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OF THE POOR LAWS)! nn 0. , the Poor Laws, just previously to :he resolution to investigate what the Judges nwrr _. extent of the Poor Laws really to he submitted to the Hintise (the sudden prorogation prevented the resolution from Lung acted upon) that it was expedient that the opinion of the Judges should be taken on the following queationa :- 1. Does the 43d of Elizabeth. cap. 2, or any other law, authorize Magistrates to curler any relief to be given to poor persons who are able to work, or to arlind them any assistance, except by procuring some eliTioyincit for them where employment can be obtained ? 2. If it be satisfactorily proved that employment cannot be pro euri.d within a reasonable distance of the parish to which able-bodied root belong, will the Magistrates in such case be authorized to order' telief ? 3. 'Where t.bl2-bodied poor persons can maintain only a part of their family by the wages of their labour, are Magistrates authorized to order any relief to he given to them for the maintenance of such of their children, not being able to work, as they cannot maintain P I '' I 1 - % • %i,,,_ :;., - - . P,. ....'.' i ittYVE - 1-' - . ENT • . • ..• Sratary Com the p. poirm, came to tl deemed tire Power and exce The TRADE with RUSSIA —The CHOLERA MORBUS. The following important notice war yesterday issued, by order of government, respecting the trade carried on between England and the Baltic ports, in order to prevent, if possible, the cholera morhus from reaching this country, by means of contagion, through goods imported from Russia. The notice was forwarded to the Governor of the Russia company, and was yesterday circulated at the Baltic coffee.house.— The fears entertained by many persons lest Government should not, at the earlie.t possible period, take measures to prevent the cholera morlms from reaching this country, will now be set at rest; " Council-office, Whitebait, May 23, 1831. Sir,—l OM directed by the Lords of his Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council to transmit to you a copy of a letter which has been forwarded to the Foreign Secretary of State. that all vessels having on board rags and dried hides, arriving in this kingdom from the ports of Russia, Prussia, and the Hanseatic Towns, will be placed under quarantine; and I have to desire that you will lay the same be. tore the Governor of the Russia Company, for his information. " I am, &c. (Signed) " WM. L. BATHURST." " To Thos. Cope, Esq." In addition to the above regulation, the Baltic merchants,and oases interested, were yesterday informed that, in pursuance of an order pre viously issued, all ships, whether they have or have not goods OD hoard which may be considered as likely to prove contagious, will have to undergo a quarantine of seven days, when if the crew shall be found to be in good health, further restriction will he taken off. Ar ticles supposed capable of conveying contagion will be subjected to the regulations of the quarantine department, from 14 to 31 days, and every known method adopted to purify all goods imported from Russian ports. The merchants will have to suffer in consequence much loss of time in receiving their goods. At Hull, nearly all goods will be under quarantine for 31 days. The order has been rendered the more necessary, as, by accounts from St. Petersburg, information was yesterday obtained that the navi gation had become free in the Neva.—Every muter of a vessel ar riving from Russian ports must bring with him a certificate of the state of health prevailing at the ports of landing and departure, and in the neighbouring country, signed by the British Consul, or Vice- Consul. PUBLIC DIFFICULTIES. The following is the Norfolk petition for an equitable adjustment often referred to by Mr. COBBETT, and the adoption of which he recommends to the new Parlia ment. T:) the Honourable the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in Parliament assembled. The petition of the nobility, gentry, and others of the county of Norfolk, in county meeting assembled, this 9d day of January, 1823, Most humbly aheweth, That your petitioners have always been ready to make any sacrifices which were necessary to their defence of their country, and to the safety and dignity of their sovereign's throne ; but that they are now impelled by their well-known, indescribable, and unmerited sufferings, to approach your honourable house with an humble prayer, that you will be pleased to adopt the best means of relieving them from there sufferings. That in proceeding to suggest those means, which they do with the greatest respect and deference, your humble petitioners cannot disguise from themselves, and they will not disguise from your honourable house, that they entertain a fixed opinion, that this now unhappy country owes all its calamities to the predominance of certain particular families, who, since the passing of the Septennial act, have, by degrees appro priated to themselves a large part of the property and revenue of the whole nation, and who have, at last, by taxes, debts, and changes in the currency, involved themselves as well as the whole of this industrious community, in difficulties too great to be removed by the hand of time, or by any but the most vigorous measures of legislation. That, whether we look at the church, the army, the courts of law, the customs, the excise, the colonies, or the crown-lands, we see in each a channel of enormous emoluments to these particular families, for whose benefit and aggrandisement, more than for anything else, she whole of these sources of riches would appear to exist. And that therefore, though justice and necessity demand a reduction of the in terest of the debt, and an equitable adjustment of all other contracts, your humble petitioners would deem such reduction an act of deep faiquity, and they deem such adjustment wholly impracticable as long as these particular families enjoy those emoluments, and as long as they retain in the legislature that absolute sway which they have ac quired through the means of the septennial act, in conjunction with the notorious and scandalous abases connected with the repre sentation. _ _ That it is well known to your honourable house, that, for more than twenty years, the particular families received a large part of the above mentioned emolumenu out of the money borrowed from the fundholders; that during that period more than a million of money was taken out of the loans to he given to the church ; and that in fact no irconsiderable part of the whole of the loans went into the pee. kets of these families ; and, therefore, your petitioners will not sup pose it possible for your honourable house to harbour an intention to take even a single shilling from the fundholders, so long as these fa milh a shall continue to receive those emoluments. _ ... _ Your petitioners, therefore, most humbly pray that your honoura ble, house will he pleased to pass an act for causing an efficient reform in he Commons' House of Parliament, in order that such parlia ment nay adopt the measures necessary to effect the following pur poses :-- . An appropriation of a part of the public property, commonly called church property, to the liquidation of the debt. 2. A reduction of the standing army, Including staff, barracks, and colleges, to a scale of elpence as low as that of the army before the last war. 3. A total abolition of all sinecures, pensions, grants, and emolu ments, not merited by public services. 4. A sale of the r unierous public estates, commonly called crown lands. and an application of the money towards the liquidation of the debt. 5. An equal adjustment with regard to the public debt, and also with regard to all debts and contracts between man and man. But, while your humble petitioners are aware, that, to reform the Commons' House, and to effect the other purposes of justice and neces sity, which they have here most respectfully pointed out, may require a lapse of months, they know that your honourable house have the power, and they will not believe that you want the will, to afford them immediate protection against further ruin. They, therefore, seeing the pressing nature of their case ; seeing the abject misery that hourly awaits them, pray that your, honourable house will be pleased, 1. To suspend, by law, for one year, all distraints for rent, and to cause distraints to be set aside where they have been begun. 2. To suspend all process for tithes for the same period. 3. To suspend, for the same period, all processes arising out of mort gage, bond. annuity, or other contract affecting house or land. 4. To repeal the whole of the tax on malt, hops, leather, soap, and carollers. I bee measures, so Laalogous to others, taken by your honourable house under circumstances far less imperious; these measures, so easily adopted—so free from the possibility of inflicting wrong ; and, at the same time, so necessary to relieve your petitioners from the daily alarm in which they live; so necessary to afford them a hope of escaping from the pains and disgrace of the lowest pauperism and beggary : to believe that these measures—measures of bare protection from further wrong and ruin ; to believe that these will be refused to your suffering petitioners, would be to suppose the existence of that callousness of heart which your petitioners are far indeed from imputing to your hon. house. Having thus, with the most profound respect, submitted to your ho rmurable house those which they deem the best means for relieving their distresses, your humble petitioners, though they are satisfied that evils so unusual and of such uncommon magnitude require remedies of a nature extensive and extraordinary, beg leave to assure your honoura ble house, that they venerate the constitution of their fathers ; that they seek for no change In the for::: of the government ; that they know how many apes of happiness and of glory their country enjoyed - under a go vernment of king, lords, and commons; that they fervently hope that this constitution may descend to their children : but that they are fully convinced, that unless the present evils be speedily arrested and effectually cured, a convulsion must come, in which the whole of this ancient and venerable fabric will be crumbled into dust. And your petitioners will eves pray. The Earl of Egremont has settled upon his son-in-law, the Earl of Munster, and his Countess, all his disposable property, In cluding the Manor of Wymondhana, from which the family derives its name—" Wyndham." L NATIONAL VACCINE ESTABLISHMENT. • COPT OF THE LAN! REPORT FROM THE NATIORAL VACCINE ESTARLISUMENT TO TEI SRCRETART OF STASI VOL THE HOME DEPARTMENT. " To the Lord Viscount Melbourne, Secretary of State for the Home Department, Pte. " National Vaccine Establishment, March 14,1831. " Mir Lesn,—lt has required all our industry and zeal to supply the numerous demands which have been made upon us for Vaccine matter from all quarters of the Empire since our last report. We have fur nished the means of protection to the army and navy, to every county in England and Scotland. to Ireland, to the Colonies, and moreover to several of the capitals of Europe; and nearly 12,000 of the poor of the metropolis and its Immediate neighbourhood have been vaccinated in the course of the last year. " Whilst this affords an undeniable proof of the great diffusion of vaccination, and is a strong argument for the value of this institution, it diminishes our satisfaction to be obliged to confess, that if Parlia ment should determine that enough had now been done to establish the superior merit of vaccination above every other security against the danger of small pox, and that it should be left henceforward to the discretion and good sense of the nation to continue the practice from the resources of individuals, such a determination would find the country unprepared and unprovided with the means of defence, and that a great mortality from small pox would be an early consequence of the breaking up of this establishment. " It is our constant care to admonish those to whom we send lymph, of the propriety of taking advantage of the opportunity of providing a further supply for themselves. But it would seem from the incessant applications which continue to be made t o us , e i t h er that our warnings are not sufficiently attended to, or what we believe to be the fact, from the re pIW4 constantly made to us, It is impracticable to keep up a con tinued supply any where but In the capital, where numerous appointed vaccinators assist and support each other. " The result of another year's experience is a confirmation of the value of vaccination. We have evidence before us of persons being ex posed to the severest trials of its power of protection in the midst of the contagion of the small pox, with impunity ; and though some consti tutions do admit a secondary disease, yet this is almost always a safe one, though severe in some instances in its first attack, and it is not so common as the chicken pox tumid to be after small pox given by inocu lation.—We have the honour to be, my Lord, your Lordship's obedient servants, (Signed) " AMY HALTOID, President of the Royal College of Physicians. " ROIZIT Buzz, M.D. Censor. " Gno. L. TUTHILL, 31. L. Censor. " ROBERT KEATE, President of the Royal College of Surgeons. " Joiew P. VIIMENT, Vice President of the Royal College of Surgeons. " CLEXENT lluz, M.D. Registrar." LAW REPORTS. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, DUBLIN. , - CIIM COlll.lll/1. HENRY CARDER, BAIT, V. LIIIIIIISAIIT 41111,411L1111 TIOLLOP. Mr. Stoker opened the pleadings in this case. It was an action of trespass for criminal conversation with the plaintiff's wife. The da mages were laid at 10,0001 Mr. Bennett, K.C. stated the plaintiff's case. He was a baronet of the highest respectability. The defendant was a lieutenant in the 36th' regiment of Foot, allied and connected with an English family of high respectability and opulence. The father of the unfortunate lady was a gentleman whom he, and perhaps many of the Jury, knew—Mr. Thompson, late the icputy Chief Rentembrancer for Ireland. in 1818 Sir Henry Carden was married to Miss Thompson with the entire con sent and approbation of their friends. Sir Henry's residence was at a place called the Priory, near Templemon, and that of Mr. Thompson at Merrion.squsee, Dublin, at this period ; but the latter, on his daughter's marriage, removed with his family to Boeris Cantle, near Boats-in-Ossory, a few miles from Sir H. Carden's seat. Sir Henry and his lady lived happily together for a period of ten ycar s , during which they had eight children, the last of whom was bon in 1828. The first indication of any change in the lady's feelings towards her husband was in November, 1828, though the circumstance excited no suspicion at the time. Their eldest son was at school, at a place called Warfield, (he thought) about twenty or thirty miles from London, and Sir Henry proposed, as the Christmas vacation lasted but a month, and the neighbourhood where the child was was a good sporting country, that he should go over alone and enjoy his son's society, and his sports at the same time. She appeared pleased with the proposal, and said, " You can take your hunters over and amuse yourself." However, Sir Henry changed his mind, and mentioned to her afterwards that he did not Intend to go. Sir Henry did go to England. On his way there she accompanied him to Dublin, where they stopped at the Bilton Hotel, and he left her, recommending her to the care of his brother-in-law, Mr. Wade, who was then in town, and having made arrangements for her departure to the country immediately, to her father's house, at Bor. ✓is-in-Oeseey. When she got home, it appeared she declared to Mr. IThompson, her father, she dad not wish to _live with her husband in fu. tare, but this was concealed from Sir Henry's knowledge, and her father endeavoured to persuade her from such a resolution. Sir H. at length returned, and was received with a coldness by his lady which made him uneasy, but no suspicion of any thing criminal sane in his mind.— About a fortnight afterwards she left Sir Henry's house, and pro. ceeded to her father's, and said publicly, for the first time, that she would no longer reside with her husband. She said she would no longer live with him, and that her father approved of her resolution ; bather father contradicted this in her presence, on which she became enraged, and left her father's house for her husband's. He inquired why she re. turned, and she complained of her father's conduct to her as the reason. Her unaccountable conduct induced him to make inquiries, which led him to suspect that not only had be lost her affections, but that they were transferred to another. A governess and other upper servants were desired to make observations, from which it was learned that when Lady Carden was at her father's, she had mixed with the families in the neigh bourhood, and had been observed to be familiar with some men, among the rest one particular °Seer, whom she had on two or three occasions taken into her carriage, when driving to and from the town of Roscrea, a few miles from her father's, where the regiment was quartered. He sent a gentleman to this officer,who gavesuch an explanation as satisfied him there was nothing exactly criminal in their intercourse. This took place in the month of June, 1829; and, instead of submitting to reproof for her conduct on the occasion, the lady refused to remain any longer under her husband's roof. She returned to her father's house. The de fendant's regiment was at this time quartered at Roscrea, and he was about two or three and twenty years of age, the lady was two and thirty. It was not known bow her familiarity with him commenced; but in the month of May, 1030, his regiment having been ordered to Penney he obtained leave of absence, on which he proceeded to Dublin, and stopped at the Bilton Hotel. She had meanwhile left her father's, ac companied by a Alias Kendal, as companion, a confidential servant of her father's named Mrs. Giver, her own maid, and a postillion, who drove her carriage, to reside, as she said, a short time in Dublin.— She lodged at the house of a Mr. Norman, a respectable attorney in Sackville.street, and on the 9th of June she eloped with the defend ant. Lieutenant Trollop engaged In person the chaise which con. veyed them to Howth, front whence they sailed to Holyhead, where they stopped all night, anti passed as man and wife ; they proceeded next day to Beaumaris, where they lodged some time, and represented themselves as a newly married couple. They were recognised and tdcn. rifled by persons in the employment of Sir Henry Carden. On the 16th of July they returned to Dublin, and stopped at Elvidge's Hotel, in South Frederick.street, where the defendant was served with a writ, on which the present action was brought. Lieutenant Trollop now joined his regiment at Fermoy, where the lady accompanied him, and they lived together without any attempt to conceal their intercourse. They lodged first at the house of a person named Kingston, who finding they bore different names (she still retaining that of her husband), was led to make inquiries, and finally to desire them to quit his edgings. They removed to the house of a man named Barry, where they re rotund during the stay of the regiment in Fermoy. When the regi. ment was ordered to the Welt Indies, Lieutenant Trollop went out with it, and Lady Carden embarked shortly after for England, went to Falmouth, and from thence to Barbadoes, where the regiment was stationed. Mr. Bennett concluded by stating that he had studiously abstained front using any harsh language on the conduct of the offend ing parties, but felt assured that his client would receive such ample damages at the hands of the Jury as would vindicate his character nod recompense his feelings. Witnesses having been called in support of this statement, Mr. Serjcant O'Loughlin addressed the Jury in mitigation of damages. Mr. Justice Jebb briefly summed up, and the Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 2601. That our sanguinary statutes are of recent origin, and innovations upon the ancient law of England, chiefly in Protestant days, will at once a pp ear . i n 430 years, or thereabouts 223 offences have been 'owe capital by statute s In the reign of the Plantagenet* • 4 offences. In the reigns of the Tudoss 27 In the reigns of the Stuarts 36 In the reigns of the House of Brunswick ... 136 Total .... 223 Or, to make it still stronger, more crimes were made punishable with death, in the reign of George 111. than in the rei gn s of the Plantage nets, the Tudors, and the Stuarts, combined !—(See Buxton, 1819.) As to the nominal amendments under the 7th and B t h of George IV. comonly called Peel's Acts, I take no account of them, because those statutes have left the spirit of the law the 'emcee before, in all eases where not previously abrogated in practice by public opinion. When shall another Alfred arise, and once more renovate the morals of his people by strictly enforcing his laws, but confining, as he did, capital denunciations to murder ? PANORAMA OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE. -- - CHELTENHAM JOURNAL, MAT 23. A anew...la—Viscount and Viscountess Boyne, lady Williamson. Hoe. T. Coventry, Sir Digby and Lady Forest, lady Banks and family, Sir W. Cockburn, Major General Evans and family, Colonel Hunter, Colonel Barnes, Colonel Millar, Colonel Gardner, Major Mathewson, Major Bayley, Major Powell, Major Moor, Capt. Pesky, Cant. A. S c ott, Capt. Wood, Capt. M'Phersoo, Capt. Cameron, Capt. Gwynne Capt. Girdleetone, Rev. Mr. Mackie, Rev. Mr. Hayes, Rev. A. John son, Rev. W. 8. Phillips. Rev. Mr. Oxley, Rev. J. L.Willis. At the close of the last year we felt called upon, alike by grateful ad. miration of the generous cart then made to ameliorate the condi. tion of the labouring classes and by an earnest desire to uphold such an example to the emulation of all landed proprietors, to notice in terms of the sincerest eulogy the liberality with which Lord Sherbone had devoted considerable portions of his valuable estates at Winrush and other parts of this county, to the encouragement of industry, and the increase of the cottagers' comfort. Such an example we rejoice to see followed, in a spirit worthy of so good a Cause, in this immediate neighbourhood—by Captain Stevenson, of Charlton Kings, whose seal has won for hint the purest and best tribute of earthly praise in the blessings and the prayers of the distressed. Captain Stevenson Las obligingly favoured us with a copy of a letter written by the Rev. Mr. Wray, of Richmond, in Surrey. From that communication we find that "the system of letting small portions of land to the poor has been found the means of the utmost possible encouragement to industry, and most beneficial to parishes in general from affording additional em ployment for the labouring classes—in itself alone the great deride. relent. In agricultural districts its utility is universally admitted." This zealous philanthropist found, however, that the land about Rich mond was considered so intrinsically valuable, that for some time he was unable to gratify his wishes by waling the experiment— At length, he obtained two acres of ground, from which the pa rish bad been digging some gravel, and which they bad filled up and levelled, with every species of rubbish. This, though not very promising soil for such an experiment, Mr. Wray eagerly en. gaged, at the rate of 41. per acre ; but content to incur any tisk, well knowing what the industry of the poor man will accomplish when he feels that he is working for himself and for his family. The purpose for which the land was taken, was no sooner known, than he hid nu merous applications for it, and he was eventually obliged to divide the two acres into twenty-five portions, to satisfy the first applicants. En ' eouraged by the eagerness with which this land was sought for, Mr. Wray solicited a highly respectable landed proprietor to indulge him by letting him six acres of ground conveniently situated for the purpose. When the object of this request was known it was immediately granted, and at the rent paid by the preceding te nant of 41. 6s. lid. per sere. This land was divided into por tions of ten, and, in some cues, twenty perches ; and the appli. cations of the poor were more numerous than before : in short, on the two plots of land there are now not less than ninety-five te. nants ; and they succeeded, last year, in raising the finest crop of po. tatoes and every description of garden.produce, one crop succeeding the other, and the ground thus profitably laid out presents a picture of neat ness and good gardening. With respect to Ids humble tenants, the be. nevolent writer says, " knowing none of them previously, I accepted men of all trades indifferently, giving preference only to those who had the largest number of children : their occupations are, bricklayers, ear. pesters, sadlers, blacksmiths, butchers, &c. a motley crew, but all of them speedily converted into expert gardeners. The pleasurable feel ings I have experienced during.the summer, In witnessing their cheerful labour towards the close of the day, with, oftentimes, their wives and children assisting them, has fully repaid me for every trouble I have taken ; and as to expense I have literally incurred none—having exactly proportioned the rents of my tenants to my own disbursements on their account, As the best proof I can give of the advantages and delight the poor man derives from his little portion of land, I may state that out of ninety-five, all but four voluntarily paid me up the year's rent before it was actually due." We are informed that a Blue canvass Is going on at Gloucester for the city, in prospect of the new Parliament subsequent to the Bill.— Mr. Davies is said to be the candidate. _ _ Ca, LTENHAM, MAY 19 --Wheat, per bushel, Ils 3d to Os; Barley, is to bs &I ; Oats, 2s Gd to 4s; Beans. is 9d to 5a Bcl Peat, k to 816 Beef, per lb. 5d to 6d ; Mutton, 5i to Od • Veal, 5d to Gd ; Pork, 5d to Gd. Hay, 31. lOs to 31. 15s per ton. Bre ad—Wheaten, 11d. Standard Wheaten, 10d. Best Butter, 17d. Eggs, 18 for Is. Potatoes, 10d per peek. MARRIED—Thomas B. Hardwick, Esq. of ;,Grange House, Timeelniton, Miss Peart, of Jamaica—The Rev. E. Seward, to daughter of the late Rev. William Elliot—The Rev. Henry Tulle, I to Elisabeth, daughter of the late George Day, of Prospect House. DlED—Aged 51, Jane, wife of the Res. Mr. Phelps, Vicar of Mem, Somerset—At Rosins Cottage, Mrs. Dorothy Hawker, 57 — At Glow:cater, 78, Mrs. Helena Hathaway. PAISLEY ADVERTISER, MAY 21. The Scotch Singh; at this crisis, have shown themselves more ame nable to public opinion than the counties, for out of fifteen Burgh Members sent to Parliament, it is now ascertained that twelve will be favourable to.reform. DAEADYI/11 Cowriaoa•Trow.—On Thursday morning, a fire, most extensively destructive, broke out in Blackston Moss. Va rious improvements in reclaiming land, have been for some time carrying forward on that part of the moss which belongs to the estate of Blackston. From one of the heaps of burning materials used for this purpose, a few sparks were carried by the wind among the adjoining bather, and, as a strong easterly wind was blowing, in • 'ew minutes the fire had spread to such an alarming extent, that human aid was wholly unavailable In restraining its devastations. The moss will ex tend to upwards of 800 acres and from the greater part of this surface every plant has been consumed. One fine plantation of firs, of thirty or forty acres, of twelve or fourteen years' standing, and another of about twenty acres of still higher standing, both belonging to Mr. lipelrs of Eiderslie, have been greatly destroyed. The fire was carried westward with devouring rapidity ; not only materials on the moss, but even corn fields reclaimed from the moss on the estates of Mr. Cunningham of Craigends, and held by Mr. Caldwell and Mr. Car rutit have suffered. Dmauctive Furs rs JOINSTOMIL—On Thursday last, five thatched 1 1 houses, with five adjoining back ones, situated on the north side of 111'Doirall.atreet, were burned to the ground. It is supposed a spark had been carried by the wind from a vent on the opposite side of the street, to the roof of the one that first took fire. No sooner was the strawkindled, than it was observed, and the alarm given; but, owing to its dryness and the highness of the wind that then Vey, the tames spread over a considerable portion of the roof in a few minutes. Pro. perty above 1,0001. in value has been destroyed ; • considerable portion of which is not sufficiently insured. Twenty-eight famWes have been dislodged, thrown into confusion, and a few of them have lost nearly all their clothing and furniture. Tut SCOTCH PIPEL—Some time ago we had occasion to take notice of the unfortunate accident which happened to the gentleman piper, in consequence of the upset of the Wexford day coach, but now we understand he is so far recovered as to be able to prosecute his journey. He is travelling to gain a wages of five thousand guineas, taken against a French Count, as to who should gain most money as itinerant musicians—the former as a fiddler on the Continent, the latter (our hero) as a piper in Britain and Ireland. Mr. Sprott's woods at Gamkirk were on fire on Thursday. It is not yet ascertained whether it was accidental or the work of an incendiary. THE LAY OF THE WATER NYMPH. (MGM/114 Adown in the deep, where the other sky Spreads its boundless banner of blue, Sly home is hid ;—'tis the palace of joy ; And my mates are singing of you. Then come with me to the crystal land, The purple.haired Nymphs to see And join the lay of the bright-eyed band; Speed ! Mortal come with me. PAISLEY, MAY 19.—Oatmeal, per peck, 16d. 17d ; ditto, English, 174 170 ; Peasemeal ditto, I6d 17d ; Barleymeal ditto, 14d; Quer tern Loaf, 8d 9d ; New Cheese, per lb. fid 13d ; old ditto, 7d ; Potatoes, per peck, 124 ; Eggs, per dozen, 7d ; Fresh Butter, lid; Powdered ditto, 12d ; Salt Sutter, 941 lld ; Beef Steak, per lb. 6d 9d; Beef for roasting per lb. 6d 7d; Beef for boiling, 4d 6d ; Mutton, per lb. bd ; Veal, ditto, 3d 8d ; Shoulder Hams, per stone, 8s to 101 ; per quarter, Rs to 81. DIED.—At Ardrossan, on his return from the election at Ayr, V. Lade, Esq. Writer, Port Glasgow; he was in bad health when he left home—at Lochwlnnoch, Mr. John Macome, surgeon—At Adam's Well, Mrs. Davidson, relict of the late Rev. David Davidson. minister. Cumberland—at Dunoon, the Reverend Doctor John Campbell. FELIX FARLEY'S BRISTOL JOURNAL, bilAy 21. We regret to have to announce the decease of James Maze, ksq. of the house of Peter Maze and Sons, of this city, who had gone from Alexandria with a party to ex the Pyramids. He had ascended one,•ind in attempting a without a guide, was precipitated from a great height to the ground, and on his friends coming to the spot they found him a corpse. He was a gentleman of amiable and excellent cha racter, and formerly Consul for France at Bristol. An inquest was held on Monday, at the Guildhall, on the body of Benjamin Nickles., accountant and agent to suitors in the Courts of Conscience and Requests, who, at about half past ten o'clock in the morning, while waiting in the anti-room adjoining St. George's Chapel, during the sitting of the Court of Conscience, suddenly fell down, and slimily afterwards expired. On Wednesday, the Bristol Auxiliary to the 11 '..sleyan *jetheest Missionary Society, held their 16th Annual Meeting at the tasapel in King-street, which was crowded to excess. T. R. Gomel IN. of Cardiff, (brother of late member for Rositon), was called to the chair. The Committee's report was read It took a comprehensive view of the society's operations in Sweden, lonian Islands, Egypt, Nast and West 'tidies, N o , g, o , Wales, Cape of Good Hope, Newfoundland, due. There are 160 missionary stations belonging to this society, employin g 2 .4 tt :' ll sionaries, besides schoolmasters, catechists, &t. It was furthe r that 41,188 persona were now in " church fellowship," b ar i ptz i t oco converts to the Christian religon, but this number f ormed a „n;„ small portion only of the number who attend the preaching of t r , missionaries 26,000 children were receiving instruction at tl o. sionary stations. The converted Chief (who has received the name of Peter Jones) 1 ,._ came forward. He was habited in the dress of his tribe— a ion or grat coat, of yellow ochre colour, with a cape cut in holes, in a uniform manner, round the border—a sash apparently of long grass, and oiht ornaments appended from his neck. Ile appeared to be lahourir undt ~ severe indisposition, the effect of change of eXmate, and had a disirtfsiti cough. Great interest was caused by his 3 and after kleer: was obtained, Mr. Jones addressed the mielePtrigr7:7ery correctßnal* but in so low a tone of voice that we lost the commencement of his ad. dress. The following is what we were able to collect :—" lam come to see with my own eyes what you are doing to spread the religion of CnaisT in the world. lam glad In my heart to se e „ d to shake hands with you as brothers and sisters in ju ts CHRIST, and to have the pleasure of chewing myself as the t e s o i t of your labours; for he who now stands before you, wt .k in body, and with a trembling voice, :has been visited through means by the Great Spirit. Long bad I and my people wandtr..siti darkness and ignorance, but the LORD has done great things for us, I thought I should have strength to say a great deal, but the hand of rh o Great Spirit is upon me. But lam desirous to tell you that my pe op i, were of all men most miserable ; we did not know the Great Sidra rot Jesus CHRIST; we worshipped things that were no Gods; ' n o wasting away in this miserable manner, we had no idea of Heaven or al a place of torment; but the Good Spirit sent Christian missionaries to us, to preach the wora of Goo, and we felt the Good Spirit in oa t hearts. We wish to walk, with our wives and children, in the way to ' Heaven. There are above twelve hundred of our tribe walking in way of Gob, and we have several schools; and there are other Me t , crying Come and help tt. and teach us the words of the Good Spirit. You arc engaged in a go od work, and I hope you will never give it u till all shall know the LORI, from the least to the greatest. I hop e I shall meet you all in our Father's house, where we shall be happy fan ever and ever.—Farewell." The Oxford county election, we are informed, exhibited some of thi most ferocious scenes of brutality that have occurred during the int popular excitement. The under-graduates of the University could nut, with the greatest precaution, be prevented showing their opinion in 1. your of Lord Norreys, the late 111. P. who voted against the Several of the young men were much injured; one, in particular, , would have lost his life, but for the timely interference of the formi. dable Lord Hilaborough, who with his gigantic arms knocked the me', about on either side of him, and rescued a youth that bad been hung to a lamp-post by the wrings of his gown. As 111 r. Barfield, the gardener of Henry Host Henley, EAc i . o f Leigh House, near Chatd, was a few days since digging out the ro it of an old tree in the garden, the pick axe struck against a Roman Ur. , which was tound to contain between five and six hundred pot.nds worth of gold pieces, of the Emperor Claudius. BRISTOL CORM EXCHANGE, (Thursday.)—Wheat per sack of 331 lbs. 40s to 465; Foreign Wheat, per Imperial bushel, 7s to Ets 94 ; English Wheat 71 &I to Its 6d ; Irish ditto Gs to 7s 3d ; Welsh ditto fia Cod to 7s ; Malting Barley 4s lid to bs 9d; Barley for Grind* 36 011 to 3s 9d; White Pease he &I to 6s; Ditto Boilers Gs 31 to Cs Od ; Pigs' Pease bs to bs 3d; Malt, Pale 7s Gd to 85 3d ; Ditto Brown Gs 6d to 7s 3d; Beans 4s 9d to Cis bd ; Beans, Foreign 4s Gi to 3s ; Oats, Poland 3s 4tl to Ss Od ; Oats, Feed 2s 10d to 3a Id; Flour, fine, per sack, of 2c. 2qrs. Mbs. 45a. to 49a; flour, Seconds, 421 to 445. 111 A NRIED.—Thotn" only son of James Bowen, Esq. of Tyddyn, Montgomeryshire, to Mary, eldest daughter of the Rev. R. Davie., B.D. —At Almondsbury church, Shadrach Thomas, Esq. to Elisabeth, daughter of G. Luton. Esq.—Thomas M. Mills, Seq. of Tauntoo, to Ann, eldest daughter of the late Mr. J. Benton.—Oeo. F. Hunter,Esq. of Barbadoes, to Miss Allen, of St. James's Church-yard.—Mr. Robert Mullett Evans, solicitor, to Matilda Catherine, daughter of the Lk Capt. Flyn.—At Warminster, William, third son of Thomas Slater, Esq. to Ann, youngest daughter of 31r. Brodribb.—At Clifton church, John Harrison, Sep. of Park-street, to Ellen, daughter of the late 0 Achim!, Esq. —At Wakes church, Rowland Burdon, Req. jun. to Ann, youngest daughter of the late J. Uhthoff, Esq. DIED.—At Exeter, 35, Ann, third daughter of the late Richard Cann, Esq. of Hartland.—At Oldham Common, Mr. Robert New. man, 100 yesn.—Aged 80, Mrs. Mary Hobbs, widow of Captain Hobbs—At Banwell, aged 86, Mrs. Emery, relict of Mr. John Emery. —At Clifton Hotwells, Mr. Anthony Paine Moffat, of Ilalmesbury.— At /Cooney, near Frome, Isaac Fussell.—At Bath, 88, Rebecca Mil som Coyde, late of Southampton, relict of the late T. Coyde, Esq. DUBLIN MORNING REGISTER, MAY 20.—At length the more than " frivolous and vexatious" struggle for Dublin is at an end. Every thing considered, the result is the greatest triumph that reform has had in any part of the United Kingdom. The cam paign was opened by the friends of the successful candidates with tht advantage of only a few hours useful preparation; and up to the ekes of the first day, they had not agreed upon a definitive system of opera tions. The influence of the government, no doubt, was very consi derable ; but it was not, after all, as effective as one might suppose.— Men actually in possession of office were, of course, ready (or affeetd to be so) with their votes ' • but their family and connexions, in the I majority of instances, supported the Tory candidates. Virstroap.—On Tuesday evening, Arthur Chichester and Henry Lambert, Esqs. were declared duly elected, Lord Valentin having re• signed farther contest. The noble lord threatens to petition, on ite ground of intimidation and obstruction of freeholders. A letter was received in town last night, by the Limerick coach, an nouncing that the Clare election terminated on Wednesday afternoon, by the return of Major Macnamars and Mr. Maurice O'Conne ll .— Shortly before the close of the contest, Mr. O'Connell, accompanied by bis brother, Mr. John O'Connell, and several other gentlemen, arrived in Ennis. There has been no contest foe Louth, and Richard Shiel Is the col. leeguc of honest and uncomprising Alexander Dawson. The attempt to put forward a rival candidate was, it seems, the work of the Dublin Brunswickers. The trickery connected with It was worthy of their high renown but the thing is not worth speaking about. Louth has wxft, and reform has got rid of any obstruction that could be thrown In its wa7 by John IPClintock. Kiwo s Couwry—Lord Oxmantown and Colonel Bernard hate been returned. Captain Westerns made a great struggle ; but by ad vice of his committee, resigned on Wednesday. All the candidata were reformers. " DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP. " Messrs. George Ogle Moore and Frederick Skaw beg leave to sp. prise their friends and the public, that the partnership hitherto carries' lon by them in the Parliament Trade, Is about to be dissolved. " Mr. Moore wishes to inform his Mends, that the Registrar l'd nets will be carried on in future with the utmost punctuality, mins ex tensive premises on the Inns-quay. " Mr. Shaw takes this opportunity of assuring all those interested in the clearing out of the Dublin docks, that henceforward he will db. charge, with the utmost despatch, all commissions entrusted to him." Yesterday the Chief Baron, in giving judgmment in a case where the utility of some implowd machinery in a mill was in question, took occasion to observe that the people of this country "seemed to dislike all inotoration v esvept innowolion on the constitution." The Evening Packet announces the death of Richard Pennefather, Esq. of Newport, which took place about five o'clock on Monday evening last, a: his house in Cashel. He was one of the governots of the county, and in the year 1788, was Colonel in the Irish Volurteers: subsequently be was Lieutenant Colonel of the Tipperary militia: be was for many years a member in the Irish Parliament, and for one session represented in the Imperial Parliament the borough of Cashel. of which he was the proprietor. One hundred and fifty years ago Ida ancestors held a high command in the Irish militia of that day. He is succeeded in his extensive estates by The his son, Matthew Pennefathcr , Esq. for the borough of Cashel. Rev. Wm. Hughes, who died of apoplexy on Saturday, wham on his way to his residence at Summerston, county Wexford, was the clergyman whose trial in the Consistorial Court, on chairs preferred by C. A. Walker, Req. M.P. and other Wexford gentlemen, excited so much interest last summer. Saturday nig ht a band of Lady Clare's followers attacked the house of Mr. Arthur s steward at Glanmera, placed him on his knees, and. pointing a blunderbuss to his breast, threatened to shoot him, if he dare again bring labourers from another parish to work oat that gentle. man's estate. The 24th inst. at Blackheath, Mrs. Tomlin, of a daughter. MARRIED. The 21st inst. at St. James's, Westminster, John Power, E4q. of Leicester place, to Catherine, daughter of the late C. Brooks, a'J niece of the late J. Brooks, &qrs. of Stratford, in Essex. DIED. At Cheltenham, on the 14th inst. Mrs. Hawker, widow of the bt, Colonel Hawker, C.B. Royal Attillery, and Lieut..Ciovernor of O M IT.- end and Tilbury-fort.—At the East India Company's military setnimrY at Addiscombe, on the 21st lust. in the 17th year orb!, age, Gentians: , Cadet W. Paterson, (eldest son of Capt. W. Paterson, ILN. Judire :- Newfoundland). ammellsowolummomok CORN-EXCHANGE—TiIIs DAY. •111111VALS. Wheat, English (qrs.) • 1,850' Batley, Foreign - . 2.30 Irish . - - -.-- Oats, English 960 Foreign - - - 5,990 " Irish . . 1,540 Barley, English . . 300 Foreign - 2,370 Irish - - . 90 : • 14h Flour (saris) 3.470 NIGH WATER AT LO DON BRIDGE TO-510fine Morning Ix. 911 x. I Afternoon . .------ .. LAWTON : Printed and Published by JOHN MAYNE. at flit bT•$ Ov►lcrt, N.. 1, Pickett-place, Temple Bar. '.' L ~;; I . 1 I . I! .