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'r. t 's 41 : 1 I . 4, ) I . t 5 1A , I 4 DE V.I.NTATION OF POLAND. Ye hlnnarchs, whom List lure of honour draws, Who write in block; the merits of your cause— Who strike the blow, then plead your own deft:nix, Glory your aim. but justice your pretence — Behold in Xtna's emblematic fires 2'!:e mischiers your ambitious pride inspires ! Fast by the stream that bounds your just domain, And tells you where ye have a right to reign,— A nation dwells, not envious of your throne, Studious of peace—their neighbours' and their own. ill-f:attl race ! deeply must they rue Their only clime, vicinity to you ! What cre ye. Monarchs. latirell'il heroes, say, But .Etnas of the sue.ring world ye sway ? Sweet Nature. stripp'd rf her embroider'd robe, MTh , ' es the wasted regions of her globe ; And stands a witness,. at Truth's awful bar, To prove you there—destrovers—as ye ate. ! place me in some Heaven-protected isle, Whers Pace and Equity, and Freedom smile ; Where no volcano pours its fiery flood, 7.:ia treated warrior dips his plume in Woad : Where Power secures what Industry has won ; W.iere to succeed is co• to be undone ; A land that distant tyrants hate in vain, In Britain's isle, beneath a [William's] reign. [From Cowper's " Ode to Ileroiain.n] STEAM BOAT DISASTER. Front the several details furnished by the New York pa pers, of the late explosion of the steam boat, Gen. Jackson, we gather that nine persons of a cer ainty, while names have been ascertained, have already died of the wounds and burns received by the explosion; and it is believed that two others, at least, went down in the cabin of the boat, but whose names cannot be discovered, in consequence of the loss of the books and papers. In addition to this, four of the survivors remain iu such a dangerous state that their recovery is doubtful. Thus it is known, that there has been a sacrifice of eleven human lives, at the least, on this sin gle occasion ; and it is still doubted whether this may com plete the melancholy catalogue, and that more are not to be enumerated in the event of the passenger-roll being found. The New York Journals are loud and deep in their corn plaints that all was not right in the management—that hu man life has been sported with; and the' Albany Evening Journal' adds, that this deplorable accident was said to be the result of culpable neglect. That an incompetent boy had charge of the engine, and neglected to blow off the steam, or supply the boiler with water. When shall there be an end to this ? In connexion with this subject, the N.Y. Gazette has the following paragraph : A correspondent suggests, what he thinks a simple, cheap and effectual remedy against accu mulation of steam during the delay of boats at the landings. Let the movement, he says, which stops the boat, be connected permanently, by a chain or otherwise, with the safety valve, so that the stoppage of the boat necessarily opens the safety valve, and all will be safe. It is true, he adds, this will prove (when the delay is consider able) a great loss of steam ; but what comparison is there, between the loss of steam and loss of lives? The Garder fror in of Fromont, six leagues )m Paris, according to Silliman's Journal, contains 130 acres, and more than six thousand species and varieties of vegetables, many of them still new in France. Some of the green-houses are 2,000 feet in length, with glazed roofs, possessing all varieties of exposure. Many of the noble forest trees of the United States have furnished contributions to the nursery of this garden.—American Paper. In England and Ireland the people are starving for want of employment, or sustaining themselves by lawless depredations ; whilst in our country the labouring classes find enough to do, and good wages. In New York, the journeymen masons have demanded an increase of their pay to Bd. 63c. per day. The journeymen carpenters have also struck for higher wages, they demand Bd. 50c. per day.— Nantucket Eng. In the Pampas of South America, the country is in some parts, for leagues around, covered with thistles, which are of the prodigious height of eight, and even ten feet ; cattle which go in among them to seek a shade from the sun, and to feed upon the grass beneath, are completely concealed. These thistles form almost the only fuel for the few inhabitants who are scattered over this vast wilder ness : not a tree is to be seen, except a few peach trees, which have been planted in the immediate neighbourhood of the huts. MEDICAL OPINIONS OF TII E CHIN ESE. Vital heat, and radical moisture, the seat of which last they place in the heart, the lungs, the liver, and the reins, constitute in the opinion of the phy sicians of the Celestial Empire, the two natural principles of life, of which the blood and spirits are only the vehicles, They place vital heat, on the contrary, in the intestines, which they suppose to he six in number. They believe also, according to Du Halde, that the body, with its nerves, muscles, veins, and arteries, resembles a stringed instru ment, whose various parts emit various sounds, or rather have a temperament proper for each, and suited to their figure, situation, and particular uses ; in the same manner as a string emits a different sound according to the place where it is touched, or the strength or gentleness employed, discovering whether it be too much stretched, or too much relaxed. In short the basis of their practice rests upon the hypothesis of a general consent or sympathy subsisting between all the pits of the body.—From Dr. Hamilton's His tory of Medicine. :11r. Roscoe's funeral took place at Liverpool on 'Tuesday, and was marked by all the imposing solemnity which departed excellence can command, and honoured by the attendance of the many friends whom respect for his worth or admiration of his conciliating disposition had drawn around him in life. Alittle before 11 o'clock the procession set out from the house of the deceased. It consisted of one carriage, in which were the Minister and the medical attendants, and nine other private, carriages, containing. gentlemen with silk scarfs. and hatbands, preceding the hearse, and then came two mourning coaches with Mr. Roscoe's family, as mourners, followed by a gentleman's carriage, with closed blinds. The procession then moved onwards in the ratite of Lodge-lane, Saiithdown-lane, Botanic-garden, Oxford -street, Mount-pleasant, and Renshaw -street, to the north gate of the chapel. At the Botanic-garden it was joined by, Dr. Rutter and Dr. Briggs, in their respective' carriages, which took the lead, and were succeeded by the Rev. Jonathan Brooks, Chas. Turner, Esq. and nearly 100 gentlemen on loot, two abreast. The Rev. J. B. Monk, the Rev. W. Blundell, and the Rev. A. Dawson, were present, and also the Committee of the Royal Institution, the members of the Philosophical Society, and those of the Athenaeum. The Rev. NV. Shepherd officiated upon the occasion, and performed the sorrowful en•ice in an affecting manner. THE LATE BISHOP OF DERRY AND THE IRISII BISHOPRICKS.—The bishoprick of Deny, which has become vacant by the death of the Hon. and Right Rev. W. Knox, D.D. in the 71st year of his age, is one of the richest dioceses amongst the Irish ecclesiastical endowments. His lordship, who was brother to Viscount Northland, was flan ' slated to the see of Derry in 1803, having been advanced to the Irish episcopal bench in 1794. The Knox family possess considerable borough pa tronage in Ireland, and it was owing to his lordship being a scion of this influential house, that his elevation to the rich diocese of Derry may be ascribed. According to the parliamentary returns, the yearly income of the Bishop of Derry is 10,0001. late currency. The Bishop of Ferns, however, in the course of his celebrated corres pondence with the Earl of Mountcashel, allows the see of Derry, which is here rated at 10,0001. a year, to be worth little less than 15,0001. Al though the population of Ireland is the poorest, her church is the wealthiest in Europe ; the revenues of the Irish bench, from lands alone, exclusive of every other source of emolument, being estimated at up wards of 130,0001. The average income, therefore of each Irish Bishop may be stated at 6,0001. per an num. It would appear, limn the teport containing an account of the Irish ecclesiastical promotions made since 1812, that in the appointments to benefices in the See of Derry, the deceased Prelate made the aggrandisement of his family his chief solicitude. His Lordship's second son, the Rev. William Knox, appears five times. Altogether the name of Knox appears ten times, and it seems that since 1812 the beneficed clergymen of this family have got 5,2311. per annum, and 3,555 acres of land. The late Bishop, by his lady, a daughter of the late James Spencer, Esq. has left a family of four sons and eight daughters, viz.—The Rev. James Spencer Knox, Rev. William Knox, and Messrs. George and Charles Henry Knox ; Mrs. Octavius Wigram, Mrs. William Ponsonby, and Misses Jane, Anne- Elizabeth, Frances, Modena, Emily, and Helen Knox, unmarried. His Lot dship's successor, is, of course, not yet named, the venerable prelate hav ing only expired on Saturday. It is said that, ex cept the single appointment of Dr. Brinkley to the See of Cloyne, there has not been of late years a single instance in which ability alone has led to pro motion—parliamentary interest, instead of gospel principles, having too frequently succeeded in pro curing mitres. MR. AND LADY CAROLINE NEELD.—These distinguished parties, whose union has not tut ned out as happy as was expected, were united on the Ist of Jan. of the present year, at Warwick Castle, in the presence of the nearest connections of the noble bride. The auspicious ceremony, however, as it is usually termed, had not long been cele brated ere it was publicly rumoured that, if a se paration had not already taken place between a wealthy Commons' Member for a western borough and the female member of a noble family to whom the honourable gentleman had recently united himself, it was on the eve of being effected. It now appears that the splendid mansion, No. 6, Grosvenor-square, belonging to Mr. Neeld, and which was ordered to be fitted up for the reception of that gentleman and his Noble cogiort, remains in an incomplete state, never having Wen tenanted. Indeed, upon Lady Caroline's arrival in town a few weeks since, from Grittleton Park, near Chippen ham, the seat of her opulent husband, her lady ship sojourned at the Pulteney Hotel, in Albemarle street. Lady Caroline is at present about thirty three years of age, and of course has been recog nised as a member of the fashionable world for a considerable period. She is the eldest daughter of the Earl of Shaftesbury by his Countess, Lady Anne Spencer, fourth daughter of the late and sis ter to the present Duke of Marlborough, and Lord Churchill. Her ladyship's sisters, Lady Barbara Ashley Cooper, and Lady Harriett Ashley Cooper, are married to Henry Lyster and the Hon. Henry William Corry, son of Earl Belmore. Lord Ashley, her ladyship's elder brother, w as re c e ntly un it e d t o Lady Emily Cowper. Lady Caroline is thus allied to several highly influential and noble families.— Mr. Neeld is one of the sitting Members for Chip penham. He was, we believe, intended for the legal profession, and is well known to inherit a large proportion of the immense wealth of the late Mr. Rundell. TILE LATE MR. ELLISTON.—The deceased directed that his funeral be quite unostentatious, and his executors strictly abide by his instructions. He has been very minute in his directions, even to the colour of the nails on his coffin, and the inscrip tion which is to be placed on its lid, which is to be a Latin one. They deposit his remains in the vault under St. John's church, Waterloo-road, to day. The funeral, a u alking one, attended by the relatives of the deceased in London. and a very few only of his oldest and most intimate friends. Mr.! Elliston's acquirement:, unconnected with his act ing, were of a very superior order; he was a most excellent companion, and possessed many other good qualities, which the public will shortly be made acquainted with in his Memoirs, which he was on the point of arranging, in conjunction with a very old friend, from their joint materials. They will necessarily embrace much correspondence with and anecdotes of his contemporaries, and it is thought that they will place the subject of them is a most advantageous point of view. By his will, Mr. Elliston has made an equal distribution of his propel ty alsongst his eight children. Two of his sons are at Hobart Town; and one of his youngest children, a daughter, has died since his will was made. It appears considerable reductionr in the expen diture of the country will take place in the customs and excise departments, and that those reductions will be amongs the higher offices, beginning with commissioners ; this is as it ought to be —hitherto any saving that has been made has been by the dis missal of those whose salaries were not an object to the country, and by reducing the salaries of clerks and officers who were insufficiently paid. A new sect of Anabaptists having made its ap pearance in Germany, the fol.owing decree against it has been issued by the Prince Regent of Schwe rin :—" As a sect of Anabaptists, dissenting from the Evangelical Church, has appeared in the coun try for come time, a sect which seems to have sprung up at Beitzenburg, all magistrates are en joined to arrest, without distinction of persons, such sectaries found in their districts as shall dare to exercise their worship publicly, and administer the communion or baptism. A report is to be sent to our Chancery, which is charged with the exami nation of the case." From this measure it appears that the tolerance of the Evangeli...sl Church at Schwerin is very limited."— Guti i cani's Mess. PANORAMA OP THE BRITISH EMPIRE. TYNE MERCURY, July 12. At a monthly meeting of the Literary and Philosophical Society, held on Tuesday evening last, Mr. W. A. Mitchell in the chair, the first por.lon of a long and interesting paper, by J. Macgregor, was read, entitled, " Observations es the Tyne, with a view to the improvement of the Navigation." The writer commenced with remarking on the necessity of something being done with regard to the improvement of the navigation of the Tyne, from the circumstance of the increase of commerce which might naturally be expected on the opening of the communication with the western sea, by means of the Carlisle railway and other sources. He then took a survey of the science of hydrodynamics front a remote period, and traced it downwards to the improvement it had attained under the most celebrated French and English pro fessors, who had directed their attention to that most impor tant science. The causes of force and obstruction were then considered, and several instances were given from phi losophical works of the rapidity of currents at different depths and breadths, hi the course of which it was observed, that were it not for the resistance offered by the beds and aides of rivers, instead of being the blessing they now are, they would be a scourge to mankind.— Mr. Macgregor then applied his remarks exclusively to the river Tyne, the history of which he traced to a very remote period. He traced the alterations which took place in its bed, and which by gradual &cumulation had so much in jured its navigation, to various causes, the most prominent of which were, the great quantities of soil which was from time to time washed away by the current from the embank ments on either side, either by gradual wear in flowing by, or by undermining, until whole masses fell in and mingled with the water, by which they were dissolved, and settled to the bottom ; the vast quantities of ballast which were thrown from the ballast depositories into the river, indepen dent of what was effected by carelessness or wilful neglect. Another cause was the " alips" which were made from the lofty embankments it Prior's Haven, &e. It had been computed, that in three years a quantity had gone from these banks equal to three acres of soil three feet deep.— This fact alone was worthy of the attention both of the go vernment and of his Grace the Duke of Northumberland, in order that means might be adopted to prevent so great a waste of valuable property. It is our painful duty to record another accident in a coal mine in this district. About two o'clock on Saturday morn ing List, an explosion of hydrogen gas took place in the King Pit, near Wrekinton, by which three persons, sti overman, deputy, and a boy were killed. The accident is attributed to a neglect of one of the trap-door keepers. The three individuals we have mentioned were going to see that all was right before a fresh set of men commenced work ing. Unhappily they had candles, not Davy's lamps, with them. Why is this ? Why, in making these examina tions, are lights used which when coming in contact with foul air, produce so easily explosion, and lamps neglected which render explosions difficult ? Is the :tame system too, for ever to be continued of appointing children to keep the trapdoors, on which the lives of the poor pitmen so much depend P Neweesrez hlerrnic TY SOCIETT. — The establish. went of this society, which is in the Castle Garth, opened for the reception of mendicants on the 12th of April. It has now, therefore, been exactly three months in operation, and we must say that, in our judgment, so far it works well. No fewer than 714 persons have been relieved by it; that is, they have been supplied at least with supper, bed, and breakfast; in some cases they have had more, for those who come in on the Saturday night are lodged and fed till the Monday morn ing. A book is kept in which are entered the names of all applicants, their place of birth and settlement, their trade, the place from whence they have come and whither they are going, their business here, their age, size, complexion, the colour of their eyes, hair, make, and dress. The cost to the society of giving food to these people is two-pence per each. They are comfortably lodged ; they have a room to sit and a yard to walk in : the house is kept clean, neat, and orderly. The keeper is a person of tire name of Joseph Robins, who seems remarkably well fitted for his office. Considerable expence has necessarily been incurred to make the building suitable for the purpose, for outfit, &c. and the whole coat for this the first year, including the support of the mendicants, will be about 4001. The ordi nary expense in other years will probably not exceed 2001. We have no hesitation in stating that we think that this society has done good, for it has in a very great measure rid the town of the multitude of beggars tha: pervaded every street before it commenced. Those who have been relieved by it appear to have been chiefly decent beggars in search of employment, who deserved relief, and who expressed sincere gratitude when they received it. The applicants average about sixty per week. On Thursday evening last, the Temperance Society of this town held a meeting in the New Road Chapel, for the pur pose of forming a Branch for that neighbourhood, Mr. Jonathan Pricatman in the Chair. The meeting was well attended, and addresses were delivered by Mr. Daglish, one of the secretaries ; the Rev. G. Sample, %V. Smith, and F. A. West ; and Messrs. McAllum and Annandale, sur geons. Much interest :appeared to be excited, and at the conclusion of the meeting about 40 persons came forward and put down their names as members. Tax QUARANTINE Laws.—On Tuesday last, a meeting of the ship-owners of this port, interested in the trade to the north of Europe, wits held at the Commercial Hotel, North Shields, for the purpose of adopting such means as might be requisite to draw the attention of government to their situation under the quarantine regulations. W. Richmond, Esq. was called to the chair, and briefly pointed out the individual hardship which now pressed upon owners of ves eels trading to the north of Europe, from being subject to the quarantine laws, after having undertaken voyages at a low rate of freight before the ports of the Baltic were declared to be infected. NRWCASTLE, JULY 9.--We had a moderate supply of country Wheat at market this morning, which sold readily at the prices of last Saturday. Little done in granaried Wheat to-day, though prices are fully supported. The Rye trade is excessively dull. Grinding Barley moved off very slowly at from 26s to 30s per qr. Malt, Beans, and Pease meet a heavy sale. Oats remain without alteration. Ar rivals this week, 1326 qrs. Wheat, 260 qrs. Malt, 684 qrs. Oats, 210 qrs. Beans, 200 sacks Flour. CURRENT Parses.—Wheat, Northumberland white, new, per qr 64s to 74s ; Do red, do 58s to 72s ; Berwick, red, 545 to GO; white, 54s to 60s ; Scotch, white, 56* to 61s; Dantalc, fibs to 71s; Foreign, red, 44s 545 to We Rye, Norfolk, pale, 30s to 36s ; foreign, 30s to 38s ; North Country, 30s to 345; Foreign, 24s to 325; Malt, Norfolk, pale, 661 to 694; Oats, potatoe, 'Atis to 32s ; do common, 22s to 30s ; Foreign (free) 22s to 26 ; Beans, 36. to 38s; Pease, boilers, 40s to 425; grey or hog, 38* to 40s; Flour, fine, per sack, 525. MARRIED.—Ac Bishopwearmouth, blr. T. B. Ord, second son of Robert Ord, Esq. to Elizabeth Yule, daughter: of Henry Moon, Eaq.—G. F. Parry, Esq. to Augusta Mary, youngest daughter of the late J. Graham, Esq. of Richrardby, Cumberland.—Martin Tucker Smith, Esq. M.P. to Louisa, third daughter of Sir M. W. Ridley, Bart. DIED. —ln this town, Sarah Hinny, daugl.ter of the Rev. J. M' Pherson, 2:1 —At Bishopweartuouth,72, Hannah,' widow of Matthew Cook, Eiq.—At Building Hill, William Horn, Esq. 64—At Fiebburn, 64, John Chilton, Esq.— At Sandwich, near Whinthaven, James Steel, Esq: 79. NORTHAMPTON FREE PRESS, July 12. Sir Charles Knightley, at the Daventry d inner on Tuee. day se'nnight unfortunately exposed the secret spring of his patriotism. It was not the hatred he bore to the Reform Bill, that urged him to the late contest. Although he dis liked it more than the Cholera 'Alorbus and considered its effects would be more fatal ! (To the boroughmongen we presume he meant!) but " he could not brook the Idea that this great county, which had been represented by his friend's family and his own, for so long a time, should at length be wrested from them, by detnagogues, without a struggle." EPALDING BANK. —Wednesday, the Commissioners in Messrs. Bugg'a bankruptcy held their first meeting; and it appears that after paying 20s. in the pound, there is a surplus of 0,7511. 13s. Ild. Thirty pounds of their bills were some time ago of at Spal diog for five &ove rtly*, and many similar offers have been made in dif. ferent parts of the country. The two young men, Messrs. H. and G. Bugg, have acted in the most honourable man. nen—Stamford Rec. The Rev. H. W. Cottle, vicar of Watford, and officiating at Long Bwckby, in this county, has transmitted the sum of 201. in aid of the fund for the relief of the distressed Irish, collected at Long Buckby, to Messrs. Percival, bankers, Northampton. Now • WABIPTO3c Jots 9.—Wheat, red, 62s to ffile ; fine, 07s coals. 'Barley, grinding; 32a to 38s; malting, 38s to Malt, 611 e to 795. Oats, 28e to 325; feed do. l 27 t. Tiek Beane. —; small do. 38s to 40s. Rye per 4ds to :As per tack oi2Gtqt: - • VI - DAVZNTILY, JOLT 6.—Wheat, 61s to 68s. Barley, 34. to 40s. Oats, Ws to 335. Beans, 353 to 403. LYNIE,Jo (o.—We bad again a good supply of Wheat, whirls, from the favourable report of the growing crop, and the continued large arrival of foreign, met a dull sale, at a further decline of Is to 2s per quarter upon last week's rates. Wheat, 56s 60s 64s ; fine, 665. Beans, 30a to 32a. Oats, 26s to 30s per qr. Flour returned 50. per sack, being 3s. per sack lower. CANALS. Prices Div.per Cost. per sh. annum. Birmingham (I.Bth share)l7l. 10s. sh. 12 10 Coventry 1001. sh. 44 0 Grand Junction 100 L sh. 9 13 0 lye! and Ouse, Beds. 1001. sh. 100 11 5 0 Leicester 140 218 16 0 Ditto 90 13 10 Leicester and Northampton 1001. sh. 03 74 4 0 Loughborough 14i 100 180 0 Melton Mowbray 1001. sh. 200 9 0 Oxford 1001. sh. 500 32 0 Warwick, and Birming- 1001. sh. t 240 12 0 lam 501. sh. Warwick and Knapton 1001. sh. 210 12 0 Wisbech 1051. sh. 105 40 RAILWAYS. Liverpool and Manchester 1001. sh 100 186 G AS-LIGHTS. Coventry 251. eh. 20 5 pr cent Leicester 501. sh. 50 65 3 10 Northampton 201. sh. 19 27 1 0 Oxford 1501. sh. 130 DIED.—At Bedford, John Cooke, Esq. senior Alder man.—Jos. Wright, Esq. of Kettering, 67. STAPPORDAIIIRE MERCURY, July 9. The appearance within three or four miles of the Potteries of a malignant disease, which hurries its victims into eternity within the space of very few hours, couldied with the alarm which the reported appearance of the Indian cholera in the country causes, has induced the medical men of this town to memoralize the Chief Bailiff; requesting him to put in force those clauses of the Police Act which nu thorin the removal and prevention of nuisances, the cleans in of the streets, &c. Of this fatal disease Mr. Maguire, orflariley, gives the following description :—On Sunday, June 26, I was called on to attend W. Follows, of Stanley Forge. I found him labouring under severe pain in the head so much so, that if he attempted to walk he reeled like a man intoxicated ; his face flushed to a deep scarlet; stretching of the limbs; cold perspiration., with shivering; tongue foul and loaded ; bilious vomiting ; quick and flutter ing pulse ; pain on pressing the bowels; with a peculiar smell from the body. POT Tiff Y REPRESENTATION. —Josiah Wedgwood, Esq. has stated to several influential gentlemen in the Pot teries, his intention of becoming a candidate for the repre sentation of the proposed new borough, should it appear to be the opinion of the inhabitants that he is worthy to be en trusted with their interests. It. E. Hcathcote, Esq. also has ' issued an address, announcing his intention to comply with the invitation he has received to become a candidate, should the privilege of sending two members to parliament be con. ferred on this district, and should it appear to be the general wish of the inhabitants, that he should be one of their repre sentatives ; but on no account will he suffer himself to be put in nomination in opposition to Mr. Wedgood. On Thursday, Mr. Heatimote and his friends commenced a can vass of the " ten-pounders" in this town, and met with un interrupted success. Yesterday the canvass was going on simultaneously at Burslent and Lane-End. John Daven port, Esq. is understood to b e a t hi r d can did ate , and though he les not yet declared himself, his friends are arming for the conflict with confident expectation of victory. Stafford, it would seem, is the only town where the num ber of males exceeds that of females. In every other place the latter predominate in a remarkable degree. We are authorised to say, that Ministers have determined not to take the duty off Boracic Acid or Tines] during the present year ; but that they intend to do so next year, on the sth of April, or sth of July at farthest. The Birmingham and Liverpool Railway Company have limited their application, this Session of Parliament, to so much of the projected line as runs from Birmingham to Wolverhampton. BUST or WILLIAM IV.—A large bust of his present Majesty has just been finished by E. Wood, Esq. Burelem. Judging in comparison wi t h the several prints now pub. liaised, and especially with the effigy on the new sovereigns, we do not hesitate todeclare that a more spirited and faith. ful representation of our patriot monarch cannot possibly be executed. Pershore great hone fair was held on Monday week. The I show of horses was inferior to what this fair has been scout. I toned to produce ; but, notwithstanding, there were many I superior animals, both for the road and field, exhibited, and which the London dealers eagerly bought up at long prices. Clever machines"; found ready purchases at (ruin 281. to 301. and the latter description of draught horses also went off well. In the cattle market but little business was done. Fat beasts and sheep averaged about Gd per lb. and lambs, 60 to 7d. DIED.—John Morris, Esq. of Lawton, Cheshire—At Shelton, Captain Siin e ison, formerly of the 15 , 11 Light Dra. goons—Mr. W ood, tailor, of . W lineal de. sundant of the long edgwoods, and heir at law to the es. toes of the late Thomas Vedgwood,Esq. and others—Jo seph Machin, Esq. of Burslem. FREEMAN S JOURNAL, July 11. THE CATHOLIC BISHOP OF MARONIA TO EARL GREY. lin*, MT Loan—ln the late interview which w e had the ho. nour of having with your Lordship, it was suggested that however pressing was the present famine, the object of our mission would be frustrated unless some legislative measures were adopted to guard against its recurrence in seasons of general plenty. Never did I feel the necessity of adopting such a sugges tion so much as since my return to this unhappy land. I had some anticipations of the scenes I should witness, and strove to arm myself with sufficient resolution to encounter them. Bat the reality far surpassed my most gloomy tuisbodings. It is some days since I arrived here, and lest I should be imposed on by exaggerated reports, I was resolved, as far as opportunity could allow me, to bring the state of the poor within my own personal observation. 1 went into their wretched cabins and found instances of many fain ilies,who du. riog several alternate days, had not tasted food. The testimony their neighbours vas ready to confirm their distressing tale : a more unequivocal evidence could be read in their pallid and emaciated countenances. I will not, however, dwell upon such evidence of hunger and famine. It has already been laid before the public by the attestations of strangers whom sympathy brought to visit and compassionate our distress. Among those witnesses I refer your Lordship to a letter published in the Evening Post of the 23d of June, which describes the feeble frames and faltering limbs of the wretched victims of starvation in terms which were evidently caught fmm the contemplation of the sad reality. But why refer to any evidence when the blood of those who lately exposed themselves to the mus quetry of soldiers rather than die by the slow tortures of hunger proclaims aloud the dreadful effects of earva ion. It has been rumoured that the agent of the government here, laboured to convey an Impression that the distress was neither so deep nor extensive as it was stated. I could not credit such a report. I knew that any agent must have had a heart as well as eyes; and, therefore, be could not deny the workings of the awful visitation unless he had extin guished the light of tire one and the feelings of the other. I perceived, however, at the last meeting of thz Mayo Committee, that these rumours were unfounded. lie came forward to supply the deficiency between the funds in their hands and the calculated amount of the necessary supplies of the week. It might appear to some that he we* rigorous in insisting that certain provisions sent by the Sacsville.street Com mittee, should be merged in tit_ common stock provisions for the famishing people. In that instanc: I must applaud his conduct. It was conformable to the pledge given to us, that the government would aid the public exertions, and provided that pledge is lolly redeemtd, we shall be satisfied. Durink the thrte next weeks,when tamiue shall be rapidly rising to its climax, the demands upon the government must be on a far more extended scale. All the past bei.evolence of the public would be abortive, unless the people ere sup. plied with provisions during this distressing interval. It is like a gulph between the present and the coming year, in which thousands perish unless conducted through by the assistance of government. Your Lordship may judge of my inability to devote the least attention to any ulterior 4110•11U141, when I assure you, -that it was with difficulty I could snatch from the pressure of distress, and the clamours of mendicants, a brief interval to pen this melancholy document. Yes, the state of society is now completely unhinged. Do mestic industry is neglected. The public roads are covered with thousands toiling Ikon morning until night, for the wretched pittance of six or seven pence worth of meal for an entire family. While the men are thus wock ir,g, the women and children are constantly lining the pub. lie ways, and thronging round the depots of the local o r , mitten, preventing each other's accommodati on b y the pr: sure of hunger; harrassing the feelings of the distribute's' by their complaints, and invading the public ear as they r, turn in the evening by blessings or imprecations, am,„l„, as they had the good of bad fortune to be relieved or r : glected. It was only yesterday evening I met a group . ; those unfortunate individuals, many of whom, after tea, r t log a whole day, returned home bitterly disappointed. There was one in particular whose moans as well • fainting appearance attracted my attention : a fechl." wqp," with a child on her breast, who came to get a meal for% family of seven little children. She left them in the m om ; ing without breaking her own or their fast ; and she was now tottering home, a distance of three miles, with her littl e bag empty, and wildly asking those around her how she could meet the cries of her famishing children. She literally re minded me of the words of the prophet, " Th e li ttle or; i look for bread, and there was none to break it." Arad lL I not afforded her the means of relief, I doubt, front appearance, whether she would not have perished on the sat. Some interested persons may exclaim, there arc in the u. counts from Mayo, instances of exaggeration. That there are cases of exaggeration, nay, of fraud, I shall not hesitat e to avow. But they are the unavoidable results of the exit . The cases of exaggeration, however, are but few, and the frauds are petty. If then some hard-heated and dishoney. individuals may be able, by false statements, to filch a litth of the charity provisions. is that a reason why hundreds of thousands should be suffered to perish ? The precaution s taken by the central committee of Mayo, are such as that I should defy the most practised jobber in the land, to du much in that way. The allocotions to the distressed di'tticts are all made in provisions. The members contract with th e merchants after receiving proposals, and then orders for their respective shares are given on the merchants to the local committees. Whatever, therefore, might be the disposition, thete at_ sufficient precautions against the execution of any seriolis frauds. An undeserving object may sometimes intercept a few quarts of meal. Some of the local committees may oc. casionally exercise their small patronage in promoting some poor gentleman to the stewardship of the public works. and allow him sixpence or a shilling a day extra, in order to prevent the dignity of his caste from being tainted by a c , c;. munity of office with less genteel mendicants. But F things are only the nibblings of a mouse, compared in more lordly spoliation of which the report (true or hire know not), of 22 almost frightened the English people iron a second exertion of benevolence. To that generous people 1 must express our obli - at'ort. and I shall do many of them the justice to ray, that it owing to their ignorance of our state they do not era: themselves as much to prevent famine by a system of sour..: legislation, as they do by their purse to mitigate its bourns. I should feat to contemplate once more the tecurret ct of a similar scene. I should fear it for the sake of the people, the government, and, above all, the interests of morality and religion. The invasion of a hostile power is not more dreadful in its consequences than that of faniin,, especially amidst plenty. It is a species of revolution ot which the effects arc long felt. It comes with a scorchirr effect on the moral virtues of the people, and the trace. of the searing bolt appears long and deeply furrowed in their character. The inhabitants of entire districts literally loosened from the soil, and flocking like vultures a herever the hope of food may lead them ; numbers of aged and infirm objects starving in their homes, deprived of the usual relate of charity on account of the committees, and defrauded by their feebleness and their delicacy of that resource, while more sturdy and shameless beggars sometimes intercept th: public bounty; complaints of partiality against those who sacrifice their health, nay life itself, in the daily distributiors, and murmurs of ingratitude from the worthless few mingled with the more general expression of thankfulness and bent. diction. Landlords who were deaf, and blind, and callous to the wants of their tenantry, while they alone were called on to relieve them, becoming suddenly and miraculously sensi tive to their destitution, while they hope to remove it by the charity of others. The lofty feeling that could not brook eleemosynary aid is now so impaired, if not utterly broken down, as to depress a high-minded peasantry into a mass of mendicants. An improvident hope of relief in similar cases, and consequent relaxation of industry ; a sullen and indignant hate toward' their petty oppressors, for having stripped them first of their substance and next of their shame, and a spirit of political cabal, unknown to their more simple-minded as well as bet. ter-conditioned predecessors. These are but a few of the necessary consequences of famine in a fertile Jand—a fe which, if suffered again to ravage Ireland, will utterly de. moralize the people, and destroy those virtues of which the wreck that yet remains could still in the hands of an able statesman form the foundation of one of the noblest soda: edifices that could be exhibited in any country. I have the honour to be, your lordship's obedient servant. JOHN MAC HALE. MARRIED.—At Kilronter Church, R. Mannus, Esq. 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