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I ) f f~ ASSIZE INTELLICEIVCE. OXFORD, MARCH 4. LAW RP PI)RTS. OURT OF CHANCERY, Meatcri 5. TON A TTORNEY-GENERAL V. THE ARCHBISHOP ON TOll. The Si•LictTon-GENERAL. with wham was Mr. BROUGHAM, ap. peared in supi.ort of ;in appeal from an order of the Vice-Chancellor, by which the information in this cause had been dismissed, on the round that -the Court hail not jurisdiction over the matters to which it related. 'rile 'AMR CHANCELLOR, after hearing Mr. SIIRROW sad Mr. BAG. litAw on the other side. said that the revenue must be apportioned by a scheme to be recommended by a Master, and in that the interests of the Warden should he duly considered. No one could complain of the Dean, whose duty it was to protect the rights of his successors ; not a shadow of blame could attach to him. The decree of the Vice-Chan. tenor was reversed ; but the costs should come out of the property, as there was no abuse in the case. Richard Watkins and W. Watkins, were tried for having stolen from the house of Sir John Chandos Reade, Bart. at Shipton.under• Wychwood, plate of the value of about 8001. They were found Guilty, and it was intimated that they would be transported for life. Aasoar.—./. Lynnell, an agricultural labourer, aged 24, was tried tot setting fire to a barn in the occupation of Thomas Horn, the pro.l perry of the Earl of Pomfret. The case was clearly proved by an ac t:env:ice and other witnesses. The prisoner was found Guilty, and tiot the slightest hopes were held out of his life being spared. NORTHAMPTON. ?Asset; 3. William Alcock Holy, convicted at this Assizes of publishing a seditious libel, was sentenced to one month's imprisonment. John Warren, Job Clapham, Ambrose Freeman. John Desborough, Joseph Munn:, John Mould, John blonde:l, and Michael Mums, were indicted for breaking a threshing machine.she property of William Page. of Finedon, in this county. All the prisoners, with the exception of Warren, Minns, and Freeman, were found Guilty. These Assizes terminated on Thursday. WINCHESTER, MARCH b. The Assizes terminated at one o'clock yesterday (Friday) afternoon. Their Lordships will open the Commission at Salisbury this afternoon (Saturday.) PANORAMA OF TH E BRITISH EMPIRE. BRIGHTON HERALD, MARCH 5. The plan of Reform, which was brought forward by Lord John Russell, on Tuesday, was received with the greatest joy and satisfac tion by the inhabitants of this town. The labouring class, in many parishes are complaining most bitterly on account of the reduction of wages again ; as many men, with a fa. roily, are only earning from 9s to 108 per week. We were informed by a baker, that he served a family with bread, to the amout of 7s 10d per week, out of their 9s.—The farmers are now getting 181 and 191 per load for their wheat; yet they do not give the poor man any more than they did when it was selling at 141. A hovel at Ilailsham, belonging to Mr. Waters, was wilfully set on fire last week and consumed, and it was with great difficulty that the ' ricks, and other property on the farm were saved. A fact in connection with this outrage speaks volumes : only a few days precious to the fire, the farmers who at the close of last year raised the wages, and engaged to find full employment for the peasantry, had reduced their prices of labour to the old standard. A few days since, a dog in a dreadfully rabid state was seen at Cross in-Hand Gate; Staplehurst, in this county, from whence he ran to Linton and thence to Tovil, biting, before he was shot, three persons and several dogs and cattle. A Committee of the Commissioners have been appointed, to consider the most proper course to he adopted for procuring the holding of the Assizes, for the Western Division of the County, at Brighton. The materials of the famous blacksmith's shop, and houses adjoining the northern entrance of the Palace, were disposed of by auction, by Mr. Ridley, on Monday last. Workmen have already commenced pulling down the property, and in another fortnight or three weeks, these dilapidated buildings, which have long disgraced the entrance of the Royal Palace, will have entirely disappeared. The carriage-road. in front of the York Hotel, will shortly be opened to the public. This a ill prove a great improvement and convenience, by avoiding the dangerous and circuitous route of Pool-lane to the Marine-parade. We could, without difficulty, instance more than one of the rotten boroughs, which are purposed to be disfranchised by Lord John Russell's bill, where a great part of the labouring classes hold their cottages and gardens rent free, their vote only being required in return. UCKTIELD TO TUNBRIDGE WELLS.—Every individual who travels this sandy, hilly desert, loudly complains of its very dangerous I and ill-conducted state. The Right Hon. the Earl of Abergavenny has it in contemplation to make a new road, at his own expence, through his Lordship's private grounds, to the Wells. The rot continues making frightful ravages among the Southdown Pocks. The Earl of Chichester has granted allotments of land to the labour. rug poor of Summer and Falmer, for the purpose of spade cultivation. LEWES Coax MARKET.—Wheat, white, 31. 18s. ditto, red, 31. Ifis. Beans, 11. 4s. Oats, 11. Ss. to 11. 6s. (h l. per qr. Oil Cake, 121. per thousand. CHICIIESTER Coax MARl:RT.—lnspector's Return:--Wheat, 7.74.3 d. Barley. 38s. 3d. Oats, 265. M. Beans, 41s. 7d. Peas, 395. 2d. DIED.-6.3, Mrs. Jane Jackson, wife of Mr. John Matthew Jack son, upholsterer, &c. of this town.—At Fast Grinsted, Isaac Lowden, Esq. surgeon.—At Chalky, Mr. T. Beard. 60. On the Marine Parade, Richard Wellesley, Esq. eldest son of the Marquess of Wel lesley. LANCASTER GAZF.TTE. The shepherds in Loweswater and the adjoining sheep districts main tain that a greater loss amongst sheep has not been experienced for the last thirty years than that which they have just suffered. They attri bute this unusual mortality to the strong winds and long-continued rains which succeeded the last thaw. It is in contemplation to form a branch Railway from the Liverpool and Manchester Railway at Raithill to Preston. At York. in consequence of the thaw, the waters of the Ouse and Foss rose higher than they have been for 200 years past, and all the lower parts of the city were completely inuntlate&—Hull Packet. His Majesty has been pleased to giant to the inhabitants of Shrews- bury a king's plate of one hundred guineas, to be run for annually. The Lord Chancellor has placed in the hands of the Archbishop of ' York the dispensation of all below the value of two hundred pounds a-year ; and his grace recently exercised the patronage by presenting the incumbency of Castle-gate, York. to the Rev. Mr. Salem. On Wednesday evening, the workshops of Mr. Joshua Smith, joiner and builder, of Kirkdale, were consumed by tire. In a few hours after the flour-mill and warehouse belonging to Mr. Jeremiah Shaw, near the Kirkdale House of Correction, were also discovered to be on tire, and the whole of the interior was destroyed. Last week, in a piece of iron mine at Merthyr, called " Blackpin," some men discovered a species of fat substance, resembling candle grease, which has caused great speculation among the miners in that neighbour hood. When thrown into the fire it melts and flames like any other oily matter. The most experienced miners of Methyr, have never be fore met with any thing of the kind.—,llotaninuthshirc MARRIED.—J. F. Whittell, Esq. of !Manley Lodge, to Phoebe, I 'mind daughter of Capt. Lefroy.—At Liverpool, G. laat. Esq. of Kincardine, to Margaret. eldest daughter of J. Thompson, Esq. In ED.—Alice, wife of Contain John Bond. aged 41.—Alice, relict of the Rev. Mr. Tunstatil. of Eitel. aged 77.—Ai Ileversham, Mrs. Cicely Deckhouse, 70.—Richatti Shiers, Esq. of Fsliton, near Gar grave.—At Wigan, Amelia. daughter of the late John Startifant, Esq. of Preston, 2a --At Liverpool, Edward Ridgway. Esq.—At Torquay, Henry Dixon, Esq. of Liverpool, 29--The Rev. Robert. Brcakspear, of Autllem.—At Seor Green, the Rev. J. Brockbank, formerly of Was- dale Head, 77. NOTTINGHAM nEvirw, I%lAtair 4. On Monday afternoon. the first public meeting of the Nottingham Political Union, was held in the Exchange Hall. for the purpose of making a declaration on the vote by ballot. Mr. Sewell was called to the chair. The meeting was addressed with force and good intelligence by Mr. R. Sutton, Mr. B Boothby. Mr. T. Ilart, Mr. W. P. Smith, Mr. W. Taylor, and Mr. Cox. when the following declaration of the Nottingham Political Union on the Vote by Ballot, was agreed to ; k• We pass at once to the consideration of the only mode of making ha dependent the vote of the poor and dependent elector, the Vote by ballot. :he effects which will he produced in this vicinity by the carrying of the new bill into effect are. first, the town of.Nottinghani,--it will be productive of the great beneficial good of disfranchising from a thou sand to fifteen hundred non-resident electors, to bring up whom to the poll has beer. so ruhantsly expensive to candidates ; and the resident electors will continue in the possession of their franchise, and to them will be added a body of rot less then twelve or fifteen hundred house holders, with the possibility ef pollii.g every vote without much cost. In the constituency of Newark, no change will be made, but the number of electors will gradually bteunie narrowed as the pre sent el,ctors die off. The additional two members to the county, in two psrui, will increase the influence of the manufacturing district immediately surrounding the town, and two popular candidates may be returned for the southern division. Of the northern division we are doubtful, front the immense influence of the " Dukery." In Leicester, the constituency will be considerably reduced, by the disfranchisemept of at leas; a thousand tory non-resident honorary burgesses, while in Derby the number of electors will be considerably aufmented, for though there are many nonresident burgesses, the number of householders to be enfranchised will be much greeter The influence of the Duke of Devonshire in the county of Derby, and of the Duke of Rutland in Lei cestershire, will receive a severe shock, and in all probability one divi sion in each county will be uncontrolled. .•* A meeting was held at Mr. Gilstrap's Hotel, on Wednesday, to take into consideration the best means to resist the tolls at Newark, and Marekham Bridges, hitherto claimed and levied by the Duke of New castle, the meeting was respectably attended, and a subscription en tered into. The Newark market and cattle tolls were also brought under discussion also claimed by the Duke; and we bate no doubt, but Newark will soon be " Toll free." Petitions to Parliament have been prepared at Worksop, against the Registry Bill. The prayer of them rune--" Your petitioners are of opinion that the law requires to be rendered certain, rather than unset tled; to be simplified, rather than rendered more complex; and the I general expenses of the country to be reduced rather than augmented s land this bill is by your petitioners considered likely to be productive of uncertainti t intricacy, and a prodigal waste of public money. At ade ate meeting of the hands employed in the plain silk hose branch ju counties of Nottingham and Derby, it was determined to strike on Monday next, for the list prices of 1824. A meeting of the framework knitters was held at the Robin Hood, Arnold, on Monday, when it was agreed that next Monday, deputations should solicit from the hosiers a return to the statement of 1828. A requisition to the mayor has already been numerously signed, to call a public meeting of the inhabitants, to adopt measures in support of his Majesty's Ministers in their arduous undertaking. NoTTINGHAM, BaTuaame..—The Wheat trade was very dull to. day, and the little business transacted was at a reduction of 2s to 3. per quarter. Malting Barley was dull, but not lower. Oats sold heavily at a reduction of 2s to 3s per quarter. Beans and other grain without alteration. DERBY, FUDAY.—Wheat per qr. fies to 84; Barley, 40s to 43; Oats, 27s to 90 ; Beans 40s to 445. MARRIED.—At Birmingham, Mr. Frederick Simpson. of Derby, to Anna Maria, only daughter of Graham Chappell, Esq. of Oekbrook. —At Peterborough, Mr. Robert Warren, of Stamford, to Mira Mary Ann Frisby. The marriage of the bridegroom's father to the bride's sister was recently announced, and he may now say— My wife my father's sister is, My sister is my mother ; My wife my father's daughter fa, My father is my brother. DIED.—Mr. Wm. Hallam, engineer to the Old Waterwork Corn. pony.—Frances Sophia, wife of the Rev. Francis Tunnicliffe, Rector of Hartshorne, Derbyshire.—At Derby, Mrs. Hall, aged 64. BLACKBURN GAZETTE, MARCH 2. The following Petition against the Monopoly of the East India Company, and fora Free Trade to China, is now lying for Signature at Blackburn.—That in the opinion of your Petitioners, the present state of this country, with its numerous and increasing population, its vast mechanical improvements, and the great accumulation of its capital, makes it incumbent on the Legislature to adopt all practical means of opening new channels of commerce for its merchants and manufac turers. That a free trade with the rich, populous, and commercial people of China presents such an opening; but the exclusive privileges of the East India Company debar British merchants, and them only, from approaching this almost boundless market for our manufactures, whilst we alone are made to pay an exorbitant monopoly price for tea, now become one of the necessaries of life. Your Petitioners submit to your Honourable House that the plea of the East India Company (that the profits of the China monopoly are necessary to enable them to carry on the government of India) is unworthy of your consideration ; and that to accede to such a demand would be to the full as absurd and unjust as to grant them, for that purpose, a monopoly of the American or Irish trade. The object of the Liverpool anti Leeds Railway, is to open a direct line for the transit of carriages, impelled by steam ' from the port of Liverpool into and through the great coal-field of Lancashire, to com municate with the large towns and numerous manufacturing establish. mcnts situated in that district, and, ultimately, to penetrate through the central ridge of England into the West Riding of Yorkshire, the great seat of our woollen manufacture, and so on to the ports of the Humber, thereby forming an expeditious mode of conveyance from Lancashire to the German Ocean, and from Yorkshire to the Irish Sea, through the most populous and industrious parts of the empire. A collateral advantage is, the facilitating the communication between these towns and places, and the great mart of our manufactures at 3lanchester. The mal is to be spacious and convenient, with four lines of railways, two for swift carriages going and returning with passengers and light goods. and two for slower carriages with heavy goods and minerals. The whole road is to be lighted up with gas, so as to be travelable by night as well as day; the constraint of the trots rails securing carriages from obstructing each other. By these means the traveller may be conveyed, at any time, from the shores of the Ale% soy to those of the !lumber in six hours. A deputation from the Cotton trade in Lancashire, and other places, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Monday. the result of which was an agreement to the following resolutions :—" From and after the passing of the resolutions, the duty on printed calicoes to be repealed.— All goods in operation on printed grounds shall be writ. ten off the excise books.—No drawback to be given but in cases of shipment, and three nionths to be allowed for exportation.—The duty on all cotton imported, not the growth of India or of our Colonies, to be fibs of a penny per lb. weight."—This determination, which is to be regarded as a sort of compromise between the Chancellor of the Ex chequer and the Lancashire deputation, has excited in Carlisle very great dissatisfaction. In Carlisle it wilfoperate as a tax of 10 per cent. upon the wages of the operatives—that is, where the manufacturer for. inerly could pay 10s. to his workpeople, he will henceforth only be enabled to pay Os. We notice, as an instance of extraordinary despatch in the shipping business of Liverpool, that the packet ship York, Captain Burnley, a vessel of nearly 500 tons burthen, arrived here on the 16th i commenced her discharge of a general cargo on the 17th instanir,ll:i was reloaded and ready for sea (Sunday intervening) on the 221 inst. thus occupying only four days and a few hours in the entire process.... The York bailed for New York on Thursday morning. On Sunday evening, about seven o'clock, a fire broke out in the wino and spirit vaults of Messrs. Bevan and Smith, in Slater's-court, Castle. street, Liverpool. The flames raged with great violence for nearly an hour, completely destroying the interior of the warehouse. DISTRICT PROVIDENT SOCIETY.—This Liverpool institution has, from 7th January to the sth February, attended to 1,277 applic,atio of which 1,014 have been relieved with bread and soup, 23 have refused to take soup, 137 have been referred to the parish, and 103 have bees dismissed as unworthy. CoTTON WEAVERS.—The following letter has been addressed le the " Weavers' Committee," in this town, by Mr. Radcliffe, who hats been sent to London to lay a statement of their condition before Go vernment. Gentlemen,—On Monday last, I sent a note to Lord Auckland, President of the Board of Trade. Ilia lordship appointed yesterday to see me. I sat down with the president, vice-president, and another gentleman for sonic time, and at last succeeded in getting their pledge that government will support a "fair, candid, and impartial enquiry into the merits of our cause by a committee that will be appointed," to whom not only your late memorial to his Majesty, and one from 801. ton to the Lords of the Treasury, with such petitions as have or may be presented, will be,referred ; but I have also got his lordship's consent to have all those memorials to the Prince Regent, and petitions that were presented in 1810.17 referred to the same com mittee. Mr. Radcliffe has addressed a second letter to the Secretary of the Weavers' Committee, in which he states that the manufacturers and bleachers of Bolton have sent a Mr. Richard Needham to assist him ; and that they waited upon Lord :Stanley on the 23th ult. for the pur pose of arranging a plan for bringing the question of the exportation of , cotton yarns before Government. Lord Stanley," says the letter, I " made many objections, which were, 1 trust, completely answered, as his lordship, in conclusion, recommended that those townships which have not sent petitions should do so as soon as possible." At a meeting of the committee of the Bolton branch of the associa tion. for the protection of children employed in cotton factories, on the evening of the 113th tilt. it was unanimously resolved to petition Parlia ment in support of Mr. Hobhouse's bill, which is now before the House of Commons. It is our mournful duty to record, that about half-post seven o'clock on Thursday morning, an accident happened at the colliery of J. B. Hollingshead, Esq. at Pemberton, near Wig in by which no fewer than eighteen lives were lost—sixteen of the number having died upon the spin. The people being at work, as usual, an explosion of fire damp took place, and instantaneously terminated the existence of six teen unfortunate persons, namely, twelve men, three women, and one girl. Seven others were severely wounded, two of the number having died in the course of the day, and we fear there are apprehensions that more of the wounded arc past recovery. The cause of the explosion we Dave not heard, but we doubt not that in our next we shall be able to communicate further details. We understand that the colliery at which this accident has occurred, is the same in which an explosion took place het year, when nine persons were killed. There is as yet no appearance of the contest between Messrs. Butter worth and Brooks and their men, being brought to a speedy conclusion, indeed, the conduct of the workmen has been even more outrageous than before, and it has been found necessary to station two companies of the 33e1 regiment of toot at Sunnyside to preserve the peace. The lawless proceedings of these men, however, are likely soon to be put a stop to ; for on Tuesday week a general meeting of the associated calico printers of the district was held in Manchester, when a vote of thanks to Messrs. Butterworth and Brooks was unanimously passed ; and it was resolved that they should receive all the support and assistance which the association could give diem—even to the extent of stopping all the works, if necessary ; and that the entire expense which might arise from resisting the outrageous conduct of the men should be defrayed by the association. TRADES' UNlON.—Considerable commotion has been excited amongst the members of the National Association for the Protection of Labour, by the sudden disappearance of one of its officers, who is sup posed to have carried off with him a considerable sum of money. It appears that lie had been required by the committee to make up his ac counts during tire present week ; he went off, and with him, disap peared, the cash in his possession. Rumours have been afloat respecting the removal of the Assizes from Lancaster. The hints communicated to us hum private quarters, in. doss us, however, to fear that an adjournment of the civil causes to Manchester and Liverpool, will, at no very distant period take place.. MAHRIED.--At Stockport, Mr. John Bradley, surgeon, to Miss Mary Ellen Browning. At Chester, Mr. Hugh Shaw, of M a nchester, to Harriet, third daughter of the late Mr. George Wood, of Auden- shaw-house. DEATHS.--Mri. Hutchinson, wife of the Rev. R. Hutchinson, Incumbent of Litde Mandel, near Burnley. At Preston, Mrs. Chamley, Jordan-street, mother of M r. Charnle y , Solicitor, Fishergate. SHEFFIELD COURANT. We bear it is the Intention of the proprietors of the High Peak Rail way, to erect corn mills near the four inclined planes on that line, in order to find employment for the extra power of the steam engines at those places. - The commissioners of the road from Chesterfield to Sheffield have determined to oppose the intended railway from Sheffield to Manchester crossing their turnpike road north of Heeley Bridge, conceiving that such an interruption of the public passage so near the grand entrance of a great manufacturing town. would be an itolerable nuisance. Our clothiers can now purchase wool i n n Dresden, manufacture it in Ragland, and send the cloths, made from that wool, to Dresden, to undersell, at their own doors, the manufacturers of that city. Business is rather slack at Knaresborough. It does not appear that the linen manufacturers of that town are partaking of the activity which at present prevails in the Wast Riding. New STEAM Sate.—Last week was launched from the yard of Messrs. Richard Pearson and Co. at Thorne, a new steam ship, named the Transit, one of the largest and finest vessels of her class ever built. Her beauty and symmetry, and the excellent arrangement of her lute.' rior ' are universally extolled, and do infinite medic to the builders.— She is intended for the Hamburgh trade. A few days ago, a party met at the Anchor, Stone Gravels, near Chestettield, and after enjoying themselves freely, they agreed to decide by toss, upon which of the company the experiment of hanging by the neck should be made, when the lot fell upon a person named Glossop. The trick was immediately put into execution, and it nearly proved for life appeared to be extinct for some time. THE TYNE MERCURY, MARCH I. A trial for murder at the Durham Assizes, on circumstantial eels dence, has excited great interest in that and the neighbouring counties. It employed the Court nearly two days, and terminated in the convic tion and execution of the prisoner. The case was briefly as follows : Thomas Clark, aged 19, and Mary Ann Westhrope, about the same age, were servants to Mr. Oliver, of Hallgarth Mill, near Durham. On 'Sunday, Aug. 8, Mr. Oliver and his wife passed the whole day from home, and between five and six o'clock Clarke walked to an adjoin ing village, and alarmed the inhabitants with an account that six men had entered the mill, killed his fellow-servant, and Titled the house, while he with difficulty had escaped. But as several persons had passed the mill about the time, and no such men had been seen, and above all, as Mr. Oliver's money-box was found in a field through which Clarke had passed in his way to the village, and as marks of blood ap peared about his clothes, suspicion fell on him, in spite of his previous good character, and a very elaborate case was made out. It appeared that the poor girl had first been struck with a poker, and then had her throat cut. After his conviction, and at the place of execution, he so lemnly denied hie guilt. RICHMOND Senr.stwo.—.A Meeting was held on Tuesday last, in the Guildhall, for the purpose of taking such measures as should be deemed expedient in older to obtain the abolition of the duty on coals exported from the river Tyne, called the Richmond Shilling. Archi bald Reed, Esq. the Right Worshipful the Mayor, in the Chair.— John Brandling, P. said, it having fallen to his lot to bring the subject before them, he should do it in the best manner he could. There was no man more Interested in the subject than he himself was. They hail to sign a petition that day for the removal of a tax at once odious and burdensome, and though the notice had been short, he was glad to see so numerous and respect able an assembly. They had not met there to discuss any theoretical point, but to do what he hoped Englishmen would always do, to resist oppression. This was a harsh term, bue it was, the only one be could findi to describe the conduct of those who would attempt to saddle them with this odious tax. He could not me why there should be the' slightest demur against the removal of such a tax in the minds of those men who crone into power professing liberal principles—that Ministry which had made parliamentary reform a cabinet question. If that Mi. nistry gave us, as we had a right to expect, a reform in parliament, the first act of that reformed parliament would be to turn many of them out of their places, unless they acted differently from what they seemed disposal to do. What bad Newcastle done to merit this treatment? — Was it because they had remained so long quiet, and paid 7s whilst other ports paid but Gs a chaldron on the coals. The Meeting was aware of the nature of this tax. Had Government not purchased it, the payment of it might have been resisted, and resisted successfully. Mr. Ald. Sorsbie, in seconding the petition observed, that be thought I the Government could not be aware of the odium that attached itself to the events from the origin of this tax, or they would endeavour to blot out the recollection of it for ever by repealing it at once. The pe tition was unanimously adopted. The history of this tax is as follows :—ln the 42d year of Elizabeth, the company of boatmen of the town of Newcastle upon Tyne, who had received a charter of incorporation, and then exercised the exclusive pri vilege of vending all coals shipped on the river Tyne, granted to her Majesty, the sum of twelve pence for every chaldron of coals, New castle measure. which should be eanprted from the river Tyne. This duty was received by the crown until the 29th of Charles the Second, when his Majesty granted the same to his Majesty's natural son, Charles, Duke of Richmond, and his heirs, subject to a provision for his mother, Louise, Duchess of Portsmouth. That the said duty con tinued in the family of the Duke of Richmond until the year 1792, when it was purchased by Government for about 400,0001. since which period Government has been in the receipt of the proceeds, and in con sequence of the vast increase of the coal trade which has since taken place, and the corresponding increase in the produce of this duty, the capital sum or purchase money, and all interest thereon, has not only been fully redeemed, but a surplus or profit of upwards of half a mil lion sterling has been actually realized by Government. Mezzo Durres. —Another meeting was held after the above, at the Trinity Hall, for the purpose of conakiering the propriety of peti tioning Parliament against any alteration in the present duties on fo reign and colonial timber. From the statements then made, it appears that there are at present 600,000 tons of British shipping employed in the colonial timber trade, and that 69,000 of those tons belong to this port alone, and consequently this was one of the most essential branches of trade connected with the shipping interest. If, therefore, as bad been projected, the government were to impose an additional duty on colonial timber, the British shipowners would be unable to com. Pete with those of the other northern parts of Europe ; and the trade would thus be left exclusively to than, to the great detriment of the shipowners, and the utter destitution of the seamen employed in their ships. Two petitions, embodying these facts, and prayinL; against the proposed measure, were unanimously resolved quo). bromenv SICK SOCIETY.—This society held their annual meet. ing on Wednesday evening last, in the Music Hall, Blackett-street.-- The Reverend the Vicar, as chairman, opened the meeting in an im pressive manner. From the report, which aas read by the Rev. A. H. Dodd, it appeared that this society bad, since its commencement, a riod of four years, expended between 12001. and 13001. for the relie f - of from two to three thousand families. This year the sum expended was 2841. and the number of families relieved was 450. Besides this sum of money, which was generally dispensed in the shape of food, clothing, 18 keels of coals were given for distribution to the society by the liberality of several coal-owners. These coals had been distributed to about one thousand poor families. On Thursday last, a most respectable meeting of gentlemen took place in the Guildhall of this loan, for the purpose of establishing a Society for the Relief of Widows and Orphans of Shipwrecked mark. ncrs. A. Reed, Esq. Mayor, having been called to the chair, the meeting was ably addressed by the Vicar of Newcastle ; the Revs. R. H. Brandling and Mark ; and John Brandling, 0. Straker, H. Hewitson 'Si. Chadinan, IL B. Sanderson, Esqre. and others. Seve ral resolutions in furtherance of the object were agreed to. A petition from this town against the projected tax of Is per bead on each passenger going by a steam boat less than 20 miles, signed by up wards of 3000 persons will be sent off this evening, Monday, to be pre sented to the Commons House by Sir M. W. Ridley, hart. A petition to parliament against the bill for rating landlords of tone. mental property to the poor-rate is now in a course of signature in this town. Should the bill pass, it is, we understand, intended by the land. lords to cause the stocks in trade, manufactures, shipping, &c. to be rated to the pour rate, to which they are now actually liable by law. MELANCHOLY ACClDENT.—Saturday last, a very serious accident occurred upon the Hetton waggonway,near to Hare Law. As the Rev. John Branfoot, and John Hewson, primitive methodist preachers, we re proceeding to their appointments in the country, in endeavouring to avoid some loaded waggons, they were unfortunately run over by some light ones coming in a contrary direction. Mr. Hewson was killed on the spot ; Mr. Branfoot, although severely crushed, was immediately removed to the Sunderland Infirmary, where he lingered for a few hours in great bodily pain, but perfectly sensible, and enjoyed the consola tions of that religion which he had with distinguished success recom mended to others for many years. On Monday week, a numerous meeting of the inhabitants of Hex ham and its vicinity was held in the Moot Hall, John Bell, Esq. Bailiff; in the chair, for the purpose of taking into consideration the propriety of petitioning the legislature for a reform in the House of Commons. The meeting was addressed by the Rev. C. Bird, of Chol. lerton, John Stokoe, Mr. Matthew Wilson, and other gentlemen. The operations at the Foxdale mines, in the Isle of Man, are pro ceeding with mote than wonted briskness. A vein of up wards of a yard square of solid metal has been discovered so near the surface that the roots of the heather are imbedded in the ore. These mines are said to be immensely productive—the proceeds of three months amounting we understand, to 14,0001. MARRIED.—In this town, at St. Andrew's church, Capt. E. Hen. derson, to Eliza, second daughter of Mr. Flower Humble, of Jeamond —2Bth ult. at St. John's, Mr. T. Oliver, of this town, grocer, to Elisas beth, only daughter of James Clapham, Esq. of Hallowell House, near Ileighington. LORD ALTIIORP'S NEW GAME. BILL. An abstract of all the material alterations in the Law, by the amend the Laws in Engiand relative to Game : Repeals the Acts from 13th Rich. 11. to 9th Geo. IV. inclusi v y, The possession of game illegal after ten days in dealers, and t. 1.• days in other persons, from the expiration of the season. This Act not to affect the existing laws respecting game eatiticat, except that the duty on game certificates shall be raised to :ti. e gain E e v k ery eepers cerii a ll l cled 6 /seno r % o m th a er y Pe kr n i game, subject to the law of pass, except gamekeepers. Persons entitled to the game upon lands of the annual valet et :tisq. may appoint gamekeepers. Every person, who shall have obtained annual game certificate, sh a y have power to sell game to any person licensed to deal in game, provided that no game certificate on which a less duty than 61. is chargeable on. der this Act shall authorize any gamekeeper to sell any game, ext.:l.r, on the account of his master. Justices of the peace, upon some day in July, to hold a special acre: , for granting licenses to deal in game ; and are authorised, if they this; fit, to grant to any person, being a householder or keeper of a shop 4 ,- stall, a license for one year to buy game, and also to sell the same at one house, shop, or stall only, kept by him. Persons so licensed to take out a certificate with a duty of 21. Pen a h ) for dealing without such certificate 201. Collectors to make out Jim of persons who have obtained licenses to deal in game, which is to open for inspection to any applicant paying Is. Penalty for selling game without a license, and on certificated persons selling game to others than licensed dealers, 21. for every head of game: sod She same penalty on persons buying, except from licensed dealers. Licensed dealers buying from uncertificated persons are liable to Inf. penalty. Servants of licensed dealers, acting in the usual course of their (Au liVent upon licensed premises, may sell for their employer. alty for trespassing in day time in pursuit of game 21. on convict don before a justice of the peace ; the leave of the occupier no defence. where the landlord has the right of killing upon such land, by reserva tion or otherwise. Such trespossers not quitting the land when required. may be asked to give their names and abodes, and in case of refusal may be arrested and conveyed before a justice, and, if convicted, forfeit 51. but must be brought before such justice within six hours. The pro- visions as to trespassing not to apply to persons hunting, Ac. Imprisonment for nonpayment of penalties two months, where the amount to be paid, exclusive of costa, be under 51. and not exceediag three months in any other case. Power of appeal to quarter sessions by giving to the complainant notice in writing three days after conviction, and seven clear days befor: such sessions, and within such three days entering into a recognizance before a justice to try such appeal, and abide the judgment of the cow t. BOARD OF EXCICE, MARCH 5. ADD vricaxrrows.—ltlr. Daniel Grass, of the Fountain and Still, Golden-lane, was charged with having adulterated beer in Ilia poetw. don. He was fined rolL Mr. Charley Avey, Golden Anchor, Golden-lane, was charged on a similar information. The detection was proved by the same witnet‘e-. Fined 7M. Mr. John Lough, of the Kettle Drum, Ratcliffe-highway, appzaret on a simil ar infoniation. The Court, because the beer had been adul terated at the rate of one-fourth of water, fined the defendant 100 1 . Mr. James Samuel Sparks, White hart, PortpooLlane, Hatton. garden, was lined 751. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. 111aarLanowt.—Saturday Mr. Paull, watchmaker and jeweller. Clevelandweet, attended respecting a pair of valuable regulatios epaulettes which had been stolen from Captain Cowper, of the Oxford Blues. The epaulettes in question were purchased by :aptain Const at the sale of his late Majesty's wardrobe. On Thursday week, th; Captain being engaged to a ball at the Duke of Devonshire's took foul parcels in a coach from the Regent's Park Barracks to Aladdox-street. where lie was to dress ; one of the parcels was a tin case containing the epaulettes, which was missing when the coach arrived in Maddox street. On Thursday the Corporal-Major of the Regiment discovered a portion of the epaulettes at Messrs. Abud and Co's, refiners, in Long. acre, where it had been sent by Mr. Paull to be burnt down ; part of the property had already undergone the refining process. Ale. l'aull said, that on Tuesday last a well.dressed man came ins; his shop, and tendered nine ounces of what he stated to be fringe be. longing to an old Court dress sold when the late King's wardrobe war disposed of. He (Mr. P.) bought them at ss. per ounce, and, on the following day, he bought eighteen ounces more of the same kind. Hr asked neither the name nor the address of the stranger, nor did hi believe that any shopkeeper in London would have required it from s person of the stranger's appearance. Mr. Itawarws(»; said that Mr. Paull was bound to make every exertion to discover the stranger, which Air. Paull promised to do, and departed. Um); Hata....-Lieutenant J. H. Wheatley appeared to answer a charge of assault made by Mrs. Day, the wife of a tradesman In the. Kent-road. The defendant's wife, it appeared, had been placed in a private mad-house by the defendant, although not insane. On Tuesday week she made her escape from her husband, who had taken her our for the first time, in order that she might go to the Accountant-Gene. rays office in Chancery-lane, and receive some money that had Jaen placed out for her in the care of the Court of Chancery. She fled re Mr. Day's, whom she had known before, and who refused to let het be taken away by the defendant, when he came the next day with a , certificate. Mr. 1/ay had, however, obtained a certificate himself of her sanity, and was firm. An altercation then ensued, in which the. Defendant pushed Mrs. Day in the stomach violently, because she was removing the bonnet of Mrs. Wheatley, who fled up stairs. The de readmit denied the assault, but calling no witnesses was held to bail. himself in GUI. and two sureties in 401. each. Mrs. Wheatley professed great fear, but was assured she should be protected. THAMES POLICE.—An old Irish woman, named Mary Lemon, was placed at the bar, with twelve girls of the ages of from 10 to ln years whom she was charged with sending out to procure money by prostitution, stealing and singing ballads. All the girls appeared halt starved : some were afflicted with disease, and others had scarcely any clothing. When the officers entered the woman's residence in Marra.. duke court, St. George's, they found it in a most filthy state. Thr woman was in bed drinking gin, and two boys, who exhibit.slight.of• hand tricks In the streets, were lying by her side. The girls were hud dled round a fire eating potatoes, and, notwithstanding their tender age. made use of the most obscene language. The effluvia arising from thr place was so great, that the officers could scarcely endure it. A cooper said that one ot.the children. a girl, twelve years of ag... who had neither shoes nor stockings rat and no other clothing than old frock, was his daughter. She left Ls house on Monday, well clad, and was decoyed into the woman's hovel, where her clothing was take: from her. The girl was given to her father, and others were sent — some to the hospital, and some to the parishes to which they belonge The woman was sent to prison. Al A ItHIED. At Edinburgh, on the 28th ult. Captain Nicholas Wright, Blyta. county of Northumberland, to Miss Margaret Scott, of St. Andrews.— At Edinburgh, on the 2d curt. the Rev. John Taylor, M.D. Alinirci of the United Secession Church, Auchtermueitty, to 31atian , youngest daughter of the late Mr. J. Wardlaw, merchant in Dalkeit;l. DIED. At the island of Grenada, on the 21st of December last, Andrrr• Houstoun, Esq. President of the Council.—At his house, near Burn • island, in Fife, on the 21st ult. Mr. J. F. Denovan, some time intr. chant in Leith, and his Majesty's Consul in Scotland for the king4l,.:. of Hanover. CORN-EXCHANGE-THIS DAY. We have but extremely short supplies of English Wheat. whlci. causes a more brisk demand for Foreign, and the prices of this dad se'noight are still supported. In consequence of the duty being at the lowest, we have a quantity of Foreign Barley brought into the market, which has reduced the best samples is. per quarter, and inferior kind• are from 2a. to 3s. lower. We have a large supply of Oats, and r ith heavy trade they are la. cheaper than on this day week. Beans an' Peas remain unaltered. Lower terms hare been offered for Flee'. • it remains nominally as last week. Wheat,nev,Kent, Essex 74s 781 , Peas, Grey . NI 4. • Old . —s —s' Beans, Small . . iflt 4 Suffolk, (White) . 721 761. Tick . 321 :d . Norfolk & Suff. (Red), 68s 72. Oats, Potatoe . ...:'. *.ii• Rye . . 301 34s 1 Poland . 21' :;* Barley, :481 40s ..Fine 44s 471 Feed . .14 = t' Peas, White . 411. 42. Flour, per sack, . . 614 t;" Boilers . . 451 48s Rapeseed . £36 £3B per •'• ausyrat.s. Wheat, English (qrs.) - 1.862 . Barley, Foreign - Irish - - - —; Oats, English Foreign . - - 6,003 1 Irish . Barley, English - - 6.112 I Foreign . Trish - - - —. 1 Flour (seeks) SMITHFIELD-THIS DAY. CATTLE •T MARKET 4";: 15.45, • I Beasts, 2.9B2—Sheep, 18,140--Pigs, 18O—Calves, 1 34 Beef ....... 4s 04 to 4s 6.1 Pork ...... 4s 44 1 " Mutton 44 641 5s 24 Lamb 04 04 p. Veal Hay (perload), 101. to £4 Os. Clover, £3 10s. to * Straw, £1 10s. to £2 2s. COAL-EXCHANGE-THIS DAY. Ships arrived during the month During the week Best Wallsend Coals 29s 6.1 30. Oil Other sorts Ships at Minket, 185. +a. Lownou : Printed and Published by Jouw MAYNE, at ti ?'" Orrics, No. 1, Pickett- Once, Temple Bar,