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Difeoun't . -7 .boliAH s making charitable bequests tc" ' - -I tA: *AO ; 'Oat the com m i s si o ners may i, , : 'Llsigil: Vliihthein. '" I always consi ...., er t it§i&te}/t - lhat it was quite unnecessary -s,f . 4.,1ia thjt.;:stattjte, 'because whenever a legacy ,ii t ilyeiVas' f a -charity, the objects of that charity .„ ;lime a sufficient motive to insist upon its being paid ; and the next of kin, who has been disap pointed by means of the charity, has also a mo tive of resentment sufficiently strong to induce him to inform the Attorney-General, so as to have the charity enforced by the interference and duty of the Attorney-General" We entirely differ from Mr. O'Connell. We are sure that without this inquisitorial power the commis sioners; instead of effecting a great deal, could have accomplished nothing ; and as to the " suf ficient motive" which individuals beneficially in terested in a charity or the disappointed next of kin might have to call on the Attorney-General to enforce the execution of a testator's will, the futility of the argument becomes at once appa rent, when we recollect that during . a lorJ g ser i es of years, and under a long succes`..,..on of Attor neys-General, the abuses 7, 1 ,- i t c h t h e tomm i s _ sioners have detected •and rectified were go. ing on, and nei.::ner the objects of charity thus cheated, ';ear the next of kin, made any application cor the interference of the Attor ney. General. In very many instances it is probable that the parties interested were, from lapse of time, unacquainted with the fact. With respect to the dread felt by Roman Catholics lest any charitable bequest made by them should be interfered with by the Commissioners, it ap pears, on .Mr. O'Connell's own showing, that It arises from an ignorance of the law. Mr. O'Connell cites two decisions of Lord Chan cellor Manners, which prove the perfect validity of bequests made by Catholics for charitable pur poses. He says, "in the case of ' Merry v. Power,' the opinion of Lord Manners was, in the first instance, unfavourable to the Catholic charity. Afterwards, upon the Master's report, it again came before Lord Manners ; and upon further consideration, he decided that his first opinion was wrong, and his ultimate judgment was in favour of the charity. There was another decision of Lord Manners, when there was 201. left for saying masses for the repose of the soul of a person departed, and the decision of Lord Manners was, that it was a good charity, over ruling the report and opinion of the Master." " But," adds Mr. O'Connell, " these decisions . are very little known beyond the precincts of the hall of the Four Courts. They are known, per haps, to professional men, a nd th at , p el h aps , i s all." Why, we ask, are they not made generally known by the popular Catholic Barristers to the whole Catholic community, for the purpose of removing their fears, and of restoring that con fidence, with respect to the proper application of any charitable bequest they may make, which, it appears from Mr. O'Connell's statement, they do not at present feel ? The Committee express their approval of the provisions established fur the check and control of the general operations of the department of the Board of Works, as " well calculated to prevent abuse." Some of those provisions might, in our opinion, be very advantageously adopted by the Board of Works here, the machinery of which, as we may collect from the recent case of Mr. Nash, is exceedingly defective. In describing the mode of proceed ing which the Board are obliged to adopt, Mr. Robinson, their secretary, states—" When the architect • estimated any nerd works, or re -Isaira a C.... Tailors., _to .exceed 1001. such es timate is laid before the Lord-Lieutenant for his Excellency's approbation ; which, being ob tained, the commissioners proceed to contract for the execution of such works by public advertise ment in the newspapers, and by competition, before a board of commissioners, taking good and sufficient security for the due performance of the same." Things ara managed in a more snug and secret manner here ; and, whether the re sponsibility in the erection, repair, or pulling down of public buildings, attaches to the Trea sury, to the Board of Works, or to the Com missioners of Woods and Forests, it is almost impossible to discover. " The respective duties of the subordinate officers of the board . (it is stated by Mr. - . Robinson) are clearly defined, to each of whom, on entering office, an oath is ad ministered, 'declaring that he will execute the duties of his office diligently, faithfully, and im partially, without having any private respect to himself, in prejudice of the service in which he . is thus engaged ; and all persons in the depart ment are prohibited from being a contractor, tradesman, or artificer, under the board, or from being an agent to such contractor, tradesman, or artificer ; as also from receiving any fees whatever, under any pretence, on pain of immediate dis mission." If such a regulation prevailed here, the profits of Mr. Nash, the surveyor of the works, would, we believe, be considerably cur tailed in the erection of the new palace. The committee appear to have paid particular atten tion to the " stationery" department. This has been, for many years, a very profitable job for Alderman Sir Abraham Bradley King, as pa tentee stationer to the Government : it is not, however, so profitable at present as it has hereto fore been. In, 1821, the Irish Government, in consequence of the extravagant charges that were made, instituted an inquiry on the subject, and, - after a good deal of higgling, Sir Abraham con sented to supply English paper, at 10 per cent. above the London wholesale price, and Irish paper at 3i per cent. above the London whole sale price of corresponding paper, and 6 per cent. to cover the expellee of the establishment. The committee, adverting to the fact that the price thus stipulated for was much higher than the price of the Stationery-office here, recommend that the whole question of supply of stationery shall undergo further investigation, for the purpose of ascertaining whether time public offices cannot be supplied at a cheaper rate. That they may we have no doubt ; for, looking to the evidence of Mr. Church, the Comptroller of the Stationery-office in London, we find him stating that the prices charged by Sir Abraham are 50 per cent. higher than the prices of the Stationery-office here. If Sir Abraham's patent rights had expired, a very considerable saving might evidently be made by supplying the public offices in Ireland with paper direct from the Stationery-office in London. It appears that, in the year 1828, the enormous sum of 1,3501. was charged for stationery for the Lord Lieutenant's Household. One would suppose that his Lordship's establishment was extremely literary, were not the fact given in evidence, that a con siderable part of this sum was paid in hard cash to those who had the privilege of claiming a certain quantity of paper, but who preferred money to stationery. Amongst those to whom this privilege was extended, we observe the butler, the cook, the confectioner, the gardener, the state-coachman, and the head -groom. The committee very properly recommend that these allowances to the Lord Lieutenant's House hold, whether commuted or in kind, shall hence- forth cease. This department ought to have been thoroughly cleansed several years since, when the Earl of Darnley instituted an inquiry into certain malpractices connected with it ; but Sir Abraham, being a prominent member or the Orange faction, had friends at Court, who would not suffer his strong hold to be assailed. It was in the course of the investigation to which we have alluded, that a person who had been em ployed by Sir Abraham, and who had made im proper charges, declared that he had made them of his own volition, for the purpose of putting money into his master's pocket, but that his said master was perfectly ignorant of the fact. A better joke we never heard. The scandalous expence attending the publica tion of proclamations in certain newspapers will, we hope, on the recommendation of the com mittee, be abolished; They very justly observe, that procla::iations which interest the public gene:duy, will, if in inserted in the Dublin Ga zelle, be copied as articles of intelligence into the ditrerent newspapers. The Committee de clare their decided opinion, that the criminal prosecutions carried on under the directions of the Attorney and Solicitor-General, by Crown solicitors appointed for the several circuits, has been eminently conducive to the due administra tion of justice, and ought, with certain suggested improvements, to be persevered in. They however disapprove of the mode in which the Crown solicitors are at present paid,—namely, by bills of costs, formed partly of charges for ideal services ; and recommend that a fixed salary, in lieu of all allowances, shall be established. In ad verting to the commission of judicial inquiry the Committee observe, that the expence has exceeded the sum of 108,2581., being nearly the double expenditure in England, and nearly fourfold the expenditure in Scotland, of a similar inquiry (each of which has been closed for several years), and they therefore sug gest the expediency of bringing the operations of the Irish Commission to a speedy termina tion. With reference to the Record Commis sion, the Committee notice the extraordinary fact, that while the English Record Commission. ers have published 40 volumes, illustrative of laws, history, and antiquities, two volumes only have appeared under the authority of the Irish Commissioners of Records, which have cost the country nearly 100,0001. These are dear volumes with a vengeance. To lessen the expen diture, it is proposed to discontinue the branch of the Irish Record Commission now carried on in London. The Committee recommend in the strongest terms, the execution of public works, as being calculated to give an additional and a permanent stimulus to industry, and an increased demand for labour. We have thus summarily gone through the various heads of this able and interesting report ; and our conviction is, that if the suggestions of the Committee be complied with, the result will be highly beneficial not only in a financial, but, what is of much greater im portance, in a moral point of view.— Times. In our Paper of yesterday we inserted an ar ticle from " A Catholic Correspondent," which contained the following passage :—" Yesterday evening Judge Johnson arrived in this town (Clonmel), and, after the Grand Jury had been sworn, addressed them very briefly, remarking that the calendar was very light, notwitlistandi►ig a number of aggravated cases." The writer then proceeds to give us a description of the contents of a calendar which an Irish Judge declared to be a light one. It appears that it presented a list of 114 persons for trial, - of whom 34 were to be tried for murder, and six for rape ! After this it is difficult to say what quantity of criminal busi ness would constitute a heavy calendar in the opinion of an Irish Judge. There are no less than 40 prisoners to take their trial upon capital charges of the worst description in a provincial town in Ireland, and the Judge congratulates the Grand Jury on the lightness of their labours. This is a curious commentary on the progress of civilization, and the " march of morality," in the sister island ; but our correspondent, after stating that 17 were to be tried for assaulting the Police, goes on to inform us that the remainder are to be arraigned for the ordinary crimes of burglary, robbery, &c. We recollect Mr. O'Connell boasting, some time ago, of the superior moral habits by which the " finest peasantry, in the world" were distin guished. Here we have a practical illustration of his glowing and florid panegyrics upon the virtues of the " lower orders" of his countrymen ; but we take the liberty of saying that such flat tering statements are not likely to be creative of a higher degree of civilization than that which produces such "light calendars"as this. It argues that great crimes must be indeed of very common and familiar occurrence, when 40 charges of mur der and other savage atrocities call forth the lan guage of judicial congratulation. The true pa triotism is that which, instead of eulogising the barbarism and ministering to the passions of the people, tells them salutary truths, even though it should be unpleasant, and strikes at the po pularity of crime, by shaking the dominion of ignorance. The Irish peasantry have naturally warm and generous feelings, but they are, in consequence of the want of moral instruction, liable to the most pernicious influence of the passions. They are creatures, not of reason but of impulse, who are equally unreflecting in the practice of a virtue or the perpetration of a crime. They have been long enough in the hands of politicians who, regardless of their moral condi tion, have moulded them to their own ambitious purposes ; and they will continue to be involved in crime and misery until they are delivered from political empyrics by those who have cou rage and integrity to lead them to civilization.— Morning Herald. It will be remembered that, in the course of the Parliamentary proceedings which terminated in the passing of the Bill for the Relief of the Roman Catholics, the Duke of Wellington took occasion to state, in the House of Lords, that, should the measure he advocated not be followed by that improvement in the internal tranquillity of the Sister Kingdom to which he looked for ward, he should feel himself justified in applying to the Legislature for such additional powers as existing circumstances might seem to render ne cessary. That the condition of Ireland is not yet such as can be looked upon with satisfaction is, unhappily, too notorious ; that it is a source of deep and painful solicitude, is equally certain ; and, we believe, we run little risk of contradic tion when we say, that some information more accurate and circumstantial than the ordinary routine of official communications, is considered an indispensable preliminary to the adoption of such remedial measures as the case may be found to require. For the attainment of this important object, a gentleman connected by birth and pro perty with Ireland, and in other respects well qualified to observe with discrimination, and re port with fidelity, the real state of things, di vested of the exaggeration of party, and of the malignity of sectarian prejudice, is at this mo ment, and at the expence of some inconvenience to the public service, in thht country. We by no means pretend to anticipate the nature of the statement he may think it his duty to make ; and as little do we venture to guess at the exact complexion 'of the measures that will in the en suing Session be submitted for the consideration of Parliament ; but that something is in con templation we firmly believe s and that the preli minery we have mentioned has been already adopted, we positively affirm.—Morning Chron. We referred a few days ago to a recent publi cation in German by a Dr. Schneller, on Aus tria, in two vols., in which the system of that State is laid bare to inspection. We are glad to perceive, from the Preface, that there is a pros , pect of a termination ere long to that absurd system of restriction for which that Government has been so distinguished. The preface to the second volume is curious :--" Having lived twenty-eight years, during the period of the convulsions in France and America, in all parts of the Austrian dominions, I am entitled to pronounce an opinion respecting them. I en tered that State a young man, with the views of a native of the Rhine, without any unfavourable prepossessions. I left it when a man with dis tressed feelings. The complete want of free dom as a teacher, and the right of publication, alone determined me to quit an honourable si tuation, many dear and tried friends, a sacred band of cultivated scholars, and a residence in a populous and delightful city, which I was in clined to consider as a second home. Rewarded with testimonies of good will, from the Arch, duke to the lowest individual, and with rights of citizenship twice communicated, I trod with wife and child the difficult path of emigration. As an exile, I conceive I can best express my gratitude by the truth. For I hold fast to the maxim of the benevolent John, who says, Know the truth, and the truth will make you free.' The closing of the Austrian dominions against Europe in general—but', more especially against Germany which is more rigorously enforced through its Cen sorship Decrees than through Custom-horse regulations, will not, cannot endure for ever. 1 Several heads of the Archducal House are too well-intentioned, and too penetrating, to wish to cut off the numerous people under them from the intellectual world." From these allusions to Archdukes and Archducal House, it would seem that the system pursued in Austria is not very palatable to the Rising Sun of that country. It is high time that there should be a change. The French journals tell us that the literary men refuse to be pensioned by the present Govern ment. It is not very consolatory to reflect that a man like Gentz, of distinguished abilities, should have, from selfish motives (for he is too clear-headed to be a dupe)—should have lent himself to the advocating such a system of ob scurantism as is developed in the notes attached by him to the volumes of Dr. Schneller, when the manuscript came before him as head censor. Europe has beard more than once of the senti ments uttered by the Emperor Francis during his journey through his Italian dominions. The following passage from Dr. Schneller will give a more comprehensive view of the fashion able ideas of the Court of Vienna : ' " Science (lie says) suffered greatly, as the following declarations were uttered not once, but frequently in high and distinguished places:— , We wish no learned men. They only con fuse by their speculations the plain good sense of men, and destroy the old satisfaction of the peo ple. The object should now be to form Theo logians, Jurists, and Physicians, for the objects of the State and for business.' In the naming to places under Government attention should not be paid to learning, but to principles. The worst of the thing now-a-days, is that the most uptight people often have the worst principles. If a man has been a little under a cloud, State, Church, and other people are let alone by him. But they who have nothing to reproach them selves with, have an itch for modelling and changing State, Church, and all the world, ac cording to their own notions. Honest men have often the most restless dispositions. Even the physical sciences are turned to bad uses. There is a stone for instance. Nothing will serve them but proving that twenty thousand years have been required for its growth. What then are we to do with the six thousand years of Moses ?'—' Having now finished with the nations, we must take the youth in hand. We ' must therefore restore the Jesuits. Their learning alone, is fully suited to the forms of Monarchy, as it was invented by Rudolph, of Hapsburg, and esta blished by Ferdinand the First. If the fathers of the Society were serviceable to the objects of the State, there is nothing to be objected to them. If they should become refractory, we can suppress them a second time easier than at first. On a second suppression the estates which they have acquired will serve to enrich again the Imperial Treasury.' All writing of books only nourishes the depraved spirit of the age. Even the Austrian Observer is injurious to pure principles. Alany do not believe the truth, merely because it is to be found in it. It also makes the people, merchants and artizans, burghers and peasants, acquainted with every thing which takes place in Portugal and Spain, in France and England, and America. By this daily reading of these things, the most unfa vourable comparisons, the most absurd self•con ceit, and a great curiosity to pry into domestic matters are produced. Nothing is more want ed than to put an end to books." All sorts of absurd and idiotical opinions and principles of this nature were but too frequently uttered both in German and in the Vienna dialect.— " Learning suffered greatly in Austria through the departure of distinguished Scholars, and the deposition of Teachers of liberal views. Peter Frank, the creator of Medical Police, a professor without his equal, was driven to Russia. The celebrated Wolfstein was also driven by misfor tunes to Russia. Joannes Muller, the author of the History of Switzerland, having long been deprived of all liberty, left Vienna for Berlin. Wiebeking, the most celebrated German writer on Engineering, went to Munich. Rheinholt left Austria, where lie was without liberty, for Germany, where he was more free, and .t aug ht in Jena and Kiel. Fesslir was obliged to write far from Hungary, his country, the history of its inhabitants. Dr. Gall, the . inventor of Craniology, and Anatomist of the Brain in a new way, was obliged to repair to Paris and London to teach and write, which was not allowed him in Austria, on a cco unt of suspicion of Materialism. Schultes, an in defatigable traveller and acute observe r , l e f t Po land, as a Botanist and Physician, for Landshut ; Meissner, • who laboured so much in Prague for the improvement of taste, was obliged, in an ad vanced age, to leave his scholars and his friends, for the Rhine ; Andre, who contributed so much by his patriotic Journal to the diffusion of use ful kno w l e dge, was, by the most pi t if u l insults, driven from Moravia to Wurtemberg ; the mild Feilmoser, one of the most profound theologians, was deposed in Innsbruck, as he received the ho►tourable invitation from the Catholic Faculty of Tubingen. After the proceedings at Carls bad there were many important dismissals of Professors ; in Bohemia the innocent Fessel and the clever Bolzano ; in Vienna, Rem bold, Professor of Philosophy ; and Weintrett, Professor of Religion ; in Italy, the admirable Gioja and the Learned Rosary. Besides re movals, numbers were put on trial on the most trifling pretexts, and though not the smallest proofs were obtained, they suffered all manner of annoyances—as, for instance, Albertini, Pock horni, Schuabel, Maieshofer, and many others. Such proceedings cast down those who were not immediately affected ; they diffused every where uneasiness and apprehension. In almost every Institution for Education investigations were con ducted under the commands of the Coutt Chaplain, Frint ; Stofft, the Directorof Studies ; and Sedluski, President of the Police. All the inquisitors of Germany put together are a blazing torch-light, compared to the shades which spread over Austria." One can hardly persuade oneself that such perversity as is here described, could exist in the nineteenth century. Can we wonder after this, that Austria, possess ing some of the richest and most genial regions of Europe by nature, should actually be one of the poorest States. She has even fewer horses to the square mile than Russia. In cattle, and all the productions of agriculture, she is wretch edly poor.—lbid. It would appear from the American Papers that the Washington Government begins to entertain serious doubts of the policy of en couraging the manufacturing system in the United States, and would gladly return, did it meet with a reciprocal feeling here, to its former or even more reciprocal, relations with this country. We scarcely expected a negociation on such a subject to be commenced during the Presidency of General Jackson, who is princi pally known in this country as its bitter enemy ; but we would fain hail it, come from what quarter it may, as the indication not only of a better understanding between this country and the United States, but of a more profitable exchange of their mutual products than has lately taken place. England annually imports a certain quantity of foreign corn from foreign countries, and the United States can supply her with almost any required quantity on lower terms than any other country ; and England, on the other hand, has manufactures of every kind to dis pose of, at a cheaper rate than the people of the United States can manufacture them for themselves. The true policy of both is, there- fore, to come to an arrangement, by means of which the corn of the one may be changed for the manufactures of the other ; and to such an ar rangement we have little doubt, that the ma jority of the people of the United States would now willingly agree. They have not only ex perienced the folly of the restrictive system, and the bankruptcy and ruin attendant on their at tempts to manufacture for themselves ; but they begin to fear that the tariff; which the Legisla ture sanctioned, may give rise to measures of a more retributive nature on the part of this court. try. But how are the English landowners to be appeased.? Will they give up their high rents in order that the British manufacturer may be saved from bankruptcy, and the British artizan from starvation ? Will the men who professed not only to solve their last guinea, but to shed their blood for the salvation of the country, give up the.'r monoptzly, that the taxes may be paid * and manufactures flourish, as they were wont Co do ? We fear not. They are men of large words, but small bowels of compassion. They can offer largely, when their titles, and their acres, .and their privileges are in danger; but let the hour of their need be but past, and they are again on the high horse bestrode by their caste, and John Bull left to flounder out of the mire, into which they had urged him, as he best may. The present, however, is evidently a favourable opportunity for trying the experi ment, and procuring satisfactory terms of ex change from the United States; and if the Duke of Wellington can effect any thing with the landowners, we trust that, for the credit of his government and the good of the country, he will not be slow in attempting it.—Morning Advertiser. THE ARMY. Horse Guards, Aug. 10, 1829. At a General Court Martial, held in the Gaol of the County of Limerick, at Limerick, en the 20th May, 1829, and continued by adjournment to the 23d of the same month, Brevet Major William Butts, of the Royal Artillery, was arraigned upon the undermentioned charges, viz.: " Ist. For having, on or about the 7th day of May, 1828, dishonourably obtained, from the Pro vincial Bank of Ireland, the sum of 3.504, being the amount of certain monies then advanced to the said Brevet Major Butts, by or on behalf of the said Bank, by way of discount upon a certain bill of ex change presented by him, purporting to be drawn by himself, the said Brevet Major Butts, and ac cepted by the Rev. Edward Drury Butts, and there by holding forth to the said Provincial Bank of Ire land, that the Rev. E. D. Butts would pay the same bill when due, or in failure thereof, that he, the said Brevet Major Butts, would pay the said bill, whereas he, the said Brevet Major Butts, well knew at the time when he received the said sum of 3501. from the Provincial Bank of Ireland, that the said bill would not be paid according to the tenor thereof, and which said bill has not, in point of fact, been paid;—such conduct being unbecoming the charac ter of an officer and a gentleman. " 2d. For that the said Brevet Major Butts, being indebted to Mr. Jacob West in the sum of .511. ss. id. for certain goods, he, by false represent ations, induced the said Mr. Jacob West to accept in discharge thereof a certain bill of exchange, pur porting to be drawn by himself, the said Brevet Major Butts, and accepted by the Ref. Edward Drury Butts, payable at Messrs. Greenwood, Cox, and Company, army ag en t s , f or 1 80 1 ., t h ereby hold ing out to the said Mr. Jacob West, that the Rev. E. D. Butts would pay the said bill, as acceptor thereof, at Messrs. Greenwood, Cox, and Company, army agents, or that in failure thereof, he, the said Major Butts, would pay the said bill, as drawer thereof, and thereby inducing the said Mr. Jacob West to pay to him, the said Brevet Major Butts, the sum of 128/. 14 s. I I d . i n cas h , being the difference between the said debt of 51/. ss. Id. and the amount of the sa id bill f or 180/ ., h e, the said Brevet Major Butts, well knowing that the said army agents, Messrs. Greenwood, Cox, and Company, had no assets in their hands belonging to the Rev. E. D. Butts, nor to him the said Brevet Major Butts, and that th e sa id bil l would not be paid, according to the tenor thereof, at Messrs. Greenwood, Cox, and Company, and the said hill, or the amount thereof, has never yet been paid to the said Mr. Jacob West; such conduct being un becoming the character of an Officer and a gentleman. cc 3d. For having dishonourably induced the said Mr. Jacob West to accept divers orders and cheques upon Messrs. Greenwood, Cox, and Company, in and for the payment of certain sums therein men , tinned, and in discharge of the debt due to him from the said Brevet Major Butts, as in the last charge , stated, falsely representing to the said Mr. Jacob West, from time to time, that the same would be paid and discharged according to the tenor thereof, whereas the said Brevet Major Butts well knew that the said Messrs. Greenwood, Cox, and Com• pony, had no assets belonging to him in their hands, and that such orders and cheques would not be paid, and the said orders and cheques still remain unpaid; such conduct being unbecoming the character of an officer and a gentleman. 1 " 4th. For that he, the said Brevet Major Butt; being indebted to the firm of Messrs. Alexander, of Limerick, for certain goods sold to him, to the amount of 8.,!. 10s. or thereabouts, he, by false representations, induced the firm of Messrs. Alex ander to accept, in discharge thereof, a certain bill, or order for the payment of money, purporting to be an order made by him upon J. S. Cooper, Esq., of Dublin, for the payment of 35/. 10s., then by holding out to the said Messrs. Alexander, that the said J. S. Cooper would pay the said sum of 35/. 10s., according to the tenor of the said order, and thereby inducing the said Messrs. Alexander to pay him, the said Brevet Major Butts, the sum of 271. in cash, being the difference between the said sum of 35/. lOs., and the sum of 8/. 10s., Iw, the said Brevet Major Butts, well knowing that the said J. S. Cooper had no assets or money in his hands belonging to the said Major Butts, and that the said bill of 35/. 10s. would not be paid according to the tenor thereof; and the amount of the said debt was not paid to Messrs. Alexander by J. S. Cooper, upon their application for the same, accord ing to the tenor of the said order, and the said sum therein mentioned has not yet been paid to the said firm of Messrs. Alexander; such conduct being un becoming the character of an officer and a gentleman. " sth. For that he, the said Brevet Major Butts, being indebted to one William O'Donnell, a butcher in Limerick, in the sum of 91. for goods sold to him, and having, notwithstanding repeated solicitations by the said William O'Donnell, for a long time dishonotirably neglected and omitted to discharge the said debt, he, the said Brevet Major Butts, in the month of March last, induced the said William O'Donnell to accept, in payment of the said debt, his promissory note for 91. 4s. whereby the said Brevet Major Butts u►►dertook to pay the amount of the said debt mentioned therein, accord ing to the tenor of the said note, but which note was not paid when it became due;—suet conduct being highly di-honourable on the part of the said Brevet Major Butts. All such conduct, as set forth in the foregoing charges, being unbecoming an officer and a gentleman, and prejud►cial to the honour and chrracter of his Majesty's service." Upon which charges . the Court came to the follow ing decision : " The Court Martial having duly considered the evidence given in support of the charges against the prisoner, Brevet Major William Butts, as also his defence, is of opinion that, with respect to the first charge, the prisoner, Brevet Major William Butts, is Guilty." " With respect to the second charge, the Court is of opinion that the prisoner is guilty." " With respect to the third charge, the Court is of opinion that the prisoner is guilty." " With respect to the fourth charge, the Court is of opinion that the prisoner is guilty." " With respect to the fifth charge, the Court is of opinion that the prisoner is guilty." '• The Court loth therefore adjudge, that Brevet Major William Butts be dismissed his Majesty's service." " The Court having performed a painful and un avoidable duty in passing the above sentence on the prisoner, begs leave in the strongest manner, under the distressing circumstances in which his large family is placed, his length of service in the army, and his present unhappy situation, humbly to recom mend him to his Majesty's merciful consideration." His Majesty has been pleased to approve and con firm the finding and sentence of the Court ; and the General Commanding-in-Chief directs that the fore going charges preferred against Brevet Major Wil liam Butts, of the Royal Artillery, together with the finding and sentence of the Court, shall be en tered in the General Order Book, and read at the head of every regiment in his Majesty's service. By command of the Right Honourable GENERAL LORD HILL, Commanding-in-Chief, HERBERT TAYLOR, Ailjt.-Gen. Horse Guards, Aug. 8, 1829. At a General Court Martial, held - at Up Park Camp, in the Island of Jamaica, on the 31st March, and Ist April, 1829, Lieut. Thomas Fiske, of the 33d Regiment, was arraigned upon the undermen tioned charge, viz.:— " For conduct derogatory to the character of an officer and a gentleman, in having, on the morning of the 26th instant, when stationed at Fort Augusta, written a letter to Quarter Master Lewis, of the 33d Regiment, whilst the latter officer was in the discharge of his duty as Quarter Master, and acting in obedience to the orders of his Commanding Officer, in which letter he (Lieut. Fiske) makes use of gross, threatening, and insulting language to Quarter Master Lewis, such ungentlemanly con duct on the part of Lieut. Fiske being subversive of good order, harmony, and military discipline, in the regiment to which he belongs." Upon which charge the Court came to the fol lowing decision : " The Court having maturely weighed and con sidered the evidence produced in support of the pro secution, together with what the prisoner has stated and brought forward in his defence, is of opinion, that he, the prisoner, Lieut. Thomas Fiske, of the 33d Regiment, is guilty of the whole of the charge exhibited against him, which being in breach of the Articles of War, the Court does therefore sentence him, the said prisoner, Lieut. Thomas Fiske, to be cashiered. " The Court having performed its painful duty of cashiering the prisoner, Lient.l homas Fiske, of the 33d Regiment, feels it to be its particular duty to state, that it considers, that the conduct of Quarter Master Lewis, of the 33d Regiment, in having ordered the servant aad baggage of, the prisoner to he turned out of the servant's room, and leaving the latter in the Barrack-square, without having given previous notice to the prisoner of the Commanding Officer's orders, either verbally or in writing, was highly reprehensible; and it considers thar such harsh and unusual proceeding, on the part of Quarter Master Lewis, tended in a great degree to produce those angry feelings which induced the prisoner to write the unfortunate letter which has been the subject of investigation." His Majesty has been pleased to approve and confirm the finding and sentence of the Court ; and the General Commanding-in-Chief directs that the foregoing charge preferred against Lieutenant Thomas Fiske, of the 33d regiment, together with the find ing and sentence of the Court, shall be entered in the General Order Book, arid read at the head of every regiment in his Majesty's service. By Command of the Right Honourable GENERAL LORD HILL, Commanding-in- Chief, HERBERT TAYLOR, Adjt.-Gen. The late Margravine of ANSPACH wrote an impromtu charade, and presented it to her husband, L or a C., as the person most interested in the subject of it, and most capable of judging of its truth : " Mon premier eat un tyran—mari Dion second est un monstre—age ; Et m on tout est—le diable—marriage." —Personal and Literary Memorials. " W HA T'S IN A NAME ?"—A PUN.—In Charter-house -lane, St. John-street, lives a baker of the name (being a German, I suppose) of RACZWITZ. A wag observed to one of his customers, " You are by no means the first who have been obliged to rack wits for their bread !" A young, zealous, and conscientious student in Anglican theology, once asked an experienced dignitary— ,. Pray, Sir, what do the Armenians hold ?"—" Hold !" said his Mentor, "hold ! Why, they hold all the best places of preferment in the Church of Naighincl." CHELSEA. A meeting of the parishioners was held in the Vestry-room last evening, to receive the repor t , of a Committee appointed to oppose theitr creased rate imposed by the Chelsea Water Cour pany. It appeared that, owing to the impurlti of the water, and the numerous complaints f the inhabitants, the Company had, erected a filter bed, at the expellee of about 5,0001., and ha d , charged the inhabitants an additional rate. Th e parishioners attempted to resist this on the ground that, by the original contract, the Cour pany was to supply them with pure water, Boa that they were already receiving a profit f ll9ll/ eight to twelve per cent. on their capital. A . meeting was held last May, at the Vestry-roote , and most numerously attended, when a Com' mittee was appointed to investigate the subject , '" , and report to some future meeting. The Seca' . tary read the report of the Committee, from which it appeared that there were two practicable means of supplying the district with water, intl e 7 pendent of the Company —one, by a supply fT° lll . the Thames—and the other, by digging we lls. The latter was recommended by the Committee) and a motion founded on it to the effect, tha t reference be made to the Parochial Committee, whether or no it might be expedient to expen d between 20(1. and 3001. in boring for wat er 'l l This motion was un an i mous ly agree d to; an, in case of the propos a l b e i ng a d opte d by ha Parochial Committ ee , it w ill b e , at som e fot u t re period, submitted to th e cons id era ti on of..' 4 "e parishioners for their approbation. From th e . apathy, however, displayed by the parishione te (not more than 80 being present), the expen ee . • which might be incurred by adopting some naR supply, and the payment of the additional Or by the great majority of the inhabitants, it Ile extremely probable that the Company will fa r some time longer enjoy their monopoly. THE MARKETS. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEE Vi heat. Barley. I Oats. • Per Quarter. s. to s. s. s. s. to s. 1 1 . t o t 5 Blandferd 70 36 27 40 Brigg... , 65 20 26 18 25 3,5 Cambridge 67 29 21 --- Chard 56 70 32 38 24 30 42 41 Huntingdon— RI 70 26 32 19 24 3 2 gl Long Sutton._,._. 50 62 17 21 . 35 40 !Auld] Lynn----..,—. 60 16 29 32 16 24 45 Newark Nottingham 60 70 22 29 w 45 Peterborough 55 70 37 40 18 25 37 Plymouth 63 76 31 40 22 32 -""' 45 71 22 43 Sleafonl --...—. 55 62 33 35 20 25 Ou 44 Uppiugham 61 68 32 44 22 26 40 3 5 54 64 — i 18 24 36 LEEDS CORN MARKET:—Aug. 18. The supply of Wheat and Oats has been s maller ib ila , last week, that of other kinds of Grain has been tridiog• There was much rain fell in this neighbourhood fr °P ! Thursday morning till Saturday night, Sunday godY ei r . terday the weather was favourable, last night a (0 051 ,"" —. able quantity of rain fell, to-day the weather has "v" - fine up to the close of the market, with a prospect of 4° , tinning so. Fine fresh New Wheat has been sold at advance of Is. to 2s. per quarter upon th e price of lit' Tuesday, there has also been more demand for the 1: condary qualities, without any material alteration ?: price, .but - for the inferior samples of New and Old Ild i Z i provement ran be noted. Barley nominal. Good ft of , English Oats being scarce, fully maintain last ereek'll___,,,P r ' but foreign are in limited demand. In Shelling , ' " ea— . ., t Pease, and Malt, no alteration in price. -Flour 2 11 . ? sack higher. Rapeseed the same as last week. .. Wheat, Norfolk and Suffolk, 601 b. York. and Lincoln. 60Ib. ..;„,„,„...... ym. to OIL Barley, Norfolk and Sultblk . .............. ......—..... Ink to 306 * -- Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Grinding Beans 63lb. ....... ............... 30s. to 38x . Oats, Potatoe &U. to 48s. t: --Illealing, Foreign 1241. to Rki....English INd. to 14d.1 .1 Shelling .33a. to 355. per t 1 1 7.. Rapeseed, English, 271. to 29/ ...... . Foreign, —I. to --LP____2 LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE.—A O O. 18 ' ins.6 l,l * WHEAT, English, White, per 701 b. Red g 0 -- Scotch, Welch, and Manx Irish, White 9 9 9 4 -- Red 8 0 1 0 0 Foreign 9 0 3 6 OATS, English, Welsh, and Scotch, per 451 b..„ 3 3 3 9 Irish Foreign .." .. ................. . . .........„ „. „.., 3 0 36 C HARLET, English, Malting, per Imp. quarter 32 0 - 6 9 Scotch and Irish, per 60Ibs. .........„ 4 0 5 0 - Feeding 4 6 4 3 0 BEANS, English, per I:nperial quarter ..„ ..... Irish, &c. -=-- 3 8 0 F ore i gn 0 PRASE, English, per Imperial quarter SS 0 7,9 0 Foreign ,_ 37 0 1,, 0 Fi.otia, English, per 2801 b. 5O 0 gij tt - Irish " OATMEAL, English and Irish, per 2401bs 2B 0 , 3 4 6 . INDIAN CORN, per 4401 b. RYE, per Imperial quarter MALT, per Imperial quarter IMPORT OF GRAIN for the Week ending Aug. 17 ;i ° tree 4ll. Wheal Oats. I Barley Flour. ' los Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Foreign, rr4 ilrish, &c. `eke.l IR ..8,711 8,262 17 1 63_1........,...../% BIRTHS. ( On the 19th inst., Lady Howard de Walden, °- daughter. On the 20th inst., at Champion-hill, the lady of j°l'il Teesdale, E.q., of a son. On the 20th instant, in Manchester-bnilding st Fitzwilliatr, of a son. On the 18th inst., at Downton Hall, the 154 of Sit W. Rouse Boughton, Bart., of a daughter. MARRIED. On the 18th inst. at Brislington, near Itristel, Pr i Francis Ker Fox, son of Dr. Edward Long Fox, ;s'leof Sarah, eldest daughter of the late Rev. T. B. Simpson' the same place. idle On the 19th inst., at St. Pancras, JaJamesriraP Esq., of Alban y-street, Regent's-park, to Hannah MT daughter of Thomas Tringham, Esq., of Dorset -'ire" Portman-square. On the 18th inst. in D G l e E or D ie-street, 112111° " " 110" quaria' ' the Rev. Algernon Langton, B. A. Reade r of the : Chapel, third son of the late Bennet Langton, Ei.,%l',„' Langton, Lincolnshire, and of Mary, late Countess ger of Rothes. fret, On the 16th inst. aged 73, in Great Georg e-50 Westminster, Mary, relict of the lion. Richard Papp° of the Hereditary Lords Proprietors and Govern ors -00e' ral of the province of Pennsylvania. • Fri A th t , C o a f ic tl u ta tta t corps. C• 17, EAST INDIA.—MARRIAGE S. At St. Thomas's Mount, Capt. A. G. 14_,P i ri, 341 Battalion Artillery, to S.J ane , only daughter of P a Il i o- Bracken. At Patna, Feb. 16, W. R. Jennings, Esq. C ivil Set' - L. ,,,,,, vice, to Henrietta Maria, eldest daughter of Car - "'" i' of the Bengal Army. Reg t . At the Cathedral, March 18, Capt. C. Lane, 2d A. C. Dunlop, Esq. to Bfre. C. NJ. to Miss Urs P a lmer. At Hyderabad, ula Feb. 25, Lieut. G. W. Onslotv, of the Madras Artillery, to Mary Murray , eldest daughter of the late Capt. A. R. Hughes. Civil Service, At Maida, Feb. 18, J. Thoma s "' Esq. At Masttlipatam, March 2, Capt. H. to Maynard, the eldest daughter Grant , Esq. Wahs b, V Regt. N.I. to Miss Beata Towel! , y oungest sister of Jae. Towel!, Esq. Garrison Surgeon. o f the At Meerut, Feb. 16, Richard Hastings Scott, FA' the Civil Service, to Grace, yo un g est daughter of Rev. 11. Fisher, Chaplain of that s tation. lie At Dapoolee, Feb. 1 6 , Henry Willis, Erg. to Jo al Stewart, second daughter, and Li e utenant Jolao Swanson' D. A. Qr. Mr. General S. K ., to Maria, third daughter of Lieut.-l. Willis, mg. S. K. At Calc ut ta, Feb. 1 7, Capt. Thos. Prinsep, H. R o bs. n gineers, to Lucy Anne, seco nd dau g hter of the late Campbell, E.g. of this city. At Serampore, Feb. 9, Lieut. H. Havelock, of his OP' jest) 'a 19th Regt. Light Infantry, and Adjutant to the Depot Chinsurali, to Hannah Shepherd,;yoiingest daughter of the Rev. Dr. Alarshman. PAINTED and PuausHan by DAURDO YOUNG, as filif Ornsa, 112, tSsamm,