAY CAVE rose to express his alarm at the postponement of the consideration of the distresses of the working classes, as evinced by the determination to pro- rogue Parliament without discussing the question of the Corn Laws. Already the unholy alliance between the Conservatives and the Chartists was tottering. Sir Robt. Peel had now been " regularly called in;" he had pock- eted his fee, and he was bound to give his advice. Mr. Otway Cave had no confidence in the administration of Sir Robert Peel. The Lord Chancellor had declared the Irish people to be aliens in blood, religion, and language. It might be possible that England would fall in love with a Tory Ministry, but, as an Irish member, he told the House and the country, that Ireland would be no party to it. He hoped that Sir Robert Peel would announce his intention of abandoning the Irish Registration Bill. Sir R. PEEL, in answer to the question of Mr. Otway Cave, said it was not his intention to bring forward a bill similar to that of Lord Stanley's, affecting the Parliament- ary franchise of the people of Ireland. He wished to have the evils connected with the existing system corrected, but did not wish to limit the franchise. A conversation arose, started by Sir CHAS. NAPIER, respecting the propriety of having a naval officer at the head of the Board of Admiralty and in the Board of Ord- nance, in which Sir Robert Peel and Captain Pechell, and other members, joined. Sir THOS. WILDE called the attention of the House to the fact of Sir Edward Sugden still sitting in the House as member for Ripon, after it had been announced that he bad accepted the office of Chancellor of Ireland. He con- tended that it was a dangerous precedent, and a violation of the act of Parliament. Sir E. SUGDEN, in reply, did not consider that he had lost his character as member for Ripon, until the neces- sary forms had been gone through for creating him Chan- cellor of Ireland. Lord J. RUSSELL thought it expedient to have a uniform practice in reference to the vacation of seats con- sequent on acceptance of office. Sir Thomas Wilde was quite justified in calling the attention of the House to the subject. Mr. VERNON HARCOURT commented on an extra- ordinary statement in an official document, respecting the amount of grain raised in one of the governments of Russia. Lord PALMERSTON shewed that the alarming discre- pancy was probably produced bv a clerical error. Mr. WILLIAMS asked the Chancellor of the Exche- quer when he intended to bring the consideration of the Ways and Means before the House ? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER replied, probably on Monday next, but it depended on the passing of the votes of supply. Dr. BOWRING brought before the House the extraor- dinary increase of the export and import duties in Syria, in violation of the conditions on which it had been restored to the Porte. _ Mr. THORNELY would willingly wait till February sitting in session, rather than separate without doing any thing to relieve the existing state of commercial distress, which he contemplated with much alarm. He had been at great pains to gather the opinions of commercial men, which were all generally favourable to the financial pro- positions of the late Government. Had the present quan- tity of foreign corn now in bond been admitted at a duty of 8s., it would have made a difference to the revenue of half a million, without enhancing the cost to the consumer. The present system caused us to pay a far larger sum than we otherwise would do. Orders were suddenly sent abroad; foreign corn was poured into this country, pur- chased at any price, and without regard' to expense of freight. Our position with the United States was one of great danger. The Americans had a right to call upon us to adopt a liberal system, before they lowered their duties. TUESDAY.— Sir T. WILDE begged to repeat to the Right Hon. Gentleman opposite, the question which had been put the night before, why it was that a new writ had not been issued for the borough of Ripon, in the place of the Right Hon. Gentleman who had been appointed to the office of Lord Chancellor of Ireland. ( Hear, hear.) Sir R. PEEL did not perceive that, according to his in- terpretation of the act, it was necessary for any gentleman to whom office had been offered to vacate his seat in Par- liament until the completion of the formal proceedings which might be considered to constitute the formal ap- pointment. As, however, in the present case, the formal instruments had advanced to such a stage as practically to preclude a revocation of the offer, if the Hon. Member opposite thought proper to move a new writ for Ripon, he ( Sir R. Peel) should make no sort of objection to the motion. Sir THOS. WILDE said, nothing that ever fell from the Right Hon. Baronet ever gave me more regret than the statement which he has just made, sanctioning principles which will, in my judgment, go far to destroy the inde- pendence of this House. I am persuaded that neither the language nor object of the statute can have been consi- dered by him, and that the Parliamentary course and usage ever since the statute passed must have been entirely overlooked by him, and that he is utterly unacquainted with the clear and strong opinions expressed by several of the Hon. Gentlemen now sitting around him when they occupied seats on this side of the House, utterly at vari- ance with those which the Right Hon. Baronet now pro- fesses to entertain- 1 am satisfied that a very short in- vestigation would convince the House and the Honourable Baronet that those opinions he has pronounced are incon- sistent alike with the statute, with the Parliamentary usage, and the integrity of the House. There is not the slightest foundation for the proposition that any more formal act of acceptance of an office under the Crown is necessary to vacate the seat than the announcement of the fact to this House by the first Minister of the Crown, confirmed by the statement of the Member himself. Surely it is obvious that a more direct evasion of the statute cannot be imagined, nor a more successful attack upon the independence of Parliament, than that the Crown by its firstMinister should make a distinctoffer of a place which the Crown has the power of bestowing, and that the Member should declare his acceptance of that office, and yet should retain his seat for . any indefinite period, during which it might suit the purposes of the Minister to delay the formal act of appointment, in order that in the interval he might possess the vote of the Member; and should during that time effectually control the voter by his fears that a vote displeasing to the Minister would deprive him of the reward of corruption. 1 must content myself with solemnly protesting against the doctrines advanced by the Right Hon. Baronet, and with asserting that it has been the constant course of Parliament, as well in regard of the office of steward of the Chiltern Hundreds, as of every other office of profit under the Crown, to act upon the admission of the Member himself, or any one authorised by him, of his having accepted the office, as a sufficient ground for issuing a new writ, without any inquiry whether the office had been formally bestowed or not. I have, therefore, only to move that a new writ be issued for the election of a burgess to serve in this House for the city of Ripon, in the place of the Right Hon. Sir E. Sugden, Knt., who has accepted the office of Lord Chancellor of Ireland. The motion that a new writ do issue for the borough of Ripon, in the room of Sir Edward Sugdetr, who had ac- cepted the office of Lord Chancellor of Ireland, was then put and agreed to. THE PROROGATION. Mr. C. P. VILLTERS wished to ask the Right Hon. Baronet what was the probable duration of the prorogation of Parliament ? The reason why he had wished to put this question was, that an Hon. Member on the Ministerial side of the House had stated in his place that nothing that had fallen from the Right Hon. Baronet ought to lead to the conclusion that Parliament would be prorogued to so late a period as February. Sir R. PEEL begged to state that he had made no com- munication on the subject to any Hon. Member who could have made such a remark ; he himself had not heard any such remark, and did not at all understand to whom the Hon. Gentleman opposite referred. Mr. VILLIERS : To the Hon. Member for Finsbury. ( Immense laughter.) Sir R. PEEL said that the Honourable Member for Finsbury had made such a statement without any autho- rity from him. Mr. VILLIERS thought the Right Hon. Gentleman did say that if no extraordinary circumstances occurred, Parliament would meet at the ordinary period. They might, therefore, he thought, justly infer that it would be in February. Mr. EWART moved a set of resolutions relative to the constitutions of private bills committees. After a discus- sion, during which some laughter was created by the speech of an Honourable Member, Mr. Ewart, who was at first disposed to press his resolutions, yielded to a general expression of the sense of the House, and with- drew them for the present. Mr. RENNIE moved an address of the Honse to the Crown, relative to the condition of the ornamental wa- ters in the parks The CHANCELLOR of the EX- CHEQUER gave credit to Mr, Rennie for his humane motives in bringing forward the motion, but urged the inexpediency of adopting the plan proposed, and sug- gested the withdrawal of the motion Mr. RENNIE consented to withdraw it. Sir ROBERT PEEL obtained leave to bring in a bill to continue the Poor Law Commission till the end o£ July, 1842. He thought it best to have a separate bill for the Poor Law Commission, and those who might ob- ject to its continuance, might adopt the course of moving an instruction to the Committee on the bill. Colonel ACTON explained that he had inadvertently voted in favour of the grant to Maynooth College, in consequence of having got into the wrong lobby. The Report on the Committee of Supply was then brought up, and the several votes were formally con- firmed. In Committee on the Metropolitan Lunatics' Bill, Mr* WAKLEY drew attention to the state of the law relative to lunatics, and praised the manner in which HanwelL Lunatic Asylum was conducted. Mr. HAWES seconded an amendment of Mr. Wak- ley's, that the bill should be renewed for one year instead of three, as proposed, with the view of leading to im- provements in the state of the law. Lord ASHLEY admitted the force of the objectio urged by Mr. Wakley and Mr. Hawes, as to the defective state of the law beyond the metropolitan district; but he thought the bill should be renewed for three years, and meantime exertions might be made to improve the law. Sir ROBERT INGLIS eulogised the character and ex- ertions of Lord ASHLEY ; and after some discussion, in which Sir James Graham took part, Mr. Wakley with, drew his amendment, and the bill passed through Com- mittee. The House adjourned at twenty minutes past eight. WEDNESDAY.— After some routine business, the bill for continuing the Poor Law Commission was read a second time. On the motion being made, Dr. BOW- RING, though not disposed to put any impediment in the way of Sir Robert Peel, expressed his hope that the Right Hon. Baronet would endeavour to ameliorate the law; and the Hon. J. WORTLEY wished to have an opportunity of discussing the subject. Sir R. PEEL hoped that no opposition would take place till the bill went into committee on Friday next.— He took that opportunity of correcting an erroneous im- pression that he intended to introduce material alterations in the Irish Poor Law. Mr. WAKLEY contrasted the conduct of the Whigs with that of Sir R. Peel, in the matter of the Poor Law. They had defied public opinion, but Sir Robert Peel had shown great deference to it, and if he did not defend his own conduct, Mr. Wakley would be obliged to do it for him. Mr. RICE thought that the settlement of the question of the Corn Laws should precede that of the Poor Law. He did not intend to be a party to any factious opposition, but he considered that the one question should be consi- dered with the other. Sir R. PEEL thought it would appear ungrateful if he did not acknowledge the offer of Mr. Wakley to defend his conduct, but he thought he could not accept it. He did not think that Ministers should be called upon to con- sider the two questions of the Corn Laws and the Poor Law together. In proposing the continuance of the Poor Law Commission for the period of only six months, he meant no reflection whatever on the Commissioners, but simply to have time for deliberate consideration of any future alterations that might be thought advisable. Mr. C. WOOD hoped that no misconstruction would be allowed to arise respecting the intentions of Sir Robt. Peel with regard to the Poor Law. An opinion was en- tertained by some persons that the permanence of the Poor Law was connected with that of the Commission, Mr. SHAW thought that the Poor Law had already worked beneficially in Ireland. Sir R. PEEL reminded the House, that there were two bills, one for the continuance of the Poor Law Commis- sion, the other ( not before the House) for the Poor Law itself. Mr. WARD 6aid, the Hon. Member for Winches- ter ( Mr. Escott) seemed to come down to the House in a state of lamentable ignorance on this subject. The Hon- Member complained of the want of information on which they could legislate. There never was a measure withi regard to which such ample details had been laid pe- riodically before Parliament, or respecting which the House possessed such ample information. The Hon. Member ventured to affirm that nine- tenths of the in- intelligence of the country were against the existing law. He ( Mr. Ward) took the liberty to assert that the great mass of intelligence in the country, and on both sides of that House, were in favour of the principle of that law. With few exceptions, the great men of the Honourable Member's own party had taken part in the passing of the bill, and subsequently in the onerous du- ties of working out its details. In fact, it was no ques- tion of party, as the Honourable Member attempted to make it. He ( Mr. Ward) gave his full support to the measure of the Right Honourable Baronet. He thought the existing law susceptible of modification, and that it ought to be settled in conjunction with the Corn Laws, for the two could never justly work together; but, how- ever it might require consideration, he believed the Poor Law Bill to have been a moat useful measure; that it corrected many abuses in our local administration; and that without the maintenance of a central authority, we should be very apt to relapse into those abuses. He hoped they would get rid of party considerations in the discussion upon the subject, and endeavour, with impar- tiality and good faith, to do what was really best for the people they were sent there to represent. Mr. FERRAND said he had been sent by his consti- tuents to protest against the tyrannical Poor Laws. The late Government had existed by enormous lying. [ Here the Honourable Member was reproved by the Speaker for using language not calculated to add to the dignity of the House. Mr. Ferrand made a prompt and ample apolo- gy.] Much as he wished the prosperity of Sir Robert Peel's Administration, it would fall, like its predecessors, if it maintained the Poor Laws. Mr. BODKIN hoped that material alterations would be made in the Poor Laws. After a few additional remarks from Mr. Wakley and Sir Robert Peel, the bill was read a second time, and or- dered for committee on Friday next. Sir JAMES GRAHAM obtained leave to bring in a bill for providing for the payment of the persons em- ployed in taking the census of the population. The House adjourned till Friday. EFFECTS OF THE CORN LAWS.— In the first resolution of the Salford meeting, held on Monday, it was stated, that there are at present of dwelling- houses 2030, and of cotton mills, factories, and mechanics' and other work- shops, 74 in number wholly unoccupied, which would yield a rental of £ 27,852 per annum ; whilst vast num- bers of respectable and industrious individuals, who were tenants and workpeople, are deprived of comfortable re- sidences and the means of labour and support, thus en- gendering disease and demoralization, and threatening to involve the whole community in general ruin. Mr. W. Lockett, an overseer and guardian of the poor, said, the distress was greater now than he had ever known it. The increase or paupers in the town of Salford was alarming.. In 1835 and 1836, the average number reewving out- door relief was 994 ; for the year ending Mai f, 25, 1841, it was 1,727. Crime increased in as rapia a ratio as po- verty. The county rates, including expenses of prosecu- tions, and other matters, were, in .1835 and 1836, £ 1563 per annum; for the last four quarters they amounted to ,£ 3423. PRICES OF FOOD AT HOME AND ABROAD.— The price of white wheaten bread of the first quality, at Paris, is 68 centimes the loaf of two kilogrammes; which, making allowance for the difference in weight, and the exchange between the two countries, is scarcely equal to 5£ d. the four pound loaf of English weight. The price of bread of the first quality in London being lOd. for the four pound loaf, it follows that bread of the first quality is 81 9- llthsper cent, dearer in London than in Paris. There is a second quality of wheaten bread made in Paris, of which the price is at present 52 centimes for the loaf of two kilogrammes, which is equal to less than 4jd. the four pound loaf of English weight. The highest quotation of white wheat in Paris on Wednesd- iy last, was 34f. 50c. 1J hectolitre, which is equal to 50s. 6d. the quarter. The highest quotation of white wheat at Mark lane on Monday was 80s. the quarter, consequently the best wheat is 58 per cent, dearer in London than in. Paris; or a man can buy at Paris for 5s. as much wheat as would cost him 8s. in London. The highest quotatioa at Paris, on Wednesday, for choice samples of flour, was 62f. the 159 kilogrammes, which answers to 39s. the sack of 380 pounds English weight. The best flour, yester- day, at Mark lane, was quoted 65s. the sack; flour, there- fore, is somewhat more than 66 per cent, dearer in Lon- don than in Paris, or a man for 8s. may buy 76 pounds of the finest flour in Paris, whereas in London, for the same money, he can buy only 45£ pounds. 8 SHEFFIELD A1SD ROTHERHAM INDEPENDENT. SEPTEMBER 25, 1841. Irttfriwttlrcnt* SHEFFIELD, SATURDAY, SEPT. 25, 1841. THE INTENTIONS OF THE GOVERNMENT.— In Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S essay on the constitution, he remarks, that the party who have designs which they can avow and boast of before the public, must vanquish their opponents. This advantage is pre- eminently possessed by the present opposition ; while the Government are placed in this humiliating position, that even their apo- logists can only explain their silence by pleading that they do not yet know what to do. Sir ROBT. PEEL is the Minister of false pretences. When approaching . power, he studiously concealed himself. He opposed the measures of the Government, but dare not place in contrast with them his own views. The pretence then was, Sir ROBERT fears that his measures will be pirated by the Whigs— or he will not give his enemies the opportunity of decrying and defiling his plans be- fore the time. He himself said— Let me be called in, and 1 will prescribe. All this implied the promise— My measures are ready; all that is wanting is to put me in the right position to give them effect. Now, his cry is for time. How is he to give a budget im- promptu? How to provide for this colony and that; for this and the other treaty; for this, that, and the other expenditure? Such is the contemptible shuf- fling of the Minister of the aristocracy! He com- plained, in April, of the infinite inconvenience of a month's suspense on the subject of the Corn Law; but he, having kept us in suspense for five months, thinks ho may safely continue it as much longer. When reproached with this, his only answer is the paltry tu quoque retort, you abstained from the ques- tion forfive years. But Sir ROBERT does not abstain from the question. The returns to the new Par- liament would have been regarded by the people as con- clusive against any present change; but Sir ROBERT Las been studious to represent the elections as not giving a verdict against free trade, or against the alteration of the Corn Laws, but against the late Ministers. He has tried to keep hope alive by hint- ing at details, and the mode of taking the averages. Lord SANDON and Lord STANLEY, however, are more explicit than he. Their language seems to quash the faintest hope that the trade oTthe country could enter- tain in the present Government. Lord SANDON says, the distress of the manufactures is not attributable to the Corn Laws. Lord STANLEY denies that the Corn Laws are the only, or even a main cause of the distress of the people. What folly then is it to ex- pect that these men, so ignorant or so base as such declarations prove them to be, will give the country any relief. Lord JOHN RUSSELL tells them— the distress of the country is attributed to your legislation, and to that particular part of it which promotes your personal interests. Lord STANLEY, when pushed hard by Mr. BROOKS, admitted that the Corn Laws do raise the rents of landlords, but then, he said, they do this at nobody's expense, but for a great national object. When further pressed with the considera- tion of the heavy taxation which the Corn Laws impose upon the poorest of the community, he appeals to the Sheriff for protection, and asks if there is to be no end of this catechising ? And what is the public object which compels the poor to pay an exorbitant price for insufficient food, and enables the landlords to revel in augmented luxury at nobody's expense? It is that more agricultural labourers may be employed in growing wheat on bad soils. But look at the condition of those labourers. The land- lords profess great humanity for the manufacturing artisans- they reproach the manufacturers for collect- ing large masses of people, whom a bad state of trade may reduce to distress. But the Duke of BUCKING- HAM, in his pattern county, is now giving money to enable starving labourers to remove to Manchester, under a promise never to return,—- to Manchester, now that that town is suffering the extremity of dis- • tress. Yet this is the agricultural prosperity se- cured by the Corn Laws he advocates. Lord STANLEY still talks of a glut caused by the over- exertions of 1836. But were the people in 1836 better off than honest and toiling labour ought always to be ? Manufacturers speculated largely. They multiplied the means of production. But how? By employing labour. The state of the country in 1835 and ' 6-— the activity, the abundance, the general pros- perity that then prevailed, arose from the suspension by the act of Providence, of the scarcity which the Corn Laws are designed to inflict. For once the people were well fed— there was abundance of food, which capitalists gladly employed in paying for labour. The country in those years made an effort to outrun the fetters of the landlords, and in proportion to the power of that effort, was the suffering when we were sharply pulled up by the return of the scarcity. It is very fine for Lord STANLEY to talk of the multi- tude of Lancashire mills built, and hands employed. But what would he say to Sheffield ? There has been no immense production by machinery here. Great quantities of goods were indeed sent out, but not more than our customers would speedily have used and paid for, if we had been allowed to take their corn, for want of which thousands of our countrymen have perished within these few years. The Tory journals confine their compassion to those parts of the people who are paupers. But the people repudiate substitutes for that justice which would enable every honest, industrious inan to live by his own exertions. Mr. JOHN PARKER, M. P.— An impudently false paragraph has appeared in a Tory print, in which it is stated, in a remarkably conspicuous manner, that Mr. JOHN PARKER now receives a pension of .£ 1400 a year, as ex- Secretary of the Admiralty. The statement is entirely false. Mr. PARKER has no pension at all. The Tory writer seems to have been thinking of the time when the Tories retired from office in 1830, and divided among themselves pensions and sinecures with lavish profusion. But the Whigs have been in power since then, and have made no slight change. In July, 1834, when they had got rid of STANLEY, GRA HAM, RIPON, and RICHMOND, the Whigs carried a bill " to alter, amend, and consolidate the laws regu- lating the pensions, compensations, and allowances to be made to persons, in respect of their having held civil offices in his Majesty's service." The act gives no pension at all to a retiring Lord • of the Treasury. Mr. PARKER, therefore, cannot have a pension on that ground. The third clause of the act applies to the Secretary - for the Admiralty, and in substance is as follows:— " Joint Secretaries of the Treasury, First Secretary of the Admiralty, Vice- President of the Board of Trade, not to exceed £ 1200 per annum; nor shall any such pension be granted to any person, unless he shall have held one or • more of the said offices for not less than five years in the whole, either uninterruptedly, or at different times; nor shall more than, four pensions be existing at the same time." , Mr. PARKER has held this office three months, and, therefore, can have no claim on its account. But if he had held it the full five years, he would have claimed no pension; for the 6th clause of this piece of Whig legislation is to this effect:— "' And as the principle of the regulations for granting allowances of this nature is, and ought to be, founded on a consideration, not only of the services performed by the individual to the state, but of the inadequacy of his pri- vate fortune to maintain liis station in . life;' whenever any person shall seek to obtain any one of the pensions before- mentioned, his application shall be made in writing to the Treasury, to which he shall subscribe his name, and which shall contain not only a statement of the services per- formed by him, aud the grounds on which such pension is claimed, but a specific declaration, that his income from other sources is so limited as to bring him within the intent of this act, and the principle herein- above declared; and without such declaration, no pension as herein- before provided or authorized shall be granted." Here is a specimen of anti- Tory legislation! Queen ADELAIDE and her confederates might well urge on the old King, to put an end to the Government that was making such havoc as this with Tory principles. Many of the members of the late Government are en- titled to pensions, but none have claimed them; and thus the Whigs have established a principle, and set a precedent which, when the old Tory pensioners have died off, will have put an almost entire end to pensions for civil service. This is Whig legislation! SIR ROBERT PEEL'S CHANCELLOR FOR IRELAND. — Sir ROBERT and Sir EDWARD SUGDEN have fallen into a blunder, in which they have found the best po- licy to be to retreat as quietly as they could. We know not whether most to wonder that a great lawyer should have so grossly erred in a matter of law, or that an old Parliamentary hack should have thus committed himself on a point of well- known practice. If Sir ROBERT'S doctrine, that when a member of the House of Commons takes office, his appointment must be com- plete in all its technicalities before his office be vacated, be good, the statute might as well be repealed at once. It is clearly no protection at all against the influence of the Crown, if, when an appointment is distinctly given and accepted, the holder of it may continue to sit and vote in the House of Commons during any in- definite period, that the Minister, for purposes of con- venience or corruption, may defer the sealing of the patent, or the kissing of hands. But the most curious part of the affair was, that if Sir ROBERT PEEL'S dic- tum had been held good, Sir JAMES GRAHAM and several others of the new Ministers must have gone again to their constituents, for their patents having been sealed after re- election, their seats must have been again vacated. Sir THOS. WILDE managed, the case extremely well. Sir ROBERT PEEL'S uncondi- tional surrender made it unnecessary to speak at length, but Sir THOMAS compressed a very powerful argument into a small compass. IRISH REGISTRATION.— Sir R. PEEL appears to be aiming at a very discreet administration of affairs in Ireland. He has intimated that he shall not sanction the revival of Lord STANLEY'S Irish Disfranchisement Bill. This is prudent, but what will the Irish Orange- men say of this shirking in office of the promises of opposition. The vehemence of Lord STANLEY, in support of this measure, in the last two sessions, gave no place for the cooler support of Sir ROBERT PEEL, and the public gave Sir ROBERT credit for no cordial approbation of the violent courses of his rival in leader- ship. But so far at least as voting for Lord STAN- LEY'S measure has committed him, Sir ROBERT is pledged to it. As to Lord STANLEY himself, he is far more deeply pledged. The child is his own, and we doubt much whether he is the man to stomach Sir ROBERT'S sending his hopeful brat to the hospital for foundlings. If he do, he must expect to share with his friend, the anger of the Irish Protestants, whose hopes he kindled in opposition, only to disappoint when in power. LORD STANLEY'S RE- ELECTION.— Lord STANLEY was re- elected on Tuesday, without further opposition than was necessary to secure to an elector the privi- lege of questioning his Lordship upon the Corn Laws. As there appeared to be a disposition to huddle over the affair, with no further speaking than the mere re- turning of thanks involved, Mr. ACLAND was nomi- nated as the rival candidate, and claimed his right to speak before the shew of hands. This forced Lord STANLEY forward, and gave Mr. BROOKES, of Man- chester, an opportunity of pressing him very dexter- ously with questions, shewing the selfishness of the advocates of the Corn Law, until his Lordship's pa- tience was exhausted, and he left, a biting remark unanswered. Lord STANLEY devoted a considerable part of his speech to the refutation of what the Times acutely calls his " supposed apostacy." His Lordship quoted from a recently published French work, the report of a conversation he held with the author fif- teen years ago, in which his Lordship declared, that if the Whigs attempted to secularise Church property, he should separate from them. But this is no answer to the charge of apostacy; which is founded, not upon the fact that he has differed from the Whigs on the subject of Church property, but that quarrelling with them on that point, he has recanted his former opinions on other subjects. He very justly said, in 1835, that it did not follow because he disagreed with his old friends on one point, he should change his own opinions, for the sake of opposing them upon all others. His quarrel with the Whigs might be honest. His alliance the Tories is infamous. He casts in his lot with men whom during all his previous life, he had opposed, and because they agree with him on one point, he takes up their other opinions, which he had denounced. For this he seems to have had no better reason than the failure of his attempt to set up " a dilly" of his own, and the winning courtesies which he received from Sir R. PEEL. LOCAL INTELLIGENCE. THE CORPORATION ENQUIRY still proceeds with great advantage to the petitioners for a charter. The scrutiny of the rate books is likely to occupy another week. REVISION OF BOROUGH LISTS.— To- day, the revi- sing barristers attend at the Towu Hall, to revise the Borough lists, when those who have sent in claims, in consequence of having been omitted by the overseers, should appear to make good their claims. BOTANICAL GARDENS.— On Monday evening, as announced last week, a magnificent display of fire- works took place at the Gardens, the devices of our in- genious fellow- townsman, Mr. Bywater. The exhi- bition consisted of the " Royal Victoria Piece," as ex- hibited by Mr. Bywater before the Queen, and of which her Majesty was pleased to express her high admiration; the " Fountain Piece," and " a splen- did military spectacle, representing the storming of St. Jean de Acre, by Commodore Napier," inter- spersed by a variety of smaller pieces. The interval between the pieces was relieved by the firing of rockets, and brilliant lights of every shade and diversity of colour. Notwithstanding the fact, that the receipts of the proprietors amounted to £ 74, we fear that the cloudy state of the atmosphere prevented many from being present who were anxious to avail themselves of the entertainment; but there is no doubt it served to heighten the effect of the exhibition. The brilliant lights which were exhibited previous to the firing of the larger pieces, by contracting the pupil of the eye, also served to add to the effect, rendering the dark- ness ( so absolutely necessary in pyrotechnic displays,) more palpable. The reflection of these lights on the foliage in the gardens, and the countenances of the spectators, produced a very curious and| interesting effect. The band of the Queen's Bays was in attend- ance, and played a variety of tunes in excellent style; under the conduct of their able leader, Mr. Donigani. Indeed, the whole of the arrangements gave the utmost satisfaction, if we except the delay from the hour of commencement having been announced at half- past six instead of half- past seven, which was as early as the ex- hibition could be seen with effect at the present period of the season. To those who were not present, we would say that they missed an excellent treat; but it will be observed from an advertisement in another co- lumn, that the same, with an additional piece, will be exhibited on Monday next. The next exhibition is expected to be even more perfect and effective than the last. Another opportunity is afforded, and we ad- vise them to avail themselves of it. PATENT SAFETY CAB.— Within these few days, a new public vehicle has appeared in our streets, after the fashion of the patent safety cabs of London, of which the driver sits behind the body. It is a very elegant car- riage, light, and drawn by one horse, and consequently for one or two passengers may be worked considerably cheaper than the hackney coaches. It belongs, we under- stand, to Mr. Stead, in the Wicker, and we hope will meet with so much encouragement as to lead to the introduc- tion of other carriages of the same kind. At the " OLD NO. 12" WINE AND SPIRIT VAULTS, opposite the Tontine Hotel, Haymarket, Sheffield, the smallest quantity of Wines or Spirits may be had upon the same terms as if purchased by the cask, gallon, or dozen. The proprietor invari- ably imports his own Foreign Wines and Spirits, the Queen's duties upon the same being paid by himself; and paying casii down for his British Wines and Spirits, enables him to take advantage of the de- pressed state of the markets, and sell to his very best friends, the public, Wines of the very first character, and Spirits of the choicest quality, gua- ranteed of the highest legal strength, by the full im- perial measure, at wholesale prices. To those who have so long patronised his establishment, the pro- prietor returns his best thanks, and at the same time solicits a trial from all those who have not yet fa- voured him, being satisfied that the quality and prices of his extensive Stock, will ensure to him their future Custom.— N. B.: To afford facility to carriers, coun- try purchasers, and others, Wines and Spirits of all kinds, are kept ready put up in all sized bottles, from a jack to a gallon, sealed and labelled. MECHANICS' INSTITUTION.— The committee of the Mechanics' Institute have resolved to establish a library for the use of the members. They have done this on solid grounds, to which we hope next week to advert. CONCERT.— It will be seen from an advertisement in another column, that Mr. Swift, teacher of singing, has arranged for a concert to take place in the Music- Hail next week. He has secured the assistance of Mrs. Sun- derland and several of the Sheffield vocalists, who will no doubt do him the highest credit by maintaining the distinguished position they have acquired in the musical world. REVISING BARRISTERS' COURT.— The Revising Barristers gave judgment on the reserved cases, at Wake- field, yesterday week. The strange doctrine broached by Mr. Hildyard, as to tenants in a yard closed up at night, and partly occupied by the landlord, living within the landlord's curtilage, was affirmed, and several claimswere consequently disallowed. In one case, however, it having appeared that the back gate of the yard was not closed at night, it was held that the curtilage was broken, and so the claim was held good. So we shall now have the Tory agents piping about every batch of houses which give a vote, to inspect the yards, and enquire whether they are locked up at night, and by whom? John Little- wood, who claimed as an equitable leaseholder, under the Duke of Norfolk, was expunged, Mr. Hildyard holding that there was no signature to the engagement to grant the lease under the statute of frauds. The name of John Ellis was expunged, it being held that his repayment by £ 13 a year, of the sum borrowed upon his houses, was a burden upon them. Revising Barristers may be very learned men, but the use they often make of their learning is to invent pretences which ordinary people would never think of, to deprive men of their franchises. The Tories give the result of the revision thus:— New claims— by Orauge, 455 ; by Blues, 227 ; by Doubtfuls, 53. Struck off- Orange, 159; Blues, 57; Doubtfuls, 113. On Monday last, Mr. Wm. Stringer delivered an elo- quent lecture against the Corn Laws, before the Upper Hallam Anti- Corn Law League, in Eullwood chapel. The audience was numerous, and highly delighted with the forcible remarks of the lecturer. Some objections were made, which were ably answered by Mr. Hobson and the lecturer. The discussion was animated and car- ried on in good temper, with a desire to arrive atthe truth. MECHANICS' INSTITUTION.— LECTURES ON OKA" TORY.— Professor Calvert delivered the two last lectures of his course on Oratory, on Monday and Wednesday evenings. The audiences, as before, were very good, notwithstanding several unfavourable circumstances,— on Monday, the fireworks at the Botanical Gardens, and the missionary meeting at Nether Chapel; and on Wednes- day, the inclemency of the weather. We believe the Professor has given entire satisfaction to the majority of his auditors. Eor ourselves, however, we should have preferred, occasionally, something different from what we saw and heard. The first and last lectures were admira- bly delivered ; but the third and fourth were marred by carelessness andwant of preparation. We know few men better qualified than the Professor, both by nature and education, for a lecture on Oratory; and, with his capabi- lities, he may achieve great additions of fame and fortune; but to do this, he must not slacken in his efforts, he must increase them. We hope to see and hear him often, and we are glad to learn that there is a prabability that he will shortly deliver a course of lectures in this town, on the British Poets. THE JAMAICA MISSION.— We have great pleasure in referring our readers to an advertisement in another co- lumn, announcing special missionary services, at Surrey street chapel, in connexion with the Wesleyan Methodist Association. It will be seen that the Rev. T. Pennock, an energetic and talented preacher, who is on a visit to this country for the express purpose of raising funds for the equipment of two or three missionaries, will preach the sermons and address the meeting. He has long la- boured in the island with signal success, and will no doubt relate some interesting details as to the state of the negroes, both before and since the emancipation. Since his arrival in his native country, we understand Mr. Pen- nook has been followed by the mournful intelligence of the death, by yellow fever, so prevalent in the island of Ja- maica, of Mr. Fallagar, his most efficient colleague— a circumstance which must necessarily shorten his stay in this country, and augment the claims of the mission on the benevolence of the British public. On Sunday week, two appropriate sermons were preached at West Melton chapel, in behalf of the London Missionary Society ; that in the morning by the Rev. W. H. Stowell, of Rotherham College ; and the other in the evening, by the Rev. W. Morton, from the East Indies. The collections on the occasion, including the produce of missionary boxes, and other sums received by several young ladies, amounted to £ 28.2s. 4d. NORTH MIDLAND RAILWAY. - Weekly Return of Traffic.— The gross amount for conveyance of passengers, parcels, carriages, aud horses, for the week ending 18th September, 1841—£ 4167. 15s. 7Jd. For merchandize, minerals, and cattle, for the same time—£ 1371. 14s. OJd. Total, £ 5539. 9s. 8d. On Monday night last, the ivory warehouse of Mr. W. Wild, Coalpit lane, was broken into. After unsuccessfully trying to force the front and back doors, they forced the iron bars and doors of the cellar window, and ransacked the counting- house, taking a few ivory handles, ivory hol- lows, ham aud chap, & c. This is the sixth time the same warehouse has been attempted. FLOWER SHOW.— An exhibition of fruits, flowers, and vegetables, took place in the large room of Mr. Matthew Bentley, Florists' Inn, Broad lane, on Monday last, which, for excellence and beauty, reflected the greatest credit on the growers, who are. all working men. Messrs. Holmes, Jpwell, and Wright, the judges, awarded the prizes as follows :—- Dahlias— Premier, Mr. Fras. Rey- nolds.... Primrose—- 1, Mr. F. Reynolds; 2, Mr. George Tricketts 3, Mr. Joseph Fearnley Crimson— 1, Mr. Pierson ; 2, ditto; 3, Mr. Fearnley Salmon— 1, Mr. Fearnley; 2, Mr. Trickett; 3, Mr. Reynolds... Whites— I, Mr. Revnolds ; 2, Mr. Pierson ; 3, Mr. Trickett Lilac— 1, Mr. Bentley; 2, Mr. Trickett; 3, Mr. Pierson. Dark— 1, Mr. Pierson; 2, Mr. Smith ; 3, Mr. Trickett. Yellow— 1, Mr. Pierson ; 2 and 3, Mr. Reynolds Best edged— 1, Mr. Pierson; 2, Mr. Bentley; 3, Mr. Trickett.... Rose— 1, Mr. Reynolds ; 2 and 3, Mr. Pier- soni... Crimson— I and 2, Mr. Pierson; 3, Mr. Fearnley. Blush— 1, Mr. Fearnley; 2, Mr. Reynolds ; 3, Mr. Smith Orange— I, Mr. Pierson; 2, Mr. Reynolds; 3, Mr. Trickett Scarlet— 1 and 2, Mr. Fearnley; 3, Mr. Reynolds.... Purple— 1, Mr. Fearnley ; 2, Mr Pierson; 3, Mr. Trickett. Vegetables : — Celery— 1, Mr. Dewsnap ; 2, Mr. Taylor. Best bunch of carrots, Mr. Jones ; best bunch of turnips, Mr. Taylor ; best onions, Mr. Fearnley; best dish of peas, Mr. Jones ; best plate of parsley, Mr. Smith; best dish of kidney beans, Mr. Trickett; 2, ditto, Mr. Taylor ; best cabbage lettuce, Mr. Dewsnap ; best coss ditto, Mr. Jones; best dish of potatoes, Mr. Greaves ; best cucumbers, Mr. Jones; best curled greens, ditto; best savoys, Mr. Smith; best red cabbage, Mr. Reynolds; 2, ditto; best cauliflower, ditto, GRIMESTHORPE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.— This society held their third exhibition for the season on Mon- day last, at the house of Mr. Edward Middleton, the Ball Inn, Grimesthorpe, where a most splendid collection of Dahlias was displayed, which did great credit to the com- petitors. Prizes were awarded as follows :— Dahlias, best stand of 18 dissimilar blooms, Mrs. Smith— Francis Mohan, gardener ; 2, Mr. Muscroft. Best stand of 12, Mr. Hall; best stand of six, Mr. Mallinsou; 2, Mr. Hall. The account of the other prizes are omitted, owing to the late period of the week when we received the report. It is stated that the people of Charleston intend apply- ing to the next legislature of South Carolina for a charter to run a line of steam- packets to Europe. THE DESPOTS OF SOMERSET HOUSE."— The following proof of the promptness of the Poor Law Commissioners, in enquiring into cases of alleged abuse or neglect, will serve to prove to utility of a central authority: — It having been represented to one of the Sheffield Registrars, that the death of a child, which happened on Sunday last, was caused " through want of food," he ( as required by the Registrar- Ge- neral,) transmitted to the Poor Law Commissioners a copy of the entry in his register book. The Com- missioners immediately directed an inquiry into the circumstances, and they are this morning in possession of the result. It is satisfactory to state that no blame whatsoever attaches to the union or parish officers. REFUSAL TO BURY THE CHILD OF A DISSENTER. — On Saturday last, a considerable sensation was crea- ted in Lewes, in consequence of the Rev. Mr. Russell, the incumbent ofSt. Thomas a'Beckett, on the Cliffe, Lewes, refusing to perform the burial service of a child. It appears that the deceased was one of the children of a gentleman, a dissenter, residing at Lewes, named Button, and on Sunday last he was desirous of having it interred in the burial ground of the above church ; but the Rev. Mr. Russell refused to perform the service, alleging as a reason that the child had not received baptism according to the rites of the church. So great was the excitement created in consequence of the refusal, that Mr. Fagan, the superintendent of the east Sussex constabulary, was applied to by some of the parties to hold himself and men in readiness, in case any serious disturbance should take place. The body of the child was taken to a dissenting chapel in the neighbourhood, and the service performed by the Rev. Mr. Davis, a dissenting minister, who afterwards followed the procession to the churchyard, and deliver- ed an excellent oration over the grave, but did not touch upon the extraordinary proceedings of the day. The immense multitude who had assembled then quietly dispersed.— Morning paper. In the neighbourhood of Liverpool, the demand for bread will be considerably increased, owing to the state of the potato crop, which is rotting in the ground to a very serious extent, especially on the heavy lands which have been saturated with wet during the last two months, to such a degree as to cause a decay of the tubers. We have not heard of this disease in any other part of the kingdom, but it prevails extensively on both sides of the Mersey; and if it|<? hould be found to be general, it will have a great effect in keeping up the price of grain, and either creating or increasing the necessity for further importations.— Liv. Times. Large as have been the importations of wheat dur- ing the last month, they have scarcely benefitted the British shipowner at all. As there never was any reason to expect that the ports would remain open more than a week or two, there has been no time to send out shipping from this country to fetch the grain purchased. The great point has been to get it here as soon as possible, and the effect has been that all the shipments have been made in vessels previously in the ports whence it was shipped. Under the pre- sent system, the British shipowner loses almost all share in this trade, of which it happens this year that he stands greatly in need, for freights to all quarters of the world are exceedingly low. MURDER IN LONDON.— A murder took place on Tues- day evening, in Eastcheap, London, which has caused much excitement. It appears that a short time ago, the sister- in- law of Mr. Burdon, landlord of the King's Head, Eastcheap, married a man named Blexley; but after a few weeks, she left him, and resumed her situation of barmaid at Burdon's. About ten on Tuesday night, Bur don, with his wife and her sister, were in the bar, be sitting asleep, with a handkerchief over his face, when Blexley rushed in with a butcher's knife, stabbed his wife in the groin, and Burdonin the abdomen, and having made a stroke at Mrs. Burdon, but missed her, escaped. Burdon's bowels protruded from his wound, and he died in a few minutes. Though the last reports were, that the murderer had been captured, they want confirmation. His wife is very dangerously wounded, but her recovery is probable. Blexley has lived a dissolute life, and is supposed to have been aggrieved that his wife would not continue to live with him. INGENIOUS CHEAT.— Much has been said respecting the singular qualities which whisky possesses of " wai kening wit," & c.; but the following scheme, which the want of it produced, will go far to set that boast aside. A daughter of Egypt, whose Vermillion proboscis showed an enthusiastic attachment to the bottle, entered the house of a spirit- dealer in a neighbouring town, last week, and re- quested to be supplied with a bottle of whisky, which was given to her, and which she put beneath her cloak. She asked the shopkeeper to take a dozen of horn spoons in payment, which he refused to do ; and the " ranchle car- liu" was eventually forced to part with the " dear Kilba- gie" with great seeming reluctance. Some few hours afterwards, the shopman sold the same bottle to a cus- tomer, who came back in high dudgeon, exclaiming against the man of British spirits for cheating him, by giving him a bottle of Adam's wine, instead of the real mountain- dew. The gipsy had effected the exchange be- neath her cloak, and had got clear off with the more valu- able liquid. This beats all tee- total schemes hollow.— Ayr Advertiser. THE NEW ROUTE TO INDIA BY THE EUPHRATES.— The Commerce publishes some private correspondence, dated Aleppo, June 10, 1841, which states that the Eng- lish steam- boats Nimrod and Nitocris had arrived at Beles, on the Euphrates, after a navigation ol sixteen days, and a distance of 375 leagues. Lieut. Campbell, who commanded the expedition, had ascertained that both the Tigris and Euphrates are navigable for large vessels, and that those rivers present a new passage to the British possessions in India. " Documents stolen from M. Lascaris, at Alexandria, in the year' 1814," con- tinues the writer, " contained important information col- lected by this gentleman," who was despatched by the Emperor Napoleon to explore Mesopotamia and the Euphrates, in order to ascertain the possibility to discover a passage to India by the Orontes. The British Ministry determined to verify those plans. Colonel Chesney was deputed on this mission in the year 1835. Great Britain fihen ascertained that the Orontes, which falls into the Mediterranean, was navigable as far as Latakia, ( the ancient Antioch.) That the ancient harbour of Seleucia, situate at the mouth of this river, could be rendered an excellent harbour at a small expense. That it was easy to make a road to Aleppo, and thence to the Euphrates through the valleys, and that the distance, 45 leagues, could be easily traversed. A coal- bed was discovered at the foot of Mount Taurus, 16 leagues from Tarsus. Near this coal- bed, which is of considerable extent, has been discovered an iron mine, which gives sixty per cent, of metal. The writer calculates that the journey may be made from Bombay to Liverpool in thirty- four days, viz., from Bombay to Beles sixteen days; from Beles to Alexandretta three days; thence to Liverpool. The letter concludes by stating that there is no doubt but that in a few years the English will monopolise the trade of Bagdad, Bassora, Aleppo, and all Mesopotamia. STEAM NAVIGATION TO INDIA.— In looking over a file of Indian papers, it is particularly interesting to observe the growing attention which is paid to steam navigation in India, and the expectations which are indulged in as to the advantages to be derived from this source. From the monthly packets that are to start from Calcutta, and pro- ceed by Madias and Ceylon to Suez, the inhabitants of India anticipate a large influx of visitors from England, and frequent deputations from the East India House to watch the state of affairs. India, it is expected, will be- come a new resort for travellers for pleasure, to whom every country in Europe has grown stale. In 45 days, it is calculated, they will reach Calcutta from England, then embark on a river steamer and visit the most re- markable places on the banks, proceed to Ferozepore, take the Indus steamer down to" Kerachee, and thence take Bombay on their return home. The Indian com- mercial men, on the other hand, will, it is supposed, pay frequent visits to England, as well as natives, who, find- ing the difficulties of travelling removed, will gradually throw off the restrictions of caste. England will be se- lected by the officers of the Government when seeking the restoration of health, in preference to the Cape or Van Dieman's Land. It is said that the late libel case against the Times cost that Journal ; C5,000, though the plaintiff got only one farthing damages. The greater part of the expense was incurred in hunting out evidence all over the Continent. The plaintiff, at the commencement of the action, offered to settle it for £ 50. SUGAR.— The aveiage price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed from the returns joade in the week end- ing Sept 14, 1841, is 33s. 6| d. per cwt> LORD MORPETH.— This nobleman shares in the general triumph on account of Mr. Busfield's return, as the following copy of a letter, received by a gen- tleman in Bradford, will testify;—" Dublin, Sept. 18, 1841. Sir— Many thanks for your timely letter, which conveyed to me the first intelligence of your most gratifying triumph at Bradford. Few events of the sort could give me greater pleasure than Mr. Bus- field's success; and I trust that it is the commence- ment of a salutary re- action. I have the honour to e, Sir, your very grateful Servant, MORPETH." A GENUINE HOSTLER'S BILL.—" To Anos, 3s. 6d.— Agitinonimom, 6( 1."— which, being rendered into English, from its present Greek form, stands thus: To a Horse, 3s. 6d.— To a getting on him home, 6d. A FAMILY ANECDOTE.— Sir Samuel Romily, in his memoirs, records a characteristic trait of a Sir Jas. Gra- ham of his time, who, in the Spilsby Poor Bill' brought in by him, surreptitiously introduced clauses authorising directors to inflict corporal punishment on the poor. Is it not strange how virtue runs in the blood of the Grahams ? TO CORRESPONDENTS. We are compelled to defer the sixth " Bolus" for the Doctor, but we hope he will not suffer from the delay. Several other letters are also in reserve. New York is the capital of the state of New York, SHEFFIELD GENERAL INFIRMARY, Sept. 24. In- Patients— Discharged, 15 ; Admitted, 24 ; Remaining, 100. Out- Patients— Discharged, 58 ; Admitted, 48 ; Remaining, 419. Vaccinated by the House Surgeon, 24* Physician for the week, Dr. Thompson ; Surgeon, Mr. Overend. House visitors for do., Mr. Ingieson and Mr. James. Chaplain for the month, Rev. J. Knight. SHEFFIELD POORHOUSE, Sept. 25. Paupers in the House last Report 411 Admitted since 27- 438 Discharged since 16- 422 PAYMENTS TO OUT- POOR, Sept. 24. Regular Ticket Poor, money •••• £ 64 18 6 Do. Do. .. in kind.... 0 0 0— 0 0 0 Casual Poor, • • Money • • •* 71 6 0 Do. do. .. in ktnd • • 47 i 6- 118 10 6 Total .. .. .. 0 0 0 Casual, week ending Aug. 27 £ 123 0 0 Sept. 3 122 0 6 10 121 15 6 17 125 17 6 MARRIAGES. On Thursday, Mr. Thomas Dixon, shoemaker, to Miss Ann Dungworth. On Wednesday, Mr. Henry Nowill, banker's clerk, to Margaret, daughter of the late Rev. George Harrison, all of this place. On Tuesday, Mr. Henry Shaw, of Ecclesfield, farmer and butcher, to Miss Selina Barker, of this place. On Monday, Mr. John Thompson, farmer, to Miss Sa- rah Hattersley Mr. James Mc'Bride, hawker, to Miss Ellen Karney Mr. Edmund Cocker, joiner, to Miss Ann Charnley. On Sunday, Mr. W. A. Goodall, draper, to Miss Sarah B. Cheetham, both of this place Mr. Wm. Brumby, to Miss Hannah Buckley Mr. Wm. Holmes, Bricklayer, to Miss Fanny Heath.... Mr. G. Ratledge, joiners' tool maker, to Miss Ann Wells. On Thursday week, at Chesterfield, Mr. Christopher Hodkin, agent to the Chesterfield Canal Company, to Mrs. Fanshaw, widow of the late Mr. John Fanshaw. The marriage of Lord Henry Russell, seventh son of the late Duke of Bedford, and Miss Henrietta Maria Stop- ford, third daughter of Admiral Sir Robert Stopford, G. C. B, Governor of Greenwich Hospital, was solemnized on Tuesday by special license, at the old church, Green- wich. DEATHS. On Tuesday week, at Brook bill, near St. George's Church, in her 82d year, Mrs. Raybould, widow of the late Mr. M. Raybould of this town, and mother of Mr. Wm. Clifton, of the Spread Eagle, Fargate. Died, at Raleigh, North Carolina, on Tuesday, the 24th Au gust, Joseph Gales, father of one of the editors of the National Intelligencer. He had completed his eightieth year on the 4th of February last, and appeared to have, so far as his health and constitution were concerned, the pros- pect of lengthened years before him : when he was, a few days afterwards, struck with a paralysis, under the effect of which he suffered immediate privation of speech, and has been at length called by his Maker to a better and a brighter world. Mr. Gales was a native of the village of Eckington ( Derbyshire,) in England, and commenced business as a printer and bookseller, when of age, at Shef- field, where he established, in 1787, the Sheffield Register. Persecuted on account of his political principles, after publishing that popular paper for seven years, he emigrated ia 1794, with his family to the United States, spending on his way some months in Germany; arrived at Philadel- phia in August, 1795, beginning business as printer there, and after a time purchasing from the elder Oswald the establishment of the Independent Gazetteer, which he pub- lished for a year, and resold it to Samuel H. Smith, Esq. ( afterwards the founder of the National Intelligencer,) emigrated to North Carolina, in September, 1799, and there established the Raleigh Register, which lie published for orty years, arid which is still published by his youngest son, a native of North Carolina, the father having only a a year or two ago retired from the concern. During this long life of useful labour he maintained an enviable re- putation for the most blameless purity in private life, for devotedness to public duties, and for enlarged benevolence. — New York Daily Express. On Tuesday week, atDebdale House, near Mansfield, in the 64th year of his age, John Coke, Esq., brother of D'Ewes Coke, Esq., of Totley Hall, near this town, and many years a Magistrate of the counties of Nottingham and Derby. On Monday the 13th inst., at the County Lunatic Asy- lum, Stafford, John Garret Esq., for 23 years house sur- geon and superintendent of that institution, aged 51. On Sunday last, at Do'ncaster, in the 64th year of her age, Sarah, wife of Mr. George Burton, late of Waite House, farmer. On Thursday, Mr. Thomas Wright, sloop owner, Fisher gate, Doncaster, aged 66 years. On Monday last, at East Retford, in the 47th year of his age, Mr. Richard Whittington, eldest son of the late Mrs. Whittington, draper, & c. On the 18th inst., in the 80th year of his age, the Rev. Wm. Nettleship, A. M., rector of Churchill, in the county of Worcester, and of Irby, in the county of Lincoln. On the 10th inst., at London, of a decline, Georgiana, eldest daughter of Mr. Thomas Gratton, late of Rose Cottage, near Chesterfield, aged 19. Lately, at Cotmanhay, aged 57, Mr. J. Tilson, much celebrated as a composer of chants, anthems, hymn tunes, and other kinds of sacred melody. DEATH OF THE DEAN OF CORK.— The Very Rev. Dr. Bu rrowes, the Dean of Cork, died at his residence in the county of Tyrone, on Monday last, in the 85th year of bis age. The Dean of Cork obtained his fellowship in college at an early age, and soon retired to the college living of Cappab, in the county of Tyrone, when, in 1798, be was appointed by Earl Fitzwilliam master of the royal school of Enniskillen, which the celebrity of his learn- ing, unremitting attention, and universal accomplish- ments, soon raised to the highest rank among the schools of Ireland. In 1819, he was promoted by the Government to the Deanery of Cork. AGENTS FOR THIS PAPER. London, • Doncaster,• Derby •> * Barnsley, .... Chesterfield, - Edinburgh, •. Glasgow, .... Leeds, ........ Dublin, Birmingham, York, Liverpool, ..•• Wakefield Rotherham, •. Manchester, - • Mr. R. Barker, 33, Fleet- street. Messrs. Newton and Co., Warwick- square. Mr. S. Deacon, 3, Walbrook. Mr. G. Reynell, Chancery- lane. Messrs. A. H. Baily and Co., 83, Cornhiil. Mr. Clayton, Strand. > Messrs. Brooke and Co. Gazette Office. Messrs. Storer and Stainton. • Mr. Pike, Reporter Office. • Mr. John Ray, and Mr. Harrison, booksellers. • Mr. Woodhead, Chtonicle Office. . Messrs. Robertson and Scott. • Mr. W. R. M'Phun, 86, Trongate. . Messrs. Baines and Son, Mercury Office. • Johnston and Co., Eden- quay, Lower Sacville St. • Aris's Gazette Office. Mr. Cooper, Newspaper Agent, 33, Union- 9t. • Messrs. Hargrove, Herald Office. Mr. Bellerby, Gazette Office. • Times and Mercury Offices. - Mr. Hurst, Bookseller. • Mr. J. Brown, Bookseller, High street. • Guardian and Times Offices. Printed by ROBERT LEADER, ( residing in Burngreave Terrace, in the Township of Brightside Bierlow, and Parish of Sheffield, in the County of York,) at his Printing Office, in Mulberry street, and Published by him at No. 41, High street, both in Sheffield aforesaid. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1841,