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hands, were eves menaeod—oo mower from what side, the whole na tion would the to defend them. " In the painful moment of bidding an adieu, which I had thought wa s not so near, I offer to my dear brethren in arms my gratitude foe auk friendship, my confidence in their recollections, my prayers for t h e i r happiness, my admiration for what they have done, my feet knowledge of what they will yet do, and my hope that the calculations of intrigue or the interpretations of malice will not prevail in their h ear t s against me. Finally, I offer them all the feelings of tender af. felon, which will not leave me until my last sigh. " LAFAYETTE." He has addressed another letter to the National Guard of Paris, in which the same sentiments are repeated at somewhat less length. FRANKFORT PAPERS. ST. PETE RSBUROH, Dac. 10. Every one here is confounded at the insurrection in Warsaw. the' , first news of which we received on the Bth. Every body fears that be will have to lament the loss of some dear relative, and the national spirit of the Russians manifests itself on this o ccas io n to a very honour. able manner. At the review which took place the day before yesterday. the Emperor accompanied by his son, rode through the ranks of all the regiments, and related the terrible events in Warsaw to the soldiers, who cried aloud f or vengeance, and were joined by the spectators in their just indigo*. tion. " Your wish shall be fulfilled," said the Emperor. " 1 will my. self lead you against the rebels !" A universal hurrah ! arose from the ranks of the warriors ; and " Down with the Poles !" "Down with the traitors !" was the universal err. Since this remarkable scene, which immortalises the Emperor In the eyes of the Russians, all ranks vie with each other in the manifestation of their patriotic sentiments. Young men of the first families enlist In the army as common soldiers. Voluntary contributions to lessen the expenses of the war are continually offered, but, by the express tom. mend of the Emperor, not accepted. War is declared against the Poles, and if they do not hasten to submit, they will probably be exposed to revere chastisement. and bitterly repent having contemned the magnani mous treatment which they have experienced from Russia, and having rashly plunged their country into ruin. Till the F.mperor goes to the army Count Diebitsch will have the chief command. A part of our army cannot be far from the Polish frontiers, and as soon as a farce of 160,000 men Is assembled, the opera tions will begin. The conduct of the Grand Duke Constantine is blamed by some persona here ; perhaps for want of accurate knowledge of the state of affairs. With resolution, they say, the Grand Duke might, have awed the revolutionists, and Weed the rebellion in its birth ; and they refer to the conduct of the Emperor on his accession to the throne. It is said that the Poles will send Deputies to this city, to justify them. selves and to negociate ; they, however, will not be bawd, but will be sent blek to Warsaw to announce to their countrymen the displeasure of the Emperor, and to summon them to unconditional submission.— A proclamation to the Poles is shortly to be issued, in which pardon will be promised to those who repent and submit, but those who per severe in the revolt will be threatened wirb the severest punishment. FRONTIERS OF POLAND, Dic. & From the official declarations, it seams certain that as soon as the Russian army is completed to 100,000 men, the Emperor win put him felf at its brad, and will attack the Poles with his whole bees, if they do not voluntarily submit. The Emperor appears to have declared po sitively, that he will never negociate with rebels. It cannot remain long uncertain how thin melancholy drama will end, whether by a war of ex termination, or by the grant of the wishes, and the fulfilment of the hopes, which, amrdbg to the notions of the Poles, are founded on former promisee ; in wltich ease, only those would be treated as rebels who were the authors of the first murderous attack, and the insurrection in Warsaw. CRACOW, Dzc. 18. We Ism that the fiat news of the events at Warsaw wu received with great indignation by the Emperor; but we believe that when his Majesty is better informed of the events in Warsaw and their causes, and when be has conferred with the Grand Duke Coaaten his opi nion will be more favourable. It is not to be denied dud the 'a care has done much for Poland, and was well calculthed le Ink it happy and prosperous. But there were great dolma is the minis. oration, which were oppressive to the country, and Ada arid hardly be expected to be remedied, notwithsta ndi ng the kind lailarticas of the Emperor, whose residence is so remote, and who are is divided among the whole of his vast empire. These grievanse, dee knowledge of which was kept from the sovereign by some kilasstial fr, and the excessive rigour with which every eonspleiat was re. terl, ns had naturally a more dangerous effect on the park, and at the htest impulse led to an excitement of which there are so many exasges. in these times of effervescence. The erects in Warsaw, much as they deserve to be blamed and punished, may, however, be as. ceived mere favourably when they are not judged of by the painful feelings excited by the recolleedons of the victims to blind porn lac rage. The seeding of deputies to fit. Petards:es was necaaaryos on the result of their mild= depends the failure fate the Poles, who still promise fidelity to dark Sovereign. A Russian Staff Officer is sent. to Warsaw, to inform himself as the spot of the state of things, and to announce the will of the Emperor to the Provisional Go. comment. We sincerely hope that this mission may be the harbinger of patentsl clemency, and that no revolutionary step be taken till he re turns to the Imperial Court. Visalia, Dec. 29—Five per Cent. Metalliques ; 89 13.18; Four per Ceuta. 77 ; Bank Shares, 1008; Dee. 23 Four per Cents. ni Bank Shares, 896; Dec. 24, Four per Cents. 71H; Bank Shares, 989. SPIRIT OF THE JOURNALS. Cnaonrct.s.—At the time of the discussion in the House of Com mons on the subject of the legality of the procession of the Trades to present an Address to the King, we observed that, whether legal or not, all precessions in this crowded metropolis were attended with put inconveniense. We are a very different people from our fore- fathers, to whom pageants and processions, while they Obeid a sa. Intary excitement, could be productive of little injury. Wsa al toall the Inhabitants of the metropolis, whether the ptepasedess mods foe the Royal visit to the City did not, for a week or two, subject every person who bad business to attend to much trouble and annoyance, to say nothing of the loss of time ? We are induced to anode to this subject at present by the announcement of a determination et the friends I of Mr. Hunt to assemble to the number of 100,000, for the purpose of a triumphal entry into the metropolis. We are sure that we only speak the sentiments of most of our readers when we express a wish that all assemblages of this sort should be discouraged u much as possible._ ' We have no wish to int e rfere with an y man's popularity, or to prevent any description of the people from manifesting their feelings ; what we wish is, that some mode of manifestation should be resostod to, at. tended with less public inconvenience. Timm—The news from Poland in the French journals may, in same degree, be considered a* counterbalance to the Intelligence brought by the Frankfort mail from - St. Petenburgh. General Chlopicki, who bad so honourably kept his word, and resigned the Dictatorship, has been reinstated by the Diet of Warsaw in his important &miens. The Poles are evidently in earnest, and if we may judge by such fragments of in formation as reach us, seem to be fully aware of the awful ennuis which they will have to undergo. The St. Petersburgh letter, on the oche: hand, intimates that the Emperor will allow no alterna tive but unconditional submission, or a war of vengeance. It is pretended that the Russian people are enthusiastic in their cries of "Down with the Poles !^ Slaves as the great body of die nation are, we can scarcely believe in this ardour on *sir parts for the destruction of their brother slaves t if the fact be true I. will indeed be another lamentable proof of the frightful degraded's, which despotism produces on the human character. Rat we are in. credulous, nor can we attach any credit to the statement of a writer who has the effrontery to talk of the " mageutimous treatment which Po. land has experienced from Russia." If a man who has been knocked down and robbed may renitinably be expected to be grateful to the robber who flings him back half-a-crown out of the spoil, then may Po. land applaud the magnanimity of a nation which has torn away its fairest provinces, oppressed I ts most distinguished subjects, and trampled on iu ancient and cherished institutions. No: terrible as the conflict must be between powers so unequally matched, we confess we derive sane hope, not merely from seeing all the eminent names of the exist ing generation of Poles at the head of the inalureesion, but also from the certainty of those DUI:MOW grievances which have stung the whole popuLiiion into a determined and energetic resistance to a powerful despot. Htanz.n.—The German papers, it will be seen, strengthen the im minion caused by the intelligence received through the French jour. nal& of the Emperor Nicholas's fixed resolution to gospels the Palish rthellion in blood. A sort of unholy vow seems to have been mad* by this inexorable prince to devote the authors, and abettors in that re volt to the most savage retribution, as if he would make their punish inent a beacon to warn all the other nations under his sway from attempts which could not hope to evade his power, and would be tare to draw down his vengeance. He is to command the crusade against Polish liberty himself, the authority of General Diebiesch being only provisi °nal, and already he is marching at the heed of one hundred and slzty thousand troops, endre/y devoted to his will, to g ive his an. 'her to the insolent demands of the ancient Polish Nadia, o r the unintelligible boon which they seek of free inedtutiosas, he*. dam of opinion, and national independence. All compromise Is haughtily rejected—the deputation from Warsaw will not be rek reired—they will be given to understand that they are forninase if I " , Y are not treated as rebels, and a proclamation is to be honed, callin g upon the nation uncondidonaily to surrender . SO enamors.] outing is the Imperial wrath, that the forbearance of Constantine in the Warsaw affair is condemned as unseasonable weakness, and be is said to have fallen under his brother's displeasure for having for a me. vent thought of treating with rebels. So far as Russia is concerned the . Emperor Nicholas is cheered, strangely enough, in all his denunciations of Polish liberty. but in other parts of his dominions, and in Russian Finland particularly discontent has n to manifest itself in an alarm. ing manner. An important dlstewtfi of this sort might be of the greatest benefit to the 'Poles, but, as it is to be expected that they have otherwise calculated the chances of their revolt, we may expect from them a vigorous resistance. dome hopes of accommodation skim to be still entertained, but they appear to be quite futile. Porr.---The Examiner calls the last year YEAR ONE of the Peo ples Cause. Disgusting ant ! Had a Methodist celled it Year Otte of the &Seim' liii ll enium our contemporary 'would have betn the first to sneer; but the Political Millenium the beau lee of the Door'. noires, the we piss ultra of our Bentiamites, the Paradise of our Dr. mocratic Optimists, the imaiefirtune of those young Gentlemen ycleped Liberals, whether Goodin, &Ora, or l'auxiies—that Allilenium is in. deed great, and beyond expression glorious. To use the sublime meta. phor of the Paper in question, " Justice has wielded the sword of Victory and fortune lent her wheel to Truth. We have closed a year which has carried the mind of Europe forward an interval of ages beyond its anti. qusted trammels and th ral doms, which has dated the decrepitude of despotism and the Herculean infancy of the democratic wet." 0 Annus Mirabilla 1 We cannot find space for the remainder of this Frenchified,thade. Saxon-English it certainly is not, either in style or sentiment; and now that Year One of the People's Case is over, we shall expect next week to hear that Year One of young England, as of young Prance, is dawning on us. For our own parts, we are not so young as to be t that, in periods of excitement like the present, Ignorant scores of such knaves have been uttered by scores of or fa natics, and the w nevertheless, remains in Mau quo, unredeemed, unregenerated, unenlightened, end un . Benthametlae d. The end of the world has not been foretold oftener and more positively than the end of aristocratic institutions; and yet here we are, in the middle of the 19th century, after all that has been said, written, preached, acted, and taught for, since the days of Adam downwards, only in Year One of the People's Cause. The poor, unfortunate, misguided wretches who died before the month of July last were all hereditary bondsmen; but now the blow is struck, and we shall all be free—ourselves sad our children's children. The Press is indeed a faithful mirror of popular inconstaucy, and, as a body, we fear it is as unprincipled as it is in. constant. When managed by Mr. Canning, it was not long ago against Reform. By the mismanagement of his successors it now holds forth not only Reform, but the Ballot, as if in mockery of all Government. That part which the Stemmer would call popular par eavollotoott—we mean the Radial Press—in. veighs as violently whist the national debt as against our national church eand if popular outcry be a aiseries of popular nonesty, we certainljbid fair to become ere long as contemptible, both morally and polity, in the eyes of Europe, as the veriest Jacobin in }ranee could desire. Popular outcry says, ruin the colonies to liberate the slave; spoliate the church to raise labourers' wages;:bleak faith with the fundholder to reduce taxation ; and, in order that all these events may come tobase, simpletons are induced by knaves to join in the new out. cry for reform. INTENDED TRIUMPHAL ENTRY OF THE NEW MEM- BIM FOR PRESTON INTO LONDON. (FROM A CORRESPOIDZNT.) It has been arranged that Mr. Hunt shall enter London this day week publicly, and his friends have determined that a concourse of people shall be ready to receive him about five miles from town, to the number of 100,000. On Tues day he was conducted into Blackburn by 50,000 persons, numbers of whoa bore flags, with complimentary inscrip tions, on the occasion of the election. He was afterwards magnificently entertained at a public dinner, to which up wards of 200 sat down. After dinner the wives and daugh ters of the gentlemen who dined were admitted, and the largest room in the town was crowded almost to suffocation. He addressed the large party thus assembled, and expressed himself most happy in seeing the ladies of Blackburn, who had on former occasions shown so noble a spirit, before Re form had gained its myriads of advocates all over the world, testifying to the truth of the cause be bad always em braced. He was delighted to find that the march of the political intellect was not confined to the one sex, but that the female mind was co-operating to produce those changes, without which England would be ever the land of disap pointed virtue and successful profligacy (loud cheers.) He hoped that all ranks and ages of society —men, women and children—would join in the vehement appeal for Reform. The existence of Reform would be felt in the immediate dif fusion of health through the whole frame of society. Its absence was manifested in the diseased condition of every city, town, village, and street in the kingdom (cheers.) He should, with all his might, oppose himself to the enor mous system so long upheld by every Minister, who ever had the power to thrust his bands into the pockets of the people, and to strip them to the skin, if they bad not wherewithal to purchase off the penalty (laughter and loud cheers.) It was supposed that the great talent and skill and legislatorial tact of the House of Commons would be too much for him. He considered that those who enumerated those reasons did not think of throwing in honesty amongst the rest (laughter). No, no, the days were gone for empty complaints, and who ever robbed the poor deserved and received the names of foul pickpockets, by whatever splendour they might be surround ed and in whatever place they might assemble to conspire against " the very means of life" (continued cheers.) At Bolton, Oldham, and other places, Mr. Hunt was re ceived with great enthusiasm, and public dinners were given to him at each town. At Wolverhampton a public breakfast was got up, to which he was invited. From thence be went to Birmingham yesterday, to dine publicly with the Council of the Political Union. A wish is entertained at Bristol that the new member for Preston would visit that first arena of his political exertions. APPREHENSION OF A DEFAVLTEE—The young man ' I named Bradshaw, a clerk in one of the Manchester Coach Offices, who abs conded with upwards of 100 L belonging to his employers in October last, was apprehended in Tothill- 1 fields prison, to which place be had been sent for not being enabled to pay a fine of 4s, for breaking a lamp. REVERSE OF FORTUNE.—Among the persons applying, at Guildhall yesterday for relief, was a reepectable-lookingl aged man. who was formerly an eminent Dutch merchant, and kept his carriage for many years. He stated his name to be George Ferguson, and that his father, a native of Kelm, was brought up by Ferguson, the astronomer. Being ques tioned by Sir Peter Laurie as to the cause of his falling into distress, the applicant stated that be was established as a merchant at Amsterdam in 1810, when Holland was united to France, and in one day he saw 220,000 francs' worth of his goods publicly burnt. He succeeded in escaping to an island near Helvoetsluys, from whence he reached in an open boat the fleet Under the Admiral off that station, by whom be was landed at Aldborough. He remained in England till the year 1814, when he returned to the Continent, and was engaged by Mr. Thomas Holland, as his steward upon his estates in the South of France, and here he remained till that gentleman broke up his establishment, His salary was but 501. a year, and having a wife native of Antwerp) and six children to support, he bad been unable to save money, and upon being discharged, fell immediately into the most destitute state. He went from Tours to Nantes,and on his way to Paris his wife and eldest daughter died of fever at Angers. At Paris the Ambassador relieved him with a napoleon, and gave him a letter to the Consul, who furnished him with the means to reach London, where he arrived by a boy from Dover yesterday morning. He had applied to the overseers of the parish to which he belonged, in Chancery-lane (by being born in Bream's-buildings), and not obtaining assist ance, he came before the magistrates. He had expended thousands in Sheffield and Birmingham between 1784 and 1810, but he feared he should find no friend there now. He had with him a fine little girl and boy (born at Tours), who spoke the French and Flemish languages, but were un acquainted with the English. He said be was treated with great hospitality in his progress through France. Sir Peter Laurie gave him a trifle for his immediate relief, explained to him that the parish to which he belonged was not within the jurisdiction of the city magistrates, and pointed out what course he should pursue to obtain assistance. ACCOUNT OF THE VILLAGE OP 1 HAMPSHIRE. From Mr. CVMdit's ra► Male. Friend. This village was in former times a very considerable place, as is manifest frem the size of the church as well as from various other cir cumstances. It is now, as a church-living, united with an parish, called Vernon lean, which also has its church, at a d ad = about three miles horn the church el this perish. Both pedals put together now contain only eleven hundred, and a few odd, Mishima, men, women, children, and all; and Pell the Pm = WIN ags"111 to be wear two two or three drosses& pounds a rat, and the dthes about six hundred pore a year. Formerly, base the moot which is called ' The Befwo b s , ' there were two Roman Oahe& plats living at the personage houses in these two pailles. They meld not marry, and could therefore have no wives and hies to key out of the tithes • and, with part of those tytbes, they, as the law resided, maintained the poor of dame two parishes; and the anew Of the church commanded them to dbmftto the porde' to the pop and the stranger, " with their own hands, in humility and mercy.' This, as to Church and Poor, was the state of these Vil. in the " dark ape' of " Bean Buperaddss." hat No poor laws ? No poor-rates ? What hemibly uneelight. coed times ! No select vestries ? Dark ages indeed But how stand these matters now ? Why, the two parishes ars madded into one church living. Then the Great Tithes (sonotaming to two or three thousand a year belay to some part of the Chapter (as they all it) Of Baliebury. The Chapter lenses them es they would a house or a Wm. and they are now teased by John s King, who is one of this happy nation's greatest and oldest pendoems. So hat away go the great tithes, not leavbaisingle wheat-ter to be spot In the pariah. The Small Tithes to a Vicar, who is one Fisher , a nephew of the late bishop fiallsbney, who hes mot mild here far • long while; and who hes a amass, named Jelm who being the son of a little farmer and shopkeeper at Baer h e W lnbley was, by a son of of the name of Batley (way wi inns Millillnlimbered is dine parts) put to school, and in dm Mean of INN been= a dew. So that away go also the small tithes (cueing about Ilkeleinimi or six hundred a year) sod, out of the Imp thumb revalues ; or Maar, large chareh-aod-poor ues, of tine two parishes; eat of the whole of them, there remains only the mama( of the Curate, Mr. John Gale's, salary, which does not, perhaps, exceed gamy or a hundred pounds, and a part of whisk at any rase, I dare say, be doss net expend in these parishes; away Ism, I say, all the rest of the small tithes, leaving not so mush es a men at mat sr a doses of eggs, much less • tithe-pig, to be COINUIDSIII In the pathh. As to the poor, the perishes isendsue to he is two, es dist I ant to be considered as speaking of the parish of Upbeshiad only. Ton me aware that, amongst the last of the acts of the hums Jubilee-Reign, was an Act to enable parishes to establish Select Vestries ;—and one of these vestries now exists in this Parish. And now let me explAin to you the nature and tendency of this Jubilee-Act. Be. foie this act wu passed, overseers of the pone had full authority levant relief at their discretion. Pray mark that. Then again, before this act wu passed, any one justice of the peace might, on complaint riasy poor pence, order relief. Mark that. A select vestry is to consist of the most considerable rate-payen. Mark that. Then mark these things : this Jubilee-Act forbids the overseer to grant any relief other than such as shall be ordered by the select vestry : it forbids one justice to order relief, in any case, except a case of emergency t it forbids more than one to order relief, except as oath that the complainant has applied to the select vestry (where there is one) and has been refused re lief by it; sad that, in no case, the justices' order shell be for more than a month; and moreover,that when a poor person shall appeal to justices from a select vestry, the justice's, in ordering relief, or refusing, shall have" regard to the conduct and character of the applicant !" From this Act, one would imagine, that oasseen and justices were looked upon as being too soft and yielding a nature; too geed, toe cha ritable, too liberal to the poor ! In order that the select vestry may have an agent suited to the purposes that the Act manifestly has in view, the Act authorises the select vestry to appoint what is ailed as " assist ant overseer," and to give him a salary out of the poor-rates. Such is this Jubilee Act, one of the last Acts of the Jubilee reign, that reign which gave birth to the American war, to Pitt, to Per. weal, Blienborough, Sidmonth, and Cadereagh, to a thousand millions of Male and another thousand millions of debt : such is the Select Vestry Act ; and this now little trilling village of Uphusbend bes a Select-Vestry ! Aye, and an " Anita= Overseer" too, with a salary of Fifty Pounds a year, being, as you will presently see, about a seventh pert of the what of the expenditure en the Peer l The overseers make out and muse to be printed and published, at the end of every kw weeks, an account of the disbursements. I have use of these accounts now before me ; and I insert it ben, word for word, as follows " The disbursements of Mr. T. Child and. Mr. C. Church, bread at Is. 9d. per gallon. Sept. 25, lass. WIDOWS. C a. d. # La. Blake. Ann .. ... ... ... 0 8 0 Hew', Mary .. ... ... .. 0 8 0 Cook. Ann ... ... .. .. 0 7 6 Clark, Mary ... ... ... ... 010 0 Gilbert, Hannah ... .. ... 0 8 0 Marshall, Sarah .. ... ... 0 0 0 10 0 Smith, Mary ... ... ... ... 0 8 0 Westrip, Jana ... .. ... .. 0 8 0 Withers, Ann ... ... • • .. 0 8 0 Dance, Susan ... ... ... ... 0 8 0 —....-- 4 3 8 BASTARDS. .. 0 7 0 o 6 o 2 children .. 0 7 0 .. 0 6 0 0 12 0 ... 2 cbiklrai ... ... 0 12 0 .. 0 10 0 0 8 0 ... ... .. 0 6 0 ... ... ... 0 8 0 . . 0 8 0 ••• • • 0 6 0 .. ... 0 6 0 0 6 0 OLD MEN. ... 0 14 0 Blake, John Ciusnon, John Cinnmiits. Peter Hopeood, John Hoiden. William ManhaLl. Chad Nock), George • • ... 0 16 0 FAMILIES. - ----- t s. d. .9 1. d. Rowley, Mary 0 4 0 Heyentoek, Elizabeth, 2 children 0 9 4 Cook, Levi 5 ditto 0 6 4 Ilapton, John 6 ditto «... 010 0 Knight, John 6 ditto . 010 0 Nownsao, David 6 ditto 0 5 4 Pala, Robert 5 ditto 0 5 4 Spam, William 6 ditto .: 010 0 Hag* Sarah (Mom) 1 ditto 0 4 8 Stelsaath Sank 2 diuo 0 9 4 l 8 ditto 0 19 4 a i r,Wllliont lessilli — • 6 ditto 010 0 Waldren, Joh 8 ditto 0 6 4 Noyce, M. MIMI do. 6 woehe's pay 1 2 0 ................ 610 0 EXTRA IN THIS MONTH. Thomas Farmer, ill three days .. ... 04 0 lairi Cook, ill four weeks and one day ... 113 4 Joumb White's child, els weeks ... ... 0 7 0 Jane Weatrip's rent ... .. 0 2 0 William Fisher, one month ill .. ... 112 0 Paid bojaw ai o d. das ill ... ... ... 00 8 Jones ... ... .. 1 0 1 James Orchard's daughter, ill ... .. 0 8 0 Adders and Sparrows ... ... .. 0 2 Si Wicks for crime .. ... . 0 1 0 Rig Mary Hint .. 0 4 0 Joseph Yarrow, ill three days ... ... 0 2 9 Thanes Cummins .. ••• .. 0 0 0 _ _ ftmeel Day, and son, ill .. 0 • I --- 11 11 4 Total 111210110 t foe the four weeks ... ... 27 3 1011 Under the bead of " Widows" are. generally, old women wholly unable to work; and that of Old Mee" are ma past all labour : in some of the instances lodging places, in very poor and wretched houses, us bend these old peoiple, and, in other &stances, they base the bare money; and, otteerve, that money le fee four weeks! Gracious God I Have we bad no mothers asseives ! Were we sot born of woman ; Shell we net feel then fee the poor widow who, in her old age, is deemed to (mist ea 2e. a-week,s threepence halfpenny a day, and to lied herself clashes and washing and feel and badg out of that ! And. the pea old am, the very ANTS** of whom gets, you me, less then 7d. a day, at the stud of 70 or Si yeses of a life, all bet oh of which bare been puma lam! 1 have thought it right to put blanks instead of the slink mist the emend bead. Yen of leis rWd morality, sod km free kin all Mk Imursoms, than the members of the select vestry of Up. besbild, wadi, WNW of the word " bastard," have used the more milehlesse of , e Yi g" end, it may net be lebell7 borer' tomb dim warillik window they be aware, that they are pil y p Libit i fe. eingtimimell libel, in ceasing these peer girls' names to be and imillkhed Is this way. !At them remember, that, the , greater the truth the pester the libel ; sad, let them remember, that .8 • ... ... ... 010 0 .. ... ... Ole 0 ... .. .. 0 6 0 - 016 0 ... 0 7 0 ........•••• 4 11 0 6 8 0 " qm.. W-ffT . ' the mothers and the children too. may have memories ender the headed" Families " that we see that which is of oar attendee. Observe, that eight shillings a week i. t.. a day labourer in the village. And. you see, it is only when more than four children that the family is allowed anything , " Levi Cook," for Instance, has gee children. and be receives lowenee foe ose child. " Joseph White" has sight children, and he receives allowance for four. Thtte are three widows under this head; but, it is where then is a man, the father of the family, that we ought to look with attention; and hare we find, that nothing se all is allowed to a family of a man a wife and four children, beyond the bare e•week • a wag« ; and this is even worse than the allowance which I _treated with that of the hospital patients and convicted felons ; for lama I 'Mona the family to coasist ofs man, his wife and 3 children. If I am told, that the farmers, that the occupiers of houses and land, are ew Pax that they cannot do more for their wretched work-people and neighbours ; thee, I mower and say. What a selfish, what a dastardly wretch is be, who ls not ready to do all he can to change this disgrace. ful, this horrible state of Wisp ! But, at any rate. is the salary of the " Assistant Overse.r - ne cessary ? Cannot that be dispensed with ? Ilust be have as teach a, an the widows, or asl the old men ? And, his salary, together situ the cbsrge_he pridegand other his various terms, will come to at 11161111Thos p to all the widows and old men too ! Why not, dew, is without him,tard double the allowance to these pot old warm, oe poor old men, who have spent their atectieth in mike amp be the parish ? I went to see with my own ore some of the " pariah beans," as they are called ; that is to sat • tMe phew whore the Wort vestry put the per people into to Lee. Never did my eyes bin alight on such scan:. of wretchedness ! There was ow place about has feet long and Id wile, in which I found the wife of km Haas, which, when all w?te st home, had to contain alumni ptisefas t and foto which. I nuleirtily &care, I would not put 19 sirs, Vigil billed with straw. Another place was shown me Waldosa's daughter; &anther by Thomas C..rey's w ife. bon sad that in hole., too, was di , . floor in both these plasm. broken, and the hole. stuffed with tags, or covered With 101110 bits of bawd. Great opentn i es in the wall.. parts of which wore fallen down, owd the places stopped with hottl'e. and straw. The thatch rotten, the chimneys leanire, then doles but bits of doors, the sleeping holes shocking both to sight and smell : and, indeed, ev,:ry thingseerning to say, " These are the abodes to' wretcheelness, which. to be believed possible, must be peen and felt ; these are the abodes of the descendants of those =angst whom beef, pork mutton„ and veal were the food of the poorer sou ; to this are come, at last, the descend ants of those common people of England, who Favescue tells us, were clothed throughout in' ood woollens, whose bedding, and other furniture in their houses, were of wool, and that in great wore, and who were well provided with all sorts of household goods- every one having all things that conduce to make life easy and happy !" ! But, it 1t .. ; moot worthy r) the wages fer , hen there are Atilt at all. reeeirts u. It THE DESTROYERS OF MACHINERY. Yesterday a numerous meeting was held at the Kent and Essex Assembly Room, Whitechapel, to take into consider ation the propriety of petitioning his Majesty to spare the lives of the unfortunate and deluded individuals, who have been convicted under the Special Commission, of destroyin; machinery, and who are now lying under the awful sentence of death. The Chair was taken at twelve o'clock by Mr. D. Wier, who stated the object of the meeting. Happily a Special Commission had been appointed to expound the lam . He believed that many of the offenders did not know their danger, or the law applicable to the offence of destroying machinery. Several were then under sentence of death, and considering the deluded men objects for the Royal Mercy, he should propose a petition to our Moot Gracious Sovereign, in the hope of obtaining a commutation of capital punishment.—The petition having been road, was agreed to, and a subscription made to carry the object of the meet ing into effect. TILE LATE DISTURBANCES IN MIDDLESEX.—The Magistrates in the Commission for Middlesex have come to as unanimous determination, of allowing those persons who were sworn in as special constables during the late disturb ances in various parts of the county, thesis's] of 3s. 6d. for every day they were called upon to act within the parish where they resided, or if in a part of the hundred without the parish an additional one shilling and sixpence per day. Non was sworn to act beyond his respective hundred of reNi deuce. The above rate of payment was suggested by M. Sergeant Bell, and was immediately acceded to. Mr. Broughton merely observing, that he thought the allowance sufficiently moderate, as on a recent occasion, when he W d called upon to swear in a number of special constables, by direction of the Secretary of State, ss. per day he knew nay paid to each, and many of them were far from Oinking themselves overpaid. CORN-EXCHANGE-THIS DAY. Owing to the foggy weather, several of the vessels from which sample were received on Monday have Dot got up the River ' and the supplies are generally short. Good Wheat fully maintained Monday's quota. Lion, and there is no alteration in the prices of other grain. Them are but few persons present, and little doing. - - tatroorartos. sloes ationsar. Wheat, &shalt (qrs.) - 1,376 Barley, Fon* Irish - - Oats, 11000 Neely . - 1,0011 Trish - Barley. English 1,610 Foreign Irish Floor (sacks) - 420 . . 495 - 1,710 . 183 . 1,890 COAL-EXCHANGE—THIS DAY. nips arrived during this month DerisiDecember Best Wa Coals tuber sorts Snips at Market, tel. COUNTRY MARKETS DURING TRI WEEK. NORWICH, Jas. I. lid Whoa (61Ibt to MU) ..... Barley, (bins to 531t0) Demos, (ellso to Gabs) Ms to 974 YARMOUTH, Jix. 1. Red Wheat (Onto to tithe) Barley (Mlbe to Übe) Beans (MR* to 641 be) . • . ris to MR UXBRIDGE. Whoa per bad) Barley (per `aster) Oats (dhte) ... leo to 20s .. Ws to 421 ... 24s to Us CHELMSFORD. Wheat Um Barley (ilitor er .. Oats .. Per ... ... @Os to 72s ... 24s to 215. ... 35. to 50s .. 34s to 36 COLCHESTER.—.Aveesse Price per Wheat ...... Sr Sd Barley Oats .. 1 les 3d .. I 41 8d .. 1 los 10d NBWARB, (NOTTS.) Wheat ( ditto ) ter ... inferior .. New Barley . Oats .. Inferior ditto 1 1!. 2d ..• 70t to 74% .. SO' to 694 ... 30. to 444 ... Us to 32s ... lea to 224 ... 404 to 42. Ms to 884 MANSFIELD, (NOTTS.) Wheat (per load) —24 s 2s. Aye (ditto) las to l7s Batley (pa quarter _ Ms to 42s OW (ditto) ... 2s. to 224 Lewes Warminster . Devises . Newbury leading . fisibbury . Dmingamke - Windom lassey W il i lli v. 1 , II ask i j . Oat. r. 4i i .RD R. • 7 30 7 12 32 41 18 34 4 21 31 . 70 10 .24 30 74 26 37 20 25 . 1622 ,N 32 21 25