Star. — London, England, 1831-02-22 00:00:00

PANORAMA OF Till BRITISH gMPIR.E. LIMERICK EVENING POST. At a meeting of the Board of the House of Industry, Cork, on Totem day, more than sixty famishing creatures presented themselves for ad missioo. The number of paupers in the house, according to the report, was 1429! Mr. Beak objected to any more being added to the fright ful number already in the house. At present the inmates were literally packed together, in some instances, five, six. and seven in a bed. He had it from Dr. Townsend that disease was spreading fast amongst them, and that while he spoke there were over dal patients In the sick ward. Far would it be from his feelings to send the unfortunate ob jects then before the Board upon the world, whilst there was a foot of accommodation in the establishment, but he thought—repulsive to hu man nature as would be the alternative—it would be ,more prudent to do so than run in the face of the Physician's advice. Reroax 31assixo tw Tirreamns—Monday a highly respectable and numerous meeting of the Barony of ClanwiWam, was held in Tippe rary, for the purpose of petitioning the Legislature for a Reform in Parliament, as may lead to a speedy redress of the grievances under which this country still labours. The appointed place of meeting was the Session House, but in consequence of the dense body of people in attendance, it was deemed most advisable to adjourn to the market house, in front of which it was held, and in the open air. Upwards of 5,000 were in attendance, and the windows of the street were crowded to excess with fashiouably dressed females. At a few minutes past one o'clock, Richard Sadlier, Esq. J. P. Scallabeen was called to the chair. am. • W•••• Sena—Yon have enblisheet in your paper of the 19th, a statement. On the resolution, regarding the extension of t the Elective Franchise that a bill of indictment against me had been found at the Old Bailey and vote by ballot by Mr. Ryan, being put from the chair. he con- Sessions, and that the Judges, then or. the Bench, had instantly signed eluded by proposing a resolutiou to the following effect feel a Bench Warrant to apprehend me, I beg you to insert this letter in ing that this meeting was got up for the purpose of sustaining the your paper, which you will deem, 1 hope, no more than an act of jus- character of Mr. Wyse, we shall not now enter upon the discussion of tice to me, especially as mine other papers improved on the state- the measure of reform, but proceed to the consideration of the ques ment so far as to assert, that I had actually " been seized and sent then of the repeal of the Union. to Newgate." Mr. John O'Dwyer of Cullen, immediately came forward and Now. Sir, in the first place, not only was I not sent to Newgate, but seconded the resolution in an able and very eloquent speech. He no wannnt at all was issued against me. Without stopping to inquire dwelt on the conduct of the present administration towards Mr. into the legality, the justice, the decency of publishing statements like O'Connell, whom be glowingly eulogised. This was beanie forward this, I now proceed to remark, first, that I have yet heard nothing of to test, Mr. Wyse, who in a long speech evaded the question, and this indictment, except through the newspapers ; second, dad 1 believe concluded as follows ;—" Let there be reform, and promptly, whet. such an indictment to have been returned; third, that I ant not at all ever there be abuses; reform In the state, reform in the church. re surprized at the transaction which has been plotting for about two form In the corporations, reform In grand juries, but, above all, em months. I beg my friends all over the kingdom, and my readers all form in Parliament, from whence all other reforms mule finally and over the world, to be enured that I will meet this indictment in a man. permanently flow, not only to this, but to every other portion of this net becoming the author of" The Political Register," and" The His- suffering country." tory of the Protestant Reformution," anti 0 The Poor Man's Friend." On a person from the crowd calling out to know, if Mr. Wyse 31y friends in this country are not aware, generally speaking, of the would vote for a missal of the union or not' Mr. E. Scully said, nature of a proceeding like this. First, then, they should know that a Mr. Wys e , our mem b er , on ly c laims wha t in my opinion he has every bill of indictment may be preferred by anyb ody, against anybody, and just right to expect, a sufficient time to form a mature opinion, on not for anything, whether true or false; 'mewl, that no evidence is required so much a local or county question as a new and important subject to for the finding of the bill to be true, in a ease like this, other than evi. the nation at large. dente to prove the fact of publication h the party accused ; and that, in Messrs. Ry an a nd O'Dwyer then requested that their resolution the case of a Grand Jury at the Old Bailey, who have as many bills should be put from the chair, which the chairman having peremptorily brought before them at a Sessions as a stout p l aner can carry in his arms, refused, Mr. Ryan said he would take the sense the sense of the meet to examine into the merits of the allegations is utterly impossible.— ing on a resolution that Mr. Saltier should vacate the chair, and to Therefore, the mere finding of the bill to be a true bill amounts to no- which the majority of the meeting assented. The chairman then role, thing at all; more than that, I may, if the parties choose, and have the and was leaving the platform, when Mr. Scully requested of him to pluck when the time comes, be put upon my trial. I beg my friends, resume hi s seat . therefore, to be assured that these words st true bill" have nothing in Mr. Sadlier—l cannot. I have vacated the chair. them to daunt me. Mr. Scully—The ° noes" bad it. The Times newspaper of the 19th does not content itself with stating Mr. liyano-I insist they bad not. Now, Mr. Sadlier, I leave it to the fact of a true bill having been found against me; but subjoins a you.o a gentleman and man of honour, which had it? very broad hint as to the consequences of such finding. it says:— Mr. Sadlier—Upon my sacred honour, the ayes l' had it. (Cheers.) " The London Grand Jury, yesterday afternoon, among the rest of their (Here Messrs. Saclike Wyse, Scully, and some other gentlemen, presentments, returned a true bill against Mr. Cobbett, for publishing left the platform and reti red.) a seditious libel, tending to excite disaffection among his Majesty ' s Mr. James Kinane then addressed the meeting. subjects, particularly those engaged in agricultural labour, and in. Mr. 0' Dwyer again eloquently addressed the immense assembly, and duce them to desteov machinery, &e. The foam of the holictment is said that the barony of Clanwilliam had that day set asslorious example similar to that on which Carlisle was convicted last Sessions." That is to the County of Tipperary. to say, that the nffences are similar, and to cause it to be believed that Three cheers were given for Mr. O'Connell and a Repeal of the the result will be similar ; and that, o f co u rse, t h e R e c or d er o f London Union, and the immense multitude departed in the most peaceable will, in all human probability, sentence me to two years' imprisonment and orderly manner. in a felon's jail, and to be held in bonds for the remainder of my life. On Monday last, about twenty fishing-boats, mostly from Shrove, Now sir, 1 beg through your columns, to assure my friends that I near Innishowen Head, Greencastle, Wititehay, &c. proceeded to the have w ritten and published nothing criminal; that I have done nothing lie hank, about ten miles distant from Lough Foyle. The morning unlawful ; that I will bring this matter before the Chief Justice of the was fine, wind 13. W. ; however, about one o'clock, the horizon all at Court of King's Bench and a Jury of the City of London ; that so far once became clouded, and a most dreadful gale of wind came on from from fearing the consequences, I glory in being afforded this opportunity the N.N.E, On the first appearance of danger a number of th ese boats of exposing, by the means or the whole of the press, the motives to cut away from their UUCP and made for the land, whilst others waited .this result of a mean and foul conspiracy against me ; of showing to the to l i ft their lines ; but, d readful to relate, five boats' trews, consisting whole world that this is an attempt (which I will make a vain attempt) of twenty.one men, met a watery grave, leaving behind them seventy to prevent me from continuing my labours for obtaining justice fur the three h e lpl e s s children. Such a scene has not been witnessed there middle and working class of people ; fur causing legally to be taken m i nce w h at was terme d the Black Saturday, about lifty years ago. The from the receiver', of the taxes and the tithes those immense sums, the cr i es o f the wives, c hild ren , and relations were most h ni . t . ren di ng . — taking of which has produced all the difficulties, all the troubles, all A boat at Malin, with seven men on board, has also been lost. the commotion, in which we arc involved at home, and all the contempt The inhabitants of Teske met on yesterday to petition for a repeal of brought upon our country abroad, which we now have the sorrow and the Union. the shame to behold ; but, sir, with regard to the real motives of this A man was stoned to death in the neighbourhood of Nenagh on mean and malignant prosecution, as well as with regent to every other F r id ay morn i ng , matter connected with the proceeding, I will, with your indulgence, Thursday morning last a large party of Chuldagh fishermen proceeded inform the public as soon as I possibly can, and in the meanwhile, I to the docks of Galway, and manifested a disposition to resist the expor beg you and that public to be assured, that, if these manifest designs ta d on o f corn from that port, apprehending a scarcity of provisions to prepare the way for the annihilation of all that remains of the liberty during the spring. On repairing to the docks, they commenced opt. of the press in England shall succeed, that success shall never have to rations, and dismantled two vessels laden with corn • they afterwards be ascribed to abandonment of duty on the part of, treate d master of a vessel very rudely, whilst in the act of going on Sir, your most humble, and most obedient servant. board his vessel at the roads, whom they obliged to return into dock, having assailed him with stones and other missiles. They then pro. TAXES.--." The tea to be taken off f rom th e news p apers , though needed to the roadstead, and cut the rigging and sails off three other for my own interest, care not a straw about th e matter; l oug h I know vessels laden with corn, and ready for sea, and conveyed the sails and that it will be neither gain nor loss to me, I see this reduction of the tackling to the Claddagh. tax with pleasure; because, in the first plats, them ought to be no Monday a meeting of the inhabitants of the county of the town of such tax, and, in the next place, because it will give a famous blow Galway was held at the Court-house, for the purpose of petitioning for to that newspaper monopoly which hail been such a disgrace to the reform, and also for the removal of the civil disabilities of the town. country, and has done it so much mischief. If the government find, A letter from New South Wales, dated the 15th of August last, con as lam satisfied it will, that it gains in amount of revenue by re'.udng tains the following extraordinary paragraph We have at present the amouttt of the stamp to two-pence; lam sure it will see that it the cheapest market in the world. Black cattle from 7s. to 12s. a would gain still more by reducing it to a penny, and by reducing the head. Sheep from 2s. to 4s. each. Wheat, be. Pa bushel- Maize, adrey(isement duty another half. The government will soon fins: how I s . p er quarter . B ee f, one h a lf penny per Ilon a N otw i t h stan di ng much it will gain in the tax upon paper, even from this measure. As these extremely low prices, the country is rapidly advancing towards to advertisements, they will increase prodigiously in number. I have p ros p er i t y. , " no question, for my part, of the great maim in point of the revenue, and RATES or FRIIORTAGE raox LIKPRICIG—To London, 20,. to In point of advantage the country, o the speed that it will give to per ton for provisions; 2s 6d to 2s 9d per quarter for grain. To Li. the communications between Persons in trade, and of the encourage. verpool, 13s per ton. To the Clyde, Ws to 16s per ton. matt which it will give to honest and able writers, the effect will be MARRIEDIn Middle-street. Galway, James Kirwan, Esq, of prodigious ; and therefore, though the measure will not affect me in the Tuarn, to Maria, daughter of —.Lynch, Esq. of Shannon.bridge.— smallest degree in the world, I think the ministers are entitled to great At St. Peter's Church, Cork, H. A. Caesar, Esq. M. D. to Pruden. praise for this measure. It was also wise and just to change the tax thee, only daughter of the lase R. Thompson, Esq. M. D.—At Castle from cotton goods to raw cotton ; because In the former shape it was town, Berehaven, Richard Puzle y, county of Cork, Esq. to Miss savagely unjust towards the working people, and gave rise to frauds Johahna Divine, of Killaughiusenaugh.—At St. Nicholas Chutele enormous. The conscientious manufacturer paid the duty honestly; Cork, Mr. W. Richardson, of Bandon, to Charlotte, daughter of those of a contrary character did not pay a tenth part of what they the late Wm. Hamilton Est.—ln Dublin, 'I homes Bathe, of Bel. ought to have paid. But it is the total abolition of the tax upon an. v id ere - p l ace , County D ublin, Esq. to bombs, relict of the late Thomas dies which gives me the greatest pleasure. If they had added an shell- Burke, of Spring Garden, Esq.—Mr. John Graham, of Downier Lion of that on the malt and the hops and the soap, I would, to be sure, trick, merchant, to Mary Ann, eldest daughter of George Wise, Esq. have gone to Doming-street, and have stood bareheaded in the rain —i n D u bli n, Laurence Coneaby, naq -- . of Brownrath, to to thank them. The labourers of the East, the South, and the West the youngest daughter of the late Mark Kelly, of Suunnierhilt,=. will have some little to thank them on the score of coals, owing to the At the Friends' Meeting-house, Dublin, William Richard, youngest stupidity of the landowners of latter days in destroying those endless son of Samuel Elly, Esq. County Wexford, to Abbey Eliza, daughter sources of fuel that were found in the wanes, as they were foolishly of John Lecky, of C ork, Esq.—ln Dublin, the Rev. Richard Roe, to called, and in the careful cultivation of timber and underwood. But Charlotte, widow of J. Richardson, Eaq.—At Braychurch, Lieutenant the tax being removed wholly from the candles is a great and unequi. John It. Baker to Catherine, eldest daughter of Thomas Off, Esq. vocal good. The ministers themselves do not, lam sure, ace one-half —A t Richmond , , Ri c h ar d E lm Eso. of Kilkenny, to p rances, f the good that they will do It is said that it hustle a penny a pound daughter of the late John Byrne, Eac;. of IlayswelL—At Cullen Church, taken off the price of candles. Is it not? It h threepence a pound at WiSiam &dick, Rao. of Tipperary to Fanny .Jarghter of James the least. The farmer gets next to nothing for his tallow : and this isone Reardon, Esq.—ln Clogheen, themes [Whip, of Thurles, me. of the reasons why he neverldlh his sheep. The price of tallow in the chant, to Ellen, second dau ghter of Francis O'Brien, hsq.—At the great market is nothing tome. I have sometimes killed sheep at Kensing- Friends' Meeting-house, Waterford, William Straogman Robinson, of ton for my own use, a circumstance which led the Old runes and its wolfs Liverpool, Esq. to Maria, daughter of the late William Cherry. Esq. whelps about the country to assert positively, "that I had turned the —Stephen Collins, of Merrion-square, Dublin, Esq. to Frances, daugh. lower room of my house into a butcher's shop." I know not what ter of the late William Henn, Master of the Court of Chancery.—ln tallow was in the market ; but I know that I got twopence halfpenur Dublin, Thomas C. Nolan, Esq. to Catherine , widow of Henry Smith, a pound for mine, when my candles cost me from sevenpence to eight. E sq . o f Cork.—At Bellevue, County Kilkenny, Pentheny pence. I know the expense of making candles well; I know what A cton , Esq. to Mary Anne, daughter of the late Matthias beautiful candles my servant made in Lang Island; and it shall be Esq. of Ballymulles.—Mr. Charles I). Stuart, of Dublin, to Rau, the my business, in a very short time, to tench the fanners and labourers youngest daughter of the late Patrick Lonc t o )f f Ball in England how to do the like. One of the great evils that press County Waterford , B ag .—Th omas G a ll owa y, o f t h e sl oy ini t h = upon the country, and that has reduced it to its present state, has tary College, to Margaret , eldest daughter of tont Wallace, at beer the withdrawing from agriculture those employments which for- Edi n b urg h. merly occupied the wives and daughters of th e l a bo ur e rs a t other times DIED.—In Sackvillenstmet, Dublin, the Rev. Dr. Smyth, broths than those of weeding, hay-malting, and harvest. These em. o f Alderman Philip Smyth, of Limerick.—ln Killarney, Lucy, rain ploy merits were cardiug, spinning, and weaving, in a great of stamuel Sealy, of Dingle, Esq.—ln Dublin, Jane, d aug h ter o f R ohs . many instances. I have seen a hundred spinning-wheels Hunter, E sq . of the County KMare.—Rev. Henry Erougham, Rage, at a time, in the suminer, humming before the doom of the cottages of o f Tallow. one single village. The :aka wese all spun, and even wove, in the GLASGOW FREE PRESS, FEB. 16. villages. Now amongst the employments foe the females of the labourers in agriculture, one was the making of candles of various From a sdentilic friend, who visited the Liverpool and Alanchessoe Railway, we have the following account :—Eve thin descriptions ; rind this employment will now return. For it will very soon be asked of a young woman who offers herself for service in the sm w ay seems to be going en prosperously , and with the same astonishing, ecess as at first. The locomotive engines continue to ply with elect... They ma ke . four or five journeys, if not country, whether she knows how to make candles. Do not tell Inc . andun about the pike of tallow iu the market. 1 know that the want of a more , vigour. , every day , from Liverpool to Manchester, and back again. Th e right to make my own candles us a loss to me of from ten to fifteen first at seven in the morning , . and the others at hours most convenient pounds a year at the veay lowest. If I were a farmer it would be a for business. The distance 33 miles, and the journ e y i s I n general loss to me of a great deal more. Additional female hands will be want. derangement had occurred, owing to a thin sheet performed in two hours, and frequently less. On the day col in the country in consequence of the repeal of this abominat le tax. d we were And not only will the labourers have their candles cheaper, but in there, day and of Ic e w h ich during the night had been formed on the rails, Still. many cases they will hive them for next to nothing. The farmers will however, when we eto the at ten o'clock, we found one of give the fat to married women. allowing them a certain portion for the the engines just coming in from Manchester with a train of manufacture. Neighbours sill deal with one another as they do in goods, in America, without running to , a shop for a candle, and there paying the `"" hours , having the precaution of setting two of the loaded advance, mid pueblos them before the engines, profits of three or four parties, besides the expense of the carriage and waggons in the ice a the . so as of the fetching. It la Impussible so to manage the thing without the' " r ails before the engine came up. cheer. . gentleman from Manchester came up to a friend who was standing near labourers having light at a tri fl ing expense, to the want of which the day, in the yard in Liverpool, at ten o'cluck in the morning, a winter evenings are now passed in the dark Instead of being I us, and told him be had loft Manchester in the fir s t t ra i n o f fully employed in various matters useful to both men and women. „_,_, coaches, at It will be curious to ea a Twopenny Trash employed in circuladng, !ran ° was Pa his IS L iverpool finished, and was then on Isis way home again, which he would reach abo u t mid-iny. lie had amongst the working classes, praises on the King's Ministers. This way he said, done the same before, and this is only one at y practical demonstrations which are every day m et with, of the will assuredly be done in the next Number, or the Number after, where C I am to give them detailed instructions fur the making of candles. Coldotes &sitter. MR. STANLEY. From the Pilot. • We have just received the following letter from Mr. O'Connell : Woolverhampton, 16th Feb. 1831. You will see by the papers that Mr. Stanley has fully confirmed my statement, that there was no species of compromise of a political nature connected with the late law arrangement. He, however, does not seem to have stated that arrangement at all. No matter. I will, please GOD, set that part of the business fully to rights on Friday evening in the Honourable House. But Mr. Stanley is also reported to have said, that 1 (tad solicited by my friends, a compromise of the prosecution—whereupon it is stated he was cheered by all sides of the House. Ido not believe, or at least I ought not to believe one word of it; because a greater untruth could not be told. It follows that he did not say so. Does it not ? I beg of you to contradict the report in the strongest terms. Nothing could be more false than that I ever solicited a compromise of the pro secution by any friend whatsoever. I will state this fully to the llouse on Friday—until then do you contradict the report emphatically. How I long to hear of Col. Butler's success in Kilkenny. If he succeeds you will have more anti. Unionists amongst the Irish members than we will know what to do with. Believe me to be, faithfully yours, DANIEL O'CONNELL. I will be, I hope, to-morrow evening in the House, to vote for the Jews, if there be a division. MR. Cull niparailakd fislßllee etineresene ttitlatt me ,new spin •Tbe en le be redeem& w Ss lit the eon* enelmer, et *sea of the ire and Sr. IL for the neendery wen j eel for this t ead estr : the pennow is eeneyed taw Bane' Mth e railway for within amnia of Li megook where . thee an wealbuses be s'tbepwteanf whisk eathie down, tree et any additional :=erofefey ei tterder driver. Massa railway CM. the inn et die MI tie road were floe. or 12s. Inside, and 71. Maids. A public awns et the anomlttee, Ace-bearers, and other sup. porters of the Renfrew. lm Political Union, assembled on Monday, in the Rev. Mr. Baird'. ehurah, St. James'-stteet, Paisley, for the pur pose of considering and admpting the:rules and regulations, and ap proving of the objets and ands of the members, and of the council of the Union. On the modem et Mr. George Gardner, Sir John Max. well, of Polloc, Bart. the Ashman of the committee, was unanimously, and with loud acclemediss i elected Preses of the meeting.—The objects and rules of the Union, and the duties of the members and council, were then read by Mr. George Gardner, together with the following concluding paragraph : " To render the object of the Political Union as definite as possible, the duration of Parliament, the extent of the elective franchLie, and the mode of exercising it, have been specially in. eluded. Yet it being possible that some few who may become mem. begs, will not have the same opinion on there particular points, it is to be understood, that each member shall be entitled to exercise his own judgment t and it is hoped that no sincere reformer, on such grounds, will be withheld from joining this Union, the essential principle or which is, the prosperity of our country, and happiness of her subjects." Friday week a dinner was given to Mr. James Peddie, Paisley, by his pupils and friends, as a token of their respect for his private worth, and for his zealous and successful exertions as a Teacher, during the long period of 50 years. The dimmer took place in the large ball room of the Abercorn Inn, which was very tastefully bedecked with ever greens for the occasion. The chair was taken by Professor Wilson, of Edinburgh. DISTRESS IN DwiLtw.—lt appears that in the district known as Franeis.street Parish, that there are at present the appaling number of pie thousand in a state of absolute want, out of a population of 25,000 persons. The prosecutions against Mr. O'Connell, and his Friends, arc likely to end as insignificantly, as they began arbitrallly and injudi. ciously. HADDI wore'', Feb. 11.—A full supply of Barley, and quick sales, top 2s and average 2d up. 321 quarters sold i la quurters only at the top price, and said to have been bought for seed j the market was also well supplied with Oats. but sales were rather dull. 378 guar. teas sold ; 164 unsold. Top up 24 avenge down 2s. Eleven quarters only btought the top price. Wheat has fallen is 3d upon the average. Beans are down on the average 2s 2d. Whest—.--First 7tls ; Second els ; Third 445. Barley-44s 40s 34a. Oats-36s 29s 245. Pease 41s ths 38s. lkans-4te 42s 401. We regret to announce the death of Alexander Lawrie, Esq. printer of the Gazette for Scotland, at three this morning, after on illness of only two hours duration. He was in the office yesterday attending to business in Isis usual health. 41f.411111ED—Mr. D. A. Nelson, to Jane, only daughter of Peter Lang, Esq. Edinburgh—At Ayr, Mr. .1. Grant, merchant, to Jean, daughter' of the late Lieutenant W. Glen—At Greenock, ow the 7th inst. Mr. J. Alexander, to Margaret, only daughter of the late W, Bell, Esq. Purt.Glasgow—At Kinlodt, J. N. Jarvis, Esq. Royal Navy, to Miss Campbell, daughter of J. Campbell, Esq—At Durham J. H. Burnett, Esq. Wriser to the Signet, youngest son of Sir Robert Burnett, of Leys, Bart. to Caroline Margaret, youngest daughter of the late C. Spearman, Esq. of Thoruley. CALEDONIAN MERCURY, FEB. 10-17. The deep foeliug of sorrow and regret occasioned by the sudden death of Dr. Thomson, was most abundantly evinced on Tuesday, by the vast number of respectable individuals who attended to pay the last tokens of respect to his remains ; and 17 the becoming conduct of the many thousands of spectators, who covered the streets and pavements, and crowded the windows, balconies, and house-tops, from the residence of the deceased, in Melville -street, to the burying ground of St. John's Chapel, head of the Lothian Road. The gentlemen who attended in mourning were certainly not fewer in number than two thousand; and we have heard the spectators, of lioth sexes, and of all ages and ranks, esti mated at above twenty thonsand. The mournem attending in dress included all denominations of Christians, clergymen, and members of the Presbyterian, Episcopalian, and Secession churches ; Indepen. dents, Baptists, Quakers, Methodists, Catholics, At. die. ; and among those not a few who in church polities had been among Dr. Thomson's keenest opponents. Among IMP! present we observed the Lord Jus tice Clerk, Lords Balgray, Crairie Medwyn, Cringletie, and Mee dowbank ; the Dean of Faculty, the Sollcitor-General, and a great number of the members of the Bar and Society of Writers to the Sig net ; the Presbytery of Edinburgh ; the Lord Provost and Magistrates, the Professors of the University, the Masters of the High School, Bishop Walker, the Rev. Edward Craig, Drs. ltitehie and M 6 Crie, Sir F. W, Drummond, Sir P. Walker, Sir John Connel, Rev. Mr. Maefarlan and Dr. Smith, from Glasgow, and several members of the Presbyteries of Linlithgow, Stirling, Dalkeith, and Perth. Thirty-four acres of old pastur e land was let at Banslon, on Monday ro last, by public up, for t for fi ve years, for the sake of Improv ing and renewing the grass. This land was put op in three kits, and brought 51. tUs. 51. 15s. and 61. per imperial acre far each of the five years, one of those to be in plain fallow, the manure foe which is to be provided by the landlord. The same land last year Set In pasture for 50s. per imperial acre. The pasture grass fields at Cremona House were let by public roar on the 15th instant, and brought from 31.65. to M. 6s per ftota ewe. The Council having met on Thursday, the Lord Provost adverted to the sudden and melancholy death of the Rev. Dr. Thompson.—The only business transacted was the reading of the report of the Committee in regard to the Glasgow Railway which recommended to the Council to support Meson. Orange r and biker's line, on the broad principle of public advantage, reserving to themselves th e right to discuss the differ ent clauses of the bill as affecting the interests of the city, when It comes to be prepared. Thereport was unanimously approved of. Active preparations are again making by great numbers of the Suther land Highlanders for emigrating to Upper Canada. About 130 fami lies, (nearly 6410 souls), from among the small tenantry and labouring classes sailed last summer in three Leith ships from Uosnarty ; and letters recently sent have held out the most encouraging prospects to their friends to follow them. The Ilagistrates and Town Council of the burgh of Jedborgit bold a 15: meeting on the 4th inst.special ly called for the purpose of the expediency of petition both Houses of Parliament I. ilso ala t ild ,tar an extension of the elective chile in the royal bu%he .4 11.11111619 of Scotland. Resolutions were proposed, and wanking* andod o expswalve of the sense of the meeting, that an sannolon it the sight to vote in Scotland was absolutely necessary, to room the pneas aid pre. mote the prosperity of the country. The following tables exhibit the number of sittings in the different churches of the Old and of the New Town, as divided by a line twining east and west through the North Loch. Sup posi ng the two now churches were to be built when they should be, t.en will be in the halt Old Town 01115 sittings, or single seats, for about 17,000 ! while in the New Town, which contains a very great number ef lies belonging to the Episcopal Church, there are already newly sittings for 8500 families I OLD Towx. Nor Towx. Sittings. I Slit% 2400 772 ... 1074 St. Mee .. Don ... ... Lady Yesta's ... 1114 O. and N. Oreyfrlan ... 2219 College ... ... St. Andrew's ... St. Goorp's .. St. Stephen's . . St. Alary's ... -. 1666 -. 1606 .. 1640 0606 New Churches .. • . 4800 9102 1 On Saturday last, the remains of the four onfortnoale suieren re covered front the wreck of the Cur, the relations of whims had nor been ascertained, were interred in South Leith church-yard. A num ber of gentlemen connected with the Shipping Company and cohere attended. The grain stores at Port Dpndas are now so extensive as to, be le to contain 121.000 boils. There are at present stored 51.400 bone et wrest, barley, pease, beans, tares, and oats. On Monday the quartern loaf was raised. It now sells for 94 tai 104. ' Oatmeal has also risen 24 per peck. Bread has also risen is Glasgow. The petitions in favour of burgh and Parliamentary Reform, whirl were agreed to at the public meeting in Abe Court-House, AbeL= sense weeks ago, wereeigned by shout MOO benseholders. The petition, has about 12 or 1,420 signoweeetteehed to it. Armannes, Feb. 11.—On Weditswksh Asa 019 ‘90 'Maks *iv lee on the river Dee bunt from its aning.held, amen* aid the Pet above the Cralgiug, and soon after the river below, and also die is. Miele the harbour, were covered with shoals of key bold with' moms of snow. The Ice continued to. move with greet velocity down tbe river and through the harbour, until Mont four o'clock, r. x. when its paaage was stopped at the Inch Dyke, and the whole seuled dowse kw one den mass, from the north end of the Waterloo Quay up. wards. The river, which had begun to rise about twelve o'clock on Wednesdacontinued to Menem in the course of the eight. &A le mac was t he pressure on the body of the ice that it was raised t.p one* k was nearly on a level with the woolen bridge_ at the aid dillane Brae. Matters remained in this state until between two and shoes o'clock yesterday morning, when the ice give way with a teliminisue sob. A vessel, which was lying at the upper end of the Quay, above Mario-hal Street, having torn up me of which have recently bees.pined on the new part of the Qvay, will* she was meered, Maid ;against two others which were immediately bebop The three vessels then swept down spa two London . sesseen. The mooring -posts to which they &Med else love way, and Asir bows smog eft from 1111% bays Ille Mut of any Kamp having been done en t. be we understeed that the works of Messrs. Gordo' Barron were emigkody stepped in consequence of the everlaw. pike road mar the bridge of Wee was flooded to the depth o f s h ot PM Ma.. I ' Dn bawl*, .a thooell dime was givm to Mr. M'Ehmaid, t h e teal Obis appresehln haat Rdlnblvo, to sea& Babeetatighty Mow isatlassiaollatto gu i s 6 d _chess, aid gm dds.relandk farewell with moms. The duds was 11110 by Frahm* Wilma, who had on **hi, Mr. M'Dmadd e mad ma his left Sir Alexander Muir 81`31a;„ legate, of Dchilisi; TM ortmudem were Francis Grant, Beg. and a.l'. R. James, Reg; kaSieit of BMWs- , Darnley, he. Entwanaort Coax Maass:, Faa. IG.—We bads middling to p, ply of all kinds of grain to-day, which sold readily. Wheat 4. up on the top, and 2s down on the average. Barley ls and oats 2s 8d upon the top; pease and beans the same as last week. Average of wheat, 31 Ss ld ; Barley, 11 17s 8d; Oats, 11 10a 2d; Pease and Beans, 21 8s Sd. - --111 TIIB ARMY. Fro* Me Lisneriek Chronicle of Wednesday. Military Staff hi the West Indies.—Captain Crowe, 93d High. holders, is now Fort Adjutant at Dominica; Lieutenant Mayne. 86th ditto, at St. Kitt's ; Lieut. Wilson, 93d Highlanders, do. at St. Luci a: Capt. Young, 25th regiment, Brigade Major, Demerara; Brevet Major Mullen, Royal Regiment, Acting Brigade Major, Trinidad. The whole of the 36th regiment has arrived at Barbadoes. The 35th is ready to embark foe Portsmouth, on the expected arrival of the 69th torelieve. ----- --- Stations of Ileghowits.--Ist Batt. Royal Regiment, 38th ditto, Bar. badnes ; 65th ditto, Demerara: 116th ditto, head quartets, Antigua, detachments in St. Kitt's and Montserrat; head quartet' Trinidad, de. tachotents in Tobago t 25th ditto, head quarters St. Lucia, detachments hi Dominica; 501 k (expected every arrival), Barbadoes. 'Etc sickness at Tobago, which carried off from the Ist August to the 25th October, 1030, 21 men and two women, of the Royals, has noir entirely subsided. The medical men prosounced the malady to be " bilious remittent fever." Assistant Staff . Surgeon Sinclair bad a nar. row escape ; but he is now doing well. A detachment of the 83t1 regiment left Enniskillen on Wednesday morning for Sligo, under the command of Major Renwick, to relieve a company of the same regiment there under the command of Captain Colquhoun. Letters have been received from Madras, dated the 26th September, giving an account of the arrival of the Recovery and Malcolm with part of the 62d regiment on board--(headequarters). On the 16th of the game month they had landed, and encamped about mix miles from Fort I Si. George, whence. in October, they were to proceed to Bangalore, 21 days march. Bangalore is considered the best station in India. The band of the regiment was very much admired. The 26th regiment were to proceed to Fort William, Calcutta, hay. ing been relieved by the 53th regiment, who were to be stationed at Fort George. The may daily be expected home, as also the 14th having been relieved by the 55th and 63d. When the 57th arrive from New South Wales, the Royals will then come home. SCI T CE. -- HAVANNAH CIGARS. (name TIIE JAMAICA ROYAL GAZETTE.) Real Havannak ! Precious cigar! Gentle as manna, Bright as a star— Pleasant at Onside, Cheery on rood— Rest of all perfkmes At home or abroad. Real Havanna I Puff away care— Blow my misfortunes; Into thin air. Real Havanna!' ! 0 who would dare Iderschaum or hookah With thee compare ? When thy bright tip Any mortal may see, Thou art his choice, AnJ a smoker is ha. Real Havannab, &c. Real Havannah ! Primest of stuff, Sell me no humbug, Vender of snuff— Think not on me You can cut any jokes ; 'Tis Toper Thomas Himself who now smokes. Real Havannah, Stc. Olt LADIES' EVENING DRESSES. When dressed for the evening, the girls now a.days, Scarce an atom of dress on them leave; Nor blame them—for what is an evening dress, But a dress that is suited for live /I Itnwmixo Titteves.—Some short time sine a gentleman In Somerectshire, named ilex, had, amongst other fowls, six geese and a ;punier. One night all the geese were stolen, and the gander was found the following morning alone, baring a letter tied around its neck, with a sixpence enclosed, and in the letter the following lines : Pray Mr. Hex Do not vex Nor think yourself in danger, Fur we have bought six geese At a penny a piece. And left the money with the gander. EnswoxaatAnnazss —The lady of a dignitary of the church ye. Weed a "begging letter," addressed thus I—" To the Right km. Mother in riOD, the Bishopeas of —1" This bests the letter to the Duchess of Norahumberand, received during the time his Grace was Viceroy of Ireland, with the followingisuperscription s—." To herCirace the Lady Lieutenant of Ireland !" PANDORA'S boa.—The Prince of Piedmont was not quite seven years old, when his preceptor, Cardinal (then Father) (Mendel, explained to him the fable of Pandora's Box. He told him that all evils which afflict the human race were shut up in that fatal box ; which Pandora, tempted by Curiosity, opened, when they imme diately flew out and spread themselves over the surface of the earth. " What, Father !" said the young Prince, " were all the evils shut up in that box " Yes," answered the preceptor. " That cannot be," replied die Prince, "since Curiosity tempted P an d ora ; and t h at evil, which could not have been in it, was not the least, since it was the origin of AIL" J. O. 11.—lifftwor. A NICE MORALITT.—Some time since, a gentleman farmer was bargaining with a pig -driver in Dorchester market, for two pigs, when the latter, to bestow a good character on the animals, ob. served, " You'll Bpd them 'ere a couple of as good moral pigs as ever you clapped eyes on." " What do you mean, my good friend ?" asked the gentleman. " Why, your honour, you'll Ind 'em as good moral pigs as ever was, go where you will for the next." " But what do you mean by awnsill" " Why, moral piss, your hon our ; pi gs as 'II eat their allowance any day, and do credit to their keeper.— Taller. The Americans have a great aversion to silent represen tatives. "lie won't get in again. I guess," said a Pennsylvanian, speak. lag of a Member of the Congress to an English traveller. "We never see no speech of his in the _papers, and we can't have a man that says nothing for his pay." In &gland the dumbles experience no inch difficulty in "getting in again." In fact, the general opinion seams to be, that we have too many orators ; and we guess" we could spare a pretty considerable number without touch detriment to the State. Our Yankee friends, we believe, have no serif to prevent the importation of such commodities. BIRTH. On the leth hut at the house of her father, in Biniarwidt.aquue, the holy of Lieutenant Huffman, N. N. of a daughter. M ARRIED. On the 19th Inst. at Charlton, Henry Thompson, Req. Commander of the East India ship Mounstuart Elphinstone, to Joao, ooly child of C. D. Wagstaff; Esq. of Blackheatb.—The 17th inst in the Parish Church of !archon), Hants, the Rev. Thomas Wentworth Gage, eldest soo of John Gage, Esq. to Lady Mary Douglas, second daughter of the Marquis of Queensberry. DIED. Friday at Cricket St. Thomas, Somerset, aged $5, Mary Sophia, ties Viscountess Bridport, relict of the l a t e Admiral Alezander Hood, Lord Viscount Bridport. At Larne, on the 31st ult. alter a short illness, Charles M'Ostal, Es+ ben. at the advanced age of 88 yeare.—The 17th lost. at Tedding ton, Sliddlesez, George Hirdiaty, Req. aged 72.—. The 18th inst. at Woolwich, Mrs. Buchanan, relict of the late Lieutenant-Colonel Buchanan, Royal Engineers.—Friday, in his 65th year, Charles Thee ger, Rsq. formerly Collector of Ills Majesty's Customs in the Island of Ri. Vincent.—At Hampton Court, on the 19th inst. Lieutenant E. O'Halloran, Barrack-Master. SMITHFIELD HAY-MARKEY—THIS DAY. Coarse Heavy boo/tend Meadow Hay, 42 Si. to 42 15s. Useful ditto, 42 15s. to AS 15s. Fine Upland Meadow and Rye Grass Hay, 44 5s co 44 101. (lover Hay, 4 Os. to 45 10s. Oat Straw, AI Ills t0.C1,166. 'Wheat Straw, 21 ISt. to 42 Os. per load. the Quay, CUIIiBRICLAND HAT-MARKET —THIS DAY. the poets Coarse Heavy Lowland Meadow Hay, .12 Ss. to £2 10s. Usetel P sis and to ditto, meg 106 te 42/ 15.. Fine Upland Meadow and Rye Grass were lying Hay, si4 Os. to Z 4 10a. Clover Hay, 15s. to ,e 5 ss. Oat Straw. I upon the t 1 les. to al 10a. Wheat Swan, al 10, to .C 2 oa. per toad. they vere HIGH WATER AT LONDON DG O. lU t tOW. dtt . 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