The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1825-11-28 00:00:00

PRICRS OF BRITISH S' Am& Stock 2181 prr t enc. Red. MI R2l 7. per Cent Cons. 846 11:1!, Plitt) for Acct. 843 103 34 8.11 31 per (lent. Red. SIIZ Neer 4 per Cert.lH3 j t S f I TOCKS ON SATURDAY. Gustensai Bonds mite Snip Ditto Acct. 6 dis clicin Bonds- Ditto Asa. 61 663 Ditto Bonds (ues) Sit St 6 1 Dino Acct. 67# 7 4 I; t 6 Peruvian Bonds 49 .49 Ditto Acct. 4i; Prussian Bonds Ditto B 'rids (1322) Ditto Acct. 964 iosian Brinds (1022) Ditto Acct, 84 Spanish Cons. 151 j I Ditto Acct. 16 15 Ditto Cons. (1823)10j 111 PRICES OF SI/ARES ON SATURDAY. N El. Shnre. Pad. Prosaism par Share. Anisle.Mexiean £lOO 30 26 Atigna Iron and Coal 5O 12 34 dis • Brazilian Csstellok EspiritoSantotrazil 100 5 4 1 I ‘ol.lrnbian lOO 5 111 12 General Mining Association • Hibernian io 4 !2i dis Pau -Perusian Potosi, La Paz, and Peruvian se 6 112 dis • Real del 'Monte 4OO 400 Royal Stannary& Brit. Mining S 44 4 dis United Mexican Ditto New 4O 10 10 lIISCELLANEOUS• Iltitish Rork and Patent Solt 13 $ 31 3 • British and Foreign Paper 5O 3 I dig , & Colonial Silk 50 2 11 I die eleneralSteam Navigation lllO 5 / 4/old Coast Association ... ... 100 6 I Q die ' 'General Dyeing and_Prinsing I raving off Pearl Fishery (Yellow) . Provinsial Rank of . . aliia de la Plata Agricultural— 100 lb 4 3 die r - ~y~ / ~'~ r ~~~~ ~~~~~ of ~~ ~~`~~[~*• DRURY-I,ANI? THEATRE.. TV* Evening. MONDAY. Nov. 2s. will be performed the Tragedy' of fIRLITIig. Luelue Junius Brutus, Mr. Wallack s Titus. Mr. Youngs& Tullis, Mrs. Bunn; Targulula, Mrs. W. Meat. Atter which the berio-Comle Operatic Bombastic Tiece of A M0R0.50, KING OF LITTLE Amon:do. Mr. Holler t Rowland°, Hr. J. Russell; Illollidusia. Mn. Orger. Te conclude with the Grand Historic Pantomime Draws of DE LA PEROUSE; Or. THE DESOLATE ISLAND. Perouse, Mr. Noble; Madame Perouse, Miss Smithson. To-morrow, Per Freieehutz, and The Wager. PRICES tor FOREIGN S A oi:nan Ronde Ihtto Acct. 92 ' Atazitiar. Reads 1)1:10 tkr:p t:.ttoAct.l3 12/ 131 Adis Bonds 58 inlomblan (fonds 614 Ditto Bonds (1821) 62i 2 • Pit'n Acct. 631 3; 2 I 2 4 • tf 24 2 1 2 Danish linnds Ilitus Ponds (1825)60 Ihtto Aect. 60 c'sench Rentes 5 pet Ct. 97 1 .500- Pacnange 25f. 10c. break Bonds 2(1 Ditto Ronde (1823) 21 'ileKS ON SATURDAY. Long Ans. 20 3.16 101 India Sande 4 2 dis I:c./lillslld.l,ooll/. 4 2 7 die limo, SIMI. 42 7 di* Dit'n, Small 4 2 7dis LoueTy Tickets 191.195. CO VE NT-074 R THEATR E. This Evening. MOIDAI,Nov.eB, will be performed the Tragedy of lIANII.F.T. Runlet. Mr. Serie (front the English Theatre. Oriuele, his Ist ppearwe In this e mutt , . Polmlitts, Mr. Dla.nehomi ; Laertes, Mr. Cooper. ophella, Miss liamrnersley. After which the Melo.Dramatle Entertainment of ♦LADDIN; or. THE WONDERFCL LAMP. Aladdin, Mrs. Vining. Toenoreow, Rule a Wife and Hare a Wife. A Roland for an Myer. and The Scapa-Goat. The BRITISH PRESS commenced publi.hing on Saturday morn. ing at five o'clock. LONDON. MONDAY. Novzsises 28, 1825. The Brussels Papers of Saturday arrived last night. They contain the following particulars of a dangerous ac cident which befel the Minister for Foreign .Affairs, at the the ball given by the Court at Amsterdam :7 " At the mom:at when the dancing was going on with the greatest spirit, and in the midst of the brilliant assembly, 111. de &clock suddenly fell, through an apoplectic fit. All possible as sistance was immediately given, but in vain. It wag necessary to carry him to his hotel. The next day he had a relapse, and when be last accounts came away, he wu in the greatest danger. The King and the Royal Family were greatly afflic.ei at this event. 1 t is affirmed that he is sines better." The Journal of ell mbray says, that several young Belgians, in tended fur the Ecclesiastical profession, have entered the episcopal miaow of that city. These young men are from the eiocescs of Ghent, folalinti, and Tourney. Yesterday we received Lisbon Papers to the 12th inst. They announce the arrival of a vessel from Rio de Ja neiro, bringing intelligence of the conclusion of the nego tiation with Brazil. It does not appear, however, that thii vessel was charged with any official communication to the Portuguese Court, and when it allied from Rio, the particulars of the arrangement between the two countries were not publicly known. Excepting the paragraph we subjoin, there is no notice of this important negotiation in the Lisbon Gu:ette, nor any other political news. LISBON, Nov. 7. On the 4th inst. arrived dse Cardessa des Poote, Capt. Jose da Silva Aurora, in I 4 days from Rio de Janeiro. The Captain brings word that the RJyal Family were in petted health, that Sir Charles Stuart had concluded his negotiations, and thee the result was to be published on the 7th September t it was not known *bat arrangements had been made, but some of the Ministers had de. dared that every thing was settled in confoenaity with the 7ntero,ts Of both countries. Nov. 11. His Excellency the Conde de Casaffores, Ambassador from his Catholic Majesty to this Court, arrived bete yesterday. Exchange on London, 62!. It seems the fate of Ireland to find its worst enemies In the forwardness of its most active friends. In their Im perial Senate—the CATHOLIC ASSOCIATION—Messrs. O'Cown ELI. and SHELL, with other distinguished Chief tains, contrived to do as much evil to the Catholic cause as the same number of actors could possibly do in the same ' 1 gi►en space. They have made it—or endeavoured to make it—s cause in which every political adventurer may try hie fortune. Mr. COBBETr, among the rest, stepped forward, and was in his element : wherever a crowd of the desperate and the discontented are gathered together, his delight is to bib) the midst of them. Mr. O'Corrxret. and his fol lowers hailed their new ally with acclamation—the whole 1 1 conclave were prepared to worship him. As for Conseir himself, lie seemed to have crucified the Old Man. tad to have cast off all his old affections. The subject of Cottage Economy was forgotten. Even the eternal topics of turnips and straw-plat gave way to the Reforsmatiox, and the Hies Mass. The Protestants—in his picture of them—were no better than of-sets from the true stock, and the Pore was the glory of the earth. But unluckily, whether it was that he received no share of the Catholic ftent—or from whatever else—he on a sudden uobraced his drum, and would no longer beat up for re cruits. Presently this pious " Defender of the Faith" was proscribed by the Catholic body as a traitor. Open hosti lities ensued—he fell foul of the great O'CONNELL, and the great O'CONNELL, in his turn, fell foul of him. The , weapons of abuse were exhausted on both sides; it became a drawn battle, and the Catholics found out, when it was too late, that they had courted the aid of CONBF.TT to their coat, and that the only service he ever rendered their cause was by deserting it. IVith an imprudence quite inconceivable by men of sound mind, the ASSOCIATION next notified to England and to Europe that they had put themselves under the guardianship of the Jesuits; and by this Conlviental' aiiiance, they looked forward to the ultimate achievement of their inthreudeore. In the anticipation of their new p o wer, they assume to regulate the notestant King of the Netherlands as to the exercise of his dominion over his Cdthdic subjects ! Can any deliberation Le, at this crisis, store preposterous than this 1 Assuredly, on the score of gratitude, the present Champions of Emancipation are not running the nest generation into det;t. Butes if theCtithelie cause bad not already suffered enough from its auxiliaries, a new body of defi:ncicrs has sprung up. The ett4rant rebels of 1798, and their descendants, hare mobuthed themselves into a Society, in New York, called " 'l he Friends of laiLuNu ;" and have published an Address " to the Irish people; ;zealously recommending that Ireland should break off'her connesion with Great Bri tain--tid herself of all religious esublishments—and this being done, place the stnearies of het country on their true republican basis. To the furtherance of these salutary ends, they earnestly advise that " the CATHOLICS should make commas cause with all the DISSENTIIIS in Engtand." They are told " that they would then have the zealous support of all unprejudiced Christians, and the powerful and etilight cued body of English Dissenters, assist in g and assisted, would aid their triumph and partake their Victory." But we can assure these "Friends of Ireland" that the great body of English Dissenters have too much of sound wis dom, of real virtue, and of tried loyalty among them, to listen to any such mad and foolish overtures. There is no hope of enlisting them under the Catholic Banner. They are not ambitious to cover themselves with that sort of glo ry. They estimate too well the value of moral liberty, and of all those blessings which follow in the train of increas ing knowledge: they have too great a stake in the well being of that Constitution which secures their 'freedom, and of those laws which protect their property, to intrigue with any Irish faction for the restoration of Catholic supre macy, or to seek to better their condition by any share in the triumph. 1 That the state of Ireland Is such es to call loudly for improvement is certain; but the evils under which it labours are not such as Catholic Emancipation can cure; they arise out of circumstances wholly disconnected from the extension of civil privileges. If these privileges were conceded to the Catholics to the full extent of their claims, the Irish people—as such—wculd gain nothing. If Mr. SHCIL could be a King's Counsel, and Mr. O'Coxsiset. Keeper of the Great Seal, not a single advantage would flow from it to the great mass of the population. The door of preferment would be opened to a ;ew Catholic Peers, and to, perhaps, an hundred Commoners; but the great body of the Catholics would remain precisely where they were. They would neither be better housed, nor better clad, nor better fed. The Irish peasantry would still find their sub sistence in potatoes, and the tithe-proctor would go his usual round of exaction. It is to a redundant population, and to a deficiency of mane torturing copi tal,l hat Ireland owes its misery. Remove these disabilities, by furnishing ern ple funds for the maintenance of labour—encourage industry by ade quate wages—make wheaten bread, if possible, and not po tatoes, the staple food of the country—and you will do more for the substantial welfare of Ireland than can ever be achieved by even the most successful struggle for any other object. Let a CATHOLIC ASSOCIATION—the higher in rank, and wealth, and influence, the better—combine to promote these great ends; let them meet—and they cannot then meet too often—to consult as to the best means of re moving that pressure of poverty which sinks the lower classes of the Irish to the very depths of moral degradation; —let them associate to give &let to all those measures of policy which the great interests of Ireland so seriously die tate ;—let them be only half as anxious to open new chan nels of prosperity to their country, as they are to open the career of honour and distinction to themselves—and they will deserve to rank among its first Patriots, and to go down to posterity as the best of Catholic benefactors. CITV, SATURDAY ETLXIDO. Another very heavy day of business has taken place in English Securities, and Consols have again fluctuated, as in the present state of the market we might naturally ex pect. Consols to-day were as low as 534 ; but a reaction occurred, and they got back to S3l 4 for the account, and the last price was ; the market having a heavy appear ance. Exchequer Bills were 6s. to 7s. discount. The Foreign market was an object of no great attention this morning, although some considerable bargains were concluded in Colombian Bonds at the reduced price of 63, 21, and in Mexican 6 per Cents. at 661 e. The former arc now above 7 per cent. lower than they were at the end Blast week. The alarm, which has hitherto been confined to the Stock Exchange, seems now to be spreading among the public; and under the influence of the false and exag gerated statements of a portion of the daily press, persons ignorant of the fraudulent artifices practiced upon them are rashly transmitting orders to their brokers for the sale of their Foreign Securities, which are in this manner forced upon the market, and sacrificed at the rusnous depre ciation we have lately witnessed. Brasilian Scrip was 131 and Spanish Bonds 134. There was no quota tion for Greek. The Share Market was again without any business de serving of notice. A Leeward Island mail arrived on Saturday, but the letters by it bring no news beyond the intelligence that a good deal of rough weather was experienced at Tortola on the 16th October. The letters from Grenada are dated the 12th October. The latest dates from Antigua are the 14th. Several great fires had taken place, supposed to be the work of incendiaries. The Al!genuine Zeitung, of November 20, affirms that letters received direct from Alexandria state, that the sail ing of the Turco-Egyptian fleet had been delayed by the Viceroy, until he ascertained whether Lord Cochrane would embark in the Greek war. This, however, we have reason to believe to be untrue, as letters of a contrary effect have been received in London. Advices from Trieste say that nothing certain was known.respeating tha-Best. GleaVirlatric E 0V En rite Dao.—The board of works at Lisbon had given orders a considerable thne ago to repair the fine bridge over the river Dao, near the town of Santa Combs, which was blown up on the 20th S.:ptember 1610, for the purpose of retarding the march of the French army. This bridge being in the main road of communication be tween the province of Beira Alta and the cities of Oporto and Coimbra, the destruction of it has proved a great incon venience. Notice is now given that this work is concluded, and the bridge open to the public.—Lisbon Gazette. We have received Caraccas Papers to the 6th ult. They confirm the intelligence of an expedition in preraration against Cabs. No late intelligence had been received in Colombia from Peru, but the general understanding ap pears to be, en what grounds we know not, that Bolivar will proceed to the Bands Oriental. We have received papers from Barbadoes and the ad jacent islands to the 20th ult. They state that the Houses of Assembly had met for the express purpose of reconsider. ing the report respecting the amelioration of the civiliza tion of slave population. The Speaker read a communi cation from Lord Bathurst, complaining in strong terms of the neglect of the Committee on this subject. The dis cussion in the Assembly was carried on with little temper. We have received Trinidad Papers to the 2d ult. They contain no intelligence of importance. A regress, named Judy Brush, who some time since was not permitted to purchase her freedom, had, on a new application, been al lowed by the Chief Judge to do so, the former objections to granting her suit having been removed by her subse quer t conduct, and prompt obedience to the directions of the Court. COVENT-GARDE Ar THEATRE. The Opera of Clan was eerformed at this theatre on Saturday, fo r the first time since Miss Tree's retirement from the stage. That lady has made a certain class of cha racters, both of the pathetic and playful class, so much her man that it is dangerous to follow his% 111les Helme first ventured to lead tht way as her successor, in the little part of C'opp's niece, and Miss Paton has now followed in Cori. The success of the first mentioned lady both as a debutante end a successor to Miss Tree was highly nattering, and it is satisfactory to add drat the effort of Saturday evening was at least equally fortunate. 11iss Paton has of late dis played capabilities as an actress wh;ch hold out a promise of adding fresh laurels to her fame as a singer. IVe do not consider her exertions of Saturday night likely to de tract from her previous reputation in either capacity. The songs were given with peculiar beauty of expreesion, and such a degree of scientific execution as no other singer on the English stage could impart to them. The personation was also good, and if not so excellent as that of her prede cessor, at least highly creditable, and the effl•ct superior to that producible by any other performer. Let Miss Paton only proceed as soe has commenced, and we trust one day to be enabled to compliment her with the title of the Musical Siddons. The Duke of Gloucester passed through Southamp ton, , on Friday morning, in his way to Poole, stopping a s hort time at the Dolphin Inn. Ills Royal highness has been invited, by the'Corporation of Poole, to a sumptuous ban quet, on his accepting the freedom of that Borough. The Duchess of Gloucester continues in the full enjoy ment of health and spirits, at the Pavilion, Brighton. Mr. Latchford, the King's Messenger, was sent off from the Secretary of State's Office for Foreign AfLirs, on Fri day. night, with despatch( s fo r Sir Edward Thornton, the British Ainbanador at Madrid. iVe are happy to hear that the Hon. Admiral Sir Chsrles Paget is doing as well as possible, though he gains strength but slowly.—Pcrt. , mouth Paper. Sir Hudson Lowe arrived at Frankfort on the 20th instant. REPRESENTA TION or Yonxsttt a E.—lt appears by the Yorkshire papers that proceedings have been actively com menced in support of Mr. Fountayne Wilson, who oilers himself as a candidate, oppcard to all further concessions to the Roman Catholics. On Monday meetings were held at Leeds and Bradford, when resolutions were passetl in his favour. A second meeting was held on Thursday at Leeds, where a requisition to M. Wilson is lying for signatures. At Halifax a meeting was held on Saturday to further the election of Mr. Wilson; and on Thursday tome resolutions were passed at Wetherby, soliciting Mr. Wilson " to stand forward in the Protestant cause." FRENCH APPEAL.—On Friday, the Lords of the Privy Council met at the Cockpit, Whitehall, to decide upon the appeal respecting the claim to compensation by certain Roman Catholic Colleges in St. Omer, Rouen, Douay, and Paris, for the lames sustained by the destruction and con fiscation of their property, in pursuance of the decree of the National Convention, passed in 1793. Lord Gifford declared the judgment of the Council to be adverse to allow any ,compensation to the claimants, and, therefore, confirmed the judgment of the Commissioners. The Chancellor of the Exchequer is desirous of having the opinions of farmers on the proposed investigation of the Corn Laws. This wish has been made known to his tenantry in Lincolnshire ; and as it evinces a liberality and fairness so creditable to that geutleman, we have great pleasure in making it known.—Dorteader Gazelle. We understand that Mr. Hume has not yet left Edin burgh. He has been visiting the University, where he was most politely received by the Principal and some of the Professors. We hear that he Is to dine with the Lord Pro vost to-day, and the Lord Advocate to-morrow.—Edia burgh Paper of Thursday. The Glasgow Free Fres: contains a correspondence which contradicts, as " an abominable and malicious falsehood," the statement that Mr. Hume had offered to contribute, 'from his own purse, a sum to make up any deficiency in the subscription for the piece of plate lately presented to him by the colliers of Renfrew and Lanark. • Tile formation of the new race-course hart commenced at Lincoln ; and workmen arc busily empToTed in paring and undcrdraining the line of running. From the meaner -in which the ground is laying out, the course will probably he one of the finest in England, both as respects con venience to the lipmtator, andatility in running and making play to the horses. _l' A liit . of 'thirteen Banka in Devonshire has been posted up, at a coach-office in this town, as having failed. We will not repeat the names of the firms, as we do not find any notice of such an event in the IVestern Papers which we have reecivcd.—llempdare elrgraph. It is a curious fact that private bankfTs are now dis counting hills at the rate of five rcr cent. interest per an num ; and if they are satisfied with the security, they can rap a rich harvest by discounting the same bills through the Bank of England at four per cent. It is repotted that this has been carried into effect to a very large amount Several Scotch bankers have met to deliberate abou raising the internt of money to the old rate of five per cent. Notice, we re, is given of an application to Parliament for making a new street, in a direct line from Waterloo.. bridge to Chatlotte-street, Bedford-square. DISCOVERY or Matt. HORNE'S ellILD.—On Saturday morning last, at ten o'clock, the constables of St. Pierre Port, Guernsey, entered the Court with Mra. Home's child. She was dressed as a boy, and had been living with a Mr. Campourcey, a professee of the French language. On Friday evening, Mrs. Home sentlor the eallel to come and sleep with her, and at seven o'clock on Saturday morn ing removed her to the hous:. of Mr. Joint Brock, where the constables repaired and took her into custody. She was to be sent to Chiswick by the first vessel. We are authorized to state, that a decision has been very recently made, in the Archdeaconry Court of Winchester, in the case of the Inhabitants of Farlington v. Gloyne, very much at variance with universal Kamm and general opi nion—but such as demands the particular attention of Parish Officers. The question was—Whether a rate made for the repairs of the Parish Church, in the usual form and manner, required confirmation by the Ordinary ? And the Court ecided that the rate in question was insalid without such confrtnation.—We motet stand an appeal against this decision is intencied.—Hampshire Telegraph. On Friday evening, the 18th instant, a lamentable cir cutnstance occurred at the Ship Inn. Sandgate. Some young men of the place were there drinking ; when getting more merry than wise, began playing their jokes upon a person Ly name John Burton, a middle.aged man, who, in a state of extreme irritation, thrust a Large knife into the abdomen of one of the party, a son of Mr. Page, sawyer. Medical aid was immediately obtained, but little hopes are entertained of the young man's recovery. Burton was the next day taken before R. Hobtlay, Esq. Mayor of Folkes tone, and is held in custody, waiting the termination of his brutal revenge— Kentish Gazette. Tits CHILD or MYSTEAY.—Abont two years and a half ago, a tine male infant, about four months old, was placed to nurse by a lady and gentleman of apparently, great respectability. The gentleman first called to vic.w the situation, and, after inakiag many inquiries, said, that he was satisfied. A day or two afterwards a well-dressed female brought the child. wh!ch she said was four months old. She remarked at the time that it was not her child, but that of a friend who was ill at Brighton; but she SSW she would often call to see it, and presented the nurse with a sovereign, and a card of address should any thing be wanting. The very respectable appearance of the parties banished all suspicion from the nurse's mind, but on her shortly applying according to the direction, no person hav ing called as promised, she discovered, to her utter astonish ment, that the card of address was a deception. In conse quence, she resolved to take the child to a workhouse, but, .ortunattly fur the infant, the circumstance came under the observation of Mr. Bishop, the principal officer of Newgate, who very humanely undertook the charge of Maintaining ,he child, as much to snatch it from wretchedness as to un ravel the mystery that bangs over its origin. The boy 1 . 11 now a lovely and promising child. He has a very fair complexion, and bl ue eyes, an d must b e near l y three years ' old : Mr. Bishop having had him under his care about tw . o ! years and a half; our atte ntion having been drawn to dna singular transaction, we havel udged it advisable to publish this notice, in th e hope that may lead to some discovery aneficial to the deserted Watt. THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITSD STATES AND THE DUKE OF Sgfili-WEIMAR. Yesterday, at noon, Charles Jared Ingersoll, Esq., read, in Dr. Cimman's spacious lecture-room at the University, a very interesting discourse, 11% the Orator of the Society for commemorating the landing of IVilliam Penn.—A more intelligent and distinguished assemblage of our sex could scarcely he collected within the same space anywhere in the Unite.: States. It is to be regretted that the propor tion of ladies present was so small. On the same plat form with the orator were, the President of the United States, the Duke of Saxe-Weimar, and the Judges of the Circuit Court; and on the benches below several strangers of celebrity, and a crowd of eitizmis eminent in the various professions. When the President entered, the large au dience rose and greeted him twice with general acclamation; and a like display of regard occurred when he was about to retire. The discourse of Mr. Ingersoll consisted chiefly of details on the progress and resources of Pennsylvania, and illustrations of the merit of her principles and efforts. It will, no doubt, be printed, for the gratification and instruc tion of the country. The President dined yesterday with the Penn Society at the Masonic Hall. Judge Peters presided at the repast, which was brilliant and satisfactory in every respect. The company exceeded seventy in number. Judge Peters pre faced the regular toast cf " The President of the United States" with some tcrs: and complimentary remarks, to which Mr. Adams replied in a short but emphatic address ; expressing hie deep sense of acknowledgment and lively esteem for the objects of the Penn association. He had reason to be pleased with the manner in which he was beard, and the correspondence of feeling that was univer sally manifested. The Duke of Saxe Weitnar, when named, delivered a speech in French, that language being more familiar to him than the English. It redounded highly to the credit of this estimable stranger, in both its purport and diction.—P.iiiiaddrhiu Parer, Oct. QS. Extract of a letter from Paris.—" Much interest has been excited here by a discovery which has been commu nicated to the Greek Committee ; it is a kind of infernal machilie for the destruction of the Turkish lcets, and per fectly infallible in its execution. The great advantage of it consists in its being employed by day as well as by night, and without the necessity . of having persons to conthict it. A dozen of them sent I;;:tinst a fleet at anchor smelt! en tirely destroy it ; and it is calculated that all the Turkish navy might be destroyed at the cost of less than six hun dred thousand franes. This invention is by an officer of the old army." We have received Demerara papers to the 1 tth ult. The colony appears to be thrown into a state of great agi tation by the trial of Mr. Dunbar Ferguson, a surgeon, fer some years resident in Georgetown, for the crime of con veying away slaves, the property of Mrs. Cleary, a coloured woman, from British Guiana to Nicarie (Surinam) in the dominions of the King of the Netherlands. lie was con victed, and sentenced to be imprisoned for three years, and kept to hard labour. This trial was the first under a very new Act, which appears never to have been promulgated in the colony. Private letters state that the weather was ex tremtly unfavourable, the country was everywhere parched up and seerched, and the interior one body of flame, the smoke from which made the town at times almost insup portable. A Philosophical Society was about to be esta blished ; the suggestion for its formation appears to have': come from Sir 11. Davy; several specimens of the tat ural productions of the climate have been sent to England. The late dreadful fire in New Brunswick, though more l destructive, is not the only one with which the province has been visited, as a raging fire passed through the country, according to Indian accounts, about the year 1737, which spread destruction to an immense extent. GIVENAPPE Allele° ASSOCIATION.—The meeting of the shareholders of this Company. which was to have been hell on Saturday at the Auction Mart, has been postponed till Wednesday, when the Directors have pledged them selves to lay before the shareholders a very satisfactory statement of the affairs of the Company. A few persons, however, assembled on Saturday, at the Auction Mart, at the hour appointed by the original advertisement. None of the Directors were present, and no business was transacted. After spending two or three hours in private and desultory conversation, the Meeting separated. The Secretary was in attendance, on the part of the Directors, to give any explanation that might have been required. DISCOVERY EITRAORDINARY:A few days ago per -3011 residing in Scotland-yard wrote to Sir Humphrey Davy, stating that he had made an important discovery in chemistry, and requesting an interview, in order that he might explain the particulars thereof. The President of the Royal Society, ever interested in the progress of natu ral knowledge, immediately granted the interview required, and it accordingly took place, The stranger was scarcely seated, when he announced that he had discovered a pro cess of analysis, by which water could be resolved into a single element. •` Most extraordinary, most important," replied the astonished, yet half incredulous President, "are you assured that your analysis has been conducted with sufficient accuracy ?" " Meat perfectly assured. My process of analysis is to generalise the term oxygen, 60 N 6 to comprise under its signification that which has hi therto been called hydrogen. In this sense of the term, it is universally true that water is a sim ple substance, consisting of oxygen alone."—lt would be difficult to describe the expression of counte nance with which the Presiel.nt of the Royal Society heard this abeam areanum announced. The stranger con tinued, " Your analysis of the alkalis and the earths, and your discovery of so many new metals, are nothing to the wonders I can perform. 1 can convert tinsel into dia monds, and transmute brass into gold; I have obtained such a mastery over language and logic, that I am able to demonstrate with equal facility that every proposition is true; or that every proposition is false." Str Humphrey Davy rang the bell, and ordered a servant to see the gen tleman safely home, and to desire his family to send for a physician. RESTOZATION OF STOLEN NOTES,—II will be in the recollection of our readers, that some months ego a gen tlemen was robbed of bank-notes to a large amount at Ile Auction Mart. where he attended for the purpose of pur chasing an eitele, and the subsequent prosecution and ne quittal of a p.rson of the name of Palm. Notwithstand ing the failure of this prosecution, Mr. R.'s efforts hare been unrelaxed to trace the notes, and at length he be came possessed of a chain of proof of guilty knowledge and participation in the proceeds of the robbery, impli cating several persona who have hitherto carried themselves erect on the Royal Exchange. Intimation having been given to the parties, they, after a few days hesitation, re stored the full amount of the property, leaving this gm tleman, however, minus leis expenses on the Continent in search of his lost property, and those attendant en the prosecution of Palin.—Sandal Paper. VIOLATION OF A CLICACH-YARD.---00 Thursday week two young men were riding in a gig, on the road from hardens to Longformacua, in the county of Berwick, and appearances indicating that they belonged to the fraternity of body snatchers, they were stopped that an examination of the gig might be made. The men forthwith fled across die moors, leaving the gig and horse behind them • and in the gig was found the body of an o ld man, which had been buried in the church-yard of the neighbouring Parish of Edrom, on the Ist of the month. On Tuestlaw the 15th, a person from Edinburgh came to Dunse and claim ed the horse and gig in which Mackall's body was found ; on hearing of this, several hundreds of the town's-people assembled and broke up the house where the gig was stand-1 ing, carried it through the town, and after breaking it to p'eces, they burned it in the market-place. The Sheriff came to the spot and read the Riot Act, and took a list of the names of the most active.—Searman. e at atr o ac ld te d s ; hors but . A Set en° et a SHOT.—On Sunday l as t, at an early hour, I a men of the name of St en t, w hil e engaged with other smugglers in running a c argo of contraband good s near house, n Salts Farm, was shot thr oug h t h e b o d y b y one of the ells e ua unfortunate 'i lioc kad e- ra m e a n n lies . The at iris own bee hHo r am, without the slightest hope of recovery Va in II • r ald. LiveRPOOL, Nov. 28.—The mail to and from London will be altered on Monday, the 28th inst : to leave here at half-past ten, p.n. and arrive in London as at present ;to arrive here eta quarter past seven, P.N., and lours to be delivered at eight o'clock, p.m. to such as send tar them. THE CHURCH. On Saturday last, the Rev. George Hairy Cut of University College, Oxford, was institutell, 1, 1 Bishop of Lincoln, to the Rectory of East Bark . * coinshire, on the presentation of G. It. lieneag. Hainton House. The / Rev. E. Wilton, M.A. late of Queen' Cambridge, is preferred to the Curacy of Chi North Bradley, Wilts. It is fully detetmined by th , , prelates of th dioceses that they will in future ordain no ean orders who have not graduated at ono of thfi we believe the Colter at St. Bees is the onh. Hitherto_ it had been the custein in tii (1;0.T.5.( Chester Durham, and Carlisle, to orda;ii Venn cimpetent learning, and qualifications, who v educated with a view to the Church, or, if the viously pursued any other vocation, 112,1 three years to the studies preparatory fur holy or the great increase in the nuitilicr of 1 ;1:ak al . Universities, who are desirous of enterin:7, the C the difficulty of their obtaining titles, has ve suggested to the heads of tie Church this j: strictioer, giving to the tro Universities tha: which they so justly deserve.—Leedo Ind?.ndc UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENC, OXFORD, z :ATI"RDAY, On Thursday last the tu!lowilig Dewees fetred _ _ itIASTERS OF ARTS. —Rev. Ilenry W. darker, loge ; Rev. R. B. F. Potricory. :llagdalen lull ; Ilan : Robert C. Ropers, (kr Rev. Thomas W. :Ilerecr, Triuity College; Bev. son, I.Tniversity College; Rev. Francis .1. Blantly, John's College ; Simon Webb. William ('•dlcge. RAC!IFLORS Fulforo, Caledon O. Dupre, St. Nary 11111; William Jar Corium Christi College; Thomas Evans, Oriel Crl•. Compton, Trinity College; Francis drake, Woree- k, Robert Evans, Jrnis College; William Dunn, Bal.itl STATE. OF BRADFORD: Several of the weavers and cambers Imre obtained ra. plovinent, but there are still upwards of Nun nmher, R .,. weavers out of employ, with 1000 children, at least, dept , eat upon them for support. In ourlast Liver TV2 raN df! several benevolent persons in the town seer_ nr!ir,!y gaged in endeavours to mitigate the distress of th lies of the unemployed, and we have now the p mutt!! add, that on AVeilnes-lay last, a numerously :atm', meeting of the respectable inhabitants wat; lald at Court-house, in that place, the Rev. Henry flap, vi::: in the chair, to take into consideration the distress d Es,' of the unemployed workmen and their Lunilies, and best mode of affording them relief. The II:v. in opening the business of the meeting, f ai I, that it bat b.el doubted by some whether the alleg al distress vai!ed to any great extent, he ha I that morning v:s:!ed families, and could assure the ma. ting, that he degree of suff.ring even beyond what he Lad anticirm,,' among ether c.. 5.25, he had found a family of five, el:. for a fortnight, had only hail the means of suppml extent of ss. 6,1. this elite of motors, It: that_' there could be no t',oubt that it was the eutr or r humane to devise some means for the relief of the situ': I l ing poor. - !Ur. Maud, whose exe:tions in favour of the divrtsi:t have been unremitting, ever since the men, who milt! tale employment, returned to their labour, stat.ll that 7, fewer than 2,735 men, women, and children, were at rr sent out of employment, or dependent upon the ployed, and among these there prevailed a great ticgrer suffering, as every person who brad interested ltiroulf 7.;• tively in the alleviation of their distress could errors. Beaumont raid, no doubt could exist but that a rarge,!,-• glee of saffaing prevailed, anti be con plirocntcd, t . t , justly, the masters who hail came forward so soon a"ir their struggle with the men, to relieve that distress. Ile anticipated the happ'cet results froon this generous tra7:.%. nimity, which bestotvcd ri.ief instead of repo.t:ii. Yr. John Rand, Mr. Fawcett, Mr. Jahn Wood, and 11r.31. Thompson, all concurred in he propriety of extrniling lief to the distressed, now that they saw their error at;il acknowledged it ; the only a abject on which there was material difference of opinion related to the extent of tit: distress, to ascertain which, it was resolved— " That as many families are at present labouring under extrer: suffering, in consequence of the proem depression in trade. er rusted by the ruinous effects of the Union an.r.r;,t the Cogrliqi and Weavers in this anon and vicinity, a Coliniintie be muu furl. ed fee the purpose of inquiring into their actual si!untin , ." The Gentlemen coustituting the Committee for the dif ferent districts of the town were tilt!' natnsd, and it was further resolved— " That they should make tbe'r report to en aijourned meeting to be held on Saturday (this day)." The result will no doubt he, that a vast sum of misery will be found, and a subscr'plion. we ir.pe a liberal ors. will be entertd into for its alleviation, durieg the depth cf winter. Tire work-people, in the mean time, will be get. ling gradually into work, and early n the spring, we yes:. the inhabitants of Ilradfor cf a l classes, will he foal:.'. in the enjoyment of their usual prosperity, having Iwo taught themselves, and proclaimed to the kingdom z; large, a great " moral lesson," that will not soon be far got.—Leeds Mer,ury. We are happy to find that the demand for stuff goods, in the Bradford market, on the two last market tisys : l:l4 been nearly equal to that of the five monilis prtc. . and though there is not yet any material improvm , prices, the indications of an improving trade are too clear to he at all mistaken. The Wakefield paper 63:. that a considerable improvment has taken place in the market, at that place ' and that the prices lrAli of hops wethers are said to have advanced nearly twenty shillinci per pack. Our information does not correspond with tau report, though combing wt ols are certainly better to and the price may be quoted at an advance of live Ehillinis per sack.—Leeds 1115rcary. THE FeSTIAN Ct.:TT ERS OF AIANCHESTER.—We ,r happy to say that th: fustian-cutters, at a genetal ineetirg, held on IV ednesslay last, unanimously resolved to a-C the list of prices offlired them by the manufacturers. T: have publicly returned thanks (said we think with erood ton) to their employers for the kindness with which t:.t. hav, been treated.—Manehtster Guardian. EXTII.3O63IIINA SY TERN:;•01: T.—A considerable wooll 1- manufacturer, in the neighbourhood of Eiland, infer:eel bit weavers a few days since, that, In consequence of tle stagnation of trade, he had only few orders, but that. as ' was desirous of retaining his workmen, he wool , ' FiT' them warps for which he had no orders, to be wove for ore half Of their late advance, and he would give to then weavers he liked best, the full price for the goods he had orders for; with this proposal they appeared satisfied — e e on meeting together, immediately after leaving him, thry found out, that, by agreeing to the above, they could vet throw themselves on the Union, they therefore sletermmol to have a general turn-out on the Freund of reduce:l prices. .without even asking for work, though it was testy fur many of them at full prices.—Yoriethire Pap". A public meeting of the silk weavers of C ircn:ry was held there on Monday, when a series of r sieetieris and h petition to Parliament were aereeil upon, prayin; the die Act of lel& should be repealed, permitting the iinports tim of foreign wrought silks at a duty of 20 per cc" We hear with pleartre, that the new hausie the diff. rent collieries in the west of Scotlatel are answ• Mg every favourable anticipation. They make geed trx;e for themselves, and fair profits fur the plasmic. It ' not appear that the combined workmen are din:ring tl;eto any molestation. A great additional supply of cca. : 5 about to be opened rap.--Caesgow Chronicle. Ga EE XOC e.—On Friday afternoon it blew a trrteerdocs hurricane, which continues! throughout the night. r!" building of very considerable size, erecting on the e x:seise! premises of Messrs. Caird and Co. founders, Cratyfo''!'• dyke, became a sacrifice to the violence of the atcrtr. To.e building had been carried to its intended heOit (thy stories), was in part roofed in, and thought apparently su stantially built, was unable to weather the storm, and fe l , with a dreadful crash between six and seven C:C.IOCk. It i, now, with the exception of a small part, a heap of ru ir e . In Ifelensburgh, also, some damage ens done; the two :3. ble tops of a new building there were blown dom.—Car , <lonian .alercitry. ken 71 dial 6111 0 J. trtoi s , )c the 'get Es stare C,.11 LYG lirstem• of I , Barn he 3 rso r , tt , 7:•' • clan tion .;, 66 of t•' tee , I, g r tt et con! ley 1-, pad s hil es . c - and s it 1 , the' torfi t ottic . fene the, cal. net Fe' seer trio ern ', Nor n e 7 c be r rte.» ( tyl Rev, Iti~ t t , r• ( I I ;e pas ii.L.4;01; at v. - , 1 -VI h t ambers a , 712 r: ' is c e ,htainctl s•a!, d t!, : Th tac f ta-. the . fro E` casur..t.. ly attetr',l titi t t 112ap, ci his . THE BRITISH PRESS.