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~~ S7~ !~ ~~~ PIE SOLDIER'S BRIDE. A BALLAD. BY JOHN MAINE. " Ho !—u ho comes there To' the sentry cried, When, full of woman's fears, " Love brings me here I" a voice replied, Scarce audible with tears! " 0 ! love is not the pass-word her., " And, for my very soul, " I dare not let you pass, my dear, " Without you give parole !" sir. I have come, she said, this night, Twice twenty miles and more, To see, before to-morrow's fight, The hero I adore ! Sootn'd with her supplicating tone, " Pass on," the sentry sigh'd; And fondly hop'd that such a one Might be his future bride ! From post to post, she won her way, Through sentinels and spears; And, ready for the coming fray, The glittering camp appears She found her lover's tent at last, And sunk into his arms ; But, soon, the Warder blew the blast Which tells of war's alarms ! The foe came on like fiends unchain'd , The battle then began ; And though our troops the ramparts gain'd, Their blood in torrents ran ! O ! many were the gallant names Ennobled in that tight; And many were the widow'd dames Who mourn'd forlorn at night ! But, constant u the turtledove, The soldier's new-made bride, Clung closely to her dying love, And perish'd by his side ! WHY AND BECAUSE.—.No. 11. N IMITATION OP THE POPULAR LITTLE WORK OP THE REV. D. BLAIR. WHY are there so many very poor and destitute ? BECAUSE there are many that have accumulated greater wealth than they are able or willing to spend. WHY cannot some be very rich, without making a great tinny very poor? BECAUSE there is only a certain quantity of money and property in a country, and if a few accumulate large masses, there is less to divide among the many, and some therefore mutt be quite destitute. Wily does wealth tend to accumulate ? BECAUSE, if a man have more than he can spend, or has the spirit to spend, his overplus capital at common interest doubles every 14 years, and if employed in legitimate usury, it doubles every eight or ten years. WHY does one degree of poverty lead to a greater? BECAUSE he who has no capital buys at a disadvantage, deals at a disadvantage, and is taken advantage of by every body. _ _ it v does not the law protect the transactions of poverty? BECAUSE it is not made for the poor, nor accessible to any but those who have spare capital. Wrongs must, there fore. be borne by those who have not hundreds to hazard in the lottery of law-suits. Wily has poverty so much increased of late years ? BECAUSE loans, contracts, interest of public debts, ex chequer bills, and mortgages, have afforded such profitable employment to capital, that none is adventured on enter prizes of industry, hence wealth augments in few hands,and the mass of the people become poorer every year. v are labourers so wretched, and work-houses so filled ? Bec A VSE for many years the wages of labour have borne a continually decreasing proportion to the prices of wheat. fill within these 50 or 60 years labourers for the previous 800 years received the 20th of a quarter of wheat per day, it then fell to a 30th, and latterly has been only a 40th, or even less. Hence labourers pass their prime in privation, and in their old age or sickness have no resource but the work house. WH y has not labour maintained its usual price ? BECAUSE about 60 years ago when the " Deserted Vil lage" was written by Goldsmith, the system began of de stroying villages and farm-houses, and uniting many farms in one for the sake of high rents from speculative oc cupiers. This system continued to progress and even to increase for above 40 years, by which little farmers were converted into labourers, while increased pas ture and new machinery rendered fewer than even the usual number of labourers necessary. WHY was such a system tolerated by parliament? BECAUSE the landed influence predominated; and instead of the public good being the supreme law, the private good was made the supreme law. WII Y were nut efforts made to correct so vicious a system ? BECAUSE the votes of the land proprietors were required by the Minister to support a general war of the European Courts, against the liberties of France, and facilities to raise rents, and engross farms, were part of their recompence. Wtty is it not now corrected, seeing that it has created such great mischiefs ? BECAUSE every cause of wealth and power finds willing advocates, who can male the worse appear the better cause; or who can distract the public councils by theories and asser tions leading to a similar confusion of tongues to that which prevailed at Babel. Wednesday night, O'Gorman Mahon presented a petition from Stephen Fitzgerald, who bad been transported under the Insur. rection Act. The hon. gentleman stated the nature of this Algerine Act tee be similar to the Norman Curfew, es It forbade Itisimien to breathe the air after eight o'clock, and if found beyond the threshold after that hour, they may be seized by any in authority, and imprisoned or expatriated by sentence of a special commission, that is, by the opi nion of a judge, without jury or appeaL The promulgation of this act happened in 1823, on a Saturday ;—on Sunday petitioner surrendered the arms entrusted to him by a magistrate ; on Monday he attended a fair, and returning in company with,his brother and other persons. fear ing they should not reach home before the time specified in the proclama tion, they were about to stop at a friend's house, when Mr. Studdart, to whom they were personally known, overtook them, and said they might proceed,as be would procure them an order to pass unmolested. The brothers accordingly proceeded in company with him ; but on arriving', at the military station, they were all seized by the guard, and brought before Major Warburicn, who discharged Air. S. but detained the Fitz. geralds, notwithstanding Mr. S. stated the facts, and solicited their libe ration. The prisoners were detained in custody, without being even per. mittcd to see their friends ; and on the following Wednesday they were brought before the special commission Judge Torrent presided. Mr. Studdart again protested their innocence, and implored their libera tion. 31ajur IV.trburton requested the prisoners to inform him of the pings of a secret committee, with which they declared them. selves unacquainted. He is said to have sworn, "by the Immortal Gon, you shall travel ;" and accordingly, without further ceremony, they were sentenced, by the Bat of a special commissim, to seven years' transportation, and instantly sent in a cart to the transport hulk The Fitsgeralds were the only support of an aged mother, who has since lingered ins state of the utmost destitution. Who does not shudder at this detail, who would hesitate to grant to Ireland a domesic legisla ture, to investigate her grievances, and prevent the recurrence of such barbarity ? One of the Fitageralds has now returned from Botany Bay, after seven years' exile, so claim redress from Parliament—friskiness. PANORAMA OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE. LITCHFIELD MERCURY, FEB. 25. At our Public-office, Birmingham, on Monday week, a warrant was granted against Joseph Allday, of Highgate, as the editor and pro. prietor of the Argue, for a libel upon Mr. George Edmonds, and be was held to bail to appear at the ensuing sessions to answer the char himself in 501. and two sureties of 251. each. On the suceseding this proceeding was followed by another Chidlow, the avowed printer and publisher. It being ascertained that the press es and mate rials used in printing the publication in question were not duly kr I tered with the clerk of the peace, the warrant was obtained of I the magistrates, and on Wednesday the whole of the stock was seized and conveyed to the Public-office. The capture includes part of the in tended number for March, already printed, and some portion of the manuscript. A general exposure of the contributors is looked for as the result.—Aris's Gaulle. Three mechanics of Willenhall were committed, last Wednesday, to ' , take their trial at the ensuing Sessions, for entering the workshop of Mr. Eggington, of Wolverhampton, and destroying his bellows, &c. bemuse he does not conform to the rules of some club, which requires the manufacturers of this neighbourhood to close their shops two days in every week. This sys,em of " dragging," as it is called, is so much on the increase as to require prompt suppression. LICIIVIELA—Nine gallons to the Bushel Wheat, new, lie. to us. 3d; Barley, bs. 6d to Ss ; Oats, 31. 6d. to 4s ; Cheese, 411 s. to 86s. Blab, Imperial Measure, 10s. Flour, fine, per sack of lantone fa; Beef, sd. to fled ; Mutton, 811. to 64d; Veal, sd. to 6i; Pork, Bel. MARRIED.—M Walsall, Mr. S. Hudson, to Eliza Weaver, daughter of the late Mr. F. Weaver, surgeon.-11r. & Green, book seller, Atherstone, to Barbara, daug hter of Mr. Walter Bond, of Far. ley.—The Hey. John Hudson, of Springfield House, to Mary, only daughter of the late G eorge Si eater, Req. of WestbrOmwich. DlED.—Aged 84, William Adams, Fag. of Cobridge, one of the earliest introducers of blue painting in earthenware.-31r. Hunt, of the Cross Keys, Oswestry. BRIGHTON HERALD, Fza. 26. Arrivals at the Albion Hotel, Berl de la Warr, Major Baulett, Mr. Brisco, Mr. Csaalet, Mr. Crawford, Col Woodford, Mr. Campbell, Rev. R. Bradley, Mr. and Mrs. niFnell, &e. The Prince Lieven has left for town. AARIVALS AT THZ ROYAL SZA Boulez HOTEL. —Mr. Stevenson and Son, Mr. Wright, Mr. Newberry, Mr. Brockwell, Mr. Morley, Mr. Foulger, Mr. Gibson, Mr. Mrs. and Miss Harris, Mr. Bartleu, &c. The Commissioners of the Tresuury hare transmitted to the Board of Customs, and the Collectors at the Out-Posts, a copy of the Resolu tions of the House of Commons, upon which a Bill is now in progress through Parliament, for repealing the duties on coals and slates, carried coastwise. lit, That all duties and drawbacks of Customs, payable on coals, culm, or cinders, and on slates, brought or s e n t from one pan of the United Kingdom to another part thereof, do cease and determine. 2nd, That, in lieu of the duties of Customs now payable upon the exportation of coals, culm, and cinders, there be paid the several du ties of Customs hereinafter set forth, that is to say : Coals, culm, and cinders, usually sold by measure viz. Exported to any British possession , the chaldron imperial measurer .. ... ... ... ... .10 1 0 Exported to any other place, viz.—in a British ship, the dial. don imperial measure .. .. ... ... 0 8 0 In a forei , : a l s h , ip, ditto ... ... ... ... 018 3 clam, and cinders, usually sold by weight, viz. Exported to any British possession, the ton ... ... 0 0 8 Ditto to any other place, viz. in a British ship, the ton ... 0 3 4 In a foreign ship, the ton ... ... ... .. 012 2 The removal of the assizes from Horsham to Lewes has been effected by certain persons in power, in consequence of the refusal of the inha bitants to be sworn in special constables. Thursday, Henry Mason and Mary Ann illoyce were married, by license, at our parish church. The yo ung woman h a d b een recent l y brought home to Brighton, her parish, from Cuckfielcl, under the has -1 tardy laws, since which she has been an inmate of the workhouse ; and Mason, the father of her illegitimate child, was apprehended by a war rant at Cuckfield ; and being brought to Brighton, was confined in our Black-hole, Inconsequence of his inability to pay the expencn. A letter has appeared in the ' World' newspaper, from which it seems that the Rev. James Sherman, an eminent dissenting minister, and pastor of Castle-street Chapel, Reading, has, without the privity of his deacons or congregation, solicited the Bishop of the diocese to consecrate his chapel, and ordain him (Mr. 8.) a clergyman of the established church. On Sunday morning last, several anonymous letters wereied up at and near Eastbou rn e, addressed to farmers in the neighbo urhood, and couched in rather threatening terms. Three men have been committed to Horsham gaol for trial, charged with being concerned in the tumults, which took place in that town, in November last ! ! ! A benefit society, or club, has, for some years, been formed by the numerous workmen and boys in Messrs. Palmer and Co.'s foundry, i.e. From the highest to the lowest, all pay a trifling sum per week, the principals of the firm contributing their parts as honorary members. If a man falls sick or meets with an accident, he receives 10s. per week while laid by from work. The two petitions for Parliamentary Reform, the Radical one, and the counter-petition were, we understand, forwarded to London last night. The latter will be presented in the House of Lords by the Duke of Richmond, and by Lord Althorp, in the House of Commons. The late Mrs. Phebe Du Cane, of Horsham, whose death we notice in out obituary was a lady of a very penurious disposition. Although blest with affluence, she wanted a heart to enjoy the blessings of Provi dence; and her incurable niggardliness induced, it is said, her late bus. band, Peter Du Cane, Esq. a most worthy gentleman, to leave his home and reside in a distant pan of the country. In household economy, her thrift was unequalled, and obtained for her so high a reputation, that, for a series of years, Christmas Day never came, but it brought a sheep's head, the gig of the town, appended to the knocker of her door. In her providings for her servants, the scanty pittance doled out barely suf ficed to sustain nature: and a story has long been current in Horsham, that, one day, on the servants' dinner-bell being rung, the footman, in running, fell down ; " ah !" says the man, " I am down, and here I'll lay, for before I can get up, the dinner will be all gone ;" and, ac. cordingly, there he lay till the meal was finished. AtUBIDEL. FEB. 22.—Beef, de to 4s 4d per stone; wether mutton, di 10d to be 24 ; ewe ditto, ds dd to da 6d ; veal, bs 6d to Ss 8d ; lamb, 13s ; wheat, 191 10s to 181 per lad; barley, 36s to dOs ; oats, 27s to 30s per quarter ; flour, Mb per sack; and Is 7d per Cincimsrea. —The corn market was particularly on Wed. nesday, and more business was transacted than on any other-day since the pitch market has been established. Wheat fetched from 68s to 76s ; barley, from 3Ss to 40s ; oats, from 24s to 28s ; beans, 425; peas, 38s to Os. The beast market was very thinly supplied with both fin beef and muton, and prices were considerably on the advance, full 64 pa stone for prime meat. COLCHESTER GAZETTE, FED. 26. Monday, in the House of Commons, the bill for making the river Waveney navigable for sea-borne vessels from Rosehall-Plat (near Beetles), to the mouth of Oulton Dyke, and for making a navigable cut from the said river into the dyke, &c. was read a first time andel,. dered to be printed, having previously passed through the Committee for enforcing the standing orders of the day. A meeting was held in the Guildhall, Bury, in Suffolk, on Saturday last, for the purpose of petitioning for Parliamentary Reform. It was both numerously and respectably attended. Richard Dalton, Esq. took the Chair. Resolutions expressive of the feelings of the meeting to the above effect having been carried, it was resolved that a petition should be drawn up and confided to the Mambas for the County who should also he requested to give it their support. The High Sheriff of Essex has, in compliance with a requisition, called a meeting for Monday next, at Chelmsford, of the Freehalime and Inhabitants of Essex, on the subjects of Reform, Economy, and Taxation. Within about two months, upwards of 238,0001. worth of Coin sad Bullion has left the Country by the Post Office Packets, from Harwich. Riestovaz or A serzes.—The ensuing Assizes will be held at Nor. with by adjournment from Thetford. Let us have a Proportional Property Tax, graduated en suck a sale of increment that it shall draw from the coffers of every rich man in the arithmetical ratio of his means of meeting its demands; while those who live hard live upon a scanty and dearly earned morsel shall scarcely be taxed at all. This would be, in fact, a just tax; be. cause it would tax those the most who, enjoying the luxuries of life, have really the greatest stake in the country. MATHVII, Garr. y. WILLICILtr, IC:L.—This was an action against the Hon. L. Wellesley, M.P. for an election bill claimed by the plain tiff, as one of his agrnts at the late Essex Election. The defendant having allowed judgment to go by default, a writ of inquiry wa s di. rected to the Sheriff of Middlesex, and a jury was empannelled to assess the damages. The plaintiff was a solicitor residing at Cosies ball. In the summer of 1830, the boa. Mr. Wellesley became a can didate for the representation of the County of Essex, and the plaintiff, 3layhew, was, with many other professional gentlemen, retained on his behalf, under a specific contract, having the signature of Mr. D. W. Harvey, M.P. to whom the management of every thing relating to ilir. Wellesley's election was intrusted This contract not only de. hoed their duties, but also fixed the amount of compensation ; so that there could be no possibility of misunderstanding as to the validity of tie plaintiff's claim. The plaintiff's bill was then put in, the sum was 12551. partly for his own professional services anterior to and during the election, and partly for the services of his clerk, and for money a pended at various times on the defendant's account. Verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 2121. 12s. and 4d, being a few pounds under the amount claimed. No sooner was h rumoured at Cambridge that the university of Lon don were likely to have confri or = them, or had at lea s t a ppli e d for, the king 's charter of In , than the opponents became slammed. They accordinly, er sundry &beings, resolved to at. tempt to carry a grace wMth , should have for its object the appointment of a committee to frustrate the intended boon to the metropolitan vaulty. On Friday morning, therefore, a grace was offered to the Se nate, to appoint the Vies-Chancellor (Mr. Thackeray) the Master of Jesus, Dr. Ftwch, the public orator, Mr. Tatham, Professor Musgrave, Mr. Shelford, of Corpus, and Mr. King, of Queen's, a syndicate to con sider whether any and what steps should be taken by the university in esosequence of the application of the university of London. The cir cumstance ceased much excitement and interest in the university. The gnoe passed the Caput, but when it came into the Regent or White , consisting of the junior masters of arts, it was vehemently opposed, and upon a division the numbers were—For the grace, 8 ; cagiest it, 17. Per some years pest we have submitted to our readers an outline of the labours of each Session of Parlrament in the book-making way ; and from which they may partly infer how the forties and fifties of thousands voted on account of Parliamentary Printing are expended ; we say " partly," because, though the printing of the Sessional Papers for 1830 is just finished, (only just finished, though that session ended July 1830 !) thole papers, occupying Thirty-Three folio volumes, of several thousand pages each volume, do not include " the Votes"... " the Journals"—the Bills" printed and reprinted occasionally several times over—the " Private Bills," &c. And yet, exclusive of those appallingly voluminous matters, there are thirty-three folio volumes for the House of Commons alone I The first three volumes consist of " public bills." The next seven volumes are occupied with reports from " committees"—namely, on the East India Company, the state of the poor in Ireland, the seal trade, civil list, Windsor castle, beer, high sheriffs, tobacco, cultivation, & c. Then there are six volumes of reports from commissioners"—to wit, on real property. common law, education and charities, (continued to a most uncharitable length,) revenue, churches, woods, and forests, &c. A volume succeeds—and a right good heavy volume it is—occupied with the annual finance accounts, bank of England, coinage and currency, superannuation*, and other accounts. This revenue volume is naturally enough followed by one of " estimates." " accounts," &c. And then there are, of course to make clearness clear, thirteen volumes of "accounts and papers"—.on church, chancery, courts, corn, colonies, convicts, criminals, customs, charities, customs (Ireland,) crown droits, &c. flee. public institutions, pamphlets, penitentiary, police, and prisons. The two remaining volumes—to wit, the 32d and the 33rd —are, with appropriate courdi ness, occupied with matters of diplomacy, state papers, presented by command of his, Majesty, on Prince Leopold's electioneering affair, 'laves in the colonies, and " on the slave trade." CoLcnasvis Maaxxv.—We had a very full attendance to-day, but wheat was 3s to 4s per quarter lower. Barley was its to 3s cheaper. Beals were also lower. There appeared also a stagnation in the trade. Per quarter—White wheat 78s a 80; Red ditto, 641 s a 70s; Barley 36s a 445; Oats 24 a 32s ; Tick beans 32e a 46s t Heise beans 313 s a ; White peas 36s a 445; are do 32s a 365. DIED.—At Wood ha ll , Sudbury, Mr. Ab lobs Jones, second son i of W. Jones, Esq.—ln Oreen-street, Enfield highway, Marianne, wife of the Rev. T. Jana.—The Rev. Wm. Layton, A. M. 51 years rector of 'St. Matthew's, Ipswich, and of Henley, Ituffolk.—At Romford, Anne Maria, wife of W. Andrews, Esq. EAST ANGLIAN, FEB. 22. A concert (the first of six to be given during the year) was held the Old Concert Room, at Yarmouth, on Friday last, by the members of the Philharmonic Society. The orchestra was admirably milsorml by the " old stager," Mr. J. Eager, seconded by Mr. Deetres, a pinig man of peat ability and promise. At a special meeting of the commissioners of taxes for Cambridge, on Monday last, it was agreed, that a memorial should be addressed to the Board of Taxes, the Lords of the Treasury, and the r ttt the Exchequer, calling their serious attention to the oppressive nature of some of the charges made upon the inhabitants of the town, and the lmpolky of straining the letter of the tax Acts to their utmost extent at the present time. The Syndicate, reappointed for the purpose of considering and re. porting to the Senate how the funds may be raised to defray the expense of erecting a new Library, &c. have reported as follows That it appears to thou expedient to wake proposition for raising the sun: of 30,0001. in o , tier to defray the expenses of erecting that pen of the intended buildings which it is proposed to execute at present. That from an examination of the University accounts, and reports of Synd:cates appoint .d to enqaire into the finances of the University, they consider that the University chest may without inconvenience furnish the sum of 8,0001. towards the above object. That the Master and Fellows of Catharine Hall having agreed to purchase " The Old Printing house for the sum of 7,0001. this sum will also be applicable to the above purposes as soon as this property can be transferred. That in their opinion the remaining 16,0001. may be raised by granting an annuity for 30 yarn' not exceeding 9001. to meet abich annual pay ment, they conceive that the Univasity may safely engage to appro. priate thereto the sum of 4001. from its surplus t , venue ; and that the remAning 6001. may be charged upon the " Library Fund," in eon. sideration of the great expense of fittings, &e. 16,000.." PII.OXL—It is truly said that when you once begin to reform, you will never know where to stop. Certainly : never till you reach perfee. don which you never will do. Reform once uncorked in the House of Commons will permeate the walls of the House of Lords; for where is the sense of allowing Peers of the realm to vote by proxies 1— If there is any, where is the sense of consistency in witholding the same privilege from commoners ? Can any thing be more preposterously ab surd than allowing men to be absent at the argument and to be present by their proxies, at the decision? As there is no "royal," it must be presumed that there is no "noble road" to knowledge. Peers of the realm learn not truth by inspiration, and see it not by intuition. Their proxies, therefore are not sufficiently extensive: in the personal cob. sane of the principal, the proxy should be personally present in his stead; and his delegation should extend to partaking in the debate as well as in the division. l'aimotrrad—The ship owners of this place have been thrown into peat consternation by the bill, now intended to be brought before Par liament for levying an additional duty of 10s. a load on Canada timber; this duty will amount nearly to a pro h ibitor, as from the immense dia. tans from this country, the freight is necessarily high, therefore this duty will fall very heavily. This trade fa of immense consequence to the ship owners from the great number of ships engaged in it; and the length of time required to perform the voyages employs a great number of seamen who will now be thrown out of employ as well as the ships ; since two or three Baltic voyages can be performed to one voyage to Canada, as we shall now be compelled to bring our timber to the Baltic. Fifty pounds reward la offered for the discovery of the perpetrators of a most diabolical attempt upon the life of Mr. Neale, of Tbemil. thorpe. Mr. Neale had cut a rope which was stretched across the road and made fast to opposite trees, and by which he was thrown back in his cart,he taw a man crawling along by the side of the hedge, and im mediately after a gun was discharged at him. DIED.—At Great Yarmouth, Mary, the wife of John Fisher Cos. tartar, Esq.—Mr. James Crawforth, surgeon, of Lynn.—Mr. Wm. Betts, lieutenant and quarter-master of the West Norfolk militia —\lr. C. Simpson, of Din. BLACKBURN GAZETTE, FEB 23. The petition which was agreed upon at the public meeting, held in this town on Friday last, has already received about 3,000 signatures. The petition which we mentioned a fortnight ago, was got up by the " Political Union," in this town; it w a s by upw ards of six thousand persons. On Monday week, 31r. Thelwall commenced his eloquent and in. wresting cJurse of six lectures in the Theatre, Preston, upon the Ora tory of the Bench, the Bar, the Pulpit, and the Senate. The audience particularly in the boxes, was numerous and respectable. On his first appearance he was greeted very warmly, and having acknowledged the flattering reception, he entered upon his subject with that grace and energy of which he is so perfect a master. The Council have skpointed Mr. R. Barton, Chemist and Curator of the Blackburn Scientific Institution, to deliver three Family Lectures, in the Music Hall, on the Atmosphere and its Composition, Respire- 1 tioo, &c. illustrated by many interesting experiments. Mr. Highant commenced a MAIM of four lectures, on Antiquities and Architectural Remains, in the Assembly Room, in this town, on Thure. I day evening last. An Inquest was held in Lisburn yesterday, before Mr. Allen. coro ner, on the body of Wm. 111•Coe, which was found in the kitchen chim ney of Mr. Wm. Thomson, publican, Bow-street. It appeared that M'Cue had been drinking in Sir. Thomson's, on Tuesday night last, along with some others, and that he left the house about ten o'clock, and returned at eleven, but could gain no admittance. Shortly afterwards, Mr. Thompson heard the dog barking in the yard, and his wife got up, but could not see any person ; the barking continued, and Thomson got up and went out, but he could discover nothing; Next morning the servant put on the fire, but the chimney would not draw, and the fire had to be removed into the parlour. Yesterday , morning, Mrs. Thompson employed a chimney-sweep, who went up, , but immediately returned, exclaiming, " There is a man in the flue !" M'Cue was a very stout man, about twenty-four years of age, and it is supposed that be had adopted the method above described of , getting into the house and opening the doors for his companions in ceder to rob it. - Levzsroor.—The import of Cotton this week is 19,567 bags, and the sales are also extensive, reaching 24,780 bags, at an advance in the early part of the week of id. told. and at the close of about! d. per lb. in consequence of the proposed increase of duty, vis. 180 Sea Islands at 1114 to 19d ;70 Stained ditto, ati N. to 90-12,520 Bowed*, at 51d 4 . to 71d ; 3,030 Orleans, at Gad. to 8d ; 2,740 Alabam a s, dm at 4 d. to tied ; 2,200 Pentanes, at 7d. to lied ; 1,480 Babies, at 81d. to 7 : 1,700 blarenbanes at 60. to 7d ; 30 Barbados, at 10t1. to IBd ; 30 West bulbs, at fle to 8 13 ; 530 Egyptians, et Se to 94d; and 270 Surats, at 4sd. to bid. per lb.-...Advioes from New York of Jan. 29th, quote prices of Uplands at 9d to 101 d ; and premium of E x ch a n ge a t ft to 01d, which, on let January, given In our last, had been quoted at 91. to Ild. and 60. to fled. respectively. On Friday last, a meeting of the Inhabitants of Blackburn was con. weed In the Sessions Room, by C. Hindle, Esq. the High Constable. The meeting was attended by many of the most respectable inhabitants of the tows; sad in a few minutes after tea o'clock, the room was filled inewory part. John Hargreaves, Esq. was unanimously voted to the &sir, and opened the hotheads by reading the requisition, and the notice by which the meeting was called. It was soon discovered, however,' that the room was much too small to contain the numbers who wer seeking admission, and an adjournment was therefore proposed ; and i t was agreed that Mr. Hornby should be requested to grant the use of the Assembly Room. Two gentlemen accordingly applied to Mr I lornby for permission, which he immediately granted, and the meetin adjourned to that spadous room. g The Chairman then said,—He had to regret that his friend, the We, Constable, had declined to take the chair; and t h at t h e situation h ad devolved on a person so incompetent as himself to perform the duties of it. The question on which the meeting had been brought together was one of considerable importance; and which, although it had been agitated for a number of years, had never, until lately, assumed such a shape as was likely to ensure its success. That time, however, bad now arrived,—the question had now assumed a tangible form,—and the meeting had been called together to express their opinions on the sub. ject. That the representation of the people in the Commons Hoak of Parliament was defective, there could be no question ; neither could it be doubted that the representation ought to be and must be amended ; or, at least, that strenuous efforts would be made to affect that object. (Cheers.) The want of a riper repre sen t at i on i n l arge and populous places should be supplied, and the mockery of representation, at prese nt existing in other places, and in the d.cayed boroughs, should be done away. (Cheers.) The Rev. Dr. Whittaker, vicar, then stood forward and asid,—it wa s with feelings of considerable diffidence that he attempted to address the meeting, which arose, not so much from the nature of the subject, as the difficulties of its parts. Individuals amongst the higher atilt°. asey had become patrons of many of the boroughs, whereby they had obtained a power over the House of Commons which was never con. templatetl by the British Constitution. He trusted he might be in. dulged for a few moments, whilst he made a few observations on what had,been said respecting the vote by ballot. He hardly knew a subject on which greater difference of opinion existed than on this; but it appeared to him that the vote by ballot was gaining ground every day. He had often heard gentlemen express themselves very warmly against it; but he had never yet met with any argument which sa. tisfied his mind that it would have an injurious tendency. So far, therefore, u his judgment went, h e w as d ec id e dl y f avoura bl e to the vote by ballot. It was becaust the people were not repro. vented that injudicious taxes were laid on,—that useless places and unearned pensions were kept up. To this cause the wasteful expendi ture was attributed in the petition, With respect to universal suffrage, be should be glad if tknowledge had spread so far as to admit it with safety ; and he was glad to think, from institutions that were goingfor womil in this town and elsewhere that knowledge was adv a n c i ng i n sub a manner as to render it probable that the time was not far distant when the elective franchise might be safely entrusted to all claws— but he was sorry to confess his belief that this period had not arrived. His Majesty's Ministers were calling for support to carry the measures of Reform which they bad in contemplation ; and it was the duty of the country, and of all who loved their country, to support than in their endeavours to improve the present elective system. In briny. lug forward a measure of this description, the iliniateril wete-sure to meet with strong opposition from two parties —one of which was nor_. posed of individuals who had obtained power through the deranged and unnatural state of the decayed boroughs, mad who were always ready to stand forward as the advocates of any piece of coeruption that might be going forward—(f eud ekeersi—and the other was those innovators on the state, who would make the British Constitution very different from what it ever was, and what it ever ought to be. ( Hear.) He considered that between these two pasties the Ministry deserved sup. port from the right-thinking peopl e o f Ragland ; and he was one of those who thought they would not be disappointed. The other Resolutions were ably and eloquently moved and sup. ported by Messrs. B. and W. Recta; J. FORSTER, G. Dew. HURST. Mr. Browne, Mr. Mickle, the Rev. J. Sharp led ; Mr. J. Sparrov, Mr. Alexander, Mr. R. Hammond, Mr. Neville, and Mr. Fielder fol lowed Dr. W. The petition, in which were the following paragraphs, was carried unanimously : That your petitioners, though thus impressed with the paramount ex. (silence of the British Constitution, are aware, that during the lapse of ages, many serious enaoachments have been made upon that portion of it which relates to popular representation. From the insensible decay of many places formerly possessed of great population, wealth, and consi deration' which occasioned their acq u i s iti on o f t h e e l ect i ve f ranc hi se, in. dividuala have obtained a formidable power in the Commons' House of Parliament, which is contrary to the spirit of the Constitution. That your petitioners humbly represent it as their opinion, that much evil has arisen from the growth and continuance of this artificial and unnatural system. A power has thus been exerted over the nominal representatives of the people, which they conceive to have been &lease to the prosperity of the country, by encouraging wasteful expenditure, useless places and pensions, injudicious taxes, and a disposal of pre ferment in Church and State, not warranted by the services of those promoted. That your petitioners, therefore, respectfully represent to your ho noureble house their conviction that, under these circumstances, there exists a necessity for abolishing the elective franchise, in all boroughs where that privilege is now exercised by a few, or by only nominal electors. In the present state of public feeling on this subject, your petitioners believe that the course which they have recommended is the safest and wisest measure a bids the legislature can adopt. That your Petitioners further represent to your honourable House, that many places have arisen into importance, wealth, and consequence, which are not distinguished by this privilege, the inhabitants of which, by their information, services, and contributions to the state, are rea. sonably entitled to the elective franchise. Your petitioner therefore humbly express their desire that the elective franchise may be extended to all classes who are qualified to exercise it for the benefit of the United Kingdom ; and that the Vote by Ballot may be adopted, for the purpose of securing order and propriety in all elections. DIED.—At Wigan, Amelia, daughter of the late John Startifant, Esq. of Preston, aged 26.—1 n Lever-street, Manchester, Mr. Thomas Brooks, of Sunnyside, son of William B roo k s , E sq . of Whalley. 4 Within about two months, upwards of 238,0001. worth of coin and bullion has left this country by the Post-Office packets from Harwich alone. The East India Company's chartered ship, Bengal Mer chant, arrived in Madras roads on the 18th October last. The rector of Cranfield, Beds. last week gave spades to 120 labourers, to enable them to cultivate about 16 acres of land, which had been allotted to them by the farmers adjoin. ing the village. EIGHT PERSONS POISON ED.—During the past week, the inhabitants of the little village of Putney and its vicinity have been in a state of great excitement, in consequence of the family of Mr. Theophilus Clarke, residing near the eight milestone on the Richmond road, together with four other per sons, having been more or Itssaffected by partaking of a bat ter pudding, in which poison had been infused. Various reports were circulated through the village, but many, on in quiry, proved as unfounded as they were unjust. The cir cumstance is involved in great mystery, but the chief fact, on which much stress is laid, is, that part of the poisoned pudding that was left was buried in the garden, and afterwards dug up and analyzed. In the mean while, the parish autho rities a ere made acquainted with the mysterious affair, and on Thursday Mr. Carttar, coroner, and a jury composed of highly respectable individuals, met at the house of Mr. Cl irke, and held an inquest upon the body. After an inquiry, which lasted from two till six o'clock, the inquest was adjourned till this day. A post mortem examination of the body took place on Thursday evening, the particulars respecting which will be given in evidence to-day. Shortly after the inquest was adjourned, information reached the Coroner and Jury that the pudding had been analyzed, and a portion of arsenic was discovered to have been mixed with it. The flour from which the pudding was made, and which had been taken away by the beadle, we are given to understand, was found to be quite free from poisonous ingredient. HARRIED. • At Rainy Cottage, near Lange, N. B. Capt. W. G. C. Kent, R. M. to Susannah Elizabeth, third daughter of the late J. Rankin, Rsq. of Greenock—By special license, at ;Ro i l s H ouse , Gibraltar, InDeember last, Commander C. Smith, H. N. to Eliza, the eldest daughter of John Slight, Esq. Naval Officer and Agent Victualler at that place—Tues day, by spesial license, in the Chapel at Belvoir Castle, the Hon. C. S. Wortley, second son of Lord Wamclife, to Lady Emmeline Charlotte Elizabeth Manners, second daughter of John Henry, Duke of Rutland —At Kirkcud brig ht, on the 26th ult. P. C. Jeger, Esq. of Elsinore. to Catherine, second daughter of D. lit'Lellan, Esq. of Marks. DIED. Yesterday minim, George Blotavis, Esq. at his residence in Hen. rietta-street, Brunswick-square, aged 81. The 16th inst. Frederick, the infant son, and on the 21st inst. Tho• mu, aged 17 months, eldest son of T.-43. Kende, Esq. of Skinners'. hall Lately, at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, (U. 8.) Mr. Ashwe.k. for many years master of the band of the Plymouth Division of Royal Marines—At Pallaveram, Madras, on the 16th of September list. Capt. W. D. Barclay, 23d regiment Madras native infantry, fifth son of the Rev. Dr. Barclay, minister of Heals, Fife—At Trichinopoly. Madras, on the 29th June, Lieut. G. M. Mac Lean, of his Majesty's 69th regiment. IGH VMMnrirMin.lllo • Morning Ste. Mt. Afternoon INDON : hinted and YuiriaiedicyJcing MAYNE, at the Orrice, Na 1, Pickett.place, Temple Ban .. is. 40x. {TAP.