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LITERARY GLEJNINGS. No. XXXVIII. INSTROCTIONS TO MARRIED LADIES IN THE SCIENCE OF SELF-JUSTIFICATION. Yet have, probably, hitherto been addressed as angels. prepare for the time when you shall again become mortal. 'fake the alarm at the first approach of blame ; at the firs hint of s discovery that you are any thing less than infaK debate, justify, recriminate, rage, w ee p, swoon, do any thing but yield to conviction. N eil to matters of taste, points of opinion will afford dm most constant exercise to your talents. Here you will h a y ° an opportunity of citing the opinions of all the living have ever known, besides the dear privilege and dead you continually Nay, you must allow that:— of repeating Or, You can't deny this, for it s the universal opinion— ..eibody sa ys sal everybody thinks so! I wonder to h e ar you express such an opinion ! Nobody but yourself ts of that way of thinking:* with innumerable other phrases, with which a slight attention to polite conversa tion will furnish you. kilo mode of opposing authority to argument, and assertion proof, is of such universal utility, that I pray you to practise it. " )f the 'Tint in dispute he some opinion relative to your character or disp osition, allow in geserel, that 'you are sure you have a grea t man y faults ; but to every ape edc charge, reply, well, lam sure I don't know, but I del not think that was one of my faults I nobody ever se emed me of that blore ! Nay, I was always remarkable fur the contrary ; at least before I was acquainted with voce—Sir: in my own family I was always remarkable for the contrary ; ask any of my own friends; ask any of them, they must know me hest.' " I come now to the art of reasoning: don't be alarmed at the name of reasoning. I will explain to you my meaning. " If you should fortunately be connected with a man, who, haying formed a justly high opinion of your sex, should propose to treat you as his equal, and who in any little dispute which might arise between you, should desire no other arbiter than reason : triumph in his mistaken appeal to the decision of reason at the sandour, regularly *inning of every contest, and deny its jurisdiction at the conclirsi , m. I take it for granted that you will be on the wrong side of every question, anal, indeed, in general, I advise you to choose the wrong side of an argument to de fend ; whilst you are young in the science it will afford the best exercise, and, as you improve, the best display of your talents. " If. then, you would succeed in argument, attend to the following instructions. " Begin by preventing, if possible, the specific state ment of any position, or, if reduced to it, use the most ce- ' natal terms, and take advantage of the ambiguity which all languages, anal which most philosophers allow. Above all things, shun definitions ; they will prove fatal to you ; for two persons of sense and candour, who define their terms, cannot argue long without either convincing, or being convinced, or parting in equal good humour; to prevent which, go over and over the same ground, wander as wide as possible from the point, but always with a view to return at last precisely to the same spot from which you set out. I should remark to you, that the choice of your weapons is a circinnstance much to be attended to: choose always those which your adversary cannot use. If your husband is a man of wit, you will of course undervalue a Went which is never connected with judgment: for your part, you do not presume to contend with him in wit. But if he be a sober-minded man, who will go link by link along the chain of an argument, follow him at Ant, till he grows so intent that he does not perceive whether you follow him or not ; then slide back to your own station, and when with perverse patience he has at last reached the last link of the chain, with one electric shock of wit, nake him quit his hold, and strike him to the ground in an instant. Depend upon the sympathy of the spectators, fur to one who can understand reason, you will find ten who admire wit. " But if you should not be blessed with a ready wit;' if c ;emonstration should in the mean time stare you in the f ees , do not be in the least alarmed , antieipato the hlnw. mit a ,• you have it yet in your power, rise with becoming euroao ,mity, and cry, I give it up I I give it up ! La! l et its say no more about it; I do so hate disputing about trigs 1 . I give it up!' Before an explanation on the wor d tT ig, e in take place, quit the room with flying colours. " If in yo,'lr debates with your husband, you should wan t a k quau Te to vex him, the dull prolixity of nar ration, j o i ne d to' the complaining monotony of voice which I formerly recom,-oendcd, will supply its place, anal hare the desired effect ; then, ever and soon, rouse him with interrogatories, such es, Did not You say so? Dou't you remember? Oily an neer 59 . Chet Q' o Wh en y ou h ave .nearly exhausted human patience in elp hu o i ng, j ust if y i ng. !indicating—when, in spite of all the pains you have taken, • you have more than half be trayed your Own vanity ; have a never-failling re source in paying tribute 16 that of your opponent, as thus:— " ' I am sure you must be se.nsible that I should never take so much pains to justify mya elf if I were indifferent to your opinion. I know that I ou . ght not to disturb my self with such trifles ; but nothing is a trifle to me which concerns you. I confess I am too anxious to please ; I Slim it's a fault, but I cannot cure my self of it now. Too quick sensibility, I sun conscious, is ilk' defect of my dis position; it would be happier fur me if _I could be more istlifierent, I know.' " Who could be so brutal a to blame a amiable, so candid a creature? Who would not submit to be tor- ' mental with kindness? " %Phan once your captive tOntlescentle to be Battered by such arguments as thew, year power is fleet: your inure triumphs can be boundel only by your own Anode ration ; they are at once secured and justided. " Thus I have esdeavourral to provide precepts Wow(' Is the display of your several talents; be if there shook be any amongst yea who have no talents, who an neither ague not persattle, who have neither sediment 90f en tbesimm, I must indeed congratulate them; they are Re calirly for the science of self justillestion: in delgeat nature, often even in the weeklies, provide for the protection of her creatures; just Providence, as the guard of stupidity, has enveloped it with the impenetrable armour of Matins:T. " Fair idiots! let women of sense, wit, feeling, triumph in their various arts; yours arc superior. Their empire, absalute as it sometimes may be, is perpetually subject to sudden revolutions. IV nit them a Irian has some chance of equal sway ; with a fool he has none. flare they hearts and understandings!' Then the one may be touched, or tie other in som e un l uc k y moment conv i nce d ; even i n their very power lies their greatest danger i—not so with toy. In vain let the most candid of his sex attempt to reason with you ; let him begin with. Now, my dear, only listen to reason.' you stop him at once with, No, my dear, you know 1 do not pretend to reason; I only say rid s my e a tiiii,m! " Lrt loin go on to p rove th a t yours i s a m i s t a ken opi nion :— you are r ea d y to ac k now l e d ge i t, l ong b e f ore he deemsit. ' You acknowledge it may be a wrong opinion; stel ,' it pur opitsiurt: You do not maintain it in the kat, eith er becoum: you believe it to be wrong or riFht, irerely because it is yours. Exposed as you might Itlive been to the perpetual humiliation of being convinced, weave seems kindly to hare denied vou all perception of tr"h or at least all sentiment of pli.asure from the per- With an admirable humility, you are as well con :•!t1 to he in the wrong as in the right ; you answer all eau be said to you, with a provoking humility of cr I do not doubt but what you say may be very hut 1 cannot t e ll ; I d o not think myself capable of nog on these subjects , I am sure you must know much r thin Pilo. I do not pretend to say but what your n is very just; but I own I am of a contrary way of R 4 ,7 ; I alway s t h oug h t so , anal I always shall. . Your adversary, finding you impenetrable to arttu :% p 'Jive would try wit :—but, ' On the impassive the lightnings play.' Ilia eloquence or his kindness trail less; when in yielding to you after a long ha he expects to please you, you will answer un ':(tlly with the utmost propriety, "fhat you shoul d 'try sorry h e y i e ld ed his judgment to you; t h at be is ;tall ; that you aro much obliged to him ; but, that :he point in dispute, it is a matter of perfect indiffer ence to you ; for your part you have no choice at all about it; you beg that he will do just what he pleases; you know that it is the duty of a wife to submit; but you bort, however, you may have an opinion of your own.' " Remember all such speeches as these will lest above half their effect, if you cannot accompany them with tl.e vacant stare, the insipid smile, the passive aspect Of the humbly perverse. " Whilst I write, new precepts rush upon my teen,- lection ; but the subject is inexhaustible. I quit it with regret, though fully sensible of my presumption in having attempted to instruct those who, whilst they read, will smile in the consciousness of superior powers. Adieu then, my fair readers !—Long may you prosper in the practice of an art pe:uliar to your se x. Long may you maintain un rivalled dominion at home and abroad : and long may your husbands rue the hoar when first they made you pro mise ' to obey.'—Miss Edge:ourtla's Letters fur Literary Ladies. The following graceful stanzas are attributed to STIIN• KAk, of whose history nothing is known:— With the graceful corn upapringing, With the birds around me singing, With the leaf-crown'd forests waving, Sweet slay.dews the herbage laving, With the flowers that round me bloom, To my lady dear I'll come: All things beautiful and bright, Sweet in sound and fair to sight, Nothing, nothing is too rare For my beauteous lady fair ; Every thing I'll do and be, So my lady solace me. She is one in whom I find All things fair and bright combined ; When her beauteous form I see, Kings themselves might envy me, Joy with joy is gilded o'er, Till the heart can hold no more. She is bright as morning sun, She my fairest loveliest one; For the honour of the fair I will sing her beauty rare, Every thing I'll do and be, So my lady solace me. Solace me, then, sweetest !—be Such in heart as I to thee; Ope thy beauteous lips of love, Call me thine, and then above Alerrily, merrily I will sail With the light clouds on the gale. Dear one, deign my heart to bless, Steer me on to happiness, Thou, in whom my soul ennfideth, Thou, whose love my spirit guided' ; Every thing I'll du and be, So my lady solace me. Lays of German Troubadours. SPOR77Nci IN7'ELLIGE.VCE. INTELLIGENCE EXTRA. NEWMARKET SiF.CO:s) OCTOBER MEETING. HONIPAT. Third and last year. One.th4;F; S ubscription of 25 Sovereigns each, fur 3.yr-olds: colts, 11at. 81b.. and fillies Bst. Gib. A.F. To be bona tide the property of the subscribers. SUBSCRIBICII. Duke of Grafton Duke of Grafton Duke (.1 . Portland Lord Exeter Lord Verulam. His Royal Highness the Duke of York Dlr. 0. L. Fos Lord Egremont Lord Lowther Colonel Wilson The Garden Stakes of 100 Lord G. Carendieles Bizarre. 5 y Mr. Pattit's Bravura, 4 yrs, flit. 121 h. Duke of Rutland's El Dorado, 4 yrs, ftst. 31b. Lord Verulam's Vitellina, 4 yrs. 7st. I llb. Duke of Rutland's Adeliu, S yrs, 7st. 61b. General Grosvenor's Crockery, 3 yrs, 7st. 41b. no each. T.M.M. lb. cepti; li r ktte t it or m bye, ir (11.11 thinh 111 P text k 4, •i!i ▪ ra ve B dolis ▪ b: Ili I) r MATCHES. Mr. (heallle's Don Carlo., 91b. agst Mr. Tbombill's Sur prize, Bst. D.I. 100. Lord Exeter's Palsis Royal, llst. 91b. agst Mr. Thornhill's Re former, ast. 51b. Ab. 31. 200. Captain Rous's Rigmarol, B. 71b. agst Mr. Nowell's e. by Aladdin, 70. T.Y.C. 100. h. ft. Lord Exeter's Athenian, 11st. 71b. agst Lord Orford's Orion, Bsk llb. T.Y.C. 200. It.. ft. Mr. Pettit's Rctrott, ;Ist. eget ➢lr. Greville's Elizabeth, 7st. 71b. T.V.C. 100. Lord Anson's b. f. by Bustard, out of Mild of Orleans, aget Ste J. Shelley's b. f. by Waterloo, out of Schellerasside, Bat. 41b. each. T.Y.C. 200. Captain Hais's Covietion, 4 yrs, fist. 111 b. agat Lord hunting. field's Thu Lark, 3 yrs. fist. AF. 100. TCESDAY. One-third of a Subicription of 25 sovereigns each for 4-yr-olds, D.I. Fifty Pounds for 2-yr-olds. T. Y.C. MATCH/3. 100, h. fl. T.V.C. DukToilinftnn's eh. f. Cremona. by Par tisan, out of Catgut. sgst Mr. Oreville's br. f. by Smolensko, out of Jerboa, Biit. alb. such. Lord O. Cavendish's Oanymerle. 9st. 111 b. apt Lord Jersey's 3liddleton, Oat. lb. 200. b. ft. D. 31. WEDXVIDAT. The Oc:ober Oatlands Stakes of 30 Sovereigns each. B. M. For 3.yr-olds and upwards. IrBSCRIBERS. Mr. fir:vine (2 sabscrip.) 31r. Batson Lord EXtitT Mr. W. Edwards Duke of Ornnon Lord N'erulam Mr. Wilson Lord Jersey Lord G. Cavendish THURSDAY. The Town Plato of Fifty Pountisi;S:yr .old and onwards, T.M.M. The winner to besold for 200. &c. Sweepstakes of 100 each, 60 ft. Cults Oat. 71b. ; and fillies list. 41b. 1).1. The Duke of York's eh. c. (dead) by Soothsayer The Duke of York's b.f. Sister to Prince Leopold Lord Exeter's b. c. (dead') by Scud, nut of Folly Lord Elsier's eh. f. Ads, sister to Augusta Dlr. Wyndham's Brother to Spermaceti. D. of Grafton's (death brother to Carbonaro. D. of nraftun's c. by %Voful, out of sister to Nectar. D. of firsiton's b. c. Bolero, by Partisan. D. of tiratton's ch. c. Nigel, by Election. Loot U. Carendkli's Black Cat, by BuurNon. Mr. Foes hr. c. Backgammon. by NVatton. ,Mr. Gresilles b. c. Faust. by Merlin. Ltell Clarendon's b. e. by Partisan. 2PO . h. ft. D. M. Lord Exeter's 1%1114 Royal, and Mr. Grc. Tine; 110113. TRIMLY. Renewal of tbs Prendeqrast Stakes of .10 soya. each, h. ft. ; colts. Be. 51h.. and fillies, Co. 31b. Mr. Prendermist's E by Rainbow—Janne:* Gen. Grosvenor*. 1. by Stnolenskn. ('ol. Wilson's ch. c. by A bjer—Spitining Jenny lir. Rogers's c. by Patin da Pota, dam by Clinker s Brother to scratch Duke of Grafton's ch. c. Goshawk, by Merlin b. f. Lilts', by Amadas—Piquet Mr. Rush's b. 1. by Pioneer—Bninctta Mr. Tarlton's eh. f. by Merlin—Salt Loral Exeter's Brother to Fanatic _ Mother to Attica Sir J. Drnit's e. by Smoisneke—Sklnjeck's dam Mr. Smith • b. e. by Cannon Ball—Jobant.• br. e. by Cannon Ball—Chasm Duke of Rutland'. e. by Worial—Penny.tronpet Mr. Grlteilles eh. f. Sister to Faust b. f. by Partisan—Orion * * Dam br. f. &y Sultslensko—Jabs Lord G. Carentlish's e. by Comas—Rrorsa Lord Jersey's f. by Magistrate.—Fillagros Mr. Thorthill's f. by 111 erlin--Mond Mr. Wyndham's f. by Whalebone—ELftid% Dam Mr. Wortley's Crusader, by Cerriunes--Ocuiriana Mr. NVilson's eh. e. by Blattistrate—Pluto's Dam Mr. 'fheakstott's b. f. by Waterloo—lnterpreter's Darn eh. f. by Aladdin—Johanna South's:l4e Mr. Lee's In. f. by Sinolensko—Dam by Sir Peter. TATTERSALL; S, THVIISDAT. A very thin attendance, and scarcely any betting. TM wife- Sion °mash:mod by the levanters has now nearly suloided, bat the unprincipled conduct of one has excited greet indignation. Thh person, though worth at least 50,0001., sets them all at defiance. and refusn to pay his bets (amounting to 12 or 13.0001.), alleging that be crettot Moak of In jm r bog hi:family. He is heated out of all the sporting circles. We believe it is determined in future, when any one does not come forward igicemnable time after a greet race, to poet him in the same mennerWdefaulters at the Stock Exchange. The present odds stand thus:— NEW MMMMMM ST. 110116 5 to I egst Slid Alston, p. p. 2 to 1 agst Rufus :111T. 11 to 1 agst The neutral 13 to 1 apt Gaviria 17 to I agst Bolivar 17 to I 'gat Sophist la to 1 age Monarch 20 to I ages Baton lisnottan. sen 40 to 1 ogit Ririabet. 8 to 1 agst Parasol 9 to 1 agst Henry 12 to 1 apt Pawn Dowcasttrt 9 to 1 apt Brllatnfte 1 It to 1 asst Bizarre Pi to 1 asst Sister to A ugusta. IT. LTOCI. 20 to 1 art Barefoot. THE BRITISH PRESS . NEWEST LONDON FASYHONS. [From the new Monthly Work called the World of Fashion and Contniental Feldlletons.l No. 1. WALMING DREI9.-11 igh dress of fine cambric, trimmed with Vandyke lace, and fastening demo the front with elegantly wrought Lwow*: a double-pointed pelerine cape. Cornette of Vandyke lace, placed very backward, so that the ends only appear under the chin. Hat of pink gros de Naples, elegantly ornamented with satin, blond, ftill.blown rues and barberries. Pink strings, tying on the right side tinder the chin. No. 2. Ev ENING Hit rsa.—Dress of tulle over white satin, made low, and falling off the shoulders, where the sleeve is caught up by pearl tassels. Barbel-blue toque of satin, with elegant white plumage. Necklace, two rows of very large pearls. No. 3. CARRIAGE COST t;3I E.—High dress of jaconot muslin, with double-falling collar trimmed with lace; and fastened in front with a bow of jonquil striped riband. Sleeves en blouse, with a mancherun formed of two rows of plaited leer, set at a distance from each other. Ilst of white gros tie Naples, ornamented with striped riband, jonquil and bright geranium, and crowned with full bouquets of flowers of the same colours : the hat ornamemed under the brim with ribands the same u the strings, whist float loose, and a sash of the sante riband encircles the waist. NO. 4.—Cap of tulle, lined with lapia.coloured satin or scarlet, and ornamented scrota; the crown, en cretes de coq, with lapsis and pink riband ; and lightly embellished with sweet peas. Short strings of striped riband, lapsis sad pink. No. 6.—Carriage hat of white satin, ornamented with gaiter, edged with a white satin rouleau ; and adorned with very large full blown damask roses, with their buds anti green leaves. Under the brim a fluting of damask.ruse.coloured satin riband ; bows of the same on each temple, and strings. Fashion it a divinity, before whose shrine the inhabitants of every nation fall prostrate: the worship of this power is innocent, AS herself, for, though it has triumph for its end, her votaries of different nations are distinguished one from another, without being disunited. Even her caprices are venerated, 'because they afford the means of equally embellishing the captive Circassian of the Asiatic Harem, as to her who shines at, and adoms the British court, or is distinguished by her taste, as well as beauty. in the re. splen.lent audiences of the opera. The sacred firs of fashion burns on the frozen summits of Mount Cancans, as bright as on the plains of Hindman ; and now, in Britain's summer retreats, we find the versatile power enveloping her fair Votaries in the garment of chaste and elegant simplicity. The newest hat is in the Margaret de Valois shape, and is of white satin ; a cnrnette quilling of blond is placed under the hat; and over the crown is a small fichu of Japanese gauze, edged with blond and white satin rouleaux : the ends of the fichu are, how. ever. short, and do not tie under the crown, as is generally the mode. This hat is ornamented with a superb plume of ostrich feathers, playing in different directions, over the crown and brim. Black velvet hats, of the same shape, but larger in size, are ex. pected in a short time to be in general request : these are trimmed in the sante way with the white satin hat above-mentioned, only , that the black plumage is curled. A carriage hat of blue gros de Naples has been much, and justly admired ; it is trimmed with stiffened ornaments of the same material, placed on the crown, en Jere de chrool ; between the interstices of which are bouquets of blue fancy flowers. The hats are of a more moderate size than they were last month, except those of leghom, which still continue too large to be becoming. White chip and white crape hats, with superb plumes of ostrich feathers, are much worn at the public drycnnes, and other rural entertainments. Ire have seen a very superb black satin dress, for a widow of high rank, who has thrown aside her weeds, yet seldom wears co. lours. The border of the skirt is finished by three serpentine or. naments of rich looped fringe; each headed by a full rouleau of satin. The front of the skirt is made like a pelisse robe; and the part that forms the apparent folds down each side, is ornamented with sepentine rouleaux, and fringe to correspond with tho trim. mings round the border. This dress, which is for home costutne, or the receiving family dinner parties, is made high, and the sleeves en gigot. A purple satin dress of this kind, has a very splendid appearance, made more to correspond with evening cos. tome, by the bust being made lower, and the sleeves either short, or less capacious. Geranium-coloured gauze dresses, of the Ja panese kind of texture, over white satin are much in favour for evening dress, and now that the hours of candle light arc many, they have a very beautiful effect; a white satin corsage is gene rally worn with these dresses, with a drapery across the bust of geranium gauze, and short sleeves composed of white satin, and the gauze above mentioned : as the season declines, these gowns are likely to increase in favour; we have already seen several on distinguished females. The fashi,ntble way of trimming gowns consist, much in three very broad bias folds, placed next the border of the skirt ; the upper one only headed by a very full rouleau : at some distance, are three bias folds set on in festons, caught up by rings of fluted satin; over the upper one of these is also a rouleau. Flounces prevail much, especially of blond, over gauze and crape dresses, and sometimes, on those of silk for the evenings, they are placed in festons: on satin dresses fringe seems to predominate, mingled with full rouleaux ; the fringe is of a novel kind, glossy though wiry, and consists of looped cordon; it is very rich and costly; we know of nothing more appropriate to the uimming of satin dresses. _ _ Though we experience a seasonable change in the weather, it yet continues mild in general: and when so, the out-dour coverings are but slight. A beautiful dress satin pelerine, well adapted to the d kmi-saison, has been invented by Mrs. Bell, for the carriage; over a high dress it is • sufficient addition, and looks now infi nitely better than gossamer or other light shawls. It is of the dchu kind, but the point behind does not descend so low as to obscure • fine shape. It is cut in regular but not very distinct points all round, and is finished round the edge with a beautiful blond. The ends are long in front ; but it is too rich and handsome to be confined undo' the saoi ; in slight mourning, this tippet in black, with black lace or fringe, looks beautiful over a pearl-coloured or a French grey : in white satin, edged with blond, they mean elegant appendage to a dress for a concert or the theatre, but when the colours are rather dark or striking, the new fringe looks better than white blond. In regard to the pelisses, there is nothing new, at present, since our last accounts : cachernire shawls, when the weather is chilly, appear both In carriages and at the pro menade ; the ground is white, or of very pale colours: and the bor. der is variegated with all the different huts of the rainbow ; these valuable shawls are too easily imitated, but the imitation confers the highest honour on the skill of our manufacturers, and we hope to see them meet with the encouragement they merit ; for though the soft texture spun front the beard of the Thibet goat can never be attained in a climate like ours, yet a shawl, say what one will, as to its value, has seldom an appearance of elegance: comfort they certainly impart, but little grace; and when such charming works issue from our own looms, seventy or eighty guineas for a real cachemire seems too much to give for a mere wrapping en velope. The lappet caps, which have long been in &your for half dress and home costume, are now confined to the breakfast table; they are of fine thread, figured, or spotted tulle and Mechlin lace; they are generally slightly ornamented with pink riband : for a later hour in the morning, a corneae of blond is moat fashionable ; it is tastefully ornamented with pink satin riband and tulle. A dinner emetic, or home head-dress, is of tulle and blonde, ornamented with pink satin riband and quillings of tulle, and full blown roses, • small bouquet of which lies on each temple ; at the summit, placed very backward, is a splendid bouquet of these flowers, with buds and foliage; this cap is more in the lappet style than that of the cornette ; the ends are very long, of blond the moat beautiful in pattern, and fasten slightly under the chin ; if beauty of countenance is wanting, there requires nevertheless some loveliness to render this head-dress becom. int!: it has an air of high fashion to distinguish it, but its effect must be owing to the taste with which it is put on. A few half-dress turbans have appeared, and ie is expected they will be revived the next winter ; at present caps are all the rage ; few ladies, how youthful soever, are seen without, except when at the rural ball they add a few flowers only to their ornamental combs, he. Dress hats are more worn at evening parties, by matronly belles, than either toques or turbans : as, however, this season ad. vances, we shall, no doubt, witness many changes in female attire. The most epproved colcurs are pink, ethereal blue, royal purple, geranium, and café a la creme. MANCHEITIN COTTON Al•lllT. —'flee market for goods has continued mach in the same state as we reported it in our last. The most animated sales have been in prints suitable for the season. In almost everything else the de mand has not been more than moderate. We believe, how ever, that as much business is doing as there was at the corresponding season on the average of two or three years. Every description of goods is now as low as when cotton was at the lowest. The loss, we understand, is falling on the spinners, who go on in the hopes that an advance in the price of yarn, or a fall in the price of cotton, will take place.—Manchester Journal. The number of vessels cleared outwards at the port of Newport, in Monmouthshire, in the year ending July last, exceeded 8,000. The trade of the port, foreign and coast wise, has increased fourfold in the last few years. The number of houses built, and those now building, with the additional wharfs and quays, astonishes persona who had not seen the town for the last five years. The river is one of the finest in Great Britain, and capable of receiving the largest ships in the British navy. M e are astonished that, with the immense capital now in England, a floating har bour has not been made ere this. PLATING WITH FIRC-ARMS.---IT is OUT painful duty to record a melancholy accident which Ists happened at Rhode, tear this town. A servant in tile house of Mr. George Danger had been engaged in cleaning out a cup board, where there waa a loaded pistol, which was removed to a place where it was supposed it would not have been observed—a boy, who is employed about the house, coming in, was desired by.the servant to reach something from the place where the pistol was deposited ; on seeing the pistol, he pointed it at her, exclaiming," I'll shoot you !" The woman replie4, " Don't point it at me, for it is loaded !" The pistol then went off, and she received the whole of the charge in her face. Mr. Strong, who attends her, thinks, if she does recover, she wilt lose the use of one of her eyes, and be a miserable spntaele for the remainder of iv :r bk.—To/sten andrier. ELECTION OF LORD MAYOR. Ynterday being Michaelmasglay the Livery of the City fif London assembled in Common Hall, fur the purpose of electing a fit and proper person to till the office of Lord Mayor for the year ensuing. The new Sheriffl, Mr. Alderman Crowder and Mr. Aldirman Kelly, attended tor the tint time in their robesof office. The Lord Mayor, Aldermen, Recorder, (loMmon-Sereeimt, &e. having assembled at Guildlull, repaired to the church of St. Law rence. where an appropriate sermon was preached by his Lordship's chaplain. On their return to the Hall they proceeded to the hustings, where— The Rsconnxn informed the Livery they were assembled to gether by virtue of the precept of the Right lion. the Lord Mayor, to exercise one of the most important and valuable privileges be longing to the Livery of that great and ancient city—namely, the choosing two of the Aldermen who had not already passed the chair who might be returned to the Court of Aldermen, for them to nominate and elect one of them to fill the high and honourable office of Lord Mayor of the City during the ensuing year. The names of those eligible for this important station would be put up in rotation, and there could be no doubt that whoever they might choose they would have the satisfaction to know that the person must necessarily be well qualified to fulfil the important duties of that high office, and the assurance that those duties would not only be performed in a manner that would redotmtt to his own credit and approbation, but also to the benefit of hit fellow-citisens. 'he Lor d Mayor, Aldermen, and Recorder then left the Hall, The Corstow•SERGEANT advanced, and said there would be now read to the Livery the list of those Aldermen who had served the office of Sheriff, from whom they would be pleased to nominate the two whom they wished to be returned to the Court of Alder. men, one of whot should be elected by that Court to fill the high and responsible office of Lord Mayor fur the year ensuing. The names were then read. They were— R. A. Coz, Esq., citizen and goldsmith ; W. Venahles, Esq., citizen and stationer ; A. Brown, Esq., citizen and *almoner ; M. P. Lucas, Esq., citizen and vintner; W. Thompson, Lsq., citizen and ironmonger ; and J. Key, Esq., citizen and stationer. The names of these Aldetnien being submitted to the Livery, the Sheriff's decided, by the show of bands, that the choice of the Livery had fallen on Alderman Venables and Alderman Brown to be returned to the Court of A ldermeo. This having beendcclared by the Town Clerk to the Livery, the Sheriffs retired to communicate the same to the Court of Aldermen. - In about half an hour the Lord Mayor, &c. returned to the hustings, and— The RECORDER said, that the Sheriff's having reported to the Court of Aldermen that the choice of the Livery had fallen upon Alderman Venables and Alderman Brown to be returned to that Court, for one of them to be chosen Lord Mayor, the Court Of Aldermen had proceeded to a scrutiny, and up on the scrutiny had determined that the choice of the Court had tallen on Alderman Venables; he had therefore to declare to the Livery that Aldermen Venables was Lord Mayor of this great and illustrious city for the year ensuing. Alderman Venables was then invested with the chain of office by the Swordbearer. Mr. Alderman VEXABLI9 then addressed the Livery. The time had now come when he had to return them his thanks for having conferred upon him, by for the greatest mark of their kind. ness, in electing him to the highest office they, as the Livery of the city of London, could bestow, or which he, as a honest citizen, could be called upon to till. He could assure then; With the greatest sincerity, that whatever ability he possessed should be faithfully, zealously, and impartially exerted in the discharge of that high and honourable office to which they had called him. Standing, as he did that day, before them as Lord Mayor of this great and ancient city, it was impossible for him not to feel an honest pride and inward exultation for the honour of being placed in that high station. But when lie called to mind the various and arduous duties of that station, and the important truits it in. volved, they would not wonder that a deep anxiety checked every exultation in his mind, and qualified every feeling the banour was calculated to excite, at the apprehension of his not being equal to their due performance, and lest he should not be able to do those duties which his fellow citizens had a right to expect from him. (Cheers.) His Right Honourable friend the present Lord Mayor might well feel great satisfaction at the appointment of that day, because his arduous labours were well nigh closed, and because he had now only before him the prospect of receiving the expressions of gratitude, and thanks of his fellow-citizens for the ability and zeal with which he had discharged the iii. portant functions intrusted to him. But far otherwise were his (Mr. Alderman Venables) feelings. Trusting, however, to their kind indulgence for any inability he might betray, and to their candid interpretation of his motives at all times, and atai!ing him. self, as he should, of the able assistance of hill fathers and brethren of the City, he should enter upon his great office, important as it was, prepared to make every exertion and sacrifice to the flail and proper discharge of the duties belonging to it. the high and ho nourable character which that city hail always borne for the splen. dour and dignity of the office, of its chief Magistrate, should not be in the least diminished or impaired by any intentional act of his, hut should to the utmost of his power ho preserved in all its ancient greatness. It was with sincere satisfaction that he could inform the Livery of London that it was in his power to devote the whole of his time to the duties of his o ffi ce. li e knew that the City of Lon. don had always had a very fair renown for its hospitality. It was not becoming in him to be ostentatious, but lie would assUre them, that he should not suffer the character of the City to undergo any diminution in this respect. It was unnecessary for him to say anything as to his views with regard to af fording the Livery every facility to meet publicly for the expres. sion of their sentiments, because he had had occasion before then to state his lion opinion that the deep interest which the peo ple of this country felt in general in public affairs, was one of the greatest causes which had raised Great Britain to that Melt and dig. nailed station which she held in the world. He should render all his aid to the protection and support of commerce, for it was to trade that this great city owed its pre-eminence, and it was to trade that they must look for the continuance of it ; therefore every effort of his should be exerted for the promotion of fair and legitimate coin. inerce. lie now took his leave of them, with the sincere hope that the City of London might not only now, but always, be great, good, and happy. Ilia good wishes extended to the personal wed. tare of all; and they might be assured that his sole ambition should be to merit their approbation at the close of the important office he was about to enter upon ; and, if his object would be fully attained, he should then live in their recollection as at upright magistrate, and as an useful and honourable man. (Much cheeving.) Mr. OLDHAM then came forward and said he would take the liberty of calling to their recollection, that two very important officers, the Sheriffs, had vacated their places yesterday. They had done their duty with the utmost ability and zeal, and they were entitled to the thanks of the citizens of London. He had the honour to be the personal friend of one of the Sheriffs. He was proud to say that he saw in Alderman Brown a model to any Sheriff who might hereafter till the office. The worthy gentleman then moved a vote of thanks to the late Sheriffs (for which see Advertisement). Mr. FAVELL felt great pleasure in seconding the motion. Ile was sure the last act of the citizens would be ingratitude to those who had discharged their duty towards them in the able manner these worthy Sheriff's had done. The vote was then put and carried by acclarnmation. Mr. Alderman 13noww said he must be ungrateful indeed If he did not feel most sensibly the confidence they had just manifested towards hint. He could truly declare, that he received the vote they had just unanimously passed, not as any test of his merits, but as • proof of the extreme liberality with which they viewed, and with which they rewarded, the public conduct of public men, to whom they gave the credit of good intentions. It had been his lot to serve the office of Sherillat a period peculiarly favourable : it was one of profound tranquillity, and lie had been associated with a colleague with whom it lied been his happiness not to have i had a single word 'of difference. It had also been his happiness to be associated with another great officer, whose public conduct added dignity to the chief magistracy of that city. He bad just passed through an office which had given him an opportunity of observing that high connexions would form no protection against the severest punishment, when the law succeeded in overtaking gross delinquency, where the public good and impartial justice required such should be die case ; and hit had also observed that the poorest and most abject needed no other claim on the Royal mercy to obtain its gracious consideration, where a hope could be entertained that the mercy shown to them would not be injustice to the public. The vote of thanks which had been passed, referred to the humanity shown by him and his worthy colleague in their office. Amidst the examples that were set them, to have been otherwise than humane, they must have been positively inhuman. Ile took his leave of them, expressing his most fervent. most sincere, and most affectionate wish, that the inhabitants of the ety of London might enjoy their invaluable rights and privileges, with a disposition to continue and improve thou to the latest posterity. (Cheers.) Sir. Alderman KEY observed, that the time bed arrived for him to return into their hands the very important trust which they had confided in him; a trust that it would have been temerity for hint to have undertaken had he not reflected, that in serving the Livery of London he had not a hard master to serve, but one who would only look to the motives of those whom thee honoured by their appointment. When he addressed them last year it was his promise that it should be his endea vour to do his duty, and that his best reward would be to obtain the approbation of his fellow-citizens. It would ill become him to boast of what he had done: they were the best judges whether he had redeemed his pledge. His endeavours had been to do so; and that those endeavours had not been altogether can. successful, the vote which they had just passed convinced him. In whatever situation he might hereafter be placed it should be his constant study to preserve unimpaired the rights and priviirges which they now enjoyed. Mr. James said it struck him that the business of the dry would not be ended as it should be, if he were nut to call the attention of the Livery to the hon. person who at present tilled the high station of Lord Mayor. (Cheers.) Mr. Oldlain had introduced with great propriety a vote of thanks to tba late Sheriffs, by saying he should propose one of those gentlemen as a model to all future Sheriffs. Ile, then, might well introduce to them the Right Hon. Oentlaman now in the chair as a model to all fistula Lord Mayors. lie was quite sure that never did any fill that office with more satisfaction, more dignity, or more ability, than the late Lord Mayor. lie therefore thought. as no future opportunity would be afforded, they ought not to separate until they had voted to their Chief Magistrate the vote of thanks which he would now read to them, every word of which was no nate than the Lard Mayor was ernineedy snuffed P. The worthy gentleman concluded by moving thanks (for which see Advertisement). Mr. Or.n wag most cordially seconded it. The vote wek put and carried by acclamation. The LORD MAYOR, feeling as he did a: that taken by surprise, he must confess he experienced more nary difficult y in coming forward to convey to the Livery Ctrl settee he felt for the high compliment they had just W hen they elected hiM to the very honourable dike, t' which was approaching, he held out tint few programt esahner in which he would fill it, because he felt thtellist del,. doubtedlaaed on h ab im ilit w y e . r to e o t t i * is t c h l e ta n rg iol e t tl i e n m por i t n an a t titatt ind ner a s h a d ti ht sfac ca ts; the Liverymen of Loni,on. But now that his office - expired, he was most proud to feel that althougff those lit,. had been arduous and diticult, yet he hail in slime maul deemed deserving of their approbation. lie could tint pnesaisig the great pleasure lit felt at their having as worthy gent:eman whom they had that day appoinsed successor, because that gentleman and himselt had the peeving as Sheriffs together, and although pteviottsly known to each whet, none could have pulled in harness pleasantly. He hoped that while he had in some degree mat' the dignity of his office, and the splendour belonging to not been remiss in what was much more important—the and impartial discharge of his magisterial duties. Wig Again expressed hilt thanks, and then retired amidst much The Common HMI wu then adjourned. A Court of Aldetmen was afterward held, at which Mayor reported the measures he had taken on applying of the Treasury on the subject of the n ew A ct for the it , Weights and Measures, which is to commence on usury next, and on some difficulties as to the heaped diameter of the heaped bushel only being flatted in 'laid before the Court a Copy of the Report made to by Dr..Wollaston thereon, specifying the breadth the SUM should be from outside to outside on the top. The Court thereupon directed the proper officers at stark such measures only as are made conformable to ten's Report, and directed particulars theteof to be pu_ gazette for general information. The Court also approved areniks or stamps for the weights aid measures. A petition from the liberty of Saint Bartholomew •' the appointment of proper officers to inspect the measures used in thut liberty, was presented, and committee. Mr. Beridome was sworn into the office of Common Cryer, .amt Court adjourned. . . LI rE RPOOL, A f l9' .. ZDNESDAY grrxiso• Wind Y.S.E.—High Wirer 511 m.p. 11. Arrival the Alice, Doyle, from Paraiba; Columbus, Lovett, from New Orleans; Jupiter, Amory, from Campeachy and New Orleans ; Axey, Wolf, from St. Petershufgh; Columbine, Brotrn, from ditto; Caledonia, Bull e r, from the Ray of Chaleur, sailed Sept. 3 ; Louisa, Volker, from Stralsund ; Madagascar. , front St. John's, New Brunswick. S A il e d t h e G eorg i a . V arnum , for Savannah; Marmion, Rowland, for Alexandria ; Countess or Liverpool, Jenkinson ' for Buenos Ayres ; Sophia Maria, for Copenhagen; Meredith, —, for Demerara; Editha, Burson, for Alexandria; Marts; Sickem, for Antwerp ; Oxford. Porter, for Portland; Gezina, Taav, for Antwerp; Betsey and Susan, Jacobson, for Aliareus ; Virt, De Vries, for Rotterdam. The Camoens, from Oporto fur Liverpool, passed Holyhead cn the 27th inst. The schooner Duke of Wellington, Whitten, from Liverpool for Cadiz, put into Holyhead, leaky, 27th inst. The Hero, Steel, from Bombay, sailed 15th May ; the Bridget, for Liverpool, sailed 17th April. O n t h e 21 st 31sy fell in with the ship Corder, bound to China, sailed from the Isle of France 26th June, and left the Pero, of London, there. Pass.7l the Cape of Good Hope 28th July. Sailed from St. Helena 13111 August. The Bridget sailed from Si. Helena for Liverpool 21 Aug. On the 29th Aug. in lat. 11 32 N. lung. 23 14, spoke:the Portuguese big Paquette de Rio, from Figucira for Rio, ant 17 days. On the 22d Sept. in lat. 31 9, long. 10, spoke the brig Hope, froth Bristol for Odessa. The William, from Bahia, sailed 29th July. On the 22i1 Sept. in lat. 50 60 lon. 12, spoke the ship Elizabeth, of Newcastle, front Cork for Si. John's. N.B. Thel'auline from New Orleans, of and from Belize, sailed Bth of Aug. The Spark and Columbus sailed a few days before for Liver pool ; 20th Aug. in lat. 23. 11. long. 79. spoke the Ainerica, froth New Orleans for Liverpool. On the 3lst in lat. 25. S. long. 75. spoke the Manchester, from Charleston for AlarsciFes ; on the 14th Sept. in lat. 40. long. O. spoke the brig Louise, from North Caro lina for Liverpool. The Josephine, from New York, sailed 9d Sept. ; on the 16th, in lat. 42. 23. long. 3f. spoke the Gratitude for Mintmichl. The Flora., from St. John's, New Brunswick, !tailed 23d Aug. ; on the 4th Sept. in Ist, .45. 10. long, 51. 52., spoke the George of Whitby, for Miramichi; on the sth, in lat. 45. long. 51. 40. spoke the brig Lucretia from Belfast; the bark Jane, and ship Loyalist for London, standing for the Gulf of St. Lawrence. On the 13th, in lat. 46. long. 40. spoke the Julius Cesar, from Honduras for London. The Horton, Ilawthorn, and Erin, O'Neil, from Liverpool, have arrived at Newry. The Prince Leopold, --, from Liverpool, has arrived at Bailin. The Columbus, from New Orleans, sailed 9th Aug. ; the Nep tune sailed the Bth ; the Creole, Franklin, Missionary and Brad. dock, were to sail in a few days. An officer arrived here in the Planter from Carthagena, with the Ratification of the Treaty from the Colombian Government to this country. He will proceed to London to-morrow. It is understood that Bolivar is about to proceed from Colombia to this country for the bencfit of his health, having applicd to Congress and obtained permission so to do. Mr. Kean, the Tragedian, has sailed this day on board the Silas Richards, for New York. This day, about three o'clock, a dreadful flre took place in ; warehouse In Lord-street, in which were stored grain and cotton, and in the cellar butter and bacon; excepting the cellar, the whole was consumed totally in less than two hours. By activity and great exertion the adjoining premises were saved ; had it occurred in the night, the loss would have been very serious, and probably many lives lost. EDINBURGH BLIND ASYLUM. Friday, being the anniversary of the foundation of the Blind Asylum, the pupils, male and female, were examined in the great basket-room of the Asylum, in Nicolson street, in presence of several of the Directors, and a crowded assemblage of the friends of the institution, of whom the great majority were ladies. Several of the pupils showed great dexterity in writing what they call the string alpha bet, which consists in making particular knots, repre-. sewing the letters of the alphabet, on small pieces of twine. In the geography class, several of the pupils dis played great knowledge of the science; particularly a young female named Margaret Baxter, who, upon a large globe constructed for the use of the blind, pointed out any country, island, city, river, lake, or sea, with the greatest facility, and calculated the latitudes anti longi. tudes of various places with the utmost accursse. A. beautiful and ingenious map of the solar system, contrived by the secretary, Mr. Johnston, was displayed, on which. M‘Death showed great dexterity, considering that he had only one previous lesson. There are constantly at work at the Asylum about twenty-six looms. Four weeks ago, a mark was made on the respective webs, and a prize of a sovereign offered to the person who should produce the must cloth, well woven. Patrick Bradley, who has beets long blind, but who, while he enjoyed vision, had beers bred a weaver, produced 125 yards of striped Hob. land ; and John Kennedy, a blind boy of fourteen years, taught in the Asylum, produced 126 yards; and they were pronounced the successful competitors.—Ediabergh Olarrver. Ma. COI:IITXTY'd AERIAL. FLIGHT AT HASTINGS.-+ Extract of a letter dated Hastings, Sept. 29:—" Mr. G. Courtney, the flying American individual, who recently distinguished himself at Dover, by descending from the heights underneath a rope over the town, attached to what are by seamen termed sheaving-blocks, exhibited himself in a similar manner on Monday, at five o'clock in the afternoon, at Hastings, in the presence of several thousand spectators, assembled in a variety of situations to witness his flight. The rope was placed on the elevated part of the Castle, over the gunner's-house, Marine-parade, and Shingles, to the Sands, a distance of 900 feet, and which descent he accomplished in nine seconds. When he ar rived at the termination of the rope, for want of precaution. the sudden jet* was so great, as to occasion blood to issue from his mouth. He was dressed in white, decorated wits blue ribantls, and remunerated by public contrib ut ion s. A standard was hoisted from the point of attr a c ti o n. SINGIL AR FOOT it•Cß. — About half - past ten o'clock Oil Saturday night, a ge ntleman and lady Milt out of one of the hotels near the Strytte. and, after taking a fair start. set off running round the Steyne. They both ran very swiftlyi. but the young lady bounded forward with the agility of the chamoie and the fleetness of the deer, and returned to the spot from whence they started a consider able distanee before the. gentleman. She appeared much pleased with tw victory. There were but few persona on the Steyne at tik time, tout those who were there expressed their admiration at the swiftness of this wend Atalanta. —Brighten Galette., ug a vote of F I .11 moment to be tutu than mil- very the grate_ just paid him. e, the close of Ott es to the , setbsitlertini mid bsemise hd satisfactory td re was almost tee high dune" rieetture been itot retrain ex- 1 I . selected the sod to be hie the honour of tidy but little harness more . ree maintained to it,. he had —the faithful His Lordship much cheering. tich the Lord if to the Lords 6 Uniformity of the let ofJa- measum, the F y the Act; and the Treasury e wens! mea- .t Guildhall to o Dr. %Voiles- ublishad in the proved of new r the Grcat for weight" and d referred to a • on Cryer, .and _