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NOT EICLUSIYL FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. PROCLAMATION OF THE EMPEROR OF RUSSIA. The official Gazette of Berlin has the following procla mation, dated st. Petereburgh, Dec. 17 : poles—The guilty events of which the capital of Poland presents the example, has troubled the public tranquility of the country. I have been informed of them with the most just indignation, and with a sen timent of the most profound grief. " Some individuals unworthy of the Polish name, have formed a coo. s orer against the life of the brother of your King, have inveigled the a rmy to forget their oaths, and have deceived the people upon their dearest interests. " There is yet time to make reparation, and to prevent infinite mica. fortunes. lam not about to confound those who abjure the errors of a moment, with those who persevere in crime. Poles. listen to the coun. eels of a father : obey the order of your Sovereign. " In publishing our immutable intentions, we have ordered,— " I. The Russians who are detained prisoners shall be set at liberty. "2. The Council of Administration shall resume its functions, u in stituted in 1826. "S. The authorities, civil and military, shall obey its orders, and not acknowledge any illegitimate authority. a 4. The chiefs of corps of the army shall assemble the troops, and shall direct their course with them to the rendezvous at Moan. " 5. At the same time they will inform us of the state of the troops. "6. All who shall not conform to this military order, shall cease their functions, and be declared dismissed. " The Icctl authorities shall deprive of their arms all those who are opposed to public order. The arms shall be confided to the care of veterans, and of the communal gensdarmes. " Soldiers of the Polish army ! your motto has always been fidelity and honour. The regiment of Cavalry Chessman of the Royal Guard have given a remarkable proof of it. Soldiers, follow their example, justify the confidence of your Sovereign, who has received your oaths! " Poles ! you who have remained faithful, I count upon your den. tion and courage. I will not spurn from me those who regret the error of a moment, and who will return to their duty. But never shall I ad dress men without honour and faith, who have conspired against the tranquillity of their country. What concessions can they imagine they will receive without arms in their hands P They deceive themselves. Traitors of their country, the misfortunes which they have drawn down will fall again upon their own heads. •• St. Peteraburgh, Dec. 5. (17.) (Signed) ', NICOLA& "Count ETIENNE GRABOUSKI, Minister &aetary of State." A publication of the Commandant-General of the Presi dent in Chief of the Grand Duchy of Posen, (a Polish pro vince of Prussia), recalls the inhabitants who may have re paired to Poland, to return within 15 days, under pain of seizure of all their goods, and mentions that there have been secret meetings, and concealed armaments detected. The private letters dated St. Petersburgh, on the 16th and 17th of December, state that General Diebitch had al ready given orders to the Russian corps at Wilna to advance upon the line of Warsaw. The Hi gives the following InteMgesee from Silesia, dated Dec. 20 :—" Although no large stream or high moun tain separated or from Poland, the revolution which has broken out there ham found a natural barrier in the fidelity and confidenceof the Sileshins in their King. On our frontiers Kalish was the point where the insurrection was organised. The first meetings in our neighbourhood took place at the house of Count 11—, in the Polish town of Pros chke, who called together ell the nobles in the neighbourhood, and planned the disarming of the Cossack.. The fetter, however, did not wait for the attack, but on the 6th Dec. took refuge with their horses in the Prussian village of Janisnow. On the following day, the commending Major of the Cossacks was persuaded by a Polish nobleman, who bad bee ,'sent to him, to return to the territory of Poland, but the Cossacks had no sooner taken possession of their barracks, than they wen at. tacked by the country people, who disarmed and plundered them. The Major, with about 70 men, made his escape by passing the river Picea on horseback. They arrived safely on the Prussian territory, and marched of for Breslaw. These Cossacks formed an extended line of revenue officers, but were easily bribed by the smugglers. At present, Poles armed with scythes, and wearing large white cockades, supply their place on the frontiers. The pr oh ibition, under pain of death, of pining the Prussian frontiers, Issued by the Provisioaal Government, has hi ther to been observed very strictly." The lifonttesor of Tuesday contains a report addressed to she King by the Minister of the Interior, which, after setting forth the necessity of suppressing the Direction of Public Works, upon the ground of its giving rise to abuses, delay, and great expense, proposes an ordinance for signature, calculated to remedy these evils. The report is followed by the ordinance by which the Direction of public Works is suppressed from January lit. All works at the charge of the Government are henceforth to be under the direction of the Minister of the Interior, and those at the charge of the City of Paris, under that of the Prefect of the department. A second ordinance convokes the electoral college of the first arrondissement of the department of the Loire at Montbrison, and that of the department of the Maine and Loire at Angers, for the Bth of February next, to elect deputies in the room of M. de Choate lame and M. Gnomon de Renville. A third ordinance appoints M. Guibega to be sub-prefect of Sartene, in Corsica, in the room of M. Penildi, who retires, and IL Frotnent to be SecretarpGieneral of the Prefecture of the same department, in the room of M. Guibega. A fourth ordinance appoints M. Laurent de Jussieu, Becretary.General of the Prefecture of the Seine, in the room of M. Tascherout. A fifth ordinance creates a new commissariat of police at 11am, in the de partment of the Somme, and M. Dysse is appointed the commissary. The Journal du Camera has the following " The intention of the Spanish Government to acknowledge the Corti Loan is again re peated. This is not to be a pure and simple acknowledgment; but if credit is to be given to those who pretend to be fully informed, the fol lowing is to be the plan s—At first 20 or 25 per cent. of the nominal capital will be admitted as a new debt, at three per cent. The remain ing 75 or 80 per cent. with the amount of the interest accrued since 1823, wil also be allowed as a debt, but without interest from the time of its liquidation. This amount will be divided into 60 series, to be annually converted by lot into a fund bearing three per cent. interest, with a sinking fund, the amount or nature of which is not stated. This is what Spain calls fulfilling her engagements, and she hopes, no doubt, by this proof of fidelity, to open the purses of the Parisians afresh. We believe, however, they will think twice before they make any further advances." In the month of February a new forced loan will be levied in Portu gal, for the purpose of providing for the support of the troops which are to be raised b y that time. The confismn of tbe property of ant grants continues. It is said that Don Miguel is secretly preparing a pretended great conspiracy, in which will be implicated all the rich in habitants whose opinions give him umbrage. They will be some morn ing arrested, condemned and transported, and their property will serve to gratify the insatiableness of Don Miguel. The Pasha of Tripoli, a French oMeer, and two Turkish servants, have been driven Into the Tagus by bad weather.—Casefitutionnet. The Revolution says—" It is stated that Captain Lacombe, com manding the first squadron of the Hussars of Chartres, has bear arrested under the following circumstances :—His too liberal opinions had in duced the Minister of War to send him to a distance from his incur, and on Saturday he received order* to set off within two hours for Toulon, where he would find despatches for the Mores. and a ship ready to convey him. Capt. Lacombe, surprised at this unexpected mission, and being still a sufferer from a wound received in the days of July, endeavoured to obtain :a revocation of the order; but not hav ing succeeded, he determined to set out on Sunday, and the post horses Were at his door when he was arrested." " We can assert, upon good authority,' says the Coottitationssel, " that the events which had well nigh disturbed the umnquility of the Roman States will contribute to accelerate the labours of the Conclave, and that France will probably have cause to be satisfied with the eke. non that will be made. Two French Cardinals have entered the Con.. dare, namely, M. de Rohan and M. d'lsoarti. M. de Old, it is be. Jeved, is also at Rome at this moment " FRENCH FUNDS.—Pfau, JAN. 4. Five per Cents, 94f 404 30c 26c 10e 94f 93f 80c lilk 80e 93f tiOc 70c 61k fffk 20c 10e 30e 92f 90e 80c 90e. Four per Cents, 77f 50e. Three pa Cents, 63f 62175 e 90e 764 30c 16e. Bank stock, 1,5251 1,530 L Rents de Naples, 63f 80c 76e. 80c 84f 83f 90e 64L Rents d'Espagne, 14 164 1 14i 15 154 16 164 j. Royal Spanish Loan, 624 4 4. Rent/ Perpetscile d'Espagne, 484 # # 48 471 4. Harlan Loan. 320 f. Exchange on London, one wank money, 115 f 164 ; time ilemblit money, 25t ss.—Caers Aut mations. BRUSSELS PAPERS. (Lest night, by Corm.) Baussat.s. Jaw. 2.—A respectable Belgian, who km just returned from London, frequently saw in that thy a person of distinction with whom he has transacted business, and who is very often in company with the Prinee of Saxe Coburg. The Prince, said the Englishman, has frequently been spoken to about the plan of placing himself at the head of the Belgic nation; be has always replied negatively to those overtures, and only two days ago he answered—" I, a Protestant, bound by a Constitution voted under the influence and for the interest of the Clergy, and placed as an hew rogenous Sovereign in the midst of a democratic State. how could it be possible for me to make the happiness of Belgium, or even to govern it ? There is none but a madman or a begg ar' who could desire such a throne. I hope you do not think, Gentlemen, that I am either. As these words of the Prince of Awe Coburg, which leave no doubt of his eventual read, rove in some measure that we must choose a chief our own nobility, and as Messrs. De Merode, D'Arscot, De Cellos, litamart, De Bohanlx, and Jottrand, are still of the kind of surf of which sovereigns are made, one of them may ray well seat himself on the vacant throne of Father William. People are agreed that Mr. Jourand is not the one among the candidates who possesses in the least degree the qualities, and who ban the least dunce of success. To.dsy there is a general review of the Civic Guard of Brussels. We are assured that the Masseurs of the corps of M. de Chasteler, which lately left Beneeds, were hardly twenty In number. Most of the soldiers of that free corps have remained at &wads, probably because they are well amused that at present there is no danger to be incurred in the army, and these is no need of their going, without any advantage to the defuses of the count:), to spoil, in the mud of the bivouacs, their new=Me& _ _ -t,- _ _ _ - - - The ethinssi lathisilwass of I*&te and Co. at Paris, has an. l asewast se is ssessyseishis at Frankfort, that it will close its Wass with oho end eel the year. This resolution is ascribed to the thestisow of the dat ports.: in the house, which are incompatible with basking commas. Accounts frees Valenciennes ay that the report of the formation of a camp on the heights of Tamar_ ainc pound. ANTWXIP Jan. I.—The Belgian ship the Rubes*, Capt. Thomas Hamilton, fro m Bt. Jago de Cuba, bound to Antwerp, put into Flush. ing on the 27th December. Its cargo consists of 1,300 chests Olinger, 400 bales and 22 barrels of coffee, and 1000 pieces of yellow wood. During the month of December only slink ship has misted our port coining from London by way of Ostend i it was laden with coffee, cinnamon, sugar, dtc...-(Le Fret Patriots, Jan. 3.) • The Prince used a stronger term. SPIRIT OF THE JOURNALS. pa va l l Cnitosta.z.—The Frei Patrie/e—Brussels es a curious account of something like negoelations with Prince on the sub ject of the throne of Belgium. The prince answers 11 e the aucceseful soldier in Pope, who, when reseed to light once mon, said 14 Let them take castles who're not worth a groat.* .. There is none but a madman or a beggar (the Prince used a stronger term) who could desire such a Throne. The Belgians say that they have among themselves men 6 of the stuff of which Sovereigns are made,' and they seen, inclined to choose at home, rather than embrace the alternative of baring madmen or beggars abroad. The E a -King of Sweden might give them both qualilications in one ; but then he is a Lutheran, like the Prince Leo. pad. The German princes used to bring up their daughters without any religion, in order that religion might be no impediment to their marriage. it is a pity that they are not equally provident in the case of sons. Poss.—The aspect of affairs in Ireland is such as cannot leave any reflecting man in the least doubt that strong measures of re pression are necessary, if it be intended to preserve this fine pardon of the empire from the utter ruin which an attempt at separation from England—to be accomplished or prevented by force (for to this conclusion things are visibly and rapidly approaching)—would inert. tabl i stall upon it. Agitation must be put down, or Ireland will, ere , be in such a condition as may make even moderate and rat men in both parts of the empire regard the amputation of this diseased member of the State as an indispensable remedy rather than an appalling calamity. Mut the Government will find itself greatly mistaken ifit a:9W. sto cope with agitation, (patronised and rewarded as it IS in Ireland, by meats only of admonitory IMOD, or preventive efforts. The severe and certain punishment of professed agitators when. eve: they violate the law, is of paramount necessity. Without this, to MOO the temptation which the trade of agitation offers, so long as the oof the Popish priesthood makes it a highly profitable and ere. enpWw, Government will struggle in vain against the re sources and the ingenuity of demagogues by profession in Ireland. Trans.—Our readers will find in another part of our paper, tables of the probed of the revenue, for the years and the quarters ending on the sth of January, 1830 and 1831. The comparative result, we are happy to say, is more saddictary than bad been anticipated, and presents a fairer prospect of improvement in the resources of the country than we have hd for several years. It is no doubt true that even in the last quarter there has been a falling d, but the deficiency is ex. trentely night. Out of a revenue of more than 12,500,0001. the dedewe is only 29,6031. We should naturally have looked for a much 'treater defalcation from the repeal of the beer duties, of the tax upon leather, and other reductions oftaxation which have been effected in the course of the last year. The Customs have fallen off 82.1811. a eircumatance like. wise to be accounted, for by the financial arrangements of last widen, without the necessity of supposing any deterioration in the state of trade. On the Stamps, Post.oMcs, Assessed and Miscellaneous Taxes, an increase has taken place of 110,6031. Comparing the produce of the re. venue for the whole of the year which has just expired with its amount for the preceding year, we find a deficiency of 640,4501; but it is gra tifying to observe, that in every successive quarter this deficiency has been diminishing, and has now nearly become an evanescent quantity..=. In the quarter ending the sth of April, it was 245,8121; in that ending the 6th of Jul), 177,3241; in that ending the 10th of October, 188.8341; and In the quartet which has just expired, only 29,4801. Iltnar.o.—lt is to be hoped that, in the new arraitgcnient of the Civil List, the present Ministers will carry into effect the principle which they advocated when in opposition—that of separating the King's Household expenses from all other items of expenditure with which they have no necessary connection, and settling upon his Majesty the sum required to defray those expenses, exclusive of all salaries to judges, or other public officers, pensions, Ike. that so the public may know exactly what sum it is which the Royal establishment costs the country. A new arrangement was introduced when George the Third signified to Parliament his consent that his hereditary revenues should be placed at their dispond, to manage them as they might think best for the advantage of the public. It was then, for the first time, that a sum of 800,0001. altogether, independent of the hereditary revenues, was settled, by way of Civil List, on the Crown, which was increased some years afterwards to 900,0001. then to 1,000,0001. but amounted, with other sources of revenue, such as the Duchy of Lancaster and Cornwall, drafts of the Admiralty, &c. to upwards of 1,900,0001. Under this arrangement the hereditary reve nues which the King placed at the disposal of Parliament, were, by the Act of the lest Geo. IIL cap. I, carried into, and made a part of, the aggregate fund ; and the aggregate fund was charged with the Cyment of the whole annuity of 800,0001. as originally fixed to the rown. All this yearly sum, with the subsequent additions which have been made to it, is supposed by the public in general to be ex pended by the King upon his own eafabiishmantr but this is very far from being the case, inasmuch as out of the Civil List are defrayed, besides the expenses of the Royal Household, the salaries allotted to the Judges previously to the year 1788, Wanes to Akers of State, the appointments to foreign Ambeeradors, the maintenance of the Queen and Members of the Royal Family Audi they receive separate establishments of their own, secret servics.usoney, pensions, and va rious bounties. The present Government have here an opportunity of financial reforms s—wo awes ethey not it. The Right Hon. C. Grant has been re-elected for Inver ness-shire. Kean is now in town, and apparently enjoying a better state of health than when be was last in London. An affairs gran:oar has exploded within the last two days, which has crested much conversation in certain coteries at the west.end of the sown, the parties being in some degree elevated in society, and pawning no inconsiderable property. The husband of the lady in question had instituted, some few years ago, proceedings in Doctors' Commons for the restitution of conjugal rights, the lady, shortly after the marriage, having absented basely from her husband's roof: these proceedings bad been pending for some time, the lady having ne i tlected to pay any attention to them, end an order ultimately beneCfor bar sp peehension contempt of Conn. All attempts to trace out thoadence of the fair fugitive proved unavailing for many months, and until the present week, when the busbod received private, and whet pew& cor rect inhumation, that his lady was residing in a splendid mordes at t h e we end of the town. Thither the husband went, secousposied by es °Sea armed with legal authority, to take the lady no aossedY they pined ready admittance into the house at an eady how in the meenkg, and proceeded insists/ft to the lady's lesd-cbsonber, the dose of which they found locked. The hatband hesitated not a me matt in ordering the door to be forced, when, to his peat sur prise, net (sly the object of his search presented herself to his view, but aloe a companion, in the person of lttr. The coneteroation of the injured husband on thus diecotrery was extreme, so he ha no noon previously to suspect his wife's fidelity. Legal pweeMop of a differ ent nature have now comma in one of the Com mies, and bit. is likely to appear as a dellodent in another Court, the Gendemen of the king rein having shindy received inetrua dons en the subject. The lady and her injured hothead ere in the prime of life ; the gallant something more advanced in yeses, and 'woods' property to a large amount. The lady remains in 6 ' du/wee" on the writ issued foe contempt of Gott—Hereld. ASSASSINATION OF A MASTER Monday night the neighhoirhood of Hyde and Ashton under-Line was thrown into the greatest consternation by a report that Mr. Ashton, jun. of the former place, had fallen by the hand of assassins. Upon inquiry it proved but too true.. This young gentleman, who was but 23 years of age, was proceeding, at 7 o'clock in the evening, from the factory to his father's house, when he was waylaid by one or more villains. His body was found shortly afterwards, bat life was extinct. It appeared that two bullets had passed through the chest, and from the appearance of foot-marks under an adjoining hedge, it is conjectured that more than one person was engaged in this diabolical enterprise, but nothing has at present transpired to direct suspicion towards any individual. The Ashton weavers are still, to the number of 20,000, out of work, but their conduct bas been perfectly peaceable, and there is no reason for attributing the san guinary outrage to any feeling connected with the " turn out," as the spinners in the Hyde factories are in employ ment, and Mr. Ashton bore the reputation of a good master, and was generally much respected.—Times. MANCH ESTI& JAY. 4. A great and painful sensation has been created here to lley by the in. taiga*, dthe murder d Mr. T. Ashton, a MY et MS it lops& cottou-spinners and manufacturers at Hyde, hails adglibmnibsel. Mr. Ashton had taken tea at his father's house ead/y last seed bad then gone to a newly.ereeted factory about a slid of a Oa had left the factory at half-peat 6to retturn hens. AMIN 8 de was found lying on the road, killed by &shot theough this Yet. I CY assassin mast have stood close to him. These was self in= in frost, but two behind; showing that the pistol bad boss so near as not to allow the scup or bells to separate till they enema the body. Had this melancholy taken place at Ashton, where the journeymen spinners are at variance with their masters, It would at ones have been attributed to the former; but this assassination canes at a place where there is no dispute about wages. It la said, however, by those who attribute it to the tum.outs, that as the Ashton masters jai. Sty their reduction of wages by the feet, that the Hyde masters pay a great deal less than they, the irritation of the men is even greasy:, against the Hyde masters than against the!? own. On the Ober hand, it is urged that this was a kind-hearted yaws Im o liked by the working-people, and not yet taking enough et meat as to be chargeable with 'being instrumental in re i d a = wages. But to this it is replied, that in all probability he was taken for his elder brother, who, more frequently than he was, was accustomed to go to that new factory. Such is the conversation to-day on 'Change, and although it may be supposed that amongst the class of persons who congregate there, the current of feeling is in favour of the masters, it is certainly difficult to account for this barbarous and daring murder, perpetrated obviously through other motives than to commit robbery, without the suspicion arising in the mind that it is somehow or other connected with the unfortunate disputes in the neighbourhood. With every disposition to believe well of the body of working men,....end I am sure that there is not one in ten thousand of them that would not ere. emu such a deed,—yet that single individual in the ten thousand may base been heated to it by the sense of wrong working on a natural and haulms malignity, just as Bellingham was urged to the murder of Mr. Pereeval ; and if this has been the case, it would have been not less unjust to attribute the death of the minister to a combination of decayed penitents than it would be to attribute the death of Mr. Ashton to the Ashton turnouts. I regret to say, that there are yet no symptoms of secoacilemeat between the Ashton masters and their men. The latter dressed to be paid 4s. 2d. for spinning oue thousand hanks of yore, forty banks to the ponnd. The masters will give no more than Ss. 9d. alleging that the Hyde masters pay only Ss. Lookers-on think that if either party would come to 4s. thus splitting the difference, the other would accept it. But the masters refuse to meet the men, and the men refuse to meet the masters; and thus, through the pride of the parties, the one Is impoverishing the other and the shopkeepers and every other class in the neighbourhood are suffering dreadfully by the quarrel. Nor is there say &woe of a me• diator, for the man who would recommend the masters to come up to, and the men to come down to, 4s. would be spurned by both. All is quiet here in Manchester, the attempt to excite a turnout having failed. A curious revolution is going on in spinning, through the superiority of new machinery over old, which 1 may describe in another letter. HOUSE AND WINDOW TAX. The following petition to Parliament against these most oppressive and partial imposts is now in course of signature among the tradesmen and middle classes of St. James's parish. We hope their example will be followed by every populous parish throughout the kingdom : " TO THE HONOURABLE THE COMMONS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, IN PARLIAMENT AS. SEMBLED. 1" INN PETITION OP TIM 1/NOIRSIONED INNIINITANT BOUM. HOLDERS OF THE PARISH OF ST. JANES, WESTMINSTER. " Showeth,—That the House and Window Tax la in the highest degree oppressive and unjust in its effects upon the middling classes of the people, especially those engaged in trade and manufactures. " That their property has of late years undergone very great deterlora don ; and that, in the present dist:owed state of the country, the re. turns and profits of trade are so reduced as not to remunerate for the capital and labour employed ; that this state of suffering is still further aggravated by the enormous amount levied for House and Window Tax. "That under these circumstances, while pressing necessity compels the most rigid economy, this impost operates with increased severity and partiality upon traders, forming an alarming and overwhelming expense, front which it is impossible to escape; while persons of rode. pendent property can and do, in Immense num ber s, either through choice or necessity, reside on the Continent, and evade it altogether, thus eon. verting it into a direct and most oppressive tax upon the industrious classes. " That it is unnecessary to trouble your honourable house with the details of the incessant and harassing vexations connected with this tax, as the tax luelfis so obnoxious in principle and oppressive in effect upon the most numerous class of tax-payers in the kingdom, as to render it an intolerable grievance; and, when your honourable house but calls to mind that the difficulties of the country, now in the sixteenth year of peace, are so great, that even delay In administering to its imperative necessities is attended with danger, we entertain a full confidence that the immediate repeal of this tax will suggest itself to the wisdom of your honourable house as one of the most effective and politic mea sures that can be adopted, conducive to the permanent interests and con ciliatory to the feelings of the people. " We therefore pray . your honourable house to take these matters into your serious coadderation, and that you will repeal that portion of the Assessed Taxes levied upon houses and windows. And your petitioners shall ever pray." EDUCATION IN THE UNITED STATER. There are in the United States of North America forty-three Mae- Colleges or Universities. Though the returns are incomplete Itt r o s t tea some of them, the lobos ing table will show many important sta. tistical facts:— The number of Instructors in NI Colleges, is 217 The number of Graduates, in 30 in 1828, war os2 The number of Under - Graduates in 33 in 1828 t 2,809 and 18111 • - - - - - Number at Nimes in SI College Libraries - 128.118 Number of admen le 1111 !WNW Llisarire - - 481,730 Yale College, in Ceseastires, sari Boma Wendy is 'lamas. setts. have the greatest ssimberat Imam simi papa, ion Mire Is the former sixuen 'Nehmen" 11116 mann b the latteriliNen web. era and 264 mama Tile he Cap Limy k there, Havado which eastalea 20M0 slam The seat in tilt d Be. Mary's CA+ lege, &Maar" villa has 1 1 ,000 volumes. Saida these, there ens four colleen vM d he,. libraries to the amount of 11,000 volumes. Oat et the list of =Mr" testy-three, a return is made of the name and title of the Paniktest or Provers of funy, from which It appears that the Prolamin er Provosts of thirty-six colleges are clergymen. There we else 011neen theological seminaries in the United States, belonging to thedilleeittleasesbutiona of Christians. Out of these eleven due their origin shun 1820, and seventeen since the year 1800. The whole number of students in fifteen of them, in 1829, was 599, being an aver age et forty pupils for each seminary. THIL PRUSSIAN UN iv ERSITIRS AND SCHOOLS.--The sum amigned by the Pruden Government for the maintenance of their six Universities in the year 1829 were as follow : Balla, independently of 8.11401. paid for the t £13,1 " support of Belentille Institutious -- § Bonn Dredau 10610 Halle Konigsberg Orietswaldo Total - - - 1:33,110 Theme sums go to provide for the current expenses of each Institution, sad include certain &Gammas to indigent students. u well as the official salaries to the nehmen, whose remooeration, however, is principally derived from the fees paid for attendance upon their pralectie'ns. The 'debt* acheilei, se "grammar schools," are also establishments sub- Jett to the control of the Government, and supported essentially at the "pease 011ie Sate . Their number in 1829 was, for Eastern Pruett', 8; Western Prussia. I; Brandenbers, 18; Pornerar 1' 4 6; Silesia, 11 ; Paean, 3; Prussian Bazoay,22 , Westphalia, 19; Julien, Cleves, and `Berg, 12; and the Nether Rhine 132. occumanoe SPECIAL COMMISSION. SALISBURY, J. 3. Before Mr. Baron VAVONAIr, Mr. Justice J. PAILICII4 Mr. Justice A LOSIII3II, the Earl of RADNOR, Slid Mr. EITCOUST, Com missioners. John Ford, aged 17, was ellempil with having riotously and tumul tuously assembled with dims ueszia, and forcibly entered a cer tain factory, and thmalhitsi, dawn, and destroyed c ruin machinery therein, bsismelig ID Nash, at Quidhamptoo. The Jury returned a siege Guilty; and the Court ordett-d sertence 44 death to be recorded gist Wm Mr. Justice Pasts ass silismosi des prisoner :—Prisoner, you will understand that by our weft swims of death to be recorded against you, we coosider yaw INN as vothy • f the royal mercy. It is only in consideration of our tender yeas that we have come to that de:amine. t to the vital foryouiratests of se . es er is etm p magnitude, and of actions importance John Jennings, Is, Gawp fibergold, 23, Henry Sherg. , ht. 30, Thomas Watley 17, James Down, 22, Isaac Cok, 18, William ream, 11, William Lewis, 30, and William Jacobs, SI. were thus,' with hatimgrklenely and tumultously assembled, and u niaw folly 4wooliabal aid anteerol a mill, engines, and machinery therein, to Jim Desk I 4 at Wilton. The Not Guilty. The of tV ei me being sworn to, the prisoners were called upon for their Mama. John Anil. mid— I think the last witness has sworn false sgainst me. I haw modi NM sworn against me that is false than is true. There Is no pews in that mill who has not sworn false against me. Geoma ilbeggill--The two last witnesses have sworn more that is false dos is tam against me. Hooff irr air s When I was committed to prison, the last witness and MS both swore that they could not say any thing against me. 1 was alai la the factory till all was nearly over. I was in the lane, awl was plead into the factory by the mob. 1 never broke Lny. thing whilst them. Mr. Jostles ALDERSON : Hare you any witnesses to character Henry Shergold : No. I did not think it worth while to get any, wt I et=nothing would be sworn against me. Watley accused the witnesses against him of swearing falsely. James Down—The mob thrtatened to ush me into the water be fore I had anything to do with them. F lay men came and took me out of the barn in which i was working. They told me that 1 mu,t go. I have got witnesses to my character. Isaac Cole—The witnesses swore falsely against me. W. Francis.-.I was afraid of my life if I did not go. I don't know who it was threatened me, but I was threatened with death if I did not go. W. Lewis—l was pressed and was obliged to go. William Jacobs put in a written defence, which he declared to be his own composition, and in his own handwriting. He said he bad never been at any bar, nor yet bcfotc any Bench of Magistrates, previously to this unhappy occasion. He hoped their lordships would be favourable to him for the sake of his wife and children. He was at work when the mob came mid pressed him. Ile refused to go with them twice or thrice. They said they would throw him into the river, if he did not go with them. If the Court would be favourable to him, he would never be engaged in such a transaction any mote. The ATTORRILY.UEDIESALL said that Mr. Swain, the gentleman who had the conduct of this prosecution, had made inquiries into the truth of jambe story, and had now every reason to believe it correct. He was a man of excellent character, and he (the Attorney General) had no ob jection to let a verdict of acquittal be recorded as to Jacobs. A farmer of the name of rtokts who had known James Down for seven or eight years, and had employed him for the greater part of that time, rye - Inman excellent character as a quiet, honest, peaceable man. William Francis also received a good character. A person who was called for Lewis gave him the character of a good labourer, but could not speak to his being a peaceable and quiet man. Mr. Justice ALDERSON summed up the evidence, and the jury re turned a verdict of Guilty against all tie prisoners, but William Jacobs. They recommended Lewis to mercy. 3111. JUSTICE PARKE'S CUAROZ. At the conclusion of this uial, John Bean, Esti. M.P. came Ltd court, and said that, as fireman of the grand jury, he had been desired to communicate to Mr. Justice Parke a request in which all of than' bad uuanimously joined. The grand jury had put their request into writing, and be would therefore read it to their c The grand jury beg leave to present their thanks to Mr. Justice antes Parke for his able charge delivered on Saturday. Thinking that such a clear expaition of the law would at this time be highly useful to all orders of the community, they rarest his Lordship*will allow them to hAve it printed." Mr. Benett concluded by stating that be cordially concurred with his fellows, both in the vote of thank., aid in the rams shah the) presented to Ma lordship. Mr. Justice J. PARKE bowed to Mr. Benett, sad we believe watt' to the r eq uest. John Sheryold 22. Gm" Sheryold, 28, and John Day, 24, wee: Urged with having robbed Christopher Ingrain of fie. his sung. The simmers pleaded' Not Guilty." The Arroaxxv.GastraeL opened the case for the pros cation. The prisoners said nothing in their defence. The Jury returned a verdict of Guilty agains the t.to Shogolds, but Acquitted Day. It appeared from the evidence that George and John Bberiold are loth thrashers. George Shergold was in the Rut India Cimpany's , ervice, and had been to Mina as a mariner. His appearance is very skis t. His conduct, and that of his brother, were marked with UNION lev ty during the trill Mr. Baron Vengsex desired them to be taken a w.,y, aosurinr them that their case required consideration, as their punishment would undoubtedly be severe. The ATTORNZT-ORNELRL raid that there was another indict. ment against the prisoner Day for breaking a thrashleg.macitine ; but u be (the Attorney-General) had heard that he was a man of good character, he did not intend to mar any evidence upon it. A verdict of acquittal was accordingly taken upon that indictment. William Bartlett, 30; William Munday, 38; Joseph Beminster, MI; Richard Watley, 40; James House, 23; Samuel Harfoed, 22 ; It anti 20 ; Wm. Bevan, 30 ; W tiliam Farley, 27 ; Henry , 90 ; Jas. Wheeler, 28 ; and William Smith, 33; were charged with having riotously and tumultuously assembled, sad forcibly destroyed a thrashing machine, the property of Ambrose Patient. The prisoners pleaded 4, not guilty." The ATTORNET.OLNERAL, in opening this cue to the Jury, stated the particulars of the offence with which the prisoners were charged. He would take that opportunity to pay the humble tribute of his cep. please to Colonel A'Court, who, upon this occasion, had conducted Ism. ash, as a civil magistrate, with a patience, o a firmness, a rolution, and a ry, which entitled him to the thanks of his country. Colonel li • Court, being informed of the course which these misguided men in. laded to pursue, did all be could by advice to prevent them Item gettirg We the war in which they were then involved. In consequence of his eagmeonts, be thought s& one time that they had operated ; but, ur - lbeilnastely, other counsels ?revelled with them, me they primed d to music the outrages for which they were now put on their trials. C - lend A'Court, hearing of their misconduct, went with a body of sr. dal constables, and sorb other force as he could master, end took all diem prissems in the very communion of the offence for which b:y were doe be to be tried. The hap isa.alaesed a verdict of Guilty against all the prim inerr hateemmilmadloil Ilawmt and Farley to mercy, on account of the excel: lame of tits 111111101016 (Bakes 111. Justice ALDERSON and Air. ESTCOURT.) James Bletatiford, Rickard Puma*. Jsates Mould, Edward Whi Jokes Sarre., and Themes Alm, were put to the bar, charged wi.h hmealdsg and isetropies a thrashing machine. the property of J. Bens t, Req. at Lhaley Pam, ma the 26th of November. (All the pawners, x. rept Alree, were tried es Saturday, and, except White, were tou .d guilty of a similar oases at another farm of Mr. Benett.) lin ilerjeant WILDE. is eating the case to the jury, dwelt in at oar tams em the delusion under which the persons laboured wba engaged in the destruct's. et machinery. Several other rotatable individuals gave the prisoners Airee cad White a pod character. White was described as an industtio..s man, who 'lmpaled his father sad his family. Another witness gave the prisoner Barret a good character. At was observed that the prisoners bad been brought into Court w th handcuffs on; that was extremely improper; when the prieore. as placed on his trial his person should be perfecly free. The gaoler said they were brought in such a burry, they bad t of Cole to take them off. Thomas Light, William Rogers, Henry Herrington, William 1.1 man, Thomas Gauge, and William Cooke, were indicted for destroying a thrashing machine, the property of Timothy Rumboll, .t West Orimstesd, on the 24th of Drcenther. The Jury found a verdict of Guilty against all the pristitirts ; Lut recommended Cooke. hi and Light,.tomercy. '• "%Inv - The prosecutor begged to recoasitnid LoSlim to mercy, ot, ac. count of his previous good characta. Merles Martin, Win. Scott, Roben Mann, John Penny. Jubn Taigitt, Thomas Topr, and Jeremiah Topp were put to the: bar ahaval with breaking and destroy a tbraphing machine. The in. Illohriat charged that Martin and Morn had bees already convicted, at &miser sessions, for felony. It was proved that the prisonent, along with others, caw to the fain Of the prosecutor (Mr. Self.) and destroyed a mahout. A "imam woe called, who swore that the Ent thus primness were pawed by the ma. He gave Scott and °borne a good Amager lied • lowa Ora ire or six yaws, ant never heard aL e h c. ing against them. Ho ass aal that they were ia pilaw for any e A witaeso u S b arop, who is a baker at Fume , and aka to the Sherlirat , was called tut behalf of the prisoner., who Noel shut be art believe Bradley. the chief linen m ei n ., t h em , es Ms es& Mb Neese for it was, that Bradley h.d eared not to ewer spinal semi, obey stealers if their Nelms wculd make op the iog IN I