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SATVII PAY, August irri. will be perfumed SWEETHEART/LI ANI) Traukl)n, Varrcrir Chwles, Mr.Vlrdne ; Sandford. $' Lair we; lolly I..teloutay, Mr. Litton. Muiwolk. HW Charter; Law*. Madame %flirts; lUSiUI. Mrs. Garrick. After Captain tionibleton, Mr.Vinlng; Varrio.h. Mr. Cooper: Tom. Mr. liarley: Usk. Madame Vestris. T. , conclude woh X. V. Z. Noddy Bray. Mr. 1.'1011: 11,1•C!11/ Android, Mr. Metter. ( - I.M Jiff 7,..4118.tr0W. The Hypocrite. arid Lure, Law, rir I riiyst.b. THEATRE ROYAL, ENGLISH OPERA-HOUSE, S It AND. TAU Event:v.lAV; nn %)r, ‘u,gis.t 2tl. will be perforimUl Dalt PHEISCHUTZt • Or, THE SE% EN TH MULLET ILlShrk MS. Dully: Carper. Mr. Bennett s H..dolph, Mr. Drsharn: MO: A,;:, r. ft.yleure ; Zarnel. Mr..l. Coor. Aimee. Misr Stephc 1.410 b 7 Wei (being hrr thirteenth sppearnme t Then Mel ; Ann. les Povey. After which THE PADLOCK. that MOM Mr. Tnyleswe : Leander, Mr. Primal; Mtunru. loiNintaid, Mho rovey. NErr auRRE)" THEATRE. Tin gglesd i'hinete Melo-Ursine ur The !lumina Midge.* with the anytwb Icemen and gorecous Decorations. continuing to be r.' gad with rapturutti aPainut 4 . it trill he rePtabtal attar Evening _tat flirting to tie.. Tide *went YcrunDAY. August 111. and every Evening during the Weak. WI: he presented the celebrated Cignago lieto-r - an •.:88 Th nes Aes. called TIIE PLIKNINti U?. VIE SPEC EKE 01,"I'liE LAKE'. " Allescrers hy Mews. 11. Keinhle. 11..wbutham, Auld. Mar . I = Twang, and Hetnneng4; Mrs. Loyudfty. and tire. Young. la Cif c.urse or the Piece a lAntid Called ••The Vesth al of LAIL. tirla. at lieu.t ..t Tulip ." Prineipal Mlas Mantels. After wh:ch • favourite .i.our by Mr. Gibbon. To eorielloe with a new Melo-Drente. ceJled wAvEin.rvi nr, bI X rY YC.tinr SINCP.. NIA nett Music, heenurt. Mester. and Dowriatkmi, ROrAl. I;ARDENS, Till: LAST KIGIIT lIIIT TWO Tlll6 ShiAStiff. Nest MONDAY Eveultw, August JO. A SPLENDID ti %I. FEU. Under the at:wrist Patrimair• of kfi Thb•Whirga of the varied awl somata, Ar mooniest', whath bays been the aiiniirsttill of many thousand %Into,* sightly, will ba given., tie ISM* niagni6onit *ewe ea lonia:. inoludliig a timid Concert of %veal and hastrtancittal SWAIN atai u ai.commtion of Ent , ' taltinicato, ofluret Kttgli orka, fit t t tat 1' aiv midst o c f which the Votine ifelokt cowhide g with a erican willltrillitutt Display w ho A m lot tweak Ascent a n d Dement un the 'fight Wipe. Ikior. open at haven.— tditilsolost :.ta 64. Tit, Sot T tut Pam co:omen:ea ral , ltstitng ycactsky rourniri, it • go; -ter past five o'clock. LONDON, SATURDAY, AUGUST QS, 1828. All the accounts rom El?ain agree in representing that ;•resxv country as convulsed front end to end. In in% ry tittirtor of the ltlitgiloni, the Constitutionalists are raising t it heads, anti, in spite of the imposing force of the Frvncb, srm.rl bards appear, anti wage open war against the supiorters of the absolute Government. The capture et TA, ifai has disclostil the fact that all Spain is now in lit 'or cf the re-establishment of the Constitution, or at I is: die overthrow of the present system, in order that a b •tter, of some kind, may be substituted. The soldiery, " poritied," as they have been, have everywhere joined the malcontents, and ()Tonne% the commander of the camp at St. Rork, has been obliged to take flight from its niutinous troops, and seek refuge under the French guns in Ca lit. Guerilla parties are spread throughout the kiegdem. A powerful and increasing body is stationed in tha mountains of Toledo, and makes excursions to tie gates of Madrid. At Seville great alatei had prevailed, in e..frisxplence of the approach of five hundred revolt.- raireee, under Bale:acti n the Lieutenant of the mur dered Itiego. Yesterday retuning it was reported, that the insurrection had extended to the North of Spain, and in the opposite extremities of Galicia and Catalo nia di: , popular feeling had been manifested in acts of outraga aeoinst the lo:.31 authorities. It is remarkable that all the letters state that Torrijoe was well supplied %yid, money and equipments. (Yllonnell, in his despatch Madrid, had the combined folly and impudence to rLara the Governor of Gibraltar with rendering assistance to the Insurgents. Sir Wi n. fillourt repelled the iinputa t 1.1 ‘vith more warmth than, it seems to us, the ens called toe From what is allowed to transpire, and from what obtains publicity, notwithstanding the efforts to suppress w • may be assured, that the state of Spain is exceedingly :Ate], and that, if the French army was withdrawn, t.... men of t!..e Faith would be unable to keep posses -1,1 the reins of Government for a week. How long ni will tic military occupation of Spoil. he protract & .1 1 To judge alerts the NIA, die longer it continues the gr,st. ir heroines the necessity Gt. its further continuance. Vt.,iii leterence to this subject, we cannot do better than t • iot e Qrc following elyervations of an Evening Paper, which lixs well expressel cur sentiments :=' France o:ii;inally embarked in the cause for the purpose of restoring pea. e Spain, and the liberation of the King was considered s. t!i • one thing necessary for attaining that end. The 1(:u; was liberated—be returned t 3 Madrid: but Spain, as was to be expected, was convulsed from one end to die other. Then came the necessity of a temporary occupation te the country till the ebullition subsided ; and in the ex pAiency of this occupation Mr. Canning himself sic.: I) .:es.:cit, under the existing circumstances. Twelve ie. • iths have now nearly elapsed since die course of events I,: s •,i1 the Peninsula order the undisputed control of 'v': e. During gh& prrio.l, has it made, we will not say • progress eorrespceilh‘ n witil what was pretl:CtCd. but aoy ••.:r.' at all towards terns' pacifloation ? What term . •11 is to be ei o gne d lo the militaty occupation? Till tr: , .lm,ll,tyis restored? If so, Spain becomes a province o F-ance, to all intents led purposes; and if ace, wr ilioit:‘l like to see at tsplicit cnwrcration of the ad vantages which base been secured • tip 'to the present 'morr.er.t." • A Morning Paper hai gravely published a wild and ex travagant scheme, which, on the authority of a Buenos Ayreajournal, it ascribes to La S,rna, the Spauish Consti tutional Viceroy in Our contemporary confesses that I it is '• a very extraordinary plan ;" but he nevertheleia deans it worthy of his particular notice. It is said, that the Spanish Consul at Rio de Janeiro, who was appointed during the constitutional system, has hospitsbly received the Spanish exiles, and forwarded them to Peru. &nor Pando, one of the Ministc.s under the Cortes, is str.ted to have headed a detachment of these unfortunate persons, and to have taken with him a plan for establishing an asylum for themselves and tht Constitution, and " for to over awing Ferdinand from Peru as to check him in his infa tuated career in the Peninsula." This, it must be con fessed, is a "very extraordinary plan;" but glad i.s we should be to hear of any additional causes of dissension I etween the Spaniards in Peru, wtt are afraid we waist forego all hope from this pretended plot of the Spanish Consul at Rio. That the servile General Olaneta had declared for the absolute system, we knew already ; and as the Viceroy had received his appointment under the Cortes, there can be no doubt that he must look with dread and apprehension to his return to Europe. We are prepared to expect, therefore, that some attempt will be made by La Saila to fix himself in Peru ; but, that lie will there endeavour to re-establish the Spanish Constitution of 1920, seems to us a speculation far too unreasonable to be seriously contemplated. Still less could we have sup posed that it would have been introduced to the public with all the solemnity of an importalt communication from the other hemisphere. In our police report yesterday from Union-hall, it ap pi area that the scandalous negirgence of the Water Com panies had again become the subject of magisterial ani madversion. It seems that it was not until nearly an hour and a half hail elapsed, after the discovery of a fire in a stationer's ship in the London-road, that water could be obtained. The consequence was, that the house and all the property in it were destroyed. The engines were at last brought into operation, only just time enough to save the adjoining premises from conflagration. According to the statements of the firemen and watchmen, not only might all danger to the neighbourhood have been pre vented, but the flames might have been easily extinguished in the house that was burned, if a sufficient supply of water could have been procured in the first instance. Ilan, the chief constablC, stated, that at all the fires which hail rec -tidy occurred in the district, there was uniformly a want of water. At a late fire that broke out in Kent-street seversl houses wcro burnt although innumerable engines were on the spot, but which were completely useless for nearly an hour. Mr. Allen, the Magistrate, strongly r•pressed his opi nion of the great impropriety of the conduct of the Water Companies, and ordered tile clerk to call the attention of the Directors of the Old Lambeth Water-works to these cir cumstances. We trust theso Directors will feel the force of the worthy Magistrate's rebuke, and take measures to obviate similar dangers in future. On a recent occasion at flatten-garden, the managers of the New River Company were desired by the Sitting Magistrate, of whom the usual rewards were claimed, to wait upon him, and give some explanation why a supply of water had been withheld at the late fire in Grevillo-street. The managers, however, feeling themselves, we presume, above the power of the Nlagistrate, treated his request with contempt, and the public have been left from that day to this in ignorance of the excuse, if the New River Company have any, fur de nying, that x arly and abundant supply of water on which the safety of this populous and extensive metropoiis de pends, and without which all other precautions are rendered useless. We remember no previous example in which the just expectations of the public have been more Insolently defeated; and we trust, that as the mere sense of public duty will not induce the New River Company to pity any respect to the wants and wishes of the public, the authority of Parliament will be interposed, and the moral obligation converted into a legal burden. But, meanwhile, why are the parishes silent under the oppression of these monstrous combinations? Why has not the 3ublic voice been raised Ito denounce the shameful conduct of nese selfish mono polist; ? The Duke of York arrived at his residence e. _ in Stable. yard, St. James's, about three o'clock yestertlig afternoon, from Brighton, and soon after received a t from the Princes. Seph ie. Ytstertlay the Marquis of liertfonl, Mr. Croke', and a number of other gentlemen, went down the river in the Admiralty barge, to the Whitebait-house, Woolwich, where they dined. Ma. Ca eNteo.—We have great satisfaction In being able to announce the re-establishment of the Right lion. Secretary's health. The answers given yesterday to the numerous infriries were, that Mr. Canning was so well that he might be considered u recovered from his late at tack as far as could be expected. Tice Earl of Huntingdon arrived yesterday at the Colo nial Office, from Dominica. The Duke of Cambridge has been pleased to appoint his Aide-de-Camp, Maj'r William Davison, t.. ba his Equerry. A report was circulated yesterday, that Ituridde had ken captited by a Colombian privateer, and that be vu immediately put to death. The basis of a commercial treaty is said to have bees mecca upon Laween Great Britain and Boma Ayres, which, when concluded, must strengthen the intercourse between the two countries. _ _ _ Private letters received through France yesterday state, that the insurrection had extended to the north of Spam ; that the Constitutionalists had risen at various points in Galicia, and that the inhabitants of twenty-five villages or parishes, capable of hearing wins, had joined the indepen. dent standerd ' -.a complete regiment of lancers hail also deserted the Royal cause, and united themselves n ith the Constitutionalists. In an attack made upon Ferdinand's troops by the Constitut—nalists in Andalusia, goo of the former are said to have been wounded, anti to have bees brought within the lines in the Isle of Leon. Several at the Spanish exiled ellic:Ts have recently left this country for Gibraltar, and many min rs at, preparing to (saint- Letters have ban received from CAI: to the 6th Inst. They state, that the occupation of Tarifa by the Constitn tionals.s on the 3tl was the re,ult of a preconcerted plan with a part of the garrison. It wrs rumoured that several priests had been put to dtaili. The captain of the port escaptd in the disguise of a common sailor, and reached Cadiz on the 4th. He said that when he came away, the sucerssfid prrty were raising the cry of " lira N Conttita .Na." Commotions had also taken place in the towns of X'mcua, vkjer, and Medina Sidoniii, at each of which places some hundrials of Constitutiotmlists, well armed, had made their mipearance. A number of fugitives, chiefly monks and friars, had atriveil at Cadiz. The Spanish Commander, O'Donnell, had fled f St. Roche, but his place of retreat is not mentioned. It was understood that the party of Constitutionalists that lauded at Algesiras was commanded by Col. Ori!mai, a n: tire of the place, and who had been extremely popular during Itis committal there in the time of the Corws. ..... _ We are concerned to state, that the Sittlngbourne Bank, of the firm of Loud, Burgess, and Co., has suspended payment. 'flic bank has only been opened a few mouths.— !CAW IfcralJ. F 11'7171.11G Net. Tri,7. Duke of 'Grafton has mired in town from his rest, W Ake. flie;,l Ldge. Count bieven left tows yceerJay, for Panserger, !lefts, on al alai'. to Earl and Counts - NC...l)m The Earl and Countess Of Charlerront and family lift Thomas's lierkeloy-square, yasterdas. for Cheltenhani. Lord Elliot has arrived at IVarrezt's Hotel, It:gent-savect, from Baroness de Willoughby and the Honourable William Burrell , arrived in town yesterday. from Richmond. The Hun. Frederick Lamb has arrived in XVII from Brighton. Lord Snye-and.Sele has left town for Lord Dudley's scat, Bel ! sedan., Rens. 31. Field, Esq. left flake's Hotel, J:ntyn.stfett, yesterday, for Brighton. The Marquis anti Marchioness of Tavistock have kit Stows, for Oakley louse, Bedfordshire. (General Ross has left town for Hens. Sacksille Taylor, Esq. left 'own on Tuesday, for St. Vincent's. Departures from I.ong's lintel. Bond.street Ilakewill, far ChAtenharn t Mr. and Mrs. Irvin,4. for the Continent: Wm. Esq. for Paris; Mr. and Mrs. Phipps and family, fur their seat near Liverpool; and Captain Slater. for Ramsgate. Arrir-'s at R-tt's Hotel. Haver-street :—Mr. and Mn.s Wilson and family from Pans; General Sir R. o•Callagiin Bart. from Elena; Captain Mild &urn a tour; arid the Mires Brooks. from Norwich. Departures:—Col. and Mrs. C. J. Campbell and family for France; Col. and Mrs. Maury for Richmond; J. Morris. Esq. for Harts; Mrs. and Miss Wrench for Hens: Mr. and Mrs. Healy Sat Ilri . ghtos .1. T. Mott, Esq. Alms 310tt., for Norfolk ; and the Earl of !Amore. THE LEP. C. C. COLTON. We yesterday exposed the ignorance of the correspondent of a MOrning Paper, who panned to contradict a para graph we published some days ago .esp.sctina the Mr. Colton. We find, however, that we might have spared ourselves the trouble of the refutation, as the Morning Paper itself, on the faith p`.-two other correspoatiente, yes-' terday denital the principal facts contained in its contra-1 cb"tion of our statement s We continue of the same opi- Mon with respect to the mysterious disappearance of Mr, I Colton. We have now onlicine fact to add to those we ! have already given, and it is of a singular nature. When the male of Mr. Colton's furniture was to have taken place, it was not proceedLik while' in consequence of a comMuni cation made by one of his acquaintances, that he would re-' turn home in $ short time. This person has been since requested to state on what authority he made this communication ; but he has declined to give any informa tion on the subject. It isintended, we understand, by the assignees of Mr. Colwn's estate, to examine this person at the next meeting of theCOmmtesioners of Bankruptcy. A GENERAL CENSUS. The present Centusof the whole World is said to stand thus:— Jews • • • . 4.000,000 Papas 450,000,000 31 Ahontellans • • . 140.000.000 Chriiitiaos • • . 210,000,000 Total to uou,ot Deists and Atheists are ooMprehended, but not distin guished in either of three enumerations, as they do not avow themselves by any formation into bodies, but are anomalies in each clan. It is worthy of notice, tbst the most ancient congrega tion, viz. Pagans, still subsist through the globe, and com prise more than one-half of its general population; that , the second in order of time, viz. Jews, have, since the de struction of their temple and city, in A.D. 70, fallen seem to decay, as to comprise only a 200th part of the whole; that the third denonunstion, via. Christians, now include one-fourth part of the whole; and that the Mahomedana, who sprang six ..enturies after the Christians, and threat ened to annihilate them, occupy the space of one-sixth part of the whole. It is also observable, that when an estimate of this kind was made about 'fifty years since, it was supposed that Christians amounted to one-sixth part, and now they have increased to one-fourth. A step further in this inquiry disposes of the Christians thus in their subdivisions The Greek and Eastern Churches • • 10.0111100. Renton Catholics • • • 199.1199,11111 Protestants, including ill sects . WASP. Togill • • W I iII"VA Those have all arisen since the promoting Odle Univer sal Christian Church, 4.000 A.bl. of which.. The Wemern and Eastern Churches berm sad united in the . . . . . • Oth f:enttury. 9th do. Their eel anti= 11 &homed . . _ Christianity In Great Britain . • . ttlt do. thriftless of Popery and Mahouts:dards', • 6th to 16th do, Width rises - • • . . . 12th do. Wickliffe. Hum and Jerome . . . 13th to 11th d. Luth:r and l'alvin 18th de. Reformation 18th do. ' Remonstrant, 17th do. Protestant sects It is unnecessary to enlarge this scale; the object is thus answered by stewing the divisions of people, and their de nominations and dates/ by which any person conversant in such researches will find occupation enough for his reflec tion upon the probable state of mankind during the null istir half century, ruder the advantages of an unexampled improvement in every country and condition, both in arts, navigation and coininerce, domestic and universal • an en riched acquisition of every embellishment of intellect, lite rature, and the fine arts ; chemistry, and religious learn ing ; au enlaried and liberal toleration in Church and State ; a diffusion most unparalleled of the lioly Scrip tures, of education, and a general intercourse among all nations. Colonel Sir Archibald Campbell, K.C.8., of his Ma jesty's 38th regiment of foot, is to command the Bengal detachment of the army destined to act against the Bur mese nation, with the rank of Brigadier-General. By recent intelligence from India, it appears that every ship of every description has been taken up for the Burman expedition. The appointed rendezvous is the Audetuan Islands, a group lying near the bead of the Bay of Bengal, and within a few days sail of the Burampooter. From this circumstance our intelligence from India must be much less frequent than it would otherwise have been. At the same time, it will be highly advantageous to the commercial interest of India, as couutry ships have of late years been a very losing property. The rage for building has become so great, that the num ber of bricks made this year iu the neighbourhood of Long Sutton is ten times the amount known in any torrum year in the memory of mano—StamjUrd Mercury. The opening of the ports seem to have afready had some effect on the retail prices of oatmeal in this town (Glas. ; Several of the victuallers have labels in their ws, inscribed, " Good oatmeal, Jr. a peck ; best oat. meal, Is. Oid. a-peck; beat English corn meal, Is, Id. a.peck."--Gfargow Vironie/e. The port e f Hull presented a more than usually Interest tog towctacle on Sunday last. Great numbers of vessels, bearing the flags of their respective nations, woo anchored in the roads, and as the tide rose tho forest of masts ra. 'deny became more and more crowded. The trade of the I port is in a most flouraing and rapidly increasingstate.— Lincoln Paper. The number of strangers who have visited Liverpool within the tact month is iticalelable. The town has been crowded to excess, and comfortable accominedationa for visitors have nut been to be hail. The almost unpreoe denteilly flue season which we have enjoyed will account for some portion of the company by which the town has been visited ; but fur the visits of a certain class of thew, we mean Wont the ma n ufacturing districts, we must look to another cause, and, we are proud to state it, namely, the prosperity of the country, of which this circumstance is an unequivocal sign. We never saw such a number of this class of visitors among us in times of distress or of scarcity. Nor do we recollect to have before seen so many well. dressed, respectable, and happy-looking iseoplo front die interior in any previous season..—Lioete , ol Paper. A CORPOR•TION QUEITION.-A nice question Is about to be agitated, and which indeed has already agitated to the centre the worshipful corporation of Flashers. A good many years ago, a person was admitted to the feedom of the corporat io n, in right of his wife's father. This person having committed a certain foss ,nu, his lady thought fit to divorce him, and is now on the eve of forming a new matrimonial alliance with another knight of the cleaver, but who is not a freerian. It has been deliberated in close divan, whether the husband ire posse is entitled to be ad miurd to the corporation in right of his deceased father in-law ? a question, wo apprehend, which must be se conibtry to this other one, whether the first husband, who is a free man in every s• nue of the word, has forfeited his :te, Free. !'rtes. THE nEr:z. AND TOM WALKER. ((oncluded from err Pepe? of yer.trilay.) When Turn reached home he foe id the black print of a firger burnt. as it were, into his forehesd, which nothing could oblite rate. The first news Ms wife had to tell him WWI the ru:lden death of Absalom Crowninehreld. the rich buccaneer. It was Eirounced in I . I the papers . with the usual flourish, that `• A great man had fallen in Israel.' Torn recollected the tree which his black friend had just hewn I down, and which was ready 'or burning. " Let die Ituebooter rornit,'' said Toni. " who ca?e+!" He aow felt convinced that all he had heard and seen was no illusion. lie wee not prone to let his wife into his confidence, but as this' was an unetag secret, lie willingly shared it win her. All her ava rice was awakened at the mention of hidden gold. and she urged her husband to comply with the black mans terms. and secure what would make them wealthy for life. However Tons might I have felt disposed to sell himself to the devil, he was determined ' not to do NI) to oulige isis wife t so he flatly refused one of the mere spirit of contraurction. Many and bitter were the quarrels they had on the subject, but the more she talked the more resolute was Tom not to be dal:ince to please her. At lengt!l she determined to drive th. bargain on het own count, anti if she succeeded to keep all the gain to herself. Being! of the same fearless temper as her hus . .tand. she set off' for the old I Indian fort towards the close of a summer's day. She was many I I hours absent. When she came back the was reserved and sullen !in her replies. She spoke something of a black man whom she I bad met sthout twilight hewing at the root of a tall tree: he was sulky. however, and would rot come to terms; she was to go again with a propitiatory offering, but what it was she forbore to say. I The next evening she set off again for the swamp, with her a_pron • • heavily laden. Tom waited and waited for her, but in vain. • night came, but she did rot wake her appearance: morning. nnm. , right returned, but still she did not conic. Toni now grew uneasy tin her safety• eliecially as h.: found shc had carried off in her apron the silver teapot and spoors. and every portable article of ' value. Annther night elapsed—another morning came--I•ut no wife. In a wired, she was never heard of more. What was nee real fate robody knows. in conleEnceof so • many pretending to know. It is one of those facts hare be come confounded by .1 variety of historians. Some ;tea that • she lost her way among the tangled mares of the swamp, and sunk into some pit o: slough i others, more uncharitable, hinted that she had eloped with the household booty. and made oft' to sortie other province; while others assert that the tentpter had decovet. her into a dismal quagmire. on the top of winch her ha , was found lying.: In oonfimiation of this. it was said a great black man, with an axe' on his shoulder, was seen late that very evening coining out of the swamp. carrying a bundle tied in a check apron, with ao air of surly triumph. The most current and probable story, however, obseer a that Tom Walker grew so anxious about the fate of his wife and his , property, that ee set out at length to seek them both at the Indian fort. During a long summer's afternoon he searched about the gloomy place, but no wife was to be seen. He called her name repeatedly, but she was nowhere to be heard. The bittern alone resounded to his voice, as he flew screaming by ; or the bull-hog I croaked dolefully from a neighbouring pool. At length, it is mid, just in the brown hour of twilight, when the Owls began to hoot ' and the bats to flit about, his attention was attracted by the ch. mour of carrion crows that were hovering about a cypress tree. He looked up, anti beheld a bundle tied in a cheek apron. and hang. lag in the branches of the tree, with a great vulture perched hard by as if keeping watch upon it. He leaped with joy, h'r he re cognised his wife's apron, and supposed it to contain the 1. usehold valuables. " Let us get hold of the property," told lie, consolingly to him. self, " and we will endeavour to do without the woman. As he scrambled up the ors.. the vulture spread its white wings, and sailed off saeaming into the deep shadows of the forest. Tom seized the check apron, but, woful sig!it ! found nothing but a hart and liver tied up in it ! Such. according to the moat authentic old story, was tit that was to be found of Tones rife. She had probobli attempted to deal with use black man as she bsi bass aceusteassd to deal with her husband; but though a Doe* scolds rteuerally considered a a match for the devil, yea Is this lasianes site appears to hare had the worst of it. She most bow Sled gems, however i for it is said Tom noticed many Imo bet_ *gip stamped about the tree, and tound Isanor lair, that lethal as if they had been plucked from the isms Week shack of the wooden* Torn knew his wife's prowess by eapeellasts.Re elnagged his shoulders, as he looked st the sops Oa gem elapper-clewirtg. " Egad," said hem himself, "old Somali pat have hid a tough time of let" Teas consoled hinted!' ler tie bee of his property, with the loss of his wife, foe he was a mss He even felt something like eradiate towards the blush woodman, who, lie considered. had dos ilsim a kindness. He sargbt therefore to cultivate a further aequalotsase with him, but fir some time without success: the old bled Die Oared abl ea lr is wbettover people may think , he is not always to be lag fee for. lie knows huw to play his cards when pretty sum at puss. At length, it ls said, when delay had whetted Toot's eagerness to the quick, and prepared him to agree to anything other than not in the promised treasures he meet the black man one evening in his maul woodmsn's dress, with his axe on his shoulder, - eininter. hag slang the edge of the swamp, and humming a tune. ffe fected to receive I . olll'll advances with great indifference, made brief replies, and went on hamming his tune. Hy degrees however Tom brought him to business, and they be gan to haggle about the terms on which the former was to hare the pirate's treasure. There was one condition which need not be men. toned, being generally understood in all casts where the devil grants favours: but there were others about which, though of less importance, he was inflexibly obstinate. He Insisted that the mo ney hand through his means should be employed in his service. He peopoeed therefore that 'runt should employ it in the black traffic-that is to say, that he should fit out a slave ship. This, however Tom resolithly refused; he was bad enough in-all con.' science, but the devil himself could not tempt him to turn slave. dealer. . _ Finding Tern so sque.unish on this point, he did not insist upon it, but proposed instead that he should turn usurer; the devil be ing extremely anxious for the increase of usurer., looking upon them as his peculiar p 'opie. To this no objections were made, for it was just to Tom's taste. `• You shall open a broker's shop in Boston nt xt month," said the black man. . _ .. " I'll do it to-morrow, If you wish," said Tom Walker. "You shall lend money at two per cent. a month." " Egad, I'll charge four ! ' replied Tem Walker. " You shall extort bonds, foreclose mortgagee, drive the merchant to bankruptcr—" • " I'll drive him to the d —.1," cried Tom Walker, eagerly. " You are the usurer for my money !" said the black legs, with 'delight. " When will you want the rhino ?" "This very night." " Done !" said the def.l. " Done!" said Tout Walker. Et) they shook hands, and struck • bargain. A few days' time DM Tom Walker seated behind his desk in a counting-house in Boston. His reputation for a ready-moneyed man, who would lend money out for a good consideration, soon sprsad abroad. Every body retnentlicrs the ti-,m of Governor Bel cher, when money was particularly scarce. It was a time of paper credi.. The country had been deluged with government bills m the famous Land Bank had been established: there had been a rage for speculating: the _people had run mad with sclicules for new settlements—tor building cities In the walla-ma t lard.jol,bers went about with maps of grants and townships, and El Dorados, lying nobody !slew where, but which everybody was re.aly to pus. chary. In a word, the great speculating fever which breaks out every now and then in the country had raged to an alanniog do gree, and everybody was dreaming of making sudden fortunes from nothing. As usual, the fever had subsided • the dream had gnat off, and the iusaginary fortunes wit!. it. The patients were eft In doleful plight, and the whole country resour.ded with the consequent cry of " hard tines." At this propitious time of public distress did TOM Walker set up as a usurer in Boston. His door was soon thronged by custom. era. The needy and the adventurous, the gambling speculator, the dreaming land-jobber, the thriftless tradesman, the merchant with cracked credit; in short, every one drivento raise money by desperate meant and desperate sacrifices, hurried as Tom Walker. Thus Tom was the universal friend of the Reedy, and he acted like o "friend in need;" that is to say, he always exacted good pas and good security. In proportion to the distress of the appli. cant was the herdneas of his terms. He accumulated bonds and ari gradually squeezed his customers closer and closer, and l a n entrg s lt length dry as a spot ge front his door. la this way he made money hand over hand, became a rich and mighty man, and exalted hiss cocked hat upon 'Clomp. He built ' biusself,sa usual, a vast house out of ostentation, but left the greater part of It unfinished and uefurnished out of parsimony. Ile even set up a carriage in the fulness of his vain glory, theugh be nearly starved the horses which drew it; and as the ungreaseil erhee• conned and screeched on the asletrees, you would have thought you beard the souls of the poor debtors ha was 'queering. As Toni waxed old, however, h grew thou,olitrol. Having secured the good things of this worn!, 1 Segos to feel anxious about those of the text. Nu thouy: : with regret on the bargain ha bad made with his black frierd. and s o his wits to wont to cheat him out of rite conditions. lie became therefore, all of a sudden ' a violent chords-goer. Ile prayed loudly and strenuorey, as if heaven were to be taken by force ci lungs. Indeed. one alight always tell when he load sinned meat doting the week, by the des.l :nom of his Sunday devotion. The quiet l'itristiaas, who had bean modestly and stedtastly travelling Zia:sward, were struck with edt. reproach at seeing t'iouselves so suddenly outstripped in their career by this new-made convert. Toni was as rigid in religious as in money :natters; lie was a stern supervisor and censurer of Ids tirglibours, anti seemed to think every sin entered up to their se count hector 3 a credit on his own side of the pic,ns. lie even talked of the expediency of reviving t permeation of quakers and Ana baptists. In a wont, Toot's zeal becuttie as notorious as his richer :still, in spite of all this strenuous attentiou to foetus, Torn had • lurking dread that the devil, after all, would have his dues. That 1Y might not bs taken unawares, therefore. it is said he always car. Red a small Bible in his coat pocket. Ws had also a great folio Bible on his owning -home desk, and would frequently he found reading it when peoplo coiled on business. Or, such occasions ha would lay his green spectacles in the hook to mark the place, while lie turned round to dcive mote usurious bargain. Sonic say that Tow grew • little crack-brained 13 his old days, and that fancying his end approaching ho had his horse n ew shod, saddled, and bridled. and buried with his test uppermost, because i he supposed that at the last day the world would be turned upside I downs In which ease be would find his horse standing Tardy for , mouoting, and he was determined at the worst to give his old friend a run fur it. This, however, is probably a mere old wires' fable. If ha really did take suds a pra.autson, it was totally sal crliu• rat ; at least to says the auther.tie old kgsrd, e 1, ) ,, A Ys awry in the following trann - 1: On one hot afternoon in the dopdays, just tis a terriToi, thunder-gust snug coining np, Toni sat in Inc count:no-hous e , white linen cap and India silk nuorning.gown. lie gas o. point of torecllsirg a mortgage, by cinch he would compi e . o . ,s . ruin of an unlucky land spectilai,:. for who::: Hetes, I greatest friendship. The pc^r land-job:.- begged him to grant a few rr.o . 1:1•‘• ge,.ce. Toni had grown resit snci irritated, and r e f use d mot . d i y, t• feniily will be ruined and brought upon PA:parish," 1,„ 1 the I myself i "Ch n rit tnesey bens at home." replied Tom. "I must L egg ke °, a h ard t imes." rUil have made sr witch cuotm:y cut of Inc!" said the spil l ,. jam' _ . „ Tom lost Ibis patience sad his piety. .. The d—l take me," stud lie, if I hare made 3 farthirct Just t hen there wee th ree h ea d knocks at the Erret.docr. T Il e step rd cut to see who was there. A bi k 131113 Was h u ki s , black home, which neighed 2:141 stamped wish Impatience. " Tom, you're come for I " said black fellow. r u nt y . f cii shrunk back, but too hue. Ile had left his Bible of th e up. tout of his csat pocket, and his big Bible on the desk, butied y the mortgage he was about to forecloses never was sinner du e more unawares. The black man wnisked hlm like a tha saddle.. ;-see the horse a lash, and away Ifelhored. with en his hack. in the midst of the thtuideerstorm. The clerk., eu c t their pens behind their ear., and star.d after hint :oni he doles. Away went Tom iralker, dashing dean the w e d l u white c-p bnbbing up ar.d down. his morning gown f.uttet.r.,; the wind, and bid ste.d striking lire out of the parenient at ertt. bound. When the eierke turned to lock for the Week imm, I te4 s 4 disappeared. Tom %raker t er,r returned to foreclose the mortgage. .11 mute. tryman, who ticnLun the border of the swamp, reporrej, th,t Ir th , height of the thiindtt-gust he bad heard a great clattettng t 1 b oo s, and a howling along the road, anti that when he ran to the s .nsow hr just caught sight of a figure such as I have described • etc 1 hum that galloped like mad across the tilds, ovee the bills, and dews into the black hemlock swamp, towards the old !mina f t ; st d that shortly atter a thunderbolt fell in that d'rection, which i mewl to Get the whole forest in a blaze. The go,alpeople of &sum shook their heads and shrugg4 I shoulders; hut had been so much accustomed to witches el gb. lins, and tricksolkthe Devil in all kind of shapes, from settlement of the colony, that they were not so lunch barrel% a isd k as might have been expected. Trustees !ea:. appointed t t a.. e enarge of Toto's (filets. There was nothing, however. ire ewer upon. On searching his collies. all his Loads :11l ni z . gages were found reduced to cinders. In place of gold an 4 si: Tr his iron chest :as :Med with chips and shaving; two pill Inr:.; !iv in his stable instead of his half-starved horses; and ti nest day I is great house Ccnk tire. and was burnt to the grosti .1. Such was the end of Tom Walker and his 111-gotten wealtl all griping mtmey.brokers lay this .tots to heart. The rut ict it lis not to be doubted. The very hole under the oak trees, Nal whence he (1.4 Kidd's money, is to be seen to this day ; at; I tie neighbouring swamp and old Indian tort are often hurt i stormy nights by a figure on Itorsebaca, in moraing-guwr. ants t ht I cap, which is, doubtless. the troubled spirit of the usurer. In tse, the story has resolved itself into a proverb. and is the of i Devil popular saying, so prevalent throughout New Engiaud. and Tom Walker." HUSH ROMAN CATHOLIC RENT. The followin g totter from the Rigfit Rev. D T . P t ~, , (which we copyfroin the Lciartrr Journal), will sen t : 0 show the opinions of that Learned Prelate, on a su't,':l which now occupies much of the attention of the 1; :di people. The Committee appointed to manage the Catholic Vrt in this city and nAglibeuritood, lately adopted a resoltr.i..a 1 1 declaratory of the sentiments of reed ence, athniration, aid gratitude, with which they, in common with the edire Ca. thol it population of lrelatid, regard the character and 3eri ' , cc, of the able and excelteht Dr. Doyle. To this expresiot lof Catholic feeling in Waterford. d nreyed in a hander :3 and respectful letter from Mr. Fitcpstrick, Secretary :o :he Committ.c, the venerable prelate has returned the follow, ing answer : (nd Derrig, Carlow. Aug. 12 11111.. Dr.fil SlR—Your very kind letter of the 2d Ins:ant, moose; to me the thanks of the Catholic Committee of the city of Wile. ford, reached toe in the country only on Monday last. I tea highly indebted to that most useful and respectable r d7till of your fellow-citizens who have honoured with their appreht Wm my trivil.l rain • to serve our comiuon religion and country; 441 be.; you may assure them that I will continue to vindicate Wits; oftnn as I have Seism , , with all the zeal which the most tie devotioa to the honour r and nd interests of Ireland can inspire. I It is not, howev.n, by the exertions of individuals only **de country can be raised from her prostrate condition. The veil foxes which she still poetesses must be concentrated in botfi ask as yours, and employed in efforts, such as your Co 4 "eking, to cherish public spirit, and up anney lb* means t era 4 harking the opinions of the British public with ea, and of obit ....-4 legal redress for the national wrongs and injustice to which 1.1 :UM been so long subjected. To Corporate and Commercial Cities we are greatly Indi*ted for the laws and liberality which now exist, whether in Ann r :40 Europe. Such cities greatly contributed to break down fa . .tort in the State, to foster religion, to advance civilisation, and to ens. Wish freedom ; to them, to their piety, to their wdlth, and ; nun al intelligence, we must also look at present for the impr‘vi cot of our country. its well as toe th, attainment of our rights: a-dig is to me a source of pride, to be in any way connected sc.! put city, which, at many periods of our history, as well as non r, las been eonspicuous in seeking to obtain or to preserve Civil L'etly and Liberty of Conscience—the only sure foundations of t:ci pity and social welfare. In reaming my grateful thanks to the Catholic Cornell led Waterford, I beg to offer them to you also. for the very fa' t ;rate sentiments respecting me expressed in your letter. I have the honour to be, dear sir, your most obedient ari see humble servant, J. DOY LE. To Mr. Fitzpatrick. Secretary to the Waterford Catholic Committee. A clergyman living near Grantham has found white mustard-Aced to be highly efficacious as a tnedicine, eons bining valuable aperient as well as tonic qualititi and restoring tone to the stomach and bowels. The a ell I taken whole, in quantities from a tea to a table spa lard, two or three times a day, according to its effect o 1 the cons itution. It discharges a sort of midi-are. which serves as a vehicle for its medicinal properties. The, white mustard-seed is :old by seedsnacu at one Alibi lei pound. SIGNS OF A Does GOINO TO PR fist be looks dull to hi, master, shows an a• a don to food. t c l to all that know him; craves to balk as usual, but muratei only; is prevish, and apt at first to bite strangers; i writi his ears awl tail lower than usual, and appears dn. ; next he lolls cut his tongue and froths at his nu m b, whiist his eyes are heavy and watery ; then, if nO: pr. fined, he soon runs oft panting loudly, and ready ta bile any one he meets. He never travels wild above tiara ups. when he dies exhausted. LONOEVITY ix Otis FASULY.—There sresFs kakis now living in the neighbourhood of Stamford, wh , ae united ages amount to 42$ years, viz.-11 7 01am (Men. of %Vest I)eeping, aged s 1 ; Hobert Gilbert, of Uffillgt o3l . 79 ; John Gilbert, of Heston, 71 ; Laurence Uffington, 69; James Gilbert, of Beeping-gate , 6 1: 104 Thomas Gilbert, of Cawthorpe, 61._—Stamford ;Teas. FoIITUNATS. ESCANS.—The recovery of tila yeorg Lady who lately eloped with her father's groom, Geortx• and was restored to her family through the exertions ct Kinvey, the efficer, as was noticed in al/ the Papers, has turned out was a most fortunate occurrenoe for the welfare and happiness of the fair runaway. The OW Georg:', whose surname is Idon, and who was bred $ baker, for about a fortnight mourned his disappointnust , lodgings near the Mint, from whence he suddenly geared, and was heard nothing of until about a tosuaghs back, when he was taken into custody by May, tk Co: stable of Chislehurst, in Kent, fur horse-stirsdinlk 174 , placed in t:hisleiturst cage ; whence during the tight k contrived to escape, and shortly aft:r broke into tit. , subkt of Mr. John Green, a most eminent fanner at Velar, t;' the samo county, and took away a valuable gehliw: fel this last offence he was taken in the t r e ighbourhai Of Smithfield two days back by Ilantley, the night mall who brought hint before the Magistattott at Hatton-ft -do • by whom, aft. r being identified by May tram Chisktrev. he Was committed for trial. On tl.c 11th instant, a worn m, at Dirb! ci t ; found a nest containing four young gr!! S put the little captives in the trap-cage, and left then.:: the wood where she had found them. Two dap , wards she went to the cage when, to ha groat soll't"!' she found a snake, nearly five feet in length, entrapped 1.... the eage. iVe need not add, that the tird;ltal disanotree - - —Maidstone Gazclie. - I On Wednesday last a lad named William Samuel!. age!! la %ears, was killed by lightning at Leighton bona. • whilst hoeing potatoes ; the las father was at the atz' time struck down, but not hurt ; and 1 third persr. ah" was present, felt not the least eficei of it. —l.lt m os 6:n Ito On Friday last, at twelve o'clock, James W,-thErlila6,. excused at Lincoln, for the murder of Mr. Ilevridgq , " Brig*. Ile was led to the place of executim i, whivt dial not say anything. IVlacn tuined off; by alrutille 4l4 a co:isiderable length of tinie. corn paer trJl( do t of _• _ F :0r If u 1634 ic Mr. p IN Wit t 10g and, niche stead judgi the j v-tde yJral pany less t that 110 t rl o Su Nu use. In an no pr of F 3 vim] fin' warm ter, i erapa It oa w4rki dsngt ritteet] warl.4 think Th have bat e: /re ' Nor ti at all every puts TI!! Fn Oro, $r pies Ali rrecior dire r LLD 0 rh< awl), Georg deraea the 01 phr. UN a the ye btiguti tam i On Lc:: avryth 461 4 c itte to Ca Listiti Malt d I We and J abOTO In pru tint. aleely 1 1 01 1 , 4, 43, or fiord 0 A 1 Pari s fluke'