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p4N0R.1314, LEICESTER-SQUARE. VIEW OF MADRID. IMnde ei.ti Madrid, talk el monde. Whett Madrid is, let the world be silent. sprint:di Prorrrb. tht t4itorday the Messrs. Burford threw open their her railornitia to thei . r . private friends, preparatory to the „odic exhibition of itView of the City of Mad ßurforid, painted i to d r awings taken on the spot by Mr. It. rd . . A bi d, err view of a city of narrow streets, without any publiC bilildB of architectural elegance, cannot he ex .D..,ted to for m a fine picture ; and such, unfortunately, is r t i e c asein the present instance. This, however, is not the fij o r of the Artist, and, if fidelity of delineation was the only writ claimed by the . painters of this picture, they sr aWill be folly entitled to it ; they have, however, a much !deter claim, in respect of its general execution, which we shall more particula rl y notice hereafter. The view of this metropolis of superstition and of in quiiiicrial as well as political oppression is taken from the belfry of the church of Santa Cruz, whirl is a s nearly as possible in the centre of the city. The v iew is most commanding, as it comprehends the whole extent of the immense plain in which Madrid is situated. The city itself is of au oblong form, from Leth to south, about two leagues in circumference, stand ing ors several small hills on the banks of the Manzanares, and 62,400 feet above the level of theses ; but the environs nothing that is picturesrtue, being neither more nor r je to a sandy desert, which indeed extends to the feat of the Gtiailarrama mountains to the west, and as far as the eye can reach in every other direction. Whatever thosighbouthood may have presented in the way of wood in Le Rib of lloti Alfonso, who, in his " Libro de ilantcria," describes it as well adapted for the hunting of sip and other wild animals, front its extensive woods, at the present day there is scarcely a tree,to be seen without the walls, or indeed within them, exupt in the Passeo del Pr ado, ,r walk, on the banks of the river, spd the promenades and A gouti of . the city. The only county in Europe that bears &resemblance to this sterile desert is that which lies he wn the Elbe and Weser, up to Hanover, which, al -1100, even on the high roads, the ismil is nearly up to the asletree of the carriage that is doomed to pass along it, ;4 sill enlivened with sonic fine towns and striking objects. Is the whole horizon which bounds Madrid, however, there is scarcely a village perceptible; Mr, though there are many, they are so situated in the partial declivities as to be lost to the eye ; while the river Manzanares, as represented in the picture before us, appears of a most insignificant Oa- La the &stance, on the Tine of the Guadarroma Nlottn- uk.s, is shown the situation of the Escurial; but, as being - - • • - &boat twenty miles from the city, it of course does not ad: te",t of bring more prominently marked. With this im perfect outline of the surrounding country we shall now mum to the belfry, which by means of a aiker key Mr. Burford was enabled fur a period of three months daily to • . ascend, fur the purpose of making his drawings. By the way, it cannot be denied that the artist at least had the pod fortune to pass a large portion of his time in the company of the bells of Madrid. We hope, for his sake, they were not vtry communicative. During the occupation of des city by the French a guard always occupied the place in question as a post of observation, and certainly it was par ticularly adapted for the purpose. The first viz iking object in the picture is the Carcel de Corte, or State Prison, a red brick building, built in the reign of Philip the Fourth, sod singularly handsome of its kind. It is certainly a lino lar wide:lce that the moat prominent feature in dos view should be " the State Pris ;" and did we not la.ow that Mr. Burford, in the choice of his situation for uking it, abandoned ttfeet for the sake of truth, we should line teen almost inclined to accuse him of having a native in thus holding up to particular attention the Coal de Corte. Thu there is misery enough within it is indubitable ; its exterior, however, is any thing but ilia of a prison. In the front of this build- X; stands one of the seventeen public fountains pith which the city is decorated (an the Bundy 9411!3 Cruz) ; but the height at which the view is tacit does not affbnl a very favourable representation of objects ar the foot of the picture. P:oceeding to the right you some to the Plaza Ma/or, which is the great square of Latnu. repeciog" formerly took place in this Ntlaft ; and here the Autos da Fe were celebrated, the lust of which took place in honour of :he marriage of Glades the Second, upon which occasion twenty Grandees seal forty Counts and Marquises " immortalized tit:mi le:vet by assisting at these pious orgies, wheat one him or.d and twenty victims underwent various punish ments: co less titan twenty-one were burned, and the aiijority of these, as well as of the whole number degraded, sere town." Beyond this square is seen the Palacio Nueva, the town residence of the Royal Family, of which lionapa►te said, while standing to admire it on his en mu t! in 1808, " Voila l'Espagne je I'ai retrouvee clans les pilais des sex rois ! Allons, neon frere ! vons sena niieux lava que moi. - Pursuing the circuit of this part of the O:s, you come to the Iglesia de San Felipe, the Caballe ro as Reales, or Royal Stables, the Hall of the Cortes, and which was occupied by the t a o n th e ir removal from Cadiz in NIL the Church of St. Martin, the Convento de las Ileajudil Arena', and the Quartel de Guardias Corps, *Lich is one of the finest buildings in Madrid ; but the &me at which it is seen is unfavourable to a display of its beauties. Passing on, in the distance is seen the Iglesia de Santiago, the Campo Santo Arribs, the Casa del Conde l'pad, the Churches of the Carmen Calyado, and of San hd:pe el Real. We hare now three streets leading to the north 214 east, those of the Calle tie los Espateras, the ranee de la Lena, and the Calle de Mocha. The only Ivisairent features here ate the church of St. Thomas and the hall of the Landahurlans, a popular debating society, rimed after the Lieutenant Landabura, an officer of the ri)al Guard, and who was shot by his owu men fur re- Csaig to : join in the mutiny of the 7th July. The Hall in qs - stion is capable of bolding 4,000 persons. Beyond the I ail e de los lispiteros, and between it and the steeple of lieu Cruz, is wren the I'uerta del Sol, the lounging-place flr all the idlest of Madrid, one side of which is formed by :he post-office; and there is a fountain in the centre, but shkh is not seep in the picture, in,couraqueuce of the in tetrating buildings. This place is memorable as being chit in which a large portion of the massacre of t;* 2:1 of May, 1908, took place. Beyond this is the I:ail e de Alcala, the fittest street in Madrid, in which Eta:lathe new Custom-house ; and adjoining are the Royal Academies of Fine Arts and of Natural History. On the left of the Alcala, looking towards the Puerta, is seen die Plaza tie his Twos, which is a very extensive circular bui4Ung. This Ball-fighting Coliseum attracts persons of al yaks aid ages, of bolt sexes, during the summer and eveu the must sensitive female considers it a crime worthy of confession and absolution not to see at least half a dozen of these disgusting exhibitions in the ?Alm of the year. Beyond the Puerto de Alcala, which is the must beautiful gate in Madrid, is seen the Iluen Retire, which was the favourite residence of the Kings of Spain of the Austrian dynasty. During the French career ha the city this palace was used as a prison, and its beau -141111 feuntains •and gardens were broken down and de rt°Yed, but which have hem restored by Ferdinand. Tu (his palace and gardens the King and Royal Family faquently go to recreate after dinner. By-the-by, Perth :laud dints at one o'clock—what a Goth ! 'There are gene rally six or eight carriages, drawn by six mules each, and a lint o f m ili tary accompany them. To the left of the .;:cola, entering thecity, is the Passed del I'rado, long ce 4rattd in the novels and other compositions of Spain. It ' ., m=ists of a broad road, talk (I the Salon, for carriage?, and an alley on each side for pedestrians, and is the Hyde. latk of Madrid. Having gone through the most important objects pre tented to the view, it is necesNary to add, on the authority of Mr. Burford, that the many vicissitudes which Madrid has experienced during the lsst tw e nty years have caused great revoluto ns i n tlic manners and dress of the people, atud have been fatal to the improvement of the city. In our humble opinion, while admitting the disadvantage alluded there is a still greater cause, viz.—the metal and politi cal degradation of the Spanish people. In vain tray you look for the gardens and villas wl!iell adorn the environs of ""ery principal town and city iii England: their total ab sence speaks " tomes," and the barrenness of the country 'uarantee of the debasement that pervades all classes of this once dignified and noble pcople. The soil is as Lanett as their will& The houses in the principal streets are generally three stories high, with separate balconies to each window; are cemented and coloured in distemper, in all the hues of the rainbow, which produces, in tonjunc tion with the coloured blinds suspended generally over them, a very pleasing effect. Mr. R. Burford, on his arrival at Madrid, was &titan' as to the point from which he should take his view, and was strongly prepossessed in favour of the Puerta de Alcala, as comprehending the finest street in the city. On consi deration, however, he found that if he did 60, though it would make a beautiful picture by admitting the intro duction of all the variety of costume, still that he should be compelled to sacrifice a large portion of the city, and, in consequence, he took the determination of relinquishing what would have saved much time and trouble, for the more difficult, but praiseworthy object, of general fidelity. The exteriors of the public buildings are singularly inau spicious for the display of the pencil, the general charac ter of the domes and spires not much exceeding in point of architectural beauty those of the British Museum. It is unfortunate that neither of the beautiful bridges that adorn the city are visible from Santa Crux, and therefore arc lust to the inquiring eye of the visitor. If this is not the most pleasing Panorama we have seen by these Gentlemen, the fault is not in the execution of it, but in the subject. The lights and shades are beautifully contrasted ; and while we give this general praise, as an example in confirmation of our opinion, we beg to select one specimen, which is the perfection of art—the front of the Church of Saint Thomaso, the door-ways and ar chitectural decorations above them being the most perfect delusion in their projection from the buildiug we ever saw. The streets are occupied with Catholic processions, mules, goats, and monks, bubbling over a pavement which, like many of the towns in Kent, has the amiable property of being laid with the sharp ends of the stones uppermost, but has at least in the picture a tolerable appearance. Upon the whole, the labour which the Messrs. Burford have bestowed on this picture will doubtless be amply compensated by the commendation it will receive ; while the interest that attaches from various causes to the city , of Madrid will draw crowded houses. LIVERPOOL MLRCIAL I.VTELLIGENCE. LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY, SEPT. 16. We had a good demand early in the week for British Plantation Sugar, and prices somewhat better; but the latter part the market has not been so brisk, Vie sales arc about 1,400 lihrls.,* at steady prices of last week. In East India or Mreign Sugar, nothing dune. In laws, about 200 puncheons have been sold at 263. Gd. a 263.91 for Trinidad, and 3411. per cwCror St. Vincent's. In Rum, we have had good demand by the dealer*, and no a 400 puncheons have been sold at Id. a 2d. per gallon higher than last week. Good Jamaica bane brought 4s. a 4s. Id. In Coffee, about 200 casks have been sold, chiefly Jamaica, at an advasice of about 2s. per cwt. on fine qualities, and fur other descriptions at steady prices. A small lot of Pimento has been sold, at 104. per lb. In Ashes prices arc still improving, 300 barrels .Montreal pot sold at 235. 6d. a 245. Gd. for old, and 255. a 26a. 6d. for new ; 200 barrels Pearl at 245. 3d. a 235. fol. old, and 265. 63. a 275. for new ; a small lot of United States Pearl has been sold at 275. 6d. per cwt. Dyewoods are steady ; the sales are, 50 tons Cam peachy Logwuod, at 71. a 71. ss. ; 25 tons Honduras, at 51. Iss. a 6/. 155 ; 40 tons of Cuba rustic, at 8/. 10s. all/. 12s. fid., and 10 tons Spanish, at 3/. 13s. ; 65 tons solid Nicaragua Wood, at 10/. a 211.; 20 tons small, at Cl. ss. ; 40 tons Barraod at 7 gs. and 25 tons Camwood, at 13/. per ton. Tar is steady, and Turpentine improving ; 1100 barrels have been sold at 9s. 9d. a 10s. Gd., and 200 barrels inferior, at 7s. 9d. per cwt.; 400 barrels American Ta r sold at 174. a 13s. ; 300 barrels Stockholm at 155., and 100 barrels Archangel, at 15s. 3d. per barrel. In Shumac, 800 bags Sicily have been sold at IN. Gd. a Ils., ard 300 bags Verona, at 7s. Gd. a 11.. per cat. In Hides very little done ; only 600 Cape Dry, at 51d. pa lb. Indigo, about :Al elicits East India, sold at ss. a 6s. 3d. per lb. and 10 Serena Goatimals at similar prices. In Rice, only 70 begs East India, at 21s. per C7ll. In Cotton we have had a good demand, notwithstanding the lieavy import, and prices are in some descriptions about Att. higher, principally American. About 1000 bags American halt been bought on speculation and 500 for exportation, including which, the stales are 4100 bags, Upland Georgia, at 6.1. a 74d. ; 1600 Orleans. at Gad. a 9d.; 2700 Alabama, at Gd. a Gjd. ; 300 sea Island, at lid. a 18d. 160 stained Sea Island, at lii. a 7d. • 650 Pernambuco, at 10f d . a Ild.; 600 Slat anhaina, at toad . :O.; 290 Bahia, at Uri u 9;d. ; 30 Para. at ltld. ; 230 Dernemra, at tkl. a M.; 1250 Egyptian, at lid. a ahl.; 70 West India, at 7d. a 7,1 d.; It/ Carthagena, at 5/d. a 64d. ; 2aud 300 Surat, at sd. a 3.1 d. ; being a total of about 12,400 bags. linpotted this week, 23.324 bags. PORTSMOU7W, SEPTE,IBEIt IG. The Jasper, 10, Ca; t. Blackwood, sailed this morning, with 15 tons of silver and copper, for the use of the Com missariat departments at Bermuda, Halifax, and New foundland. She will proceed from St. John's to the Mediterranean. On Monday last the Vittoria transport, Lieut. Grigg, agent, arrived from Quebec, with defective Government stores and discharged soldiers, together with some returned settlers, whose illness and poverty prevented their remain ing in that country. At the sailing of the Vittoria 8,400 settlers, including children, had arrived out from Scotland and Ireland this season, and about ',ono more were ex pected. These adventurers, on landing, are immediately passed on to the Northern shores of the lakes Erie and On tario, and located on the banks of the streams running into these lakes. The harvest in Canada had not been began, but this season promised an abundant crop of wheat, the whole of which would be em haiku a for this country, as the growers can supply themselves with American flour, for their own consumption. There had been only four or five new ships built at Quebec this year. It had been deter , mined not to build another vessel of the dimensions of the ; Columbus or Renfrew. Lord Dalhousie, Governor-Gene ral of the Canadas, had gone to Halifax, to arrange with Sir James Kempt, the Governor of Nova Scotia, and Ame rican Commissioners, on some questions respecting the back line of boundary between the two countries. The Africa, Capt. Skelton, for the Cape of Good Ilope and Calcutta, arrived this morning to embark passenms. Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Codrington is appointed Com mander-in-Chief in the 111editerrancan, in the room of Sir Harry Neale, wh.;se term of service expires in December next. Lieut. John Hall (b) is appointed to the Camelion ; Lieut. F. A. Lewis to the Galatea ; Lieut. H. G. Colpoys , to the Melville. This day sailed the Vigilant, Lieut. Meredith, for Ply mouth, and the Starling, Lieut. Stuart, for Jersey. At Spitheatl—Galatea only. In the harbour—Victory, Mel ville, Spartiate, Pyramus, Pelican, Philotnel, Clinker. The Bulwark, 74 (a ship of the best qualities), is break ing up at this dock-yard, being deemed rotten. The new cutters Cracker, Dwarf, and Asp, lately built for the pro tection of the fisheries near Guernsey, are ordered to be paid off, and converted into pitch vessels, for the dock yard, they not bein4 con , ,idereil safe sea -boats. CHEAP TRAVELLING.—EFFECTS OF OPrOSITION EY STEAM —Persons, we understand, may now go from Bristol to Cork fur the small sum of one sitilling and sixpence! A few years since, the passage was three guineas. —,Ply mouth Herald. _ The rain, which has so opportunely fallen at Doncaster, has put the race-course into most excellent order. Th e 1 applications for lodgings are numerous, and there is no ' doubt of the approaching meeting being quite as fashion. able and well attended as the previous one. The horses I ' have begun to arrive. Biers, the informer, has, fluting the past week, been lay ing uo less than eighteen informations against the coach proprietors of Cheltenham. This person's trip to Clots. cesiershire appears to be a pretty good speculation, as con victions upon his informations appear to have taken place to the amount of 1 to/., half of which goes to the informer. lie is now, we understand, in the neighbourhood of 'Bristol. Ft ne.—Friday night, about six o'clock, a tire broke out in one of the new premises situa►ed in Waterloo-road, nearly opposite to the Royal Infirmary for Children. Th e fiery element blazed forth with the most destructive fury from the windows of the second floor, and although the engines were on the spot, and played on the burning materials the fire communicated to the roof of the dwelling, which fell in with a terrific crash. No further damage, however, was done, ouing to the activi'y of the firemen. THE BRITISH 'REM DIXIVIR TO LORD IrIIARNCLIFFE, AT SHEFFIELD. On Thursday last, a public dinner was given to Lord Wham cliff% by many of the respectidif:. Inhabitant, of Sheffield, for the purpose of testifying their grititude for his L or d s hi p ' s serv i ces i n his late character of representative for the county. The dinner was given at the Music Hall, and a hundred and seventy-four gentlemen sat down at five o'clock, men, whet applied for tickets being un able to obtain them, from the Impossibility of accommodating a greater number. The President was Wm. 1 ounge, M.D., and the 'erice.Preeiden is Henry 31 oorhotote, Ewt., Thome* Newbould, Dot., and Bartlanlemew flounalield, E. Lord Wharneliffe sat on the President's right hand, and the lion. John Stuart Wortley, M.P. on his left. There were alma present Hugh Perker. Emu, the Rev. Mr. Alderson, the Rev. Henry Pearson. Millington, Emp, Henry Walker, Esq., Copt. B'ortley, James Solari Wortley, leeq., Staniforth Beckett, Ell.. .lames Jlontgomery, Esq., Wm. San. solo, Esq., Dr. Knight, &c. Attu the cloth was drawn, the President gave " Our moat gra cious Sovereign"—three times three. Song—fetid Faye the King. " Our Glorious Constitution ; founded by Brinell wisdom, pro. tected by British laws, and supported by British valour, may it be preserved unitroisired to the latest posterity !" The CHAIRMAN then one anti said—. Geotlemen, this is the third time I have been called upon to take the chair at dinners given in compliment to our Nobie visite, on my right hand. lVhen Mr. Wortley brat o ff ered himself as a candl&te to represent this county in Parliament, he came forward as a private country gentle. man. The freeholders, to many of whom he was unknown even by name, struck with his manly independence, came forward volun tarily, and offered him their support. Upon what ground he stood when he first offered himself as a representative for the county, many gentlemen here present can hear testimony. At that time, for reasons which it is not, necessary now teagaplain,- he was not elected representative for she smutty, but lie then muted the hearts of the freeholders, and those of the town and neighbourhood of Sheffield came forward, and gave guktic, testimony of their respect, by a dinner more smoicrousfy attended than any furrow one on such an occifsion. When the next opportunity offered for an election, Mr. Wortley had gained so much on the hearts of the people by his conduct in Parliament, that he was elected without opposition, and then stood the free representative of a free people. The sown of Sheffield then came forward a second time to compliment the new Alember, and I had the honour of presiding at that meeting, as at time previous meeting, and at the present one. How Mr. Wortley ha; acquit ted himself in the House of Commons, as the Representative of the county of York, let this town, let the country at l a rge, let th e whole kingdom bear witness. Possessed by nature of physical strength, as well as vigour and activity of mind—owes &ma in rooporerano— he was enabled to achieve what few men in the kingdom could pos sibly accomplish. It is not talents alone which are required in a Representative of HIM county, 'but a particular skill in the applies. don of those talents, a tact (if I may so say) for business, which enables a man to call forth his-whole powers into action, and to menage the multitudinous affairs of so extensive a county. (Cheers.) Mary gentlemen may most honourably and conscien- ' tiously perform their duties in Parliament as Representatives of a small town or borough. The immediate call of their constituents may not demand from them any extra exertion probably during a whole Session of Parliament. But the Member for the county of York, the Representative of 1,2011,000 individuals. and of the agri. cultural and commercial interests of that immense district, must devote his almost every moment to the tads ; lie must labour for you by day, and watch over your interests by night. If, genre. men, a civic crown was in ancient times allotted to him who saved_ the life of one Roman citizen, what is due to the man who Itsm watched over the dearest rights of his country through two long Sessions of Parliament ? For the services which lie has rendered to the county, and to the commercial part of it in particular, with. which we are more immediately connected, let him receive the well. merited reward. Give him your thanks, give him your hearts, and let his name be repeated by every Yorkshire freeholder with joy and gratitude. Every man of every party may join in paying theta debt of obligation to Lord Wharneliffe, who has this till bean bread with you, and who will es centeety labour for your intense 1, so far as lsconsistent with his changed situation, as he did when he was your immediate Representative, as he did whilst he bore the name of Wortley. I will not, gentlemen, detain long from driak. ing the health of "Lord Wharncliffe—may he long enjoy honours which our gracious Sovereign, the fountain of honourV been pleased to confer upon him.' The west was received with enthusiastic cheers. Lord WU A !INC LIFIE rose, and was received with repeated chering. He spoke es follows :—Gentlemen, my worthy friend, the President, has very truly told you, that fourteen years ago, in this place, on brat offering myself to the county, and after an us. successful effort to he returned, I was greeted by one of the most respectable assemblies ever met for such a purpose in the town of' Sheffield. It is nay pride to say, that, those fourteen yeari having elapsed, out of which I have endeavoured hambly to serve you eight, I now see around me many of those . persons who wore tken present. They cheered me at the Oeginning--they honour me in the end. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, the roodnon excuse made oat oc casions like that on which 1 now present illioself before you that the peewit who has to address you wants Words to *Press h is gas- ' titude. I, however, shall make no such *tease. Few, very few words will be sufficient to express my sentiments. 'I have a heart* feel, anti from that heart I thank you most sincerely. But, gentlemen, there are circumstances which attended the late elec tion, there are eitennistabees Width ittenthg my elevation . * the peerage which toy Sovereign was pleased to bestow upon me, that I cannot upon this occasion pass over. I feel, gentlemen, that if !have not received that honour prOperly, youvediabosoured by it; I was your representative when 1 received it, and if any ha nour was conferred upon me by it, to you I owe it,sodlo you I re turn nay thanks. But, gentlemen, if ober/ are penman is this county, who, quaking and trembling at the very idea of pride dia. cussion, parr trying to defame the character of an indlsitheal sneers and newspaper paragraphs, and who, when ao opportunity lo given to speak out openly and manfully, prefer drowning thee** of the accused party by clamour and noise. if those persons would measure the opinions and conduct of their representative by their own standard, I say that with them I have nothing to com. otion ; I abhor their praise, and, as but their censure, I rather link that when I obtain it lam in the right way If there are such persons who wish tot a representative to reflect their opinions, they were right to try to reduce me in the opinion of my countrymen. I could not so perform that duty : the trust was delivered into my hands for tar 'letter and nobler objects, and I,should be ashamed to have so degraded it as to make it senceuch a purpose. I am not now plug to enter 011 any political subject; I know full well that there are present in this room men of all political opinions. I am bumble enough to think that I may have been wrung in my opinions, sod I only claim credit for their sin. er:ty. But neither here nor else. where will I ever submit to have it said, that on any one occasion of my life, in any one word I ever said, befure the county assem bled, befiare the country any where, or in my place in the House of Commons, I ever deceived this county. 'rose it is, I differ with many of those persons who originally supported me on one great question; but I must use my own untivrataeding, and if, after the best consideration I was Able to give to a question, I thought it pmper to differ front them, they have no right to censure me. But I am told there was twine understanding that I was not to sup part a particular question—l might HA well name it—the Catholic Claim. Ido not now say that I was right on that 1120411211, and I am willing to suppose, for the sake of argument, that I was wrong in my judgment ou that subject. But I call upon the whole county to look back to those circumstances, and 1 will state them to you now, and will then put it to you whether any man could by passibility be deceived by my condoct. In the year 11112, the very same year in which !fire stood for the county, you all remember a-motion I made in the House of Commons for the formation of a ministry ; and en that occasion I declared that in my opinion the time w a s come when the guest:on of conceit. 'OOll to the Catlndies roust be taken into consideration. So the matter remained—l was successful. Then came the general elec tion; that time 1 was asked. its a particular part of the county, my opinion on the subject of the Catholic Maims. The answer I gave was this—that iu toy opinion the time was cum to take the question into consideration, bat at the same time, if 1 at last ghoul', determine to concede their claims to the Catholics, it should be taking care that the Protistaite establishment should not by that means he endangered. I then went to Parliament, not as a member for this county, and not therefore responsible to nny individitni in it, except as our of the general public of the country. In the year telit a Dill was brought into Parliament by Mr. Canning, to gay, the Catholics admission into Parliament.— Gentlemen, l supported that Bill, in common with many of your best and oldest friends; I well recollect that 3G. Wilberforce, your former member. stated on that occasion, that in his opinion the time was come when the claims of the Catholics must be grant. ed. On another occasion, huedve the next electinu, when the Bill of Mr. Grattan was brought in, I took the same line. In the year 11118 I stood for the county; tny feelingsmi this subject, having voted over and over again upon it in Parnament, must then have been known. How, then, could any freeholder have been deceived as m m perfectly open to any treeholerer "ini6 rtos; P cannotit n vote seas for you, cm account of your opinion on this subject." But I say that no man said so. It then I voted for the Catholic Question, no man could have a right to find fault with ine.—(Cheers.)—To my utter astonishment I have heard it said I deceived great numbers of people. If I had done so, I must have altered toy opinion to obtain their votes.— Gentlemen, you hare known tile long and Intimately ; it is said justly, that a 111211 is hest known by what his valet says 01 him ; you, Gentlemen, have seen every action of act my life, you know whe. tler to my opinion from any consideration. )tut l am iam l a ik laa ely to accused ase tra d co a n fha ry ving metal, in a speech on Sir Francis Burdett's Catholic Bill, that the opinion of the peaiple of this county was more f a v o urable to the Catholic; than it had been. Supposing that I was wrong in this statement, I may have been deceived, I may have thought that 1 bad seen cer. tarn symptoms in this county to justify the opinion which I gave. B u t I must, nu the other hem! , say to those gm tlettivi who accede me, that it was their bounden duty to call upon the county to pronounce an opinion upon the subject, or at least to have taken some measure to convince me that I was wrong. But there were,' tt ink. only three or four petitloos against the Catholic claims from tie West Itidirg of Yorkshire: on,e of which was front the Cozporetion of Leeds, and another from Hali fax but env thing like an expression of popular or general opinion on the subject was never given, and chore persons who now el claim lutanist me never, until the approaei of the general election, came forwent jowly public manlier to deny the truth of what I had "'wafted. It may he uateale to grant the Catholic claims, but I contend here, and have contended before the face of the country. anal I am ready to meet the question wherever the persons who have accused me deem proper, that I have never deceived any mu on this subject. It has been further said that the peerage was bestowed tiP6ll rile at the instance of Mr. Canning, and was a subtetfuge to avoid a contested eloction for this county. I have a high respe't for Mr. Canning ; I look up to hint as a man of powerful abilities and the kindest heart, and I am proud to think that I ant in habits of friendship with him. Hut, Hentlemen, I an too prod to have received a favour from the hands of Mr. Canning. It has often been said to me, not by moons of my own family, or particu larly interested in nee.—" Voh are in a situation to ask a peerage; why do you not do it ?" My answer haS always been—s‘ I feel my self& greater man as a representative of the county td . York than I should an a peer, and. besiffes, I never will ask a favour of any Minister." ( Loud cheers.) tientlemen, I never lid ask h. The King, In the kindest winner, in a marenCr which will never be forgot either by roe or my family to the last hotlr of our lives, offe.ed it to me. He told me that he (lit! not offer it to me at the instance (...; his 31inisters, that there were parts or my concoct In Parliament vtiucli he did tun approve. thßt there were subject. on which he differed from me, but he added that toy cra hdcter and station in life were . . such that lie thought me a proper individual to reeelvO a peerage. A title so offered could not be r.:fitsed. A peerage is not a thing to be slighted, and I do me see why I should be debarred from (Kat station more than any other man. I would never do base action to obtain it; but having been given to me, I will prize it as I ought. But, foarooth, I took it, in Order to avoid a con tested eke lion I Bentknien, I know *hat a contested election k, thOugli I hese never been engaged in one as a principal ; I know th.. honors of it, and to what it leads; and if the seat for the county of York could only have been kept by me at the enormous expense at which it would appear it in to be kept—an expense which would ruin any span of moderate fortune—then I sly I would not Nee retsina, the seat for the county. But gentlemen ran very much m!staken if they think I have feared a contetted election. I. should have been pre. sent lh the Castle Yard at York, I should have defrayed the meagre expenses of the election, and have left it so the freeholders to say whom they would choose. (Clatters.) Gentlemen, I haie no doubt— I know it—l know to a certainty, that in ease of n contest I must have been at the head of the poll. Indeed. if it hall been oth.erwise, after the services_ of which all parties, with few exceptions, have. approved—if it had been necessary to defend, at the expense ro which other parties sbught to put one; a seat for this county, it would not have been worth having. If the result of gaining a seat is to make one dependent for life, God forbid that I should have it. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, the county must not be so treated : if the county wishes to have independent Menthers, it must endeavour to prevent this enormous exp.:nse. Otherwite, as I lately read in a French paper, describing the lastelection, the county might as well be put up by auction. I have herd, on good authority, that the expense of the last election. withont a contest, to the four Candi. dates, will amount to 150.0001. ; and I leave it to you to judge whether any person not of the very lamest property could sand a contest. But, gentlemen, you (night not to allow yourselves to be overborne by weight of pone; and I hope the time will come when this system shall be put an end to. Gentlemen, I should have brought the matter freely to issue ; and I do assure you that nothing would have given me greater pleasure than to Wind up I in the Castle-yard before my accusers, and hold them up to shame before the county. I cannot have the least doubt as to the issue.— , Gentlemen, I have now troubled you long as to myself, and it is , time I should recur to the circumstances of this evening. I have told you that from my heart I feel all your kindness. I need not ' add, I hope, that if at any after time I can serve the county of York, my services shall be theirs. I hope, in the situation in whit!' my Sovereign has placed me, 1 shall not forget that I have been the representative of a great body df the people. There are remiss who object to individuals who are likely to batome Members of the House of Peers, being elected Members of the House of Commons. I have no such objection. It teaches the members of noble taints lies their duties to the people. 1 have , erred as Member for a borough and for a populous county ; I hope, in my place in the House of Lords. whilst I protect the prerogatives of the Crown, I shall Acallect that dime prerogative are given for the benefit of the people, and should ever tend to their maintenaoce. (His Lordship sat down satidst the loudest cheering.) The Citillgatert then gave the health of a Nobleman, whose health was never drunk in that town without enthusiasm. He be lieved the King had not a hotter subject, no: the King's subjects a better friend, than " gad Fitswillisit." The CHAIRMAN then pee " The four Representatives of the county of York." Of Lord-Mikan; he said, he should only ob serve that for nearly twenty years they had known hint well ; and that be had never shrunk hibm defending his opinions, unworried by interest and unawed by clamour. As to the three new Members, however well qualified they might be thought by those who had elected them, they stood in a very prominent point of view, and the freeholders would not fail to compare their conduct with that of i the Repeweentatives who had gone betorc them. The representation off the manse of Ytak was no sinecure; let them look to the names of tiavile and Wilberforce, Harewood and Whartieliffe. He should milt Opus* I& hope that the new Members would so perfonn their parts in the chapel IX St. Steph e n ' s as to deserve to he recorded by the title of benefamon, of their country. (I heers.) The Chairman, after a very few prefatory remarks, gave die health of " The Hon. t Johp &mart Worley." The Hon. 11 _r. ..•ORTI.RY rose, and Has revived with loud eheertag. He conle.sed that to say any thing which could corre spond with the way in which the worthy Chairman had introduced t health. we with the kind manner in which the company had re ceited it, was tar beyond his power. It would, indeed, be easy for him simply 10 return his cordial thanks for the honour they had confmrtyl upon him, of which he was most deeply sensible; aid fie mlglCTiltewin repeat that which he had after, said to mane of the gentlemen now around him on other occasions, that he felt a Hue and stediest interest in the welfare of this place. But lie should scarcely feel that in saying this be had discharged the debt of obligation he owed to them, and be must therefore trespass on their indulgence for a few moments. In proceeding, however, he encountered a difficulty at the outset—for on such an occasion he should naturally turn his attention to the person to whom this night was dedicated. and take a plemure in expatiating on the merits which thus received their suffrage. This subject would be grateful both to him and to themaelvea . : but he felt that on this occasion it must be otherwise, as he was too nearly and in. timately connected with the individual whom they were met to ho nour, 01 expatiate on that subject. It did not become hint to say much of the merits of the individual in question, but he rejoiced to see that his services. whatever they were, had n t been pertnrmed within a thankless circle. He felt, however, that there was one as surance which he ought new to refrain from givir g them, viz. that, having known the imilividisalto whom he was related must thorough. ly, he was certain that, during the whole of his public connexion with them, be had served them to the best of his power. and with an unmixed desire to promote the good of his country. 'film desire he had transmitted to himself (Mr. Wortley) in its full force. Hay. ing taken his relation firr his model and example, there was nothing which he bad received from biiis its which he so much prided him self as a sincere and hearty devotion to the interests of his country. To them, in particular, he had received a nearer and more int mediate connexion, and, he might say, a pawl al motive for wish ing to serve them. lie was not only their corntryman, but their neighbour; all his dearest associations belom.ed to this vicinity. He had not neglected to instruct himself with a view to serving his country.and he had learnt this, above all, that their servants should always manifest a firm and fearless conduct, ;,raided by an honest and independent mind. These were the principles he had imbibed in his education, and he had learnt from the example set before him to aspire, in some after time, to receive the name and character which his relation by their suffrage had acquired, of a loyal sub ject and an honest citizen. fie looked to the approbation of his fellow-citizens us the highest honour. For himself, he owed all the favour which they hod that evening manifested towards him to the merits of the individual with whom lie was connected ; hut he did look forward to the time when he should have an opportunity of showing them that the principles he had profe.sed were nut mere worths. . OIiTLEY gave the health of the Chairman. Dr. You woa ackuwledgcd the compliment in a short and neat speech. TheC x at a slaw next gave" The Magistrates of ihell'est Riding." H. PARKER, Esq. mar, and was received with long continued applause; he spoke ea fullows.—" Nee Chairman, Lord Wharnclifie hat been called upon so often in the course of this evening. that it is only reasonable he should be relieved from the obligation of acknow ledging this toast. In rising for that purpose, I ant aware that the task falls into far lent able hands. It is gratifying to me to see the manner in which the toast has been received by such an assemblage. In regard to the immediate object of this Meeting, I mac cordially unite, Sir. with you and thin company in congratu lating Lord M'harnediffe on the acquisition of his well-merited honours ; and I also congratulate thin company and the public, that, although they have lost his services as a reprenentative in the House of Commons, they will still retain them m a magistrate It is now, I think, seven-and-twenty years, or rather more, since I undertook the office of a magistrate in this place, and three or four and twenty of these years I have had the pleasure of meting with Lord IVhamclifre. It is impossible that I Omuta have acted with him for so long a period, and be ignorant of the (pall- Ideation's he possesses in an eminent degree to till the situa•ion in which be has always been placed by the magistrates of the West Riding at their sessions. The same discriminating judgment, the same moderation, yet firmness idmind anti liberulitynfsentimmt.dis tingeish hint on the Bench, for which he lie has been in remarkable in the Senate. I did nut rise for the purpose of panegvrining the Noble Lord, and I must refrain frosts eulogizing him in his pre sence ; but I cannot refrain from remarking how gratifying it is to see all parties unite in doing honour to the Noble lewd, and in acknowledging the great services he has rendered to this county and to the kingdom at large. lln the name of the .Magistrates of the West Riding, I beg leave to drink the health of the company. Lord WITARNe•LITTE then mite and .aid—Gentlemee, the most difficult part I have this evening to discharge is that of break ing up this society py taking my leave, hut you all know that I have some dintanee to go, and I must therefore bid you farewell. But, Gentlemen, I cannot go without again thank ing you most cordially for the honour you havd done me, fer the grateful manner in which you have expressed yourselves to me ; and I satire you that, when I look bark upon my public life an a me:liner for this county, there in nothing given me greater pleasure than to reflect, that within one hour of receiving the notification of 11i3 Maienty's graci se ot r l in p g ie t a h t l t s te cn t; n r t , y ilser n eu pt n t o h w e i n on act O i ry ly our Reprenentative, but there ate "PecoothrelainteEit'iewirtnL:fraheccuntsptiniteutdrayti gentleman to w hich I shall pay atten t i o n. I ant sure that we who do act in the tuagiateacy should he most up., grateful if we did net devote ma hcaria tope performance of lee d ut i es; for 1 will say there is no town in England so grateful for the services rendered to it as the town of Sheffield. I ate here My worthy friend who has told you that for tie - Nina-twenty year* sra have acted together. and I alto see other friends %round me who hare comperated *ill) us; and they sill bear me old in saying, that no one thing has ever occurred among us to cause &sunk* and that we have met with the most ready attention to ever, odd we have issued. I than carry with me home, Gentlemen. Ifni proud satisfaction, that yod at least have .stamped 1141-wlcro with the character of usefulness to the country, and I now bld yoat Pt. rewell. His Lordship then retired amidst enthitsisioic cheering, woe. funded by his sous, the Chairman, and a considerable number of WO eumpaby. erisima MANCIIEST ....... _ER, Srr r. IG. We have great satisfaction in being; able to say that trade Continues to improve, though s bsi"y. We wish we codld add thtt the condition of the working clauses im proves ; but the Fact the there are more applicants for work upon ie public roads that can he eiriplond shows that the wages of the weavers and others in the cotton manu facture are still wretchedly loin. J)ysentery is alarmingly prevalent in the town, and has been very fatal amongst thok who live in (tarry cellars, and are unable to purchase medicindo, or are not aware of the importance of in early use of thew. The disease is the more fatal in its effects front the Weak and exhausted state to which the poor have been reilneed by the *ant of the necessary quantlty of food. The Rev. W. Johnsen, A. M. who, in all the distresses which have befallen the dense mass of population which surrininds kit:church, has them* the Most prompt arid active baiselsofehee, recommends in every occurrence of the disease an immediate application to the Infirmary, where the patient will be reeved with medicines, without any recommendation from a blast beit; required. In some instances where the ditease hat been fatal the dead:a-hese Worm/willed to retaliation, wad an inquest was held yesterday on the bodies of two persons whams deaths were attributed to this cause: The immediate omit* of death was, however, clearly enough dysentery; het * disease befalling persons so circurnsteiticed could hive been otherwise than fatal. The wonder is, not persons should die in such a residence, but that any should live. The commending officer of the Grenadier Guards thougbi• fit, recently, tri take possession of the upper part of a wide street, called Pentland-road, fur the purpose of holding his parade there. During its continuance, both the foot-way and the carriege-road were cropped, awl every passenger and vehicle turned back. 'II:Is conduct has been noticed by the local prelim in strqng terms ; and the result is, that the military chief !eft the foot-way free, contenting hims self with occupying the whole of the highway. A carrier, whose carts had been interrupted and obliged to go round, to his great loss and inconveafence, insisted upon their passing by the usual tho:cughfare; but his course way checked by the soldiers ; and, on asking the commanding officer by what authority he presumed to obstruct the pas-, sage of the peddlr streets, the reply was, that he had the perrelstion Of the boruughreeve and eonstables, and after wards, he said, of the surveyors of the highways. He was warned that they had no rightful power to grant any such permission, and that, if he persisted in using it. he would be rendered amenable to the law. He would not yeld, liMseVer, and it remains hoW to be seen what steps the inhabitants of this to*n will take to resent this conduct. We are happy to have it again in our power to continue those favourable representations of the state of trade which for some seeks past it has given us much pleasure to make. It is many months since people appeared to be in such good spirits on 'Change at they were on Tuesday last, and the feeling then prevalent has since been fully sup ported. Money to more plentiful, and confidence decidedly greeter than it was. For twist for shipping the inquiry continues brisk, and somewhat higher prices are detnanded ; goods also arc in moderately hilt request for some of the foSeign markets. One water-carrying concern to Hub, we understand, has forwarded not less than no tons a day, of twist and manufactured goods, for several weeks past; and on Saturday last, we believe, received upwards of a hundred. The demand fbe printing cloth is good ; and, we are informed, that power-loom calicoes, which. during the depression, fl:tohed no more than eight shillings and nine-pence, have actually been sold at Ins. Work alas is much more readily procured by the hand-weavers. and the number out of employ ; in Blackburn and the other chief seats of hand-loom weaving, is now very greatly di. minished ; indeed, though no advance has yet taken piece in the wages of this class of operatives, sonic of the mama. facturen speak of its being likely to be in their power to make a trifling addition to the rates they are paying, in the' course. of a week or two. There seems to be, in the minds of spine people, an apprehension that, when the autumn demand for the home trade has been supplied, and the shipments to the Continent are interrupted by the freezing of the Elbe, we shall again experience a considerable de pression. To a ctrtain extent this may he the case, and we feel it necessary to caution our townsmen against being too sanguine in their views of the early prospects of busi ness ; yet we have no dread of the trade of this district re-s lapsing into any thing like the state of suffering from whets it has just emerged ; awl we entertain considerable cowl deuce that the fears with which the approach of winter has been viewed will be greatly initigweil by there being a fair demand for the labour of those who are disposed ta be in dustrious. ALLEGED DEATH BY STARVATION. On Wednesday the town. and partleidarly the neighbontl.na of the New Cross, was thrown laid a painful state of excitation h• a report that a family living in a cellar in Thompson-street, New. ton-lane, had died Iron aliA43!ute want. This report, for the most part,that were cried about the stretts by theusnal originated lislr'pen in r,y l" n n etn i l li t4ers. The following is a copy, ve.,. batim el literaiint, of one of th roe •• Extraordinary death of William Hudson, aged 28, and 3lary Hudson, his sister, aged 24, by starvation, in a cellar under 66, Thompson -street, 31am:tinter. on Wednesday, Sept. 13th, 182ri. "This morning, about nine o'clock, the inhabitants of Thompson , street were in a state of agitation, on learning that three individual.. named Hudson, was in a very dangerous state, especially when it was understood that they was in a state of starvation, and absolutely dieing far want. Some humane persons immediately brought m some refreshments, and on preaentii,g some to the young woman, site refused partaking af it saying that she hoped she should bare plenty in the next world, and almo.t immediately expired. In the other cellar was her two brothers, riontas and William. %Valiant' was in bed and his brother sitting in a ciusir by the bre-side. William soon afterwards expired, and at eleven o'clock this morn.. ing, Thomas was scarcely alive, and whet we saw him he rescue.' a moat frightful appearance, and said lie thought that if he could have nourishments he should yet recover. From what could be col lected on the spot, it is supposed by the neighbours, that the shove individuals have actually perished fur want of food. 'rite cellar is situated about - so yards out of Newhm-lane. . " We are informed that there are at least ten persona in the same. wee', in a very dangermis state, mom of whom are in a state lora dering on starvation, particularly in a cellar under No. 63. " Further particulars will be published, should any material al. teration take place, but the charitable of this town would be welt employed in visiting the afflicted in that neighbourhood." As soon as this distressing report reached our ears, we lost no time in repairing to the celitir in question. 'Fiwiropson-street we found to be one of theme unpaved etreets which we have so owl.' it Hutted to in the Gazette; the cellars under the numeroul houses i•l' it are let off, and eaeh of them is inhabited by families, consisting., at least, of six or eight persons, and the filth created in these con tined places is heaped up before the ll4Klfl. or dung into the deep ruts that mark the whole line of the str.'et, and form puddies of a' most offensive anti unwholesome nature. Ort deseetitling the steps • of the cellar, which was painted out to Of as containing the dead bodies of the persons alluded to in the hand-bill, the efflavium that , issued from the door was extremely ollensive, and it cost us an ef fort to enter into this uhodeuf wretchedness. On a bed in tawayont cellar, in which its inhabitants take their meals, (when their ast gm. them.) lay the dead bodies of a brother and a slater. in the tock, cellar were three beds, two of them closely jammed togetheVahe I one containing a sick old woman, and the other a young man, also i sick. 'the lied in which lay the young man, and the one thu %MI unoccupied, were in close ooataot wall the outward wall. what, front its appearance, was literally aaturati d with the damps of the earth. The cilia vium arising front the dead boilim, added to the. breath of the sick one-, was not endurable, and tte were oohed or. retire to the ceilar steps, and these make our inquiries. It appears that two brothers and a sister —Edward Hudson, aged 213, Thuloan Hudson.. 23, and Miry Hudson, 22, all native: of Ireland, went, some time ago, into Liocelashire, tor the purpose of soliciting employment from the farmers to get in their harvest, bat I not calculating upon the forward sate of toe crops, they were too gthst•floteniteelrl, of with when Crti i .. I late, and, pennyless, and &flown naked, they had to teases ea 1 foot their weary journey back pain— sleeping sit banis aid out.., ihouse , ' and aubsisting on the casual dimity of people ulmost as destitute as themselves. Worn out by hunger isal wreodavo. li p le o ss or , ol linl wo t i h m e in ag n u a e sme t d hey 3i : r a y u their auto, a . , had fornnrly lodged, and who resided in the cellar we have dc. '1 scribed, along with her daughter and her gra n d -d aughter, Almost immetaately after their arrival., they were aeized with il ia - spastic disease called the dysentery fevers-the malignancy of Which was greatly heightene I by the want of cleanliness, froth air s , p ro p er nouris hment, and attendance, &cold dioinan being &tab.. t r . do much herselt, and the earnings of her daughter Wild her grams. daughter not being more than six thilliags an d tntotoc, per. week. out of which sios persons were to subsist, find fuel. and par. • WU ten'. Fur foart,en days .:,:v klitotioo to :he ovci.,...is w.; I