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legislative (4 wisdom of our ancestors." Mr. PEEL, we trust, will look to it. we extract from a Morning Paper the follow ing paragraph, the substance of which appeared in our column s a few days since D r . IRELAND has refused the friends of the late Mr. SHIELD permission to erect a tablet to his memory in West minster Abbey. The ground of this denial is stated to be an objection to the word gentleman' introduced in the inscription." This refusal, if t he facts be correct, comes with peculiar g ra " and pr o p r i ety f rom an i n di v id ua l w h o w as I. hiru self, not m an y y ears s i nce , th e son of an iituu ble mechanic in Devonshire. Yes, Dr. IREL4 N I ), the present influential Dean of Westminster, the protege of that Ultra.crepe darian critic, the late WILLIAM GIFFORD, on ce I thought i t a signal honour to be taught his let ters, in company with the peasants of the neigh bourhood, at the little village-school o Ashburton ! We state not this to his disparagement ; it is the most creditable anecdote we know of him ; but We do think that foaie lingering sentiment of delicacy should have prevented him from object- In g to the word " gentleman " as applied to one of the most celebrated composers of the past cen tury, knowi ng w ith w h a t ama zing difficulty he himself earned his title to that appellation. T he Dean of Westminster, we humbly conceive, should have been the very last man on earth to object to Mr. SHIELD that he was no gentle tuall• But the Reverend Dean is peculiarly ex clusive and hypercritical in his notions of genius and gentility. He refused, we remember, to permit Lord BYRON to be buried in Westminster Abbey, thinking, no doubt, that the author of Ch ilde Harold"—he who has filled the uni verse with his fame, he, who will be remem bered when all the Deans that Westminster ever Y et Produced, or ever will, are forgotten—was not moral, or intellectual, or genteel enough, for so honourable a burial place. As the Dean is so very refined in his notions of gentility, it is really a thousand pities that he cannot be prevailed on `° carry it a little further, and open that grand national cenotaph, the Abbey, unreservedly to all vislt nrs, inst ea d o f turning it into a sort of Me nageri e of dead authors, in order that his C hapte r , lik e showmen at a f a i r, may ga i n money by the exhibition. This would redound in finitely mor e t o hi s cre dit th a n obj e cting to Mr. s It QLD— an d we comment on the circumstance, b e it understood, not as a decided fact, but simply as one of the on dits of the day—that he was no gentleman, and therefore, unworthy of a statue lii Westminster Abbey. " But few people"— SaYB SWIFT, who though a severe, was an un er r• 41 6 judge of human nature—" are so bigotted or aristocratic .in their ideas, as those who have worked their way up from the lower to the higher classes o f society. They canvass men's preten sions to r „ gentility, with more jealousy than the Prou dest crowned heads in Europe." THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELFE Clock'. ahl The continual rains, which will be very unfavour ,e to the h arvest , h ave h a d an e ff ect on t h e Con 'o-1, market this morning. Consols, which left off h it Saturday at 884 4 for the account, opened rather at Yat 88i 4, since which they have been buyers "Si; it is a l so ex p e cted that a rise will take P ace at the corn market. N Sincapore Papers have been received at the o tth and South American Coffee-house, to the C t h March, stating that the Honourable Governor e neral left that settlement on the evening of the 13t h inst. for Penang anti Calcutta. Accounts from Smyrna state that 15,000 troops :ere expected there, and would immediately pro ceed (0 Adrianople. Omer Pacha was sent with a t na to Schela, the mouth of the Bosphorus, where " e 4ussian s had made a landing. t h a , mints from Lisbon to the Gth August state Al: t aoill e disturbances have taken place in the Lion'Lege) and at Lyra, between the Constitu -I:ltllists and the partizans of Don Miguel; at the ee jlace they were of a serious . nature, the trCon stitutionalists having lost, in a rencontre with the 111 1 , 30 .wounded and four killed. th e e 7 Write from Toulon of the 15th August, that b ombin vessels were ordered to be ready for sail e•ag .° ll the next d ay , as t h e b rea ki ng off of the nego tclea with Algiers had determined the Govern bombard the above place. th," e American Papers received this morning state C O7 ; ,` - ,l l rtimodore Beddle will take passage in the ch i abort at New York for the Mediterranean, ti,,;`fier he w ill procee d, a f ter l an di ng th e respec - Minister s to England and France. Il u n t he Foreign market nothing doing as yet. The b 0 51511 Bulletin, and their advance on Constanti th;uhe, causes muc h exc it emen t i n the City, and no for'Peace, be entertained that the Sultan must sue if e ttee, direct or indirect. 88 Pt Per Cent. Consols, 881 4; Ditto, for Aug., half I; Three per Cent. Reduced, 894 i; Three and a 14 6 Per Cent. 984 Four per Cent., 1021 i; Ditto 81 6 i 710 51 ; India Stock, 2211 21 ; Bank Stock, F 0 ; India Bonds, 58 9; Exchequer Bills, 71 72. il7: 4l ".—Brazilian, 58 1; Buenos Ayres, 20 21 ; q tr , e 7 b n, 16 17 ; Colombian, 16 4; Danish, 69i ; ~7 91 n - 7,, P im per Cent., 109 1 ; Ditto, Three per Cent. ro tt j,"l; Greek, 13; Mexican,lB 1; Peruvian, 10 11; -24 . 3 es 44 4; Russian, 101 1; Spanish, 81 4. TWO O'CLOCK. th l'he Consol Market has been fluctuating during qprnorning fr om 88i t o 88i for the Account,and o, t r o lent m ay b e quoted 88-i -a, and 88i sellers for 0 11 , Account. The Chancery purchased 26,000!. th at t °, l s • A report t prevails in the Stock Exchange Ad 4l l" r e, Russi an fleet has left its station, and that I llo ve al Malcolm h a s gone after them to watch their (Pr o the New Yo r k Commercial Advertiser, Jai) , 18.) tior k are authorized to say that there is no founda of ti N j hatev er f or t h e assert i on t h at t h e Government wi t h ° United S tates h as b een i n communication is g a t he nri t i t h Mi n i ster, upon t h e su b ject o f open. lip te ,. l egoci at i on w i th the E ng li s h G overnment ro- T i:g the Tariff. PPt Pri I r te letters from Paris bring the Three "ts after 'Change at 80f. 40e. p on , THREE O'CLOCK. oti B ° l B for A ccount , 88i C ?.() O'CLOCK.—CLOSING PRICES. ~,1 5 4 ; ) 13 Danish 11 1 4 • ° . l Ac, ggi Greek, 1825 . c , 4 1 :1 1 -1 , 11n A llonds 4 Mexican, 1825 Peruvian If C 0 1 4144 o. Russian 41t)14 n, 1824 Spanish Si ASSIZES-(RECEIVED THIS DAY.) OXFORD CIRCULT.--HEREFORD, Auc. 22. DOE, DEM. MEYLER V. BRIGHT. the pleadings iii this action of ejectment were opened on Friday, and the trial terminated to-day (Saturday) at four p.m. The case was of great im portance in itself, and from its nature, as well as from the warlike array of an immense number of wit nesses, brought into one focus, from numerous parts, both England and \Vales, as well by the plaintiff as the defendant, particularly by the latter, a very un usual degree of interest was excited by it in South Wales, Bristol, Hampshire, and other places. Rickard Meyler, Esq., the late Member of Par. liament for Winchester, it will be remembered, died suddenly at the early ageof 26,in the year 1818. At his death he was seized in fee of large estates, part of them in Wales, part in England, and part in the West Indies. By his will he gave those estates to two elderly aunts, but the will having been attested only by one witness, it was not a valid instrument, therefore the property devolved upon the heir-at-law. In that character, very soon after the unexpected death, Richard Bright, Esq., of Bristol, the de fendant and father of the present Mr. Bright, M.P., took possession of it. The plaintiff, Wm. Meyler, in humble circumstances of life, was of Treneved, in the county of Pembroke. The action was brought in point of fact only for the recovery of the Welsh part of the property, but was considered by all parties as an action substantially to try the right of the parties to the whole of it, yielding from 25,0001. to 30,0001. per annum. Mr. Serjeant LUDLOW, Mr. CROSS, and Mr. TALFORD, conducted the plaintiff's case; and Mr. TAUNTON led for the defendant, with whom were Mr. CAMPBELL, Mr. Seijeant RUSSELL, and Mr. MAULE ; and that it might not be made a remand of, it was agreed on both sides that it should be tried before Mr. Seijeant TAnDY. _ _ _ This, it appeared, was the fifth ejectment the plaintiff had favoured the defendant with notice of, but the only one he had thought right to bring into Court. He claimed to be entitled, as the descendant of Thomas Meyler, of Carvega, in the parish of Whitchurch. He rested that claim, in point o: proof, principally. on the production of a tomb stone, found in the parish church—a letter alleged to have been written by Francis Meyler, brother of the supposed Thomas, and ad dressed to Thomas, who was stated therein to be the eldest brother of Richard, the grandfather of the defendant; and, upon certain declarations of several members of the family of the lessor of the plaintiff, which all resolved themselves into this, that the great grandfather of the late Member for Win chester, the younger brother of the defendant's grandfather, had an elder brother named Thomas, who was, in short, the eldest child, awl hence it was contended that his descendant, the lessor of the plaintiff, was the heir-at-law of the late Member, in exclusion of the defendant, who had descended from the brother Richard. A witness, who styled him self an auctioneer, an agent for the recovery of estates, a general agent, an accountant, and an un dertaker of the city of Bristol, and who admitted be had been informed by the plaintiff that if he should succeed in the recovery of the estates, he (the witness) should have the trifling compensa tion of ten thousand pounds made to him, stated that he proceeded towards the latter end of last year, accompanied by several others connected with the plaintiff, and prepared with excavating tools, to within the sacred precincts of the parish church, for the purpose of making search for any tomb-stone that might peradventure be found to be hid there. Operations by cloggers and others were commenced in one particular spot within the church, and a tomb stone found buried two feet below the surface of the floor, taken up, washed, sacked, and conveyed to a cottage near at hand, all in the space of about an hour, or an hour and a half, from the period of first entering the church, where it rested for a day and a half, was afterwards taken to Bristol, and now produced in Court by the witness. By the in scription on the stone it was made to appear that a Thomas Meyler (the name of the grandfather of the lessor of the plaintiff) was the eldest son of parents of the same name, and brother of the defendant's grandfather Richard, as well as of his brother Francis, who was the great grandfather of the deceased member; also that those parents had lived at Carvega, the family residence of the lessor of the plaintiff. The letter purported to have been written by Francis, brother of Thomas, whose death was recorded on the stone, andrecog• nixed him to be the eldest brother of Richard. This was produced by the cousin of the plaintiff, who stated he had found it eighteen or twenty years ago, in a box full of papers that had belonged to his father. Another person was called to identify the letter to be the one found in his presence as above stated, and though he had no difficulty in swearing to its identity, yet unfortunately he could neither read nor write. Five or six witnesses were called, who spoke to the declarations. Mr. TAUNTON enlarged at great length in his ad dress to the Jury on the enormity (as he described it) of fraud, perjury, forgery, and conspiracy on the part of those, some on the very verge of eternity, who had come forward to support the plaintiff's case in the shameless manner that had been exhibited. He entertained not the slightest doubt that the Jury would view the case in the light he did, when they came to hear his evidence. Mr. Hume ' Inspector of Franks at the General Post office, the Record Keeper of the Tower, the Li brarian of the Museum, Messrs. Thomas and James Foster of Bristol, architects and builders, Mr. Good of Haverfordwest, a surveyor, and a number of the witnesses, were then called—by the testimony of whom it was clear that the tomb-stone could only have been buried in the church, as it was with a view to this action, and that the inscription on it, and also the letter purporting to have been written by Francis Meyler, produced by the plaintiff, were decided forgeries. A great deal of documentary evidence was next put in, consisting of bills, con veyances, letters, &c., the further continuation of which was interrupted by Mr. Serjeant TADDY feeling, as he said, that the time had arrived when it was his duty to put it to the Counsel for the plaintiff to say, whether they really thought they could continue to proceed, with any view of leaving their case to the jury, with the slightest prospect of advantage to the plaintiff. He himself begged to be understood as giving no opi nion on the subject; he was sure that neither time nor labour would be spared by Mr. Serj. LUDLOW, if he saw the slightest chance of being able to leave the case to the Jury advantageously to his client, and the question simply was, whether the Learned Serjeant could have any such hope? Mr. Serjeant LUDLOW felt greatly obliged for the suggestion. He could not but be sensible that the documentary evidence in particular, given on behalf of the defendant, and coming out of the custody it did, had raised extreme difficulties in the way of the plaintiff. Had he (the Learned Serjeant) been act ing for himself, he could have found no difficulty in choosing his course even before the suggestion that had so judiciously fallen from the Court. Though he could have answered many of the imputations that had been thrown on some of the witnesses for the plaintiff by his Learned Friends on the other side, yet, as far as he was capable of forming a judgment, he had not the slightest hesitation in saying that Mr. Bright had made out his title to this property in the most ample and satisfactory manner. He was gratified, however, that this case had been entered into in the very full and patient way in which it had—because now the floating notions of right to the estates, that had been mistakenly put into his client's mind, would no doubt vanish, and the de fendant hereafter be secured from further apprehen sions of any future attempt to disturb his possession. It was impossible for him (the Learned Serjeant) to ask either the Court or the Jury to weigh any claim he could bring forward on the part of the plaintiff against the evidence that had been adduced by the defendant; therefore, being unable to do more for a client than he could have done for himself, he begged leave to submit to a nonsnit. The plaintiff was then immediately nonsuited, and the business of the Assizes concluded. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY) lIIN-EXCIIANG E. The supplies of Grain and Flour last week, including Foreign, were tolerably good ; the quantities fresh up this morning are trifling. The continued wet weather, with the unfavourable accounts from the country, have given an impulse to the market exceeding any thing we have lately experienced, and the Wheat trade may be stated full ss. per quarter higher than on this day se'nnight for any par cels that are dry. Barley being scarce, obtains ls. to 2s. per quarter advance. Beans are Is. per quarter dearer. New Pease remain as last quoted. Such Oats as are dry and sweet meet a fair demand, and are Is. to 2s. per quarter higher than last Monday. There has been some talk about an advance in Flour, but it is not yet decided. New Rapeseed 261. to SOL per last. PRICES ON BOARD OF SHIP. Wheat, Red (old ) I Beans, Small (new, White t ( i o) --- Red (l . 2 - Tick (new) -- Fine... ---- Super( - Harrow (nc _White (1 -. (01. --. Fine.. Super) --Foreign —s. —s. Id) —s. —s. 8) sos. tks. 58s. 645. use 6Bs. 745. 828) sls. 665. 70s. 745. fine 76s. 80s. free 502. 84s. —a. --s. 335. :355. —s —s. Iv) 375. 40s. 1) —s. —s • 225. 245. • 15s. 255. • 16s. 28s. 225. 28s. • 295. 31s. 4s. 18s 268. ck) 60s 655. 50s. 565. try 16s. 551. 9s. 10s. Brank Oats, Feed New ... - Poland _ Rye Barley 30s. 265, 30s, 325, Fine New.. - Potatoe New Superfine Malt_ 465. 58s, - Fine Pease, Grey ------ -- White - Boilers -- Scotch - Irish 1• Flour Town (per siu - Seconds - North Come Bran ARRIVALS OF 345. 30s. 325. 355. 545. 625. 3Ss. ~ 40s. 425. :325. 365. 38s. 40s. (RAIN IN LONDON DURING L. ,ST WEEK. tC 5 g F 9 !;.? ;"' Z From Whence. 2 -,. F F 6' F, ` ' : 4 • r' ` 1 --. Qrs. Qrr, Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Scks. Boston • 176 50 Clay — 151 Colchester 159 40 170 5 60 196 846 0 Harwich 206 327 206 273 755 Leigh 3'l6 -- 15 180 288 5 '.4 Maldon 51.9 72 81 268 1140 Gainsborough — 40 Grangemouth l5 Hull — 120 434 Ipswich 2O 71 50 30 779 Kent 4Ol 14 58 251 349 160 Lynn lB 338 89 42 Poole Southampton Stockton — Weymouth Woodbridge 9O 100 9 1565 Yarmouth B2 974 887 Banff — 190 Berwick — 255 Dundee Inverness 6O 20 Montrose — 105 1935 1977 1511 977 995 1110 6104 I arso. Belfast Coleraine Dublin l——— 70 316 Limerick — FOREIGN. Archangel Brunsbuttel Bungziel — 450 20 Dantzic Hamburg lOB5 50 Konigsberg l4BO 5800 230 270 New York — 1232 Petersburgh BBlO 500 _ Pillau 1450 320 Riga — 4990 240 Spain llO Stettin --- Total AGGREGATE Rye, 57—Tares, QU A IV 11-: 11us rTITY 0 •Linseer stard, 'F OTH 1, 0--i [ER II Rapese( ds, 486. 'DS 0 1, 81- PULE; .Brank, 111. SMITHFIELD MARKET. This day's supply of Beasts and Porkers was but mode rate, of Sheep, Lambs, and Calves, tolerably good ; the trade was throughout very dull, with Beef, Mutton, and Lamb at a depression of 2d., with Veal 4d. per stone, with Pork at Friday's prices. The supply embraced about 50 exceedingly prime grass-fed Herefords, and about as many excellent West Highland Scots, but its average qua lity was not, perhaps, quite so good as that of this day se'nnight. There was not a single bullock from Sussex or Kent, and there were only two from both counties on this day se'nnight, circumstances that are, perhaps, un precedented. PRICES PER STONE OF BLBS. TO SINK THE OFFALS. S. d.tos. d.I s. d. to d. In ferior Beasts 2 0 2 '2 Large Lambs 3 6 0 0 Second quality ditto 2 8 3 0 Prime small ditto 0 0 5 2 Prime large Oxen... 3 4 3 8 Large coarse Calves 3 0 3 4 Prime Scots, &c..... 310 4 0 Prime small ditto 4 4 5 0 Inferior Sheep 2 8 3 0 Large Hogs . 3lO 4 2 Second quality ditto 3 0 3 (1 Small I'orkers 4 8 5 0 Coarse-woolled ditto 4 0 4 4 Suckling Calves 12s to 50s. each SouthdownWethers 4 4 4 6, Quarter old Pigs 12s to 16s. each. SUPPLY, AS PER CLERK'S STATEMENT. 'Sheep and Lambs.' Calves. I Pigs. 24,690 230 165 Beasts, 2,653 About 1950 of the beasts came up the different North Roads; about 250 from the western and midland districts ; about 150 from Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire; not one from Kent and Sussex ; and most of the remainder from the marshes, &c., in the neighbourhood of London. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL MARKETS. At per stone, by the Carcass. s. d. to s. d. s. d. toe. d. Beet 2 2 3 8 I Veal 3 6 5 0 Mutton 2 6 4,0 Pork Lamb .3s. 10d. to ss. Od COUNTRY CORN MARKETS. NEWCASTLE.UPON-TYNE MARKET-Aug. 22. We had a fair supply of Wheat from the farmers to-day, but although it has rained heavily since the morning, sales were not brisk at last week's prices. There was more life in the Oat trade, without change in value. For Barley there continues a limited demand. Fine Malt better sale Fresh Rye mere inquired after. In Beans and Pease no• thing doing. Flour, if perfectly fresh, in good demand, New. Old. Wheat, Northumberland 655. 80s. —s —s. - Norfolk and Suffhlk 525. 68s. --- Berwick and Scotch 645. 68s. Dantzig (16s. 70s. Rye, Norfolk and Sun°lx .30s. 345. foreign .30s 365. —s. —s. Barley, Malting, Norfolk and Suffolk 30s. 335. Grinding and Feeding 28s. 30s. - - Malt, Norfolk and Suffolk 58s. 60s. Beans, Small 38s. 40s. -- Tick -S. -S. .--S. -s. -r . -s . -a . --s. Pease, White .345. 365. -- Gray Oats, Northumberland, Potatoe ...28s 325. __ .....3. ......3. Feed 263. Foreign —s. Flour, Fine (per sack) —s. 28s. —s. —s, —s.. —s. MANCHESTER CORN MARKET.-Aug. 22. During the week we have had tolerably fair weather for the cutting of Corn ; at present very little is carried this district. The prices of most articles have been steady up to this day, in the course of which we have had a great deal of cold rain. The holders of Wheat were demanding 6d. per bushel advance ; however, the millers would not purchase at this difference, excepting in need, consequently very few parcels were sold ; the currency cannot be noted at more than 3d. per 701 b. above this day week. Grind ing Barley is still in request, and Oats sell freely at last Saturday's rates. Boiling Pease remain nominal. Beans in fair request at the quotations subjoined. Notwithstand ing the unfavourable reports from the Corn districts re garding Barley, the trade in Malt continues dull at the prices of last week. Flour is Is. per sack higher. Oat meal nominally the same as on this day week. Customary Bushel. • Quar. of 8 Imp. Bush. Wheat (701 b.) a. d. to a. d. s. d. to a. d. 1 English, Old. _ _ 10 6 10 873 9 75 7 ...04 _ Fine New............ 0 0 0— 0 0 00 r --Second Run 5..,.... 9 5 911 67 9 '7l 4 f4",..5 , - Scotch & Welch 9 8 10 669 '7 75 7 c h - '7. - Fl Irish, Fine Old . , -.9 2 9 866 0 69 4 0' ' — '6 . New.—.......... 0 0 0 0-- 0 0 ,c'Q -- Inferior ..„............. 8 5 9 060 6 61 9 gFr .. 4 5 Foreign, Free .,......,...... 9 8 10 069 7 75 7 m m Barley (601 b ) English, Fine .........—..... 5 6 5 941 0 42 11l cy;bl.., Irish --- Inferior for grinding 4 9 41035 5 36 1 7 F7 Oats (451 b.) } English, Fine P01and....... 4 0 4329 10 3 1 S ..., Scotch, Potatoe --,—.... 4 0 4 229 10 3 1 1 Irish, for Mealing .3 6 3 826 1 2 . 7 4 WO, ----Provender—. 3 4 3 621 10 2G 1 Ft:, Foreign, Old _ 0 0 0 0— 0 0 Pease (Imp. Bush.) Blue, (boilers) .......„—....... 5 6 5 9 White (ditto) „ Beans (Imp. Qr.) a. d. to s. d. (Per Sa English, Fine—... 44 0 45 0 Hour, l ----- Inferior.; 42 0 44 0 S Irish, 01d...—..—...... 40 0 41 0 Foreign 4O 0 42 0 Malt (per load of 6 Imp. Bush.) Nottingham, fine.. 44 0 45 0 Yorkshire .—..... 43 0 44 0 Irish and Inferior— 38 0 29 0 Per Sack of 2801 b. Imp. [lour, Notts. Fine 52 0 53 0 -------- Sup. 54 0 55 0 144 0 46 0 36 0 3S 0 ack 2601b5.) s. d. to s. d Norfolk and iuffolk, Fine 52 Yorks., Fine 50 Seconds 45 0 54 0 O 52 0 O 47 0 O 52 0 O 55 0 O 49 0 Irish, Fine.., 50 Superfine 53 —Heated or stale 47 Per load of 2401 b. Oatmeal, English— 30 0 31 0 —Scotch & Irish 30 0 31 0 Feeding 25 0 26 0 A rare circumstance in bee-hiving has oc curred at Kirkforthar this season, where a virgin or top hive threw off a swarm on the 3d of June, another on the 25th of June, and one more on the sth August, making four generations in one season. The oldest and greatest connoisseurs in these matters declare this to be the most unparalleled hiving within their remembrance.—Caledo nian Mercury. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.--(THIS DAY.) FROM LLOYD'S. DEAL, AUG. 22.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived the Justinian, Reay, from Quebec. AUG. 23.—Arrived the Sir Joseph Banks, Fracer, from Sincapore. PORTSMOUTH, AUG. 22.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the Hope transport from Chatham ; and his Majesty's ship Pearl, from Ireland. Arrived from London, the Triumph, Green, for Bombay ; and Osprey, Martin, for Jamaica. PLYMOUTH, AUG. 21 and 22.—Wind Arrived the Susan, Williamson, from Trieste. Sailed the Lord William Bentinck, Ellison, for Malta; and Clarinda, Antrim, for Bermuda. FALMOUTH, AUG. 21.—Wind N.W.—Sailed the Lyra packet, for Rio Janeiro; and his Majesty's cutter Bramble, for Lisbon. The Skylark packet, for St. Domingo, Jamaica, &c., and the Baracouti packet, for the Leeward Islands, received orders for sailing this post, but in consequence of the boisterous state of the weather have not been able to break ground. LIVERPOOL, AUG. 22.—Arrived the Montezuma, West, f►on► Philadelphia; Caroline Augusta, Mer ritt, and Shinandroak, Rose, from Virginia. BRISTOL, AUG. 22.—Arrived the Earl of Liver pool, Claxton, from Nevis; and Cicero, Robinscn, from Quebec. BELFAST, AUG. 20.—Arrived the Union, Cun ningham, from Archangel ; and Success, Lawson, from St. Petersburgh. DOVER, AUG. 22.—Off Port, the St. Andrew, Gilmore, from Trinidad. GREENOCK, AUG. 20.—Arrived the Annandale, Harvey, from Richebucto ; and Monarch, Miller, from Trinidad. CORK, AUG. 19.—Arrived the Rose, Ditchburne, From Quebec. The William and Ann, Swan, from London, was totally lost at the entrance of the Colombia River on the l'Oth . of March, and the master and crew drowned. LITERATURE. PERSONAL AND LITERARY MEMORIALS. LONDON, 1829. For variety, amusement, and that pleasant sort of information which a long literary experience can alone afford, we know no miscellany of the present day which we should prefer to this volume. It is biographical, anecdotical, and even critical, but so good-humoured is the style of its criticism, so racy even its common places that it cannot fail to give general satisfaction.— With regard to its anecdotes, they refer to the most distinguished characters of the past and present century. Drs. Johnson and Parr, the Earl of Lauderdale, the Duchess of Gordon, who, it seems was a wit and satirist, as well as a Duchess, Horne Tooke, the late Duke of Gloucester and Gibbon, Drs. Phiipotts and Cyril Jackson (the latter of whom was the tutor of his present Majesty, the college patron of Mr. Peel, and the well-known Dean of Christ-church) the famous Lord Chancellor Thurlow, Paley of polemical and philosophical notoriety, the two great living novelists, Scott and Cooper, the high-minded but eccentric and unsettled Percy Bysche Shelley, Sir William Drummond, Lord Nelson, Major Cartwright, and Napoleon—all these men of great and various intellects " dance the hays," to adopt an expression of Junius, through the present volume with a sprightliness and versatility peculiarly enlivening. We have few writers in English literature who excel in this pleasant style of composition. In France they abound, for no nation on earth equals the French in the number and agreeableness of their memoir-writers, but in England, authors generally are too much addicted to shewing off themselves— too fond of displaying the power and grace of their own style and sentiment, to be enabled to bestow a thought or a passing recollection upon their co temporaries. With the exception of Horace Walpole, and we may now add of Lady Morgan, whose Book of the Boudoir is a delightful spe cimen of the familiar and colloquial in literature we have scarcely one memoir-writer worth men tion. With these prefatory remarks we proceed to the consideration of the volume before us. The author, we should premise, is a Mr. Best, late Fellow of one of the Oxford Colleges, who having been in his time distinguished as a scholar and a gentleman, and as such been in habits of intimacy with the greatest men of his day, has here' presented us with the primitice or first-fruits of his experience. But we shall let him speak for himself on the different topics that come within reach of his observation. On wigs, at the very opening of his volume, he is abundantly severe. " As for wigs, they are the most detestable and ridi culous invention that ever entered into, or upon, the head of man, civilised or savage. The savage has, indeed, some excuse for himself, when he sticks cock's feathers in his hair to make himself look pretty, or displays polished shells pendent from the cartilages of his visage—he has no great choice of embellishment : luckily there are no perruquiers on the banks of the Mackenzie or the Orellana, and he is not tempted by the glories of the full-blown perriwig. " I am well aware on what dangerous ground I tread : the full-bottomed wig is imposing and grand by associ ation ; nor is the authoress of that very pretty romance, Nature and At, at all extravagant, when she represents the little boy as making a bow to his uncle's wig which he happens to see on its peg in the Dean's dressing room. I know, too, that when Dr. Randolph, regius professor of divinity at Oxford, kissed hands, as the phrase is, for his bishopric, King George 111. said to him, You have got no wig ! Don't you mean to have a wig ?' And OR the new-made prelate's answer in the negative, the King insisted, ' You must have a wig.' The mandate was not obeyed. " I have heard, too, of a Somersetshire peasant lad who went with his father to the country town, at the time of the assizes, to see the judge. He gazed at the judge, who happened to be in a state of quiescent attention ; the lad's admiration was almost sated ; the judge changed his posture : ' Father ! father ! it 's alive !' exclaimed the boy." We must confess we have a lurking predilec tion for wigs, whether scratch, bob, or full-bot tomed. To barristers they are particularly ser viceable, forming in many instances the wisest part of their intellectual composition. Who forgets Dr. Parr's magnificent wig, or the adroit comparison in the Edinburgh Review, between its well-rounded curls and the equally well rounded periods of the Doctor's Spital sermon ? Of the author of the Rambler we have a highly curious anecdote : " After breakfast we walked to the top of a very steep hill behind the house. When we arrived at the summit, Mr. Langton said, Poor, dear Dr. Johnson, when he came to this spot, turned back to look down the hill, and said be was determined 'to take a roll down.' When we understood what he meant to do, we endeavoured to dis sulde him; but he was resolute, saying, ' he had not had a roll for a long time;' and taking out of his lesser pockets whatever might be in them—keys, pencil, purse, or pen knife, and laying himself parallel with the edge of the hill, he actually descended, turning himself over and over, till he came to the bottom.' " The story was told with such gravity and with an air of such affectionate remembrance of a departed friend, that it was impossible to suppose this extraordinary freak of the great lexicographer to have been a fiction or inven- tion of Mr. Langton. As Ido not know the date of Johomm's visit to Langton, I cannot tell how old he was at the time of this downw,lrd flight.' He died, as all ti e iv. thl knew at the time, and hardly any one knows now, in 1785, in the seventy-fifth )ear of his age. He lung li,ve been inure than half a century old at the time of this lark. When old men, being also wise men, play foul's tricks, it ought to be considered as a good-natured condescension on their part." It must have been a truly edifying spectacle to have seen the grave and elephantine Dr. Samuel Johnson tumbling, in black worsted shorts, head over heels down a hill, like a butt of port down a plank into a wine-cellar ! We know of nothing to equal it, except the sight of the same Doctor making love to his " Tetty"—a fat short woman, with the thick part of her face down wards like a pyramid—at midnight on their nup tial couch. The following anecdote has an amazingly rich flavour about it. It reminds us of the epicure in Washington Irving's " Legend of Sleepy Hollow" licking his lips at the suck ing pigs in his neighbour's farm-yard : " R. Y. died when his stomach' could no longer pro perly dispose of a daily superfluity of roast beef and old port. This period ariived to him soon after he had at tained his grand climacteric. Eating was, to him, not merely a sensual enjoyment, but an occupation : nay, still more, one of his pleasures of the imagination ;" for ex ample, in_a country walk we approached a farm-house, near which ran a rivulet; on the waters of this stream, a duck was swimming followed by her young ones : ' - you !' said R. Y. This was an usual expletive with him; it was on this occasion addressed to the ducklings, which, with an eye at once poetical and gluttonous, be saw were plump and well grown, ' - you! I should like to see you nicely roasted, with sage and onion in your crops.'" Our author's anecdotes of Paley—expediency Paley—are full and characteristic. For instance, " ' Law'—it was thus, and without further addition, that he designated the Bishop of Carlisle—' Law was vapouring about residence; declaring, that in riding through a parish he could tell whether a clergyman was resident there or not; as, if it were so, that circumstance always threw an air of civility over the people who in habited it. Why, said I,' Paley continued, I know a great many parishes to which I could take you, and, let the whole population pass in review before you, you shall not be able to tell which is the parson : Iknow him by certain signs that I have learned by long practice: he has usually a black silk handkerchief round his neck, and he is more greasy than any man in the parish, except the butcher. And these are your men to throw an air of civility over a people !' And he seriously removed the doubts of the incredulous among his hearers, by re-asserting that a large proportion of the clergy of his former Arch deaconry were men of this equivocal exterior. " We had a good joke against Law ; you have read his works ? Well ; no matter : the fact is, he is very fond of parenthfses in the structure of his sentences; he will set a pair of hooks at a great distance one from the other, and then have another little parenthesis in the belly of that. He bad a book printed at Carlisle ; they were a long time about it : he sent several time to hasten them ; at last he called himself to know the reason of the delay. Why does not my book make its appearance ?' said he to the printer 'My Lord, lam extremely sorry ; but we have been obliged to send to Glasgow for a pound of parentheses.' Law heard of this often." For the benefit of the uninitiated, we subjoin the Very Rev. Dean Paley's notions on the score of swindling. They are amusing, not to say instructive, and may furnish a good hint to some of our London professors in that line of iusiness. "He (Paley) said, ' I have often thought that if I was to turn swindler '—Boswell, if I remember right, makes some whimsical remark on Johnson's beginning with Sir, I have often thought that if I were to keep a seraglio:" let us not be hypercritical, nor suppose that seraglios, or harems, were the frequent subject of medita tion to one of these worthies, or swindling to the other. Paley said, however, I have often thought that if I was to turn swindler, I would try to swindle in the character of a dignified ecclesiastic. It would be quite a new thing, and nobody Auld suspect it. Bishops, however, are too well known: it would not be safe to pretend to be a Bishop. Even an English Dean might appear in pro priii persona, and push one out of one's place : but an Irish Dean ; aye, that would do very well : even the titles of Irish Deans are, many of them, unknown in England ; for example, the Dean of Aghadoe. Well, I would take a house at the west end of the town, or in Marylebone, and I would have a fine brass plate on my door, on which should be inscribed, in grand uncial letters, ' Dean of Aghadoe.' fhen I would wear a short cassock—nothing to be done without a black apron. So I would begin to run in debt ; nobody would refuse to trust the Dean of Aghadoe: 1 would order in goods—every sort of thing that could be easily disposed of; and before I had ex hausted my credit, before any one began to suspect, I would be off, and the Dean of Aghadoe would be returned non inventus." One more anecdote, and we have done. " Paley spoke of Dr. Ogden, author of ' Sermons on Prayer :' he did not think highly of Ogden's works, but, as he had acquired celebrity as an author, an account of him was interesting. Ogden had the strangest tone of voice I ever knew; a most solemn, drawling, whining tone; be seemed to think he was always in the pulpit. I met him one day in company with a friend, who said, ' Ogden and I went into the country yesterday to dine with What had you for dinner?' Nothing but a boiled leg of mutton :' to which Ogden subjoined, with a cadence as if concluding a sentence in delivering a sermon, No capers!'" The anecdotes we have selected from this very entertaining volume, will we doubt not, act as a whet upon our readers, and induce them to make themselves more intimately acquainted, with:it. They will derive, as we observed before much entertainment from its perusal, and glean besides many quaint and curious particulars, il lustrative of the literary manners of the past century. For ourselves, we have only to express a hope that this will not be the last work we shall receive from the same pen. The Duke and Duchess of CUMBERLAND gave a grand dinner on Saturday at their residence in the King's Palace, St. James's, to Prince and Princess ESTERHAZY, Baron BuLow, Baron REDERN, and a select party. Their Royal Highnesses, accompanied by Prince GEORGE, and attended by the Countess SCHLIP PENBACH, Colonel POTEN, and the Rev. Mr. JELF, left town about one o'clock yesterday afternoon for the seat of the Duke and Duchess of CLARENCE is Bushy Park. About four o'clock the Duke and Duchess of CLARENCE, with the Duke and Duchess of CUMBERLAND and Prince GEORGE, attended by their suites, visited the young Queen of PORTUGAL at Laleham : it was understood for the purpose of taking leave of her MaJEsry previous to her departure for the Brazils. The Royal party returned to Bushy to dinner. Among the nobility who called to make :their inquiries after the Royal Duchess were Viscount STRANGFORD, Mr. and the Honourable Mrs. HOPE, Lord GLENLYON, Sir JAMES SIIAW, Colonel CA VENDISII, &C. The Directors of the Royal Hospital at Greenwich, under whose direction the award of prize money is made, have during the last month held their sittings on that branch of service in town, where in future the meetings will be held, it having been determined to abolish the sittings at Greenwich. The Treasurer of the Navy for the time being will preside at them. At the meeting of the Board there were present, in addition to the Treasurer of the Navy, Viscount LOWTHER, Lord AUCKLAND, &c. The Commissioners held another meet ing at the Navy Office, Somerset House, on Saturday. Viscount STRANGFORD transacted business on Saturday at the Office of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. The Princess SOPHIA visited the Duke and Duchess of CUMBERLAND on Saturday. Mdlle. SONTAG is giving concerts at most of the large towns, in company with her sister. They have been at Birmingham, Manchester, and other places. The receipts of Covent-garden Theatre, it appears, last season, amounted to only 41,777/. ; 78,610/. per annum Mr. HARRIS states to have been the average amount under his management. THE POPE'S ENCYCLIC LETTER• TO OUR BROTHERS THE PATRIARCHS, PRI MATES. ARCHBISHOPS, AND BISHOPS. Pius VIII. Pope—Venerable Brothers, salutation and benediction. Ready to take possession, in the church of the Lateran, according to the usage of our predecessors of the Pontificate, which has been confided to us, notwithstanding our imperfections, we open our heart to you, venerable brothers, who have been given to assist us in the discharge of such an im portant office. However, notwithstanding the consolation which your courage, venerable brothers, imparts to us, we cannot help experiencing an acute feeling of sorrow, on seeing, in the midst of peace, the children of the world causing in us the deepest affliction. We are speaking to you of evils which are known to you, which are committed before the eyes of every one — which cause our common tears to fall, and which consequently demand our common efforts to correct, to oppose, and to extirpate. We speak to you of those innumerable errors—of those false and per verse doctrines which are attacking the Catholic faith, no longer secretly and in the dark, but openly and violently. You know how culpable men have declared war against religion, by the assistance of a false philosophy, of which they declare themselves the doctors, by means of frauds, dra;vn up with worldly ideas. This sacred seat, this chair, upon which Jesus Christ has laid the foundation o► his church, is particularly subject to their attacks. Sacred things are unworthily made a mockery, and the worship of the Lord having become an abo mination to the wicked, all that belongs to religion is considered as ridiculous, fabulous, and vain supersti tions. We say with tears—" Yea, the lions are let loose, roaring against Israel. Yea! they are united against God and against Christ. Yea ! the impious cry out aloud, destroy, destroy to the very foundation." This is the object cf the dark manceuvres of the sophists of this age, who regard with the same eye the various professions of faith, and who declare that the port of safety is open in every kind of religion. Venerable brothers, the people must be fortified against these deceitful masters; they must be taught that the Catholic faith is the only true one, accord ing to the words of the apostle—" One Lord, one faith, one baptism"—and that, consequently, he is a profane man, as St. Jerome said, who eats the pas chal lamb out of the house of the Lord, and will perish in the deluge, and shall not be suffered to enter the ark of Noah. Indeed, after the name of Jesus " there is not another given to man, by which to be saved; he who shall have believed, will be saved—he who shall not have believed, will be condemned." Another object of our vigilance is those societies which publish new translations of the lives of saints, in all the vulgar: tongues,—translations made in op position to the most salutary rules of the church. It is, besides, your duty, venerable brothers, to turn your attention towards those secret societies of factions men, the declared enemies of God and Kings, who devote themselves entirely to desolate the church, to destroy states, and to confuse the universe; and who, bursting the rein of the true faith, open a road to every kind of crime. Among these secret societies we have determined to point out particularly to your notice, one recently formed, whose object is to corrupt the youth etlIP cated in colleges and schools. As it is well 1tn61 174 that the precepts of masters are all-powerful ire forming the heart and mind of their pupils, all sorts of pains and artifices are employed to give to youth depraved masters, who lead it in the paths of Baal, by the means of doctrines which are not of the Lord. It is thus that we with sorrow see these young people arrived at such a pitch of licence, that having dismissed all fear of religion, banished all moral restraint, despised the holy doctrines, trampled under foot the rights of one power and of another, they no longer feel ashamed to be guilty of any disorder, any error, or any attempt ; that we may say in . the words of Saint Leon-le-Grand, " their law is falsehood, their God is the devil, and their worship is that which is the most disgraceful." Remove, venerable brothers, all these evils from your dioceses, and endeavour, by all the means in your power, by authority and by mildness, to effect that men distinguished not only in the sciences and letters, but also for their purity of life and piety, shall be charged with the education of youth. There is still, regard being had to the circum stances in which we are placed, another object, which we have determined to recommend to all the ardour of your zeal for the safety of men's souls. It is, that full of solicitude for the sanctitude of the marriage ceremony, you inculcate to your flocks the same regard for that sacred tie, in such a manner that nothing may take place to lessen the sanctity of that holy sacrament, to dishonour the purity of the nuptial bed, and finally, to give the least doubt of the indissolubility of the conjugal union. 'lhe only means of arriving at this happy result is by carefully instructing the Christian people that the marriage ceremony is not only subject to human laws, but also to the divine law; and that it should not be ranked among terrestrial objects, but among holy things, and consequently that it is entirely with the church to regulate it. May the kings and princes of the world, those whose minds arc so great and so elevated, favour our efforts; and may He, who has given to them a heart inclined to obey his command, so shower his precious favours upon them, that they may be en abled courageously to do that which may tend to the prosperity and to the safety of the church afflicted by such heavy calamities. Baron APCLELLAND has retired from the Bench. He was called in 1790. In 1799 he gave his vote for the Union ; he was shortly afterwards put upon the Bench, and in 1829 he makes way, (as it is said) for Mr. JOHN LESLIE FOSTER. Sic transit glories mundi ! —Dublin _Morning Register. Boitrus-Cr-KANE.—The letters by yester day's conveyance announce, that SELLENGER, the police man, after a trial which lasted until nine at night, was ac quitted. The popular excitation, on this result, is stated to be quite beyond the powers of description.—Dublin Morning Register of Saturday. The invigorating breezes of Cromer and Gor lcstone, during a residence of six weeks, have effected a complete restoration of Lady WILLIAM LF.NNOX'S health, and she will finally leave our county on the 24th inst.— Norfolk Chronicle. _ EXECUTION.—This morning, JAS. BROWN, alias KING, terminated his career upon the scaffold, at the front of New ate. The prisoner was convicted of a bur glary at the house of Mr. NEWTON, at Stepney, at the last Old Bailey Sessions, and being a most notorious character, the law was left to take its course. 11URDERS.-011 •Friday last, a pig-drover was murdered near Oranmore, within four miles of this town. An inquest was held on the body, the issue of which has not come to our knowledge. It is our painful duty to state, that this evening a poor woman met with a similar fate in the immediate outlets of Galway.—Con naught Journal. ECCLESIASTICAL CASE Of SELECT VES TRIES AT Bow.—A few days ago, a most crowded meet ing of the inhabitants of St. Mary, Stratford, Bow, who ality tc,t l b : l iaaa la arsi lretinedi being : l a ; oliaail,:ts:dhevbaneeebdsceioiret,nalesi Chair.sirelesdereaae‘ijinAlihet:hfitnne improperlyaari j t : y ‘j ua ss t every man's have been opposing the Select Vestry System with suc and cess, took place at the Committee Boon' of the Work house, under the new Act. The interest was particularly excited by the late decision of the Ecclesiastical Court, by Mr. SCALES had stated his which Mr. MicitAxn SCALES, of Whitechapel, one of the principal opponents of the proceedings of the Select inst w he some length, a resolution, Vestry, ho c . a consequenceme nn e the f curse th ecclesiastical, slnnciaitteyun.tt e Bijoieroe.kes6o:fni CHEESE r a movedpros prosecuted, t t e h e, effectafter 1 d which the meeting separated. 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