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THEATRES. KING'S THEATRE. made his second appcaranco on S.:turday. Re had a crowded and fashionable audience, and his perform ance was received with marked favour throughout. figure or a young virgin, which opened her arms to welcome him with apparent transport and affection, and suddenly clasping him to her bosom, from which innumerable sharp weapons sprung out into his body, embraced the hapless wretch with the embrace of death. Miss Kelly evidently gives herself up to the intensity of her feelings more than any actress on the stage—witno.s her Therese in the Orphan of Genera and on Saturday night, in one scene, her feelings were wrought tr? to such a pitch of excitement, as to oblige her to hurry off the stage at the commencement of a song in the second act, unable to get through .it. We shall only advert to her final exit, ih dumb show, when she finds Macheath, after his reprieve, persist in his preference of her rival : it is the sublime of /ore tru . :Tedy, and we question if Mrs. Sidelong, great and glorious a creature as she Was, ever did anything finer in Elvish, than this Kean in petticoats in the last scene or Lacy.' We have left ourselves but little room to speak of the novelties of the evening—Mr. Thorne, as Mae /truth, and Miss Cloward, in Box/au. The former performed, as we have heard, some years back at Drury-lane; but if so, it Insist have been either in minor characters or unsuccessfully, for we have no recol lection of it. Ile has been since, we understand, at Dub lin, and comes recently from the Norwich and York thea tres. Mr. Thorne is i n person of the middle size, rather fully formed, and with a handsnme but not very expressive or striking cast of feature. Ilia voice is of a promising character and farther improvable, as we conjecture, being at present rather weak and undecided in some of its tones. Ills speaking voice is not unphasing, but his utterance is too rapid, and his articulation not sufficiently distinct. This defect he will do well to correct, and by indMging his falsetto less, he will soon prove a pleasing singer and au ac quisition to the theatre. Ile was more at home in Mr. lie/eille than Macheitill ; for the former line of character he is well suited. COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE. The Iron Chest was acted here on Saturday evening. Be fore going to see this play performed, it is absolutely neces sary that one should read Caleb W illiams, a novel of as much depth and power as any in the English language, otherwise the interest of the piece is almost entirely lost. It requires the imagination and the memory to be constantly going along with the actor, to account for those violent transitions of passion which rend the heart of Sir Edo ird Mortimer, whore morbid sense of honour has driven him to be a mill. deter, and whom an ever-living consciousness of his lust fame has made alternately the victim of the extreinest rage seel of a (Imp and blank despair. The play is essen tially undramatic. There arc but one or two inci dents in it, and they are very much forced; par ticularly that in which the discovery is made of the blood-stained knife and the B ritten confession of the murder. But notwithstanding this, it admits of some very tine acting, and is calculated to enchain the attention and intet est the feelings of au audience. Mr. Young sustained the characer of Sir Edward, the Falkland of the original. This gentleman's style of acting is decidedly melo-dramatic. There is the studied attitude, the stamping :of the foot, she pompous declamation, and the deliberate preparation of the countenance wine minute or two before the time, which characterize Mr. Young's acting, and which render his portraiture of a man made up of feeling erratic, it it true, but still intensely real, comparatively cold and indifferent, and incapable of exciting within us any emotions either of terror at his crime, or of sym pathy for his miseries. There is a starch preci sion, an elaborateness of finish in such a ate le, which do rot accord with the impulses of the human heart, and which are constantly reminding iis that it is the acmr we are lis:enittg to and not the being whose love of an unspotted reputation had urged him on to a deed of blood, and whose aspirations for that empty sound—a name—were as un qwenchabk as his despair was profound. Mr. Fawcett rate the garrulous simplicity of the old steward, Adam Wintertun, in an excellent insulter; perhaps he was oc casionally a little too robust, for a man who would he " fourecere years next elartlemas." Cooper acted Wil ier./ eery efficiently. The new farce, called .411 a Mistake, met with a very unconneoue reception ; butt quite as good as its merits de served. The scene in which Jones first appeared as a rambling half-cracked Geologist, seemed to promise some thing worthy repetition, but no sooner did Whincali come forward, a creeture intended to represent that species of whiekered and mustachioed animal, which tnay sometimes be seen sulking up and down the King's highway, but a very unequivocal expression of dislike was heard from various parts of the house, and which increased as the piece proceeded, though the applause was, perhaps, equal to the hisses, at the falling of the curtain. As to plot or incident—the piece was too &Aura fur us to be at the pains of reruenthering whether there were either. EYOLISII OPERA. If we must go to theatres in the present temperature, let it be to one of the summer houses. 'Those corpulent) The Whitehall Club signalised itself by a tplendid fete, fellows, Drury-lane and Covent-garden, with all their !given to most of the rowing clubs on the river and a large substantial provisions attaiest— I party of fashionable, on Seturday last. " The winter's odd—ti:e whirlwi n d, a nd t h e flaw." At about twelve o'clock, the title serving for Richmond, arc 11. e flannel in the deg-daye, positive nuelanc,s in July, , the company mustered at Whitehall stairs. Amongs t the and should be prorogued along with the two Houses of i h ome were, t h e Funny Cl u b , t h e Eagle and Sharlee:utter Parliament next Wedneslay, to prevent a dissolution of-1 Clues, the Emerald, and many others. Each b oa t was 1 the audiences. Let the Beard of Health look to it. We distinguished by the peculiar livery of its cockswain, the would have them muzzled like mad-dogs, in order (ir . Wet arms and other devices of the club emblazoned upon their tiny be allowed to enrich the language with a new word) I respective oars, flags, Sic. There were also several covered to prevent aithophohia, or play-house pleurisy. It is a re- I shallops in attendance, for the security of the ladies, in case now calamity to find one's self in a dramatic butt-house , the weather should prove unfavourable. The whole fleet now-a-days—Reviling six inside, each fifteen stone, in a' started up the river in lire (not line of bettle), having a mail coach, is only a type of it ; and then if the box- 1 boat in the middle specially engaeed for the con ve y ance o f keeper, as is frequently the case, considerately leaves the I a military hand, which continued throughout the passage door a-jar, what ninny to catch a glimpse of the cool even- Ito play lively and appropriate airs. Alexander Orme, ing sky through the lobby windows, and see the moon Esq. member of the Whitehall Club, with officers darting through, as if it meant to extinguish the gas-light under his command, anti a Committee of Management, that oozes out of the smoky chandelier in the centre of the was the Captain of the day. Under the able direction of cieling, putting one in mind of " the crescets with &spite]. these gentlemen, the ladies were served with a liberal sup tut feel,' in Milton's Pandemonium. It is too hot to pur- ply of refreshments on the voyage, consisting of ices, fruit, sue the parallel farther! and wine of various deseriptione. Tee Eel-pie-house, Tragedy, in Summer, has passed into a proverb, and is Twickenham, was the destination of the party. Here a only another name for every thing that is horrible. The sumptuous dinner was spread in the open air, under a more powerfully pathetic so much the worse, at a time marquee erected for the purpose.. The Company enjoyed when there is not moisture enough in the human system themselves on this spot till the cool of the evening, main to constitute a tear. Let Mr. Kean think met. Comedy w il i ng. w i t h great glee the festive hilarity of the occasion. and laughter were, if possible, worse, and more unseason- At about eight o clock, they betook themselves to their sonable than pork, at this time ; but our modern authors I boats, and adjourned to the Castle Inn, Richmond, where are considerate, and let our risible muscles alone, by com- ' they partook of tea and coffee, and spent the remainder of tnon consent. The only amusements attainable at pre- ' the evening in dancing. An excellent London quadrille sent, (with the exception of eating ice and reading Thcodrifs band was in attendance for this part of the dny's entertain which are both excellent coolers,) arc song, coining ov r trent. The ladies returned to town in their carriages, the sultry sense, like a cool air ; and dance, which—but highly satisfied with their excursion. must give up this last entertainment for the sake of the performers. We have been led into this train of reflection by a visit to the English Opera House, which re opened for the season on Saturday, under what we consider very favourable auspices. The Management seems, as far as we can yet judge, disposed to pursue the none course as that which secured to this pleasant little Theatre so large a share of public patronage last year. Of course we infer a similar result, from its exertions, on the present occasion. There can be no doubt that the policy of this House last year was a wise one; and as little, that a continuance of it, in the engagement of old vocal favourites and of new singers likely to become favourites in their turn, and the liberal production of new pieces and music, will insure a full tide of success. In a word, let Mr. Arnold make his Theatre what its name imports, an English Opera Howse, and leave the rest to the public. On Saturday the bill of fare was the B,g,rar's Otero, Rosina, and the Spoiled Child; three such courses as might satisfy any musical glutton, with Miss Stephens' Polly,. and the Lucy LGckit of Miss Kelly. The former was in delightful voice: to particularise all the passages in which she was excellent would be to mention the name of every song in the character. " Cease your funning" was de lightfully given, and lost nothing in repitition, having called down a deservedly enthusiastic encore. The acting of Miss Stephens in this (the Gaol) scene was particularly pointed and delicate, and finely contrasted with the rude and characteristic force of Miss Kelly's Lacy. Indeed she seems to have seized upon the mild and submissive traits, that mark the gentle heroine of Gay, in a manner peculiarly felicitous, and true to poetry, it not to nature. Pelee, as de ieted by th poet, is a beautiful abstraction, a splendid ureado:: purity mid confiding trust in the midst of poi. tton and treachery, she holds to ' her bosom's Ion!' with all the devotedness and guileless constancy of Juliet herself ; and, like Juliet entombed alive in the vault of the Capuleta, she is the personification of beauty and stainless purity, buried amidst moral deformity and corruption. The conception may be out of nature, and extravagant; ben nevertheless is it the sole redeeming grace in a decidedly immoral performance—the soft household charity that coven a multitude of sins. This is the spirit in which Polly" Stephens plays : her manner is rather refined for , ' her tank in life. P o ky is a jewel " richer than all her tribe ;' but Miss Stephens should remember she is a jewel that ! has been kept in a 'busty casket. Of Miss Kelly's Lacy, l which is the antipodes of all this, what can we say that has I not been said or thought a thousand tunes before ? The general style of this actresses performance is the most re mote from the convential that can be imagined ; she never stickers herself snider the common pliers of the art which are handed down from father to son as the heir-looms of itithecility—her motto is niagna est natara, we may add, et presuld. What can equal her scene with Macheath, in which she cosecs, rages, wheedles, and then rages again? And then for character singing: will any of our readers please to recollect the manner in which she enunciates a particular word that rhymes with " flirt" (we don't care to soil our pages with it), in the duet with Polly. ei'llo, we ask, can lend a man such a handsome box on the ear, as she does Machenth hi the same scene? In all she does, says, or sings, she is " terribly in earnest," as John Kemble said of a great rival. The second scene in the prison with Polly was inimitably fine—the natural regret she expressed for her violence—the assumption of kindly feeling, neither two warm to excite suspicion, nor too cold to check confidence in her intended victim—the almaratitly careless and accidental mention of the strong waters, were all proofs of consummate art in the actress, and reminded one of the mode of death for malefactors once prevalent in Germany, wherein the victim was Ind up to a beautifully fonued and splendidly adorned The fair debutonte who appeared in Rubin is also from the York Theatre; which is classic ground, by the way, in theatrical history. and has nurs.ll some of our first-rate actors into excellence. Miss Gowartl is really a very pro mising, young lady, possessing qualities of voice of no corn ' mon order, and only requiting more time and practice, and the confidence consequent on these, to develop them. She possesses a goo-I face and figure, her deportment, con sidering the evident ethharraesment of a first appearance on Loudon boards, appears to have been sedulously cultivated. If ne do not speak more decidedly, it is more from fear of wronging the future eminence of which she gives evident promise, than through a wish to discourage this young ; whose occasional buratsof nature in acting, and some' peculiarly brilliant notes that escaped from her timidity, indicate the germs of (we venture to predict) no very dis tant and complete success. Miss Goward played Little ickle, in the farce of The Spoiled Child, which, without meaning to depreciate the performance, was, we think, in judicious. She was triumphantly received by the au dience. We wish we had room to mention as it deserves Mr. Tayleure's performance of Mg; it was inimitably broad and droll, and some of the grins acre so genuinely Listo nian as to convulse the !muse with laughter. AQUA TIC FE FE. A Brussels paper states, that Mts. Bscher, late Miss O'Neill, the celebrated actress, is now in Paris, deprived of sight, and is about to undergo an operation for cata ract. At the late splendid entertainment given by Mrs. Coutts at her cottage at Hi,gligate, the gang of thieves assembled round the pretniaes were most outrageous and daring—so much so, that they attacked the police officers, and actually robbed one of them of a gold watch and chain of the value of twenty guineas. Mr. Stockdale complains of having suffered from the hostility of the Journals. It is curious to observe, by what various classes of persons the public press is abused. Kean, forsooth. was one of its victims; Probert made a complaint on the same subject; John Thurtell also considered him self among its martyrs; and now we have the same sort of lamentation from the publisher of " Harriette Wilson's Memoirs." CHARLES CARTWRIGHT, ESQ.—This gentleman dial on Saturday morning, at his seat, Bertrams, Hampstead. aged 72. Mr. C. was a Magistrate for the county of Mid dlesea, was late Accountant-General to the East India Company, and retired from office after a service of 32 years. lie was a most worthy and benevolent man, and closed the concerns of this life by an act as singular as it was pious. Mr. C. was one of the Governors of Christ's Hospital, and offered a presentation to a family with seven children, in whom he took great interest; but, the father not being at the time a feeeman, he contributed to the means of purchase, which was accomplished ouly last Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday were occupied in obtaining the necessary vouchers and signatures. Mr. C. slatted the presentation on Friday evening, by the guidance of Captain Moor, and next morning resigned his tranquil spirit to that omnipotent Being in whom we trust hereafter. DEATH or Da. Bua•ros.—ln our list of deaths will be found a notice of the death of Dr. Burton, the venerable and well-known Canon of Christ Church, Oxford. Dr. Barton was Rector of Over Worton, Oxfordshire, with the perpetual curacy of Nether Worton annexed. to which he was presented byllr. Cartwright, of Aynho ; Vicar of Little Berkhamsteatl, of which living the Marquis of Salisbury is patron, and Incumbent of the first portion of the rectory of Waddcselon, Bucks, in the gift of the Duke of Marlbo rough. Ile took the degree of M.A. in 1768, B.D. 1789, said D.D. 1789. In 1792 he succeeded Dr. Remington as Canon of Christ Church. Dr. Burton was educated at Magdalen College, of which Society he was a Fellow. lie married the daughter of Robert Jenner,D.C.L. and Regius Professor of Civil Law, by which lady, whom he survived many years, he had several children, all of whom are dead except two daughters, one of whom is married to the Rev.! Edward Marshall, M.A. late Fellow of Oriel College, and now Incumbent of Utley, near Oxford ; the other is still unmarried. A brother of Dr. Burton, who is one of the Judges of the Court of King's Bench in Ireland, and • sister resident in Oxford, still survive him. "It is intros. sible (says the afford Herald) for us to do justice to the amiable character of' the deceased. His urbane, kind, and hospitable disposition rendered him beloved and respected by all who knew him, and a large circle of friends and ac quaintances will long lament his loss. Notwithstanding his advanced age, he retained the full possession of his faculties, and was remarkable for a most retentive memory, which enabled him to entertain his friends with anecdotes of the wits and eccentric characters of yeas long past ; and our readers are indebted to the Doctor for many tales of Oxford men, which but for hint would longsince have been buried in oblivion." The Dorset County Chronicle contains flit following no tice :--" Two gentlemen, True Blurs, are wanted to repre sent the borough of Taunton at the twit tlection." ADDRESS TO TIIF: fIXG OF FThANCE. The following address was presented to the King of Fromm last Monday, by Mr. Doherty, in the name of the inhabitants of that part of Buckinghamshire where his Majesty resided during his stay in England. It is signed by upwards of 3,000 parsons, Generals, Admirals, Protes tant Ministers, Magistraus, &c. Among others was that Of Sr George Lee, proprietor of Hartwell. " RE—ln approaching your .51ajesty on the occasion of your coronation, we beg leave to express our sincere grizsion the loss your Majesty. your kingdom, and all Euror has experiesieetl by the death of your Majisty's august brother, the enlightened I sovereign end merciful hods the Desired. " The regrets, however, occasioned by the loss of such A sovereign, are softened by the thought we not only find in the au gust person of your Majesty, the brother of the Monarch we deplore; but also in your goodness and generous mind. a guas nuttec that you trill act upon the maxims he so wisely adopted. " Ist other times, and in other dictum:omen we have had the particular happiness of being witnesses of that ailntirable constancy and magnanimity which has distinguished each member of your royal family, when, 41 consequence of the inscrutable decrees of Providence. your royal house was lowered from its elevated rank, in order to fulfil the less brilliant, but more sweet duties of private life. " At present, when it has pleased Heaven to replace your Matta ons house on the throne of your venerated ancestors, Sc. Louis and Henry IV.; we fed that we haven glorious privilege in sp.-trenching your Majesty, and expressing our sentiments of admiration and respect. 14 e have long had occasion to appreciate the virtues of your august family. " During your stay amongst us we saw and venerated your good ness and atTability. At that period we waited with anxiety the r. happy moment of your restoration t and that gnat event accent .plished by the union of an amiable sovereign with a generous people. We now hustea (in union with them) to lay our congra tUiAl ions at the feet of your august Majesty's throne. As free and truly loyal subjects of a paternal, illustrious, and beloved Monarch, living under an exce i llent Government and IL , py Constitution, we now crave permission to approach your Majesty with the ardent wish that your brave and polite nation may long enjoy the happi. lICS4 of being governed by you; and that the most friendly vela. tines may always exist between the people of these favoured islands and the devoted subjects of your Majesty ; and that a pro. longed reign may give your Majesty the means to cultivate the reciprocal interests and affections which exist between your Most Christian Majesty and our most gracious, good, and venerated Monarch Grolge IV." CO.WIERCEoi 7IIR UNITED STATES. STATEMENT OF TUE COMMERCE OE EACH STATE AND TEKIIITONY, COMMENCING ON TUE IST OCTOUEU. 1823, AND ENDIIO ON TUE 34a111 SEETESIDEN, 1824. STATES. 'Total value of Total value Imports. of Exports. 1 Alaine. - . . 768,643 900,19.5 2 New Hampshire, . - 245,513 165,313 3 31reoschusetts, - - 15,378,758 10,434.3211 4 Vermont. 161 , 1154 208 , 2 5 8 6 Rhode Island, 1,338,338 872.1199 6 Connecticut, - . 01.510 575,852 7 New York, . - - 36.118,723 22,1197,1;111 8 New Jersey, . . 637,518 213.9119 9 Pennsylvania, - - - 11,1365,531 9,364,893 10 Delaware, . - - 12.080 18,964 11 !Maryland, - . - 4,551.6.12 4,863,2331 12 District of Columbia, - 379 953 722.465 13 Virginia, - - . 6:19,787 3,277.'44, 14 North Carolina. - - 465,1136 538,733 1 15 South Carolina, - - 2,1611,185 f. 0.44.082 16 Georgia. . 551,318 4 643,982 !7 lamistana, . - 4,539.7 6 9 7,9211,320 18 A !hams, - - 91,604 460,727 . 19 Ohio, - - - 20 91i-higan Territory, . 1,836 21 Flat ida Territory, - - 6,986 216 Total, - 81549,097 I 75,986,6571 WOOL AND YARN. The following is an Account of the Quantitf of Wool and Yarn Exported from Brett Britain and Ireland to Foreign Countries, since lOth December last ; distinguishing the Quantities of each, and the Countries to which exported. COUNTRIES WBICII EXPORTED.I I L'll O PC. Germany - - - Holland - - - Flanders - France - . Portugal - . - 11ibraltar - - Italy - . Guernsey, Jersey, and Nan . ASIA - - • AFAICA - - ' AItEItICA. British Colonies in North America . IVest Indics - United States Brasil . - Total - Quantities of British Sheep or Lambs' Wool and Wonlien Yarn exported from Great Britain to Foreign Coun tries, bctween the Itl It December, ULM and tith April, 102'i, (being the latest period for which the Ac count can b! giver). Shccp Raw or Cnwrought. n Lambs' 'OOl. In ‘Vool felt, overlets, &c. 21;15 Woollen and %Vorsted Yarn. 16998 There was no exportation of British or Irish NVool or Yarn from Ireland, within the period to which the above Account re hum. Despatches, dated April 30, have been received from Major-General Sir 11. D'Urban, K. C. 11. at Demerara.— Every thing was going on well in the Colony. The Herald yacht will sail in the course of the ensuing week for the Clyde, wlvre his Excellency, the Earl of Dalhousie, Governor of Upper Canada, with his family and suite, will embark about the iSth instant, for convey ance to Quebec. The Ferret sloop, Captain W. Hobson, which sailed for the West Indies on the 11th April last, put into Madeira on the 19th May, with the loss of bath her topmasts.— Vorisnptath Pape?. The John Sitand is arrived off the Isle of Wight from Jamaica. Letters by this vessel only relate to mere mat ters of business. The staple prothcts of Brazil, and the great sources of wealth, are coffee, cotton, and sugar, which with gold, pre cious stones, drugs, dye woods, tallow and hides, they ex port in return for our manufactures to the amount, it is said, in the year MO, of 1,SC0,0001.: and in 1821, of 2.230,0001. The annual revenue of Brazil is stated to be about 2,500,000/., which is nearly double its amount dur ing the residence of the King. It arises principally from duties on imports and exports, and the fifth of the produce of the gold mines. The whole value of this metal an nually produced, is supposed to amount to about one mil lion sterling. In consequence of the high price of cotton, several of the cotton mills sod power loom factories is the neigh bourhood of Glasgow at: reduced to two-thirds and half time. A number of the mills in Renfrewahire are also from the same cause put upon short time. The clambers and weavers in the worsted trade at Brad ford, in Yorkshire, remain in a state of combination against their masters. The masters and men continue to I have counter meetings tfeekly, at which each party comes to resolutions declaratory of their determination to resist ' the claims of the other. The weavers meet nine and ton I thousand strong. Workmen hive at last begun to pull down the remain ing part of the houses in the lligh-street, Edinburgh, de stroyed by the tire in November last. The rebuilding of the houses will commence immediately. The great tithes for tle parish of St. Mary Magdalen, Taunton, lately purchasel by A. Bari.ig, Esq. M.P. were athanecti on payment 0.) ter cent. HUNTINGDON, SATIAt)AY AloaNtNa.—A few days since a woodpecker was hot in a wood belonging to h. Rooper, Esq. at Riptota, lith a plumage perfectly white, and the *et and bill of a Fight yellow. Wu believe the white ucxxlpeeker is notunfrcquently seen in America, but in this country it is cashiered a very rare occurrence. A net-- Wherry, give: by the Funny Club, will be rowed for on Thursday net, by nun pair of oats ; great sport is expected. Instead of using animalhair in Persia to mix with lime' plaster,. they apply choppe4 oat or barley straw, which an on! s the purpose as tv:,ll it every respN:t• SOCIETY FOR FROMOTINC: EbITC.4TIOX IN I.V CAV.IDA. A Meeting wan held on Saturday at tjte Freemasons' Tavern.' for the formation of a Society, the object of which is to pra mote the education of•the natives and feeidents cf Upper and Lower Canada, by the establishment of schools of industry. At half.p.o.t twelve o'clock his Hayti Highness the Duke of Sussex entered the room, accompanied by Lord Bexley and several other Noblemen. The Canadian Chiefs, in their native dress, were also present on the occasion. His ROYAL II wit xEss, upon taking the chair, expressed his regret that the meeting was an thinly attended, which lie 'all , bitted entirely to the shortness of the nntlte, and not to any I I apathy on the part cf the public, at to the nece.sity of so charitable and praiseworthy an Institution, which had for its object the improvement of an extensive class of his Majesty's sub- Ikea'. As one of the Royal Family, he naturally considered it his' duty to lend every assistance in hts power ; and he could assure: the 3leeting that no one felt more noxiously for the success of the Society than himself. In consideration of the magnitude and importance of this object, it was tlinuk:ht expedient to recommend the itninedinte formation of an institution in London, to be known by the name of the Canadian School Society. This in atitution would not interfere with any anclety or system of roues• two now existing ; its principal effort would be to train up masters, and furnish elementary books, anti necessary means of establishing Schools neon the most unproved plan ; reporting annually to the stibscriblrs and to the public generally, both in Great Britain and Canada. Such a Society was to embrace, as far an practicable, the different denominations of Christians, receiving the patronage of the British and Canadian Governments: and nothing should be taught in any of its schools which is calcu lated to interfere with the rights of conscience, or the privileges of any Christian denominatioa ; but the lessons for reading, and even the prayers Insilco:4e of in these schools, should be in the very fords of the Bible. Lord Itnxtrx addressed the Meeting, at considerable length, and concluded by moving, " That a Society be furmcd for pro moting Education anti Industry in Canada." by the estnhlish mem of Schools of Industry among the Indians and settlers in such parts of the provinces of Upper and Lower Canada as are destitute of the means of instrue ion." The Rev. Mr. Mownitra seconded the motion, which was carried unanimously ; as likewise a series of others, for the re gulation of such institution. under the ihtmediate pntrunage of the Duke of Sussex, the Bishop of Salisbury, &c. - A liberal subscription was made; and after the thanks of the Meeting were passed to the Royal Chairman. the company retired. _ _ Amongst the late arrivals at Weymouth arc Lord and Lady George Thynne, Lady Carberry, Sir Robert Steel. Sir E. Baker, T. F. Buxton, Ent. M.P., Mrs. Buxton and family, General and Mrs. Shrapnel, Capt tke. latsrt FISIIERIES.—The report of the National Coast and Deep Sea Fishing Company of Ireland states that last year, the West Highland Fishery of Scotland produced 3'22,740 barrels of herrings, upon which a bounty of 59,990/. was allowed, and that the same Fishery produced 48,700 cwt. of cod, ling, and hake, upon which a bounty of 17,500/. was paid, making in bounty alone a sum of 77,490/. ; of the 392,740 barrels of herrings taken and cured, 110,700 barrels were t xportal to Ireland—now taking the average value of the barrel of herrings at 11., it appears the people of Ireland have paid in the last year, towards the advancement of the herring fishery of the West !light lands of Scotland 115,7001. and as 4,850 cwt. of the cod and ling taken was also exported to Ireland, valuing it at I about 11. per cwt. a further stun of 4,830/ has been paid Iby the people of Ireland to assist the industry of the people of Scotland, making 21,550/. With such facts before us, we feel grateful to those spirited individuals who have brought a subject of such national importance before the public ; through the exertions of this company, the poor coast population of Ireland will soon have a field optn for their industry, and instead of contributing 121,.5501. a-year to our thrifty Scottish neighbours, that sum will now he kept at home. We may even confidently expect, that in stead of an importing, Ireland may soon become an export ing country for fish—nor can this company be disappointed, for the coast abounds with fish, and all that is necessarfis capital. FA NATICISII.—Count Orloff, in a recent publication descriptive of his travels in the south of France, minutely relatts the horrible occurrences that took place in Thou louse at the frightful epoch of St. Bartholomew. Scarcely had the news arrived in that city of the cruel massacre of the Protestants in Paris, when preparations were made even to surpass the capital in barbarity. The Members of Parliament and the Magistrates employed every kind of stratagem to draw into the place the Protestants who were! dispersed about the neighbouring country. They were then arrested and confi,red together in the Conciergerie. At the expiration of three weeks, orders having been re ceived front Paris to that effect, the massacre took place. One morning before sunrise, seven or eight ruffians, armed with axes and cutlasses, entered the Coneiergerie, and ordering the prisoners to descend one after the other, butchered them at the foot of the stairs, without giving them time to say a word, or address a prayer to Heaven. The number killed was about three hundred. After having pillaged and stripped the dead bodies, they were exposed in a state of nakedness to the public gaze for two whole days, while large ditches were dug, into which, after having been cruelly mutilated, they were thrown without any covering. The lower order of Brazilians have an absurd tradition as to the original formation of the negro.—" At the time (say they) of the creation of Adam, Satan looked on and tinined a man of clay, but every thing he touched becom ing black, he determined to wash him white in the Jordan : on his approach, the river milted, and he had only time to push the black man on the wet sand, which touching the soles of his feet and the palms of his hands, accounts for the whiteness of those parts. The devil, in a state of irri • tation, struck his creation on the nose, by which the flat ness of that organ was accomplished. The negro then begged for mercy, and humbly represented that no blame could be attached to him ; upon which the other, sonic ' thing pacified, patted him on the head, and by the heat of his hands, curled his hair in the way it is seen at the pre sent day." If you strike a Frenchman belonging to the working ' class, should he happen to have served to the army, 1w will propose a duel to you; as was the case sonic years ago with-the driver of a cabriolet, who, on being struck by a Russian officer, very coolly took the cross of the legion of honour from his pocket, fixed it to his button-hole, and ; then returned the blow. A meeting with pistols was the consequence, and chance was, at least in this instar.ce, on the side of justice; the insolent aggressor fell. A distressing accident occurred in the flesh market, Edin burgh, on Saturday week. A professional gentleman went to the market to make some purchases, when his dog, which he had brought with hint, attracted the notice of these in the market. which are exceedingly numerous, and are kept chiefly by boys, though they are of no use to them what ever. These dogs, as is their custom, instantly formed themselves into a pack, and rushed out upon the strange I dog, and past the gentleman, and between his legs, with such force and rapidity, as to throw him down, in • consequence of which, one of his legs was broken, and the other dislocated. We trust that this occurrence will attract the attention of the authorities to the monstrous evil of so many dogs being about the market. SHOCKING Mt: nnErt.—lt is with considerable pain we record the following instence of atrocity, committed near the seat of Government and the Police :—On ‘l'ednesclay night or Thurs day morning last, three cows and a calf belonging to hlr..laincs Brown, of Tallaght, which were grazing on the lands of White. town, near Saggard, were houghed, and a poor man, named Mi. chael Ougan, who was in the care of them, was found lying in a ditch near the place, dreadfully murdered. Be had been shot through the neck, and thrown into the ditch. The only reason as signed for this 'Wittman deed is, that 'lr. Daniel, of Mary-street, some time since, took a lease of the commons of !!;iaggarel, which he enclosed, and part of which has been taken from him by Mr. Brown. Mr. Farrell, of the Head Office, with a party of police, has proceeded to the place, in order, if possible, to trace the per petrators of this shocking outrage.—Freeman's Journal. Ilomicrnu.—Friday morning a young man, only siit years of age, mimed Charles Green, a writing clerk in an attorney's office in this town, was apprehended and lodged in the New Bailey, on a charge of killing his own mother. Front what we hare been able to collect, we understand he was Truett intoxicated ; and in a! scuffle which took place in his father's house. on Thursday evening (the particulars of which we have heard so variously stated, that we do not choose to relate them at present), he irflicted such severe injuries upon his mother that the died soon after.' wards.—An inquest was held on the body yesterday ; but, as in the preceding case, no person was e-atnined but a surgeon ; and the further proceedings were adjourned to Wednesday.—Manche,. ' ter Guardian. CAUTION TO MoTHErta.—On Slturilay evening an' inquest was heldat the KLig's Ilead,in Baker's-row, Whitechapel, before Mr. Unwln, the Coroner, on the hotly of an infant named Henry Croife, who came to its death under the fidlowitig eircmin. stances:—The little creature was only three months old, und on Fridzy night the mother, to parity it, introduced a piece of fat meat into its mouth, holding a part of it between her lingers. The child sucked the meat for some time and was quiet, bet uo. fortunately the mother let it slip, and it lo.lged in the child's windpipe. The mother s after using all means in her powir to relieve the little innocent, took ii to :11r. Collier, a surgeon, who introduced a proliang. a hick perforate:l Co: meat but did not relieve the sufferer, and all other means pr.."vril theirs.; it diad in a few minutes after. Ver,tet—s. A ceidettsl .r..4rr IXTFT.r,ran - cr. COURT OF KING'S BILNeli, SATURDAY, JtAY 2. WILSON V. I'DWARTIS. This was an ac•ion tor wn zoi•atilt. The defendant pleaded. i. justification, that the plaintiff was a mariner on board his ship, and 7 1. 1 having got drunk and iliaalserd his orders. he (defendant) had nualeratelv punished him: the plaintiff replied that the defend. ant i punished him to excess, and upon that emetic)" issue wad r Mr. ScAht.tte stated the ease. The defendant was the alinet and rap:ain of the ship Aiinwell, a trader between Liverpool and and the plaintiff, a man of colour, in the spring of last I year, was engag c d by hi m to jco upon a voyage to !Serbia and back, as cook i 4 that vessel. Nl'hen they arrrived nr Bedsit* the ittesard was discharged, and the defendant rewired the plaintiff to unticrtskc the dutiet. of Steward in aedition to those of cook. Sonic diffcrence aro.- between them upon that rubj -ct, and one evening, the plaintiff Miring been on shore, end drank Whet MO freely, was, upon his returning on board, called on deck by the defendant, and ordered to make some alteration in the siivation of the cable. Not proceeding immediately to obey this order, the defendant rushed at hint, - knocked him down, and then with the aid al' the mate, drag ge d him a l ong the deck, wedged him in be. twecn two watenca.‘ks, and, whilst there, kicked and beat hhn most unmercifully, repeatedly threatening to kill him. In consequence of this ill-usage the plaintiff remained ill, and unable to do arty work during the whole of the homeward voyage, and on his arrival • at Liverpool was obliged to go into the hospital there; his ganetal health had been completely ruined, and his ability to maintain himself by his labour wholly and for ever deetioyed. he facts of the use were proved, nearly as stated, by Morritaffl ; one of the crew. Bunt:o'lAm addressed the Jury for the defendant, but called no witnesses; and Tht boaD Cut E r JraTicr having summed up the case— The Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages One Hun. drcd Pounds. , Stan-rim rouNO. This rosy an ection brought by th e plaintiff; Who Wes an iron. nu niter, against Florence Young, Esq., late High Sheriff of the County of Surrey, to fix him for a debt of 132!., under the follow.. intr circumwances : Mr. Duncan, a solicitor, watt employed by Mr. Martin to sue out a writ against a Mr. Harvey for 1321., due to him for iron mongery, which he dhl accordingly, and delivered it to Riess:s. Morison, Cox. and Co., who were the officers for the High Sheriff of Surrey ; but aline time after it was ■o delivered a return was market, upon the writ, elating that Harvey was cot to be found hr the county of Surrey. It was however proved, that at this very pe riod he was in his own house at Nine Elma, and had been seen there by Cox, one of the Sheriff's officers, who had seen him at 1:!5 house upon another writ, and came out with a hundred pound note in his hand, either in settlement of the second writ, or for some mine business. Under these cireurrytanres a verdict was taken, by consent, for the plaintifr—Danivg.r.. 111. There were several und,fended causes. - IRELANA DUBLIN COMMISSION, WIDNZIDAT, SVYt 20. COMBINATION AND CAPITAL CONVICTION. Patrirk Ilinehy, Michael Serry, James Curly, Timothy Maw, nreph II Ifh, and Thews Cullen, were indicted, tinder Lord El lcnl . orotigh's Act, for aietaultingJames Butterworth, on the nth of April last, with intent to murder him. There was a second count in the indictment, which laid the offence as haring been committed by the prisoners, by cutting and wounding with intent to maim the aiiiJames Butterwort'. Ale K.C. stated the case as it appearyd by the following evidence:— Mr. James Butterworth sworn and examined by Mr. Townsend. —1 am a clothier residing in Chamber -street, and - upwards of seven years established there. There has been lately a change made in the process of manufacture in my concerns, by the erection of two sheering machines for the purpose of finishing the cloth. Thotto machines produce two effects—the work is done quicker and better by them. I remember the 17th of April last; it was the Sabbath day. I walked forth in the morning, and alone, for the purpose of raking the air, in the tenter-field at the rear of my own house. When returning, about eleven o'clock, I saw a great number of men ass-Jut:led and in conversation near the field, I suppose about fifteen, anti apprehending that they were lying in watt for me in order to do me mischief. I tunied off' into a small field called the glue. field, for the purpose of avoiding them. As I passed I heard those outside in the lane say, " That is he—follow hint!" 1 was not near enough to know any of them. When I heard what they said I knew what their intention was, and as there is a small house in the field inhabited by the man that manufactures thaglue, I walked up towards it. lie was standing at the rear of his house, and as I approached him I saw six or seven men follow me, armed with sticks and cudgels, not of the ordinary kind of sticks. I ran to wards a ditch forming the boundary of the field, and thought to leap over it, and then get to a small lane that would lead roe to my own house; but owing to weakncsi and confusion I leaped into the dyke, and by the time ( got into the lane and upon my feet, the men came up to me and began to beat me on the head with their unmerciful weapons. After one or two blows I lost try senses. When 1 recovered I found myself stretched in my own narlour, with my wife and several persons about me. I was beaten on the head, legs, thighs, arms, and shoulders. I don't know any of the persons who were engaged in beating me on that occasion. I know the prisoners Maher, 11 alsh, Cullen, and Seery ; they are journey men alttermen. I did rot ace any of them on that occasion. 1 never had any quarrel with the four prisoners just named. Pita six men who followed to beat me were a part of the fifteen. Jir. Catlett, examined by Mr. DAVID PLUNNIETT..-3 lire in the glue-field, rem the tenter-field. I remember the 17th of April. Mr. Butterworth seemed to be frightened as he came towards me t and I showed Ilia. the way to the dit c h, and after he fell into it I saw several mon leap after hint, and I heard dreadful blows follow. I was then unwell, Just recovering from an illness, sr I would hays assisted hint- I saw the fellows beat him down the lane with weapons. (Here a square oak stick, about two feet long and two incites square, rounded towards one end in order to render it more easy to hold, was produced and identified as one of the weapons.) One of the men stood upon the top of the ditch and wielded sword, and said something which I do not now exactly recollect, but it was encouraging the others. The man with the sword afters wards ran to where Mr. Butterworth lay upon his hands and feet., and I saw him strike Mr. Butterworth with the edge of the sword on the back part of the heath ; he also struck him on the left arm with the fi it of the sword. I was distant from them about from this to the window at the back of the Court (about twenty yards). The prisoner Ilinchy was the man alto held the sword, rind hit Mr. Butterworth with it. According as each man hit Mr. Butterworth he went off; and threw away his stick. I went up to Mr. flutter worth, and found hint bleeding very much. On speaking to him he shook his head. The Imit blow flinchy gave Mr. Butterworth was when he lay on his side, and it was given with the flat of this sword. Mr. Richard Anderson examined.—l remember Sunday the 11th of April ; about eleven o'clock, there was a great crowd running down Ormond-street ; there were ten or fifteen persons, and several were throwing stones at those as they were running ; I wee alarmed, and went to the end of Lovedane, Cork-street, where I saw three men walking down, whose appearance made me suspece them, and there I asked a crowd of persons standing at a puldie. hou►e, to assist inc in arresting them ; no one came, and then I caned out to stop the murderers, upon which one of the three nte‘ alto were corning down, pulled a sword from under his emit, ana flourished it as if in defiance, anti went down Marrowbone-ltit:e ; succeeded in apprehending one of the three in Matrowbone-Lit.e, and the Police immediately afterwards took another. rite Ft,lice took !finely, the man who had the /mad, and I took Carty. Cross-examined by Mr. Ilautvrox—There was a cro.td the first time I saw the men who were running, and some persons were throwing stones after them ; when I saw the three nine first, they were walking ; I did not see the sword at first, nor until the man took it from under ids coat. By the Jury—flia " e - h;;;wed the sword at the crowd by way of deterring them. By the COURT—Catty was in the street when I apprOienecrl him ; when I first saw the three men they were a quarter of a mile distant from where Mr. Butterworth was beat. By the Jury-1 was led to sweet them from their dirty appear. ante, and no: being shaved at that hour on Sunday. Stephens, a pace-officer, deposed, that he was on duty at Jamet.'s-street Police-office on Sunday the 17th April, and that 134 consequence of Mr. Anderson. of Loyedane, coming to the office. witness, and another peace-officer, named Cannon, proceeded to • houses; the end of the lane leading to the tenter.fields. and in au unoccupied room they found inchy ; witness first asked if there was any one inside, and not receiving an answer, he was about force ing the door, when he felt a pressure against it on the other side ; and upon getting a poker to force the lock, the door was unlocked as the inside, where they found in til2 room the prisoner Hirschy, and upon asking hint why he concealed himself there, he said that att there was a crowd in the street, and many persons running. ho came into the house for shelter, and finding the empty room and the key, he locked himself in. Upon being asked whose was tae sword he had, he denied having any, and a search top made up the chimney and several other places, but it could not be found. Wit. netts arrested Cotten and Seery in the street at Leeds, in Yorkstfire ; IValsh and Cullen he a l so arreste d in Leeds, and found them non - coaled under the stairs of an unoccupied cellar, which was without light or fire. A boy, named Nugent, who accompanied witness to Leeds, identified the prisoners. Henry Nugent—On the tiunday that Mr. 13UttaW011.11 win beaten the witness went into a public-house in Ardee.row, and eater about fourteen or fifteen men assembled there, and amongst them were four that he knew, Maher, Walsh, Cullen, and Seery. :Bahr( called tin more drink, and Walsh came into the house in a hurry and spoke to Maher, and then all went out quickly. They etooJ for some time on the opposite side of the way, and witness stood looking at them. They then proceeded towards the tentar.fietd Walsh anti Maher hail their right hand inside their coat, as hitst also more of the party, and whew they asaedibled at the end oh _Ow Tenter.lane, there were fourteen or fifteen pertora. Wheo Mr. Butterworth crossed up the Tenter.fields, a man with s two:J posed witness, and truck the sword aitaingt it stone, an ten to• wards Mr. Butterworth. There were Ire Of six men about b 7 r Butter wer , It, all of whoa Scut him. The man wish the sword *so in the public-house wi.h the rest; Cullen, Seery. Matter, and ‘Valsh were in the crowd in the street , but cannot soy that Se-re h p l a red blic t . o ho g u o ee to fi a r P th i r ;nalrhpoa° next day. wt : hse was near a month out of Owe Ise . men that beat Mr. Butterworth. 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