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~..._.,... ,'y... / without preparation or notice, liberated all the black slaves in one (lay. Did any injury arise to the state, to the proprietors, or to the slaves themselves Did the negroes revenge themselves on their benefactors? Nothing of the kind. There was nothing but reciprocal congratulation and rejoicing —nothing but emulation in social duties with their white brethren, and zeal to serve the state into which they were admitted. So when the French republic abolished slavery in Hayti, all accounts concur in detailing the imme diate advantages to all parties, and the increased prosperity of the proprietors, and of the whole colony. " Its march to prosperity was rapidly accelerated," says a contemporary writer and eye witness, " and its improvement was like magic." It was when Bonaparte,—apostate as he was from liberty (to his own ultimate bane), in both hemispheres,—endeavoured to reimpose their broken chains on the necks of the slaves, that blood and devastation covered the island. The negroes justly fought for freedom "to the knife." But from the time that the Haytians recovered their freedom, they have constantly advanced in pros perity ; and their free black peasantry are more prosperous, comfortable, and happy, than any pea santry in the world (not excepting our own) at this time. Of this allegation the lecturer produced con curling proof, and read the testimonies of recent eve-witnesses and correspondents, transmitted from the spot. Mr. C. stated that the plan adopted for free la bour, on the liberation of the Haytian negroes, was to give one-fourth of the produce to the la bourer, and the other three-fourths to the capi talists, or proprietors. And he proposed a plan into which this division of profits entered, and of which he gave elaborate details, as the basis of a future rural code that might be established in our colonies with advantage to the planters as well as the neg o slaves, were the British legislature (in imitation of Mexico) to pronounce slavery abo lished throughout the British dominions, and among all British subjects to-morrow. Mr. C. then went into the question of compensation ; which, he said, was generally viewed in the light of a bugbear, deterring from all com promise, and closing the door on all ad justment ; but in which he said he would prove there was no difficuty whatever. Hie thesis was, that even were the claim to compensation demanded by the %Vest Indian proprietors conceded, the British nation would gain in a financial point of view by the concession. He should not, therefore, deny that there was ground for compensation, as a late colonial secretary (Sir G. Murray) had denied—he should not assert that immoral property and defec tive titles abrogated legal claims to compensation for every kind of property—but he would take the estimate of the planters themselves, either of in come arising from the British slave population, or its value per head : and he averred that, after ma king fair sets-off for the cost, military and naval, of maintaining the system, and the losses sustained by our East Indian, Chinese, and African com merce—that in the article of the West Indian pro tecting duties alone, England would be a large an nual gainer, by admitting the claim of the colonists thus equitably qualified and reduced, (We are compelled to omit Mr. C.'s arithmetical calcula tions to this effect.) How infinitely more a gainer by the renewed spring the abolition would give to East Indian and Chinese commerce, and by the immense vent it would open for our commodities throughout the African peninsula—when its im mense and unexplored interior shall be allowed to develope all the wants and demands of improving civilization ! " Since, then," said the lecturer, " the interest of all parties requires instant and utter abolition— since there is no real difficulty in the question of compensation—since public morality exacts this measure—since political expediency requires it— since the Christian religion loudly demands it— chy should we longer allow ourselves to be trifled with by vain excuses, and ameliorating pretences, idle delays, dishonest shifts, and self-defeating compromises ? There is at least a straight road before us ; let us pursue that road steadily, neither turning to the right nor to the left—neither de ceived by phantoms—nor succumbing to violence— nor entangled by sophistry. Let your petitions to Parliament, vour instructions to your representa tives on -this 'head, be concise and explicit. No more pretences—no more trifling—no more insults on your feeling and common sense—no more frivolous and vexatious delays ! State your object ,in these few words—We demand the utter aboli tion of British and colonial slavery ! PANORAMA OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE. The STAR has for severarinonths exhibited such a plc. ture of the Domestic Events of the Empire, as never before was attempted. It gratifies unspeakably the natives of districts who reside in London and distant counties, and is a LETTER FROM HOME to every provincial in foreign countries, or in the Colonies. It raises also Into general im portance the exertions of local talents in every public cause. Then as this is a duty performed alone by the STAR, those local patriots would ill deserve their name, if the STAR ' and its interests were not reciprocally promoted by them in every district. We know it has been so in many places, and the STAR in principles, and in all the best qualities of a paper, has justified preference; but we reasonably expect the same attentions EVERT WHERE, as the mean' of at once recompensing our diligence, and adding to the utility of our valuable and exclusive information. We call also on the Provincial Proprietors of papers, whose local labours we thus illustrate, and invite with earnestness their powerful attentions in promoting those interests of the Paper which tl:ey best understand. We notoriously; excel all London l'apers in priority of Foreign News, and our display of the transactions of the country is equally exclusive and pre. eminent. COLCUESTER GAZETTE, Sept. 3. Toe PROVINCIAL Pooa.—At an examination of the Rev. James Beard, of Cr.utheld, in Bedfordshire, before a Com mittee of the Lords, now sitting oil the State of the Poor, the following transpired : What is the general food of the labourers in your part of the country ?—Nothing but bread. What have they to drink ?—Water. Have they no cheese ?—No. No tea ?—Very little. I have watched twenty-one men dine together; I have seen twenty of them eat bread with what we call seam, which is a little fat rendered down. 'No potatoesv—No. h Where did you see them dine together ?—At the gravel. pit. What have they in their cottages when they dine there ? They very rarely do. What have their families ?—From what I have wee, I should think, the women, bread and tea. And yet men, thus fed, are expected to labour from ten to twelve hours each day ! Cotetizern, Arlo. 47.—Wheat was full 2a per quarter dealer ; New Wheat tomes to hand very indWerent ; there was not much business done, on account of the holders standing out for better prices. White wheat, per quarter, 70s. to 76s4ited ditto, 68s. to 70s. Barley. Ws. to 38s. Oats, 225. to 30,. Hone Beans, 365. to 445. White Peas, 585. to 445. Grey ditto,s6s. to 40s. MARRIED.—Mr. C. Christopherson, to Ann , only daughter of t h e l ate Ed war d W at ki ns , Lg.—Mr:James Mann, of Btacondsle, to Eliza, daughter of the late Mr. (ledge, surgeon, of Mildenhall.—Mr. Joseph Lanktster, of Stowmarket, to Ann Eliza, eldest daughter of Mr. J. A. Webb.—At Reyleigh, Mr. Samuel Count, to Emma, third daughter of the late C. laver, Esq. of Wood Barns. D I ED.—At Leiden, William Bawtree, Esq. of Wapping Wall, 35.—At Hockley. James Willis, Esq. 84.—bydia, wife of John B a il ey Tenet, Esq. of Woodbtidge, 40. James Matthew, Req. of Hemmed' Hall, Cotton, Suffolk, 33.—Mrs. Sproale, of Bury, relict of the Rev. John Row land Sproule. rector of Great Bardfield. BRIGHTON HERALD, Sept. 3. At a public meeting of the inhabitants of Brighton, held at the Old Ship Tavern, on the 30th of August, Mr. D. M. Folkard, High Constable, in the Chair, convened in com pliance with the requisition of 185 inhabitants who had se verally been served from the collectors of the king's taxes with an increased charge of assessment on their respective property, " for the purpose of taking the sense of such meet ing on the propriety of enquiring into the cause which has occasioned this apparently vexatious interference at this par. tinder period, with the arrangement of the asseaments by which the property has for many years been taxed; and also to consider of the propriety of selecting a deputation to com municate, through the proper medium for such redress and relief therefrom as the circumstances of the case may de. mand."—the following resolutions were unanimously peeled : 1. That it is the opinion of this meeting that the inhabited house and window duties are partial in their nature, and in their operation particularly oppressive to the inhabitants of Brighton ; and that the reassessments which have recently been made are calculated seriously to injure the inhabitants generally. 2. That this meeting views with regret the attempt making by the government assessor to increase the inhabited house duty and window duties, at a time when they had reason to expect relief from those taxes, and when, in consequence of the depreciation of the value of property in the town, the pa rish assessors contemplate making a reduction in the peers' rates assessment. 3. That inasmuch as the local commissioners for the af fairs of taxes have not the power to grant redress, a memo rial be presented to the Lords of the Treasury seeking relief from the weight of increased taxation. CHICHESTEL-Mr. Walker delivered a lecture on astro nomy, at the theatre, on Friday evening. It wu attended by an highly respectable audience, to whom he gave the ful lest satisfaction, by his ii.genious invention of travelling through the air, by mechanical means alone. This invention opens a very novel and highly interesting branch of philoso phy, as the effect of a fiat surface upon the air, and the re. action of the air against the same, in producing a projectile force, appears, until now, to have escaped observation. The public of this town had scarcely recovered from the painful agitation caused by the dreadful murder of Celia Holloway, when, on Monday last, intelligence reached Brighton, that, about four o'clock on the morning of that day, the half-dressed corpse of a female, bearing considera ble marks of violence, bad been discovered by a boatman in the Preventive Service, lying on the beach under the cliff, about midway between the watch-house at Rottingdean and Roedean gate, on the Rottingdean road. The individual who found the body, immediately proceeded to the nearest station at Black Rock, and having placed a man in care of the body, went to Rottingdean, within the bounds of which parish the body was found, where he procured a cart, in which the de. ceased was carried to Rottingdean, and laid on a table in a coach-house belonging to Mr. Sutton of the White Horse Inn. Near to the spot, where the body was discovered, were also found a coloured cotton gown, a pair of stays, a pair of aloes, and part of a steel busk belonging to the stays. An active enquiry by the parochial authorities of Rottingdean was Immediately set on foot, and it was soon ascertained that two females and two men had been seen loitering about the road near Roedean-gate, as late as between nine and ten o'clock on Sunday evening. The name of the deceased is Mary Dunn. She is a native of Ireland, and gained a scanty subsistence by selling small wares, such as bobbins, tapes, &c. and occasionally begging. She had been about three weeks in Brighton, and tenanted, with two other women, also Irish, a room in a lodging-house kept by a man named William Williams, at No. 15, Nottingham-street, in this town. The evidence on the inquest, the substance of which we subjoin, presents a lamentable picture of moral depravity. Elizabeth Kelly deposed that, on Saturday afternoon, about two o'clock, she went out with her child, the deceased, and Mary O'Neil, to beg a few halfpence, being broken down and having no neans of paying their lodgings. They proceeded as far as the hill above the Abergavenny Arms, at Black Rock, and sat down on a bank- While there they saw two young men coming towards them down the hill-- The deceased said she would ask them for money. She ran out into the road, and, on their coming up, begged for a penny to buy some tobacco. One of the young men, who, was dressed in a white frock, a red waistcoat, and blue trowsers, and whom his companion called Will, then made an indelicate offer to the deceased, who after. wards conversed with them, but the witness could not hear what they said. The other man was called Henry; he wore a fustian shooting jacket and trowsers. They then all came up to the bank. The deceased then said to witness and Mary O'Neill that they were going to have a drop of beer, and said to the men that she hoped they would not mind the two old women going with them. They replied, they did not; and the whole party then went to the Aber gavenny Arms, where they drank two pots of beer and two glasses of turn and water; from thence they proceeded to the Bush Hotel cap, where they had two more pots of beer and two quartems of rum ; on leaving this house about six o'clock, Mary O'Neill and witness's child returned home. The four (that is, the witness, the deceased, and the two men) nearly proceeded as far u the Roedean gate, and all sat down together by the road side, and soon after Will and the deceased went over the bank into a field; they re turned in a minute or two, and the party went on as far as the stacks at Roedean. [The witness s evidence at this stage of inquiry, from its disgusting and profligate charac ter, we necessarily omit.] She went on to state that she was joined by the deceased, who was hastening on towards Brighton, raying that Will was a scaly fellow, and had given her but one shilling, but that she had drawn two others from him. She said, " Come on fast, let's go by the water-side, for fear they'll:follow us." Witness said, " No, I can't run, I'll go along the road." The deceased then looked back, and said the men were coming. She heard money jingle in the deceased's hand. Henry came up first and took the deceased by the arm, saying she should go back as she had robbed his mate. She denied it. and refused at first, but afterwards went and witness followed. Will then came up and made a blow at deceased, who lowered her head and avoided it. He made another blow at her, which fell on her head on the right side. She did not cry out, but ran away down the road towards the turnpike-gate, Will following her. Henry remained with the witness, and searched to see if he could find the nuney on her, but she had none. Will then came back, and said the deceased had got off, and that he could not find her. It was at this time dark, about nine o'clock. Will then struck witness on the head, and was following up his blows, but Henry interfered, saying witness had not taken the money. Will then ran off among the stacks, and soon after called out twice very loud to Henry, who helloed out, " Have you found her ?" Will answered No,' and Henry then left witness, who came en her road to Brighton, thinking that the deceased had probably gone round and escaped the men, and had reached her home. Witness never saw her after. At two o'clock, on Wednesday, the coroner and jury again assembled, when the two men, William Hemsley and Henry Brooker, who had been apprehended at Street, near Lewes, at an early hour that morning by the constable of the Hundred, assisted by Messrs. Penfuld and Wise, of this place, were brought intu the room, handcuffed together. They were asked if they would like to see the body, and re. plying that they would, were conducted to the coach-house. On the lid of the shell in which the corpse had been placed being removed, they manifested considerable emotion, par ticularly Hemsley. The only observation which escaped Hemsley Was—." I see there is a body there." They were then taken back to the inn, and the manacles being re. moved from their hands, the investigation proceeded. Tne evidence of Elisabeth Kelly, given the previous day, was read over in her pee ; she added, that she koala the prisoners to be m n with whom the deceased and herself had been in company on Sunday night, and that Ilemsley was the man who struck the deceased on the head. Brooker, in his defence, stated that when Hemsley got up, he said that he had lost his money. and wished him, Brooker, to po after and stop the woman. He did IN alt 4, on Hemsley s coming up, he asked the woman for his money. She denied having it, and he then struck at ber. He, Brooker, then desired him to leave off, saying he would do the woman some mischief. The female then ran off, Hensley following ber, and be saw no more of him until he. Brooker, in company with John Rich, discovered him lin the oe field. They afterwards, he stated, slept in ying Ildr. 's hovel till the morning. The only statement made by Hensley was, that he never saw the woman after she left him and ran down the road. The court was then cleared, and the jury, after nearly an hour's deliberation, returned a verdict of Manslaughter against William Hensley and Henry Brooker, and the pri soners have since been committed on the coroner's warrant to Horsham gaol, to await their trial at the next assizes. THE LATE MURDER—RE-EXAMINATION OF ANN KErrnEyv.--The final examination of this woman took place at the Sea House Hotel, on Thursday, before Sir David Scott. Bart. S. F. Milford, W. Seymour, and W. S. Fuller, Eggs. The justice-room was again excessively crowded, and the arrangements on the same plan as at the prisoner's last examination. At eleven o'clock Kennett was placed in a chair before the Bench weeping bitterly. She was, on the whole, improved in appearance since the last bearing, being fresher and more ruddy, and her apparel was remarkably clean. On this occasion she wore no bonnet, but a neat lace cap. The prisoner having, after the lapse of a few minutes, become more calm, Mr. Colbatch, the magistrates' clerk, proceeded to read over the depositions taken at the last sitting. The depositions of David Masan, Gabriel Mani. Wm. Elphick, W. Healy, Chas. Orchard, G. A. Greenwood, and Geo. Nye, were read over without inducing any remark from the prisoner. Elphick, in reply to a question from the Bench, said, that on removing the corpse of Celia Holloway from the grave in the Shaw, be saw no appearance of blood on either the stays or shift. The latter, he said, adhered closely to the body, which was so much decomposed, that the skin came off with the garment, and had there been marks of blood on it, it would have been next to impossible to have recognized them as such. The deposition of chief o 1 cer Pilbeam, which related to the finding of the baby linen, Az. in the prisoner's apart ment being about to be te. the magistrates' clerk drew the attention of the prisoner to it, as more immediately affecting her. The prisoner thanked him, and said she would attend. The only remark made by the prisoner on the evidence, was similar to that given last week ; she still maintained that the baby's cap, shoes, and a piece of edging, were given her by Holloway, wbo, she said, brought them home one evening and threw them into her lap, saying that "she might have them." The High Constable's deposition was then gone through. The prisoner, on being asked, is usual, at the conclusion of each witness's evidence, whether she hal any questions to put? said she had none, but that she should like to see whether it was in the same state as it was when he Holloway, had her to it. The magistrates here warned the prisoner, but she continued. She did not know the name of the row, or the number of the house ; it was somewhere at the bottom of SAward.strmt. Holloway took her to it, I._ LECTURES ON NEGRO SLAVERY. Mr. Clarkson has just finished a course of lec tures on negro slavery, at Clapham. He intro duced some curious investigations, with a view to rebut the arguments of the colonial advocates, as to tile mental and physical inferiority of the ne :ZITIOA, and as to their political and social incom petency. In the course of these he adduced a hatin treatise of the celebrated Dr. J Hunter, in which that great anatomist and naturalist aims at demonstrating, on anatomical grounds, that the first man must have been a nee-ro; and that the red and white races of the human species must have been derived from black, and not the black from rest or white. Next the lecturer argued, from the testimony of Herodotus, Diodorus. Siculus, Ho mer, and Virgil, that the original Egyptians. who initiated all civilization, were negroes ; and ad-1 duced copies of extant representations in Egyptian' , tombs. to show the probability that there was a aceeo royal dynasty in Egypt—under which fly ;3tV the white or Cancassian race of the human srecies (perhas including Britons,—who were cer tainly bond slaves to the Greeks and Romans afterwards) was held in slavery. He adduced the evidence of the degradation, mural, physical, and intellectual, of the white raves (including British barbarians) under the effects of slavery, from ancient historians—and brought forward the evidence of British Consul, Dupuis, at Mogadore, to prove the same pernici ous influence on the white slaves, christian and European, lately subjected to slavery in the Bar bary States. Having thus shown that the colo nial advocates of negro inferiority argue in a va rious circle, (slavery being first the reason of the degradation—and next the degradation being as sig!ned as a reason for the slavery)—the lecturer eroceitled to detail the origin and progress of ne gro slavery, and its condition in our colonies, at the present time. He referred to the resolutions brought forward byl .Ur. Canning, in 1823, in concurrence with the West Indian proprietors and their committee inj !his country, ns exhibiting a picture of the actual vontlition of the slaves in 1823, under the hands of the colonists theniselves; and averred that both the great measures—the abolition of the negro slave trade in 1807, and the amelioration of colo nial slavery in 1823, thus proposed were frustrated, and abortive. All that had been decreed by the legislature, in favour of the very oppres sed Africans, in our colonies, was up to this moment a dead letter. The sabbath is not a day of rest. Work equal to six days and three nights in the week, (during crop time, i. e. half the year) stimulated by the cartwhip, and supported by a miserable weekly dole of two pounds of salt tish, with the additional doubtful chance of rearing a few vegetables during such intolerable exertions, is still performed. The slave is still arrested for his master's debts—torn front his family, and sold as a moveable (to be considered as a mere fixture would be happy for him.) If his son be murdered his daughter ravished—his evidence against the murderer and ravisher is still rejected. Punish ment, though ostensibly limited to thirty-nine lashes, is still murderous ; pregnant women are still flogged in the sight of their sons and husbands. Indecency in flogging is still pertinaciously adhered tn. The cartwhip still echoes from morn till night through groves sacred to cruelty and mammon. What has been the answer to Mr. Canning's re solutions ? Let Mr. Shiel state ; " Jamaica took the cartel containing her sovereign's mandate, and shook it dripping with negro blood in the insulted face of England." Let Mr. Buxton record the rest •of the reply : " Demerara replied by the murder of 11. c Christian missionary, Saiith—Barbadoes Is; the demolition of the Methodist chapel—Berbice by the horrible reports of the colonial fiscal—the Bahamas by the murderous outrage of the Mosses ;" 'Nevis has since replied by the scourging depopula tion of the overseer \Valley—Jamaica by the bru tal cruelty of the Rev. Mr. Brydges to his female slave Hilton. What has been the general answer of all the crown, of all the chartered colonies ? One' may fancy the hundred mouths of sonic Titaman giant or gorgon bellowing forth the reply ? " De population,—wholesale massacre and murder— weekly, daily, hourly assassination !" In ten years there has been a decrease of 45,800 slaves in four teen colonies. This is the " sticking-place" to which the cause is now "screwed,"—this the point of the road where we now stand. Ten vic tims of this execrable system are despatched every day. " While we debate, they die !" says an elo quent abolitionist. While we deliberate, they pe rish. " What was to be done ?" exclaimed the Jecturer, "with a question on which it was dis graceful to speak coolly ? tOr not to be indig• nant at such inveterate atrocities was not to be a man. Should we still temporize, deprecate, and fritter it away ?" Mr. Clarkson stated it to be his firm conviction, that unless the people of England resolved to take the matter into their own hands, and to abo lish slavery at once by some decided decree like that which was carried into effect at Hayti and Mexico, the question would drag on another halt' century, as it had already lingered without results .through one past half century, and wear out the exertions and lives of the young abolitionists, as it had already worn out the old. He was.convinced that it would be better to drop the subject altoge ther, if it acre nut resolved to demand of the legis lature its instant and utter abolition. It was his province to show the uecessity, on religious and moral grounds, and the safety and advantage to all parties, on political grounds, of this effectual step. Having disposed of the scriptural arguments of the colonial advocates, Mr. C. proceeded at once to consider the question of immediate emancipation. Was it so very alarming a pleasure, even on the threshold, v hen the late Lord Melville, no very intemperate innovator, was willing that British colonial slavery should cease in 1800 ! But look to the consequences, say the colonists. Look to facts, said the lecturer. They are the best as s ver to %a ue and iute:ested surmises. Hundreds of thousands of neg roes have been emanci pated at Cul:a, at the Brazils, at Sierra Leone, at Mexico, at S. Domingo, and in our own colonies. Ilere is an :experimental argument. Did those einaticipateg,'negroes Ilse to cut the throats of their benefactors' to wound the hand that smote off their chains! Did they rebel to acquire that whicl; they:eh:id already acquired without rebel lion? Preposterous argument! Did any evil Con equence to any party result born their. freedom ? —None. slatever. T h ose tree negroes were as respectable. as enlightened, and .as welledisposed, as the white proprietors. At Mexico a decree, and wished her to live there. Police superintendent Thoburn's evidence being read, the prisoner repeated, in allusion to that put which stated the finding of the bloody rags in her drawer, at her lodgings in High-street, that they were caused by the wound on het eye, by the ill-treatment of Holloway. James Simmonds, the ill-fated Celia's landlord, added to his former statement, that as far as he could recollect, Holloway came to his house and abused the deceased about a week after she received her last money. This in nowise affected the prisoner, who merely stated that when Holloway had not money to send to Celia, she had often pawned her clothes off her back to get it for her. Amelia Simmonds's evidence was next read. On com ing to that part where the witness stated that she heard the prisoner threaten Celia, the prisoner denied having ever done so, and stated that the last time she visited Celia, she car ried her Is to procure which she pawned a blanket belong. ing to her landlady, Mrs. Leaven. Frances Simmons, the child, was next called, and re peated that her former statement of having seen the cap, now I roduced, and found at the prisoner's lodgings, in Celia's trunk the day before she left her mother's house, was per fectly true. The prisoner.—May I call a witness ? there is a little girl in the room, named Sally Leavers, who saw me working on the cap while I was ill at her mother's. Although decidedly irregular, the Bench humanely con. eented, and the child was called, and, after a proper exami nation as to her understanding the nature of an oath, which she answered very satisfactorily, was sworn. The prisoner.—Sally Leaven, did youriot see me working on that cap ? Child.—l did not. Prisoner.—Sally ! Child.—l have no recollection of it. Mr. Seymour..—You have asked her a question, and she has given a different answer to what you expected ; use your own discretion as to proceeding. Prisoner—Yea; when I had the fever at Mrs. Leavers, I sat up in bed and worked it, the child knows it. [The lit. tie girl again denied it ] The cap I intended for the poor deceased creature. I intended to give her a few things. The prisoner having returned, Sir D. Scott, addressing her, said, " Prisoner, the time has now arrived when it be. comes my duty to ask you, if you have any thing to say why you should not be committed to take your trial as an acces sary after the fact of the murder of Celia Holloway ?" Mr. Milford explained to the prisoner that she was not charged with the murder, but with being privy to it after it was committed. Prisoner—l am innocent !I am innocent of the charge. The witnesses were then bound over to appear and give evidence at the next assism._ The Magistrates informed the prisoner that she would go back to Lewes, instead of being committed to Benham. for tibia she expressed herself thankful. She was then taken from the her. In the minutes of evidence taken before a committee of the House of Lords, on the Poor Lam, a part of which has just been printed, by order of the House, we find " some statements, intended to shew the exist. ence of an excess of population in England, relatively to the means of subsistence, and relatively to the means of employment." It appears from these statements, that during the early part of the last century, the progress of po. pulation in this country was exceedingly slow. Thus, from 1700 to 1720, the inhabitants of England and Wales did not increase more than 90,000; leas, by half, than the in crease which now takes place in a single year. From that time, however, to the present, the rate of progress has be come still mote and more rapid ; particularly since the commencement of the present century ; so that, perhaps, as great an addition to our numbers now takes place in a sin. gle week, as formerly in twelvemonths. This result appears so extraordinary, that we are naturally led to ask on what pounds it ? No actual enumera tion was made until the year 1801 ; all statements of our population, previous to that period, must, therefore, be in some measure liable to question ; but the uncertainty which hangs over such estimates Is greatly lessened when we have it in our power to adopt several different modes of computa tion. and to check them one against the other. This method is adopted in the evidence referred to. The first table is entitled, `• A Statement of the population of England and Wales, from 1780 to 1820, deduced by Mr. Hickman from the births only." This method of computation has been very generally employed by statistical writers—it being found that the medium number of births taking place annually, bears a tolerably constant proportion to the popu lation. The second table is constructed on a different principle, and I. no doubt intended as a check upon the first. It is he;ded, " Increase of Population since the beginning of the last century. deduced from a comparison of the births with the deaths." It appears, from this table, that the mean number of births in the year. 1700, 1710, 1721, 1730, 1740, and 1750, was 164.602 The mean number of deaths in the same years was 160,623 Exhibiting an annual increase of only 4000 persons ; whereas the annual increase from 1810 to 1820, estimated in the saute way, w..s no less than 125,000. Thus the extraordi nary acceleration of our rate of increase is equally proved, whether we found our calculation on the births only, or on a comparison of the births with the deaths. Indeed it would be easy to produce abundant evidence of this acceletation front other scums. If, then, our present growth of population is rapid beyond all precedent, we are naturally led to enquire, with some anxiety, whether our means of employment and our means of subsistence for that population are growing in the same proportion. The witness, by whom the above statements were delivered to the committee, estimates that no increase whatever in our annual growth of corn has taken place in the last 15 years; on the contrary, that extensive tracts of land, then under the plough, have been since planted, that still more has been laid down to permanent pasture; and that even those fields, still in tillage, are lea carefully and expensively cultivated than formerly. Hence he infers thst the increase of our agricultural population since the close of the war is in exam relatively to the means of employ ment ; and that a still greater excess relatively to the memo lof subsistenc e . "I t i s well known, " he says " that i n the year 1816 a f a il ure o f t h e hatvest took place, whi c h caused a very severe scarcity. If lam right in suppoNi tr , that little or no inc rease o f cu l t i vat i on has taken plate tune': that time, while our population has increased during th, same period by 3,000,000 of persons, it seems to follow that, in the event of a similar failure of the harvest now occurring, we must look for an extent of distress and privation greattt than has been witnessed by any living person." LEWES, AUG. 27.—Wheat (red) new, 31 28; oats, nes, 11 41; ditto, old, 11 8s per quarter. AUG. 30.—Wh t „ old, 31 10s t ditto, new, 31 13a to ; ditto, (mixed) n e 313 s to 316. ; oats, old, 118 s ; pease, new, l l m a p er qu a , ter; oil cake, 121 per thousand. DERBY REPORTER, .Cepl. 1. Btrxrou.—Arrivals.—The Duke of Rutland, Marquis Granby, Lord and Lady Southampton, Capt. Egerton, Sit Edward and Lady Banks, Lady Rayleigh, Hon. Miss Str u tt, Hon. Miss Olivia Strutt, Rev. 31r. and Miss Clay; 111 r. Randle Wilbraham, Mr. and 31rs. Joliffe, Mr. and 31! Gilbert Joliffe, Mr. Delamarsh Banks, Mr. Copeland, 31 and Mrs. Peen, Captain Whittaker, Lieut. W. Elliot., Captain Howard. %Ve noticed last week, the extensive robbery committe at the house of Mr. Lees, Burton-upon-Trent, during CI • races. The robbery was effected by two persons who enter ed the house while the horses were running, and proceeded to the dining-room up stairs. They called for some brandy ate water, and after remaining up atairs for upwards of an hour, left the house without any of the family (most of whoa. were at the races) suspecting the object of their visit -- About seven in the evening, however, Mr. Lees found that his bureau had been opened by means of false keys, and that the whole of big cash, amounting to upwards of 3101. had been stolen, consisting of guineas, sovereigns, and se veral old and valuable coins, including a promissory note of 1001. and 401. There was a cheek upon Spooner, Attwood,andCo. of Bir mingham, for 466 10s. a gold watch, chain, and seals, two dozen silver forks and other articles of value in the same drawer, which the thieves did not take. Roe and Wood, ' the Burton and Rugeley officers, traced them to Lichfield, and from thence to Birmingham, where the officers arrived 1 , about five o'clock on Thursday morning. On the applica. don of the pursuing constables at the Birmingham police. office, Palmer. on hearing their statement, immediately pro ceeded to the house of a notorious character, named Charles Denham, residing with his mother at the Rose and Crown public-house, Smallbrook-street. In his pockets were found seventeen and a-half sovereigns. He was immediately conveyed to the dungeon in Moor. street, and in the course of the same morning, two of his known companions and suspected associates in the robbery, named Richard Fitzgerald, and Charles Baskerville, were likewise taken into custody. Their examination took place on Monday last, before Sir Oswald Morley, Bart. when Denham was remanded for further examination, and Baskerville was discharged upon bail. The person who actually accompanied Denham into the dining-room at Mr. Lees', is supposed to have gone by the Holyhead mail to London from Birmingham, soon after his arrival at that place on the evening the robbery was committed. A red morocco note case and a letter, in which a part of the money WAS enclosed, was found in the privy at the Saracen's Head Inn, at Burton, where Denham slept the preceding night. A new revolving musical time piece has lately been invented by Mr. D. Kidd, of Cromford, organist of Cromford church. It is a portable instrument of brass. When our correspon. dent saw it, it stood upon a table, and being wound up, two cylinders were put in motion, causing an endless tape to re volve round them ; the marks on the tape denoted the pro per time to begin and end a bar, or note of music, which lay on a slide directly under the revolving tape. It com bines all the advantages of a speedy accomplishment in that difficult part of music, called time dividing the time by inches to the minutest fractional part. The first part of Mr. Glover's history of this county, will make Its appearance die latter end of this, or beginning of next week. On the Bth of September, the day of the Coronation, it is determined, by the teachers and friends of Sunday Schools, in this town, to celebrate the Sunday School Jubi lee. The only School of this nature in the world, in the year 1781, was that set on foot by Robert Raikes, Esq. in the City of Gloucester, in that year ; and now, at the expi ration of fifty years, they have been so far ex t ended in our own country, that there is scarcely a town, and not many villages, where their benefits are not dispensed. In Ameri ca, and all other countries, where the Protestant re. hem prevails, Sunday Schools are established and sup. ported. About a score dairies of all sizes were offered today in the cheese market. We have before us an account of most of the sales that were effected, from which it appears, colored sold at 821 to 860--the average price nearly 641. Plain sold tram 801 to 84s—average 82s Bd. The bodies of Mr. Hurwood and Mr. Brown, late of Chesterfield, whose melancholy deaths were recorded in our last paper, have been found at the distance of nearly thirty miles train each other. Mr. brown was found on Friday last by a clergyman, on the sands close to the village of Liao distil* and the beautiful seat of the Marquis of Anglesey. in the island of Anglesey,and was interred there on the follow. ing day.-111r. Hurwood was cast ashore on Saturday, near to Liandidno, by Conway, on the Welch coast, and wascommit. ted to the house appointed for all living on Monday last,in e the presence of triends and townsmen, blr. Holmes and Wright, whose exertions on this lamentable occasion are beyond all praise. Their bodies were in the highest state of decomposition. which would not allow of their remaisn being brought home. And if it had not been owing to the clothes they bad on, and their watches, their persons would not hare been recognised at all. Mr. Brown was an excellent swimmer, and appeared to have made very great exertions to save hinuelt. It is very fortunate that the above two gentlemen were near at hand when the bodies were found, as they seared what property they had about them. There is still a trunk belonging to Mr. Hurwood, containing a good deal of property, which is supposed to be in the wreck of the steamer; but ample directions have been given con terming it, so that if it should be ultimately recovered from the deep, It may be safely conveyed to its rightful owner. CHESTERFIELD, AUG. 27.—Wheat, 68s to trts ; Oats. 24. to 281 ; Beans, 44s to 48s. Asusoutur Auo. 27.—Wheat, Ws to 70. ; Oats, 26s to 32s ; Beaus , 42s to 475. Waxaritui, Fainar.--Tbe arrivals to-day are mode rate, and the quantity of really fine wheat offering is ex tremely small ; such readily commands an advance of * per quarter , and other descriptions are is dearer, with a more tree sale for low qualities. A few samples of new sp. I peered of Yorkshire growth, which were stout, and in fair condition ; prices 64s to tiffs fur red, and white 725. per quarter. Barley nominal. Oats and Shelling steady. Beans still better, and tine sorts are scarce. There is more inquiry for Rapeseed, but immaterial alteration in value. The wea ma on the whole has been favourable for harvest during the week ; up to Wednesday evening particularly fine. MARRIED.—At Nottingham, Mr. Alfred Barber, to Eliza, youngest daughter of John Gill, Gent. of St. James'a street—Ai Peasely, Charles, second son of Henry Talbot, Esq. of Oakland. Worcester, to Marianne, eldest daughter of Decry Hollis*, Esq.—At Cannock, Mr. John Spring, to Miss Daley. of Lowney Green, Hendesford. DIED.—At Liverpool, Edwar d itamsbottom Esq.—At Winfield Abuser Winfield Halton Esq. and of the Derbyshire Milit i a , , and Justice of the Peace—Elizabeth, wife of Sir. Edward Court Dewn, of Ashby-de-la-Zouch— At Matlock. Mr. Richard Green, 64—At Springfield Cot tage Prestwich, Ameria Maria Inhoff, daughter of the late Killian Inh4 Esq. of Demerara. John Harris, the Forest-of-Dean patriot. who was left for execution at the last Gloucester Assizes, has been respited during pleasure. He had snapped a pistol at the constable who apprehended him. BIKTH. Of a daughter, on the 9d inn. the Lady of J. B. Heath, Esq. of Ruuell-square. 11••• MARRIED. Thursday, the Ist inst. at St. James's Church, Wean!lin 'ter, by the Rev. J. C. Wigram, M.A. Capt. 11. J. Hatton, R.N. to Josephine Louise, daughter of the late Monsieur Lavoley, of the city of Rouen, in France—The Ist inst. at St. James's, Westminster, by the Rev. J. C. Wigram, Mr. J. F. Stomp, of Shacklewell-green, West Hackney, to Ka tharine Prior, daughter of Mr. Tarrant, of Regent-street. ( DIED. Thutsday last, Sept. 1, at his house in Portman•square. the Right Has. Matthew Lord Rokeby, after a shun illness— At Gimping, on the 4th of March, Capt. J. C. bliddleton, of the Bengal AnWery—The 3d inst. the intent daughter of Sir Philip iblaity. Lownox : Printed aod rublisbed by Joao 31. av a. at tho ST•I Orricr., No. 1. Pkkett.plue, Temple Bar.