Star. — London, England, 1826-08-24 00:00:00

ABOLITION OF SLAVERY. TO MI EDITOR OP Till STAR. Stly-:-Your Correspondent, " A Ldier of Equity," in his project for a commutation of slave interests (for so, in fact, must the meaning of his project in your Paper of the i2th inst. be presumed to be), appears to me to have Founded his reasoning upon a most erroneous as sumpflon—vis. the idea that the anti-slavery advocates desire to promote direct emancipation; or, to use his own Words, " to liberate a set of semi-savages—men who have all their lives been subject to restraint and controul." In tiny thing that has yet appeared, it has never been in the remotest contemplation of the friends of the negroes to urge any direct abolition of slavery, well aware of the fatal evils that must attend any precipitate and ill-jullging attempts to extinguish a system which, evil as it is, and revolting as it is to every principle of Christianity or of feeling, in the present unprepared state of these unfortunate beings, it would be a still greater evil at once to abolish. They well know that these unfortunate beings, the objects of their commi serating protection, are not in a condition that could, with safety, ensure the extension to them of such a boon.l All the reflecting and temperate advocates of slave amelioration are perfectly convinced that it must be by tie regular preparing and progressive courtd of instruc tion that these poor beings can be rendered capable of :appreciating the intended benefit, before it can, or ought to be, conceded to them. We agree with the Lover of Equity" that it is by the education of the ex isting generation alone that this preparation can be effected ; but be it remembered, that the spirit of reli• gion, the claims of humanity, and the voice of English- men, demand that instant aoselioration be given to their wretched state—that there be an immediate ter mination of all oppressive tyranny, of all heart-sickening and disgust ing cruelty in their treatment. _ . Aind, — preciiely corresponding with these fair and just principles, o ill it be found, that every thing which the wisdom of our Government has projected for their amelioration has been laid down—regardless .of the heat of popular clamour, demanding impossible concessions on the one hand, and alike deaf to the unsymp ithising selfishness of interested owners on the other, adverse to all improvement, and even reasonable amendment—a course of dignified mediation, doing honour at once to the hearts and heads of those to whom the rule of British interests is entrusted. Happy will it be for the good of planters, and surely their soundest policy to meet these patriotic views—to co-operate with, and second tie well-matured, and no lesslittermined plans that they are now called upon to adopt. Blind to their truest welfare, and hostile to those who mean them good, they may persist in continued rejection of measures intended, let them hear in memory, to give to their slaves, not direct emancipation, nor tae wild and visionary, far from •' ruinous and iniquitous," gift of freedom, but to proVide for them, and ensure to them, by just and equal laws, that mild and benignant treatment which it behoves Ch'istians to afford, and which fellow-beings and fellmo-subjects are by nature, by reason, and religion, entitled to enjoy I AGRUU3 ALTER. CORONER'S INQUEST. Yesterday afternoon, Mr. Stirling and a respectable Jury sarembled together at the sign of the Three Kings, in Clerkenwell-close, to inquire touching the death of William Parker, aged 63 years, and Susannah Elisa beth 'Hasson, aged 8 years, eh° lost their lives at the fire .on Saturday night last. Jane Blakeman, a child, just turned 13 years of age, deposed, that she lived as an articled servant with Mr. and Mrs. Parker, in Wilmington-square; the went to 'bed about eleven o'clock on Saturday night ; before she went to bed she shut the shutters in the front kitchen, and put down the candle whilst she did so, on the iron ing kroaid; she did not perceive any sparks fly from the candle at the tine. About ten o'clock, Mr. Parker, her master, coi.ked some giblets for Mts..Parker's supper, and atter he had done, and they were taken op stairs, she pot the fire out in the back kitchen, by throwing nearly a quart cf water upon it; she locked the door of the front kitchen after she bad shut the shutters, and no person went into it after, to her knowledge. After she went up to her bed room her mistress called to her, and asked if she had fastened tip the house safe. She aeon to her bed room door, and answered I. Yes." She was awoke in the night by a noise, and thought it was thieves in the neat house, as they had been there some time back ; she get up and went down stairs; and soon after she got down to the kitchen stairs; some person dragged her out of the house; she left all the children up stairs, and eid not know until she came down that the house was on fire: When she went up to bed, she left Mr. and Mrs. Parker at supper. The front kitchen was boarded, and had not had any fire in it for some tinse.eit was used as a dining and dressing room for the young ladies, and a store room for their linen. The back kitchen, where the tire was that cooked the giblets, was a stone floor, and a high fender was before the grate ; and she was sure the fire was out before she left rt to go to bed. When she was taken out of the house, she was going to return, but was prevented. The eldest, Miss Emily Parker, was the neat that was got out of the house, and the others were got out after her. The above was the only evidence that had reference to the unfortunate origin of the fire. The other witnesses only detailed circumstances already stated in the account c.f the fir*. The veediCt of the Jury was—" Accidentally bJrnt to death." The Etoik contains a further portion of the Firman, giving an official, and apparently a faithful, account of the causes which led to . the suppression of the Janis saries, as well as of. tht -Manner in which that measure Tad been accomplisto; its far as it related to the capital. One curious circumstance is mentioned in this Mani festo (if so we may call it), and it is mentioned with becoming indignation. Among those, we are told, who were arrested and executed, 41 wretches" were discovered who had marked on one arm the si sign of the 75 orta, and the Cross of the Christian.." We can imagine the pious horror which every true and faithful Mussulman must have felt at this discovery. ACCIDNIT AT Pram/tat FAlL—Yesterday, Tuck, misting at Camberwell, while playing incauti ously with a leopard at one of the shows, had his wrist seized by the animal, and but for the exertions of the keepers, who thrust a shovel into the animal's mouth, would have lost his hand. It was, however, much la related, and it is feared must be amputated. Yesterday afternoon a fire broke out in the workshop of 'Mr. Abbott, a carpenter, residing at No. 17, Hollen street, Wardour-street, Oxford-street. The house was destroyed, but the fire was fortunately prevented frens speaJing. acr LORD CHAO SO. , :ma MR. BURNIUT. The Ryon of the Corn*goners appointed en **- quire into the charges made against the C.lonlal Go vernment of the Cape of _Good Hope, by Mr. Bishop Burnett, has been printed, and we subjoio an abstract. Mr. Burnett's principal grounds of complaint were— lit. Certain acts of alleged injustice and Illegality In the decisions of two Members of a Commission of Circuit, who Ind tried seve ral cases wherein be was plaintiff and defendant in 11123. ed. The severity and oppression of his opponents, and the con duct of the 3equestrator in inserting his insolvency iu the Game prematurely. Ed. The partial and Irregular system of purchase of green crops by the Commissariat, and its refusal to pay for certain quautities taken from him chic. Barnett). And lastly. His unjust banishment from the Colony. Mote tecently also, Mr. Burnett has complained of the conduct of the Commissariat, in respect to a farm,. called 5 mrerset Farm, and also of the refusal of the Authorities to allow him (t!r. Burnett) rations in the same way as other settlers. In answer to the labt ground of complaint, the Com missioners state, that Mr. Bnrnett hAti ssithdrawn from his engagements as a settler before he left England, and, therefore, was not entitled to rations. It appears, however, that he did receive r.itions to the amount of 720 dollars, for which sum !,e is still indebted to Go vernment. In 1820, Mr. Burnett obtained a lease from Mr. Hart of a farm near Graham's Town, and a grant of Go vernment land. His object i n leasing Doom Valley was to raise green crops far the cavalry stationed in Graham's Town. He made several erections and im provements, estimated at 20.000 dollar . A dispute arose between him and Mr. Hart about the fen', which Mr. Burnett insisted was one hundred dollars per annum, while Mr. H. alleged it was three hundred dol lars. The case was ultimately decided against Mr. Burnett, who when called on for payment, made oath that he had assigned the whole of his protest) , to Messrs. Ebden and Eaten, on which the Sequel trator declared him insolvent by an advertisement in the Gazette. It does not appear, though it has been so asserted, that the Commissioners of Circuit, whose province it was, gave any opinion respecting this act of the Sequestrator. Mr. Burnett was finally ejected, in virtue of this declared insolvency, by the judgment of the. Court. Several other actions took place between Mr. Burnett and Mr. Hart; in one of which Mr. B. it is said, took occasion, in defending himself, to read a most virulent libel again: t ti e Government, without, however, being challenged on account of it. Wi - en ejected from his farm, Mr. Burnett was only allowed 1,300 dollars, instead of 20,000; but the Commissioners gate, that part of the improvements were injudiciously made, and part destroyed, before Mrs Hart recovered possession, and they think 1,300 dollars a fair remuneration. The attempt to connect these law proceedings, and al leged irregularities in the Commissioners of Circuit with the Officers of Government, arose out of the refusal of Government to pay Mr. B. a claim of 1,280 dollars for green crop cut en Mr. B.'s farm. Colonel Somerset did - not think that more than 280 dollars were due. It at,. pears that the forage was cut before the limits of Mr. B.'s allotment had been accurately laid down. It is one of the . complaints of Mr. Burnett, in his Petition to the House of Commons, that rosterior toApril, 1821, twenty three stivers were pail by Government for rations pro cured from Somerset Farm, while he should have been glad to furnish them at ten stivers. In answer to this it is stated, that several previous contracts had been abandoned, which had been entered into at a higher rate than ten stivers, and that the only one subsequently ,made was mueh higher. The Somerset-farm Contract terminated finally in September, 1824. The sum saved to Government by the establishment from 1816 to 1824, amounted to 442,000 dollars. The libel for which Mr. Burnett was banished from the Cape was, it is well known, in the shape of a Me morial against the Commissi , ners of Circuit, in which he taxed them with "gross ignorance of duty, injustice, oppression, and corruption." The Memorial was sent to the Governor. Tne prosecution was grounded on the Dutch law, and, as subsidiary to it, the Roman law, which the public prosecutor and the Court &elated to be the law of the Colony. The Commissioners are of opinion, on reference to precedent, that no doubt can be entertained of the authority upon which the prosecu tion was funded. T.,e Fiscal stated, however, that be had not found any case precisely in point, and that it was on an application of the general principles of the Roman-Dutch law that the sentence proceeded. It does not appear that the slightest expectation has ever been held out to the English settlers, that they would be placed under different laws from the rest of the Colony. After the trial, Mr. Burnett was suspected to be the author of an infamous libel on the Governor, of which two copies were placrrded in Cape Town, but no proof of this was obtained ; certain writings, how ever, reflecting on Lord Charles Somerset, being found in Mr. Burnett's possession, be was considered to be abusing the liberty allowed him, of going at large alter the appeal had been finally decideit against him. He was, in consequence, ordered to be arrested, but escaped to England. Dutch Papers to the 83d contain advices from Bata via of the 10th April, but nothing of any general interest. Warcu AND CLOCK-MAXXIL? PZNINION Tuesday, the Subscribers to this excellent Institution held their ninth anniversary at Highbury Barn Tavern; Mr. Sheriff Kelly in the Chair. The Company con sisted of nearly 180 persons connected with the business carried on in the parishes of Clerken well and St. Luke's. M inday Mr. MAW'S/1M took his leave of the Bir- mingham audience, in the character of Hamlet. It being understood that in a few days this actor would cross the Atlantic, the house was crowded in every part. DNA TX ay FIGHTING.. —A man of the name of Marten was killed in a pugilistic combat with another named Conygham, in Mr. Mason's fields at Watford, on Tues day. The fight lasted one hour and h half, and death was a casual consequence. A desperate engagen.ent lately took place upon Mn. Robert Mat king's farm, at Newport, between the fe male gleaners of that parish and those of Waddington, originating in a dispute as to which piny that parecu lar field belonged. After making a number of black eyes still blacker, bloody noses, and a good deal of scratching, the Newport ladies came off victorious. GRONINGEN, Aug.l7.—The Board of Health at this place has published a long statement respecting the fevers prevalent here, declaring that the reports that have spread in other places respecting the nature of the disease are entirely incorrect ; that the fevers ate the usual de-caption of bilious fevers, which have often j afflicted this and other provinces in former years, but that they are not in she slightest degree contagious, sot are more persons seized than on fo:mer occasions. . BRIGHTON, Amur M. His Royal Higbee's the Doke of Tort eimehmes handy toasted in health. His only medical attesdants remain, Sr M. J. Tierney, and else surgeon Mr. 111'0r:rot. The weather today has been lewdly. Our whole world of fashion has been is the rides; Mr. Canning was on honeback. The Right Hem. the Speaker left es this Mornhig, but returns on Friday. Lord Lisburne left us ea Sunday, but returns to the New Steyne Hotel tomorrow,—cram welch house. Lord and Lady Charles Somerset and family, and Lord and Lady Barnard, set off for town this morning. The gaff of °knell, sad the Hon. Mr. Anseo, left the Royal York Hotel. in the Southampton steam packet, this miscuing ; Mr Godfrey Webster is yet remaining at the said inn; the Baronets yacht Is riding at anchor of the town. The Russian Ambassador, Count Lieven, and the Countess, ate ex peered to retort' to tbe Royal York Hotel this evening. Mrs. Canning, and a gay assemblage of tea. IP** interest and brilliance to the Pomp-room, at the German Spa, this morning, and drank the mineral waters. It is pleasing to report, that the health of Mrs. Canning la much improved since taking the above waters, and that the most satisfactory results are acknowledge in other quarters. NAVAL IN fELLIGENCE. Famensztr. Aug. 22.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the Albion, Bus , sus., from London to Leghorn; and his Majesty's brig ROYALIST, Lieut. Roans Alas. from Lisbon, In 12 days, with dispatches. Purist/ern Aaron s4. —Wind S.—Arriv e d th e N ew J o h n, Aires, front Quebec, is 31 days; and the Speculation, —.--. f rom St. Jobs's, in 32 days. Pournalonyn, Atseseill.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the Canselitos and Eagle cutters, from a cruize ; and John and Thomas, Goancoi, from London. His Majesty's ship Coates* came into harbour. DzAL, Amore 23.—Wind W.S. W.—Arrived the Lady Camp bell, Mourns, from Bombay, Gibraltar, and Cadiz. She parted her cable in bringing op in the Downs this morning, and has been supplied with a new anchor and cable, and remains under quaran tine. Arrived and sailed for the River, the David Lyon, Better, from Jamaica; Elise, Sono, from Grenada; Tropic, Baasin roan, from Earbadoes; and the &neaten rattle, WiLus, from i Quebec. Passed by, the Brunswick, Gum from Baltimore to Bremen. Arrived from the River, and remain, the Magnet, TODD. fur New South Wale.; Patriot. GUILD. for Trieste; and Fawn, Was, for the Stoith Se as. Daises, Amnon 113.4—The Ann, of London, Wassitau, from London to Exeter, havin g s hif te d her cargo off &achy Head yes terday, in coming for this harbour, not answering tbe helm, got on share behind the South Pier, and sustained damage. She was then Boated off, and brought into port. Ltvaarooc. Amuse ti.—Wind & —Arrived the Niagara, —, from Jamaica. MA NCHESTER, AUQUsT 22. The market tef-day has been much the same as it has been for two or three weeks. The demand for gray goods continues steady, and in some few instances a trifling advance has taken place. The instances, aie, however, so few, that it can scarcely be said that they indicate an improvement. Purchases have been made freely, on the supposition that goods were at the lowest ; but it is a proof of a depressed, or at all events of a not much amended market, that the demand of the slightest advance makes those who had before been buxjng freely entirely suspend their purchases. The usualvde mend amongst printers, for cloth for their winter prints, the Fall shipments, and the autumn sales to houses in the home trade, will, probably, preserve things in their pre sent state during the next two months. The winter months are generally flat, and the depression will this year be felt with more than usual severity; for it is not at all probable that ere the flat season an ices, things will have adjusted themselves to the altered value of money. Rich houses, who can go into the market, and buy with cash, are now doing a fair business, and will continue to do so; but there are great numbers of houses who have been so much c rippled by the badness of the times, that they cannot come into the market with money, and are thus deprived of the chince of doing business. All those who had a second-rate class of customers are also at present in a manner excluded from trade, from ther funds being locked up in debts which it is next to impossible to collect. In estimating the effect produced here by the altered value of money, we have therefore to take into account, not merely the diminished amount of sales occasioned by prices being lower, but the em barrassment which has for a period locked up the capitals, and put an end to the transactions of all those who had previondy been doing business to the full extent of their means.—Cottons are as they have been for a couple of weeks. Prints rather more in demand, both for home trade and exportation. Fustian% at a stand, nothing doing in that branch. Power woven calicoes are stiff in price, the demand being full as great as the product.—The early harvest has brought a number of buy, rs into the market. While the adjustment to an altered rurreney Is going on, it is lamentable to think that the working people are stoking lower and lower in distress and it is greatly to be feared that the dreadful depression in their wages will reduce their condition so low that they will become permanent claimants on the parochial funds. Lima Papers to the 14th of May have been received, by which it appears that Boman will not loan that country until evst7s►lng is settled, and in good order. - Three hundred and ninety one booksellers met at the last Easter fair at Leipsic ; and two thousand three hundred and seventy-four new works, written in the German or in the ancient Languages, sufficiently proved the prodigious activity with which the sciences ate cul tivated. To these must be added Atlases, Romances, Dramatic Pieces, Musicil Composition, &c. making the whole number amount to two thousand seven hun dred and Forty-nine. Tue Cosiost Housx.--It is said that the Custom House is to be completed by Christmas. The new foundation of the east wing is completed ; that of the front next the river is almost done. The excavations and fillings in of the west wing are going rapidly for ward. and the ditch has been dug along the greater part of the no7th front. The foundations of the centre, the part which gave way, are all finished; and the cellars and King's warehouse, with the Long Ro. , m above, will be supported on numerous iro.s columns. The fl ors of this part of the building, so confident is the architect in the foundations, are to be vaulted as before, but the arches are all to be of cast iron. Every part, indeed. of the new work seems to be of great strenrit.and solidity. The fiat uniformity of the front next the river is, we observe, to be relieved by a portico, but it is yet too little advanced to entitle us to hazaru i conjec ture as to its architectural effect. An affecting story h told in the Moaileur of a young slave of the name of Zatsa, who was born at Marti. &clue, and was brought from Guadaloupe to Paris by her mistress, a lady of the name of Mademoiselle Das- SWUM The poor creature, who has been in Paris three years, heard a conversation between her mistress and a relative about sending her back to Guadaloupe, where she was again to be sold. She the:4>m took to flight, and committed herself to ;he protection of an old colonist whom she recognised in Paris. Her mistress claimed her, but the case being heard in the Justice of Peace Court of the second arrondissement, the claim of her mistress was resisted, and a guardian sprinted to the iafant. 'Poulain orniLLIIIMICIL nonviarrint June limn 111 ?be Ilasdiesp Platen, W soy. gloss by the Oisivs of re Mb ft Enniskillen Dramas. Mr. Petty's e.. m. Prosody, aged, sat. 71b. . . 1 Mr. Ryan's sister to Salisbury,4 yrs, 7.t • 2 Mr. Bather's Towiltatiek, S yrs, est. 101 . b. . • • 3 Mr. Farquharson's Black-assinsU-Black, aged, est. 511 s. . dr Presentiment, IS yrs. Lt. 1110. . de Captain HardWiske's b. L Rosebud, 7 yrs, Sit . de In this best every writ ground was severely contested, till a blundering fellow, who bad been injudiciously employed to akar the course, rode against Toughstiek, and knocked this besetifal horse down with its rider. Toughstick's leg was fractured by the accident, and on reaching the stable he was sold fur afti. The' 1 jockey was taken from the course in a senseless state. A Silver Cup given by the Steward, added to a subscription of two soya. each. Mr. Fudge's Queen Mab . . . 1 Mr. Stein's Gipsy . • $ . s Mr. Curries Evergreen . - . 3 Handicap Stakes of 2 soya. eac h, i ncrease d to LSO, Capt. Hardwicke's Stranger, aged . . • 1 Mr. fiztddm's Captain, aged . • • 2 Mr. Lurton's Witch, 5 yrs . • • I STOCKTON RACES—Anovre la. The Gold Cup, value tOO sires. by a subscription of 10 sovs• each, with 20 ems. added 1 three-yr olds, I.e. 71h. four, est. five, lit. 91b. sir, and aged, 9st. Three miles. (Lest Subscribers). Gen. Sharpe 's b. h. Canteen. by IVazy Pape, 5 yn old Mr. Powlett's eh. h. Barefoot, by Tramp, 5 yrs . Mr. Russell's b. b. Abruo, by Whisker, 6 yrs . . Mr. Suttaa's gr. f. Camillo). by Camillus, 4 yrs Mr. Darbell's b. f. Cii.derella ll 4 yrs . . A fine race. CANTERBURY RACES—Amara n. _ _ _ . 4 . 4 - - - 100 son. given by the Noblemen and Gentlemen of the Cossaty. Sir T. Alontresor named gr. e. Jack Bum,, a yrs old . 1 1 Mr. Brahmin- named ch. c. Nigel . Ur. Martin's Maid of Kent, yrs. old : 11 3 etr l The Kentish Hunters' Stakes, half bred horses. Mr. Russell's bi. g. Roderick Baulks* Mr. WoUett's Miss Julia Mr. Randell's Magician . BURDEROP RACES—Avow The Gold Cup, oaks 100 moos. for all ages. Lord Perm:acmes Lusborough Mr. F. Craven's Trionipis Mr. Goddard's Cemposer Purse of SOL for all ages. Mr. Blows b. s. Laurence, 3 yrs old Mr. Boast's b. g. Parnasterol yrs old DUNSTABLE RACES..—Aireen Ss. Sweepstakes, 10p each. Mr. Crowder's Phoenix Captain Joets's Mermaid Mr. Goodchild's Pry Mr. Udney's Trumpeter Mr. Brown's Tulip _ - A good ran. Swum Stake of £5l. Mr. Jones's Rodney . . • Mr. Phillips's Remembrances . . Mr. Goodchild's !babe . . Mr. Greatorees Columbus I to 4 on the winner. The All-aged Sweepstakes did set O. ARCHERY. 1 1 2 Os s& A grand annual field day of the a Tottenham Archers" ash }bee on Tuesday last, at the Society's Archery Ground in Tottenham; on which occasion a splendid Silver Medal, bearing the arms or the Society, richly chased, on the face, and a suitable inscription on the reverse, was shot for by the Members; and after a close and well contested struggle, was won by Mr. J. Fuurdrinkr, of Tottenham, by a =corky of a single arrow only. The weather proving a trenwly favourable, the Ground was most numerously attended by all the beauty and fashion of the village and its vicinity; and the field being decorated with streamers and banners, bearing the Arms of the Society, gave to the whole a pleasing and picturesque appear ance. After the termination of the shooting the whole party ad journed to the house of one of the Members, adjeinieg the Ground, w►ere an elegant entertainment was prepared for their reception. Music and dancing then occupied the remainder of the evening, and was kept up with great spirit and hilarity until a very advanced hove. WESTMINSTER REGATTA. A fine new prize wherry, given by the Ladies and Gentlemen of the united parishes of St. Margaret and St. John, Westminster, tits yesterday rowed for by seven pair of oars in three heats. The apee was from Weatminster•bridge round a boat moored off the King's Arms, Mlllbank, down the Middlesex shore, round a boot off the Adelphi, and through the centre arch of Westminster-bridge.— After a very able contest, the boat was won by Covington and Ms. The prize wherry, wilich made a handsome appearance, was tar ried to the foot of Westminster-bridge, and exhibited to the public. —The back board contained the following inscription:— “ Westminster Prize Wherry, given by the Ladies and Gentle men of the united Parishes of St. John and St. lkinrgarez, WeSl - August 13, 1826." CRICKET MATCH. Tuesday, a Cricket Match took place upon the ground which to set apart tor the King's Scholars at Westminster School. fireeral of the inhabitants of Tot bill /Fields, who still regret the abolition of their annual fairs, concerted this entertainment in order to sup ply their vacuum of recreation. There were twenty two cricket ers, eleven of whom belonged to St. Margaret's. and eleven to St. John's. Westminster, and the match was for 50 sovereigne.•— The wkkets were pitched at twelve o'clock, at which time the marquees were also set, with a profusion of refreshments of every kind. Mr. Watts, the landlord of the Plough, in itechestetweve, took a loading part in the entertainment of the day; and in het eke licensed victuallers in the neighbourhood were mores, less engaged in the general plan. After a considerable trial of strength, the wager was decided In favour of the Cricketers of St. Margaret, in which Mr. George Hawkins. of Peter -street. Westminster, mob a leading part. The first innings of Sc. Margaret's were 103, which the two innings of St. John's were unable to cover. so that St. Margaret's bad no occasion to go in again. AU the Cricketers were handsomely dressed in new striped mergers and jackets, and the match was trot decided until five in the afternoon. THE RING. GAYNOR ANN GAL—The whole of the stakes for this fight,wbfels is to come off on the 6th of . September, were made good on Toseday night. Gas is tbc favouriic-5 to 4. RIND ANTI &SRO! SHARPN.—..TOR second deposit for th: a s e = will be made good ibis evening, at Josh Hud so n' s , L e blur bet. The fight bto take place in the same ring with Clays's' and Gas. Reed the favourite-5 to 1. • WALKING MATCH. Griffiths the celebrated walker, yesterday performed his task of walking a ;Mk within eight minutes, en the Uxbridge read. The match was uadcrtaken for SOL The start took plan fens the four to the three mile stone. 'lke style of walking was of theirs' description, and the match was won thirty seconds. within the time specified. Saturday evening, Unseen, )be Chelan baker, performed the silly task of standing on one kg for six hours, for a betel ten sovereigns, in a yard square, ,at the Black Hone, High4treet, Mary-la-bonne. His Royal Highness the Duke of CAMBRIDSII bold a Chapter of the Hanoverian Order on the 12th. The amount of the recognizance* forfeited b; the non-appearance of WILLIAM WAZITIBLD is four thousand pone; it was thus apportioned :—Weitzsomo's own recognisance was two thousand pounds; Mr. Commas was bail for 1,5001. and Dr. DAMS for 500/. FItiNCH luaTtrura.—The Royal Institute of NM! has offered prises for the following inquiries: " For 11127.—T0 investigate the political state Odle Greek fides of Europe, of the islands, and of Asia Minor, from the etauarsert meat of the second century before our era, down to the 'stabil& meat of the empire of Constantinople. " For le2ll.—To trace the commercial relations of Trews sada the other States of Southern Europe with Syria and Egypt, from the empire of the Francs in Palestine to the middle et the let\ cen tury ; to ascertain the nature and extent of those rebtleas; to Is the date of the establishment of consubbips in Vint and Sy ; sad to point oat the effects which the discovery date passage by the CaPo 4r Good Hege.nad the establishment of the Renegues* in WM. rodoeed in the commerce of France and Southern Europe wit% the Levant."