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■ ~.~ • 71A, a .. 0 \ 1 4114 2 , P i V ( t %; • , 0 71 : .--- , s _'N---- - '";13 ---- t' EA.,.. C3i - '-‘ 1 . "••5 4. 1 2!" .. ; — ,. ' 142 ) 4,... 0 1 1788. a THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER has received " Fifty Shillings due to the Government,by A. B." Downing-street, April 4, 1831. pHILANTHROPHIC SOCIETY, F. FIELDS, SURREY. GEORGES'S President, His Grace the DUKE of LEEDS, K.G. Treasurer, SAMUEL BUSANQUET, Esq. On THURSDAY MORNING, MAY b, a Performance of SACRRD MUSIC, for the benefit of this Institution. will take place in the SOCIETY'S CHAPEL, under the direction of Sir GEORGE SMART, Organist to His Majesty's Chapels Royal, and Mr. GEORGE CLELAND, Organist of the Society's Chapel—Paiw- CIPAL VOCAL Pearoarszas, Miss STEPHENS, Madame STOCK HAUSEN, and Mr.. W. KNYVETT, Mr. BR AH AM, Mr. W. KNYVETT, Mr. HORNCASTLE, Mr. E: TAYLOR, and Mr. PHILLIPS. Organ Solo—Mr. CLELAND. Trumpet—Mr. HAR PER. Double Drums—Mr. CHIPP. The CHORUS will be se lected from the Performers in the Concerts of Ancient Music, &c. assisted by the Young Gentlemen of His Majesty's Chapels Royal and St. Paul's CathedraL Sir GEORGE SMART will preside at the Organ. Tickets, Seven Shillings each, to be had at the Institution in St. Georges's Fields ; and at the Principal Music Shops.—Further Par ticulars will be duly announced. R. COLLIER, Superintendent. TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 5, 1831. N°. 13,750. PRICE 71). JERUSALEM-THE HOLY SEPULCHRE. PRIVATE PUPIL AMARRIED CLERGYMAN, for some years Tutor to a Nobleman, and subsequently receiving Six Pupils into his House, a moderate distance from London, would he glad to fill a VACANCY with a GENTLEMAN'S SON, whose Health or Education may require more than cotnroon attention. • Letters addressed to the Rev. J. C. C. Mr. Rodwell's, Bookseller, 46, New Bond-street, London, will be duly forwarded to him in the country. PREPARATORY BOARDING-SCHOOL FOR YOUNG GENT LB MEN, L'nder Twelve Years of Age, ' , Nees IS, KENSINGTON-CRESCENT, By Ms, D. REID and MIN REID. THE preparatory course of instruction pursued by Mr. REID will be found peculiarly adapted for young Gentlemen, who are designed to be educated at any of the Public Schools, or for admission into the East India Company's College, at Haileybury, as by an early superintendence of their classical studies they may be enabled to pass with greater facility through these establishments. The Terms for Board and Education, including the Latin Language, Writing, and Arithmetic, are Thirty-two Guineas per Annum. Young Gentlemen, whose friends reside in India, are educated and boarded through the entire year, at Fi ft y Guineas, inclusive of clothing, and every charge, except medic al attendance. Each Pupil to be provided with six towels, and a silver dessert spoon. A Quarter's notice is requested previous to removal. FIVE HUNDR ED POUNDS REWARD.—"There is a newly-invented Patent Recumbent Chair, by Mr. DAWS. of 17, Margaret-street, Cavendish-square, London, which it is but justice to a most ingenious man, to introduce to the particular notice of our readers. The King, we hear, has them, and certainly the in firm, the sedentary, and Ladies whose temporary burthen may dis pose them to a little additional repose, have never before lounged on a cleverer piece of workmanship ; it is handsome and compact, and the contrivance is so simple, that the required position is attained by the slightest movements possible."— Examiner. " Possessing these advantages, it is not comparatively dearer than a common easy chair."—Times. The chair alluded to will form near 20 positions. The principle and name were the invention of R. lhws, the patentee, and such is the high approbation and patronage he has gratefully to acknowledge, and so well is the perfection of it attested and approved, that where an easy chair or couch is desirable or necessary, it will take precedence as a much more comfortable and elegant supply for both. There are many imitations which are called improved recumbent chairs, but R. Daws can have no heed to say they are deceptions or dangerous, since he has for three years part, and still continues to offer £5OO tor the production of the kittd which a majority of competent judges will pronounce more' perfect, and for which his signature may be had on application. Sonic' are admirably portable. One shall be sent for inspection by favour of ,deference, and payment of expenccs or at the rate of 103. per 100 miles; he warrants his principle seven years. THE BILIOUS PILLS, prepared by F. NEWIERY and SONS, are the discovery of a Physician of the first eminence at the present time. In an extensive practice for some years he has employed them in the most obstinate Binges Cases with unvarying success. They operate principally as a deobstruent and purgative ; they promote a proper action of the liver i■ the secretion of bile, or correct it when in a vitiated stare. Obstructions of the stomach and bowels are gradually removed; and by giving tone to the billary ducts and strength to the system, they afford relief to those who suffer from nervous attacks, sick head-ache, giddiness, Indigestion, and gouty affection. The Bilious Pills have the name " F. Newbery" engraved In the Government Stamp on each Box, aad are sold at No. 45, St. Paul's Church Yard; and by J. Sanger. 150, Oxford -street, London; W. Prgg, Dante-street, Dublin ; and all Venders in the Country, price 2.. 9d. THE A NMI% The 92d Highlanders and 76tinent a few days ago received orders to hold themselves in immediate readiness to proceed to Ennis. A counter-order has since been received, and both regiments remain for the present in Dublin. Colonel Wemyss, the Limerick Brigade Major, has snivel in that garrison. The head-quarters of the 17th Lancers arrived in Limerick on Tuesday. The three companies of the 59th regiment, which left Limerick on Tuesday morning for Birr, were met about seven miles from town by the Dublin mail guard, with an express order from Dublin, staying the route, and directing their return to quarters at Limerick, where they ar rived between ten and eleven in the forenoon. On'Tuesday, the first division of the 34th reserve arrived in Lime rick from Nail, ; and on Wednesday the second division followed, on route to Clare Castle. The troop of Carbineers which rode into Limerick on Saturday se`nnight front Clare, with the artillery, proceeded on Monday to Bal. lincollig. The three companies of the fifth regiment, under Major Johnson, which were on route to Ennis, have been detained at Clare Castle. It is supposed that the stb, on being relieved by the 34th depot, will be ordered to march as a moveable column through the whole of the county Clare, not remaining more than two or three days in one place. The ninety-ninth reserve arrived at Naas on Thursday List, from Clare Castle. Four scotch regiments of militia are to go over to Ireland, as soon as sufficiently advanced in discipline ; and many of the reserves will be moved to this side of the water. It is fully decided that all officers engaged at Waterloo are to have something done for them, but in what manner is not determinately fixed. All regiments at the Mauritius have been directed to complete the establishment of their service companies. Two vessels are now lying in the Thames, with government stores for that island, the John Craig and the Eagle. Captains Smith and Markham, who were discharged from Bilmain ham prison, have joined the depot of the 32d regiment at Boyle. The Cheshire Militia were disembodied on Saturday last, having completed their period of training. Their conduct during the time they remained in Chester was most orderly and soldier-like. Wednesday. the second Exeter troop of Yeomanry Cavalry dined together at 'Thorverton. They assembled in a field, and went through their evolutions in the morning. An excellent dinner was provided fur them by Mr. Lake, at the Duke of Wellington Inn, at Thorverton, the arrangements of which were such as did bum much credit. THE TURF. NEWMARKET CRAVEN MEETING. NEWMARKET, MONDAY AFTERNOON. The Craven Stakes for all ages. A. P. (16 Subs.) Mr. Chifney's Priam, 3 yrs Col. Wilson's c by Comus, 3 yrs Mr. Nowell's ch c by Nulty, 2 yrs 3 The following were not placed —c by Nlustachio, 2 yes; Fortitude, 4 yrs ; f by Cotnus, 2 yrs ; Massarom, 2 yrs ; Tranby, I yes; Turk, 2 yes ; Costard c 2 yrs. Won by three lengths. The Handicap Stakes of 10 soya each, for two and three years old. M. Ld Lowther's Spani e l, 2 yrs. 6st Ab. 121 b.. 1 141 Verulam's Whip, 3 , 7st Blb 2 Id Anson's Zill a h, 3 ms' syrs 81b . Won by a length. Eleven others started, but were not placed. Match 200, h. ft A. F.—Mr Stonehewer's Variation, Bst. 51b. beat Mr. Mill's Mouche, Bst. 21b. Won easy. Sweepstakes of 25 soca. each, for two-yr olds. D. M. Mr. Stebbing's Joan of Arc. 7st. 41b. .. . .. 1 D. of Richmond's Conciliation, 144 .. . 1114 ... .. 2 The following were not pl ace d : Naiad, Bst. 91b; Earring, 73t -111b.; Terapia, 7st. 41b; and Little John colt, 7st. 71b. Won by a IQck. Match, 100, b. it. T. Y. C.D. of Grafton's Abbot, Bst. 21b. beat Captain Rous's Steamer, Bst. 71b. by a length. The Riddlesworth Stakes of 200 soya. each. Ab. M. (10 subs.) Lord Jersey's c. by Emilius ... .. ... 1 Lord Exeter's c. by Tram ... .. "'.. 2 Lord Anson's c. by Morisco ... ... .. 'the following also started :—D. of Richmond's Selictar, and Mr. Rush's c. by:M'Adam. Won by a length. In this most interesting of all churches, a number of places are pointed out, and held as peculiarly sacred, In each of which certain ceremonies are performed in reference to the sufferings of the lignitzress of our world, such as the place where he was derided by the multitude, his gapnents were divided, his body anointed, and where the angels ap peared to the women after his resurrection. At Lent, the monks are subjected in a sum of 75 parse, each time they enter this Temple. An intimation is hung up, declaring it to be death for any Hebrew to ap pear within its sacred walls. Over the tomb of CHRIST, which is in diabetic:a of the church, is an oblong 1 rounded at the corners, which looks to the east, and is 7IS broad. • with marble, and richly should shine by outward profession, but the vessels of the heart be fur. Walled with the graces of the HOLY Srlux, as a prevailing and abiding principle. This place is divided into two apartments, each of them, probably, about six feet in height and from seven to eight in breadth ; the first is a kind of ante-chapel, and in the second, which must be considered as the sanctum souctorues, under an altar is said to be " the place where the Lord lay," —so that his " Sepulchre is with us at this day." On entering the church, the first object which attracts notice, being within a few feet of the door, is a slab of beattliful white marble in the pavement, surrounded by a balustrade, marking the spot where Joseph of Atimathea anointed the body of our Lord, preparatory to its being deposited in the Sepulchre. There is still shown a atone, represented as that which was rolled to the door of the Sepulchre. The sarcopha. gus, which is of white marble, is six feet in length and four in breadth; and here Mine eye bath seen that sad sepulchral rock That was the casket of Heaven's richest store. Over this is a large painting, representing Christ bursting the bonds of the tomb, and his triumphant ascension for our justification on that auspicious morn. The doors leading to these chambers being very low, obliged me to stoop. The outer steps are most devoutly saluted by the pilgrims, who kneel and offer up adoration. with extended arms, throwing off their shoes previous to entering the place. During Easter a variety of religious ceremonies are observed, marked with extraordinary devotional fervour, with reference to the last sufferings, and mho subsequent events in our Lord's history. On the evening of Good Friday, or Holy Week, according to its ancient and mare general appellation, a day which commemorates the sufferings of Christ, on the cross, and which is called Dark Night by the monks, they assemble its a body, when a sermon is delivered, during which the lights arc extinguished, in order to produce a deeper Impression on the mind, and also designed to represent that supernatural darkness which overspread the earth at our Saviour's death. A procession af terwards commences, when each person carries in his band a lighted taper, a crucifix is borne before them, with an hasp of the Saviour, as large as life, hanging upon It, with nails in the hands, a crown of thorns on his head, and the body streaked with blood, After proceeding to those parts of the chinch which have been consecrated to some particular acts performed in them relative to the great sufferings, death, burial, and resurrection of Christ, and adorned with ornaments, the procession arrives at Mount Calvary, which is ascended by the friars without their shoes. The cross is there erected, a sermon delivered on the crucifixion, which is followed by the singing of a hymn. After this two persons representing Joseph of Arirnathea and Nicodemus, ap proach the place with great solemnity, draw the nails, and take down the effigy, which is so contrived, that the limbs are flexible, as if it was a real body. It is then laid in a sheet, and taken to the spot where it is anointed with spices, after which another hymn is chaunted, and a formal discourse again delivered ; when the ceremony terminates by deposi:ing the body in the Sepulchre. Another festival celebrated is, the " Invention of the Cross" and commemorative of the finding of a wooden cross by Helena, mother of Constantine, and which has been supposed to be the true one. The spot is pointed out when it was discovered, which is under ground, over which a chapel is built, the roof and sides of which are formed of an enormous rock. The Greek and Latin Christians honour also the memory of the penitent thief, also the " Exaltation of the Cross," the Adoration of the Cross," and various other circumstances attending the crucifixion. From Travels in the Press, by William Rae Wilson, R4q. through Judea, Galilee, and Samaria, dre. POSITION OF TFIR RUSSIAN ARMY IN POLAND. A correct idea is not generally entertained of the situation of this army. The plan of the Russian Commander has signally failed. He had reckoned on the continuance of the ice during the months of Feb. and March, and thought, therefore, that he could easily transport his army and its immense materiel over the Vistula and Bug, and traverse the marshes with the same facility. The sudden thaw has destroyed these expectations ; and the determined resistance of a handful of brave men has placed the Russian army, surrounded as it is by swamps and marshes, in the most difficult situation imaginable. After the brilliant actions in the end of February, the Polish army passed the Vistula, whilst the enemy was unable to offer any interruption to this move. ment, notwithstanding the immense numerical superiority of the Rus sians. lo fact, General Diebitsch was unable to manceuvre In such marshy ground, broken up by the melting of the snow, the columns of an army harassed by fatigue, the men, and particularly the hones, of which were without su ffi cient food for some d a y s . It Is now admitted on all hands, that the Russians are suffering from the scarcity of pro vision. If the theatre of the war were Bavaria, Wurtemberg, or Saxony, which are fertile countries, intersected by good roads, where communication might be kept up, the belligerents might effect their movements, sure of being followed by their convoys, and to End, in other respects, from the resources of the country itself, subsistence for their men and horses. It is quite different, however, in Poland, and particulatly on the right bank of the Vistula, where here are immense marshes and lakes. The Palatinate of Augustow, by which theßussian army entered Po land, contains 28,530 acres of lakes, and 71,340 of marshes. The Pa. latinate of Plock, in which the army is now manoeuvring, has 1,680 acres of lakes, and 20,550 of marshes. The Palatinate of %arsaw, in which the battles of February' were fought, contains 2.280 acres of lakes, and 8,550 of marshes, the Palatinates of Augustow, Plock, and Pod. lacltia, occupied by the Russian army, are thus the least fertile and most thinly inhabited, owing certainly to the marshy and watery na. tore of the soil. The same remark applies to the small portion of the Palatinate of Warsaw, which is situate on the right bank of the Vis tula, and which extends to the Bug. The Russian army has, it would appear from this, taken up its position at a distance of 200 miles in advance of Binlystock and Grodno, in which its principal magazines are, and in the country where you may travel ten or fifteen miles without meeting even a miserable village without passable roads surrounded by marshes, ard in the midst of a hostile population. Sup. posing that it had formed intermediate depots of provisions and forage, stationed at only five days' jcumey from the army, let us calculate the enormous materiel necessary for bringing the daily subsistence to the troops. The total force consists, It is said, of 200,000 men, including over 20,000 cavalry. The consumption of each man being estimated at two pounds weight daily, in corn or other substances, and a half pound being allowed for the quarter of a pint of spirits, without which the Russian soldier cannot fight, it follows that the total weight of provisions for one day, for 200 thousand men, would require 1.250 waggons or carriages, drawn by four horses each. The same number of carriages must regularly return empty, so that in fact, 2.500 carriages and 10,000 horses would be necessary for the conveyance of the supplies. The procuring of fora g e fo r the horses is still more embarrassing. Independently of the 20,000 cavalry borsee and the waggon horse'', there are at least 5,000 artillery horses for a park of 409 guns and 400 carriages, and above 5,000 horses for the staff officers of the regiments. Fifteen thousand horses are necessary for drawing from four to live thousand carriages, containing the daily forage, mating a total of 60,000 horses. Lath horse consumes at least eighteen pounds weight daily in hay and oats; hence it would require 2.250 carriages to bring that weight of forage from the nearest depot, whilst the same number of carriages would be on their way back empty, making altogether four thousand five hundred carriages necessary for this second service. U may well be conceived what confusion would have been occasioned, even during the frost, by the constant passage of seven thousand carriages through the bad roads, on the right bank of the Vistula, to secure from day to day the very existence of the army, which was represented as so formidable It but since the thaw these road. actually impassable, and the Russians must be reduced to present position, therefore, is not tenable ; and any will only increase their distress. Shoeld Dewed _. _ . DISTRESS IN IRELAND. TO THE RIGHT REV. Dl. DOYLE, CATHOLIC BISHOP OF KILDARE AND LZIGHLIN! London, Much 29, 1831. My Lord—You have convinced me—your pamphlet on the necessity of making a legal provision for the destitute Irish poor, has completely convinced me. The candour and distinctness with which yon state the arguments against that provision, and the dear and satisfactory manner in which you have answered and refuted those arguments, have quite overpowered my objections, and rendered me an unwilling, but not the less sincere convert to your opinions. I candidly acknowledge that you have done more ; you have alarmed me lest in the indulgence of my own selfishness as a land-owner. I should continue to be the opponent of him who feeds the hungry and enables the naked to clothe themselves. My Lord, I am much pressed in point of time, but I feel it impera tive on me to announce this my conversion, with a view to endeavour to render it useful. lam not an admirer of that species of conviction which contents itself with mete mental gratification. You will not be surprised that I do not estimate too highly the value of " faith without works," and you will, therefore, be prepared to find me ready to en. deavour to realize that which I believe to be salutary to the people—the poor people of Ireland. The scenes which you have actually witnessed, the misery which you have actually beheld, the woe which you have actually wept over, the famishing children, the starving parent, the perishing youth, the young blood running cold, chilled by penury, the aged sinking into the grave under the pressure of hunger,avai icious cruelty thinning the folds of their population, and starvation filling the church-yards with emaciated vic tims. I cannot, my Lord, endure so look at the picture you have drawn from the life, and strewed with real dead. 1 will nut bear it without at lent a struggle, and now I offer myself, all that I have of energy and perseverance, to the cause which you support and ornament, the cause of the poor, the destitute, the famishing, the cause of the unjustly &filleted man, the cause, am I at liberty to say it without profaneness, the cause of GOD. Let us see, my Lord, what is to be done. We must proceed cau tiously and deliberately, it is true— but we most proceed incessantly, •igorously, perseveringly. There is no time to be lost. I was long of opinion that the repeal of the union, giving as it would—and yet will give—to Ireland the protection of a domestic legislature, and necessarily resident proprietary, would supersede the necessity of any legal or own. 'Ovary provision &e the Irish poor. But the Irish aristocracy hem, in such comparative numbers, arranged themselves round the stifling po. Bey of Lord Anglesey's government, thisf.they necessarily retard that which, ultimately, they cannot possibly prevent. In the mean time the people are perishing ; want, woe, and corroding misery are daily extend ing. The cry for relief is urgent and incessant, and we cannot wait until the heartless shall be put down by popular sentiment, and overcome by the slow, although certain, march of constitutional exertion. ___ We must come forward at once. The people must be fed. The tithes do certainly afford a great and natural resource, or rather a crown rent. As a national commutation of tithes, less, much less, than the tenth of the fair rent-roll will be abundantly sufficient ; in fact, the one half of the actual weight of the tithes. Next, the estates of absentees should bear a double proportion of this crown rent, or land tsx. Indeed a treble proportion would be but strict justice. Let me be asked how we could effectually raise this treble land tax on the estates of absen. tees. I answer, by referring to the facility with which the double land tax was rais, for more than a century, on the estates of English Catholics. With a good heart, a stout determination, and an unflinching perse verance, any thing, every thing that is useful and just can be done. There la but one real enemy of this work of benevolence and Ch ' • n charity ; it is the man that has the pusillanimity to despair, or the inanity to content himself with barren wishes without exertion. Before the week closes, I intend to be in Dublin, and immediately to Commence operations to bring into practical effect your benevolent views. Temporaty palliatives will be easily procured, when the per manent teller is in actual progress of attainment. Let us commence, however, as speedily as possible. It is quite true that we must proceed moat cautiously. We must avoid the horrid evils which the English plan of poor laws has pro duced—the frightful demoralization—the heartless obduracy—the tuth. less carelessness, engendered by the English system, must be all avoid. ed. Prudence, caution, care, foresight, will all be wanting. But he who makes the worldly wise perish in their own foolishness, and out of the lips of babes and sucklings can produce wisdom, and right co unse l, may, perhaps, aid our efforts for the permanent good of a faithful, though long suffering people. I could expatiate on the necessity of a prompt exertion, but it is in deed obvious. I believe—l really believe, that Lord Anglesey means well. I give him credit for good motives. I give him, unaffectedly, that credit ; though great personal vanity, working in a mind of small power, necessarily obscures his views; but conceding purity of motive, I am bound to say, that my thorough and sincere conviction is, that since the days of the ill-fated Stratford, there Dever existed a single governor of Ireland, whose policy was so unequivocally calculated, without his know. ing it, to effectuate permanent mischief to Ireland. It must be so al ways with those who refuse to allow the public sentiment a voice, and universally imagine, that when they stifle the words of complaint, they extinguish the causes of irritation and suffering, or diminish the anxiety for redre-s. The ill.starred Wentworth was a man of, I believe, pure intentions —he was ruled by his English feelings of superiority over the Irish people, and by his notions of the efficacy of power to control national will. Even the degraded Polignac may have deluded himself Into a notion that he was working for the real good of France. Turning away from these delusions, let us contemplate the sad stateSof Ireland. The fragments of the old party of intolerants,sose after the recent victory gained over them by liberality and justice, are ready instruments in the hands of even an unakillul governor. They have supplied mate rials to oppose a temporary, but delusive resistance to the national will. During the continued struggle the people are scarcely heard crying for bread, and there is none to break it to them. Let us, my Lord, attend to their cry, and whilst we pursue, as reason and conviction may dic tate, our respective views of other measures for national relief, let us combine, as well as we can, good men of every party, sect, and persua. sion, to afford relief to the aged, the sick,the destitute and the famishing. The Irish aristocracy, and a poor aristocracy they are, have opposed the popular demand fur domestic legislation. They have opposed that measure, which above all others would be most calculated to afford pro fitable employment to the poor. Let us see what we can substitute for it. Let us i.ow press forward that substitute, backed as it will be by the craving demands of famishing millions. The British legislature is quite prepared to give us a poor law. I do not know any one subject which would be half so popular in the' British House of Commons, sea poor law for Ireland. We have only to ask fur it, and we may be certain of obtaining it. But let us not ask for it until we have so matured oar plan that we may not introduce evil in the place of doing good —or aggravate any part of that misery which it ought to be our sole object to relieve. I am decidedly against investing our justices of the peace with addi. Waal power. lam against any aristocratic combination of special res. try laws. But I have run on longer than I intended. My leading ob jects were to thank you for that pamphlet, which has worked my com plete conversion ; and to offer you my active and persevering exertion to carry into effect your plan of relief for the persons in the world who require it most. I have the honour to be, with lively gratitude and profound respect, my Lord, your Lordship's most obedient, humble servant, DANIEL O'CONNELL. oblong building, rounded at the corners, which looks to the east, and is W itat — b ; — act 'ai y 7 n 7" assable , and the Ruuixns must be ;;;b7,;(7 t ; within 45 feet long by 9 'goad s paved with marble, and richly tens- starvation. Their present position, therefore, is not tenable , and any mend with curta i ns of cr i mson i n t e r wov en w i t h gold. There enr 12 releibrosesesst of troops will only increase their distress. Should Genera .1b4.4.15151.11Ldui-liinulas. 46 NSW mm) 4 11 9611141110 1 ,the raidaktliii4dollllo4-bigull, Sys __ he wiarto b r i t e S find on the left bank of then a sandy Infart w 1561 silif crthe • 11 1" 16 eft v 4 r 7 • Ga 7 TePlarlY cosatryged a more fertile soil ; but the Polish army will er doubtles - s filled with "pure" olive oil—a custom to which our LORD has an take the advantage of it, and organise on that account a more formitia- allusion, in his parable of the Virgins; thus shadowing the professors ble resistance, as the nature of the country will leave them ftee to make . maneuvres, whilst the Russians cannot attempt the passage of river except at evident disadvantage. THE WEYMOUTH CASE. Prim th• Calamine Mercury qf Satraaa. In the statement which we made on Thursday of this cu rious case we studioasly kept clear of all the polio of the real :natter at issue between the pirties, and conked oar selves solely to those in which the public could have any in terest. We find, however, that we were misinformed in re tard to the action being quashed ; and we regret to find that we have given circulation to statements regarding Col. Gordon, which are said to have been irrelevantly introduced into an ordinary action of accounting, for the purpose of ob taining a favourable settlement as the price of their suppres • sion. We therefore think it only an act of fairness and jus tice to Col. Gordon to give the following statement: In the first place, it appears that Colonel Gordon's ap pointment to be a trustee to his nephew did not take place till 1828, two years after he was elected one of the Members for Weymouth ; that his standing a candidate for that bo rough wan not a proposal of his own, but urgently and earnestly pressed upon him by the Johnstone family, and that the object of his doing so was solely with a • view to continue and strengthen the connection between his sister's family and the borough. At the time of Mr. Sugden's first eleotion In 1828, Major Weyland stood upon the Johnstone interest, and Mr. S. upon the independent one. Col. G. at that time was anxious for Major W. a success, and as much disappointed at his defeat as the rest of the family. Colonel G. never had any communication with Mr. Sugden prior to the election of 188, and his motives for entering into the subsequent arrangements with him are said to have been a conviegon thasit.waa better policy to conciliate than to keep up say hostile feeling against %Ir. Sugden, who had risen to emi nence" at ' .the bar, and acquired great popularity in Weymouth, and who had been greatly, if not entirely, in- I debted for his return to the same interest which opposed Col. Gordon so violently in 1826, and which seemed to possess such very great weight. With respect to the purchase of Messrs. Henning and Horaford's property, and the arrangements between Sir ward Sugden and Mr. Fraser, it is said that Colonel Gor don has never seen the original contract to this hour; that some of the stipulations are so preposterous , that be never could have listened to the m , an d t h at if be had been made fairly acquainted with every stipulation (as be ought to have been) he would not have concurred in the purchase at all.— The charge of wishing to set up a separate interest for him self, or as Mr. F. says, " seeking his indemnity by selliug or otherwi'e disposing of seats in parliament for the said burgh to the best advantage," is altogether denied ; and it is said that the purchase eas made to strengthen the family ence, and that, though not pretending to the Quixotry of sacrificing his property solely tu promote his nephew's advan tage, Col. G. considered that their interests might be bene ficially conjoined, and that Sir Frederick was given distinct ly to understand that the property should be his when ever he chose to acquire it, and that the payment of the price would be made convenient to him. The accuracy of the alleged copy of agreement with Sir Edward Sugden is disputed. It is denied that there was any stipulation as to a Peerage—that it was provided that Major Weyland was to be excluded, or that Sir E. Sugden was not to bear his own share of the election expenses. With regard to the allegation, that Colonel G. bad an alter cation with Sir E. Sugden, because the latter bad failed: in obtaining a Peerage for him, it is said to ley false; and that although Colonel G. had a differ..nce with .Sir E. it had no reference to the matter alleged ; and, in general, the %%hole statements in the summons are said to be false, malicious, and calumnious. NEWCASTLE-UPON.! Y.VE, April!. -....--. (PROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT ) Great preparations are making to open, with Mat, the new road to Scotsaood, and the beautiful suspension-bridge across the river Tyne, at that place, on Tuesday, the 12th instant. Our worthy representative, John Hodgson, Esq. has come down from London expressly to attend the in teresting proceedings. The company, which it is expected will be both numerous and fashionable, and include a long train of carriages and equestrians, will meet at the Assembly Rooms, in Westgate-street, at twelve o'clock, on the day of opening, from which they will set out in grand proces sion. In the evening, a public dinner will take place at the above-mentioned rooms, the Right Worshipful the Mayor of Newcastle in the Chair, supported by Mr. Hodgson and the High Sheriff for Northumberland (George Silvertop, Esq.) as Assistant Presidents, and Mr. John Clayton and Mr. Nath. Grace, as Vice-chairmen The accommodation which the public will derive from this new line of road into the county of Durham, will be very con siderable ; the whole too has been executed in a very shott time, not quite two years. I have further great ;Aconite in mentioning, that that important undertaking, the Newcastle and Carlisle Rail-road, is now progressing most favourahl.v. Above 600 men are actively employed upon it, and in the course of five or six weeks more than double that number will be in full occupation. Indeed, we have the authority of Mr. Giles, the en g i neer , f or t h e statement made at the anniversary meeting of the proprietors last week, that he expects to open for the use of the public the line from New castle to Hexham, and that from Carlisle to Blenkinsopp, the two most important districts, in the Autumn of 1833. The King patronises the Hereford Music Meeting, which is appointed to take place on the 13th, *ad 15th of Sep tember. Sir Manasseh Lopez, the boroughmonger, is said to have . left among branches of his family, nearly a million. We are glad to hear of the multiplication of minor theatres, because we regard them as public instructors. One has been opened in the north-east of the town, and another is proposed for the west, at Knightsbridge. Mr. Haydon has displayed his original conceptions as a designer, in a portrait of Napoleon in meditation at St. He lena. Its execution is also favourably spoken of, and we are glad to see efforts made to expand British art beyond the range of mere commercial pictures. The Edinburgh papers assert that the window-breakers were led on by the natural son of an un-reforming M.P. and that he has been held to bail. An attempt of certain Pharisees to put down the annual revelry and popular enjoyment, has been defeated by the good sense of the Magistrates of the d i strict; and the people were as happy yesterday as they ought to be. There may have been a few broken heads, and some pockets picked, but there is no sterling good without alloy. The Pharisees are every where too busy, and in spite of their outside hyrocrisy ought to be every where opposed. EAST INDIA AND CIIINA TILADE.-43 7 the returns made up to the year ending January 5,1830, it appears that the total value of imports into Great Britain from the East Indies and China (exclusive of the Mauritius) amounted to 9,479,5761. and the exports to 4,412,4971. 10s. 7d. The acquittal of Miss Clarke without the adjudication of insanity, has created great surprise. It may be hopvd, however, that her friends will take future care of her, and in that view the verdict was creditable to the humanity of the court and jury. We have beard too much of the hope. less suffering% of criminal lunatics in Bedlam, often restare.t, and akt IIVB repentant, to wish tc have their number increased. It is an alternative which besets the solecism of hillPVille cruelty. r . i • t 2