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THE RADICALS. Janft trod the Bean Stalk should be proseettted. a dieu/ Jask cut the bean stalk off at the root. All the Dentists are Richest Reformers, and Oak, he punished accordingly. Doctor Lust, in Ss core for the tooth-ache. says, “ I pulls them out It the roots." All the old women of Covent-garden Market -11 the Green-grocers are in a state of alarm. They lie all Radicals, as dealers in roots. All the Branch Societies throughout the country Ire a ccessories to the crime of Radicalism, as indu ,ectly connected with and protecting the root. ...; _ The LORD CHANCELLOR has a sort of Radical irii. He never rests in his researches until be rti to the very root or the cause. Sir RICHARD PHILLIPS, and all the other die pies of Rirsos. ale Radicals. They live on roots. In Abort, the whole country is Radical, from end to end, for without roots it would be one dreary waste, without tree. shrub, or Hower, or even a blade of grass. The men and women would be sll bah/. for without roots there would be 110 hair un their heads, and wigs would be the universal order of the day. PROCLANIATION EXTRA. By ilwir Eseelleucies Myself and the other Sovereigns or ----. Whereas a certain dangerous, pestilential, and bigloly othiagiotia malady, called Radicalises, prevails over the whole of these islands; and whereas our trusty and beloved 1)coors, profoundly skilled in the diseases of the human iwe, with all tilde moral and menial effects, have pro ',oared the great and imminent danger is be apprehended Gum the spread of said pestilential malady ; and whereas the list symptoms of the same is the lunging fur An nual Parliaments, Universal Suffrage, and Election by I:allot. Now 1, ntyrelf, and the other Sovereigns, have ordained, and du ordain, that all persons so longing, 34.1 by writing, signs, or tokens, expressing themselves to that effect, shall be forthwith banished the realm as in fected rnons whose presence cannot be tolerated at borne soohout endangering the very existence of the country; and aril all persons who shall question the infallibility or peofrctioon of the present order of things, by maintaining that a pore representation is better than a corrupt oar, shall he considered as labouring under a predisposition to this 1301 e pestilential malady of Radicalism, and treated accord otttly. Given at our Court at Rotten-row, this 2Sth of Decem ber, ISt ft. [Here follow the Signatareal ROYAL VIBURG 7'HEATRIE. This theatre was last night visited by one of the must crowded audiences that it has to boast of; hundreds were obligee to retrace their steps from it hence they came without the possibility of ac re". Mote persons assembled by half-pest two o'clock. Mr. BOOTII made his appearance in the c:iiirJcier of Richard the Third ; it is impassible to give a critique, from the continued uproar; lie was very well received. Mr. T. P. COWL E, the pizige manager, atepprd forward, and though on 14.1 favourite, the audience could nut be pacified without the re-appearance of Mr. Booth, alio at lei. tli jaftrr sufficient time allowed to recover him s,lt) unie forward amidst an uproar, waving of hats, &c. that would have made a lonise less firmly knit shake; speaking theatrically, we consider ih s t lie has inside a hit for the proprietors of the C.,huog Theatre. He is engaged far twelve nights uny. Mr. and Mrs. BECHER passed throngh Clan:net on Tuesday evening, on their way to his seat in the I county of Cork. I u consequence of the death of the Earl of BOLIN tom. the Lord-Lieutenancy of Ayrshire, and a Green Ribbon, have become vacaot ; the former, it is said, is to be conferred un the Earl of CASSILIs, and Ilse latter on the Earl of FIFE. Two transports are arrived at Bristol, for the col:v:lance of the settlers to the Cape of Good floor. Among the various inducements which the New ': stein holds out to A:trellis:e'er* in the present .411ty. may be enumerated the following :—A Scbeuse rich Ca 4 te3l Wiser; a mall number of Tickets; Fuse Prizes uI'2U,o(KII.; she certaisty of Two Prises of 20,0001. midi. timvii for the Two first Prizes on the 12th January, when the I..otrry begins drawing. The number of eminent persons, natives or closely connected with Scotland, who have died within there twelve months, is rather extraordinary, and writ e r than we ever remember within the same pr- Among these were the representatives of .eten of the most ancient and nobk families of this kingdom, viz, the Dukes of Hamilton, Buccleuch, :and Leimos ; the Earls of Errol and Eglinton ; the Coolness of Rothe'', and Lord Somerville; the Right lion. Robert Modes, Lord Chief Baron; Adam Rollatitt, Esq. of Gash ; Professor Mayfair, Pro lessor Rutherford, Principal 1-11111, Principal May fair, and Mr. Watt, the celebrated inventor of the great improvements upon steam, the steam..tii gine, &c. We stated that CORBETT had attempted a recon ciliation with Sir FICANCIs BURDSIT, and that his I.yerture had been repelled by the Hun. Baronet. l'oaasFF has since cosfessed this story to be true, and has declared that the condition of the teconci liation was to be, ‘, that Sir F. BURDSTT should Immediately, and out of his own purse, furnish the means of facilitating, as mum as occasion should "tier, the entraace of Mr. Hust and himself (Con 'OFT f) into the House of Commons ! ! !" We hear from Stirling that the Magistrates have employed a great number of the operative peer (who are at this time thrown out of employment) in widening die berth approaches to the towa, auit, Iv making s footpath on the Perth and Fife 70 THE EDITOR OA THE DRITISEI PRESS. ROTTEN BOROUGOS. Sta—ilse public attention iq now directed to the melt awes the Lilco.Swore are oboist to alum, in reveel In dor fratschising the Rororixha of Grainriossisil, Peorrs, and Came'ford, fur n gross nhn.e of the rb mine franchswi. It may be strairattle to give a concise arconsit of their nneiu. drampound was created al boron gh by Jolin of Elttoun, Earl of Cornwall. brother to Edward 111 , by rimier, dated ■t Chippenham, 96th October, 1332, in the 7th year of Ed ward 111 , who granted to his Bargesses of Grano/poet all the village of Gramm/pouf, sad the several Imola and mills therein deserilted, lo have • metclostits' guild, to be held before the Port or Ratliff% of the borough, at the rue. I . farm rent of In 114 4.1 King Hit-hard II by letters I patent, dated 6th June 1377, confirmed this charter; and Henry 7111., is the 7th year of his deign, 1516, after recit ing the two chatters above mitsitiotied, confirms the same, and the Corporation now hold this burou...A under the 1. 4 y meet of the above sent. It is at present governed by a Mayor. ellustets annually, right Magistrates. a Recorder, and Town Clerk; but when it was so incorporated, or the cue• 'dilation changed from a Purtreeve and Bailiff+, does not appear; it also dors 1111 i appear that the Imiroogh Geist Members to Parliament before the 6th of Edward WI , but since that period 51 has been regularly represented. The right of cies lion is 'mid tube in the Mayor, 3lagistr•tes, and Freemen, inhabitants paying scut and lot, bust the question has sieve, been determined by the House. This venal place for many years was under the patronage of the Edgrumbe family; bet the voters, it is said, very perfidiously lilt his family, and attached themselves to Lord St. Geimaiii's tatereat. . Cameßora is a very ancieot place, nod was crested ■ borough by Richard Earl of Cornwall, when King of the Romans, who by charter simile ibis a free be o gh, and granted several privileges, all of which were confirmed by his brother, Henry 111., in 1259, and afterwards by bluetit Mary, in the Br■l year of her reigo. It is governed by a Mayor and eight Burgesses, or Alder men. This borough don not appear to have sent Members to Parliament before the oth Edward VI , but has continued to do so ever since. The right of election is in the Mayor chief Burgesses, and Freemen of the borough. Thera how ever does not scent to he any direct resolution of the House in this respect. In November 1709, in a coolest before MC Committee, it was admitted ou both sides that the right of election was iu the Mayor, capital Burgesses, sod Freemen. The point then agitated was bribery and currapt practices. In 1592 Mr. Speaker appointed to move the Lord Keeper fur his order, either for the allowance of Sir G. Carew (who had petitioned spatial the return of Richard Leach, as being illegal), or fur a new writ for the <buice of another, at his, the Lord Keeper's pleasure. On the Silt March Mr. Speaker reported he had attended the Keeper, and that his Iword- ship's answer was, that the said return should stand. preanme, Sir, the Member for Montgomery tierce quotes this precedent. Penryn is an ancient town, held of the see of Exeter, the Bishop of which pee is Lord of the Borough, to wl the Corporation pay a quit for the lull of the fairs and markets. Thomas Breton, in the 30th Edward 1., exhibited his claim of this town being a free buraach,blit it does not seem ever le have been incorporated till the 18th James I. when that King grouted that it should be a free borough, and consist of a Mayor and 11 discreet Barg , whirl, should be called Aldermen, and that there should be 12 sillier Burgesses, who should be called the Common Council of the borough. This borough never sent Members to Parliament fill the Ist Qneen Mary. The right of elect is in the inhabitants paying scot ■ad It. By a charter Of KME James 11. the right sif election was vested in the magistracy only, lint they never acted ler that chat ter This borough was formerly close, nosier the patronage of the Erl i ccumbe family mid lAirel He Donstasiville. Yours, Sec. D. R. Lincoln's Iffir l delds, December 1819. TO THE EDITOR OF TIM BRITISH PRESS. SlR—Many pertains about to snake arrangements fur join ing the proposed settlement in South Africs, are uuat onl. ably desirous to obtain all possible information on points of general interest to them, as well as to their friends and the public, as connected with this nhket„ which air suggested is the annexed queries; and which, if yourself or some of your correspondents will answer, Of point out whess otturtrrs may be obtained, a public set vice will be-rendered, and great ebhgat tots conferred on, Yours, A CONSTANT READER. London, Oct. 10, 1819. What is the distance from Cape Town? Mord is the urarest sea-port, sod the distance therefrom to the site of the proposed settlement? Whether the co uutry generally is mountainous or level, clear meadow Sr pl ? naturally fertile or otherwise? Whether the soil is cliv or gravelly, stony or rocky What materials am buildings of the settlers are to he com posed of Whether the country affords lime sir Moue for ? What fuel dues the omit try afford? Whether the conutry admits of streams of fresh water being artificially diverted into channels, tool conveyed from place to place, fur domestic purposes; or how potable is to be ohtaiurd ? What mode or cultivation seems proper to be adopted; whether the pbough or spade husbandry? What articles would be proper to he still tried? Whether its the cottony, at sir near the se ttlement, h orse' , tows, sheep, or pigs, ran be bought, mid at what prices? What means of defence are to be use', as against comities, or wild beasts ; and what arms will it be requisite fur the settler to ? How people to be aCron.— • aie tlw ass ommostated with lodging I and fund, after thry :wrists iii the colony, until such lime as they can build and raise produce fur, and maintain them. selves? %Vliat money, sir value in property. ought a family, con sisting urn malt, his wife, and access children, to possess, at the tune of starting from England, its enable him to succeed, be fairly esiabliehed, and aupli rri them its the colony, sup posing thesis in apply the usual ge proportion of skull and industry? Wind personal necessaries, and of what descriptions, would be requisite to he taken front England, as household furniture, brdiling,rlothing,ise.; and what art the probable means of replacing the sanie, by purchase or otherwise, in the colony? What implements would br requisite for the purposes of cultivation? What implemental and tools for general porpoise., as stn, adzea, bill-hooks, planes, dahlia Is, pit-sowa, hand-saws, Ales, nail., screws, hinge:a, stock.luelte, padlocks, hammers, ice.? What stores, aria., and other ureessarief, will be furnished by Government to the settlers; and whether to be paid fur by the settler or the public ? What manage for pension' goods and Moen will be freely allowed to rach iisdividnal for the passage out ; and whether any additional tonnage can lie had, and at what prise of freight to be paid by those settlers who may desire such addition? . It is rusted in a York Ministerial Paper, " that I. wo troops of yeomanry cavalry, Lord FITZWIL. MANI'S tenants pliucipally. were called from their beels at midn•glas, on Windily, the 12th instant, and were ender alms at Wentoorth-liosse doting the whale at Monday. front an opitirsheission of she de sign,* of the ltadtcal and Union Society tiring Ili reeled opium that cinapsesiovas istaission." We have ourselves no itifurinsitioa tsw the subject ; hot, a. we (kb sot recollect to have mew on duck imellt ,genee its the Shalarlil Papers, we deal* its actor eesty-oothe agent • .as thlMOill WM, we be in Ye, awe moiety lanativalw male of that 'On Jaseluit Imo Wait Wh hive goott STATE OF THE COUNTRY. ['ROM " TUC LYON' . MILIRCVILY.I MEMOIRS OF JOHN 101111 f. SO. Autho► of $. Mies MOOR.' Ity Mils Lae., Author of ilas olferissiva o f Nu Finable* lianiffna.'i (From "!7b London Lamer, Goma* ") Miss henget has discharged an honourable deg. And she lies discharged it well. Merl very infernal to Tobin Owl these eulogists. if sot their holm. pliers, and the falsehoods of the tombstone are ton often enlarged in the volume. Titular whose bees attracted IN notice, obtain a brief but 'medial es cord on the marble, while the paste, twain-scent at their own being. adds • few years of obscure exist vice to the memory of departed--nothingness. But Tobin has merited a niche WOW itsilgr4phied temple. His life began only when he- died. Like u seed cast rote the earth, which, &raying, genii states. and produces the loveliest of flowers or the finest of fruits. Isis corpse was the send whence sprung the blossoming!' of Isis fame ; and. sheS4 the fruits were pito-led by hand. which tihnited sot ; the harvest of glary brought nu rejoicing ,oasts to the err of the patient sower. Pone.Tubto was in 10. grave when-the Aiuggjogeg Mom Win looted thousands at beam : hie•eiliMeinntstd hare been crowned with rioutteew -table bliss at witeresSing such • coissu tttttt lotion oriels isurievering toils. beat nu longer either for joy or stirr rev. 'TM the song which Inseams, inspired he ha as as, for the scene which Its grunts bleuded hod ao perception : the pride of In, labours stir the passions of others; all hi. fears and hopes,* sympathies soil trinennhe. had Gerard for ever. These considered 1111 l s throw a mournful interest over the memoirs of 'robin; rod as it was hot yet teidoy oho we saw I in his Honey Moon, .s beard him in his Curfew (both have very recant, been performed), it reruns to us as if the mettew were fresh, and the ronorron as striking as whesethe dead author'sfirsf-acted comedy first delighted us on the stage. It is strange to say, hut it is a thing of hello& which we shall not endeavour to account for, Out the almost dram.itic death of this aininble penen. engrosses us so entirely whenever our minds We directed towards him, that we hire no power 'to advert to the circumsbnicea of bis life. Likeidee humble incidents of a tragedy, they are all swot booed op in the catastrophe, and we cure not for the steps of mingled smiles and tears which led to the fatal and overwhelming termination. John Tobin was born at Salisbury, the *hid January, 1770. His father of a reaper:toile si•ea tion 111 ; his mother the darigliter of a rich Nevis planter. His childhood was sprit at Old Sarum ; but he was educated at Southatuptou. His predilection for the drama was evinced at a very tarty period, and seems never to have left him. Ilia elder brother James, with whom lie ever continued its bonds of the tenderest brotherly affection and onion. was sent to Oxford, while lie «mortified to a solici tor in Loudon. At the expiration of his articles be remained to the same. house, and altrueards carried on Isis pilifessionat pursuits in perturrahip. But the idea of writing fur the stage was his tuaster-passion : and for many years lie offered his productions to the managers of the theatres, with only this variety. that ill some they were return. d directly, so others detsined ; iu some thrown Mick witlitinton couragement, in others received so favourably, as almost to consummate his wishes. His first efforts were comic-operas; and the whole of this literary eventful history proves the unbending patience of the author, and the capricious fit kletiess of the lords of the theatre. %heeler/ago wait bundled be fore Mr.l'. bad attained his kdth 3 ear ; but he had previously written !/re Faro Table, The Under taker (a farce), and many other dramatic pieces. ill equally utisuccessful in their efforts to olurniu the trial of a representation. The years of his life seetu only to have bees marked by new produe ' tious. and repeated dimppointisiesits ; till se length, in 1804. ill health compelled him to seek that restoration which was nut to be found iis ; and here, consumption gradual:3i devouring the body of iis victim, revelled ri 'oisiotss of future fortune and mittens', lie devoted 'himself to it tu" edition of Shakspeatc. Tire die. 'ease, however, 'gaining ground, a vu} age to the West hushes was presertbril; /lie lion," Mou* after long years of delay, iffe% ptil 111 rehearsal ; tae sailed Rum England, and OW the mouth of k harbour died without a sisiniess or a .+ tend. ' Such ale the brief and ,umbra particular* of the life of Tobin ; *é shall manses ibe the cloaing scene bat may first gay, that in private he was minable, careless, buriont. estimable, and beliiVeit. can afford no jester specimen Of his fait bilagra. Idler's talent, than the description of the Melons. riholy event to whiCh we hose lust Abided. '• Whilst he *as thus detaching lotric4:ll from Ilia 'former porMA.The Hoop Mien. which lead beers 'tong inrarteriatirl at thusyslinie &Vow, narrowly escaped bring' ignominiously ditinisi4A with other literary lumber. Fortorrately, it was irserved for 4.1 r, Woaughton, whose interference no ii farmer llercasiois had proved wholly ernstecenoodl, to rescue I Was play front otsuserrittel oblivion. Tkmegla hip importunity, it was o;hr:flitted to mire. lodieed declaims, slid thirdly, to the nnopewks. side joy of Mr. James Tnbin, derlared to Lie accepted. Plot one element art tint .trans nentitig to his brother the meluotoo inteltsgeticte acCompauied by ti genet issjaitetimi that be Would immediately prepare the prologete and eiiitogne; hot the dine was passerlioselsklitheipoet would have obeyed this mender with ester Amity. Coo gumption cannoned , deity gala .groliud ett 'his enfeebled legate, skint this itionitut he-was kiwis% Cornwall, to return to Bristol, Imo oittoo.tioroos to embark fiat doe West Itutiata,*Aioyagotiketmly re cerismonded as the lot teiswese lotv4orolikoli Aro 'y446410,5 • 77 • ' • 41 4: • _ . !.% I . ' - -• 4 . 1 4 i 74 -.., it ir l f b i , t .Q., .r .: : •• • , :.',;7,K LIT A ._ iota. r . 1 , -or r - - \--- F *3 4, ~.......: - - ate't . f o r taill IN)LICE. We have now befoae 114 two letters. one from Maiichester mid the other from Bansoley, both of them written by men of veracity. ow whose infor mation we can rely, and bolls of Owes tending to show that t h e 'dorms poising out of the ritustions of those places have beet' greutly heightened and exaggerated. The few lul annunciations made in Parliament lay Mr. Wortley. one of soar Comity Metrilveraa. with respect to Barnsley, induced us to soskeAligrall it (linty into the state of that tools and neighbourhood. and the following letter. written by a man in hum ble life,lbut possessed of an acute ami outdid mind, depicts, we believe. with perfect accuracy. the na ture of the proceedings which have token place is that town, maid the extent of the danger to lee apprehended f them. After the perusal of this letter, and after the tranquil way in which the amfal 13th of December missed ever. every mast who is ton either eanstitetionally we politically an alaraulo. will. we think, be of opinion, that the note of aporoaching &anger anoodeal by 'lr. Wortley in Parliament, was pitched upon too high key. mod though it it evident that some seditious and invoinsiderate proems hove pqrsued a conduct that is highly reprthenaible. sisal that Some precau tannery measures were rendered uccemary r it is el telly clear, that w Iwo the matter • through 14 proper medium, there was •- ies the state of Barnsley, 'tor indeed is, •40f this West Riding of Yorkshire, that e . milled for the con templated alteration in the enisting laws of the coun try. or for the special presence of the Land Lieute nant. The proposed meeting of the 13th inst. about which tat much intitecrossary alarm had been created, died of inanity—or rather it never crone to its birth. and eight-and-twenty 'withers. who remsined in this dew of conspirators oily two day., were sufficient. mud inure than sufficient, to preserve the public pence. Mr. Wortley'S prediction. delivered in the Douse of Commons. that the news of arrests would reach him by the Next post, has failed; not a single arrest lots taken place, and the meeting of the respectable inhahitants of the place. held OH Tues day e y eli j us z, sufficiently indicated, Loth from the slei;der mitendaisce of the italiebotants. toad the spirit of apathy which distinguished eta proceedings, that the apprehensions for the tranquillity of that town were much more vivid in London than in Barns ley. On she clinic, it appears thud a steam engine has been put in mutton to crash a fly. The m iniiiiirry has, however, worked well in St, Stephen's Chapel. and has served along with the half -story shout the division of Lord Pitswil propert y (for which they are nisi' indebted to Mr. Wortley), to ossiat Ministers carrying their lolls for the abridgment or the public liberties through Parliament. The follow/tog is the lettel from Barnsley : TO THE EDITOR OF THE LEEDS MERCURY. Barnsley, December 15. 1819. Ste—ln compliance with y o ur request 1 shall redeavour to pee you me clear a view of our mewed orate a s I a m a ble, knowiug that your steady deyotius to the public guod en titles you to c andour and truth. A. to the arming, shoal which you inquire, I COO only say, that I believe it less chiefly bred seised to the prover bong stares or poke; bat I e.lll not say dist there are no pikes in thee place, though 1 'mow they leave hover been exercised with, nor it' any way publicly 4e:bib:led. That there has been eleilling admits of so dumb, sad that on the nights mentioesed by Mr. Wortley, but never either before or since; mid then the numbers were greatly exaxee rated, fur on the rve tt tt g mentioned by 31r. Forbes, there were eu more ban revels, those being all tbr deluded eathusiasts that could thew be mustered, but it seems Mr. Forbes's fears multiplied them by ten. The greatest noinber that ever turned oat for this purpuse was on the evening of this day fortnight. They exhibited in a field directly opposite the rear uf the house in which 1 live, at which place 1 wood, suit coalel clearly see throe fall and hear them number them eless elf—they were lour semaelrons, tine thirty each. At the other, er third and last drill, their smother less au in. considerable a: out to merit notice, and 1 can assure you, Sir, that at the pest muster shove mentioned their squadrons were almost entirely composed of inconsiikrate hum igno. rant of Ilse rowerqueuers of such practice. You weals to 'mow what or who has impelled them to such acts. 1 will tell you, in order that such lnc* may act lie imputed to the genuine Reformers of this place. It is the misfurtuue of Bennie, to contain a weak-minded said man—a woohl-he politician, remarkable for nothing so meek as the greedy erreledity with which he swallows every wee• derful story. This 1 14101' fellow has been eloped by a politifild iticrodiary. who visited him periodically, ra presenting him self as a delegate from Gout knows where. At the histselfe of this delegate, he tallest a meeting to be held en Mass the 13th instant,lwine told that suc h meetings werett general. Finding the advertisesseat 'deeding Moor, be e'er who was the dupe, and, consequently, ahaadsoned the owe- Mg altogether, end cow repels all be has thine, Not boatel's what roarer to pursue. You have now • key to the whets history of this tremendous Barnsley meeting, by the terrors of which Senates stood appalled. The great body of the Re. fie mere of t his place had uo band whatever in the business, and the political incendiary spokes of above, has ceased to visit Barnsley, and is uo where to found. On Sunday evening, a party t at the 411 i dragoon porde, Of Royal Irish, amounting to tweet, eight in minder, nr rived here from Sherri-Id, and reassured with as until Tillrlho day moruing, when they returned. t' of the least beside et distarbsace took place on Monday, except that we had a Besets of Magistrates sitting at the head lon. Ou their r e. commendation a public meeting of the respectable bonne holders was called, to form an asaveistinn for the premise. lion of that which has not yet been violated—the public peace. This tweeting, which was called by Mr. John Hopwood and Mr. Wm. lirr•haw, coastables wry held in the Grammar School at six tichock, Mr. John Hopwood iu the Chair, when it was resolved, that a nightly patrole 'Mould be es. tablished to save the evirrue• of Watch and Ward. The wafting was very thinlyittmetke, and sum of the mut strenuous advocates of tt. meaurit declined to be of the Commit lee for carrying the re ntetions imp elect. Mr. Wortley was rather sampan* in his predictions In Parliament, u not a single Srm& ben yet takeh place. I am pier mom obedient • • • • We are happy, part the Googly CAroseicle, its Riyittg circulation ' the following In atriotsc 'ouggration. and • recoulatend adoption to the public • Tiwore e disavowal/2,0m 1 , • —...... soivoixerv. Yesterday soother inieraystioss took place Wore Mr. Birnie, respecting She right of pawnbrokers to reisin pro perty proved so have been "Wien, without proseeutiug the 1 thief. Meows. Alley owl tees* attended for the prosetution and Mr. Dramas Ow 010111. Makepraer sistl Hsi her, she silversmith", ad krarle.siteet. /jungles trsliebla. Thu sperstions slain Derispiell ihr stirmiwi of she Magi. Armee from twelve o'clock sill half-past four.—The prisoner was eunsmisted fur iris!. ACCIDENTS ON THE MR. On Monday evening srvr►al young men remitted on the leedit of uw R Cau+l. near 04111 r. bridge, for the 'surprise of ettaissig. Among them a youth, neared George tionih, wore bold than his eoinponinti., grout-HI too tar on the ice r which gave way, and he felt 111. Ili. broiner Francis flew to his siisistatier, wlires 1w a's,. shared the same bite. They were both drowned. The bodies were not found until yesterday. MU. 0 7 It I. IP. Mr. Thomas Wel4, an English Catholic, t►e possessor of a lime f.rlune, and the heir of a snore dear to relative, bag moved from the world, •mart Ins is tale retreat devoted hint. self to the Priembuod. His father was one of the benefac tors of the Fiviscli Clergy in Eugland ; be received the monks of IA frappe in his park of Luliwurth„ and the Jesuits in Isis castle of Stiniyhurst, and performed great lierf lett to the English Catholics. His family has fol lowed his ruble example. Mr. Thomas Weld was ever distinguished by his piety, eharity„ mid seal. Having loot his vide, and having established his only daughter, whn was married last year to the eldest son of Lord Clifford, he took advantage of his liberty to eunarerste himself more especially to the service of God. He hes been labouring fur • year to prepare himself foe the state to which be aspires; and ',seem recently saaounced hi■ resuliiiiiio to his family end friends, he has retired to the house of the Abbe G4flllll, his old friend. There, removed from the dissipatiun aud tallish of the world, beforms him self's the spirit aud virtues of the priesthood, by the lessons end *maniple of a venerable priest.--(Paris Paper.) 7'HE PERSECUTIOIY OF THE JEWS. (from a New York Paper.] TO THE EDITOR. Sit —As as holabk tripod of a frail world, I regard the peraeciition of the Jews in Germany among the most astonish. log and disgusting events of iwodiern times.,l had hoped that the age of gloomy soperstition had passed away, sod that in theseeulightenrd days we should sat be insulted by sack spec tacles as the wnutuu massacre of helpless cilium', becasae they differ with their fellow mortals on points which the light of heaven alone can understand. I would sot be a Chris tian, if I thought my eternal salvation required blood and deputation. No, our altars have bees sualciestly stained 'Already—this permuted aid abased Nation has bees hunted lung esongh. It is perhaps ungenerous to level a blow at a people ; but contemplating these scenes at i distance, I cannot but think I see is them the true portrait of the Gamut chaser ler--414 imitate of patriotism and natiosal spirit—yielding without resistance to the invasion of every foe in arms, yet meanly trampling on the rights of those who have nut the power to resist. These events furnish, too, another evidcace how miserably degraded is poor blighted Europe, and (a source of severe regret to every erne friend of free gave. a meet) bow little hope we have, that liberty will ever tri• alarsver dmputiern amidst such asorals, and assisted by so& a spirit of cruel sod stupid iossAsmose. We turn from this picture with delight to this little cor ner of the earth, wh.re the Jew can rest in peace, and enjoy the full exercise of his natural rights. My heart swells with polity& to the Great Disposer of verso M elect, that while we vigilantly guard our morals, sad cosieries homely dif•eloarge our religions duties, ere are blessed with a charity and fellow-feeling, which diffuse their holy influence over the children of airs of every denomination ; and that we are protected by the spirits of liberty and jdsticr, which watch equally over the rights of Jew a nd Gentle. RAN K UN. OLDHAM !Ng() EsT.—The Jury who were empan nelled on the celebrated impsest of Jotis LEES, of Oldham, bring very properly desirous of having the business determined aceoraing to the law, on Wednesday transmitted, by two of their body, a re quest to the Coroner, to afford thesis an opportu nity of delivering their verdict. lu this they state, that the original writ is still in force, and that, therefore, the duty of the Coroner sill not be coin pleted until he resumed and coucluded the inquest. 'l'he letter was signed by seven; the ether five being publicans, have refused. from motives of personal interest. although they have expressed • wish to be enabled to give their opinion in the formal manner of the law. Should the Coroner refuse complimice with their widwa, we understand that they intend to publish their opinion from the evidence they have already hesrd.--4 Maxchester Observer. The Maltsters of the borough of Tewkesbury, following the example of those in most other po pulous places, have, we understand, petitioned the Legislatute to repeal some of the most objection able clauses iii the Act passed in the 48th year of Isis ptesvut Majesty. respecting the wetting sill barley iii the operation of making it into malt. Tuesday last a singular fraud wee effected on the Excise Office at Limerick. A person came into that town, giving his WIDE 46 FITZGEgALD, and staling bineself to be a general dealer st P 4140101; TO,Bll. • pisce about forty miles distant from Li merick. purchased between thirty and forty bogs. brads of tobacco, and paid for the goods, with the exception of the duty, for which an iadolgence of eight dye is granted.. The goods were delivered from the store, and conveyed away. On inquiry at Possou's Tows', no each peruse is to be heard of, although a Invitee was totem out. said error rege.i COMOTMC(I to; the amoeut of duty tbeel evaded the payment if, is estimated at upwardseit ten thousand. pounds. 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