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S'{ .;‘ ••" f -04-: j ,....- ; : e • • . . • 0" 4 7 ? • 7 :ten • • • • 4;..• . . `1..., - •P• • 1 . 4 A • - - • - r - • • ••$# (ilk .4 4 ‘1. 4 rA l ital • • . • ..- .1 1 " 11 11 A i r • 9 4044,01,4 4 4 , • . • t ~- 1 ~ NUMBER 12,789.] VICTU4 LLOI6-11FFICN, Irelowory 5, 1898. .THE COMMISSIONkIiS for VIC7'UALLING Ida MAJESTY' S NAVY, 4c. de hereby sere notice, - That on TOODAY, the 19th Instant, they will be ready to receive Traders in writing (sealed up), and treat for Doe Hundred and Fifty Thousand Gallons of West India RUM, Thirty Tons of COCOA (British or Foreign Plantation), 'Six Hundred Sacksof Kiln-dried Household FLOUR, Two Thousand Four Hundred Sacks of BISCUIT MEAL, Five Hundred Quarters of Kiln-dried PEAS, Twenty Tont of Black Smyrna RAISINS, 'One Hundred Tons of SUGAR, and fifty Tons of New OATMEAL TO bo delivered Into his Majesty's Victualling Stores at DEPT WORD; One Half thereof by the 20th of March next, and the re aninder by the 20th of April next following. Samples of the Cocoa, Peas, Raisins, and Oatmeal, must be pro. duet(' by the Parties tendering; but that for Sugar will be exhibited at this Office. The Condition of the Contracts may be seen at this Mice. Each Tender must specify the price in words at length, and be `delivered before Oue o'Clock on the Dly appointed; and the Person who makes the Tender, or some Person on lt“ behalf, must attend to answ•et what called for. IL wALLan CLIPTOM UNITED MEXICAN MINING ASSOCIATION THE COURT of DIRECTORS HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, that a Payment of ONE POUND per Share is to be mule by the PROPRIETORS, to Measrs. BOSAIMUTT and Co. No. 73, Lombard-street, Magma TO TUT A.3 , I:CIATION. on or tefore the 25th March nest. JOHN MATHER., Assistant Secretary. No, 13, Old Broad -street, London, Feb. 13, 1828. NEW EDITION, TUE TENTH, ENLARGED, With Observations on the Danger of trusting to Nostrums as an Internal Remedy fur the Cure of Stricture; illustrated by Cases, price 3s. PRACTICAL OBSERVATIONS ON STRIC TURES of the URETHRA and B ECTU M, r&ommending an improved System for their Treatment and Cure, illustrating its Efficacy by numerous remarkable and highly important Cases, in sonic of which Strictures of from Ten to Twenty Years duration have been totally removed in a few weeks, and its superiority thereby fully established over every other method hitherto prac shed. By C. B. COURTENAY, M.D. • To which are added, Observations and Practical Comments on Glens, Seminal Weakness, and the Miseries occasioned by Self abuse, for the cure of which, a mode of treatment, the result of lee; sad successful practice, and at once safe, speedy, and effectual, is adopted by the Author. Printed for the Author, Robert -street, Adelphl; and Published and sold by Sherwood and Co. Paternoster-row; Onwhyn, 4, Catherine -street, Strand ; Chappell, Royal Exchange ; ' ha rsh, 397, Oxford -street; Walker, 90, High Holborn; Chapple, 94, , Pall mall; Sutherland, 9, Carlton-street, Edinburgh; and may be bed of all Booksellers. M We earnestly ',commend the cases related by Dr. Courtenay to the perusal of such of our Readers as are afflicted with the com plaints which the author has made the subject of these Observa tions. Several instances are adduced of the recovery of perfect health from states which were considered hopeless by practitioners of eminent talents, and very ester iee experience. We entertain the highest opinion of Dr. Courtenay 's professional skill, and con gratulate him on his successful and judicious application to these severe and often ilestrnetive diseases."—European Magazine. FRENCH PAPERS.-- PROM THZ OAZETTZ DB PAANCR, FEB. 16. BUCHA REST, JAY. U. Neither the mail from Vienna, nor that from Con stanatiople, has yet arrived ; but it is supposed that this drlay must be ascribed to the impossibility of passing the Danube, which is not completely frozen. VIENNA. JAN. 6. 'PRIVATE CORRESPJNDENCE. This is the 26th day that has pissed (a circumstance without example) since the depattuie of the mail from Constantinople, which generally comes in 17 days at the most, and has not yet waived. The weather is sup posed to be the cause. The ambassador of France is teady to send a courier to Paris as soon as the dis patches arrive. The new circular note of Count Nesselrode, dated the 9th of January, relative to tite departure of the three Ministers from Constantinople, is handed about here. We hope we shall be able to give it. It repeats the assurance that Russia will not deviate from the con sention of thr 6itt of July, 1827, and that in case of far. titer measures, it will maintain, with its allies, the gene sal peace of Europe. It is known also, that our Save zeign has received an autograph letter from the Em peror Nicholas, containing the same assurances. FLORENCE. Fifa. S. Letters from Malta announce that several Greek sail- ors, who were detained in that island, had been set at liberty on the at rival of Count Caps &Istria:, and were so be put on board the Cups of war that were to accons pany PARIS, Pas. 15. We have receivel a letter horn Odessa, dated Jan.l 25, confirming the accounts from Constantinople which we copied yesterday from the Augsburg Gazette, and it adds. that the Porte has caused cargoes of corn to be landed, which were oa board the English, French, and Russian ships, and has given the owners in return mere receipts. It was thought that almost all the Christians would quit Constantinople. A great number of Catho lic families had been conveyed to Asia. It was thought that the last measures of the Porte had been induced by the arrangements made by the Ambassadors before their departure from Yourla. A letter from Barcelona of the 2d of February says— is his Catholic Majesty, just as he was stepping into hi: carriage to take an airing, was seized with a fit of the put, and was obliged to return to his apartments:' The report of the evacuation of Spain by the French troops is more and more confirmed. The King, it is sale, defers his departure till this bu siness shall be fully determined and completed. Such if this should happen, will have been the result of hi: Nero's journey.—,fadi,otor of Boardeasix. Tat Royal Court has to-day confirmed the sentence, condemning M. Couchts-Lemaire to 15 months' im prisonment, and 2,000 francs fine: and the two book sellers to thy,' months' imp; imminent and SOO francs Erse for the publication of the Letter to the Deka of Or4ons. MONDAY liVEbatfiG, FICBItUARY 18, 1828. LISBON PAPERS. LISBON, JAL 31. The official part of the Casette contains a rescript from the Infant.* Regent, in which she states that she has learned with great grief and affliction, the frequency with which in different parts of these kingdoms sacrile gious robberies have been perpetrated, in many in stances accompanied with execrable insults to theDtvtus MAJESTY, even in the sacred forms of the Eucharist; and these nefarious crimes have not been checked by the measures adopted on various occasions by the piety of the Sovereigns of these kingdoms, &c. Her High ness, therefore, offers rewards and encouragements to persons who shall be instrumental in discovering and bringing to justice persons guilty of such excesses. Letters from Perpignan of the sth, announce the capture of the celebrated Insurgent Chief, JEP DEL Esraeos, by General MoNer. This leader had been induced, by one of his Nina ers to re enter Si:ain, after havi•sg taken refuge in France. and was captured on the neutvafiground by Spanish gene d'armes, disguised us pearaet,.. CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES. SITTING OF JAN. 31. The secretary, Paiva Pereira, read the following pro ject of law; "The central Committee. charged with the examina tion f the repot sent by the Government of the tribu nal r f 'he Desembargo do Paco, on the petition of the seculatized members who have quitted the religion. orders, in which they request a legal dispensation, that tEey may b te r able to inherit and bequeath property, finds that this petition having been presented to his late Ma jesty John VI. was remitted on the 23d of September, 1825, to the tribunal for consideration, but that there was a great dive, city of opinion in the tribunal. Three of the members thought that no part of the petition should be granted. Four others weie disposed to grant it in parr, but did not agree upon the manner. The Com miree having maturely weighed all the arguments, and ' seeing that these persons were admitted to the enjoy ment of close political rights which do not refer to the faculty of bequeathing and inheriting propeity, is of' opinion, that there is no reason whatever to continue the distinction hitherto made betweea them and the se cular clergy in this reTect." -After some debate, a project of law in two articles was agreed to, granting the substance of the petition.— Lisbon Papers to Feb. 5, inclusive. GERMAN PAPERS. --rew-- AUGSBURG, FZIRUA RT 10. The Florence Gazette says, letters from Corfu con firm the news that the Greeks have besieged Vassiladi, and landed the small garrison of that island at Misses longl.i. The Turks in Anat.,lice asked three days' time Ito consider of the proposals made to them by the Greeks. It was reported at Corfu, that Ibrahim Pacha was on the point of leaving the Morea, and had already el barked the sick and wounded on board transports for Egypt. VIENNA FLIIIII/A RV 5. Metalliques, 90i; Bank Share, I,o44.—Algcmeine Zeituag, Feb. 10. NUREMBURG, Ficsavaar 9. The Correspondent of this date contains the following article from Russii: " People must have an imperfect idea of our policy and of our military. if they should believe, in the poli tical course hitherto pursued by our Government, that it I:ad only conquests in view under pretext of saving , the Greek nation from certlin destruction. For how can we, without such a supposition, reconcile this de sire of conquest without extraordinary moderation ? whereas the most unpopular object is often used to attain the political views which would be more easy with us, since not only the Russian nation but all civilized people look with impatience for the march of our army, and even treaties might second the Russian Crown in mili tary operations. Those who are in some measure ac cpainted with the management of our foreign relations and our military force will be convinced that no want either of talent or power has produced a hitherto un paralleled moderation, but that other more elevated views aie connected with it, and that a nobler feeling than lust of conquest may call the Russian army into the field as soon as the honour of the nation and the interests of oppressed humanity require.— If after the memorable struggle of 1812 the Russian nation rivalled all others in making sacrifices to over throw the French tyranny, which it had no longer rea son to fea . .if, on Napoleon's return from Elba, it was again seen to rise to hasten to the assistance of nations in danger—if, in later times, by the disinterested for wardness of the immortal Alexandt r,100,000 men %vete ready to maintain the repose of Europe—lastly, when we see the present august Emperor adorned with the virtues of his august predecessor, we shall hardly be in. duced to overthrow all these monuments of the glory and high spirit of the Russian nation, in c•rder to in. dulge the fancy that it is actuated by rapacity. If an English Minister was allowed to boast of the disinter estedness of his nation—if he could observe, on the ex pedition to Portugal, that the very power which Eng land possesses commands it for the good of the wotiJ not to make use of it, we may &mei) , find the truth of this doctrine applied and called into action in the policy of the Russian Cabinet. We may be induced to ad mire the highest degree of self denial, where physical and moral powers are ready to second every enterprise ; but we may see with less uneasiness the means neces. sary fur the pacification of the East employed by Russia, and be convinced that no plans of conquest ii.fluence it, which might turn out as little to our advantage as they would be incompatible with the balance of Europe —which do not even accord with the wishes of the Rus sian nation—which might excite in it the same scruples which the creation of the kingdom of Poland produced —which might interrupt our friendly relations with the neighbouring states, and considerably prejudice com merce. We may be convinced, that as long as it can be possibly avoided, nothing will be done to give occa sion to apprehensions of any kind; but should circum stances command, and should Russia be compelled to enterlinto a contest, we may be assured that the termi nation of it will be conformable to the interests of the states of Europe in general. EASI E INDIES; • Papers . have been received from Bombay to the 4th of October, and from Bengal to the 16th of Sept. The B3mbay Papers me n ti o n t h at the i ncreased demand for troops on the western side of India had rendered it necessary to recal the Bombay troops from Mhow, which station was to be occupied for the present by re. giments from Bengal. Orders had been received from England to construct two ships for his Majesty's Navy in the Dock-yard at Bombay —one of 84 grins, to be called the Calcutta, and the other a 46 gun frigate, the Manilla. The Bengal Papers contain some further particulars respecting the assassination of Mr. Stephens, late Company's Magistrate at &once. They correspond generally with those already given, but explain a few points more satisfactorilr. It appears the two Patans Were apprehended on a charge, f theft, and the dagger with which the murder was c”rnmitted was amongst the articles they were accu,ed of ha, Mg s Olen. They defended their being found in the house where they were taken. by asserting they had goose chimer wpm re invitation of the wife of the proprietor.. Great want srf activity or courage appears to have been exhibited by the person who guarded the prisoners. Cholera, we regret to learn, prevailed at Calcutta to a considerable extent among the native population. We observe it ta:eJ in the same Pape. s, that a ratified copy of the treat! with Siam had been sent from Calcutta to the Rajah of Ligne, to be cony.- ycl by him to 134ngkok, and it was espected the a depot .tion from the Siamese vernment would he sent to India to cultivate the friendly intercourse which is nom established between the two Powers. A smart shock of an earthquake had been felt all Along the Coast of Malabar; but particularly at Yin gorla, in the Southern Cancan. At Bombay the native thieves had become so daring in their attacks upon pri vate houses, as to excite the c-nstant vigilance and alarm of the European inhabitants on the Island. It appears from the Native Papers that the affairs of the Punjab are nearly settled, and that Runjit Binh has nothing further to apprehend from the discontent of his Mohammedan subjects, whose ill-directed and worse conducted insurrection, have only led to the extension of the authority of their Hindu ruler. AMERICAN PAPERS. NEW YORK. Itx. A letter from Havannah to the Editors of the Bali more America's', under the date ot 2d inst. says. The new tarif f took effect yesterday, but no change of con sequence is made in the import or export duties, in which the merchants ot the United S ates ate interered.— Green fruits and lime juice are free of export duty. The Havannah custom house has just declared the revenue of the year 1827 to be 5,250,000 dollars. The revenue on flour is 300,000 dollars less than the last year, 1826, in consequence of large receipts of the article from San Andero. It is hoped that this consequence will induce the Intendant here to impose a duty upon flour from Spain, which will enable Baltimore and Phi ladelphia to enter into fair competition ; if not, this market will be viitually shut against our staple. This market is now so immoveably dull with respect to prices, that no quotations I can give you will be useful. From Vera Cruz we have accounts to the 28th ult.— The expulsion of the old Spaniards had createl alarm and confusion, and a general suspension of business. EARTHQUAKE AT BOGOTA. In the Christian Advocate of Friday is a letter from a Gentleman at Bogota, from which we extract the following: • He says, " About six o'clock in the evening, I stepped out, and suddenly I experienced a singular sensation, and juding that either my head was swimming or the ground was moving, in order to determine, I cast my eyes to the corner of the house, and soon perceived that destruction was come upon us ;and, as the only chance of escaping from the falling stones and tiles, ran with great expedition to the great square. By this time the first shock was over, and I stood still, waiting the next. It came &n, long and heavy, and then came a scene beggaring description—as it were every individual in the city crying and shouting to the Virgin for mercy; the rolling of ten thousand thunders beneath us, the roofs of houses falling in, their sides falling out, stones and tiles falling in every direction; and, as if to crown the whole and make a more horrible uproar, while all were waiting, as if to be swallowed up, the steeple of the cathedral that had seemed to tower above the clouds, came with a tremendiius crash to the ground. I The shock went off nith a quick tremulous motion." A letter from Maracaibo, dated the Bth of December last, says—" There have been but four arrivals from the United States for the last five months. Of five v:ssels lying in the port, two have been condemned and sold, one of them a Danish brig, for the •alue of five reals' (equal to 62 cents )*worth of tobacco being found on board, and very little more than this was found on board ; the other an American schooner, the Captain and mate of which were sentenced to six months' close con• finement, and only avoided it by making their escape, though surrounded by gusids. A Dutch Captain drowned himself last night to avoid a similar punish ment, his schooner having been condemned some time since. These severe measures against contraband goods are the least of the evils of Bolivar's commercial system. His Alcavala and high import duties (the former has been done away with) were the ghat impediments to commerce. Business is such, at Mr. contem plates not taking out a patent of industry (or licence) the nest term. These patents have been increased from 600 &liars to 1,000 dollars; commission business must be very good to sanction such a tax." STATSSISNT Oir THa UNITSD STATU Or AMIRICA'S NAST, IST JAI/MAST LAST.—One ship of the line, 4 (tisanes of the first class, 4 ditto of the second class, 9 sloops of the first class, 8 ditto of the second class, and 4 schooners--total SS. The num ber of persons of all classes in the Nair, 5.0681 the corps of marines men and officers, 938; 3 the expanse of the- "lava! Department, ,043,697 dollars, or about 684,8311. The last New Brunswick PAprrisiate, that Sir How- ARD DOUGLAS, who had been; previously indisposed, while taking tfie .als. in ,lii,ligarden, had, met ..with a pAinful accident. gallaot , olficer trod on some slippery ices and-feltrwith sach.viblence, that he dislo cated one of hie ander and w ruts, and received a severe contusion on the he.icl. [PRICE SEVEN PENCE. SUNDAY SCHOOL SICK CLUBS. IXTRACTED FROM TIER MANCURIITRIt COURIER. We have recently had our attention called to a sob. ject which is new to us, and we believe equally so to most of'out tenders--we mean the establishment of Sick Clubs in Sunday Schools. We have been presented with the 14 Fourteenth Report of the Bennett-street Sunday School Sick and Funeral Society," which con tains statements of the utility of such establishments, highly encouraging and interesting. This school is one f those connected with St. Paul's Church, in this tows, and consists of about 2,400 scholars. It appears that sick society has been established in it for upwards of 15 years, the members of which are required to be at lea.t eleven years of age on entrance. It is entirely option:l for teachers or scholars to become members or not as they choose; tut each member is required to pay a penny per week, and is entitled, in case of sickness, to a weekly relief of four shillings. This relief is granted ter re months, and the sum of two: shillings per week is granted for two years and a half longer, in case the sickness of a member continues so long. There is also funeral society, which admits scholars of five years old or upwards,.vrio ass recieiredith pay s penny when a member dies; and the friends of such deceased mem ber are entitled to a coffin, and five Omts, for funeral expenses. Thire are 918 members of the sick scciety, and 786 members of the funeral society, forming a total of 1,704 members, all of whom pay a penny into the fund on the death of a member.. Since its first esta blishment in 1812, the sum-of 2 6171. 55.61 d. has been received in the way of subscriptions, and 1,8391.125. lid. has been paid for sickness and funerals, leaving a ba lance of 8141. 12s. 70. on hand. in the same period of time, one thousan I four hundred and sixty-nine members have been telieveddoring sickness, and ninety who have died have been buried at the etpepse of the society. After recapitulating the Above particulars, the Report goes un to state as follows: tg It is a matter well worthy the consideration of all who wish t. relieve the public from the prenete of parish rates, and who desire toe" the spirit of true independence preserved among the laboudag classes of society, whether these desirable objects may not be, is a considerable measure, promoted by the establishment of &Way School Sick Societies. When the habit of laying by a penny a week for support during sickness is well formed in the heart of a child, there is some guarantee for the extension of that habit in after-life. A person who is-trained up to this practice, is certainly less likely to become burtkensonse to a parish, than one who is not ; and it is a matter capable of the dearest calculation, that If all the Sunday Schools in the kingdom had subscribed in the same proportion as oor own, and for the same length of time, the immense sum of at Inat sevothundred thousand pounds would have bees raised by voluntary cognibution. for the relief of sick children !—The Christian ori.ol wilraleo see in this habit, the openings of that disposilon, which, by denying itself of some lawful things, enables those who subsist by their daily labour, to contribute even liberally towards the exten sion of the gospel In our own and In foreign lands. It certainly is a fact, so far u our own school is concerned, that before the establish. meet of this society, not a pound had been raised fur any institution having for its object the spread of religious knowledge; hut since its estabhshment, so far from its demands having operated as an bin &ranee to charitable societies of the kind alluded to, upwards of ,we thousand pounds have been collected, from the teachers anti scholars, for such holy purposes, including the contributions towards the building of our school. In this single circumstance, thetef. re, -we haves practical proof, that instead of the means of the labou•lng classes being cramped by subscribing to one good institution, their habits and their energies are drawn-forth by it to the support of others." In another part of the report, after alluding to the advantages of the Sick S ciety, it is ob.ei wed— " But other benefits of a different kind have resulted from its establishment, which were not contemplated in the first instance.— It secures a regular visitation of sick scholars, which is of great im portance in a Sunday School. Tp l main efforts of all z e al ous teachers will be directed to the spiritual welfare of th e ir s ch o l ars; and the system of visiting sick members twice in the week, which is required by the rules of the sick sokiety, gives an opportunity to the teachers to communicate more friquent religious advice to the children than they might otherwise possess. Theinstitation has also had a good effect in securing the regular attendance of scholars, in consequence of all subscriptions being required to be paid in person, by the members themselves. it has also been found useful in retaining them longer in the school; and of thus affording opportu nities of communicating religious instruction to youth, at that period ottlseir lives when they ray be supposed to be capable, in some measure, of forming a better.judgment of its value. Alany children, too, have been compelled to submit to such wholesome discipline as their faults required, who, but for the temporal benefits arising to them during sickness, might have absented themselves, rather than endure correction ; and t he parents of the children, generally. exhibit a much stronger attachment to the school than they formerly did, o consequence of the interest which they feel in the prosperity of the sick and funeral society." Various objectives which had been urged against the society, are then noticed. The most important a them is thus stated: An objection which the society had to contend with when it commenced, was this—' that it could not support itself, but that it would be bankrupt in sevea years.' Facts have falsified this pre . More than double that period has elapsed, and so far from being without funds, there is a balance in hand which, judging frost the past, is equal to at least three years' ordinary expenditure. The benevolent individuals who then held this opinion, calculated that the small weekly sum of one penny from each member, would nut support a sick allowance of four shillings ; and, If your Committee were to establish a society in a c6untry district, where work and wages are not so commonly within the reach of children as in Man ' chewer, and the inducements foe claiming relief consequently j greater, they would propose either half this subscription, and half tsis allowance, or else the whole of the subscription wit,h only three shillings of allowance. But pruhalaly the savings which we were able to effect in miscellaneous expenses, were not thought of when this objection was started; the society being at no charge for rent of committee rooms, nor for thosedeier allowances to which sick clubs held at public-houses are necessarily subjected. Whatever was the cause, however, the facts are as we have stated them." We shall be very glad it our notice of this interesting document have the effect of exciting, among the Ma nagers of Sunday Schools, a desire to establish institu tions of a similar kind, being quite convinced of their great utility; and vf the favourable effect they must have on the habits of the scholars. We hope that our contemporaries will not think a portion of their columns ill employed in mak'ng the public better acquainted with this laudable institution. &must' Museurtr.—ln the chapel of Farley Castle, (Ivo-Rath, stands the tomb of the last of the Hunting. dons. ilt is composed of the finest white marble, as delicate in colour as when first erected two hundred years ago ; and is surmounted by a large black mar ble slab, on which repo.e, in effigy, the Earl of Hun tingdon and his Countess. The bo.ties lie, with five others (two of which are those of infant.), i,i leaden coffins, in a vault beneath the chapel. They ate mum- mies reduced Ito a liquid state; and the Cicerone of the place inlorms you, that several Gentlemen, 01 cannibal propensities, have been known to taste this strange soup. Through a hole in the c •ffil you can clearly see the liquified body, which is nearly of the colour of Burton ale ; but our curiosity did not lead us to try tt sr taste.—London Weekly Review. it -1111 / 1;4 a,