PBIMTEP BY W. & EPDOWES, • MARKET. This Paper is circulated in the most expeditious Manner through the adjoining Counties of ENGLAND and WALKS. dvertixemeuts not exceeding Ten Lines, inserted at Six Shillings each. PELICAN LIFE INSURANCE OFFICE, LONDON, 1797. rpHE COMPANY continue to effect JL INSURANCES on LIVES at equitable Rates, without Entrance Money or any additional Premium for Sea- risk in decked Vessels to or from the British Isles, or to or from the opposite Line of Coast be- tween the Texel and Havre- de- o- raee included— and to grant and purchase ANNUITIES under a special Act of Parliament. Agents are appointed in all the Cities and principal Towns in the United Kingdom. THOMAS PARKE, Secretary. COMPANY S AGENTS AT Shrewsbury - Shi final - - Bridgnorth Worcester - - Macclesfield - Mr. Thomas Howell ; Mr. Gilbert Brown ; Mr. Behj. Partridge - Messrs. Smith & Parker; Mr. D. Hall. 1828. rpO COVER, this Season, at ASTON JL HALL, near Oswestry, SIR CHARLES, At Two Sovereigns, and Five Shillings the Groom. He was got hy Sir Charles, by Sorcerer, out of Wowski, by Mentor, Waxy's Dam, by Herod,; Sir Chyrles is out of a Gustavus Mare, Grand dam by Bow. drow, Great Granddam by Royal Slave, Great- great Granddam by Torrismond, & C. aud his Sire is own Brother to Sinolensko, Thunderbolt, & c. & c. SIR CHARLES is a fine Dark- bay, with Black Legs, nearly sixteen Hands high, of very great Bone, excel- lent Temper, and beautiful Symmetry, has proved him- self a capital Hunter ( equal to great Weights), a sure Foal- getter, his Slock is very promising, aud equal to that of any Horse in the Kingdom. The Groom's Fee to be paid at the Time of Cohering, and the other al Midsummer, or Ten Shillings will be added. Good Grass for Mares, at Five Shillings per Week. ANTISCORBUTIC DROPS. GENTLEMEN, Y Son has been afflicted with a Scor butic Complaint for upwards of Eleven Years, and during that Period has been more or less under ihe Care of the iuo « t respectable Professional Men, and by some of ihein deemed incurable. He had at one Time not less than Sixteen Wounds oil his Leg. Hearing of your Medicine, I bought a 2s. 9d Bottle of the Diops at Messrs. M. Turner and Co.' s in ibis Town, in No ember, 1825, and after taking Twelve of these " small Bottles, it it with great Pleasure 1 inform you they have made a perfect Cure of him. 1 remain, Gentlemen, yours, respectfully, EDW. PRESTON Hull, August 11, 1826 — Cent per Cent Street. Witness, JOHN RAYNER. To > le » srs. LIGNUM £& SON, Surgeons, Manchester. THIS DAY. HHHE Creditors of JONAH JONES, S. late of DAWLEY GREEN, in the County of Salop, Fanner ( deceased), who have executed the Deed of Assignment made by liiin ill his Life- time for their Benefit, are requested to meet Mr. LEVI SHEPHERD, the surviving Assignee named iu such Assignment, at ( In* Elephant and Castle Inn, at Dawley Green afore- said, on Wednesday, the Seventh Day of May next, nt Three o'clock in the Afternoon, when a Statement of ihe Affairs of the sftid JONAH JONES ( connected with the said Assignment) will he laid before them. WILLIAM NOCK, Solicitor to the said Assignee. WELLINGTON, APRIL 14,1S28. ALL Persons having any Claim or De- mand upon the Fstate of WILLIAM SMITH, late of SAINT JOHN'S HILL, in this Town, Esquire, deceased, are requested to send the Particulars thereof to me, in Order that the same may tie examined by the Executors, and ( if correct) di » . charged : And all Persons indebted to ihe Deceased, either upon Bond or Personal Security, are requested ID pay the Amount of their Debts to nie without Delay. J. W. WATSON, Solicitor to the Executors. SIIREWSBORY, Q9TII APRIL, 1828. SNOW DON. rg^ o COVER, THIS SEASON ( 1828), at HL PIMLEY, two Miles from Shrewsbury, aud at Mr. CLAY'S Veterinary Infirmary, WEM, THE CELEBRATED GREY HORSE Thorough- bred Mares Five Guineas, other Mares Three Guineas • Groom's Fee, Five Shillings. SNOVVDON was got by Skiddaw ( own Brother to Goliimpus, Medley, and Wanderer), out of a Delpini Mare, her Dam Miss Cog- den by Plicenomenon— Young- Mai ske— Silvio— Daphne — Reg- ul us. SNOW DON is allowed by experienced Judges to possess as fine Symmetry and Strength as any Horse in the Kingdom; with excellent Temper and robust Health ; and his Stock, now four Years old, are of the most promising Description. For his Performances on the Turf, see the Racing Calendar. SNOVVDON will serve Mares at WEM on Thursdays, and at SHREWSBURY on Saturdays; the Rest of his Time he will be at PIMLEY. *#* Good Grass ( and Corn, if required) for Mares atPimley, and every Care taken of them. All Demands to be paid at Midsummer, or Half- a- Guinea extra to be charged. , 1828. These Drops are sold in moulded square Boltles at 2s. 9d. 4*. rt'l. aud lis. each, by John Lignum Sou, Surgeons, Manchester; VV.&. J. Eddowes, Shrewsbury; Davie*, Northwich; Reeves, Middlewich; Lindop, Jl> a ud bach ; Poole and Harding, Chester; Painter, Wrexham; Baugh, Ellesmere ; Smith, Ironbridge ; G. Gittou, Bridgnorth; Fennel, Kidderminster ; Colt- inan, Stourbridge ; liiuton, Dudley; Smart, Wolver- hampton ;. aud all respectable Medicine Venders in every Market Town, price only 2s. 9d. each box. Of whom also may be had, Mr. Lignum's Improved VEGETABLE LOTION, for ul! Scorbutic Eruptions, price 2s. 9d. Duty included. Mr, Lignum's SCURVY OINTMENT may now be had of the above Agents, price Is. 9d. each Pot, Duty iucltrded. THE ROMANCE OF HISTORY. ENGLAND.— BY HENRY NEELB.— 3 VOLS. We are aware of no medium of instruction more delightful, or more deserving of the most extensive encouragement, than that which is adopted iu this work ;- and now, that a new and improved edition is just published, we introduce it to the notice of our readers, by extracting a description of its Character from The Times: — " The plan of this work is novel, and of a very interesting description. It is the realization of that which has been often said, and often felt, that the events with which the history of this and of every olher country are thickly strewn, are, in themselves, far more romantic than the happiest inventions of the most ingenious novelists and poets. Mr. Neele has seleeied such points in the domestic annals of England as were best calculated to'make out this design, and, without any considerable departure from historical truth, has con verted the incidents he has chosen into very delightful tales Particular parts of the history of England are believed to have been read aud under- stood, through hir Walter Scull's Novels, by persons who otherwise might have died in ignorance of the events to which they relate. Mr. Neele's Work is better calculated than any other we have ever seen to accomplish a similar object. The tales are arranged chronologically ; a certain number allotted to the reign of each monarch since the Conquest, and a short historical summary of the leading events of the reign, is pre6xed to each. " The materials for Mr. Neele's work have not been selected from the more ordinary and well known sources. He appears to have read very diligently the older chronicles of England and France, and those poetical romances which are almost the only speci- mens of the literature of the age before that in w hich we commonly place the revival of modern learning His tales by these means are valuable illustrations of English manners at the various periods to which they relate, and, in their way, striking commentaries on the history of the country. The stories are full of variety and incident, and it is difficult to point out which are best deserving of notice. The tale entitled " Ryd Pencarn" is extreme- ly well managed. It is founded on the old Welsh prophecy that Cambria should fall, when a mighty kingywith a freckled face, should cross the ford called Ryd Pencarn. Henry II. answered this description so fully, as to excite the terrors of the Welsh bards for the fate of their country ; and it so happens that lyy the means they devise for preventing his passage, lie is driven contrary to his intention to cross the fatal ford. 44 The Three Palmers''' is also an excellent story, and is founded chiefly on the accidents relating to Richard Cceur de Lion's being taken prisoner in Austria, and his escape, as they appear in the old romance. 4t The Starry Tower " which relates to the death of Pedro the Cruel, is excellently told. In " The Legend of AgincourtJ' most affecting use is made of the incident of putting the French prisoners to death ; and in 44 Richmond's Three Perils" an interest, and lustre is given to the character of Henry VII which, iu the strictness of historical truth, can hardly be said to belong to him. Mr. Neele, however does more justice to the character of that sordid tyrant in the next tale— 44 The While Rose of England which is founded on the attempt of Perkin Warbeck to personate the rightful heir to the throne. The main incident in 44 ihe Rings'''' turns on the artifice by which the beautiful wife of the Count de Chateau- briand was induced lo come to the profligate Court of Francis the Fust, and her consequent ruin. This, and one or two other tales, do not belong, strictly speak- jug, to English history ; but they are so ingeniously connected with it, and so admirably treated, as lo feuiove the objection if it be one. ' « The work is an extremely interesting one, and as the histories of oilier countries are not less romantic than our own, we shall be glad lo see the plan, which seems to be announced in the title- page, carried into effect, and some of the striking events belonging to the neighbouring nations, treated in as able and as popular a form as those which arc contained in the yoluiaeg before us/* WILL COVER MARES, at the Bear Inn, Hod net ; Thorough bred at Five Guineas and a Half each, Hunting Mares at Three Guineas and a Crown each, the Groom's Fee to be paid at the Time of Covering. STREPUON was got by Rubens ( the largest and best Thorough- bred Stallion iri England), his Dam Nyniphi- na, by Gouty, Son of Sir Peter, out of Sir Frank Standish's Yellow Mare, Madameoiselle by Diomed ( the Winner of the Derby,) Belle by Justice, Son of King Herod, Old Marske ( the Sire of Eclipse), Susan by Bajazet, Son of the Godot phi n Arabian, and his Great- great- great- grept Granddam by Reg-. ul. us, also i Son of the Godolphin Arabian, ( which won eight King' Plates, and two other Prizes in one Year, and was never beat), out of Lord Chedworlh'g famous Mixbury Mare STREPHON is a Blood- bay w ith short Black Legs, full 15 Hands 3 Inches high, beautiful in bis Forehand and Symmetry throughout, has very great Power, with truly good Constitution, ( of which he has given most ample Proof iu his Running,) and he is now in the highest Health. STREPHON, at three Years old, won 180 Guineas at Newmarket, 1* 25 and 25 Guineas at Maddington, (> 5 Guineas at Abingdon, 50 Guineas and the Savertiake anil Forest Stakes at Burderop, ihe Kingscoie Stakes and 100 Guineas at Kingscote. At four Years old he won 100 Guineaf, 100 Guineas, and 50 Guineas at Newmarket. At live Years old he won 50 Guineas at Ascot Heath 50 Guineas al Stockhriflge, 50 at Oxford, 50 at Abing don, and the King's Plate at Warwick. Aud in 1821 at six Years old, he won the Oa. tlands. at Ascot Heath beating banker, Wanton, and Veterinarian; the Great Gloucestershire Stakes at Cheltenham ( 63 Subscribers, when 18started), healing Claudius, Roman, Duplicate Shamrock, Snovvdon, & c. & c. ; aud the Gold Cup at Oxford, beating Fitz Orville and others, having won twenty Times, and he is as fit to train on at this Day as in any Part of his Life. STRRPHON'S Blood is of the first Class upon ihe Turf, and at five Years old he shewed himself as true a Racer as ever started, viz. on the 15th of August, 1821, he won 50 Guineas at Oxford, after running five most severe Heats, and the next Day he ran two very severe Heats, in which he was second, and, notwithstandin on the 22d, he won 50 Guineas at Abingdon, beating the Horse that had beat him the second Day at Oxford ; and on the 6th of September he won the King's Plate at Warwick, carrying lis. 61b. where he beat Etheliuda, Warwick, and Filz- Orville, three 4- Mile Heals, when he was allowed lo be ihe best 4- Mile Horse ( with 12st.) in England. Strephon is a most valuable Stallion, as his Stock, now four Years old, amply prove. WILLIAM SMITH, Esq. deceased. MEOLE BRACE. TO BE LET, With immediate Possession, ACommodious HOUSE, fit for the Re- ception of a genteel Family, and excellent GARDEN ( Part walled), planted with choice Fruit Trees in full Bearing, Stable, Cowhouse, and Piggery, and with Three Acres of good Grass LAN D. The above is situated in the Parish of MEOLE RRACE, within Twenty Minutes' Walk of the Town of Shrewsbury, and with a well- situated Pew iu Meole Church. For further Particulars apply to THE PRINTERS of this Paper; if by Letter, Post- paid. 16TH APRIL, 1828. bp Auction* by auction. AIXSCOTT. At the Sun Inn, Wellington, in the County of Salop, on Tuesday, ihe 20th Day of May nrxt, between the Hours of Four and Six in the Afternoon, subject to Conditions then to he produced, and either iu one or more Lots as shall be agreed upon at the Time of Sale: ALL that newlv- erected Messuage or DWELLING HOUSE, consisting of a Kitchen, Parlour, and Pantry on the Ground Floor, with good Cellaring and five good Lodging Rooms, together with a Brewhouse, Malt house ( capable of Wetting and Drying 40 Bushels), Barn, Yard, excellent Garden, and Appurtermnces thereunto belonging, now in the Possession of Mr. George Felton, the Proprietor. Also, a small Messuage or DWELLING HOUSE, with the Appurtenances contiguous thereto, now in the Occupation of William Edwards. The above Premises are Copyhold of Inheritance, within the Manor of Wrockwardine, in the said County. Also, THREE PARCELS of LAND, called The Lily Furlongs, containing together by Admeasure- ment Nine Acres and a Half, be the same more or less, now in the Possession of the said Mr. Felton. These Lands are Freehold of Inheritance ( about three Acres Arable and the Residue Meadow Land), and the greater Part thereof may be irrigated at Pleasure. The « hole of the Premises are situate at ALLSCOTT, in the Parish of WROCKWARD1N E aforesaid, three Miles distant from Wellington, eight from Sinews- bury, and nine from Newport, and offer a very desirable Opportunity for Investment. Mr. FELTON will shew the same; and further Particulars may be had of hint, or of Mr. NOCK, Solicitor, Wellington. MONTGOMERY AND SALOP. Important and valuable TITHE . PROPERTY, Eligible for secure Investment. MR. W. W. SIMPSON RESPECTFULLY announces that he will offer for SAI. E by AUCTION, on Wednesday, May Till ( postponed from 16th January last), at the Lion Inn, Shrewsbury, at Twelve' o'clock, in Hi Lois, a MOIEI Y of llie GREAT and SMALL TITHES ol the entire Parish of MYI'OD, and THK EE- KOU UTII Paris of the G It EAT and SMALL TITHES of the Parishes of WELSH POOL, GUILSFIF. LD, aud BUTT1NGTON, comprehending 16 Townships, and an Extent of about 31,000 ACRES Of Arable, Pasture, and Wood Land, a large Propor- tion of which is of superior Quality and extremely well cultivated. These Tithes have the local Advantage of Contiguity to the Towns of Shrewsbury and W'eish Pool. The navigable River Severn and the Western Branch of the Montgomeryshire Canal passing through the Property greatly facilitates the Transit of the Produce. Mr. SIMPSON has much Confidence in recommend- ing ibis Property to Capitalists as a secure and most profitable Investment. Leases will be granted by the Dean and Chapter of Christ Church, Oxford, for 21 Years, commencing from Lady- day, 1* 26, of their Portion of the above Tithes ( according to such Divi- sion as will be stated in the Particulars of the Sale), subject to a small reserved Rent iu Corn and Money. Particulars may he had of Mr. GEORGE ASH DOWN, Land Agent, Shrewsbury; R. MORRKLL, Esq. Soli- citor, Oxford ; aud of Mr. W. W. SIMPSON, Bucklers- bury, London. ELIGIBLE FREEHOLD PROPERTY, DRAYTON- IN- HALES, SHROPSHIRE. Woollen Manufactory, Sfc, ON THE BANKS OF THE SEVERN. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, At the New Inn, Llanidloes, in the County of Mont- gomery, on Saturday, the 10th Day of May next, between the Hours of 3 and 7 o'Ctoek in the After noon, subject to the Particulars and Conditions of Sale which will be then produced : jMIE following LOTS of VALUABLE FREEHOLD PROPERTY :- viz. T STREPHON will be at Blackbrook, every Monday; at the Blue Bell, Stone, on Monday Night: at the Maid's Head, Stafford, on Tuesday Niglii ; Lion Inn, Newport, on Wednesday Night; Talbot Inn, Wellington, on Thursdays ; return Home on Thursday Night, where he will a'emuin till eatly on Monday Morning. Good Grass for Mares at 7s. per Week.-— Hay and Corn, if ordered. Mares coming more than twenty Miles, to be paid for before taken away. 1828.- That celebrated Hors£ WILL COVEIl, this Season, Thorough- bred Mares at Five Guineas each, others at Three Guineas, and a Crown the Groom, ( to be paid at the Time,) at the Hare and Hounds al CRUCKTON, near Shrewsbury. JUPITER is the Property of Mr. WARD, and was bred by the Earl of Stamford. He is allowed by competent Judges to possess as fine Temper, Sym- metry, and Action as any Horse in the Kingdom — is a Dark Bay with Black Legs, aiid stands sixteen Hands high, with great Substance, of the first Rate iu point of Speed, and a sure Foal- getter ( his Stock being numerous, very superior, and exceedingly promising as Roadsters, Hunters, aud Racers, several being Winners).—- For Pedigree and Performances see Racing Calendar. JUPITER will attend at the Crown Inn, Pool, every Monday; the Cross Foxes, Montgomery, every Tues- day; lite Turf Inn, Shrewsbury, every Saturday and Fair Day ; aud ihe Remainder of his Time at Home. The Money to be paid at Midsummer next, or au additional Half- Guinea will be charged. Good Grass for Mares. To COVE It, this Season, At a Guinea and Half each Mate, Groom's Fee included, A DARK- BAY HORSE, Of the pure Cleveland Blood, 4 Years old, 16 Hands 1 Inch high, with four Blaek Legs. HE will be at Fool every Monday; at Newtown on Tuesday; on Wednesday pass through Kerry to Lymore, near Montgomery, at which Place he will remain till Friday Morning, when he will proceed through Chirbury, Marlon, Worthen, and Westbury, and reach the Grapes Inn that Night; and on Saturday be al the Britannia, Shrewsbury, and return to Mr. Turner's, of the Half- way House, in the Evening, where he will remain till Monday Morning. LOT I. All that extensive FACTORY, called HER BERT'S FACTORY, and all those PREMISES called CoKDHtR, CAEBACH, W. YNN' LLANWEN, and TURNER'S TENEMENT, with the Workmen's Houses and other Buildings thereon, and also the Ferule LANDS thereunto respectively. belonging, containing together by Admeasurement 1 I Acres and 2 Perches or there abouts, situate in the Parish ( andwithin a short Dis tance of the populous Town) of LLANIDLOES These Premises are well adapted for carrying on the Manufacturing of Woollen Goods of any Description — The Factory is extensive and commodious, and ihe Stream by which it is worked is extremely powerful and never failing; Labour in the Vicinity is cheaj Poor's liates are low, and the Roads are good.— This Lot forms a most desirable Object, of Investment to, a Manufacturer, or any Person desirous of obtaining a high Rate of Interest for Capital. LOT II. A convenient, well- situated, and useful FARM, called NANT? RHEBOG, in the Parish of LLANGEU1G, separated from Lot 1 by the River Severn ; and also an adjoining TENEMENT, called CWMCOCH; forming together a compact Farm for the Residence and Occupation of a Farmer of moderate Capital, or a convenient Appendage to Lot 1. LOT 111. TWO HOUSES and Premises, situate on the East Side of Shoribridge Street, iu the Town of Llanidloes, with a Piece of Ground thereunto belong, ing containing 1 Perch, The above Property may be viewed on Application to Mr. JOHN JONES, who occupies the Factory, and who will show the respective Lots ; and further Par- ticulars may be had of Messrs. DAWES CHATFIBLD, of Angel Court, Throgmorton Street, Loudon ; Mr. A. D. JONES, of Court Calmore, Montgomery ; and Mr. CRUTTENDKN, at the New Inn, Llanidloes. BY MR. WRIGHT, ( By Order of the Assignees of Mr. JAMES BAKER, a Bankrupt), at the Phoenix Inn, in Drayton- in- Hal. es, in the County of Salop, on Wednesday, the 21st Day of May, 1828, al Four o'clock in the Afternoon, in the following or such other Lots as may be agreed upon at the Time of Sale, and subject to such Conditions as will be then pro- duced : LOT I. ALL those TWO COTTAGES, with the Gardens thereto belonging, containing by Admeasurement 12 Roods or thereabouts, situate on Little Dray ton Heath, now in the seveial Holdings of Job La r wood and John Brindley, Senior. LOT II. All ihose TWO COTTAGES with the Gardens thereto belohgingj containing by Admea- surement 12 Roods or thereabouts, adjoining to Lot I, now in the several Holdings of John Brindley, Jun, nd William Bfaudford. LOT 111. All lhat Croft of excellent LAND, called by the Name of The Pinfold Piece, adjoining the last Lot, Containing by Admeasurement 2A. 3R. 4P. now or late in the Possession of Mr. Baker. LOT IV. Another Croft of excellent LAND, adjoin ing the last Lot, containing by Admeasurement 1A. 2R. 4P. The two last Lots hare a valuable Common Right on Little Drayton Heath. LOT V. All that spacious and complete TAN- ARD, with the following appropriate Buildings, Pits, Vats, & c. situate in Drayton aforesaid : 24 Handlers, 8 Bloomers ( under Cover), 18 Vat*, 10 Spenders, 5 Limes, 2 Mastrines, 2 Drying Shades, ith convenient Ware Rooms underneath, Beam House with Drying Room over, Bark Mill with two Rooms over, and oue of Heighway's aud Whieldon's Coffee- framed Patent Bark Mills ( with Water Wheel attached), capable of grinding oue Ton of Bark per Day, and 3 Bark Bays ( Capable of storing 150 Tons of Bark) LOT VI. All that excellent TAN- Y ARD, with three Cottages for Workmen, three Gardens, Fish Pond, and the following Buildings, Pits, and Vats, situate in Drayton aforesaid : 32 Handlers ( under Drying Shade), 8 Bloomers, 24 Vats, 12 Spenders, 8 Limes, 5 Mastrines, 1 Water Pit, Beam- House and Room over, Lime- House, 2 Bark Bays ( to store eighty Tons), 1 Mill- House ( with one of Heighway's and Whieldon's Patent Bark Mills) and Room over, Dust- House and Room over, Counting- House aud Ditto, Drying Shade, and 3 Ware Rooms. F. OT VII. TWO undivided THIRD SHARES of and iu a comfortable DWELLING HOUSE, situate iu the Staffordshire Street, in Drayton aforesaid, in the Occupation of Mr. Morris, Butcher; containing two Parlours, Kitchen, Brewhouse, Cellars, aud suitable Bed Rooms and Attics, with Malt- Kiln, Slaughter- llouse. Stable, Cow- House, Barn, two Gardens, large Fold- Yard, Pump of fine Water, and all other Appurtenances. N. B. Lots 5 and 6 are bordered by the River Tern, a powerful and excellent Stream of Water, which makes them exceedingly desirable for their present & gr( culttii; t and Comiatrce. We hare but to unroll the page of history to see how frail is the tenure by which a kingdom merely commercial hold* ils place in the scale of nations. Carthage, and Tyre, and Sidon, are of the old time before us; but Venice, which sat as a queen, and knew no sorrow ; and Genoa, that was as a princess among the provinces, and the other maritime states of the Continent, which owed their short lited glory singly to the flourishing of trade: where be they now ? The fox looketh forth from the windows of their palaces. It has been said that as all mighty nations, hitherto, have, after a season of greatness, been found to decay and perish, so England, in her turn, must pass away and give place to another. I do not see the necessity. Doubtless if God will it, so she must; and if the people imagine a vain thing,— lhal for the sake of introducing our manufactures into continental markets, we should let our fields lie waste, and arm other nations, which may at any moment take the field against its, with the power of ruining our agri- culture,—- so assuredly she will; but if we retain the common sense and common honesty to continue true to ourselves, there appears no human reason, from analogy or otherwise, lo limit the duration of out- great ness. So far frorh it being true lhat we have need of foreign assistance for any earthly thing, we could with case, if we desired it, amply supply with all ihe necessaries, comf « > its, and most of the luxuries of. life, thrice as many human beings as our whole present population. The truth is, that with all the breath that has been uttered about over- population, the smallness of our numbers is most disproportionate to the exient and fertility of our territory. Of our seventy- three millions of acres, a very considerable number, il is true, are incapable of growing food for man ; but less than one tenth of this number, properly cultivated, would fully sustain' a larger population than we have at present. Iron, and all desirable minerals, abound in the bowels of our land; Iime and salt, coal and timber, wool and flax, and all the most delicious fruits and flowers, are among our oat oral productions. Surely ihen we may be thankful for our creation, preserva- tion, and all the blessings of this life, remembering Ihe musty proverb about letting very well alone. Or if we must have foreign delicacies, at least let us seek abroad for those things only which we cannot reason ; ably produce at home, amongst which we surely shall not class any of the slaple commodities of the British fi Purposes. Lot 5 ( at a very trivial Expense) may be converted into a Public Brewery, for which it is particularly adapted by its local Situation, there being no Establishment of the Kind nearer than New- castle and Shrewsbury ; and when the Birmingham and Liverpool Canal ( which passes within a short Distance of the Premises) is completed, it will greatly enhance the Value of the Property by the cheap Conveyance it will afford for the Carriage of Goods to distant Markets.— Immediate Possession may be had of Lots 5 and 6. The several Lots may he viewed by applying to GEORGE MADBLEY, at the Tan- Yard ( Lot 6); and any other Information may be obtained from Mr. BELL, New House, near Newport, Shropshire; Mr. JOSEPH SILLITOB, Ford all, near Drayton; THE AUCTIONEER, Drayton ; or at the Office of Mr. STANLEY, Solictor, New port, Shropshire. Most valuable Youmj Stock, Implements in Husbandry, Thrashing Machine, Household Goods and Furniture, Brewing and Dairy Utensils, Sfc. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, BY MR. BROOME, On Thursday, the 15th of May, 1828, the Properly of Mr. WILLIAM EDMONDS, of LYDIIAM, in the County of Salop, who is retiring from Farming • CONSISTING of 13 capital yearling Bullocks, 10 ditto Heifers; 2 Road Waggons, broad- wheeled Tumbrel, Pair of narrow Wheels, Shafts, and Axletree, 1 Cultivator ( as good as new), I double Plough, 2 Pair of Harrows, Turnip Roller, several Lots of Horses' Gearing, 2 Dozen of Chain Cowties, Kibbling Mill, large Assortment of small Implements, Implement Timber, and old Iron, au excellent 4- Horse Power Thrashing Machine with Winnowing Machine attached ( well known to be a clean Worker). FURNITURE,& c.— Servants' Bedsteads, Feather Bed, Bolster, and Pillows, small Spinning Wheel, Kitchen Grate and Sway, Dining Table and Forms, large and small Furnaces, capital Stone Cheese Presses, Trams, Shelves, 6cc. & c. Sale to begin exactly at 11 o'Clock. firmer. Whenever another nation produces a com modify which we do not produce, and we have some- thing to spare which they desire, it is most just and reasonable that the exchange should take place; and ihe reason is, because each nation will thereby promote ils own advantage— but the moment either accepts of that from abroad which throws out of occupation sefol and laborious members of the commonwealth home, it commits, pro tanto, a suicidal act. Every politician, who is not utterly unworthy of the name, ell knows that domestic industry is always incom- parably more valuable, more conducive to the nduring safety and well- being of a nation, than foreign trade. Certain of our legislators have of late days, indeed, devised, as an admirable stroke of policy, to encourage the introduction of foreign corn into our markets, w hich must needs leave our hus- bandmen idle and starving, and jli^ n ihey propose to export, al an enormous national expense, the spare hands they wmild thus throw out of employment. To plain country gentleman the expatriation of our most productive labourers, and the importation of food from abroad for the support of those who remain, seems a perfectly novel method of improving ihe resources of a country. But the advocates of what is mistakenly called Free Trade, prove its ex- pediency by a pleasant argument drawn from their zeal for the interests of the agriculturists themselves. In order, say they, to afford even a home market to the farmer, we must make the manufacturers flourish ; and lo do so, must secure to them sales on the Con tincut, which can only be done on a principle of beapness, and of reciprocity, admitting their corn and manufactures, aud so keeping com cheap and w ages low. So Ihen the manufacturer should not be dependent on the agi icult uiist, according lo the course of nature, hut the agriculturist on the manufacturer! This reasoning would be ahudantly comical, were it not lhat il is likely to produce a great deal of misery and ruin. As if the British farmer were to be benefitted by the manufacturer's additional wealth, every penny f which must, on the reciprocity hypothesis, be ex- pended on foreign produce! For however much the manufacturer obtains sales abroad, for just so much must he afford a buying market to the foreigner at home, theeftVct of which is not only to diminish the quantity of home agricultural produce consumed, but, by the very supposition, to lower and keep down the price of even that portion - which is consumed; whereas if the manufacturer did not buy from abroad, he still must live and eat, aud so buy Ihe whole slock of Ihe home producer al a remunerating price. But how can he do this, if be do not get saies from abroad? I answer by his increased sales at home. When the possessors of landed property, and the farmers, are made to flourish, by sure and remunerating markets, they will keep the rest of Ihe nation busy enough supplying their wants and wishes. For, first, as their wants from others are chiefly confined to luxuries, they can contract or enlarge their demands almost ad libitum, and therefore their prosperity will, increase their consumption without limit; which is not at all so true of ihe manufacturer, whose want from them is food, which, poor or rich, he must have or die. Secondly, the farmer cannot hoard his pio- duetions, even if he were inclined to do so; for they will not keep. Let us then secure, by sufficient inducements, that enough of food he grown by us; and no fear that, when grown, it will be ealen, and none die of want. What though ihe loaf be dear, if every man have money in both pockets to pay for it Is it not better for the manufacturer to pay double for his b* ead, and get double wages, than to have bread very cheap, and scarcely any wages at all ? Let him have foreign trade and welcome, provided he do not theieby ruin domestic industry. Our colonic . offer to us a rational reciprocity of benefits, aud of Ibis lei him by all means lake advantage. Let him clothe and civilize the naked millions of our eastern possessions, and cover the Indian and American continents with the labour and the ingenuity of Europe. But the moment be requires ihe nation to live upon imported food, iu order that he may hav ability and opportunity lo underset! the continentalist in his own market, chain him up with strict fetters, as an unprincipled monopolizing knave. In fact, to throw our market for agricultural produce open to . every competitor, without favour or affection, as the phrase is, appears to me little short of a combination of insanity and fraud : Of insanity, because it obviously leads either to the absolute depopulation of our country, or lo degrading our kingdom into a mere workshop for the rest of the world, and making ourselves dependent on our < tomers for our livelihood: Of fraud, because the public credit is virtually aud implicitly staked as completely to the lauded interest,, as to the fund holder. # # * « If, then, it have been truly argued that agriculture, as affording both food and the materials, as we the incitement, for the exercise of the industry and ingenuity of all, is the only true source of wealth, follows, that lo the protection and improvement of agriculture the energies of Great Britain ought chiefly lo be directed. Manufactures are the trans mutation of the produce of the soil into articles of comfort or of luxury, and necessarily follow in the train of a flourishing agriculture. They are the fruits of which tillage is the tree; and if the tree he foster and made good, the fruits will follow in the course natirre, without our interference. Foreign commerce, of equal terms, which, with respect to us, is not th ® case, should rather be checked and kept wit bin rea- sonable bounds, than cherished and approved. A confirmed habit of indulgence in Commodities of foreign production, is inconsistent- with, that inde- peiidr nee, that in s a ipso totus teres attune rotundus principle, which is so important to the preservation of the well- being of every nation and, of every indi- vidual. As commerce dissipates the resources of a natioA, by withdrawing, capital and industry f » om the cultivation of the laud, and from domestic industry it should, as far as possible, be corrected by the substitution of comforts and luxuries of home proi duction, for those w hich now render us dependent on external supplies. Soil and population, or, in other words, produce and labour, are the only true supports on which national greatness can always securely relv. This it is which furnishes the true. solution of the mystery which has so long puzzled Euiope, namely; how our Britain, which, 44 1' the world's vol nine seems nn of it* but not in it, In a great pool, a swan's nest," could sustain so tremendous a war for such a length of lime, without being impaired in strength or in resources. 11 was because our agriculture was never once impeded for an hour. So long as we nde the sea, and fight our battles only at the expense of gun- powder and canvas, though we mav aud most deplore the waste of human life, yel while peace reigns at home, and all the arts of peace flourish within our kingdom, we may rest assured that rro length or violence of war can ever exhaust us. War is one mode of disposing of those swarms which it seems to be iu the nature of things that society must periodi- cally throw off; the spread and improvement of agriculture is another; there iaa third, however, more in vogue of late days than either. For myself I must confess, r that if the course of events so ordered it, I should rather close v? ith the former alternative, shock- ing as it is, and see paft of our people die nobly it* defence of the lives, the liberties, ami the property of the rest, than either perish inchmeal by ihe pangs of want, or be condemned to the deprivation of home, and happiness by the speculations of modern theorists, in a transport of philanthropy and universal bene folence. But ihere is no such necessity, no ground for any frightful apprehension. The fertility of our soil, the activity aud skill of our people, at id the free- dom of our happy constitution, afford us every faci- lity for surpassing all the nations of the globe iu the successful pursuit of agriculture. Let the means of accomplishing this be carefully and anxiously direct- ed aud encouraged by our rulers, and Our population may increase, and with it our wealth, our prosperity, and our happiness. " So shall our garners be full and plenteous with all manner of store; that our sheep bring forth thousands and lens of thousands in our streets; that our oxen be strong to labour; so that there be no decay, no leading into captivity, and no complaining in our streets. Happy are the people that are in such a case-, yea, blessed" are the people who'" have the Lord for their God." But I must a^ ain crave forgiveness of the doctors.. I had forgotten lhat the Bible is not one of the authorities j quoted or admitted in the great new dav school north of Russell- square. Well, then, I shall conclude with a most unexceptionable citation, even from Soiilh the economist— That abundance of food, of which, in consequence of the improvement of the Tand, many people have the disposal beyond what they themselves can Consume, is the great cause of the demand bulb for the precious metals and the precious stones, as well as for every other cooveniency and ornament of dress, lodging, household - furniture, and equipage. Food not onl'i constitutes the principal part of the riehjis of the world, but it is the abundance of food which gives the principle of their value to many other sorts of riche*'."-^ BLACKWOOD'S ! Y1 AGAZI. N E. BY TIJE KING'S PATENT. R. SIBLY's RE- ANIMATING SO LA It TINCTI'KE is universally allowed to b^ lite most pleasant, safe, and efficacious Itemed; ever offered to ihe Public. lis warm and renovating Quali ties render it the best Medicine for Debility, Cunsump lion, Nervous and Rheumatic Complaints, Spasms Indigestion, Lowness of Spirits, and sit those distress, in;; affections which harass Ihe wenk, sedentary, anil delicate. Il requires no argument to convince more than a trial, after which those who value heallh will never choose be without it. Prepared and sold by Mr..). It. Siiffell, No. 35, Glollcesier- streel, Queen's square, Hinoijishurv, in Bottles at tts. 7s tid. and I la. each ; and in Family Bottles ( by which there is a sav- in,; of 7s.) at 2- 2s. each. Also Dr. Sihlv's LTJNAR TLNC'- RURB, for complaints incident to Ihe Female Sex, iu Bullies al 4s. ( id. and IDs. 0d. each. Observe, none can he genuine unless signed by the Proprietor. J. R. Saffell, in his own Hand- writing, on Ihe Wrapper of each Botlle. Sole Wholesale Agents, Messrs. Barclay nnd S ms, 95, Flee'. Market; London; and sold Hetuil by Messrs. Eddowes, Broxion, Tump, kins, Onions, Hulbert, Shrewsbury; Houlslon, Suiilh, Bradbury. Wellington ; Smith, I, ollbridge ; Edmonds, Shifl'nal ; Gilton. Bridgnorth; Price, Edwards, Wea- ver, Oswestry ; Baugh, Ellesmere ; Evurison, H issalls, Whitchurch; Bui ley, Ridgeway, Drayton; Butter-. worth, Jiibiwou, Naniwich; Painter, Wrexham ; and j or the exchange of home productions for Ihose by all Medicine Venders throughout the Kiugdoiti, 01| 1er countries, even if il could be carried on upon USEFULNESS OF SPARROWS— The ignorant have condemned the sparrow as a most noxious bird, fit only to be extirpated; but it has been proved, by the observations of Mr. Bradley, that a pair of sparrows, durinj the time they had young, carried to the nest forty caterpillars in one hour; and, sup- posing them employed with equal diligence for twelve hours a day, they will, iu one week, con- sume the astonishing number of 3,360 caterpillars. Thus an all- wise Providence checks the inordinate increase of insects; which, however useful in them- selves, would, if left unmolested, propagate with such rapidity as to consume the vegetable produc- tions of the earth, and leave it a desert waste. Of the genus Harus, or titmouse, during spring they are frequently observed searching for the larvse of the fortrices, so abundant among the opening buds of fruit tre. es, thus benefitting man in a considerable degree. But their services are no better regarded than those of other small birds; the thoughtless gardener supposing them the enemies of his blossom, destroys them without mercy. PUGII. ISM.— The long- expected fight between Ned O'Neale and Baldwin, commonly called White- headed Bob, took place on Tuesday, in a meadow near Winkfield.— The first part of the battle wag evidently in favour of O'Neale, but after the 70th round Bob appeared to have quite recovered him- self, and was thrashing O'Neale in style. They fought 86 rounds, when a magistrate endeavoured to persuade them to drop it; but on their both refusing, he threatened to use his authority, and tbey prudently shook hands, in the course of the' contest there was some very severe hitting, but taking it altogether it was a scrambling fight— the men hugging each other and striving for tiie throw in almost every round. Ned O'Neale was seconded by Josh. Hudson and Harry Holt. Whitehsaded Bob by Peter Crawley and Dick Curtis. The ruins of the Brunswick Theatre, it appears, are likely to be still the subject of a contest. The King claims for the deodand. The ground landlord it is said, also claims; and iu consequence of the bankruptcy of Mr. Carruthers, the auctioneers have been valuing the materials and properties, by order ol the Commissioners. There are al present eight gentlemen eneaged in forming a new catalogue of the books ami MSS. in the British Museum. In all foreign libraries great consequence is attached lo the appearance of Ihis cata- logue, as Ihe only synopsis of British and general literature extant. The last catalogue was published ten years ago, aud is now verv defective, on account of the progressive accumulation of books having at least quadrupled that for any like number of years during the last fifty. This aren, notation, together wilh Ihe splendid bequests of bis late Majesty, and of Sir Joseph Banks, lias rendered the compilation of a new catalogue absolutely necessary.— The room al the British Museum, intended for Ihe reception of Ihe King's library, is completed, and presents a coup d'eeil of great beauty. Those parts of the walls not occupied bv the book- cases are laced with panels, in imitation of the yellow Sienna marble, relieved hv large pilasters of while marble; the centre compart-, men! being adorned with splendid pillars of polished granite, surmounted by alabaster capitals of the Corinthian order. The room is 300 feel long, and 40 broad, and ihe shelves are calculated to contain, with ease, the 70,000 volumes of which Ihe collection Consists ' file removal of the books into iheir new receptacle will conuueuce in the course of next week. Above tills room, and running over lhat appointed for the preservation of tile manuscripts, is a grand gallery 5H0 feel in length, now iu progress, ami destined for ihe reception of the various specimens of natural history. Few diseases have more battled the Faculty than Scrofula and Scurvy in their various forms, and for their cure - almost every article in the Materia Medica has been tried without success. The only Medicine of repute at this time is Mr. I. ignum's Antiscorbutic Drops, which have certainly been very successful in eradicating these harrassin^ Complaints. Scarce a week occurs but we have ait opportunity of recording a well authenticated euro performed by these Drops. For a recent oue— See Advertisement. § ALDWAM JOURNAL. AM © COURIER OF WALES* HOUSE OF COMMONS- WEDNESDAY. The House was principally occupied with ihe pre- sentation of Petitions on u variety of subjects. The CnANOF. i. r. oR of the EXCHKQUF. R obtained leave fo'bring- in a 23ill' to amend the 35th Geo. Ilk relating to ihe s; i! e of Ale. LORD PALMKRSTON moved for a Committee to examine the Militia Estimates for flue current year.— € or,. DAVIKS thought that it would be better to let the subject go lo the pittance CoiiYmittee, and fhat ii would be desirable to abolish the Militia, of at any r'aie to change the present system. The conn try did iioi derive the least benefit from the services of the Militia, the expenses of which were £ 300,000 per aim ii m.— The Motion for a Committee was agreed to. HOUSE OF LOUDS — THURSDAY. The Duke of KICIIMOND postponed his motion ou the Wool trade until Monday. A conversation arose On the subject, in which Lords WHARNCI. IPFE, HARK- WOOD, MAI. MKSBCRY, atid the Duke of WELLINGTON, took part. The latter stated that the Committee was granted, not from an idea that it would he desirable to yield to the demands of th' 6 agriculturists, and to impose a tax on the importation of foreign wool, but because it would be easy to shew that the cause of the depression of the price of wool would not be removed liy any such tax. STAfE Of 1RELANI). The Earl of DAKNIEY brought forward his motion On the condition * » f Ireland, and after giving his opinion that, notwithstanding the subject had already been investigated, no inquiry had been, entered upon with a view to auv practical result, and that lie cou xidered a modified poor rate 1 lie best ineatis of fejiev- iiig the distressed poor of that country, concluded by moving 4< that & Select Committee bp nppoiute< l to inquire into the state of the Peasantry of Ireland. The Earl of LIMERICK opposed the'motion. There was no couiHry' where there was so much charily as iu Ireland, and do system was so calculated' to chill it as that now proposed. The Earl of LONGFORD, whilst he adrciftted that the suggestions ill' regard to emigration might be calcu- lated to produce beneficial consequences, contended that notliiug but mischief could result from agitating the question of introducing any thing like the system of British Po « > r Laws in Ireland. Lord LORTON, adverting to the causes of the dis- tresses alluded to, - declared that the panacea recom- mended was calculated only to increase and perpetuate the degradaiion of the Irish people. The Roman Catholic Religion and the RomotV Catholic Associa- ilun, that Imperiuw in Imperio to'which he had often called the attention of the house, was a great cause of ihe misery antl degradation of Ireland. Having adverted to the proposed remedy and refused his assent to it, it might Ire asked of him what remedy lie would propose. To this he should say, give employ- ment to the people and this may be done Iry laying on a land and absentee tax. He ( Lord LdttmiJwoiild pronounce the Catholic Association to be one of the greatest curses to the uufortuuaie peasantry of Ire- land ; and his Kordship expressed a sincere wisli that so mischievous. a body might speedily he put down. The Duke of VVgLLlNGforf considered the state* Wents of the Noble Earl ( Darnley) as greatly exag- gerated, and did not think the measure proposed sutfll as should receive the attention of Parliament. Earl MOITNTOASHEL Considered that the Catholic Kent was one of the great evils of Ireland; the body who collected it did not seeM to care how poor their dupes' were, if they could but get their money into their hands.— The motion Was then put and negatived wiihout a division. Their Lordships- afterwards went into a'Confmittee OH the Peurhvu Disfranchisement Bill, and several witnesses were called', whose examination continued Until ihe House adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS- THURSDAY. On the motion, that the Hibernian Joint Stock Company Dissolution Bill be fead a second time, the Flioise divided, when ihe ayes were 33, noes, 33 ; and the Speaker gave the casting vote in favour of the ares. Sir J. MACKINTOSH presented two Petitions from Lower Canada, signed by 90,000 persons, complaining of the Government iu that colony. As the subject was to come before the House, lie should not then say ftny thing iu favour of the Petitions. Mr. D. \ V. HARVEY, in a speech remarkable for clearness, precision, aud argument, moved a resolution fhat it is expedient that an effectual control bsexer cised Over all pfoccfdhigs instituted hy the Crown, for the recovery of penalties under the Ex< ise and Customs Laws* The Hon. Gentleman enlarged, during his speech, upon the fact, that during the last ti\ e > cars 1851 Excise ailid Customs prosecutions for ihe recovery of penalties had been filed in the name of the Attorney General, and of these 880 only lirtd been Miccessful. The penalties sought to be recovered amounted to £ 1,038.709; the amount of penalties Actually recovered Wa* £ 157,82( 5; and the expense oi the prosecutions to the country exceeded the penalties recovered by no less a sum than £ 12,067. He addjiced o number of instances to illustrate the improvident expenditure incurred in carrying on these cases, and concluded by moving to the above effect. The ATTORNEY* GENERAL comhatted the objections of the Hon. Member, and opposed the motion, because' fW had not given any explanation of his speculation fur protecting by better means a revenue of forty- fliree millions. After some debate, in which Mr. Western, Mr. P. right, and Mr. W. Smith supported, and the Chan- cellor of the Exchequer and Mr. Herries opposed the resolution, the House divided, aud the motion was lost, there being tor it 39, against it 146. Several petitions were presented from the Weavers of Norwich, Kidderminster^ Coventry, Spitalficld and elsewhere, praying for au Act to regulate wages. — Mr. FY IF. It thought some such measure should be adopted to allay irritation.— Mr, W. SMITH considered that no relief could he given to men who thought a minimum of w ages could be fixed by Act of Pari id inent.— Mr. C. GRANT was of opinion that no good could arise, from agitating the question. Two Com- mittees had already declared against a minimum . of wages, oue iu 1804, anil another in 1809. The plan of the petitioners was unwise in principle, and impossible iu practice.— Mr. JOHN WdoU thought the petitioners Tii error, but that the house ought to take means of convincing them that they were so. HOUSE OF LORDS- FRIDAY. The Bill permitting the Sale of Game underwent discussion ; several divisions took place, all however in favour of theclauses as Ihey originally stood. Their lordships afterwards proceeded to hear further evi- dence on the Penrvn Disfranchisement Bill, which occupied them until ten o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS- FRIDAY. A fter a shoit debate, the amendments made by the Lords in the Bill for the Repeal of the Test aud Cor- poration Acts, were agreed to ; and Lord John Russell will on Monday carry it to the House of Peers, and communicate the assent of the Commons. Mr. Ilt'SKlssON entered into a long and elaborate detail of the State of the Provinces of Canada,. and moved the appointment of a Committee to inquire into the subject. The motion,' after considerable discussion, in which Mr. I abouchere, Sir James Mackintosh, Mr. W. Horton, find Mr. Stanley took part, was agreed to and the Committee appointed. LO N I) o N — S A T U K D A Y. Dispatches were received this morning: from Lord Cowlry, Ettglisli Ambassador at Vienna. It is reported that they confirm the assurance already given relative to the policy of Russia. Her ex- planatiolis have been so satisfactory, that they liave smoothed whatever difficulties anight have existed, and have established a perfect understand- ing between the three Powers. The explanatory declaration of Russia, of her views relative to tlie Porte, according to au article in the French papers of Wednesday and Thursday, was delivered to the Court of London on the 12th of March. " The Court of London accepted with pleasure Ihe assurance of the Russian Government that it had no conquest in view, and declared, in consequence, in accord with France, and in main- taining the execution of the Treaty of the 6th of July, that she would preserve her neutrality." A Malta article in Ihe French papers, states that a conspiracy . has been discovered among- the Greek troops sent by Count Capo d'Istria to occupy Carabusa, the object of which was to massacre the French and English who were with them. It was, however, frustrated ; and Sir Thomas Staines is stated to have thrown the delin- quents into prison, where part of the property seemed by the pirates was discovered. Yesterday Richard Lander, servant to Captain Cfapperton, arrived at the Secretary of State's office, from the interior of Africa. Captain Clapperton died of fever and dysentery at Sackatoci, on the 13th of April, 1827, after a month's illness, being completely reduced to a skeleton. He was prevented from proceeding further; and his illness is attributed to the chagrin aud disappointment he in consequence suffered. His companion, Mr. Dickson, there is no doubt has been murdered. Lander travelled from Saekatoo alone to the B'ght of Benin, and from Badagry cmbarkrd in a vessel for Cape Coast Castle, and ultimately got on board the Ksk frigate, in whltSh he arrivid a! Portsmouth, DRAWING- ROOM.— Honi soit qui mat y pense! — At the drawing- room the other day, among the numerous presentations none excited such interest as that of the Hon. Miss ——, a younger daughter of Lord . On thut young lady's approach a gentle flutter pervaded the whole assembly, in admiration of her peculiar attractions and youth ( she coald not have been out more than 6 months). As with graceful attitude she raised the proffered band of his Majesty to her lips, by some mul a propos chance (" some fu'ry willed it, and some demon guides") a Safffotr- coloUred garter fell from beneath her petticoat on the carpet floor of the chamber: ' Homsaitquimulypev. se/' cried the lineal descendant of our chivalrous Edward, as with one baud he picked trp the unfortunate ligature, and with fhe other gallantly raised the almost fainting young lady; ' Hotii soil qiii mal;/ pensc.." repeated the' Monarch, imprinting a kiss ou her blushing check, and gently leading hefi to her friends. Some of the beauti. es present bit their lips with vexation; and others perked up their pretty heads in scorn; but many were delighted at the turn the accident took, in sincere pity for the innocent aggressor.— Sunday Times. rogrmuRiPT. LONOUN, Monday Night, May 5, 1S28. TRICKS OF FUNUS AT THB CLOSE. ( led. 3 per Cts. H{ 3 pel Ct. Cbin. feSg 3| pei Cents. — 3i pei Ct » . lied. 9- 21 4 per Cts. 1820, — 4 per Cents. I02| Bank Stock — Long Ann. 1!) 3- 16 India Bonds 98 India Stock 249 Kxcheq. BillsOO Cons. for Aec. ft5| In the HOUSE or LORDS this evening, the Duke of RICHMOND, after clearly shewing the present depressed state of the British woolgrowers, moved " that a Select Committee be appointed to inquire into the present condition of the wool trade, and report their opinions to the House." The Duke of WF. LI. INGTOJJ consented to an en- quiry, but " while he did so, he begged to be understood that it was not the intention of His Majesty's Government lo consent to the imposition of any further tax on foreign wool." The Committee was appointed. The Corporation and Test Acts Repeal Bili was brought up from the Commons. The following is the Declaration in the Ttfst and Corporation Acts Repeal Bill; as amended by the Lords: — " I, A. B. do solemnly and sincerely, in the presence of God, profess, testify, and declare, upon the true faith of a Christian, that I will never exercise any power, authority, or influence which 1 may possess by virtue of Ihe office of ——, to injure or weaken the Protestant church as it is by law establish'd in England, or to disturb the said church, or the bishops and clergy of the said church, in the possession of any rights or privileges to which such church, or the said bishops and clergy, are or may be by law entitled." € i) e Salopian ' journal. WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 1828. On SUN DA Y NEXT, May l\ ih, the A NNUA /, SERMONS on Behalf of the VVESLEYAN METHODIST MISSIONS will be preached in SAINT JOHN'S CHAPEL, SHREWSBURY, at Half- past Ten o' Clock, by the Ren. MA NOAH KENT; and at Six o% Clocky by Mr. EDWARD LOXDALE. On the FRIDA Y following, May I6// 1, the ANNUAL MISSIONARY MEETING will be held at ' Two o1 Clock precisely, in the above Chapel; when the Rev. ROBERT NEWTONJrom Liver- pooly the Rev. W. G / LP IN, from Birmingham, and i/ icr Ministers, are expected to attend. BIRTH. On the 6th iusf. the T, a<! y of G. A. Moultrie, Esq. of Aston Hall, of a" daughter. M A Kit I ED. On the 28th nil at St. Pi ter's Church, Marlborough, by the Rev. Francis Rick* rfield, | Ir. Sawyer, of the Bell* Tim, in that town, to Jane, second daughter of the late Mr. Ric'hard Morgan, of this town, and for- merly of the Holly Bush, Uelsh Pool. On ihe 24th ult. at Brewnod, Mr. Stephen Haywood, of Preston upon the Wildmoors, in this county, to Mis* Ann Fish, of Brewood.- DIF> D. On the 2d inst. at his house iu Poynton, much regretted by his family and friends, Mr. Kiehard Madeley, a< je<! 60 years. On Wednesday last, at the house of his brother, at Hampstead, Middlesex, a » ed 28, Mr. John Lea, jun. of Blakebrook Common, near Kidderminster, second son of John Lea, Esq. of the Lakes. Ou the 20th ult. aged 78, Mis. Davies, widow of the late Mr. Davies,, of Lythwood, near this town. Oil the 30th nit. highly respected, Mrs. Watson, of Harlescott, asred 78. On the 25th ult. aye'd 24, Francis, son of Mr. William Diekin, of Waters Uptdn. On the 2Nih ult. much respected, Mr. Blakeuiore, of Edgmoud. At Oldland Common, Bittoii, in the county of Gloucester, ag- ed 103 years, Samliel Hay lies. He has left a widow two years older than hiinsrif • also 4 daughters, all widows; and 22 grand- children, 29 greal- graiid- ehildren, and 2 great- great grand- children. To the Editor of the Salopian Journal. SIR,— A few weeks ago, a Committee was appointed by the inhabitants that assembled in the Town Hall on the occasion; for the purpose of endeavouring to point out the means bv which the obstructions' that occur in our streets on Fa'ir and Market Days might be obviated. An article, pur porting to be the Report of that Committee, has since been made public; and it is therefore competent for me or any one else to examine its allegations. That there are obstructions in our streets on Fair and Market Days, no one will deny: but before I proceed to the contents of the Report, it will be riy. lit and requisite that the subject of holding Fairs and Markets should be placrd in its proper light. I believe it is indisputable that well- attended Fairs and Markets are_ ( » nd. have in all a< res been considered) of great benefit, in point of pecuniary advantage and local accommodation, to the in- habitants of the towns in which they are held. The question to. be considered, then, is, How can they be held, so as to secure that advantage and that accommodation, with the greatest con- venience n what the Committee have said, as to the inapplicability of St. Mary's Friars and the Abbey Garden, there can be but one opinion; and, notwithstanding the suggestion of the Committee as to the field near the Crescent, ( tor it is neither in St. Julian's Friars nor in St. Julian's parish,) I think the public will add that to'the two just mentioned, ascites not suited to the purpose under consideration. ivike " the Poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling," however, tli6 Committee have not only found an eligiblesitefort. be Fairs, but have actually taken upon themselves to project " the Creation of Modern Shrewsbury v" and if this part of their Report is to be understood at all, it must be taken that what in their opinion constitutes a nuisance in ancient Salop, will, on KingUand, be? the nucleus of attraction, around which " Modern Shrewsbury" is to arise and flouiish ! And as the otherwise commodious field, called The Gay, is objected to, because it is remote f rom the innkeepers, butchers, ; so we are to. understand, that the MUCH MORE REMOTE Kingsland offers not only capabilities for a Cattle Market, but for advancing the common interest of the whole town ! '.— that, is, ancient Shrewsbury is to be benefitted by-— becoming, like Old Sarum, the suburb of a new town proposed to be erected in its vicinity ! Truly, Mr. Editor, intellect, on its march, has at length overtaken us!— When, some time ago, certain persons pro- posed to abolish the festival of Shrewsbury Show, a projector appeared to submit that Kingsland Should be the site of a new town ! When the question whether the House of Indus- try should or should not be continued was agitated, a pro- jector submitted that Kingsland was fitted only for tljepite of a new town!! When it was A question where the New In- firmary should be erected, a projector urged that a new town should be built upon Kingsland!'! And now, when the question simply is, How shall we preserve the advantages resulting from holding our well- attended Fairs and Markets in the town, without having our streets obstructed? we have again probably the same projector submitting that the Fairs shall be taken away from Shrewsbury altogether, and removed to Kingsland, which atfords such capability for the creation of a new town ! !!! I shall not now enter upon the discussion of that part of the project which proposes the erection of a Kingsland Bridge over the Severn, the pecuniary means for which the Commit- tee say they can easily point out,— as there can be no doubt some of them are prepared at once to do that which, in similar circumstances, they wished others to do, namely, pledge their own property as a security that no burden shall by possibility be brought upon the public on account of Ihe said bridge. It would, therefore, be unfair to raise a question here! otherwise, from the mode in which some great public works have paid— and works, too, of unquestioned ornament and utility, such as the Menai Bridge and Holyhead Road, for the furtheran'- e of which, some projectors wished, in the true spirit of economy, to cut through ami arch over, at the trifling expense of perhaps £ 100,000, the whole centre of ancient Shrewsbury,— and which great works scarcely pay half a crown per Vent, on their total cost!— otherwise, I repeat, 1 might be induced at once to put some questions as to the funds: but I shall not, it being now an undeistood point, that there are certain public- spirited individuals among us, who, doing to others as they have recorded their wish to be dotie unto, are determined neither to propose nor to pro- ject any thing that shall by possibility lead to the imposition of a public burden in Shrewsbury, preferting rat. hei to pledge their own property than even to think of saddling their neighbours with the slightest expense! The last remark will apply to the proposed erection of a spacious Market Place, aud the enlargement of the present building 011 Pride Hill. I had thought that if, instead of standings and stalls ( covered with articles sold by regular shopkeepers in every street) being permitted to obstruct the streets and paths, the market places were reserved, as was the original, and is now the only legal, intention, for the accom- modation of those who bring grain, butter, poultry, vege- tables, and other country produce, they would be sufficient for the public accommodation, while at the same time tlie regular tradesman would have his just share of the market trade; but I refrain, for it must be evident there can be no intention to propose any thing as to the projected erections which shall, by possibility, burden the public in the least degree ! TO return, however, to the real question, How can the Fairs be held so as lo secure the advantage and the accommodation arising therefrom with the greatest convenience? It appears, even from the Report of the Committee, that there arc only two places so situated as to meet thisquestion, namely, Till? GAY and THE RAVEN MEADOW; for as to Kingsland and the field near the Crescent, they are', in sober truth, quite out of consideration. To these two places, however, there are objections made. As regards The Gay, the Committee say, ' it is alleged that it is remote from the innkeepers, butchers, in the town, and that it is inconvenient for those rattle which arrive from the roads leading hence to Oswestry, Montgomeryshire, Cheshire, & c. & c.' But I submit that only the first of these objections is valid, and that but partially; for the suburb at Abbev Foregate contains so many innkeepers, and tlveir proximity is so immediate, that no inconvenience would arise to those who attend the Fairs. When, however, the burdens imposed iii the shape of rent, licenses, 8cc. on innkeepers, and in rent on some trading houses placed well for the fair business, is con- sidered, and when it is remembered that the original reason for making some of the Fairs ambulatory was that the profits arising therefrom might be more equally dispersed, a sort of vested interest must, present itself to the " minds of the Public Authorities, and they will not unhesitatingly permit the sacrifice of even one industrious man's propeitv or business. This, I assert, is the only valid ground of objection to The Gay; for as to the cattle brought from Oswestry, Montgo- meryshire, & c. there can be no objection: the great bulk of them, after they aie sold, always go over the English Bridge, and their bping taken to The Gay for sale would only be advancing them so far on their journey. As to The Raven Meadow, its contiguity and ready access', ( which at a moderate expense may be rendered still easier,) not only to the Welsh Bridge, but to the High Stieet and Castle Foregate, point it out as the most eligible site: for no interest now existing need be injured by its occupation. The objections raided against it bv the Committee are " thin air," when compared with those that might be urged against their favourite spot, Kingsland, either in point of comenience or expense. True it is, that it is sometimes Hooded : but it pos- sesses a breastwork of masonry which, if raised but little mote than one yard, and the ground properly embanked along the south- west side, would enable it to defy the inroad of the greatest flood. The Horse Fairs, indeed, might, under any circumstances, be removed to The Gay, if that field ran he obtained j and then the public convenience, and the interests of all parties, would be duly Considered. I shall not, Mf. Editor, at present trespass further. There is, happily, another Committee on the subject; and L think they will not countenance any chimerical proposition, how- ever it may be fenced round with sounding phrases about creating new towns on the open lands, or about erecting bridges ( I had nearly said castles) iu the air. OBSERVER. Visiting Clergyman this week at the Infirmary, the Rev. Robert Lingen Burton: — House- Visitors, Samuel Harley and John Baker, Esqfs. At the general half- yearly board, held yester- day, the following gentlemen were chosen Di- rectors of that Charity for the ensuing year, in lieu of six others who go out by rotation : viz.— John Bather, Esq. Mr. Bowen, Mr. Carline, William Jackson, Esq. F. K. Leighton, Esq. and the Rev. G. A. Maddock. CHESTER RACES, 1828. MONDAY, MAY 5. The GROSVENOR STAKES of ! 5sovs. each, for all nge3 Sir T. Stanley's b c. Joceline, 4 \ rs. fTemplemanJ ] Mr. Gray names Mr. Giffard's bl.' c. Othello, 4 yrs. 2 Earl Gi- osvenor's br. f. Burlesque, 4 yrs... ,3 Lord Derby's, b. c. Murillo, 4 yrs.^.... 4 Five subscribers. Burlesque would not which occasioned a false start ; Jocelihe, however, took the lead in the second start, never was headed, and won cleverly by three lengths. 0 to 4 against Joceline, 5 to 4 against Othello, and 4 to 1 agaiust Murillo. A pretty race. A PRODUCE STAKES of 50 sovs. each, h. ft. for colts and fillies 5 two miles. Mr. Houidsworth's b. c. Terror ( NelsonJ 1 Sir T. Stanley's b. f bv Tramp 2 Lord Dei b>' s" br. f. Muulo 3 Earl Grosvenor's b. f. by Blacklock 0 Sir W. Wynne's b. f. Julia 0 6 paid b. ft.— 1 dead. The Filly by Tramp took the lead about three- quarters of a mile from home; Terror came up and contested the race with the filly, and won bv a neck, cleverly. 5 to 4 agaiust Terror, and 4 to 1 against the Filly by Tramp TRADESMEN'S CUP, 100 guineas, added to a Handicap of 15 sovs. each. Mr. Clifton's b. c. Fvlde, 4 yrs.../ fNelsnnJ 1 Earl Grosvenor's b. c. Mavrocordato, 4 yrs Mr. Thompson's br. g. Orthodox, aged Mr. White's br. h. Euxton, 5 yrs Sir W W. Wymi's cli. h. May Fly, 5 yrs Lord Stamford names b. f. Columbia, 4 yrs Lord Derby's b. c. Borlador, 4 yrs Mr. J H, Lee he names b f. Sabriua, 4 yrs Mr. Houldsvrorth's b. c. Scarborough, 4 yrs.. UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF THE COUNTESS OF POWIS. THE FOR TUB ISenefii of Hjr aumoaa Oispensarj?^ WIJ. L, By Permission of the Members for tlie Borough, AT DINHAM HOUSE, ON THE FRIDAY & SATURDAY IN TEE RAGE WEEK.. A LI. Contributions are requested tb he sent to those Ladies of the Committee resident in Ludlow, with the Names of the Contributors, and the Prices affixed lo each Article, previous to the 20 th of June. The Ladies who have kindly consented to act on the Committee are LADY I. UCY CLIYE, LADY HARRIET CLIVE, MRS. JOHNF. S KNIGHT, MRS. J. MOLINEUX, MRS. BEALE, MISS C. HALLIFAX, LADY SYER, MRS. CLAY, MRS. ROGERS, MRS. PARDOE, MISS BURLTON, MRS. THOMAS, MRS. PILGRIM. ' S'j* Doors to he opened at Twelve o'Clock. ADMITTANCE IS. Ludlow, May ttth, 1828. To PARENTS AND GUARDIANS. MR. LLOYD, DENTIST, OF LIVERPOOL, " OST respectfully announces to the Lad IPS and ( Jen! I emeu of Slircwshury and its Vicinity, that lie intends to be at Mr. DCIRNFOED'S Upholsterer, & c. Wyle Cop, on the 20th Instant* where he will remain Ten Days. LLOYD'S DENTIFRICE may be had at the usual Places. BOLD STRFKT, LIVPRPOOL, MAY 5TH, 1828. Patronised by ihe Faculty of Shropshire, Cheshire, and North Wales. LEVASON & JONES, SURG EON DENTISTS, 22, White Friars, Chester. R. LEVASON respectfully announces that lie is aud will remain till Saturday E. en- I'LST next, the lOlli Instant, at Mr. PARSONS'S, Grocer, opposite the Talbot Hotel, Market- Sheet, Shrewsbury . Natural or Artificial Teeth fixed on nnerrinif Principles. L. & J.' S TOOTH POWDER may be had at the usual Places. Mr. L. attends in Shrewsbury the first Monday in every Month, stud remains till the following Saturday Evening. I) b others diew aud pai. l It) sovs. each, aud 9 declared and paid 5 sovs. each. A MAIDEN PI. ATK of £ 5tf. Air. Mvtton's b c. Hedgeford, 3 yrs.. 1 1 Mr. Clifton's b. c. Silierlock, 4 yrs 2 2 Mr Painter's b. c. by Strepiion, 4 yrs 0 3 SirT. Stanley's gr J. The Marshal, 3 yrs 0 4 Mr Gift'ardVb. c. Nimrod, 3. yrs..... 3 dr Mr. Huuldsworth's br. c. by I'illxi, 3 yrs ( I dr Sir W. \ V. Wynu's br. c. brother to May Fly dr. TUESDAY, RIIS MAJESTY'S PLATE, of 100guineas, Mr. Mytton's cli. g. Euphrates ( [ Vhitehouse) 1 Mr. Houldsworth's b. c. Scarborough, 4 yrs 2 Mr. Clirtou's br. m. Harriet, 5 yrs 3 Eight drawn. Even betting— fi'eld favourite— 4 to 1 on Scarbo- rough iu running. Euphrates took Ihe lead, was beaded half a mile end by Scarborough ; at mile end Euphrates took the lead again. Half a mile frotiT home, all together 5 quarter of a mile from home, Harriet took Ihe lend, but Euphrates won cleverly by a length at lavt. One of the most beautiful races ever seen. Whitehouse rode the old horse admirably. A SWERPSTAKrs, of 20 sovs. each, for three- year olds. Mr. Clifton's eh. f. La Duuseuse ( Nelson) 1 Mr. Houldsworlh's ch. f. Deposit, fry Blacklock 2 Lord Derby's br. f Manto, Sister to UI'giinilii 3 Sir W. Wynne's b. f. Julia pd La Dausfiise the favourite. A FRRR HANDICAP STAKES, of 30 SOVS. each. Mr llouldswtirth's br. c. Bhurtpore ( E. Jackson J.. 1 Sir W. W. Wy nil's b. c. Master Watkin, 3 yrs 2 Mr. Clifton's I), c. Pat, 4 yrs 0 Lord Grosvenor's b. f Equivoque, 4 yrs....'. 0 Three paid. Master Watkin the favourite. Bhurtpore took the lead, and won by linlf a neck. SIXTY GUINEAS ( clear), the gift of the Members for the City. Seven entered.— Sir T. Stanley's Joceline received £ 10. ANTED, by a Member of the ColFege of Surgeons, a respectable Youth as an APPRENTICE- For Particulars apply ( if by Letter, Post- paid) to THB PRINTEUS. BRIDGNORTH RACES arc fixed for the 9th and 10th ot'July. THIMBLE PLAYERS.— On Saturday last, five men found playing at a game of chance, with thim- bles and a pea, aud betting, iti the highway at Cross Hill, near to this town, and who had suc- ceeded in obtaining twenty shillings from a woman by tm ana of a wager, were, through the exertions of a gentleman resident in the neighbourhood, apprehended and taken before the Mayor. By the evidence of four or five persons the men were con- victed of bei. lj rogues and vagabonds, and com- mitted to the house of correction to hard labour for three calendar months. They were on their way lo Chester. Committed to our County Gaol, John Leach, chai'ffcd with stealing a jacket, the property of John Reeves, of Wytheford. The Report of the Committee appointed on the 7th of April to . make enquiries respecting Shrewsbury Fairs and Markets, now lies al the Guildhall for perusal iry any pemm who wishes to see it at a convenient hour; as also a proposal for enlarging the present accommodations at the Butter aud Poultry Maikvts, which holds out the piospccl of accommo dations lo every one comii'g lo the Markets and Fairs, and the removal of all obstructions lo the fiec passage of the Mail Coach, travellers, aud otheis. Arrived at Chester, on Saturday last, the ship Innat, with a cargo of Guinness aud Co.' s Dublin Porter, for R. Jones, Shrewsbury. EXTENSIVE SEIZURE OF BASK COIN. On Sunday morning, a person of the name of James Lynch, a pig- dealer, from the county of Roscommon, trading to this port, was apprehended by our police, in the act of making a very large exportation of base coin, to be circulated in Ireland. He was seen on the pier- head of George's Dock, with a small trunk, which appeared very heavy, on his shoulder; and he seemed uncertain whether to take his place by the Sheffield steamer lo Belfast, or by the Commerce to Dublin. The police- officers, thinking there was something suspicious iu his manner, inquired what was contained in the trunk. He replied at first that'the trunk was his own, but afterwards said he was carrying- it for some one else. The officers then proceeded to search him, aud found a key on his person, with v. hich the truiik was opened. It proved to contain a great quantity of base coin, wrapped in fourteen parcels, aud packed in shavings. There were 150 sovereigns, 756 half- crowns, aud' 1320 shillings, making au amount of £ 310. 10s. The coin pro- ceeded, 110 doubt, from the great mint for base coin, and was indifferently executed. The man was committed on Monday for trial. The discovery is very creditable to tlie police- officers.— Liverpool Saturday's Advertiser. On Wednesday last, John Hensbaw Walford, Esq. son of John Walford, Esq. of Wem, attained his majority, which event was celebrated with much festivity by the tenantry, tradesmen, and friends of the family. In Weill, seventeen fat sheep were paraded through the principal streets, preceded by a band of music, amid the ringing of bells and firing of cannon; twelve sheep were afterwards cut up and distributed, with two hun- dred loaves of bread, amongst the poor, and the others were roasted and distributed with ale, & c. — At Mr. Wtiiford's residence, several hundred persons were regaled with prime stingo 14 years old. A number of females were entertained w ith tea, and the day concluded with dancing, an illu- mination, an'd other joyous demonstrations.— At Aston, sheep were also roasted, and upwards' of 200 poor persons were entertained with dinner and ale by the tenantry. In the evening, the tenants' wives provided tea for the females; and the fes- tivities of the day terminated with firing of canuou aud a daueetin the green. At Ruytou- of- the- Eleven- Towns, the morning of Wednesday last was ushered in with the ringing of bells and other demonstrations of joy, on account of the coming- of- age of - John Hensbaw Walford, Esq. A fine fat sheep was slaughtered, and hav- ing been carried, preceded by a band of music, through the town, was cut up aud given to the poor in the township, with a proportionate quantity of bread, & c. The principal tenantry, tradesmen, and well- wishers to the family, afterwards sat down to an excellent dinner provided for them at the Powis Arms Inn, where the glass went merrily round to the health and happiness of the young gentleman, his family and friends, & c. & c. In the evening there was a quantity of ale given away at the different public houses ; aud some races for different prizes, with various other rural amuse- ments, took place. At Bridgnorth Fair, on Thursday last, there was a large shew of prime fat beasts, which sold on the average at fid. per lb. to tsink^ the offal; good cows in milk sold at tolerably good prices; fresh bul- locks and barren cows met with ready sale ; pobr beasts of all sorts sold at low prices. Fat Siiijep in the wool sold 011 the average at 7£ d. per lb. to sink the offal ; shorn sheep sold at from 6d. to 6id. per lb.; stores of all kinds sold rather low/ The Horse fair was well attended both by buyers and sell ers, and a good deal of business was done ; good horses of all kinds fetched good prices; ordinary ones were scarcely saleable.— The light- fingered gentry attended the fair as usual, and met with some success. Mr. Blayney, of the Piew House Farm, uear Bridgnorth, had his pocket picked of £ 2J, and many minor robberies Were committed. WAIJE33. BIRTHS. On the 10th ult. at Florence, the Lady of Edward Morifou, j rl 11. Esq of Golden Grove, in I lie county of Flint, of a sou and heir. On ihe 22d ult. at Elwv Cottage, the Lady of Charles Walter Wyatt, Esq. of a sun. MARRIED. On the 15lh nit. at Machynlleth, Lewis Puglie, Esq. banker, Dolgelley, to Miss Lewis, of the former place. On the 21st ult. at Barmouth, the Rev. Willinin Holland, Vicar of Swineshead and Fraiupton, near Boston, Lincolnshire, to Miss J. Meredith, daughter of the lute Mr. Meredith, of the foiuier place. DIED. Ou the 23d nit. at Belviilere House, Lambeth, In her 81st year, Mrs. Edwards, relict of the late John Edwards', Esq. of that place, and mother of John Edwards, Esq. of tlhcola, Glamorganshire, and of Regent- street, London. On the 23d olt. aged 31, the Rev. David Davies, Vicar of Llanfihangel Penbedw, Carmarthenshire. On the 21st ult. at Crickhowell, Mary, wife of the Rev. Canon Payne, Rector of I. luubedr, Brecoushire. On the 26th lilt, at Pentre. velin, near Llangollen, iu hi » 78ib year, Mr. Edward Hughes. On the 23d nil at llafotty, Glan y Bala, in the parish of Llanddeinioleii, Jonet Owen, who had nearly completed Ihe 99th jeur of her age, as appears from the following transcript of the parish register of IJaiiberris, where she was born, " Jonetta filia Audoeni Edward et Jante uxoris ejus baptizata fuit octavo Die Junii, A. D. 1729.— Evano Owen, Rec- tore." She has left a numerous race of children, grand- children, and great- grand- children, behind her, one of her daughters ( who is nlarried) is now nearly 80 years of age. The above Jonet Owen retained all her faculties unimpaired till about the close of last aiitumn ; towards the beginning of last summer, she could walk up a steep hill near her dwelling, without being seemingly much fatigued, and alroui three years ago, when the vvriter of this article called upon her, she had so little the appear- auce of old age that 110 one would have supposed she was much more than 60; her teeth were perfect, and hearing and eye- sight good, the latter so much so, that when asked if she could see well, she pointed to some sheep that were grazing oil the side of the mou'utaiu at a considerable distance, and said she could see them as well 11s when she was 40 or 50 years of age. A grandson of the obove old lady is a very respectable, man, and is oue of the stewards under W. Turner, Esq. at one of the slate quarries belonging to T. A. Smith, Esq. She was buried at Llanberris, on . Saturday week, and was attended to the grave by most of her numerous descendants. I11 the House of Commons, Oil Thursday night, Sir R. W. Vaughau, Bart, presented a Petition from the county of Merioneth against the importation of Foreign Wool— On Friday night, the same Hon. Bart, presented a Petition against further con- cessions to the Roman Catholics. MENAI AND CONWAY BRIDGES.— The tolls authorised by act of Parliament to be taken at these bridges were disposed of by auction for the ensuing year 011 Thursday last, pursuant to adver- tisement, at the Penrhyn Arms Hotel. There was very little competition, and the former conse- quently produced only seven hundred pounds, being one hundred and fifty- five less than last year; the latter three hundred and sixty- five pounds, beiug five less than last year. We have no doubt that at the expiration of the term the contractors will not have to repent their bargain, however they might have been situated aforetime, as there is every probability of the road from Shrewsbury to Holyhead, as well as that from Chester to the latter place, being more than usually frequented the ensuing season. The popularity of the noble viceroy of Ireland, hourly increasing as it does, will not fail to incite many of the principal landholders who have latterly absented themselves, to pay frequent visits to their native country; and as the superb erections alluded to, with tiie delightful scenery of the surrounding country, have lost none of their attractions, they will of course choose the route through Wales in preference to any other; more especially as the fares for passengers, & c. 011 board the government steam packets plying between Holyhead and Dub- lin will shortly be considerably reduced. A peti- tion 011 this subject has been for some time in a course of signature by the innkeepers, & c. ou the lines of road from Chester aud Shrewsbury to Holyhead, and we are assured by competent authority that its prayer will be speedily attended to .— North Wales Chronicle. FASH IONAFLE SILK MERCERY, &, c. & c. Pride Hi 11, Shrewsbury. rogers^ STPAGE RESPECTFULLY inform their Friends and the Public that they have recently made ex- tensive Purchases iu London, Manchester, und other Markets, of every Description of Plain aud Fancy Goods suited to tlie present Season; and, as their Slock comprises several Articles of Novelty in French, lud ia, aud British Manufacture, they earnestly solicit au early Iuspecli on of the same, pledging themselves that every Description of Goods shall he offered at the lowest Price possible, and which they have no Diuibr will give Satisfaction. R. & P. beg to recommend to the Notice of Pur- chasers ihe following Articles:— G'ros des ludes, Gros de Naples and Sarcenets, Crepe de Lyons, Italian Nets, kc. a large Assortment of Silk' aud Canton Crape Shawls, French' Crape and Gauze Scarfs and Handkerchiefs, rich Gauzes for Dresses, on elegant Assortment of Gauze aud Lutestring Rib- bons, Town. printed Chintz, Muslins, Flounces, Mus- lin Trimmings, See. R. & P. have constantly in Stock a general Assort, meut of the most approved Fabric of Irish Linens, Sheetings, Table Liuen, Blankets, Countermines, Quills, superfine tVoolleu Cloths, Kerseymeres, Wait I. coatings, & e. It . & P. beg to observe that all Linfns, Lawns, Cambrics, Muslins, & c. purchased in Pieces, will be charged the Wholesale Price. Funerals Furnished. T. MADELEY, TAILOR AND HABIT- MAKER, Caslte Street, Shrewsbury, EGS to inform his Friends, the Nobility, Ladies, and Gentlemen of Shrewsbury und its Vicinity, that he has just returned from LONDON, where he has selected from the first and most fashion- able Houses a large Assortment of superfine BROAD CLOTHS, KERSEYMERES, & c. of the most pre- vailing Colours, wilh a great Variety of FANCY WAISTCOAT1NGS of the newest Patterns and best Quality, which lie offers upon most reasonable Terms. T. M grateful for the many Favours he has so long been receiving, begs to return his most sincere Thanks to bis Friends add lire Public iu general, und pledges himself it shall he his constant Study to merit a Continuance of the same. SHREWSBURY, APRIL 29, 1828. MARDOL, SHREWSBURY. I). JONES, ^ Successor to ( he late Mr. RICH. INN WALL J, MERCER, Sec. 1%/ fTOST respectfully returns his sincere IV a. Thanks to his Friends, the Ladies and Gentle- men of Shrewsbury and its Vicinity, for the very liberal Encouragement he has met with since his Commencement iu the above Establishment. D. J. takes this Opportunity to acquaint his Friend and Customers, that he has just returned from tliL different Markets, where he has purchased a most beautiful Assortment of Printed Cottons and Cambrics, and also rich Printed Muslins, of the newest and most fashionable Patterns; a large Assortment of Bomba- zine aud Norwich Crape ; English and French Gros de Naples of the newest Colours ; Cotton and Cash- mere Shawls; a large Assortment of Silk Shawls Willi rich Borders; Cyprus and real Canton Shawls and Handkerchiefs; also Ladies' Silk and Gauze Handkerchiefs, iu every Shade of Colour, Bobbin and Pluiiin< r Nets, Plain and Figured Lace & Edging, and Lace Veils particularly cheap; and about 250( 1 Yards of 7- 8tbs and 4- 4ths Coleraiile and Suffolk Hemp Linen, which will he sold a decided Bargain. D. J. most particularly would recommend to the Notice of the Public his Stock of Broad aud Narrow Cloths, Woollen Cords, Cassimeres, Toilenettes, Va- lencias, French Webs and Quillings, which he has lately purchased for Ready Money, and is determined to offer them at very Reduced Prices.— Ribbons Gloves, aud Hosiery, besides other Articles too nu- merous tu mention, he is now selling 011 the most favourable Terms. D. J. begs lo inform his Friends and numerous Customers in Montgomeryshire, that all Orders lliey may favour him with shall be executed on the same Tertus as if tliev were present. MAY 7, 1828. U IN NESS and CO.' s Double F. rown- Jf Stont PORTER ou Sale iu Barrels, Half. Barrels, and Bottles, by their Ageut, R. JONES, Cheese. Factor, Pride- Hill, Shrewsbury. Several Tons of Family CHEESE at verv low Prices. Dealer in PERRY nnd CIDER. TO TURNIP GROWERS. EDWARD GOUGH BF. GS to inform his Friends and the Public that lie has now ready for Sale, of the last Year's Growth, superior SWEDE and WHITE GLOBE TURNIP SEEDS of excellent Quality, warranted grown from Turnips carefully selected aiid transplanted. Gravel Hill, near Shrewsbury, bth May, 1828. ' fpo be TAKEN IN to CLOVER or JL VETCHES, at SUTTON, near Shrewsbury. Apply to THE PRINTBRS. fflAiESRIEir IHim& ikllDo SHREWSBURY. lit our Market, on Saturday Inst, the price of Hides was 4< 1. ptr lb.— Calf Skins 5d Tallow 3| d. d. s. d. Wheat, 38quarts 8 6 to 8 Barley, 38 quarts 4 9 to 5 Oats, 57 quarts 4 8 to 6 CORN- EXCHANGE, MAY 5. We were largely supplied this day with ail kind of Grain from Essex, Kent, and Suffolk, when the mealing trade was exceedingly heavy, and the finest samples of Wheat with difficulty found purchasers 11I au abatement of full Is. per quarter from the prices of this day se'nnight, w hile the middling qualities were nearly unsaleable. Malting Barley is also Is. per quarter cheaper, and dull at that reduction. Beans and Peas of both kinds were extremely dull, aud a trifle lower, the season for thosearticles having passed by. Oats, from the magnitude of the arrival, were nearly stagnant, the inexhaustible supply from Ire- land having baffled the calculations of the jobbers, and to effect soles a reduction of Is. per quarter was submitted lo. In other articles there is no alteration Current Price of Grain per Quarter, as imrteri Wheat Barley. Malt.... 50s to 69s 32s to 34s 56s to 60s White Peas.. Beans Oats 36s to 38s 34s lo 36; 24s to 27; Fine Flunr 50s to 55s per sack ; Seconds 45s lo 5(> s SMITHF1ELD fperst. ot SM. sinking otialJ. Beef 4s 4d 10 4s 8d I Veal 5s 4d lo 6s Od Mutton... 4s 4d to 4s 8(! I Pork 5 « 4d to 6s 2d I. anib 6s Od to 7s Od Average Prices of Corn per Quarter, in England and Wales, for the week ending April 25, 1828: Wheat, 57s. 7d.; Barley, 31s. 6d. j Oats, 20s, Id. London Hat IFarehouse, MARDOL'HEAD. R. WILLIAMS BEGS respectfully to announce his hav- ing recently selected, in some of the first Manu- factories in the Metropolis, HATS of such superior Texture aud Quality, as lie Trusts will continue to- ensure liitn that liberal Support already so extensively received, aud now most sincerely and gratefully acknowledged.— His Stock consists of Boy's Hats, from Is. 6d. to 7s. 6d. Youth's Ditto, Is. 9d. to Us. Men's Ditto, 2s. to 10s. very stont. Ditto Silk nnd Beaver Waterproof, at 12s. as usual. Farmers' Broad. brimmed Ditto, only 13 « . Ditto ( very ffue) from 18s. to23s. Extra super Beaver, extremely fashionable Shapes, from 23s.' to 28s. An extensive Variety of Youth's and Gentlemen's Patent Leather, Cloth, Silk, Oilease, and Fur Travel- ling Caps. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL Linen and Woollen Drapery ESTABLISHMENT, Silt Mercery, Hosiery, Lace, Gloves, 4- c. <$- c. 4' C. fHarUol, £ tjrciij0tmrg. WM. ANDREW, IN returning his most grateful Acknow ledgements for a continued Increase of Public Favours, very respectfully begs to announce that he has recently returned from the London, Manchester, and other Markets, where he has purchased very extensively on the most advantageous Terms, onlv to- be credited by an Inspection of his Stock, which" he unhesitatingly affirms can be but rarely equalled.— W. A. therefore looks forward to Public Support^ which he earnestly solicits with Confidence and Plea- sure; assuring bis Friends, and others who may favour him with a Call, however favourable IbeiV Impressions of the Cheapness of the Goods may be, such Impressions cannot fail being fully realized. A superior Assortment of Gros de Naples, from 2t. 4d. to 4s. 6d. Silk Shawls in every Variety, from 7s. 6d. lo £ 2. 15s.; Imitation and Ileal Canton Crape Shawls. A most splendid Varietv of Ell- wide London Printed Muslins, from 2s. lo5s. 6d. per Yard ; Patterns entire- ly new, and selected from one of the first Publisher* in London. Loudon nnd Manchester Prints, in every Variety of Pattern aud Colours, from 3d. 10 Is. 6d. per Yard; full Chintz, rich new Patterns, printed 011 superior Cloth, Is. per Yard. Lace, Hosiery, Gloves, Haberdashery, kc. of every Description, at very reduced Prices. A most extensive Assortment of Broad and Narrow Woollen Cloths, well worthy the Notice of the Public, being of superior Make and Finish, warranted not 10 wear rough nor spot with Rain, and at lower Pricei than have been hitherto offered, from Is. to 16s. per Yard ; best West of England 21s.; real West of Eng- land Cassimeres, from 4s. 6d. to 6s. 6d. per Yard ; Stancomh's very best Mill Ditto, at 7s. 9d — W. A. pledgeSjhimself these are the best that are made. Printed Quillings, Valencias, Swansdowns, 8cc. of superior Quality, at low Prices. Moleskins, Beaverteens, Cotton Cords, & c. in abundant Variety — Prices much reduced. Irish Linens of the most approved Make. M'Cance's Suffolk Hemp, W. ASDREW engages, are fully equal ( if not superior) to those made in Holland, and hnm< lily solicits the Friends of Britain to encourage the Sister Country. Burnsley aud Scotch Sheetings in every Width aud Quality. Funerals completely Furnished on the nroit reasonable Termt. TO PARENTS AND INVALIDS. WH1TNEYS' ARROW ROOT RUSK POIVDER, For making in a few Minutes a must delicate and superior Food. MOTHERS as well as Attendants on the Sick are particularly interested in this valuable Preparation, which the Proprietors having first derived a Confidence in, from its Usefulness during the protracted Illness of one of their Family, were induced lo recommend generally, and in every Instance within their Knowledge its good Effects have been manifest. For Infants it affords a larger Portion of Nourish- ment than any other, excepting Maternal Food, and it has' that important Advuntage of not turning- Acid upon the Stomach. Sold by the Proprietors, Wyle Cop, Salop; Owen, Welshpool ; Smith, Wellington ; and Wholesale bv Newbery, Barclay, aud Butlers', London ; and by one or more respectable Dealers in every Town iu the Kingdom. LIVE STOCK, AT J11 DDL ETON HALL. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, BY GEO. WILLIAMS, On the Premises at MI DDLF. TON, in fhe Parish of Chirburv, in the County of Salop, on Monday, the 12th of May, 1828; rpHE excellent DAIRY COWS, Tho- a. tough- bird Hprefordshire BOLL, and PIGS, ihe Property of Mr. THOMAS CRUMPTON : comprising 12 choice Cows and Heifers calved and to calve, very capital Hereford Null ( three Years old), Fat Cow ( thorough Herefordshire) ; superior Sow in. pig-, handsome Gilt, Ditto & five Pigs, extraordinarily fine Brawn ( well- bred). G. YV. particularly invites those Person* in Want of Dairy Cows to this Sale; as he can with Confidence recommend them to their Notice, his Employer having- taken considerable Pains in selneting- them, regardless of Expense. The only Reason they are disposed of is, the Proprietor is declining the Dairy. to commence al One o'clock. SALOPIAN JOURNAL^ ANft> CJOUiRIMi OF WAJLHSfci. TO BRIDGE BUILDERS. ANY Perscfn desirous of contracting for repairing; Cornbow Bridge, adjoining- Ihe Town of Hales Owen, and also for, repairing Wellsbatcll Bridge, near the Town of Bridgnorth, in ihe County of Salop, are requested to send Proposals to the Office of the Clerk of ihe Peace, Shrewsbury, sealed up and endorsed respectively " Proposals for repairing Corn, bow Bridge1* and " Proposals for repairing Walls- hatch Bridge," 011 or before Friday, the 23d May, 1828. Particulars of the Work at Cornbow Bridge tiiay he seen on Application to Mr. GRAINGER, Hales Owen ; of Wallsbnich Bridge 0: 1 ' Application •< » WILLIAM PURTON, Esquire, Faintree " Had ; and of both on Application at ! lie ' Oliire of the Clerk of the Peace, at the Shireliull, Shrewsbury, or to the County Surveyor, Canal Office. Ellrsnierc. I. OXDALE, C. P. ^ ales bp auctton. THIS DAY, TO- MORROW, & c. Four capital Milking COWS, Twenty EWES and LAM US, \ 1ARR in- foul, PONY, PIGS, Low PHAETON, Foreign CHINA and GLASS, PLATED GOODS, CURIOSITIES. PAINTINGS & PRINTS, Among tfhich is a particularly fine Picture of a Battle Piece, by" J. Wycke ( commonly called Wycke the Younger), an undoubted Original; numerous other Paintings and Prints from eminent Masters, including Rembrandt, Zuccarelli, Vivares, WoUvermans, Woollet, Ryland, Walker,' Barto- lozzi, Louthcrburgb, Fittler, and others; AND THE ENTIRE HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, And oilier Articles of Interest. TIMBER. rg- SHERE will be SOLD by Auction, Ja early in June, a Quantity of OAK and ASH TREES, now fallen in THE HAYES COPPICE, near LONG I) EN. Also, a Quantity of TIMBER fill I en in the Parish of MADELEY. There will be a Quantity of OAK POLES, BARK. & c. & c. to be sold at. the same Time, if not disposed of earlier; The Day of Sale, and Particulars of the Timber, will appear in a future Paper. The above Timber is on Lands the Property of Sir HENRY HAWJLEY. tf Auction. Household Furniture, Linen, China, Prints, Boohs, § c. BY MESSRS. TUDOR AND LAWRENCE, Ou the Premises, on Tuesday, the 20th of May, 1828; riPH E neat and useful HOUSEHOLD i FURNITURE, LINEN, CHINA, PRINTS, ROOKS, and other Effects, belonging to M r. GRANT, Nursery and Seedsman, High Street, 1 Shrewsbury ( who is retiring . from Business) ; Catalogues of which will be prepared. N. B. The Furniture may be viewed tile Morning of Sale from 9 till 11 o'Clock. In the Press, and will be published by C. HULBERT, Shrewsbury J and may be had of Messrs. LONG- MAN and Co. London, POETICAL RECREATIONS, AND THOUGHTS SSI RHYME. BY CHARLES AUGUSTUS HULBERt. rfjpHE Pieces contained in this Volume il will be of a Miscellaneous Character, embracing Serious and Sacred, as well as Fanciful and Lively Subjects. The Volume will be neatly printed in Foolscap ^ Vo. and the Price will not exceed Five Shillings to Ladies and Gentlemen who give their Orders previous to its Publication. BY MR. PERRY, On the Premises, ST. JOHN'S IIII. L, Shrewsbury, on Wednesday, Thursday, aud Fridav, the 7th, 8th, mid 9tli Days'uf May, 1828 ; ALL the HOUSEHOLD and other EFFECTS of the above Kind, of the late WILLIAM SMITH. Esq. WEDNESDAY'* SALE will comprise the Cows, Sheep, Horses, Pigs, Phaeton, China, Glass, tiud Curiosities; commencing with ihe Cows, Sheep, & c. THURSDAY'S SALE will consist of the Pictures aud Prints, and Part of the Furniture, FRIDAY'S SAI. E will embrace the Remainder of the Furniture, Brewing Vessels, Kitchen Requisites, Stc & c. Each Day's Sale will begin most punctually on St. Child's Clock having struck Eleven. INVESTMENT. For Positive Sale— No Rrserved Bidding. BY MR. PERRY, At the Crown Inn, Shrewsbury, on Saturday, the 10th of May, 1828, at five o'Clock in the Afternoon ( by - Direction of ihe Trustees), pursuant to the Will of the late Miss PARTOB ( assuredly and bona fide with- out any reserved Bidding); AM. that extensive Tradesman's HOUSE and PREMISES, situate in SHoPLATCH, in the Centre of Shrewsbury, long established as a House'of Business, now in the Occupation of Mr. John Kent, Mercer aud Linen Draper, containing ou the GROUND FLOOR, Shop, 18 Feet square, with modern Front, large Par- lour attached. Kitchen, Brewhouse, Pantry, & Yard ; also Warehouse behind of three Rooms, and Parlour under ( easily convertible into an extra House), and spacious Cellars underneath. FIRST FLOOR, Front Sitting Room, near 22 Feel square, two Cham- bers, and two Staircases. SECOND FLOOR, Two excellent Frout Chambers, four Buck Ditto, and three Closets ; witli three good Garrets above. The Front of these Premises i « of rrccnl lvrection ill handsome Brick- Work, the Whole in good Condi lion and Repair, and though well established in the present Business, is desirably situate, and spacious enough for any Trade or Offices requiring Extent of Hooin. Mr. KENT will shew the Premises; nnd for further Particulars apply to Mr. COOPER, Solicitor, Shrews- bury, or THE AUCTIONEER. LAND AT MONTIORD BRIDGE. BY MR. PERRY, At the Nag's Head Inn, Montford Bridge, near Shrewsbury, on Monday, the 19th Mav instant, at Four o'clock in the Afternoon, subject to Conditions to be then produced : ALL that Freehold Piece of capital Meadow or Pasture LAND, called the LONO ALLOES, containing 7A. 3R. 30P. more or less, situate at Montforil Bridge aforesaid, adjoining the Turnpike ltoad leading from Shrewsbury lo Oswestry, and now- ill the Occupation of Sir F. B. llill. The Premises will be sold subject to Land- Tax and Tithes. Mr. George Wliitehorn, Nag's Head Inn, Montford Bridge, will show Ihe Land; aud for further Par- ticulars, or to- treat for Ihe same, apply to Mr. PERRY, Pride llill, Shrewsbury, or Mr. W. A. LKIGHTOH, Solicitor, Shoplalch, Shrewsbury. VALUABLE b& ibi& ts; A*' D YOUJYG STOCK. BY MR." SMITH, On Tuesday, the T3th of May, 1828, precisely at 12 c'Clock, at the Talbot Inn, Atchain, near Shrews- bury ; rgHHE entire BREEDING STOCK of H BROOD MARES, COLTS, aud HUNTER, the Property of a Gentleman going abroad: LOT I. A GREY MARE, foaled in 1817, bred by Sir Ralph Noel- by Sir Harry Dimsdale, Dam by Percy, Granddam Sister to Bay Richmond, Feather, Godolphin Arabian ; - in. foal to Sir Charles ; was a good Leicestershire Hunter, aud her Stock ( three of which are included in this Sale) wiil be found to possess superior Qualifications. LOT 11. A BROWN M AR E, 8 Years old, by Old Sultan, Dam by Promoter ; was a capital Hunter, and equal to any Weight ; covered by YVambo. LOT III. A BLACK MARE," by Old Sultan, Dam by Beaufremontj of a Family famous for their Qualifi- cations as Hunters, and was herself a capital Mare; covered by Master Henry. LOT IV. A C11ESNJJT MARE, 7 Years old, by Cestrian, Dam by Old Alexander, ( was a favourite Hunter of the late Sir Step lien Glyune,) Grauddam by Regulus, Forester, & c. LOT V. A BLACK. M ARE, 5 Yearn old, by Blncber, Dam Sister to Tooley by Walton; was trained at three Years old and a Winner ( for Performance see Racing Calendar, 1825); an Accident prevented her going on in Training; is an excellent Hack, and would make a Hunter or most valuable Biood Mare. LOT VI. A BLACK MARE, 4 Years old, by Melibrens, Dam by. Old Sultan ; valuable as a Hunter and Hack for a heavy Weight, and broke in to single Harness. THREE- YEAR- OLDS. LOT VII. A BAY COLT, by Zodiac, Dam by Old Sultan. LOT VIII. A BAY FILLY, by Zodiac, Dam the Olive Arabian, Granddam Dick Andrews ; a very fine Fill v. LOT IX. A CHESNUT FILLY, by Ditto, out of Lot 4 bv Cestrinn, Alexander, & c. LOTX. A GREY FILLY, by Pacha ( Brother to Taucred), Dam Lot 1 by Sir Harry Dimsdale,& c. & c. The above four Lots have been broke up, and are perfect in every Respect ; have run out all Wititer, and are now in the Field. TWO- YEAR- OLDS. LOT XI. A GREY COLT, by Strephon, Dam Lot 1 by Sir Harry Dimsdale; a very superior Coll, and promises to be equal to any Weight; and is all but Thorough- bred. LOT XII A BAY COLT, by Champion, Dam Lot 3 by Old Sultan. YEARLINGS. LOT XIII. A BAY COLT, by Sp- ctre, Dam Lot 4 by Cestrian, Alexander, & c. LOT XIV. A GREY FILLY, by Fyldener, Dam Lot I by Sir Harry Dimsdale, &. c. LOT XV. A BROWN FILLY ( a Weanling), by Master Henry, Dam Lot 3 by Old Sultan, Beaufre- mont, & c. LOT XVI. A capital CHESNUT M ARE, 6 Years old, by Little Gimcrack, Dam by Old Sultan ; of fine Temper and superior Qualifications for a Hunter, and equal to 14 Stone. All the above Lots, except 6 and 16, have run out during the Winter, n! nd are still in the Field. The Auctioneer ( rati with Confidence recom mend the above Stock to Sporting Men, and Breeders iu general. The Brood Mares have been selected with careful Attention to the t. wti principal Requisites for Field Horses, Blood and Power ; and the Young Stock are very promising to make first- rate Hunters or Horses for Half- bred Stakes. TO BE SOLD BY PRIVATE CONTRACT, That much- admired Villa, HOAIiLEY GRANGE, ( Within one Mile of Much Wenloch,) A SUITABLE RESIDENCE FOR A GENTEEL FAMILY, CONSISTING of a neat Veranda and Entrance Hall, Dining, Drawing, with suitable Lodging Rooms, a most capital Kitchen, Back Ditto, Laundry, and all convenient, Offices attached, fitted up iu the best Manner ; a neat Bath, with the Con- veniency of hot and cold Water; a neat Dairy, capital Stabling, Coach- house, Cow- house, large Barn with Grainery ; two Gardens ( walled in Part); with three ornamented Brick COTTAGES and ornamental Brick Hovel dispersed upon different Parts of the Grounds ; the Whole recently built, standing upon about Twenty1-* two Acre^ of fine GRASS LA N D well watered, nmst beautifully fenced and planted, and principally bounded by a Belt of thriving Plantations. One Part of the Land is Tiiiie- free ; the Remainder subject to Great Tithe only.—- Half the Purchase Money may remain as a Mortgage upon the Estate, at the Option of the Purchaser. For Particulars apply to Mr. ROOEN, Posenal, near Broselev ; or to Messrs. TUDOR and LAWRENCE, Col- lege Hill, Shrewsbury, where a Map of the Estate may be seen. ALL Persons who stood indebted to Mr. JAMES PARKES, inte of SHREWSBURY, Artist, deceased, at the Time of his Death, are re. quested to pay the Amount of their respective Debts forthwith to Mr. WILLIAM ALLPORT LE. IGHTON, Solicitor,. Shoplfctcb., Shrewsbury. And all Persons having any Demand against the Estate ofthesaid Mr. James Pat kes are requested to send in the Particulars of their Accounts to the said Mr. W. A, Leighton, in Order that iliri same may be examined and discharged. Also all Persons who have Drawings, Prints, & c-. & c. belonging to tbe Jiaid Mr. James Parkes, are desired to return lbs same to Mr. PARK. ES, Castle Street, Shrewsbury. MAY 1 ST, 1828. This Day is - published, in 8vo. price 7s. Qd. Boards, TREATISE on the VALUATION of PROPERTY for the POOR'S RATE; shewing the Method of Rating Lands, Buildings, Tithes, Mines, Woods, River and Canal Tolls, and Personal . Property. With an Abstract of the Pool- Laws relating to Rates" and Appeals. By J. S. BAYLDON. Printed for Longman, R< 5es, Orme, Brown, and Green, London. Of whom may be had, by t| » e same Author, The ART of VALUING RENTS and TILLAGES, See. The Second Edition, in 8vo. price 7s. Boards with the Plan of a Farm of 242. Acres. i& iteceUaneouc* EritcUigsmcr* TH E Public are respectfully informed, that THE UNION Post Coach ( carrying Four Insides) has commenced running for the Season, on Tuesdays and Saturdays, at Five o'Clock in the Morning, from the Lion and Britannia Inns, SHREWS- BURY, and the Talbot, in ABERYSTWITH, by Way of Welshpool, Newtown, Llanidloes, and Devil's Bridgfc, and will arrive in Shrewsbury and Aberystwith, by Eight o'Clock the same Evenings. *** It is requested that Orders to secure Places be accompanied with a Deposit. The Proprietors will not be accountable for any Parcels ( if lost) above the Value of Five Pounds, un- less entered as such and paid for accordingly. Dagers Mill, All Slretlon. SHREWSBURY. OLD- ESTABLISHED INN, With GOOV- WILL, and curly Possession, now in full Business ; also SUNDRY HOUSES, GARDENS, AND PREMISES ADJOINING. BY MR. PERRY, On Ihe Premises, on Saturday, the 17th of May, 1828, ut five u'Clock in the Afternoon ( in One Lot); ALL that most respectable and capital INN, called THE A1 situate at Ihe Bottom of the Wyle Cop, Shrewsbury, now in the Occupation of Ihe Proprietress, Mrs. SARAH JORDBN ( aboul to retire). The Premises contain Suites of Chambers making up near FOllTY BEDS, EIGHT SITTING ROOMS and PAULOURS, wilh Closets; Kitchens and other Offices, with Proportionate Wine and Beer Vauils and Cellars. Excellent newly. built STABLING, with 40 Stalls nnd Standing- Room for TWO HUNDRED HORSES, two Lock- up Coach. Houses, 2 Box Stables, Granary, Muck- Clace, spacious Yards, and other Conveniences. ALSO, A Front DWELLING HOUSE adjoining-, in the Occupation of Mr. Edward Hayes, containing eight Bed Chambers, Tea Room, Parlour, Kitchen, Brew- house, Pantry, Yard, and Cellars. ALSO, A DWELLING HOUSE, in the Occupation of Mr. Edmund Coiind, containing- five Bed Chambers, Kitchen, Parlour, Pantry, Brewhouse, and Cellar. ALSO, A DWELLING HOUSE adjoining ( in Pnrt de- scribed with the Inn), late ill the Occupation of Mr. Auiericus Hitchcock. ALSO, All those FOUR excellent productive GARDENS, adjoining the foregoing, extending to the Severn, Willi Brick- built Suuiimer- House thereon. The nbove Premises occupy, from Front to Rear, an Extent of 428 Feet, with a Frontage to the- Street of 7(> Feet; the whole Ground Plot containing about 4000 Square Yards. This Concern, well conducted ns it now is, cannot fail lo produce the same good Success which has attended Ihe Proprietress, wlw) wishes to relinquish solely for the Comforts of Retirement. The present Business is from Commercial Travellers, a constant Town Custom, and never. failing Overflow- on Market and Fair Days, at Assizes, Sessions, aud oilier Public Times, insomuch that Forty to Fifty Beds are required out, in Addition to those in the House ; and no Situation in the Town is so well adapted to StageCoach Business. To be viewed till the Sale; and for further Parti- culars apply lo Messrs. LLOYD and Uow, Solicitors, Shrewsbury ; or Mr. PERKY, wilh whom a Map of Hie Premises is for Inspection. The Stock and Furniture at a fair Valualian. BY MR. WHITE, At the Crown Inn, Church Stretton, on Thursday, May 22d, 1828, ut Four o'clock in the Afternoon ( unless previously disposed of by Private Contract, of which due Notice will be given), subject to Conditions then to be produced : LL that newly- erected and substantial Brick- built MILL, with Dwelling HOUSE, Stabling, and Garden adjoining, now in complete Repair, together with Three Acres ( more or less) of capital MEADOW LAND, desirably situated iu the Township of ALL STRETTON. The Mill has three Pairs of Stones ( two of which are French), which are worked by a back overshot Wheel 16 Feet in Diameter, with Cast- Metal Shroud- ing and Boots, and a Sack Tackle and Dressing Mill, supplied with Water from a never- failing Stream, and is now in full Business. The above valuable Property is Copyhold, and is centrically situated between the excellent Market Towns of Shrewsbury, Ludlow, Bishop's Castle, and Wenlock, and presents an Opportunity for profitable Investment or Occupation rarely excelled.— Possession will be given at Michaelmas next. Further Particulars may be had by applying to Mr JOSEPH SHCKER, Grocer, or THE AUCTIONEER, both of the Wyle Cop, Shrewsbury. FREEKOIiD PROPERTY. BY MR. WRIGHT, At Mr. Sandbrook's Wine Vaults, in Drnyton- in Hales, in the County of Salop, on Tuesday, Mav 20th, 1828, between the Hours of Five and Seven o'Clock iu the Afternoon, subject to Conditions to be then produced, and in the following or such other Lots as shall be agreed upon at the Time of LOT I. ALL that MESSUAGE or Tenement with an excellent Shop to the Front, Glazing House, Warehouse, Stabling, and olber Appurte. nances to the Back, situate in the Shropshire Street in Drayton- in Hales, in the County of Salop, in the Occupation of Mr. Thomas Grimley. LOT II. All that other MESSUAGE or Tenement consisting of an excellent Parlour, Kitchen, Brew- house, and four good Lodging- Rooms, situate in the Church Lane, iu Draytou- in- Hales aforesaid, lately occupied by Dr. Arden, and adjoining the last mentioned Lot. LOT III. All those TWO MESSUAGES or Tene meuts, with a Bakehouse, Pigstyes, Gardens, and other Appurtenances thereto belonging, situate at or near the Double Gates, in Little Drayton, in the several Occupations of Jane Mulliner and Win. Eaton LOT IV. An excellent GARDEN, situate iu the Spring Gardens, in Drayton- in. Hales aforesaid, oe cupied with Lot 1. LOT V. Another GARDEN, situate as above, occupied with Lot 2. Lot 1 has been recently erected at a great Expense and is admirably adapted for carrying on an exten sive Trade. Lot 2 is well calculated for the Reception of a small genteel Family, and the whole of the Premises are in complete Repair. The respective Occupiers wiil shew the same; and any further Information may be obtained by Applica- tion at the Office of Messrs. WARREN and SON, Soli- citors. Dravton- in-[ lales aforesaid. ABERYS TWITD. BARMOUTH. BATHMG* r| MJE Public are respectfully informed JL the Coach will commence running to BARMOUTH on the 21st instant, from the Britannia Inn, Shrewsbury, iind will continue to run every Wednesday during the Bathing- Season. TO PIE SO LID BY PRIVATE CONTRACT, nnWO excellent FA RMS, in the Parishes Jl of LLANDISl LIO and BUTTINGTON, in the County of Montgomery : viz. An excellent FARM, called PENTRE, situate in the Township of Haughton, iu the Parish of Llandi- silio, in the said County, containing by Admeasure- ment 77 Acres or thereabout of fine rich Arable and Pasture Land, on the Banks of the River Virniew now in the Occupation of William and Edwarc Humphreys. ' I he House and Buildings are in good Repair. The Property lies near the Turnpike Road leading from Pool to Oswestry, and is distant from each of those Places about 8 Miles; is near the Village of Llanymynecli and the Ellesmere Canal, and also Lime and Coal.— The River Virniew, which divides the Counties of Salop and Montgomery, abounds with Salmon and oilier Fish, and the Country with Game. A very respectable Person has offered to take the Farm for the next Year at the clear Rent of £ 161. 14s. Od. The Property will be sold at Ihe low Price of £ 4000. Also, a good FARM, called GARREG, in the Parish of Buttiugton, in- the said County of Mont goinery, containing by Admeasurement 60 Acres or thereabout of good Arable, Meadow, and Pasture Land, uow in the Occupation of Benjamin Poole, at the clear Yearly Rent or £ 77. This Property commands a View of the Town of Pool and Powis Castle, and also an extensive View of the Vale of the Severn. It lies close to the Turnpike Road leading from Welsh Pool to Shrewsbury ; and is distant from the former Place about 5 Miles, an< j from the latter 13 Miles. Several Coaches pass by the House daily. This Farm wiil be sold for £ 1800. The Tenants will shew the Premises; and for fur- ther Particulars apply to Messrs. MINSHA'LL and SABINE, Solicitors, Oswestry. OSWESTRY, APRIL 30TII, 1828. N. B. If the Property is not disposed of before the 12th of May next, it will then be offered for Sale by Public Auction. To be Sold by Private Contract, ( In Consequence of the Dissolution of SVrtnerahip of i John Heathcote and Co.) AND EITHER TOGETHER OR IN LOTS, LL those valuable and extensive PRE- MISES, known bv the Name ofTH E SA LOP1 AN BREWERY, situate in COLEHAM,- SHIt EWSBUR Y, now in full Business, and capable of Brewing- One. Hundred and Twenty Barrels daily ; together with an Engine of Six- hoise Power ( nearly new), large Marble Coolers, and Eight Vats which hold Seventeen Hundred Barrels. Also, the DWELLING HOUSE, large Walled Yard, and oilier Appurtenances attached to the said Brewery ; together also with a Close or Parcel of excellent LAND adjoining, containing about Five Acres. The RivCr Severn runs under the Walls of the Brewery, where there is a convenient Wharf, from which Barges may be loaded Daily for Coalbrookdule, Broseley, Brido north, Be wd lev- Worcester, Stourport, Tewkesbury, Gloucester, Chepstow, and Bristol. The whole of the Premises are in excellent Repair, and there is every Requisite for carrying on a very extensive Business. To treat for all, or any Part of the above, apply to Mr. FiTZ^ OfiN, on the Premises. J OTIC E IS HEREBY GIVEN, pur- suant to: » n Act of Pariiameut passed in the 55th Year of the, Reign of his late Majesty King George the Third, intituled " An Act for enabling Spiritual " Persons, to exchange the Parsonage of Glebe Houses or Glebe Lands belonging to their Benefices for " others of gieater Value or more conveniently situ. " ated . for their Residence and Occupation, and for " annexing such Houses and Lands so taken in Ex- " change to such Benefices as Parsonage or Glebe. ii Houses and Glebe Lands, and for purchasing and u annexing Lands to become Glebe in certain Cases, <{ and for other Purposes;*' and " to another Act of Parliament passed in the 6th Year of the Reign of his present Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled " An Act to amend and render more effectual an Act " passed in the fifty- third Year of the Reign of his u late. Majesty, for enabling Spiritual Persons to ex- change their Parsonage Houses or Glebe Lands, 44 and for other Purposes therein mentioned ;"— JOHN JUSTICE, Clerk, Recto.!- of the Rectory and Parish Church of . Igbtfield, in the County of Salop, and within the Diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, and Sir ROWLAND HILL, of Hawkstone, in the said County of Salop, Baronet, intehd to make an Exchange as follows ( that is to say) : the said JOHN JUSTICE intends to Co# vey to the said Sir ROWLAND HILL all those, several Closes, Pieces, or Parcels ofGiehe Land, situate and being within the Parish of Ightfield afore- said, commonly called or known by tire several Names and containing bv Survey the several Quantities of fcftmrfotlffwfirt ( itrar is to s'arj, Dove Yard Meadow 4 A . IR. IIP. Far Dove Yard 5A. 0R. 21P. Winding Mill Field 5A. OR. 12P. Near Clay Ends 7A. 1 R. 27P. and Part of Duns Moor OA. 3R*. 35P. together with all Timber and other Trees now g- rowing or being there- on, in Exchange for all those several Closes, Pieces, or Parcels of Land of him the said Sir ROWLAND HILL, situate and being within the Parish of Ightfield afore- said, commonly called or known by the several Names aud containing by Survey the several Quantities of Land following ( that is to sav), Church Meadow 7A. 3R. 31P. The Hill 5A. IR. 4P. Lower Stonv Field 6A. OR. 33P. and Higher Stony Field ( with'Road) 3A. OR. 35P. together with all Timber and other Trees now growing or being thereon. Given under our Hands, this twenty- sixth Day of April, in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred aud twenty eight. ROWLAND HILL, JOHN JUSTICE. LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, CORNMLL, LONDON. MANAGERS. CHARLES POLE, Esq. Chairman. Frederick Booth, Esq Charles Boulton, Esq. The Hon. P. Pleydell Bou- verie William Burnie, Esq. John Cockerell, Esq. Thomas Dorrien, Esq. Thomas Dorrien, jun. Esq. Charles Bell Ford, Esq. William Hamilton, Esq. Edward Ilarman, Esq. lit. Hon. W. Huskisson, M. P. JOSHUA MILNE, Actuary. Felix Calvert Ladbroke* Esq. Henry Lad broke, Esq. Charles Shaw Lefevre, Esq. The Hot). Hugh Lindsay, M. P. Charles Littledale, Esq. Henry Littledale, Esq. John Pearse, Esq. M. P. Brice Pearse, Esq. James Trotter, Esq. 7 HERE AS a Commission of Bankrupt is awarded and issued forth against PETER ROCK, of VVOLLASTONE, in the Parish of Bradley, iu the County of Salop, Farmer, Dealer and Chapman, and he being declared a Bankrupt is hereby required to surrender himself to the Commissioners in the said Commission named, or the major Part of them, on the twelfth Day of May next, at four o'Clock in the Afternoon, and on the thirteenth Day of May and sixth Day of June next, at ten o'Clock in the Forenoon « n both the said last mentioned Days, at the Red Lion Inn, in Newport, in the County of Salop, and tnakea full Discovery and Disclosure of his Estate and Effects ; when aud where the Creditors are to come prepared to prove their Debts; and at the second Meeting to choose Assignees; and at the last Sitting the said Bankrupt is required to finish his Examin- ation, and the Creditors are to assent to or dissent from tlie Allowance of his Certificate. Ali Persons indebted to the said Bankrupt, or that have any of his Effects, are not to pay or deliver the same but. to whom the Commissioners shall appoint, but to give Notice to Messrs. HEMING and BAXTBR, Solicitors, Gray's Inn Place, Gray's Inn, London; or Mr. JAMES STANLEY, Solicitor, Market Drayton, Shropshire. FOR BILIOUS COMPLAINTS, INDIGESTION, AND HABITUAL COSTIVENESS, DR. JEBWS STOMACHIC APERIENT PliiliS, Prepared from a Prescription of the lute Sir Richard J ebb, M. AND PHYSICIAN EXTRAORDINARY TO THE KING. rg^ UIE Managers having had PREMIUMS JL calculated proportional to the Values of the Risks at. the different Periods of Life,— which, under 45 Years of Age, when the Assurance is for the Whole of Life, and under 55 for shorter Periods, are consi- derably lower than are generally required,- Tables of the New Rates, with the Conditions of Assurance, may be had at the Sun Life Office, in Cornhill, and at the* Sun Fire Office, in Craig's Court, London; also of any of the Agents for the Sun Fire Office, AGENTS. Shrewsbury Ludlow. •.. Oswestry Market Drayton Welshpool ........... Carnarvon Hobjhead, Cyrus Gittins. Thomas Griffiths. S. Windsor. Samuel Silvester. J. Years ley. W. Williams. Owen Owens. rpHESE very justly celebrated PILLS M have experienced, through private Recom- mendation, and Use, during a very long Period, the flattering Commendation of Families of the first Dis- tinetiouy as a Medicine superior to all others in remov- ing Complaints of the Stomach, arising from Bile, Indigestion, Flatulency, and Habitual Costivenes*.— The beneficial Effects produced in alt Cases' for which they are here recommended, render them worthy the Notice of the Public and Travellers in paitieuiar, to whose Attention they are strongly pointed out as the most portable, safe, and mild Aperient Medicine that can possibly be made Use of. These Pills are extremely well calculated for those Habits of Body that are subject to be Costive, as a continued Use of them « loes not injure but invigorates the Constitution, and will be found to possess those Qualities which will remove a long Series of Diseases resulting from a confined State of the Bowels, strengthen Digestion, Create Appetite, and be of distinguished Excellence in - removing Giddiness, Head- aches, & c. hc. occasioned by the Bile in the Stomach, or the ill Effects arising from impure or to6 great a Quantity of Wine, Spirits, or Malt Liquor. Persons of the most delicate Constitution may take them with Safety in all Seasons of the Year ; and in all Cases of Obstruction arising from Cold or other Causes, where an opening Medicine is wanted, they will. be found the best cordial Stimulant in Use. Prepared and sold, Wholesale and Retail, in Boxes at Is. l^ d, 2s. fid. and 4s. Gd. each, by the s- ole Pro- prietor, W. RLDGWAY, Druggist, Market Drayton, Salop. To prevent Counterfeits, each Bill of Direction will he siofj- ed with lus Name in Writing. Sold Retail by Humphreys, Shrewsbury ; Bradbury, Beeston, Wellington; Silvester, Newport; Evausou, Hassal), Whitchurch ; Franklin, Wem ; Painter, Wrex- ham ; Bau'gb, Eflesmere; Roberts, Oswestry; Ed- monds,; Slnft'ual; Griffiths, Bishop's Castle; Jones, Welsh pool ; Williams, Carnarvon ; JonCs, Aberyst- with ; Rathhone, Bangor; and by Medicine Venders in every Town iu the United Kingdom. Sold Wholesale an- I Retail by Edwards, 67, St. Paul's C'hurch- yard ; Barclay and Sons, Fleet Market ; and Butlers and Co. Cheapside, London, 73, Prince's Street, Edinburgh, and 54, Sackville Street, Dublin. Mr. Couftenny, on Monday night, announced in the House of- Commons that he should not move any further proceeding on his Friendly Societies Bill this Session ; there is, therefore, an end of the Bill for the regulation of the Benefit Societies. Dr. Macartney, the Anatomical Professor in Dublin, with about fifty other surgeons, have begun the. patriotic work of surrendering up their own bodies for dissection, by signing-, with all due solemnity, an order to their respective executory to that effect. The receipts of the Hibernian XJible Society for the past year amounted to £ 6,457 6s. 4d. the largest ever reported.- The issue of bibles amounted to 51,000, a greater than has ever occurred since the establishment of the Society. NUMBER, OF ROMAN CATHOLICS.— At a meeting last week in Dublin, Mr. CfConnell said—" The increase of Catholics in England* he understood, was enormous. The^ were now - at least one million; and they tvere^ he Was glad to find, fast accumulating." ' The dress of the Countess of Shrewsbury at the drawing room on Wednesday was of the most elegant description, and her ladyship was covered with diamonds to the value of £ SO, OO0. One of-( he most extraordinary instances efer known, of the depreciation of property occurred iu the Foreign market ou Saturday, in the instance of the shares iu the Tlalpuxahua Mining Company," on . which £ 270 has been paidj and w hich were sold that day at from 20s. to 25s each. A small quantity of green peas, in the pod, were exposed for sale in Covent- garden Market on Thurs- day, for th. e. first time this season, . . , EXECUTION.— On Saturday, John Marroft, John { Vilfiinsdny- aud Matthew Harrison w6reexecuted at York, for horse- stealing. . Shocks of an earthquake were . felt at H'ome and Florence in the night of the l') th April. They were more violent and of longer duration in the , latter capital, but without any bad consequences. —- At Forli, there were 18 shocks iu four days. The same phenomena terrified the inhabitants of Aucona, Pessaro, and Sinigaglia. A rumour is in circulation thai a matrimonial union between the Princess Victoria atud the Prince George of Cumberland is in contemplation. Earl Somers, who is gone to the Continent on a tour for a few months, has appointed his son, Lord Eastuor, Vice- Lieutenant of Herefordshire during his absence. It is reported that Sir James Kemp, Governor of Halifax, will succeed the Earl of Dalhousie as Governor of Lower Canada. ISLE OF MAN.— About two months ago one of the most extensive merchants in the Isle of Man imported from France a cargo of 22,000 gallons of alcohol of wine, under the name of aqua dantey&.\\(\ denominated it, in an entry at the Douglas Custom- house, as " apothecaries' wares." The. article was said to cost 2s. 6d. per gallon, and was 4S O P. but was admitted to entry at a common ad valorem duty, say | per cent. The article was soon found out to be brandy, distilled over to that great strength. Last week the Liverpool collector, Mr. Arnaud, went over there, and seized about 150 casks of the brandy. Report; is busy speculating on the affair, and blame has been attributed to the custom house department at Douglas. EXPLOSION OF A POWDER MILL.— Ou Tuesday se'n night, in the afternoon, Tun bridge and its vicinity was thrown into the greatest state of alarm, by the explosion of the corning house at Ramhurst powder mills, two miles from Tunbridge, at which place several windows were broken by the violeut concussion. The remains of two poor men engaged in the mill, were scattered iu various' directions, in a state so mutilated and disfigured as not to be recognised. A third W'as thrown over some " very high trees, to a distance of lf> 0 feet, and, shocking to relate, fell upon a hedge, a stake of which entered his back. He died about four hours afterwards. A press, weighing two tons and a half, was driven a distance of 40 yards, over a mound 20 feet high. It appears by the Marriage returns, ordered by Parliament, that in the agriculjnral districts, marriages are much less frequent than in the manufacturing districts. In Hereford, the marriages to the population are 1 to 1701, Hertford, 1 to 179; Monmouth, 1 to 154; Northumberland, 1 to 145; Rutland, 1 to 148; Shropshire, 1 to 155; Sussex, 1 to 151 ; Wilts, 1 to 145 ; Worcester, 1 to 143 ; Essex, 1 to 150 ; Dorset, 1 to 154, & c. In Middlesex, the proportion is 1 to 106 ; Lancashire, 1 to 126; War- wickshire, 1 to 123; Stafford, 1 to 128; West Riding of York, 1 to 131. The - re have been, within the List few days, some serious conferences between the Lords of the Treasury and the Directors of the Bank of Eng land. These interviews, it is said, have had for their object a proposition origination with Mr. Peel, to make silver a legal tender. VVe only wonder, why they don't also make copper, brass, cast- iron, and quarters of wheat, the last a much more available curreuc- y than any of the others, leg- al tenders. Suppose we lodge 500 sovereigns with Smith, Paine & Co. and on presenting our cheque,- should be desired to forward our waggonS to take in payment so many bags of flour, so many copper tea- kettles, so many tin stew- pans, and a small balance, in mouse- traps and cheese- toasters. This would put an end to the panic at ouee. What would our ludi/ say ifshe saw her drawing- room filled with crockery and braziery goods. It is a sensible expedient, a . d we recommend its adoption by all means. It is vastly pleasant to see a " great nation" thus reduced lo its shifts.— Watchman. ACCIDENT AT THE BRISTOL TUNNEL. An accident occurred at this work on Saturday morning last, which was very near being attended with fatal consequences. The unceasing rain yesterday se'nnight had caused a very powerful fresh iu the river; and early ou Saturday morning as two of the Messrs, Phillips, the contractors were standing ou a plank at the works near the Stone Bridge, the force of the water suddenly broke down the dam, and upset the plank on which the contractors were standing. One escaped without injury; but the rapidity of tfie current forced the other, with a velocity that was at once awful • nd astonishing to those that witnessed it into the culvert. After being carried through the culvert between forty and fifty yards, he was most fortunately ejected, by the' sewer at the bottom of Stephen- street, into the bed of the Float. Had he been forced further along the line of the culvert, there could not have br- en the slio- hest possibility of his escaping; as it was, his pre- servation is almost miraculous. He has received some severe bruises, but he is likely to recorer. Bristol Journal. EXTENSIVE EMBEZZLEMENT.—- W. Ford, holding a confidential situation in the firm of Boyd ai>;! Co. Skinner- street, for upwards of 14 years, was fully committed by the Lord Mayor to Newgate, for trial on Wednesday, charged with embezzling £ 30, the property of his employers. There were other similar charges against the prisoner— one for embezzling f 105 ? and it was staled there were charges of a still more serious it iture, but the prosecutors did not press them at present. Oueofthe firm stated that, independent ly of the embezzlements the prisoner had beeu supplying all his friends with Irish liuens, dimities, & o. from the prosecutors' stock, which he had never entered in the bonks. There « ' as a period during IWr. Pitt's administra- tion when lie wits very unpopular with ihe lowtr CI. I9S of people. At this pi- ri. nl Mr. Pitt was one morning riding slowly into town from Hulwooil, on ; i small horse, aud without a servant, when he was r » ci » « iVis « i on Westminster bridge tiy ihe rabble. They immediately began to pelt hurt with mud, and the shower increased as Ihe Crowd nt- cnmtiluied • bill this great man did not in the least urge the pan- of his horse, anil was soon nearly covered liv these demonstrations of English liberty.— When lie ar- rived at his house in Downing stiret, closely followed and pelted by the crowd, lie alighted, gave hip horse lo a servant in uniting, and then mining to the populace, took oil' bis hat, and ho. ved to them with great good humour. The mob, struck by this display of real magnanimity, immediately ami unanimous y gave him three hearty cheers, and retired. The Carpet Weavers of Kidderminster, it is to be lamented, still refuse to work. They have formed a committee, by which the general body is governed; and the masters appear determined not to give higher wages than those now oIFered. Many of the men are stated to be spreading them- selves over the neighbourhood begging, lea'viuo- their wives and children iit a wretched state at home. THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.— Thursday vi- as the anniversary, of the birth of our illustrious Premier. His Grace was born o- i the 1st of Miv, 1? 0>, at Dangen Cattle,- iu the couuty of Me. ith, Ireland, the ancient seat of the Wellesley family, ' lis Grace, on that day, consequently, entered o; i his sixtieth year. On Tuesday, in a Committee on the Stamp D iiies Acts, lite following. resolutions were passed, and hills lounde l upon theiri were ordered to lie brought intu the House o: (' OUIDMUS : — 1. That all Rankers in England ( except witjiin the city of London and three uijles thereof) he perm- lti'd lo i* nue P.- oinis- sin-. v N > tes for payment to the liearer, on demand, nfniiy sum of money am muting lo five pounds or upwards, mill. Dills of Exchange, expressed tn !> e pa> u! j! e to order,' not more than twenty. one I!; I-\ S after the date thereof, and drawn upon a Hanker il) l. ninhui, on unstamped pi per, on ihe pa v men l uf an i a f \ ea l. v composition, al ilie rait of llnee shillings and sixpence for everyone hundred pounds of the average amount, of such Promissory Notes or l\ i! ls, 1Jf Exchange as slui: l have bf- en issued, or in circulation, within each pre- ceding half year. . 2. That it is the opinion of this Committee, that every Banker desirous.- of drawing and issuing- Notes, uncf Hills of Exchange on unstamped paper, sbftll takeout a licence for the same, atid. tluit a Stamp Duly of thirty pounds shall be paid for every such licence." 3. That it i's the opini/ on ' of ti. iH Commitu- e, the. f the allowances now granted ou the puic. liaVe . of certain Stamps. from the Commissioners, . or any Distributor of Stamps,, shall cease and . determine ; and that in lieu thereof there shall be modf to every person who shall purchase from the Commissioners of Stamps in London; Slumps for Receipts to the amount of five pounds, or from any Distributor to the amount of one pound, an allowance of seven pounds ten shillings for every one hundred pounds thereof. UATTON- GAROFN.— ROBRFRY OF THF, LFP Bimv BANK. rHeorv S unifiers, alias Harry the butcher, was charged with being concerned in the above robbery. It appeared . from the evidence of Benjamin Nfftt, a shoemaker, at f. edburv, Xliaf on the 7th of January tJ » e prisoner was seen sitting in the kitchen of the SometV Arms, public- house, which is about two miles from Ledbury, with Yarnold, tin- old man who kept the bank. There was no other person in their company, and they were in deep conversation on religious subjects. Noft joined them and walked with them about a mile off the town, when. they sepa- rated, ns the prisoner said they walked too fust for him. On the following Friday evening, the same evening that the batik was robbed, the prjso'iier was seen in Mr. Curzon's chapel, in Ledbury. Me took his seat beside : Yai- nold and h is wife, hut appearing or nretpudiijg to he ill, he left the chapel, fv'otl picked liiin out from amongst a number of other persons, and was also certain thin lie was the man whom he sa-. v at, Ledbury. He added, that the prisoner- endeavoured to conceal himself when lie went to identify him ; hut llie prisoner denied this, and t. lie ofiieer contradicted Notl's . statement as to the prisoner endeavouring- lo conueai himself. Tile prisoner was remanded. A set of moveable stock* have beeu established at Chichester, which, being drawn upon four wheels, are taken from parish to parish, to the great terror of brawlers and druukards. RANKRTPTS, MAV 2.— Andrew Read, of Lower, Giosvenor street, hotel- keeper.— William Fisk, of tinte street, I. ilien) u's- inii - fields, denier. Tliotnas Llewellyn, of Bridgend, Glamorganshire, innkeeper.- — John (' lough, of Alltinndbiiry, Yorkshire, eotloiiJ manufacturer — liuth Dobbins, of Cheltenham. innJ keeper — llobt. Euiinerson, of Coleman. slieel, packeri — Jus. Turry, of Little Union street, lloxton, builder.- — Thomas Smith, of High- street, Lambeth, smith — William Harper, of Cropton, York, school master and grocer— Edmund Bowman, of Penrith, timber- mer- chant — John Clayton, of Mottram ill Longenilale, Cheshire, flour- dealer. — Charles Gamble, of Shotlle- Gate, Duflield, Derbyshire, joiner,— Daniel Valerio, of Crown court, Threadneedle- strept, wine merchant. — Thomas Pinder, nf Halifax, porter. merchant. •' John, Jesse, and Joseph Galleinore, and Thomas Lid- dell, of Manchester, calico printers.— Jesse Cliillen. lieu, of Dover, clieiiii. t.— Joseph, Lawrence, and John Mom- house, of Ileliden- Bridge, near Halifax, and Manchester, col ton- spin tiers. I xsbt. viiN rs — John IJioktnsoh, of Church. passage, Guildhall yard, wooilen- unrehouseinnn.-- Wui. Buck, of Queen Anne- streef, coach maker. Duration of Coal Mines in England. [ FIIOM BAKEWRM.' S INTRODUCTION TO GEOI. OGT.] At the present day,. when the consumption of coal in our iron- furnaces aud ilintififitfftorleii and for domestic use is immense, we cannot hut regard ( lie exhaustion of our coal beds as involving the destruction of a great portion of our private comfort and national prosperity. Nor is Ihe period Very remote when ihe coal district-, which ill present supply the metropolis with f,| P|, « ill cease to Weld'any more.. The annual quantity of coal shipped in the rivers fyne nnd Wear, according to Mr. Bailey, exceeded linee million tons. A cubic yard of coal weighs nearly one ton, and the number of tens contained in a bed of coal, one square mite in extent uud one yard iii thickness, is about four mil- lions. The number and extent of all the principal coal beds in Northumberland awl Durham is known ; nnd from these data it has been calculated that the coal in the. e counties will last 300 years. Mr. Bailev, III his survey of Durham, siaics, that one- thiid'nf tin; coal being already got, the coal dislricls will be exhausted in 2'! 0 years. It is probable that many beds of inferior coal, which are now neglected, mav ill! future be worked ; hut the consumption of coal being greatly increased since Mr. Bailey published In. survey of Durham, we may admit liis crilc'irkilioii tu' be ao approximation to the truth, nnd that the coal of Northumberland and Durham will lie exhausted in it period not greatly exceeding two hundred rears. Dr. Thompson, in the Annals of Philosophy;' has calcu- lated Unit the coal of these distr? els, at the present rote of consumption, will last 1,000 yiars; but hi « calculations are founded on data maurfeslly erroneous, and al variance » iiih hrs own stniemerttf. Willi, du> » ' allowance for these errors, nnd for the quantity of* coal already worked out ( which, according to " Mr. Bailey, is about one third), tlie 1,000 years nf Dr. Thompson will not gte'all v exceed thf period assigned by Mr. Bailey for the complete exhaustion of coal io these counties, and may be stated at 350 years — It cannot lie deemed iiri'int'eresting to inquire* what are the repositories of coal that can supply ihe metropolis and the southern counties, when iio more can be obtained from the Tyne and the Wear. The only coal- fields of any extent on the eastern side of Eng- land, between London and Durham, nre those of Derbyshire, and those in the West Hiding of York- shire. The Derbyshire coal field is not of sufficient magnitude to supply, for any long period, mote than is required for home consumption, and that of the adjacent counties. There are many valuable beds of coal in the western part of the West Riding of York- shire, whieli are vet unWrowght; hut the time is not very distant when they miisl be put in requisition, to supply the vast demand of that populous manufactur- ing county, vTh'cll at preseut consumes nearly all the produce of its own coal mines. In the midland coun- ties, Staffordshire possesses the nlircst coal districts lo the metropolis of any great extent; but such is the immense daily consumption of coal in the iron fur- naces nnd fonnderies, that it is generally believed this will be the firsl of our own coal- fields that will he exhausted'. The thirty feet bed of coal in the Dudley coal- field is of limited extent; and in the present mode of working ii more than two- thirds of ihe coal is wasted and left in tlie mine. Ii" we look to Whitehaven or Lancashire, or tonny of the minor coal fields ia the West of England; we can derive little hope of their being able lo supply London and the southern coon- lies with coal, after the import of coal fails fr. nn Northumberland and Durham, We uiav thus antici- pate a period not very remote, when all the English mines of coal and ironstone will be exhausted ; aud were we disposed to indulge in gl » omv forebodings, like the ingenious aulhoress-' of the Last Man," we might draw a melancholy picture of our starving and declining population, and describe some manurac- turing patriarch, like the late venerable Richard Reynolds, travelling to see the last expiring English furnace, before he emigrates to distant regions.— Fortunately, however, we have in South Wales, adjoining the Bristol Channel, an almost exhanstless supply of coal and ironstone, which are yet nearly unwrought. This coal. field extends over about twelve' hundred square nrilesyand there are twenty- three beds of workable coal ; the total average thickness is ninety. five feet, and the ouantitv contained in each acre is 100,000 tons, or 65,000,000 Ions per square mile, ff from this we deduct one. half for waste and for the minor ex ent of the upper be « fs, we shall have a clear supply of coaT equal to 3J. 50'), 0') 0 tons per square mile. Now, if we adm t. that the nve milli » u tons of c « > nl from the NorthumFb'Mland and Durhiiutf mines is equal to nearly one- third of the total con. sumption of coal in England, each square mile of the Welsh coal ftei. l would yivld coal for two years*' consumption ; and, as thej- e are from one th ><!* aml to twelve hundred' sqn- tre miles in this coal fi- ld, it would supply England with fuel for two thousand years, after all our English <• Ml- mines are worked out. — It is true that a considerable part of the coal n South' Wales is of an inferior quality, and is no',- ;, t. present, burned for domestic use; Irut in proportion as coai becomes scarce, improved methods of burning' it will assuredly !>•> discovered, to prevent any sul- phureous fumes from enterinsj- apart n - nts, and also t » economise the consumption of fuel in all Jtir uu. iufao- turing processes. SALOPIAN JOURNAL, AMP COURIER OF WALES, 96 THI KEAIIT AND LYRE. $ 11 F left lier lyre within the hall, Whrii l?> si she [ juried with her loved1, And. Mill it hangs upon the wall— Ji{ e will not let it be removed. Around that lyre of sweetest tone 5She I w ined a wreath of roses fair ; A i> d though their lovely hue is gene, The wiiher'd blossoms still are there. hi mi hath touched its silver string Since hist she waked a parting' lay 5 T « > sweep Hs chords woold> only bring A ' tuneless tale( of its decay . Ami ti. eie it lianas slow, mouldering, its sweetness gou. e, its passion quelled ; And round it those dead roses cling, I. ike withered hopes, still fondly held. And his sad mourning heart is such, No happy feeling it affords : FI CM NIT ot litar the slightest touch Of mirth upon its mined chords. Her name to him they ne'er repeat, It would hut waken thoughts of woe ; A » < l though ' twas once so very sweet, He could not brook to hear it now. ite fixes on that lyre his eye For hoots, but never, never speaks ;- Unmoved, lie gazes, silently, And only starts when some chord breaks. It hath an echo in his heart, Both mutely their bereavement bear ; in her affections both had part, And both are left to perish there. i* 1iDccUaiuou0 JuteUtgcncr, EXTRACT From a Letter on the Danger of Roman Catholic Emancipation, 44 With the intelligent and reading part of the British public, it is, 1 believe, too common to regard the vicious and absurd extravagancies which de- form Hie face- ol Christianity in Popish countries, as matters,. compared with their own superior light and liberty, of proud seff- gratulatioo as the results of ancient ignorance and barbarism, not yet wholly removed, but removable, as a mere matter of course, by spread of knowledge, or, as the phrase is, by a march of mind / as things in which,, in short, they have no sort of personal or national concern ; civil and religious freedom being in this empire fixed on u basis- too firm to be shaken. This, however, is a most erroneous view of the case. Were those lamentable superstitions, the source of so much wretchedness and misery, merely popular, and did flfhoy owe their support and continuance only to the darkened minds and gross habits of an ignorant multitude, then indeed the Christian philanthropist might indulge an ardent,, because a well- founded hope, that the diffusion of moral instruction and scriptural knowledge would in no very consider- ah'e length of time, correct the errors of a barbarous ant iquity, aud substitute the light of know ledge for the gloom of ignorance. But when he considers that there is in the world a Church, relying on that very ignorance for the support of its influence and the preservation of its power; a Church claiming, und in every possible instance exercising, despotic jurisdiction over human conscience; a Church pre- tending- to right of absolute and uuiveral domina- tion; a Church prescribing, under pain of eternal damnation, what shall, and what shall not, be believed, and thus, with impious presumption, usurping the privilege of Omnipotence; a Church abetting aud employing a blasphemous traffic in the forgery and sale of divine pardons and indulgences: and Church under whose corrupt, inauspicious, and withering influence, superstition, ignorance, and profligacy have debased and impoverished oue of the finest countries upon earth—[ Spain]. When, ) say, the British Christian philanthropist considers this, he will feel some reluctance to augment in his own country an influence so injurious to the tem- poral and eternal welfare of the inhabitants of others; for that Church's avowed principle being IMMUTABILITY, he may rest assured that as far as her influence can be exerted among' nations w h^ re she has only a participation of power, it will be exerted in the same manner in which it is exerted when she possesses it absolutely, and with an ulti- mate view of rendering it predominant. I speak not of individuals, but of the system, lam well aware that there are many individuals professing Roman- ism worthy of trust, and not inimical to the princi- ples of the British constitution. To the deserving, 1 would refuse nothing that can be safely conceded. But 1 say, not only to the Protestant inhabitants of this empire, but to the intelligent and honest Roman Catholic layman, and particularly to him who has the welfare of Ireland deeply at heart, that no greater curse could visit the [ and of his affectiofi than the eventual ascendancy of the Roman Catho- lic religion." Sketch of the Battle of Trafalgar. Daylight of the 21st of October 1805, displayed the signal for the enemy's fleet. Let that day never be forgotten! The almost calmness that prevailed in the morning, and harbingered the battle, seemed but to render the deadly strife more conspicuous As the Biitish fleet was wafted by gentle winds towards their powerful enemy, the preparations for battle evinced every man to be in earnest. The cabin bulkheads on each deck were cleared away aud displayed long, level, unbroken batteries, at- tended by their gallant and rejoicing crews. Fire buckets, matdi- tubs, shot racks, powder- boxes, and wads were arranged in their proper places; aim chests lay open, and pikes, pistols, and cutlasse gleamed in every direction. The tompions were tajf. en out of the muzzles, and there was a loud creaking of the gun- carriages, as the officers ex amincd that every thing was in fighting order.— All was now ready; the fleets were closing. Th was a dead silence till the signal of the grea patriot, " England expects every man to do his duty," flew at the Victory's mast- head. Instantly an enthu- siastic murmur of approbation spread from ship to ship, from deck lo deck, from gun lo gun, from man lo man A few straggling shot hissing through the air indicated the near approach of the fleets, and a loud, long- drawn fire of heavy cannon soon showed the lee division breaking the dark concave line of the eni'emy. " Bravo! Collingwood !" was in every heart, and there was but one common soul iu the fleet. Many a valiant heart beat high with expectation which was doomed never to survive another day. . Many an eye gazed that moment on the instruments of death, which in a few short hours were lo close it for ever. The ships passed on lo their stations, the battle became general, loud peals of cannon roared throughout the line, fire gleamed on the ocean, and the air was filled with the thick fumes of sulphur. The very masts shook in their sockets, the sails trembled, and the affrighted wind br allied low. The stately ships which so lately sailed gaily forth, now presented the mangled appear- ance of wreck, giving evidence of the deadly strife that w as at work, till ship grappled with ship, and man with man. The day advanced, crash succeeded crash of the falling masts, till amidst the groans of the dying, and the huzzas of the victors, the ' struggle was decided in favour of England, aud her flag waved triumphant over the deep: but her hero had fallen. Nelson, the father of his men, the patriot of his country, was no more. Peace be lo his ashes, end honour lo his name ! The dark clouds which had been gathering over the devoted spot during the bloody contention now began lo roll wild and portentously. The storm arose, and many a shattered and unmanageable hulk became the coffin alike of the living and the dead, and numbers of the conquerors and the conquered were immersed in the same watery grave. 44 That joy of battle in the field of death," produced by the loud shouts of victory, still thrilled in the heart of Morland, when he- was called upon to endure more mouiof I scenes among the. mangled forms which met his view, us he descended from the blood- stained decks to the cock- pits, where amputations were stiil performing. The hearty greeting of messmates was followed by most painful feelings at their first meal after the battle, iu the mess to whi< h Mot laud belonged there were three vacant " places: where was poor Harry? whose cheerful miith hud been u wont to set the table iu a roar." Whetc was Frank aud ? but the inquiring tongue was stopped by that solemn and heart appaling silence which but loo well told the mournful tale.— The young heroes were shrouded in the flag of their country ; and w hen with the rest of the fallen brave, their bodies were committed to the deep, many a bar was observed to trickle down the sun- borut furrows of the sailors' cheeks, as the blue waves broke over the r « mains of their departed ship- mates.— Talcs of the Sea. Russia is said to be actively employed in organ- ising her Ressarabian dominions. The Governor is to be called the Governor of New Russia and Bes- sarabia. It is intended, probably, to include Walla- chia and Moldavia under the appellation of New Russia. The Finance Committee have issued orders to the heads of departments in Ireland to send iu the names of all officers holding more than oue situation, who retired on pensions, and were afterwards placed in situations ; likewise the names of all half- pay officers holding civil situations. It is supposed no individual will be allowed to hold two situations — he must either resign his pension, or hold only the oue for which he does duty. All persons holding situations, aud doing duty for one, to be discharged front one. It is understood that the crash in offices on the Irish establishment will be most appalling. It is supposed that the Benefit Societies through- out the Kingdom are possessed of twenty millions of money hi the Funds and Savings Banks. There are 22,340 acres of bog in the county of Clare, the property of Lord Cunningham, Lord Milton, Colonel Burton, and Mr. Ormsby Vandeieur, the draining and improvement of which, according to a Parliamentary return, is estimated at £ 31,723. According to a Statistical Account, lately printed at Ghent, it appears that there are nearly 16,000 persons employed in various bleaching- gronnds iu that vicinity, 12 establishments for printing calicos, and about 60 cotton- spinning manufactories. The amount'of wages paid by these establishments i* computed at three million francs a year, and the number of pieces of calico manufactured at about 800,000. BRICKS OF IRON ScoRi/ E.— It has been suggested that the scoria? of iron, which now constitutes an useless refuse at iron works, may be made into bricks, and of course a source of profit to the iron- masters. In Sweden we believe this is done, and if no man in England has ingenuity enough to effect it, a person may be very profitably sent to learn the art of the Swedes. By the Parliamentary Papers it appears that the number of Merchant Ships belonging to the united kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland on the 31st of December last, was 19,635; the tonnage of which is 2,150,605. On the evening of Saturday seyn night, while Madame Schutz was performing at the Opera Mouse, her lodgings were robbed of gold,, bank- notes, & c. to the amount of £ 500. During a most terrific hailstorm, which occurred at Sherborne, Dorset,, on the 7th ultimo, about half past eleven in the forenoon,- a stable was struck by the electric fluid, the explosion of which, was louder than the report of a cannon. Opium has been recent ly cultivated to a consider- able extent in England,, particularly by a Mr. Young, and Messrs. Cowley and Staines, of Win- slow ; and, among physicians and surgeons, the English opium is considered to be superior to the besf Turkey and Fast India opium. Upwardsof 40 labouring families are about to emi grate to North America from Newnham and Dod- diugton, Kent. A party of emigrants for North America, amount- ing to 62 souls, of all ages, passed through this city about a fortnight since, on their way to Liver- pool, and thence to New York. They are all from the parishes of Timberland, Blankney, Martin, and the neighbourhood, and some of them will take several hundred pounds with them.— Accounts par tieularly encouraging, lately received from some relations already settled there, have stimulated this enterprise, which has excited no small sensation aud regret in the above district, as the party chiefly onsists of persons who, though having large fami- lies ( some of them nine or ten each), were never- theless doing well, and are much respected by their neighbours. A great concourse assembled at Mar- Wood- end, to witness their departure; they passed through Lincoln in a boat, engaged to take them, their bedding, & c. as fur as Wakefield, and which also they all sleep during their inland voyage.—• L in coin M ercury. On Saturday last, a valuable horse belonging to Mr. J. B. Tiinaeus, bread and biscuit maker in this town, found its way to some yew faggots, and ate but a small quantity of the twigs, but died in about half an hour afterwards without a struggle. On opening the body the following Monday, the coats of the stomach were found to bo entirely destroyed. — Bedford Gazette. Notwithstanding the generally received notion that ladies' dresses never were so various or so costly as in the present day, it is stated, in a manu- script deposited in the British Museum, by Dr. Birch, that the wardrobe of Queen Elizabeth, at the time of her demise, contained more than two thousand gowns with all things answerable. The whale fishery has been very successful on the coasts of New South Wales and Van Dieman's Land.— A new Bank, capital £ 15,000, has been established at Hobart Town. Several Distilleries had been erected. It appears from official returns transmitted by His Majesty's Consuls at the several ports of Europe, that wheat has been much dearer through- out the south of Europe during the last year than in this country. At Marseilles, in November last, notwithstanding the proximity of that port to the Levant, wheat was 65s. the quarter: whilst in England it was only 50s. lOd In December it had risen to 72s. at Marseilles, whilst it was still stationary here at 50s. lOd. At Lisbon, wheat has been frequently, during the last year, at 79s. and £ 4 ; in the south of Spain, at about 70s. The Westminster Sessions will, in future, be held eight times a- year instead of quarterly. James Wilson, charged w ith forging aud utter- ing a certain bill of exchange for the sum of £ 200, with intent to defraud his late employers, Messrs. Goodall and Co. bankers, Coventry, was on Wed- nesday last taken to the Mayor's Office, Warwick, for fiifal examination. W. Tibbits, Esq. Mayor, and Mr. Alderman Greenway, the two Magistrates before whom he had been previously examined, were in attendance. The proceedings occupied about three hours, when he was fully committed to take his trial at the next Assizes. EXTRAORDINARY CHARACTER. A farmer, named Hall, lately died at Covv. bit, in the neigh- bourhood of Sheffield, advanced in years. He was a person of eccentric habits, and a friend to vermin. Upw ards of sixty rats have been seen feeding at one time at his pig- troughs, and for several years he has had a manure heap in his yard which he constantly kept as a hot- bed for snakes, several of which at the same time have been seen creeping about his premises with the greatest confidence, no oue being allowed to disturb them. STATE OF IRELAND.— As an instance of the state in which the country is, it is only necessary to remark that the Court House, during the whole of the Mar as' trial, was surrounded by a squadron of cavalry, with drawn sabres! What would the in- habitants of an English county town think of such an exhibition as this?— Dublin Evening Mail, At the assizes of Clonmel, on Wednesday, John B111 ke petitioned for compensation for the loss of a valuable mare, stabbed to death in January, He swore that he could not procure a yaluator to come forward and prove the value of the animal, so great was the terror which prevailed; and that he had three sobs, one of w hom was married to a sister of Daniel Mara who was murdered, and this was the only reason that be could assign for the killing his mare! Judge Moore immediately ordered the petition to be sent before the grand jury, em- phatically remarking that such a case clearly showed the state of society in Tipperary. TAMPERING WITH FIRE ARMS.— Robert Augustus Bingham, Esq. of Bingham Castle, Mayo, nephew to Major Bingham, and cousin- german to Lord Clan- morris, was preparing to retire to rest on the 21st ult. at his Lodge, Balleykinlettea, when a young man named Knight, whom he had employed in sur- veying a new line of road iu the neighbourhood, took up one of his pistols which lay 011 his chimuey- pie'ee, and, while he was examining- it, it un- fortunately went off, and shot Mr. Bingham through the body. The unhappy gentleman lingered for a week, and then died. He was ouly in the 32d year of his age, and has left a beloved wile and six infant children to deplore his lamentable end.— London- derry Journal. One cannot wonder at the influx of Irish labour- ers to this country, when it is ascertained that the passage of cach individual is only Is. Gd. General Varntim, of Massachusetts, for many years Speaker of the U. S. House of Representatives, has given an account of the cure of a cancer, which has been published in several of the papers, and is highly worthy of attention. The patient was the wife of General Varnum, who was seized many years ago with a cancer in her ancle, which in- creased rapidly. Other medicines proved ineffec- tual, until the application was Used which produced the cure. 44 The principal ingredient is an ever- green plant, which is to be found in ail the northern states, in woodlands Which produce a mixture of oak and pine timber. It is by different people called ever- bitter sweet, wintergreen, rheumatism plant, & c. The botanical name of the plant is Pyrola. We made a strong decoction, by boiling the pyrola in pure water, placed in a vessel con- taining a considerable quantity of pulverised roll sulphur, aud poured the decoction upon it, boiling hot.— Mrs. Varnum took a small quantity of the decoction, internally, two or three times a day, bathed the defective part adjacent to it several times in a day, and kept a cloth wet with it con- stantly on the ancle. She took about an ounce of ommon medicinal salts every second day— the decoction was renewed as occasion required." The beneficial effects of this treatment were soon experienced. The patient recovered in six weeks, aud has felt no inconvenience in the part affected since that time.— New York Paper. ERUPTION UF MOUNT VESUVIUS.— On the 14th Match, a new orifice, about fifteen led in circumfer- ence, was opened in the crater of Mount Vesuvius, on the eastern side, from which issued an immense quantity of smoke, in the form of a globe ; this borsl with a tremendous explosion, and scattered und a quantity of boiling liquid. From tire 14th to the 22d the mountain continued in commotion, discharging smoke and flames, sometimes stones, aud > nee a slight flow of lava. On the * 22d two other and larger openings appeared. After numerous explosions tremendous shock forced the three apertures into one, and a column of smoke and ashes arose from it, and presented to the city of Naples the appearance of a pine- tree of gigantic dimensions. The rays of the sun reflecting against it presented one of the most ex- traordinary spectacles ever seen. Stones were thrown up in great numbers, ami one among the rest of immense dimensions, which was thrown over the side of the crater and rolled down the mountain. At the dale of the latest accounts ( March 22) symptoms of earthquake threatened another violent eruption. PKOESTRIANFSIW.— On Thursday, John Joseph Graiidserre, the celebrated French velocipede, under- took to run 20 miles in two hours ami 12 minutes, for a wager of 1,000 guineas, between several noblemen. The task was undertaken on the road near Lord's Cricket Ground,, and three quarters of a mile was measured, over which the runner was to proceed twenty- seven times. At the conclusion of the 27lh round, two hours, fifteen minutes, and thirty seconds had expired; and it was const quently considered by a great number that the mat. ch was lost. Other persons'staled that the piece of ground was ninety- five yards over the three quarters of a mile; and if I hey are correct iu I heir assertions, the velocipede must have run upwards of 21 miles. The ground is to IK! again measured, and in the mean lime the bets remain undecided.— Monsieur G. at the conclusion of his run, did not appear in the least distressed —[ On since measuring the ground it was found to be 45 yards more than three quarters of a mile, and it was therefore decided that the match had been won.] The spirit of economy and retrenchment has made rapid strides, not only in Christian Kingdoms and Christian Governments, but even in Mahometan Countries. At Constantinople the Sultan has estab- lished a Committee of Retrenchment, and has begun with the reformation of his own Harem. The expenses of his host of Sultanas have been greatly curtailed, and the Treasurer of his Palace dismissed for not having introduced sufficient order into his department. The black Eunuchs of the Seraglio appear to have been extremely successful in levy- ing' contributions to an enormous amount. These they have been compelled to disgorge. Confiscation has gone hand iu hand with retrenchment, and has been so effectual, that within two mouths an im- mense suai has been brought into the treasury. The amount has been stated at 400 millions of dollars, but this must be an exaggeration. The Sultan, were this the fact, would possess the sinews of war to a greater extent than any other Potentate in Europe. VQYAGE OF DISCOVERY.— Capt. Foster is about to sail in the Chanticleer brig, 10, 011 a scientific voyage to the South Pole. Capt. Foster accompa- nied Capt. Parry in his last voyage; but not in bis boat excursion towards the North Pole, having re mained with the ship on the coast of Spitzbergen, engaged in a series of pendulum experiments, sug- gested to the Royal Society by Captain Kater, and which are expected to lead to the determination of the true figure of the earth, and the variation of the law of gravity at different points of its surface, with other matters. The continuation of the pendulum experiments in various parts of the globe, near the Equator, iu high southern latitudes, and as near as possible to the antipodes of London, is necessary, before any, or at least satisfactory, deductions can be formed from those already made; and this continuation is the main object of Captain Foster's voyage. All the officers appointed to the Chanticleer, by the Admiralty, have been selected 011 account of their scientific acquirements. One of the Lieu- tenants in particular, served under Capt. Franklin on his recent arduous expedition, and is a most accomplished draftsman. The Chanticleer will sail fre 111 England in the course of a few days lor Madeira, from whence she is to proceed to various points in the West Indies, and down the coast of South America to Cape Horn. Her extreme destination is the newly- discovered group of the South Shetland islands; but it has beeu stated that conditional instructions have been given to Capt. Foster to proceed from thence as far as he can, without risk to his ship, towards the South Pole, where, judging from the account of Weddell, he is not likely to experience those obstructions which rendered the attempt of Parry to reach the North Pole abortive It appears that the sea is gradually encroaching on the land in the whole of the south- east portion of the English coast. During the last winter, the ravages of old Neptune have been really alarming in the vicinity of Worthing, great masses of earth have lately disappeared, and all fences swept away in places which last autumn were deemed to be out of the reach of the spring tides. Boguor has also suffered to a great amount during the past winter ; and we hear that legal proceedings are instituted, in order to ascertain at whose expense the neces- sary defences, called groynes, against further encroachments of the sea are to be defrayed. A few days ago, as some workmen of Plymouth were blowing a quarry, near Cawsand, they disco- vered, in a fissure of the rock, three petrified mush rooms, in a high state of preservation ; the largest is eleven inches in circumference, the next size is not so wide; the smallest is extremely beautiful and transparent; the stalks are about one inch and half in length, and thick in proportion to the size of each. These curious substances are now iu the possession of Mr. Shirley Woolmer, of Exeter. A life had nearly been sacrificed at Worcester, last week, to the dangerous practice of boys getting up behind stage coaches and carriages, whilst iu motion. A lad, named Roberts, in the act of quitting the hinder part of a carriage, in the High- street, on which he had been riding, ran against a heavy- laden trolly passing at the same time, was knocked down, and oue of the wheels passed obliquely over his face. He was taken up, to the surprise of all who witnessed the accident, alive, and conveyed to the Infirmary, where it was found that his jaw bone ouly was dislocated: he is now fast recovering. DIED. On the 18th inst. at his residence in Bath, Sir John Trevelyan, Bart, of Nettleeombe, Somersetshire, of Wallington, in Northumberland, and of Trevel van, in Cornwall. It is a remarkable circumstance iu this ancient family, that the latter place has descended from father to son since before the Conquest to the present time. The venerable Baronet whose death we record was in his 94th year ; and in all the social and domestic relations of life was equally beloved and revered. In the early part of his life, he represented Somersetshire for five successive Parliaments. He is succeeded in his title and estate by his eldest son. A few days ago, at his house at Bath, Thomas Walker, Esq. of Bury Hill, near Nottingham, and of Leamington, in Warwickshire, the last surviving brother of the opulent firm of iron manufacturers at Rotherham, in Yorkshire Mr. Walker is supposed to have left behind Uim £ 1,000,000. " THE MARCH" OF TRAVELLING.— A writer in the Foreign Review, in reviewing a recent publica- tion, Un An a Rome, commences with the following lively description of the past and the present, with respect to a visit to Rome " There wa$ a time ( and it is not very long ago, for it was in our younger days, and we are not yet very old), when, to have been at Rome, and to have trodden on the ruins of the seven- hilled city— to have beheld, as Hobbes expresses it with quaint sublimity, * the ghost of the deceased Roman Em- pire sitting throned Upon the grave thereof,' implied a sort of distinction to a man-— and far more to a woman. To have had ocular demonstration of the Coliseum and the Palatine, and to have commanded our coachman to drive 4 to the Capitol/' or 4 to croSs the Tiber!' ( which Madame de Stael reckons not among the least of a traveller's pleasures) was indeed something extraordinary. But how times are changed ! People migrate to Italy as once to Devonshire, for change of air, and think no more of crossing the Alps, than of rattling- down to Brigh- ton. Rome, the mother of Christendom, the queen of the pagan world, has had her magnificent deso- lation invaded by troops of semi- barbarous idlers— has become as common ground as Bath or Chelten- ham.— Young lawyers go there to lounge away the vacation, and read Horace— and young ladies to spend the Christmas holidays, and take lessons in singing ; Mr. Higgins, and Mrs. Wiggins, and the nine Miss Simnions's, talk as familiarly of the Coliseum and the Pantheon as maids of thirteen do of puppy dogs; and the imperial city, divested of every charm borrowed from memory and imagina- tion, history and poetry, has truly fallen in reputa- tion, being regarded in a point of view totally different from that which existed fifty years ago." THE MAMMOTH CAVE.— The following is given in an American paper, as an account of two men who went into the celebrated Mammoth Cave, a!" out ten miles iu length, in Green County, Kentucky, with the intention of exploring it:— 4 The men after having provided themselves with a lantern, food, and refreshments, for one or two days'journey, entered the cave, and commenced their subter- raneau tour. As they walked on from one apart- ment to another, viewing in astonishment the wonders of this stupendous cavern, they often came to large aud almost fathomless pits, which they passed with great difficulty, by crawling on their hands and knees. They proceeded in this way, walking and crawling, lor about a day, and in the meantime, had passed a number of these pits. They had just passed one of them, when by some fatal accident their light was extinguished. One of them, in the agony of despair, appeared to lose his reason, became bewildered, whirled round, ex claiming 44 Lord have mercy on us!" and fell, and, in falling, plunged headlong into the pit they had just passed. His companion listened, and heard him distinctly strike the bottom, and groan. He called to him, but received no answer : he called again, but all was silent as the tomb. He thought that, had he but fallen with him, it would ha been a happy circumstance; for, to attempt to find the mouth of the cave, aud pass the many dangerous places they had met with on entering, must, he . conceived, be impossible. He thought, therefore, only of dying of starvation. He concluded, how eve/, on making an attempt to get out he could but die, he thought, by sharing the fate of his com- panion, and this would sooner put an end to his sufferings. He set out, crawling on his hands and knees, and proceeded safely in his way about a day, when he again yielded to his feelings, and burst into tears.— This alone relieved his agony. He set out again, but with little hope of ever arriving at the mouth of the cave, and continued winding his way iu midnight darkness about a day longer. As they entered the cave, they observed that it branch- ed off in various directions, and he concluded that he had taken the wrong one, aud was as far, or farther, from the entrance than when he set out. The possibility again occurred to him of finding the way out, and once more summoned his remaining strength, and commenced groping his way through the dreary cavern ; and on the morning of the third day, when nature was nearly exhausted, and all hope had fled, he thought he perceived the dawn of daylight, and, on suddenly turning a corner, the morning- star t » hone full iu his fuce. His feelings, he said, must be imagined, for they could not be described. A JEW!— At the late Devizes Borough Sessions, before ; iie Worshipful the Mayor ( W. Everett, Esq.) and T. G B. Estcourt, Esq. James Brodie, late under- ostler at the Elm Tree, was placed at the bar, charged with stealing a watch, chain, seals, and key, the pro- perty of his master, Mr. John Neate. Mr. Neate deposed to having lost the watch ( supposed from hi bed- room) in the first week in January ; and to having made the prisoner acquainted with his IONS. — Mr. Solo- mons ( a Jew) stated, he was at the French Horn, Bath, when, in the presence of the prisoner, a Mr. Jacobs ( another Jew) told him he had purchased the watch of the prisoner. Mr. Jacobs was then called ; and the Court perceiving there would be no means of getting at the facts but by allowing Mr. Jacobs to tell his own .- tory, he proceeded as follows: — Six weeks ago, I meet dis sheinleuian ( meaning the prisoner, who, perhaps, was never before colled gentle man) in his master's house— here in dis town— he ox me if 1 had handkerchiefs to sell ? I say no; I dealsh iu cloth. Vol de price, he say ? I untie my bundle. He bodder me for quarter of hour vidout buying tie my bundle again and vent avay ; he den sa\, vil you buy a yotch ? I say yes. Veil ! he brought me ti anoder house— not de same house— a public house— vere ve had a pint of beer. I den say I vonl sliwap ; a yard tree quarters chit make him nice coat he say must have moneysh. Veil, vol the price, 1 . say Tirty shillings he vant ; I say five- and- twenty ; afie some bodder 1 gif eight- ami- twenty, ami put de voieli iu mine pocket. He den say no; he vould not shell A. ter boddei ing me for quarter of hour, 1 gif devoid) back again directly, dis moment, I keep it not fi minutes iu mine pocket. Veil ! about fortnight ago, see de same shentleman again. I vas at de Frein liorn at Bat ; he say, vill you buy a votch to- day ? say I vill sliwap vid clot. He say no, must have redy moneysh. I tell him redy moue\ sh wery scarce. — Vel, vat shall I gif? Two pound* ten, he say. No, two pounds five plenty, 1 tell hint, lieu him say I must treat. Dere vas noder shentleman vid him. 1 pay de moneysh, and call de Lampion! ; 1 say, Lamplord, 1 buy dis shentleman's voieh for two pounds five — bring t- wo glasses of shin and valher for dese two shentlemeu ; dey driuk de. shin and valher, and I pay one shilling fur it. [ Here Mr. Jacobs was about to enter into a detail of his peregrination since that period, but Mr Esicourt conceived this to be quite unnecessary, and cut the matter short by asking linn if he could swear to the prisoner at the bar.] 1 slew ear, said Mr. Jacobs, dat de shentleman at de bar is the same I bnv de votch of. The Jury, without hesitation, found the prisoner guilty, and he was sentenced to seven years' trans- portation. Mr. Neate, on appljing- to the Court, was told he might take the watch. Air. Jacobs immediately ex- claimed * 4 Mine volch ! mine votch ! I pay de moneysh for de votch : who give me mine inone\ sh again?" I fear, said Mr. Est court, in his usual mild, gentlemanly manner, presenting a- striking contrast to the eagerness of the Jew :— 1 fear the prisoner is not 111 a situation to refund you your money. 1 should rather think he was very poor." The Jew, although foiled at one point w here his interest was concerned, in a moment reverted to another. 44 Mine expenshes, den, mine expeushes! who pay mine expenshes? 1 iieie all de veek, boddering and spending mine moneysh; who pay me mine expenshes?" He was at length told thai lie should have his expenses, and he went away satis6ed. LITERARY CURIOSITY.— VVe have received the first number of the 44 Cherokee Phcenex the first newspaper, we believe, ever published by a savage nation. A single sight of such a production is sufficient lo overlhrow a thousand limes all the un- principled declamation, and unfounded declarations, made by interested white men, against the incom- petency of all Indians for civilized life. This sheet is one of the most remarkable, when all the cir- cumstances are considered, that ever issued from the press, in the first place it has been established by Indians; in the next place it is the result of a firm and resolute determination lo adopt the advantages of civilization, in which they have already, as is in- contestible, made considerable advances, although opposed by those around them. Then, as lo Ihe contents of the paper, it publishes, among other things, the fiist part of their free Constitution— the first, we believe, ever recorded among a people so recently emerged from mere savage life.- Lastly, a large part of the contents are translations in the Cheiokee language, written in characters invented by Mr. Guess, oue of the nation. This w ill rank among the greatest curiosi- lies, oue of the greatest inventions of the age. The author, as we have been assured, though ignorant of all written language, has formed this alphabet of syllables, on principles entirely bis own, and with perfect success.— New York Daily A dvertiser, FORGED CERTIFICATE OR PASS.— At the Dor- chester Sessions, William Miller was indicted for obtaining money under false pretences from the overseers of Bridport. It appeared that the prisoner applied to the overseer, producing a fictitious printed certificate, with the blanks filled up, and signed by the alleged names of two Magistrates at Penzance, authorising the said prisoner and his wife and threfe children to go from Penzance to Cromer, in Norfolk, and to be in force 60 days from the date thereof, January 22, 1828; by which pass he would be irititled ( pursuant to an Act of Par- liament, 6th Geo. IV. chap 85 ) to receive 6d. per mile from the overseers of all the intermediate towns, 27 in number, between the said places. He had proceeded, levying his contributions very regularly, as far as Bridport, where he was appre hended in consequence of the overseer recognising one of the children as having been brought by a person with a similar pass a very short time before. The prisoner persisted in his determination to plead guilty, and the Chairman sentenced him to seven years' transportation, intimating at the same time that he might have been capitally indicted for the forgery.— This case will point out to the over- seers of all the parishes the necessity of the utmost vigilance and care, as the certificates are printed, and filled in the most artful and methodical way, for the purpose of imposition. There was no priuter's name to the certificate. ASTRONOMY.— The size, and motions, and dis- tances of the heavenly bodies are such as to exceed the power of ordinary imagination, from any com- parison with the smaller things we see aroend us. The earth's diameter is nearly 8000 miles in length ; but the sun's is above 880,000 miles, and the bulk of the sun is above 1,300,000 greater than that of the earth. Our distance from the sun is above 95 millions of miles; but Jupiter is 490 millions, and Saturn 900 millions of miles distant from the sun. The rate at which the earth moves round the sun is 68,000 miles an hour, or 140 times swifter than the motion of a cannon ball; and the planet Mercury, the nearest to the sun, moves still quicker, nearly 110,000 miles an hour. VVe, upon the earth's ! surface, are carried round the axis by the rotatory or spinning motion which it has, so that every 24 hours we move in this manner near 14,000 miles, besides moving round the sun above 1,600,000 miles. These motions and distances, however, prodigious as they are, seem as nothing compared to those of the comets, one of which, when farthest from the sun, is 11,200 millions of miles from him ; and when nearest the sun, flies at the rate of 880,000 miles an hour. Sir Isaac Newton calcu- lated its heat at 2000 times that of a red hot iron 5 and that it would take thousands of years to cool. But the distance of the fixed stars is st ill more vast: they have been supposed to be 400,000 times farther from us than we are from the sun, that is 38 millions of millions of miles, so that a cannon ball would take near nine millions of years to reach one of them, supposing there was nothing to hinder its pursuing its course thither. As light takes about eight minutes aud a quarter to reach us from the sun, it would be about six years in coming from one of those stars; but the calculations of later astro- nomers prove some stars to be so far distant, that their light must take centuries before it can reach us ; so that every particle of light which enters our eyes, left the star it comes from three or four hundred years ago. HIGHLY IMPORTANT DISCOVERY.— By meaus of their invention, Messrs. Beale and Porter, the dis- coverers, have completely accomplished that grand desideratum, which has so long engrossed the atten- tion of scientific mechanics — the production and ap- plication of very high pressure steam, by means which ensure a most important economy iu the bulk, weight, and consumption of fuel ; while at the same time all possibility of explosion is prevented. The eagerness And perseverance with which, for years past, these id vantages have been sought, and the anxious interest evinced by the public throughout the progress of the n vestigation, sufficiently attest the importance of the ubject; and render it unnecessary to enlarge upon he advantages of an invention which has thus realized the hopes of the most sanguine. The value of the discovery of Messrs. Beale and Porter is not confined to this important branch of arts, the patentees having successfully applied their principle to various other operation* requiring » degree of heat ; such as distilling, boiling and refining sugar, &. c to which and to similar branches of manufacture it offers the means of applying, with unerring precision, exactly that degree of heat which is requisite, putting it beyond the chances of accident or negligence to excced that proper degree, and consequently to pro- duce any injurious results. In the firsl- nained process — that of distillation— it will be hardly possible to produce a faulty sample of spirits, or to throw over any enipyneumatic flavour; and the cumbrous and costly apparatus now used for agitating the contents of the still will be no longer necessary. In boiling sugar the advantages of the plan will be truly im- portant, all possibility of burning or charring the cane juice being prevented; no molasses will be generated, and consequently the production of ebrys- talizable sugar will be greatly increased in quantity as well as improved in quality ; in particular that portion of their shipments now lost by drainage from the cask, during their voyage to Europe, will be saved to the planters. The success of this invention does not esi upon theory, the patentees having proved it bv various practical means, which we have had the opportunity of witnessing. But as the specifications are not yet enrolled, and the pa entees are applying for exclusive rights abroad, we are not at liberty to lay before our readers the very simple and inexpensive means v\ hereby all these benefits are gained. We s iall embrace the earliest moment of doing so with propriety. In the meanwhile, we hail this discovery as the commencement of a new era in the employment of steam power in all its branches, und, in short, in every operation where the agency of a regulated degree of heat is desirable. — Morning Paper. HORRIBLE ADVENTURE.— At the period when Murat was about lo invade Sicily, the Chevalier R , P « \ master General of the Neapolitan fon es, was travelling through Calabria for the purpose of joining the army, having been to Naples lo inak airangemenls for the transmission of a quantity of specie. He had sent on Ins servant before him, prepare his quarters at the town of- , expecting to arrive there himself by night fall ; hot, Ihe < Uy being very soliry, he had loiU red on Ihe road, aud, at nine o'clock in the evening, found that he was still at a considerable distance fiom the proposed end of his jouincy. He was so much harassed aud fatigued that he determined fo put up for Ihe night at ihe first convenient house. He at length entered an old romantic building on the road side, inhabited by a man and his wife, live former a stout muscular figure, with a swarthy countenance almost wholly shrouded iu a mass of bushy whiskers ami miistachios The traveller was received Willi civility; and, after par- taking of a hearty supper, was conducted up a crazy old staircase, to his apartment for Ihe night. Not much fancying ihe appearance of Ihe place, and finding uo lock on his door, he fixed a chair against it ; and, after priming his pistols, put them carefully under his pillow He had not heeu long in bed when he heaid a noise below, as of persons entering the house; and, some lime afterwards, was alarmed by the sound of a man's footsteps on I he staircase. He then perceived a light through ihe crevice of I he door, against which the man gently pressed for admittance, but, finding some resistance, he thrust it open sufficiently to admit his hand, and with evlrene caution removed the chair and entered the apartment. The Chevalier then saw his host, with a lamp in one hand and a huge knife in the other, approaching the bed on tiptoe. The Chevalier cocked his pistols beneath the bed clothes, thai Ihe noise of. Ihe spring might not he heard. When Ihe man reached ihe side of the bed, he held the light lo the Chevalier's face, who pretended to be in a profound sleep, but con trived nevertheless to steal an occasional glance at his fearful host. The man soon turned from him, and, after hanging the lamp on Ihe bed post, went lo ihe other end of the room and brought lo ihe bedside a chair, on which he immediately mounted, wiih the tremendous knife still in bis hand. At the very moment that the Chevalier was about to start up from the bed and shoot him, the man, in a hurried manner, cut several enormous slices from a piece of bacon that was hanging over his bedstead ; though it had been wholly unnoticed before by ihe agitated traveller. The host then passed ihe light before his eyes again, and left the room in Ihe same cautious way in which he had entered it, aud, unconscious of the danger he had tscaped, returned to a crowd of new aud h ungry guesls below stairs, who were, of course not very sorry to perceive thai he had saved his bacon. In the year 1790 there were only seventy- five post- offices in the United States ; there are now between 6000 and 7000; and at the first- mentioned period the whole of the post- roads did not exceed 2000 English miles, while they are'now upwards of 90,000. HOUSE OF COMMONS— TUESDAY. AUI'dsl a number of petitions respecting the Romari Catholic claims, there was one from the Archbishop and Clergy of Dublin, signed by 115 clergymen of tlrg diocese against those claims, presented by the Chums Cellor of the Exchequer. Mr. Secretary PEE; L presented a petition also againsi those claims from the University of Oxford.— Sir M„ W. RIDLEY was happy to know that the petition iii question had been carried by a majority, where for several years there had been perfect linauiuiitv. There had been 64 for it. and 34 against it. — Mr. ESTCOURT considered the circumstance of this petition being dis- cussed, aud carried by a majority of two to oiiCj ae proving strongly the deliberate opinion of ihe university p Lord JOHN RUS. SKLL moved the consideration of the Lords'amendments. 011. the Test and Corporation Acts* Repeal Bill for Friday next. The Biil for Repealing the Law permitting Settlement by Hiring- or Service, a ter a long conversation, was read a second time without a division. CORN JAWS. On the order of the day for bringing up the report of the Corn Laws Committee, Mr. HUME, after a long speech, proposed his resolutions for a permanent duty of fifteen shillings per quarter on wheat, diminishing by a shilling per annum to a fixed duty of ten shillings. — Mr. W'ARBCRTON seconded Mr. Hume's motion.— Mr. Secretary GRANT replied to it, and after a length- ened discussion, the House divided, when the resolu- tions were lost by 192 to 27. The original resolutions, as proposed by Ministers, were then agreed to, ami leave was given to the At- torney and Solicitor General lo bring in a bill founded on them. 1 I By the House of Commons papers, the quantity of malt made and charged with duty, from the 10th of October, 1823, to the 5th of January, 1828, is for England 14,986,032 quarters; of which there are used 11,360,873 quarters in making 35,408,415 barrels of beer, being at the rate of 2 4- 7th bushels of malt for every barrel of beer, and in the distil- lery 155,053 quarters, leaving 3,470,106 quarters of malt for private brewing, & c. During this same period, the malt made and charged with duty is, for Scotland, 1,681,970 quarters, of which there are used 334,431 quarters in making 1,660,359 barrels of beer, being at the rate of 1| bushels of malt for every barrel, and iu the distillery 1,408,321 quar- ters; being together 160,882 quarters of malt used exceeding the quantity which has paid duty. The same papers state, that £ 1,014,856. Is. 8d. was paid to distillers in Scotland, for drawback on spirits made from malt during that period. ECCLESIASTICAL MEDICINE— The history of medicine in ibis island, during the dark ages, is similar to that of all barbarous nations; among whom we always find the offices of priest and physician com- bined. On the introduction of Christianity, the clergy, w ho possessed all the little learning of the times, neces- sarily practised the healing art. The venerable Bede informs us that Theodore, Archbishop of Canterbury, gave lessons in practical medicine to the monks; and tells us, amongst other of his precepts, that he forbad bleeding in the first quarter of the moon. During the seventh and eighth centuries the schools of the English ecclesiastics were frequented by students from France aud Germany, and ihe Emperor Charlemagne col- lected at his court a society of learned English, most of whom were skilled in physic. The higher order of cle. gy, at this period, wereifot ignorant of the writings of Celsus ami Ccelius Aureliauus. Like ihe priests of iEsculap us, Ihe, monks aided the effect of their bodily remedies by ihe influence of superstitious practices, aud ihe relics of saints and martyrs were employed largely in ihe cure of diseases. Inconveni- ences, of course, resulted from this union of the two professions, and the dignitaries of the church were prohibited by the decrees of several councils from: practising medicine;'; the lower clergy, deans, sub- deans, and monks, were permitted to administer in- ternal remedies, but not lo perform any operation y they were interdicted the use of the cautery and the knife. Medical reputation seems, however, to have been often rewarded by ecclesiastical preferment : thus we find that Nicholas de Fcrneham, physician to Henry III. was made Bishop of Durham. John Phrease, an Englishman, who was originally a student of divinity, and afterwards acquired great repulatioir as a physician al Rome, was created Bishop of Bath ami Wells by Pope Paul U. but he died before his consecration, and Hugh of Evesham, a celebrated physician of the thirteenth' century, was made a cardinal by Martin IV. The monks were in the habit of leaving their convents to study medicine, and this practice was repeatedly prohibited by Ihe Popes and by the councils; and though ihe repetition of these decrees prove that they were nut readily obeyed, they had the effect of degrading the medical profession aiuf of en- couraging superstitious practices and medical mira- cles.*— All hough the monks were discouraged from practising, the patron saints of each convent might still be invoked with advantage. The saints seem, for Ihe most part, to have confined themselves to Ihe cure of a particular disease, and there was a saint for every one Si. Petroiwlla practised iu fevers; St. Otilia in sore eyes; St. Apollouia in tooth ache; St. Roque and St. Sebastian iu the plague; St. Liberius cured ihe slone. St. Felicitas was Ihe Juno Luciua of t tese limes, aud she always insured boys; St. Bene- dict saved those who were poisoned; St. Germanus was famous in the diseases of children, but he required f ir his fee a white loaf and a pot of good ate. St. Wilgaforte ( famous for praying for a beard to protect h? r virtue, and getting one as long as the Persian king's) obtained ihe name of St, Uncuinber in Eng- land ; because, for a peck of oats, she would- ( incum- ber any woman who was tired of her husbaud-^ we presume by speedily taking him to God's mercy. That such a superstition prevailed we have the aulho. i- ily of Sir Thomas More. St. Anthony and Si. Vitus still have their names associated with well known diseases. The Virgin Mary cured every ibiug, and so indeed did the saints upon a pinch, but in general each was called in only in his particular line. Happy was Ihe patient who iu those days trusted lo the saint rather than the doctor!— Medical Gazette. JOURNEYMEN MECHANICS IN PRUSSIA.— The reader who recollects Gil Bias' account of the travelling barbers of Spain, will be amused with the following Prussian regulation:— 41 Oue thing which struck us as very remarkable, was the number of young men we met, trudging along wiih heavy portmanteaus on their backs. These are mechanics, wht), according lo an enactment to that purpose, are obliged, 011 the expiration of iheir apprenticeship, to • wander' or travel from town to town three years, before they can set up in business for themselves: each carries a book, in which his loule is noted down, and serves as a kind of passport. Should they meet with no employment, ihey shift their ground, and ihe magistiate furnishes them with subsistence- money, which enables them thus to proceed to another quarter. This travelling, it is almost unnecessary lo add, not only contributes lo health, but gives them a knowledge of the country, and enables them to acquire much information. It must be confessed, however, that such a regulation appears not only to be very harsh ami arbitrary, but to favour vagabondizing more than is altogether prudent."— Wilson's Travels ir\ Russia. BANKRUPTS, APRIL 29.— Peter Burke, of ITay market, victualler! — John Fountain, of St. Neot's, Huntingdon- shire, draper — Thomas Germain, of Drury- lane, baker, — Robert Hunter, of Aldgaic, oilman. — Frederick Mey- brucli, of Old Cavendish- street, Oxford- street, tailor.*— Samuel Pratt, of Crispin- slreet. Spita'- fields, drysallcr. 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