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'GFATE. irlington Hotel 01. 1 at 3 r. Ccke•i Irk, Ccobridgeghire, 11 Omit. vtre e t, ort„. r. Coke's seat in N3t. left! at their house i n r, Ewe. 'rat io Norfolk, fo- Thee :—.441r William tlonel Aubrey, from a *Nom ret :—.loseph ame n , Esq. Oh a tpuo. Ire Charlotte ,e 4 hoot • tout ; tte :—W. Esq. from Oef or i . Junes, for then se at Rtaire Hold, Lo ‘ „ the Clarendon Hu:, . .strort :—Locl Ark-. *pin diUu ; ler's•strees Wllk‘T. ninnies, fin Esq. TotArigtet on for Scorlind. The Bishop of Bio s . Eseott,fmni Oop,. Jones mid Dimly. to, nd bounds, togeth er :ft It'indaor Forest IC kennel, to be irr ion. l'rince's His s distant, was the out, at which place !I a large proportion 'stances in the fur -1 Wednesday morn. he deer was turned tutees Risborough ; , not running many of doubles. There tr was at last osn.r rs. Mr. Davie, the up at the time, all tp. The deer was I.L.ESLEY. 011, of Carrollton, is a highly respectable llaltimore to Mare. Ivince. He finished tinily and great ex n Europe. Return spouted the cense of ntlividetals he signs d by which act, in a fill peril, be devoted n that occasion only i dams and Jeff. rson, f eighty, Mr. C. poa he of life; at Tielished ntl•man. mat wealth than for nil warmth of heart, w•nut with a spotless man , of a successful he does not appear to are always found the strangers, whatever ene married the late er, of .Maryland, and Mr. Caton, an Eng- I estate in the imme. is a very handsome, lever be forgotten by Paterson was every , beautiful, amiable, vfinensents and fasei- I noble and generous and esteemed and re m noble Viceroy may e prowl of his choice. ded new building for Duchess of Clarence lading will exceed in xd, St. James's. as it embies at the back of e new building is to :ico at the principal er, was sent off on y of Stata'r Office for h despatches for the ritish Ambassador at ome days put, at her I Ilalaten, intends to Warne Storace fell a aken sullenly ill at dical gentknaan, who y, Dr. Hooper wished e it was Friday—anal • life. "No power, Mr. Sheridan to corn• Journey, on a Friday, avoid it, a piece to [Lill estate, belonging arses. and czt..n.ling ;es of East and IVest as sold in 16851 for N 51141 for MIAOW. the he present year, about d upwards of 16,0001. rigaustr.—Someth iu g iank of England notes no. Snow and Paul , in Frain thin fa totes were at the time r ro o f aim many months having ‘.rsi romrr guard, some peraors. Lula inc cerneel in the rolit'erv. re tt t o in f the Doncaster Bscrl Ilen•—lt the stolen prcperty into , At Doncaster nea rl y rough 2001., have bt en is the wri lave no clue whatever Pete p r i i ( ceivrtl. Mesas. Snore NIL Inst some, if not against A L L otillar notes, and it is very "' of Popi value of tha notes in , 4 ,?Pninted i n decisions on caws of 2 "-• Which Wie , wherein F A SHION, Or J ournal . Pewit kno he Fine Arts, lasi:nacre. q were au 48 column* of origin lired Books. No. 76, of Ma ana' 4by Mr. E. 1). Pouchec. - " a Mewl id told by all Bookselltis .i n thf interestlng.artic les pae ee d Cher utlim Poll: ical Retl!c. ll e ft th 4. Public Character of Sir h er dea r th rei .b . 1 —6. The 'Viatica-7. Lir., Disconolon. w ith • , ro e r and I O. Alettopolitan Archite r- o !unmn ions on the principtilni the % lair u n is-11. era wax it IllrectirMS tar nest Week— i r. dw) e_larnor Reviews Or Neg fla°: a r Literature and eelliem; j nd tri n to the country, io puerto, toy form salon by post. pece Is. ruin Neil LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY, Noy. 17. triton ova conaissiowriawv.l o ut Cotton Market was very steady during the week ; about 7000 a 5000 hags sold at somewhat improving prices. A ra licsak ur o ney f 28uf00 the hags is advertised di for to-morrow. n the isle of in co g b m, man. too companiei belonging to the 80th and 2,Sth regi- Too ts, motioned at Manchester, were ordered to march to Liverpoo l, to embark immediately for Douglas. They ar _,vea i n town late on Sunday afternoon, and proceeded 7.,b 0a 1i, in the War-ofllce steam packet St. David, which rraS rotio ned off the P icrhead for that purpose. It op aro. h o wever, thstthere was not any probability of their ; nor b e ing required, as, by the last accounts from the quietness was restored. Mr. Rennie has given it as his opinion that the naviga tion cf the Ribble is perfectly practicable, and that the robaSie expense would be about 16,000 L, or at least it valid tat exceed 20,000/. THE CHURCH. The Lonl Bishop of Lincoln's next ordination will be at Bucktlen, on Sunday, the 18th of December. Ihe Rev. Edward Ventna, B.A. of St. Peter's College, o n the 6th inst. licensed to the perpetul curacy of ac erne Qui, Cambridgeshire, vacant by the l ea th of the gg. James Hicks; patron, the Lord Bishop of Ely. The Rcv. Win. % alter Quartiv, of Catharine Hall, has been imitated, by the Bishop off` Bath and Wells, to the so me of Kernsham, Somerset, void by the resignation el the Rev. C. it. Aabfield; patron, the Duke of Bucking ham. GWIrERSIII INTALLIGE2VCE. (:ARIBILIDGE. FRIDAY. Nov. NS. At a c ongregation on Weduesilay last the following de feeS WIN conferred Docroz Is DIVINITY.—The Rev. Wm. Ward, of Caiva cid er , prebendary of Salisbury (compounder). BACMLLORS 10 Diviwirr.—Rev. Hastings Robinson, Fel low( jL John's College; Francis Oardner, St. John's College ( eo repunert); and Daniel Jones, Emmanuel College. fiusonauv !Users's. or ARTS.—The Rev. Sir Augustus Budget Henniker, Ban., Jesus College (compounder); Henry Inapt" St. John's College; and Thomas Teniaon, Trinity College. MASTERS or Alas.—Henry Urine, Trinity College (cam. r oam soil Leonard Pickering, St. JoNn's College. Bail Lets IN CIVIL Law.—The Rev. Wm. Hawks, Tit. airy Hall. Rector of (hushed Fell, Durham ; the Rev. Robert Hide. Truly College; and T. B. Illynors Daskerville, Esq. TH. n ay Hail (compounder% BACUELORS or ARTS.—Anilrew Anderson, Trinity College; Carteret John William Ellis. Trinity College; Charles Currey, Trimly College; William Ralph Richards, St. John's College; auks Diloott Hill, St. Peter's College; Thomas Pytches, Caius cultege (compounder); Edward Paulson, Queen's College ; James CSIIO. Jesus College; and Henry White, Downing College. Aube above congregation, the Rev. J. C. Hare, M.A. Fellow of Trinity College, was appointed an Examiner for the Classical Tripoli, in the room of Proft•ssor Scholefield. The tint meeting of the Cambridge Philosophical So ciety was held on Monday last, and wan numerously at tended. A paper was read by Mr. Rothman, Fellow of Trinity College, on the discordance between observed mag netic intensities, particularly in considerable latitudes, and the results given by Horsteen's formula ; which some an then have considered u generally coincidng, or nearly so, with observations. A paper was also read by Mr. Airy, on the connexion between impact and pressure, and the explanation of their effects upon the same principles. A porton also of a very interesting paper on the ornithology otCtenbridgeshire was read by the Rev. Leonard Jenyns, of St. John's College, the remainder ot' which was deferred to the next meeting of the Society. 4STONISIIING AND HORRIBLE OCCURRENCE. An American Paper, the Franklin Malone Telegraph, Ftves the following account of the execution of Stephen Wets, for the murder of Mrs. Fanny Mosely:— While under the fatal tree a paper was read at his re quest. in which he asserted his innocence in the following LIM With regard to the crime for which I this hay suffer, 1 have ail *remark, that I ern perfectly illllloolllC By whose hands the ,:-..oritinste Fanny klosely WWI deprived of life I do nut know : kilns it was not mine ' neither was I accessary to it; neither vulture of du approsck of that uninippy event, but at the time ins iesnul of the designs upon my own lite.” _ , A short time after, the rope was fastened to the beam, ted the cep drawn over his face, he still persisting in his imarte, and the drop fell. But, unfortunately, the knot drew over his chin in such a manner as not entirely to stop his breath, nor the circulation of the vital fluid ; in this dreadful situation he struggled for several minutes in the agonies of death. The paper containing his protest_ ekes of innocence he had declared his intention of holding to his tight hand, when yielding up his life. This paper he/bulged from his left to his right hand, when he had hung two or three minutes, and waved it to the multitude sith apparent design. The above is an extraordinary Ptak, and we leave it for the reflecting to say, under way eircumstauce, whether a man can be guilty who shall sale that manner, and in that awful situation. GA.If !NG. The fatal consequences of gaining. the inevitable min skied it email, on those who yield themselves up to its de have long bees felt and acknowledged by all who ht.: escaped its wretched fascination. To strengthen our tiPeriencs, science had also explored this region, and the most th<tinguished philosophers of mr.xlerli times, from and Demoivre, to Gamier aml Laplace, have cyneurred in determining as the result of the moat elabo rate analysis, founded on the simplest and most obvious mks of human action, that he what gives himself up to :ambling must is the long run be mined. The following , ;kisg detail% furnished by an ex-farmer of the Parisian taming-houses, will throw a new light on this miserable pursuit, and may perhaps produce a conviction of its folly cid madness on some who are alike inaccessibleso the dic tates of scimee or experience. Into what a vortex they '('•ange who stake their property in these establishments, ti tly termed Hells, will appear from the immense gains siiiettetable them to meet the following expenditure : liana'. The farwess, Woe ere eseivsively pri lielre , i• o f the Public igsmins•hou'es, pay to the ci ty ot Paris the annual qua of -5, bOO,OOO Tb. Mr de ski and presenta that they take uplift elk:Nettte, or that us put upon them, amount an. mill, 4 , . 1,300,000 The Venom are allowed one of the profits, foe es psesessisdantinitration and service - . 1,800,000 he lveltre of the tanners per month are estimated at , wOOl, 'which give for the year- . 2,400,000 city of Paris, besides 6.000.000 mentioned above ' , Ace laths of the profits, which yields aoteally - 7,200,000 Total . . ig.atio,ooo sketch it is evident that the gaming-houses of ..molly, to those who pay them, that is game enormous sum of eighteen millions francs, which mount than is received by all the collectors of the capital.—Scoliman. expected that, at the Christmvs quarter, .iire troninavters will make another realm ',rico; of irun. They find it ►ery difficult to lice with the Welsh irounnsters.--Wercesfer discovery was made some years ago in the dar. Two young women, who had been both in a love affair, agreed to live as husband and they actually did, having taken a public in they continued above twenty years, without lowing of the affair, except one man, whom ligist to bribe to keep the matter a secret. .eilter in a very sober, industrious way, the Nerd for the husband having served all the parish NS station they acquired money, and the one Ow the wife retired into the country and died, eputed Intabend in possession of the house. •hed she dropped some hints concerning her the man who was intrusted with the secret fly threatening to make a discovery of the inks he was supplied with money. The dis • last made, but the mean wretch who bail onerous suffered dearly for his conduct, being (tried for extorting considerable sums of money bhia guilty, and he was fined and Impre- BURMESE STATE CARRIAGE. Yesterday we visited the Tsiian Hall, Piccadilly, for the purpose of obtaining a private view of the Imperial Burmese Carriage, the public exhibition of which com mences on Monday. Independent of the splendour of this magnificent vehicle, of which we shall presently speak, its appearance in this country at the present moment is at tended with much additional and extrinsic interest. It is the first specimen of the progress of the arts in a country of the very existence of which we appeared to he oblivious till recent and extraordinary events recalled it to our no tice. The map of Asia alone reminded us that an immense portion of the vast tract of country lying between China and our Indian possessions, and constituting the Eastern Peninsula of India, was designated by the name of the Burinah empire. But so little did we know of the people, or the country they inhabited, that geographers were not agreed upon the orthography of the name. The at tack upon Chittagong at length aroused our -atten tion to the concerns of this warlike people, when one of the first intimations we received of their ex istence was the threat, after they had expelled us from India, to invade England. Our soldiers found them selves engaged in a contest different from any they hail before experienced in that part of the world, and with a people who, to the impetuous bravery of savag e s, add e d a ll the artifices f civilized warfare. IVe had to do with an enemy of whose history and resources we knew absolutely nothing. On those heads our information is still but scanty. It is the information which " The M a th," or im perial carriage, affords respecting the state of the mechanical arts among the Burmese, that we consider particularly curious and interesting. At a first view the general effect of this vehicle is ex tremely striking. Many parts are of themselves heavy— (for instance, the body, which ht an oblong square) but, combined together, they afford a tout ensemble of great richness and splendour. The carriage is— " Rich with Bathetic pearl and gold," being gilt and silvered all over, and studded with 20,000 precious stones—such as the onyx, pearl, ruby, emerald, sapphire, carbuncle, garnet, cornelian, diamond, &c. The wheels are of particularly beautiful workman ship and of uniform height: combining lightness with strength in no ordinary degree. The hotly is supported and ornamented by dragons richly gilt—the scales of talc, and the eyes of pale rubies. The carving of these figures is really exquisite, and for force, delicacy. and finish, would do no discredit to an European artist. Hecidetily the most beautiful portion of this splendid work is the pagoda roof. It composes a shrine, beneath which it well befits " the Golden Monarch and Lord of the White Elephant" to sit. The length of the carriage is thirteen feet seven inches ; or, including the pole, which is formed of iron-wood and remarkably massive, twenty-eight feet five inches. It is in width six feet nine, and in height (the pagoda in clusive) nineteen feet two inches. The wheels, which are about four feet, have the spokes beautifully formed, and very richly silvered: the felloes are cased with brass, and the caps are of bell-metal. The materials of the carriage, with the exception of the wheels and pole, which latter is also of iron -wood, are the wood of the sassafras tree. The body of the vehicle is nearly square, and therefore, as we have already observed, heavy and ungraceful in appearance. It is composed of twelve panels, three on each side, and the same number at the back and front. These are sub divided into small squares of transparent rhinoceros horn, ornamented at the corners with convex glass mirrors. The bottom of the carriage is composed of cane, and a frame-work, also of cane, platted similarly to that used in our chairs, &c. runs under the body. There are sashes with plates of glass, after the European fashion ; they are capable of being drawn up and down, as with us. The springs, which are of iron richly gilt, are similar to the C spring in general use in this country. Four peacocks, two in front and two behind, decorate the body of the carriage. On the fore-part of the frame, mounted on a silvered pedestal, and in a kneeling position, is placed a figure denominated the Tee bearer. lle holds a long gold wand surmounted with the Tee—the emblem of sovereignty. Behind are two figures, with. their lower extremities mi.- , onsly tattooed. From the disproportionate length of their arms, and other similar defects, it may be concluded that the Burmese have as yet made little progress in statuary or sculpture. In speaking of the windows of the carriage, we ought to have remarked that the glass appears well made, and, with the exception of one or two slight flaws or bub bles, nearly equal to that of European manufacture. The pagoda roof which surenonnts the body of the coach has already been spoken of as a splendid and graceful por tion of the design. It consists of seven stages, diminishing in the most skilful and beautiful proportions towards the top. The carving is highly beautiful, and the whole struct ture is ret thick with stones anti gems of considerable value. These add little to the effect when seen from below, but ascending the gallery of the Hall, the spectator ob serves them, relieved by the yellow ground of the gilding, and sparkling beneath him like dew-drops in a field of cow slips. Their presence in so elevated a situation well serve to explain the accuracy of finish preserved throughout, even iu the nicest anti most minute portions of the work. Gilt metal bells, with large heart-shaped chrystal drops attached to them, surround the lower stageof the pagotlai and, when the carriage is put in motion, emit a soft and pleasing sound. The seat or throne is extremely rich, and beau tifully ornamented with diamonds. It is moveable, as are also the steps for ascending the carriage; his Burmese Ma jesty having objected to the European custom of having a part so liable to be soiled as the steps, folded up, and put withinside! It will be perceived from the remarks already made, and the space we have devoted to this article, that we consider the present a highly curious and interesting exhibition. We have little doubt that the public, when it has had an opportunity of judging for itself, will be of a similar opi nion. There are several miscellaneous articles in the apartment, principally consisting of Burmese musical in.. strutnents and weapons. Some of them are well worthy of notice. Our readers will scarcely need to be reminded that the " Rath - was captured in September last year at 'covey, a seaport in the Burmese Empire, by Lieutenant-Colonel Miles. The estimated expense of the carriage is a lac of rupees (12,3000 CONPLAGRATIOXIS Itv NoaTtt AMEIICA.--The vast power of the fires in the American forests may be judged of by the extent of the smoke, which has been perceived over an extent of country, the extremes of which are at least ten degrees of latitude distant from one another.— Extract of a letter dated Hallowell, Maine, Oct. 10 :—" Our whole country is on fire, more or less, fer above 100 miles. We have lost 150 acres of wood in Ripley and three neigh. bouring towns; 21 houses and 23 barns are burnt; Exeter almost destroyed ; in Monmouth It haystacks (300 tons) are burnt I rode last week 30 miles through the devasta tion. The most awful sight of the kind I ever beheld; the fire advanced a mild in four hours, and, for 43 minutes, nearly two roods per minute." ExT/ystvE FIRE IN FRANCE.—The frightful fire which has just reduced to ashes a part of the commune of Vizille (department of the Isere) began at one in the morning on the 10th instant, in a printing.office attached to M. Augustin Perrier's manufactory of coloured cottons. The tempest which prevailed through that disastrous night extended the fire with dreadful rapidity. The chateau belonging to M. Perrier, and all the manufactory, have fallen a prey to the flames. Forty houses of the town have been entirely consumed, of which number twenty two were but just rebuilt in the quarter, called that of the Chateau de Paille, which only two years ago was burnt down. The engines of Grenoble and a detachment of the garrison arrived at eight o'clock in the morning, and as sists] to confine the ravages of the fire, which they began to subdue on all sides by eleven o'clock. Nobody perished in this conflagration, but many of the labourers were wounded. The damage done is estimated at about two mil lions (of francs). The buildings of the manufactory were insured. The valuable cotton spinning works, with the webs, owe their safety to the wind having blown in an opposite direction, but the loss of the manufactory of coloured cottons is immense ; it will deprive of employment, during the winter, 1,200 workmen, of whom some were proprietors of the buildings which have been consumed, to whom remains no source but to implore the charity of their fellow-citizens. A play has already been performed for their benefit at the Grenoble Theatre, and a subscrip tion opened for their relief.—Etuile uf DRITISII PRESS. COMBINATION MANIA. It is curious to remark that diseases in the body politic, as in the natural body, seem to bresk out and to become epidemic at intervals. The combination system, which has of late raged so extensively, exhibited itself with somewhat ot the same sort of mania in the year 1768, the period at which we find the system first regularly organized. It appears from the newspapers of that clay, that the year 1768 commenced with:a display of the turbulence of WEAV sus, who went well armed to the houses of other journeymen in the same busi ness, called single-handed Weavers, to revenge the injuries asserted to have been inflicted by them on the engine-loom Weavers, where they secured several, and conveyed them to a Magistrate ; and it appeared on examination their complaints were well founded, as they proved the prisoners and their brethren had even fired into their windows. Others in April, armed with cutlasses, pistols, &c. and in disguise, went at twelve o'clock at night to the residences of several journeymen in Spitalfields ; and cut to pieces six teen looms, with their contents, which belonged to Messrs. Everard and Phipps. On a subsequent nocturnal excur sion those miscreants narrowly escaped from a party of soldiers who had nearly surrounded them unperceived. Influenced by the above pernicious examples, the COAL HEAVERS of the Metropolis entered into combinations be fore the end of April ; and collecting in considerable num bers, went through Wapping, and thence on board of col liers, where, with weapons in hand, they compelled their sable brethren to desist from working, and even dangerously wounded several. In this instance the military prevented greater outrages. In May a large body of SAIT.Ons, with drums and flags, proceeded in two divisions to St. James's Palace, and pre sented a petition to the King, praying for an increase of their pay in consideration of the high price of provisions. On the 10th of the same month, anti at four o'clock in the morning, many boats, manned bySailors and Coal-heavers, entered upon a survey of the wharfs above l3lackfriars bridge, and compelled all they found at work to join them ; others patroled the streets. and collected those who were at home and in public-houses ; when they began their ope rations by forcing the drivers of carts and waggons loaded with coals, flour, and wood, to return whence they came. After this operation hail been completely accomplished, they marched in a body, increasing as they went, to Step ney-fields, whence parties of them proceeded to unrig such vessels as they chose to prevent from sailing. The fra ternity of SAWYERS, equally refractory, destroyed an ex cellent saw-mill then recently erected by CHARLES DING- Ely, Esq. almost at the same instant. The JOURNEYMEn TAILORS soon after caught the com bination-fever, and collected, in humble imitation of the Seamen, in Lincoln's-inn-fields, to proceed with a petition for redress of their sewing grievances. They too had leaders, and to those the Magistrates applied successfully in dis suading them from their purpose; but unfortunately they were unable to manage the many-headed monster; how ever, after some exertion, and by a little address, the Ma gistrates contrived to prevail on them to entrust the peti tion to a deputation of ; and the rest dispersed. Although the COAL-HEAVERS and Jailors appear to have acted at the commencement under the influence of the same Caine, an attempt to obtain an increase of wages, they had become inveterate enenii•?s before the middle of June, and actually fought with such rancour as to use swords and fire-arms ; the consequence of which was many wounds. and several deaths inflicted by each party; and newspapers even assert that seven soldiers and a sergeant lost their lives in attempting to quell a riot in IVepping, when twenty of the aggressors were killed. The last disgraceful act of this turbulent era was marked with additional depravity: a set of Semite . ' tens Wrs yeas had constituted themselves a deliberative body, and decreed that all Possessors of looms should send them a tar offair shillings each. Their place of rendezvous was the dolphin in Cock-lane, and their denomination the " Cut ters;" and, justly (heading the consequences of their con duct, they were proviticd with swords and fire-arms, to defend themselves, and intimidate those to whom they wrote. A Mr. Hut received from them the following Order, which he exhibited to the Magistrates at Bow street in October 1769:—" Mr. Hitt, you are desired to send the full donation of all your looms to the Dot must in Cock-lane. This from the conquering and bold Defiance to be levied four shillings per loom. A summons was issued to Me keeper of Me Dolphin, which that person disobeyed. Officers were then despatched to ascertain whether the Callers hid really assembled ; and oath having been made that they were sitting, a warrant to search the house was issued, and a Magistrate, several officers of the Police, and a party of Soldiers, went to execute it between eight and nine o'clock in the evening. They found this diabolical assembly in full progress, receiving the contributions of terrified manufacturers; a terrible conflict ensued; one soldier was shot dead, and the miscreants fled over the house tops; but four were apprehended. A detachment of the Guards afterwards did duty in the neighbourhood, and had their quarters in the Parish-church. This pre caution terminated the operations of the Cutters. Happily, the present destructive plague in the manufac turing world seems now very generally subsiding; the pro gress of its contagion has, however, been extremely remark able. We trust that when it shall have again disappeared, this kingdom will never witness its return. NEW CHURCH AT WEEDON.—III our account of the re building the Church of Wectlon Beck, Northamptonshire, in the British Press of Thursday. the name of J. H. Hurst was, by mistake, inserted for T. H. Hunt ; we are anxious to correct this typographical error, as the benefits derived to the parish are wholly to be attributed to the indefati gable exertions of this excellent clergyman. When he took possession of this living, it was found that for a population of 1178 persons there was accommodation in the church for only 289 ; and although the parish abounds with poor, only forty-nine sittings were appropriated to their use. By Lis means the church has been rebuilt, and is capable of providing seats for 750 persons. This is one among the many instances which exemplify the value of the labours of the Society for promoting the enlargement and building of ' churches and chapels. EDUCATION IN INDIA..--There are now in a course of education, under the auspices of the East India Company, in Bengal, about 12,000 boys, anti a tenth of that number of girls. A most able paper has been lately written in India by Mr. Elphinstone, on the most humane and libe ral principles, recommending the education of the natives for Revenue and Judicial offices. The intelligent author looks forward to the association of the natives in civil offices, ' with a view to both their intellectual and moral improve ment ; and to forming, by their means, a counter poise to the half-castes, or future Eurpean colonists, whose superior acquirements would otherwise give them the mo nopoly of office. Thus it is, that, with a far-sighted pru dence, we endeavour to promote the gradual advancement of those nations which are united with us as allies, or look up to us for protection. SINGULAR FRAUD.—A short time ago a Scotchman, named Edward Norris, called upon some respectable indi viduals of this town to solicit relief, under the pretence of being ont of employ, and having had a child burnt to death. Being successful in his applications, he was deter mined to pursue his plan somewhat further ; and a few days afterwards called upon Mr. Adams, one of the persons who already relieved him, stating that his wife had died in a lodging-house at Barnwell, and he was unable to bury her. Mr. Adams, expressing some doubt of the truth of his story, offered to accompany the porter, who was directed to go to the lodging-house, to ascertain the fact. On their arrival at the house, Norris told the porter to wait at the door a moment, whilst he asked the mistress to let him see the corpse. In about a minute a woman came out, and told the porter that Norris's wife was dead, but the corpse was in such a state, that he probably would not like to see it ; however, she would go with him to Mr. Adams, and explain all the circumstances. The porter therefore re turned to his master, accompanied by the woman and Nor ris, when Mr. Adams gave some money to the latter. It was afterwards suggested to Mr. Adams diat he had been imposed upon, and he accordingly ordered Norris and the woman to be taken before the Mayor, when it was disco vered that the woman who had represented herself to be the mistress of the lodging-house, was the wife of Norris, whom he had stated to be lying dead at the time. Norris was consequently committed to the town gaol, to undergo the discipline of the tread-wheel for a month.—Cambridge Chrenide. LITERART GLEANINGS. No. lan. ON INSTINCT. [Concluded from the British Press of yesterday.] INSTINCT, then, may exist separately from both per. ception and sensation. I will add to this imperfect sketch a few examples, in which it will be obvious to every one that it may exist also in conjunction with each of these principles. And first as to its union with sensation. Wherever a nervous system is to he traced, which alone is the source of sensation, we have abundant proofs of such an alliance. We meet with it, without having any adequate language by which to describe it, in the pleasurable glow and elasti- I I city of health,—in the satisfaction of a cheerful meal,—ln the painful sense of fatigue,—and in the refreshment of sound and natural sleep, by which this painful sense Is overcome. And we meet with it still more strongly marked in all those natural emotions of love of life and dread of death, the economy of pairing and attachment to offspring, 1 which, in consequence of such alliance, have obtained, at: already noticed, the popular name of instinctive sensations. Let us select a few examples. We are told by GALEN, that, on opening a goat big with young, he found one of the young ones alive, which he hastily snatched up, and took into a room where there were various vessels severally filled for the purpose with wine, oil, honey, milk, grains, and fruits. The little kid first rose upon its feet, and walked ; then shook itself, and scratched its side with one of its hoofs ; it next smelt, in succession, at all the dishes before it, and at last fixed upon and licked up the milk. In this case, the sense of smell went directly in aid of the instinctive search after food, and determined the particular kind. So that the instinct and the sensation co-operated. Thus rabbits, when left to the operation of pure instinct, dig holes in the ground for warmth and protection ; but, after being for some time in a domestic state, and finding that they can obtain a more comfortable asylum by other means and with less labour, they seldom pursue, even when they have an opportunity, the instinctive process, but burrow in the straw, or whatever other material is provided for them. In this case, the sense of superior comfort combines itself, as in the preceding case, with the operative instinct, and the same end is pursued, though by a change of means. So, again, the young of all animals, in whatever way they take their foot!, are at first stimulated by instinct alone. The lamb sucks, the chicken pecks, and the nestling of the sparrow gapes. In like mann er , be mother at first secretes or selects it from an instinctive excitement alone. The udder of the dam swells and becomes painful; the crop of the pigeon does the same; and there are some birds, whose common food is grain, that during this season devour for their young spiders and other insects„ which nothing could induce them to touch at any other time. ' %What follows from this simple exercise of instinctive power, is well worthy of notice. This sweet intercourse of natural action soon lays a foundation for a something that, by degrees, shows 'itself to be superior to simple in stinct, though it has often, but erroneously, been so de nominated. The young of two different mothers, if interchanged as soon as they are born or hatched, are as sa tisfied with the foster, or supposititious, as with the natural parent: and the mothers, unless made suspicious of the deception, are as satisfied with their foster or supposititious young. But let the same interchange be attempted a numth or two afterwards, and in no case will it succeed. Short as has been the intervening period, it has sufficed to produce a birth of feeling, as well as a growth of form ; the rising sense has united itself with the already mature instinct; and the natural nurse, and the natural nursling, will pine equally, if separated from each other. The mere instinct of this early age belongs to such early age alone ; but the feeling which follows so close upon it, and to which it may in some sort be said to have given birth, is of a higher order, and continues for a much longer period of time ; and for a period of time, indeed, directly pro portioned to its intensity, —or, in other words, to the as cending rank of sentiment or percipient life in which it makes its appearance. Hence, in the two lowest classes of animals, we meet with nothing of the sort whatever; the young of insects and worms having a foreign food provided for them, with out the immediate intervention of the mother: and hence too, in quudrupeds and birds, the feeling progressively dies away, as the young become independent: while, in MAN, we behold the principle of intelligence in its most lovely ' and interesting character, —a moral and internal feeling,— a sense of gratitude and veneration on the one side, of keen complacency and delight on the other, and of active ' affection on both,—catching hold of the two preceding principles, and producing a strong cord of interunion, that can never be broken but with the cords of the heart itself. ' In these cases, we see examples of all the three princi ples—instinct, sensation, and intelligence, in a state of union ; and we occasionally meet with still more extraor dinary examples of the same fact. One of the most extraordinary, perhaps, is that related by Mr. GILBERT IVHITE, in his very interesting " History of Selborne," of the gratitude anti affection of a young hare towards a cat, by which it had been suckled anti brought up ; the leveret following the cat about the garden, playing with her like a kitten, and bounding towards her wh e n p urr i ng or uttering any other call of tenderness. We see also something of the same kind of internal feel , ing, and often exalted to a still higher pit c h, i n the grati tude and affection of the fond and faithful dog for a kind and indulgent master; occasionally, indeed, rising superior to, and strikingly triumphing over, the strongest instinc tive feelings of the animal frame,—over thirst, hunger, and the love of life itself ; and inciting him to perish volunta rily by the side of his master, and share his grave, rather than abandon his corse, when, in the course of a solitary journey, he has suddenly fallen a victim to accident or vio lence. Of this the late BisitOP or LA NDA Fr, in his very interesting Life, has noticed a very singular example ; who tells us that, two months after the disappearance of a man that had perished on the top of Helvellyn, his body was found, anti his faithful dog was still sitting by it; and to this he adds an anecdote told him by the DUKE or NORTH'. lIMBERLAND, concerning a young antelope that died by a tall, whose mother immediately quitted the pasture in which she was feeding, sat piteously by the side of the body, which she refused to quit, and died herself of grief anti hunger. And not unfrequently we meet with instances of the union of intelligence alone with instinct alone, no moral or internal feeling being necessary. The rook usually and instinctively builds his nest in the tallest branches of the tallest trees; but in Welbourn church-yard a rookery was not long since formed on the outside of the church-spire, and the tops of its loftiest windows. There had formerly been a row or grove of trees in the ne.jghbourhood ; hut they had been cut down, and their aerial tenants, being thus dispossest of their proper mansion, had betaken them selves to the church-spire and windows, as the most ap propriate building for their purpose; and had thus mani festly evinced an alliance of instinct with intelligence,— with contrivance suited to the occasion. So the jack-daws of Selburn, according to Mr. White, not finding a sufficiency of towers and steeples, and lofty house, on which they had usually hung their nests in this pleasant village, accommodated themselves to the occasion, and built them in forsaken rabbit-burrows. The ostrich is accused of a total want of natural feeling, because she abandons her eggs to be hatched by the heat of the sun. Where incubation is necessary, however, the ostrich instinctively employs it ; and that, too, in conjunc tion with an intelligence which is reedy evinced by other birds. Thus, in Senegal, where the heat is still great, she relinquishes her eggs during the day, but sits upon them through the chill of the night ; and at the Cape of Good Hope, where the heat is lens considerable, she sits upon them, like other birds, both day and night. The Cuckow, in like manner, is well known to be too indolent to build where she can find a nest ready-made, snd usually deposits her eggs in that of the hedge-sparrow ; but, where no pro per nest can be procured already formed for her use, she constructs fur herself, and incubates her young. In like manner, ducks and geese, though not renowned for sagacity, cover up their eggs when they quit them, till their return to the nest ; and there are few birds that do not turn and shift their eggs at different periods of the tedious process of incubation, so as to give an (Anal degree of warmth to every part. I have Already observed, that issray in general deposit their eggs in places admirably suited to the future wawa of the nascent larva's, and then for ever like leave kftbeg embeyon-progeny ; but the common car-wik bioids over her young like a ben, and only suits theni a t nigh t , t h e urual period in which this genus flies in pursuit of food or recreation. Among migratory birds, it is not very uncem mon for the mater alone to dare the dangers of a divine: voyage, and to leave the females behind them ; but, in the rkefive/t, we occasionally find this rule inverted ; for the female chaffinches of Sweden quit their males, and migrate to Holland towards the winter, and duly return to them in the spring; while many of the males indulge a proftiund sleep during that greater period of their absence. Most vegelal4s indulge in a winter-steep of the,saine kind, but there are some that sleep still longer. Tbus the tuberose root of the ferraria, an ornamental herbaceous plant of the Cape of Good Hope, remains torpid every al ternate year, and sometimes continues in this state for two years together, without putting forth either leaf or fibre. The general corollary, then, resulting fromtheseobserva tions, is as follows ; that instinct, as already defined, is the operation of the principle of organised lffe,.by the ex ercise of certain natural powers directed to "the'present or the future good of the individual ; while asap:kis is the ques tion of the principle of intellectual life, by the exercise of cer tain acquired powers directed to the snow object. That it ap pertains to the whole organised mass, as grayitation does to the whole nnor gan i ae d ; equa ll y actuating the tenth:it jvnil the largest, portions, the minutest particles and tha. bul kiest systems, every organ, and evet y part of every oval. whether solid or fluid, so long as it continues alive. 'Plats like gravitation, i t exhibilliiiander partieular circetnistandkii, different modifkations, D'.4terent powers, end different effects; hut th 4 like gityltition too it is subjeWto its own peculiar division of laws, to whi c h, uoderdefinite eir.. cumstances, it adheres without the smallest deviation ; and that its sole and uniform lien, whcfher acting generally or locally, is that of perfection, presetvallon, or reproduction. Of its mode of existen c ei ve knots bathing: but as,iittle do we know of the principle of gravitation or of mind. We can only assure ourselves that they ire distinct powers, —perhaps distinct essences; and we see them acting, as well separately as conjointly, for the general good. tinder their accordant influeno, we behold the plastic and mys terious substance of matter. which we must be.empeeially careful not to confound with themselves, rising from " airy nothing" into entity,--aseending from invisible elements into worlds, and systems of' worlds,—froni shapeless} chaos and confusion into forth, and ortler and harnsony, r -from brute and lifeless immobility into energy and activity, into a display of instinct, feeling, perception,—of being, and beauty, and happiness. One common design, one uniform code of laws, in different but consenting divisions; eqUalfy simple and majestic, equally local and comprehensive, per. varies, informs, unites, and consummates the whol e . The effect, then, being one, the MIGHT Y CAUS k th a t produced it mu s t b e one a l so : the radiating fountain of all possible prifections—ever active, but ever at rest—ever pre sent, though never seen—immaterial, incorporeal, ineffable ; but the source of all matter, of all mind, of all existence, and of all modes of existence. Whatever we behold is Gon : all nature ,is his awful temple—all sciences the porticoes that lead to it, and the chief duty of phllomphy is to conduct us to his altar ; to render all our attainments, which arc but the bounteous afHations of his spirits sub servient to his gloty ; and to engrave on the tablet of our hearts this great accordant motto of all natural and of all revealed religion, of Athens and of Antioch, of Aratus and of St. Paul—"lN HIM tvs LIVE, AND MOTS ? •NI) HAVE OUR DEING."—Dr. MG/011 Good on Itesitnet— London Medical and Physical Journal for Nov. 18515. GiIRDEN ROBBERY ACP. TO THE EDITOR OF THE BRITISH PRESS. St it—l am surprised at the comments which are daily made in the public papers respecting the above Act, passed in the last Session of Parliament, which is stigmatised as arbitrary and oppressive, whereas, when properly put in force, its effects are highly salutary. As the law for merly stood, if any body stole fruit or produce of any kind, from a growing tree, or plant, the act did not amount to felony, but was a mere trespass, as (to use a legal ex pression) "it savoured of the freehold ;" hut if it was plucked at one time, and carried away at another, it was felony, than which nothing could be more absurd. Now, the present Act was passed to explain and amend the law in this respect, and it enacts that the feloniously severing the fruit or produce from the freehold is equally as criminal as stealing it from any other place. However,. I beg to remind you, that this Act does not extend to an unenclosed place, and was not enacted for the purpose of punishing persons taking one apple, or any other single piece of fruit. Neither was it exclusively made for the benefit of the rich and powerful, but chiefly for the protection of market gardeners, and other persons who stiffer severely from there depredations. And I beg to add, that if the property is taken as a mere boyish act, and not with an intention to steal (which is a question for the Jury), it does not amount to Wony, as vas laid down by the Learned Chairman at the Middlesex Sessions a few weeks ago, and reported in your paper. By inserting the above observations, which are hastily made, in your valuabt Paper, you will undeceive many. and show that the Let islature, in passing this Act, have been actuated at least . by jn,t if not laudable motives, and that it does not deserve that unbounded condemnation which has, by ignorant, and, 1 may add, prejudiced per il sons, been cast upon it. I remain, Sir, Your ooetlient Rervaot iL _ . EXPLANATUR. Nov. 1E,1325. NAAIr4 Ts. CORN.EXCHANOE, FniDAy, Nov. Ilt. The supplies this week consist of 5,100 quarters of Wheat. 9,200 quarters of Barley, and 5.850 quarters of Oats, with 11,000 sacks of Flour. The Wheat trade was extremely dull to-day, and only fine samples could be disposed of at 31ontlay's prices, other sorts were quite neglected. There were but few samples of fire malting Barley on hand, which were disposed of at the same prices as on Alonday, but the middlieg sorts were rather cheaper. Oats soW readily in the early part of the morning at a small advance eta Monday's currency, but towards the close were heavy sale. Beans and Pease fully maintained their quotations of blonday. The ag gregate average price fur the six weeks being 01s. 4d. per quarter :or Barley, and Ws. 10d. per quarter for Pease, the ports are open for these articles, the former at a - duty of Si.. and the latter 7s. per quarter ; all other sorts of foreign grain remain prohibited fur home consumption. iFeont the London New Price enrre-nt.l FRIDAY. Nov. IS. UOTTON.—The purchases this week exceeded 2500 bags, o which the great proportion is Pernams at . l24d. a 13d., prineipafty or the Latter ; 300 %hiss, the remainder Bengal, Surat, and Ma. • drat'. and at very full prices. SUGAR.—There has been rather more doing this week in llui. coracles, but the prices are rather lower, particularly in low blown and soft Sugars ; the reductioo is about kit, per cwt. ; brown Ja maicas 665. ; other browns Gss. The Refined market has been particularly heavy this week, and we quote a general decline of In. per cwt. ; brown lumps &la. ; Illolabses 331. Gd. a 34e. In Forergn Sugars no purchases are reported. COFFEE.—The public sale. this week have gene off enthral any briskness; nearly all the Foreign taken in ; St. Domingo 660 Gd. a 57.. • Brazil 545. 6d. a ; the ordinary descriptions of Js maica so ld higher. There were two public aales this foreooop 493 bags ordinary to good ordinary Bratil, taken in at 54.• 6d. 555. 6d. ; 6rAI bags good fair St. Domingo were disposed of atteti the sale at as. 6d. The market geoerally is without briskness r the Brazil heavy, on account of the quantity offering; all Orbe; descriptions arc without variation as to priers, but the market std.' dull. 1 TALLOW and 11E3IP.—The prices of Tallow are fella; higher ; the new to-day 381. a 38s. 6d. ; Hemp 441. RUM. BRANDY, and HOLLANDS.—The Rum Market is without briskness, but the prim are not lower ; proof and under proof Leewarda2s. ht. Brandy maintains the late advance, 3s. $4. a 3a. 70. for the best marks ; pale Geneva Is. 10d. SPlCES.—Spices are generally very, heavy, and a shade lows; the reduction In i•sitmegs is very considerable, sales being abated at 4s. 41. ; the nearest quotation is now O. COAL MARKET, Nov.lB. Sh;pt at Alarkrt. 634 Newcaade 12 Sunderland ship. So' id. . 34i 77: P riot -36% 'IN to 446..64 3 7 , K I D 466." A public 'meeting of the citizens of Bristol (Rapt Ike.. Bristol Gazelle of Wednesday) is to be held on Walsooel day next, to take into consideration thejleplOtottl!le eofiv••• mity which his occurr ed ' in New . Ettictisorick, desolating fire at kliraMielk with a view to raise a*tb#4,, subscription. to alleviate the sufferings of our f.l/01 subjects on that calamitous occasion