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• .s [1 ,7 . . '....,,.,.. ~. 1 . .. - . • : ; de 3„ lit :I, ii LOVE FOB THE RELIEF OF THE POOR. The bill prosented to the House of Lords by 1.4 rd Kenyon, on Monday, is entitled an act " to amend the Laws for the Relief of the Poor." The preamble recites the 59th George 111, en titled " An Act to amend the Laws for the Relief of the Poor," whereby certain powers are given to churchwardens and overseers of the poor to provide land for the employment of the pool', to nr extent not exceeding 20 acres. And con tiLleefr, whereas such limitation to 20 scree his lii fowid inconvenient in many parishes, be it • rialted, It then proceeds to provide that vl,nrchwardens, Ac. may provide land to a certain vstent for employment of the poor, subject to the iegplations of the recited act. 2. That churchwardens, &c. may enclose part cf waste lands for coltivation with consent. ".4. II:at power to We land, &c. extended to &c. under Geo. 111. c. 83. 4. That the provisions of recited act be extended to ;ands hired, Re under this act. That no poor and industrious inhabitant of ;:atv parish or place to whom any land shall be let shall or may have been or shall be hired or taken or enclosed, under or by virtue of the said recited net or this act, shall gain a settlement by tenting and occupying or paying parochial taxes for such . land, either alone or with any oth er l an d or tenement. ' • • .i •': 1,. .... I ' • I 0 . ,t , 14 1 ~ it i t '4 1 1 n i, ii , . f . 1 FRAUDS ON CREDITORS. The following clauses, prepared by Lord Plunkett, are proposed to be added on the third reading of Lord Wynford's " Frauds on Creditors' Bill": . • . 1. And be it further enacted, that this act shall not extend to persons who shell be beyond sea in :Inv part of Europe at the time of its passing, pro- vided such persons shall within six months from the time of its passing put in and justify bail in the, bailable actions brought against him or her, or pay, secure, or compound for the debts for which such actions are brought, to the satisfaction of his or her creditor or creditors ; and that all convey ances, sales, gifts, or dispositions of any property of any such debtor who shall becomo bankrupt un der this act, made after such debtor shall be gone beyond sea, or in contemplation of his or her going beyond sea, shall be void. 2. And be it further enacted, that where any person, having an estate tail or remainder after a life estate, shall become bankrupt under this act, such estate tail shall not be sold under the com mission issued against such tenant in tail, during the life of the tenant for life, but the debts proved louder such commission shall be a charge on such estate tail from the time of the issuing of such com mission, which shall prevent such tenant in tail from further encumbering the estate, or disputing the right of two assignees under the commission from selling or otherwise disposing of such estate for the benefit of the creditors under the commis sion, after the death of the tenant for life. 3. And be it further enacted, that any plaintiff or plaintiffs who shall have obtained or shall here after obtain any judgment against any debtor, not being a trader within the meaning of the laws con cerning bankrupts, and who shall have duly entered such judgment according to the provision of the act passed in the 29th year of his Majesty King Charles 11. entitled, " An Aet for the prevention of Frauds and Perjuries," before such debtor shall have committed an act of bankruptcy under either of the provisions of this present act, may have an elegit against the lands of such debtor; provided always, that the Lord Chancellor, Lord Keeper, or Lordi Commissioners of the Great Seal. may order any such plaintiff or plaintiffs to vacate his or their judgment, or to enter in it for a less sum than that for which it is entered, and that the lien created by such judgment shall by such order be either entirely removed, or remain only for the sum which the Lord Chancellor, Lord Keeper, or Lords Commissioners shall direct it to be entered for; but it is further provided, that no plaintiff shall be ordered to vacate or reduce a judgment altered upon a verdict or on an assessment of damages under a writ of inquiry, until a jury, miler an shall.have found that the plaintiff or plain tiffs have no right to any debt or damages under the judgment, or have only a right to a debt or da mage, to a less amount than that for %%filch such judgment is entered. The unjust mode of levying the probate duty is one among the many objects which require reform, and the immediate investigation of the legislature. According to the existing law, if a man die leaving l!!,0001, and the debts he owed amounted to 4,0001. the' duty must be paid upon the 10,0001, and the administrator compelled to wait twelve months for the returnable duty on the 9,0001. In many cases it may be extremely distressing, and sometimes nearly impossible, to pay the duty on the gross amount. PA I.ROTZIIIN T.—This is the new name given to an itinerant * cutter-of-portraits-with-scirsors. This rage for compound epithets from the Greek is really' becoming alarming—science, particularly Chemistry, set the example, and we shall next have the washerwomen and dustmen call themselves by similar nomenclature. EXTREME HEAT.—A Correspondent writes from Verona,' that the oldest person does not re member so hot a summer as the present. In Middle and Lowtr Italy, the almost insupportable beat produces brain fevers and other disorderS. At Ron*, the heat rose to 30 degrees of Reaumor. In that city. 86 persons have within a short period been sent to the Lunatic Hospital. Letters from tyre( say, .‘ The heat here is almost intolerable. . The harvest is over, and at Botzen the grapes are completely ripe, a circumstance which has not occurred for'hall a century." * The Lords are 'quite right in having their House better ventilated' previous to the crowded state and warm ilebates which the Reform Bill is likely to . peoduce ; 4660, after all, that bill itself will, we ,sitipect, .be* the 'insist 'safety-valve their Lordships can bare recinirc e to. Mr. Courtenay intends to revive the subject re specting, the capture of the Portuguese fleet. .This evening he has intimated that he will move . an Address,. to his Majesty for papers concerning the late proceedings of the English and. French squadrons respectively in the Tagus. The • Lehls! . Minutes, in mentioning the Beer Act . . Amendment Bill, ; •facetiously enough call it the I A Beer timendruent7. Bill. This it malting , light -of heaerhuoinees, .bat. it, womicl, neriirthe— lam, • inwcheiiring if • Asir lAtitilballei Wore .09111- plied' 'to prate: ihae.mielt .111.1134,tenden‘, of their I measure. There certainly is much room for amendment is beer. rill rasp. GOODWOOD RAC7l9..—.Gooinvoon STAMM Wednesday night.—Betting; 3 to 1 apt lay Emily, 3to 1 apt Agreeable, 7 to 1 ago Wassailer, 7 to I apt Variation. 19 to I apt Whip, 20 to I apt Echo. 20 to it and In some instances 30 to 1, apt Conciliation. The horses went of at the first start, Crescent being several yards behind for the first 200 , 0 r 300 yards; be then went by his hors* took the lead, and made pod running, with Erymus sad Rustle nest him, and the others well up. In this order they went round the bill, but on coming to straight running, Va riation, Lady Emily, and Agreeable ran up to- Crescent, the winner still lying with the ruck ; with the above f tut` the race was pretty equal, till about half a distance horn home, ' when Conciliation let loose, went by those in front, and won very cleverly by a go o d length. The Duke of Richmond is owner of Conciliation, and nets nearly 0001. by the stakes. COWDNAT Betting--2 to lon Adam Brock, wbo won in s canter. BETTING ON THN COUNIZ. . _ 7 m 1 agst ft iddleswor h. 10 to 1 agst Chorister. 7e to 1 apt The Saddler. 13 to 1 apt Creole. 9 to 1 agst Liverpool. 14 to l apt Sir John. 10 to 1 agst Marcus. HI to 1 agst Zany. 10 to 1 agst Circassian. 20 to 1 agat Deftht (taken.) THIRD DAT.—TIIIIIIPDAY, Auo. 18. Plate of 50 sovereigns, given by the Members of the city of Chichester, once round heats. The winner to be sold for 2001. 3 yrs. 7st. 41b ; 4 yrs. B st.7lb r 5 yrs. 9st; yrs. and age 9st. 41b ; mares, Ac. allowed 31b. Mr. Henry's Sketch Book, 4 yrs (Robinson) 1 1 Duke of Richmond's Byma, 3 yrs - 2 2 Mr. F. Charlton's Falconbridge, 6 yrs. 2 3 Won easy. Match for 50 sovereigns, h. ft. Three miles. Mr. Dnekeray's b. h. Zephyr, Vat. 31b. (Aroull).. Duke of Richmond's to. m. Miss Craven, 10st. Hi-- 2 Won cleverly. 11 to Bon Zephyr. A free Handicap, 25 sovereigns each, 16 ft. One mile. Lord Worcester's Carthago, aged, 9st. 101 b. (Robinson) 1 Lard Chesterfield's Carthusian, aged. 9st. 41b. 2 2tol on Carthage( Won easy. The Goodwood Cup, value 300 sovenigns, with 540 be specie, by subscription of 20 sovereigns each, and 100 added by the City of Chichester. Once round. 3 years, 7st. 101 b; 4 yrs. SWAM 4 5 yrs. est. 91b; pa. and aged, 9st. 121 b; mares, &e. allowed 41b. The second horse to receive 100 sovereigns out of the stakes. Lord Chesterfield's Priam, 4 yrs. (Conolly) His Majesty's Fleur-de-lis, aged .. Dlr. Scott Stonehewer's Variation, 4 yrs. Won easy. semensmgmeans t At the foot of the Maritime Alps, three persons and a servant can live for less than 701. a year ; their fare, including every delicacy of fish, flesh, and fowl, with a constant supply of the finest fruit and vegetables, and abundance of good wine. Just as the house was about to.adjourn, yester day morning, a petition was presented from George Shillibeer, for the introduction of a clause into the new bill respecting hackney-coaches, authorising the " °flexible' to run in the metropolis by unvary ing (Quere, varying?) routes through the principal streets, and for the regulation of the duty thereon. It is devoutly to be wished that the new bill may contain a clans* to prevent these " cruelty vans" from racing through the streets as they do at pre sent. EXH•LATION..-110 following curious pheno menon was observed by several persons :—Thurs day morning, between four and five o'clock, in the neighbourhood of Peckham Rye, a body of vapour, of extraordinary magnitude, seemingly arose out of the earth, accompanied by a very loud rumbling noise. It resembled the smoke of a conflagration, and had a fiery appearance. It continued ascend ing for the space of three minutes, all the time at tended with the noise above-mentioned, and with a considerable degree of agitation, till it mixed with the clouds above it, which then appeared for a short time to partake of, the same agitation. The air was the whole time exceedingly oppressive. PARISIAN GAMING Housas.— Impossible as it has been found to restrain these hells, the matter seems " ordered better in France," for the Govern ment derives from them an annual income of nearly four and a half millions of francs; with which are borne the following items of the public expendi ture :—Secret services (police); Royal Hospital for the Blind ; succour to the former colonists of St. Domingo ; succours to charitable institutions and others, and aids to the royal theatres. This is cer tainly turning an uncontrollable evil to some ad vantage, while in London we have the " hells" without the profit to our charities, &c. TUC LORD CUANCELLOR " ABROAD."—An Italian translation of Lord Brougham's celebrated Discourse on the Oljeces, Pleasures, and Advan tages of Science, has been published in the course of the present year at Turin, by the bookseller Pomba, who is engaged in the publication of a periodical work on the plan of our Family Li brary, &c. called the Universal Library of Ge neral instruction, or which his Lordship's excel lent treatise forms a part. Mechanics' Ma gazine. BOOK TRADE AT LEI I'9IC FA I R.—The Cata logue of Books at the last Leipaic fair did not amount to 2,000 articles, including the Latin %mita. Neither were the whole of these novelties. W e distinguish among them the " Musical Physi cian," who, instead of powders and pills, prescribes marches and allegros ; instead of purgatives, prestos ; he cures the fever by the gentle move ments of the andante, and soothes the agonies of pain by the delights of an adagio. Whether this work. be serious, as is affirmed, we cannot say ; but we are not bound to be serious iu reporting it. There were many continuations, or new editions of former works ; Voyages and Travels, Biography, &c. Novels and Theatricals appear to have suf fered the least diminution. But what proves most decidedly to what low degrees of importance this fair is reduced, is the fact, that Frankfort has sent but three booksellers, instead of a dozen, who rarely failed of frequenting it formerly. The present Lord tlancellor, in his once popu lar and ably written ; amphlet On the Education of the People, thus expresses himself on the law which restrains the publication of cheap political works, and under which the authorized legal offi cers of the government, of which he form a part, are consigning men to a protracted imprisonment : " Why should not political, as well as "all other works be published in a cheap form, and in num bers ? That history, the nature of the constitu tion, and the doctrines of political economy, may safely be disseminated in this shape, no man, now a days, will be hardy enough to deny. Popular tracts, indeed, on the latter subject, ought to be much more extensively circulated, for the good of the working classes as well as of their superiors. Why may not every topic of politica, party as well es general, be treated of in cheap publications? It is highly useful to the commu .nity that , the true principles of the coniith!ution, ecclesiastical and civil, should be well understood by, every man who lives under it The peace of the country, and the stability of the go-• comment, could not be more effectually secured than. by the universal diffusion of this kind of knowledge." .• • ft% PA N 0 RAM A OF THE EMPIRE. BRMSII ROSE'S BRIS7'OL LIBERAL. Oa gsturday morning, at two o'clock, a dreadful fire and daily burst forth at the house of Mr. James Woods, tile. mist. High -street. The houses are chiefly constructed of weed, and theref ore eas il y i gn i te d. By the timely anise/ if the engines, serious mischief was mediated nes, to the other beams, although Mr. Wood'spee. were entirely do stroyed. A very respectable meeting of the rate.payers of the par rich of di. Mary Redeliff, was held ea Thursday , se lappet Mr. Hobhouse' s Bill, am before tie Hesse of COMMIOOI4 I for the abolition of select vestries. A numbs or potlemen addressed the meeting,and a string of roselutious, highly creditable to it, were sdopted unanimously. Ist. That the present Vestry of this 'wish has oat the confidence of the parishiooas, because they are sell:coned rated—give no amount of the disbunements of charitable bequest monies; and instead of confining tbeenesivss, as a body, to parochial affairs, use their infuses as polidad agents; and that any body of persons claiming to tax the re* *Num their consent, (which this Vestry has) was niermeifturionally, and ought to be resisted. 2d.—That it Is essential to the peace end harmony of k its enactment should In this country, that some I lative enactmt should pass, giving to t h e p e ople their Just right., and se curing to parishioners the ecorom disbursements of their rates, and a periodical publication of the parish accounts. 3d.—That this meeting fully approves of the bill intro duced into the House of Commons by John Cam Hobhouse, Req. believing it is c a l cu l ate d to enibisos and cany latoollat the objects set forth in the foregoing Resolutions. 4th.—That a petition, addressed to the Hone of. Com mons, be drawn and sired by the Rate Payees of' this Parish, Praying them to amend the first e w e, which . enacts, " That Fifty perintionse, rated at UL shall be re quisite to compel the chtuchwardens to take theepthign of the inhabitants," in the ad Lion of thidct, by substituting Tweidelvdete Payee of illieen Pounds enth, and w ith t sitention paw ßate lt into a-lam The parishioners of St. Themes have met to support the new vestry bill, Introduced by Mr. Hobbouse, satisfied the most grow abuses arise out of the -meant Pr— g - yes" IrniZ system at variance with ev er y principle sound po which eyries in its train an amount of oppression acd taxa tion which the legislature itself cannot so easily exercise. and which, therefore, it is high time these petty legislators were dem feed of. At the meeting of the parishioners of St. Philip and Ja cob, to support Mr. Hobbouse's Bill, the chairman pro ceeded to remark, that the present meeting took place in consequence of the refusal of the churchwardens to convene a r egu meeting of the inhabitiuttii. In putting the reso lutions, the various speakers all agreed in the justness of the principle of the Bill—that of taking the power of levying rates out of the bands of a select few, and plating It in the hands of those who must be accountable fee their ans. On Wednesday Mr. Hain delivered Ms second Wenn= physical geogesphy, commensieg by the statement that th is sublime study is yet in its infancy, and that it is most im portant, inasmuch u it proves the long preparation which this world underwent before the Atrtioner thought fit to place man on it. The lecturer then bespeike the per mission' of his auditors for the introduction of anecdotes connected .with the subject, In order to enliven what by most people would at first be considered dull and unenter :Taln describing the natural operation of the drainage kes, which I constantly in progress , be alluded to the time which must in all probability vha been required for the falls of Niagara, in America, to have cut away the extent of rock which is at present perceptible, and as this carried back • period of running water long anterior to the received date of the erection, the lecturer wee obliged to remove the objec tion which might have been started, by stating, that the seven days mentioned in the Mosiae account, could not be intended to mean seven natural days, of U hours mob, bat long Intervals (cycles) of time, in which opinion he - was baste out by the celebrated Geologiet, Dr. Bockland, a divine of the Church et England. Hs then alluded to the hie - sings enjoyed by America, in having the largest rivers on earth navigable almost to their sources, and expressed his opinion that the Miesissipi would, in time, render North America the emporium of the world, and New Orleans, at the mouth of it, a larger city than ever yet had existed. A meeting of the VIIIMIDS of Raroam, convened by the Council of the Bristol General Union, was held in Queen. square, on Monday evening. At the. time appointed • very numerous assemblage took place consisting of mechanka, and intelligent persons, with several of the higher coders.-- At about half-past six o'clock, 31r. Ham having been Called to the chair, the proceedings commenced by the Chairman stating, that in consequent of information received subsequently to the issuing .of the notice, k bad been deemed advisable to alter, in some measure, the resolutions originally intended to have bait proposed ; and that, in consignee* of the fate of the remonsunce from the Binningham Union, it had been determined merely to pass a string of resolutions, expressive if the feelings of the re formers of this city at the present juncture, the substance of which could be incidentally conveyed to the House of Com bmons, through the mediae" of their representatives. The chairman then read a letter ban our member, Mr. Pembina, relative to the meetiog, in which the latter, arguing en the possibility of a remenatinnee or a petition emanating there. from being rejected, scented to advise, as the object was to facilitate the progress of the bill, that no application should be made to Parliament likely to occupy that time which it was important should be exclusively .devoted to the forward ing of the great mecum through its remaining stages. In enforcing this line of polity, Mr. Prothetoe remarked : The tactics on our side the House have been to provoke as little discussion as possible, and we have, rather than give matter . for reply and delay, sat night after night, content to be mute under the most insulting attacks on our own pod. Lion ; and, what to any man of strong feeling and honour is even more offensive, to h ear , untebuked, libellous remarks upon the views and spirit of those deserving, hooey, and high-spirited men, who have returned us to Parliament:" Mr. J. G. PowELL, jun. opened the business of the meeJng by proposing the tint resolution. He addressed the auditors at some length, and made several argumenta tive and conclusive sallies against the opponents of reform. He stated that due deference should be paid to the opinions of Mr. Protheme, and that accordingly the resolutions were' drawn in coofermity with his suggestions. In adverting to the observations in Fella Farky's Jostrisei,that the reform. era would be only losing their labour by sending petitions to the House to reject, Mr. P. said, our old friend Felix seems ' to be one of those who can find no other method of killing a dog than by hanging him (laughter) ; be does not dream foss moment that we can convey our sentiments to the legislature through the medium of our repre. sentatins. Mr. P. then went into a lengthened, able, and at times amusing detail of the evils that had resulted to tin, count: from the mal-adminisustioe of t h e dif ferent Tory vetting to the Corn Laws —Church Patrunage--Pluralities—Standing Army - Game Laws—Select Ilesules--Slave Laws—Public Debt—and the East India Company and other monopolies, all of which bad resulted from the different tory administrations. The American war, said Mr. P. cost this country 129,1V3,01111. the French war 1,427,1110,964 L— a te we then weedy after these tremendous sacrifices in pursuit of an unrighteous oh *, albs tertddenlsmities with which we are aillicted— as we wonder at our innoverlitted and exhausted coal tion—meddied with a tax of 37,872,4191.1 on the near. lades of life ? Upwards of a hundred millions 1 ! expend. ed in our endearouis to enslave the American Colonies, and more than one thousand millions !!! to re-establish'eteli siastical and feudal despotism in France. What, I ask, has been the result ? The three immortal days of Paris, the triumph of Belgium, the regeneration of Bumps, and the full and complete establishment of thou principles of free dom which tare English aristocracy attempted to put down. Mr. P. after some further observations, concluded by pro posing the first resolution. Mr. WILLIAM Roes, in seconding the resolution, ob served that he w as satisfied of the usefulaess of delivering elaborate speeches in support of established lruthat coda should therefore merely second the realudon: The Resolutions were passed with gnat aselammion ; after which the Chairman remarked, that it was his plan of most Governments, when they wished to drew off the auto tion of the peopl e from an object conneeted with their in terests, to indulge them with an amusement cad war by which means they had Dot unnegueatly bun boodielnied s be therefore earnestly entreated the meeting .not as seen themselves to be led away by any such artifice,. but 10 direct measureall their emit eftergies to the .proecation of the Feat of R. A fleeting ot , the Tampeennes Meaty for the Matta of St. Philip and Jacob within, Castle Prances, sad St. Peter, was held an the Lammed" school-room Rcderon,. I street, on Wednesday line, at saes o'clock In evening, when "Stephen Ptum - N. was called to the dna, lie Cosmic the mewing by reading an address borteshiernersl tee from which wc make the following extlins. , • . ••••1•44,': ..'"V"rdo The alba portions of the Mims ass InieSandal, given in theApessitse of swag The Ointinkise have paid limb GOMIS to the abodes of Mao y deo mid bo, and lealsr bazip ajelsowest leg variet Eddy. street, they 'bees lli nt i onpple Oh= many of which they bale no o t bad beam Also some baked. wadi heft M the Iket, Dr. Oar. i psa=topt eday ali frjelleilene Pete anifilel al "Ild *peek as la been. Waft dime an Inemenlity hs Wiesen jar die sison osemat ofthe improommet k wttetYpesim in the b ytlonliks Is bed bem add, .k Paoli birdenpreas Ale poems hag seal to habits it kesmpainsis, eaddisaly to have dam off; be would howewertste, diet it net only might be dew with perfect seletet, bet that unless persons left than off sod. daily, they wield never do is. Then eragg n, passim who met with accidents, and who bad pntfoesly led as loftier. rate life, had net the same chance of recovery with others, their conaludlon being so impaired by theft Intemperance. He was convinced that the more persons mins themselves to tee, coffee, and innocent liquors, the Imps they live. Some persons imagine a small quantity of Muth is nem.. sry to give them strength, but it Is &mistaken notion. He bad been in France just after the revolution of 1830, It was a period of great excitement, and the streets of Paris wee crowded with people, yet be only saw one person drunk. LEICESTER CHRONICLE. the present week, Mr. Buckingham has been de. livening course of Lectures on the East India monopoly, at Barlow's rooms, which have been attended with very • large and respectable, as well as constantly Increasing mutt. micas, and have given to all classes of the beams great sa tkfaction. On Thursday the lecturer came to the case of the Bast India Company, and its connection with the main object of these lectures ; he detailed in a suceina but clear manner, the events that first led to the formation of an English East India Company; the' avowed object of the Legislature in granting the wiped:Chester ; the means by which the territorial acquisitions in India had been obtain ed, and the repeated renewal of their Charter at flied parials, and au tellat panda their renewal bad beat con staid ; of dividends by peritement— its object and *web He showed, from authoritative docu ments, what had been t s progress and what was the pre- sent amount of the Compay's debt—namely, that in 1794 it was about seven mllkins, - whereas it is at iltNitnt, since the Burmese war, upwards of sixty millions stalingl That at the fouler period, the debt was pleaded as a reason for the renewal of the Chatter for ten years, in order to allow time for its liquidation ; but looking only to the ratio of the increase of that debt for the last thirty years, it was mani. feu that such a thing as its liquidation was quite out of the question—that, in fact, it had gone on, woe going on, and was likely to go on increasing. He explained the diffe rence between the act of incorporation granted by King James, and which constitutes the East India Company a body of traders for ever, and that patent of monopoly But granted by Queen Elizabeth, on the understanding that it might at any subsequent period be allowed to cease and de. tennine,,but whit:films subsequently to her Majesty's reign been repeatedly renewed at the end of ten years—it is this latter charter—the claim to a monopoly of trade, which will expire in 1834, and not the act of incorporation itself, which was granted for ever, that the country demurs any longer to renew. As reasons for the non-renewal of this monopoly, were urged, not merely t he non - improvement of the Immense territory so long in the company's hands, but its absolute deterioration, wretchedness, and decay under its merchant kings. And, if there were no reasons for interference by this country on the ground of commercial rights, which are imperative, the manner in which the Company not only stand convicted, but are at this day in the habit of most directly patronising and encouraging the worship of Jug gement, the Moloch of India, for the sake of deriving revenue from a tax upon pilgrims going to Orissa. the great idol station—this single crime were in Itself saatistit, to justify the whole community in petitioning against a re. new of a charter which afforded protection to such horrible impieties under the British—the Christian name! At the close of this lecture, which was followed, as all the preceding ones had been, by long and loud applause, Mr. Brenta rose to address the assembly, and after some most appropriate remarks on the importance of the information developed in Mr. Buckingham's lectures, the eloquence and beauty and variety of his illustrations, and the deep lament excited by the facts sad arguments adduced, be begpd to for the adoption of the meeting, certa i n resobstioms C P tre e iormation of an Erna India Association in Leicester which was seconded in an highly complimentary speech en Mr. Buckle/haze's talent' and powers, by Mr. Was. Biggs, and carried unanimously. Linz sr ea, UTIFIDAT.—Vrheat, 68s ; Barl_ey, 4016 d ; Oats, 30. lid I Beane, lets 3d; Peas. 311. 60 ; Fine Flour, 50, to Ole; Standard Wheaten 48s to 49 0 ; Reinhold, 46.10 475; Quarters Loaf, wieaten, ; Ditto, house. hold; 80. DIED —At Claybrook Hall, 84, Ann , relict of the late T. Eat — Mrs- Fenton, 78, relict the late S. Fen. ton, Esq.—At Hocton.con-the-Hits, 83, the Rev. J. A. vicar of that parish.—At Wi ng , R ut l an d, M, eldest daughter of W. Gilson, Esq. of that place. STAFFORDSHIRE MERCURY. Pertwa WAGES IN PUNLIC-Hovers.—This petal &us practice prevails to a great extent In this town, and it would be well If some plan could be adoptcd to diminish the evil. A Saturday night in Manchester presents a va riety of disgusting scenes of inebriety to which the sylvan of paying wages in public-houses gives powerful encourage. meet. Father, mothers, sons and daughters, are frequently to be seen in the ale-house kitchen, witnesses of, and in many cases participators in, the repulsive sets 'rising from drunkenness : thus are families neglected, poverty created, and gross immorality and vice among the working classes extended. We observe that at Shrewsbury Assizes, held last week, the subject was brought under the consideration of the Grand Jury by Mr. Justice Park. His Lordship took an opportunity of stating to them that a case of man slaughter had just been tiled, in which it appeared the death of the unfortunate man was caused at a public-house, where he and other workmen had been receiving their wages. His Lordship then deprecated the system of paying men in public-houses, and said, " it was a crying sin against the nation ; " for it frequently caused men to spend their earn- whereby their fami:ies were injured, and it was, to say I the least, a temptation to indulge in acts of drunkenness, and ultimately led to vice of every description. He said be was sorry that he had not alluded to it in his charge; but was not aware there was any can of th at nature In the WM dar. However, he hoped the Gentlemen of the Grand Jury would draw their attention to this subject, and endeavour to put an end to such a system. At Shrewsbury Anna, an action was brought by the plaintilL Charles Ilountney, forinedy a butcher at Ono& I against the defendant, Al t . John Weuoo, rep** of the Slaressedurp Chronicle, for a libel published in that papa, of and concerning the plaintiff. It appeared that In No amber, 1828, the plaintiff had been ta ken into custody la Shrewsbury, on suspieloo of having stolen a hone; and that be was, after beiog examined before the malistra!na In Staffordshire, reigned front the charge. In the C= l of the 21st Of November, mg, the defendant had a paragraph, giving an amoust of the plaintiff% into custody. The paragraph was headed " limes •." and the contents of this paragraph famed the owed of the present action; which had been delayed by varlois penned: hip in demurrer, Ac. ins the courts IV The until proof of publication, f it. bevingbsen peat, ply, after a short consultation, retbreed a verdi ct fo r . the gdabinff, with One Farthing dameg es .-4h.liath'ei applisit i s the leternedJudge to certify, so as to deprive the plaintiff Obis coati; but tide his lordship declined doing. HANLEY, SATUIDAT.--Btef, per 111. id to 7d; Veal, lid. to 6d ; Mutton, ad ; Lands, dd • Bandit, 0d ; Cheese, del ; F. Butter, Ifin.l7d ; Potatoes (oid), per Peck, 4d ; Do. (new), Id ; Green Peas, pa peck, led; Gooseberries, per qt. 2d ; Appks, per peck, 2s to lis Mk Feats, DIED.-49, Charlotte, wife of Mr. Thos. Podetore, of ' Tunstall. Wei. Masters, Gent. Littleliejwant, near Stat. ford—At Child we ll, neat Liverpool, Nithimiel Geo. Phil. lips, Ea+ yossetst son of the late John Leigh Plsillipe, Eaq..of 114ayield.—In Royal Row, Westminster. the well known eccentric Bob Bradbury, a celebrated' clown, 57. THE HEIR or SIIAME.—It is difficult to con- • calve a more awful situation than that of a miser able female who recently gave evidence in a Court of Justice. She is the mother of a child by her father,' and her evidence sends to a scaffold her own 'tether, and the' father of her infant. Should the littet 'bane the affliction to live, and poises. ordinary sensibility,. bow mast he look on bin wretched parenf:--how reflect on the guilty being who . has ignominously passed into etntiiltf, iiid;wfth whet teenage hist others repent the 'Fifth • Ctitithendnielit! ' • SCINTILLX. Allan other singular notions entertained I y dm Modem is this, that medicine taken with th e right b y 111* Mal has a difikrent Abet—Makes with the right hu n g thethey alaglsa It finds Its way to the liver, if with the la t to ddosys. AloOTßia Bio Woito.—When Mr. Gib % Fomented the Royal Duke with the 3d large 4to volum e ut his " Decline and Fall," the latter is repotted to have !aid 44 Wh at , Mr. Mika, waseher d—d big square book 6' We are tempted to leeks a ituilsultat sklfilar exclamati on, on reading in a Ztpsper as advertisement an. noons N l•ga now bei 6 Hyglasilotron; or d eter . idwiigesabie haft m The Imposter who stylei himself the Duke of Normandy, son of Louis XVI. and states that he is the Dauphin, has published his Memoirs since his birth, tr . Paris. The whole affair is properly treated (by the Vreneh Government and people) in the same mann er as t h e pre. tensions of a similar pretender to Royalty in this court. try,—and is nicely, in consequence, to fall into the lame contempt. Novst. More OF " 001110 TO WAR."--The vehicle in which the Duke of Orleans and Nemours to o k their departure from Paris for the field of battle was of a very uncouth construction, and certainly not much like the equipage which Raglish Dukes Royal would have put thei r bodies and baggage Into, though, prebaNy, far more ap propriate. It is an immense maAine, something like an omnibus, and was drawn by six hones, three abeam, i t le divided into three compartatatte; the first of which w as occupied by the Dukes and their Aides-de-Camp; the se. rood formed a bed-room, and the third was ta kitchen. which contained a servant of all work, and a very modes: set of culinary apparatus. SCLAVONIC PEON UNCISTION.—At a time when the muscles oldie mouth run some risk of &domicil, from the frequency of the calls made upon than to articulate the unmentionable names of the Russian and Polish we e . this*, we may perhaps save many a pretty lip from tempo. racy distortion by acquainting our female readers that the letter w at the commencement of a word, is pronounc es ' y, and like r at the end of one ; c is Invariably rs ; o is sounded hard, as in girdle • Ch LI Cs, like IA in pitch ; a cs ewer is pronounced Tekor ; Ss is SA ; Sees of cour se SAM (rather stiff work)! thus Sseserbise is ShkAertiete; Rs is r, with *slight sound of a ; and Rs etes thi is thus given lijefuelst. For these hints we a r e indebu.d to 31,. Plagues new work on Poland. - - ----- GOOD SUBSCRIBER.-" A good subscriber'. is one who pays promptly, and d oes w h at h e conveniently can to advance the interest of the paper he takes. The first be will do to form self-interest, for if pay the printer once a year, he saves himself from the mortifi. cation of a dun, and at the same time enables the man of type to devote his time and talents to the concerns of his office, instead of borrowing money, writing duns, and fretting and scolding about hard times to the un. avoidable neglect of his more appropriate duties. He always consults his own interest, pleasure, and profit, by using his influence to extend the circulation of his favourite papa among his neighbours, and by promoting its success in va. dons other ways. By so doing, he enables the minter to make useful and permanent improvements in his weekly sheet, which he could not do with a stinted circulation and its attendant embarrassments. This is a slight and hasty portraiture of " • good subscriber," and it gives us pleasure to say that we have many such, that we shall ever hold in grateful remembrance.—Asserioan Paper. CONS FOR THE Curious.—Tell me, ye that know yourselves best, what it is that mankind too often love wont—but would love themselves more—(how very much mom) could they only consent to love least " D'ye give it up V.—Pooh I—Se(f.—Asuli filigrees paresis. Hear both sides is a capital injunction, end brings you into good sc. qusintance with the truth. fin much foe the text,—let us DOW on to the nudger. FOR AND AGAINST. —What constitutes the first rats good, the ornament, and happiness of man ? Thai which by the merest accident, the turning of a straw, nay, a breath even may cause at once his disappointment el his misery .—What Is it that adds to his character, his fortune, and his honour ? That which, by a false played card, may r=is ruin, his men disfavour, and loss of eve dit.—Wb at .the peace and solace, tulle( and satisfactioa, of the whale male roma beings ? Thai which by a whim, a cross. gadeadisstioy,oe unguarded conduct, may. be changed in a strameat, diaosea, mnfusioa, and 50n0w.....AU this, sad bow maabbesids, la surnmedup in that dear, enigmatical, provoking, perplexing dissylkWis— Wafts. Not..—A heads maxim, not very teal a prepee at du onbieets num thus : La./nuns est tit t meets Ague des diem, gam& le diatde roe ressealesessese pas. Which may be dew into English after this fashion. Woman is a dials foe the gods, provided the devil has no share in the cookery—F.E A NEW WIFE MI LITIA.--At one of the its exemption courts for the purposed purging tbe list preibes to the names being put into the ballot box, a simpleton of a fellow belonging to the parish of W.—, who had only returned from the hymeneal altar the week before, sierra/- wird when his name was called and slimed exemp— Being a good-looking young Mgt of abaft f ee feet to inches high, and no bodily &Abet babliar t eld, be an asked the grounds of his eramptiem waskiag as. swer, he drew from his eastpeidist a badtivegma wilds la ITto read—" Dient. fMb and Bth. Whoa • tam bah a new wife, he shall as go sat tio via, vain *di he be charged with any busiest but Ist ADS be flee a home one year, and shall them up his ieWairlifeh he bath teken,"—whieit, having retained tothe place from which it was taken, he stood silent, awaiting. the •deeision. 00aP of the d. petty-lieutenants, eyeing the clown with a knowing smile, immediately interrogated him.—" Pray, were yes ever married before ? " ? No ! I'm no see se twenty yet." " t then, my lad,. you are out in Mem, be the advocate you have employed mentions a new rife!— ' Peas on to the next name " PROOF THAT A MAN IS DEA D.—A MA *Ceiba.? to one of the eastern papers a few years ago being sadly in amen (or the same,, promised the editor, that Wale life was spared to a certain day, be *mid without fail ea. charge his bill. The day *wed and the bill w.s not paid. The natural conclusion, thereLre, was that the man ad dead—absolutely defunct. Proceeding on this conclusion, the editor in his neat paper placed the name of the delia quent under his obituary head, with the attending circurn. stances {titian and place. Pretty soon after this annouret• meat, the subject of it appeared the the editor, sot slth the pale ghsatly countenance usually seedbed to apparition, but with a face as red ere scarlet. Neither d.d it iike Mk/ appaddoos, wait to 6e, first spoken to, but broke sikner-: • Whet the —.4lr, tkyPts mean by publishing my death% • 11 by, Sir, the same that I Mean by publishing the lath of sty other penal, via. 'to let the world know that yes 'ere demir' ' Well, but I alb not dead !' Not deal then its your own fault, for 'you told me you woald pou lively pay your Lill by such a day if you heal till that time. The day is past, t h e bill ii not paid, and you positively must be davit for I will Dot byliove you would forfeit your weed —0 no.' I see you heiv gut found me; Mr. Rditor—but say no more about it, hen is the money. And habit , r"., wag.just contradict ins death nest week, will you ?' certainly, Sir, just to please you.;-though upon my word can't help thinking you dead at the time sperilledi and tkt. you have nicely amg bock to pay this bill, on account of your .te4mdebill to ase.—ariessiai rabid. So nunwrounare the canals of Amsterdam, that they are said to divide the city into no less than ninety different islands, communicating by too hundred and eigbty bridges, either of stone or wood. 11 11 E I NT I 7 I v The 14th inst. at Warworth, the wife of Dr. HA d dau l la " —The 1 64, tba wlfe of Wm. Coda', RA. d Nita-row. hlay•falr, eatt. MARRIED. The 17th lam. at Edmonton Church, M. Culky, Eat e` Coaphmd Castle, Morthumbeeberlaed, to Megan+ 4 " o ' yaw:daughter of I:dward Tr's:4 Erg. Eamnftne - P rk. Ibth brit. at Et. °lave's, South.3lk, J. Stewart, Esq. of the Fotelgo' Pate.dare, and °I . los, to Moe Sophia Mary, only daughter of Mr. Ci. LutgleY , St. 's. In KV: At Hornsey, on the 17thinst. Jacob Warner, E 1 tft 84,—Th*17th Inst. S. Smith, Esq. of Homertoo. — 16th hist. In Hansyilare, Sloane-street, In his Bth Poi Pace' lb° 11" of J. H. Bolton, Esq.—The 18th inst t-Pkww, the infant son of lir. C. Inwood. and "ms )(16 sk_ torah' Atithhatont by Joita hler STAR. Vorlcit, Na. 1, Pickett-Owe, Ton& par. !~j~ 40