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be elan to interests d the highest !ilia meet Vespettrd chataettr. petitioners, though shackled with the extreme wretched.' MU O f connexion with 1% est India property. will not submit to t b o imputation of any degradation therefrom. That they are alive to the same honourable feelings, the same moral obligations, the same sense of religious duties, which their adversaries assume as the unnatural foundation of their enmity. Your petitioners therefore pray your Honourable House, that the duty upon their exports may be regulated by the scale at suggested by the Committee of your Honourable House, •That this exhausted colony may be relieved from that partial i•npost of the 4i per cent. duty. That the sum which has been Evict upon Madeira wine imported into this island, ever since the delaratory Act of the 13th Om. 111. ch. 12, may be dis posed of by Parliament towards the defence, protection and se. curity of this colony; being the objects for which the said duty In s originally Imposed ; and that the interests of this country may not be abandoned to any authority or influence which the (.onsti tution does not recognize. And that no alienatlim of property in this island may be sectioned, but on the principle of full and fair indemnity to every interest that may be injured thereby. And your petitioners shall ever pray, &c. (Signed) JOHN W. D. WILSON, President of the Council. W. WHARTON RAWLINS, Speaker of the Assembly THE CHURCH. The London Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge have granted 1,0001. to the Bishop of Nava Scotia, for fur thering the objects of the University lately established there, and other similar useful purposes. The annual meeting of the Birmingham ('hurch Mis sionary Association took place on Friday, and was attended by a very numerous and most respectable assembly. The President, Lord Calthorpe, was present, and opened the proceedings by moving that the Chair should be taken by the Bishop of the Diocese and his Lordship, in complying with the request, addresse d: the meeting in support of the objects of the institution, calling upon his hearers to press forward in the promotion of a cause which ought, from its very nature, never to cease interesting every true Chris tian. The Report was then read by the Rev. Edward Burn, and its adoption was moved by Lord Calthorpe. The Rev. Mr. Bartlett, Secretary to the Parent Society, next addressed the meeting, and gratified the company by a luminous, comprehensive, and most interesting expost- 1 tion of the origin, progress, and present state of the Parent Institution. The Rev. W. Spooner, the Rev. G. Hodson, the Rev. J. Garbett, the Rev. Mr. Ilolmcs (deputed from the Parent Society), the Rev. Messrs. Lowe and J.llowells, A. S. Lillingston and R. Spooner, Esqrs., also addressed the meeting in moving and seconding the different Resolu tions. A liberal collection was made at the doors as the company retired. On Wednesday se'nnight the Stafford Church Missionary Society held its anniversary meeting, the Lord Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry in the Chair. The attendance was numerous and highly respectable, and the presence of the Earl of Harrowby, with his two sons and Lord Bexley, who took part in the proceedings, added to the interest of the occasion. The collections, including a donation of IN. by the Right Honourable Richard Ryder, M.P., amounted to 361. THI CNIIIICH.---81; Fluxing BACON (who was always for moderate counsels), when some one was arguing for such a sweeping reformation in the Church of England as would, in effect, leave no Church remaining, said to him— " Sir, the subject we talk of is the eye of England ; and if there be a speck or two in the eye, we endeavour to take them off; but he were a strange oculist who would pull out the eye." The Rev. Mr. Ferry, a suspended priest of the Roman Catholic communion, put an end to his existence on Tues day by cutting the arteries of one of his arms with a razor. No cause has been assigned for this melancholy act.— Connaught Journal. The Dublin Eecning Post contains a private letter which numerates many instances of the growing intollerance of the French Clergy ; among them is the following—" The Inhabitants of a commune near Clermont have for a long l i time been without a resident Clergyman. It appears that , the church in this commune is out of repair, and the inha bitants having been applied to by the curate to repair and decorate it, which they refused on the ground of their po verty, he has prohibited the performance of divine service! until ifs wishes are complied with ; already the inhabitants have been five months without divine worship, and there seems to be no prospect of any alteration." A handsome new Church, at the estimated expense of 2h,0001. of which sum IS,OOOI. has already been sub scribed, is about to be erected at Margate, upon the high pound on a level with the fort. The spot is already marked out. The packet ship Canada sailed from Liverpool on the Ist instant. Among the passengers were Bishop Hobart, of New York, and Professor Paulson, of the University of Maryland. It is reported, among the friends of the Greek cause, that Lord Cochrane will not proceed to Greece, but that the affairs of that country will be terminated by negotia tion. A frigate for the use of the Greeks has, however, been purchased, and fitted out at a French port, and is expected soon to set sail for Hydra.—Glasgow Free Press. GENERAL ELLCTION.—The city of Worcester will be strongly contested. The candidates are, Viscount Deer burst, Colonel Davies (the present Members), and C. R. Robinson, Esq. The canvass of the latter gentleman (wheal is an eminent merchant) has been very successful, and there is every prospect of his being returned. In the last Monthly Magazine, the old hypothesis of Horne Tooke's being the author of Junius: Letters is again broached. We do not think the magazine w , iter is 'cry happy in the proofs he brings, but he asserts one or two curious facts; that the copies of Junius, bound in blue marble paper (as directed in his private correspond ence with Woodfall), had been found in Tooke's library after his death ; and that the original MSS. of Junius, in fooke's hand-writing, have been discovered among some musty papers, by, and are now in the possession of J. W. ticker,}:sq. M.P. Secretary to the Admiralty. We doubt the facts, but, if true, they are certainly curious. Tile inacadamized roadway in Pall-mall is proceeding extraordinary rapidity ; and will be completed from the east end to the extremity of Carlton Palace, in the c;tes: of this week. There was a boat on the Thames yesterday, propelled by pu!dke, similar to those of the steam-packets, but put into zction by a man turning a wheel. PAWNBIORIRE.—it is much to be lamented that the ‘.l;4•ct with which pawnbrokers receive pledges holds out el encouragement to thieves. An instance of this occurred 'n Monday evening. An ill-looking fellow offered a watch fir pledge, for which he asked los. The pawnbroker asked his name and address—" No. 2" was the laconic reply. "No 2, where ?" " No. 2" was the reply again. On the question being put a third time the answer was, " the centre veil of London-bridge," and on this extraordinary descrip in was'the money lent ! ! While such facility is afforded for the disposal of stolen goods can we wonder at the heavy t'a'e of the calendar ? Gana LI o.—The Count Salvinsky, a rich Polander, bag terently lost at piquet 20,000 acres of woodland, and a Intenificcnt chateau, situated in Saxony. The Prince ilgorouly is the winner. The Count Salvinaky is the Person who at Constantinople won of the Capitan Peha, at a game of ches s , twelve slaves, and 16,000 leo. tarti-skins, whi c h h e so ld i n Hungary for 700,000 thrills, !Hist the slaves at liberty.—Peri s Pairer. DARIN G ATTEMPT at RORBERT.--Yesterday morning, "bent the hour of ten o'clock, a youth was perceived *m ien...nth the cou n t er o f Mr. Walker, perfumer, &e. of R OI-street, Mary-la-tonne, by M rs . W a lk er , who imroe dl7kly laid hold of for the purpose of giving him into ~c *° 4 Y the young villain struggled with her in a desperate air! perceiving n o p erson coin i ng to h er assistance, her by the fleshy part of the arm with his teeth, t rounded her very severely ; the pain made Mrs. W. • her hold, when he made his escape, leaving behind t reWLat, in which was found a large pearl comb with 'AI Over ornaments for ladies head-dresses, which be "(Tented in taking from the window. Information was , 1 1 1 'Arty laid at the Mary-la-bonne office. eqt Ilinay, a set JUS accident occurred to the son r. White, of Colelord. Being out shooting with a he had crossed a hedge, and a bird rising in '''section, his companion shot at it, and lodged the coo t th e gun in the unfortunate youth's loins. 11. Is T I:ay of recovery.—Bristol Mercury. rgING A CClDENT.—Yestertlay afternoon, as a van . I ne sugar hogsheads was unloading at the door • Ilan, grocer, Judd -street, Somers-town, one of ;`heads rolled out of the van over the shcpman, and 143 1 upon the spot. ..r is eh 10. ie of no. is- Ili! gber sdnit the and y the light I ail tri -1 hat gFtril • (e• ever,' try of tprity, aro.- rude the e'•- tr peti- end, indi veeatcd berg . hat the of that I pen' s!: o tat t SO are ild con' pfoieS o tO effect rota' is U every s cheer unicetile plishing which, the en that an LitERATURE. AN ACCOUNT. HISTORICAL, POLITICAL. Als1) STATISTICAL. OF THE UNITED PROVINCES OF RIO DE LA PLATA. TRANSLATZD FROM THE SFANIIII. A ckermann. The strong enticements held forth to emigration, and the peculiar attention which has been excited towards the United Provinces of Rio DE LA PLATA, cannot fail to excite a general interest in whatever relates to their con dition, and to confer a proportionate value on whatever information may enable us truly to estimate it. This vo lume is well calculated to meet the public curiosity in this respect. The materials arc well put together, and many points upon which it has been found difficult to procure any accurotc information, are satisfactorily elucidated. The letter in the appendix, regarding the occupation of Monte rith-o by the l'ortuguese and Brazilian Govern ment, throws a light much wanted on "the origin, the in tervening circumstances, and the actual state of the quarrel concerning Monte Video, between the United Provinces of Rio de la Plata and Brazil and Portugal." The circum stances detailed by the writer are too intimately connected to admit being disjoined by any extract, we must there ' fore refer to the statement itself, which will be read with great interest. To persons who may feel disposed to transfer either their property or themselves to this quarter of the New W or ld, we would recommend the followin g " GINKRAL ORSER• vvrtoNs" with which this valuable volume concludes:— " The extent and fertility of the land in each of the provinces of which we have treated, and the system adopted in Buenos Ayres for its distribution among foreigners and natives, which will probably be followed by all the states, have answered the most sanguine expec ' tations. That system is, to let the lands belonging to the public at quit-rent contracts, to any individual offering, he it one, two, or more lots, for br ee di ng esta bli s h ments or, farming. The conditions of these contracts are confined, on the part of the Government, to giving possession of the land, and signing a document for a determinate number of years, which in general is not less than eight or ten ; and, on the part of the individual, to the paying each year of a rent of eighty dollars for the square league--an amount which in all probability will be speedily diminished, in order to offer the greatest possible advantages to the per sons emigrating. Agreeably to the laws of the country, two conditions are added to the contract : Ist. That all the improvements which, during that time, are made on the land, belong to the renter, and arc transferable to his heirs and successors. 2dly. That, in the event of that estate being sold by the Government, the possessor will by pre ferred to all other persons, however weighty may be the pretensions of the new claimant. It may not be improper to observe, that the system of quit-rents does not preclude the power to grant gratuitous concessions of land, or to pay for them at different periods. Particular cases may occa sion these measures, either as regards tho se l an d s , th e peo pling of which is of the greatest importance, or which re -1 quire greater efforts to make them productive, or because the kind of labour promised to be undertaken deserves a powerful protection. " This system has been adopted for recriproeal conve nience. " At a moment when the State is, as it were, newly born to credit, and when it is indispensable for it to make use of that credit, in order to obtain the capital which it is intended to expend in the construction of harbours, canals, bridges, roads, cities, and other works, which will facilitate internal and external commerce in all its branches, and expend it to the utmost extent of which, in such a country, it is susceptible—on such a state it is incumbent, as well as on all others which act on the principles of good faith, to keep up a public property, in order to bold out a guarantee to its creditors or loan-holders. But while it secures that advantage, it also behoves the State to possess itself of an internal revenue, which may serve to forward the operations that it has begun to carry into effect, in order to diminish the obstacles and reduce the duties which impede importation, until it can, if such a thing be pos -1 sible, to do away entirely with the system of the Custom house; and also to lay a ground-work for a stability in revenues and resources which may not be liable to be dis turbed by any power possessing a superior marine force. Nor must we overlook another advantage which the nation derives from the adoption of this principle ; namely, to favour, in an essential manner, all the foreigners who may expose themselves to the inconveniences of a long voyage, for the purpose of establishing themselves in that country. " Every thing seems to promise that the emigration to the United Provinces will be very considerable; and this cannot but eventually be essentially serviceable to a country where population is wanting, and every thing else su perabundant. This cannot fail to attract the attention of the speculators on a great scale, of whom, as well without as within the country, there is no scarcity, all calculating, by these and other means, to realize a vast fortm,e, owing to the importance and the facilities of the country for that object, and also relying on the candour of a new country for great operations in a mercantile point of view. If, then, the State were to put up to sale the lands belonging to the public, be sides the necessity of alienating them at a price which, in four or five years more, would he doubled, it would place in the hands of a few speculators the fate of all foreigners, needy or not, who should emigrate with the in tention of engaging in any of the different branches of agricultural science, with which they were best acquainted. These few speculators would reap all the advantages in stead of the State; and the emigrants would surrender , themselves at discretion, as tributaries to them, without any fixed or known plan, or would consume their scanty ' capitals in the purchase of the lands. Certain it is, that one or all of these things would ensue, or that the land would remain for a much longer time without cultivation. " But the most direct advantage which this territorial system insures for the emigrants remains to be spoken of; and it is a palpable one. Instead of requiring a sum wherewith to purchase lands, and another to expend in their improvement, an amount adequate to the second pur pose will alone be required. In this manner, the capital which each emigrant possesses—whether he brings it along with him, or it has been advanced to him by the State on terms set forth in the regulation concerning emigration— will be put into circulation; and it can be easily proved that the productions of all kinds of labour in that country will yield a sufficiency, not only to pay what may be called the rent of the lands, and to provide for the ordinary) maintenance, but also to enable the possessor to proceed gradually in the formation of a capital, in order shortly to to become a proprietor himself, by purchasing lands from private persons. Much reasoning is not necessary to de monstrate this; it is only sufficient to reflect, that that country, which possesses such an extent of land, and all of it so fertile, is a source of considerable profit to the agri culturists of North America, by the great cargoes of flour, and productions of the first necessity, which they send to it, notwithstanding the costs of the transport, the duties of importation, commission, and other expenses incident to mercantile transactions. " There is, besides, among other circumstances' which might be mentioned, one in particular which deserves to be noticed, as it tends materially to prove what has just been said. The goods of foreign importation in the United Provinces have diminished in price, having now nearly the same value as in Europe, or at least the difference being very immaterial; whereas, on the contrary, the exports of native production have so much increased in price, that , what fifteen years ago was worth one, and four years ago three, is as present worth eight. Wages have increased in the same proportion, so that the ordinary articles of sub sistence are, with very few exceptions, as cheap at the present time as they were ten years since. This is a phe nomenon, perhaps, of a covet kind in political economy, but which will show what expectations ought to be enter- 1 tained by husbandmen, in a country which possesses all the primary materials, the production of which is advantage ously appreciated, and where what isspent for maintenance must be infinitely less than what is earned. This will also serve to show that the returns from the lauds, that is to say, the intetest of the capital which the state lends to the emigrants, is compensated in an excessive manner, by the circumstance of their being allowed to employ all their fortune, be it small or great, in tillage, or in any other agricultural or pastoral pursuit. It is surely unnecessary to observe that we are not now alluding to those emigrants who go to that country with the view of hiring their services to Me proprietors of land. As regards them the thing is more simple; namely, that if they arc reduced to the necessity of treading the soil of the territory, they will meet with a high rate of wages. In the same situation ire the artisans of an in ferior finality. Any of them Who work in metals, timber, skins, sawing, building, &o. &C. Will there meet with con. Stant employment as soon at they arrive. Not a single foreign beggar is to be met with in Buente Ayres; as such persons need not become paupers, utile* the choose. On this last point it is necessary to emend to thit part of the regulation on emigration previously introduced, which in trusts to the commission established in thitfeountry for the protection of emigrrnts, the duty of protturing qccupation for all foreigners, provided that after fifteen 'days they should not have been able to procure it for themselves, owing to the difficulties they have to encounter from not knowing the language, or any other cause. This is a powerful guarantee, which cornph.tes the system er security held forth by this country to Lll classes of the labouring community, inasmuch as it proclaims the spirit which pre vails in favour of them ; and, above all, the possibility of giving occupation to as many as may present themselves. Foreigners who have capacity to undertake speculations on a larger scale, be they physical or moral, or of whatever 'kind, will probably have no need of further information, when they have taken a survey of the country, incomplete perhaps, yet nevertheless vast, as the preceding expositions have shown. For such persons all explanations are un necessary ; the facts will speak for themselves. And when to all the other advantages are added those of an effective security in the free exercise of all their individual facul ties, of the inviolability, of prop:rty, whether in peace or war, between the land of their birth and the country of their adoption—l say, when all these things are considered, there can be no risk of making errors in calculation, if people but know how to reflect. " This is written with the best intentions to all parties who may be interested in these observations. We have not the least interest in tnisleading; and even could there exist such a supposition, is it not evident that deception would ultimately turn to the disdadvantage of the United Provinces? We u' lie with positive knowledge of Me cir cumstances and or the principles of that country. No one ought to doubt this. And we repeat, that, in that country, all the securities are enjoyed, which man cannot abandon, without being the murderer of his own welfare; and a plan is regularly pursued, to establish, on permanent foun dations, that blessing, which has produced so much pros perity, and is likely to procure still greater advantages, for the British nation—the free exercise of the individual fa culties ! In the country of Rio de la Plata, it is of no moment whether a person be born a Briton, a Frenchman, or a German ; whether he is of the torrid, of the tempe rate, or of the frigid zone; whether he has been educated under regular governments, or exposed to the misfortunes of absolute power : in that country, it is of no moment whether he is a Protestant, a Papist, or an Israelite ; it is sufficient that he is a man—a moral, active, and industrious man ! The climate of the United Provinces, and the genius of its inhabitants, accommodate themselves per fectly to all human physiognomies and constitutions: as little do its rivers, its lands, and its productions, need the assistance of ancient or fashionable mythology, or any of the quackeries of political machinists to recommend them : and by the fundamental principles of the country every thing is conceded to a foreigner, even to placing him on an equality with the natives as to rights, without the excep tion of the least privilege, whatever may be the reason al leged for his deserving it. This also proves that the United Provinces of Rio de la Plata know how to be--/n -dependent. SUPERNATURAL AGENCY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE BRITISH PRESS. Sra—l observe in the British Press of Monday last an extract from a Glasgow Paper, containing an account of a respectable family in Ruthergien being molested and alarmed by a very singular species of annoyance. " A pane of glass in the kitchen," says the account, " and some articles of earthenware in the court, were smashed in a mysterious way; milk was transferred by invisible hands from the tubs used to contain it, to places where it had no right to be, and butter, kept in a place off the byre (corn house), was found in the boiler in the washing-house." It then proceeds to relate that after dark, an iron four pound shot was thrown through the kitchen window, breaking two of the panes of glass in its passage, and striking the wall close to where a young girl, one of the family, were standing. The Magistracy, it arpears, took proper mea sures for discovering the author of these magical molest*. tions, which turned out to be no other than the servant maid, but who has since retracted her confession, declaring that it was extorted from her, by the threat of being lodged in Itutherglen gaol. I do not advert to this affair as having any thing of the marvellous in it, since nothing appears to have happened here that any art ful Scotch wench might not have managed without any aid from the arch-enemy by whom she stated herself to be in stigated. But I refer to it because it recalls to my mind the most curious and extraordinary affair which excited a strong public sensation at SrocKWELI., about fifty years ago, and which, to this day, has never, that I know of, been cleared up. I copy the following account of it, ♦sae'srrx, from the Newspapers of 17;2: " At the house of one Mrs. GOULDING, a single gentle woman, at STOCKWEI.T., in the parish of Lambeth, in Surrey, about eleven o'clock in the forenoon on Monday last, there being no person except herself and servant (AxN ROBINSON, aged fifteen years or thereabouts) several earthen plates, and one dish, of what is called the Queen's ware, which were placed on a shelf in one of the kitchens, fell down, and all broke except the dish, without any visi ble cause; in a little time after, several candlesticks, and other things, the furniture of a mantle-piece in the back kitchen, were thrown in the middle of the floor, though no person was in that room; then some china, &c. on the mantle-piece in the other kitchen was in like manner thrown into the middle of the floor, and broke, and as the pieces lay, they snapped and flew just as though they had been thrown on an exceeding hot fire ; a glazed lantern ; which hung on the staircase, was thrown down ; a clock also was thrown down and broke: a red earthern pan, containing salt beef, flew in pieces, and the beef fell about; and many such like uncommon things , happened ; which causing an alarm, the people from the road, without distinction, ran into the house, some supposing it to be on fire, others thought the house had received a shock from the explosion of a powder-mill at Hounslow, which was blown up about an hour before. However, all concurred in moving the goods; and Mrs. Gov Lntria, together with her maid-servant, went to Mr. GRESH A M'S, a gentleman who lives in the next house to Mrs. Goulding's, whither the goods were carried, and particularly a tray full of china, an iron bread-basket japanned, two mahogany waiters, seve ral bottles of different sorts of liquors, a gallipot of jelly, and a pier-glass worth about five, pounds, which glass was taken down by one Mr.SAVILLx (a neighbour to Mrs. Goulding) who handed it one Robert Barnes, and a part ry' the gilt work on each side of the frame flew ; L T before he could put it down in the garden; but when it was laid down, remained without farther damage till it was taken into Mr. Gresham's, and put under a side-board, where it ew to pieces. Mr. Saville and others going to drink of a bottle of rum and a bottle of wine, they both flew in ;pieces, though they were uncorked ; they china in the tray flew in pieces, some while it was in the house, and the rest in the garden, whither it was removed by the afrighted spectators after it began to break; the bread-basket was thrown down and broke, as also were the two mahogany waiters, and the pot of jelly, together with bottles of liquors and jars of pickles, all of them the property of Mrs. Goulding. Mrs. Goulding, being ill with the p ight, was let blood by Mr. Gardner, a surgeon of Clapham, who borrowed a pint chins bowl of Mr. Gresham's people to receive the blood, which being afterwards set upon a sideboard, near a bottle Of rum, the property of Mrs. Goulding, both bottle and bowl jumped on the fluor and broke, the b ow l go i ng i nto five pieces (a piece of which is now in the ion of Mr. Waterfield at the Royal Oak Inn, VauxEtZl ia Mrs. Goulding end her servant then went to Mr. May in next door to Mr. Gresham's ; but during their stay there (which was but very short) nothing extraordinary happened; from thence they went to the house of Farmer Payne (to whose wife Mrs. Goulding is related) on Rush.eornen o n, near the Wash-way, about half a mile distant from her own house, where they found Mr. and Miss Gresham, Mr. Payne and his family ; it being about dinner-time, they all dined with Mr. Payne; some time after dinner Mrs. Goulding's servant was sent home to examine into the state of the house, and returned with an account that every ' thing there had been quiet from the time they left it. In a little time after they the return of the servant, • Mr. and Miss Gresham stafieorne (nothing inateountable having yet happened at Mr, Payne a) ; but Mrs. Gontn- INo and her servant staid, and about seven o'clock in the evening the same kind of uncommon operations as had been seen at Mrs. Goulding's began of Mr. Naita's, by seven pewter dishes out of eight falling from the top shelf over a dresser in the kitchen, u it/lout any apparent cause, which was followed by en infinite namher of ex amples not less strange., and particularity the following: a pestle and mortar jumped from the mantle-piece in the kitchen to the floor, about six feet ; s row of peitter plates fell front the second shelf (over tile dresser) to the ground, and being taken up, and put one in the other on the dresser, which is about three feet high, they were thrown down again, anti lay in the same manlier as plates are geeerally placed on a shelf; the pewter, china, earthen ware, &c. were then almost all set upon the floors in the kitchen and parlour (to prevent being broke or bruised by falling), but four pewter plates were left on one of the Ishelves over the dresser, Which plates did not move the whole night. While the things were putting on the ground, a stone tea-cup jumilm out of a beaufet to the floor ; on the floor a glass tumbler jumped about a foot and a half, and broke ; another that stood near it jumped also about the same distance, but remained whole for some hours after, then took another spring and broke alio; a chitYa Wvv! jumped from the floor in the middle of the parlour, and went behind the feet of a claw table, which was standing in the same parlour, at the distance of about eight feet, but did not break at that time, but being re placed by one Mr. Fowt on, remained whole for a consi derable time afterwards, and then flew to pieces; three , china cups, which had been l e f t on t h e d resser i n t h e I kitchen, flew slant-wise across the kitchen about twelve feet, by which two were broke; an mg flew from the lower shelf over the dresSer, taking the :ame direction as the cups had done, and went nearly the same distance ; that was another egg on the shelf, which did not move the whole night; a candlestick flew from the mantle-piece in I the kitchen into the parlour door-way, about fifteen feet from the place where it stood ; a tea-kettle under the dresser was thrown out about two feet; another tea-kettle, which stood on the side of the grate, was thrown off against an' I iron that is fixed to keep the children from the fire; a mus tard glass, which was a little broke by some natural acci dent, was thrown from a table into a pewter-dish on the floor, at about seven feet distance, but did not break, neither was it broke afterwards; the cup that had escaped when the other, two were broke (as is the fore mentioned) being set on a table in the parlour, flew off to the distance of nine feet, and broke; a tumbler, with a little ruin and water in it, standing on a waiter upon a table in the same parlour, jumped about ten feet, anti broke; the table then overset, and threw of a silver tankard of Mrs. Goulding's, a candlestick, and the waiter the tumbler had jumped from ; two hams, which had been hung up in the chimney to dry, fell down, though the nail and strings on and by which they had hung were not broke or misplaced • a case bottle of liquor, part of which they had just drank , flew into pieces; and, in short, about four o'clock in the morning of Tuesday, almost every thing in the parlour and kitchen were animated, and made such a racket, that Mr. Pause's maid-servant ran up stairs, and took a child out of bed, and carried it into the stable naked, thinking it was not safe longer to stay in the house. Mrs. Goutouva, then seeing the general confusion, went with her servant across the road to Mr. Fowler's (the same Mr. Fowler as is before-mentioned in this narrative) and were accompanied by Mrs. Payne and her son, about nine years of age ; and the confusion at Mr. Payne's immediately ceased. When Mr. Fowler had let them into his house, he proceeded to light a fire in his back room, which done, he put the candlestick and candle he had used upon a table in his fore room (through which Mrs. Goulding and her servant had passed), where also stood another candlestick with a tin lamp in it, but they did not stand long before they were knocked against each other, and thrown to the ground by some invisible agent ; then a lantern in the back-room, that had been used in lighting Mrs. Goulding, &c. across the road, was thrown to the ground; and lastly a basket of coals, which was brought from Mr. Payne s, overact, and emptied itself upon the floor. Mr. Fowler upon this told Mrs. Goulding lie feared she had been guilty of some bud act, as it was plain the cause of such wonderful events was carried with her; but Mrs. Goulding answered, that her conscience was clear from any extraordinary evil, and that she could not tell the cause why she was so troubled, or such like words; however, Mr. Fowler desired her to quit his house, as he could not afford to have his goods destroyed ; whereupon Mrs. Goulding and her servant left his house, which has been quiet ever since, and returned to her own house ; anti, in a little time after their arrival, a cask with some beer in it was thrown from its stand, and a pail of water was moved from its place a little, and some of the water spilled, but nothing more hap pened ; then she discharged her servant and has remained quiet ever since." " Another account has the following additional circum stance:— " Some plates of Mr. Gresham's, by way of trial, were placed upon the same shelf with those of Mrs. Goulding's ; the former stood unhurt, the whole of Mrs. Got; LDING . R were broke in pieces. " The servant girl is gone home to her father, the clerk of Lewisham parish ; and what remains ~re now just as innanimate as the furniture of other houses."' Now, Sir, I should be extremely obliged would any cor respondent inform me, through the medium of your paper, whether all this apparently supernatural ntrcncy was ever asurtained to be the result of trick or deception. That the particulars actually happened as described was never dis puted at the time, and they seem corroborated by such tes timony as leaves no room to doubt the truth of the relation. But the fact which it is important to ascertain is, could all that is here described to have taken place, have been produced by the agency of the servant maid? To tne this appears ut terly impossible. I am by no means disposed to listen with a believing ear to tales of the marvellous, but I confess my self wholly unable to account for the phenomena which are here related. If an ignorant servant maid could have prac tised what is here brought to pass, hr, what means could she effect it? The agency was invisible; it did not appear to those present to be result of any natural power. The whole is a .nystery, which no reasoning can reconcile to our comprehension; and the fact is at the same time so well attested, that we cannot reject it. In common with many others, I should feel extremely indebted to any one whose habits of philosophic investigation enable him to throw some light upon this event, which from its circumstances can never cease to be interesting. I am, Sir, yours, &c. A SERIOUS INQUIRER. About the year 1748 Judge Chamberlain happened to preside in the Criminal Court at Limerick, when two men were arraingued for highway robbery. It appeared in the course of the trial that one of the culprits had proposed to his companion to murder the person whom they had robbed, in order to prevent him from cctning forward at a future time to give evidence. The other robber, however, who was not of so sanguinary a disposition, would not listen to such a suggestion, and succeeded ultimately in dissuading him from his purpose. In the course of a short time both the robbers were apprehended, and the person wbo had been robbed came forward to prosecute. Upon seeing him enter the witness's-box, the man who had recommended his murder was heard, in an audible whisper, to say to his companion, "If we had killed this fellow he would not be here to-day to swear against us. But wait till we get out of this, and see if I ever spare another man's life." The trial proceeded, and the Jury found a verdict of Guilty against both prisoners. The Judge then addressing the hardened criminal, told hint that it was his province to ace that he should not put his diabolical intentions into effect: and ordering the Sheriff to erect a gallows in front of the Court .house, be had the culprit executed within an hour after sentence had been pronounced. The more merciful prisoner was, of course, saved. J. W. Fiele was on Thursday last brought, by Haheas Corpus, from Portsmouth, in custody of the Marshal of the Admiralty, and committed to take his trial at the Ad-' miralty Sessions, charged with felony, while acting as purser of the Tartar frigate, which ship was employed on the coast of South America. It appears that the prisoner has been many months under arrest, and was sent hope in a sloop of war. The precise nature of his offtnee is not known, but it is said to r e l a t e t o so me falsification of his ac counts. LAMPEIVII MUM. The anniversary meeting in commemoration of laying do foundation stone of St. David's College, was held at Lad. peter, Cardiganshire, on Friday week, when the late Bishop of St. Ddvid's ' several of the Rural Dean s , among whom were the Yetierable Archdeacon of Cardigan, and the Rev. New Ifillinebantp, a greet many of the Cletgy, and Revers! other highly respectable perfintla attended. The proceedings of the thy commenced with divine service, when the public prayers of the Church were delivered by 1 1 the Itcv. John Hughes, Minister of Lsrtipeter, and tao mon was preached by t h e Ref?. Daniel Broten ; liir , front Matth. xvi. 18. " lJpon this r s; fjwill build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." After divine service, the Bishop, attended by the Clergy and Laity, together with several ladies, went to examine the pregress of the building of the College, the fllerk of the works accompanying them to give au etpla. nation of such particulars as might be required. After Major LEWIS, of Llanayrdh, had addressed the Meeting, Mr. Mon rose, and obsetved, " I have often, my Lord," (said Mr. Hood, addressing his Lordship) " heard fears expressed, that the College, though built, will not finally succeed for want of an endoWment. But, Ido not hesitate fearlessly to assert, that the College Will almost, if not entirely endow itself! Without attempting a nice calculation, this may, I think, be briefly shown. The Col. lege is intended fortixty.four students, but allowing four teen for vacancies, it will leave fifty as the average number upon the books. If we take 501. as a nominal sum which is to cover the whole of the student's expenoel fr the year, it will produce an annual income from the fifty students Of 2,5001. This sum Would allow 5001. as a salary for the Principal, 250/. to the Second Master, and 1001. to each of the tivn Tutors, leaving a balance of 1,5501. for gen"' expenses. But, if it be urged that 50/. a year for each student is too high a sum, ds, from the general poverty of the diocese, a sufficient number could hot be foetid to enter, 1 answer, that the sum is merely nominal, and can be lowered to meet the peculiar circumstances of the dio cese, because the respectability of the establishment, as well as the various salaries paid to those Connected with it, can be easily regulated by the sum fixed, as the charges. to the students. Thus, if we strike oft 10/. a year, and call the annual expense to each student 401. instead of sot. it would give an income of 2000/. which would afrOtd 4001. a year to the Principal (a sum equal to the fixed salary of the Rector of the New School at Edinburgh), 2001. to the Second Master, and 100/. to each of two Tutors, !eating a balance of 12001., and after taking from this 10001. ore hundred pounds a year for repair, and another hutidred for servants' wages, there would remain 10001. to pay for house-keeping at the rate of 201. fbr the bOard of each student, a sum certainly quite equal to the essential expenses, when it is considered that nothing more than good plain food could be either required or expected. The doubts respecting a want of patronage may, I am per suaded, be as easily disposed of, fbr there can be no per. sons in the diocese, whatever be their stations in sociey. if they are attached to the Established Church, who will not admit the necessity of some such Establishment ; for what, my Lord, I would ask, gives the English kstablishea Church her pre-eminence ? It is not so much her wealth or revenue, as it is the able and public education of her Ministers, which, by eading to an association with divi fied and learned men, produces a collision of talent era a spirit of emulation that imparts that dignity and decision of character, which is calculated to command the respect, while at the same time it teaches the young Divine how to win the esteem of those amongst Whom he may be sent to labour. If we reflect upon this point for a moment, my Lord—if we consider the influence and value of the patro nage already given, and what may he yet afforded, and lord. even to the number and respectability of the present Meeting, if is I think impo ss ibl e not to t e ed satisfied that these fears and doubts can exist only in the minds of the most painfully timed, or in the opinion of those who really cannot have given themselves much trouble iu reflecting upon the subject," After the Bishop of Sarum left the room, Colonel LEWIS was called to the Chair. He proposed the health of Dr. Jenkinson, the new Bishop of Sr. David's, which was drank with three times three; and after a few other toasts bad been drank, the company se parated. • IRISH' PLOT. [Prom the Droll' Pateiot.l We make the following extracts from a letter which has appeared in the Leicester Jotenal, this day. It appears that a plot was contemplated to excite alarm amongst the Protestants of Pilltown and its vicinity. One of the instru ments has been discovered, and he has been examined by a Bench of Magistrates, specially convened for investigating the business. He displayed great calmness and steadi ness:— " He declared that he had no recollection of having offered information to a Magistrate, or having spoken to any person of the conspiracy with which he was charged. alleging, that, if lie had offered information, it was in a moment of intoxication, and that, as he never recollected any thing that occurred to him while in that state, the only intimation he had of having done to was from others, when he became sober. An attempt was made, by his bro ther, to prove him insane when he drinks ; but both his alleged conduct when drunk, and his examination before the 'Magistrates, left a very different impression on the minds of the generality of persons present. " It appeared that he sent for a magistrate, who went to him to Hatchet's public-house, in Filltown, on Sunday the 14th; that he told the magistrate that a conspiracy was formed to murder all the Protestants of Pilltown ; that pikes were concealed in certain public-houses of the village ; and that a coffin full of pikes was to come on a hearse, by way of a funeral, to Tybragney church-yard ; that green dresses were being made for the leaders (four of whom he named, wealthy and respectable Catholic farmers, than whom there are not better conducted men in the entire country ;) that two of the above persons went to his house, and putting a rope round his neck, compelled him to swear to be " loyal to the laws of Counsellor O'Connell; and to mow down the Protestants like stubbles." Although, when offering this information, he had the appearance of inebriety, he still had prudence enough to decline swearing to his deposition. It also ap peared, in evidence, that he said that the expenses were to be defrayed from the Catholic Rent Fund." _ In conclusion, the letter states the general satisfaction felt at the unwearied and meritorious efforts of the magi'. trate, engaged in this investigation, HARVEST MOO N 8.-Thit is the last of a series of ten years, in which the moon has proved the most beneficial to farmers, for reaping and gathering in the fruits of the earth, viz. from 1816 to 1826, inclusive. The preceding nine years, namely, from 1807 to 1816, inclusive, were its the class of those in which, from natural causes, the Har. vest Moon has been least beneficial. Such also will be the years from 1826 to 1982. The harvest has been very scanty in the midland and southern parts of Spain. In Madrid, wheat is 801. anti barley 20s. the quarter. During the last two weeks the demand for shearers a Penrith has been so great that 4s. 6tl. per day and dinners have been given for but indifferent hands. Pattern, the convict left for execution at onr late assizes. underwent the awful sentence of the law on Saturday last. —Birmingham Gazette. _ _ The foliostittiextraordinary scene recently took place at a village near Nancy, in France. At she mome nt th e Cure uf the village was about plinsolancing his benediction at the close of vespers, a young missionary% belonging to a troop that are exhibiting in the neighbourhood, started up and , t r o i rr lis ce t i l v w e y yo b it a r v be e said, " Stop father, there arc here seven women unworthy church. A prneeN rrriol was drawn up, and transmitted to ri r ed e r i t e ; To se i v u t e7 i w n ° c ln ot e i t t l e g ss u l i o l i t i ) :' n ' f lie theta pointed out the seven women, and forced them to quit the the Bishop and the Proeureur-General. On the second (lay of Siaurbridge Races, held last week, an extensive range of hoothing erected on the course, at this height of about ten feet from the ground, when nearly will de wa11..4 Gloucester Journal. 1 , . .-. . i , . i i i f i , i 1 1 . . , . 1 . . 1 ' 1