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THE CWFIWir. On Tuesday the Bishop of Exeter licensed the Reecrecd Rawlin 141 0 eie l, g.C.L. to the PerPinual Cure or Totnntoham and Cock lington. Devoe, on the nomination of the Bev. Ilawlin Malloek, void by the resignation of the heir. Pinney Beltield, jun. His Isxdship also Hemmed Henry Addington ()reeves, A.B. of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, to the Mad Mastership of the De vormort Chinn:al and Mathematical School, on the nomination of the Trances. Theiter. J. Allport has been licensed to the Perpetual Curacy of Athetstone, on the nomination of the Hee. Ite•ijaniln nienings 31A. u Vicar Maticester, Warwickshire, On Monday last, the 4th instant, the Archbishop of York visited Gu d eiri n, in t hat county, for the purpose of consecrating he Cha. l pel lately erected there, and endowed by Humphrey Brooke Os. ba t i timil , Esq. The invitations to Gatelsrth-house were confined' , to the nearest relatives of Mr. Osba!dasron, and a few of the neigh.. housing clergy ; but the chapel was filled by the tenantry of that geodes:tan and the inhabitants of the adjacent viiloges, anxious to behold and hear the impressive ceremony of consecration ; widen being concluded. a suitable and eloquent discourse was delivered by the Rev. Arebdeacon NYrangham, his Lordship's Chaplain. ST. JiLaar.LE -Bowe PAUISH...- The following statement exhibits the la'e appointments in the parish of St. Mary-ls-Peonne, ender the patronage of the crown, since the great division made ac cording to an Act of Parliament passed in July Itst :. hording Church—Rev. J. Hume Spry, D.D. Oriel College, oAon. R. ctor ; Rev. B. Burgess, A. 1.5 St. John's, Oxon ; and sev.oeargs Musgrave, A. 31. Brasennose College, Oxon, Cu rets'. All Souls . District Re:rory Church, Lan ham —Rev. O. Chandler, L.L.D. Oxon, District Rector ; Rev. Lewis Coghlan, A.M. Cam. Curate. Christchurch District Rectory Church, Lisson-green—Rev. 0. S. Penfold, D.D. Oxon, District Rector; Rev. T. (taker, L.L B. Camb. Curate. St. Mary, Bryanstene-square—Rev. T. T. Dibdln, D.D. Oxon, District Rectory Church—Rev. 0. Charlton, A.M. Oxob, Orate. • Trinity District Church, Osnaborgh-strcet, New-road, not yet built. Brutswick Chapel, Berkeley-street—Rev. Fawcett, A.M. Oxon, Minister. WINDSOR, 81' T DAY, Berr. 11. About three o'clock this afternoon, the King arrived at' the Castle in his phaeton. Mr. Wyatt, the areMtect,' was in waiting to receive his Majesty, who alighted from his phaeton, and proceeded through the different parts of the Castle, where the improvements are making, and are proceeding rapidly. Mr. W. had the honour of attend ing the Ring. His Majesty attended divine service this morning at the Royal Lodge, which was performed by the Rev. Dr. Sumner. . _ - The Princess Augusta, accompanied by her Lady in Waiting, attended divine service this morning at the parish Church, at which a sermon was preached by the tell. Mr. Gossett, Rector of the parish. This morning the first Life Guards marched from the Cavalry Barratkr, 'Nth their fine baud playing in front, to the barrack equare of the Foot Guards, where the Chap.. lain in waiting performed divine service. In the after noon the bands of both regiments attended, and played alternately on the Terrace, which, as usual, was thronged with company. The 3d instant was celebrated at Weimar as a double festival, via. as the .50th anniversary of the Grand Duke's Government, and also of his u3artiage, called in Germany l• The Golden Weddinc." A correspondent writes as follows :—A fracas took place on the lit inst., between the Duke of Richmond and an inhabitant of Chichester, known by the appellation of Mr. Gentleman Cobden, in consequence, it is said, of the latter, and two of his companions, having been found by the Duke to person trespassing on his Grace's grounds, at Grayling-IVell-farm. The affair is expected to furnish work for the gentlemen of the long robe.—Beig4lon Herald. 6ir William Curtis, Bart. has arrived at Plymouth, in his yacht the Emma, from St. Petersburgh, last from Fal mouth. Mr. Laniard has declared his intention of not com ing ' forward again as a candidate for the representation of Ips wich, whenever • dissolution of Parliament takes place.— Cambridge Chronicle. ENGLISH Omit. Honsa.—On Saturday night the Stout Gentleman was repeated for the second time; but the audience, from the commencement, expressed their dis-o satisfaction, which, in the second art, became so energetic,l that it was thought prudent to discontinue the performance. Mr. Bartley then came forward, and said, that it was the object of Mr. Arnold (the proprietor of the theatre), in catering for the public, to produce such pieces as he thought might entertain and amuse them. Such was his object in producing on the stage the musical farce of the Stout Gentleman, and which, he thought, would meet with their entire approbation. The author of the Stout Gentleman had written many pieces for the English Opera House, and other theatres, and which had generally been successful. On the former night it was considered that the piece had rut received a sufficient trial; but on this occa sion it hail had that trial, and the audience appeared to be unanimously against it; it would, therefore, be en tirely withdrawn. (Applause.) The Tefescope of yeatenlay say-s, "We have authority to contradict the statement that Miss Paton is now the wife of Lord William Lennox. There are papers in London that will state any thing, for the purpose of pulling them selves, and having their assertions and Journals quoted in the Provinsial Newspapers." It is not, perhaps, generally known that Tam, the glory of the French stage, received hi: histrionic education in London. He was born in Paris, in the year 1770, and at the age of eight, his father, who lived in London, sent, for him, and the future Roscius of France was, after a few rears spent at a boarding-school in the neighbourhood of Lambeth, articled to a surgeon. His theatrical propen sities, however, had made themselves so well known among the foreigners in London, that Bir John Oallini—the Al bert of his day, then superintending an amateur French Company, at the Hanover-square Rooms, applied to Telma, and he played in a succession of comedies ; among others, in Beaumarchais' Barber of Verille, then at the height of its fame, in which Talma sustained the Count" A/mavica. Telma is now at Brussels, and on Wednesday last performed the part of Munliur, in the tragedy of that name. LEARNED Soctsvies.—The Royal Academy of Paris has proposed the following questions to the candidates for the goldruedal distributed annually for the best work on Statistics and Political Economy for 182 G, viz. " What are the advantages to be expected from the opening of the Canal de Monsieur, and the means of giving these advan tages the greatest and most expeditious developcnient possi ble, of rendering them lasting, and of obviating the incon v.miences by which they may be balanced ?" And for 1927, the following is the pubject " During the forty years prior to the coronation of his llajtsty Charles X, the extraordinary events and revolution which have taken place, which must necessarily have hail an irresistible in fluence on men, manners. and literature, what have been the effects at the periods in which the form and spirit of the Government have experienced the most remarkable va riations, and what arc the most lasting remits?" The best work in answer to the 'hove questions la to be reward ed with a gold medal and two hundted francs. The Royal Academy of Sciences and Literature of Toulouse has pro the following question for 1948: " Whether is reach literatire indebted most to the Greek or Latin authors?"— e gold medal and three hundred francs. And the Academy of Dijon, for 1w211,—" A comparison between the works of St. Bernard and Bonnet, the characters of the authors, and the influence of their writings in their re- P?ect.ve ages." Among the latest discoveries at Pompeii is a painting in 'sea), which gives a strange idea of the sensuality of the is. It represents a table set out with every requisite ha , a grand repast. In the middle is a large dish, upon, vhich lour peacocks are placed, one at each corner, fonn- Ing s magnificent dome with their tails. All around are 'Asters, one holding in his claws a blue egg, another an inst , r. another a steffekrat, a foerth a little basket filled v :lh grasshoppers. Four di s h es of fish decorate the bottom, 41 il above them several partridges, hares and rabbits, each its bead between its paws. A eon of German sausage surrounds the whole, after which a row of yolks of 'en. then one of peaches, small melons, arid cherries, and uih a row of vegetables of different sorts, the whole Arrell with a green coloured sauce, of which it is difßcult env the composition. '‘ said that a Joint Stock Company is about to be eJ f, ar the purpose of establishing a telegraph at Li hy which it is intended to communicate with Man- Birmingham, flelyhead, Edinburgh, and Glasgow. Rom1;1 • IIE s itEFORD MUSIC MEETING. ' The exact sum collectili on Tuesday at the Cathedral, for the benefit of the charity, was 26 V. 19s. 6d. On Wed nesday the collection efiquntecl to 10/. The plates were held by the Dean, Mr. Clive; Ate other stewards, and the ladies and gentlemen of the first rank and consequence in the county. The amount of the tickets at the Cathedral on Tuesday morning, was 871.1 ts. 6d. , fife admissions be ing extremely low. The Conceit at the Shire-hall on the evening of that day, was 1121. 103. Wednesday morning at the Cathedral, the amount was 2561. 165.; the perfolin ance was the Messiah. 1 The spacious Shire-ball was extremely well filled en Wednesday evening, with a brilliant assemblage, There was a great display of diamonds and other jewellery ; the dresses were mostly new for the festival. The performances commenced by the Overture to Tancredi, which was admirably performed. Mira Travis gave the ballad " County Guy" with much sweetness, and was encored. Signor de Begnis was encored in the Italian piece by Rossini, in imitation of a composer directing the band at a rehearsal of his new music. Miss Stephens was quite at home in her favourite song, " Come, love, to me,' by Bishop, in which she was deservedly encored. Mr. Bellamy displayed his superior bass voice in the " Battle of llohenlinden." Miss Paton was encored in an Italian song, and in a duet with Signor de Begnis, " Gio vinetti," by Mozart. The s e co n d p art commenced with a new M.S. symphony, written by Dr. Clarke Whitfield, ex pressly for this festival, which was greatly applauded, and will add considerably to his fame as a composer. The songs allotted to Mr. Vaughan were obliged of course to be omit ted, owing to his lamented indisposition. The tenor parts in the glees ' which were to have be e n ta k en b y hi m, were supported by Dr. Chard. Lord Somers, Lord Clarendon, and a number of other diitinguished characters, were present. Thursday morning's performance produced a consider able degree of novelty. A new sacred piece commenced the Fedora:nice, called Offertnrie, consisting of a bass solo, with ■ distant chorus behind the organ, by the pain- Yipal singers only, which had a most su bli me effect. The performance was accompanied on the organ by Dr. Chard, the conspciser. This was followed, by a piece called the Resterrectio!, being the second part of the Crucifixion, composed by Professor Clarke Whitfield, performed but once before, viz. at the last festival. The Whole went off with admirable effect, it being a masterly composition. This concluded the first part. Mr. Vaughan appeared in the orchestra fur she first time, to the great satisfaction of all the performers, and all who have the pleasure of knowing him. He sang the airs allotted to him in his usual excellent style, but evidently weaker from his dangerous severe illness. YORKSHIRE MUSICAL FESTIVAL. (HY EXPRE&S.) rslte. SEPT. 10. Very few of the distinguished company who are expected to the festival have yet arrived. Among the exceptions may be reckoned Lord Dundas and family, and the Earl and Countess of Nor.' manby. A god many, however, of the Inferior classes, from the county squires to the substantial Yorkshire farmers, have been drop ping into the city this day and yesterd a y. L o d g i ngs may st ill b e had in abundance, and at all prices from two guineas for a share of a bed to 40 and 50 guineas for accommodation for a small family. The chorus singers, indeed, and persons of their grade are enabled I to pig together three or four in a sty for much less, namely from l a is. to I*. 6d. a night per head. For the Jut two days the Min ster has been closed, and this morning there was a rehearsal of the choruses, from which all but the professional persons connected with the festival were scrupulously excluded. I have good authority I I for stating, that the performance of these sub a lte rns did great credit to Mr. White, who has had them for some time in training in dif ferent pans of Yorkshire, and that Mr. Greatores expressed his perfect approbation of the manner in which they acquitted them selves at this rehearsal. About 250 of the chorus singers were in attendance. They are mostly operative manufacturers and other persons in an humble station in life, but when collected in the Minster Yard this morning, before admitted to the Cathedral, exhi. bited a well clad and respectable exterior. Mr. White has remarked that the voices of the men, particularly in this part of thecountry, arc much stronger, generally speaking, than those of men in a similar rank in or near London. The prin cipal singers have still been delayed at Hereford, but are all ex pected on Monday. Some amateurs from Ireland arrived thus moruing, also Mr. Punting of Belfast, who is considered to be a virtuoso In ancient Irish music. A distinguished Hibernian pro fessor. Cooke's troop of Equestrians came here yesterday, and the stud has since been paraded several times through the city. The following notice and regulations will show the means adopted to preserve order and decorum during the festivities ; The only place for the purchase of tickets is the Guildhall ; ex eept that on the evening of each concert and ball, after the doors are opened, tickets of admission may be had at the doors. The morning tickets are from &guinea to fra ; the evenlag tickets from 15s. to 7s. Books of the words may be purchased at the Guildhall. A Register of the Company will be kept at the Guildhall, in which they are requested to allow their names and residences, and their lodgings at the festival to be inscribed. For the morning performances, the doors of the Minister will be opened at half-put ten, and the performances will commence at twelve. Proper precautions will be taken to prevent, u Touch u possi bk, the inconvenience of any rush or pressure at the doors. Ladies are particularly requested not to wear high head-dresses in the Minster. For the evening Concerts the doors will be open at seven, and each concert will begin at eight. At the concerts and balls, there will be three avenues to the assembly-rooms; one for the company retiring in carriages at the usual entrance by the portico ; a second for the company in chairs. by a new door between the portico and Etridge's Hotel ; and a third for the company on foot, by a new door on the oppssite side of the portico. It is requested that at the Fancy Ball, the company will appear in fancy or full court dresses, or full dress naval or military uniforms. On the ball nights the doors will be open at nine o'clock. To avoid delay and inconvenience in leaving the church, no plates will be held at the doors ; but boxes will be placed there for done tions. The market to-day was extremely well supplied with all the ne cessaries of life, and the delicacies of the season—excellent peaches may be purchased at 4s. per dozen, and other fruit in that propor tion. The shopkeepers, too, are all very polite and obliging to strangers, as well as moderate in their charges, relying more upon large sales than exorbitant profits during this Northern Carnival. Lite information I obtained on Thursday of the Committee of Management having refused to give the I ork newspapers admis sions the the performances at the Festival proves to be quite cor. rect. I waited this morning upon the Rev. W. H. Dixon, M.A. Chaplain to his Grace the Archbisliny, and, by his desire, after. wards on the Committee, of which he is chairman, to know if if were inteded to afford me any facilities for furnishing an ac count of the proceedings during the ensuing week. 1 stated at the same time, that I only wished to ascertain the determination of the Committee, but by no means to solicit, or press a request, for accommodation. My application, I observed, was solely grounded on the general courtesy observed towards the Press on similar occasions—the conductors of public entertainments making a practice of presenting the principal Newspapers with free admissions, and giving every other facility for enabling them to supply their readers with the tidiest and most accurate de tails of what took place. It was in consequence resolved, that the subject should be taken into consideration, and an answer forwarded to me at Bellerby's the booksellers in Standgate-street. The following are the terms of the reply which I received at four o'clock. " The Committee of Mao tint beg to acquaint Mr.—, that on the 7th Instant a Resolution was paned. that no free ad missions should be granted to the Reporters, Minster and Con cert-rooorn." —, Esq. Committee-room, Mr. 11We:by's, Stargate, Satur day." I should not trouble you witli any notice of this attar were it not to develope the views and feelings in which this treatment of the Press has originated. I, of course, am accountable for what I state. and I expressly mentioned to the Rev. Mr. Dixon, this even ing, that I should publish the theta which have conic to my know. ledge, and the impressions they had made. The truth is then, that a certain Bibliopolist and Newspaper Reporter of York got himself placed " on the Committee at the outset, and that he and hi, friends had this Resolution passed, as indi. motive of a determination to throw obstructions in the way of Newspapers gener.ily. The person I allude to intends, at the close of the Festival, to publish a full account of the whole, embodying all the clandestine information himself and friends can supply, and afterwards :u re-cast the teport into a pamphlet. To such an extent has this monopolising feeling been earned that, until the Minster and Coneert-mom were thrown open to the public on Tuesday last, a glimpse of either was nut to be bad for lore or money. The same feeling has excluded all visiters from the re hearsal to-day; and, in short, a seal is put on every thing, in order to make a public benevolent occasion subservient to individual be nat. The majority of the Committee, it is but fair to add, have been imposed on under specious pleas, such as the vast number of applications they should be troubled with, te a to tall into the designs of the minority, anti are necessarily pledged by the resolu tion already adverted to. The matter is, of course, one of no con-, sequence, except in a public point of view. The Mayor of York has issued is notice against illegal rubing, directing the police officers of the district to give a vigilant attention to ibis subject, sod to take such active measures respecting it as the law has authorised them to pursue. The inhabitants of the metropolis will soon be aster lathed by the sight of a balloon, which has been so con structed as to be guided in the air. The inventor intends to go up himself, and to take a given journey of 50 miles and backin the same day.—Sraday Poptr. ClllB7ll BR , IV: 'timber of men are now em ployed in carry'ng stone, stud squaring it, preparatory to widening the pyre., t bridge. It is expected the work will be completed beturc Christmas: • 1 3 .1/3/S The courses for the King's cut Dauphite's prise were run yestii.tay, at half-past one, in the Champ de 'Mars. Neither tile King nor any other member of the Royal Fa ' mily were present. The first race was for the Dauphin's grlze, being a cup worth a thousand francs, and a sum of 2,000 trines. The Streutlemtad, belonging to Al. Jean ; La Duchesse, belerigiug to Al. Cremieuz : and La Tigresse, belonging to M. Bettis:au, junior, ran for this prize. The last named horse won it. having run the first course in fire minutes 23 seconds and.three.flfthc, and the second course in five minutes 33 seconds and two-fiftlfs, The second prize, called the King's prize, consisted of a silver vase worth 1500 trance, a cup words4l4lo francs. and a sum of 371/0 frames. This prize was contended for by Semiramis, belonging to Desgrande ; La Jeune-Senail, of M. Duval ; La Miss, belong ing to the Duke d'lllecars ; be St:isthmus:l and La Lank, of Messrs. Tilltard and Drake; and lastly, Le Volage, of Al. Venn- Leans. La Miss having twice ran round the Champ-de-Alarm, in flee minutes ten seconds, gained on the first trial. On the second trial, Le Streatlamtad and Le Volage declined to run. In that course La Miss was only five minutes and three seconds, which se cured her the prize. This is the ehohest time the course has been performed since the establishment of races in France. I According to the rules of 11125, the horses and mares of the fltst class, that it, French by both parents, who should be se cond in the race, should hare the „half prize of two thou sand rumen,. La Jeune-Senail, and Le Semiramis havingeach had this advantage in the two preceding courses, they now ran to gether to decide which should have that prize. It wile decreed to Le Semiramis., he having performed this, his third course, in five minutes and forty-two seconds. The inare, La back, we: not admitted to partake in this trial, although she had followed La Miss very closely both the preceding times, because she was excluded by one of the regulations. It is said that next year horses of every country in Eu rope will he permitted to compete in our races, but after that trial they are not afterwaath to be permitted to leave France.- Juurnal des Debats. , . _ LITERARY GLEANINGS. NO. 1 - 17 --- C VII. • THE IRISH SIIILIIIROCK.--The 0 , 1,1re/oil was VC'Ty highly regarded in the superstition of the ancient Druids,and still has particular virtues of a medicinal kind ascribed to it by the mote ?emote HigbhoderstT Scotland; isitere it is culled, according to the ancient rites " In the list of plants," says a Scotch statistical writer, " must be reckoned the seamrog, or the wild trefoil, in great estimation of old with the Druids. It is still considered as an anodyne in the diseases of cattle; from this circumstance it has derived its name :4/Rh, in the Gaelic signifying pacific,or soothing. When gathered, it is plucked with the left hand. The person thus employed must be silent, and never look back till the business be finished! !"--P. Kirlonichael, Banff's. Statist. Ace. This is the seatprog, or shamrog, worn by Irishmen in their hats, as °moss says, " by way of a cross, on ST. PATRICK'S day, in memory of this great Saint." Gel Loon NE.—An instrument for beheading, constructed on the same principle as the guillotine, was anciently used in SCOTLAND, and was called a Maiden ; it was introduced by the regent JAN Es, Earl of Morton, who, it seems, had met with it on his travels, and who, by a singular coinci dunce, was the first person whose head it severed. "This mighty Earl (MO R TO N ) for the pleasure of the place, and the salubrity of the air, designed here a noble recess Lind retirement from wordly business, but was pre vented by his unfortunate and inexorable death, three years after, anno 1581,being accused, condemned, and executed by the Maiden, at the cross of Edinburgh, as art and part of the murder of King Henry, Earl of Dandy, father to NINO JAMES VI. which fato - 1 instrument, at least the pattern thereof, the cruel REGENT has brought from abroad to be 4eod the LAIRD or PENNECUTE of that ilk, who, not withstanding, died in his bed, - and the unfortunate Earl was the first that handselled that merciless MAIDEN, who proved so soon after his own executioner."—Pennecaik's Descr. of 7'weedule. CANZONET. Love and Joy, one April day, titole a fragile bark, they say But—when they got once afloat-. Quarell'il which should steer the boat. Love grew angry—seized his quiver, And struck poor Joy into the river! And tho' his pinions buoy'd him on the wave S And tho' he wept and pray'd, Love would not save, But frowning turn'd away—He found a wat'ry grave. Still the bark is sailing on, But Love steers her all alone ; Mournful sits the cruel boy, Weeping for the death of Joy, Whose phantom sometimes Hits around the mast, Recalling all the brightness of the past ; But if repentant Love woos the light lbrm to stay. Be spreads his rainbow-wing, and instant lies away. Ott 'MUSS—ITS ANALOG; TO LITIR•RT ComPOM trow.--Dress should be properly adapted to the person, as, in writing, the style mud be suited to the subject. I am far from objecting to magnificence of apparel in those whose rank and fortune justify and allow it; on the con trary, it is a useful piece of luxury, by which the poor and the industrious arc enabled to live at the expense of the rich and the idle. I would no more have a woman of qua lity dressed in doggrel, than a farmer's wife in heroics. ' To those of the first rank in birth and beauty 1 recommend a noble simplicity of dress; the subject supports itself, and wants none of the borrowed helps of external ornaments. Beautiful nature may be disfigured, but cannot be improved by art ; and as a very handsome woman may be regarded as the finest subject in nature, her dress ought to be epic— that is to say, the true Virgilian epic, modest, noble, and entirely free from the meretricious tinsel of the modern taste. All conundrums and bitarreries of costume must be avoided, as well as jarring images and metaphors ; or, in other words, confusion of colour. All conceits and luxu riancies of fancy, which only tend to depreciate so noble a subject, are strictly prohibited ; and it is but justice to the handsomest women of England to say, that they generally keep the clearest from these extravagancies. A graceful deshabille may be permitted, and even admired, like the rersi stiolti of the Italians ; but it must never relax into slovenliness. As for those of an inferior rank of beauty, such as are only pretty women, and whose charms result rather from a certain air and l e me sail quoi in their whole com p os iti on , than from any dignity of figure or symmetry of features, they may be indulged in greater licenses of ornament, be cause the subject not being of the sublimest kind, may re ceive some advantages from the elegancy of its style, and the variety of its images. I th ere f ore p erm it t h em to dress up to all the flights and fancies of the sonnet, the madrigal, and such minor compositions. As for that third class who, with perfect neutrality of face, are neither handsome nor ugly, and who have nothing to recommend them but a certain quick and lively manner, or smart and genteel turn of figure, they cannot lie indulged in a higher style of composition than the epigram, which should be neat, clever, and unadorned, the whole to lie in the sting. I come now to a melancboly part of the subject, upon which the freedom of my advice will, I fear, not be kindly taken. I mean that part cf the fair sex who go by the appel lation of plain or ordinary, and who (I am compelled, but sorry to admit) constitute a portion of our countrywomen. Their dress must not rise beyond humble prose, as any attempts beyond it amount at best to the mock heroic, and are calculated to promote laughter. A plain fair one should by all means avoid all ornamental flourishes of style, which attract too close an attention, and repay so ill a critical investigation into the materials of the subject. Should I be disposed to allow a litle poetry to those of this class, who have at the same time considerably passed a " certain age," they must not be confined to the elegy and the tristibus. If they have Any tendency to bliteism, they may be indulged with being bound, gilt, and letteted on the back before they are finally consigned to the shelf. As to the ultra-ultras of this class, and who are at the same time " old offenders," we must, for their own sakes, treat them with rigour to save them from the ridicule of the Bathos in dressing up to the fashion. The more robust of these immortal ladies, some of whom we have the happi ness of knowing, ought more properly be called a third sex than a part of the fair one. They should publicly renounce all thoughts of their persons; and turn their thoughts another way. They should become honest, pale, good-humoured old gentlemen. I see no reason why they should not amuse themselves with field-sports and a cheer ful glass; and if they were to attempt getting into Parlia ment, I for one should not only have no objection to so laudable an extension of Major Cartwright's plan of uni versal suffrage, but would most cordially assist them with my vote and interest.—Alham. The Dutch paper: state, that at Haarlem experiments have been tried, which have for their object the relief of persons exposed to shipwreck. The nature of them is not very distiuctly explained. • TITLE OF TVE EMPEROR °REUSShi. - • It is a fact not generally known that the title of Em peror was conferred upon Peter the Great by the English Government. In his " Journal from the year 1698 to the conclusion of the peace of Neuttailt," printed at St. Peters burgh, from the manuscripts corrected by his own hand. we have the following account of site transaction, which obtained for hiM the Imperial title, and &hie!' also occa sioned an Act of Parliament to be pa.lien for the protection of Foreign Ambassadors and their servitnts from arrests for debt:-- At that lime (1710) Mr. Whitworth, afterwards Lord 1V II ITWO TH, envoy extraordimay from •,Queett • Anne to the Russian Court, received the title of Ambassador Ex traordinary, and on the sth of January he had a public audience, at which, b!, order of the Queen his mistress, he employed the title of Eater/toe in peaking to his Ma jesty ; .at td in the letter which the ambassador d e li vere d from the Queen, the same tine was found, instead if the an cient one or CzAit. The cause of this embassy was to ex cuse the affront which had been offered to the Russian am ' bassador i Nl. MATH sow, in niigland, as having been oc casioned by a popular'coMmotion in favour of a merchant. The fact is as follows :—When, in 1708, this ambassador 'was directed by his court to quit London, and proceed to Holland, he gave notice to his eveditors to make their se veral demands, which he immediately discharged; except ing a certain intricate and exorbitant account of goods which were charged several hundred pounds sterling abOve their worth. This he referred to some of his people, di recting them to examine the goods, and estimate their true value. The rnerehant, hbwever, not considering M. Ma ' theow as an ambassador, but treating him as a private gen tleinan, and without waiting for the result of the exami nation, or the consequent answer, caused him to be arrested in his coach, in the midst of the city, and carried to prison. Some hours after, when thefoxeign ministers were informed of this jransaction, they made complaints to the Court, treating this attack as a common outrage, irk which they were all concerned. The ambSssailor was consequently soon released, and complained highly of this treatment to the Queen; but without waiting for her answer, or even for an audience of leave, lie set out for Holland, agreeable to his former instructions, Besides the apologies made by the Queen, in the letter written by her Majesty, the ambassador added others in the speech which he made in the presence of all the foreign ministers, and of a very numerous audience; de claring, at the same time, that he made these excuses by her Majesty's command, and that they ought to be con sidered as if pronounced by herself. Afkr this audience, the English ambassador had severs. 'conferences with the Russian ministers, at which the difference in question was terminated to the satibfac , tion'of both parties; and instead of the discord which hail nearly arisen between the two Courts, the ancient friend ship and harmony were fully re-established. It will be observed, that several particulars relating to this transaction, which have been mentioned by English writers, are not noticed in the foregoing statement; but it agrees very nearly with the narative published by Mr. Whitworth, in! a Account of Russia." THE FOUR CANADIAN CHIEFS. These interesting men embarked for their native coun try, on board the Caledonia, the early part of August. The writer of this article feels it to be due to their cha racters, and at the same time gratifying to his own feelings, to express the high sentiments of respect for this country with which they left it. The Grand Chief, in taking leave of the writer, said, that himself and the three other Chiefs left Great Britain deeply impressed with its greatness, its liberality, and its magnificence; that the attention shown to them could never be forgotten, and especially the con ' deseension of his Majesty in honouring them with a most grocious interview, and in presenting a large gold medal to each, as well as a portrait of himself: these would remain a lasting memorial, and be handed down front generation to generation in their respective families. The Grand Chief added, that he had served this country under his late Majesty George 111, which he never expected to see; hut his visit to England had created an attachMent, and produced a feeling towards it which he had not language , to express ; hut summed it all up by saying, he was now ready, whenever called upon, to scree his Majesty George IV, his Great Father, and this he would do with the affection and devotedness of a son; and though they did mkt 4elats.to their country having obtained the *West at their visit, yet they felt confident that a Government of uprightness would take their claims into consideration- and 'tweet their wishes. The Grand Chief then requested that the writer would express to their friends at large the lively sense they had of the personal attention which had been shown to them, and hoped this public acknowledgment and grateful re membrance of every favour would be accepted by them. He regretted it was not in their power to pay their respects, in the way of farewell, to each of their friends, but sin cerely wished a long continuance of health and every com fort, which a nation so prosperous and a Government so excellent, could insure. It is but justice to add, that the conduct of the four Chiefs during their abode in England was most exemp lary ; indeed, it was with truth observed, by a gentleman from Quebec, that " their conduct was a reproach to the' more enlightened whites." As real character is more de veloped in private than in public life, it may not be im proper to copy a paragraph from a letter, received after their departure, from the respected individual at whose house they resided while in England. In speaking of their conduct, Mrs. S. remarks, " That she esteemed them highly for their amiable dispositions, their correct princi ples and the great politeness they manifested towards her self and family. Their kindness and attention to each other were worthy the example of those who have enjoyed much higher privileges." P.S. A paragraph having appeared in one of the public papers injurious to the character of these Chiefs, and re presenting them as imposters, it may not be improper tc add, that they brought over from Quebec regularly accre dited testimonials; that a Member of the Legislation of Lower Canada, now in London, is well acquainted with them personally, and was a Member of the Committee of the House of Assembly, which was appointed to investi gate their claims ; and, finally, that their case is well known at the Colonial Department. THE COTTON TRADE. The imports of cotton wool during the present year are as under. IVe shall contrast them with the whole year's imports of 1823; the heaviest by much that has preceded the present: — Repelled to Tot. Imports, September 3. 1825. 1823. American - . bags 345,164 448,259 Brazil . . 155.8a9 149,177 - - West India, Demerara, &c. 20.814 25,362 - Eslt India - 41,6111 . 38,383 Other Parts (in 18251 62,00 chiefly Egyptian) 10,462 Total to Sept. 3 - 626,160 Total 1823 - 671,623 The deficiency in import of the present year to this period ; as compared with that for the whole of 1923, it will be seen, is only 45,463 bags, which, with a very inconsider able exception as regards IS'est India, &c. sorts, is entirely in American descriptions; the imports of which indeed, in 1923, exceeded by something more than 100,000 bags, what we have hitherto had in 1925. But there are many personv, of good judgment and information, who assert conSclently, that the total import for the present Year will exceed that for the year 1821, by not less than 140 to 150, indeed, some say 160,000 bags. Should this expectation be realised, our import of North American cottons, will not fall greatly be low even that of 1923. What credit then can hereafter be given to trans-atlantic reports of short crops, &c. when in the face of assurances of the most positive kind, as to the great deficiency which we should this year experience, we find ourselves receiving little, if, at all, short of half as much again as we did in the year immediately preceding? By the by, u a further means of comparison, we may u well supply the total imports of 1824: American - - Bags 2:11.110 Brazil 145.11:3 West India, Demerara, Bcr. 23.0 I East India . 49.8;4 Egypt and other parts . 37.R09 537.812 Or less than the import to Septeintxr g, 118a3, by ' 3 V 6 bar. Merichesrer INDIAN AAMT. , • fIOVERNMENT GENERAL ormti. A PUNDIT AND A MOOLVEE TO BE ADDED TO - EVEIT • .GIMENT. Fort William, March itts, kBks. I. It ii hereby directed, that a Pundit and a Molvee be ael. ' born the Ist proximo, to the Interpreter' and Quartet-PI \mei establishment, of every regiment of Native Cavalry and Infant" of the Line:plain. ellow,ance of (eight) 8 'omit rupees per "leasers each. T:tese men. as well as the regimental moonsbee allowed tp each la:erpreter, shall be borne upon the muster tolls of thit Officer. with the rest of his establishment, regularly paid and ac counted for in the acquittance rolls, and drawn for sepatately in di* abstracts, by name. 2. The Putidit and Moolvee are expected to be well Tooted i f the native languages; ,the first in the Ilindee and Nagree readtrlg and writing ; the second in the Persian ; and their duties will cop siat in attendance at all Coale-Martial or Courts of Inqvity swear in the memb ers o f th e C ourt . an ti t h e ev id en : T e . according'S their respective faith. '1 hey will litewise swear in all teethitt. previous to joining the regiment, withlhe usual solemnities in front of the colours, after completing their course or drill, by which time the recruits vijil have acquired a stronger sense of the Obligation. It will be their duty also to assist and direct all men in the corps anxious to qualify themselves for promotion by the acquisition of rea di ng an d wr iti ng in one or both laugusgeik ash generally to perform all similar duties that may be assigned to them by the CoMmanding (kik*, or the Quarter-master of the regiment; sixty (GO) sonar rupera will be admitted fora shed, ass school, and for stationery. &c. to be drawn by the Interpreter ana Quarter -master, annually, and in advance. 3. The instruction of the men in the essential knowledge of reading and writing, t o qua lif y t h em for Non-compiallinned Officeri, should be duly encouraged by Commanding Officers, and the for. :nation of schools promoted under the tuition of the monshee, pun dit, and moolvee ; and white Government would wish 'to r6freits from interference in the amount of . ..consideration payable by to pupils to their masters for the trouble and time devoted to their in. *ruction, k is still essential that a maximum shall be fixed, to omit the dm - hands of the latter. It is, therefore, ditetted, that ab szpoy shall pay more than two annas per mensem td each or eithet of his teachers. anft that ho havildar or naick ahall be thieved mote than four annas per rfiensem. for the period of his instroctinn, either Hindce or Persian. The study or attendance to be entirely yolun. tars. and the details regulated by the Regimental monshee, ant the interpreter and Quarter-meatero7 the corps, under the authority of the Officei Commanding. 4. From add after the let July, 1828, no tepee mill baproshotea to the rank of a non-commilaiioned officer, in any corps of the bee f without a competent knowledge of reading and ivritiog ip et ,least one language, except tot distinguished conduct or buttery in tint field. COMBINATION p.rtßADESAr ladjtirit Owing to the zealous. exertions of Mr. Farrell, the me.: ritorious and indofatigahle chief constable of the Dublirk police, we have gained some insight into the Ora:ceding, of the wicked combination which has for some time past ex isted amongst the workmen of Dublin. Mr. Farrell having learned,. that a party of sawyers were to assemble for some deliberative purpose•at Brady's public-house, corner of Sh ip street, on Sunday night, took measures accordingly, and just as' the " President" had taken the chair Mr. Farrell, accompanied by two of the police, made his unwelcome entrée, and quite in time to seize a letter which the presi dent was about to read. Upon inquiry Mr. Farrell was in formed by the president, Mr. Mooney, a sawyer, that the meeting was assembled for a charitable purpose, that of making arrangements for the relief of some of their CA members. Mr. Farrell then proceeded to read the letter,. which purported to be from a person named Graham (a saddler), congratulating the meeting upon the success of' " the Union, in ravine the lives of the four men convicted of the attack on Mr. Butterworth. The writer next pro ceeded to impress upon the meeting the necessity for the honourable discharge of the expenses incurred in their pro.- ceedings to obtain that object, and stated, that there was W sum of 21. 10s. due to himself, besides Si. to Mr. William Hall, and then most strongly urged the expediency of sub scribing fifteen shillings from each trade, to pay off the , costa due, and also to form a fund to enable them to bring a writ of error against the conviction, and in which they had no doubt but they would succeed, and thereby procure the liberation of the four men in November hest ! The president denied to. Mr. Farrell having any knowledge of the wriicr;of the letter. The president ani secretary bay ing undertaken to appear at the bead polr:c-office, on next morning, Mr. Farrell departed. Those functionaries ac cordingly appeared before the Magistrates, and after some explanation were dismissed.—Diehlia Fr eeman's Journal. hENEFITS or MACIIINERY.—It is a cnrious fact, that although the Combing wool used in the stuff manufacture of this county, which thirty years ago sold for 18s. a tort (of 2Slbs.) now sells for 455. yet the pieces made from the wool fetch less money in the Bradford and Halifax markets I now than they did then. This is the effect of machinery the advantage of which is thus felt both by the land owner an't the public. In the mean time, the master manu— facturers have flotirished, and the wages of the embers and spinners have alvanced; the only thing that has re mained stationary, or rather that has retrograded, is the wagea of the poor weave, who is now receiving less money for a day's labour, by five 'and twenty per cent. than was paid to him before the breaking out of the French revo lutionary wars, when provisions were five and .twenty pee cent. lower than they are at present. —Leeds IlifePrety. &rare of TRADE.—At the Excise Sitting on Tuesday last the amazing sum of 16,000/. was flitcl by Messrs. Marsland and Son, for the last six weeks' duty on calicoes printed at their est abli Omen —Stoclesort Adrerfiser. The Bristol Auxiliary Bible Society has unanimously adopted a series of Resolutions, disapproving, in very de cided terms, of employing the funds of the Bible Society in publishing or circulating the Apocrypha. It appears that the Catholi•es of the Contiriettt will not generally re ceive the Old Testament, Unless the Apocryphal book* are, without any distinctive mark, intermingled with the canonical. The Parent Society has, in consequence, ap pointed a Select Committee, to consider whether it will Le proper for the Society to assist in the distribution of Bibles with the Apocryphal hook thus inserted. A new road is forming across the Bishop of London's estate at Paddingtor, which will unite the Marylebone with the Uxbridge-road at Bayswater, and by which route it is supposed that the Western mails will proceed, instead of by Oxford-street and Piccadilly, when the new Post office is finished. The new street from Northumberland House to the British Museum, we are most happy to state, is in pro gress—the parishes of St. Martin, St. Ann, and St Giles, through which it will pass, have presented memo rials to Government in favour of the great undertaking; and the drawings by Mr. Nash are represented as beauti ful and magnificent in the extreme. It is, we understand, in contemplation also to build a new street upon similar plans from Waterloo-bridge, so connecting itself with the main avenue as to take the line of Charlotte -street, Bed ford-square, and Gower -street, into the /few-road, and thence into the North-road, opposite Frederick-glare.-- , John BuY. The market cross of Leeds hat been removed by order of the Commissioaers fur carrying into erect the Leeds Im provement act. The game certificates taken uut this year are said to be more numerous than ever before remembered. POTEEN.—On Tuesday, a General Officer. iu this city was waited on at his house by a revenue officer, and re-. quested to order be butler to deliver to a porter in waiting ten gallons of potecn, which the General hsd jug! put ci•ased. The General, seeing it was impossible t 3 hold out, surrendered at discretion, upon which the captor marched off in triumph, with good spirits, and indulgibg in the pleasing anticipation of n•ceiving the penalty of one half of one hundred founds.—Dublin raper. The South American miners wear boots made or the tanned skin of the boa-constrictor, which are quite imper vious to the wet. NA TUBE'S Faorres.—There is in this town a pear, of the Jargonelle kind, of 'cry curious form • the first blossom produced a fruit, that frurt produced a second blossom, that produced a second fruit, that also produced a blossom, and A third fruit is projecting from the second, with the remains of the third bloom.--Nor•tharrapt.m•fife. cur,,. UREA DECO A CCIDE N T .—On Saturday last, %los. Dean, en f a a n c t t a O n r v g yl l a oo lth k sis c t r oschk o i t ro ' r g lki p r a . rt A o r ti l i l e ss ina H c o b w it a je r r e y 's , and was immediately carried round by it till the shirt was torn to atoms, whet be tPorsrle.wivirerilwis'it'iasaniinrr shaft, was hurled with much force against a window and seve-re;y cut and larcerated about the face and neck. Ile was taken up apparently lifeless and conveyed to the Hinge of Reco very, where it was founit he had sustained a compound .facture of the arm and &dislocation of the tight knee. The force with which lie . was flung from the shaft to the wis 'ilow was so great as to knock out the greater [art of the frame. He lies is a. 4ngerous state, without hopei of an• COtelfy.—ilamoiesltt4Ciatarlitiß. ay ro es- oil- lily 'Da not t'or Ga 'all au, illij eign Sr. ii an rebi lu.ra. 'ye I be. mem Civil ads- the iviPs ,sb w by 11 be Went irn 'cull lowa y giV.!