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every stride added to the bee i ni along untd within a few 7W and won a tine race with dl Rode by Lye; Conjuror e. 3 yre old, by Rinaldo. it udl be recollected was di o . 1.. ;:t r by the death 0f.h14 !ii. day brou g ht t o the ham.l r t-yard belonging to an di n.d It tting-rowna, French \lr. White for 600 guinee k l nwrrow. A bay colt, 3 p o . Chariot, out of Vanguard; I•or Wu guineas. although not so m. l I prcuy well a t t h e original piaccs appointed for the We • week. The proceeds up c o tween 1,500 and 1,600 tcli morning have been pretty , it being arranged that they le original Betting-rooms. as o mention the names of tia( mil the lion. Col. Cradoskl value of xvo guineas, which I (1 is expected to produce ex.] (.11 hire been indefatigabl e .l lur and other circnnatar::i fully rtalixed th e antltioat. •rto preserved on the Cour II cvinecil in the preparato our rarmest praise. TI .1:t of Mr. Lockwood (son mike " assurance dela tln. able assiinance of 1 .•lerk of the York Course, 14‘v, and Mr. Tu'ir, Clerk Inut, therefore, be Wonder titit the Rues went off wi numbrrs, and moat effielently chief officer of Doncaster. I Taunton, from Bow-streOt. s afforded to pickpockets by he r exertions have been very ~ .morrow anti Friday, there y, and sax nit the next. Bed. 1, are entt red. b() it TO-31ORROW. rev , . ed Col. T.Y.C. 4tl dabs. Inn da Put t. by Itlackbwk. r, dam by Trophoaius. Itlacklock. Lem lid nr. other to Streatham. Maddock. Fairy. —A Iti.idura. It us—Juliana. jun. BlaeLlnek. rk—llarchala. ['ramp. L•y Calton. tbit. 31b. each. Mile and half. on, 3 yrs, against Ltrd Quito& 17". •, het for any hoes. Absus sw i o u:IL ass. er, 4 years old r, 3 years vt. each. 30 R. for itme pats di, sAb3.r.bers. 200 son. web. St. Imp Ciu iblcribets. La, illaseinerads vTELLIGEKCE. ow.--- • - (royals DAY.) maining double playas was anal 4s, Kn. (Devon), was Ike a!ellea Ornish); were next. when Ti vas r if triple Osiers equal, bekai 'brie 'need with Women (Cornish), end wrcolle TO, but Worrell et tsidenibly 'yle rictired twu (Ale, ilie tint nut pric, sett. (Devon), were the neer, tech in his Op...at...faction; as lie ote-te.l the point with the Cornish a tight. Several Dew:miens side 4 and a riot nearly ensued ; • it the preceding day ►y Cann was le caught bold of hnn, el: ca tie. but received a most severe tali n ry of the co.-wealth, and :Ur. uK nice. Chapple, !weever, eon. consented to gave him smother ring for that purpose. It was not omen, and even then he retuctantly it himself was, however, convitced hraham Cain (Devon champion). ion toil( tilAcc, but which was out in contact with Cann as much as sm c ii -Cann threw WI oppdtient opted tour minutes. Moyle, how• to the fourth prize, there being ~erood, and third prises. IYarren (Cornwall), the best nn uh stout ale, but Cann decidedly ght, with a fair com pl e xion Srd lt, being about thirty yeses of age. er of tin children, and wine yea.rs tad to tare-ten/icing met, ; he I as a year". 1 lee fir , : bill Warren ie. 4 atitl was UM ace:sive. :Varr , 11 th.tut then limited again, Warr , n aid being grappled ; at length be tt notes, \\*wren was again thiown. ten the partisans of t itch; the De r to one), contending that it was a nnther referee sho , ,hlba appointed : ng fur that purpose, by consent of :a more, and in about four minutes Aro, Cann !" trom the I..)rronians ; m the COT; li , ll men.) This grog a were pniatd on a balance for some 7healrength of Cann at lenph rte. 1, admitting his defeat by junspins übiluer. he first prize of ten sovereigns wyereigas; Dlgnville to the thirds tho fourth, of one sovereign. which, trom tae unfavourable stator vas prolonged w port 01 the hag* ne a favourite in Londe& It that the cont. at was conshltealtli th from the disparity of number* is admitted to be the champino with mechanics, who must be eup• in Lomion, to be out of prude . • c determined to bring up some ut ling match, to oppoac Cann. g was occupied in private matches, gist young man, Onion of thie I Dooniaii. Deco, was insien:ly Devotion who had been • I oppose the last vector, sad soot g thrown in less than one Mint"' VI at &Lout 6,00 U. nker LETTER THE THIRD FROM CHAiIIMAN OF THE BOARD OF STAMPS THE RIGHT ITON. THOS. WALLACE. lb s - Let it not be for a moment supposed that in the pia I have already brought forward of my Song conflict sidi the ruinous system of fraud which prevailed in the s t amp Department of Scotland, I mean to plead ilium gt .ices as a set-off against any ackwawledgei subsequent tailure in my duty to the public. Let me not for a mo m::: he hell to admit that your Reports have proved mal venation against me, and that I am urging my seal against official delioquency in Scotland, that it may be received Into the vale, and weighed against the pages of your Par liamentary R 'ports. No, Sir ; the course I have adopted is that whielt °pram the most conclusive proof that my character vitt& publicly misrepresented in your Reports. It .s *kb that view, therefore, and for that pu►pose, that I hoe adoptel it. Although no malversation or abuse of any kind-1 use the terms hi 'lit it known acceptation, as importing a per version of official authority to a corrupt or improper par pose —although not a single abuse or malversation of any kind is discovered, or pretended to be discovered, on die yet of the Board of Stamps, yet my name is so eagerly ~.:wailed into every page—it is so dovetailed into every topic of examination-1 am disjnined frotn my colleagues in so pointed and peculiar a manner, and the whole in quiry is so strikingly directed against Me Chairman, that sil who read the extracts which the daily newspapers put before them are led, and very naturally, to infer that my known official conduct 1)31 been such as most urgently, asentially, and beyond every thing, required investiga tion ; and in the rear of all this—and while the unfavour able surip'cier.s thus created are yet warns—comes the at tempt to brand my character with that base opprobrium which I repelled—with an expression of scorn which I shall new cease to feel—at the conclusion of my first Letter. I havessiel in that Letter, that, when your Appendix ap pars, containing the evidence upon which you have en deavoured to fasten upon me a charge of corrupt collusion Rah regard to a fraud which you aver to have been pranged upon the Revenue by the County Fire Office, I would dissect the whole, and that I would do it thoroughly sod openly. To have published your Report, containing so very grave and weighty a charge, and to keep hack the Ap pendix, containing the evidence upon which it is ground& el, is a circumstance alike unprecedented and unaccountable. What is an .4ppendix but a document coupled with and ap 'ended to the Report? Let it appear where it may, it is no hunger an Appendix. One advantage gained against me by the withholding it is this, that the charge having once made its way all over the kingdom, without the production vl the evidence which went most decidedly to disprove it, gains general belief ; and when, at a distant day, the Appen -411 is published, no one heeds it ; it becomes a last year's Almsnack. The daily newspapers, which have circulated the charge, have their columns too fully occupied to return scan to a subject of Reports, from which they have al ready, and so long ago, made such ample extracts; and, efter my character has been utterly destroyed by the seen duo, then appears the evidence which would have re futed it, but which is kept back till no one is concerned to examine it, au& when--for any Tura of - juitrci=if eight as well never have been published at all. B e i n g gaily aware of the injurious impression which has : , ten prolucstl against me by the mode in which your Re port it drawn up, and knowing too the pains that arc taken t. cnifirm and 7:ve ct to this impression, I have resolved sot to wait for the publication of Me :Ippcndir. I am eouhlantly prepared to repel everylvaputation contained in it; I will, therefore, proceed, without delay, to enable the pake to tee clearly into the epirit in which, so far as I am concerned, your inquiry lias been conducted, and to decide —u I have before said—upon the aim and the object of it. I *in with the following eitract:— Oa the 3d of June, Mr. Deans was, by the Chairman's ad vice, sent to the County Fire Office to investigate the numbers vane; this person was furnished with %tauten numbers of Po lin%, and he was directed to ascertain when the insurance on each enmminc•d, and when it terminated. Whilst he was In Ise County Fire Office, and examining the honks is pursuance et his instructions, in compary with • Clerk of the County fee Office (of the name of Johnson), Mr. Beaumont, the act kg Manager of that Office, came to them; and upon being in termed cf the object of Deans' inquiry, he gave directions to tat attending clerk to supply him with any information he wanted. " On his examination as to the circumstances occurring at this iritersirle. Mr. Deans states as follows: "' I saw in his (Mr. Beaumont'a) hand a paper. containing Iwo ardent that I thought resembled a paper 1 had seen in Mr. yis.' s hand in the mornir.g ; he ratite out with it in his hand, .t to make some comparison with a paper in my hand. I nerd, that I was directed to inquire shell the Policies commenced, vd when they terminated; and he folded up the paper and put it Ttb h:s waistcoat pocket, and I believe. from the appearance of it, IT us • copy of the same paper that I saw in Mr. Sykes's hand in to morning.' " Mr. Deans proceeds to give the reasons which induced him to Oink that the paper he then saw was the one which he had seen adore; and further, that on being called before the Bested on the Ile efJane., to give an account of this tr a ns ac ti o n, h e , on t h at setstion, s t ate d, *flat he had seen a paper wi.h tint numbers on it !rinds of Mr. Beaumont, and that he repented this state vest Mr. Mswe, who was required by the Chairman to attend in e: Iliad-room fur the purpose of hearing such statement made. It LI! be further seen, that Mr. Deans describes the hand-writing ea the paprr in question as being recognised by him as that of one of tie:clerks in the solicitor's office. We, accordingly, examined e , italividm.l thus referred to, who states, he msdc a copy of the pry in tittzstian, which be understood was for the use of the tbsirm,„. "We have thought it unnecessary he to enter into a more full &tailor examination of the facts, df which we bare thus submit. 4d a b ri ef stat ement ; we b eg l eave , h owever , to re f er your Lord klfs to the evidence of t!, several posons named in the margin, t 1 >tiirh af stilt - torn? trill to and to to jolly borne not, with theil V!ition of sev ers ! ot h er part i cu l ars bestring upon the transaction. ' alto beg to call your Lordships' attention to the evidence of 34 . 4 edgwiek, on the same subject, in which it will be seen that 44 ' 40 41v denies the imputation of his haring obtained the num b:Ts, for the purpose of communicting them to 31r. Beaumont tad w e should adil, that this denial s so confirmed by the evidence of !he lastasatned gentleman, who positively asserted that he never re 71'd soy tads communication from the Chairman." t, What is the inftr:nce in.entled to be drawn from this? ti„,,. 'Cult i t i s manifestly meant to be implied that 1, pt.:- r a: t 1 ::, having been accessary in procuring the returns of 421 1 Lyon these two Policies, had privately furnished the Managing Director with their numbers ; anti thus, if pos ible, to prevent the undue rdurn if dui!, upon them from itiug investigated with effect ! Can any charge convey mere of infamy with it ? Now, how stands the fact ? Wi:y, when I come to inquire into the period at which lona said two Poticiev were issued—for I knew nothing at all about them when ander examination—they relate to a )•rioti as far back as the years 1811 and 1814, at which tree I was Chairman of the Excise Bogy,l in SCOTLAND, dtgi ditl not even know that such cia establishment as the 11 P C 1,, 1y Fire Office existed!! It is as if a man should be accused of having set his l 'ott 4 e on fir, when the fact turns out to be, not only that /' It house never tot:l6l4rd time:), but that the charge against -It L laid ten yirars before he was tenant ! I !low proceed to another extract:- - As several stele policies to which suspicion attached purported . , 'are been issued to parties residing in Edinburgh, Mr. t'lkes directed to aderess a letter to the Solicitor of Stamps in that tl, erekrine 1 Ina of p..11ci.:: effected there. rr.Ticctlng whit& l ' i ''' irreg !linnet' were suspected, and requesting him to Obtain all information in his power at to the'r commencement. continu 4, and tnaliwatioo. By tie answer to Ws letter. your Lordships will perceive that the fact of the ixisieti . ce of some of tittle during the years for 'bleb alloectiopt or return of ! duty had been di claimed and granted at e Stamp .ice, was clearly ascertained. though the death or failure of semal of the parties prevented a full report upon the whole list. A to days before this'answer from Mr. Bremner (the Solicitor in l icotland) was received in hoo doo. Mr. Sykes mentioned tl4 circumstance of the suspected fraud to the Chairman ; but did not communirnte to him the tact of the appiicetinn hiving been made to Edinburgh until Mr. Bremner's answer Seas received, when Mr. Sykes took it into the Board-room, where the Chairman had now resumed his attendance. It is stated in evidence, to which we beg In refer your Lordships for a more particular representation of whit passed on this occasion, that the Clusintian expressed himself very watch dissatisfied at the reftremee is Itiimberwh, and objected to the course of following up the inquiry, except through the County Fire (Mee itself. On the 2d of June, 11124, Mr. 31awe, clerk in the Solidi tor's office, was sent fin by the Chairman, for the purpose of nick ingsome inquiries 011 the sub j ect of the investigation. On this oc ca.ton the Chairmen repeated Ain dissatiifactiou at the course which had been taken." What does this plainly mean to insinuate? It means to insinuate this—that being previously aware, that possibly an account of undue rrturns qr insurance duty might be obtained. if inquiry was pursued in that quarter, thaL.this dinatilfitction which T expressed arose from my finding that Mr. Sykes, the Salicitor, had directed his inquiries in thut channel. Such is the imputation conveyed. Now for the fact. I did IMIOOIII myself Deny much dinutisfied at this. Anti why ? Became I found that Mr. Sykes had carefully con cealed front' lie, as Chairman of the Board, the sup posed undae Teams of duty whfch some informer had alleged to hate been fraudulently obtained by the County Fire Office, of which I was one of the Directors ; and that instead of at once—as it was his duty to have done—insti tuting a prosecution, if he had evidence to support it, he was r.uri•i up my name as a Director with this suspected fraud, in a correspondence carrying on, unknown to me, with Mr. Bremner, the Solicitor cf, the Stamps in Edin burgh, with whom the public are by this time acquainted (he is since dead), who, I knew, would not fail to inquire away my character, as well as that of the County Fire Office, under the pretext of procuring information as to these suspected frauds ; and 1 was the more dissatis fied with this course of inquiry, and had the more reason to be so, knowing tflat Mr. Sykes, having been sent down on a special Commission to inquire into and report oil the ' conduct of this Mr. Bremner, had so managed his inquiry, and so framed his Reports to the Lords of his Majesty's Treasury, as not only to screen and cover up that flagrant system of fraud and abuse, which, as has been shown, I had already investigated and exposed, but to represent Mr. Bremner as a man of integrity, and a deserving servant of the public. The particulars of this I shall detail hereafter. In the mca•t time, enough, I hope, has been said to ac count for my disseiliffacliwt, and to justify it. I quote the following passage, as displaying with promi nent efKet the criminatinz insinuations which pervade your Reports, while not a shadow of evidence is brought forward to authorize or support them:— '• In enmequenee of the Chairman of the Board of Stamps be ing also s Director of the County Fire Office, Mr. Sykes represents that he had felt a difficulty in communicating with rim, in the first instance, on the subject of a charge against this Company, nor did the Chairman revise any intimation of An Imputed fraud from the Commissioner to whom theauspicinn had been originally imparted. Ely the evidence of Mr. Sykes, it appears that 112 was apprehensive that the object of (he inquiry would be defeated by Mr. sedgwiek being put in possession of the facts on which the charge was founded before the necessary steps had been taken to establish the case. This impression, founded is an avraied distrust of the conduct of Me luad of the Department, whilst it appears to afford a striking instance of the earl (Meta to which we have adverted, as being likely to result from public offirem being also engaged in pit. irate speculations, with which they are officially btought Into cam • titizarpears afar Mtn, fn} animadversion, as being incompatible with that co.nperAtion and confidence which it is so important to! maintain against all Officers of the Deparunent." I shall content myself here with merely challenging Mr. Sykes, as Solicitor of the Board of Stamps, to produce one single act of my conduct as Chairman—or he may take, if he will, the whole range of my public life—that can warrant the slanderous imputation which is here conveyed, and which the wording of the Report endeavours to point with such effect. Having said thus much, I hold it unworthy of any other answer or of any further comment. I will cam: now to the imputation, conveyed in a manner to give it with Parliament and with the public all the effect of a proved and positive charge, of having destroyed the evidence necessary to prove the fraudulent returns of duty alleged to have been procured by the County Fire Office, of which I was one of the Directors, and to which it is sug gusted, too broadly to be mistaken, that I was accessary as Chairman of the Stamp Board. 6 ' It will remain also for your lordships to consider how far it may be expedient to direct the Board of Stamps to institute a pro+ secu•ion against the County Fire Office, for the allowances soil re turns unduly obtained in the manner above described. The pro. pricty of such a measure had, we understood, occurred to the Soli citor of Stamps in an early period of the investigation ; hut that Officer states himself to have born checked in his preparations fur such • proceeding by the difficalty he found in obtaining the ac counts which it would be necessary to produce, in order to establish his case. It is only since the appointment oi the present Comp troller that these accounts 11,:ve been kept with any degree of order or regularity; previously to th;s time they were nominally in the charge of a distinct dike, called the Insurance Office; hut i: ap pears that no attention was paid by the oriicer Stimediately in charge, or by hi+ superiors, to their proper cu+totly. On our call ing fire the annuli returns subsequent to Mil. it was found that no copies of then; had been preserved for many of the years. that the account had been lost, anti that others were in so incomplete a state us to be hiogoher useless. On our specially applying for the Distributor's Accounts of the County ire Office for the year 1819, nothing could he produced to us but the fragments of the corer, and a part of one of the pages. The neglect and inatten tion with respect to these accounts is the more worthy of remark, in reference to a statement made by the Chairman in his evidence, • that without them it is impossible to trace any frsud.'" Now the intent of this statement manifestly is—and it I could not fail of its effect—to impress the minds of the Lords of the Treasury, of Parliament, and of the Country, with the opinion, that having been corruptly colluding with the Managing Director of the County Fire Office in- procuring undue returns of duty on policies insured by that Office, I had contrived, should the transaction ever be brought to light, to leave no clue to them behind, by having, in some way, been accessary to the destroy. ins the accounts, and thus effectually defeating the ends of justice. This is not affirmed in so many words, but I . I it is implied so strongly in the above passage of the itvort, as to lead the mind of every one that reads it to this conclusion. It is the conclusion which was intended to be drawn fro-n it, anti it is the conclusion which every where has been drawn from it. I now entreat the attention of the public to the plain and brief statement of the case. With regard to these accounts, as they are termed, they are nothing mare than the copies of their quarterly ac counts, lodged at the Stamp Office by all the different In surance Cotnpatsies, as directed by Act of Parliament. It NI not thiaceounts of the County Fire Office exclu sively—and this is an itnilertant fact—that were damaged or lest ; they suffered day from the same general negli gent*, in common with those of, every otter Insurance Offic , ; whereas every one would be led M tondude, from the Report, that this negligent superintendence was con fined, for whatever reason, to the accounts uf, the County Fire Office alone. Formerly, alad until the year 1824, there was an officer, Mr. Becket, whose duty it was to compare those copies with the original accounts. lie was in that year superan nuated; and as the Board were of opinion that he had of late years performed his duty very negligently, and that the office itself was, upon the whole, superfluous, it was THE BRITISH P' abolished, and the duty of It transferred to the Cosuptral lees Office, where they have ever since been kept, as the &port admits, " with order and regularity." these Copies of the Quarterly Books were not aessinalty, as mated itt the Report, but actually, in the custody of Mr, Becket, as Inspector ; and it appeais that, froet Me year 1809 to the year 1819, many of them had been torn and impaired, but that all the ammo niece Me per 1819 here been carefully kept, and moor hi the Cooptroller's Office, in a perfect state of presertatien. A wide field of detail opens upon Me, bit I must be brief:—There is no evidence so Conelu.siie Ind latfifestory se dates; for nue will not he Weed out of his astris, and his testimony cannot be tampered Ist& To diet ter timony I proceed to refer :—I was eippaisted to Pa Reerd of Stamps in 1817—thus utmost the whole of this Wind. from 1809 to 1819, I was at the Excise Rosati of Revenue in Edinburgh. I trust I need not offer any Other evidence to exempt myself from all imputtstien of he4ing Partici pated in the negligence —very Veritable eeentinly—teith which the Inspector kept his basking the &amp Oflee to London. But let the carelessness of this ffinfreetor hare peen what it may during this interval between 1809 and 1819, it is found, and admitted in the Report,-.that since Met period they are complete, and sow s ; knony case of protect_ tion, they would be perfectly audible to any purpose to which they would be applied. Let vs now once more refer to dales. I was elected one of the Directors of the County Fire Office on the 14th of February, 1922, be. foe which time I held no shales in :hat (!fliee, I had never seen theface of the Managing Director, no► did I Artois Urn even by name. Now from the year 1819—and I beseech attention to this--all the accounts are in an entire state of rrtaervation, arid have been kept with the most perfect correctness. Having given this plain and simple statement, I shall leave it to produce its own effect. It (tarries its comment along with it. There is, however, one fact stated in the passage above quoted (torn your Report, to which I cannot forbear ad verting before I conclude this letter. It is the following: " On our calling for the snnual returns subsequent to 1809, it was found that no copies of them had been preserved for many of the years, that the account had been lost, and that others were in so incomplete a state as to be altogether useless. On our specially applying for the Distributor's account of the County Fire Office fur the year 1819, nothing could be produced to us but the fragment of the cover, and a part of one of the pages." It struck me, when I read this, as carrying with it an air of burlesque, almost approaching to disrespect, that any clerk, when gravely called upon, shoulct produce before you so ludicrous a remnant. I accordingly sent yesterday for Mr. Deans, one of the Clerks in the Comptroller's Office, to inquire from him how this could be; when, to my surprise, I found that Me Act was not as your Report has stated it. That true it is that the account of the year 1819 was incomplete, but that two Quarters' Accounts of that year were produced before you perfect and entire. That I might satisfy myself of this—for I could scarcely credit it after the above deliberate averment—l desired •him to bring me up the two quarters of the accounts which had been to produced to the Commissioners of Revenue Inquiry, which he immediately did, and 1l found them quite consplefis, atul respectively endorsed u follows: "An Account of Duties received on Su pto ensured Agr i l a tire by thc4;ounty Five Ogles, trots the WA eve• ' tar, is Mr 25th March, 1819." " An Account of Duties received on Sure insured against The by the County Fire Otlice, from the '2sth 111 arch, 1819, to the 24th June, 1819." This single fact, taken in connexion with the train of statements that surround it, affords matter of very serious meditation. The most unreflective mist be startled at this mode of conducting a Parliamentary Inquiry, upon the re sult of which the Government are to be called to sit bs judgment. It is a fearful precedent, and involves conse quences far beyond those in which I have any persona) stake. Let reform be pursued as zealously as you please ► out let it be pursued in the track of justice. I subscribe myself, Sir, Your most obedient Servant. JAMES SEDOWICK. Stamp Office, Somerset House, Sept. 21, 1026. THE NEW SYNAGOGUE. This Synagogue, which is erected at St. Albin's-place, St. James's, was consecrated yesterday by Dr. Herschell, the Chief Rabbi. This solemn ceremony was introduced by some excellent music, and the forms observed, being according to the Le vitical law, hail an impressive effect. The visitors were very numerous, and of the first respectability. The Wilding its. If is elegantly neat, richly ornamented, but totally divestfd of tinsel embellishment. The Syne- gogue is a long square, containing 500 sittings fer ese►nre men on the ground-floor, each seat tit:inhered, with a moveable desk before and behind the sitter, and a locker for great-coats and cloaks. A gallery supported by quoigns goes along the two sides and entrance end of the building; this is exclu►ively for the ladies, and holds sittings for 300, all numbered ; this gallery is fenced by a light trellis-work of verge antique, forming a modest screen tc the ladies, though no interruption to their seeing or hearing. The altar is a superb piece of architecture, the apex and entablature supported by four lonic columns, and six lonic pilasters, with gilt capitals of the Corin thian o der, all of highly polished green scagliola. The Ark is approached by a flight of five oak steps, co vered with Brussels carpeting, ay it4l3e,fluor of the altar. Before the gates of the Ark is rlollsly. embossed - tea (or curtain) of crimson silk. In the centre is a Hebrew in scription, encircled by palm branches, surmounted by an . imperial crown of gold embroidery; the curtain withdraws on a brass rod by silk cords and tassels, displaying the oak gates of the Ark, where are deposited the written Law of Moses, called the Sacred Scrolls. On the right hand of the altar stands a light and elegant tripod, bearing nine lights, in commemoration of the victorious battles of the Macca bees. On the front rail of the altar are four metal candela bra, highly gilt and burnished, having each a wax flambeau of the same height; on either side of the doors of the Ark arc silver ewers and hasins, used at particular ce remonials. Three very large chandeliers, of 24 lights each, are ran3ed down the centre of the ceiling ; between the spaces, nearer to the sides, are eight others, of 12 candles ; suspended round the galleries are 10 smaller, and on the rail of the gallery trellis-work, tall lights are placed about three feet apart. The ceiling is divided into com partments, supgorted on groined arches. In the centre of the floor are tV reading-desk and orchestra, also illumined by tripod candelabra. There is no organ, but in other re spects there is a complete band, consisting of violas di gamba, horns, trumpets, violins, and a piano. We are informed that the branch of the Bank of Eng land, at Manchester, will commence business to-morrow.— Liverpool l'aper of 19ednestlay. We have received the St. l'etersburgh Journal to the 40t11 inst. It is silent respecting the late irruptions of the l'ersians, and contains no political intelligence. The fol lowing arc extracts:— Moscow, Aro. 14 (211.) On the 4th (IPII) of this month, her Imperial Highness the Grand Duchy* Helen visited the University of Moscow, and the cabinets, Ate. belonging to it. ST. PT.TEASBURCIII, SETT. 4. A new edition has just been published of the General Tariff of Custom•, with all the modifications that have been made in it dur ing the last five years. A WITZIIOBII., SETT. 19. ExclAAOcs.—QeMeAon, one month, 40f. 7c.; two maths, 40E. 4c. IMPI III.OL BRAZILIAN MINING ASSOCIATION. .The extraordinary rage Tor speculation which prevailed in the early part of last year has been followed by a attll more extraonlinary panic at the bare mention of Inch a thing as a" Company." People wodld now almost at soon vest their Feeney in Spanish Securities as risk a P•ar don of it in the shares of any Company , however respectable the Directors, if that Company )append to have been formed in 18514 or 1823. Thus it is,ibil all shares have fallen la value—those which are promising, as well as those which, founded in fraud, realized, as an Irishman would say. nothing but a great lass 10 the proprietors. There ham, however, *it some CoMpanies established, and amorist the number Is the Imperial Brazilian Mining Comps''', which were projected, not for the purpose of gambling m shsrei, but with the better, fide intention of employing stan plus capital in such a manner as would give employdient to many persons, and leave a reasonable expectation of profit to the priSpentors. It gives us pleasure to be enabled to announce the emcees of any such Society, and it is wits this feeling that we extract the following passage* froM the { WO Report (which has been just published) 6f the Direc. I re of the above-named coosp o tol ; mere% remirtiiug dint I , respectability of the Directors is aen eiena . to shirprahOle that In this Company, at least, every thing is fair an/ honourable : t p Prom Mr. mews's', of the 23,1 Neel. k iW be seen that he had taken legal and formal ',mention of the estate it Omen Seco on the 17th of 51arees, and on that very day cora. 'mond his operations. as (so use hia own eamiteuie ereseisee "1+6 . 1 war-sitzleus In starless and report to the Directors the result of the - , minsery operations." The general mutt (the particulars will be reed in the regain extract of Mr. Oxenford's letter) was, by the avenge working of two men at washiog the rubbish and sweepings lea by the last occupant, elbe. looz. IStlvrt. 3gra. of gold dust for the first five days. Upon the second report of the average of four men cashing the produee of the mine for nine days, 40Ibs. 3oz. laden. 184grs. ; and upon the third report of the average of rather mere than .Ix men for nine days 37Ibs. 10 z. 16.1 wt. 191grs , in the whole, Mika. 4dwt. 17grs. • or in tvrenty.threedays, by the avenge washing of five me 1, within a f:w pennyweights of 1,000 ounces. It must, however, be observed, that theiluctuations in the produce of the washing are considerable, and it would be too Much to expect that an invariable standard of production could b thus calculated upon. It is not upon the fallacious system of sue 1 calculations that the Directors wish the confidence of the Share ' hoidens to he tested—it is upon the test of experience, and the result of the intlefetigab'e attention and industry df file. Oxen. ford, and the scientific persons under him, and the well-keown zeal with which that gentleman has ever pursued, and will contim to follow up, the interests of the Aseociation, that their expects. tinny must be founded. Upon these they may firmly rely, but the Directors think it their dmy to caution the Shareholders against too sanguine hopes—and thus against that disappointment which will naturally follow if the results should hot (gull their anticipa tions, and against that dissatisfaction which might fall (though most unjust!}) upon the Directors and .(It. Oxenford. It will afford a sari factory proof to the shareholder!: of the great value which is attached to the mines, by those most capable of judging, to be informed, that all the miners, Dr. Gardner, and a foreigner perfectly unconnected with the Association, but residing in the vicinity of Gongo Soto, hare remitted money to a considerable amount to be invested in shares. The Directors are now in com munication with a gentlenuin respecting the engagement of a civil engineer, and they hope to obtain the services of • practical acien. title man for that dep.rtment, who will immediately proceed to the Brazils, and by whose aid the whole of the mines will be placed in an effective srate of working. The principal occupation of an engineer will be in draining and repairing the place where the lag occupant of Antonin Pereira left off and in suggelting such other improvements as may be necessa.y for the most rapid and easy manner of working the mines generally. The nttmher of persons now employed, and who will be all in activity at the mines long i before this, ncluding English. native., &c. amount to nearly 300; and as the produce May from time to time justify the Increase. Mr. Oxenford will add to this force, so as to give invent and more powerful effect to their labours. The Directors have received several public document's, showing the legal possession of the various properties which have been purchased, loge her with the copies of the certificates of the captains of the mines, relat:ve to the daily work and produce, and a very interesting ar.d. able letter from Dr. Gardner, upon the subject of the produce obtained from the rejected pieces of rock and earth which have hitherto been con. shined of no value. This it a fea:ure of some importance to the interest of the Associatim, and strengthens the Opinion originally existessed, that by the application of science many advantages were Mb, obtained, at present unattended to or unknown by the natives. ' The tteparatieen of the palladium from the gold end hrineng it into •neha metallic crate , will also probably be the source Oconsider able profit to the Aitasciation. 4t would here be a high gratification to the Directors, if they could inform the Shareholders that the gold already produced was in their own possession in London. The laws of the Brazilian Empire at present prevent the exportation of gold ; but the eonsti went and legislative Assernbly'of the States will, it is understood, have two propositions submitted to them by the Government, viz. to reduce the duty upon the produce of the gold mines, and to per. nit the exportation of that precious metal—measures which, if adopted, will at once stamp the wisdom of the Legislature, and the certain prosperity of this Association. Samples, however, of the gold dust, and various specimens, with their analysis, have been te ceived, and will be shortly at the Office, for the inspection of such Shareholders as may be desirous of seeing them. In conclusion, the Directors have most sincerely to offer to the Shareholders their enngroulations upon this very successful e m. meneenent of the operations at the mines. Harassed as they have neceswrily been in these times of doubt and distrust, it is en li. expressible relief to their minds to be able to come before the pub. lie with so SW illf•ClOrY a statement—a statement no: founded upon speculative opinions, but upon solid exprriment, and with dr pr '- duce in the hands clone of their own body, to whose indefatigable seal. Industry, ability, and Integrity, the Directors and Snare holders are so deeply Indebted. They have only further to hope, that the prosperity thus happily breaking in upon the Association may continue increasing. and that their anxiety and attention may be amply requited by the golden results which now bid so fair to crown their efforts. VESTRY MEETING AT ST. JAMES'S, CLERKEN WELL. Yesterday • public Meeting of the inhabitants of St.James's and St. John's, Clerkenwell, was held at the vestry-room of St. James's Church, for the purpose of hearing th:.;;cpart of t h e c om . mittee appoint , d by Vestry to revisethseveral Acts of Parliament by which the affairs of the great present regulated; and to take into consi,%rattott the propriety of making application to Rollo meet, for the purpose of securing the following objects:— First—That the two Boards of Commissioneis for Paving, Light ing, Watching, and Cleansing, the districts of Si. James and St. John, be forthwith united; and that the business be in future con ducted by one Board, whose jurisdiction shall be co-extensive with the parish. Second—That Commissioners quitting the parish, or becoming insolvent, shall vacate their semis at the Board. Think—That the present system of self-election be abolished; and all future vacancies Ilferl or by the inhabitants in Vestry. Fourth—'That the Commissioners shall be compelled to publish annually a statement of their receipts and expenditure. About twelve o'clock nunieroua inhabitants of the two parishes arrived; and the business of the Meeting commenced by Mr. GEORGE CHAPPELL, senior Churchwarden, being called to the Chair. _ _ _ 111 T. BODKIN rose; and, after a few preliminary obaervations, read a very lengthy Retort, which our limits do not allow us to give, the essence of which, however, consisted in explaining, and arguing in favour of, the separate subject+ above detailed inclusint of some minor points. When about half the Report had been read, in consequence of the increase of auditory, an adjournment $ the Church took place ; and the Report, being proceeded with, was carried unaoirrott.ly. At this period of the proceetlings,.a desultory soil mixed con versation took place between the Chairman, Mr. M'. H. Bodkin, and several of the parishioners, on some ntiuor points; which be. log satisfactorily explained, Mr. BODKIN again rose, for the purpose of putting the follow. ing resolutions, which were passed without dissent:— That the outline of the Bill expressed in the Report be prepared, and carried into effeet forthwith. . _ . ..... ..... That the Committee be empowered to procure such professional assistance as they may deem proper, under the sanction of the Vestry. That the Commissioners removing from the parish, ceasing to become housekeepers, or becoming bankrupts, should imniediately vacate their seats at the Board. That all future vacancies at the Board should be filled up by the inhabitants in Vestry ; and that the qualification of Commissioners should be, the possession of 1,0001., real or personal, clear of all debts and incumbranees. That detailed statements of receipts and expenditures should be annually published by the Commissioners. It was then moved and carried that the following gentlemen be added to the Committee:—Mears. Knight, Fish, Charles Palmer, Dismal. Douglas, and Tyree. Mr. Booms then read the petition, which is to be presented early in the ensuing Session, and which was signed by several of the parialtioners. Thanks being then voted to the Chairman, the Meeting asps. rated. The Countess of Eldon, we are happy to state, wu rather better yesterday. Brussels Papas to the 21st inst. arrival yesterday. It will be seen that Athens is closely blockaded by the Turks. NAPOLt Dt lionawra, Auo. Athens is closely blockaded by the Turks, but they have no ar tillery to act sgairst the citadel. Ibrahim hat marched from Trl polista towards the plain of Corinth. A small party of Arab foragers has been surrounded and made prisoners by the Greeks. The Greeks tear lest he should open a communication by the Isth mus of Corinth with the Turks in Attica; but this is an operation which it would be necessary to support by sea, aid it does not appear that tits Ticks us likely to take much trouble to carry it into Abet. MENDING AT DNS BANK OF 1 taiLAND. - The usual usual Quarterly Meeting of the Proprietors of Lock i took place yawed's', at twelve O'cledt, for the Parsiort* the half-yearly dividend. ' This was declared, in the moat form, to be four per diaftle i t i e" , tensile and profit'', for the hairiest eodfag 10th Oitober out: Dividend Warrants to be delivered on the 11th. On the question of adjournment being put from the Chair, Mr. Yount) rose to silk a few questions opon topics highly ta., trusting at the present period. He had wilted tilt the laitnips mem Sebes he Intruded himself upon the Conn./rem tbs =Wow wish that any other individual than himself 'boob, *snit keens*: He assured them that it was personally painful to lellne to the atteotioo of the Court; but be really could not rett ... "lit 111 0 his feeling" to meet so numerous and respectable an ot Proprietors, connected as their ion:sesta were with the int of the comaittnity at large, and at • moment so critical be. dm country, without seeking information upon mango in *lf& they were all more or less deeply . concerned. Their Memo were now almut to open a new business; for by that lanes alalT could be direignate the extensinn of their business In the lbw of Branch Banks. 2'his pr.ceeding, so important to thew as Proprietors, but doubly important to the public, he bad hoped would have elicited song inforatation from the . Pi ream, as to the principle by which they meant to govern their conduct. Of this he was quite sum that the Welt of the eeediog most be to do groat good, oe great harm • ' sad, *did lop that 'bob Directors had not last sight of 46 la wmen of Os prove-ahoy, so fat as not so require from do Ott. werninen that few advantage to which thy, wet. entitled, Ilry an satanical of thole charter. Hi would boldly usitintoia sins the - extension of their business *paid confer the greatest owed .en the community ; and , deeply interested as tho Company wore, mould eat bout way gosoi4ssiveit to the Bonk:. - if ibiriburlt Inn to benefit at all, It must be from the continuance of this pirtirtilse kind of business, not from the prosecution of it for a few poem only t and Government reetiving trout them such security fat do circulation of the country as the piper of that Lompony must sifted, could not refuse to grant an equivoient adoon tage. It was therefore the duty of the Directors, hi indents/ responsibility of tae whole body of Proprietors toward* the public ic, to have stipulated for the advantage in question, and he trailed they would not be allowed to depart without the requisite loftiest ellen on that head. He was also anxious to hear something about ;ht management of these Branch Banks. He wished to know *tw itter they were merely for deposits. or whether it was intended to di sceurst bills and advance money on goods ? All these questions were important ; ind lie was the more emboldened to put them wl h co ' hilt n e, f con the fatal realisation of his former peak io a. He lad s ways said that it must depend upon the ettrldtict ot Government haw they were to go on, and whether their Olds, w0..1d be prism:roue or otherwise. If they were to allow them selves to be drawn out Into Branch Bank*, the value of their paper w oed depend upon the course pursued by Government. 'I h a sat so ' bvioue ae hardly to need any ii ?ti tration; but be would, never beets, ask whether, if his Majesty's Government eh uld ram v upon making this an importing country in the article of corn, and 1 rge quantities of corn were to be brought in, would not that affect the value of their paper--and wield it depend upon themselves to regulate that value ? If, again, Government should persist in the ruinous scheme with reference to the British ship ping=should it not grant some protection to that interest, hot allow it to lie destroyed by the competition of the North of Europe— would there not be an increased demand for specie, by which dio Bank must be seriou-ly affected ? lie hoped, therefore, babied Mitt out a case for information, upon topics so interesting and important. Ile would take the liberty of alluding to another sub s ot. was a strong report that it ors again in the contemp lation ' oft Court of Directors to resolve on a reduction of the rate of dismouat. He hoped this wiS not the case. Ile had had the litinour to raise his voice in repro‘ation of a siat:lar proceeding. when last adopted: and it was now the acknowledged opinion ot every owe, that that measure on the part of the Bank, with the conduct of the Goren . ment in lowering the rate of interest on Exchequer Bills, and to the public annunant, had caused the superabundance of credit and capital, the misdirection of which had led to 'lithe ditustere of De cember last. That Court, he trusted, would take ate that so grievous an error were not again committed. He hoped it was per. fectly understood that the remarks he ass making were made upon public principles. He did not stand there to advocate any part , . measure, or any Individual int e r es t. All t h e t o pi cs he had intsO duced were o' public moment ; and as they were interested in the welfare of the community, he hoped they would not part without the requisite information. He repeated, that if it was intended to lower the rate of discount, he should solemnly protest against It. The CHAIRMAN said, he hoped there was no ground fur charg. ing the Court Of Directors with a want of candour. He would answer the lan proposition of the Honourable Gentleman first, because It *mild admit of the shortest answer. He begged to state that lie had no information to communicate as to any reduetion of the the rate of discount, inasmuch as the opinion of the Court of Directors had undergone no change in that respect sines December last.— .With respect to Branch Banks, the Honourable Gentleman had 'era. that they ought to have made an arrangement with Govern mint for a prolongation of their Charter, in consenting to lend themselves to establiehments of that nature. It was too strongly impressed upon the Court of Proprietors, to require that he should dwell Jong upon the fact, that at the Meeting ache Si of Fe bruary last, it had been shown that the Court of Directors had dome every thing that depended upon them to obtain that advantage.— They had laid before the Proprietors the whole of the correspond ence had with his Majesty's Government on the subject; and be believed he might assert that it was then shown, to the satisfaction I f the Ploprieto . s, that they had fought the battle well, and if they did not succeed It was not their own fault. He believed the Pto prietors had ex, raised themselves satisfied at what was then done, and feat persuaded thst. if more could have been dme, it would not have been omitted. He hoped he had answered this question in a fair and straightforwi ri manner. With reference to the lota. blishment of Branch B ink., what gave rise to that proceeding was K. well know n , especially I y commercial men, as to require no io forma ia . iron him. It ass well known, however, that out 011ie range of Lyndon, in rime Instances (and he begged to speak with the utmost caution), v e irculation was not managed with all tern discretion that might have been beneficially employed. Thee r• cumstacces of the cme rendered it neceesery, for the welfart of .be *hole community, that that nighty establishment should step i t for the relief of those pairs. (Hear.) Whether in the part they had acted they had best dor., their dive , to that Coon, where, hi deed, it was first due, or to the public, would be best known by a refereace to II c tote of tanks given to the Directors by the Pro prietor,. (Hear, hear.) The Government, under the then state of the country,had ealledupon that powetfut establishment to come for. ward and uphold the intere.ts, the en dit, and the prosperity of tee Stare. That Company [ad ens . ered ,he call, but they did not seek the course they had taker. Wench Banks had been establishe-S, he Pasts where there was 1 ..::: ) :, :.ey ..tit uLeion, and where the ugantry was languishing for want of it. He instanced Wouscester as one place, where a Bank had been established. The conduct they meant to pursue Was the same straight for ward, liberal, cornet, and accurate mode of businise, as was adopted here in London; without that ir' would be of no use. The country wan led refonn in the system of kink ing, not an adherence to the old system. So much, then, for the cause of these Branch Banks, and or the principle on which they were to proceed. They were R•cps-ed to go to every town wbicn wanted them ; nor in the c‘irtt ot in. rdinate gain, for they wets satisfied to do good sod bb sin a fair remuneralun. They went not to overwhelm or compete wi h estsblishmerts conducted on sound principles of discretion; they wished only to relieve these neceeiitin which mismanagemet t had created, and the relief ot which was indispensable to the can inued tor , spetity of the country, and the credit ot commercial dealings. VI I hoot such aid a country like ours, built so largely on the basis of commercial power, could not prosper. He hoped, In spite of sneers. that the Company would ksve credit for an honest, pure, and liberal deal e; and he was sine that their Proprietors would net cc have to blush at Vie decision or the conduct of their Court of Direct() a. (Hear, hear.) Mr. You ito explained, and thanked the Chairman for the hand. Omni manner in which he had answered his questions. kla Meught Government bad a desire to make a cat's paw of the Bonk .a the. motto of Branch Banks. He wished to know if wooer was so he advanced on goods by the Branch Banks? The CHAIRMAN—No, Sir. Mr. You go—Then, Sir, do the Court of Proprietors mean to lower the rate of discount? The I !aallll4AN.—it is no part of my duty to give any plash - F .. upon that subject to this Court ; neither does the Court seem to require it from me, u no one has sec , mtled the interrogatories of the Honourable Gentleman; and if I were disposed to give such a pledge, I am sure your Court of Proprietors would not allow we. The Court then adjourned. The Allgemeine Zeitung to the 13th inst. has been re- • ceived. It furnishes the following article relative to recent movements, and present situation, of the Austtiau Imperial Family : STPT. Their Majesties the Emperor and Empress will not arrive here till about the 22d of this month. Their Imperial Highnesses the Archduke Rodolphe, Cardinal Archbishop of 011mutz, and the Archduke Viceroy. and his consort, arrived here the day before yesterday. Her Majesty the Archduchess Maria Louisa is also expected to return to this city, on her way back to Parma. 'l% r circle of the Imperial Family, the whole of which was to be assert' - bled, is unfortunately rendered incomplete by the sickness of acre of the children of the Archduke Chat les ; it has the measles, shah diameter the Emperor never had, so that rite Grand Duke's family is thus constrained to observe a sort of quarantine tar six weeks, with respect to the other branches of the Imperial Family. It is , to be faired that the members of it wha reside in Italy will leave Vienna without seeing the A-chtluke Charles and his family. oh,. will remain at Baden till the disorder is over. During the absence of ourAhillatikel, the Emperor will be present at the &musical reviews of the garrison of this city. We long for the neenter.t whoa etti ab ,1 see an beloved Sovereign surrounded by on ids forallp. Tito eons of the Archduchess Maria &Istria, who coatinurs to enjoy the most vigorous health, yesterday gave a grand entertai;l- meat in her palace, in honour of her Saint's day, at whit& be: Imperial fliganess appeared with the affability sad COOdelKeesjuia which so peculiarly distinguish her. The Duke of Modena, Kr eldest son, orbs out to-morrow to return to Italy, but his brothets, the Archdukes Ferdinand and Maximilian of Este, are alrea44 i the capitol. His Majesty has permitted 31. Jowoh Von tie t irmer ;the eels bused orientalist) to accept the Crom of COMMOIIdet of the eon - emotinlan Qat' of St. Orarge, =chum! ;woo Lim by the Ductless or Penna. I-