Star. — London, England, 1831-07-26 00:00:00

• oh • (^~~.~ I IC ' i~ o ~ ~~ I A' • A; 1! LIT r.RATU gr. Letter lathe Ri. Al Hon. Viscount Pcs!merstusa 6n the Alfainrf Ptlend.—By NIONTAOVr. GORE, r. m . Is. cd. At the Congress of Vienna, says Mr. Gore, the nmbitious views of tire noi•thern autocrat were strongly, thorgh ineffectually opposed by the other great powers. And here let me in passing do jus tice to the conduct of the British minister at that congrecs, Lord Castlereagh, who maintained the cause of Polish independence with a zeal worthy of the representative of a free people, and enforced his views with no common energy and power. Ho declared it to bt• " the wish of England to see s•.me independent power established in Poland, as a septuation between time three great powers of Europe :" and the Prince Telleyrand remarked, that " of all the questions to be discussed at the comr:ess, he considered the affairs of Poland as incomparably the most important to the interests of Europe ; if there be any chance that that nation, co worthy of regard for its antiquity, its valour, Ps eris rortnnes, and the services which it has formerly 7 endered to Europe. might he restored to complete ;,.(:#l.,:ndence." The courts of Austria and Prussia ressed themselves in similar terms; and the Prince Metternich declared, that Austria would sacrifice some of her own territory, if by so doing the freedom of Poland could be ensured. Let us then hear no jests about " Polish inde pendence," as if it were some poetical fancy, or idle dream ; for here we have the recorded opiuions of three statesmen, who have not been accounted too fond of liberty, but whose talents, discernment, and acuteness, none can question, that the affairs of Poland were matters of the highest importance, and that its independence would be highly condu cive to the maintenance of general tranquillity. Their arguments, however, had no weight with the Russian Emperor, who insisted on the annexa tion of the Duchy of Warsaw to his empire ; And to this the allies reluctantly assented ; but upon terms to which I now beg to direct especial at tention. The terms insisted on by the allies were, that Poland should hare separate national institutions, independent of Russia. Lord Castlereagh expressly declared, that " on these conditions only, his Royal Highness the Prince Regent would no longer have to fear that any danger to the liberty of Europe would re sult from the union of Poland to the Russian empire." His lordship further requested. the allies " not to leave Vienna till they pledged themselves that the Poles in their respective dominions, under whatever form of government they might think proper to place them, should still be treated as Poles." To this they agreed ; and the Emperor of Austria in particular declared, " that he ap proved of the national institutions which it was the intention of the Russian Emperor to grant to the Polish nation." The words of the article in virtue of which the duchy of Warsaw was annexed to Russia were these: " The duchy of Warsaw, with the exceptii of those provinces and districts which are other wise disposed of by the following articles, is united to Russia. It shall be irrevocably bcund to the Russian empire BY ITS CONSTITUTION, to be enjoyed by his Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias, his heirs and successors for ever." It will be seen, therefore, that although the allied powers consented to Russia taking possession of the duchy of Warsaw, they did so on the express un derstanding that the separate institutions and con stitution of Poland were to be preserved entire ; and that the Emperor of Russia should hold the duchy of Warsaw annexed to his ether territories, and bound to the Russian empire by its constitu tion. The allies, therefore, became guarantees for the preservation to the Poles of their institu tions ; and the duchy of Warsaw being annexed to Russia by the constitution, the annexation was of course void, if the constitution was not pre served. The Emperor of Rursia himself said, in a letter to Count Ostrowski, President of the Po lish Senate: " It is with peculiar satisfaction that I announce to you, that the destiny of your coun try is about to be fixed, with the concurrence of all the powers assembled at the Congress of Vienna. The kingdom of Poland shall be united to the em pre of Russia by the bond of its om it constitution, en which 1 am desirous of founding tie happiness of the country." We here have, under the hand and seal of his Russian majesty, a distinct admission of two im portant points : first, that whatever measures were taken with respect to Poland, it was with the con currence of all the powers ; and, secondly, that Poland was united to Russia by the bond of its own constitution ; in other words, that the title of the Emperor of Russia to Poland depended on the maintenance of the Polish constitution ; and on this ground, and this alone, did the other powers concur in the measure. According to the constitution, the existing sta tutes of the Duchy were to be preserved in almost every instance. A native of the country was to be lieutenant of the kingdom, except some prince of the blood was appointed viceroy : no person was to be arrested but according to certain legal forms : no man was to be imprisoned without being ac quainted with the grounds of Lis imprisonment, and every person was to be brought before the judges within three days of the date of his imprisonment. No alteration was to be made in taxes, nor even any civil or criminal laws to be passed without the consent of the General Diet. Stich were some of the leading features of the Polish constitution, and there is not one of them which was not...flagrantly violated. Scarcely was the wax cold with which the treaty had been sealed, when it was broken in tl:e most uoscru puka; manner; and the plighted faith of the emperor, the sancity of sacred promises, and the guarantee of the great powers of Europe, proved but weak and feeble barriers against the encroach ments of ambition. The Grand Duke Constantine was appointed to the command of the Polish army, and immediately commenced a system of measures, than which, nothing more tyrannical or more absurd has been recorded in history. So far were the existing statutei of the Diet from being preserved, that they were treated with the greatest contempt and disregard; and a death-blow was given to the power of the Diet itself by the resolution of the Grand Duke, that the budget of the army should be decided by himself, without controul from the civil government. It was expressly provided by the constitution, that no financial measures what- 1 1 over should be resolved on, without the consent of the Diet; vet in the very teeth of this provision, the Grand Duke dared to arrogate to himself the right, the uncontrolled right, of regulating the budget of the army. The articles that related to personal liberty were treated with similar disregard ; citizens of rank; of character, and unblemished reputation, , were imprisoned without any cause being as, signed, and were punished without trial; in many instances were they doomed to pass years in dungeons, untried, unp;tied, and unheard. Such monstrous, such iniquitous proceedings, tatty well startle the reader of these pages ; and for the sake of humanity, for the honour of the Russian government, would to Con that they were un founded. But the details are too clear and too explicit to leave any doubt on the subject.— " In the fortress of Zamosc twelve state prisoners were found, some of whom had been incarcerated for six years without haying undergone a trial, and whose names were only known to the commander of the castle. In the 'dungeons of Haricnanski, in Warsaw, was found a victim of the Russian police, who had been kept in solitary confinement for tea yea's, and whose fate was entirely unknown to his friends and relatives. Respectable inhabitants of Warsaw were often taken and flogged before the Grand Duke, without the formality of a bird, or the specification of a charge. Some were even, in the same unlawful manner, made to break stones or wheel barrows in the streets or high ways, like galley slaves. Persons of rank were frequently taken from their homes, immured in prison, and dismissed after several weeks incar ceration, without knowing what alleged offence had provoked such a wanton exercise of power. State offenders were carried out of the country to Rus sian prisons, and attempts were made to give them a journey to Siberia, which were only pre vented by the threat of suicide on the part of the victims.' Where is the callous sophist ? where the cold blooded Jesuit, that will dare to stand forward as the apologist for these infamous, these inhuman proceedings? Here we see the most sacred pro mises broken ; the laws of honour disregarded ; all ties human or divine alike scoffed at ; and innocent men denied that justice to which the most guilty are entitled, and condemned to punishments I which none but the most criminal should have endured. Poland has done no more than what England would have done under the same circumstances. She saw her tights disregarded, her liberties trampled on, her laws violated, and therefore she arose to vengeance. The sword of her warriors leapt from its scabbard, bat not till the sceptre of justice had departed from her rulers. The constitution had declared, " the liberty of the press is guaranteed, the law will regulate the means of repressing its abuses." This article was treated with the same contempt as the others, and was never regarded. The voice of truth was never heard, the progress of improvement was stopped, and under the despotic sway of a mili tary chieftain, no opinions were allowed to be promulgated, but such as met the sanction of the absolute dictator. After such conduct on the part of Russia, when not merely the faith of treaties, but the common principles of humanity, had been so disregarded ; when all the ties that unite man to man, and bind nation to nation, had been thus scoffingly outraged ; I ask not whether the Polish revolution was justifiable, but whether the Poles would not have been unworthy of being called men, whether they would not have merited the treatment they experienced at the hands of their ruthless masters, if they had not availed themselves of the first op portunity to resist their oppressors? In an ill-starred hour for his own fame and in terests, the Emperor Nicholas resolved on march ing the Polish army to crush the opening pros pects of freemen in other kingdoms; and required flora the already impoverished country an addi tional contribution of 42,000,000 florins. The order for this contribution reached Warsaw on the 27th of Nov. on the 29th resistance was determined on ; and on the 30th Warsaw was free ! And who were the men, who in that critical juncture took the lead of affairs ? No adventurers of fortune; no tractors in popular commotion; no obscure or unknown individuals ; but the princes of the land, and statesmen and generals of unques tioned integrity and talent. " They were Prince Adam Czartorinski, the first nobleman in Poland, and allied to royal families; Prince Michel Radzivil, a man of admirable cha racter and extensive possessions ; Gen. Clopicki, so distinguished in the Polish legion ; Gen. Pac ; the Castellan Rochonoe Ai, and the first name in Polish literature, M. Nieunceo icz. " The fame thus kindled in the capital speedily extended to the provinces—and the whole of Po land, in the eloquent language of Milton, " roused herself like a strong man after sleep, and shook her invincible locks—while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, fluttered about, amazed at what she meant." Aptly does this language describe the conduct of Poland and the demeanour of her oppressors. She indeed, " as a noble and puissant nation," arose and smote her despots—but they, fearful to strike in return, were palsied with amazement, hovered for a short time over the prey they were reluctant to quit. and then retired precipitately. What was the conduct of the Emperor Nicholas when the news of this revolution reached him ? In what way did he treat this n.anifestation of the will of a whole people, beaded by their princes ? Did by inquire into the came of these events ? Did he offer to concur with the moderate wishes' of the Polish Deputies, who demanded the fulfil ment of his own sworn promises ? No Ihe spurned their deputies, he scoffed at their propo sals ; and as if it were not enough to outrage the laws of man, he dared to blaspheme Heaven. Im piously he dared to invoke the blessings of a God ofjustice and of mercy on his savage and barbarian measures; and his fit agent, Diebitsch, coupled appeals to heaven with " the Russian cannon." But the question, the important question for England and the rest of Europe, is this ;—shall this contest be allowed to continue? Shall this brave nation be allowed to be immolated at the shrine of Russian ambition; for we must not for get how unequal is the contest ; and that, however brilliant are the present successes of Poland, she can hardly hope to succeed single- handed? Shall future history say, that France, that England, admired indeed the valour, sympathized with the sufferings, but held out no succouring band to Poland ? Shall it be said that at the Congress of Vienna, the English minister insisted on the main tenance of the national institutions of Poland; that he declared his master, the Prince Regent, insisted on their fulfilment; and yet, that when those insti tutions had been in every instance violated and disregarded, the British Government, with folded arms, witnessed the desolation of Poland? Noble and heroic people ! May your success be as decisive as your exertions are glorious ; and may the final triumph of your arms be equal to the justice of your cause ! PANORAMA OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE. MANCHESTFRAIX7VALFORD, July 23. REPRESENTATION or Sm.roers.—Believing that Mr. Brotherton is to the full as zealous a reformer as Mr. Tho mas Hopkins,—believing that there is no one object to which Mr. Hopkins has pledged himself, in his edema, in the forwarding of which Mr. Brotherton would not most cheer fully concur.—believing that Mr. Brotherton would make a better member titan Mr. Thomas Hopkins, inasmuch as he unites pater talent to greater modesty than Mr. Thomas Hopkins has the good fortune to possess,—it has been a matter of much regret to vs, that the address of Mr. Bro- I dieresis should have been coached in terms so general, as to I give Mr. Tigsmas Hopkins an opportunity of placing him self for a fuoutent in advantageous contrast with him before 'the town, by a specific pledee to measures, which he knows Mr. Brotherton rill pledge himself to support as cheerfully es he; and perhaps without the saving clause of " due eau. don and suitable preparation," which may mean any degree of doubt, and any taut of delay. It has been determined to put Mr. Cobbctt in nomination fee Manchester ; already an active canvas' on his Welt r { commenced ; and nobody can doubt that IN success bus NEI most cordial wishes. The shopkeepers are deeply intmeNoil in the question, and we entreat their serious attention to thel arguments which we have to urge on Mr. Cobbett's behalL The Liverpool and Birmingham railway company having decided not to proceed with their bill during the present era. sion of parliament the bill has been withdrawn by an order of the Hoarse of dotumons. At the late Knotsfonl quarter sessions, the foretnan of drel grand jury stated to the court that it was the opinion of him self and fellows, that " the retail beer act was the greatest scourge that had ever been inflicted upon the country, and that a gteat number of the cases which bad come before them originated in houses opened under its sanction !" Szerono 31 insustates Seseroes.—Eighteen collkoe who were engegtsl in the riots committed on the 19th of Illay,at Mr. Andrew Knowles' collieries at Pcndlebury, and had been held to bad for that offence by Mr. Forster, in to sureties of 201. each, for their appearance at the seasions.ap pemed in court to answer an indictment perferred against teem for erectly abasing two men whom Mr. Knowles had employed in the room of the tarn-out colliers, and for riot ing on the occasion referred to. Mr. Couttenay and Mr. Armstrong conducted die prosecution, and Dr. Brown ap peared for the defendants. The evidence was gone through at considerable length, wherein it was proved that the de. fendants were the riegleatlers of a mob of 200 or 300 per sons, who had not only brought the weir (the new hands) from out of the pit where they were at work, but bad afterwards beat them in a most cruel and unmanly man. ner. One of the defendants, named Wm. Hutchinson, was proved to be the worst, fm he not only inhumanly beat one of the men, but stamped upon him after he had knocked him down. The jury returned a verdict of Guilty against all the defendants. They were then put into the dock, and the Chairman, a ft er addressing them on the enor mity of the offence of which they had been convicted, sen tenced William Hutchinson, James Greenhalgh, William Crabtree, William Boardm an, Roger Christie, James Christie, William Heatheote , Robert Harris, and John Madam ;each to two year s imprisonment in Lancaster Castle; and Thomas Wilson, James Halliday, Thomas Halliday, John Hall, John Thomson, Moses Lord, Willm. Hardman, James Hall, and John Thomson, each to twelve' months' imprisonment in the same place. We understand the circulation of the Bank of England has never been smaller than it is at present. They are still selling exchequer bills; gold is leaving the country, and there is a profit to be realised by the exportation. - "Wles does not see the coming panic? Imam Row.—Seven men and a woman, natives of the sister Isle, were brought up at the New Bailey on Monday, with fighting and rioting in the neighbourhood of charged Bridge and Newtown, on Sunday mornin gi ast, when the peaceable inhabitants of that district were Is places of worship.—lt was stated in evidence, that se 402 persons were assembled on this occasion, and that mil of them were armed with bludgeons, legs of chairs, stenos, and brickbats, and that a woman was severely hurt in the leg by a brick The prisoners were proved to have been active la the affray, and the woman, it appeared, particu larly distinguished herself, in supplying the others with atones, bricks, and other dangerous missiles. Tax Rev. UOPERT TAYLOR.—A public meeting was held on Bolton Moor, on Monday evening , to petition par liament for a fitil remission of the sentence lately passed upon the Rev. Robert Taylor. The weather was very %infamy. able, and not more than 200 persons were present. Meet 8 o'clock, Walter O'Carrnll, a Roman Catholic, was called, to the chair. The meeting was addressed by the chairman, Mama. Witherington, Aston, Dawson, Thomason, C. Both well, Hamilton, and Harlin. The speakers dwelt principally upon the injustice and impolicy of prosecutions for religious opinions, and the treatment of Taylor since his conviction, was stig matised as equalling in atrocity the worst days of the inquisition. A number of resolutions were passed, end it was agreed to forward a petition founded upon them VP Mr. Hume, for presentation to the House of Commons, sad to solicit Messrs. O'Connell, liuut, Hothouse, and J. Wood,' to support the same. The proceedings were conducted is l the most orderly manner, anti the speeches were of a tem perate character. MANCHESTER Jute 16.—1 n the course of the week there has been a fair business transacted with trm2 lees, who have been selecting the finest samples of hos* wheat, and as the weather has been showery, we have rieneed a gradual rise of 6d per bushel in that article. gr a e t; have likewise commanded higher rates. and flour was more esteemed, even at an advance of Is to 2s per sack. We had a fair attendance of millers and dealers on our market to day. The show of samples not so large as of late. Prime English and foreign wheat sold freely this morning at 6d per bushel above last Saturday's rates. Grinding barley as last noted. Oats are decidedly 2d per 431bs higher than this day week. Boiling pease nominal. For beans there is a good demand at the quotation subjoined. The demand for malt remains limited, although some maltsters are offering on lower terms. English and American flour are each Is to 21 deater. Oatmeal is rather better sold. Waxarrain, JULY 20.—We had a good show of stock at market today, particularly beasts, with a good attend ance of buyers, yet there was a decline in the price of beef. Mutton, bd to &I per lb ; Beef, bs 6d to Gs per stone.— Bolle-s, 600 ; Sheep, moo. LIVERPOOL, JULY 22—We have not to notice any change in the cotton market this week. Our last quotations have been maintained. The Bengali have been taken for export, and about 1.000 Bowed and Orleans on speculation. The imports are—Stained Sea Island, 0243 ; Alabama', 1744; Bengal, 867—Total, 17,104. MANCHESTER TIMES, July 23. TosPEasttei SectETT..— On Wednesday evening, a meeting was held in the parish church school, Bolton, un der the sanction and patronage of the vicar, for the purpose of establishing a temperance society for this town and neighheurbood. About one hundred persons, ebietly of the higher and middle classes attended. We also observed a few ladies in the company. The vicar, who was um'. meanly called to the chair, briefly stated the object for which they were called together; after which John Mackay Wilson addressed the meeting at great length; he pointed out in a forcible and eloquent manner, the dreadful evils arising from intempenwee and the u'c of ardent spirits; he also satisfactorily combatted the plausible objections of the admirers of a social glass. and slimed that all drunkards were once temperate; he ridiculed ths idea that ardent spi. rita taken even to moderation were osonnely to produce fie snipe mirth and hilarity. The spoiler then refuted the really received notion that dm b inspiration in the bawl, and proved that our cost 1111kbelial pas bed pro duced thosr works which asw , names when under a far different thit efedinced by ardent spirits or int In coccquascs of the Iwitll et Shosipm_a l dop Mahn seemed detennhsed on inesking aniv ir MEW NOW are daily engaging fresh hands the, country toSv i r n it s o, on their Et rWirfils pro. vided with I s near the pit, in out- sad other buildings II up for their impels& A of those men from the seighbouthcod of Asboosi, bow been for some weer o psst, regularly escorted by the misters on horseback to from their homes, on the Saturday and Sun day evenings, in a coach. and on parsing through the I town to and from the Hunt Clough Colliery on these occasions, they have frequently been annoyed by the working elapses on the road. On Sunday last, as they were returning to their work as usual in the coach, attended by some of the masters on horseback, they were assailed in their progress by a crowd of persons going down West street, who saluted them with stones and the jingling of pans, &c. The spectators were very soon increased to thou sands, who surrounded the party. In this situation they were pelted with missiles, the the military. consisting of horse and foot, with a magistrate, utived. Several persons were run over by the horses ; a lad named Wood, and a girl, were dangerously bun; the military conducted the masters with their men in safety to the colliery, (where the men were lodged in their usual manner, under the care of the civil powers), and then proceeded on the road towards Mid. dleton, followed by the people, for the purpose, it is said, of escorting some new hand. who were coming in that direc tion to the collieries. They returned to the town about dusk, attended by thousands of people, who peaceably dis persed to their homes. The number of Christian congregations who dissent from the establishment, is 6,500. In London and Middlesex there are about 270 congregations not connected with the es tablishment. In Wales there are 1,059 episcopal churches and chapels, and about 1.000 churches of other denomina tions. There are probably in England, Scotland, and Ire land, not including the Doman Catholics, not less than eight thousand congregations of dissenters, which build their own places of worship; which sustain their own ministers, and support their own colleges, to the number of nearly twenty. It has been ascertained that there are in the kingdom up wards of 10,000 Sunday schools, containing 1 ; 500,000 scho lars, under the superintendence of 10,000 conductors and teachers, whose services arc given gratuitously. All thh has been accomplished since their establishment, 50 years ago. It is supposed that there are about 30,000 children taught' in the schools in this town, and that there are yet from 20,000 to 30,000 children, the proper objects of these bene volent institutions, who are at this moment allowed to grow up without restraint, in ignorance and vice, which lit is the interest of the !public at large to restrain and educate. Mr. Detro'ier last week delivered a lecture in Hudders field on the instruction of the people in moral and political duties. The sum of 51. was cleared by the lecture, and ge nerously paid over to the family of the teacher of the infant school in that place, who died very suddenly a few weeks ago. We understand that 31r. Detrosler will deliver, anticr very effective patronage, a similar lecture in this town. (In the 12th inst. the roof of Woodcburch, near Dews. bury, suddenly fell, and buried the nave, pulpit, peas, &c. in the ruins Time had impaired the roof, and some men had gone up to examine and restore it; but just as they com menced removing the slates, the whole roof fell in with an astounding crash, but we are happy to state that no perbons sustained injury. The walls are so shaken by the concussion that they must be taken down. EXHIBITION OF FRUITS, Exc.—The Manchester 80. tanical and Horticultural Society, for the exhibition of fruits, vegetables, and exotic plants, held their second exhi bition on Monday last, and fully realised the expectations which the excellence of their first meeting had given rise to. The specimens of fruit were very fine, particularly the Ellsent by T. J. Trafford, Esq. the pines by It. Potter, . e tlf Smedley, and the peaches and nectarines by his grace the Duke of D.monshire, the latter especially were deemed particularly fine, not only on account of their sire and beauty, but because upwards of forty dozen of the peaches had been gathered from one treee, and thirty-three and a half dozen of the nectarines from another. Many of the plants also were splendid specimens, amongst which a gkwiosa supaba, which is not without difficulty bloomed in perfection, a cal. =lark bicolor, and many of the ericas and geraniums were very conspicuous. The turnout of Messrs. Ciott's weavers still continues, without the slightest indication, either from masters or men, of its termination.—Leeds We hear (says the Leeds !Wallower) that an eminent mercantile house at Hull has suspended payment. DEsTancTivz F l ax.—Last night (Wednesday) soon after ten o'clock, a new factory belonging to Mr. T. Fern ley, jun. called ', the Weir Mill," was completely destroyed by tire, and of all the modern and valuable machinery which it contained not a vestige was rescued from the de structive element. The fire originated in the boiler-house, by the rising of sparks from the boiler fire, and igniting with Nome " pain" or hemp which washung there to dry, It communicated with the blowing room above, and, after wards by a short wooden gallery, to the factory, by which there is a connection. Immed iately after the alarm was given, the engines were on the spot ; but notwithstanding the efforts of the firemen, so rapid was the conflagration, and so overpowering the beat, that, after an unavailing la bour of nearly an hour, it was deemed prudent to direct their attention to the adjoining premises of Messrs. Marsland and Son, printers, which were, by that time, placed in the greatest imminent danger, and only by the well-directed ex ertions of the firemen was that property miraculously pre served ; though had the wind blown from the west instead of the south-east, not all the efforts of man could have saved it. By half past eleven all the flans were consumed; and by twelve the west-front wall, six stories in height and forty yards long, fell with a tremendous crash into the river. The property was only in part insutad, and the loss to Mr. Fern cannot be less titan 12,0001. that to the fire office (the mix) a respectable agent for which was on the spot the whole of the night, will be about 6,0001. The scene which ibis mans of fire exhibited for about two hours, beggars all description, and the desolation which the light of day brought to view with it, is beyond the power of our pen sufficiently to illustrate; added to which from 260 to 300 men, women, and children, have been deprived of the means of providing for their livelihood. The above is front the Stockport paper, but we have been informed that the burning down of the factory is mainly at tributable to the bad state of the fire-engines. On the arrival of the engines, OW of them was not in a state for working, being minus the jet pipe; another had a bursted pipe; and the conductor of the engines was out of town. Mr. Alarshall Williams, in a letter to Mr. Prentice the editor, says that the reforms wanted are—universal suffrage, vote by ballot, and one-year parliaments ; the reduction of all useless pla ces at home and abroad; the cancelling of all pensions; the total reduction of the standing army; the cancelling or sponging out of the national debt, contracted to support an unjust, unnecessary war, at a scandalously usurious tate of interest—the value of the paper advanced for the national debt was about forty-right pounds ID gold for each hundred pounds of debt contracted, and the nation have repaid site sum advanced in the excess of legal interest, and in equity the debt may be considered as paid. Reforms in .he administration of the laws—all the trumpery of the hierarchy—pluralities and tithes must cease ! These reforms must be speedily obtained, and your representatives must be bound by an oath to effect them in the first session of par liament. — itinErrzcn, Jut: 23.—The supply of fresh wheat at our market is very small, and has been taken off readily at an advance of Is to 21 per quarter. The weather continuing unsettled, we have more life in granary samples, the best of which have obtained a similar improvement, but inferior sorts are still neglected. Marling oats and shelling fully support last week's rates, with a fair demand. Beans and other articles remain steady. Wheat, per quarter, 601bs per bushel, Norfolk and Suffolk, red, s 640 to 70s. Ditto, white, 60. 66s to 745. Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, red, 57s 6ds to 675. Ditto, white, 580 64s to 70s. Foreign, red, 62s 60s to 70s. Ditto, white, Sds 651 to 725. MARRIED.-111r. Wm. Townley, eldest son of the Rev. James Townley, D. D. to Eliza, eldest daughter of Barnabas Madden, Esq.—At Bolton, Mr. Richard Cooper, druggist, of Bolton. to Eliza, eldest daughter of Thomas Timaites, Esq. of Sharples...—At Glossop, Mr. Thos. Slack, surgeon, to Anne, daughter of John Kershaw, Esq. Glos• sop dale. DIED.—On the 16th instant, after a long and painful illness, Elisabeth Brook Boyle, 26, only daughter of Mr. John Hoyle, late of Stockport—ln MaskeU-street, 22, Elisabeth, daughter of the late Mr. John Heywood. A considerable bet was decided on Wednesday, at Steventon, on which occasion the following extraordinary feat was performed :—Joseph Smal bone, a blacksmith, carried, at once, three sacks of wheat, each weighing 12 score, a nd Alder, the fiddler, rode on the top, playing his violin, the distance of ten yards. Benjamin Belcher, landlord of the Crown, carried two sacks and the fiddler. Smalbone's load could be very little short of nine hundred pounds. The bet was that the two should carry half . a load of wheat. on their backs at the same tinie . Chmick. POLICE REPORT. GUILDHALL.—JoMs Moore, who had been before Alderman on a previous day, was brought up for r•..eva, It appeared that the unfortunate man bad attempt ed destroy himself yesterday morning by cutting his thrust • but being timely discovered his design was frustrated. s; determined, however, was he on self-destruction, that h e tore the bandage from his neck, and thrust his finger 'lute the wound, and it became necessary to put handal t upon him. Mr. Alderman Ansi.ns• directed that the poor kow should be re-coaducted to the Compeer, and that be shuul." receive every attention, until he should have so far recovered as to be able to hear the charge which was allegedagainst him Bow-SearaT.—Mr. Alley appeared to support f o ,; informations preferred at the instance of the Cuvon.:, loners of Stamps., against Henry Hetherington, pirate Hingsgate-street, Holborn, for printing and publishins numbers of the Republican, and two numbers of ,he . Mass's Guardian, without having been duly stamped, they being to all intents and purposes newspapers. The defendant did not appear, and the several eases v sane into tootle. Proof of the publication of the numbers having been given , and of the service of two summonses on the defendant, Alley read various passages from the publication, and The magistrates having decided that they all came under the denomination of newspapers, Mr. Alley prayed for the highest penalty allowed by tile act of parliament, observing that, as mildness appeared to h ave no effect on the defendant, it would now be seen who thee the law was to be trifled wills any longer. The defendant was then fined 201. in each case, mak:. a total of 801. on the four informations, and Mr. Alley buil mated that as soon as the convictions shall be put into ofh. vial form, they would be laid before the magistrates, and then, if the defendant did not appear, an attachment would be issued against his person. Mr. Alley stated also, that it was intended to proceed under an act of parliament passed in the reign of Om rgainst any person who should in future hawk about the streets for sale all papers containing news of the day, which should not be duly stamped. MARLBOROUGII-STREET—A SUNDAY! DINKEL— A shabbily &mud fellow was yesterday placed at the ha:, charged with stealing a piece of beef and other atticlo. The prisoner was observed watching a butcher's shop 11: , some time, and at length pounced upon a piece of bed weighing five pounds. A police constable observed Lin; and on his being searched a quantity of French beans a.:, found in his pockets. The prisoner said that he was merely looking out for a hit of men. for his Sunday's dinner when he was collart, and he certainly meant to go back to the shop end pay for it. The worthy magistrate, unfortunately for him, entertain," a different opinion, and he was fully committed fur trial. Malt Y . LEBows.—iitsterday, a young man named Jones, who stated that he bad a wife and two children, was ex , . mimed to the House of Correction to bard labour, thugs! with indecent behaviour in the Regent's-park. Peter Hawkins was held to bail, charged with assaulting a foreign female, about forty years old, one of his lodgers. while asleep in her own chamber. Twines Powca.—Yesterday, Henry Foss, a Gravesea watcrman, was charged with detaining a new beaver hat, the property of Mr. Poole. That gentleman was, on the 28th of June, on board a steamer bound to Hull, when his hat blew off; the defendant was in his boat, picked it up, and demanded fen. to restore it. Mr. Poole offered him 4s. but the other would not part with it for that sum. So ?dr. P. went to Hull minus a hat. The Magistrates compelled Lin: to restore the hat, and fined him 101. with costs. QUEEX•SQUARE.—An elderly man, of most respectable appearance, about sixty-five years of age, who gave his nun; Thomas Brown, was placed at the bar, before Mr. WHITE. charged with stealing several articles of plate from Alice'. Coffee-house, at the House of Commons. Josiah Pride, waiter, saw the prisoner leaving the sideboard where the plate was placed, and go down stairs. Witness found the plate on his person. The prisoner was fully committed for trial. Laninan.s•rearr.—William Walker, alive Blackqvca Billy, and Wm. Wilbraham, were committed to Newpt:, n a charge orrobbing a poor man of 4s. &L in silver. CRICKETING...—GENTLEMEN AGATNSTPLAT- Eits.—The match between eleven gentlemen and site players of all England commenced yesterday at Marybont. For some time past the moth has been the topic of mom sation among cricketers. The hilowing are the players Gentlemen—Sir F. Bathurst, Bart. K. H. Budd Saa . . Felix, Esq. C. Harene, Esq. W. Keen, Esq. H. cote, Esq. H. Jenner, Esq. C. Jenne', Fat. H. Esq. G. T. Knight, Esq. W. Ward, Esq. Playas— Beagley, Broadbridge, Caldecourt, Liliywhite, Mills, F. Pilch, Saunders, Searle, Wenman. In Staffordshire there are very great complaints of stagnation in the iron trade ; prices are exceed ingly low, and the iron-masters complain that they can get no orders. Mr. Curtis has just published a fifth edition of his excellent •' Treatise on Diseases of the Ear." Tkis edition contains much new and useful information, and will be found highly interesting to those afflicted with any deka of hearing. MEDICAL INSTITUTION, NO. 92, Phillips street, Kingsland.road, Shoreditel, London; for the safe and effectual cute of DEAFNESS, worm in the REA PURULENT and PUILIEORS DISCHARGES of the Eas,ana NERVOUs conimaturs,—We eanseady call the attention of our readers to the above celebrated Establishment, whirl, iso presume, must prove highly gratifying and benefichl tc Ilta Aimed. The Nervous and Debilitated Invalid labour hag under Lowness of Spirits, Indigestion, Loss of Appetite, Fearful Imaginations, Palpitation of the Heart, Trembling of the Limbs, Painful Sensations of the Stomach and BASIN Impaired Memory, Debility, whether Constitutional, or after any Illness, Weakness of Sight, Flatulency, Nausea, Mrztg or Bodily Decay, or the whole tribe of Nervous Affection', that in many instances render life truly miserable, we an happy to learn, are very successfully treated, without de least injury to the most delicate habits, as the many pews restored to a good state of health have happily prone.. The afflicted with any defects of Hearing and Mena of the ear may also obtain the most essential benefit: ami for the satisfaction of patients similarly afflicted, we itcl much pleasure to select from among many other cures. de following three extraordinary ones :—A Patient res:dicg with a clergyman in Surrey, wbo had been deaf fifteen pan, with much nervous debility, has been restored to hearing. the best delights of society, and a perfect state of health. — A gentleman of fortune, near Reading, deaf ten years, per fectly restored.—And an invalid, in Whitechapel, who M.i been deaf fifteen years, attendant with purulent dischargt , from both ears, and twat distressing noises in the head, ani debilitated state of health, has happily been perfectly rm. stered. Numerous testimonials of cures effected on pence; of the highest respectability, residing in various part. ,4 London and the country, may be seen. The treatment em not occasion the least pain or inconvenience; and from a.. great number of persons recently restored, we strongly n• commend the most obstinate or long-standing cases, those who hem neglect or unskilful treatment have bass deemed incurable, not to despair of obtaining relict—The charge is moderate, and the hours of attendance, daily, fray Eleven to Six in the evening, Sundays excepted. Patin" who cannot conveniently attend at the Institution, on stair; their cases by letter, post paid, inching CI, will have It:, able medicines and advice immediately forwarded. BIRTHS. The 26th inst. at his Lordship's residence. Otosfer• e !' street, the Countess of of a son—Thunda! , Wliton-crescent. Lady C. h ßulke sy, of a son—The 0 1 iM at Dorset-place. Dorset-square. the Lady of Captain E. A M'Creedy, of the Hon. S I. Company's aervice. of a tor. MARRIED. The 23d inst. by special license, at Felbrigg ball, Viltou rt I/animate. grandson of the Earl of Listowel, to Hats A 6 gusts, widow of the late G. T. Wyndham, Esq. of CTC:re' hall, county of Norfolk. DIED. Tim S2B lost. at TrMenden Rectory, aged 31, Anna Mans wife of the Rev. B. P. Neale, eldest daughter of the late Dunk% El M.D. of Sideekei, Kent_The 24 th Jerk Oat mbra alteinslit 41 MIN James Maclean, N. late aed' ember of the H o u 4 e e . Kell— •et CAA:, to Ids landing front Eeg!an.i. the Baron de Ma 22—Sunday, in .luld.sui,i. Bruusteklo.ageaus, Alm Busby, lady of Dr. Busby, Vert. later of Lucrative—a U. Abereromby, of Birkeobog. ll: whiles event tog pise es Meaday sennlght, at lir bolls , Sr George had attained the eiraiseed age of 84. Lummox r Abated and Published by Joie SLOW. a 1 the Stns Orrice, No. 1. Pickett-plus, Tew Bar' • r. r. r. 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