Star. — London, England, 1831-08-29 00:00:00

/a, a 'is ah pful ; ID proiosed as a candidate, and obtained 28 votes, I evidently a ruse to aid the petition of Serjeant (non it LEN, for Mr. LATOUC 11 E says nothing of petitioning, either in his speech or advertisement. confidence with which the Serjeant speaks, renders it probable that the election will be either aside, or the petitioners declared the sitting members. We return to the same point that the i nterference of any municipal body, as such should riot only vitiate an election, but be followed by forfeiture of Charter. This combined with the no n-interference of Peers, and the vote by ballot, v ouhl have been a short Reform Bill, worth per- Ills that of Lord Jour; RUSSELL. In one well known instance, a time-serving corporation made 1,500 honorary freemen, and spent on the election 4'30,000, by mortgaging the Corporation Estates for a series of years ; and such delinquency is con sidered as a legitimate part of our glorious con stitution. Already severe contentions have taken place be • tweet) candidates, under the proposed arrangements ( .1' the reform bill ; so that, before the game is caught, preparations are made to cook it ! The crave addresses, the solemn resolutions of com mittees, and the pretensions of candidates, are set forth in local papers with an air of gravity which is ludicrous. In a majority of cases, too, the new candidates are far from being the kind of men cal culated to serve the country in its present exi gencies. We want for a reform parliament, if we t ..cer get one, men who know society, its wants and feelings, self thinkers, original thinkers, and persons addicted, by taste and habit, to the labour of research. Unmeaning good sort of men, who recommend themselves by amenity, mere harmless ness, wealth acquired by forefathers, or style of living, lawyers, or officers in the army and navy, are the kind of persons who have too commonly constituted our past legislatures; and reform will be utterly useless, if it produce only such parliaments as have already done so much mischief, and so little good. We suspect that the principle of re presentative government is yet in its infancy, and :hat we have yet to teach and practice the principle th it no man should be an elector who is not himself qualified to be elected ; and that two or three sift ings, or intermediate elections, should stand be tu•een the popular voice, and a parliament man, before we can have a genuine and respectable Le gilature. ROYAL EXCHANGE, ONE O'CLOCK. Consols, which left off on Saturday at 82i to I for the Account, opened at 82}. At present they arc 8:1 sellers, with little doing. The Foreign Market is void of interest as yet. TWO O'CLOCK. Since the early part of the morning, when Consols were 821 for the Account, they have be come heavy, and have been done at 81f to 82 ; at present they are 82, with little doing. THREE O'CLOCIL Bank Stock, 1999. Three per Cent. Red. 82e i i I , Three per Cent Consols, 826 11 2 15. Three and a Half per Ct. 1818, —. Three and a Half per Cent. Red. 1101 90 5. Three and a Half per Cent New, 891 90 89i. Four per Ct. 1826, 1005 100. Long Annuidea, Jan. 1860, 171 3-16 1-16. Annuities, Oct. 1869, —; do. Jan. 1860, India Stock, 1991; do. Bonds, 1 3 pm. South SmStock, £lOOO Exchequer Bills, 11 12 10; £5OO do. 11 12; ./1100 and .1200 do. 13. Adrertised, 10 12. Console for Account. 82. 82. FOUR O'CLOCL—Consols 82 5 1. The arrivals this morning are mole numerous than for a length of time past. Papers are re ceived from Charlestown to the 28th of July ; Buenos Ayres, to the 3d July ; Calcutta, to the 6tli March; Jamaica, to the 21st July ; Sydney, to the 19th April ; New South Wales, to the 18th April ; and Quebec, to the 29th July. The Calcutta papers to the 26th March, state that letters from Meerut mention that the camp of the Governor-General was at Musoori Hills on the 11th inst. His Lordship had been enjoying shoot ing. On the first day he shot a young tiger and an antelope; and on the second day was unfortu nate. A spent ball from his lordship's rifle mounded a peasant on the cheek. The following mails have arrived this morning from Malta, sailed sth Aug. from Gibraltar Aug.l7. Rio Janeiro mail June 22. Jamaica mail railed July 21 From Carthagena July 10 The present market price of wheat at Sydney is 58. 6d. a bushel ; at Hobart Town it is only 9(1. The New South Wales papers state, that owing to the continued scarcity of German wool, at 2s. as veil as the total absence of Spanish wool, the prices obtained at the public sales this week, for about 12,000 bags, has greatly exceeded the ex pectations of the most sanguine. The Jamaica Papers say, " We observe by the Minutes of the House of Assembly of Barbadoes the following act has been sanctioned by his * lajesty's Council —an Act to extend the benefit enjoyed by white persons, under certain clauses of the Consolidated Slave Act of this Island, to all free coloured and free black persons." It was rumoured in Ki ng ' s T own , th a t St. Do mingo was in a very unsettled state, when the Champion left Port-au-Prince. The old jealousy which had so long existed, had revived between the bluks and browns; it was stated that the Comma. core intended to dispatch a vessel of war to pro- En the lives and property of our countrymen.— Every thing was quiet when the packet left Car thagena. We understand, says a Jamaica paper, from Lnquestionable authority, that, although His lajesty's Ministers have not altogether approved of some of the clauses in the Slave bill of the last . 'ession, yet that his Majesty's assent would no !on:NT be withheld. We understand that one of the clauses of the WI which refers to the law of the peerage in France, is to the following effect ; that if the law should Lot work well it may be abrogated next session. It is expected the law will be thrown out. e have letters from the Brasil four days later than the Mail this morning. The Regency has Leen appointed for life. All was in perfect tran yullity.—Exchange 24. SECOND EDITION Just as our paper had gone to press, we received a second Dutch mail, containing somewhat contra dictory accounts from Poland. The advices from Cracow are very encouraging, while the repetition of the affair of GEISMAR proves that the Russians had nothing further to boast of. We lament that at such a moment, any circumstance should have arisen, to deprive the army of the skill of Sic tt z Y NECKI ; but DEMBINSKI and ROMA RINO are idolized by the Poles. CRACOW, Aug. IG.—Since the mail of the 10th, we have neither newspapers nor other accounts front Warsaw. Yes terday morning, however, at 6 o'clock, as the Cracow Cou rier affirms, arrived by estafette from the camp near Kooskie, (half way between Cracow and Warsaw), a military dis patch, dated 14th August, which states that the communi cation between Kielce and Cracow is again free, and that in a short time it will be free as far u Warsaw ; that an unin terrupted series of victorious actions, gained by the Poles, authorised this hope. That in many skirmishes important advanta4es had been obtained over the enemy, with snail loss, and that on that day a whole squadron of Russian Dragoons bad been dis persed in the woods near Konskie.—Pruseian State Gazette, Aug. 22 sad 23. Beaus, Aug. :11.—A report from the Commander-in. Chief, dated SI, July, N.S. acquaints the Emperor with the farther movements on the left bank of the Vistula; as well as some expeditions undertaken to go in search of the rebel force, and of the junction of Major General Gerstenwies with the army, after a brilliant action in which he routed a corps of the rebels commanded by Generals Muhlberg and Turco. On the 7th of August the Emperor was pleased to review a corps of troops at Norogorod. Bass Law, Anc. 17.—The mail from Warsaw is not arrived : the horse post has brought only the letters from the Prussian frontiers, from Ostrovoand other places nearer us Letters from Cracow of the 14th say that the communica tion with Warsaw Is Interrupted there also. The Russians were already on the side of Kouskie. So many persons fly from Poland to Cracow, that it will scarcely be possible to accommodate them all. Caacow, Aug. 16.—The headquarters of Count Pas kewitsch were on the bib at Nieborow, and those of the Grand Duke Michael near by in Arkadia ; both places are on the left bank of the Bzura. Early in the morning of the 6:h there was a sharp action as the outposts near Szimanow, which was considered at a prelude to great events, when the troops on both sides suddenly returned to their posi tions. Fitoxrrsse or PoLax:), Ana. 20.—The fullosing accounts have been received at Lowicz, dated 15!h instant ; The enemy has left his position behind the Rawka, and is retiring towards Warsaw : the Russian army is already on the march to follow him. Thz head-quarters will leave this place in about an hour, and, probably, go to Ssymanow. Gen. Geismar, who commands in the van guard of Rudiger's corps, had, on the 9th, a brilliant action at Granisa, in which he made prisoners nineteen officers, including two staff *deers, and about five hun dred soldiers, and took two pieces of cannon. General Rosin is advancing by way of S:edlie towards Praga. The corps of General Kreutz must make the Vistula on the 17th. General Krzyneclii has resigned the command of the Polish army, which has been assumed by General Dembinski. The CHOLZAA bas made its appearance at Vi enna, and is within 20 miles of Berlin. Despatches were received this morning from our Ambassador at Paris; from Sir Cita aLzs BAGOT at the Hague; from Sir ROBERT ADA! R at Brussels ; and from the British Consul at Cadiz. Despatches were also received at the Colonial Office, from the Governor of Jamaica, dated the 21st of July ; from the Governor of Malta, dated the sth of August; and from Gibraltar, dated the 17th. Those from Jamaica, bring intelligence that the small pox was raging with great severity ; not less than one thousand persona having in one month fallen victims. JUVENILE JEWISH PENSION SOCITT.—A General Meeting of the Subscribers to this very excellent Institution took place yesterday evening, for the purpose of electing a third annuitant on their fund,. The following were the candidates :—Philip Phillips, aged 86 ; Abraham Joseph, aged 84 ; Jacob Raphael, aged 84 ; Aaron Cardona, agtd 76 ; Moses Daniels, aged 73 ; Sampson Levy, aged GO. At eight o'clock the poll was closed, when the Chair man announced that the meeting had elected Philip Phillips, he having polled 188, and Jacob Raphael, 81.—Mr. Ehia Moses, the Secretary, announced to the Meeting, that the late excursion to Richmond, had added to their funds, the the sum of 141 Be. after defraying every expense. He, at the same time, begged to inform the meeting, that it was the intention of the Committee to plaee a fourth annuitant on their funds at the close of the present year. Two young ladies, of the names of Bloomefleld and Alderson, residing with their parents at Stam ford-hill, died suddenly last Saturday, in conse quence of drinking water when heated with dancing. CHEAP Ltv tec.—At the foot of the Maritime Alpe, three persons and a servant can live for less than 701. a year ; their fare, including every deli cacy of fish, flesh, and fowl, with a ens/aunt supply of the finest fruit and vegetables, and abundance of good wine. There are 4,254 curates in England and Wales, and out of these, 2,833 have not es much as 901. per annum to support them ; 892 curates are living upon lees than 601. per annum, 441 upon less than 501. per annum ! Many of these clergymen have expended 1,0001. 1,2001. 1,5001. and upwards (their little patrimony) in qualifying themselves for these " lucrative" appointments. THE PROBATE DUTY.—The unjust mode of 'levying the probate duty, is one among the many objects which require reform, and the immediate investigation of the legislature. According to the existing law, if a man die leaving 10,0001. and the debts he owed amounted to 9,0001. the duty must be paid upon the 10,0001. and the administrator compelled to wait twelve mouths for the returnable duty on the 9,0001. In many cases it may be ex tremely diat easing and sometimes nearly impos sible, to pay the duty on the gross amount. A curious calculation has been sent us by ' one of the Friends,' who makes it appear that if the money which has been expended within •these last thirty years on missionary, bible, and tract societies, had been chiefly devoted to the poor agricultural-, turalist of England, Ireland, and Scotland, the land would have been made a secoud Eden. Five hundred thousand cottagers might have had each three acres of land, and a cow and pigs, with implements for working. AMUSEMENTS FOE THE WEEK. THIS EVENING. - VAUXHALL—(Last week but one.) Usual routine of Amusements. HAYMARKET—" Richard the Third," (Glo'ster i Mr. Kean) ; " My Wife, or my Place:" and " The Devil to Pay." ADELPHI-m." The Evil Eye ;" Gullio Resondi's Guitar Performances • " The Picturesque ;' and " Com fortable Lodgigs." SURREY—" Pedlar's' Acre;" (first time) "The False Key, or the Locksmith of Stockholm ;" and " The Somnambulist." CITY—Mils Ellen Tree's benefit " The Youthful Q ueen; " (first time) " Husbands Be ware;"i " Etiquette run mad ;" and " One Fault." PAVILION—(And to-morrow and Wednesday) " A Lon don Tradesman's Life; and " The Idiot Witness." ASTL El"S—(And during the week)" Maseppa;" "Scenes in the Circle ; " and (first time) " The Grot of th e Jungle ;" intr oducing two elephants. COBURG—(Ditto)—" the Lady of the Lake;' " The Victim of Sc. Vincent ;” and "The French Hueco- fleeT. ll PA NA RAI ON ON—( And to-morrow) " One Faith ;" " The Lancers t" and " Ella Rosenberg." SADLER'S WELLS—" Tarnow the Tartar;' " Black eyed Susan ;" and " Jew's Wedding." TO-11ORROW. HAY MARKET—" She Would and She Would Not;' Hypolila (first time), Miss Taylor ; " My Wife, or My Plate ;" and " Frightened to Death." ADELPHI—" Tee Eril Rye;" Giulio Regondi; " The Picturesque ;" and " The Middle Temple." SURREY—" Pedlar's Acre;" The False Key;" and " Old and Young." CITY—." A New Way to Pay Old Debts." Sir Giles Over reach by Mr. Moss =me); " Beggars' Opera ;" and " The Floating WEDNESDAY. VAUXHALL—UsuaI routine of Entertainments HAY MARKET—" The School for Coqueitcs;" " My Wife, or my Place ;" and Killing no Murder." ADELPHI—v The Evil Eye; last time, Giulio Re goodi ; " The Picturesque ;" and " Tom Thumb." SURREY-" Pedlar's Acre:" " The False Key ;" and Gil Bias." CITY—" Pizarro ;" " Tekeli ;" &c. PANARMONION (and To-morrow)--" The Iron Chest ;" " The high Tutor ;" end " Charles the Twelfth." THURSDAY. VAUXHALL—The usual Entertainments HAYMARKET- 6, The Goldsmith ;" first time, "Belles Have at Ye All ;" " My Wife, or my Place;" and " The Farmer." ADELPH I--" The Evil Eye;" " The Picturesque ;" " Wanted a Governess;" and " The Old Regimentals." SURREY (and Tomorrow and Saturday)—" Pedlar's Auer and other Entertainments. CITY—" Clari ; " " Idiot Witness," etc. QUREN'S—Re-opens with popular entettainments. PAVILION (and to-morrow and Saturday)—" A London Tradesman's Life," and " Frederick the Great." FRIDAY. VA UX H A L L—The usual amusements. HAY MARKET " Othello ; " (Othello, Mr. Kean); with other entertainments. A DELPIII---" The Evil Rye ;" " The Picturesque ; " " Old and Young ; " and " Lying mide Easy. QUEEN'S (and To morrow)-A variety of popular pieces. PA N A lIM ON lON (and Tomorrow)—" The Slave ; " " The Child of a Tar;" and " The Blind Boy." SATURDAY. HAYMARKET—A favourite Comedy, and other enter tainments. ADELPHI—" The Evil Eye;" and (first time)" Wards and Wardens," &e. THEIR MAJESTIES. • WINDSOR, AUG. 27.—We have the pleasure of announcing that the Krau and Quinex continue to en. joy excellent health, and to take their daily 'amnions in the vicinity of the Great Park and Virginia Water. This afternoon, at a few,. minutes after three o'clock, their Majesties and the distinguished Conn left the Castle in six carriages with out-riders, (or Burlington Villa, Chiswick, the residence of the Duke of Devonshire, to be present at the fete champetre, which his Grace ghat this day to the King and Queen, and the whole of th e R o y a l Family. The Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge, will take their departure from this country immediately after the Coronation. Our beloved King's birth-day, which fell on Sunday last, was kept in Windsor on the following day, and never do we remember to have witnessed the manifestation of a better spirit or greater hilarity in the celebration of a Royal birth-day than were evinced on this occasion by the loyal inhabitants of this borough. In the early pan of the morning groups of persons were seen perambulating the streets, while the country people began to flock into the town in straggling parties, all dressed in their holyday clothes, aid denoting that business of every description had been suspended, in order that the natal day of William IV. might be celebrated in a manner correspondent to their ad miration of his distinguished patriotism and virtue. Mr. Jou x WILLI • ms, a respectable stationer, of Cornhill, and the very ingenious inventor of patent ledgers and account books, has presented a petition to the House of Commons, in which he complains, with reasonable energy, of the establish ment and conduct of the Stationery Office, " as a foul source of corrupt influence in general, and of private injury in particular." Messrs. BLACK and YOUNG have transmitted to that intelligent literary journal, the Atheneum, a German edition of an English translation of Schil ler's Tell, accompanied by a letter, in which those gentlemen state, that superior editions of English books, owing to our paper duties, can now be printed in Germany, imported with all charges, and sold iu London, at less price than London printed copies. We cannot, therefore, wonder at the cruel depression of the book-trade, and of the typographic art. An official account has been published of the trade of this country with France, a neighbour which might consume half our mannfaesures. In 1030, it appears that only .175,8841. of British and Irish productions were exported directly to France, and no more than 181,0651. were trans mitted of foreign and colonial merchandise. In manufactures the amount was au average since the peace ; but the last article—the merchandise— was from a fifth to a tenth less titan in former years. In the mean time, our imports from France are rf ' our times the amount, being, in 1830, 2,328,4841. and within the last four years, duple and triple the previous amounts from 1814 to 1822. In fact, in 1816, our imports were but 417,7831. and our exports to France 1,634,2221.—50 much for free trade ! ANDREW :TRAIIAN, who died on Thursday has been connected for more than half a century with literature; having pursued the steps of his father, Mr. William Strnhan, not only in the extent, but in the liberality of his encouragement of booksel lers, whose names are familiar. On the death of his father in 1785, he succeeded not merely to an ample private fortune, but an extensive business as a book proprietor and printer, and also succeeded his father as joint patentee in the office of King's printer. He entered parliament in 1797, for New ilport, Hants; and he continued in every successive I parliament till 1818, when he retired in conse quence of advanced age. A life of successful industry and economy pursued through more than half a century, increased his original fortune to a considerable amount. THE ARMY. At the dose of the war, the officers on full and half pay of the line were as follow: Full Pay. Half Pay. Total. 1816 13,500 4,900 18.400 1830 6,178 8,732 14,910 Leas The officers of artillery and marines who hare, by the sale of their eotnmissions, been placed on the half pay of the line, are 600.. . Paranatoum At a. 27.—The 90th Light Infantry, (on being relieved by the reserve 7th Royal Fusileers. from Hull, and the reserve 35th Regiment from Plymouth) will move to Winchester. The 89th Regiment is ordered from Chatham to Plymouth. and the 14th Regiment to the I-le of Wight ; these two are lately arrived from India. Lieu. tenant• General Sir J mes Kempt, Master-General of the Ordnance, is expected to arrive here on Monday, on all official visit. THE NA PY. PORTS MOO T Avo. 27.—The squadron under the corn. mand of Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Codrington, G.C.11. consisting of the Caledonian, 120, Prince Regent, 120, Asia, 84, Donegal, 78, Revenge, 78, Talavera, 74, Weller ley, 74, Barham, 50, Alfred, 50, Stag, 46, Curaeoa, 26, Tweed 20, Victor, 18, Royalist, 10, Charybdis, 10, ar.d Recruit, 10, anchored at St. Helens from the Downs. This afternoon an order was received by Semaphore, for the Tr. lavers, 74, Captain Colby, and Wellesley, 74, Captain Row. ley, to proceed with all haste to the Downs, fur what ger. vice it la not known. They will sail on Monday. The Donegal, 78, Captain Dick, and Alfred, 50, Captain Blaunsell, are ordered to the 31editemnean, and will sail on the 'sth September. The Stag is ordered for Cork, the station for w►ich she was commissioned. The rest of the squadron are refitting. and, it is said, will ag.iin cruise for two months. The Grasshopper, 18, Commander Erskine, arrived on Thursday last, after upwards of three years and a half see. vice in the West Indies. She left Jamaica on the 28th of April, Belize on the 7th May, Tampico on the 23rd June, and the Havannah on the 21st July. She left at Jantaira the Magnificent, Capt. Jackson, and Hyacinth, Commander Oldrey ; the Firefly schooner, Lieut. Macdonald, was at the Havannah, and the Icarus, 10, at Campeachy ; the latter would be the next ship for England. The squadron was remarkably healthy, as well as all our West India Colonies. —Hanipsitire Telegraph. The Rattlesnake, 28, Captain Graham, sailed on Tuesday for South America. The D a vid S c ott, ast Indiaman, ar rived at Spithead this I yen ing from Calcutta; left the 9,11 March. The Imogene, 28, Captain P. Blackwood, is fitting in this harbour for the East India station. Shc will sail about the 7th, and will touch at Rio and the Cape of Good Hope. The Eden, 20, Captain Owen, was paid off into Ordinary on Tuesday. The Jupiter, fitted for the quarantine service, sailed on Tuesday for Leith. The William Harris, transport sailed on Sunday with guns for Woolwich. The Hope, transport, from Guernsey, pas sed by on Thursday, for Cowes. PROMOTIONS AND APPRINT MENTS la. Corn. walls Ricketts pare Flag-Lieutenant to Sir. P. Malcolm.) is promoted to the rank of a Commander.—Mr. H. W. John ston and Mr. F. Bird to the rank of Lieut. It. Haig, Eq. is appointed Sec. to Vice Admiral Sir John Gore ; Lieut. B. !Jaynes, to the Galatea ; Lieut. T. Mitchell, to the /Etna, vice Quin ; Lieut. R. W. Wetherell, and Mr. N. W. Roche, Surgeon to the Ariadne; Lieut. Aircy and M. Tnontaa Gib son, Assistant Surgeon to the Isis; Lieut. J. Dick, to the Britannia, vice Dunlop, whose appointment is cancelled ; I.icut. P. Hast, to the Warspite ; Lieut. Henry Deschamps to the Lightning ' • Mr. James Rae, Assistant-Surgeon to the Pluto ; 31r. A. Muirhead, Assistant. Surgeon to the Dryad; Alt. John Baird, Assistant-Surgeon to the Cadmus; Mr. James APAlastcr, Assistant Surgeon to the /Etna. A Quebec paper of the '27th inst. contains the following: " Captain Ellis. arrived at Boston from Trinidad, was boarded on the coast of Cuba, by the United States sloop of war Natchez, and informed that his Britannic Majesty's ship Blossom, after being 24 hours on the r oc k of Cape Antonio, and having her guns thrown overboard, was una ble to get off, but was extricated from her dangerous skim. don on the 10th uh. by the officers and crew of the former ship. The ship Spartan, Sanders, master. from Nevis in 32 days, for London, landed her passengers here yesterday. On the kith inst. she spoke the brig John and Mary, of Maryport far Quebec, with the loss of fer e .top mau and yard. Or: the 12th, the Diana, of Newcastle, Smith, master, from Dublin to Quebec, with 219 emigrant pensioners on board. She bad been 92 days at sea, and had expended her pro. rbsiaos and water. The Spat tan supplied her wish two bags of bread and a tierce of beef. Nava*. COWLV.MASTIAL.A Court martial was held on board the Caledonia, 190, at Sfitbead, on Thursday. to try Lieut. Francis G. Bond, a Supernumerary Lieutenant be longing to the /2 na, surveying vessel, Commander Edward Belcher. After two bouts' deliberation, the Judge Aden care read the following sentence :—" The Court is of opinion that the charges against the said Lieutenant Francis Go dolphin Bond have been in part proved, inasmuch as the said Lieutenant Francis Godolphin Bond was negligent in not taking measurt s to prevent the desertion of the two Krewrren, who left the boat at Sierra Leone; and also in not placing some person to look out for any signals which might be made from the ship whilst the boats were away watering at the Isles de Los; and the Court doth adjudge the said Lieut. Francis Godolphin Bond to be admonished to be more careful hereafter." It is confidently asserted, that Earl Grey is con sulting with the Episcopal Bench, for the purpose of curtailing the immense revenues of some of the Bishoprics. In future the income of a Bishop is not to exceed 5,0001. a year, the surplus of his revenues is to go to a fund in aid of the build ing and repairing Churches and Chapels. The two Irish mitres, now vacant, are at once to come under a new arrangement.— H.vnpshire Telegraph. The Times and the Courier have gone to war, as a sequel to that in Belgium ; and some amusing goose-quill bullets are the consequeuce. On Sa turday the Times speaks thus of its humble ad versary :—" An evening paper, which, in its at tempts 1J support n falling character, end to gain, like a mountebank, a scanty audience under false pretences, has lately chosen to declare itself the friend of the present administration (as it has done of every other), and under ministerial colours, has done more discredit to their cause than any paper of ten times its talent could have effected by open hostility, ventured caster Jay to shake its cap and bells at us, under pretext of answering a silly pariasi aph published by ono of our constant ene mies and one of its recent allies. We, of coulee, acquit the Ministers and their friends of suggest ing or encouraging such a display cf di ivelling nonsense. Indeed, we know that the Minister. complain of its fatal affection for them and their system, —of its mischievous endeavour to encumber them with aid, —and of its ignorant awkwardness in recommending, under their authority, blunders which they never cummitted, or opitiions tt hich they never entertained. At the same time we a, e aware that its existence depends upon its sclf constituted office cf being their organ. We know too, that though its mistakes we innocent at home, where its pretentious can be ascertained, it is .sometimes extremely injwions to Nliniettes in foreign countries, whei e its former n.iiiistei ial name, and the continued belief of its milli/Atrial connection, give its etatements the character of an inspiration from Doering-street. It has, there fore, several times been our intention to warn our readers abroad, against receiving its communica tions as demi-official, or as proceeding from any even of the underlings of office; but we have been restrained from doing so by a sentiment of pity, or by a feeling that it was no duty of ours to detect all the errors of our contemporaries, farther than by confronting them with correct information from oursekes. Even now we will let the poor caitiff alone, though we confess we had been half provoked by its impertinence to apply a little wholesome chastisement." ROTHSAY CASTLE STEAM-PACKET. The following particulars are given relative to some of the persons ascertained to have perished : Two Miss Broadhursts, of Sheffield. Their father had been taking a journey, and met his daughters at Chester. It was their intention to spend a few days of pleasure at Beaumaris. The father was saved after being six hours in the water, but his daughters sunk with exhaustion, after having been supported for a considerable time by a piece of wood. They were young ladies of great beauty. M. Soon, of Liver,,ool.—This gentleman, who was married to a daughter of the late Mr. Roger Leigh, was a native of Portugal. In 1813-14, when the late Mr. Canning was our Ambassador at the Court of Lisbon, he acted as his secretary. He had resided in Liverpool for many years, was a gentleman of high character and extensive attain ments, and was universally respected. Mr. Lucas, of Liverpool, his wife and daughter. The deceased has left an aged mother, who is blind, and four helpless children who have to lament the loss of both their parents. Mr. and Mrs. Foster, of Regent's-park, London, with their man servant.—This family bad been on a visit for some days at the Rev. James Haldane Stewart's. They had decided before they left Mr. Stewart's house, not to go by the Rothsay Castle, but to proceed to Bangor, if practicable, by Bo gillt or Holywell. This circumstance accounts for the lateness of their arrival at the pier-head. They did not expect to overtake the Rothsay Castle, but finding her still than they proceeded on board. None of their bodies have been found. A hymn book, which Mr. St ewar t h a d g i ven to the man servant, has bean found on shore. A favourite dog they had with them came to land alive, lashed to a plank. Mr. Stewart went off to Bangor on hearing of the accident. The Rev. Mr. M'Carthy was the exemplary curate of Rathmioes. His untimely fate is deeply lamented by all who were acquainted with the ami ability of his manners, his singleness of heart, and pure love of religion. CHESTERFIELD.—On Tuestlay morning, the 16th instant, Mr. Hurwood and Mr. Josiah Brown, residents of this place, proceeded by the Champion coach for Liverpool, in the greatest buoyancy of spirits, with the professed intention of making a tour of pleasure into North Wales, and the island of Anglesey. They purposed sleeping in Man • cheater on Tuesday night, proceeding by the rail road to Liverpool the next morning; and then embracing the earliest oppoctunity of getting con veyed to Beaman* by one of the steam-packets bound fur that fashionable and delightful resort. Such being the plan laid out by the party, the greatest alarm naturally prevailed amongst their friends for their safety, when intelligence was brought on Saturday afternoon by the Champion coachman, of the loss of a steam-packet on Wed nesday evening the 17th, together with nearly the whole of the passengers and crew bound for that very spot to which they themselves were repair ing. On Sunday morning this report gained ground in the town, and caused a deep and general sensation.—Groups of persona were collected in various places discussing the dreadful news, and waiting with intense anxiety the arrival of the mail, with the faint hope that some information might be sent by Messrs. Hurwood and Brown, re lative to the wreck of the steamer and their own personal safety. Particularly as they had pro mised to write to their friends at the beginning of the week. No welcome tidings came. The Lon don papers, which were filled with various accounts of the unfortunate occurrence, were eagerly read ; still nothing decisive could be pined respecting their fate. At this moment, Mr. Holmes, brother in-law of Mr. Brown, accompanied by Mr. Wright, mercer and draper, set off in a gig to Liverpool, to obtain correct information on the subject, and con vey the earliest possible intelligence to their friends at home. For several days the inhabitants of Chesterfield were kept in doubt and suspense, and never did a calamity appear to make such an im pression on the people. When confirmation of the anticipated news at length arrived of the awful and sudden death of their two townsmen, the regret was universal : and to their im mediate friends poignant in the extreme. Mr. Hurwood was a bachelor, about 56 years of age, and little more than two years ago was in business as a chemist and druggist, since which period he has lived independent. Mr. Bruwn was a married man. aged 30, he had no family, and was by trade a brazier and tinman.—Soon after their departure from Chesterfield, Mrs. Blown was taken seriously ill, and still continues so, and it was only on Tuesday, that her friends thought it prudent to divulge to her the lamented intelli gence of her husband's death. The information was received by her with a bumble submission to the will of PROVIDEXCE, but at the same lime with great distress and perturbation of mind. The Menai Strait,where this calamity occurred, opens to the north-east, and the greater part of it is occupied by a large sand bank, called the Levan Sands, which render it necessary that vessels should pass very near Puffin's Island, at the north-western extremity of the strait. By some means, however, the vessel, instead of rounding the western point of the Liven Sands, and passing under l'itftiu's Ishlnd, got considerably leeward, and struck upon a part of the sand which is called the Dutchman's Bank. We have received a brief reFort of the proceed ings on the Cc:moat:les INQUEST held at 13ZAU- M A RIS au the bodies of the sufferers. William Jones, firernan, stated, that the water came in it the sides, and they began to pump at ten o'clock at night. The water was then up to the at cies, and they could not keep the steam up. The water kept gaining and chcaking the steam pumps. The vessel struck 14 or 15 times previous to going down, near PcfEn Island. About 12 the passen gers went from one side to the other crying for help. 1k fore going down, she bounded up about two yards. It was not very dark ; could see land. The ~ ,sward said to him he knew be should never get us bete. They were not going a mile au hour when slur, struck. He was asked, was the captain sober ? No ; nor the mate. The captain had been drunk several times. If the steam boat had been put back before they got there, do you think it might have been saved ? I do. When requested by the passengers to put back, the captain said " Hold your bother, there is no danger." Had you your regular number of teen on board? No; there should have been four sailors, there were (sky two. Wm.Jonee, Liverpool pilot, was deck pasastsw. Told the mate to put up a light. 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