Star. — London, England, 1830-01-28 00:00:00

PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE. LISBON, lax. 16. In my last I mentioned the arrival of Asszca's Secre tary; the effect it had produced here, and the many ex-' unordinary rumours to which it gave rise. Among them, the one which has acquired most consistency, would make Ili believe that he was the bearer of the Noble Duke's final determination with regard to Portugal, and that the Packet which takes this to England, will also convey the project of an amnesty for the approval of his Grace! As you may well suppose, I should not have named this report, had I not heard it from those who are in the se crets of the Court. My informant adds, that a frigate is to be despatched to the Brazils, as two of the Cabinets wish to preserve the tyrant, if he can himself gain over Dox PEDRO. Notwithstanding these sinister as sertions of the faction, the people here do not believe that England will commit an act which would degrade her in the eyes of the whole civi lized world. As to an amnesty proffered by Mto um., it is needless to repeat what I have so often said. But I cannot help warning the Patriots to reject every overture. Indeed this must be superfluous, knowing, as they do, the fate which awaits them, unless they come with swords in their hands. Verbum sat! And with regard to the Sovereigns, I should like to know what faith they can place in the promises of such a monster ? Do they remember the perjuries, treasons, and parricidal acts of 1825? Have they forgotten the Protocol of Vienna? Whatever their Cabinets may do, for the Sovereigns have nothing to say in these matters, it is hoped neither the exiles in England nor the patriot army of Terceira, will ever compromise their fair fame by entering into any terms with the despot. But this is a useless hope, as every letter we receive contains fresh assurances of their firm resolution to sustain the character they have already acquired. By referring to the Gazette, you will perceive that the mourning for the Qv EE' is imposed for Six Months! The effect of such a piece of folly on trade and manu factures, may be readily imagined. This has been the week of nojo, (condolence) and Mt o v Lt. not being able to resort as usual, (having drunk to excess on the day of the fu neral) to his favourite amusement of duck-shooting at the pond, he passed his time in killing pigs and making sausages ! ! The 4th regiment has just arrived here. The spirit of the soldiers is excellent, and they are therefore called ntalhados. As to Officers, they are rank Miguelites.— It is said the pay of the soldiers has been reduced from 60 to 40 reis per day. The notorious Chaves and other influential individuals of the old Queen's party, have taken out their pass ports, probably with a view of going to Madrid. —lt is confidently reported that the Princess MARIA TERESA is coming from Spain, to replace the late QuEEN at the head of the Apostolicals. I some time ago informed you of the seizures by MIGUEL of the jewels left to the Princesses, his sisters, by their aunt. He has repeated the act on the present occasion, having got possession of those be queathed by his mother to ISABELLA MARIA, who at tended her throughout her illness to the last moment. In comparing the character of the late Quzzx DOWAGER and her Son, it is said that she could at least boast the merit of consistency and resolution ; whereas her son is only remarkable for cowardice, de bauchery, and vengeance. TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR. Sig—Delightful as it is to witness the manly and praiseworthy exertions of your Correspondent " St DWZY" in behalf of his distressed countrymen, by now addressing the KING himself on the subject, it is painful to reflect on the little satisfaction such a cause in such times is cal culated to obtain. Let his MAJNITY dismiss the Duke of WILLLINGTOW from his situation, and be will employ, not his talents, (for that would not matter a fig,) but his ill-gotten influence, in obstructing the wheels of Government and the measures of any other ad ministration. His temper, made more overbearing by the homage he has received, will never be quiet again till the releasing hand of nature, or some other signal mark of GOD'S mercy, shall deliver us from his domination. The greater part of the Aristocracy, who are worshipping this mammon of unrighteousness with a zeal that is little short of magic, would lend their aid to thwart any admi nistration that would make the good of the country their only aim, and banish corruption from their councils. In either case ,then ,ruin must ensue—the obvious consequence of a long course of corruption, imbecility, and injustice ! For my part, I am almost tired of my ineffectual struggles to open the eyes of the country to the gulf before us, and in despair am almost inclined to laud and magnify the General—to quicken him in his unwise and ruinous mea sures. At all events. I would hardly ask the KING to remove him at present, for, as sure as his name is WZI.- LESLEY, if be goes on in the way he has begun, the day of retribution is not far off, and it would be but a just judgment that the man who has provoked the storm should feel its effects. Nee les en jostler ails Quam peels anikee arts perk. sae! Yet mind me, Sir ; I lay not at the Duke of WEL LI N °TON'S door the cause of our miseries : long before he came into office they were foreseen and foretold. All that I charge him with, is his stupidity in taking office when he did ; and since he has taken office, proceeding in the unwise (to call it by no harsher epithet) manner he has. As I said in a former letter, I be lieve his head more than his heart is in fault. It is this feeling of mine which prompts me to explain in what sense I meant that word "Ass," which I have, in my communications with you, so liberally bestowed on his HIGHNESS, and which I cannot bring myself to believe you have done well in leaving out in my last. No one is more willing than I am to stand corrected, if I am wrong; but, with all due deference I can hardly bring myself to think and I am fain to think, that on consideration you will agree with me. The word " Au" is but a :fafun de paler conveying an idea of great stupidity, or madness if you will, in a particular act. His Huai w ass himself said, he should be mad to undertake, what I said he was " an ass" for undertaking. In that sense alone I mean it—l mean not to impute to him' general stupidity, any more than he himself meant to acknowledge- general madness. On the contrary, I admire him for his activity, I venerate him for his fortune—honor him for his valour—but despise him for his madness.—Let our united anticipations prove correct, and by his unstatesmanlike measures let us suppose he brings ruin on his country, which he had, on more occa sions than one, ventured his life to save. What, I ask, will posterity say of him for having blotted his fair fame by un dertaking what he is as conscious of his incapacity to fulfil, but that he was an" Ass" for his pains —a word, however, that, since it sounds harsh in your ears, and in the ears of some of your queasy readers—though there is not one of them that would find fault with it, if it were approd, as it' often is to PEEL, and universally to GOIILDURN, Hem-' heirs of ihe same Cabinet—shall not be repeated by tse : nor, indeed, should I have mentioned it now, but to settle and justify its fair construction. Nay, I perhaps go further than others in my admiration for certain parts of the Duke of WELLIN Grow's character. I db not believe in the ambition which has been imputed to him—l believe, on the contrary, that he meant well by the country, till the adulation of despicable minions, and even of those whom he had ever regarded as his political enemies, turned his head —and now it fs his misfortune rather than his fault, that he is like one intoxicated with liquor, become pot-valiant, regarding the former humble estimate which he had formed of his own unstatesmanlike abilities, as the im pulsive promptings only of a self-disparaging modesty . He was unwilling enough to mount, but no sooner is he en the saddle, than he claps spurs to his steed, and is now going (and as ill-luck will have it, is carrying the country along with him) full tilt to destruction— Set a beggar on horseback and he will ride to the devil— give power to an ignorant man, and he is sure to abuse it. Depend upon it, Sir, his HIGH N vas is just the same now as he ever was. As he was in the beginning, he is now, and ever shall be—proud and arrogant, as I know him to have been, from his first entrance into life—with great activity of mind—of an inflexible temper—with a strong head and fearless heart—it is hardly astonishing that he should have been in his career bold even to a proverb, enterprising and victorious—The situation he enjoyed, no less than the exploits he achieved, made hies despotic in his notions, and in the true spirit of a Ge neral, arbitrary and overbearing in his disposition. Was this a character fit for a statesman ? Could it be expected, that, just escaped from the amp as he was, lin HlGnwess was likely to succeed at the helm of our state the most eventful times that this country,or,per-adventure, any other country, ever witnessed ? Was this the person likely to inquire into the causes of the calamities which affect us, and which are so deep-seated as to require the most consummate skill and most extensive experience ? No, surely; but lest I underrate his abilities—lest my prejudice should outstrip my judgment—let me chronicle the opinion he entertained of himself, and which his colleagues in office entertained of him, as far as we can collect one and the other from passing events. The Peace, for which we are indebted to his valour, afforded no field for his abilities— - " ►ede in speech And little blessed with the set phrase of peace," he was conscious of his inability to take that lead in the Senate, to which his station in life, his universal renown, his eminent services, and his intimate acquaintanco with foreign Courts, so naturally induced him to aspire. That activity of mind, however, for which 1 have al ready said he was so remarkable, would not let hint be idle, and he accepted a very subordinate situation in the administration of that day : an administration which—if , we may judge from its acts—was no less sceptical con cerning his talents than he was himself, or it would not have omitted to avail itself of his great name to give strength and stability to the Government, by appointing him to a more exalted situation in it. The country, too, thought no less meanly of his talents than he did himself, or than his colleagues in office did ; for he never rose to deliver his sentiments in the House of Lords, that he did not commit some egregious blunder or other. These remarkable words which he made use of, calling County Meetings Farces, showed no less his ignor ance of the Constitution, than the domineering and des potic spirit which his long command of an immense army, and almost uninterrupted success, had engendered in him. But no man, or set of men, held his talents so cheap, as those Gentlemen who are called Whigs. Yes, Sir, these same Whigs, who would now, forsooth— " Ilosoor the shadow of Ids shoo-tie." And how, Sir, you will ask, is all this to be accounted for? How comes it that his Hionw ass should now be reckoned by these same gentlemen as a star of the first rate magnitude ? I will tell you, Sir, if you will allow me to trespass on your columns with one more letter. I will prove that the Dual is the same, and the Whigs are the same, aye, even Sir JEmm Y, the Creole !—the only change that has taken place, is their situation ! PHILO SIDNEY. ERRATA IN THE LAST LETTER OF PHILO-SIDNEY. —For, " though we rose from the dead," read—" though one rose from the dead :" and for " that injurious operator, Sir JAMES SCAILI.F.TT," read—" tbat ingenious operator, Sir JAMES SCA KLETT." Wheat Barley Oats Rye Peas Beans AU otber Grain Total Qrs. of Grain I 42.333 Cwts. of F100r..... 11,137 On IStk Jan. 1630. O 0 0 . .. • ... a 4 56 31 29 6 111 $ 31 11, 3$ 111 31 10, 30 1 IS 11 1i 22 14 16 -!- ..liM'.s~.:~. __i S. d. 15 7 12 • 6 5 9 2 21 11 15 0 rM ALL THE VIAIL 1829. Charged with duty Quant ty Highest and Grain. Quantity 'for Homej to Bond 'Await Pries • • . Imported. ennsunip- Jaa. 1, • in 1829. tinn. I 100. ~ ,•••••••• 1=1111.1•111 a. d. a. d. Wheat 1,603,64 4 !1,345,80 61 228.653 75 11 SS 4 Barley 306,8851 239,798 66 067 37 0 29 6 Oats. Rye 67,391 63,952 26,435 47 11 30 7 Peas Beans All other Grain ----- Total Qrs. of Grain . 2,559,393'1,978,190 780,935 Do Crits. of Flour 465,082 1 33E1,698 63,038 THE ARMY The following compose the Commanding Officers of Artillery and Engineer* on foreign stations : ARTILLERY—LIeut. Colonel Rogets, Gibraka r; IJeut. Colonel Gambk, Malta; Lieut. Colonel Crawford, lonian Islands; Lest Colonel Younghusband, %Vest Indies; Lieut. Colonel D urnford. Jamaica; IA ut. Colonel Cockburn, Canada ; Lieutenint Colone Roberts, Upper Canada : Lieut. Colonel Bredin, Nova Scotia Major Hunt, Newfoundland; lieut. Colonel LIJ, Bermuda , Lieut. Colonel Munro, Cape of Good Hope; Lieut. Colonel F; Smith, Ceylon ; Lieut. Colonel Forbes, Mauritius; Lieut. Luke. Bahamas. Estaisazas—Major G. Pilkington, Gibraltar ; Colonel Morehead, Malta; Colonel Hassel& lonian Islands; Lieut. Colonel Sir C. Smith. West Indies; Lieut. Hotbam, Jamaica; Colonel Durn ford, the Canada.; Colonel Nicholls, Nova Scotia ; Lieut. Colonel Vigoratis, Newfoundland ; Major llanshard. Bermuda ; Lieut. Colonel Holloway, Cape of Good Hope; Capt. Brown, Ceylon; Lieut. Colonel Cunningham, Mauritius; Capt. Alderson, Bahamas. A General Court Martial re-assembled at Fort William on the 29th of June, 1929. for the trial of Lieut. G. G. B. Lowther, of his Majesty's 44th Regiment, on various charges of misappropriatioa of money, and was acquitted. The following Officers embarked on the Ilth of September, 1829. on board the Amiable, at Madras, for England, viz. Ma jor Nairn, 46th Foot ; Major W. B. Forbes, 29th Infantry ; Capt. G. Hogarth, Lieutenant J. G. Ogilvie, and Lint. A. W. Horne. Detachments belonging to the 13th Regiment of Light Om goons. the Ist, 26th, 41st, 44th, 46th, 46th, 30th and 39th Regis menus of Infantry, embarked on the I Sth September, 1629, under the command of Major Forbes, 39th Foot, at Madras, on baud the Madras, for England. The 911th (North Gloucester) Regiment of Foot Is expected to arrive in the course of the earning month, for Ireland. from Corfu. _ _ _ The Reserve Companies of the sails Regiment of Infantry have received orders, on the arrival of the xsth la Ireland, to proceed to Plymouth. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Dear., Jaw. 27.—Wind S. by W.—Arrived the Dryad, Mara. from the Mauritius; Apulln, ltainiall, from Berbiee ; Orbit, Fish, from Virginia ; and Cynthia, Linklater, from Palermo. Jaw. 27.—Wind S. by W.—Arrived the Scoobill, Thomas, from Cephalonia. Larsaitoor., Jaw. 26. Arrived out at Buenos Ayres, the David Campbell, Morrie. Arrived the Julius eager, M.lduller, from Savannah. Off the port, the Wm. Penn, from Savannah; New York, from New Yurk ; and Nimrod, from Charleston. _ _ _ Curer, Jen. 27.—Atrived the Beta, Pratt, from Savannah. Doves, JAN. 27..—Arrived the Leda, Picot, tram Boston. Fe:moven, Jan. 26 —Arrived the Allerton, Gill, from Jamaica nailed 27th November. The French and Russian Ambassadors had a confer- There is a paragraph making the round of the papers ence, which lasted nearly two hours, with the Earl of this morning, stating that the four Irish Spritual Peers ABERDEEN, at the Foreign Office yesterday. next Session of Parliament, are, —His Grace the Arch- Viscount MELVILLE held a Levee yesterday at the bishop of Dublin, the Bishops f Rephoe, Limerick, and Admiralty, which was numerously attended by Naval Dromore. In Ireland there are four Archbishopricks, Officers. and eighteen Bishopricks, one of the Archbishops . monis, the Spanish Minister, had an in-Mons BERand three of the Bishops, sitting one Session in the Peers terview with the Earl of ABERDEEN yeste rday, at the House of Parliament by rotation. In the first Session office of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, of the first Parliament of Geo. IV. in 1820, the Arch- A deputation of the Goldsmith's Company, composed bishop of 7TAIII sat with the Bishops of Ferns,Clorie, of the Prime Warden, the three Wardens, and several and Cork ; the order of rotation completes a Cycle in members of the Company, together with Mr. LANE, the twelve Sessions, end consequently every thirteenth Sea- Clerk of the Company, attended yesterday by appoint- sion, the incumbents of the same 13ishopricks, sit again meat at the Treasury, for the purpose of having a con- with the incumbent of the same Archbichoprick ; the ference with the Lords of the Treasury. The Deputation following Statement will servo as a perpetual Calendar were met by the Duke of Wetraworow and two other of Rotation:— Lords of the Treasury, Mr. Huta' ES, as Master of the Arshliakepa St together Mint, the Deputy Master and Worker of the Mint, and of Staid the Bikers / seem in the Kt wo's Assay Master.—The conference lasted about 1521 Asmaint 1011 aloe, Kiloton, Clogker 1533-1845 B. Dupla, theory. Knish, sad Cloofert 11. 2 a quarter of an hour. il CAUSULL Meath, Kildare, and Derry 5 7 Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East kp :Lan • Rapture, Limerick, and Drowse. e— • India House, when Capt. JOSEPH STANTON, of the ship D o Amami Elphin, Waterford, and Down 7 9 General Harris, took leave of the Court previous to de- !I, Ca Ferns, Myna. and Cork 11-1850 parting far Bengal . and China. 7 ASNILL KiU4lO,, Kihnore, Clogher 9 1 S TeAM Dewey, Killah, sad Cluofrrt 1140. 2 The present vacancy in the Episcopal Bench isthe first lo Aimee,' Nleath. Kildare. sod Derry I— 3 which has occurred during the Premiership of the Duke IWO Maus Haphoe, Linterick; and Drawers 1— 4 of WELLINGTON. 1 CASSELL Ophin, Waterford. sod Duwa 3 5 The late Dr. Lt/ X MORE, the Bishop of St. Asaph, II TUAM Ferns, Cloyne, sad Cork 4 6 owed his elevation in the Church to his connection with There are few subjects upon which the tribe of politi the family of the Duke of Bucci.zycn ; and it is ru- cal economists have differed more than as to the capacity mound as not improbable that his successor may do the of the country to maintain a given number of inhabitants; same. Bishop WATSON taking it st ;K:lmillions, Bishop HA LE at The late Joni; Loxmoax, D.D. Lord Bishop of St. 90, while the Earl of LAUDERDALE, one of the modern Asaph, filled a seat on the Episcopal Bench 23 years. In economical school, declares it might sustain 180 millions. 1807 he was consecrated Bishop of Bristol ;in the lel- A picture by Vandyke, which formed part of the furni lowing year he was translated to the See of Hereford ; cure of the late Governor of the Tuileries, was knocked and in 1815 to that of St. Asaph. In the neighbour- down for the value of the frame, nt the sale of the effects hood of St. Asaph, and, indeed, throughout the whole of the deceased. When the mistake was found out, a of the diocese, his Lordship's decease will be long and claim was blade, but in nein—the purchaser paid only 80 deeply lamented.—Chester Courant. francs for it. • On the Oxford Circuit it is reckoned that about seven A letter from Dresden says,—" Our city now offers causes per day are tried in the Niid Pries Court. On the an extremely animated spectacle, in consequence of the Northern (where the su bject na tt er i s generally note number of foreigners who have chosen it for winter reel-' important) fourteen. dews. . A great many English and Russian families stay The passage through the Regent's Canal has been here until the spring, and then go to drink the waters of kept open during the frost by means of log-boats, the Bohemia. Them are -- - and pewit sharp prows of which hais been propelled with such fere* clubs, and various scientific as to break through every o le. Our public lectures are It is said that thirty young people, of a boarding-house first dintinction• and in the vicinity of the city of &Mane, west lately in &sit Bioko their' stay here upon the Loire, and that the ice hiving balk*, she, wen ammo d M. Arnold all drowned. The proprietor of the ootabliolomont, . toad's* it is ono of bearing of the accident , blew oust Lim lirshin.:—Apaiv. 11151iy."44 3 1fit Paper I. k- f now several lite ask palish* liri g oa b i rit Froggs. ate. ientific and nacre 'll22llmitio. - WU TH 11111. D. ill &RANG ilhilktia : n u . we fretieented terfiteiguere Ili the oft i i ite. . cams AT AILIAA: u. . 14; ;, ..., 4... , 4,1110 _e__Vi . tri ..: .. .. a . i.,. l2 nothing ire eglitleted is order le Ilissitawi Lamle' • OM Mir it : 4 1::: i 2:IF. 7 :144v..i1 0 14 am agree ater is po es ible. Tbs. 1114 ... .........• ile4 IA 4 011•:' Mead Ai.....'ailliot .isle ar e I sill I attracts much attention. esti it. Me". ••••• * 44 ' 44 , r' • •••, irii-0522212118 11 va $1 1 .4 44 v , r the finest roetlieg-teneesie Get- "l l = e ft e seSS to o l , - " li".• elestrCjillits ‘ r. ?Agee " ' ' Otreer,lh MC te• IC*. • 00 " 124*. •• • 1: 16t 't'" -" .e.5m,...0.,:v9 • .1 . .. Lid; .... :...: , 1 RETURNS OF GRAIN AND FLOUR. As ACCOUNT of the Quantity of GRAIN and FLOUR Imported Into GREAT BRITAIN from A 1.1. PARTS of the WORLD (except Ireland,) and of the Quantity entered for Howe Consumption in the klnnth of December, 1829; with the Average Price and Rate of Duty on the 15th January. 1830. Also, an Account of the Total Quantity Imported from all Part. except Ireland, and entered for Home Consumption In all 18X9 ; with the Quantity remaining in Bond on the Ist of January, 1830 ; and the Highest and Lowest Pelee of each kind of Grain within the preceding Year ?NI KUM, Or DICENSCII 1529. I Quantity I Charged with duty for Home consump. lion. Quantity Grain. 1 , ...; M 00 t E 0 4C le it _t = g 3 I •• f t.) : 4 I. 6 THE PERISIIING POOR. A Special Sessions was held at the Town-halt, WeEing borough, by the Magistrates acting for that division. on Ft id.y last, to inquire late the .tote and condition of a ouniber of pone and miserable paupers from the parhis of Ii &oil. in the said tlavium.. who had excited the attention of the adjoiaini neighltouthootf.— A report of their condition. their pallid and miserable appear 'see, and an examination into their circumstances, elicited feel ings of h.eror 'and sympathy in every person present. •The re port was taken from the minutes of one of the Magistrate., who had kindly taken the trouble to visit their abodes of misery, want. and wretchedness. He stated, that in out apartment of the mi serable hovel called the workbook., be found nineteen human beings. of various ages, and of both sexes, huddled together, who, during t►e late very inclement weather, had but one bedwead, and only two half worn out blankets among them aU, and without salt:kat clothing to bide their nakedness! Amongst them was an infant about a mouth old! It appeared that two or three of the children had a pair of their father's rmallelotites for a bed, and his coat or jacket for a covering Other revolting details were made.—Stintiferd (Seaospion. COUNTY OF WILTS. At the Quarter Sessions for this county, which Com menced at Devizes on the 12th instant, before T. G. B. Earcouite, Esq M.P. and a very full Bench of Magistrates. petitions to his Majesty and to both Houses of Parlismint, on the distress which pervades every class of the community, were unanimously agreed tn, and signed by every Magistrate present. The petitioners say—" T hat the mast alarming distress pervades both the agricul tural and manufacturing districts of this county ; that such dis tress cannot, they fear, be attributed to temporary causes, or be expected materially to abate without legislative interference; and that they entertain most serious apprehensions of the gradual, but no less certain, extinction of their property. " The owner and occupier, the m.ster manufacturer and his workman, the tradesman and the labourer, the clergy and the members of all the liberal professions, are daily experienchig a minutia; of their resources. Your petitioners abstain from the expression of useless regret, and presume not to doubt the wise intentions of Parliament ; but they earnestly pray your Honourable Horse speedily, thoroughly, and boldly, to inquire into the causes and client of these dificul• ties, in which all classes of the community are involved ; and most respectfully du they intreat each individual member, laying aside ell party feeling, prejudice, or undue it fluence (if such there be), to consider what errors may have been committed, and what re medies may still be found to 'Ravine the su6.•rings of which they thus strongly, but justly. complain." REQUISITION TO THE HIGH SHERIFF OF SUFFOLK. At nur Sessions last week. the Jurors appended the following .)b -servations to their presentment : " Grand Jury Room, Bury Sc. Edmund's, Jm. 19. " That we should ill discharge our duty as Grand Jurors, u ere we to separate without expressing uur deep regret at the alarmi•.g situation of the country, but more parikularly of the agricultv r.I istereat. " Such is the depres►ion of the occupiers of the soil that, in mo nstrous instances, they are p ted from affording employartit to the labouring bands, whereby they might gain an hune•t live lihood. many of whom are driven in come quence to the unsatisfac tory alternative of receiving aid front the parish, or of seeking a subsistence by the illegal means of poaching or depredation, if nut driven to crimes of a more daring or malevolent description. " Under these circumstances, so fraught with ruin to the farmer, so baneful to the labourer, and so injurious to the country at large, we trust the Magistrates here assembled will use their exertions to convene a Meeting of this county, in order that the butte of the suffering agriculturists may be publicly considered, and laid before Parliament, under the hope of obtaining some permanent and t 6i dent reUef. At the time the presentment was handed to the Bench, a requi sition to the High Sheriff. which had been previously signed bY Bail Stradbroke and Lord Huntinglield, was receiving the signa tures of the Magistrates ; and it was afterwards handed to the Grand Jury for their's. MI the Jurors signed it, save one, the Agent of Lord Calthorpe.-Brfelk Herald. A requisition to the High Sheriff of the county of Flint is in course of signature to call a Public Meeting, " to take into consideration the distress which so unhap pily pervades all classes in the country, and to petition Parliament thereupon." The importance of this county is not to be estimated by its ..xtent, its minerals forming a large portion of its wealth, and employing a very nu merous population. A requisition has been presented to the High Sh,e, of Essex, requesting hint to call a Meeting, to take int consideration the distressed state of the agriculture and trade of the country, and to make such representations to the Legislature as may induce an immediate inquiry is.to the causes thereof, and the means of applying so:ne speedy and effectual relief. It appears there are not fewer than 50 persons at thi. moment confined in the House of Correcti )u at Wake field for offences against the Game Laws.—Sheffield When we stated that on St. Thomas's Day our ve nerable neighbour, Earl Ft TZ W I LLI AM, through the medium of Mr. BY aom, his Lordship's house steward, gave 2,000 sixpences to 2,000 poor persons in the neigh ' bourhood of Wentworth, we ought to have added, that on the following day the bounty of the same Noble per sonage bestowed upon that class of persons 400 stones of beef. We mention the fact now, because occasion was taken, by one or two of the London Journals, when the former paragraph appeared in the Iris. to insinuate that the doling out of sixpences was the only instance of charity exercised at Wentworth on the eve of Christmas. —Sheffield Iris. Lord Rossmoar. who has been corresponding with all the disfranchised Peers of Ireland and Scotland during the recess, has prepared a work on the rights of these Noblemen, of which those who have seen it speak highly. It certainly is a singular situation in which these Pe•ls are placed, excluded by the respective Articles of Union from the Upper, and by the Constitution of the country from the Lower House of Parliament. Lord R. intend to treat the matter legally, and assert the rights of him salt and 11:s brother Peers upon the broad prinoip'.es of la Nutt EL Exit' lIITION 01 A STEAM OM )1 !BUR.- -Vt• terday afternoon, between three and four o'clock, ati . iin mewe number of persons assembled in Osnahurg-street, Regent's Park, and the New-road, to witness the exhibi tion of a new-invented steam omnibus, which proceede I from Messrs. BRAITIMAITES' manufactory', in Albany street. The steam apparatus is contained in the front, in a machine something similar to a light cart, with a large iron chimney in the centre. It was guided by two men and the engineer : the body of the omnibus is attached to the machine, with a boy at the end of it to attend on pat sengers. It was filled with persons, and the velocity with which it proceeded along toe roads was at t mishiag, pass ing every other vehicle in the line of its movement. S. - veral gentlemen on horseback found it Decease!" to kee,i their horses full gallop to keep up with the carnage. ERR ATU m.—Our Paper of Tuesday contained an event et the election of dm President of the Rojal Academy. in which Mr. Wu.aut is alluded t• as • Sculptor. instead of Mr. CRAMMIT. Front the couteat it is evident the error arose frunt Inettvetweee. NEW FARRINGDON MARKIKT—THIS * DA T. This market was well attended this mender: • Veal daises same ; ere her meat there was a road supply. • Vega—L.B.ll4 per D. Lois. &I. Mesas.. &I. Shetster, Sad. Beer—Cbuleest roasting parts. 6 4. Boiling. S. Firma qusotity. lid. Rump of Beef, ed. Rump Steaks 11. Wevunsiilariiis-- Moulder, Sd. LBW. id. Minds. W. 11.-1. sltd. Week; *td. lbeaw,ed. Pose-30. to 74. TI. sawavraeumillisepplied with Vegetables. Fauila.&e. - 1 .J 24,764 6,094 7,440 2,661 1,198 178 1,298 502 6112 6,295 179 26 9,11111 332 • ~.