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22/01/1842

Printer / Publisher: Francis Parsons 
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The Worcester Guardian

Date of Article: 22/01/1842
Printer / Publisher: Francis Parsons 
Address: No 5, Avenue, Cross, Parish of Saint Nicholas, Worcester
Volume Number:     Issue Number: 371
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wctrfttttffifrt CRttgrfefati* THE ALTAR, THRONE, AND LAND WE LIVE IN. N°' 371. WORCESTER, SATURDAY, JANUARY 22, 1842. PRICE 4KL NELSON'S GELATINE. CAUTION! HALF THE PRICE OF ISINGLASS. FROM the increasing demand for NELSON'S PATENT OPAQUE GELATINE, some unprincipled persons are imposing spurious articles upon the public, none of which have the strength and purity of NELSON'S OPAQUE, and many of them contain Acids, which are highly deleterious, and totally unfit for culinary purposes. As the use of any other than NELSON'S PATENT OPAQUE GELATINE must necessarily prove a failure, and end in disappointment, the PUBLIC are requested to ask for NELSON'S PATENT OPAQUE GELATINE, which, as a protection to purchasers, is Sold in Packets only, by most respectable Chemists and Grocers of the United Kingdom, at Is., Is. lid,, 2s. ( id., 5s., 10s., and 15s. 03* Each Packet bearing the Patentee's Signature. EXTRACT FROM DR. URE'S TESTIMONIAL. 13, Charlotte- street, Bedford- square, June 6th, 1840. " I have subjected to a careful Chemical Examination the Patent Opaque Gelatine of Mr. George Nelson, and find it to be at least equal in strength and Purity, if not superior to the best Isinglass for every Culinary purpose. " Mr. Nelson's Gelatine is therefore capable of forming the best Blanc Mange, without being apt to curdle the Milk, as the Acidulous Gelatine infallibly will do. I find that one Ounce of his Opaque Gelatine is sufficient to form a Quart of Calves' Foot or- Orange Jelly of t he best quality. " A. URE, M. D., F. R. S." Leamington Rock Mills, and 14, Bucklesbury, London. Just Published, the Tioelfth Edition, Price 4s., enclosed in a sealed envelope, and sent Free to any part of the United Kingdom on the receipt of a Post Office Order, for 5s., THE SILENT FRIEND, AMEDICAL WORK, on the INFIRMITIES OF THE GENERATIVE SYSTEM, in both sexes; being an Enquiry into the concealed cause that destroys physical energy, and the ability of manhood, ere vigour has established her empire;— with observations on the baneful effects of SOLITARY INDULGENCE and INFECTION ; Local and Constitutional WEAKNESS, NERVOUS IRRITATION, CONSUMPTION, and on the partial or total EXTINCTION OF THE REPRODUCTIVE POWERS; WITH MEANS OF RESTORATION : the destructive effects of Gonorrhoea, Gleet, Stricture, and Secondary Symptoms, are explained in a familiar manner; the Work is EMBELLISHED WITH ENGRAV- NIGS, representing the deliterous influence of Mercury on the skin, by eruptions on the head, face, and body; with APPROVED MODE OF CUKE for both sexes; followed by observations on the OBLIGATIONS OF MARRIAGE, and healthy perpetuity ; with directions for the removal of Physical and Constitutional Disqualifications; the whole pointed out to suffering humanity as a " SILENT FRIEND," to be con- sulted without exposure, and with assured confidence of success, BY R. & L. PERRY & CO., CONSULTING SURGEONS, BIRMINGHAM AND LEEDS. Published by the Authors, and sold by Strange, 21, Paternos- ter- row ; Wilson, 18, Bishopsgate- street; Purki3, Compton- street, Soho; Jackson & Co., 130, New Bond- street, London; Guest, Steelhouse- lane, Birmingham; Buckton, 50, Briggate, Leeds ; Gibbs, Ledbury; J. Hemming, Stourbridge ; B. Home, Tenbury; J. Bromley, Kidderminster; and by all Booksellers in Town and Country. THE CORDIAL BALM OF SYRIACUM Is a gentle stimulant and renovator of the impaired functions of life, and is exclusively directed to the cure of such com- plaints as arise from a disorganization of the Generative System, whether constitutional or acquired, loss of sexual power, and debility arising from Syphilis ; and is calculated to afford decided relief to those who by early indulgence in solitary habits have weakened the powers of their system, and fallen into a state of chonic debility, by which the constitution is left in a deplorable state, and that nervous mentality kept up which places the individual in a state of anxiety for the remainder of life. The consequences arising from this dangerous practice are not confined to its pure physical result, but branch to moral ones ; leading the excited, deviating mind into a fertile field of seduc- tive error— into a gradual and total degradation of manhood— into a pernicious application of those inherent rights which nature wisely instituted for the preservation of her species; bringing on premature decrepitude, and all the habitudes of old age :— such an one carries with him the form and aspect of other men, but without the vigour and energy of that season which his early youth bade him hope to attain. How many men cease to be men, or at least, cease to enjoy manhood at thirty ? How many at eighteen receive the impression of the seeds of Syphilitic disease itself? the consequences of which travel out of the ordinary track of bodily ailment, covering the frame with disgusting evidences of its ruthless nature, and impregnating the wholesome stream of life with mortal poison ; conveying into families the seeds of disunion and unhappiness ; undermining domestic harmony; and striking at the very soul of human intercourse. The fearfully abused powers of the human Generative System require the most cautious preservation ; and the debility and disease resulting from early indiscretion, demand, for the cure of those dreadful evils, that such medicine should be employed that is most certain to be successful. It is for these cases Messrs. Perry & Co. particularly designed their CORDIAL BALM OF SYRIACUM which 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 of certain evacuations, weakness, total impotency, barrenness, & c. As nothing can be better adapted to help and nourish the constitution, so there is nothing more generally acknowledged to be peculiarly efficacious in all inward wastings, loss of apetite, indigestion, depression of spirits, trembling or shaking of the hands or limbs, obstinate coughs, shortness of breath, or con- sumptive habits. It possesses wonderful efficacy in all cases of syphilis, fits, head- ache, weakness, heaviness and lowness of spirits, dimness of sight, confused thoughts, wandering of the mind, vapours and melancholy ; and all kinds of hysteric com- plaints are gradually removed by its use. And even where the disease of STERILITY appears to have taken the firmest hold of the female constitution, the softening tonic qualities of the Cor- dial Balm of Syriacum will warm and purify the blood and juices, increase the animal spirits, invigorate and revive the whole animal machine, and remove the usual impediment to maternity. This medicine is particularly recommended to be taken before entering into the MATRIMONIAL STATE, lest in the event of procreation occurring, the innocent offspring should bear enstamped upon it the physical characters derivable from parental debility, or evil eruptions of a malignant tendency, that are most assuredly introduced by the same neglect and imprudence. Sold in Bottles, price lis. each, or the quantity of four in one Family Bottle for 33s. by which one lis. Bottle is saved. Prepared only by Messrs. PERRY & CO., Surgeons, 4, Great Charles- street, Birmingham, and 44, Albion- street, Leeds. Observe, none are genuine without the signature of CHIPPING CAMPDEN DISTRICT OF ROADS. NOTICE is hereby Given, that the Trustees, acting under and by virtue of an Act passed in the o? th year of the Reign of his late Majesty King George the Third, in- tituled " An Act for Repairing the Road leading from the Cross Hands on the Worcester and Oxford Turnpike Road to Hal- ford Bridge ( and other Roads therein mentioned), in the Counties of Gloucester, Warwick, and Worcester," will meet at the Noel Arms Inn, in Chipping Campden, in the County of Gloucester, on THURSDAY, the 27th day of JANUARY next, at Eleven o'Clock in the Forenoon, TO LET BY AUCTION, in two Lots, the Tolls arising at the several Toll Gates on the said Turnpike Roads for one year, to commence from the first day of February next, in the manner directed by an Act passed in the 3rd and 4th years of the Reign of his late Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled " An Act for Regulating Turnpike Roads ;" which Tolls will be put up at the following sums, viz.:— LOT 1— Tilt- up End and Westington Hill Gates, with the Side- gates belonging thereto, and White Cross way Gate £ 150 LOT 2.— Armscott Meadow and Bronghton Lane Gates, with the Side- gates belonging thereto 70 The highest Bidder for each Lot will be the taker, and be re- quired to pay in advance, at the time of taking, one- twelfth part of the Rent at which such tolls may be Let, and to give security with sureties to the satisfaction of the Trustees for payment of the remainder of the Rent, by Eleven equal Monthly Payments from the said first day of February next. And Notice is hereby further given, that at the same time and place the Trustees will audit the Annual Accounts, and transact other business relating to the said Roads. J. R. GRIFFITHS, Clerk to the said Trustees. Dec. 24th, 1841. VALUABLE FRENCH MEDICINES. fT^ HE FRENCH it is well known have always I excelled in the art of healing. A knowledge therefore of the most popular remedies that they employ, is likely to prove of essential service to the British Public. One pecu- iarity their remedies possess is an agreeable flavour, a novelty deserving the attention of mothers. All the Medicines men- tioned here ( to be taken inwardly,) have this delightful quality. NERVINE. This preparation speedily relieves headache, spasms, fulness and pains in the head, depression of spirits, flatulence, hic- cough, languor and sickness when rising in the morning. Most, if not all, of these symptoms are caused by nervous disorders, for which the Nervine is a certain cure. Sold in Bottles price Is. l^ d. and 2s. 9d , with directions enclosed. The small Bottle contains 12, and the large one 32 doses. PAPIER FAYARD ET BLAYN. This article is a certain cure for Corns, Bunions, Burns, Scalds, Cuts, & c. It also affords great relief in Gout, Rheumatism, Lumbago, & c. Sold in Rolls at 4s., and Half Rolls at 2s. each, with directions enclosed. The Roll is more than half a yard square. SIllOP ANTI- PHLOGISTIQUE, For Coughs, Colds, Asthma, and Consumption. It has been employed in France and on the Continent for 15 years, with great success. Drs. Asselin, Dubois, Fouquier, Mouillet, Lanthois, the Count de Belisle, Baron Gauguelatz, and many others, have given certificates, strongly recommending it. Sold only in Pint Bottles for Families, price lis. with directions enclosed. One bottle will last more than a fortnight. SIROP ORANGE PURGATIF DE LAGRANGE. This Aperient is intended to supersede the present nauseous ones, the Black Draught, & c. now in use. It is mild, gentle, and efficacious, and may be taken by the most delicate female or tender infant, without the least fear. Price 2s. 9d., with directions enclosed. Each bottle contains several doses.— Observe, the name Lagrange is written on theGovernmentStamp. CONCENTRATED ESSENCE OF SARSAPAR1LLA. PREPARED BY M. BRIANT, PARIS. This preparation is made by steam, a method by which the virtues only arc extracted, and the wood and other impurities rejected. It is in consequence so pure and of such great strength, that a very small dose is required, and as the Bottle ( there is only one size, price 4?. 6d.) will last nearly a fortnight, it is by far the cheapest ever offered to the public. Be sure to ask for Briant's. EAU O'MEARA, AND POUDRE O'MEARA. These articles were prepared for Napoleon Bonaparte at St. Helena, by Dr. O'Meara, his physician. The Eau is a speedy and certain cure for the Tooth Ache, and the Poudre is a healthy and refreshing dentifrice. Price of the Eau 4s. ( id., of the Poudre, 2s.; with directions enclosed. mpressed on a stamp on the outside of each wrapper, to imitate which is felony of the deepest dye. The Five Pound Cases ( the purchasing of which will be a saving of One Pound Twelve Shillings); may be had as usual at 4, Great Charles- street, Birmingham, and 44, Albion- street, Leeds; and Patients in the Country who require a course of this admirable Medicine, should send Five Pounds by letter, which will entitle them to the full benefit of such advantage May be had of all Booksellers, Druggists, and Patent Medi- cine Venders in Town and Country throughout the United Kingdom, the Continent of Europe, and America. Messrs. PERRY expect, when consulted by letter, the usual fee of One Pound, without which, no notice whatever can be taken of the Communication ( postage pre- paid.) Patients are requested to be as minute as possible in the detail of their cases,— as to the duration of the complaint, the symptoms, age, habits of living, and general occupation Medicines can be forwarded to any part of the world ; no difficulty can occur, as they will be securely packed, and care- fully protected from observation. PERRY'S PURIFYING SPECIFIC PILLS, Price 2s. 9d., 4s. fid., and 1 Is. per box. ( Observe, the signature of R. and L. PERRY and Co. on the outside of each wrapper), are well known throughout Europe and America, to be the most certain and effectual cure ever discovered for every stage and symptom of the Venereal Disease, in both sexes, including Gonorrhoea, Gleets, Secondary Symptoms, Strictures, Seminal weakness, Deficiency, and all diseases of the Urinary Passages, 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 all other means have failed; and are of the utmost importance to those afflicted with Scorbutic Affections, Eruptions on any part of the body, Ulcerations Scrofulous or Venereal Taint, being justly calculated to cleanse the blood from all foulness, counteract every morbid affection, and restore weak and emaciated constitutions to pristine health and vigour. It is a melancholy fact that thousands fall victims to this horrid disease, owing to the unskilfulness of illiterate men who by the use of that deadly poison, mercury, ruin the con stitution, causing ulcerations, blotches on the head, face, and body, dimness of sight, noise in the ears, deafness, obstinate gleets, nodes on the shin bones, ulcerated sore throat, diseased nose, with nocturnal pains in the head and limbs, till at length a general debility of the constitution ensues, and a melancholy death puts a period to their dreadful sufferings. Messrs. Perry and Co., Surgeons, may be consulted as usual at No. 4, Great Charles- street ( four doors from Easy- Row), Birmingham, and 44, Albion- street, Leeds, punctually from Eleven in the Morning until Eight in the Evening, and on Sundays from Eleven till One. 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 Medicine Ven ders, and every other Shopkeeper, can be supplied 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 Agents- Deighton, Worcester; Mr. T. Pennell, Kidder minster. The ESTATE of the late MR. JAMES BARRETT the Elder, deceased. < 4 LL Persons having Claims or Demands on the Estate of JAMES BARRETT, late of Priors Court, in the Parish of Ledbury, in the County of Hereford, Gentle- man, deceased, are requested forthwith to send the particulars to Messrs. John and William Winnall, of Braces Leigh, near to the City of Worcester, the Executors; or to Mr. Masefield, Solicitor, Ledbury, in order that the same may be examined. And all Persons Indebted to the Estate are also requested immediately to pay such Debts to the Executors before named, or to Mr. Maseheld. Ledbury, January 13, 1842. NOTICE is hereby given, that on the Fourth Day of April next, application will be made to Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace, assembled at Quarter Sessions in and for the County of Worcester, at Worcester, in the said County, for an Order for entirely stopping up a certain Public Footway, in the Parish of Claines, in the said County, leading from Bevere Green, in the said Parish, to Hawford, in the said Parish, and passing over a Piece of Pasture Land called Bevere Hill, the property of the Reverend Henry Francis Gary, in the occupa- tion of Captain Cary, four Pieces of Pasture Land, called respectively Wady Pool Meadow, Rush Meadow, Lower Ground, and Far Lower Ground, the property of Thomas Gale Curtler, Esq., in the occupation of himself and William Jenkins, and another Piece of Pasture Land called Hill Top, the property of the said Henry Francis Cary, in the occupation of William Lane. And that the Certificate of Two Justices, having viewed the same, & c., with the Plan of the said Foot- way, will be lodged with the Clerk of the Peace for the said County, on the 28th Day of February next. Dated the l! Hh Day of January, 1842. THOMAS EVANS, Surveyor of the Highways of the Parish of Claines, in the County of Worcester. WORCESTERSHIRE TO WIT. ( COPY.) « To HENRY BARRY DOM FILE, Esq., Clerk of the Peace for the County of Worcester. " T1TE, the undersigned, the Right Honourable and V V Reverend Walter H utchinson Lord Aston, the Reverend William Vernon, Clerk, William Henry Ricketts, Esquire, and the Reverend Richard Holmden Amphlett and the Reverend George Robert Gray, Clerks, five of her Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the County of Worcester, and acting in and for the Droitwich Division of the said County, are of opinion that it would be more convenient and proper that the Parish of Oddingley, in the said County, ( now comprised in the Worcester Division of the said County,) and the Parish of Elmley Lovett, in the said County, ( now comprised in the Kidderminster Division of the said County,) should form part of the said Droitwich Division ; and that the said Parishes of Oddingley and Elmley Lovett ought to be annexed thereto, whereby the Worcester Division and the Kidderminster Divi- sion of the said County will be thereby altered. And that the Right Honourable and Reverend Walter Hutchinson Lord Aston, John Somerset Pakington, Esquire, the Honourable Robert Clive, the Reverend James Volant Vashon, Clerk, the Reverend William Vernon, Clerk, William Henry Ricketts, Esquire, the Reverend Richard Holmden Amphlett, Clerk, the Reverend George Robert Gray, Clerk, John Howard Galton, Esquire, Benjamin Collett, Esquire, William Hemming, Esquire, George Ellins, Esquire, George F. Iddins, Esquire, Thomas Henry Cookes, Esquire, and Richard Brettell, Esquire, are Justices of the Peace usually resident within and acting for the said Droitwich Division of the said County. Dated at Droitwich this 1st day of October, 1841. " ASTON, " W. VERNON, " R. H. AMPHLETT, 41 W. H. RICKETTS, " G. R. GRAY." » THE STATE OF THE NATION. ( From the Church of England Quarterly Review.) Notice is hereby given, that the statement, of which the fore- going is a copy, was, at the last Epiphany General Quarter Sessions of the Peace, holden in and for the said County, on Monday, the 3rd day of January instant, laid before the Justices then assembled, pursuant to the directions of an Act of Parlia- ment made and passed in the ninth year of the reign of his late Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled " An Act for the better regulation of Divisions in the several Counties of England and Wales." And Notice is hereby also given, that such statement will be taken into consideration by the Court at the next General Quarter Sessions of the Peace, to be holdpn in and for the said County of Worcester, on Monday, the 4th day of April next. C. A. HELM, Deputy Clerk of the Peace. Clerk of the Peace's Office, Shirehall, Worcester, lltli January, 1842. HORSE AND CATTLE MEDICINES. TOPIQUE TERRAT. A CERTAIN CURE FOR FARCY. Administration de l'enterprise des Accelerees, Rue de Marbeuf, 3,— Paris, 8 May, 18' i9. M. Terrat having expressed a desire to have a testimonial stating my experience of his remedy ; I hereby certify that I have made frequent use of it for some months, and I have obtained the most satisfactory results. This medicine pos- sesses the great advantage that without any alteration in their food, horses may continue their usual labour. ( Signed) MEURON. Sold in Pots, price lis., with directions enclosed. One Pot will cure several horses, one application generally being suffi- cient. It will keep for any length of time. ANTI- PUTRID ASTRINGENT BALSAM. A CERTAIN CURE FOR THE FOOT ROT, CRACKED HEELS, WATER IK THE LEOS, THRUSH, & c. Price 7s. 6d., with directions enclosed. Sole Consignee, H. SCHOOLING, 139, Fenchurch Street, London.— Observe that his name is written on the Government Stamp affixed to the articles, with the exception of the Sar- saparilla ( which has none) and the Sirop Orange Purgatif. These Medicines are sold by G. ANDERSON, Worcester; P. HARRIS, Birmingham; at the Journal Office, Hereford; and by all Chemists and Medicine Venders. JUST PUBLISHED, The seventh edition, price 3s., and sent free, on receipt of a Post Office Order, for 3s. t> d. MANHOOD: THE CAUSES OF ITS PREMA- TURE DECLINE, with plain Directions for its PERFECT RESTORATION; addressed to those suffering from the destructive effects of Excessive Indulgence, Solitary Habits, or Infection; followed by observations on the Treat- ment of Syphilis, Gonorrhoea, Gleet, & c.; illustrated with Cases, & c. By J. L. CURTIS and Co., Consulting Surgeons, London. Published by the Authors, and Sold by Balliere, Medical Bookseller to the Royal College of Surgeons, 219, Regent- street; Strange, 21, Paternoster- row, London; Guest, Birmingham ; 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 presented to the public, 10,000 copes 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 princi- ples, as also by the insertion of several new and highly interest, itig 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, or treated 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 themselves exclusively to a certain class of diseases; of the necessity of so doing, they were further convinced by feeling that tact, in investigating the latent sources of many diseases, which arise from secret practices, can only be acquired by an exclusive and undivided attention to this department of medical practice. The numberless instances 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 baneful habits, fully proves that the principle of the division of labour is nowhere more applicable 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 hold the relation of a PARENT, a PRECEPTOR, or a CLERGYMAN. The PARENT who beholds his beloved child pining away, and fast approaching to a premature grave, in consequence of some disease which, for want of a careful investigation of its real cause, has been set down to the score of consumption, will, on perusing this Work, be astonished to find, that, in nine- tenths of the Cases of young persons, of both sexes, who perish of what is called pulmonary consumption, heart- disease, tabes, & c., the sole and exclusive origin has been the indulgence in certain destructive habits, practised by youth much more frequently than is at all suspected. The PRECEPTOR, also, who holds, temporarily at least, the relation and responsibility of a parent, will, by perusing this Work, be directed and very much assisted in investigating and detecting the too often concealed practices so often introduced into schools, whereby the health, and, ultimately, the lives, of his pupils are sure to be compromised, unless the evil be arrested in proper time. He will here find a clue to guide him through the intricate mazes of this moral labyrinth, and a standard whereby to judge, when delicacy of health should appear to attack " any of his young charges, what the real cause of such attack may be, and thus he will be enabled to check the evil in its incipient state. The CLERGYMAN, in whose sacred character is at once concentrated the two- fold relation of parent and instructor, will here be directed as to the nature of those habits to which youth is addicted ; he will also be enabled to point out the disastrous consequences which are sure to follow from them, if not relinquished.— Sun, Evening Paper. Messrs. CURTIS and CO. are to be consulted daily at their residence, No. 7, Frith- street, Soho- square, London. Country Patients are requested to be as minute as possible in the detail of their cases — as to the duration of the com- plaint, the symptoms, age, general habits of living, and occur pation 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 secrecy may be relied on. Sold by MR. D'EGVILLE, 72, High- street, Worcester. WORCESTERSHIRE TO WIT. ( COPY.) " T 17" E, the undersigned, being five of her Majesty's VY Justices of the Peace for the County of Worcester, and acting in and for the Droitwich Division of the said County, having duly considered the propriety of altering the said Droit- wich Division, are of opinion that the several Parishes of Bromsgrove, Tardebigg, ( comprising the several Townships therein,) Stoke Prior, Upton YV arren, and the Extra- Parochial Place of Grafton Manor, now forming part of the said Droit- wich Division, would together form a convenient and propel separate Division of the said County, to be called the Broms- grove Division of the said County, and for which Special Sessions should hereafter be held ; and that the said Droitwich Division will be thereby altered by such proposed New Divi- sion, by taking therefrom the said several Parishes of Broils- grove, Tardebigg, ( comprising the several Townships therein,) Stoke, Prior, Upton Warren, and the Extra- Parochial Place of Grafton Manor. And that the several Magistrates hereinafter named usually act at such Petty Sessions, held at Bromsgrove, within such proposed New Division ( that is to say):— The Right Honourable and Reverend Walter Hutchinson Lord Aston, the Honourable Robert Henry Clive, Thomas Henry Cookes, Esquire, the Reverend William Vernon, the Reverend Richard Holmden Amphlett, William Henry Ricketts, Esquire, George Francis Iddens, Esquire, George Ellins, Esquire, Benjamin Collett, Esquire, William Hemming, Esquire, and the Reverend George Robert Gray. Dated the 18th day of October, 1841. " WILLIAM HENRY RICKETTS, " R. H. AMPHLETT, " WILLIAM HEMMING, " BENJAMIN COLLETT, " W. VERNON. " To Henry Barry Domvile, Esq., Clerk of the Peace for the County of Worcester." Notice is hereby given, that the statement, of which the fore- going is a copy, was, at the last Epiphany General Quarter Sessions of the Peace, holden in and for the . said County, on Monday, the 3rd day of January instant, laid before the Justices then assembled, pursuant to the directions of an Act of Parlia- ment made and passed in the ninth year of the reign of his late Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled " An Act for the better regulation of Divisions in the several Counties of England and Wales." And Notice is hereby also given, that such statement will be taken into consideration by the Court at the next General Quarter Se. ssions of the Peace, to be holden in and for the said County of W orcester, on Monday, the 4th day of April next. C. A. HELM, Deputy Clerk of the Peace. Clerk of the Peace's Office, Shirehall, Worcester, 11th January, 1842. WORCESTERSHIRE TO WIT. ( COPY.) " \ 17E, the undersigned, being two of her Majesty's VY Justices of the Peace for the County of Worcester, and acting in and for the Pershore Division of the said County, having duly considered the propriety of altering the said Per- shore Division, are of opinion that the several Parishes of Badsey, Bretforton, Broadway, Church Lench, Church Honey bourne, Cleeve Prior, Great and Little Hampton, Harvington, North and Middle Littleton, Norton and Lench wick, Offenham, Rouselench, Sedgeberrow, South Littleton, Wickhamford, and the Hamlet of Abbott's Lench, in the Parish of Fladbury ( comprising the several Hamlets and Chapelries therein), now forming part of the said Pershore Division, and the several Parishes of All Saints, Saint Lawrence, and Bengeworth, in the Borough of Evesham, in the said County, would together form a convenient and proper separate Division of the said County, to be called the Evesham Division of the said County, and for which Special Sessions should hereafter be held ; and that the said Pershore Division will be thereby altered by such proposed new Division, by taking therefrom the said several Parishes of Badsey, Bretforton, Broadway, Church Lench, Church lloneybourne, Cleeve Prior, Great and Little Hampton Harvington, North and Middle Littleton, Norton and Lench- wick, Offenham, Rouselench, Sedgeberrow, South Littleton, Wickhamford, and the said Hamlet of Abbot's Lench ( com- prising the several Hamlets and Chapelries therein), the said Parishes of All Saints, Saint Lawrence, and Bengeworth, not being within any Division of the said County. And that the several Justices of the Peace for the said County, hereinafter named, at the date hereof, usually acting as such Justices within the boundaries of such proposed new Division, are, namely Thomas Beale Cooper, Esquire, M. D., Edward Rudge, Esquire Thomas Shekell, Esquire, James Ashwin, Esquire, Henry Eustatius Strickland, Esquire, and Corbett Holland Corbett Esquire. Dated this 30th day of December, 1841. " THOMAS BEALE COOPER, " JAMES ASHWIN. " To Henry Barry Domvile, Esq., Clerk of the Peace for the County of Worcester, and to Mr. Charles Augustus Helm his lawful Deputy." Notice is hereby given, that the statement, of which the fore- going is a copy, was, at the last Epiphany General Quarter Sessions of the Peace, holden in and for the said County, on Monday, the 3rd day of January instant, laid before tbe Justices then assembled, pursuant to the directions of the Act of Parlia ment made and passed in the ninth year of the reign of his late Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled " An Act for the better regulation of Divisions in the several Counties of England and Wales." And Notice is hereby also given, that such statement will be taken into consideration by the Court at the next General Quarter Sessions of the Peace, to be holden in and for the said County of Worcester, on Monday, the 4th day of April next. C. A. HELM, Deputy Clerk of the Peace. Clerk of the Peace's Office, Shirehall, Worcester, 11th January, 1842. [ CONTINUED FROM OUR LAST.} We have a largely increasing population. Every year the land, or trade, or commerce, or manufactures, or the professions, the arts and the sciences, have to provide, in Great Britain alone, for three hundred and sixty- five thousand additional souls. We were much pleased by the plain yet philosophical manner in which this question of increased population, and its bearing on national resources, was put in the fifth number of The Journal of the Working Classes. Men blame the landowners, the farmers, the millers, the merchants, the peasants, all in their turn, because bread is dear, wages are low, and trade is bad ; but they never think of asking themselves the plain and obvious question, of how a loaf of bread can satisfy the appetites of eight persons as well as it used to do those of four ? Or how a country, with nearly 27,000,000 of souls, in 1841, should be able to avoid occasional embarrassments, when, in 1821, only twenty years previously ( and during which time there has been no war), that same country had a population of 5,750,000 less ? This vast increase of population had not been met by any national measure of colonization, nor indeed by any other great plan, except the construction of railways; but has not the additional labour there required been more than met by the deterioration in the value and amount of labour required in the towns and villages on the old turnpike roads throughout the country, and which have been comparatively ruined by the new system? The increase of population in the British isles is a question which must be met. The morals and the religion of the country have repudiated Socialism, and all other checks on population, except such checks as prudence would suggest, viz., that men and women should feel it their duty to abstain front marriage, unless reasonably assured of the means, by adequate labour and wages, of supporting independently their offspring during at least the first ten years of their childhood. It is absurd and pedantic to search for secondary causes for existing evils, when some of a primary nature are self- evident. The land, the trade, the commerce, the manufactures, the pro- fessions, and the arts and sciences of this country, do not supply, with sufficient rapidity, the means of comfortable existence to the one thousand extra souls and bodies which are daily added to the population of these realms ! This question of population has been kept out of sight by the free trade anarchists and demagogues ; but it must be looked to and met. It is not the fault of the Government that the population increases at so astounding a rate ; nor is it the fault of the Government that the present resources of the country are not adequate to the demands made upon them : but it would be greatly the fault of the Government if it did not indicate to this rapidly increas- ing population, that there are colonies belonging to Great Britain which are as yet unpopulated, uncultivated, and com- paratively unknown, to which the agricultural, commercial, and manufacturing population may repair, with the certainty of thereby ameliorating their physical condition. The creation of a circulating medium, unrepresented by anything like a corresponding amount in the precious metals, is another capital point over which the British Government alone cannot exercise that influence which should render it responsible, There is not less than 35,000,000 of paper money in circulation, issued in the United Kingdom by the banks of England and Ireland, and by private and joint- stock banks. How far this amount of paper money circulation may exercise a beneficial or an injurious operation on the permanent com- mercial interests of the country, is a question which the Government alone is not left to decide. Parliament has come to its decisions, and the Government cannot be responsible for the results of measures which it did not counsel or propose. Yet whenever the issues of these private and joint- stock banks are too great, and a false system of credit and speculation is excited, immediately the cry is heard, " It is the fault of the Government /" Another real or supposed source of diminution in the demand for manual labour, as well as in the value of wages, is the multiplication of machinery ! Yet what would be thought in this country of a government proposing restrictions on the application of science to improvements in machinery ? And what would be the fate of a bill, if proposed to either House of Parliament, for effecting such an object ? It is unnecessary to say that such a bill would not even obtain the honour of a first reading. And yet what say the most clamorous of the agitators among the working classes in the manufacturing districts ? Do they not daily declare that machinery has 4t ruined the country, and that the Government is to blame for permitting machinery ?" " But it is the fault of the Government ( exclaims the angry Chronicle or the petulant Globe) " that the Corn- laws are not repealed,'''' and " that the manufacturers are unable to dispose of their manufactured goods in immense quantities all over Europe, and thus secure employment to the working classes, as well as cheap bread and flour." Undoubtedly, if the Melbourne Cabinet had been really convinced of the necessity for this measure and its infallible success, and yet had not, till the last moment, and as the dernier ressort to enable it to retain office a few months longer, proposed its adoption, it would have merited the blame of every man in the community. But it had no such conviction ; and the juggle during the last few months of the existence of that Administration has been too frequently exposed to require a further denunciation. The Melbourne Cabinet knew quite well, that Great Britain could never consent to place the supply of her immense population with food at the mercy of foreign markets, or at the risk of foreign wars. It knew quite well, that in the repeal of the Corn Laws was involved a whole revolution— and a revolution not simply of a political or of a party, but of a social, character. It knew, as well as Sir Robert Peel does, that the very smallest portion of the Corn Law question is its fiscal influence or operation, and that the landowners of this country are at all times prepared to make such sacrifices of their own personal interests as may be really necessary for the general weal. If the Corn Laws were so objectionable, and if their influence was so pernicious, why was not their repeal proposed during the tremendous crisis of 1836- 7 ? The influenza was raging, the winter was unusually severe, the manufacturing districts were suffering most awfully, and even the Poor Law Commissioners avowed that they were staggered in the application of their prohibitive orders, to afford none but workhouse relief to the miserable and destitute. The crisis, at the present moment, sad as it is, is by no means equal in severity to that under which the labouring classes then suffered. Yet we did not hear of the repeal of the Corn Laws then ! And why ? Lord Melbourne's Cabinet had still a majority in the House of Commons sufficient to enable it to retain office, without seeking to agitate to the centre the whole kingdom. The Government of Lord Melbourne was not then deserving of blame, for not proposing, when it had a majority in the House of Commons, an alteration in the Corn Laws, because it did not believe such a measure to be necessary; but it has since stamped itself with disgrace and shame, for having brought forward that alteration at a period when it no longer possessed the confidence of the House or the country, and for pressing it on now for the purposes of agitation. With respect to the Government of Sir Robert Peel, it has not yet met, since its examination of the whole question of the Corn Laws, the Houses of Parliament. If it shall be found that the present system is defective, alterations will undoubtedly be proposed: the sliding scale may be amended, and the averages may be taken more correctly; but never will a Conservative Government forget, that the question of whether England shall cease to be an agricultural country, can never, by it, be resolved in the affirmative; nor will it cease to remember, that such a question is one hound up with the Constitution, the State, and the integrity of the empire. It is not a party ques tion, but a State measure. When, therefore, the Chronicle and the Globe, Lord John Russell and Lord Palmerston, assert that the Government of Sir Robert Peel is to be blamed because bread is dear, and flour is higher priced in London than at Paris, they purposely keep back this fact, that during some years after their accession to office they had a decided majority for their measures in the House of Commons, and yet that the repeal of the Corn Laws, and a free trade in corn, were then no projects of either the then Premier or his coadjutors; Again we ask, why ? And again we reply, because they knew, as well as the Conservatives do, that the Corn Law- question is one in which is involved even more than the question of food ; since the destruction of the agricultural interests, the subversion of the aristocracy, and the triumph of the Democratic over the Conservative and hereditary institu- tions of the country, are all involved in its consequences and results. We have dwelt at considerable length on the popular error of ascribing to the Government all the evils which visit a great country, because the evils arising from that error are almost overwhelming. " We shall see what the Tories will do !" cries one. What are the plans of Sir Robert Peel for restoring prosperity to the country ?" asks a second. " The Tories will do no more than the Whigs !" growls a Chartist; and then he adds " Class legislation is our ruin. We must have a Government which will put an end to this. All our miseries are to be ascribed to our governors.'''' Now this is all sheer nonsense ! We cannot call it by any other name; for truth itself stamps this stigma upon it. The fact is, that the Government of a country is far less powerful to good, than it is to evil. The advantages attendant on a Conservative Government are more of a negative than of a positive character. A Conservative Government prevents mis- chief, foresees evil, and provides, as far as it can do, a remedy. But, after all, so much depends on public opinion, in constitu- tional states, that, with a House of Commons composed of six hundred and fifty- eight members, a Government must not be expected to work miracles I It can execute vigorously and constantly the laws; it can oppose invasions on the rights of the Crown, on the privileges of the aristocracy, and on the liberties of the people. It can keep parties and factions in their places ; and, when they transgress the laws, it can punish all infractions ! It can encourage moral and religious influences, and visit with just vengence all infractions on public morals and religion. It can set a good example, as a Government, and also as individual members of the great community. It can submit wise and prudent measures to Parliament, and urge their adoption. But it can do nothing beyond this ! After all, the Parliament is omnipotent, and the Government is bound to obey. Indeed, the position of a Conservative Government must always be a painful rather than an agreeable one, except that men of vast talents and mighty minds love good, and the practice of good, for the sake of good itself, since what can be less popular, in the common acceptation of that term, than a Conservative Cabinet ? We know that such a Cabinet appeals from the ignorance, folly, vanity, and passion of party, to the sense, wisdom, and moderation of wise and good men ; but then how much more noisy, clamorous, and even powerful with the mass, are the former than the latter! Notwithstanding all these, and a multiplicity of other sources of anxiety and opposition, Sir Robert Peel has accepted office ; and the course he has hitherto adopted has been such as to entitle him to the love and gratitude, respect and homage, of all who prefer truth to falsehood, and honest government to dishonest shuffling. He has asked himself this question, " What is the real State of the Nation V and he has spared no trouble, no reasonable expense, and no details of enquiry, to enable him to arrive at full, honest, and just conclusions. And now let us look at what must have been the results to his own mind, as well as to the minds of his coadjutors, of the examinations he has conducted :— He has found that owing to the encouragement given by the Poor Law Commissioners to the agricultural poor to migrate from the southern to the northern counties of England, that the population of the labouring classes has been greatly displaced. This displacement has been exceedingly injurious to multitudes of individuals, who were induced to believe that there was really a vast amount of labour required in the north, and which could not he adequately supplied by Irish immigra- tion. He must have discovered that a very great number of southern poor are therefore now out of employment in the north; and that when these southern poor, who went to the north fully expectingto obtain permanent employment at the manufactories, but who were disappointed, are added to the unemployed northern or habitual workmen, there can be no surprise that so many are without the means of independent existence : they are living on charity, or on the parish. If in 183t> and 1837, instead of encouraging migration from the distressed agricultural counties in the south to the manufacturing counties in the north, the then Government had aided, on a large and national scale, the population which thus migrated to have emigrated to our North American colonies, we should have had, by this time, corn from our own colonies, and a population requiring large supplies from our own home manufactories. He must have found that the crisis in the United States of America, which is not yet over, has been greatly injurious to our manufacturing interests; and that American capital has not yet acquired confidence, but is looking, as is all Europe, to see what England will do, whilst English manufacturers are waiting for foreign demands for English manufactured goods. He must have found that many countries are at this moment afflicted with evils similar to those which weigh us down, and that the financial crises of other powers naturally operate upon our own. He must have found that whilst it is a difficult matter to decide up to what precise point a paper currency, nominally convertible into the precious metals, ought to be encouraged or permitted, since in nine cases out of ten the conversion by private banks is a mere delusion; yet that it is a fact, that the encouragement given by the joint stock and other banks to the mania of 1835 and 1836, for erecting new cotton mills and factories in the north, has turned out to have been extremely prejudicial. He must have found that the rumours of war between France and Great Britain, which existed more than twelve months, and which ought never to have lasted one week, if the then British Government had acted with promptitude and energy, greatly paralized all our staple interests, and materially added to those evils which previously existed. He must have found that the unsettled state of Spain - that the financial and commercial crisis in Belgium— that the com- mercial arrangement of Germany, and the diminution in the demand by Holland for British manufactures, have tended materially to increase prior uncertainty and suffering in our manufacturing districts. Above all, he must have found that the great increase in the population of the manufacturing districts, during the last ten years, is alone sufficient to account for a vast deal of the misery and destitution which now exist. In Lancashire alone the population has increased, in ten years, no less than 330,210 persons ; being in 1831, 1,336,854 souls, and in 1841, 1,667,064 souls. He has found in this county of Lancashire that there are no less than 23,604 uninhabited houses, most of which were madly erected on the sad assumption that a vast quantity of labour, not indigenous, would be required in the north ; whereas the crisis in America, and the state of Europe, with the financial crises iti France and Belgium, rendered the demand for Britsh manufactures much less, and produced therefore a falling off in the demand for additional labour. In Warwickshire the population has increased, in ten years, from 336,610 to 402,121 ; and in that county there is also a very considerable number of uninhabited houses. In the West Riding of Yorkshire the population in 1831 was 976,350; whilst in 1841 it is 1,154.924. In Staffordshire the population in 1841 is 510,206 ; whilst in 1831 it was 410,512— no less than 100,000 increase in ten years. In Durham the population in 1831 was 253,910; but in 1841 it is 324,277. This increase of 70,000 in the county of Durham is a fact of a most striking character. In Derbyshire the population has increased 35,000; in North- umberland, 28,000; in Nottinghamshire, 24,000 ; and in one word, in all the counties where manufactures are wholly or greatly the staple employment of the working classes, the population has increased in a fearful ratio. He must have found, therefore, that as this increase is still augmenting, whilst the demand for British manufactures does not keep pace with this increase of population, that some remedy must be provided, and that such a remedy is undoubt- edly to be found in not mere emigration, but colonization. The Quarterly Review has said :— " Before emigration is tried let us endeavour to occupy our waste lands. Millions of acres are still unreclaimed, both in Great Britain and Ireland. Stop the gambling speculations of the manufacturers, and drain off the surplus population from the town into the country. Let landlords plant colonies on their commons, and bogs, and mountains— plant them under their own eye, upon right principles of colonization, in organic bodies, with powers of self- government, with social privileges, with the germs of village institutions; especially with that first principle of life and organization, an efficient ecclesiastical establishment in the centre. Restore something of the feudal spirit into our tenure of land. Raze, if you like, to the ground half our over grown metropolis." The difference between our views and those of the Quarterly Review consist in this— that whereas the Quarterly would defer emigration until home colonization were carried out— we would, on the contrary, put both engines to work at the same time. There are one thousand more beings to be provided for to- day than there were when yesterday we commenced these obsrva- tions, and by the day they will appear before the publicthere will be fifteen thousand more. Nor must we forget, that by the very simplest process of calculation, as we have been increasing one thousand per diem with a smaller population than at present, we shall of course increase more than one thousand per diem with an increased population to increase upon. The Globe is alarmed at the proposal of the Quarterly. It exclaims, " We are threatened with an agrarian barbarism, as the result of a landed monopoly. And again, " We are to have home colonization on the principles of patriarchal or feudal protection." But the Globe has no other remedies but these to propose, and it knows that if such remedies be well, con- tinuously, and vigorously applied, its illustrious correspondents will in vain seek to agitate the country by pleading for the overthrow of the landed interest. Sir Robert Peel must have found, that the greatest evil with which thi3 country is threatened is a redundant population ; and he must feel that it is his duty to provide a remedy. He must have found, that such a remedy is not to be supplied by the pretended unlimited demand for British manufactures. He must know how other nations are seeking, not only to rival, but even to eclipse us, in their manufactories ; and that there was never a greater intentional delusion than the one attempted to be practised upon the people of this country, which was palmed off in the cry of " Repeal the Corn Laws /" Which are the countries requiring immense quantities of our goods, and willing to exchange them for cheap corn ? It is worse than useless— it is ridiculous, on the part of the Morning Chronicle, daily to be making quotations of prices at Hamburgh of bread and meat, and of the demands for British goods in Poland ! These are calculations for schoolboys, and financial and com- mercial speculations for children. They may amuse, but cannot deceive. If manufactures are to supply the present unemployed and employed workmen of this country with full occupation and adequate wages, as well as to supply the one thousand extra souls and bodies born each day, and that not for one, or two, or five, or seven years, till another crisis shall arrive, but permanently and efficiently, let us be apprized officially and surely of such permanent arrangements with France, Spain, Germany, Holland, Belgium, Switzerland, Portugal, Austria, Italy, Turkey, Egypt, Russia, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and the Hanse Towns, as can leave no doubt respecting the large, long continued, and constant demand for such manufactures. But who does not know that such arrangements are impossible ? Who does not know that in every part of Europe and of America, attempts are making to establish manufactures similar to those of which we enjoyed a long monopoly, but shall enjoy no more? It is worse than childish— it is wicked and ruinous, to shut our eyes to such truths as these. Our ambassadors, our consuls, and our vice, consuls have been consulted; and what have been their replies ? They could have been none other than these:— 1. That most of the European and American powers are seeking to manufacture. 2. That many have made great progress, and attained great perfection. And 3. That whatever they can manufacture at home for their own consumption, which will be purchased instead of our manufactures, they will encourage and protect. " But ( say the advocates of free trade) we take cotton from the United States, wool from Germany, silk from Italy, and flax from Russia; and if the reciprocity principle be well understood and enforced, the cotton, the wool, the silk, and the flax should be paid for by our manufactures." Agreed to. But why, during ten years of shuffling govern- ment have you not been able to bring about this sort of reciprocity ? For this obvious reason, that it is not Governments that sell, or Governments that manufacture, but private individuals ; and private individuals will carry their raw produce to where they get paid for it in that which is most desirable for them, and on which they can make the greatest profit. And why do the precious metals leave this country for Europe in such large quantities ? Because our manufactures are not so valuable as gold and silver. In one word, it is a farce to affect to believe, that, with our increased and yet more increasing population, we can keep up such a supply, and maintain such a commerce of manufactured goods with foreign nations, as to supply that population, not only as it exists to- day, but as it will be, increased nearly 400,000 more, before the end of the year on which we are now entering. [! To be continued.] PEERS WHO DIED IN 1841. ^ January 5, John, Ea? l Somers, succeeded by John, Viscount Eastnor, his eldest surviving son. February 3, Robert, Lord Henley, succeeded by the Hon. Anthony Henley, his eldest son, a minor. February 23, Lawrence, Earl of Rosse, succeeded by William, Lord Oxmantown, his eldest son. March 10, George William, Earl of Rothes, succeeded by William, Lord Leslie, a minor. March 16, John, Lord Wrottesley, succeeded by the Hon. John Wrottesley, his eldest son. March 26, Charles, Earl O'Neii; the Earldom extinct; suc- ceeded as Viscount by the Hon. General O'Neii. April 18, Somerset, Earl of Belmore, succeeded by Armar, Viscount Corry, his eldest son. June 15, Hugh, Earl Fortescue, succeeded by Hugh Viscount Ebrington, his eldest son. July 16, Charles, Lord Feversham, succeeded by the Hon. W. Duncombe, his eldest son. July 21, Price, Lord Dufferin, succeeded by the Hon. Frederick Blackwood, his only son, and a minor. September 10, James Edward, Earl of Malmesbury, suc- ceeded by James Howard, Viscount Fitzharris, his elde'st son. September 16, Charles. Lord Sydenham, title extinct. October 7, Frederick, Lord Monson, succeeded by William John Monson, Esq., his cousin. October 22, Alexander, Earl of Home, succeeded by Cospat- rick, Lord Douglas, his eldest son. November 14, John William Robert, Marquis of Lothian, succeeded by Lord Jedburgh, his eldest son, a minor. November 14, Thomas, Earl of Elgin, succeeded by James, Lord Bruce, his eldest surviving son. November 24, Henry Earl of Harewood, succeeded by Henry Viscount Lascelles, his eldest surviving son. December 15, John, Earl of Westmoreland, succeeded by his eldest son, Lieut.- Gen Lord Burghcrsh, K. C. B, December 23, Henry Frederick Joseph, Earl of Egmont, succeeded by his cousin, George Lord Arden. December 29, Edward, Earl of Falmouth, succeeded by George Henry, Lord Boscawen Rose, M. P. his only son. UNITED STATES. The royal mail steamer Columbia arrived at Liverpool on Saturday morning last, having made the passage from Boston in 13 days and 18 hours. She brings New York papers to the 31st ult., Halifax to the 3d, and Boston to the ist instant. In the proceedings in Congress, on the 22d ult., a member of the senate presented a memorial from an insurance company at New Orleans, which set forth the loss the co. npany had sus- tained through the liberation by the British authorities of Nassau, New Providence, of 38 slaves, which were insured against capture or seizure by the British Government. After considerable discussion, the memorial was referred to the Com- mittee on Foreign Relations. On the 29th, . Vlr. Clay, in pursuance of a notice he had given, laid before the senate three joint resolutions proposing certain amendments to the constitution of the United States. The first of the resolutions proposes to amend the constitution by restrict- ing the veto power. The second proposes to amend the consti- tution by vesting in Congress the appointment of the Secretary of the Treasury and the Treasurer of the United States. The third resolution proposes to amend the constitution by pro- hibiting the appointment to office of any member of Congress during the term for which he was elected. Each resolution has in view the same object— the curtailment of executive power and influence, and the reduction of that power and that influ- ence within safe and proper limits. A long debate followed, the conclusion of which had not been received at New York on the 21st ult. On the 27th ult., in the senate, the following resolution was carried:— " Resolved,— That the President be requested to inform the senate, if in his opinion it may be done without detriment to the public interest, whether any proposition has been made to or received from the British Government since the 4th of March, 1840, relative to a mutual right of search ; and, if so, to lay before the senate all such correspondence, together with any instructions that may have been given since that time by this Government to our Minister at England, relating to that object." On the same day a bill was brought in, and read twice, for the postponement of the operation of the bankrupt law until the 1st July. The Secretary of the Treasury had submitted to Congress his report, describing the President's plan for a new national cur- rency, and for a final odjustment of that question. The report occupies a whole page in the New York papers. The plan which it embodies proposes the establishment of a Government Bureau with agencies— first, possessing the power to issue 15,000,000 dollars of Treasury notes, from five dollars to 1,000 dollars, redeemable in specie at the point of issue, and receivable for revenue everywhere; second, authority to issue certificates of deposits made in specie, redeemable in the like way as the Treasury notes ; and third, power to buy and sell domestic bills of exchange at certain stipulated rates, and within appointed times and distances. FATHER MATTHEW.— A MIRACLE.— The following extraordinary statement is from the Limerick Chronicle, a paper of Orange principles, and therefore not at all likely to disseminate anything of this sort for an object:— " The Rev. Mr. Matthew arrived in this city last evening by the Cork mail, en route to Loughrea, and put up at Moore's Hotel. Immediately after his arrival became known, hundreds of persons visited him at the hotel where he administered the pledge. One circumstance which came within public observation we may mention here, as illustrative of the effects of breaking the temper- ance pledge :— A man named Moynehan, a teetotaller, who worked at the Butter Weighhouse, got drunk on Christmas- eve, and next day became paralyzed, his left arm, side, and thigh being perfectly inanimate. He was removed to Barrington's Hospital, and remained there under care of the surgeons, without improvement, until last evening, when his friends, having heard of Father Matthew's arrival in town, went to the hospital and brought him out of his bed on a man's back to where the Rev.& Mr. Matthew was staying; a crowd had collected round the door, when the unhappy invalid was carried into his presence, and the rev. gentleman administered to him the pledge again in a kind and impressive manner, and the man instantly stood up, was assisted by his friends to dress, and, to the astonishment of all, walked up William- street to his home, followed by a crowd of people." (!) Eato limiugencc. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH FRIDAY, JAW. 14. ( Sittings in Banco.) THE QUEEN V. THE JUSTICES OF WARWICKSHIRE.— The ATTORNEY- GENERAL applied to the Court for a certiorari, to bring up two rates which had been respectively made upon the parishes of Birmingham and Edgbaston, upofl the part of which parishes the application was made. It appeared from the affidavit, that the town of Birmingham, which includes and is composed of the two parishes above- mentioned, has been incorporated by charter, under the last section but one of the General Municipal Corporation Amendment Act, and that a grant of quarter sessions had also been made to the borough. The effect of granting and accepting the sessions was, that the borough was taken out of the jurisdiction of the county, in respect to the imposition of any county- rate, properly so called; the borough having, at the same time, the power to" levy rates for certain purposes, upon itself. Some doubts had subsequently been entertained whether the Crown had the power to grant a charter of incorporation, accompanied by all the circumstances which existed in that instance, and in some others of a similar nature. The ratepayers of Birmingham doubted, therefore, how far the rate which had been imposed under the authority of the town council which had been created by the charter was capable of being enforced. This question was, however, discussed and decided in the case of the charter of Manchester, upon which occasion the majority of the judges in the Court of Exchequer Chamber gave judgment in favour of the power of the Crown to grant the charter in question in the circumstances of the case. The parish officers of Birmingham, who had in the first instance been advised not to act under the charter, were subse- quently advised to submit to the decision of tbe Court of Exchequer Chamber, which they accordingly did. The authori- ties of the county, however, acting either under the notion that there might be a difference between the charter of Birmingham and that of Manchester, or that the House of Lords might over- rule the decision of the Exchequer Chamber, had included the borough in the county- rate, notwithstanding the establishment of the validity of the charter. Lord DENMAN observed, that as the case was of importance to the parties, and as there did not appear to be any dispute about the facts, the better course would be to agree upon a special case, which could be brought on at an early period. THE QUEEN V HENRY J. WILKINSON, PRINTER AND PROPRIETOR OF THE LEICESTER HERALD Mr. MELLOR applied to the Court upon the part of a Mr. Hudson, who is an alderman of the borough of Leicester, for a rule calling upon the defendant to show cause why a criminal information should not be filed against him for two libels upon Mr. Hudson which appeared in that paper on the 6th of Nov. and 1st of Jan. last. The first article was headed, Election of the New Mayor," and, referring to Mr. Hudson's pretensions to fill that office, went on to say, that " as he ( Hudson) could not procure a warranty for twelvemonths, he was cast into the background among the dry bones," which last expression appeared to mean candidates who did not possess the pecuniary qualification required by the General Municipal Corporation Act in all per- sons filling the office of mayor of a borough. The same words were used in another part of the same paper to describe two of the town council who had become insolvent. Upon the 1st of January there appeared in the same paper an article headed, " Radical Town Magistrates," and after some preliminary observations, it went on to say that Mr. Hudson's party " had persuaded him to qualify for the office, although he well knew that he could not continue solvent for one year, much less for his life." The learned counsel observed, that the evident object of the articles was to cause the public to believe that Mr. Hudson was in doubtful or insolvent circumstances, although he was required by law to swear that he was worth personal estate to the amount of £ 1,000, or a real estate of the value of £ 50 a year. The affidavit of the applicant stated, that for many years he had resided as a manufacturer of hosiery in Leicester; that he had always been of unblemished credit, and that so far from being in bad or doubtful circumstances, he was worth many thousands of pounds beyond all his liabilities of every kind. Lord DENMAN said, that the circumstances appeared to fur- nish the ground rather of an action than of an application like the present. The case did not, therefore, appear to be one for the summary interposition of the Court; and the rule was accordingly refused. BAIL COURT, JANUARY 17. THE QUEEN V. O'CONNOR AND WHITE.— His lordship stated that in this case the court would grant the rule to show cause why a criminal information should not be filed against the defendants for a libel on the Rev. R. Anstey, which appeared. ni the Northern Star newspaper. THE QUEEN V. OUSELEY— Mr. Swann applied to his lordship for writ of certiorari, to remove into this Court an indictment that had been preferred at the Shrewsbury Sessions against the defendant, who is the editor of the Shropshire Conservative newspaper, for publishing in that journal a libel upon the character of Dr. M'Kenzie, the editor of a rival local paper. The learned counsel stated that the ground of his application was, that the number of jurymen who attended the Shrewsbury Sessions was very limited; that political feeling ran very strong in the town Shrewsbury, and, therefore, the defendant was apprehensive that he should not have a fair trial if the case was heard at the sessions. Mr. Justice Williams granted the application. AFFLICTING OCCURRENCE.— On Sunday forenoon last, James Butler, a boy of thirteen years of age, son of Mr. Isaac Butler, farmer, and yarn dresser, of Hollinwood, was crossing the canal reservoir, at that place, when he thoughtlessly broke the ice in his play, and whilst doing so he accidently fell on the frozen sheet; the weight of his fall cut through the ice, and he was plunged into the water; he made repeated attempts to escape, and an alarm being given, his brother triad to save him, but in vain he was not rescued for nearly two hours, and was then beyond recovery,— Manchester Courier. THE W O R C E S T E R S H I R E GUARDIAN, SATURDAY, J A N U A R Y 22/ 1842. BAIL COURT, THURSDAY, JAN. 20. CRIMINAL INFORMATION AGAINST THE WORCESTERSHIRE CHRONICLE. THE QUEEN V. ARROWSMITH AND ANOTHER. The SOLICITOR- GENERAL moved for a rule calling upon Isaac Arrowsmith and James Knight, the proprietors of the Worcestershire Chronicle, to show cause why a criminal information should not be filed against them for the publication of a libel reflecting on the character of George Ellins, Esq., one of the Magistrates of Worcestershire. This application arose out of certain proceedings which had been taken in this Court against the same parties last term, when a rule nisi for a criminal information had been obtained agpinst them for the publication of a libel reflecting on the charac' . r of Mr. Ricketts, one of the county Magistrates for Worcestershire, imputing to him that he had been guilty of gross jobbing to serve family and political purposes in relation to the erection of a station- house for the police at Bromsgrove. When the case came on for argument the defendants admitted the falsehood of the imputation they had cast on that gentleman's character, and apologized for their conduct; and Mr. Ricketts consented to the rule being discharged on payment of costs. The article against Mr. Ricketts had been headed " From a Correspondent;" and Mr. Ricketts had at first refused to accede to the terms proposed, unless the name of the author of the article were given up. On this the defendants stated that the article in question was in reality not written by any correspondent, but by the Editor himself, on certain information which he had since discovered to be inaccurate. Subsequently to that, it appeared that Mr. G. Ellins was the person upon whose authority they had made the statement, and they published an article charging him with having published an anonymous slander, and leaving others to be answerable for it, stating that they had made the statement on the authority of a brother Magistrate of Mr. Ricketts, charging their informant with breach of faith, in having permitted them to pay the costs, after having himself undertaken to do so, and saying that having got them into a scrape, he had left them to get out of it how they could,— conduct disgraceful to a man of honour, a gentleman, a Magistrate, and, above all, to a Reformer. The affidavit of Mr. Ellins set forth that he had volunteered no statement or information whatever to the proprietors of the paper, but that having occasion to call on Mr. Arrowsmith shortly before the publication of the libel on Mr. Ricke ts, Mr. Arrowsmith had asked him if it was true that Mr. Ricketts had, instead of advertising in the papers, applied to the Tory tradesmen of Bromsgrove, and had subsequently employed a Tory tradesman of Droitwich to build the station- house, to which he had replied that he believed such statement to be correct, and he had also stated that he had reason to believe that the lease had not been completed, and, in answer to n question from Arrowsmith, as to whether Mr. Curtler, who had supplied the bricks, was not a relative of Mr. Ricketts, he had said he was a connexion by marriage; that Mr. Arrowsmith had then called for a sheet of paper to make notes, on which he ( Mr. Ellins) had desired him to recollect that what he had stated was merely in conversation, and was not to be published. On which Arrowsmith assured him that his only object in asking the questions, was to ascertain if the information which he had previously received was correct; and, when Arrowsmith said that his partner Knight would dress up an article on the subject, he ( Mr. Ellins) warned him to beware what he was about, and that the statement he had made was not to be pub- lished. He had not seen Arrowsmith again before the publica- tion of the libel on Mr. Ricketts ; and, from the affidavits on that occasion, it appeared that every tittle of the information he had given was true, all he had stated being simple matters of fact, which had been distorted by the defendants into a libel. The affidavit then went on to state that the defendant had received a letter from Mr. Arrowsmith, calling upon him to bear his quota of the costs, and that he had expressed his sur- prise on seeing such a letter, and had said that if it could be proved that he had stated any thing untrue, or had misled Mr. Arrowsmith in any way, he would pay whatever any third party might say was an equitable proportion. Under these circumstances he applied to the Court for redress— Rule nisi granted. APPREHENSION AND COMMITTAL OF DESPERATE GANG OF BURGLARS. MELANCHOLY DEATH OF A WOMAN IN CHILDBED. On Monday last an inquest was held at the Swan, Pole Elm, in the parish of Powick, before W. S. P. Hughes, Esq., Coroner, on the body of Jane, the wife of Samuel Reeves, who died in child- bed on the morning of the preceding Thursday. The following is the substance of thedepositions taken on the occasion, and comprises all the facts of this melancholy case. The woman • was taken in labour on the morning of the previous Tuesday and was attended by a midwife, named Ann Shuter, employed by the Upton Union. Unfavourable symptoms having shewed themselxes the midwife sent the husband to Mr. Hen ^ Herbert, of Powick, for a note to Mr. Mears, the parish surgeon of the' district, requesting his attendance. Mr. Herbert accordingly sent a note for Mr. Wears, who however was from home, being in London ; but the husband was referred to Mr. Davis, surgeon, of Pow ick, who it appears had undertaken the care of Mr. Mears' patients there during his absence. Mr. Davis returned with him, and stayed with the woman about half an hour, saying he hoped it would go on well and be over by the morning. He visited her again on Wednesday morning, ' but in the afternoon of that day, the nurse becoming alarmed at the increasing bad symptoms of the case, sent for Mr. Davis again, who however said he could not come, as he was very unwell, being confined to his bed with a cold. At the same time he directed the hus- band to enquire at Mr. Mears' lodgings in St. John's and request the parties there to send the medical gentleman who attended Mr. Mears' Worcester patients, Mr. Davis having only under- taken the care of his Powick patients. Reeves then " went to Mr. H. Herbert, who gave him a note to E. A. Turley, Esq., with which he posted off to St. John's. Mr. Turley replied by a note that he was not in the habit of attending Mr. Mears'patients for that in a case he had in the neighbourhood of Powiek, he had taken Mr. Walsh's opinion. Mr. Turley was also at the time of receiving Mr. Herberts letter waiting to attend a patient at Buckley, and his assistant Mr. Bishop was actually in attendance on another labour casein St. John's. Next morning ( Thursday) Reeves got an order from the relieving officer for Mr. Turley to attend the case, immediately upon the receipt of which that gentleman sent Mr. Bishop to Powick, the case for which his ( Mr. T.' s) attendance was required at home not being vet over Mr. Bishop found the poor woman in a sinking state, and from the statement of the case supplied by the nurse he expressed an opinion that a rupture of the womb had taken place, which eventually proved to be the fact. He ordered her brandy, but she died in little more than half an hour after he first saw her. It does not appear from the depositions taken before the coroner that Mr. Davis prescribed anything for the poor woman or gave any directions in the case; but that he confined his pro- fessional services to the expression of a hope, which he repeated on his second visit, that all wound go on well. Further, on his : examination on the inquest he said that « from first to last when : he saw the deceased he apprehended no danger." He said he had been m practice twenty- five years and had had many cases of midwifery. Mr. Turley, with the husband's consent, made a post mortem \ examination of the body of the deceased for the purpose i of satisfying himself of the cause of her death, when the rupture ! suspected by Mr. Bishop to have occurred was discovered to have ! taken place. Mr. Turley detailed the nature of that examination j to the jury on the inquest. The child was found to be of an I unusual size, and weighing nearly lOlbs. Mr. Turley w? s i decidedly of opinion, from the circumstances observable'in the i anatomical structure of the mother, that she could not have beer, delivered except by sacrificing the chilJ; but that if he had 1 attended her he should not have thought himself justified in 1 recommending such sacrifice, relying, as he would have done, on the fact that she had already given birth to twelve children. He should rather have had recourse to medicine used for assist- j ing labour. Mr. Bishop said he believed it impossible that a delivery could have taken place by natural means, but that if he had seen the deceased on Wednesday, he thought he should have had recourse to an operation tor the removal of the child, ! considering the time labour had been going on and the sinking state in which the woman appeared to have been. It seems that the poor woman Lad on every former occasion of parturition suffered \ ery considerably. At the conclusion of tile investigation before the Coroner the jury fouud the following verdict:—" That ihe deceased died in child- birth, and that her death was occasioned by a contraction of the bones of the pelvis and by the unusual size « . f . he child, which produced a rupture of the womb; but we considei Mr. Davis guilty of inattention in not having provided assistance when himself unable to attend." [ We understand that there are some circumstances connected with this case which were not fairly represented at the inquest. We shall inquire into them, and set the matter in its true light in our next number, Ed. W. G ] ^ porting. HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. MR. CANDLER'S FOX llOXS HQS.- At Half- past Ten o'clock. Jan. 24 Copcut Elm. Wednesday _ -> 6 Himbleton, ( at 11.) * rlday — 28 .... 6th milestone, Perahore Rd. THE HEREFORDSHIRE i. OUMJS-^ Teno'Ciack. Tuesday Jan. > 5 Lyston. iridav _ 28 5th milestone, Froome's Hill Rd Tuesday Feb. 1 Aconburv Turnpike. THE UNITED PACK.-^ Sine o'clock. ' Thursday Jan. Lower Westhope. Tuesday Feb. 1 Oxenbold. Saturday _ 5 Linley. Thursuay — 10 Wille'y Park. THE ALBR1GHTON HOUNDS .- At half- past Ten. Saturday Jan. 22 The Ball, Coven Heath. Monday _ 24 The Kennels. Thursday _ 27 Island Pool. Saturday _ 29 jjigh Gate THE SHROPSHIRE HOUNDS— At a quarter to 11 o'clock. Monday Jan 24 Twemlows. Wednesday _ 2 « Pimhill. Friday _ 28 Oteley Paik. THE WARWICKSHIRE HOUNDS.-^/ Half. past Ten. Saturdey Jan. 22 FarnUorou- ii. Monday — 24 Bishop's Itohington. Tuesday — 25 Mitford Bridge. Thursday — 27 Wellesbourne. Saturday — 29 Upton House. The Liverpool grand steeple chase is fixed for the 2nd of March. The following HEREFORD STEEPLE CHASE. Thursday, Feb. 10, is the Handicap for the Grand Stakes :— st. lbs. Lottery Gaylad Sam Weller ... Birthday Charity' Luck's All Consul Creeper Gelding , Negro Dragsman Physician 11 10 11 10 11 8 11 8 Little Tommy , The Merchant . Zethus Tom Tug Pedlar Kangaroo ..... Lazzaroni CharlesXII ... Bibury Black Bess st. lbs. . 11 8 , II 5 ,110 11 0 , 11 0 II 0 10 12 10 12 10 7 1U 7 Lord Curzon, eldest sou of Earl Howe, attained his majority on Sunday. The event was celebrated on Monday at Gopsall Hall with great rejoicing. The poorer classes on the Noble Earl's estate were bountifully regaled at his Lordship's expense, in addition to their having received excellent warm clothing for the winter. A grand entertain- ment was given to the principal family tenantry, and the troop of Yeomanry Cavalry, of which his Lordship is Captain, dined together in commemoration of the joyous event. Lord Ingestre is rapidly recovering from the effects of Ins late accident, which was far move serious than was sup- posed, being a compound fracture of the leg. For some time past this city and neighbourhood has been infe sted by a desperate gang of thieves, who have shown, by various acts of plunder and depredation, that they had obtained great proficiency in their nefarious avocation. For several months the various farms contiguous to this city have been sub- ject to the excursions of these midnight marauders, and con- siderable havoc has been made amongst the sheep ; the last robbery of this description of which we have heard having been committed upon the farm of Mr. Coney, of Whittington, during the night of yesterday week, as narrated in our last GUARDIAN. In conset uence of information which they had received, a plan was laid down by Inspector Phillips, Sergeants Chipp and Sanders, and Policeman Hales, which, much to their credit for the ingenuity and perseverance employed in the matter, termi- nated in the apprehension, on Friday night last, of four most notorious thieves, named John Brookes, better known by the cognomen of " Three- fingered Jack," John Attwood, alias " Jack the Blacksmith," Thomas Squires, and Ivan Hardwick. The prisoners had long been suspected by the police as being the parties implicated in the various robberies alluded to, from the circumstance ti. at there was every reason to believe that they were living upon plunder derived from some source, and also from the fact that they had long been known as reputed thieves. A strict watch for some time past had been set upon their actions; but so dexterously and cunningly did they play their game, that the police were almost wearied out in their ex- ertions to bring them to justice. The prisoners themselves were conscious that strong suspicions rested against them, as their various haunts had been searched for stolen property, but without avail; and on these occasions the police were taunted by the very thieves who had stolen the goods sought after! At length the officers hit upon a stratagem, which was adopted as a last resort: they knew there must be buyers for the stolen articles, and they therefore engaged a trusty fellow to represent himself as a " Squarer," i. e., a purchaser of stolen property, who managed his new avocation so adroitly that an arrangement was made for him to meet the prisoners in a small parlour at the Horse and Jockey, Pump Street, on Friday evening last; and at the appointed hour they were punctual in their attendance. In a room close adjoining, and within hearing, lay in ambush, where they had been for four or five hours, without light or fire, I ^ spector Phillips, Sergeants Sanders and Chipp, and Policeman Hales, all ready for the attack when the signal agreed on should be tfiven. The " Squarer" performed his part so admirably lv in a few minutes the bargain was struck : the thieves were to ace the stolen property in a stable in the yard of the Horse Jockey, and then meet in the kitchen to receive their • v ; all of which having been done, except the settling, a . was given, and at the moment the " Squarer," with purse n ha d, was counting the money, and the thieves were eyeing with delight the booty they expected in another moment to re- ceive, 11 their utter dismay, the four officers pounced upon them, and they were all fairly captured, and in a few minutes safely lodged in " durance vile," to await an examination before Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace on Saturday. The property which had been taken to the stable was found to consist of ten or twelve dozen of very superior palletteknives used by plumbers and glaziers, and two excellent guns ; the former being a portion of the property stolen from Messrs. Webb's warehouse at Diglis Wharf, during the night of the 3rd instant, and the guns be- longing to Mr. T. Hooke, of Newland, at whose house a bur- glary was committed on the night of the 4th instant. On Saturday morning the police searched a house in the Block- house, where the prisoner Brookes occasionally lived, in the oc- cupation of a girl named Hannah Clees, with whom he cohabited, when they found a quantity of mutton in various parts of the house, which it was evident had not been cut into joints by a butcher. When the officers first went, considerable resistance was offered, and they were obliged to break open the door to obtain an entrance. After the mutton was found, Clees said to Chipp—" It was Brookes as brought us into all this ' ere trouble; it was him what brought it here, and he promised to fetch it back." Clees, as well as the meat, was removed to the Station- house. During the morning, the skin and head be- longing to the sheep slaughtered at Mr. Coney's farm on Thursday night were taken to the Station- house, and being compared by a skilful butcher with the meat found in Clees' house, left no doubt whatever but that they had formed a por- tion of the same animal. At twelve o'clock the whole of the prisoners were taken to Messrs. Cameron and Foley's office, Palace Yard, where they underwent an examination before J. Williams, Esq., by whom they were remanded for further hearing on Tuesday, for the purpose of allowing the necessary witnesses to be produced. On Tuesday the prisoners were again brought up, and their examination proceeded with before J. Williams and E. San- derson, Esqrs. The robbery at Mr. Webb's warehouse, Diglis, was the first case gone into. Mr. Webb and others deposed to the warehouse having been broken open and entered during the night of the 2nd instant, and a quantity of pallet knives and two drums of figs having been stolen thereout. Robert Major, clerk to Messrs. Webb, deposed, that six dozen of pallet knives and three dozen of painters' knives now produced, were part of the property stolen from the warehouse on the night in question. He knew them by the private marks upon the brown paper in which they were wrapped. George Saunders, a dealer in fruit, deposed to having, after several interviews with the prisoners during last week, purchased the knives from them at the Horse and Jockey ( in the manner related above), for Is. 6d. per dozen, ( the wholesale price being 30s. per dozen). The police then deposed to the capture of the piisoners, which being effected so suddenly, precluded any opportunity of resistance. In this case there were nine witnesses examined, and the evidence against the prisoners was very conclusive. Brookes called a woman, with whom he said he lodged, with the view of proving an alibi; this witness was called outside, but did not however make her appearance. A large and heavy iron chisel, found by the police in the house occupied by Squires, was produced, and it was stated that it had been compared with the marks upon the doors of Messrs. Webb's warehouse which had been forced open and found to correspond exactly, so that there can be no doubt this instrument had been used to effect an entrance there. Mr. Pullen appeared for the prosecutors, Messrs. Webb ; and Mr. Cresswell for all the prisoners except Brookes. The pri- soners were committed to take their trial at the Assizes for the robbery, and the various witnesses were bound over to prosecute. The prisoners were then charged with having, during the night of the 4th instant, committed a burglary, by breaking open the dwelling- house of T. Hooke, Esq., of Norton- juxta- Kempsey, and stealing thereout fourteen silver spoons, two double- barrelled guns, two silver salt spoons, a silver cream ewer, and various other articles. The two guns taken posses- sion of by the police, as stated above, were produced, and iden- tified as the property of Mr. Hooke, and it was sworn they were safe in his house when the family retired to bed on the night of the 4th instant. George Saunders stated that he purchased the two guns in question from the prisoners at the Horse and j Jockey, P ump Street, on Iriday night last, and was to have | given 21. 2s. for them. The police in this case also stated that ; they had compared the chisel, before alluded to, with the marks 011 Mr. Hooke's door, where the entrance into the dwelling was effected, and found them to correspond exactly, and also the cellar door which was attempted to be forced but resisted their efforts. In this case Mr. R. T. Rea appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Cresswell for the prisoners as before. The whole of • he prisoners were also fully committed on this charge, and < rdered to be removed, while an examination was taken re- specting ^ he sheep- stealing, as it was thought the evidence was not at present sufficiently complete against them to warrant t1 eir being charged with it. Hannah Clees was then charged with receiving the carcase o, a sheep, the property of Mr. Coney, of Whittington, know- ing t to have been stolen. William Guise, shepherd to Mr. Coney, deposed to having seen his master's sheep safe on the ni h> of the 13th instant, and that on the following morning, h • covered that one of them had been killed, the carcase ! away, and the head and entrails thrown into a ditch, ts Chipp and Saunders and policeman Hales deposed to * searched the house of the prisoner on Saturday morning laM, (> o effect which they were compelled to break open the do > r,) and to their having found a quantity of meat there These v itnesses stated that Clees told them Brookes brough the meat to her house about three o'clock on Friday morning* Ti e head and skin, as also the meat, were produced, which having been carefully examined and compared by Mr. E. Till, butcher, he stated that he had not the slightest doubt that the meat had been taken from the identical skin then before the Bench, and he arrived at that opinion from various marks which he found on the inside of the skin corresponding exactly with counter marks on a portion of the meat. In her defence, Clees said that the meat was brought to her house on Friday morning by Brookes to leave there for a short time, as he said the police were after him, and he was afraid he should be taken with it; and ' hat she had been very ini ocently brought into that trouble. Mr. Ball, Solicitor, of Pershore, appeared for the prosecution, on behalf of the Pershore Agricultural Association for the Pro- secution <^ f Felons, Mr. Coney being a member of that society. The prisoner was committed. Two most formidable instruments, called " life- destroyers," were foun I in the house of one of the prisoners by the police, one of which was broken, not probably without having rendered some service to the owner ; the other was in good condition, and about eighteen inches long, having a handle ten inches in length, turned close at the one end to allow its being held more securely in the hand, and at the other a piece of strong leather, about three inches in length, was firmly affixed, the leather being attached at the other end to another part of a round piece of wood, six inches long and six round, loaded with lead, weighing nearly a pound. The operation of the leather attached to the two pieces of the staff being similar to that of a flail for thrash- ing coin Altogether it presented a most desperate and deadly aspect, and in the hands of a powerful man might have felled an ox to the ground, and if once brought to bear upon a man's head would render a second blow quite unnecessary. Too much praise cannot be bestowed upon the police- officers for the very great exertions which they made, and the personal risk and danger to which they subjected themselves, in capturing this daring gang of robbers, who have so seriously disturbed the peace and quietude of our neighbourhood for some weeks past. Mrs. Williams, the landlady of the Horse and Jockey, afforded the officers every assistance which she could in rendering effective the trap set for the thieves. Brookes is a well- sinker by trade, and appears about 30 years of age ; Squires is 25, and is by trade a blacksmith ; Hard- wick and Attwood appear to be under 20, the former occasionally assists Squires, and the latter is an apprentice to a blacksmith. Much interest was excited during the examination of the pri- soners, which lasted several hours, there being altogether twenty- one witnesses heard in the three cases. Messrs. Cameron and Foley's office was thronged to excess, as was also Palace Yard, in which it is situated, where not less than from 500 to 600 persons were assembled to obtain a sight of the prisoners as they were escorted to gaol. The following gentlemen have been recently placed on the commission of the peace for the borough of Bridgnorth : — Captain William Halien, Thonfas Pardoe Purton, Esq., John Stephens, Esq., Henry Slater Richards, Esq., and Thos. Bangham, Esq. Colonel BUicker, who was put out of the commission of the peace because his lady thought proper to decorate her person with an orange 6carf, is to be restored without delay. "- Morning Post, WORCESTER CHURCH BUILDING SOCIETY. The general annual meeting of this Society took place on Tuesday morning at the Guildhall. The Lord Bishop took the chair, supported 011 the right by the Rev. Canon Digby, and on the left by the Rev. Canon Benson. Among the com- pany, we noticed the Hon. and Rev. W. W. C. Talbot, the Revds. W. J. Phil potts. A. B. Lechmere, H. J. Hastings, Holden, Davies, Godfery, Hodson, Chesshyre, Kershaw, Adling- ton, Campbell, Hone, & c. ; and J. and W. Dent, T. S. Lea, J. M. Gutch, G. Allies, C. Pidcock, Esqrs., & c. & c. The Bisiior having commenced the proceedings with prayer, The Rev. G. W. KCRSHAW, one of the secretaries, read the report for the past year, which was satisfactory as regatded the operations of the Society. £ 500 had been granted to build a church at Oldbury, with 1,500 sittings, of which 750 were free; £ 100 to rebuild a chapel of ease at Whitting. ton, with 190 sittings, of which 125 were free; ( some difficulties, he observed, which had arisen in this case, would no doubt be speedily arranged ;) £ 30 towards repewing Snitterfield Church, with 292 additional sittings, of which 228 should bo frea; £ 150 towards rebuilding a church at Wilmcote, 250additional sitting*, all free ; £ 70 to rebuild a church at Stretton- on- the- Fo**, 168 out of 254 sittings to be free; £ 150 to North Hill Church, Mathon, with 300 free sittings; £ 300 towards rebuilding Old- swinford Church, with 310 additional, all free, sittings: £ 190 towards rebuilding a church at Amblecote. with POS additional sittings, 500 to be free ; £ 20 to increase Church accommoda tion at Temple Grafton, 75 out of 97 additional sittings to be free; £ 500 to build a church at Rowley Regis, 9C6 addi- tional sittings, 800 free; with further promised assist.- nce to Hagley andKidderminster. Since the establishment of the Society in 1836, the donations, annual subscriptions, legacies, and parochial co. lections, have, up to the date of this appeal, amounted to about £ 7,511. 19s. Of this sum, £ 5.127 4s. has been already paid in aid of the erection and alteration of churches, in grants to the Incorporated Society of £ 100 each, or in other necessary expences attending the Society's opera- tions. The Committee are further pledged to grants amount- ing to £ 2,640— a sum exceeding the available balance at their disposal. In making therefore any further grants, they lia » e nothing to depend upon but that" Christian liberality which they feel confident will not be withheld from a cause which every well- disposed member of the Church of England must feel anxious to promote. When the proposed plans are com- pleted/ the Society will have been instrumental, by the expen- diture of £ 7,767. 4s., in building or enlarging or increasing the accommodation in 34 Churches and Chapels, and in providing I4,3b5 sittings, of which 10,802 are free and unappropriated. The Rev. Canon DIGBY moved the adoption of the report. The Rev. H. J. HASTINGS seconded the resolution, and pointed out, as one of the best features of the Society's opera- tions, the fact that its patronage was bestowed in proportion to . he amount of free sittings to be obtained ; therefore realixing to the Church the title of " the poor man's Church." The Rev. Canon BENSON moved the next resolution, to the effect that it was the duty of every Christian nation to provide sufficient means for the public worship of God, and that this Society is among the best means of carrying that object into effect." The Rev. Gentleman observed that the first clause of the motion required no elucidation ; and the truth of the second could best be proved from the results of the Society's opera- tions, as read by the worthy Secretary. He remarked on the great activity in building places of worship which had resulted from the encouragement rendered by the Society during its six j cars' existence, and especially from the timely assistance given by the Lord Bishop's letter. The Rev. Speaker, in then alluding to the plans which had been mentioned for effecting more extensive Church accommodation, remarked that, if the country were divided into manageable parishes with about 1,000 inhabitants to each, and being under the supervision of a clergyman, it was more than probable that the best results would follow : the minister would be enabled adequately to execute his spiritual functions over his entire flock, and also to superintend the education of the rising generation : thus would crime be suppressed, and religion promoted— the former effect would no doubt be more conspicuous in populous tow ns, where at present spiritual superintendence was so slight, that crime fouud an easy shelter. T. S. LEA, Esq., in seconding the resolution, after some general observations in favour of the Society's object, remarked that, as regarded spiritual destitution, it had been affirmed that there were not at the present time so many Churches in exist- ence as there were at the end of the 14th century. This was an astounding fact, and suggested an inquiry into the origin of our parochial system. Parish Churches were originally built by lords of manors, for the accommodation of their tenants and dependants ; those Churches had no doubt been placed in the most convenient situations as regarded the population ; the endowments were effected by arrangements entered into by the lords with the authorities of the Church or the owners of tithe ; and the object of those arrangements was to provide a suitable remuneration for the working clergy ; he did not mean to say that such arrangement had always been acted upon, but still the object had from time to time been kept in view ; and at the beginning of the 13th century, in a decretal epistle from the Pope, addressed to the Archbishop of Canterbury, his Holiness complained that the incomcs of the poor laborious priests had been extremely rcduced, and required his Grace's attention thereto. Now if such investigation had been instituted while society v. as in a half- savage, Popish state, how much more was it consistent in us, now that we were delivered from the thral- dom of feudal and Romish bondage, and rejoicing in the clear light of Apostolic faith, to look round upon the increased popu- lation, and endeavour to adapt the parochial system of our ancestors to the present altered circumstances of society. ( Hear, hear.) He did not wish to depart from the ancient principles of the Church; and if the value of the property belonging to the Establishment could be improved to the extent of a quarter of a million, or more, he would not advo- cate its misappropriation to any other purpose than that of providing for the spiritual wants of the people. ( Hear.) J. DENT, Esq., moved the next resolution, calling upon the clergymen of those places which had been assisted by the Society to make proportionate exertions among their flocks which had been so benefitted. Rev. J. DAVIES seconded the moticn, and having spoken earnestly of the utility of the Society, and as to the necessity of strictly observing the fourth commandment, proceeded to quote the opinion of Judge Blackstone, who remarks that " corruption of morals usually follows the profanation of this sacred day." He also states that he considers " the Sabbatn, even as a civil institution, to be most important, as tending to humanize the manners of the lower classes, which would otherwise degenerate into a sordid ferocity and savage selfish- ness of spirit; that the Lord's day enables the industrious workman to pursue his occupation in the ensuing week with health and cheerfulness ; it imprints on the minds of the people that sense of their duty to God. so necessary to make them good citizens, but which would be worn out and defaced by an unremitted continuance of labour, without any stated time of recalling them to the worship of their Maker." In this opinion every Christian man must coincide; but the leisure ol the Sabbath would only be an additional temptation to the labouring classes unless they were provided with places wherein to worship God; hence the necessity of adapting the Church ac commodationto the increasing population- Wherever aChurch was erected, there also the Sabbath school arose, to instruct the youthful generation, and admonish them to keep that day holy. The contrast to this state of things v^ as to be found in our prisons and penitentiaries, w hich abounded with proofs not only of the moral and religious degradation but of the temporal wretchedness which resulted from a desecration of the Sabbath ; and what was true of individuals was true of" the masses"— witness the irreligious and miserable state of the bargemen and others w orking on canals and rivers, who in general were deprived of the privileges of the Sabbath. But on the other hand, he well remembered that in the county of Chester, where those advantages had been held out to that neglected class of men, nothing was more safe than for families, when going from home, to leave their houses under the protection ot these watermen, even although a gang of robbers infested the vicinity. ( Hear, hear.) The Rev. A. B. LECHMEKE moved the thanks of the meeting to the Committee, and the addition of the names of the Rev. W. Claughton and \ V. Godfery, in the room of the retiring members. Rev. R. B. HONE, in seconding the resolution, spoke in terms of deep gratitude for the good which the Society has accomplished in his district ( the neighbourhood of Halesowen) where the parish church had been rendered doubly accom- modating. a chapel built, and in the wide rural district adjoining another church had been erected— neither of which circumstances, although much needed, would probably have been accomplished without the Society's assistance. ( Cheers.) J. M. GUTCH, Esq. moved a vote of thanks to the Mayor for the use of the Guildhall, which was seconded by the Rev. J. PA LMEK, of Claines, who stated that the Society's insolvency should not deter him from soon making an application for it's assistance, as he felt assured that a Christian public would not allow so excellent an institution to fail for want of funds. ( Hear, hear,) A vote of thanks to the Hon. Secretaries was next carried, on the motion of Mr. GUTCH, seconded by the Rev. W. HOLDEN. Rev. G W. KERSHAW briefly replied, and, in alluding to the prospects of the Society, contemplated a future period when, owing to the increase of vital piety, its objects would be so well supported by private contributions as not to require the aid of public meetings and addresses. Rev. W. J. CHESSHYRE also acknowledged the honour con- veyed by the vote, and pointed out what had been done by the Society to remedy the state of destitution which was evident in this city six years ago ; and proceeded to observe that he hoped ere many years to witness the erection of a church on Rainbow Hill, another near the Infirmary, and a third near the Commandery, to be accompanied with a Cemetery, which he observed was much wanted. ( Hear, hear. ) The Lord Bishop then retired from the chair, and the Rev. Canon Benson having succeed thereto, a vote of thanks to his Lordship was moved by J. DENT, Esq , seconded by Rev. Canon DIGBY, and carried by acclamation. His LOKUSHIP, having thanked the company, then alluded to the prospects of the Society, and observed that it was his intention 011 holding his visitation ( probably next summer) to make an appeal to the wealthy and influential of the county in its behalf. ( Cheers.) It was however a source of consolation that, in general, Societies of that description were so well sup- ported ; in the present state of society their influence was most necessary to counteract evil principles so industriously circu- lated. His Lordship then mentioned that he had recently received a twopenny publication, which he believed had been widely circulated in the diocese, with the abominable title of The Atheist openly attached to it; its contents were such as might reasonably have been expected, of course inculcating the principle of man's total annihilation at death 1 His Lord- ship had forwarded this infamous publication to the Attorney- General, by whom means would be taken for its suppression. ( Cheers.) When the designs of the enemy were thus openly manifested, surely it became the friends " of Christianity to confederate in its support. ( Hear, hear.) He was happy to say that a strong feeling existed in favour of tie Church throughout the country : the other day he had been informed that a paiish in his diocese, consisting principally of firmer! and labourers, had subscribed among themselves a sufficient sum to build a new church, and only lacked funds for its endow- ment. Surely then, when such a disposition existed among our less wealthy brethren, it was right and proper that the rich and the influential should assist them in their pious and useful designs. ( Cheers.) His Lordship having concluded, the business of the meeting w as closed, as it had opened, with prayer. A subscription was the n commenced in the room, his Lordship heading the list with the munificent donation of £ 100; the Rev. Canons Digby and Benson each contributed £ 20; Rev. J. D. Simpson, £ 10 10s. ; Rev. A. B. Lechmere, £ 5; Rev. J. Davies, £ 5; Rev. W J. Philpotts,£ 2 2s.; Rev W. Godfery £ 2. 2s.; Mr. J. Row lands, £ l ; and the lesser subscrip- tions amounted to £ 5 3s. Id., besides some new annual contributions. DUDLEY AND MIDLAND- GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. The first general meeting of the members and friends of the Dudley and Midland Geological Society was held in the large room of the Free Grammar School, Dudley, on Monday last. R. I. Murchison, Esq., President of the Geological Society of London, having lyndly consented to deliver the inaugural address, the meeting was numerously and most respectably attended. The Right Hon. Lord Ward presided ; and amongst the company present, which included a large number of adies, were the Right Hon. Viscount Lewisham ; the Hon. Mr. Vernon; Joshua Scholefield, Esq.. M. P.; Henry Pepys, Esq ; Edward Dixon, Esq.; Mrs. and Misses Dixon; Cornelius Cartwright, Esq.; Kev. W. H. Cartwright; Thomas Pearson, Esq., F. G. S.; H. • Strickland, Esq., F. G. S.; Thomas Badger, Esq. ; Misses Badger; Francis Downing, Esq., and Mrs. Downing; Rev. R. B. Hone; Rev. A. Hopkins; Rev. G. R. Gray; W. Bennitt, Esq, and Mrs. Bennitt; Jos. Bennitt, Esq", and Mrs. Bennitt; W. Matthews, Esq., F. G S., and Mrs. Matthews; T. Y. Hunt, Esq., and family ; James Hunt, Esq., Rev. H. Downing; George Bate, Esq.; Thomas Davies, Esq., and family ; Rev. Richard Harris ; Rev. P. Robinson ; Rev. C. Cameron; Mrs. Bourne, Mrs. J. Bourne; T. W. Fletcher, F. R. S. jF. S. A., and Mrs. Fletcher; H. Brettell, Esq., and family; Charles Twamley, Esq.; Misses Twamley, & c. & c. Cornelius CARTWRIGHT, Esq., was called to the Chair, and briefly adverted to the circumstances under which the meeting had been convened, observing that there could not be two opinions about the propriety of establishing institutions like the present, more particularly in the neighbourhood tn which they resided, which offered so m . ny facilities for the successful pur- suit of geological science. Mr. BLACKWELL then proceeded to read the report of the Committee, which entered into a minute and gratifying detail of the measures which had been adopted with a view to the establishment of the Dudley and Midland Geological Society. A suitable building had been purchased, and a museum had been formed which was intended to exhibit a complete series of the fossils of the locality. It was also proposed to form a library, and to obtain maps and models showing the geological divisions of the coal fields of the surrounding district. The Committee concluded by calling upon the friends of the insti- tution for their assistance and support in enabling them to accomplish the important purpose for which the Society had been established. Before Mr. Blackwell had concluded reading the report, Lord Ward entered the room, and was received with much apnlause. His Lordship having taken the Chair, Viscount LEWISHAM moved the adoption of the report. W. MATTHEWS, Esq., seconded the resolution. The report was unanimously adopted, after which the rules for the government of the Society were read over and approved of; and the officers of the institution appointed for the ensuing year. Mr. MURCHISON then presented himself for the purpose of delivering the inaugural address, for a report of which we regret that we cannot find space. At the close of the address a vote of thanks was passed to Mr. Murchison, on the motion of B. BEST, Esq., seconded by Capt. BENNITT, which Mr. MURCHISON having acknowledged, Joshua SCHOLEFIELD, Esq., M. P., proposed a vote of thanks to the Right Hon. Lord Ward, for his kindness in presiding, and for the interest which he had manifested in the success of the institution. This resolution was also carried by acclama- tion, and the meeting then broke up. CHURCH OF ENGLAND COMMERCIAL SCHOOL, BATH ROW, WORCESTER, I n connexion with the Worcester Diocesan Board of Education. PATFvOX— THE LORD BISHOP OF THE DIOCESE. HEAD MASTER, REV. GEORGE ELTON, S. C. L., Of Gonville 8; Caius College, Cambridge; and formerly Second Matter in the Pimlico Proprietary Grammar School, London. AT the above SCHOOL, which will be RE- OPENED on MONDAY, JANUARY 24th, 1842, a sound COM- MERCIAL EDUCATION is given to the Pupils, together with Religious Instruction in accordance with the tenets of the Church of England. BRANCHES OF EDUCATION: 1. Instruction in the Truths and Duties of Christianity. 2. English taught Grammatically. 3. Plain and Ornamental Penmanship. 4. Arithmetic and the Elements of Mathematics. 5. Bpok- keeping and Merchants' Accounts. 6. Geography and the Use of the Globes. 7. Elements of Natural Philosophy. 8. History, Ancient and Modern. 9. Greek and Latin. Ttrms, 25s. per Quarter for each Boy, payable in advance. Terms for Boarders, 25 Guineas per Annum, payable Quarterly in advance. Washing 3 Guineas per Annum. French and Drrwing extra. There are Half- yearly Examinations, at which Prizes are distributed. Application for admission to be made to the Rev. George Elton, at the School House, Bath Row, Worcester, or of any M « mber of the Committee. CLASSICAL, MATHEMATICAL, & COMMERCIAL ACADEMY, SHRUBBERY, BROMSGROVE. rT, HIS ACADEMY, conducted by J. SIMPSON, X with Assistants, will RE- OPEN, after the present Vaca- tion, on MONDAY, the 24th Instant. GEORGE HEMMING, TAILOR, WOOLLEN DRAPER, HIGH STREET, PERbHORE, BEGS to return his sincere thanks to his Friends and the Public in general for past favours, and to inform them that he has taken a Partner in the above line, and that the Business will in future be carried on in all its branches, at the same House, under the firm of HEMMING and STEED ; and begs to inform them that no exertions shall be wanting on their part to merit a continuance of those favours so kindly bestowed on him. £ FUNERALS FURNISHED. January 1st, 1842. CONCERT. WORCESTER HARMONIC SOCIETY. PT^ HE Subscribers and the Public are respectfully JL informed, that the FIFTH CONCERT of the WORCESTER HARMONIC SOCIETY will take place ( with the kind permission of the Mayor), at the GUILDHALL, on the MORNING of MONDAY, the 24th of January, 1842. LEADER MR. D'EGVILLE. PIANO- FORTE MR. DONE. CONDUCTOR MR. E. ROGERS. The Concert will commence at Twelve o'Clock precisely. Tickets, 2s. 6d. each, to Non- Subscribers, may be had at the principal Libraries and Music Warehouses. CHRISTENING OF THE PRINCE OF WALES. ABALL will be held at the GUILDHALL, WOR CESTER. to celebrate the CHRISTENING of the PRINCE OF WALES, on TUESDAY, the 25th INSTANT, under the distinguished patronage of the following Ladies and Gentlemen of the County and City :— LADY PATRONESSES. Lady Lyttelton Lady Emily Foley Countess Beauchamp Lady Southwell Lady Ward Lady Gifford Hon. Mrs. Coventry Hon. Mrs. Lechmere Lady Blount Lady Winnington Lady Rouse Boughton Mrs. Barneby Mrs. Pakington Lord Lyttelton Lord Giflford Hon. William Coventry Sir T. E. Winnington, fet. M. P. Sir O. P. Wakeinan, Bart. F. W. Knight, Esq., M. P. James A. Taylor, Esq., M. P. W. W. Dowdeswell, Esq., M. P. Capt. H. J. Winnington R. Berkeley, Esq. T. C. Hornyold, Esq. Mrs. W. Dowdeswell Mrs. Berkeley Mrs. Marriott Mrs. Peel Mrs. Col. Davies Mrs. James Taylor Mrs. Dixon Mrs. Wicksted Mrs. Brock Mrs. Hornyold Mrs. Childe Mrs. Winnington Ingram Mrs. Helm STEWARDS. A. Skey, Esq. Edw. Dixon, jun., Esq. Richard Temple, Esq. Wm. Candler, Esq. J. H. Clifton, Esq. John Hill, Esq. Thomas Barneby, Esq. Captain Corles C. A. Helm, Esq. Alfred Hooper, Esq. John Hall, Esq. Mrs. and Dancing to commence at Nine o'Clock. Tickets, 10s. 6d. each, including Supper, to be had at Deighton's, Mr. Stratford's, and Air. D'Egville's Libraries; it is earnestly requested that an early application for Tickets may be made, as the surplus will be appropriated to some charitable Institution. THE CHELTENHAM BAND IS ENGAGED. NOTICE. r I^ HE Public are most respectfully informed that the I whole of the LINEN DRAPERS' and SILK MERCERS' ESTABLISHMERTS in this City will be ENTIRELY CLOSED on TUESDAY NEXT, the 25th INSTANT, in CELEBRATION OF THE ROYAL CHRISTENING. Worcester, January 21, 1842. GEORGE HOTEL, DROITWICH, A DINNER will take place on TUESDAY NEXT, l\ the 25th of JANUARY, 1842, at Three o'Clock, to CELEBRATE the CHRISTENING of HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES. Tickets, 10s. 6d. each, including Dinner, Dessert, and one Bottle of Wine. W. Ellis will feel obliged by Gent'. emen intending to Dine on that occasion sending in their names at the earliest convenience. The sacramental collection at the parish church of Cheltenham, on Sunday the 9th instant, amounted to 108/. 13S. 1 d. Here is an example worthy of imitation ; but unfortunately our church pastors have too often occasion to complain of the supineness of large majorities of their con- gregations, who but seldom, if ever, • mbn'. ce the comtbru of tb « Lord'i ttbl « . NOTICE. GENERAL POST OFFICE. CiUCH Persons may we willing to CONTRACT O for the CONVEYANCE o;' the MAILS from WORCES- TER to UPTON, through Kempsey and Severn Stoke, on Horseback or in a Light Cart proper for the purpose, are requested to send in Proposals for the same, on or before the 30th of January, addressed to THE DISTRICT SURVEYOR, G. P. O. Post Office, Gloucester. All Particulars and Printed Forms, on which it is necessary th « Tender* should be mads, may be obtained of the Poet Hm\ m of Wofcwter Mid Upton. SOUTH AN, TIM MS, & DAYIS RESPECTFULLY announce to their numerous Friends and the Inhabitants of Worcester and its Vicinity generally, they have Purchased from the Assignees THE STOCK OF MESSRS. J. & T. BROOKS, OF STOURBRIDGE, BANKRUPTS, CONSISTING or FAMILY LINENS, DRAPERY, SHAWLS, SILK MERCERY, HOSIERY, & c., Which they purpose offering for Sale this Month ( of which due notice will appear), at a REDUCTION from the COST PRICES as under :— SILK MERCERY, SHAWLS, & c. .. FAMILY LINENS,! DRAPERY, & c. J HOSIERY, LACE, & c FANCY GOODS from 40 to 60 per Cent. from 30 to 40 ditto. from 25 to 35 ditto, from 50 to 95 ditto. January 18, 1842 TO BE SOLD BY AUCTIO N, BY MR. HO BBS, At the Saracen's Head Inn, Worcester, on Thursday, the 27th day of January next, at five o'clock in the afternoon, subject to such conditions as shall be then and there produced ; A LL that SEVENTH PART or SHARE of MR. i\ ALFRED OSWALD CLEWER, of and in the principal Sum of £ 1,000, given and bequeathed by the Will of Mrs. Edwards, late of the Rein Deer Inn, in this city, deceased, and now invested by a respectable Trustee upon ample Security, and payable with Interest at the rate of £ 5 per Cent, per Annum on the 19th of February, 1844. To treat and for further particulars apply to Mr. Henry Maddocks Daniel. Solicitor, Worcester. Excellent HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, China, Glass, Fine- toned Grand PIANO- FORTE, by Broadwood and Sons; Canterbury, Music Stool, Culinary Articles, and Effects. W\ HIGGS RESPECTFULLY announces that he has received instructions TO SUBMIT FOR SALE BY AUCTION, On Thursday, the 27th day of January, 1842, in the Lecture Room of the Natural History Society, Foregate Street, Wor- cester, the above described GENUINE PROPERTY; Catalogues of which will be immediately published, and may be had at the Auctioneer's Office, Broad Street. WORCESTER. VALUABLE INVESTMENT. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, BY W. HIGGS, Upon the Premises, on Wednesday, the 2nd day of February, 1842, at six o'clock in the evening, subject to conditions; A LL that old- established, well- frequented, and l\ RESPECTABLE INN, known as THE OLD HORN AND TRUMPET, Situate in ANGEL STREET, in the City of WORCESTER, together with the WAREHOUSE, STABLING, DWEL- LING HOUSE, and TENEMENTS, thereto belonging. THE INN, Which is now occupied by MR. JOHN MOORE, Is particularly well arranged, and consists of an excellent Btir, good Kitchen, two Parlours, spacious Club Room, eight Bed Rooms, capital Cellarage, large Yard, Brewhouse, Coalhouse, & c.; also a roomy Warehouse, three stories high ; an excellent detached Stable and loose Box, with Lofts over ; Yard, Wash- house, and other conveniences; together with a comfortable DWELLING HOUSE and THREE TENEMENTS, the whole forming a very extensive and valuable Property ; there is a private Passage from Angel Street to the back part of the Premises, and a Foot Road in front of the House and Tene- ments, next the Old Sheep Market. The entire frontage 54 feet, and depth about 112 feet. The Situation of the above Property cannot be surpassed in the City for its central position and contiguity to the Cattle and other Markets; it presents one of those rare opportunities to an enterprising Individual which very seldom occur of securing Premises and Business, wherby a handsome compe- tency may be realised without risk, and in a short time. To view the same apply on the Premises ; and for further particulars to Mr. George Finch, Solicitor, Nicholas Street; or the Auctioneer, Broad Street, both of Worcester. PRIOR'S COURT ESTATE, LEDBURY, HEREFORDSHIRE. The valuable Stock of well- bred HEREFORD CATTLE, FLOCK of SHEEP, CART HORSES and COLTS, FAT and STORE PIGS, Implements in Husbandry, RICKS of CORN, GRAIN, and HAY, ( and Corn in the Barns,) large quantity of prime and Family CIDER and PERRY, extensive Stock of CASKS, quantity of seasoned Oak, Elm, and Ash TIMBER, part of a Kiln of BRICKS and DRAINING TILES, Dairy Articles, HOUSE- HOLD FURNITURE, and other Effects, of the lute MR. JAMES BARRETT, deceased, WILL BE SOLD BY AUCTION, BY ROBERT JONES, ( By direction of the Executors,) on Monday, the 31st day of January, and Wednesday the 2nd day of February, 1842, and following days: tCOMPRISING seven cows in calf, ten two- year- old / heiicr*, one yearling ditto, and seven heifer calves; five working oxen, and one martin heifer; two three- year- old steers, three yearling ditto, two ox calves, eight feeding cows, and one ditto stag; eleven cari horses and colts, fifty- two capital sheep, ten fat and twelve store pigs, and two breeding sows; waggons, carts, plongs, harrows, gearing, yokes and bows; small implements of a general description, hop kiln and cider hairs, tubs, racking cans, tunpails, and other utensils used in making and managing cider; large stock of excellent casks, a great quantity of prune cidtr and perry, and about five thousand gallons of family ditto; ricks of wheat, beans, and hay; unthrashed corn and grain in the barns; several large pieces of excellent oak timber, numerous pieces of other timber, with an infinity of converted timber and boards for building and agricultural purposes; several thousands of bricks and draining tiles; together with a regular assortment of dairy articles and the HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, which is of a general description; the whole of which will be particularized in Catalogues, to be had ( ten clays previous to the Sale) at Prior's Court; at the Feather's Inn ; and of the Auctioneer, Ledbury. Sale will commence at Eleven o'Clock each Morning. To TAILORS, CLOTHIERS, and HATTERS, carrying on trade in the City ana Borough of EXCELLENT OAK TIMBER, AT ALFRICK. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, BY MR. BENTLEY, At the Crown Hotel, Broad Street, Worcester, on Friday, the 28th dav of January, 1842, at three o'clock in the afternoon, SEVENTY- SIX MAIDEN OAK TREES, num- bered with white paint from 1 to 76, standing upon CATTERHALL ESTATE, in the Hamlet of ALFRICK, 8 miles from Worcester, adjoining the Turnpike Road leading from thence to Acton Beauchamp. The Timber is of excellent quality, part of it of large dimen- sions, and about one half of the Trees stand in Coppices. Mr. Richard Lewis, the tenant, will on application cause the same to be shown ; and for further particulars apply to the Auctioneer, Worcester. COLWALL, HEREFORDSHIRE. HIGHLY VALUABLE FREEHOLD ESTATE. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, On Saturday, the 12th day of February next, at the Bell Inn, in the city of Worcester, at four o'clock in the afternoon, in One or such other Lots as may be agreed upon at the time of Sale, and subject to such conditions of sale as shall be then and there produced ( under powers of Sale contained in an Indenture bearing date the 19th day of December, 1840); ALL that Capital and veiy Valuable ESTATE, called COLWALL COURT, with convenient Residence and Outbuildings, thereto belonging. The LAND, which is very good, contains Sixty- one Acres, One Rood, and Twenty- one Perches, more or less, and is divided into MEADOW, PASTURE, ARABLE, HOP LAND, and ORCHARDING, situate in the PARISH OF COLWALL, in the County of HEREFORD, distant only three miles from Great Malvern, and two from Malvern Wells, and on the West side of the Malvern Hills, so deservedly celebrated for the salubrity of the air and romantic grandeur; and the Estate possesses beautiful Scenery, and is also sheltered from the North and West winds. The PLANTATION of FRUIT TREES is extensive, in its prime, and of the most improved sorts. There are valuable LIME and STONE ROCKS on the Estate, which are truly valuable, from the scarcity of Lime in the Neighbourhood. The Tenure of the Estate is FREEHOLD, and subject only to the payment of Seven Shillings annually to the Lord of the Manor. The Market Town of Ledbury is within fives miles of the Estate, and Worcester about eleven miles. The present Occupier will shew the Property. Further particulars may be had on application to C. G. Jones, Esq., 11, Gray's Inn Square; or to Mr. M. Haywood Williams, Solicitor, Bridgnorth. EVESHAM AND CHELTENHAM DISTRICT OF ROADS. TflHE GENERAL ANNUAL MEETING of the JL TRUSTEES of these ROADS will be holden at the CROWN HOTEL, in the Borough of Evesham, and County of Worcester, on THURSDAY, the 10th day of February next, at Eleven o'clock in the Forenoon, for the purpose of making out the ANNUAL STATEMENT and ESTIMATE required by Act of Parliament, for the ELECTION of TRUSTEES in the room of those deceased or otherwise disqualified, and on general business connected with the said Roads. Bv Order of the Trustees, CHARLES BEST, Clerk. Evesham, 20th January, 1842. P Worcester. ERSONS desirous of CONTRACTING SUPPLY 17 SUITS OF CLOTHING for TO the WORCESTER POLICE FORCE, each suit to consist of a BODY COAT and TWO PAIR OP TROWSERS; and Persons desirous of supplying 17 HATS for the same Force, may see Patterns of each Garment to be supplied on applica- tion to Inspector Phillips, at the Police Station, St. Nicholas Street, Worcester. It is required that the Tenders shall specify the price of each Article to be supplied. Tenders to he sent to the Town Clerk's Office, Guildhall, Worcester, under cover to the Watch Committee, on or before Thursday, the 3d February next. N. B. This Advertisement will not be repeated. Worcester, 21st January, 1842. CHURCH BUILDING SOCIETY of A T the GENERAL ANNUAL MEETINC /\ this SOCIETY, held at the GUILDHALL, WOR- CESTER, on TUESDAY, the 18th of JANUARY, 1842, the following Resolutions were unanimously passed :— Moved by the Rev. Canon DIGBY, seconded by the Rev. H. HASTINGS, 1. That the Report now read be printed and circulated. Moved by the Rev. Canon BENSON, seconded by Smeox LEA, Esq., 2. That in the opinion of this Meeting it is the indispensable duty of a Christian Nation to provide sufficient means for the public worship of Almighty God, and that Societies of this character are among the best means of securing this object. Moved by JOHN DENT, Esq., seconded by the Rev. JOHN DAVIES, 3. That this Meeting earnestly calls on the Clergy and Laity of those Parishes in which increased accommodation has been obtained by the Society's aid, to exert themselves to increase its Funds, either by Sermons or Parochial Associations, or any other means which they may judge most effectual. Moved by the Rev, A. B. LECHMERE, seconded by the Rev. H. B. HONE, 4. That the best thanks of this Meeting be given to the Committee for their services during the past year. That George Allies, Esq., and Simcox Lea, Esq., be re- elected ; and the Rev. T. L. Claughton and the Rev. William Godfery be elected Members of the Committee. Moved by J. M. GUTCH, Esq., seconded by the Rev. J. PALMER, 5. That the thanks of this Meeting be given to the Mayor of Worcester for his kindness in granting tne use of the Hall on this occasion. The services of the Secretaries having been acknowledged, the cordial thanks of the Meeting were unanimously offered to the Lord Bishop for his kindness in presiding. WORCESTER DISPENSARY. January 18th, 1842. AT theANNUAL MEETINGoftheGOVERNORS holden on this day, pursuant to public notice, GEORGE ALLIES, ESQ., IN THE CHAIR, the following Gentlemen were appointed a Committee for 1842: W. Parker. Esq. J. Parker, Esq. Henry Sherwood, Esq. EVESHAM FIRST DISTRICT OF ROADS. THE GENERAL ANNUAL MEETING of the TRUSTEES of the STONEBOW and BRETFORTON ROADS will be holden at the CROWN HOTEL, in the Borough of Evesham, and County of Worcester, on THURSDAY, the 10th day of February next, at Twelve o'clock at Noon, for the. purpose of making out the ANNUAL STATEMENTS and ESTIMATES required by Act of Parliament, for the ELECTION of TRUSTEES, in the room of those deceased or otherwise disqualified, and on general business connected with the said Roads. Bv Order of the Trustees, CHARLES BEST, Clerk. Evesham, 20th January, 1842. ~ BLAIR^ S GOUT AND RHEUMATIC PILLS . CASE FROM LUTON, BEDFORDSHIRE, COMMUNICATED BY MR. PHILLIPS, CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST, TO MR. T. PROUT, 229, STRAND, LONDON. Luton, Bedfordshire, October 19, 1841. SIH,— I feel de- irous ot expressing to you the great benefit which I have received from the use of Blair's Gout and Rheumatic Pills. I have for several years been afflicted with Rheumatism and Gout, the attacks of which were excessively severe. 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" 1 did believe, and do still, that Popery is breaking in u>>< n " this nation, and those who advance it will stop at n thing " to carry on their designs; and 1 am heartily sorry th t " so many Protestants give their helping hand to THE great event of the week— the laying of the first stone of that edifice which is destined to replace Sir Thomas GRESMAM'S princely gift to English commerce, science, and ait— was attended with circumstances which appear to us of so much importance as to demand a larger portion of our space than we are in the habit of affording to the record cf similar proceedings in general. In our last page we have given a copicui report of the proceedings not only at the inauguration of the site of the edifice which, as it was well and elegantly expressed by His Royal Highness Prince ALBERT, will become the heart of the commerce of this great country, but also at the sumptuous banquet afterwards given by the LORD MAYOR to his Royal, noble, and distinguished guests, j We have been moved to the adoption of this course by ; considerations which will presently appear. It has been truly remarked that these great occasions are not far from being an integral portion of our consti- tution, and that to the middle classes, who may now be almost considered the ruling classes of England, it has become nearly a right— a right one would think equally pleasurable to all parties— that the great men of the country, those who aspire to guide their opinions and direct their affairs, should pay them the compliment of appearing periodically, out of their party dress, to sit at their table, to speak to them on subjects removed from the struggles of politics, to demand their applause for the skill and feeling which they are able to concentrate on the subject which assembles them; and, on the other hand, perhaps to give a tone to their thoughts, and to receive and acknowledge in person the expression of such respect and admiration as their conduct and character may have earned. If this be true in the general, it is especially so upon the present occasion, which is the most remarkable one that has occurred for many years. The Royal Exchange of London has long been the centre upon which the commercial system of the whole civilized world has turned, and from which it has radiated ; and it would ill beseem that nation " whose merchants are princes, and her trafficker the honourable of the earth," to suffer that glorious building to commence its resurrection from its ashes— to essay ttie first trial of its phoenix wings, with- out a marked and suitable demonstration of feeling, and without the public honours due to so great an event. There are none who regard England's commercial supre- macy as an object of any value— and what Englishman does not acknowledge its immense importance ?— who would not " wish an auspicious birthday to their own princely work*," who will not feel a lively emotion of pleasure in knowing that the great day passed over in a cheering manner, and who will not hereafter cherish the most pleasing remembrances of the day on which the restoration of the great national mart was commenced, and of the ceremony in which the post of honour was most worthily filled by the amiable Consort of our gracious and beloved Sovereign. But there is another train of thought, perhaps of more immediate importance, and certainly of no less interest, to which the proceedings of Monday are calculated to give rise. We think vvg can discern in the speeches of the statesmen who exerted themselves so successfully to do honour to the occasion, some slight indication of the course they mean to pursue in their administration of the affairs of this country. Sir Robert PKEL, the chief adviser of the Crosvn, in returning thanks for the toast of " Her Majesty's Ministers," said that it was impossible for those Ministers not to feel that the contracted spot on which they had that morning stood was again destined to be, us it had been before, the centre of attraction to which the commerce of the world would gravitate. It was impossible not to feel that it was the spot to which the traffickers of all nations would resort, where they would obliterate national antipathies and national jealousies, and would form engagements which would constitute new guarantees for the general tran- quillity of the world. His Royal Highness that day had laid the foundation, not merely of an edifice dedicated to commerce, he had laid the foundation of a temple of peace; and it wis the earnest wish of Her Majesty's Government that the future progress and destiny of that edifice might correspond with the favourable auspices under which its foundation had been laid. And the Duke of WELLINGTON, whom we, in common with most of his grateful countrymen, acknowledge and honour as the most sagacious man of the age, confirmed the promise of Sir Robert PEEL. " This, my Lord,"— said his Grace, addressing the LORD MAYOR—" is not the proper time to revert to the actions and circumstances of a former period of my life to which vcir Lordship has alluded. We have met here this day to celebrate, promote, and perpetuate the arts and advantages of peace ; and I trust that 1 shall never ag;' in hear in my time of the celebration of the arts of war." This was an avowal worthy of the' noble and generous nature of the " Hero of a Hundred Fights," and with this we shall leave, the subject, resting in calm assurance upon the promises of the Conservative Ministers as men whom we know to be willing, and believe to be able, to extricate England from the difficulties, distresses, troubles, and perplexities, in whi h she is at present involved. THE Vice- Chancellor of the University of Oxford, Dr. WYNTER, has issued notice that " a convocation will be holden on Thursday, the 27th inst., at 10 o'clock, for the purpose of electing a Professor of Poetry on the foundation of Henry BIRKHKAD, D. C. L., in the place of the Rev. John Keble, M. A., whose term of office has expired.'' We have before mentioned the fact that efforts were being made to procure the withdrawal of both the candidates, and the election of some third per- son, to be chosen by agreement among the contending parties. Accordingly we find from the publication of certain lengthy documents in the Times of Friday last that on the 3rd inst. a letter was addressed by the Rev; J. Eudell TYLER to Mr. GREGSON and Mr. R. PALMER, the secretaries of the committees of Mr. GARBETT and Mr. WILLIAMS respectively, enclosing a copy of an address signed by 244 non- resident members of Convo- cation, requesting them, in conjunction with the com- mittees, of which they were severally the representatives, to take measures for procuring the withdrawal of both candidates, with a view to the advantage of the Univer- sity and the Church." Mr TYLER goes on to state— " Copies of the circular, in which this address was contained, were forwarded for signature exclusively to non- residents, members of Convocation. Copies were despatched, among the earliest, to the President of Trinity, the Principal of Brasenose, the Vice- Chancellor, and the Proctors, for their information. " I take the l. berty of stating, that whilst 244 assents have been sent in, the refusals have not amounted to 30. Of these, somedecline to sign ontheground that the proposed withdrawal is injurious to Mr. Williams, and about an equal number on the ground that it would be unjust to Mr. Garbett; others ex- press their regrets that, having pledged their vote to one or the other of the candidates, they consider themselves precluded from subscribing the address, of which they fully approve; whilst a very small proportion indeed consider it desirable, on general grounds, that the struggle should go on. I may also mention, that of the seven Bishops in the pro- vinces of Canterbury and York who are members of Convoca- tion, five have signed the address. " An address, with the game object, from the diocese of Worcester, I have reason to believe, if not already presented, is about to be forwarded to the Principal of Brasenose, and the President of Trinity, signed by at least 40 members of Convocation." . We cannot for a moment doubt the accuracy of the statement contained in the last- quoted paragraph, coming from such a source; but we are inclined to think that a great number of the clergy of this diocese who are mem- bers of Convocation, were, up to the time of the publica- tion of these documents, unaware of the existence of such an address; and if that be the case, the duty of recording their votes becomes imperative upon them. To proceed, however ; the following is a copy of the address :— « London, Jan. 3, 1842. " My Lords and Gentlemen,— We, the undersigned non- resident members of Convocation, conceiving it to be most desirable for the University of Oxford, and for the Church, that the contest now in progress for the chair of Poetry should cease, and without prejudice to the course which we may severally have engaged or intend to take in the event of its continuance, venture most earnestly to urge upon you that you should endeavour to procure the consent of both the present candidates, and of their respective colleges, to the withdrawal of their names; and that you will thereupon appoint a deputa- tion to meet a similar deputation from the committee of Mr. { Williams 1 Garbett i' anc* Persons fr° m among ourselves or otherwise, as you, with them, may deem most expedient to confer upon arrangements to that effect, in order that an opportunity may thus be afforded for a fresh nomination by the proper parties in the University for the vacant chair." Here follow 244 signatures, containing many names of note and influence, which want of space alone prevents us from enumerating. To this an answer, signed by Lord ASHLEY and Mr. GREGSON, was returned by Mr. GAR- BETT'S committee, who declined to withdraw him from the struggle, and assigned reasons for their declension. The following are extracts from the letter:— " Concurring in your desire to promote and preserve the peace of the University, and of the church, we have entertained the proposal made to us with the deepest anxiety to discover, if possible, any grounds upon which we could consistently, and with propriety, adopt it. The advanced stage of the contest, however, combined with other circumstances, some of which are probably not within the knowledge of those who make this appeal, seems to us to preclude the course suggested. " In selecting and bringing forward Mr. Garbett, his college had no reason to suppose that they would disturb the peace of the university ; nor has it been his nomination which has pro- duced any such effect. His name has never been identified with any opinions or publications caculated to provoke opposi- tion, nor can we contemplate the selection of any individual as a substitute more free from objection on this score. Believing, therefore, that the excitement now unhappily existing has arisen from circumstances over which we have had, and can exercise, no control, and that even the withdrawal of both the present candidates would afford to the university no security against an early recurrence of similar difficulties, we feel that it is due to the numerous members of convocation who through us have tendered their support to Mr. Garbett not to abandon at this advanced stage of the contest the interests confided to us; still less to abandon them on a ground which would seem to admit an imputation to which Mr. Garbett is in no degree liable. " To this explanation we beg leave to add the assurance, that it is with great regret we decline to accede to any request made to us by the individuals whom we have now the honour to address. But, as supporters of Mr. Garbett, we see no mode of avoiding an election in the usual course, unless the Oxford committees of both candidates could agree on some plan by which the sentiments of convocation could be so clearly ascertained as to decide the contest and supersede the necessity of a poll." An answer, signed by Mr. W. CRIPPS, chairman of Mr. WILLI AS; s' committee, has also been published. The following extracts will explain its purport:— " The committee lost no time in transmitting copies of this document, with the signatures affixed to it, to the President and Fellows of Trinity College, and have this day received an answer, by which the committee are authorized to take steps for carrying into effect, on their part, the objects of the requisition ; of which answer a copy is sent herewith. " The committee, therefore, beg to inform you that they have appointed a deputation, consisting of three of their num- ber, who will hold themselves in readiness to meet a similar deputation from the committee of Mr. Garbett, or to confer with any of the right rev. prelates, noblemen, clergy, and gentlemen, who have signed the requisition, for the purpose of carrying into effect, the arrangement proposed, at any convenient time and place, of which the committee may receive notice through the channel by which the requisition has reached them. " In entering upon the duty which now devolves upon them, the committee feel it due to themselves and to Mr. Williams to state, that they understand the objects of the requisition to be, peace for the university and for the church, without the sacrifice of principles or censure of persons. " In coming to this resolution, the President and Fellows of Trinity College and the London committee are not in the slightest degree influenced by the state of the returns; per- sonally, they entertain wishes, which they feel bound to sacri- fice to those of the requisitionists, and they hope that the very numerous friends from whom they have received promises of support, and who may be desirous of recording their votes in favour of Mr. Williams, will see that, as regards them also, the committee have yielded to considerations which left them no discretion." The President of Trinity, who writes on behalf of the College, says— " The weight and numbers of the signatures attached to the requisition ( the effect of which we consider to be not that one, but that both, of the present candidates should retire by mutual consent) would, under any circumstances, command our respect- ful consideration ; but when we see among them the names of individuals to whose judgment, experience, and high station we have every inclination to defer, although doubtful of the result anticipated from such a measure, we feel strongly disposed to carry into effect the wishes of the requisitionists in any prac- ticable manner which a sub- committee of delegates selected from the existing committees of all parties may think it desirable, under the peculiar circumstances of the case to suggest." So far as to the proceedings of committees. A few words now upon the duty of tiie really Protestant mem- bers of Convocation. And here we have better authority, and better advice than any we couid, as of ourselves, offer. A resident member of Convocation writes as follows:— " I, as well as many others here, are not free from alarm lest the sense of security entertained by Mr. GAUBETT'S party generally should prove injurious to those solemn interests which we feel are involved in the present con- test. It is well known here, that the party hostile to the Church of England are very confident, not indeed that Mr. WILLIAMS is to be the successful candidate; but that his supporters will present so formidable an. array that we shall be quite intimidated and dismayed; and that, ere long, the result of this formidable demonstration on their part will be, that any offices in the University will be completely in their own power, where the election to them may be in the hands of members of Convocation. It is also well known here that those persons, who think as do the Tractarians, will almost to a man come to Oxford and record their votes for the author of the Tract upholding reserve in declaring the precious truths of the Gospel. These things are well known here, but we fear that they are not so well understood in the country, and that many, feeling assured that Mr. GARBETT, the candi- date of the Church for the office of a public teacher in one of her Universities, inasmuch as no voice nor whisper of any of her authorities has ever been uttered, or breathed, against him or his doctrine— assured, I say, this gentle- man will be elected, may, from the pressing nature of engagements from which they can with difficulty escape, think it not a matter of imperative duty in them to come up and give their votes. But I earnestly implore one and all of such to think of the crisis that is come. The voice of the Church is to be raised against doctrines opposed to the principles of the Reformation. Oh ! let it not be a weak one ! Let not the foe exult in a feeble shout raised for our Zion 1 Every artifice that malignity can devise will be put in practice on the part of our oppo- nents to present a strong array on their side. Is the cause of truth to have less influence than that of error f It may have such a tendency, but let it be well con- sidered what solemn interests are now at stake ; and let every sacrifice that can possibly be made in regard to convenience, be made in this cause, that cails on all friends of our beloved Church to aid her in the time of trial." Since the above was in type we have received a second edition of the Standard of last night, in which appears the following communication from the Senior Bursar of Brasenose College, announcing the satisfactory termina- tion of the contest:—" I beg to inform you that, after a statement on both sides of the number of promises, Mr. WILLIAMS has retired from the contest for the Poetry Professorship. The numbers claimed on either side were as follows:— gratifying intelligence is confirmed. The Times of this morning has the following, under the date of Oxford, Jan. 20th :— " The intense excitement occasioned by the approach of the election of Profesor of Poetry is now allayed. After several meetings of the friends of both candidates, in order to ascertain the strength of each, it has been resolved by Mr. Williams's committee that that gentleman should withdraw, and conse- quen'ly, as no other candidate has offered, Mr. Garbett, of Brasenose College, will fill the chair of Poetry in this Uni- versity. " The above determination was not resolved on till this morning, and official notification will be issued by the Vice- Chancellor immediately. " It is rumoured that the majority for Mr. Garbett would have been nearly three to two." Rev. J. Garbett Rev. J. Williams 921 623 Majority . . . 298 We have also seen an official circular received by a member of Convocation resident in this city from Dr. GILBERT, Principal of Brasenose, in which the above WE are glad to find our own anticipations as to the suc- cession to the see of Chichester shared and confirmed by several of our contemporaries. From motives of delicacy we did not last week directly name the reverend divine upon whom we thought the choice of the Crown would fall, although his identity was pretty clearly indicated; but as other journals have mentioned his name there can exist no necessity for She maintenance of further reserve on our part. The Rev. Christopher BENSON, B. D , Canon of Worcester Cathedral, and Master of the Temple, is the divine to whom we alluded ; and among all the ornaments of our national church it would be difficult to find one who would reflect a brighter lustre on the mitre, or bring more dignity, learning, and unaffected piety to the discharge of the momentous functions of the high and holy calling of a Bishop. Our respected contemporary, the Bristol Journal, speaking upon this subject, says that " the choice of Dr. SHUTTLEWOKTH'S successor by the present Ministry, being the first vacancy which has occurred since their accession to power, is looked to with considerable curiosity and anxiety. That it will not be filled up from motives of family interest or influence, from political servility, or to secure the vote of an opponent, we will venture to predict; and we venture further to say that the Rev. Christopher BENSON, the present Master of the Temple, a Canon of Worcester Cathedral, and the author of the celebrated sermons preached as the Hulsean Lectures, is more likely to be the successful candidate than any other we have heard named. Whoever was fortunate enough even to gain standing room at the Temple Church, before it w inder repair, to hear the words of divine truth argued upon, and enforced, from the lips of Mr. BENSON, and witnessed also the character of his regular auditory, amongst whom we have seen listening with the most atten- tive car the present Premier, and most of the exemplary men and Christians who form his Administration, must agree with us ( putting other reasons aside, which we are not at liberty to mention.) that upon the present Master of the Temple the choice of the Crown will most likely fall." THE NAMES OF THE PRINHE OF WALES.— The Times of Wednesday having announced that there is reason to believe that the Prince of Wales will be named Albert Edward, the following sensible letter has been addressed to the editor, and appeared in the Times of yesterday:— " Sir,— We learn from the Times of to- day that the Prince will be called Albert Edward. " It is natural, indeed, that the illustrious father, and still more, that the illustrious mother, should prefer Albert Edward to Edward Albert. " But as I pray God the boy may live to be King, to whatever period his mother's life may be graciously extended, so I trust that he may have every qualification for popularity as well as goodness, and amongst others an old, and beloved, and accustomed English name. " And what so fit as Edward? Who more beloved or glorious than Edward the Confessor— Edward I.— Edward HI.— Edward VI.?— a Catholic Saint— a lawgiver— a con- queror— a Protestant Reformer ? " The Princess Alexandrina Victoria was known by her second name before she ascended the throne. So, I trust, may the young Prince be known as Edward Prince of Wales to the people, hereafter Edward VII. " Jan. 19. " A CONSERVATIVE." We need scarcely say that we fully and cordially concur, as also, we have no doubt, will our readers, in the views of " A Conservative." THEV who aspire to the task of " mending a county" should take especial care that they " stand for no repairs" themselves, and they who are over watchful to catch others tripping may, perchance, themselves be the first to stumble. The Chronicle of this week, in the second of two long, but anything but light, articles upon the subject of the charities under the management and control of the " Six Masters," states that " J. M. GUTCH, Esq . is acting as one of the six masters," and that " he has lately been, perhaps is now, discharging the duties of chief or principal master for the year." Our contemporary will be surprised, and perhaps disappointed, to learn that Mr. GUTCH is not now, and never has been, one of the six masters. The Chronicle also " thinks" that " Mr. PIERPOINT was, at the time of his nomination as a Master, entirely ineligible for the office." Wrong again, good Sir! Mr. PIERPOINT was duly qualified before he was appointed. But we have not yet enumerated al; the Chronicle's mistakes. " Not Atnurath an Amtirath succeeds, but" blunder, blunder! Our accurate contem- porary " has heard" that the vacancy occasioned by the death of Mr. ISAAC has been filled up " by Mr. ANDERSON, the druggist." " Ecce iterum Crispinus." Wrong again ! Mr. ANDERSON has not been appointed to the office, nor has he received any intimation that he will be so appointed. We cannot think that these blunders and misrepresentations are wilful on the part of our contemporary, and are com- pelled to come to the conclusion that some ill- natured mischievous booby has been playing upon his credulity, and " after leading him into a scrape" may perhaps " leave him to get out of it as well as he can;" v.;! therefore advise him upon all future occasions carefully to " look before he leaps" to a conclusion which may prove, as in this case, to be erroneous. THE ROYAL CHRISTENING.— This great national event is fixed for Tuesday next, as announced in our Second Edition last week, and i ot for Wednesday, as at first arranged. The ceremony will take place at Windsor, with a pomp and magnificence fitting the occasion; and, besides the splendid array of British wealth and British honour, it will be graced by the presence of foreign princes. The Kings of Prussia and Belgium are expected to arrive in London this evening or to- morrow, and preparations on a grand scale have been made for their Majesties' reception. In the metropolis and throughout the kingdom the day fixed for the christening of the Prince of Wales will be celebrated in an appropriate manner. Public and private balls are announced to be held in most of the provincial towns. In our own city it will be seen, by an advertisement in another place, that a ball will be held at the Guildhall. This is announced as a " city and coi. nty" assembly; but, on perusing the list of stewards, we find an overwhelming majority of county gentlemen, and the lady patronesses are, with one exception, also of county families, so that it may have been more properly called a county ball. Had it been so announced, and had this assembly taken place at the County Hall, we have reason to believe that another ball would have been got up by the trades- men of the city, many of whom decline taking their families to the advertised assembly, from pecuniary and other considerations. We have not heard of any other mode of celebrating the day having been resolved upon here; a suspension of business has been suggested, and the mercers and linen drapers have resolved on closing their establishments on Tuesday. A correspondent signing " Clericus Vigorniensis," proposes as a fit mode of celebrating the admission of the future monarch of these realms into the pale of Christianity, the performance of divine worship in all our Protestant churches. A communication of a similar import has been made to some of the metropolitan journals. DROITWICH.— A public dinner is announced to take place on Tuesday next, at the George Hotel, Droitwich, in celebration of the christening of the Prince of Wales. We have no doubt that the nature of the joyous celebration, com- bined with the well- known hospitality of mine host, will cause the attendance of a numerous and pleasant party. Lord Ward, it is stated, has directed a suite of apartments to be fitted up for him in the venerable mansion of Holt Castle, with the view to his occasional residence there; and this city may look forward to the Noble Lord becoming a neighbour at no distant day. The Lord Bishop of Worcester will leave the Episcopal Palace on Friday next, the 28th instant, for the season. His Lordship's residence in town is 24, Grosvenor Place. PREFERMENT.— The Rev. Frederick Foot, M. A., has been licensed by the Lord Bishop of Worcester to the Curacy of Rowley Regis, Staffordshire. DEATH OF VISCOUNTESS DEERHURST.— Her Ladyship expired at Pau, on Friday week, the 7th inst. The decea ed Viscountess had only a few weeks back left this country for the Continent, for the benefit of her health. Her Ladyship, who was the daughter of the late Sir Charles Ccckerell, Bart,, by his second marrage with the Hon. Harriet Rushout, sister of Lord Northwick, married, 15th of March, 1836, the late Viscount Deerhurst, eldest son of the Earl Coventry, who died 5th of November, 1838, leaving issue a son and daughter, the latter born 13th December, 1836, an;! George William, Viscount Deerhurst, born 9ih of May, 1838, who survive their estimable mother. By her Ladyship's demise the families of the Earl and Countess Coventry, Lord and Lady Holland, Lord Northwick, Dowager Lady Cockerell, Sir Charles and Lady Cockerell, & c., are placed in mourning. We have much pleasure in stating that Sir Thomas Wilde, M. P. for our city and borough, has, unsolicited, forwarded the handsome annual subscription of £ 5 to our Boys' National Schools, which is peculiarly acceptable, as the expenditure of these schools considerably exceeds the receipts. — Our other respected member, Joseph Bailey, Esq., has for some time past contributed a like » ub « cription. HARMONIC SOCIETY'S CONCERT.— We have only space i to remind our readers that the attractive Concert of this • admirable Society takes place at the Guildhall, on Monday- morning next. PERSHOKE BALL.— This annual agricultural and com- 1 merci. il assembly tajfc place last night, at the Three Tuns ! Commercial Inn, and was most respectably and numerously j attended. Dancing was kept up till an early hour this morning, I to the strains of the Worcester Quadrille Band, which gave much satisfaction, as did the other arrangements of the assembly, under the excellent management of G. B. Hudson and J. Skey, Esqrs ; Messrs. Abell, Essex, Holmes, Hunt, Ashmore, and New, the stewards. We need scarcely add that the arrangements of the worthy host Mr. Hope were most complete. REGISTRATION OF VOTERS.— It cannot too strongly or too often be urged upon the attention of all Conservatives that they should see the absolute necessity of maintaining their ground. The 31st of January is the last day on which a conveyance of property should be executed, to entitle a county voter for it to send in his claim to be registered next year. An occupier to the amount of 50/. per annum must have been in the occupation of his qualification on the 31st of July last. Any person however who may come into possession of a quali- fication by decent, succession, marriage, devise, or promotion to any benefice in a church, or by promotion to any office, at any time within such respective periods, will be entitled in respect thereof to have his name inserted in the list then next to be made out by the overseers. Besides freeholders of 50/. tenants the following may claim, namely,— owners of copyhold property, leasehold for lives, or leasehold for any term originally created for not less than sixty years, to the amount of 10/. per annum in each case, or leasehold for any term originally treated for not less than twenty years, of the annual value of 50/. There are also otbes ways in which an interest, derivable from real property, may confer a vote, as in cases of mortgagees in possession, and annuities, & c., all of which should receive a searching investi- gation by Conservatives, in order that their ranks may be numerically strengthened to combat any enemy whose vigilance and perseverance are exemplary. BIRMINGHAM TEN CHURCHES FUND.— Her Majesty the Queen Dowager has forwarded to the Rev. J. Garbett, ^ Chairman of the Church Building Committee, a donatiou of £ 50 in aid of the funds of the above Society. SEVERN NAVIGATION.— The opponents of the Severn Navigation Improvement have announced a meeting at Tewkes- bury, for Wednesday next, " to adjust the expenses incurred, and to resolve upon a future course of proceeding." THE CHINESE WAR.— Rear Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane has been selected by ti e Lorus of the Admiralty to hoist his flag, and proceed immediatt U to China. GENERAL HOLIDAY.— It is the intention of several of the leading tradesmen in various parts of the City to memorialize the Lord Mayor, to recommend to his fellow citizens, that the auspicious day of the christening of the Prince of Wales shall be observer: as a general holiday. Such a recommendation would, no doubt, be genfr il; y followed throughout the metropolis ana the empire, aid the City set the example.— London paper. GLOUCESTER AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY.— The directors of this Railway print e. ad publish a time table, wherein they guarantee to passengers starting from Glou- cester at a quarter before eight in the morning, an arrival in Birmingham in time for the half- past eleven o'clock train to Liverpool. But, in spite of thu printed promise, they are too late for it three mornings out of four.— Correspondent of the Time?. T. C. Hornyho. , '*> q., . jiackmoor Park ; G. Allies, Esq., of this city; and H. E. Strickland, Esq., of Apperley Cout, Tewkesbury, have been elected members of the Royal Agricultural Society of England. This Society now num- bers more than 6000 members. Mr. Hyde will hold an inquest to- morrow on the body of a poor fellow named William Arkwell, aged 23, who was this morning found dead at the Infirmary. Deceased was baker at that establishment; and it appears that some repairs have recently been made in the oven, by which an increased heat was obtaiuea ; the deceased, probably through exhaustion, last night lay down to sleep in the bakehouse, and, as it is at present supposed, died from suffocation. NARROW ESCAPE OF LORD NORTHWICK'S PICTURE GALLERY FROM DESTRUCTION BY FIRE.— About twelve o. clock at night on Saturday last, a young man employed in the gardens at Northwick fthe seat of the Noble Lord of that name), and who sleeps on the premises, was returning home from Blockley, where ! IP had beeu sacrificing to Bacchus, when he perceived an unusual smoke issuing from a building) which encloses an apparatus for airing his Lordship's picture- gallery. Though he was considerably elevated with what he had drunk, his wits were uot so far gone as to prevent his arousing the inmates of the mansion ; and by dint of the most strenuous exertions on the part of the female, as well as the male portion of the household, the fire was completely subdued without the neighbourhood being alarmed, although when the servants reached the burning edifice the roof was falling in. Had not the fire been fortunately discovered when it was, in all proba- bility Lord Northwick's splendid picture gallery would have fallen a prey to the devouring element. His Lordship was at Cheltenham at the time of the accident. The damage done is inconsiderable; a new roof and a few pounds expenditure will put all to rights again. WORCESTERSHIRE FRIENDLY INSTITUTION.— A quar- terly meeting of the directors of this most excellent institution was held at the Guildhall on Wednesday, at which the Lord Bishop presided. Twenty- seven candidates were admitted members of the society, and a further sum of £ 100 was ordered to be invested with the commissioners for the reduction of the national debt— making in the whole more than £ 3000. Two endowments— one of £ 50 and the other of £ 30— were ordered to be paid to two members on their attaining their twenty- first year. For these endowments each member has not paid in the . aggregate more than two- thirds of the sum to which he has become entitled, while the contributions have been paid in small sums periodically. At this meeting also, Lord Lyttelton was eurolled an honorary member of the institution, and the Lord Bishop kindly consented to preside at the future quarterly meetings of the directors. We rejoice to find by the increase of its members that the benefits of this invaluable society are becoming better understood and appreciated. DISPENSARY.— The annual meeting of the friends of this Society took place on Tuesday at the Institution, in Bank Street, George Allies, Esq., in the chair. We are glad to say that, though at one time during the past year the affairs of the Institution were not in so flourishing a state as previously, yet that latterly the increased subscriptions have amply made up the deficiency. With much pleasure we give publicity to the following names as fresh subscribers to this charitable Institu- tion :— Sir T. Wilde, M. P iiev. J. D. Simpson, Shrubshill Mrs. Welsh, Ilawford Major- General Marriott Rev. Benjamin Davis, St. George's Square ... Mrs. Cameron, High Street Mr. F. H. Needham, Rainbow Hill Mr. J. Southan, High Street THE ROYAL CHRISTENING. £ 5 5 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 I 1 0 I 1 0 1 1 0 I 1 0 2 2 0 Rev. J. R. Wood The following individuals have increased their annual subscrip- tions to two guineas :— Messrs. Chamberlain and Co., C. A. Helm, Esq., Mrs. Kilverf, and Rev. W. R. Holden. For other particulars we refer our readers to the advertisement which appears in another column. We understand that the Lord Bishop of this diocese has become an annual subscriber of five guineas to the District Visiting Society, and that he has consented to accept the office of patron of the Society. Lately, two fine specimens of that handsome bird ths common Bittern ( Botaui us Stellaris, Steph.), were shot in th s county, the one at the top of Pitchcroft Ham, near this city, the other in the vicinity of Tewkesbury— a noted place for many of our aquatic birds, from the marshy nature of the ground owing to the confluence of the Avon and the Severn. These specimens are now in the hands of Mr. Thomas Robinson, bird preserver, of this city. On Tuesday night, as Susan Carpenter, an old servant of Mr. Hooper's at Rainbow Hill, was leaving a friend's house near the turnpike in the London Road, she slipped off the step at the garden gate and broke her leg. Many other minor accidents have occurred, owing to the snow. CONJUNCTION OF SATURN AND JUPITER.— On Tues- day next, the planets Saturn and Jupiter will be in conjunction at 9h. 38miu. i>. M. Saturn will appear about thirty- two minutes of a degree ( or about the breadth of the moon north of Jupiter) so that both these planets may then be seen in the field of view of a telescope of moderate magnifying power. Before this conjunction takes place, the planets will have descended below the horizon ; but they may be seen next morning nearly in the same position about seven o'clock, near the south- eastern part of the horizon, at a low elevation. The conjunction of these two planets is a phenomenon of rare occurrence, which has not happened for a considerable number of years, nor will again happen for many years to come. ECLIPSE OF THE MOON.— There will be a very inte- resting eclipse of the moon on Wednesday next, which will be visible in this country. On the evening of that day the moon will rise eclipsed at 33 minutes past four. The greatest obscuration will take place at 43 minutes past five in the northern limb, the eclipse ending at 9 minutes past seven. The above is the calculated time for Greenwich, and the difference here will be very inconsiderable. The eclipse will be visible throughout the comments of Europe, Asia, and nearly the whole of Africa, and wilt extend itself to Nova Zembla and the North Pole. THE MARRIAGE ACT.— In the London Gazette of Friday last, it is announced that the Socialists' Institution in John- street, Fitzroy- square, has been licensed for the celebration of marriages. From this infidel measure extra- ordinary fruits were to be expected, but it was scarcely to be anticipated that its privileges should have been sought by a sect of reprobates who repudiate and denounce the institution of marriage as a pernicious restraint upon natural liberty. If the law be really open to such au abuse— if licenses for the celebration of marriage can be obtained by men whose object can be no other than to convert the cere- mony into a filthy mockery, it is high time that some change were made to guard against the recurrence of such scandalous profanation. FATAL ACCIDENT.— Last evening, between five and six o'clock, as a man named Samuel Fieldhouse, bellows- maker, of Wribbenhall, was returning home from a place near Stourport, where he had been on an errand, and when about a mile from Bewdley, he was overtaken by a cart, heavily laden, belonging to a man named Doughty, residing near Little Mal- vern, who was driving ; by some means which have not yet clearly transpired, the unfortunate man above mentioned was rode over, the wheel having passed over his head, and he died on the spot, a small portion of the brain protruding from the skull. The deceased was removed to his house, and Mr. Hughes will hold an inquest on the body, at the Bridge Inn, WribbenhftH, to- morrow, Tht deceased was aged 7*. To the Editor of the JVorceslershire Guardian. Sir,— As the christening of the infant Prince of Wales is now fixed to take place on Tuesday next, will you allow me, through the medium of your paper, to suggest to my brother clergymen the propriety of observing the day by having Divine Service in their respective Churches. So great and truly national an event ought not to be allowed to pass without special recognition ; and as the day will be, I suppose, a general holiday, a great number of persons, I should hope, in every parish might be induced to assemble in their Parish Church, and unite in calling down the Divine Blessing on their Queen, her infant offspring, and the nation at large. The occasion, too, might be improved to the edification of the people by " putting them in remembrance of their own pro- fession made to God in their baptism;" which might tend in some degree to rescue that Holy Sacrament from the lament- able neglect, aud even profaneness, by whicn it is now- a- days too often desecrated. The day fixed for the service is also appropriate— being observed bv the Church for commotno- ratiug the Conversion of St. Paul, who may be considered the founder cf the Church of England. These various points, interesting to every Christian mind, might be profitably noticed, and render the day an occasion of lasting benefit to the people. I am, Sir, your faithful servant, CLERICUS VIGORNIENSIS. Worcester, January 20, 1842. DR. REDFORD ON THE CORN LAWS. The poor debtors, of the county prison, wish to return their sincere thanks to Mrs. Broadfield, for her liberal kind- ness in giving them twelve cwt. of coals. At the Bristol Quarter Sessions, held last week, William Bowen ( who it will be recollected, was tried and acquitted some time ago of the robbery and murder of 71 r. Yarworth, at Piff's Elm,) was convicted of a burglar, at Bristol, and sentenced to fifteen years' transportation. This notorious fellow had been ap, rehended on s- jvcr< 1 occasions for robberies in and near Bristol since his release from Gloucester Gaol at the Spring Assizes of 1841, but hitherto escaped conviction. THE LATE BURGLARIES AND SHEEP- STEALING.— In another column will be found particulars of the apprehension and committal of four men charged with being concern-<! in several of the burglaries which have recently been commute.! in this city and neighbourhooi, and also the committal <>' a woman name. i Clet's, charged with receiving part ot the sb stolen from Mr. Coney's farm, al B. itienhall, as re a ted in . last number. Our city police foice, under the able . t re,- ti. i Inspector Phillip have been an iritis in their exi- no; discover the parties implicated in e nnnerous ro n » ; i have had occasion to report within he last few week-, vigilance is worthy the highest commendation, . nd '• e i great pleasure m stating tha* K a meeting of the Watch C'o. I . mitiee, held ibis morning, the same opinion was expressed, i- ud the following resolution was unanimously adopter :—" That thi- Committee think tiiemsefvt < called upon unanimously to express their very decided approbation of the cond i of Inspector Phillips, Police Sergeants Chipp and Santa. s, and Police Constable Hale, in tracing and uliimately sen: '•>< a daritu ang of burglars v. ho had for some time been com. niiting depredations in the immediate vicinity of the borough." A letter from J. Williams, Esq., chf irman of this committee, was also read, in vchioh that gentleman expressed in high terms his ap| robati of the conduct of the pouce in bringing the offenders to justice. ANOTHER HIGHWAY ROBBERY.— To the long catalogue of outrages of this description which we have had to report of I late as occurring in this neighbourhood we have this week to add another perpetrated by daylight and under circumstances of a most daring character. On Saturday evening last, about four o'clock, a widow woman named Hopkins, residing in Northwick Lane, near this city, had been taking some linen which she had been washing for the family of Capt. Sanderson, one of our active county magistrates, to that gentleman's residence, Rose Place, in the parish of Claines, and was pro- ceeding towards the Rev. J. Palmer's at the vicarage house, near Claines church, when at a turn in the lane near Mr Pointon's farm, a fellow rushed upon her, and seizing her by the shoulder demanded her money. The poor woman replied that she had none, nor had she any thing of value about her, but the robber insisted on searching her. After rifling her pocket and finding nothing, he declared that she had hid her money in her bosom, and thereupon commenced another search, but without success. He then took a silk handkeichitf from the poor woman's neck and thrust it into his pocket and observing on her arm a basket containing a few trifling articles of wearing apparel he took it from her, but after walking off with it for about twenty yards he put it down in the lane, contenting him- self with carrying off the napkin which had been placed round it. Immediately on the woman getting rid of the fellow she gave an alarm at the vicarage, and one of the servants was despatched in pursuit of the thief but he did not succeed in overtaking him. It is a singular fact that the woman had been offered a £ 5 note by Capt. Sanderson in payment of her washing bill, but luckily she had no change and the money was not paid, or there is no doubt that she would have been robbed of her hard earned wages. The robber was dressed in a shabby black hat, a dirty check shirt, and a short check frock, similar to those worn by watermen. He appeared about 5 ft. 7 in. in height, wore dark curled hair, and was apparently about thirty years of age. MORE ATTEMPTED BURGLARIES.— On Saturday night some thieves attempted to break into the residence of the Rev. T. L. Wheeler, of Bromwich House, near this city. The thieves removed two squares of glass, and were pro- ceeding to burst open the shutters, when the noise disturbed the inmates, and the footman hastily getting up, the ruffians made off as fast as they could. The servant followed them down Bromwich- lane, but there, owing to the darkness, he soon lost all traces of them.— On Monday night similar attempts were made to enter the house of the Rev. John Davies, of Henwick, anrl that of the late Mrs. Griffith, in St. John's. In both cases the family were arroused before the completion of the nefarious deed, aud on an alarm being given the robbers decamped. ROBBERY.— About five o'clock on Saturday morning last, as policeman Woodward was on his beat in the Tything, he observed, on passing by the house of Mr. Hope, butcher, that the door was ajar; this arousing his suspicions, he looked in, and saw some pieces of meat lying ou the ground ; and further on, in the slaughter house, the carcass of a cow had been cut in three or four places, and the meat apparently abstracted. On his giving the alarm, Mr. Hope came down, and discovered that upwards of 201bs. of beef, including a part of a kidney and some suet, had been stolen ; on subsequent search, it was found that the robbers had got into the premises from an adjoining lane, by passing through the yard of the Blackbird beer- house, and scaling the wall; they had then forced the lock of the stables, which gave them free access to the slaughter- house, and having secured their booty they opened the front door and made off. From the peculiar appearance of t'r- e footmarks in he snow, Mr. Hope immediately entertained suspicion of a man named John Mannerling, who had some time ago b : cn dis- charged from his service for misconduct; he accordingly diver" the policeman to proceed to the house of Mannerling's fat near the Victoria works ; on arriving thef, the policeman was informed by Mannerbng's sister that he h i not been at home during the night; be was subsequently found drinking with a man named Bradley, at the Leopard, Broad Street; and on being interrogated as to where he had been, declared that he hud just come from home. He was then taken into custody ; ar c! on his shoes being compared with the marks on the snow, above mentioned, they were found exactly to correspond. We should not omit to state that some loose papers having been dropped in the slaughter- house, and attempts being made to : race them home to Mannerling, he inadvertently stated that they had been dropped from Bradley's hat. On Monday, Manner- ling was taken before Mr. Sidebottom, by whom the hearing of the case was adjourned till Tuesday, when the priioner was v/ as fully committed to take his trial. REMOVAL OF CONVICTS.— The following convicts were cm Wednesday morning removed from the County Gaol, to be placed on board the York convict ship, at Gosport :— Francis Jones, sentenced to transportation for life; John Wilks and John Beresford, for 15 years; William Powell, for 14 years ; Samuel Warrington and William Heritage, for 10 years ; and Edward Evans, William Morgan, Thomas Hughes, and Henry Harding, for 7 years. EDITION. Saturday Morning, January 22. STOCKS.— Bank Stock, 167 ; 3 per Cent. Red, 89i; 3 per Cent. Con., 89; 3^ per Cent. Red., 99|; New 3| per Cent. 98f; India Stock, 247|; India Bonds, — p. m.; £ 1000 Exch. Bills, 18 p. m. THE NEW JUDGE.— Mr. Cresswell yesterday afternoon received his appointment as one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas, in the room of Mr. Justice Bosanquet. This appointment causes a vacancy in the representation of Liver- pool.— Standard. MARK- LANE, FRIDAY, JAN. 21. Little English Wheat on show to day, the prices of which remain stationary. Millers were not disposed to buy freely of foreign, but a few parcels have been taken for shipment a: about previous currency. Less inquiry for floating cargoes or bonded, the value is nominally unaltered. The arrivals of Barley only moderate. Factors evince more- firmness, and pur- chases could hardly be made on such good terms as on Monday last. Malt unaltered. A moderate supply of Oats, but no advance realized except in a mere retail way of necessitous buyers. Beans and Peas as last noted. SMITHFIELD MARKET, FRIDAY, JAN. 21. The supply was short, with a dull demand for Beef and Mutton-; but Pork and Veal sold briskly, at the following prices. Beef, 3s. 8d. to 4s. 10d.; Mutton 3s. 8d. to 4s. 10il.; Veal, 4s. 8d. to 6s.; Pork, 4s. 8d. to 5s. 6d. FRIDAY, J A N U A R Y 21, 1841. INSOLVENTS. William Henry Wells, Itotherithe, Surrey, builder. Edward Mallan, late of Great Russel- street, Bloomsbury, dentist. BANKRUPTS. John Mardlow, Fetter- lane, builder. George O^ den Brown, Sheffield, timber- merchant. Richard Nurserv, Whitehall- place, Kentish- town, tallow- chandler. Peter Leicester, Manchester, slate- merchant. Charles Sanderson, Sheffield, fork- manufacturer. Charles Samuel Evans, Cornhill, master- mariner. Charles Dod and Henry Bent, Riches- court, Lime- street, ship- brokers. William Young, Milford Nurserv, Godalming, Surrey, nurseryman. Joseph Smith, Neetlham, Ullesthoriie, Leicestershire, banker. Mark Fothergill and Michael Fothergill, Upper Thames. street, drysalteri. Joseph Scott & Henry Coker, CheapsiUe, woollea- warebouseiBen , Dr. Redford having intimated to his congregation, the mem- bers of Angel Street Chaj fiis intention of expounding to them his opinions on the t abject of the Corn Laws, a large muster assembled, last night, at that place of worship. It being thought necessary to invest the subject with a religious garb, one of the chapel officials first gave out a hymn, the burden of which had reference to h? exercise of " bowels of mercy" between man and man, and then proceeded to offer up a prayer directly beseeching the Throne of Grace for a removal of all restrictions upon trade, & c. ! This solemn farce having been enacted, the lecture began. The learned Doctor premised that, as he could not trust himself to deliver an extempore oration, he had committed his thoughts to paper. The preamble set forth that the subject of the Corn Laws would be considered in their reference to " humanity and justice ;" and the lecturer asserted that notwithstanding he might receive censure, as. a Minister of the Gospel, for mixing himself up with the subject, yet he would prove that as it was clearly implicated with revela- tion, and as it was the duty of Christian Ministers to protect the poor and needy, he had a right to be heard. A series of Scrip- tural texts was then quoted, denunciatory of the Divine ven- geance upon all injustice and oppression, upon false weight* and measures, & c. ; but having no more to do with the Corn Laws, even in the most elastic imagination, than has the steeple of St. Andrew's with the Goodwin Sands. The learned Dr. chiefly laid stress on a passage wherein it is laid down that " the people of the land" have oppressed the poor : this sentence he forcibly pulled in to the aid of his argument, by satisfying himself and some of his hearers that " the people of the land" meant nothing mote nor less than the landowners, and consequently upon them he lavished no small share of invective during the evening. He represented the present Corn Laws as being upheld exclu- sively for the emolument of that class ; and the argument about " remuneration to the agriculturist," he asserted, was only meant to throw dust in the eyes of the poor, for that a repeal of those laws would cause cheap bread, and no injury would result to the agriculturist seeing that rents must undoubtedly come down. The learned Doctor however forgot ro add that if all the farm rents in the kingdom were abolished, the price of the 41b. loaf would not be affected more than \ d.; but perhaps this was one of the phases of the question into which the lecturer staled that he could not enter in a place of worship. We have neither time, space, nor incl: nation, at present, to enter into all the second- hand absurdities which I) r. Redford so gravely propounded, although we may possibly return to ihem at some tiuure opportunity ; we shall niertly, in conclusion, re- capitulate their items: the sliding scale was denounced as " delu>. ion un . roguery from b anning to end ;" and if removed in favoui of Ins system ( the exact nature of whicti however was not advanced, tor the learned Dr. said lie had not much aitach- menf to tigi. res) would remove die present ress a non^ the inufacturers, and would not, on the other hand, depress the agriculturists, for tho> e ot ihem whose corn lancis were tnruwii uui of culti-. ition couid take to ^ razln^ an i stock Oreeuing ! Faiaiiy e roundly dSftned ti at tnere never nad yet been a nation winch had sru* n ^ teat e- xciusm.-' y tr- 111 agricul- ture, and tna to dei> troy machinery and maiiu. rtcturts would oe like removing the thatch from a house : although the residents on the ground- fioor might not ut first find ihe incoiivenienc yet the elements would soon do their work, uniess a .. nieiy remedy were applied. We cannot conclude our brief notice of Dr. Redford's 1 ctu e without observing that the chapel in Angel Street is t ie first " place of worship" which we have ever seen desecrated by popular acclamations— such as stamping and clapping of hands. It is true the lecturer immediately sup- pressed it. but we see no palliation in this, as the inducement should not first have been held out. At the conclusion, of he lecture a petition to the legislature was read and presented ior sigrature, and the lecturer expressed his intention of asking for the patronage of the ladies of Worces er MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE.— A circular, of which the following is a copy, has during the past week been cir- culated throughout the country, and more especially addressed to Coroners, respecting the disappearance of a foreign gentleman of good family : — " London, 15th January, 184a. " Sir,— We take the liberty of writ in;; to you under circumstances peculiarly afii. ctmg to a hijjhlj reapeoi . bie family on the Continent, and to solicit j our kiutl assistance ii. •. latter which may possibly have come under your notice in your official capacity. " The ease in question is ; hi disappearance of a foreign Gentleman who lvt't London on the • Jlstof October last,— was last seen in Oxford tiie day after, and whom we tieheve to have arrived in tiie evening of the 2Jna, at Bristol. — From tins place every trace has been lost. " There is not the slightest stain on the character of the person we enquire after, and his disappearance is quite unaccountable to us. " When our friend left London, it > » as his intention to make a tour through Wales, to Dublin, thence to the North of England, & c„ and was supplied with about i-' SO, partly in gold, partly in Bank of England Notes, of £ 5 each, ( Numbers 81314 to 81319, dated 13th August, 1841.) " We annex a description of the missing Gentleman and shall think it a great favour if you will inform us whether anything relating to him has come under your notice, by his having met with any accident '"' lieh may have proved fatal. " Waiting the favour of your reply, we remain, Sir, " Your most obedient Servants, " S1NDET, MEYER, and Co. " 3, St. Helen's Place, Bishopsgate Street," " Age : about SO years,— Height: about 6 feet 2 or 3 inches, narrow- about the chest and shoulders, thin in stature.— Features: Oval face, regular rather prominent features, light blue eyes, near sighted, usually wearing a pair of gold spectacles; good teeth; complexion pale.— Hair; light brown, cropped short; no whiskers.— Dress: dark fashionable single breasted frock coat, silk figured waistcoat and drab mixed full trowscrs.— Luggage: two deal boxes containing mostly books,— German and c r Classics. One leather trunk or portmanteau, with wearing a; arci and linen. One carpet bag. Cloth coat and Macintosh. A stout gold- headed cane. " Initials, G. C," TRIAL OF A SOCIALIST FOR BLASPHEMY.— Consider- able excitement prevailed in Bristi 1 during the latter part of last week in conseque < 3 of its being known that a person named Charles Southwell, late one of the principal " Social Missionaries," was to take his trial for a series of blasphemies of the very worst character, published in a periodical edited by himself, aud entitled the Oracle of Reason. The trial, as was expected, lasted nearly the whole of Friday, and was not concluded until nearly five o'clock on Saturday afternoon, the defendant's addreug to the jury occupying upwards of ten hours. The indict- ment contained the extracts from the defendant's works, which formed the subject of the charge. In these he denied the existence of our Saviour in the most revolting terms, denounced the Holy Bible as arevoltingly odious Jew produc- tion, which " appeared to be the outpouring of some devil," and expressed his belief that no such being as a God had ever existed. Mr. Grace Smith conducted the prosecution, and the publication of the blasphemies having been brought home to the prisoner, the jury returned a verdict of Guilty, and he was, after an impressive address from Sir Charles Wetherell, the recorder, sentenced to twelve months" imprisonment, and a fine or' £ 100. MARCH OF INTSLLKCT.— We had begun to flatter ourselves that the people of England— with their boasted high standing amongst other nations— were really making a very steady and quick march towards civilization, and that the superstitious opinions and observances of our former | history were beginning in the nineteenth century actually to i be ranked amongst the things that were. But we have been " reckoning without our host" for on the thirteenth day j of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight Uuuu. ed and forty- two, on looking over the broad- sheet of I the Ti :. es of that day the following announcement, huddled with a host of others relating to various matters of the day, 1 met our view :— ; " CHILD'S CAUL, price £ 20.— The owner, n tradesman of j respectability, who has had the above in his possession for upwards j of forty years, and durir. g that period has been lo. ir times most | . miraculously and providentially saved from drowning, is now willing i to PART W ITH his CAUL for the above sum. For further par- | cicularsap >' y to Hope, 5, Agar- street, West Strand." j ' Hope" tells a flattering tale, and as there is a knave in the j world to offer so tempting a bait, no doubt a fool will be 1 found to match him by swallowing it. As the " tradesman of respectability" does not appear to be born to be drowned, I it is not unreasonable to suppose that he is reserved for a " higher" fate— we shall leave it to the imagination of our | readers to guess what that may be. BIRTH. Lately, at 1, Chester Place, Regent's Park, toe lady of Francis Valentine Lee, Esq., of a daughter. MARRIAGES. Jan. 10, at Kempsey, Mr. Thomas Trupp, of H. M. Excise, Liverpool, to Elizabeth, eldest daughter ot' Mr. Wm. Purser, farmer, of the abo' e place. Jan. 13, at Bronv grove, Mr. John Clarkson, jun.," toIsabella, eldest daughter of Mr. Barrett, of that town. Jan. 13, at Nawent, Gloucestershire, Mr. Wm. Routledge, of Lambeth, Surrey, to Harriette, youngest daughter of Mr. William Giles Nicholl, of the former place. Jan. 13, at St. Mary's Church, Monmouth, Mr. James Williams, of Woolhope, Gloucestershire, to Miss Ann Winniard, of the same place. Jan. 17, at St. Alktuond's, Shrewsbury, Mr. William Jones, of that town, to Mary, eldest daughter of the late Mr. Thomas Heath, of Leominster. Jan. 18, at Miisom, Mr. William Parkes, of Oldbury, Hales Owen, Salop, to Miss Mary Anne Lowe, only daughter of the late Thomas Lowe, Esq., of Miisom. Lately, al Kidderminster Old Church, Miss Eliza Bond, to Mr. Nathaniel Freeman Collyer, both of this city. Jan. 11, at Leamington, John Fullerton Thomason, Esq., of Manchester, to Charlotte Ma. y, third daughter of the late Thomas Minster, Esq , solicitor, of Coventry. Jan. 12, at St. Pancras Church, Lieutenant James Newenham Graydon, R. N., fourth son of the late Alexander Gruydon, Esq., of Newcastle House, county of Dublin, to Elizabeth, youngest daughter of Samuel Acton, Esq., of By ford Court, Hereford- shire. ff DEATHS. Jan 7, at Pau, Basses Pyrenees, the Viscountess Deerhurst. Jan. 7, John Jellicoe, Esq., of Beightertou House, Stafford shire ; a celebrated agriculturist and improver of stock. Jan. 9, at his son's house, the Farm, Norton, near Bromyard, after a long illness, Mr. W. Inett, late of the Home House, in the 90th year of his age. He was the oldest tenant upon the Brockhampton Estates, and was by his landlord and neighbours highly respected. Jan. 12, at Kempsey, Mr. John Osborne, in his 46th year, deeply regretted by his family and friends. Jan, 11, a^ ed 80, at Cowes, Lieut.- General Mainwaring. Ja n. 12, at her residence, Craddock's Walk, Wolverhamp- ton, deeply lamented, in her 59th year, Elizabeth, relict of Thomas Brooke, Esq. By her decease the poor have lost a kind benefactress. Jan. 13, at Dudley, aged b , Delieia, only sister of Mr. William Maurice, bookseller. Jan. 16, at Hoiebeacb, near Kidderminster, after a long illness, borne with exemplary patience and resignation, Mary, relict of Mr. Joseph Chellingwortb, of Park Attwood, aged 73. Jan. 16, in St. John's, Mr. John Elcox, in his 74th year. Jan. 18, aged 2 years, Georgians, daughter of Cornelius Wheeler, Esq., of Kennington, London, and grand- daughter to Mrs. Hide, of Newport- street, in this city. Jan. 14, at Leamington, in the 64th year of her age, Mary, relict of Mr. Henry Sharpe, of Warwick. Jan. 14, in the 54th year of her age, Anne, wife of Mr. William Bonner, of Hildersley, near Ross. Jan. 18, at Hereford, in her 82nd year, Susannah, relict of Mr. Charles Griffiths, of the Church House, Stanton oa Wye, THE WORCESTERSHIRE GUARDIAN, SATURDAY, JANUARY 22/ 1842. WEEP NOT FOR HIM THAT DIETH. Tears for the weary ones who keep Long watch beneath the sun; But sorrow not for those that sleep,— 1 Their heritage is won. Go then with song and garland green, Lay down each painless head, Though dark the shadows lie between Us and our tearless dead. Say, hast thou seen the beautiful, The flowers of earth, depart ? Alas I for Death hath taken still The treasures of the heart. But peace to perished buds of spring, In their green promise shed, For they left the land of withering ;— Weep not our early dead. Are the world's comforters at rest? Why have our good trees gone, With all their freshness, from the waste, While fruitless thorns live on ? But bright before us shines the path Where angels homeward sped, For they were strangers on the earth Weep not our blessed dead ! Or mourns our laod the brave and just, — Her sword and shield laid low— For hearts in whom the nations trust 1 The true, the faithful, go. But glory to the eagle's home, Though clouds around it spread, For tempests never reach the tomb;— Weep not our fearless dead. Hath Science lost her wise and bright, Their country's joy and crown ; The stars that gave the nations light Perchance gone early down, Who left their glory in our sky, Like sunset o'er us shed ?— But they have reached eternity;— Weep not our glorious dead. Thus freely let us give the best Of all earth's bright and brave, ( With changeless love around their rest,) To the victorious grave ; For it hath hushed the storms of strife, And healed the hearts that bled : Death only dries the tears of life,— Then weep not for the dead 1 Stranoriar. FRANCES BROWN. STATISTICS OF EDUCATION. Among the various methods by which the Registrar- General has endeavoured to turn the records deposited in his office to useful account in illustrating the condition of the people, the practicability seems also to have occurred to him of deducing from the marriage registets a criterion of the state of education, so far as regards the ability to write, among the adult popula- tion throughout England and Wales. Every register of marriages being signed by the parties married— those who are able writing their names, and those who are unable, or who write very imperfectly, making their marks— it appeared to the Registrar- General that an enumeration of the instances in which the parties married have signed by a mark, icstead of writing their names, would serve to indicate the proportion among them who either could not write at all, or write very imperfectly. And in his second annual report a table is given as the result of such an enumeration, exhibiting the proportion per cent, in the metropolis, in each English county, and in North and South Wales, of persons married in the year ending in June 30, 1839, who had used marks. From this table it appeared, that in fifteen of the English counties— namely, Berkshire, Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Huntingdonshire, Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, Wiltshire, Shropshire, Worcestershire, Staffordshire, Lancashire, and Monmouthshire, and in North and South Wales— more than 40 per cent, of the men were unable to write their names ; and that in the West Riding of Yorkshire, in Wales, and in nineteen of the English counties, more than half the women were similarly deficient in this primary clement of education. It also appeared, that in the whole of England and Wales, out of 121,083 marriages, there were 40,587 men and 58,959 women who could not write. It was further observed, that the education of the men in respect to the ability to write was superior to that of the women, the proportions per cent, of those who were deficient being for males 33, and for females 49, in the whole kingdom ; and a superiority, greater or less, was maintained by the men throughout every county. This return also indicated a decided superiority with regard to the ability to write in the metropolis, as compared with the rest of England and Wales, and, next to the metropolis, in the north of England, including the counties of Durham, Northumberland, Cumberland, and Westmorland. On the other hand, the most marked deficiency was in Lancashire, Bedfordshire, Monmouthshire, and Wales; in Lancashire the proportion who had signed with their marks was for men 43, and for females 65, per cent.; in Bedfordshire, for men 55, and for women 66, percent., in Monmouthshire, 54 for men, and 67 per cent, for women ; and in Wales, for men 46£, and for women 70, per cent. In the metropolis such proportion was only 12 per cent, for men, and 24 for women; and in the northern counties, for men 21, and for women 42, per cent. The Registrar- Generai put forward these calculations in the first instance with evident and necessary caution, remarking that it was not to be hastily assumed upon the evidence afforded by the returns of a single year, that the inhabitants of any particular county or district were less educated than their neighbours; and that it was requisite that this experiment should be oftentimes repeated, and attended with similar results, before any such inference can be drawn with safety. " It must also," he observed, " be remembered that although a fair average is thus afforded, the portion of the whole popula- tion exhibited in the yearly returns of marriages is small;" and such portion whose signatures appear on the marriage registers of a single year is sufficiently small to be easily affected by accidental circumstances. At the same time this criterion is free from the objection of selection, including every class and condition and every age, except children and very old persons, and it is almost impossible that the same person should have signed twice in the same year. In the last annual report of the Registrar- General, just published, a similar calculation is contained, showing the pro- portion per cent, of the persons married in the year ended June, 1840, who signed with their marks, and the result is strikingly coincident in every respect with that of the preceding year, and such as to induce the belief that the evidence con- tained in the marriage registers on this point will furnish a safe and valuable criterion of the state of education ( at least elementary education) among the adult population, and serve, in each succeeding year., by comparison with preceding years, to indicate its progress or retrogression. It has been calculated in the last report ( which embraces the year ending June, 1840), " that in thirteen English counties, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, and in Wales, more than 40 per cent, of the men married did not write their names; and that in nineteen English counties, in the West Riding of York- shire, and in Wales, the same fact existed with respect to half the women." It also appears that in the whole of England and Wales, out of 124,329 couples married, there were 41,812 men, and 62,523 women, who it is presumed either could not write or wrote very imperfectly. The Registrar- General observes that " if the table for the year ending June 30, 1840, had shown results differing widely from those of the preceding year, it might reasonably have been suspected that such returns were not likely to become valuable and safe criterions of the comparative state of edu- cation, that they are drawn from too small a portion of the whole population, and are too much influenced by accident. Such, however, is not the case." A comparison of the table given in the second report with that in the third, shows a remarkably close correspondence in the results, not only for the whole kingdom, but in the metropolis, and in every con- siderable group of counties. In the metropolis, indeed, and in two out of the ten divisions of counties, the mean proportion is precisely similar, in six others there is only a difference of one, in another the difference is two, and in the remaining one it amounts to three. In conclusion, it may be necessary to observe, that this criterion of the comparative state of education as respects the ability to write, can only be applicable to the past, that is, to such as existed 10 and 20 years ago, and can throw no light upon the amount and nature of the education now afforded, ORIGINAL ANECDOTE OF SERJEANT WILDE.— Serjeant Wilde, whose dictatorial manner of arguing a point of law is well known, was once engaged in a rather curious case, where the plaintiff and defendant were possesed, one of a male and the other of a female clog of a very rare species. In order to preserve the breed, is was agreed by the parties, that the progeny of these two animals should be divided equally between them; but subsequently the owner of the female dog refused to give the other his share of the litter of puppies which had been pro- duced. Serjeant, then Mr., Wilde, who was for the defence, thundered forth several times in the course of his speech—" I lay it down as an axiom." At last, the counsel on the opposite side, watching his opportunity, leanedover as Wilde in his most imperative tone had repeated " I lay it down as an axiom," and whispered to him in a voice loud enough to be heard by the bench and bar —" Pray lay it down as a dog- ma the next time." The joke told,— a suppressed laugh ran through the court ; Wilde, for the first time in his life, lost his self possession, and consequently his cause; and all through having his axiom destroyed by a dogma. SAVINGS' BANKS.— By the 3d William IV., chap. 14, it is enacted," That if any person already appointed tinder the provisions of the 9th George IV., chap. 92, or who may hereafter be appointed to any office in a savings' bank, or in any society established under this act, and intrusted " with the keeping of the accounts, or having in his hands or possession, by virtue of his said office or employment, any monies or effects belonging to such savings' bank or society, or any deeds or securities relating to the same, shall die or become bankrupt or insolvent, or have any execution or attachment, or other process, issued against his lands, goods, chattels, or effects, or make any assignment thereof, for the benefit of his creditors, his executors, adminstrators, or assignees, or other person having legal right, or the sheriff' or other officer executing such process, shall, within 40 days after demand made by two of the trustees of the said savings' bank or society, as aforesaid, deliver and pay over all monies and other things belonging to such savings' bank or society to such person as the said trustee shall appoint, and shall pay out of the estates, assets, or effects, of such person, all sums of money remaining due which such person received by virtue of his said office or employ- ment, before any other of his debts are paid or satisfied, or before the money directed to be levied by such process as aforesaid, is paid over to the party issuing such process; and all such assets, lands, goods, chattels, estates, and effects, shall be bound to the payment and discharge thereof accordingly." < Etmrct) ati& S& ni& emtte!*. OXFORD, JAN. 14. This being the first day of Hilary or Lent Term, a Cengre- gation was holden for granting Degrees, & c., when the following were conferred:— MASTERS OF ARTS Rev. G. T. Driffield, Fellow of Brase- nose; Rev. W. E. Buckley, Fellow of Brasenose; Rev. T. R. Branfoot, of Trinity; Rev. S. Waldegrave, Fellow of All Souls; Rev. A. J. Christie, Fellow of Oriel; and Rev. H. W. Cripps, Fellow of New college. BACHELORS OF ARTS.— Rev. N. T. Travers, of Lincoln col- lege ; Rev. W. F. Everest, of Magdalen hall; and Rev. J. W. Kirkham, of Jesus college. In consequenee of Easter falling so early this year, the mem- bers of most of the colleges will assemble tomorrow ; but Exeter, Lincoln, Balliol, University, Oriel, and Magdalen hall, meet on the 22d instant. CAMBRIDGE, JAN: 14. EXAMINATION SUBJECTS.— Notice has been given that the following will be the subjects of examination in the last week of the Lent Term, 1843:— 1. The Gospel of St. Luke; 2. Paley's Evidences; 3. Xenophoirs Hellenica, lib. i. ; 4. Vir- gil's jEneid, lib. vi. The Theological Priie at Queen's college tor the year 1841 has been awarded to the Rev. J. Ketley, B. A., Curate of St. Mark's, Kennington.—. The subject, Rom. i., 16. C. C. Babington, Esq., M. A., of St. John's college, is announced as a candidate for the chair of Botany, at King's college, London, vacant by the death of Professor Don. Dr. Leman & nd Mr. Kippist are both announced as candidates for the situation of Librarian of the Linneean Society, also held by the former. PREFERMENTS. Rev. S. Corbett, M. A., son of Archdeacon Corbett, D. D., of Merton college, to the Rectory of Ordsall, Nottinghamshire, vacant by the death of the Rev". F. Foxlowe; patron, Lord Wharncliffe. J. P. Birkett, B. A., of Jesus college, Cambridge, has been appointed by Dr. Wordsworth to the Mathematical Mastership at Harrow, vacated by the Rev. J. W. Colenso, M. A. Rev. E. Melvill, M. A., Chaplain to the Bishop of St. David's, to the Prebend of Mathry. , Rev. J. H. Buxton, M. A., to the Vicaragcof Britford, Wilts vacant by the death of the Rev. R. Morres; patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Sarum. Rev. E. James, B. A., late of Corpus Christi college, Cam- bridge, to the Vicarage of Llangirrig, Montgomeryshire, void by the cession of the Rev. D. James, Vicar of Llanwynnog ; patron, the Bishop of Bangor. Rev. H. Williams, for many years Curate of Llangevelach, to that Vicarage, void by the death of the Rev. Evan Lloyd ; patron, the Bishop of St. David's. Rev. R. H. Gwyer, to the Curacy of Aylmerton, with Runton, Norfolk. Rev. A. W. Langton, to the Rectory of Kempstone, Norfolk; patron, the Earl of Leicester. THE CEREMONY OF THE LAYING OF THE FIRST STONE OF THE NEW ROYAL EXCHANGE BY PRINCE ALBERT. THE BISHOP OF GLOUCESTER AND THE OXFORD TRACT WRITERS. To the Editor of the Gloucestershire Chronicle. Sir,— My attention has just been called to a paragraph of the Church Intelligencer, January 12th, in which the Editor declares— on what he calls direct information— that I had expressed some alteration in certain sentiments avowed by me, in my late Charge to the Clergy of my Diocese ; and that I had declared myself to have been misled through the misrepresentations of others. I wish to lose no time in contradicting this paragragh, for which there is no foundation whatever. Let me add that if I had seen cause to alter any of the sentiments expressed by me on so solemn an occasion, and in a document published at the request of my Clergy. I should have felt it to be due both to them and to myself to avow such an alteration in a manner equally public and explicit. I am, Mr. Editor, your obedient Servant, J. H. GLOUCESTER AND BRISTOL. Palace, Gloucester, January 14, 1842. EXTENSIVE SEIZURES BV THE EXCISE. — A most extraordinary bustle and stir occurrred a few days ago at the east end of the town, in consequence of the break- ing up of two of the most extensive illicit manufactories that have ever come under the notice of the Excise. Having heard it whispered that " something must be wrong" at the premises of one of our leading wine and spirit merchants, Mr. Golding Bird set to work, with the assistance of William Bullen, another intelligent officer. Day after day and night after night was watch kept on the place, and at length they saw something that induced them to enter the counting- house and make a polite inquiry for the proprietor. He chanced not to be at home, and the officers having expressed a desire to await his return, and in the interim to amuse themselves by walking about the warehouses, left the counting- house and entered the nearest storing- room. A door therein, which they found to be fastened, attracted their particular notice, and Mr. Bird asked the reason it was locked. " Don't know," said one—" Can't say," said another. " But you have the key," observed Mr. Bird. " That be lost," replied a raw- boned Yorkshireman; and in this way were the officers met by all of whom they desired information. An iron grating in the same room being observed, Mr. Bird removed it, and was about to descend, when the master made his appearance. " For God's sake don't go there or you will injure yourselves," he exclaimed, and pushing Mr. Bird aside, went head fore- most through the opening, and endeavoured to stop the officers in their descent. This obstruction was enough to satisfy them that they were on the right scent, and having descended, they discovered five vaults fitted up in the most expensive and extensive style for the manufacture of spirits. The stills are upon the French principle, made of iron, with copper linings. The place contained 20 vats, each capable of holding 700 gallons. There were 20 tons of molasses in a state of preparation for distillation, 900 gallons of molasses wash, and 500 gallons of sherry, the whole of which, with innumerable other property, was seized. Some idea of the extent of this extraordinary detection may be formed from the fact of its having required 14 vans to remove the different articles to Her Majesty's stores. A great deal of secresy in the matter is at present observed, but the time is not far distant when the case will come formally before the Commis- sioners of Excise.— After the above matter had been disposed of, as described, away went Mr. Bird to Princes- square, St. George's- in- the- East, accompanied by Mr. Bullen and other officers, and without any obstruction seized 33 tons of sugar made from potatoes. There were from 20 to 30 men at work in the manufacture of that article, which is vended to the public by grocers, with a mixture of the East India produce. Mr Bird questioned the workmen, but not one would " split" upon his em- ployer, and he was therefore compelled to go and seek elsewhere for the more guilty party, of whose capture there can be but little doubt. The property and premises were left by Mr. Bird in the possession of his officers.— John Bull. FIRE IN BERMONDSEY.— On Friday night, about half- past eight o'clock, a fire broke out at the paper mills of Mr. Hunt, in the Blue Anchor- road, Bermondsey. Several inhabitants endeavoured to extinguish the flames, but the fire had taken such a firm hold of the interior of the building, that all their efforts were fruitless. In the meantime, from the inflammable nature of the buildings and stock, the flames shot up to a great height; and, before the firemen could arrive, the whole of the mill with the machinery and contents was nearly consumed. The fire, however, was prevented from reaching a shed at the northern extremity, which, with the lofty chimney of the engine- house, is all that remains of the mills. It is not known how the fire originated, as the workmen had left the place at the usual hour, and all was then apparently safe. The damage done is very considerable. THE PUFF INTRODUCTORY,— An American vendor of " magic strops" in puffing off his wares in a New York paper, commences his advertisement thus :—" John Kemble, the tragedian, on being asked his opinion of an independent man, replied, ' One who can shave himself and use cold water.'" REMARKABLE SAGACITY OF A DOG.— On Monday morning as the Usk ( Newport) steamer, Captain Parfitt, was proceeding through the lock at Cumberland basin, Bristol, on her voyage to Newport, a man named Hobbs attempted to get on board. The captain informed him that if he would go to the corner of the pier he would take him in, but if he attempted to jump on the paddle- box he would certainly be drowned. The man, however, persisted in endeavouring to jump on the box, and was precipitated into the lock. The paddles were instantly stopped, and almost before the plunge of the man in the water was heard, Captain Parfitt's dog ( a fine animal of the Labrador breed) sprang overboard, and diving in search of the drowning man brought him up by the shoulder, and conveyed him to one of the lock gates, where he could hold on in security. As soon as he saw he could leave the man in safety the dog swam after, and soon returned with his hat in his mouth, and placing his fore- paws on one of the crosstimbers of the gate, patiently awaited alongside the man until a boat was brought, which conveyed the rash adventurer and his canine deliverer safely to the shore. MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE.— A melancholy and fatal accident occurred one day last week at Liverpool to a son of the Rev. H. M'Neile. The youth, who was about 14 years of age, went out into the fields with two companions " named Edward Southern and John M. Ashton, they took with them a pistol belonging to Ashton, with which they amused themselves by firing at small birds and other objects. On returning home Ashton had the pistol in his hand loaded, when something was said by one of the party to cause laughter. The pistol was at half- cock when the laugh was occasioned, and Ashton bent down sideways and backwards with the excitement, when unluckily some part of his clothes caught the lock and the pistol exploded, lodging the contents ( it was loaded with ball) in the thigh bone of the unfortunate youth M'Neil. For two days no alarming symptoms made their appearance, but subsequently erysipelas supervened, and at length mortification took place, which caused deaih. The deceased expressed his hearty forgiveness of the boy who had caused the injury, and who, as must be supposed, was dreadfully afflicted at the sad misadventure. At the inquest held over the body of the ill- fated youth the jury returned a verdict in accord- ance with the above facts, at the same time expressing their earnest hope that the melancholy event would operate as an impressive warning to parents and others against entrusting fire arms to persons too young to use them with safety to themselves or to the public. On Monday last the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, Sheriffs, and principal city officers, wont in state to the Guildhall for the purpose of receiving Princo Albert previously to the ceremony of laying the first stone of the New Royal Exchango. Prince Albert had intimated to the Lord Mayor that he would be at the Guildhall to meet his Lordship and the Grcsham Committee at a quarter before two o'clock, and five minutes before that time his Royal Highness arrived, amidst the greatest cheers of the crowd. The Lord May ® r arrived at the Guildhall soon after one o'clock, and learned that the Duke of Wellington had arrived nearly an hour previously, and was sitting with Sir James Shaw, the City Chamberlain. His lordship immediately proceeded to the Chamberlain's office, and conducted his Grace to the Council Chamber, where ho was greeted with the loudest and most enthusiastic applause. Sir Robert Peel, Lord Stanley, Sir James Graham, Lord Ripon, and several other of Her Majesty's Ministers, arrived before half- past one o'clock, and were severally applauded in the warmest manner by the assembly. Mr. R. L. Jones, the Chairman of the Gresham Committee, and the other members of the Committee, were in attendance to receive the Prince. His Royal Highness remained upon the platform of the Council Chamber for a considerable time, in conversation with the Lord Mayor and the Duke of Wellington ; and at a quarter after two the Marshall announced that the carriages were ready for the procession to the pavilion. Precisely at half- past two, his Lordship and Prince Albert, who was attired in a private walking- dress, entered his Lordship's carriage, and the procession advanced to the pavilion without delay, notwith- standing the denseness of the crowd. THE PAVILION. On the site of the New Royal Exchange preparations on a suitable scale of splendour and extent were made to celebrate an event, Which, considering the important purpose for which the uew building is intended, the pomp which attended its foundation, and the distinguished personages present at the ceremony, will be ever memorable in the annals of this country. A pavilion of vast extent, and of a circular form, was erected on a spot closely adjoining Threadneedle- street, and most tastefully decorated in the interior. In the centre of this enclosure there was a large void space, also of a circular form, round the circumference of which benches rising gradually one above another were placed for the accommodation of the numerous spectators who were fortunate enough to possess tickets of admission. The front rows were partitioned off as reserved seats, and were occupied by individuals eminent for their station in the country, and by the immediate connexions of the highest officers of the corporation, but by far the greatest portion of the occupants of these places consisted of ladies. The floor of the pavilion was covered with crimson cloth, as was likewise the whole of the surrounding benches, the front row being elegantly decorated with festoons. Near the centre of the floor was placed a large stone- block, having a cavity in tho middle to receive the coins, the inscription plate, and other articles, which on occasions of this kind are usually enclosed in the foundation stone. Immediately above this was suspended by ropes, and also supported underneath by four wooden props, another huge block of granite, weighing five tons. Close by this stood two state chairs, one intended for his Royal Highness Prince Albert, and the other for the Lord Mayor. The pavilion, erected by Mr. Edgington, was about 100 feet in circumference, and was intended for the accommodation of 1,450 persons. The entrance to the pavilion was in Cornhill, through a tempo- rary passage, covered over with awning of a pattern similar to the pavilion itself, and which opened into the pavilion beneath a gallery, fitted up for the reception of the band of the 2d Regiment of Life Guards. The front of this gallery was ornamented with escocheons emblazoned with the Royal Arms of England, the arms of Prince Albert, and those of the City of London, of the Mercers' Company, and Sir Thomas Gresham. At about half- past two o'clock, the sound of loud acclama- tions was heard, and immediately afterwards his Royal Highness Prince Albert, accompanied by the Lord Mayor, and followed by most of Her Majesty's Ministers, and all the civic authorities, entered; and the company evinced the high gratification they experienced at the union, upon this important and interesting occasion, of so many noble and distinguished individuals, by a loud clapping of hands. The procession, headed by Prince Albert and the Mayor, had a most splendid appearance as it entered the pavilion. Before his Royal Highness took the seat prepared for him, " God save the Queen" was played by the band, the whole of the company in the pavilion of course standing up, and the gentlemen remaining uncovered. At this moment the Union Jack, which had previouslj floated proudly in the air at the top of the pavilion, was lowered, and the Royal Standard substituted in its place, amidst the cheers of the people. The Prince having taken his place near the stone, Mr. R. L. Jones, the Chairman of the Joint Gresham Committee, handed a glass bottle to his Royal Highness, having previously taken out the stopper. The Master of the Mercers' Company and the Chamberlain of London then presented various coins of the realm, which his Royal Highness received, and put one by one in the glass bottle, together with a medal8 having the head of Her Majesty on the obverse, and an inscription on the reverse. This being done, and the stopper replaced, Prince Albert deposited the bottle in the cavity of tne stone fixed on the ground. A glass brick was then presented by Mr. Barnes, the Cierk of the Mercers' Company, to the Prince, who likewise put it into the cavity, an inscription on the brick explanatory of the occasion of its use having previously been read by Mr. Barnes. Four small glass pillars were likewise inserted by his Royal Highness in four cavities formed to receive them. Mr. Tite, the architect of the New Royal Exchange next read a Latin inscription, with an English translation, engraved on a zinc plate, which he handed to Prince Albert, who deposited it in the stone, placing over the whole another rough plate of the same metal. The following is a translation of the Latin inscription, which is the composition of the Bishop of London " Sir Thomas Gresham, Knight, erected at his own charge a " building and colonade for the convenience of those persons who in " this renowned mart might carry on the commerce of the world^ " adding thereto, for the relief of indigence and for the advancement " of literature aud science an almshouse and college of lecturers, " the eity of London aiding him, Queen Elizabeth favouring the " design, and, when the work was complete, opening it in person " with a solemn procession. Having been reduced to ashes together " with almost the entire city by a calamitous and widely spreading " conflgration, they were rebuilt in a more splendid form by the city " of London and the ancient Company of Mercers, King Charles the " Second commencing the building on the 23d October, A. D. 1667; " and when they had been again destroyed by fire on the 10th " January, A. D. 1838, the same bodies, undertaking the work " determined to restore them at their own cost on an enlarged and " more ornamental plan, the munificence of Parliament providing " the means of extending the site and of widening the approaches " and crooked streets iu every direction, in order that there might " at length arise under the auspices of Queen Victoria, built a third " time from the ground, an Exchange worthy of this great nation aud " city, and suited to the vastness of a commerce extended to the circumference of the habitable globe. His Royal Highness Prince " Albert of Saxe- Coburg and Gotha, Consort of Her Sacred Majesty, " laid the first stone on the 17th January, 1843, in the Mayoralty of " the lit. Hon. John Pirie. Architect, William Tite, F. R. 8. May " GOD our preserver ward off destruction from this building and " from the whole city." Mr. R. L. JONES, the chairman of the committee, holding a splendid silver gilt trowel in his hand, now addressed His Royal Highness Prince Albert to the following effect:— " May it please your Royal Highness, " The committee appointed by the Corporation of the city of London and the Mercers' Company have deputed me, as their chairman, to express to your Royal Highness their pro- found sense of the obligations you have conferred on the citi- zens of London by attending on the present occasion; and I trust that this building, which is about to be formed, will re- main to the latest period a monument of your Royal Highness's kindness and gracious condescension. I hope that, when com- pleted, this edifice will be found of service to the commercial interests of this city, and not unworthy the wealth and character of the metropolis of this empire. I am also deputed to present your Royal Highness with this trowel to aid you to carry your intentions in attending here this day into effect; and I feel no doubt that, when completed, this building will stand a lasting monument of the liberality and good taste of the citizens of London." At the conclusion of this address, Mr. Jones handed the trowel to His Royal Highness. It was of silver gilt. The handle is Anted, terminating at the end with the Royal Crown, connected with the blade by flowing ornaments of beautiful chasing, which was continued round the edges. On one side were the Royal arms and supporters, with an inscription referring to the use to which the trowel was applied, and on the other an eleva- tion of the west front of the building, with the three shields of arms of the Mercers' Company, the city of London, and Sir Thomas Gresham. His Royal Highness taking the trowel, spread some mortar along the surface of the " under stone. The readiness and work- manlike dexterity with which the Prince executed this part of the business seemed to astonish the company, who gave vent to their feelings in a round of cheers. The upper stone was next lowered, by means of machinery fixed outside of the pavilion, and descended slowly and accu- rately into its proper position. A mallet being handed to Prince Albert by Mr. Obbard, his Royal Highness struck the stone twelve times, thrice at each corner, and afterwards proved it to be correctly laid by means of a level and plumb- rule, handed to him by Mr. J. G. Elmes and Mr. G. Anson. The mallet which his Royal Highness used was formed of a block of beautiful oak, presented by the chairman, and was part of one of the great beams of the old Exchange. It was the full size of a mason's mallet, turned and moulded into an elegant form, with a wreath of oak leaves and acorns carved round the base of it, and the Royal Crown terminating the handle. There was asilver plate inserted at the end, with an inscription similar to that on the trowel. The block of oak from which the mallet was made had been actually burnt through in the fire ; and it is an interesting fact, that the stain had extended almost through its substance, although it appeared as hard as the most solid metal. The level and the plumb- rule were of polished Spanish mahogany. All these formalities having been gone through, and the sword and mace placed on the top of the stone, The R& v. Henry THOMAS, the Lord Mayor's chaplain, offered up the following prayer : — " Almighty GOD, the King of nations, who hast raised up great cities until thou hast made their merchants princes and their traffick- ers the honourable of the earth, and hast brought them low again because they have sinned and have not honoured thee with their substance; grant that we, bein<< admonished by their example, may not likewise perish. Thou has clothed our fields with plenty and prospered our commerce; thou has crowned our arms with victory and blessed U3 vrith the happy prospect of the continuance of peace- ful government, by granting us a prince to inherit the throne ; O let not our hearts be lilted up within us, nor pride obtain dominion over us ; but so increase our faith iu thy directing providence, that we may give all the glory of our prosperity to thee, who orderest all things according to the pleasure of thy will. " Bless the undertaking in which we are now engaged, and grant that the structure, thus commenced, may subserve the convenience of man and the honour of thy great name. May our merchants, regarding themselves as stewards of thy bounties, be evtr guided in their acquisition of wealth by thy holy law, conducting ibeir dealings with strict integrity, and never going beyond or defrauding one another. And in their expenditure of honourable gains, may they labour to further the spread of thy gospel upon earth and the well- being and salvation of their fellow- men. Hear and answer this our prayer, most gracious God, for the sake of Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen." " God save the Queen" was then sung, and Prince Albert and the Lord Mayor having bowed to cach other, the proces- sion formed anew and retired in the same order as it entered, amidst the loudest acclamations, which were prolonged by " one cheer more for Sir Robert Peel." THE DINNER. In the evening a sumptuous banquet was given in the Man- sion- house to celebrate the grand event of the day, the Egyptian Hall having been fitted up for the occasion with great splen- dour and magnificence. Immediately after 5 o'clock the Lord Mayor, accompanied by His Royal Highness Prince Albert, the Ministers of State, and the other distinguished guests, left the drawing- room and proceeded to the banquetting- hall, the Earl of Haddington leading the Lady Mayoress, the Duke of Wellington Mrs. H. Melville, and Sir Robert Peel Mis. Fry. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, who was dressed in a fleld- marshall's uniform, looked particularly well, and was, as might be expected, the admired of all observers. The recep- tion hi9 Royal Highness met with was gratifying in the extreme, and such, we may add, was that of Her Majesty's Ministers. We need scarcely mention that the dinner with all its appliances, was of the most recherche description, and gave universal satisfaction. The Rev. H. THOMAS, A. M., Chaplain to the Lord Mayor, said grace before and after dinner. The cloth having been removed, The LORD MAVOR rose and said— May it please your Royal Highness, my Lords and Gentlemen, prompted by sentiments of duty and affection, which I am sure pervade the heart of every one present, I beg to propose the health of our most gracious and beloved Sovereign " The Queen."— Three times three-; followed by " God save the Queen." In proposing the next toast, the LORD MAYOR said— My Lords and Gentlemen, the gracious interference of a merciful Providence, in the partial removal of her sickness, adds much to the happiness which I feel in proposing to you the health of an amiable and illustrious lady who is the object of universal esteem, and for whose perfect restoration we all entertain the deepest anxiety, I beg to propose " Her Majesty the Queen Dowager." Great cheering, followed by Queen Adelaide's favourite march by the instrumental band. The LORD MAYOR then rose and said— My Lords and Gentle- men, I rise with peculiar gratification to propose the health of my distinguished guest, His Royal Highness the Prince Albert ( loud cheers), whose presence on this occasion will, I trust, fully justify the pride which I cannot but feel at his having honoured mo with his company. ( Continued cheers.) His residence in England has not been long, but sufficiently so to enable me declare, that while he would at all times have been received with honour a3 the Consort of our beloved Queen, he is now received with affection and esteem for his own sake. ( Great cheering.) I am sure that you will all agree with me in these sentiments, and willingly join me in wishing " Health and every happiness to His Royal Highness the Prince Albert." Three times three and one cheer more given in the most spirit- stirring manner. His Royal Highness Prince ALBERT, who was greeted with loud and rapturous cheering, then rose and said— My Lord Mayor, Ladies, and Gentlemen, I return my most sincere thanks for this toast, and beg to express to you my lively satis- faction at the kind and flattering manner in which you have received me. ( Cheers.) It must ever be a gratifying recol- lection to me to have, by a trifling act of mine, connected my name with the erection of that important building of which we have laid the first stone to- day— an edifice of which it may truly be said that it will become the heart of the commerce of this great country ( loud clicers)— a country to which I feel myself attached by the dearest ties— a country in which I daily feel myself more at home— a country whose kindness I daily more appreciate. ( Loud cheers.) Again thanking you for the honour you have done me, I beg to propose the health of the Lord Mayor, whose guest I am this day, and the Corporation of the City of London. ( Loud aud protracted cheering.) The LORD MAYOR.— My Lords and Gentleman, I return you my most sincere and grateful thanks for the honour you have now done me, and I can only say that it is my most anxious wish to do my duty faithfully, and at the same time to maintain the character and dignity of that honourable position in which my fellow- citizens have been pleased to place me. ( Great cheering.) The LORD MAYOR, then rose and said— My Lords and Gen- tlemen, my inauguration as the Chief Magistrate of this great city was signalized by an event which spread universal joy throughout the kingdom, the birth of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. I feel, therefore, peculiar pleasure in pro- posing to you the " Health of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, and with him, the rest of the Royal Family." ( Loud and long continued cheering. ) The LORD MAYOR iu giving the next toast said— My Lords and Gentlemen, the next toast which I beg to introduce is the health of the Lord Bishop of the diocese— a prelate who has shown himself most anxious to provide additional churches, and also schools for training up the rising generation in sound religious principles. It is with much pleasure that I propose the health of " The Lord Bishop of London, and the Esta- blished Church." ( Cheers.) The BISHOP of LONDON briefly returned thanks. The LORD MAYOR proposed " The Army and Navy."— The toast was drunk with three time3 three, and followed by " Rule Britannia-") The LORD MAYOR then rose and said— My Lord^ and Gentle- men, the happiness and prosperity of our beloved country, and especially of her merchants, dependa upon the direction of her affairs being in the hands of a talented and powerful Adminis- tration ( cheers) j this benefit I trust we shall for a long time be permitted to enjoy. ( Loud cheers.) With such a Govern- ment as. the present, under the direction of a statesman so able and experienced as the Right Hon. Baronet, we cannot doubt, that with all other important subjects, the prosperity of this ancient city, and of our commerce, will receive the utmost encouragement and protection. ( Continued cheering.) I beg therefore to propose " Long life, health, and happiness, to the Right Hon, Sir Robert Peel, and the rest of Her Majesty's Ministers." The toast was followed by loud and universal acclamation. Sir R. PEEL then rose and said— My Lord Mayor and Gentle- men, on my own behalf, and on that of the other Ministers of the Crown, I beg to return you our cordial and grateful ackhowledgments for the favourable manner in which our health has been received in a company in which I see assem- bled the illustrious and accomplished Prince, the Consort of tho Queen ( loud cheers), the chief municipal authorities of the city of London, and that distinguished class, the merchants and bankers of this city, who have done as much to increase the resources and to support the fame of their native country, even as those gallant defenders of its interests to whom our acknowledgments were last paid, ( Loud cheers.) Gentlemen, it was most gratifying to us to have the opportunity of wit- nessing the important ceremony of this day. It was impossible not to feel that that contracted spot on which we stood is again destined to be, as it has been before, the centre of attraction to which the commerce of the world will gravitate. ( Cheers.) It was impossible not to feel that it was the spot to which the traffickers of all nations will resort, where they will obliterate national antipathies and national jealousies ( cheers), and will form those engagements which constitute new guarantees for the general tranquillity of the world. ( Loud cheers.) Gentle- men, his Royal Highness, this day, has laid the foundation, not merely of an edifice dedicated to commerce, he has laid the foundation of a temple of peace ( loud cheers); and it is the earnest wish of Her Majesty's Government that the future progress and destiny of that edifice may correspond with the favourable auspices under which this day its foundations have been laid. ( Loud cheers.) Gentlemen, on the part of my colleagues in the Government, I again return you our respect- ful and cordial acknowledgments for the honour you have done us, and beg to drink all your good healths. ( Loud and con- tinued cheering.) The LORP MAYOR in proposing the next toast said— MyLords and Gentlemen, I have now to advert to the interesting cere- mony which has taken place this day. It is nearly three pentunes since, under Royal patronage and encouragement, a splendid edifice was erected for the accommodation of British merchants. As this is not the first time that the Royal Exchange has been destroyed by fire, and hitherto nobler structures have succeeded to the old, so now I trust that the foundation of a building has been laid which will fully accord with the magnitude of our commercial operations. The completion of the present under, taking will be hailed by the great mercantile establish- ments whose representatives I have now the Honour to see around me, aud I have no doubt will be a matter of equally high gratification to my distinguished guests. Your Royal Highness, my Lords, and Gentlemen, will you join me in drinking " Pros- perity to the New Royal Exchange and the Trade of the City of London," and in connection with this toast the " Health of the noble ISarl the President of the Board of Trade?" ( The toast was followed by three times three.) The Earl of RIPON acknowledged the compliment. The Lord MAYOR then rose and said— My Lords and Gentle- men, I have now the honour to propose to you the health of Field Marshal his Grace the Duke of Wellington—( loud cheers) — whom 1 have the extreme gratification to see at this table, and who, whether as a warrior or a statesman, is justly entitled to the admiration and gratitude of his country. ( Continued cheers.) On an occasion like the present we cannot but remember with feelings of gratitude, that to his Grace the Duke of Wellington the citizens of London are indebted for the grant of £ 1,000,000 sterling for pufelic improvements in their ancient city. ( Cheers.) I would join with this illus- trious person the second power of the state, that august assembly from whose collective wisdom our free and noble constitution has derived such important benefits. " Field Marshal his Grace the Duke of Wellington and the House of Peers." The toast was received with three times three, and one cheer more, given in the most enthusiastic manner. The Duke of WELLINGTON then rose and said— My Lord Mayor and Gentlemen, I beg leave to return you my thanks for the honour you have done me in drinking my health, and for the manner in which this company has thought proper to receive its proposal by the Lord Mayor. This, my Lord, is not the proper time to revert to the actions nnd circumstances of a former period of my life to which your Lordship has alluded. We have met here this day to celebrate, promote, and perpetuate the arts and advantages of peace ;—( loud cheers)— and I trust that I shall never again hear in my time of the celebration of the arts of war. ( Continued cheers.) Your Lordship has been pleased to include in the toast which you have just pro- posed, " the House of Lords." On the part of my colleagues who are members of that house, I beg to return you our best thanks for your attention. The House of Lords is essentially the Conservative branch of the constitution of this country, and I hope that, in modern times at least, it has fulfilled the objects of its institution. ( Loud cheers.) My Lords and Gentlemen, I was much gratified on receiving the Lord Mayor's invitation to attend in the city upon this occasion ; and I sin- cerely hope that the building of which his Royal Highness has been graciously pleased this day to lay the foundation, may prove not only a monument of the arts worthy of this great nation, and of the taste of his Royal Highness, but likewise a permanent convenience to the commerce of the country and of the world. ( Long continued cheering.) Sir R. PEEL rose and proposed the health of the Lady Mayoress, with three times three. ( Great cheering.) The Lord MAYOR then rose and said— My Lords and Gentle- men, I feel grateful to you for the honour you have done the Lady Mayoress in drinking her health. I think I may venture to say that her great desire is to be useful in her station, not only in dispensing the proper hospitalities of this house, but also in administering comfort and relief as far as lies in her power to those who are in distress. ( Great cheering,) The ladies then retired. The Lord MAYOR afterwards rose and said— My Lords and Gentlemen, I have next the honour to propose to you the health of the Representatives of the People in the Commons House of Parliament, and I feel great pleasure in connecting with them the name of the Noble Lord the Secretary for the Colo- nies, " The Right Hon. Lord Stanley, and the House of Com- mons." ( Loud and universal cheering.) Lord STANLEY replied to the toast in an eloquent address. The Lord Mayor shortly afterwards left the chair, accom- panied by his Royal Highness Prince Albert, who, after partaking of tea in the Long Parlour, left the Mansion House about nine o'clock, amidst the enthusiastic cheering of the dense mass who had congregated outside. The Cabinet Ministers were abo loudly cheered on leaving the Mansion House. Horictilttiral EntelUoence, HINTS FOR AGRICULTURISTS.— In making choice of gra s seeds, those farmers who take into account the nature of the land on which they are to be sown, act more rationally than those who purchase seeds because such and such happen to be in general fame or are new. Large quantities of land are changing crops every year, and a large portion is laid down with grass; hence it becofaes a matter of importance, not only to individuals, but to all, to bestow attention on this branch of rural economy. Should a farmer not be acquainted with the seeds that will suit his land, let him, before he makes his purchases at least, ascertain correctly the nature of his land, and any respectable seedsman will direct him to the proper description of seed. The earth is decked out with a pleasing, and no doubt an indispensable variety of grasses. Some of these love a soil that is inclined to moisture, others require a dry situation; yet we sometimes see seeds of all kinds, good and bad, scattered upon the same field. " A small degree of reflection," says an agriculturist on this subject, " will teach us that vegetables, as well as animals, have a choice of soil. Therefore to stock our warm and dry lands with seeds produced upon wet meadows is no less absurd than if the farmer were to bring down his sheep into the marshes, and seud his bullocks to the hills." Here it is that a know- ledge of botany proves useful to the farmer. Let not the humble husbandman start at the mention of this science, for the smallest acquaintance with it is sufficient for bis pur- poses ; and indeed there exists no necessity for him to know, it technically, would he note with all diligence the operations of nature, for doing which he possesses so great an oppor- tunity ; and as nature is always uniform in her actions, there arises no small pleasure to those who have been " prevailed upon to trace her along the walks she delights to tread." It is a pity to see excellent land over- run with the wild ranun- culus, or some species of coarse grass, yet such may be seen; and it is evident in such cases, that land of poor nature, judiciously laid down, will produce more and give the culti- vator more satisfaction, whilst it materially adds to his credit, which is no mean recommendation. Learned men have made some interesting inquiries relative to the taste of animals. The following summary of their researches, formed by the Rev. Robert Peirson, will at least be amusing if not useful to the husbandman— to the inquirer after these matters it will be doubly grateful:—" It is not only curious but necessary for the practical farmer to be able to find out the natural taste of his cattle. Of this ht may soon make himself acquainted, without entering deeply into the science of botany. Cows, horses, and sheep, all differ in their tastes, and are more partial to one sort of grass than another; and no wonder when every plant delights in its proper soil; nay every insect has its own peculiar plant to feed upon. Linnaeus reckons up above two thousand experiments, made by himself and his friends on the tastes of animals. He gives us tables not only of the number of plants each animal eats or refuses, but the names of the plants themselves. The former may be grateful to the reader, but the latter could not be compressed into a reasonable compass :— Oxen eat 276 but refuse 218 plants. Goats „ 449 „ 126 „ Sheep „ 387 „ 141 „ Horses,, 262 „ 212 „ Swine „ 72 „ 171 „ 1446 863 In many cases we see pastures only half eaten, and with large patches of barreu grass, as rough and unsightly to animals as coarse food is to the pampered of our own species. What is the cause of this ? The fact is, that for neglecting the material point of suiting the palates of our cattle, grasses odious to the taste and barren in themselves overrun and destroy the good. We name the following species of grass as most unsuitable:— The carex tribe— these infest marshy parts of meadows; the bent and hard meadow grasses; the mat grass is bad for sheep walks; but above all the quick- grass is the plague of the husbandman. So much for grasses, and the care necessary in selecting them. The next subject on which we beg to offer a few hints is that of manures. We have lately had submitted to us the annexed method of dividing manures, or rather, classification of them, and we are the more inclined to make them known as extensively as possible because the object of manure is little known or understood, — that is scientifically. If however the farmer will keep the four ideas in his mind, as to the nature of the articles men- tioned, he may perhaps be preserved on the one hand from ever falling iulo the error of falsely applying his manures, and on the other from serious disappointment at the conse- quence. Manures may be divided into four kinds. 1. Such as give nourishment only, as rape- dust, soot, malt- dust, oil- compost, blood- compost, pigeon- dung, and all hand- dressings. 2. Such as give nourishment and add to the soil, as horse- dung, cow- dung, human ordure, decayed animal and vegetable substances. 3 Such as open the soil aud do not nourish in their own nature, as lime, light marls, sand, aud vegetable ashes. 4. Such as stiffen the soil, and at the same time nourish a little, as clay, clay marls, and earth. A careful attention to the above few remarks, though general ones, with a few careful observations upon the openness, stiffness, and depths of our soils, will go farther to enable the farmer to lay- down a " rational system of cultivation." It is perhaps too sweeping and unkind to say that all the fanner needs is rationality in his views and operations; but still we think that cultivators of land too seldom reason upon their various employments; at all events there is a marked difference between their modes of working and acting and those of the gardener— we mean as to inquiring into cause and effect. Notwithstanding, we may cougratulate " our brethren of the plough," on account of the happy changes which have taken place and are yet taking place throughout the country iu husbandly operations. Though much remains to be effected, yet the happy results of the exertions of our farmers are too frequently underrated, aud they need to be spoken of in a tone of considerate encouragement.— Correspondent of the Preston Pilot. OYSTER SHELL MANURE.— Poinded oyster shells have been advantageously employed as a mauure on light lands, drilled in with turnip seed at the rate of forty bushels an acre, and this quantitj has, in Norfolk, been found equal to eight tons of farm yard dung an acre. They have also been beneficially used for wheat; four hundred weight of oyster shells and the same quantity of rape dust have proved of equal efficacy. CORN AVERAGES.— At the present juncture, the following table of the average prices of wheat, barley, and oats, during the last seven years, will, doubtless, prove interesting and valuable:— YEARS. To Christmas, To Christmas, To Christinas, To Christmas, To Christmas, To Christmas, To Christmas, 1835 1836 1837 1838 1839 1840 1841 Wheat per Im- perial Bushel. Barley per Im- perial Bushel. s. d. s. d. 7 3 m 6 B| 3 11| 6 5f 3 ll| 6 3 9$ 6 0 3 U| ( i Of 4 1 7 4 4 2 S « i - a O iof Hi FIRE AT WOBURN ABBEY— On the evening of the 13th instant, a fire was discovered in one of the servants' rooms at Woburn Abbey. The floor was much burnt, but within half an hour the fire was subdued without any con- siderable damage. The activity and coolness of the servants essentially contributed lo the extinction of the flames, or the injury might have teen much greater.— Globe. Iu reference to the above table, it will be seen that the average prices of wheat, barley, and oats, have been higher during the past year, than at any period siuce 1834. This, however, has been wholly owing to the comparative deficiency obseived in the growth of 1841; yet the figures of 7s. 3fd. for wheat, 4s. 2d. for barley, and 2s. lljd. for oats, fully prove that the actual falling off has not been to that extent which has been represented in some quarters, HOPS. WORCESTER, JAN. 20.— There is nothing doing in our Hop market, only one pocket having passed the public scales since our last. BOROUGH, JAN. 17.— A fair demand for best Hops, in pockets, on full terms; but little doing in other kinds.— East Kent, in pockets, £ 7.5s. to £ 10.; ditto, iu bags, £ 6.15s. to £ 9. 5s.; Mid Kent, in pockets, £ 7. to £ 9. 8s.; ditto, in bags, £ 7. to £ 8.; Weald of Kent, in pockets, £ 6. to £ 6. 15s.; Sussex, in pockets, £ 5 to £ 5. 10s. FAIRS. WORCESTER.— Our fair on Monday last was badly supplied with all descriptions of stock, no doubt from the bad state of the roads. Beef sold at from 6d. to 6± d.; aud Mutton from 6^ d. to 7d. A fair inquiry for store stock, but little offering. The following is the number of animals brought to market:—- Beasts, 244; Sheep, 631 ; Calves, 20; Horses, 70; Pigs, 59. OSWESTRY.— This fair, held on Tuesday, was well supplied. Mutton was lower, the best scarcely exceeded 6d. per lb. Fat pigs were a shade lighter, and sold atSjd. per lb. Stores declined in prices. SHREWSBURY.— The supply of fat Beasts iu this fair was small, for which there were many customers, and were quickly bought up, at from 6d. to 6| d. per lb. Cows and Calves scarce, and high in price. Store oxen met a dull sale. CHIPPENHAM.— A limited supply at this fair, but a good demand for stores, at high prices. Good fat beef sold from 10s. to 10s. 6d. per score. Mutton, 6d. to 6| d. per lb.— About 30 tons of cheese pitched, and nearly all sold. Thin, 40s. to 50s. per cwt.; broad, 50s. to 56s.; truckles, 56s. to 60s. MELKSHAM A good supply and fair demand. Beef fetched 9s. 6d. to Us. per score. Mutton, 6d. to 7d. per lb. FAIR IN THE ENSUING WEEK. Warwickshire. — Alcester, Tuesday. Agricultural anB otljer fttiarUets. CORN EXCHANGE, MARK- LANE, MONDAY, JAN. 17. The fresh arrival of Wheat of home produce was small to- day, yet the stands were fairly supplied with samples. The atten- dance of buyers being small, the demand for even the finest qualities was very dull, at a decline in the prices noted on thi9 day week. A good supply of foreign Wheat, and the best Dantzic was sold at Is. cheaper ; other sorts 2s. lower than last week. Good Barley fetched late prices ; but the inferior kinds were a mere drug. The Malt trade was very dull at lower prices. Best Oats sold readily at an advance of from 6d. per quarter: little done in other sorts. No alteration in Beans or Peas. Flour barely maintained previous currencies. CURRENT PRICES OF GRAIN. Per qr. Per qr. Wheat, Essex, Kent, & Suffolk Red - - 56 to 70 White - - - 63 Norfolk & Lincoln Red - 61 White, do. do. - - 61 Northumberland Scotch Red White, do. Irish, Red, old - Ditto, new Ditto, White - Rye, old Ditto, new Brank Barley, Grinding - Distilling Malting . and - 56 - 63 - 36 - 40 - 32 - 28 - 33 - 35 Malt, Brown - - 48 Pale - - 61 Ware - - - 67 Beans, Ticks, old & new 34 Harrow - - 41 Pigeon - - 47 Peas, Grey - - 37 Maple - - 38 White - - 41 Oats, Lincolnshire and Yorkshire feed - - 24 Poland - - 26 Scotch, new Angus - 26 Potatoe - - 26 Irish, White - - 17 Black - - 23 FLOUR. Per2801bs. net s. s. | Per 3801bs. net s. s. Town- made Flour ... 60 a 65 Norfolk and Stockton ... 52 a 53 Essex and Kent 52 a 55 Irish — a — WEDNESDAY, JAN 19. g The arrivals of all grain since Monday are short. The fog was so dense this morning as to prevent business, and prices remain nominally the same as on Monday. The following are the arrivals since Saturday niqht English Irish. Foreign. Wheat 960 Barley 3370 Oats 2510 4950 Flour 1770 Malt .. .. 1720 2480 PRICES OF CORN, AND DUTY. Wheat Barley Oats Rye Beans Peas Average Price. 63s. Od. 24s. 8.1. 29 7 16 10 20 7 15 3 39 9 6 6 36 0 14 0 35 10 14 0 Duty on Foreign Corn. s. s. Turnip, White, per bush 12 to 15 Red ana Green- 13 14 Mustard, Brown - 10 14 White - 9 13 Canary, per quarter - 88 105 Cinque Foin, ditto - 30 36 Rye Grass, ditto - 29 34 Tares, New, per bush. 6s 7s 6d Old. ditto 4s 6d 5s 6d Trefoil, per cwt - 37 37 Rape Cakes, Eng. pr ton 135 140 Foreign do. 135 140 Rapeseed, per last - £ 36 40 Coriander - 15 21 SEED MARKET, JAN. 17. Per cwt. s. 8. Clover, Red English - 70 to 90 White - — — Foreign Red - 70 90 White - — — New English, Red - — — Ditto, White - — — Carraway - 53 54 Hempseed, per - 46 48 Linseed, ditto - 53 58 Sowing ditto - 58 60 Linseed Cakes— English per 1000 £ 13 0sto£ 13 5g Foreign per ton £ 9 Os to £ 10 0a EXTENSIVE EMBEZZLEMENT.— Samuel Heywood was charged, at the Salford sessions, with embezzling, on the 23d of July last, the sum of £ 50, the property of the Manchester, Bolton and Bury Railway Company. The prisoner pleaded guilty. It appeared that the prisoner had been employed as a clerk at the Manchester station of the Manchester and Bolton Railway. On Saturday, the 4th of December, he obtained leave of absence till Monday, saying that he was going on private business to Nantwich. He did not return on the appointed day, and being still absent on the following Wednesday, Captain Hawkshavv, the principal manager, began to suspect that all was not right, and mentioned the circumstance to Mr. Diggles, deputy- constable of Salford. Mr. Diggles sent an officer over to Nantwich, but Heyvvood was not to be found. Afterwards, Captain Hawkshaw directed the prisoner's private drawer at the office to be broken open, and in it was found a letter in his handwriting, addressed to his wife, stating that he had defrauded the company to a great amount, and finding that detection was becoming unavoidable, he had absconded, with the intention of going to America. On the following Mon- day, an officer was despatched to Liverpool in search of him, and on Tuesday morning, he was apprehended on board a vessel which had just cleared the port for Philadel. phia. Subsequent to his apprehension, it was ascertained that lie was a defaulter to the extent of more than £ 1200.—• He was sentenced to be transported for ten years. LONDON WOOL MARKET, JAN. 17. The best British Wools still command a ready sale, on full as good terms as of late; but in other kinds little passing. Very little varia- tion either in the demand or price of foreign Wools. Down Tegs, Is. 3d, to Is. 4d.; half- bred ditto, Is. 2jd. to Is. 4d.; Down Ewes and Wethers, Is. Oid. to Is. l| d. Leicester Hogs, Is. to Is. 3d. SMITHFIELD CATTLE MARKET, JAN. 17. The supply of Beasts being less than that exhibited on Monday last, and the attendance of both London and country buyers some- what numerous, the Beef trade was renovated, and theprimest Scots, Devons, Runts, and Herefords were readily taken off at an advance of about 2d. per 8 lbs.; but in other qualities no variation was noticed. At the market's close nearly, or quite, the whole of the Beasts were disposed of. The numbers of Sheep were, on the whole, extensive, while the sale for them was heavy, and the Kents, Kentish half- breds, and Leicesters were certainly lower, though not to any extent. The highest figure for the half- breds was 4s. 6d. per 8 lbs. and this was not obtained without considerable difficulty. Very few CalvcH were offering, and higher prices were realized lor them. Pigs were in brisk inquiry at their quotations. The receipts of both Beasts and Sheep from Scotland were small. PRICES TER STONE OF 8LBS. TO SINK TUB OFFAL. S d S d Inferior Boasts 3 8 3 10 Second quality ditto 4 0 4 3 Prime large Oxen.... 4 4 4 6 Prime Scots, & c 4 8 4 10 Large coarse Calves 4 8 4 10 Prime small ditto.... 5 0 5 6 s d s Inferior Sheep 3 6 3 8 Second quality ditto 3 10 4 O Coarse- woolled ditto 4 3 4 6 Prime Southdown.. 4 8 4 10 Large Hogs 4 6 4 10 Small Porkers 5 0 5 3 Quarter old Pigs .. 16 0 23 0 Suckling Calves, each 30 0 39 0 SUPPLY, AS PER CLERK'S STATEMENT. Beasts. 1 Sheep. I Calves. I Pigs. 2,470 I 25,984 | 70 | 513 WORCESTER, JAN. 21. We had a pretty good supply of Wheat on Saturday, but there was not much business transacted, farmers holding for former rates which the millers were generally unwilling to give. Some samples were disposed of at a reductiou of Is. to Is. 6d. per quarter. Barley unaltered in value, with an improvement in the demand for malting qualities. Good Oats were much in request, but few were offering; secondary qualities were difficult of disposal. Beans and Peas were inquired for at 32s. to 34s. per qr. for the former, and 30s to 35S. for the latter. s d 8 d. Oats, English, old.,.. 3 3 3 9 Ditto, ditto, new .... 0 0 0 0 Ditto, Foreign 3 0 3 3 Beans, old 5 0 5 3 Ditto, new 4 0 4 4 Peas, feed 4 0 4 4 Peas, boiling 4 6 5 0 Vetches 6 0 6 6 s d s d 8 0 8 3 0 0 0 0 7 8 8 0 0 0 0 0 Wheat, white, old Ditto, new Ditto, red, old ... Ditto, new Barlev, old, Malting.. 0 0 0 0 Barley, new 3 6 3 9 Malt". 7 0 7 9 Rye 4 6 5 6 INSPECTOR'S WEEKLY RETURN OF CORN SOLD. Total quail Av. per qr. j Total quail. Av. per ir. Wheat 1006ur. 7bu. £ 3 3 11J Rye ... 0 qr 0 bu. JL'( 0 0 Barley. 417 5 1 8 10* Beans . 17 2 1 16 2 Oats. . 0 0 0 0 0 I Peas . . 18 6 1 13 7 HEREFORD, JAN. 15. s d s d s < 1 s < I Wheat per bus. 7 9 to 8 0 Peas .. 3 6 lo 4 0 Barley, malting .. 3 0 3 9 Oats .. 2 9 3 6 Barley, grinding 0 0 0 0 Ditto, ( old) .. 0 0 0 0 Beans 5 3 6 0 GLOUCESTER, JAN. 15. 8 d S d s d s d Baltic Red - 0 0 0 0 Wheat per bushel, 7 9 8 0 Oats, Irish white, English red - - per quarter - - 20 0 23 0 White - - - - 7 9 8 2 Black - - - - 0 0 0 0 Irish Red - - - 0 0 0 0 Barley, grinding - 25 0 28 0 Dantzic - - - - 0 0 0 0 Malting - 27 0 32 0 Russian hard - - 0 0 0 0 Beans, English old 5 0 5 fi Soft 0 0 0 0 New ditto - 4 3 4 6 SHREWSBURY, JAN. 15. s d s d S d s 0 Wheat 5 9 7 11 Oats .. .. 1 6 to 3 6 Ditto new 0 0 0 0 Oats, New .. 0 0 0 0 Barley, Malting 2 7 3 9 LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE, JAN. 18. There was a limited sale this morning, for choice parcels of old red Wheat, at about the rates of last Tuesday , but all other qualities were offered Id. to 2d. per 70 lbs, cheaper. Flour was also 6d. per barrel lower. No change in the value of Oats or Oatmeal; 3s. Id. per 45 lbs. was paid lor a choice lot of north of Ireland Oats, and 28s. per load for the best Meal. tooltoent antr Bankrupt tUgieter. FRIDAY, JANUARY 14, 184 1. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Wilkes and Icke, Shrewsbury, grocers. Laut and Best, Birmingham, brassfounders. INSOLVENTS. Jan. 13.— James Grant Smith, Bath, common- brewer. Jan. 13.— John Cussett, Blackfriar's- road, Surrey, jeweller. BANKRUPTS. William Henry Apsey, Globe- wharf, Rotherhithe, ship- breaker, to surrender Feb. 27. Benjamin Ward, Charlotte- terrace, New- cut, Lambeth, boot and shoe- manufacturer, Feb. 35. George Novra, Re< l Lion- square, importer of foreign goods, Feb. 25. John and John Denniss, Tooley- atreet, Surrey, linen- drapers, Jan. 28. Edward and Andrew Evans, Birmingham, painters, Jan. 24. Amor and Amor Spoor, Newcastle- upon- t'yne, builders, Feb. 14. John Ellison, Leeds, nail- manufacturer, Feb. 4. William Povey, Ashton- under- Lyne, grocer, Jan. 27. Joseph Lane, sen., Stockport, cotton- manufacturer, Jan. 25. Humphrey Tugwell, Fawley, Southampton, farmer, Jan. 21. William Carpenter, Chippenham, Wiltshire, innkeeper, Feb. 9. John Sutcliffe, Halifax, \ 01kshire, grocer, Feb. 3. Samuel and William Thompson Clough, Ecclestone, Lancashire, alkali- manufacturers, Jan. 25. Robert Wilcock, Curtmel, Lancashire, banker, Jan. 27. DIVIDEND. Feb. 11, J. Brooks, Bristol, British- sugar- manufacturer. TUESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1841. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. J. Webb and C. Adcock, Birmingham, mercers. G. Tate and T. Willmott, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, surgeons. It. B. Portal and J. Welch, Birmingham aud Aston, druggists. Gumbley and Tye, Birmingham. BANKRUPTS. George Bishop, St. Mary- axe, merchant, to surrender Feb. I. John Burnie, Tokenhouse- yard, merchant, Feb. 4. Charles Garrard English, St. James'- street, Pall- mail, hotel- keeper. Feb. 1. Benjamin Bradshaw and George Richardson, Wortley- lane, near Leeds, canvas- manufacturers, Jan. 25. Robert Ulough, and Bartholomew Maziere Galan, Poulton- cum- Seacombe, Cheshire, alkali- rnanufacturers, Feb. 1. Francis William Hartley, Halifax, Yorkshire, chymist, Jan. 28. Thomas Buckle, Barnard Castle, Durham, draper," Jan. 27. Thomas Gidden, l-' arringdon, Berkshire, licensed- victualler, Jan. 31. Robert Parish Busk, Leeds, machine- maker, Feb. 4. Johu Edmund Hall aud Henry Toone, Nottingham, lace- manu- facturers, Jan. 27. Henry Sunderland and George Wrigge, Huddersfield and Halifax, dealers in cotton- warps, Feb. 4. George Cbadvvick Heywood, Lancashire, publican, Feb. 7. John Henry Robberds and Starling Day, Taverham, Norfolk, paper- makers, Feb. 1. 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