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1 Rio Janeiro of is the 9th N o cc! confirms the ding b etw e t h. ntion the close in, iterrained that th e lead tax *lieut •nnititt. Th e in. of that &met; distress for that the dutr on raised from ,3 t o here would be it of the export of .ible that the re °Gated with POT, may, when it is eut to suspend at a burdens on our at 'GoTn, Juin, it ieed Positive Intel. Pub After the r of the factious hid we them. iss hlt'. ~ :hne w it ed ; andlaid in nikoAnwtie runes. About this iusyg p , Iwo pro. Tot OMNI ram. ho i ri reT 019 ... The city his salsig, b et h as Or ON. MT et Pashossa m i ii if the COMM, gain ere& the too Ale 111. Miteeftliit swift re s in p s th martial sus. m se iation. the Ow of IPPetire to Was re. IY dosswitely of th e is BAT flow peot So dowe l . he blindnem to Woe who put of time ropetblie. Pat lley be the Mild OM *weer he rololl4by astir. esugeat wealth reo wow eppes Woe e k ed mbis .1a musk ere I Nl4b e r e r We slow o tolewori to_ mPim sestain gois MIMI by the slow sown of ber io blab a Slow the WOW, AwooLstion the internee of the Ate new Caludets u bear the weight of e prosperity of the heir industry, or at general wealth of the YOLOMDJA. nor of Comma to Fairs, is extracted explains fully the ttherlantla towards is, March 4. Int& rho returned to this mission to your Ea t pence what be had polite and tattering we In Colombia, not mice and inferior an. talent which he aril. cation „ omit dolt` nteful feelings, and my sincere schwa. a to that officer, the for the good dispo. the result of the ,e. LI) your Ereelle. , cy, with whet P2oweasen objects of the' tofu I. and as my Sore. stsitions of the Go. let Republic, which e greatest exactness, such measures u he iblishment of more limb's, and the tx kircts and citizens of communicating the ter into negstiations nocal friendship al. rray promote the t+ttssg Advantages to n my pert to main. id that of Colombia, ling in the different 'merit of the Nether. re already appointed •Id are new residing ho may hereafter be uectioo of your Es. tile of the duties of lates to the interests ire to recommend to ce in the justice and he good disposhions feelings of high etut. 'tire Servant, ',.:A NTZ LAA R. red from Candle.. .om Rio Jailer°, ansmitted by the Al in England in of the 13th April, lgular and inter g the level of the 9 of this sea were Swedish Trans nd doubt. From , na show a wean or 4-10tIts of an a century. The the waters con d)°, and a hun le inland towns: d ultimately the J.—G/argew Mea 'tainted ;n tie city leen in, and that appy to state that rt ; indeed it was not finished until Abut barely have 10 report was that set is, that owing deemed necessary t twoo'clock, the it caused a report Wai so loud, that into the greatest licd. No person. Irds square, was e of the cemetery about four incites nil are of various fr-eury. ich scientific men fully, is in a state xl of Edinburgh• Ifs an hour, under tcpense of fu•l.--; ENGISII OPRIZA HOUSE. --row-- The aucceisful efforts of the spirited maniger of this truly excellent summer house of pleasure have been very properly appreciated by the public ; the selections made by the former evinced his discrimination and taste, and t hg e cordial reception by the latter reflected much credit oe their discernment. Success, however, is not always within one's power, and it is to be apprehended that the production of last night, which was evidently the result a much application and labour, will establish the truth of this position. The new grand opera, called Terrare, Me Tartar Chief, which since its announce ment has excited no inconsiderable expectation In the minds of that portion of the public who take an in terest in things of this kind, proves to be a selection from the works of Salicri, a composer of very moderate fame, a nd whose genius can by no means be compared with any of the earlier celebrated German masters, or with those . of Weber Ind Rossini of our day. Salieri never exhibited any of the bold and striking attempts of the one, or the bland and exquisite melody of the other; in.fact, judging from the present selection, we should estimate Salieri as a annpoaer of very Moderate power in large operas, though bete and there may be found passages of delicate and tender expression, and now and then a bar or two of a grand and impassive effect ;• but these occurrences are very rare, and the general chirracter of his compositions is tame and mo- 1 sotooons. Such was the case last night. The overture did not possess a single part that could be mentioned as peculiarly good. It began in a very common-place style, and every strain was so balanced with the succeeding one, that a person would involuntarily hum it to himself in an ticipation, and seemed to feel that he must have heard it before. The story of the opera is this : Tarrare (Mr. Braham) is a chief in the service of the Sultan of Yersie, Atirl.llr. H. Phillips), end the very Idol of the people, de mown of his good qualities. The Sultan is jealous of the in tone .he thus possesses, and to gratify the hate he bears so Tomtit, he asses his house to he set on fire, and his wife Astasia whew and placed in his own seraglio. There he en4eavous to per- NM& Astasia to serewt and return his love, but she resists his im. portnahles. He gives a feast to entertain her, in which a very sionWet is introduced, and a piece of fancy which we never to have seen beim& After the ballet the Sultan corn. Calpigi(.llr. Thorne), an Italian Save, to recite his history, . Udall is sight create • smile where was now a loWering brow. Illidlpigi Saga, and. at the end of each verse there is a short #llll.l, and the characters in the ballet dance to the symphony. The effect of this was very pleasing, and was deservedly ap plauded. In the course of the history, however, the name of Tarrare is mentioned, at which the Sultan and Astasia both start from their meat, and the entertainment is abruptly dismissed i the very mention of that name giving the envious and jealous Atar the greatest pain. l'artgre seeks Astasia, and gains admission Into the sersdlio,thiguited se a dumb slave. Atar, not being able to prevail on Aglaia to accept has love, proposes to marry her to this slave, and lidos his an be introduced to her—but her attendant, Ninetta (Miss Paton), is induced to represent Aloud', and after a little amusing talk On her side they sing a duet together and part. Tarrare as discovered by the Sultan, whose guards immediately ap prehend him, and put him is chains. Atar decrees that Tartars than die, and to satiate his revenge the more he orders the execu tion of Austria at the same time. Just at this interval the soldiers break into the palace of the Sultan to rescue their favourite, Tar. nee, but be, more loyal than his followers, orders them to lay down their arms, and thed asks their pardon from time Sultan. Such heroic conduct touches the beset of the Sultan, who relents, takes the chains from off Tarrare, unites him and Astasia, with a Yawing, and the curtain falls. In t h e course of die story the nigh Priests of Ileum consult the oracle as to who shall be appointed Labe of the army, and. contrary to the wish of the priests, and to lbs further mortification of the Sultan, the oracle pronounces the name of Tarrue. The young lady who performed the part of Astoria, and whose first appearance it was on any stage (as the bills announce), possesses a. voice capable of some very good tones in the lower notes ; there was a mellowness in them; but in the higher 'keys there was a want of power, which occasioned her now and then to fail giving that exprevion to the music which her scientific attainments would fain have done. Much, hoirever, must be conceded on a first ap pearance ; the tremoin: that accompanies it evidently ins es the full capabilities of the debutante from being put forth. But there was one fault which, unless it were in voluntary, is rather unusual in persons who have never been on the stage before, mod that was, considerably too much action. We would advise Mist to correct this • which a little more self-possession will no doubt ena ble ger to do. Her person is rather tall, and her features, without being handsome, are very expressive. She exe cuted the recitative and air in the second scene with con siderable taste and sweetness; and in the trio with Miss Paten and Misc Gowan', her low and mellowed notes were beautifully soft and subdued. We have no doubt that her talents are of that order, when move fully developed by time and study, that will acquire for her a good share of public support. Miss Paton was in fine voice, and mug some indifferent airs most delightfully. We Lave beard Mr. Braham sing much better titan be did last night, though in one or two airs, and a song et two, he displayemi Ina own peculiar powers; which, with all their defects (for they have some), are inimitable. He was encored twice in one song, the air of which was far porn being new, but it was calculated to admit of his bravura style of Singing, where he indulges himself ad li iihni. Thy processions and scenery were certainly very splendid, but with all these auxiliaries we do not think the mneic of the opera to possess sufficient merit to retain a long p-a ession of the stage ; it is upon the whole an ir regular piece, sonic parts very tame and others very tedious. Tb' invocttion of' the oracle in the Brame Temple was insufferably dull. ha repetition for this evening was an not:need amidst the applause of a very crowded audience. Tux IRISH Revewur.—The expected arrangements in this department will shortly be carried into effect. Of the twenty-one Excise Collections, sixteen are to he filled by Irishmen, who are to be lifted from the rank of Supervisors to that of Collectors. Monday, Mr. Ward took charge of the Excise Collection of Cork, and proceeded to discharge his duties on the English system ; he Is assisted by Mr. Rots, also en English gentleman. The Collector of Ex cis.: of Waterford has been succeeded by Mr. Smith, an bolish gentleman.—Dublies raper. THu IVEavitEe.--The rains which have fallen during the last week have entirely chafiged the face of the coun try. Vegetation end pasturage, have been in great mea sure restored ; the grass lands exhibit a rapid progress to their usual verdure, and the cattle arc proportionably abridged of their daily rations of old hay the large fissures which opened in the risidg land% are beginning to fill up, and the marker gardens stem to be the only places which are not reinstated, for their vegetable season of fruits, beans, and pease is passed by : young potatoes have held their price far higher than usual. The roads, which a fortnight since gave the travellers te thi sea side an im ps!paLle dust, are now exhibiting the freshness of spring in the surrounding scenery, without the annoyance of a road of powder, and the suffering of the cattle under a ver tizal sun. In many parts of Berkshire the wheat harvest has been finished under the most favourable circumstances. The run throughout the county is uncommonly fine and plen tiful; and in a ve r y f ew d ays t h ere w i ll not b e a fleld standing. The harlc-y, within a short period, has improved roost rapidly, and many farmers who anticipated but a poor crop, have been agreeably surprised by mowing an excel -1401 one. Oats are also good, and are now carrying in all ditectums. Beans in this county appear to have suffered a total blight, and pease are little better.—Berkshire Oro- , *de. An atrocious murder was com mitted near Illaenddinflncli, in the lavish of Alothvey, in this county, on Saturday last, the particulars of which, as far as we could collect, are as follow :—About eleven o'clock at night, three per lons. named Lewis Williams, David Samuel, au& Isaac Edwards, each of whom was paying his addresses to a /dung woman wh o li ve d at Illaeuddinfinch, met near the Place, and, excited by jealousy, had a ki n d o f m i xe d fi g h t with each other, when Samuel having been overcome in the contest, the fighting ceased for a few minutes ; and on his king asked by Edwards whetlkr he yielded ? he said that he had not, and it was agreed that the fighting should ce-cornmence; Edwards, h owever , p e r ce i v i ng t h at S amue l h ad an open knife in hi s h an d, ran o ff , an d was pursued by Samuel until he was overtaken, when Samuel cut him !cross the loins in a very dreadful manner. Lewis Wil kens, on Samuel pursuing Edwards, ran after him, and w h:ii Da% id Samuel had wounded Isaac Edwards, au before ineutioned, he turned and met Williams, and rahbril him in the left side of his neck so, that he survived' ' Nit for a few minutes. Although Edwards's wound is dangerous, it is expected that, with proper treatment, lie fßill recover. Samuel, having perpetrated the atrocious l.ecdr has absc on d e d , b ut d i l i gent search is making after non Ming him to jiistice.—Carma rt,'ecq LITER.4I2T GLEANINGS. . . No. XII. LAST DAYS br Mozaay.--During the last years of Mo zart's life, his health, which had always been delicate, declined rapidly. Like all persons of imagination, he was timidly apprehensive of future evils, sod the idea that he had not long to live, often distressed him. At these times, he worked with such rapidity and unremitting at tention, that he sometimes forgot every thing that did not relate to his art. Frequently, in the height of his enthu siasm. his strength failed him, he fainted, and was obliged to be carried to his bed. 'Every one saw that he Was ruin ing his health by this immoderate application. His wife and his friends did all they could to divert him. Out of complaisance, he accompanied them in the walks and vi sits to which they took him, but his thoughts were always absent. He was only occasionally roused &din this silent and habitual melancholy by the presentiment of his ap proaching end, an idea which always awakened ih him fresh terror. His wife, uneasy at these singular habits, invited to the house those persons whom he was most fond of seeing, and who pretended to surprise him, at times when, after many hours application, he ought naturally to have thought of resting. Their visits pleased him, but he did not lay aside his pen ; they talked, and endeavoured to engage him in conversation, hut he took no interest in it ' • they addressed themselves particularly to him, he utt ere d a few inconse quential words, and went on with his writing. This ettrethe application, it may be oblerved, sometimes accompanies genius, but is by no means a p roo f o f i t . Who can read Thomas's emphatic collection of superla tives ? Yet this writer was so absorbed in his meditations on the means of being eloquent, that once, at 'Montmo rency, when his footman brought him the horse on which he usually rode out, he offered the animal a pinch of snuff. Raphael Mengs also, in the present age, was remarkable for absence, yet he is only a painter of the third order ;‘ while Guido, who Was always at the gaming table, and who ; towards the conclusion of his life, painted as many as three pictures in a day, to pay the debts of the night, has left behind him works, the least valuable of which is more pleasing than the best of Mengs, or of Carlo Maratti, both of them men of great application. It was in this state of mind that he composed the Zauber Pose, the Clernen.za di Tito, the Rquiem, and some other pieces of less celebrity. It was while he was writing the music of the first of these operas, that lie was seized with the fitinting fits we have mentioned. He was very partial to the Zmilier Pole, though lie was not quite satisfied with some parts of it, to which the public had taken a fancy, and which were incessantly applauded. The opera was performed many times, but the weak state in which Mozart then was, did not permit him to direct the orchestra, except (luring nine or ten of the first representations. When he was no longer able to attend the theatre, he used to place his watch by his side,and seemed to follow the orchestra in his thoughts. " Now the first act is over," he would say— " now they are singing such an air," &c.; then, the idea would strike him afresh, that he must soon bid adieu to all this for ever. The effect of this fatal tendency of mind was accelerated by a very singular circumstance. I beg leave to be per nutted to relate it in detail, because we are indebted to it for the famous Requiem, which is justly considered one of, Mozart's best productions. One day, when he was plunged in a profound reverie,he heard a carriage stop at his door. A stranger was an nounced, who requested to speak to him. A person was ! introduced, handsomely dressed, of dignified and impres sive manners. " I have been commissioned, Sir, by a roan of iconsiderable importance to call upon you." " Who is he?" interrupted Mozart. "He does not wish to be known." " Well, what does he want ?" "He has just lost a person whom he tenderly loved, and whose memory will be eternally dear to him. He is desirous of annually commemorating: this mournful event by a solemn service, for which he requests you to c( adipose a Requiem." Mozart was forcibly struck by his discourse, by the glare manner in which it was uttered, and by the air of mystery in which the whole was involved. He engaged to write the Requiem. The stranger continued, " Employ all your genius on this work ;it is destined for a connoisseur. "So much the better." " What time do you require ?" "A month." " Very well : in a month's time I shall return. IVhat price do you set on your work ?" " A hundred ducats." fhe stranger counted them on the table, and disappeared. Mozart remained lost in thought for some time ; he then suddenly called for pen, ink, and paper, and, in spite of his wife s entreaties, began to write. T his rage • for com position continued several days; he wrote day and night,' with an ardour which seemed continually to increase; but his constitution, already in a state of great debility, was un able to support this enthusiasm: one morning, he fell senseless, mid was obliged to suspend his work. Two or three days after, when his wife sought to divert his mind from the gloomy presages which occupied it, he said to her abruptly : "It is certain that lam writing this Requiem for myself; it will serve for my funeral service." Nothing could remove this impression from his mind. As lie went on he felt his strength diminish from day to day, and the score advanced slowly. The month which he had fixed being expired, the stranger again made his appearance. " I have found it impossible," said Mozart, "to keep my word." "Do not give yourself any uneasi ness," replied the stranger ; " what further time do you require ?" " Another month. 'lire work has interested me more than I expected, and I have extended it much beyond what lat first designed." "In that case, it is but just to increase the premium ; here are fifty ducats more." " Sir," said Mozart, with incressing astonishment, " who then, are you ?" " That is nothing to the purpose; in a month's time I shall return." Mozart immediately called one of his servants, and or dered him to follow this extraordinary personage, and find out who lie was ; hut the man failed for want of skill, and returned without being able to trace him. Poor Mozart was then persuaded that be was no ordinary being; that he had a connexion with the other world, and was sent to announce to him his approaching end. He ap plied himself with the mere ardour to his Requiem, which he regarded as the most durable monument of his genius. While thus employed, he was seized with the most alarm ing fainting fits, hut the work was at length completed be. fore the expiration of the month. At the tinio appoinbed, the stranger retnrred, but Mozart was no more. His career was as brilliant as it was short. He died before he bad completed his thirty-sixth year ; but in this short space of tine he has acquired a name which will ni.rer perish, so long as feeling hearts are to be found. THE SNOW.SPIRIT. (WIWITEN IN BERMUDA.) No ! never did the wave in its element steep An island of lovelier charms ; It bloom. in the giant embrace of the deep, Like Ilebe in Hercules' arms. The tint of your bowers is balm to the eye. Their melotiv balm to the ear; But the fiery planet of day is too nigh, And the snow-spirit never comes here. The down from his wings is as white, as the pearl Thy lips for their cabinet stole, And It falls on the green earth, as melting, my girl, As a murmur of thine on the soul. Then fly to the clime where he pillows the death, As he cradles the birth, of the year : Sweetly cool are your bowers anti balmy your breath, But the snow-spirit never comes here. Ilow sweet to behold him, when borne on the gale. Anti brightening the bosom of morn, lie flings, like the priest of Diana, a veil O'er the brow of each virginal thorn. But think not the veil he so chillingly casts Is the veil of a vestal severe : No, no: you will see what a moment it lasts, Should the snow-spirit ever come here. Then fly to his region, lay open his zone, And he'll weep all his brilliancy dim, To think that a bosom as white as his own Should rot melt in the day.besm like hint. Oh ! lovely the print of those delicate feet, On his luminous path will appear; Fly! fly ! my beloved, this island is sweet, But the snow-splrit cannot come here. During a thunder storm which occurred at Portsmouth on iirednestlay last, the lightning struck the Semaphore post over the slaughter-house, and knocked down one of the signal men, who had his hand on the metal wheel, in the act of working the Semaphore: the man was stunned by the shock, and lay insensible for nearly ten minutes, but afterwards gradually moven(' ; and, we are happy to find, did not sustain any serious injury by the aceide.nt.— .Youtliampturt Iferafd. • • • • • "cirirßrSt, - trial • A 5C0TL.42171 • - Clyde Iron-works have ceased working for the last fivb weeks, in consequence of the colliers' combinations. The furnaces produce about 100 tons of pig iron wee kly, or 1 5.000 tons a year, and it requires above 20,000 t ons o f coa l to melt the metal. It was therefike considered by the com bination the most vulnerable point to attack first, as it was calculated that Mr. Dunlop, the propri?tor, would at once comply with their demand', rather than stop his catensive . , The principal cause of dispute was, that tht nolliers wished to alter the mode of measurement, and to give Mr. Dunlop only lgcwt. instead of 13ewt. to the cart, as formerly. As Mr. Dunlop considered his measurement as fair as that of shy other coal work, he resisted the de mand. About ten weeks ago his Hamilton Farm colliers sent to him a long roll of imaginary grievances, and new demands, which he peremptorily refusing I. accede to, they all struck. The work has since been stopped, and the colliers turned out of their houses. The whole of Mr. Dunlop's colliers, amounting to about 300, also followed the example; and there being no coal to carry on the blast furnaces, from the abort supply put up by the colliers, in a week after the strike, the iron-stone miners, lime-atone workers, furnace men, labourers, &c. were thrown idle, to the amount of 300 • making in all 600 men, with out in cluding their families. What makes the ease peculiarly hard is, that Mr. Dunlop's men were quite averse to the strike. A general meeting of combined colliers, consisting of about ',WO, was, however, held in the vicinity, to de cide whether Mr. Dunlop's men should continue any longer to work fbr him upon their old terms. To their credit, every one of his men voted against striking, being perfectly satisfied with their employers terms. They were, however, out-voted, anti obliged to succumb to the general body, and present their grievances. They have since been supported by the combination. They lay that they receive 10s. a week, and so muck for their stmis, accossling as they could work. As there are 3,000 colliers around Glasgow, it only requires about a shilling weekly from each to de fray the expense of the idle hands. The colliers thrown idle were perfectly able, if they chose to work full time, to make 6s. 3d. a day, and when they wrought only four days a week they made 20a. Thu is owing to the great increase of price they have successively obtained, as they now get 220. for digging a cart of coals, the former prite of which was 14d. A report is made every fortnight by the delegates of the state of the coal hills; and if the coals are accumulating, the grand committee at Shettleston order the various coal works to put out only a certain quantity, till the stock is diminished. The consequence is, that the colliers, on an average, work only three-fifths of their time; and instead of putting out SO hatches, first reduced it to 40, and then to 32. At this season of the year there is generally .50,000 tons (or about a fifth of the consumption of Glasgow) on the principal coal hills, to meet the additional demand in winter; but at present there is no stock on hand, the colliers refusing to put out more than what is required for immediate consumption. Mr. Dunlop is confident of being able to fill his works' with new hands, but he is as yet rather averse to do this, as his old workers have been about the place from their infancy, are much attacned to him, industrious; and well behaved, and never made any complaint until misled by others.—Glasgow Journal. THE SHIP-BUILDERS AND SHIPWRIGHTS OF' THE THAMES. It appears that a deputation from the master shin. builders of the port of London arrived at Portsmouth, sanctioned by the Navy Commissioners, to engage such of the shipwrights in his Majesty's Dock-yard as might be disposed to volunteer their services to proceed for a limited period to work in the river Thames. The offers made by the deputation of London masters were extremely tempt ing. The dock-yard men were offered an engagement of three months, at the established prices of shipwrights work in the port of London, with an express guarantee, that if the wages should fall short of /X. 6d. per day, it should be Made up to that amount. They were to be con veyed free of expense to London, and an advance made if required. About 160 of the men gave in their names as volunteers, for the trip to London, but the others requested an adjournment for a few days. At that time Mr. Gut, the Secretary of the Thames Provident Union. arrived, and attended the:Meeting. M. Gast engaged to use his utmost endeavour to induce the shipwrights of the Thames to return to work in every yard without exception, pro vided the builders agree to certain resolutions. It was also, agreed that if the ship-builders refused to confirm the ar rangement, the shipwrights of Portsmouth would on no consideration proceed to the River Thames to their assist ance ; but that if the shipwrights of the Thames should refuse to confirm, and act on them, the shipwrights would assist the ship-builders. The representatives of the two parties have since returned to town, and the shipwrights of Portsmouth stand pledged, on no consideration, to proceed to the River Thames; while the shipwrights of the Thames are reconciled to their masters, on the condition that the price-book he taken by every builder, and that the price of every item should be conclusively settled by the parties. The seven months' dispute of the Thames shipwrights' with the ship-builders has been brought to a speedy con-' elusion, by the Navy Board having given leave for the mechanics of this Dock-yard to supply their place.— Hampshire Telegraph. THE LATI fine •T SUNDIMLAND.—The number ac tually (lead is five, and not seven, as stated in last week's Chronicle. Two others are still lingering, but hopes are entertained that they will recover. Though no fresh acts of violence have been attempted, the Union system still continues in all its vigour. The avenues to the river are beset by parties of the disaffected, who, by the grossest abuse, too frequently succeed in deterring the well-disposed from going on board the numerous ships that are now ready for sea. Meetings of the seamen are still held on the Town Moor, and there was a general meeting of the shipowners, at the Exchange, on Thursday last. In the mean time hu- I siness is nearly at a stand, and we are sorry to itear that all hopes of conciliation seem as distant as they ever were. A correspondent states that, so far has the ferment against Mr. Hutchinson been kept alive, that he has been openly insulted, threatened, and followed through the streets by mobs, who hooted him as a murderer. It has been gravely asserted, that he thrust penny-pieces into the muzzles of his pistols, ramming them tight down with his little fin ger, and filing them with astonishing rapidity !—Durham aronicle. GLASGOW WEAVVII/L —A small committee of the lead ing weavers have been visiting the manufacturers during the week. Some manufacturers stated that they had no ! intention of either taking on or dismissing weavers. Others! would employ none till their stocks were disposed of. In one or two cases, the committee were informed that a num ber of weavers would be taken on soot', and when the table was mentioned, the manufacturers replied that they would' pay the weaving by a table of their own, and they wished' no man to take their work who could be otherwise etnployed to greater advantage. Tha weekly income of the combi nation is gradually falling off; but the leaders appear determined to try every expedient to keep up the delusion by which they. individually profit. As they can neither stir themselves, nor possibly influence others without money, some of the zealous hands attempted, in a country district, to replenish their exhausted exchequer by a local funding system. They got a number of bills of a. each drawn up. payable to the Secretary of the town in six or nine months hence. As many of the subscribers of the bills were behind even with their weekly payments, the most credulous had no hope from this expedient. They nett applied to a public spirited Baronet for a loan of 3001. who declined returning a final answer till he had consulted his factor. Unhappily for the poor weavers the work continues very scarce, and nothing can render the utter fatality of the combination more obvipus than the bare fact, that while it , injures them in brisk times, it is of no service whatever in a dulness.--G/aagoto Paper. FARINTOSH WIIISICT.—TIIC Barony of Farintosh be kneed to the Forbeses of Culloden, and it contained about 1903 arable acres. All barley produced on this estate was privileged to be converted into whisky, duty free; the na tural consequence of which was, that more whisky was distilled in Farintosh than all the rest of Scotland. In 1754, Government made a sort of compulsory purchase of this privilege from the Culloden family, after they had enjoyed it a complete century. The stun paid was UI,SUW. WESTERN CIRCUIT. ASSIZES, Buiee , Ate. 13. CROWN SIDE. Before Mr. Justice IA TT LEDALE. This morning. Walttr Brooks, and his son Robert Brooks, who had been yesterday convicted, tinder very peculiar circumstances, of sheep.stealing (see Briii34 Pren of yesterday), were put to the bar for the purpose of receiving a:thence. Mr. Justice Li Tx LEDAT.}: ordered sentence of death to be re corded against the two prisoners, at the slake time intimating the probability of the extreme sentence of the law being committed, which however could only take place on the condition of their being sent out of the country. PERJURY. Tht TINS, ON THE nnosstewttok 30Hfr OMs, v. UHL. WOW LEt. This was an indictment for 'Wu( and corrupt perjury, and it was set forth as committed in an action for a inseams and assault, in which John Gibbs wart plaintiff and Robr. Ford defendant,and which bad been stied at the Wells Assizes on the Ist September, 1824. It was material to prove whether the plaintiff was in a gig with one William Evans in the month of November l 823; and whether the said plaintiff Was thrown out of the gig, the said William Evans then and there falling on him. The - Indictment then went on to state, that the defendant Samuel Rowley was duly sworn to give evidence touching these matte» on the occasion of the trial afore. said, and that he falsely. wilfully, and corruptly gave evidence in substance to the effect following, namely—" That in the month of November, as aforesaid, the plaintiff, John Gibbs, was in a gig with William Evans, of the Angel Inn, which gig broke down while he, Samuel Rowley, watt within a few yards of the spot, and that the plaintiff fell out of the gig, and William Evans upon hint" —whereas, in tact and in truth, the plaintif and William Evans were not in a gig which broke down as described, in November last ; the defendant wag not within a few ynida of them ; and nei • ther the plaintiff nor William Evans fell out of a gig, as had been falsely sworn by the present defendant. The defendant pleaded not guilty. Mr. Elul:inn (with whom was Mr. Wm. Bayley, for the de fence) objected that the indictment could not be sustained in point of law, inasmuch as it was not averred that the fact which the de. fendant was alleged to have sworn falsely, was a material fact. Mr. Justice LiTTLEDALE disallimed the objection ; • and a second urged by the Learned Counsel was equally untenable in the opinion otitis Lordship. But a third objection, to the effect that the particular day denominated in the indicprent as " a cer tainioady" should have been more di s ti nct l y specified, was held to be . he case, however, was permitted to proceed, subject to this and any other objections that might afterwards arise. Mr. C. F. Wiattaats (with whom was Mr. Moody) then pro ceeded to state the case to the Jury for the prosecution. It was a very trite, but not on that account less true observation, that on the due administration of justice mainly depended the prosperity and welfare of the country, and all that was dearest to English men—property, liberty, and life itself, were closely connected with this grand principle in our free Constitution—an equal distribution of civil rights to every subject of these realms. But the equal ad. ministration of justice could not be accomplished without a strict regard to the sacred and binding nature of an oath; a proposition so clear and self-evident, that the necessity of maintaining the in. violability of that obligation must he apparent at once to the most humble as well as the most elevated individual. Under those cir. cumstancest, when the sacred barrier of an oath was broken clown, and a wilful and corrupt perjury appeared to have been committed, it WAN proper that an offence of so grave a nature should be duly considered by the proper tribunal, and adequately punished. In the present instance, it was for the Jury to investi pie the accusation, and examine particularly as to the nature of the offence alleged to have been committed ; and it was also for them to say whether the crime had been perpetrated with the view of obstructing the ends of public justice, or occasioning injury to private individuals. He was free to admit that cases existed wherein a man might swear falsely without being guilty of perjury ; because if a p non deposed to a certain circumstance, be lieving in his own mind that it was as he represented it to be, and yet it should turn out to be otherwise than he had sworn, that would not be perjury in the eye of the law, which required a voluntary purpose and a corrupt motive in order to constitute the crime. Mistake or misapprehension might arise front a hundred cliff Trent causes; among others from defective hearing or ;Asian, and in this way an individual might dept se to what was false, and yet be per. fectly innocent of perjury, which must be wilfully , End knowingly done, otherwise the corpus detieti could not be said to mist. It a man swore to what he believed to be true, and it afterivards turas d out to be false, that would not be perjury; for, as he had already said, the falsehood must be corruptly and wilfully sworn, ih order to constitute the offence. But in the cue he should have to submit to the Jury on the present occasion no such misapprehension could have arisen, and no mistake could possibly be pleaded. On the contrary, he felt satisfied he should be able to prove to the Jury (if not baffled and prevented by legal objections) a case of the most unmixed, unmitigated, and audacious profligacy that was ever brought under the notice of a Court of Justice. bitch, he pledged himself to prove, was the present ease—one in which the most daring, flagrant, and corrupt perjury had been openly committed, for purposes the most shameful that could well be conceived. An action of trespass and assault, in which Mr. John Gibbs was the plaintiff, and Mr. Robert Ford the defendant, had been tried at the Wells Assizes for 1824, and in the course of this action it was material to inquire whether Gibbs haul sustained injuries of a very serious nature, occasioned by a violent kick re ceived from the defendant on the lower part of his back. The in,Wries which formed the ground of the action, were of a nature so serious and so calamitous in their effect upon the unfortunate plain ltiff; that from the time he received them, up to the present moment, Ihis life had been one scene of suffering, with but little prospect of ': Imitigntion or relief. Such was the nature of the plaintiff's case at the Wells Summer 'tutees of last yetr, and in the progress of the defence it became important to Ford, the defendant, to prove than no such injury had been inflicted by him, and that the mans. ble and unhappy plaintiff was merely affecting sufferings he had never felt, for the purpose of turning the charge brought against the defendant into a profitable speculation, in order to gratify his own mercenary designs, or else that the inj ury had originated from a cause different from that assigned. However, the Jury, who would have Mr. Gibbs placed before them, would have it in their power to limn their own estimate of that miserable man's elitist tion. and could therefore come to their own conclusion onthe subject. On the occasion of the original trial, in order to shots the plaintiff's illness did not arise from Ford's assault, but another and distinct cause, the present defendant, Samuel Rowley, was brought for ward as a witness, and deposed that he had seen Mr. Gibbs with Mr. Evans of the Angel Inn, in a gig, on the 15th Nov ; on which occasion he swore the gig was overturned, and Mr. Gibbs fell out first and Mr. Evans on the top of him. In this manner it had been intended to persuade the Jury which tried the cause, that the sufferings of Mr. Gibbs did not arise from the kick inflicted by , Ford, but front the consequences of this pretended accident ; but on the previous trial the Jury perceived there was not one syllable of truth in the defendant's account, and they laughed his evidence to scorn. The fact was, Mr. Gibbs and Mr. Evans were not, as described by the prisoner, in a gig at the time staled, and at no period of their lives had they ever suffered any such accident as that described in the evidence of the present defendant. This be ing the case it appeared equally a public as well as a private ditty Ito bring this prisoner into a Court of Justice, where he would be likely to receive the reward of his shameful and audacious conduit. Perhaps the Jury would be astonished to hear, that no such occurrence as that sworn to by the prisoner ever took place, and' that, at the time when the overturn of the gig was stated to have omitted, the unhappy man, whose just claims to compensation it was meant to destroy by means of perjury, was stretched upon his bed, and quite inclinable of rising therefrom in consequence of the effects of the outrage he had previously ex perienced from the defendant Ford. It was an act that could scarcely be characterised, as it deserved, to step forward for the 1 purpose of cheating Mr. Gibbs of the inadequate compensation in the power of the law to afford him for the grievous injury he had sustained. This had been the conduct of the man now at the bat, and he called on the Jury to prove by their verdict the sense they entertained of the enormity of the offence that had been corn.' mitted, and to hold out to the prisoner, and all other persons who were disposed to trifle with the serious obligation of an oath, that a departure from truth was always certain sooner or later to carry its own punishment along with it. The evidence for the prosecution fully supported the Learned Counsel's statement. Among the witnesses examined was Mr. John Gibbs, at whose instance this action was inritutcci, and the plaintiff in the former cause. He was here carried into I Court. Ile appeared quite helpless from the effects of the injuries he had received, and WAS partly supported on crutches and partly placed near the lanactlt,e.ndoannttshwe lets h h a e n g d av o e f. h ;‘ is i r e . v j id u en m c k e e . nearest the Jury; and exclusive of the injuries be seemed to have 1 111 ,it e tl w erale, and the side sustained, was a fine looking man, apparently about fifty years of loge. When the examination of the witnesses had closed, Mr. Justice LiTTI.T.DAI.F. observed, that the evidence had fully proved the materiality of the prisoner's evidence to the issue tried in Gibbs v. Ford- at Wells, and perjury (if committed) was there ! fore legally chargeable on it. Mr. Emit NE, for the defendant. then submitted, that there was not sufficient evidence to go to the Jury, inasmuch as all the words alleged to have been falsely spoken by the defendant on the trial were not stated in evidence on the present occasion. Mr. C. F. WILLIAMS, contra. said, that if the law were as his Learned Friends on the other side had stated it to be, he was free to say it would be most painful and alarming intelligence to the' public and the country at large. The objections of the Learned Gentleman forcibly recalled to his memory, and partly served to jastify the remark of a great writer—" The minute technicalities eind objections which impede the main current of justice are the I great blemishes of our law ." far if the doctrine laid down were once established and recognised, the administration of justice would be impeded, anti the perjurer might rejoice, for there would he no chance of conducting wprosectition for perjury successfully till the human memory became perfect enough to enable a man to swear to every sentence and syllable which any other man should utter. Mr. Fast:tire having replied, Mr. Justice LITTLEDAL f overruled thisobjeetion, and another subsequently urged by the defendant's Counsel. Mr. EnseewE then addressed the Jury for the tlefe•ce—lt was not his intention to attempt to controvert the general obsentations of his friend Mr. Williams as to the magnitude of the crime im puted to the prisoner, and the urgent necessity which existed to check the serious offence of perjury. whenevet it should be clearly established as having been commihed. fie was, on the contrary, ready to concur In the observations of.ihe Learned Counsel on this subject most fulls and cordially. anti he also admitted with him. that where the offence hail been committed, tile heavy punishment of the law should follow it. Rut on this account. if Mtn° other, anti because perjury was an ranee so serious and weighty, and liurlisliable so severely, the Jury should listen with the I.linelt caution and eircumsper. , on to all that had been urged by Cow& for the prosecution, end take good care not to permit their feelings to be carried AM ay by the moat powerful and impassioned speech of his Learned Friend on the present occasion. Every effiwt had been used to awake: their pa..iona, and mislead thee feelings, but he trusted those efforts would not be successful. A forcible appeal had also been made by lire Learned Friend to their feelings of hu 'Handy and compassion ; for lie had described in the most glowing and effecting phraseology the suffering.' and it juries sustained by Mr. Gibbs. and that unfortunate person had been placed before the Jere. es if merely for the purpose of adding eteength to the tipped. It did not signify, as far as the present lemur, *tut concerned, whe ther injury sutliretl by Mr. Gibbs was in consequence of the assault the of Ford eit any other cause. The only matter for the consideration lof the Jury was , w h et h er or not t h e prisoner was guilty of wilful and cnrrupr perjury in having sworn that on a certain day he law Gibbs Red o 'evens in a gig, that the giee was overturned, and the Persons in it thrown but in consequence of the accident. The JUTy should be satis t fled, flare that the prisoner had sworn what was averred in the indictment; secondly, tied the assertion was fake; anti. lastly, that the prisoner knew it to he fide-, end had sworn wilfully, mot with a corrupt intention. It appeared to him that sufficient evidence haul not been submitted to thus Jury in order to enable them in find a verdict of guilty, because the testimony appeared deficit in several Material points. In order to en able them to judge of the nature of the prisoner's evidence on a Ramer trial, the whole of It should have been detailedto them e. because a witness frequently qualified that w hi c h h e had first delivered in a tubsequent part of his testimony. The Learned Gentleman then proceeded to comment an the evi dence far the prosecution. , He observed, that no motive was at. tempted to be assigned for the commission of the offence, sod he trusted the Jury would look to the terrible eousegeences of a verdict of guilty to the defendant, and pause before they Betided against him on inadequate evidence. He, trusted they ',mild not convict the prisoner of the crime laid to his charge unless they could enter tain no reasonable doubt of its commiesien. Would any man coop mit such an act without some motive of tear, favour, interest, of revenge ; yet none of these were imputed to the defendant, end he was charged with an offence without apparent motive or end. Then although the law required the evidence, of two persons to convict of perjufti, yet the Jury must supenne that the tie. fendant, knowing this; goes and lays the scene of hie crime not in the presence of Gibbs alone, which vitedd have been sufficient, but also in the presence of Evans, tiros afford. fag the means of his own conviction if lur swore falsely. Surely this was not the conduct of a deliberate perjurer, who would either have said Gibbs was alone at the time of the accident, or Ise did not know who was with him. Then as to the materiality hi the prisoner's evidence on the lame tried between Gibbs and Ford, the Jury could consider how it could at all affect the ease. 'flte issue at the Wells Assize)! was, " did the violence inflicted by Ford on Gibbs occasion the injuries complained of ? It was ad mitted the injury Was so occasioned, ynci penred to be an by the medical men examined on the trial. It was only urged on the part of the defence that the injury was not one of a lasting nature, or likely to disable the plaintiff for life. likiw from this it would app pear that the testimony of the prisoner was not material to the de. claim of the case between the parties, as the injury was admitted to be in consequenc e c f F or d' s assau l t, an d the only question then was as to the extent of the injury. Under thorc circumstances it was not material whether Gilder fell out of a gig or net. The ob jections he ',Mr. Erskine) had taken, were tskeu in pursuance of the duty he owed his client, indenendant of the question of his guilt or innocence. Ile hoped then that.the fate of his objections. and the fact of his having taken them, which he vote WWId to do, Would not operate unfavourably to his client's interests on the minds of the Jury; and that his Raving. urged several legal objections at an early stage of the precceuinge, would not be intfrpreted into a proof of his own belief of the betinese of his client a cause, or lee 'construed into a proof of the guilt of the prisoner. Mr. Justice Lure ettette charged the Jury, and previous to summing up the evidence, observed, it had been stated by the prisoner's Counsel, that the Jury could not rely on the proof given of the evidence of the prisoner in "Gibbs v. Ford," because that proof was only fumieheti by tie unsupported testimony of a single witness. However, he could see no reason to doubt the evidence of that witness, end thought the (act was sufficiently established him, and, therefore, corroborative evidence was not necessary. It had next been contended, that the whittle of the prisoner's evidence had not been proved, and that it should have been stated in every pan; but he thought quite enough had been stated for the pur poses of this inquiry. The next question was, as to the materiality of the prisoner's evidence, or in other words, whether it was likely to affect the verdict of the Jury or not, and he thought that fact also established. The action Seas to recover compensation in damage* for an assault, and if the dine.s of the plaintiff appeared to result tinkly from the violence of Ford, he would he entitled to larger damages than if it arose partly frotn the kick and partly from a subsequent accident with which Ford had nothing to do. In this way the testimony of the prisoner hall been ma terial to !men the damages. The fleet point was, as to whether the prisoner's evidence in the trial between Gibbs and Irard was of was hot false. In order to contradict his testimony, there must be the evidence of more than one witness, fot in these ease*, le the view of the law, pne man's oftth.was quite as good as another s. Two witnesses were called to rebut the evidence of the prisoner, and they were full'' , supported by other testiniony on several collateral points of coneiderable importance. There could be no doubt then the defendant ivrnee falsely, and the only remaining point was one for the consideration of the Jury, viz whether the prisoner gave false evidence wilfully and with a corrupt Motive ? If it sboukl appear that a person swore falsely, without a probable motiee, then it was fair to attribute the false swearing to mistake or misappree hension, and that not coming under the description of perjury, the. prisoner must be sequined. Where no moth* Was apparent. bre would feel disposed to indulge conffeerable doubts on the subiece of the perjury. But although no mbtivb should appear, yet if the false swearing appeared to be wilfully committed , it would be quite correct to infer the corrupt motive, although it was not in evidence that it existed. In that ease some secret motive must be presumed to exist, for no man would swear falsely without an object. No , misapprehension could be Here alleged, for defendant stated himself' to be within two or three yards of the parties when the eccident oc curred, an that there was no roots to suppose any mistake could have possibly occurred. The Jury found the prisoner guilty, without heeltatien, and the Court sentenced him to twelvemonths' confinement and bard labour in the House of Correction. Robert Warlir+, who, en the trial already mentioned of Gibbs v. Ford, gave testimony to the same effect as that of Rowley with re gard to the pretended Accident in the gig near this town, was next put to the bar on it similar indictment for perjury. Being required to plead, he put in a plea in abatement, stating, that at the time when the indictment was found he was a labourer, sod that in the indictment there appeared no descriptinn of his estate, degree s trade, or mystery, accordingly he prayed that the indictment bus 'quashed. The Count allowed the plea, and the indietmcnt was quashes , . accordingly. CIVIL SIDE. ttefore Mr. Justice GASELEE. ST/PPEIt a. Inaisx. This was ad action of replevin, on occasion of a distress taken by the defendant, Mr. Snape, on a farm occupied by the plaintiff'. Mr. Nipper, as tenant. The question turned upon the terms of the tenancy, tebetiter the rent was payable yearly, or half-yearly, which was proved on the part of the defendant by his daughter, Miss Elizabeth Snape. Mr. Sergeant \VILDE examined als witness at crnsuletable length, who gave her evidence under some embarrassment, but apparently with truth, and was corroborated by other witnesses, and the Learned Sergeant commented largely upon het evidence and manner of giving her testimony, in his address to the Jury. Mr. Sergeant PEtt., in reply, urged the credibility of her evi dence. " Gentlemen, the witness has conducted herself with great propriety. You saw her manner. She stood at t he bar, her handkerchief round her thumb, whilst she was twisted by my Learned Friend. My Brother Wilde complains of her embarrass. rnent. Gentlemen, ton this be wondered at In a simply country girl, who comes into a Court of Justice for the first time ? Eten I, who am an old slaseir—l had almost said an old broken dorm post horse, find it often very difficult to throw off my Learned Friend-- he frequently drives sharp roach into my sides—and can it be mat ter of wonder that he is an over-match for Betsy Snape ? Gentle men, this is the true and particular account and adventures of Ms• Sergeant Wilde and Elizabeth Snape I" Verdict for the defendant. . . This closed the Bridgwater Assi7ei. On Monday the commit• lion is opened, and on Tuesday business commences at Bristol. OXFORD CIRCUIT. OLOCCESTER ASSIZES, SATURDAY, Ana 13. Before Mr. BUM OARROW. CHARGE OF HORSE STEALING. Joke Hail, a respectable looking butcher, aged 22, was ch lege(' with stealing a mare, the property of Thomas Joyner. From the evidence of the prosecutor, it appeared that the mare lit question had been reared by him, and having turned her nut to graze on a common. in the parish of Lon hope } she had been stolen from thence, and after a few weeks had elapsed, she was found with her tail docked, and her appearance otherwise disguised, to the possession of a man named 'Witham, who accounted for having her by saying he purchased het front the prisoner for ten pounds ; and as he said he knew where the primary heed, he gave up the mare and went in pursuit of him. Witham being examined, Stated, that he had puled ased mare from the prisoner, and that when he called at prisoner's house to apprehend him, he was at Hest dented, but afterwards. having said he only came for a bridle he left there when he to..it the mitre away, the prisoner made his appearance, and he then totd , him into custody. On doing so, the prittaper said, " Let me g• and I will give theethe 101. Wok, anti if you come over tutuy father'' you shall have as much store." He, however, woold wo , let b in ' go, but brought hint to Gloucester. ' Cross-examined by Mr. C. desire you to take eare.`and answer me a few questions. Mr. Witham. were you ever accused of any thing yourself ?—I don't know what you mean, Sir. Don't you ? Were you tier charged with any thing improper ? I don't mean put in that boa for trial. After some hesitation and the question put repeatedly, no se• swers would be given by the witness but evasive ones. Mt. Plitt LIP 3-1 tb, I find I must refresh your memory. W e re y n o g u know what I mean by a . ,,charge. —You ttiddi t Mt. Pert.ctrs—A mistake was It 7 The Jury may think other wise. What was it then ?—Why., after corning from the fight, I you o a w t S d p o r i saddle. suppose. That I. T an h g a an t w .s as fig al h ; P e — thist i (I. l sugh ter.) h put up my horse at • public-house in Worcester, end a man ex changed a saddle with me which t!id not belong to him, and whoa .. I saw how it was. 1 gave it up to theowner. Where you ever accused of any thing - eise?-40 what respect, Sir ? ( 1 I' 'IA