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adoption of a plan which I take the liberty of sug gesting to you, with no other motive than that of promoting the public good. I do confess lam anxi ous to see the scheme fairly tried, and that no other natio n sh;nild•get the start of us in one of so much promise and utility. Being, my Lord Mayor and Gentlemen, Yours, &c. St. Maryiebone, June 25. D. F. W. APPROACHES TO LONDON BRIDGE. MEETING OF IRS MAJESTY'S MINISTERS, AND A DEPUTATION FROM THE CORPORATION OF LON DON, RELATIVE TO LONDON-DRIDGE. Yesterday a. deputation from the Corporation OF London went to the Duke of Wellington's office, in Downing-street, by appointment, in order to diseusS the subject of the approaches to London-bridge. There were present, besides the Duke of Wellington, Lord Alelville, Sir 'George Cockburn, Mr. Herries, and the Chan cellor of the Exchequer. The deputation con sisted of Alderman Wood, Mr. Routh, Mr. Jones, the Chairman of the Bridge Committee, Mr. Tickner, Mr. Locke, Mr. Rennie, the en gineer, and Mr. Newman, the comptroller of the Bridge-house estates. The arrangements and the conversation which stook place upon the subject were of the most satisfactory description. The Duke of WELLINGTON examined the plan upon which the Members of the Committee at Guildhall had agreed as the most eligible, with a great deal of attention, and his Grace appeared to be perfectly conversant with the numerous complicated details. He said that it was his most anxious wish that the approaches should correspond with - the magnificent structure which had been raised, and that the main approach on each side' should be so wide as to prevent the possibility of any, even the slightest obstruction, (:0 the passage of vehicles of all descriptions. Ale thought that the opposite houses should be • distant from each other about seventy feet, and that the pavement on each side should be about te n feet wide. This width of approach would prevent the inconvenience so often resulting in the narrow passages to the old bridge, from the stopping of carriages at shops. The pavement on each side of the bridge, he considered, should be nine feet wide. This was in exact accordance with Mr. Itel nie . s plan. The Duke of WELLINGTON expressed the greatest anxiety that the approaches to the new bridg e should be perfected with all possible ex pedition. He meant the main approaches— that fi-om Gracechurch-street, and that from Tooley-street, on the Borough side ; for as to the branch a pp roac h es , h e thought it advisable to postpone the deliberation with respect to them until the public should have some experience of the efl'ect of the plan. to which the Government .and the Committee now were giving their sanc tion. The great object at this moment was to abandon the old bridge as speedily as could be, for which purpose it would be necessary to cam nience operations at the arches to be rained on both sides of the river. It was the opinion of Mr Rennie, when he gave evidence before Parliament on the subject of old London-bridge, that that building was very insecure. In fact, he declared that he could not answer for its standing twelve months longer. The appearance of' the crazy old state ture,,froln the water or from the new bridge, favours this opinion of its instability. It is be lieved that the Duke of Wellington has appre hensions of this sort very strongly upon his mind, for be referred several times during the e:onversation to the necessity—the paramount necessity_ of pulling down the old stones. The Committee thought that the main ap proaches, the extent and direction of which were Pointed out by the Duke of Wellington, accord ing to their plan, would be completed within the Space of twelve months, so that the public may look with certainty to the commencement of the operations of trade over the new bridge next June. The object of the Duke, in suggesting that the branch approaches should form matter for future deliberation, is, we have reason to be lieve, that encouragement should not be given to the extravagant demands of the owners of .Premises, who, it is suspected, may be still dis- Posed to overrate goodwill, &c., notwithstanding the staggering checks which juries have given them on both sides of the water. The Duke of WELLINGTON urged the pro priety of beginning at the two arches immedi ately. He declared that the Government hoped to see approaches worthy of the grand structure, and he hinted that the Committee who were to s uperintend the buildings would not be justified to acting upon any other than a grand scale, c Orresponding with the bridge, however formi dable the expense might appear to be at the outset. Lord MELATILLE and Sir GEORGE COCK- A t./RN seemed to take great interest in the sub -Net, and put several questions to the engineer, *ho answered every thing satisfactorily. In the course of the conversation the Duke of WELLINGTON expressed his surprise at a had gross and ridiculous mis-statem e nt w hi c h 'tad gone abroad—that his Majesty's Govern ment and the Corporation of London were at I:ariance upon the subject at present under deli beration. Nothing could be more erroneous, 14 upid, or unfounded. There was no disagree fieut ; on the contrary, the most perfect under anding existed. They went hand-in-hand in " l is great work, and it would no doubt be com pleted m os t p ros p erous ly. Th e C omm i ttee h a d th e Bill, and were to put it into operation them tNves. His G race s i gn ifi e d his intention to go o examin e th e p ro j ec t e d b ranc h approac h es, par aarly those about Tooler street, m a few days, e period of the greatest confusion of busi- I t'ss, in order to form an estimate of the merits ° C th e plan of details. He has already visited it t 4t the quiet time, but did not think th e h our o f ta oquillity at all a criterion. th It is believed that one of the great projects of tl e Committee (and a magnificent one it is), ; ‘, "at of opening an approach up to the Bank, h ill be adopted ; but some time before that shall oe determined upon, the bridge will itself be t'oed to the public. t. The Committee left Downing-street fully gra orc(l at the ardent interest which those members NI th e G overnment too k on t h e occa si on . f°tdd the c ity o f L on d on b e di s p ose d a t a ny i uti Ir e period to borrow money of Government 4 10 1 'Is great object, no doubt is ent e rt a ined that C 44 would be at once granted, and unde r the ost adv an t ageous c i rcums t ances . A C ourt o f a l ,Pllon Council is to be forthwith summ o n e d, 4 contracts will be immediately taken for the i ece _ e sary materials for the arches, whi c h w ill b e 'tbenced with as little delay as possible. 114 ce LEoPoLD came t o t on on Thursday 'Rhtw f rom 144 seat at Claremont. At..7e Earl o f A BERDEEN an d M r . S ecretary `t had an interview with the Duke of WELLINGTON 1.4:144Y afternoon at the Treoury. The Earl of VERU visited his Grace yesterda3. STAMP-OFFICE.-INFORMATIONS TO THE EDI ma OF TIIE SUN. giving space in your excellent Journal to the following, you will , be conferring an essential public service, as well as individual obligation:— It is well known that the great body of the Met cal Profession carry on their avocation in public shops, and that they divide with the chemists and druggists the retail of drugs, chemicals, and patent medicines. For the sale of the latter a licence from the Stamp-office is necessary, and must be renewed yearly, by paying 2/. Now, Sir, as this liberal land has no law to prevent quackery, nor ever will, since the health of his Majesty's liege subjects is of small importance when put - in competition with the im mense revenue derived from stamps to patent medi cines, the list of these medicines has been swelled out, and a catalogue of them would astonish all, however much devoted to quackery; and it is likely, provided disease does not take more rapid strides that the catalogue of quack puffery and humbug will exceed to an immense extent the number of ailments in Cullen's Nosology. There are about 553 articles of patent medicines with which I am familiar, and of these the consumption daily is enormous, and it is imperative that not one of these articles may be vended without a stamp proportioned to its price, viz., for Is. a stamp of lid.; 2s. 6d., 3d.; 45., CI, and so on ; au omission in affixing a stamp renders the party offending liable to a pc . natty of 10/. Now, this is all very well as regards patent medicines, for if the public mind in these marching times of intellectuality, does not improve in physical knowledge in an equal ratio to the other sciences, why, they must still continue to swallow the nostrums of the quack, and if the stamp duty were treble the amount of what it now is, so much the better for the coffers of the State; but this law of stamping has latterly become greatly perverted. Articles sold are now obliged to l am , stamped on which originally the law was never intended to bear, and the thing has become most try ingly vexatious and obnoxious to the retailer of drugs and chemical.% Thus, for instance, a man of the name of Henry obtained a patent for making " aromatic vinegar," which is sold in bottles at 2s. 9d., and this article must bear a 3d. stamp. The Dispensatories published under the authority of the Royal College of Physicians of London, Edinburgh, and Dublin, authorize an article to be , made called aromatic spirit of vinegar, or concen trawl spirit of vinegar, which is kept in every shop, arid retailed from three pennyworth and up wards. Now, because there is a patent article called " Henry's Aromatic Vinegar," no retail ven der of drugs must sell any quantity of this article, aromatic spirit of vinegar, that is not Henry's, with out affixing a stamp to the phial it is put into, un der the penalty of 101.; so that if a lady fainting in the streets, and her vinegarette chances to want replenishing with this very choice article, you must, notwithstanding her delicate situation, after you have filled her gold or silver receptacle, fast bind it by a stamp, and she must continqe her fainting t such time as bcr attendants arc enabled to disengage this now legal addition to the vinegirette. Thus, Mr. Editor, by a most adroit quibble, a species of annoyance is created and an advantage taken, which the law never intended, by a set of sharpers, who gain a livelihood by making these pitiful de- _ . tections, and laying informations at the office of Mr, Timm; solicitor of stamps, immediately upon which] _ . an Exchequer writ is issued in all the majesty and pomp of office, " at the suit of his Majesty's At totney-General, by information," ordering you to appear by attorney before the Barons of the Court of Exchequer on such a day, and in nowise omit, under the penalty of 100/., to be levied on your goods and chattels; but this is rarely if ever carried into effect, the usual course being to petition the Honourable Commissioners of Stamps for a mitiga tion of penalty, which is invariably complied with, and these gentlemen in their leniency are mercifully pleased to be so moderate, that they direct Mr.Timm tote!! you, that "if you pay into hisoffice, within so many days, the sum of f our poun d s l aw f u l money of this realm, it will prevent all further proceedings to recover the full penalty and costs." This the poor offenders are glad to do, none being hardy enough to stand the brunt of an action, because it is well known how these things go in the Court of Exchequer. Having sold Aromatic Vine gar for fourteen years, some thou4ands of times, I was totally ignorant that by so doing I was acting wrong, according to the technicalities of law. I should as soon have• thought that I was equally liable for selling a few pennyworth of calcined mag nesia unstamped, beeathe there is also a quack medi- eine called " Henry's Calcined Magnesia." The one case is equally as just as the other; and feeling as I do for ail my fellow sufferers, whom I know to be numerous, but who probably fear the ordeal of . . appearing before the publie,—in their name and my own, through the medium of the press, I recommend all ►vho retail drugs to be extremely circumspect, not only as regards the sale of Aromatic Vinegar, but many other articles also. For myself I may loudly complain, after continued repetitions of these Vexatious penaltie , . I\o less than three times have I been compelled, within the last three years, to pay, first 51. and two subsequent ones of 41. each for selling some trumpery pennyworth of lozenges. Rom the interpretation which Honourable Commis- sioners give of the law, Apothecaries must not sell or recommend a saline draught without a stamp to any poor soul sweating under the influence of a ver tical sun, without miming the risk of an information for selling soda water, as the following remarkable clause in the Act will fully verify, and its accommo dation has been highly beneficial to that class of re spectable persons called " Informers :"—" All waters, and all artificial mineral waters, impregnated with soda or mineral alkali, or with carbonic acid gas, and all compositions in a liquid or solid state to be used for the purpose of compounding, or making any of the said waters." Having now stated the annoyances which Re ailers of Drugs arc exposed to, I think it will be seen how necessary it is for all whom it may con cern t& unite their efforts in devising or seeking some remedy for so grievous a state of the law as that relating to the sale of drugs, since its perversion has led to so much annoyance and serious incon- venience.—l remain, M. Editor, yours most re spectfully, CHAS. SNITCH. Brydges-ttreet, Covent-garden. Captain BASIL HALL'S Travels in North America, in Three Vols., is this day publi.hed by Suur— KIN and 111AnsuALL, Stationers'-court. The volume of Etchings, by Captain HALL, in a few days. The letters from Vienna attach great import ance to the unexpected visit of the SULTAN to the eminent English merchant, Mr. BLACK (of the house of 'EMAIL, BLACK, and Co.), at Constantinople. It is stated that it is the first time the SULTAN ever deigned to visit a mer chant.. The conference lasted for several hours, during. which the SULTAN converted in the most condescending manner. FROM THE GAZETTE or LAST NIGHT . i Inn, Halesworth. White an I Barrett, Great St. Helen's, Bishopsgate-street ; Crabtree and Allcock, Halesworth. Samuel Cook and Charles Martin Oliver, Alie-street, Goetlinan's-ftelds, upholsterer, June 30, July 3, and Aug. 7, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. Britt, I'iice, and Lucas, Hayden-square, Minories. George Anderson, Great St. Thomas Apostle, surgeon, June 30, at ten, July 10,•at elev,n, and Aug. 7, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners. Whitelock, Cateaton street. Lerd Charnhedain's-Ofli,v, June 26, 1829. Orders for trit; Cuures going into tntwrnin 7, on Sunda) next the 2Sth i nstant , f or her late :Alajesty 'the Quern u. Spain, viz. The Ladies to wear black slik, Crinzed or plain linen, white gloves, ne . ;1:1 ces e,r-tin4s black or white shoes, fins and tinet-. The Gentlemen to wear black, full trimmed, fringed or plain linen, black swords and buckle=. The Court to change the mourning- on Sunday the I t 1 of July next, viz. The Ladies to wear !dark silk or velvet, coloured rib. bons, fans and tippet., or plain white, or white and gold, or white and silver stull, with black ribbons. The Gentlemen to wear Flack coats, and black or plain white. or white and gold, or white and silver stuff waist coats, full trimmed, coloured swords and buckles. Atli on Sunday the 19th of July next, the Court to go out of mourning. At the Court at Windsor, the 22d day of June, 1929, PRESENT, The King's Most Excellent Majesty in Council. It is this day ordered by his Majesty in Council, that the Parliament be prorogued, from Wednesday the 24th day of this instant June, to Thursday the 20th day of Au gust u,xt. DIVIDENDS. And the Right Honourable the Lord High Chancellor, of that part of the United Kingdom called Great Britain, is to cause a Commission to he prepared, in the usual manner, for proroguing the Parliament accordingly, It is this day ordered by his Majesty in Council, 'that the Convocations of the Provinces of Canterbury and York be prorogued, from the day to which the same now stand prorogued, to Friday the 21st day of August next. And the Right Honourable the Lord High Chancellor of that part of the United Kingdom called Great Brit lin, ►s to cause Commissions or Wri!s to be prepared, in the usual manner, fur proroguing the said Convocations ac— cordingly. •! Matthias Dupont King and Henry King, Falcon-street, wine -merchants, July 17, at eleven, at the Court of Com- nussioners. Iruitehall, June 24. Henry Richard Kirkman, St. Paul's Church-yard, silk warehouseman, July 17, at ten, at the Cuurt of Commis- sioners. The King has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal, constituting and appointing the Right Hon. Robert Viscount Melville, K. T. ; the Right Hon. Sir George Cockburn, G.C.8., Vice-Admiral of the White Squadron of his Majesty's Fleet ; Sir Henry Hotham, K.C.B. Vice-Admiral o f th e Blue Squ a dr on o f his Majesty's Fleet; Sir George Clerk, Bart. ; and Fre derick Stewart, Esq. (commonly called Viscount Castle reagh), to be his Majesty's Coeimissioners for executing the office of High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the dominions, islands, and territories thereuntO belonging. James Thomson, jun. Swan-alley, Coleman-street, July 17, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners. Thomas Baines and John Fairnian, Watling -street warehousemen, July 17, at ten, at the Court of Commis sioners. J. F. Smallman, Basinghall-street, Blackwell-hall-fac tor, July 17, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. J. S. Rains, Wapping-wall, merchant, Juiy 17, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners. J. E. Allen, Aldersgate-strea, druggist, July 17, at two, at the Court of Commissioners. T. Johnston, Cheapside, warehouseman, July 17, at ten, • at the Court of Commissioners. E. Wilson, 'Wellington-street, Strand, upholsterer, July 17, at one, at the Court of Commissioners. W. Hare, Illarchmont-street. Brunswick-square, draper, July 17, at elyven, at the Court of Commissioners. 11. Brindley, Coleman-street, saddler, July 17, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners. J. Turner, Finsbury-circus, builder, July 17, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. G. Smalibones, Bath-place, New-road, glass-cutter, July 17, at ten, at the Court of Commis,ioners. J. Bacon, Commercial-road, Laubeth, carpenter, July 17, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners,. T. Fridy, Boughton, Kent, grocer, July 17, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. G. Webb and J. Stewart, Threadneedle -street, mer chants, July 17, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. H. Fauntleroy, Berners-street, banker, July 3, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. R. Sims, King-street, leather-seller, July 17, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. T. Coser, Stockton-on-Tees, Durham, draper, July 18, at ten, at the Star inn, Mancites'er. J. G. Hodgson, Piazza-coffee-house, Covent. garden, wine -merchant, July 17, at nine, at the Court of Com missioners. CERTIFICATES—Jun' 17. John Finlayson, Cheltenham, music-seller. John Lavers, Buckfastleigh, Devonshire, worn-spinner. John Godwin Bowring, Fen-court, Fenchurch-street, East India-broker. Frederick Dixon, -Oxford-street, upholsterer. James Tavernor, Westminster. Benjamin Bowen, High-street, Marylebone, nph ols terer. John Harris, Pickett -street, Strand, linen-draper. War •uflice, June 25. 734 Regiment of Foot—Major-General Sir Frederick Adam, K. C. B. to be Colonel, vice General Lord Harris, deceased. May 22. GARRISONS. General Thomas Lord Lytiedoch, G.C.P. to be Go, vernor of Dumbarton Castle, vice Lord Harris, deceased, May 22. Office Of Ordnance, June 25. Corps of Royal Engineers. Captain George Graydon to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Dickens, retired. May 22. Second Captain William Redmand Ord to be Captain, vice Graydon. May 21. First Lieutenant Thomas Battersbee to be Second Cal•- tain, vice Ord. May 22. Second Lieutenant Richard J. Nelson to l•e First Lieu tenant, vice Ilattershee. May 22, Gentleman Cadet Arthur D. Ryder to be Second Lieu tenant. June 1. Royal Regiment of Artillery. Captain George Charleton, from unattached half-pay, to be Second Captain, vice Chapman, retired on permanent !calf-pay. June 2. CoMmission in the Wilts Yeomanry Cavalry, signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Wilts. Henry Guestfurd Gibbes Ludlow, Esq. to be Cornet. Whitehall, June 21. The King has been pleased to constitute and appoint Adam Roll ind, Esq. (one of the Principal Clerks of Sess:on) to be Clerk of the King's Processes in Scotland, in the room of Hector Macdonald Buchanan, Esq. de ceased. The King Iris also been pleased to appoint John Tait, Esq., Advocate, to be Sheriff Depute of the Shires o Clackmannan and Kinross, in the room of Sir James wood Moncreiff, Bart., appointed a Lord of Session. Whitehall, June 24. The King has been pleased to present the Reverend John APlllillan to the Churches at Ballachulish and Coy_ ran of Ardgour, in the parish of Kamallie, in the Presby_ tery of Abcrtarph and Shires of Inverness and Argyll. Whitehall, niy 25. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Alexander Ed. wards, of the city of Bath, Gent., to he a Master Ex• traordinary in the High Court of C!4ancery. DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY. George Dixon and Henry Anderson, Bishop Auckland, Durham, wine-merchants. John Gilbert, High-btreet, Borough, Southwark, hosier. James White, Liverpool, draper. Joseph Bray, Devonport, hatter. Lewis Jo,epl► John Noel, Hatton-garden, money-scri vener. BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED. Jahn Coster, Gosport, Southampton, baker. Robert Hope, Liverpool, joiner. Thomas Garlick, Fleet-market, undertaker. BANKRUPTS. John and John Eastman, Streatham, Surrey, wheel wri2,-lits, to surrender July 3, at two, 17, and Aug. 7, at one, at the Court of Commissioners. Manning, Dyers_ buildings, Holborn. William Norton, Uxbridge, timber-merchant, June 30, at ten, July 3, at one, and Aug. 7, at twelve, at the Court of Commissioners. Poole, Greenfield, and Gamlen, Gray's Inn-square; Riches and Woodbridge, Uxbridge. Job Barker, High Holborn, straw-hat-manufacture r , June 30, July 17, and Aug. 7, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. Lloyd, Bartlett's-buildings, Holborn. Jchn Martin, Walcot, Somerset, straw-hat-mannfac hirer, July 10, 11, and Aug. 7, at eleven, at the Grey hound Inn, Bath. Williams, Verulam-buildings, Gray's inn, London ; Watts, Bath. Randall William Stone and Frederick .John Stone, Bath, coach-makers, July 22, 23, and Aug. 7, at eleven, at the Greyhound Inn, Bath. Williams, Verulam7build ings, Gras's-inn, London; Stallard, Bath. James Mahoney, \Vatting-street, builder, June 30, July 10, and Aug. 7, at one, at the Court of Commissioners: Smith, Coleman-street. \~':►liam Page, Northampton-square, tailor, July 3, 10, at eleven, and Aug. 7, at twelve, at the Court of Commissioners. Lumley, New Inn. Stephen Escudier, A►bemarle-street, Piccadilly, hotel keeper, July 3, at eleven, 10, and August 7, at twelve, at the Court of Commissioners. Hensman, Bond court, Walbrook. William Plenty, West Smithfield, iron-founder, July 7, 14, and August 7, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners. Rostock, George-street, Mansion-house. William Hrnry Freeman, Princes-street, St. James's, Westminster, composition-ornament-maker, June 10, July 10, and Aug. 7, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners. Walls, Hart-street, Bloomsbury. James Esdaile, Manchester, hat-manufacturer, July 16, 17, and Aug. 7, at two, at the Star Inn, Manchester. Adlington, Gregory, and Faulkner, Bedford-row, Lon don; Claye and Thompson, Manchester. Joseph Banks, Lothhury, auctioneer, June 30, at one, July 10, and Aug. 7, at two, at the Court. of Commis sioners. Noy, Cannon-street. Charles Butcher, Thorpe-Healey, Rotherham, York, victualler, June 29, July 1, and Aug. 7, at one, at the Angel Inn, Rotherham. Fisher, Walbrook-buildings, Loudon ; Hoyle, Rotherham. . . Thomas Brattle, Maidstone, Kent, tailor, June 30, July 10, at twelve, aryl Aug. 7, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. Tanner, New Basinghall street. John Cre , .swell, Manchester, cabinet-maker, July 9, 10, and August 7, at nine, at the Albion Hotel. Law and Coates, Manchester ; Adlington, Gregory, and Faulkner, Bedford-r;.w, London. Benjamin Cantle, Tilley-street, Tenter-ground, Spital fields, basket-maker, July 3, 14, at ten, and August 7, at nine, at the Court of Commissioners. Collins, Spital square, Bishopsgate-street. _ _ John Clark, Eagle-Wharf, Montague-close, Southwark, coal-merchant, July 3, at twelve, 10, and Aug. 7, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners: Clarke, Crosby square, Bishopsgate-street. John Wheeler, Pershore, Worcester, corn-dealer, July 9, at six, 10, and August 7, at ten, at the White Hart Inn, Evesham. -Michael, Bed Lion square. John Simonds, Wingford, Suffolk, innholder, July 9, at seven, 10, at nine, and Aug. 7, at eleven, at the Angel PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Henry Pyall and George Stroud, Oxford-street, sta• tioners. James Wilkinson ant Henry Wilkinson, P4ll 1)1a] gun-makerp. Joseph Balm, John Rothwell and Charles Fletcher, Milk-street, Cheapside, lace manufacturers. Joseph Colelough and James Hewlett, Birmingham, engravers. Thomas James Vickers and James Russell, Birming ham, surgeons. PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS. NOTICES OF MOTIONS, mum NOW STAND IN THE ORDER BOOK OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, FOR THE NEX I' SESSION. • Mr. NICOLSON CALVERT—BiII to prevent Bribery ani Corruption in the Borough of East Retford. Mr. TENNYSON—BiII to exclude the Bor3ttgh of East Retford from electing Burgesses to serve in Parliament, and to enable the town of Birmingham to return two Re. presentatives iv lieu thereof. Mr. ROBINSON—SeIect Committee to inquire into the state of Newfoundland and Labrador, with a view to amend the Laws relating to those Settlements. Lord JOHN RUSSELL—BiII to enable the towns of Manchester, Leeds, and Birmingham, to send Representa tives to Parliament. Mr. SYKES—To move fur the equalization of the Duty on Deals imported into this Country from the different ports of the Baltic ; awl therefore to propose that the Duty should be estimated by the cubic contents, in stead of the present complicated, imperfect, and partial standard. Marquis of BLANDFORD—To move far a Committee to inquire into the causes why the people are not represented in this House according to the spirit of the Constitution : , or, to bring forward some specific measure to restore the purity of Representation. Sir JAMES MACKINTOSII-Bill for the relief of Mr. O'Reilly, and other sufferers by insolvency of the Registrar of the Court at Madras. Dr. PHILLIMORE—BiII to alter and amend the Ecclesi astical jurisdiction exercised in the several County Courts throughout England and Wales. Mr. STEWART (of Beverley)—Select Committee, to in quire into the Revenue, Expenditure, and Commerce of Ceylon. Mr.Sinriloarn—Bill for the regulation of the Posting throughout Great Britain, and placing it on some regular system. Mr. Battoirr—Select Committee on the state and ma nagement of the River Thames above London Bridge, in rd ktion to its internal navigation. Sir HENRY PARNELL—ISeIect Committee to inquire into the best means of taking a Census of the Population of the United Kingdom. Mr. CHARLES PAL 1.31 E R—Address for the appointment of the Commission to inquire into the Jurisdiction and Practice of the Lords of the Privy Council, in re-pect to Appeals from the West India Colonies, and the Acts of Colonial Legislatures. Mr. HARVEY—BiII to render all Processes issuing out of the Superior Courts of Record at Westminster and Dublin, operative in any county or place of the United Kingdom. Air. STANLEY-Bill to amend the Laws respecting the Leasing powers of Bishops and EcclesiAstical Corporations in Ireland. Mr PouLtrr TnomsoN—Bia to allow the formation of Partnerships in Commandite. Afro GREENE—BiII to enable the Incumbents of Livings in England and Wales to commute their Tithes by agree ment with the owner: of land within their respective parishes. Mr. LENNAnD—BiII to repeal the third and fourth Clauses of Act 10 George H., c. 28, which empower the Lord Chamberlain to prohibit the acting of any new Play or Entertainment on the Stage. Marquis of CHANDOS—BiII to make certain alterations in the Game Laws. Dr. LUSIIINGTON-Bill to declare that all Slaves brought to Great Britain shall thereafter be free in all British Dominions. Mr. SLANEY—BiII to declare and amend that part of the Poor Laws relating to the employment and relief of able-bodied persons, and for the better rating tenements which are under a certain annual value. Mr. SADLER—To introduce measures with a view to bettering the condition of the Labouring Poor. . Mr. OTWAY CAVE—To move a Resolution that Children born of Slaves in the West India Colonies after 1830 be deemed free. Colonel DAvrEs-:Motion relative to secondary punish ments, by transportation and prison discipline. Colonel DAV IES-Consideration of the Report from the Committee on Crown Leases (conduct of Mr. Nash.) Mr. GEORGE LAMB—Bill to alter and extent the pro visions of the Acts 8 Anne, c. 19, 41 George 111., c. 107, and 54 George 111., c. 156, with respect to Dramatic Writings. Mr. HARVEY —To take into consideration the present state and actual value of all Crown Property, with a view to its beneficial disposition. Mr. EDWARD DAVENPORT-Motion on the pressure upon the Commercial and Labouring Classes, produced by high Taxation levied in money of increased value. Mr. EDWARD DAVENPORT-31)60R on the con.luct of his Majesty's Government respecting Portuguese affairs. Mr. WARBURTON—BiII fur regulating Sehool3 of Ana tomy. Lord NunENr-13ill for establishing a Register of the Births of Children of Dissenters. Mr. EW ART—Select Committee to inquire into the State of the Courts of Law (particularly the King's Bench), for Vie purpo se of ascertaining whether they might not be ea , ily and cheaply altered, for the better ac commodation of the public and of the professontl persons who practise in the said Courts. Mr. CHOLME LEY—Motion for the repeal of the Act pro hibiting the growth of Tobacco in the United Kingdom. Mr. CHOLNIELEY—Motion for amending the ,Repre sentation of such Boroughs as do not contain more than ten Voters. CORONER'S INQUESt. Yesterday evening, at half-past six o'cloCk, an inquisition was taken before THOMAS HIGGs, Esq. ori the bodies of E!iabeth Caftans, aged twenty- . ten, and her infant, Sarah Cart erns, aged six months, who were found drowned in the Serpentine. Widiam Birch, of No. 9, Harcourt-street, Bryan t stone-square, went to bathe in the Serpentine River, about four o'cl oc k th a t morn i ng ; h e sa w the de- I ceased infant floating on the top of the water, near the gratings, on the east side, near the waterfall. Ile immediately went in arid took the body out; it was quite dead; he laid it on a stone, and went to in form the officers of the Humane Society of the cir cumstance. On his return be found the body had been removed to the watch-house. James Bastin, in the employ' of the Humane So ciety, was informed of the circumstance by the first witness, and immediately got the drags, to try arid find if any other body was in the water, but without success. Afterwards he heard some soldiers' wives mention that they had seen a female and child cry ing in the park about four o'clock in the afternoon, and a man informed him that he had seen a female and child near the spot between nine and ten o'clock on the. previous evening. This information caused him to drag again, and about a quarter to twelve o'clock at noon he found the body of the mother of the deceased infant. The body was about 12 yards from the shore, and about 10 yards from the grating where the infant was found. The water about seven feet deep. In her pockets he found seven duplicates, chiefly for articles of dress of trifling value, and pawned for small sums from 9d. to 3d. Eliza Bates stated, that the deceased Elizabeth was her sister-in-law. She lived with her husband at Males's-rents, Chiswick. He WitS a brickl iyer's labourer, and earned about 16s. a week. She was not given to drinking; but had frequently Fawned her husband's clothes and run him in debt. The deceased had another child besides, Sarah, who Was about two years old. CoRoNER—Did she appear to be of weak mind Witness—No, Sir, she was as much in her senses I am. Elizabeth Wyse stated, that the deceased was her daughter-in-law. She had run her husband considerably in debt. There was a bill at the ba ker's for 3/. 15s. 10d., which be knew nothing of; and also 16 months rent, one half of which he be lieved she had paid. She had made him out false bilk, which appeared to have been settled. John Catteins, a bricklayer's labourer, stated, that the deceased anti her infant were his wife and child; she often pawned his things when he was at work. Last Tuesday week he Warned her for giv ing him a false account of some money which she had paid; she trembled very much, and appeared much agitated as if she was deranged; he told her she must clear it up. She went away that night, and did not return until the following Tuesday at night with her sister; he again asked her what she had done with the money; she refused to tell him then, but said that she would the next day, when she said that the devil had got hold of her, and she did not know what to do; she again left him on the Wednesday, and he saw no more of her until he heard that both her and the child had been found in the Serpentine. Juror—Had you ever any words with your wife ? Witness—We had about the money sometimes. Juror—Did you always give her the money you earned every week ? Wiwess—Always, when I was in work, which was about I6s. per week. Jtiror—Was your %►ife given to drinking? Wit ness—Not in the least : she was a very sober woman. Juror—Did you 'ever beat your wife ? Witness — I believe I have only struck her twice since we have been married, which is nearly four years. This being the whole of the evidence, the CO RONER observed, that although the presumption was that the unfortunate woman had destroyed herself and infant, yet there was no evidence to prove how they came into the water:, The Jury coincided, and remarked, that the poor woman had expended the money, and got into debt to support her family, and did not like to let her. husband know. After a short consultation, the Jury returned a verdict—" That the _deceased moth er an d infant were found drowned; but how they came there was not known to the jurors." OPENING OF THE HIGH SCHOOL.—On Tuesday the noble edifice which the liberality of the Cor poration of the City of Edinburgh and the classical genius of Mr. HAMILTON has provided for the accommodation of this ancient and distinguished seminary, was opened rite et solenniter, in the mode which had been previously ar ranged, and with all the pomp and circumstances which the occasion tequired.— Caledonian Mercury. Some time ago Mr. C. R. PEMBERTON, a gentleman of considerable talent, gave some interesting lectures on elocution in this town. Since that period he made his debut at Covent-garden Theatre, itt the highest walk of tragedy; and we understand he now appears in a new character, that of a husband, havin:; lately married a lady of family and fortune in Norfolk.— ChebnsibrdChron. SINGULAR CHARGE.—?I young surgeon • was apprehended last week at Sheffield, under a warrant charging him with having stolen a pair of stockings, a flannel petticoat, a dimity petticoat, a satin sl;p, and a bon net ! It appeared that he had, in fact, stolen a young lady, and hail been married to her at Gretna Green, and that her mother, not relishing the connexion, had gone be fore a Magistrate, and preferred a charge of stealing the clothes in which the fair fugitive was attired at the time altar flight. What became of the case is not mentioned in any of the Sheffield papers that we have seen.—Stoch_ port Advertiser. In the Insolvent Debtors' Court, yesterday, TIENRY RICJIA RD MATTHEWS, late of No. 3, Hones-street, Cavendish-square, and 107, Oxford-street, linen-draper, was opposed on behalf of Mess's. LADEROKE, the bankers. It appeared that one of the insolvent's bills had come into the Wands of Mess's. LA unnoxic, and having been dis honoured, they commenced proceedings against the insol vent for the amount; the insolvent, by pleading the gene ral issue, put Messrs. LADBROKE. to considerable expellee, and then rendered to prison. He was remanded for four months. RICHARDSON, the author of the " Anecdotes on Paintings," used to relate the following encouragement to frankness :—A gentleman called to invite him to-his house. " I have," says he, " a picture by RUBENS, and a rare fine one. There is little H--, the other day, came to see it, and says it is a copy. If any one says so . again I'll break his load. Pray, Mr. RICHARI,SON, do me the favour to come and give me your real opinion of it." We arc sorry to announce that a most dis• tressing accident, by which two individuals have lost their lives, occurred on Saturday week, about three o'clock in the afternoon, at one end of the coal-pits d Lord DERBY, at Eccleston, near Prescot. It appears that two men, named RICHARD HAYES and WILLIAM EDDLESTON, were engaged in the sinking of a new pit, which had already been sunk to the depth of about 64 yards, and having prepared a mine at the bottom for blasting the rock with gunpowder, bad ascended to the mouth of the pit for the purpose of igniting the train, which, it seems, is usually done by means of a heated wire, let down by a string. The men were standing on a stage, at the mouth of the pit, when the gunpowder was ignited, and this unfortu nately communicated with the inflammable air of fire damp, with which the pit appears to have been tilled, and caused a most tremendous explosion, which shook the neighbouring town, and was heard for several miles mound. The brick-work in the interior of the shaft, the wooden stage at the mouth, and the unfortunate men who were standing upon it, were thrown into the air to a great height, as if from the mouth of a cannon, and tie' fragments of the men and the materials were afterwards found scattered around, at a great distance from the pit. HAYES was found in one of the buildings attached to a pottery, about 40 or 50 yards distant from the place where he was thrown, having, in his fall, broken through tl e roof, which was formed of timber and slate. One of the unfortunate man's less was found on the mot . of the building, the other in an adjoining garden. The body of WILLIAM EDDLESTON was lOUrld in a contrary direction, about SO yards from the pit; he also was shockingly mangled. Tivo other persons were hurt, but not seri ously. A horse, which was at work close by the, mouth, emtaned unhurt_ Lcadv SPIRIT OF TIC PUBLIC JOURNALS. u o i f ld e e x r p s l t a o i o n , i i n , g w o e le's ti l l az s u eaglvees , It is irksome to be plac'ed under the necessity designed especially to be etlicle i)rex'engtaivvee it tof as foutritrheorpimniioscnoisiociejilie phrases, which have been somehow or other mis ptiloaiiii.atolryveancl certainly days ago, that the King's Ministers had been injured by the representation that the existence of such a power as Turkey was necessary to the balance of power ; but we took pains to qualify and expound that opinion by stating what it was that Ministers did feel, to be necessary to the balance of power ; and we hoped that the feeling which we then ascribed to them, being at the same time fully impressed with it ourselves, was not of a nature to be confounded with any gra ' tuitous affection or admiration for Turkey. If the Chinese, the Japanese, or Abyssinians, or Ashantees, were occupants of what now is , Turkey in• Europe, and from a consciousness of what their own interest, well understood, must suggest to them, were as little disposed as the Turks to attack or disturb their unoffending neighbours, we. should feel just as anxious to save them from being overrun and subdued by .Russia, as we now arc to protect the Porte .from the same calamity. BUt . few persons would be uncandid enough, and few candid ones sufficiently stupid, to construe sudi a jealousy of Ituian conquest into A belief that the - existence of " Abyssinia in Europe,". 43r of ‘‘ Ashantee in Europe," was necessary to the balance of power. The security of any. ,bat , barous, though innoxious - people, frthn a certall and specific danger, does surely not imply that their perpetual existence in a given spot is air equally necessary matter. The true meanin z hi .be imputed to Ministers is, not that Turk(":i must 'always be where slit is ; but that Ittissia must never be there, except bh Conditions yet likely to be listened to. In othe'r atOrW,,, that the balance of power forbids the coiloe4 of Turkey by a particular enemy at this partictid lar time—not its eternal duration as an Et:relic:lu State. At the same time it is pOssible, and perhaps desirable, that Turkey may one day be expelled from Christendom, without the agency of Russia, and without adding dan gerously to Itussian power. We arts iti dined to think that TUtkey, if not enlightened and civilized, may be destroyttl from with , in,—that, from the impulse given Greeeci the Christian subjects of the Seraglio may, b; fore a single generation expires, every where eotif federate against that obdurate and Lim:tura despotism,—that the revival of an independent Greek empire may one day, with the assent of a preponderancy of European nations, supersede the Crescent, while it frustrates the ambition of the Czar. But it is alike just for "Epsilon" and " Upsilon" to . acknowledge, that a .Man may deprecate the immediate conquest of Turkey by one specific military power, without being fiiirly accused of desiring that Turkey herself always form a member of the European world: . It is true that the .policy of England atttl o! other Governments has - had, as described by tier Duke of Wellington, the maintenance of Turkey for one of its essential objects; but it was not for the sake of Turkey,—it was , as a licit f;hift, to avoid the worse alternative .of an overigroAii :nits still encroaching power. Under these impre:-,-: sions, we still find reason to be satisfied that thy reverses recently experienced by Russia arc proved by private letters to be far more grave than lice fallacious bulletins have admitted ; and that hi therto her operations of this campaign have been more imbecile and unsuceessfid than those of the year preceding.— Times. There has been for sonic time at licad-quat' , tors an obvious indisposition to take, ny step likely to afford an opportunity for calling forth a display of popular feeling in Ireland; but in some cases, the course of natural, in others the. course of political events, seems determined to counteract this Ministerial antipathy to agitation, The number of vacancies in the Representation of Ireland at this moment is probably without a parallel, except in the case of a General Eleca tion, and it does so happen that the various on. represented counties and cities are all of the first order. Clare, a county of great extent, is about to experience the wholesome (may we venture so to call it ?) agitation of a contest. Down, generally placed at the head of the Irish coun- iies, has lost a llepicsentative by the appoint ment of Lord Castlereagh to the situation of a Lord of the Admiralty. Wicklow exhibits another vacancy; and the premature death of Sir Nicholas Coulthurst exposes Cork, the po pulous and commercial emporium of the South of Ireland, to the excitement which must result from a fierce and dubious struggle, more espe cially if, as is asserted, Mr. Callaghan is again to take the field as the champion of a defeated, but not disheartened, party. While the actual existence of vacancies in so many and such important districts necessarily tends to unsettle the minds of the rustic politicians (and in Ire land long habit has made every rustic a politi cian), the expectation of them prdducesin other quarters consequences perhaps more mischievous. It has been for some time perfectly understood that the great county of Galway is to send Mr. Daly from its representation to grace the Peer age ; and Louth is to lose the services of Mr. ster, by his elevation to the Judicial Bench _ _ of the Court of Exchequer. In Galway, the Catholic proprietary is by far more important and wealthy than in any other county in Ireland, while in Louth the successful struggle made at the last General Election, to redeem the Repre sentation from an hereditary domination, which had controuled it for the best part of a century, has given an impulse to political feeling which will assuredly make itself felt in the approaching contest. We are not among those who augur unfavourably from these demonst ra ti ons o f in- creased and increasing interest in passi►►g events. We hope and trust that the wise and healing measure of the last Session has deprived thcm of every thing that might, under other circum stances, have been dangerous. We would only warn the mercurial and warm-hearted population of Ireland to be upon their guard, and to avoid committing themselves.—Morning Chronicle. We copy in another column, from the Bubli3 Morning Register of Wednesday last, an count of a Meeting of a Society in Dublin, which has for object the improvement of he land. At that Meeting Mr. Leader, who is a great advocate for the establishment of some thing like colonies on the bogs of that country, alluded to us as unwilling to listen to any schemes of improvement, though they might not even come into collision with Poor Laws.— in the Chronicle of Wednesday last we inserted an extract from a Dublin Paper, requesting in , . formation respecting what are commonly called the Poor Colonies in Holland ; and we have re ceived a paper which appears to have been .c • thn ”nrir U r n printed, but not published,. containing some ac-