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F.4SHIO.V.IIILE INTELLIGENCE. y%; `tistiriu and 3larchlone4* of Sallehnt7 entertidned Emily Marchl ;id .oilerry 111.1.1 dirtinguished party at dinner yirderday, at 1;.11 , enteilaioril the 111rretn.9 of the Antlent MAtiC and : ,t .tioner y,te,clay, a. his hou.e In Hanover-tome. ". .urge party of the haul toll yesterday even t, l'oseadriv. yerritnagos had dinner parties yetterdly 5 tt :1.,• likhop of Ext.t.r, sir S. 11. Moilruid, Bait. M.P., It. reii,o-puce, J. li. Tretnayne, Esq. M.P. mod ruitutess of Derby vowed In town yesterday from their r otti • :art c. Ell:, and Einintras Gower have arrived In town from West 11111, ''- ;d tnicy ha , ar ;red In t own from Kent. r.r hu. hit town f Walvs, 44 Ks . i. M.P. arrived yo.iterday at Lady Ihindss's, In Ar • • 'l,ll 1114 wat In V, rkstdre. ha. , arrived In town from his sear in Herts. l'r,ser and family have arrived at their house In t . ,4 111 , 1 f -1,31, :r••• 41 Walker arrived yesterday at Jordan's Hotel, St. 101^•••••.1 vet. 14.0 h. from the IlritlA Hotel :—Carrain Kennel, for Brighton; J,..1 7 .•; , . I. I`llCalithridve '• C. Kilos, on a tour. • -1 It sirs Hotel. Lower Grosvenor—orert :—Lady and Miss Hrialiton ; Richard Arkwilght, Esq. from his scat In L. XV. Pei Esol. hum a tour. Yet 44-04 %, Jew Rotel, st. Limes's- :treet ,—Admiral Ilark• •11•1.1 , th. 4 Rev. Mr. Ilitiberdou • Colonel and te v. M r . V it. ,; Bork. ; Merkharn, ' E‘q. from a tour ; Re A. r. m hi. +est In Ilan's. Dep.irtures :—Mev4ro. Vehhoff for , W 4 vitt. E.g . . fir his seat In Yorkshire; J. Lusk ., .;. a tour , J. ['ocher. E. 441. for satErlk. CO VE:1 7 1 : -(i.1 - 1i.6 EN - 7 ; 11E ATEE. A w ir, c ol i n e nus Oratorio was performed at this theatre ! as ! evening, the tirFt act of which was composed of tile tomt yrrtd.ir airs and scenes from Der Freischuk, Vorder w ina.,lme to:the public, personally, M. Von IVeber, who I,NA:in from Germany on Monday bet. It was aonowayd that he would undertake the direction of his c.vn stol accordingly he appeared immediately pre viour, to the overture with his baton of office, and took his station in fiont or the orchestra. lie was most warmly grct-bil by a house literally overflowing in every part im tnekate:v pit r the opening of the doors. Inn educing the rrei , eb.! . z into the Oratorio was the only means by _ w hich We' quid he brought co tangildy before the public, a:).l hall not lidd fault that such was the ease, but at the same time we must pr.•tnise that the music could no: bed ilLc proper ,iistice to midi. r such circumstances. Mr. and Miss Paton were perfectly competent, having tin it parts in the opera, vet that was not the cas, in a vet al other instances ; looking at the reason whicli h d to the production on this occasion, we do not ink It neees, , ary to particularize further. M. Von t: a: delighted with IL-alto:Ms " t /It ! 1 can bear my faie no 1em:.1." recitative nod air ; and at its conclusion shaek l'. ham most cordially by the hand, in token of ha • .iiti'actioo. Ile nisei:appeared very much pleased with Paton, and who is net? Ilir arena commancing "It .';ire tor ry.ll beheld him,'• was most eili etive. The last pleasing piece was the Jager chnnti ; it was, however, •d, bin: very badly done on both occasions: the fleet protiuced by it en the stage is well known, but that effect was er.tir,•:c !oat in the instance of last night. hai rev, r h.•en an °pet a produced in England from which airs have become so popular, upon a general scale. as that of ,a-r /'rri.tt•hniz. Their inthfence his p: evaded a'l dusts, from the music-room of ;Loyalty to the itinerant per:inmer, whew atizirto lies principally in collecting the capper currency wh'ell is protruded from tbs... windows of Lis admiring andierct•. From the noble ornatettr to he of the w's-liarp—all have ft It their power, and own their Every English theatre has produced " I'hr Ltz," and Mr. Arnold no doubt congratulates him self not a little on having taktar the lead on so great an oc casion. The aspirants after fame, by performing in the opera in question, have not lain contlird alone to those whose taitlits command :amass ft-cm their celebrity, but gar txteniltiiito the more humble departments of the drama. The ;Indications to perwmate the owl and other leapt, in the ke,.ntatien scene were " too numerous to mention ;" at the sane time, if the representation of an old lady in Drur: t -lane It IMP, the part ailutud to the bird of night was no siaccure ; tor. io answer to a question as to " how hit hen-apparent, Jon, was ?" she said " that he had strestnei! himself into a consumption by playing that there owl wbaCein Fry•hods." As a cornrow. 11. V, n Weber stands pre-eminent for his cri.;.inality, of sshieh lc,s Operas give sufficient examples. We do not now abode to the airs introduced in Frei:elm/7, because several of :!tent are old German melodies, but the Overture, et!oprcbcothog the principal movements in the piece, and those movements theimielve-a,—partieularly the accompaniments in the incantation scene, arc masterpieces ; t;:cir cern, has not been heard since Mozart , composed his 1: 11.1 i ranl,i. Ilis overture to Eurpaniiir also is supe rior to any thing of the present day; and Ins Preckso, al tinitiOt m.suceessful in this country, displays great power ability. In point of comparison, M.Von \Velar comes nearest to Beethoven, to whom alone he is inferior in re ct to musical talent, as he ig in those of general X now and polite litcralure. The Preeleza in t'tts country, and Eurya ni he at Vienna, must have been ewing to the way in which they were dramatised, and not fmn zny want of merit in the composer. We understand M. V t Welter is engaged by Mr. C. Retuble to get up ti.e op, ra of Cdicren ; if such is the case we shall anxiously Itok forward to its representation, and we arc sure M. IVehte will be highly gratified to see upon what a scale of magnificence and txpense his operas are produced in this country. At the conclusion the applause was incesssnt ; the pit s:ood up to a wan, staving their hats, while the cheers were unei l frui:i every tart of the house. Weber was evidently el.! time!' :ali'. ctrl, anti we cannot but think that his re ception :art o,.tlit !!), the British public must have lin prtrs.vil hitn ticith a deep sense of gratitude and respect. Mr. Levis phyt'd a /of irtorri on the clarionet, which, had he calkd it by any other name, would have smelt as sweet. 7 he second act was a selection from Judas Maccit. Leas, Red Mr. William distinguish( d himself in " 0,1 liberty, thou choicist treasure," in which he was delight fully aceompanitti on the violoncello by Mr. Brooks; as • he did also in " sound an alarm," which was one of the • bust things of the evening. ?Visa Paton was perfection in " Front mighty Kings he sock the spoil." The third act cominenced with an admired chorus of M. ycrb..vr's from 11 ('rocieto in Fgitto, called "Dei con- It is ahem the deer tfiruvre of that Opera, and was my well done on this occasion. A Miss Roche sang the Iri h ballad of " My Kathleen O'More" in a very de lightful manner, though she appeared to labour under considerable trepid.ition: her voice appears to have great sweetness and capacity, and we shall hope to hear her again under circumstances of more self-confidence. Two Scotch ballads ure always sung in succession; why such is the case we are at a loss to imagine; no douht Sir George Smart has a rt:::.on Itir it, but we confess, in our humble judgment, that. is generally so much sameness in them that an intervening English air would be preferable. Now we would ask, %Tun whose recommendation "Cherry ripe" was intr.ithicetl into these periennances ? It may be an amusing ballad elsewhere, and there let it remain ; but we thii.k it a degradation to the talents of Madame Vestris to sing: it, after having no ably sustained the aria of " Una fir." The Oratorio concluded with the chorus Irkno ifandel's toronatio3 Anthem, which, from the lice of ail the principal Fingers, went off very tamely and we would Fit;;;:est tinit in future the first-rates should not order their carriage.; up until such a sublime subject us .that which concluded this thatoriu was disposed of. NATIONAL SOClETT.—Ycsterday the General Com- , mince of the National Society for the Education of the Poor in the Principle 4 of the Established Church, held their Meeting at St. Martin's Vestry-roota. The Bishops , of London, Ely, Bath and Wells, Exeter, Landatf, Glou ctster, Citester, St. David's; Lord Kenyon ; Right /lon. Sir John Nichol ; Sir Jamts Longhair), Bart. ; Archtlea mins Cambridge and IVatson ; Rev. Dr. Bell, Rev. Dr. D'Oyley. and other Members of the Committee, were pre as:nt. The Committee was chiefly occupied in uniting schools, and making grants of money towards the erecting, enlarging, and fitting up of school-rooms. Some people have an objection to thirteen at dinner. Dr. Kitchener, the other day, happened to be one of a com pany of that number, and on its being remarked and pro nounced unlucky, he said—" I admit that it is unlucky in one case." " What ease is that ?" " When there is only dinner fur twelve." PURL A' 0 LOG Y. Laid evening Pr. Fteurzheiat coninwineed his mime of Lectures no Phrenology, r t the Crown cod Ancivir rivern. Ile began by explaining the lire( k etyma ,;:y of the ae.; l'hrent 'DRY. which signified the doctrine of d : hut whatever the title of his et•icnce might peeto to it ply, the Pi rerfologiNt did not undertake to explain the wore ef the we:oal Vacuity. There wait ntehing in , - - the utiiverseiit which we littcw the intimate rormitutio3 ; we were ignorant of the eleinent4ry nature of imtlies which were present to our senses ; Ow) how count it he expected (het we should be ac quainted with the mut ine ms.t. Itiit in the absence oral! po• mitre kitowledge with re +lice: to ita iodine. we col.dobrierve the nperatiocs of n,T.0.(1, and trace drir connexion with cerebral organi- vitinn. All mnn•festutinn„ of mind were made br the intervention of thr brain ; without the brain there was nn iniiiration of iner.tal power ; w ;h-a it intist he considered as the orgao of the intellect. This point was easily and universally admitted ; but lithe brain were defined the eroti of intellect, that di oition would cuntoact within too narrow limits the extent of its functions snd the range of its proper action t in truth, mind was not confided to intellect ; it had other and alinnthint snorers of activity ; sentiments, feelings, and passions—wlnaever, in short, could actuate a sentient being, were considered by the Phrenologist an the result of cerebral or. ganizstion : the word 31inti bring taken with this latitude of inter pretation. Phrenology 011411 t be defined " the docirioe Of the ma nifeatatiors of mind, of the cantlitons under which they are de veloped, and of the measures of their energy." SiAS not this, he asked, an tntereating study ? If it Wai gratifying to observe how the vital huictions were carried on, or to anatomise the organs of sense. how much more interesting ought to be the examination of thebraimilteorganizs•ion of which was so delicate. Theie were mane ardente invented to exit! tin the %ciente of mind, but tin satisfaction could attend on moral M mentriteeleal rise 'retie., amidst so ninny and Ste con:limit:7 opinions. l'heenoloey, heivever, ermine' fair to bilk) up the science of Mind on the solid beets of experience. Phrenology deserved also the particular attention of the medical profession. It was incessery that a medial man should be well acquainted with the oilcans and functi , is of ,the !lumen system, before he could pretend to understand its derangements ; hence he mild not understand the nature of insanity without a competent knowledge of Phrenology. Thus it appeered that this science was one of pmetieal utility, anti likely to beeneneehe tbundation of a branch of medicine. But Phrenology was likeleeto be of use not only in teaching us how to remedy the detangemee tact* the ntind, but alete he shoeing us how to rear and strengthen its natural powers. It wits a general compleiet t h at educate)) , wits very inet relive. Wont teie it VMS to he concluded either ilea the human mind could not be improved by ineruction. or else that the proper syStem tuttl net been avec!. This last was the truth, and a more appropriate mode of instruction. founded no a knowledge of the organs, witeld he the neelt of Phreuelegy. Ile then pro ceeded to stale the elm pi iticeee of the science. A deft ctive brain indatated a deli rise mine ; tide hr eeemplified by two casts of the heath of idiots, both of which were remarkably deficient in the forehead. '!'hire was no exafnplee he bald. of a defective been connected with any tenniteetntion or talent. As the brain decreased the nemileetatiee of mine became propertimably feeble. It was said by sonic that calcine. wen- the resens of enternal circumstances, but thee he denied ; external ciretitestences might develops. exercise, and strengthen telctoe, but they credit not give birth to them. is the brain diminished, !he mitel f. dial away. although the other functiors reittained (new perfect. In op; neition to the heads of the idiot., he instanced, in the hit:' of o•:1 Ilecon, the great develope ment of brain, as shown by the size of tee forehead. Ile believed, however, that that feature in the bust of cur great philosopher WV. exaggerated ; it wee tort natural. but w might safely conclude that the head ef lent:Naa: was rentatkehly large. and hie forehead re-achieve The eame pecuiittri•y eharecterietd all who had ever detingelehei themeelyee. either as conquerors or philoenehers ; who had ever exernel a p %newton influrece on human affairs. or had enlarged the bouneariee of human knowledge. Those first principles of Pereenlogy were known to the ancients, nod ob served by them ti, their stamery. Their genlptors never gave similarly formed heads to 14%0i:tiles and to philosophers. Among their divinities, they °beet-yeti the same discrimination. and gave to Jupiter the greatest developement of forehead. Those opinions were also favoured by ordinary language. It was usual in common conversation to make a reference to cerebral organization—in such Expressions as a narrow mind, a low mind, and an elevated mind. The preference given by the ancients, and by poets, to high and ample foreheads, had in those phrases been sanctioned by the restyle. It was, however, to be understood, that the form of the head and brain varied in the same individual front infancy to age. It also differed in the two seats ; so that all the principles laid down were subject to modifications, arising from age, sex. or nation. He. next proceeded to distinguish between the result of cerebral orgerti radon and temperament ; the latter was for a long time believed to be a main source of character ; thus it wed to be said that a man of lymphatic or bilious temperament might have solid Judgment, but no memory: or that one of the sanguiecous temperament was live:ye and had a good memory, but no judgment. But the Phrenologists rejected these opinions. At the same time that they acknowledged the Mflitetice of temperament; they denied that temperament f'01:::1 be the sourer of any of the mental power,. while they admitted that it might modify the health and activity of those towers, just as any modification of one of the vital function* will ai'ect the health and vigour of the whole conediu tMn. If he were asked iiheiher the me of the brain could he 'esteemed as a lIMISTATC of Went, be would ertswe so; the totality was to be regarded as well its the quantity ; just as the muscular strength of a man could not he accurately . estimated from hiseize, without taking into account his nervous irritability, so the come. tutinn of the brain wits as mach to be considered as its magnitude. Physlologiets were ready to admit that the brain was essentially necessary to intellectual operations, but they denied that it was tie ceseary to feeling or sentiment. If any one, however, would en deavour to satisfy hinteeif on this point by observation, lie would sooner be conduced of the latter preposition than of t h e former, for he would find that a larger portion Of the bride was destined to sentiment and feeling Than to the purely ineellectual operations. Superficial observers were fed to suppose that certain viscera, as the heirt, the spleen. or the liver, were the 'teats of certain feelings. from the pain elect) some ern - tines minted in those plies; but these might he 'tener explained by the derangements of circulation or nervome affectioes neiniereirg in the brain. It is a rule of pity etiology that all enennima. functions hence mutual influence; as, for instance, anger and other emotions wilt cause a change of colour in the skin ; an net-Mewled stomach will cause a head-twee, and re ciprocally mental labuar or anxiety will impede the digestive pro cess; sonic aflbciiene id the mind will, produce disarrai:gements of the senses. such as smells or even blindness. This general ey-apathy would sufficiently explain tee effects of certain emotion.' on the viscera, without suepteing that dune viscera were the seats of the feelings. A confirmation of this principle may be found in idiots, who have seldom any feelings, though all their physical functions are perfect, and their viscera unimpaired. But returning to the original propoeition, he paid we could not matinee talents by the flee of the brain either in animals of difeerent species, or in difft refit individuals of the same specie,' : the dog had less brain, in mass. than the ox. and men less titan the elephant, but in these instances the smaller brains of the dog anti oh man have greater clergy. Any small Insects have fretmently great muscular force : the meek had a entailer optic nerve titan man, yet saw much better, and the game might be raid of the turkey. So that tee size of organs was not the only thing to be censidered, and what was bete said of animals of different species might be equally applied to individuals. It had been objected to Plirenrlogists that the brain might receive in juries, and yet the maeifestations of mind continue. The answer to this was, that the celebrsl organs were all double, a fact which was known to Hippocrates, so that if one side were taken away the other might still continue to auppert the same mental action. In like manner it had been said that in cases of hydrocephalus the brain had been wholly absorbed in water, and yet the indications of mind remained, but Ire denied the destruction of the brain so long as there remained a vestige of mind. In the cage of James Cur. dinal, a putieet of its. Bartholomew's. . whose head he had seen opened on his !'rat visit to this country, the cranium was ?molten to an immense size, bet the brain, instead of being absotbNl, suck to the bottom. Experience had convinced him dint altera. tiers in the convolutions of the brain might take place with.: out any destruction of their substance. The proportion which the heed bore to the body was by some considered of great importance; it certainly deserved the attention of the artist, but yielded no certain indication to the Phre nologist. There was no constant proportion found in the *pecks the beads of reiddle.eized men were usually larger In proportion to their bodies than those of larger men. He then adverted to the head of the Venus di Maids, which was too email. The face wits extremely beautiful, but could hardly be called expressive , while so totally deprived of brain. Talent, therefore, it was eve. dent, could Lot be measured by the proportion of the brain and body. The brain of the elephant bore a small proportion to his size, yet this animal was thought remarkably sagacious ; on the other hand, many small birds, which evinced no peculiar ac tivity of mind. had comparatively large brains. The Doc tor then teroteeded to describe the facial angle of Kemper. If a line be drawn from the middle of the orifice of the ex ternal ear to the tipper lip, and another from that last point to the external protuberance of the forehead, the obtuseness of the angle contained by Move two lines would Lea measure, it was said, of intellectual eminence, but he denied thnt assertion; the advocates of lint facial angle overlooked all the modifications which theteeientific Phrennlogiet weighed carefully. lie made no distinc tion between the European idiot and the intellectual negro; for the facial angle would be acute from the mojection of the jaw as as well as from the retreat of the forehead. The Doctor then briefly recapitulated the substance of his lecture, concludibg with the simple truth that the brain is the organ of the mind. WICKED DESTRUCTION or PROPERTY.-4n a Pilot or two ainct, we gave an account of the robbery of the count ing-house of Mr. Smith, coal-merchant, near the canal. It is supposed the plunderers were disappointed in the booty they expected to obtain on that occasion, for on Tuesday morn ing last, at an earl) hoar, the ',remises were again entered by some villains, who, on finding nothing of sufficient value to carry off, except a few halfpence, cruelly, wan tonly, and roost wickedly collected the whole of the books and papers of the establishment on the stone floor of the lower apartment, set them on fire, and burnt the whole to ashes. An individual who was taken up on suspicion has since been discharged for the want of evidence. We understand, however, there are strong reasons for believing that the real offenders will not much longer elude the punishment they, so richly deserve.—Preston Pilot. THE BRITISH rR ESS. SOCIETY FOR TRH CURE OP SCROFULA AND GLANDULAS DISEAsES. —.--- Yestettlay the sublnriliers Rod friends to the above Institution, held their Anitivcriery ;boner 1,1 the C I : v nt . Landon Tavern, Sri Jostrit Vattxx. M.P., in the Chair. _ _ As soon se the cloth was remred, the Outman ptoptieed the King, in a funnier, iteprecatuts, however, the noisy eseociation of of three times three. which some flee or six yeas since was eo pre valent an ecconmattiment to any favoutite toast, but which good taste was now altogether. banishihg, as it by Ito means added to the conviviality of the evetting, or to the enthusiasm which the toast itself might he calculated to excite. (Cheers.) The toast was then drank, as were also thews of the Puke of York, and the Duke of Clarence, and the rest of the !loyal Family. The Cum RMAN next propOseds !" Pro-petity to the Asylum at Illyewater, tbr time care of Scrofula end Gland,'ler Instance." In drinking prosperity toshe Inetitution it ?should be recoilected that its prs,reperity depended upon the state of its funds, and it was, therefore, the duty 'of ;hose who felt co n vinced of the benefits likely to result from it, not mils to subscribe themselves, but to in duce such elf' their friends to in tribe as coelti he prevailed upon to investigate tae merit*. When he had litaiself been first made acquainted with the efEcacious nature of the remedies resorted to by Mr. Willilaw, ht imniediately subscrihel.„ and agreed to take the Chair at the annual Metter of the Institution ; but dissatiefied with time idea of 'supporting any Institution without investigating into its possible !emits, he had examined thecaeta of cure at the Asylum, and telt convinced that the course pursued was calculated to remove that dangeroue and horrible cotaint, than which the plague itseV was a lesser evil. ((Vert...) Th eir exertions would be rewarded by time aoneeiettenten of having 'supported an lostitu. I lion as valuable, perhaps, as moil of those numerous ones which were deservedly :he ornament of the country. Mr. %rust LA W'S WOWS being proposed, thq,e pothers» rose to return thanks. Lie said, that as a lecturer on battle, he hid re sided in America and had a lo large number of pupils. In the course of his studies he became eantinced dint the doctrines of Limnos as to time effect produced-Pr herbs, awl the humsp hone were cor rect, and that much depended upon diedoeality of the place where they were planted. Dr. Callen, in his system of pathology di. reedy contradicted tbst of !Amino& and the medical men of 'Eu rope, f o ll ow i ng t h e o p i n i ons o f Cullen, trusted to d.'lloorlaialki ignorant Indians to, ale orkiper collection of those plaVe skids were afterwards to be us e d as medicines, without at allzegnrding the change produced upon timose herbs by the effect of light and air. One instance he would particularise, in which Dunce had made a gross mieteke. Ile described ipecacuanha as a plant with out taste or smell. This }roved that he had not taken the same prior as Liontaims herd ; tar the fact was, that ipeescuanha. while growing, has so powerful a smell that no person could smell to it lot 15 minutes without experiencing the moat serious consequences. The worthy gentleman next adverted to the opposition he had met wimh from the medical men be England, which was of the most illiberal description, and stated the circumstance which he said lied occurred in 31arylefione workhouse, where some children had been labouring under scrofula, and had been placed under his care for the sole purpose, as he alleged, of entrapping him. He effected the cure, but just as it was (acted the nurse applied to the wounds corrosive st.blimaie and reel precipitate. The medicines which he had previously given were powerful absorbentS, and the absorbing vessels being in preternatural activity, occasioned a large quantity of these mercurial preparations to be taken into the system. The consequence was that the children, besides having their flesh cors • weed even to time hone were pear losiog their hers ulso, and indeed would have lost t!!elli but lot iris interference. The worthy gentle ' men next expatiated upon the variety of tiitficulties he had had to t contend with solely for the benefit of the human race ; for if he was to study his own emolierrent he could not have done so with . r greater effect than by co:itinuing to lecture in America. (Cheers). Mr. elounaEe said that being a Vice-President of the Institu tion. and having also acted in the vestry of the pariah of laryle hone. he should - take especial care that justice should be dare to Mr. iViiiilaw, and that an inquiry should be made into the cir. einnstanees of the case to which he alluded as having happened at the workhouse. Mr. WIIITI. AV said that inquiry had already been refused. Mr. J01)11 Al: L said that he should investigate time transaction of the case, and in order to do so he hoped that Mr. Mildew would Ball upon hint at his house. Portland-place, and snake him more particularly acquainted with the circumstances of the case, in order that he might be enabled to do so with effect. Mr. Win T LAW amid that he should feel happy to do so. The SEcnurna V announced a list of isplascaptions, at the head of which was that of Sir Joseph Yorke. br . Several other toasts were proposed, and the conviviality of the evening was kept up to a late hour. STATE OF TRADE. [ From the Manchester Mercury.] BANK PAHA: ue.—We regret to state that the bank of Messrs. Johnsln and Son, of Congleton, stopped payment yesterday. It is stated by the firm, that when their affairs are arranged, they hope to meet every demand upon them. —Afaccleffirld Courier. COMM EIZCIA L EMDAIIIAIIIII EN T.—During the week four-ever* silk bows* losets , failed in this town, none oC _ . whom, however, were doing business to any considerable extent. A number of Irish have been passed to their homes in consequence.—ltid. The banking-house of Clark and Phillips, of Leicester, resumed payment on the ed inst. Messrs. ilromage and Snead, of the Monmouth and Brecon banks, resumed their payments a few days ago. Cong.—The bank of Mtssrs. Leslie stopped payment on Wednesday last. The house have issued a circular, in which they say that they rely with confidence upon their means of di.charging all their engagements in full. There have been runs on the banks in Cock: Pike's bank in that city has temporarily suspended payment, in, consequence of the sudden death of Mr. Pike. _ _ We are sorry to announce the suspension of payments of the firm of Messrs. Sparrow and Co. bankers, at Chelms ford and Braintree, in Essex. These houses have not for some time been connected with those banks iu Suffolk with which they were formerly engaged. Itocnoet.E.—The present situation of the woollen wea vers. &a., in Rochdale and its neighbourhood, is extremely trying; the distress, oning to the number of hands out of work, exceeding anything which has ever been remem bered. Hundreds of poor people ate said to be literally starving. A public meeting, however, has been held, at which the late II igh Sheriff, John Entwistle, Esq., of Fox holes, presided, and a subscription was entered into, by means of which supplies of oatmeal and potatoes have been purchased, which are distributed to the poor three days a-week. The utmost exertions of the benevolent wi,ll, however, be necessary, in order to make the fund at all adequate to the demands upon it. Asti TONI:NDER•LYNE.-..-We understand that at Ash ton-under-Lyne a number of the journeymen spinners have turned out, on account of an attempt by their masters to reduce their wages, and that many mills are quite standing. The men were willing, it is said, to work as short a time as the masters might think necessary, but they objected to a reduction in the rate at which:they are paid. On general principles we should be rather inclined to agree with them. It is not desirable that wages should be depressed in this as they are in some other trades, to the lowest point at which existence can be sustained ; but if it be true that the masters only seek to reduce the rate of payment to the point which prevails in others parts of the district, we do not well see the ground of the op position. We understand that the sum required for Liverpool, from the amount to be advanced by the Bank of England, will be 300.0001. The deputation from Manchester have named 500,0001., and that from Glasgow 300,0001. The gentlemen from some other places not being prepared with any estimate, declined axing a precise amount.—Liverpool Adret tiser.• We have great reason to believe that the Norwich manu factory is likely to revive in a very short time. A consi derable quantity of goods have this week been scot to London, and some buyers have arrived here within the last few days.—Bary Gazcite. AN OBEDIENT SOLDIER.—A General Officer command ing at Plymouth some few years since, once gave strict or ders to the sentry at the citadel, that no one except the General's cow should pass over the grass. While this or der was in force, Lady D. called to visit the General's lady, and on entering the citadel was as usual about to take the short cut across the grass, when to her great sur prise she was ordered off by the sentry, who said, " You can't pass there." " Not pass here," said her ladyship, " perhaps you don't know who I am." " I neither know nor care who you are," said the soldier, " but I know you are not the General's cow, and no one else can pass there." An alarming accident happened on 'Tuesday last, to Mr., Standish, formerly of this city, plumber and glazier, who is now in business at Leeds, and who was employed on the roof of the Baptist chapel, erecting in South Parade, at that town. In consequence of missing a blow lie was aiming at sonic pert of his work, the stone of the cornice upon which his foot was resting coped over, and precipi tated him to the ground amongst a heap of bricks, &c. descent of twelve yards. One of his ribs was broken by the fall, and 'lie was otherwise severely bruised, but we are happy to say, that he now is m..eli better, and there is every prospect of his speedy recovery.—York Courant. PETITIO.V OF VIE COLONIAI. AGENTS TO THE HOUSE OF LORDS. TO THE RIGHT HON. TUt: LORDS SPIRITUAL, AND TEMPO RAL, IN PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED. The Petition of the undersigned Agents of stems' of the British Italia Colonies, Humbly sheweth. That your petitioners hare been appointed by Acts of the seve. sal Vt India Colonies to which the r aignaturea are annexed, their Agents fu Great Britain and Ireland, in which character it is especially their- duty to solicit from the Legislature of Great Britain the same meted regard to the rig h ts, privileges, and pro. perty of their constituents in the Colonies. as is shown to the rights, privilege* and property of those who are immediately re presented in the British Parliament. That when grants were originally made to the ancestors of the constituents of year petitioners of lands in the Colonies, an ex press condition taus appended that these lands should be culti vated,and the meansof cultivation were promoted by the importation of negroes from Atilt'. obtained by a traffic which had long pre viously been established, sauctionod and encouraged by British Laws. That the Government of the Mother Country even repelled anti reproved occasional efforts made by the Colonial Legislatures to liutit and control this Importation. Relying, therefore, upon the' faith of laws, which thus formally recognised the existence of slaves as property in the West India Colonies. the ancestors of the constituents of your petitioners with unhesitating confidence embarked their capitals, aril exerted their industry, in the cultiva tion of those Colonies by the labour of negro ,laces. Acts of Parliament were paned, entuuraging loans to them from British subject, and foreigners, from which have arisen morizages tm their property, belonging to persons in this country. Thus feat ured and protected by Great Britain, the cultivation of the West India Colonies made rapid progress. Large capitals were embarked and accumulated in this branch of commerce. Crinsia &table wealth was in return remitted home. and applied in rations other sources and channel'', of notional industry ; while kmat- MCSOCIS body of able seamemmarsd and exercised in this hef owe domestic trade, gasi to &Mehl, s l is naval strength. ' British That when, at a subsequent period, t hepa a after snitch hesitation, was pleased altogether to abolish her tuid; with Africa in slaves. and to render its CODDIDHIMPee AritsiaAl, Stidt West India Colonies were obedient to a change in legielazion, future effects of which upon their means of cultivation, and of coma petition with their rivals in the markets of Europe, it was not easy to estimate, nor to foresee the extent and duration of the wee of foreign nations in the slave trade. Alihough no proof was of of the necessity of such precast. tioniteorn the existence of any illegal milk in slave., yet at the auggeation of the :Mother Country, ilegiatry Bills were mused by the Legislatures, involving the inhabitants in a considerable es peyote, but which have been carried into practical exectuion, and have furnished additional evidence of the sincerity of time Colonists, so at to silence all charges against them as to these laws being evaded. At that period, however, the views of the British Legislature, and the object of those w ho were most forward in urging the flea sure, were avowedly limited to , lie abolition of the slave trade. No intimation was given of any projected litterfereace with property acquired and established under the sotema sanction of law. The British Parliament would. as your petitioners are persuaded, have revolted at the bete suggestion of wresting inns the hands or Bri tish subjects, without ample conmenaation, valuable possessions which they had purchased and paid for under her special authority. Nay, assurances were assiduously held out that a compulsory emancipation of the slave, which forms the basis of Colonial pro perty, was not even distantly contemplated. It was always understood that the Resolutions passed by time Commons' House of Parliament, in May M. and to which the concurrence of your Lordships is now asked, contained a distinct pledge to give effect to measures of melioration ; but it was soon after maintained that they also contained a pledge on the part of that llouse of emancipation, unaccompanied by any definite pledge of compensation fix injury which property might sustain in the course of the experiment ; this has naturally produced great alarm in the Colonies. to which may be attributed time disinclination shown by several of the Legislatures formally to adopt the recom mendations made to them by his 31ejeaty'a Government. Far beyond regulations of melioration in its effects upon the Co lonial interests is the object at present produced by those who are ass'eluously employed in agitating the public aphid in this country. The abolition of the slave male having been accomplished, it is now no longer melioration of the condition of the slaves, but the extinction of slavery itself, a hich he the avowed aim, coupled, it is true, in many instances, with an udinission gf the right of' the planters to be conipenaated by the Legislature Me any imi:nry which may arise from this measure to their property. Your petitioners apprehend that it is intended to follow am the Resolutions tierore mentioned by measures for enforcing the Compulsory manumission of the slaves, thus immediately invading the rights; of property, affording serious anxiety for time independence of the Colonial Le. gislatures and the safety of their fel:ow-subjects in theme Colonies, over whose interests it is their ditty to watch. Your petitioneri are fully convinced that notwithatanaing It may happen hereafter, as it has happened before, that a difference in opinion shall prevail here and in the Colonies as to time nature of the measures to be adopted, anti as to the moment for adopting r them, there is nevertheless ifihreatifinably marneardlaposittOM on th e part of the Colonists to meliorate the condition of their slave population, to odd to their' terttporal coMforta, and to pursue such gradual measures cs shall, by raising their moral enaracter. encou rage iodastrious habits, and by quickening their religious feelings, { fit them for the enjoyment of more extensive civil rights ; and your petitioners would humbly appeal on this part of the subject to the zealous and liberal co-operation which the religious esta bliehment. provided by the benevolent protection of his Majesty, has received id' the Colonies, since unqueatffinably on this basis may most securely be founded the hopes of further improvement. Your petitioners conceiving that the degree to which the public feeling has been excited on the subject of slavers, and the call for its early extinction, arises mainly from a misconception is to the actual condition of the slaves in the 11;itish Colonies, humbly pray that your Lordships will take into your consideration such inform ation as your Lordships may command from authentic and impar tial maces on this important "object. And, finally, your petitioners pray that in the exereire of the wise and cautious deliberation whicli your Lordships always apply to every cpiestion affecting the rights of property, provision may he trade that, neither directly nor indirectly, the property which the Colonist:, hold onder the sanction of law, may be invaded without full conipentiation. GEORGE lIIIMERT, Agent for Jamaica. UFORGF. CARRINGTON, Agent for Barhadoes. JAMES COI HEHOUN, Agent for St. Vincent, Do minica, Nevis, and the Vircin Island*. ANTHONY BROwNE, Agent for Antigua. TO THE EDITOR OF THE murzsir PRESS. sub.i,ii Stn,—Among the many depredations constantly com mitted on the unwary in this great Metropolis, the follow ing system of plunder is now carried on, with a degree of barefaced impudence, which has no parallel in the annals of fraud. On Saturday night list, between the hours of ten and eleven o'clock, a fellow, having all the appearance of a butcher's man, knocked at my door in the Strand, calling out, at the same time, with a Stentorian voice, " Butcher ;" and requested a leg of mutton which had just been delivered might be returned to him, as ,the boy who N had brought it had left the wrong one. o suspicions being entertained of any . imposition, the leg of mutton was given to hint with which be immediately dt.camped. As this mode of robbery is chiefly practised on Saturday even inp, your readers will, no doubt, I'M obliged for this in formation, as by it many may he saved the mortification of being duped, and of having to provide a second joint for their Sunday's dinner. I am, Sir, yours, &c. W. P. C. March 8, 1828. Mr. Smirke, the celebrated architect. who has been so mach concerned in the superb improvements at the west end of London, and has displayed his taste in the erection of many elegant mansions for the Nobility, has arrived in Liverpool, in order to inspect the site designed for a new custom.bouse, Ikc.-I.i ver pool Advertiser. STORMY WEATHER ON THE CI.YDE,--The weather has been so extremely boisterous during the month of Fe bruary , that no fewer than eighty outward-bound ships are detained in Lamlash Bay, island of Arran, alone, besides those in the other havens of the Firth of Clyde. On the afternoon of the 27th a heavy squall passed over the island of Pladda from the westward, accoutpanied with thunder, vivid flashes of lightning, and hail. During the squall the barometer fell from 29. 78. to 29.90, the thermometer re maining stationary.—Culedonion Mercury. The influence of any awful or affecting spectacle, on the minds of some people, is sadly illustrated by the fent:wring fatal occurrences :—A young man who witnessed the exe cution of Allan, in this place, was so shocked by it, that he went home, took instantly to his bed, and died in a few hours; and a woman, in Cilcnmstott, who went out to see from her own doer the late fire in Union-street, was so •frightened that her " heart flitted" (as she said) and she also died in a like short period.—Aberdeen Journal. On Thursday morning, about five o'clock, Robert Brown, a blacksmith at the Croescausewav, was found dead at Cousland, about four miles beyond Dalkeith. Al though a sober man, on the previous evening he had tasted a little, wandered out, not knowing whither, and laid him self down oh the step of an out-house at the above place, and had fallen a victim to the inclemency of the weather. It is rather a curious circumstance, that he died within fifty yards of the place at which he was born, and had not visited it since childhood. He has left a widow and seven or e;ght ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD ClR,CVlT.—VVoacsmie, MAncs 7. SEDUCTION. KNOTT V. CHIRP. - - - This was en action against the defendant for the seduetiod Of tbd plaintiff's daughter. As atom WI the cue was called on, Mr. lISTO/1 GARROW. leek% towards the throng of ladies who attended the C oort , ;Rid, " I not (*sire the ladies to wait in Court to hear STly thing dummy shock their modesty, unless they like it." One nr two lathe% then retired. but the remainder were sow. induced to keep their seats. by Mr. C4MPIELL saying that he woo not aware of any thing particularly indelicate that would some mu in the course of the ELM Mr. A LEXANDER opened the Tleadlibio-• Mr. CAatriyLL then stated the plaintiff's case—" Gentimaan of the Jury, you have heard from my friend Mr. Alexander the nature of this cue. The plaintiff seeks at your hands a outtalk,' satisfaction—if money can satisfy at all for an injury of thiabind. think I shall best discharge my duty by a simple narration of the recta of the ease; and if they do net affect you it is Dot possible that any language I could uee teould have that efface. The plaintiff is now about the age of wren'? years ; his wife It about the mime are: They had, se the coroforts of their old.sge., two smut and two daughters; and by thg seduction of one of that latter, the peaceful evening of toe,! dim has been disturbed by the defendant. The plaintiff, gentlemen. hae been in tlar same respectable rank of life in ,whiels I believe many o f are. He was a farmer at Hallow, not very far from this wed most respectable city, and.has passed dtreash life re*otaidy. His strength haying failed him se his age increased, he retired fruit husinees with his family to enjoy the results of his honest induce. The defendant is also in the mme oink 0 life. Ile is a farmer. and in opulent circumstances. His father, who *as rich, died some years ago, and left him a farm of very considerable vans. besides which he has had several pecuniary legacies from female relations. Since the death of his rather he has been living witi gig mother and stew in theueighbourhood of the plaintiff and from the malignity of their resideneev is acquaintance was veti ra c ar a ? -- usesicrestdorted between the two farogien... , A great int esattolfalt aid the *MOE 's Mns, *hid% bed . to the introduction of the former into ltlr, Knott's family. He wee - there introdneed to the daughter of the pleitteiff, untie.? Geese formed, or pretended to form, en etteehment fee end during, two or three years he paid her honourable midterm,. Tboo, was not, of course, any objection to this, on the pen of the Plaintiff: because, as far .as he knew, the defendant wee if irreproachable character, and his circumstances were good nil slain; when once admitted were frequently repeated, and thus he had an opportunity of winning those affections Chich he treble: quently betntyed... Gentlemen, his addresses were not only eneoti.: raced by Ilia% Knott, but also by his own mother and sitter t and all parties were pleased with the idea of the approaching nuptials that were proposed by the defe 4 dant ; the defendant's mother ra. ' ceived Miss Knott as the holy who was to be her future daughter. In-law, and Miss Crisp, his sister. associated and familiarized with, her in all the tenderness and attachment which the prospect of south; a wart of family connexion was likely to create. Thus you see the plaintif was led into a confidence that the defendant *fluid short* Pad his daughter to the attar, and make her his lawful wife.. The return the defendant made, however, wan to betray that confidence, to alms. the ingennoun omit reposed in him, to ruin tile character of on untifitarling girl , and to blwit the peace of an aged couple, sink. lag into the graze. I must do him the justice, however, to alkali that at one time he had some of the feeling% of a man. Ho ' did once feel remorse, and compunction for, the miters and woe which inn had inflic;c3 on a defence!lesa Woman. I shall show you that he 011.111 C to her at one time after her ruin, and acknowledged that ';'d% conscience in gnawed hien I with the reflection of his basencas that he could get no peace by night or by day. It would have her) well for hint if he had I sufrered his mind to be guided by those better feelings ere he had attempted to sap the inundation of virtue in an unpollated Those feelings, however, were but transitory. He returned to hie former hardhearted frame of mind—he abandoned the unfOrtunate girl when her comfert, her credit, and her character were destroyed; and elle is now thrown back upon her family, where, instead of be. ing an ornament and a solace. she ammonia contaminatingdisgrace. Under these circumstances, Gentlemen, what is to be the defence? Defence! There can he none. The grr.sl sense of my friend, bar. Jervis, would ha unseated from in. throne if be attempted any ; but no doubt he will attempt many eloquent palliatives for the tie. linqueney of his client. Will he at , eek the character of the nuke: tunath girl whose seduction is the foundation of thienedon. I defy . him to do so. 1 can prove that her character, up to the titne other seduction, was —" Pure as the icicle That hangs on Dian's Temple.'' '. can call the slater of the defendant himself, who was her associate and her friend, and she will state that she was virtuois--she was pod. Then what will my Learned Friend say ? Poverty he can not plead on the part of his client ; and if he could. Gentlemen. it would be no eacuse, because if a man chooses to inflict an injury on another, and cannot compensate for it In his purse, he must is his person. fly the common maxim of our law. What then will he •ay ? He will perhaps urge that this is not an action for the bream of a promise of marriage ; and therefote he will say that the woes of the suliesiniumernan ought to form no inceettlaa us run climb in giving dnmagea. ~ I alitTw that jou must not takiTher sorrelles into consideration upon the present occasion. You are only to give such damages as you think can operate in some measure so heal the wounded feelings of an aged patent. But consider, Gentlemen, What he has suffered, when, instead of seeing his child creditable and honourable. he sees her become a reproach sod shame to hien, front the treachery o' the man in whom he placed. hu contidende: God forbid that you should ever have inflicted upon you so great a misery as my client now labours under, but on the present occasion you must consider with yourselves what amount of detrages you would expect from your fellow-country men when so great an injury was inflicted upon you. I know I shall have no Opportunity of addressing you again. I know my Learned Friend will call no witnesses. but he will trust to his genuity and his eloquence. You will listen to them, and I cart never object to she weight they deserve; but then the facts of the ease are the rule% by which you must be guided upon the prevent occasion. and when yo': see that the defendant has inflicted blast ing ruin on my client, I am sure you will agree with me that the person inflicting that injury ought to pay for IL Samuel Bourne called, and etamined by Mr. A LIEXANDT n.—l reside at Orimley„ in this county. I know the plaintiff' and his family. The plaintiff' is turneu of seventy, years of age, and his wife is about the same. They have tour children ; two sons and two daughters. The defendant is in respectable circumstances. and lives on a farm which r sod to his father for 5.01101. The daughter of the plaintiff. whose seduction Is the foundation of the mint action. is about six or seven and twenty, and was a good an. virtuous girl, as far as I know. Cross-examined by Mr. ARYlll.—The 4efendant lives on a farm which his father bought of me fur 5.0111 1 /.; but there were life charges payable nut of it to the amount of COOL Whether the farm is his or his mother's I don't know. France' nnott, the lady who had been seduced. was next tilled, and examined by Mr. CAMPBELL.—I am daughter of the plain. tilt: lam seven-and-twenty years of age. My father is more than seventy, and my mother is sixty.four. I live at home with my lather, who was a farmer in the parish df Hallow, in this county. Ile retired from his farm shoat two years ago. I used to assist hint in his family business. I hare two brothers. who continue to live with my father. The defendant lives itt the same parish. His father has been dead about three or rind , years. He occupies and cultivates the farm his father had. lie was very intimate with my elder brother, whose name is Richard, and was frequently brought by hint to our house. About tWo years ago he paid his addresses to me. as I thought upon honourable terms. Mr. Jwavts here objected to the evidence of the witness respect. ing any matter which ruiglit be the ground of an action for abreact of promise of marriage. Mr. Baron GAaIIOW over.med the objection. Witness, in continuation.—There was another young man woo had paid his addresses to me, and the defendant particularly wish ed me to give him up. as he said he would marry me. It was known to my father and mother that he .was courting me for his wife. They armored of his addresses. His own mother and sister knew it. They approved of it. I was very frequently invited to their house by them. I became very intimate with his sister. The defendant wa. frequently at our house, and had many opportunities of being alone with me. I became pregnant by him, and was con. fined on the 12th of June last. After 1 became pregnant there was a manifest difference in the. defendant's conduct towards Inc. Ho called upon me a short time before I was brought to bed. He Watt he had received a letter front our attorney. He said he knew he had been a damnation villain to me, ane be could get no rest day or night on account of hi. conduct. Ile has not visited me since. still live at home with my father and mother in the cottage to which they have retired. Cron-examined by Mr. ..florin—The defendant is font years older than I amt his sister is 21. I have knnwn the defendant six yearn. It was four years ago since 1w cointe&me. There was the)c another young man courting me. who bad paid his addresses to me for many years. He was butler to Colonel Hall, in the same parish. He had not been constant in his attentions. I can't say he was inconstant. The defendant was received as my lover. 1 don't m4n td swear he was my lover, but he wished to come upon those intentions. The butler visited me once every two OT three months. The defendant used to come two or three times a week; he sometimes remained until a hue hour—as late as 11 or 12 o'clock. hly mother used to go to bed about 8. My father used too to bed at the saute time, leaving us two sitting up. sonic. times with the tervant.maid and my two brothers. The defendant smut() not go until they were gone to bed, and when they were tired they went to bed. My brothers used to tell him to go to bed in our house with them, but he would not. Ile would sit up with me. I did not wish him to stay, but lie would not go. Ile never visited me during the nine months I was pregnant. 1 had been familiar with lion about two months betel.e I breams pregnant, on conditions that he meant to net honourably. He never went to bed with me in ray father's house. His own house is about two bun.. dred yards from our house; but he has slepti; our house. %chew my pregnancy berme apparent, the defendant's sister was .he of me. dlr. NVilmore, a surgeon in this place. attended me in labour, and the defendant paid him. The child ia living, and was tient out of the house the day it was born. The defendant pays fur its mail. tenance, and always has done so. 1 know Mrs. Itydee, a lady who i. now in Court, and I never told her that the defendant had never promised to marry mc. I never informed the defendant that I was pregnant until about two months before I was deibre-etl. Me-eftarulned by Mr. CamrnE L ontited to Marry as .