The Sun. — London, England, 1837-11-13 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JO URNALts All parties being, we believe, agreed upon the poin t that the Grei:ville Act has proved totally inoperative for the main end for which it was passed, namely, mccuring impartial decision;; on election petitions, the question arises how the admitted defects of that law are to be remedied. It does not follow, however, that all who allow the 10th Geo. 111., c. 16, to be in efficient, will consent to a change ; because, as we have fo:merly shown with route particularity, the Tories are great gainers by the present system, inasmuch as by a little union and a good deal of chicanery, to which they do not scruple on all occasions to re sort,. they arfl able, as a party, to avail th e m se lves of the existing objections to that system. Therefore, while they are not able to deny palpable evils, they may be able to refuse to remedy them, on the general ground that alteration is undesirable, and on the particular ground, which they have not failed already to urge, that the law under which the grossest partiality may, and actually does take place, on the whsle works im partially. We deny that it has worked, tha% it will work, or that it can work impartially, and in previous articles we have given some reasons for taking up this position. We are satisfied that the great b o dy of the representatives of the people can arrive at no other conclusion ; and although this is a ilew Parliament, there still remain in the House of Commons many Members who can bear indisputable testimony to the manner in which the Grenville Act has been made to pervert the course of justice for the mere purpose of advancing the interests of party. We have before us a pamphlet, written by " a Par liamentary agent," touching with shrewdness and knowledge upon various points connected with the 10th Geo. 111., c. 16, and although the author takes rather a practical than an enlarged view of the subject, that circumstance renders his opinion on some accounts more valuable : it is entitled " The Abuses of Elec tion Committees and their Reform ;" and upon the question how far politics have interfered with the fair nomination of election committees; and with their final decisions, he speaks as follows from his own personal experience. ‘ .. 4 is it not notorious that on every ballot upon an elec tion petition for the last two sessions, letters were written to all the members—that they were ordered to town by their respective parties, and that it was considered as great a dereliction of duty not to attend a ballot, as to be absent on the most important question in volving the fate of the Ministry ? Thus it was that unless the sitting Member belonged to one of the two great parties in the House he bad not a chance of a Committee : it was equally so with the petitioners. The Committee is chosen out of the first 33 who answer to their names as called by ballot ; and which party would take the trouble (and it is no slight trouble) to fill the House on the day of ballot, if it was not seen that they were most interested in the result ? But the evil does not rest here : there are, unfortunately, political clubs in the metropolis—the Carlton, the Reform, and Brookes's Clubs, to one of which every Member must, at least in practice does, belong. As soon as the Committee on a petition is chosen, and it is seen who are the eleven Members selected and SIVO37Z to try the case, there comes into play another im portant duty of the political parties in the House. It is scarcely possible that luck or management may have selec ted a Committee all of one party ; they are generally of a pie-bald character, Whig and Tory. Occasionally there is one of the Members who is not to be reckoned on as be longing exactly to either, but veering between both ; for example, the Hon. Member for —; such a character is a great puzzle, and if the number of Whig and Tory on the Committee is equal, the independent man creates a great deal of trouble by his uncertain and contradictory de cisions, and generally to the parties engaged a ruinous ex pense. But suppose the Committee to consist of six Whigs and five Tories, apprehension and doubt of success vanish The Whig Member exclaims he has a good Committee His counsel assure him o f success ; an d h owever littl e re - 1 lianee they may have had before on the merits of their case, the inetant they hear that six of the Committee are with them, all gloom disappears, and they proceed confi dent of success," This is an illustration of the evils of the system ad verse to the party to which we need not, at this time of day, avow ourselves to be attached, and the leaning of the mind of this " Parliamentary agent" seems in some respects rather unfriendly to the Liberal side of the question than otherwise ; but that is a matter of no consequence, for whether the majority of a Com mittee be Whig or Tory, if the result be an unfair decision, it makes just as much for our argument that an amendment of the law is necessary. The wonder to us is, that when the petitioning or the re spondent party finds that a select body has been formed of a political complexion different from their hopes, either the one or other does not at once relin quish the contest. There is a droll satire on the ad ministration of justice between party and party in Rabelais, where he represents the judges hearing the arguments of counsel day after day, then pondering on the case perhaps for as many weeks, and finally casting the dice in order to arrive at a decision on the merits. If the chance with a Whig or Tory Election Committee were equal, if the determination merely depended upon a high or low throw, there might he some reason for prosecuting or resisting the claim to a seat ; but when the parties know that on an Election Committee there are six or seven Tories, or six or seven Whigs, as the case may be, to only four or five Members on the other side, it seems to us, with re cent examples before our eyes, a preposterous waste of money to proceed ; and we can only account for the perseverance of individuals by supposing that they are not unfrequently influenced by their Couns e l , and Agents, who arc of course not a little interested in the expenditure of as much money as possible, no matter how fruitlessly. Therefore, although they may tell their principal that the result in his favour is certain, because the ma j 'ority of the Committee is of his poli tics, we much doubt whether they are ever so disin terested as to go the length of giving advice, that as there is no cha nce o f success ail further proceeding ought to be dropped. Taking it for granted that an alteration of the law is necessary, we come to two questions, both of much importance : how is that alteration to be accomplished ? and what ought that alteration to be ? A point is raised (not for the first time) by the author of the pamphlet we have already quoted, how far it is competent to the House of Com mons alone, and without the aid and concurrence of the other two branches of the Legislature, to change the present mode of deciding disputed returns ? Can this be done by resolutions merely, or does it require the authority of an Act of Parliament ? It is quite clear that from an early period the House of Commons has shown the utmost jealousy of any inteiferenee with its right of determining matters relating to contro verted elections. By the Journals, under the date of 27th of January, 1603, it appears that a resolution was passed " that it was universally known and ad mitted to be the sole right of the House of Commons to examine and determine all 'natters relation- to the election oftheir own Members," and although, as the pamphlet before us proves, James I. endeavoured to impugn this right in the case of Sir Francis Goodwin, the House ultimately persevered in the maintenan ce of its privilege, and in 1G24 it declared it to be " the ancient and natural undoubted privile,9t, and power of the C ommons i n P ar li ament to emoin - e the validity f elections and returns concero;:n their House and As sembly, and to cause all undue returns in that behalf to be reformed,," &c. Until, however, the passing of the Grenville Act, in 1770, the House had Pr) power and could -only acquire the power by statute, of admi nisterirg oaths either to the memb er; of committees o r to the wit nesses examined befoe he e ern. It was one main obj ec t o f that Actto t i ve this power, w i th a view to a just determination of regulations rio ,yo inserted l o he Bill were at is sue , an d t h e d till were merely i nc id enta l , ))ears, includ e d. reason he effect as by the result now ap ifect has been to control and check the 1-I '..mSe of Common s in any changes it might 'find it cY. f iedient to make from tim • ' . . e to time in themAe of inveslagating the merits of petitions complaini n c, 0 of un due This is an evil which the House brought upon itself, and the 9th George IV., c. 22, was in troduced to amend and consolidate the previous law, because that previous law had established the prece dent of the necessity of an Act of Parliament. Had en Act been passed in 1770, merely giving the power to Election Committees to administer oaths to witnesses (without requiring the worse than useless oaths from the Members forming those Committees), it may be a gravequestion whether the House of Commons could not have done all the rest much better for itself, without the intervention of the King or the Lords. i We only put this hypothetically, because it is an important point, which ought not to be inci dentally dispom:d of, and which we reserve for future consideration ; but it strikes us that to call upon the other branches of the Legislature to join in a statute to regulate the mode in which the merits of election petitions shall he decided, was, pro (onto., a relinquishment of the privilege formerly claimed and insisted upon by the Commons " to examine the vali dity of elections and returns concerning their House and Assembly, and to cause all undue returns in that behalf to be reformed." How far the Commons can or cannot now resume this privilege, and adopt resolu tions the tffect of which may be to alter the objec tionable mode in which election committees are selected and appointed, is a different question, but one at the presrnt moment, and under present prospects, of no little moment. We sh:111 take another occasion to ad vert to a plan by which it. is proposed to avoid most of the grounds of complaint to which the existing system is liable.—Morning Chronicle. What may be the first measure of the ensuing Par liamentary campaign on the part of the Conservatives roust, of course, be only matter of conjecture at present. As they form the defensive force of the Monarchy and of the Church, they may very prudently wait for the attack of the enemies of both, determined to with stand patiently and firmly the open aggressions of O'Connell, and the insidious and more dangerous hostility of his Ministers. The settlement upon the young Queen and upon the Duchess of Kent can hardly afford matter of difference, unless the newborn loyalty of the Whigs should display itself in some emi nent degree of baseness and prostitution. If, indeed, the Conservatives should be disposed to give battle at the earliest moment, they cannot want a pretext for it upon the choice of a Speaker. The example of their opponents, and the merits of the individual whose authority in the chair the Ministers must wish to per petuate, will furnish abundant grounds for a division. It would have been invidious, and, perhaps, in these days of privilege it might have been dangerous, to scrutinize the pretensions of any gentleman to the chair in which he was actually seated. The House of Commons might-have voted anything a libel, and might hare claimed to itself the sole privilege of publishing libels. But as there is now no fear of the Sergeant-at-Arms, it may be permitted us to inquire what was the " principle" involved in the choice of a Speaker under Sir Robert Peel's Administration, which " principle," according to the published letter of the Hon. James Abercromby, alone overcame his reluctance to become a candidate for that dignity ? It could not be the want of fitness or character in the last possessor of the chair, for he had been proclaimed by Lord Althorp, with the universal acclamation of the House, as the individual most qualified to fill it. It could not he any unconquerable antipathy to an Administration conducted by Sir Robert Peel and the Duke of Wellington, for the Hon. Gentleman had not scrupled to accept from them the office of Chief Baron of Scotland, or to enjoy the; sinecure of 2,0001. a-year into which that office was shortly' after converted for him by Lord Grey. Neither can it be imagined that it was the " principle" of the Reform Bill to give to one set of Ministers the monopoly of the Govern ment, for it was one of the avowed objects of that mea sure to afford to the King greater freedom in the choice of 'Ministers, and one of the boasted results that the Government could no longer be conducted by patronage and influence. The Hon. Gentleman has most un kindly awakened our curiosity about this great " principle," without taking any step to satisfy it, unless indeed we may infer that his " principle" is nothing more nor less than the great " principle" of all Whigs of the present day—namely, to employ all the means in their power, all the influence of office or authority, of whatsoever kind, for the mere pur pose of serving their own petty interests as a part). This we can understand. It is upon this principle that the whole Melbourne Administration moves. So long as they can accomplish the security of their own emolument and power, all means are legitimate. To them " there is no difference between a beggar and a Queen," so long as they can use the one or the other for Whig purposes. They do not scruple to allow their Sovereign to be - held out as a writer of election squibs, when it suits their ends on the hustings, nor do they disdain a filthy alliance with rags, roguery, and rebellion, if they can gain a scanty majority by it. Lord Melbourne has candidly avowed that the Peers, the liberal professions, the aristocracy, and the wealth of the country are against him ; but that neverthe less he would not abandon his post so long as he retains his majority in the House of Commons—that is to say, so long as he can, by giving the patron age of Ireland to O'Connell, command a dozen or two joints of his tail. The great Whig " principle " may be illustrated by what would be a very appropriate motto for his Lordship— . " Flectere si nequeo supero!, Acheronta movebo." He would not scruple to make a league with the Devil, and give him half his patronage to ensure the other half. And why, great statesman as he is, " should he decline support from any quarter ?" If his measures accidentally happen to Ineet the approbation of the powers of Acheron, why should he therefore abandon them, or scrupts: to congratulate himself on the honour and felicity of an alliance which keeps him in place for six months longer, and which only imposes on him the easy condition of aiming a few heavy blows and great discouragements upon the Church of England and upon the monarchy? Here, then, perhaps we may find that great Whig. "principle" announced by the Hon. James Abercromby,as paramount to all sense of propriety, to all touches of gratitude, to all objections of personal in convenience or aversion. "It is true that Manners Sutton is an honourable man, a most excellent and impartial speaker, long experienced in all the forms of the House, and blest' with an intelligence of mind and an urbanity of manner that make him justly the favourite of all parties. True also that I can pretend to none of these qualifications, and moreover that I owe some little gratitucL to the present Ministers for personal kindness, and that I was accustomed to praise them as brill , the first to repudiate that system of exclusion which had so long kept my merit from its just reward. True also that Sir Robert Peel has an nounced popular and useful measures, and that he is, probably, the only Minister that can success fully carry them. But what are all these considera tions to the great principle' Of acting with the Whig party, and stlving it with all my heart, and mind, and soul, under all circumstances and whatsoever may be its objects ? I must iel ,l the duty of party allegiance : my Lord, I . - to in you I re c o gn i ze a ll th a t rema i n - f the am spirit yours , gull of Whiggism—and , • me, since you d es i re it, you shall find all t 1 2 .„, a Whig ever desi re d i n a Speaker. pt Wh liner they h ave i n d ee d f oun d th i s i n his racice • . o f coiling on the Members w h o o ff ere d thems,•,,m, tt) sp ea k, the Members of the House now ao mem can best judge. We have never heard of any complaint s of him on this head from the Whigs, as we sometimes did of Manners Sutton from the Tories. But we have not forgotten the littl e hi s t or y o f t h e Car low election petition.. We were informed of the pro ' ceeding, thou g h it passed with closed doors and empty gail.ctits. Was the Hon. Gentleman's reading of the " and," as if it hail been " or," an illustration of the great principle ? The House consisted of an eaaer majority in favour . of Mr. Villors, the sitting Member, who had declined to defend his own seat. - Nay, if we are not mistaken, an active Minister allowed himself to be chosen on the Committee, so great an object was the politicaliast of that Committee to the Whigs. The great " principle" which governed him would not permit him to swear off; and those who have the best opinion of the Speaker's understanding, suppose that the same great " principle" enlightened him to a construction of time statute, which gave a fair opportunity for a partial House to form a committee by striking two to one in favour of the sitting member. But fortunately for the character of the House, the " principle " was not paramount to all conscience in the breasts even of Lord Ebrington and thirteen Ministerialists then pre sent, who could not resist the manly appeal of Lord Stanley to their honour as gentlemen, and walked over to the Opposition side of the House, disdaining to take advantage of a construction put by a layer in the chair, which afforded - them a pretext for a corrupt rote. Now, we do not affir m that the extraordinary opinion of thd Hon. James Abercromby on that occa sion must necessarily be re f erre d to the influence of the great " principle." We give him the benefit of his THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1837. own negative conjunction " or." We say that he must have been governed by the great Whig " principle) or that his understanding 13 weak, and his judgment as a lawyer not upon a level with that of an attorney's clerk of six months' standing. Lord Ebrington a:id his small party of conscientious adherents have this dilemma before them—will they vote for the Hon. James Abercromby being elected to the chair? — Times. The progress which the human intellect is making in Ireland, under the auspices of the O'Connell, M'Hale, and Mulgrave system of Government, may b: pretty well understood from the following piece of Irish intelligence :—" His Holiness, Pope Gregory XVI., has granted a plenary indulgence to all the fti:hful of both sexes, who, having confessed and re ceived the sacrament, shall visit the blessed body of S:. Valentinus the martyr, which the Pope has sent to the Carmelite Church in Dublin. The indulgence to commence at first masses, and continue until sun set on Wednesday, the 18th inst. Each person is to repeat three aves, paters, and glorias." It is added, " The day has been appointed bv the Most Reverend Dr. Murray, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin, and one of the Commissioners of National Education." Thus the march of the human intellect in Ireland, like that of the crab, is backwards. It is a march from the noon-day light of the nineteenth century to the barbarous , ignorance .and superstitious gloom of the " dark ages, and this march is headed by whom ? By one of the Whig-appointed Commissioners we National Educa tion ! National education, indeed I It might be more appropriately called a system of national delu sion to perpetuate - the reign of superstitious ignorance. Only let the " most thinking" people of England reflect upon the portentous fact of a principal Com missioner of " national education" in Ireland being employed in assisting sueh pious fraunds of the lio• mish Propaganda as that about to be perpetrated at the Carmelite church in Dublin, where the prostration of the soul and body of " the faithful" at a sarco-, phagus of dry bones, accompanied, no doubt, by the payment of certain fees, is to entitle all believers of both sexes to a plenary indulgence, which means a full pardon for past sins and a licence for the commission of futu. e ones. If such a spectacle were presented in some remote corner of Ireland, where the English lan guage is unknown, and where a ray of English civiliza tion has never penetrated, it might be said, " Why should such an instance of provincial and isolated igno rance and barbarism be charged upon the Roman Ca tholic hierarchy and the whole Roman Catholic body of Ireland ?" But this monstrous fraud is the ac knowledged act of the Romish hierarchy of Ireland, headed by Archbishop Murray bearing the especial commission of the Pope, and invested with the autho rity of a Commissioner of national education I A.re we not right, then, in describing the " march of in tellect" in Ireland, under the auspices of the O'Con nell, M'Hale, and Mulgrave system of government, as a march backwards? Yet it is under this system that the " enlightened" patriots arise who are break the chains of mutual darkness in Protestant England, and teach Englishmen the principles of genuine liberty I—illorning Herald. In the Advertiser of Saturday appeared an account of a great meeting, received by express, recently held in Meath for the purpose of congratulating her Majesty on her accession, expressing full and unabated confi dence in Ministers, and paying a tribute of approval and gratitude to the just, impartial, and conciliatory manner in which her Viceroy, Lord Mulgrave, has exercised the high functions committed to his charge. The meeting w as no t one o f a p a rti cu l ar class nor party, but embraced almost all the nobility, gentry, landed proprietors, clergymen—Protestant as well as Catholic—and freeholders of the county. The High Sheriff presided, so that nothing was wanting to give the meeting an effective and authentic character. ArL enthusiastic unanimity appeared to actuate the assem bly. Landlords and tenants—Protestants and Catho lics—Clergymen and their parishioners—all combined in the fervid expression of their gratitude and confi dence towards a Government, the first which has ever sincerely and stedfastly attempted to pursue a just and equitable policy towards Ireland. Not more ear nest, however, nor unanimous was the sentiment of gratitude and devotion towards her Majesty and her Ministers than was that of abhorrence against the fac tion who prevent the consummation of the healing, just, and propitiatory policy of the Government. Such a combined and determined manifestation as this must not be treated with indifference. As expressive of the feelings of the people of Meath, the proceedings would claim a deep interest ; but, as expressive of the feelings of the people of Iteland, which they are, the sentiments uttered come with all the force of a nation's authority, stamped and scaled with the approbation of a whole peo ple. To set at deffance opinions promulgated under such auspices would be to shake the whole political fabric to its basis. Let it he recollected, as was forcibly urged at the meeting, that three fourths of the Representatives of Ireland, chosen as they have been with a limited fran chise, exercised in fear and trembling of oligarchic per secution, yet three : fourths of the representatives of Ireland are in favour of those measures of Reform which have again and again been defeated by Tory machinations in the United Parliament of Great Britain. Should this system be persevered in—should Ireland be still kept excluded from equality of rights with the other portions of the empire of which she forms part—and should the opinions of threefourths of her representatives, supported as these opinions are by millions of her population--no honest Re former could long conscientiously oppose the repeal of a Union which to one of the contracting parties brings nothing but insult, injury, and degradation. The question in such case would no longer be whether or not the Union might be productive of good to the empire at large, but vvliether it be politic, and if politic whether it be possible to hold eight millions of people in bondage ? Justice to Ireland, or a repeal of the Union, is the alternative to be decided in the approaching Session. Ministers, and all honest Re formers arc for the former ; the Tories, and all who speculate in national calamity, seem resolved to fore on the latter. • It is they who foment discord h u rl -- trust between the sev e r a l di v i s i ons o f the 1. ms doin—it is they who urg e on p on y'' - .rated King is they who justify th e a commotion—ite- • Irish wrongs must ► „prehension that redress for as was recce ' sought by violent means; it . hind observed, " th e y w h o dethee Fe -- .awl be in arms if she socks to be free, =ldle& return to power will bt the signal."—M. Advertiser. We understand that the cause of Sir It. Peel's ab sence from the entertainment of Guildhall was, that the King of the French had postponed to a later day than was originally fixed the promised visit of the Right Hon. B %ro net to Versailles, and that there were circumstances which rendered it difficult for Sir Robert Peel to refuse hi! ac quiescence in the postponement.—Morning Paper. DERANGEMENT OF THE MAIL.BAGS. , -.. , nV a very rare but awkward mistake, the null-bags rot Inverness were, on Sunday last, forwarded to Aberdeen ; and thous of Aberdeen came to Inverness. Some of our toWnsMeti, who happened to be standing by the Pestzalle*, Were astonished at the bulk of the bags reteiM here on Monday morning, so far exceeding our .tsual quantum, until th e cause was dis closed, to tlio mortification of sundry politicians in our Reading-room and elsewhere.—lnverness Courier. LITERARY NOVELTIES. -- Mr , Colburn, of Great Marlborough-street, has just published the foll ow i ng new worki :-1. Pascal Bruno, a Sicilian st or y, edited byTheo dore Hook, Esq.-2. The Bench and the Bar ; by the author of " Random Recollections of the Lords and Com mons,"ropo by s. iss Stories La ndon, of ; ke, L or d Chi e f J " The Great Metlis," &c., 2 vois.---3. E t h e l Clllrel v i i o l t 4 a . l e e t li L e i r f ei e gonf Sirof G 2E e vd o ow r i s g a. e r ds l vc l o . o. Spanishustice i ' L I e the r c e li i t g e n d ( b l y j l a , l i n e e u s t. l -C " olonel Craufurd, 2 vols.- 6, The Spas of Germany ; by Dr. Granville, 2 vols., with thirty-eight illustrations-7. Uncle Horace ;by M rs. S. C. Hall, auth oress o f " Th e B uccaneer ,' , " Sketches of Irish Character," &c., 3 vols.—S. A new naval story, by Captain Marryat, entitled " Snarley Yow ; or, the Dog Fiend," 3 vols. ETHEL CHURCHILL ; OR THE TWO BRIDES. —Miss Landon has added another and lustrous gem to her coronal as the High Priestess of Passion. No writer less gifted than the author of " Francesca Carrara" could have produced these exquisite, affecting, and brilliant volumes, in which one or two errors or inaccuracies of de tail are redeemed by a prodigality o f p ower , an d poetry, and passion, which, had " Ethel Chur c hill" been Mi ss L andon ' s first sios w n Ork, must have placed her in the very first rank o f poetical novelists, and which, as it is, will increase and deepen the current of a popularity already co-extensive with a knowledge of our literature and language.—Morning Post.' NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. (From the Hampshire Telegraph.) PORTSMOUTH, NOV. 11.—The Wellesley, 71, with the flag of Rear-Admiral Sir Frederick Maitland, arrived at Madeira on the 19th ult., and was to proceed on the 224 for the Cape of Good hope and Bombay. The Blonde, frigate, Commodore Mason, C. 8., will be paid off on Monday, and the Belvidere, Capt. Strong, on Friday next. The Clio was at Barcelona on the 19th Oct.; the Dido was at Tarragona, and the Talavera cruising. Extract of a letter dated her Majesty's ship Buzzard, at sea, Bight of Benin, 4th August, 1837 :—Aniungst the changes of this station are the following and the latest, viz. :—The Curlew has left Sierra Leoee, and gone to As cension, after having lost, through Sierra Leone fever, her Second 'Alaster, Assistant Surgeon, C'erk in charge, and 20 men. The Buzzard has lost altogether, her Assistant-Sur germ, Mr. Morrison ; Acting Master, Mr. Hale-run ; three men, and one boy, out of 46 casts, and may therefore be , oesidered fortunate ; her Commander, Lieut. Stoll, and Clerk in charge, Mr. F. Siddall, were the only officers on board able to do any duty for a month, with six white men and a few blacks. Waterwitch, up to 3d August, very healthy. Bonet ta lost four or five men. Scout, Lieutenant Ackland, Mr. Lockyer, Mate, and 10 to 15 men. Colum bine, Mr. Rolls, Master, and four or five men. Dolphin, Lieut. L. Roberts, Commander, Dr. Davis, Mr. Ennis, Second Master, and eight men, and two boys. These are the casualties in the Bight by fever. The Thalia, Pylades, and Leveret, being down at the Cape, are of course very healthy. The Pelican, Commander B. Popham (now senior officer), is healthy, Columbine, Commander Hen derson, is gone ; and Dolphin, Lieut. Marsh (late Ist of Pelican), is going to Ascension ; Curlew is also gone there. Commander Adams, of Waterwitch, is very un well, and it is expected will be obliged to be invalided and go home, in which case, Lieut. Marsh removes from Dolphin to Waterwiteh, and Licut. Dacres (2d of Pelican) goes to Dolphin pro tempore. No accounts of Fair Ro samond up to this date. Viper, it is supposed, is at Ascension . , getting p: ()visions. There are five slavers in the Bonny, one at Bimbia, one at Cameroons, and thirteen at Whydah and Lagos, all 'Spaniards, under the flag of Donna Maria—a flag prostituted here to all purposes when. villainy requires a cover, and which is procurable at Cape de Verds as readily as a basket of oranges at Prince's and St. Thomas's. Amongst the recent appointments are, Lieut. Marsh, Ist of Pelican, to command Dolphin ; Mr. Grant, Master's Assistant, to be Acting Master of Co lumbine, vice Rolls, deceased ; Mr. Harder, Master's As sistant of Columbine, to be 2d Master of Buzzard, vice Ha leron (Acting Master) deceased ; Mr. J. W. Elliot, Assistant Surgeon of Columbine, to Buzzard, vice Morrison, de ceased ; Mr. Cole, Assistant-Surgeon of Scout, to Dolphin, vice Davis., deceased. No appointments yet for Second Master, Assistant-Surgeon, and Clerk in charge, to Cur lew, there being no officers here to fill the vacancies. At Sierra Leone, the fever has swept off a great portion of the white residents, including many of the first and oldest established merchants. It appears to be the same descrip tion of fever that caused such sad havoc in 1823 and 1829-30. The cases on board .the ships proving fatal, do not, exceed four days in most instances. The Rolla, Lieu tenant Glasse, is cruising off Bonny, and has escaped up to this date. MALTA, OCT. 18.—The ships in this harbour arc—The Princess Charlotte, 104, bearing the flag of Admiral the Hon. Sir Robert Stopford, G.C.8., G.C.M.G. ; Ceylon, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Sir T. Briggs, G.C.M.G. ; Rodney, 92 ; Asia, 84 ; Bellerophon, 80 ; Vanguard, 80 ; Portland, 52 ; cutter Hind ; steam-packets Volcano and Firefly ; the steamer Confiance ; the Ottoman cutter (with out a name) ; the Greek Government transport, Fenice ; and the French steam-packet Licurgue. The Rapid, 10, Hon. Lieutenant Kinnaird, sailed on the 12th for Tunis, and the Wolverine, 16, Hon. Commander Howard, for Athens, on the 6th. Lieut.-Colonel Owen, K.H., who so gallantly distin guished himself in the command of the battalion of Royal Marines on the North Coast of Spain, is appointed De puty-Adjutant-General of Marines, vice Major-General Sir John Savage ; Lieut.-Colonel Parke, C. 8., succee d s Lieut.-Colonelo wen in command of the battalion on the Spanish coast. Second Lieut. Jackson of the Woolwich division is promoted to the rank of First Lieutenant, at the Chatham division, vice Sidney Smith Crispo, placed on the reserved half-pay. The Calliope, 28, has been this week commissioned at Sheerness. The Columbia steam-vessel has embarked at Woolwich ten privates of the Royal Marines of that Division, to join the battalion on the North Coast of Spain, to complete which, it is reported two Majors will proceed to the same quarter, in this vessel. Lieut.-Colonel Parke, it is under stood, will also take passage in the Columbia. The Comus and Wanderer sloops-of-war were at the Havannah on the 22d September ; the Scylla, 18, arrived at Lisbon on the 28th October ; the Pearl, 20, left Ma. deira for Rio Janeiro on the 14th September ; the Pe lorus left the Mauritius for Madras on the Bth July. The building of a new three•deckcr, of the same dimen sions as the Royal Frederick, now on the stocks in this Dock-yard, was commenced at Pembroke-yard last week ; she is to be called the Victoria. APPOINTMENTS.—Lieutenant Arthur Lowe, to the Ex cellent t Mr. G. R. Franklin, Second Master, to the Alligator ; Mr. R. Hall, Clerk-in-charge, to the Forester Mr. Edw. D. Black, from the Blonde, to be Clerk-in charge of the Basilisk ketch, on the South American . station ; Mr. E. G. Porcher, Volunteer First Class, to the Donegal ; the Rev. Rowland Wilson (Chaplain of the Belvidera), and Mr. W. Anson, Midshipman, to the Edinburgh ; Mr. Chas. Fegan, Mate, to the Britannia ► Mr. Chas. Cheshire, Midshipman, and Mr. Roderick Dhu, College Vol., to the Tyne ; Mr. P. Barclay, Midshipman, to the Hyacinth ; Dr. C. Alison, Surgeon, and Mr, Augustus Slight, Assistant-Surgeon, to the Wasp ; Mr. John Milner, Secretary's Clerk, and Mr. Colman, Assistant Clerk, in the office of Rear-Admiral Ross ; Mr. Edward Waller, Secretary's Clerk, in the office of Rear-Admiral Sir John Ommanney ; Mr. W. T. Lower, Mate, from the Excellent to Crocodile ; Mr. G. Popplewell, Mate, to the Excellent ; Mr. Wm. White, .Issiatant-Surgenti, to the Thunder. The following Mates and Midshipmen passed for Lieute nants at the Naval College on Tuesday :—Mr. W. L. Lambert, C.A.D. Pasco, W. H. Mowbray, E. Fitzgerald, G. K. E. Wright, W. C. Chamberlain, J. J. Dornford, of the Blonde ; F. -W. Warren, no ship. (From the Devonport Independent.) PLYMOUTH, Nov. 11.—The Crocodile, 28, Captain Pol kinghorne, went out of harbour into the Sound on Monday, and will sail this day (Saturday), for Barbadoes, Puerto Cabello, and Chagres, with Consuls for each of those places. The Edinburgh, 74, Captain Henderson, arrived on Tuesday, from Portsmouth, and sailed again yesterday for Cork and the Mediterranean, The Sloop ra""";le Commander Walter P. Croker, sailed on ".;uesday - mo;ning , fcr the East Indies. The Brigantine Forrester, 6, Lieut. Rosenberg sailed on Tuesday for the Western Coast of Africa. The Brig Rolla, 10, Lieutenant Glasse, came into Harbour on Tuesday to be paid off. The eamelion, 10, Lieut. Bradley, was warped along side the ShcerAhulk on Wednesday, to have a new fore mast put on board, which having been done, and her de fects made good, she went out of Harbour yesterday, and proceeded to Lisbon to rejoin the flag of Rear-Admiral Sir William Hall Gage. The Belleisle, 74, Was warped alongside the Sheer-hulk, on Wednesday, to have her masts taken out. H.M.S. Druid, 46, was warped from her itioitrings, on Tuesday ! along-side the Sheer-hulk, t o h a v e h er masts taken out, and was placed to her moorings the saitie day. H.M.S. Leda; 46, having had her defects made good; Was taken tint of Doek on Thursday and tho Andromeda taken in to be ci amined, H.M.S. Bellona, 74, wet warped frtint het itidorin6.s, on Frid a y ; t o ha ve her ritasiCk The Naval T i OnapOrt t}illgence sailed on Wednesday, Itr,ith stares, !:•61' rortsmouth. The Swail, lighter, sailed on rhiaay, with Stores, for Falmouth. In the Sound—dinburgh, Pique, Crocodile, and Ca:. melion. Ia liarnpool—Ailigator, In Ilinmiao--Itoyal Adelaide ; San Josef; and The Cornwallis ) 74 ) was at HalifaX on the Ath Octoheli and would leave on the 10th for Bermuda, the cold weather having set fn. The Champion, 18, arrived at Halifax in four days from Quebec, and was refitting to accompany the Admiral to Bermuda, and whence she will go to Jamaica ; the Sappho, 18, had also arrived from the Gulph of St. Lawrence, and was ordered to Bermuda) The Minden, 74, Captain Sharp, C. 13., after embarking a company of ltoyal Marines, has sailed from Lisbon for Barcelona. The Minden is to be attached to the Mediter ranean squadron. The Ringdove, 16, Commander Nixon, which arrived yesterday, from Halifax, whence she sailed on the 23d ult., leaving there the Vice Admiral the Hon. Sir Charles Paget, sailed from England on the 26th June, to convey the intelligence of the death of his late Majesty, to the West In dies, which she she did by arriving at Barbadoes, July 23d ; sailed again the 25th ; was caught in a hurri cane oas the 26th ; made Bermuda August the 7th ; and sailed on next day to Halifax, where she arrived on the 17th. Thus, in a little more than six weeks, having been in Europe, Africa, Island of Palma, west Indies and North America (Bermuda.)--.lumaica Despatch, Septem ber 11, 1837. The Gazette of Friday night contains a Decree, pub fished in the Madrid Gazette of the 14th instant, by which Santa 0; Tuz de Santiago, in Teneriffe, and other ports in the Cans ry Islands, are established IP F orts for forQign oommero,. LAW INTELLIGENCE. coMID Op q tiEEICI'S BENCH, Ndr. 11. THE QUEEN V. THE tIIEASINIER MIDPLESEX. A conditional order for a ma wfantus Lfeen ohtanwd in this c:;se, directed to the Treys firer of i\lid ing him to pay 6091., the amount of e( rtain fees claimed by J. Clark in respect of prison fees. The claim was for a long time is abeyance, and was of a twofold nature—first, in respect of every felon sentenced to transportion for life ; and, second, on every such felon whose s.:mtenec,‘ wits corn muted to hard labour and impriscument. For -each of Ciuse Mr. Clark claimed s fee of Gid. After hearing Counsel, Lord DENMAN thought that, with respect to the fees chargeable on imp; isonment :41a1 hard labour, the claim was very obsolete ; it required the interposition of an Act of Parliament to revive it ; -and that part of the rule must be discharged. With respect to the ether part., he thought that the Legislature plainly in tended certain remuneration for certa'n la'. our. A, the case required further inquiry, he thou;ht that part of the rule should be made absolute. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Nor. 11. BUSH V. GREEN. This was an action of trover, to recover a gun which had been s-iral by the plaintiff, and the main question arming out of the pleas was, whether the defendant had acted nn der a deputation from the lord of the manor. The Jury had found for the plaintiff, and that there was no manor ; and Mr. Gale, for the defendant, had obtained a rule nisi for a nonsuit. The arguments on that,rule were concluded to-day.—The Court discharged the rule. COURT OF EXCHEQUER.—Nor. 11. TAYLOR V. PARSONS. Mr. KELLY moved for a rule to show cause why the verdict in this case should not be set aside and a new trial granted. It was an action brought against the defendant as the acceptor of a bill of exchange for 1001., before Mr. Baron Holland, and a verdict had been found for the plain tiff. The bill had been drawn by a man of the name of Padmore, and purported to have been accepted by the de fendant, and it was afterwards indorsed by Padmore to Mr. Taylor, the plaintiff. It was dated April 12, n'34, payable two months' after date ; it bad, therefore, become due three years ago. The defendant declared the bill to be a forgery, and the Learned Counsel moved for the rule, on the grounds that inadmissible evidence had been admitted, that the 4efendant was taken by surprise, and that the wit nesses of the plaintiff were perjured.—The Court granted the rule nisi on the second ground of application, Mr. Kelly having waived the first. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. G UILDHALL. On Saturday Miss White, who stood charged with pur loining a wine glass and a table spoon from the tables in Guildhall, on the night of the banquet, was again put to the bar. Since the previous hearing Roe, the officer, had searched her house, and made inquiries about her character. He found a great number of tender epistles, which had been addressed to her, but no pawnbrokers' duplicates, or other indications of pecuniary pressure ; nothing to raise a sus picion that she had been guilty of pilfering elsewhere. It was concluded, therefore, that she had been moved by a foolish impulse to possess a memorial of the day. Mr. Alderman COPELAND told the prisoner that when she reached home she should fall down on her knees and thank her God, for she had very narrowly escaped being committed for trial. It should be a warning to her till the last hour of her life.—She was discharged. LAMBE7'II-STREET. Elizabeth Gaynor, late a servant in the employment of Mr. Joseph Downing, landlord of the Marquis of Granby public-house, St. Katharine's-street, near St. Katharina's Dock, was placed at the bar 'for final examination on a charge of making two determined attempts to set fire to the house and premises of her master. Thn prisoner, in consequence of her idle habits, had received warning from Mrs. Downing, and was to have left her place on Saturday, the 28th of last month. On the night of the '24th, or ra ther the morning of the 25th, at a quarter to one o'clock, -the parlour, which is situated on the first floor, was found to be on fire, and the flames had evidently been occasioned by some person collecting the newspapers in the room (five or six in number), and setting fire to them at the angle of the seat, so that the seat itself, and the waistcoat adjoining, were nearly burned through. It was stated that about half an hour before the fire was discovered the gas was put out, and the room left perfectly safe, with the newspapers strewed about on the different tables, the windows shut down and the doers left open. On the fire being discovered the door was closed to, and one of the windows open, and the prisoner had free access to it, as the kitchen was on the same floor. On the same (Wednesday) evening, at about eight o'clock, a bedroom in the same house was found to be in flames, but fortunately, as in the other instance, they were subdued before they had done any serious damage, and the prisoner being suspected, she was questioned by her master, a policeman, and a fireman. She was rather intoxi cated at the time, and prevaricated a good deal in her statement. The prisoner, who denied the charge, was fully committed for trial. UNION-HALL. Thomas Smart, a young man answering the description given in the Hue and Cry of one of the suspected mur derers of William Bennett, the Chelsea pensioner, who was inhumanly robbed and murdered near Hertford, on the night of the 28th ult., was charged on suspicion of being con cerned in the offence. Inspector Collier, of the P division, state that at a late hour on the preceding night the prisoner was brought to the station-house by a policeman, who said that he had been given into his custody by three persons, in consequence of suspicion being excited by his conduct in a public-house that he was concerned in the above murder. Prisoner—l know nothing of the murder except what I have read in the newspapers. When I went into the Shard's Arms, I did speak about the murder of the old pensioner, and seeing that some of the parties who committed it were taken into custody, I merely asked out of curiosity whether Roach wag yet " grabbcd," when I found that the people in the room began to look at me with suspicion, so I thought it the best plan to make myself scarce, and I walked out and went towards home. MAGISTRATE—How do you get your living ? Prisoner —I used to work in the market gardens between Hammer smith and Shepherd's Bush, but I'm out of work now. As there was no person in attendance who could iden tify the suspected man, Thomas Taylor, whom the prisoner so strongly resembles in his general appearance, he was re manded for that purpose. TIIAIIIES OFFICE. A great number of persons were brought beton! the Magistrates, Mr. BALLANTINE and Mr. GREENWOOD, for breaches of the revenue laws, in smnggling lace, tobacco, and spirits. The first information heard was againit William Cockle, a tall man, who said he was a porter, but who is supposed to be a stoker of a foreign steamer. He was charged with smuggling 3,150 ells of blond lace, valued at 501. 14s. The treble value of the property, 1521.25„ was the penalty sued for by the Crown. The prisoner pleaded guilty to the charge. John Evans, second mate, and George Willoughby, car penter of the brig D'Arcy, from Odessa, were charged under the Act giving the Magistrates summary jurisdiction, with out an information, with smuggling 81bs. of cigars. Mr. GREENWOOD sentenced the prisoners to pay a fine of 4/. each or be imprisoned for one month. Richard Williams, a man of colour, the second steward of the American ship Qucbcc, was charged with smuggling 41bs. of civil. lie was ordered to pay a fine of 50s. to tht, Y i rb Onderstakd ,that a full and retpectttbie meeting of tine IliiiHef4 took place in the Royal Exchange Coffee-house c;l1 Vridati When the evils com plained of by the Scotch distillers woitlit for the English market were fully discussed. Resolutions were passed, aPpbEtt in our paper of Saturday next. 1 1 11 1 . s iiit3vetnent oti the p.tift finitieror cloak certainly to ean foFth a etirreSponding motemetit tin the pat tit Melt land lbicts; as 11Th etits *bleb aftcet tbe tenants *ill soon extdtltl to them ; and ase tfildt4Oitind tli elainit they advance are of the most reasonable description, O. tat that te dress will soon be extended to that industrious class. We are glad to see that this meeting is to be followed up by a similar one in lialkeith; If other counties would adtipt the sortie iiteflas, lettedsS - ittitild lie certain.—Edin burgh Evening Courant. The spirit of the inhabitants of Wales appears to be displaying itself in its inborn vigour. The meeting in Montgomeryshire, reported in our last Chronicle, will kindle sympathies in other counties ; and we noiv refer to the Flintshire meeting on Friday. Lord Dinorben declares himself an advocate for the Ballot. " The weak (he said) must be protected against the oppressions of the powerful ; and I am compelled to join the ranks of those who seek for that protection in the Billot."--,grewsbury Chronicle. A murder was committed last week in Cincinnati by - a German named Sheislan, on a woman to whom he had been engaged to be married in his native country. Not being disposed to fulfil her contract, she left Germany and came to the United States. Sheislan followed her to this city, hence to Pittsburg and Cineinatti and Louisville, where he arrived the week before last, in search of his tra velling " false as fair." He found the lady, and prevailed on her a day or two afterwards to walk with him to the outskirts of the city, when he stabbod her deliberately with a knife, and continued cutting her till life was extinct. He then delivered laiip3alf up to th 9 ,city a uthorities.— New York paper. STATE OF 'T RAVE. LEFDS.—Tim mar kets in our ball have been for the last week in the same huogrid state as for the last fortnight b 'ck; an-: we oily say the sanic of the business done in ll''' warenow W es. e ilowevr, a nti, ipate a g oad demand ire med'utely the new year commences, as the markets for the particular goou_ls u'vhich are manufactured in this neighbour hood are in no country overstocked, and we believe stock! rare very bare in most foreign countries which re:ollarlY consumeyour cloths, and when the buy ers do CO we may reasouabiy expect much brisknes,s. Wools, too, cal" tin ;e ti,m, as well as iiidip and other briskness., wares. , H u 13RAnyonn.—More businclis was don - e on Thursdo the picee-market than has been for a week or two hack' An opinion seems to prevail that p ieces will ' not c onic onY louver. There was no advance in price. In the yar.n rmrket business was rather brisker than of late, but no !Il crease in price was obta i ne d. The son ill increase of price, obtaned at the London sales orcoloniai wo ol over tbat (t. September seems to have . given a firmer tone to our sco° l l market than has been visible for some time past. A g e°( , i deal more business was done in wools on Thursday than hau 1.)..an done for some time before. HALIFAX.—'There ere ware mare buyers in the Market to- day than for some weeks past , nod we are disposed to consider the Market at a triftog improvement—certanly there is plenty of room for it , we h ave been flat cnongh of late. Prices still remain nominally the same. H UDD ERSFIELD.—PIain woollen good s are flat to-daY, withmandt, and h someeexception of pilot cloths, whic h are in g ood de ; p a tterns in fancy woollen cloths are sough, e for. The same remarks apply to the li g ht fancy. trade here, which partakes of the general depression, late With sales t ' e exception of some few patterns of checks. The of wool in London having maintained former prices h ave caused manufacturers to hold firm. Very little business has been done. kindssns„hlmaneye price. of the i et fl beh a u.e n s n isn e rrne l l ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET.--This Market I well attended on Monday, and a great quantity of a' o s o d l 0 1‘ n I c ar ; ke w t o l o v l a s s siai t sl v el e llt r vis o laran s u ol f d ac , tubruetrsatbeminigseroabblliycreldo uv t 0 psrcienesaat: price ; foreign wools advanced from 1 prettyad are e t o g l e i bt d irni p gs e k r l t b i ''11: : !:b0u1. Pi English wools are not much higher vet. LIVERPOOL COTTON-MARKET, No r ' " ; as The week's import is 9,717 bales ; the stock previously A 210,881. Sales-32,810, of which 7,750 arc on speculatio7,::B. 750 for export, leaving a stock of cotton now in the port of 19 . ' , 3 ,1' 2 ,6 Which is 46,592 bales less, and the stock of American is ° ,... ii ed bales less than at this period last year. We have had a conto.:,,e animated demand for cotton throughout the week, and price . 1 4 . common and middle qualities of American have advanced fillll.j,io per lb., whilst the better qualities have been more saleable, "arel some instances have been sold at 1 ,-4d. advance. A s niall i b P 10 (14) new Bowed have arrived, and have sold at Bd. per '• b oo Brazil a brisk busine” has been done ; Pernams and 3faranieabie have advanced 1 / s d. to V i d. per lb., and Bahias are readilY ' a r i c e% at last. week's quotations. Egyptians command the e xtrem e p ro of of Friday week. Surats continue to participate in a full On ly the demand, and are 1 ,4 d. to V i d. dearer. At the public:l:lld, terday, the descriptions brought forward not being in g e the mand excited little competition, and went off rather heit/! J 9 this greater part being withdrawn. The particulars of speculatiol,4oo week are 5,800 American, 150 Pernams, 200 Egyp tian, au d Surat; and of export, 350 American, and 400 Surat& d• d' d. d. i 121 to g o 320 Sea Islands l- to 24 1 40 Demeraras •••• 20 Stained ditto %- 0 400 Peruvians .• ••• 81- 71 5,920 Uplands si —8 ! 520 Laguayras ...... b 6:: 5,370 Mobile, &e. 11,350 New Orleans 5i 841 Bengals ........•. u 0 1 ...- 950 Egyptians B,S 91-i 240 Carthagenas .•• 54 0 1,180 Pernams, &c B3 9,4 Mani11a......... 0 --- 0 1,070 Bahias „ o Maranhams 81 —96 Barbados ..... 0-- 0 '''• Sawginned 7 71 70 5myrna......... 4 -- .. 0 To-day the sales amount to 5,000 bags, of which 1,000 Ai nerl u v r and 500 Surat are on speculation. The market is yery lied with cotton, and dearer rates seem inevitable. 2, 9 0 ?, Taken on speculation this year ... l4 :61v Same in 1836 Forwarded to the country unsold this year Same in 1836 _ . ---...... ..._ Increase of import this year compared with the same date last year .. ... 21, 454 Increase of stock ... _ ou Decrease of quantity taken for consumption ...... 6 8, - 9 20 10 Decrease of quantity taken for export Comparative View of the Imports and Exports of Cotton into:4 from the whole Kingdom, from the Ist of January to .th 4 , 0 s inst., and of the Imports and Exports for the same period year : Bor. • 777,945 106,3 34 4,8 64 136,7 13 • 38, 197 •• 0000 ,05 3 Total of all descriptions Sarno period last year. Bags. . 706,761 Into the Kingdom this year. American South American West Indies, Demerara, &c. East Indies Egypt, &c. American ... South American West Indies, Demerara, &c. East Indies Egypt, &c. Increase of Imports as compared with same period last year Exports in 1837- American, 48,785 ; Brazil, 4,941 ; East India, 67,0 87 ; West India, —; Other kinds, —. Total in 1837 Same period last year Stock. Nov, 10, 1837.... Same time, 183( ... 194,4 00 .. 242,600 - - TIIE PILCHARD FISHERY. —A cons ideral f quantity of pilchards has appeared on our coast during.,t4:ll; past week. On Sunday last the Lizard sean enclosed hogsheads, at Cadgwith 120 hhds. were enclosed by J o Hope, and 14 were taken by a scan at Coverack• the preceding day 200 hhds. were taken by the Alfred s e at Cadgwith. Yesterday 80 hhds. were taken at Pei Of the total quantity about 300 hhds. have been sold fr 7; to the country people. On Sunday the Mounts-bay o ur teeming with fish, but they did not approach suffici:, near for the scans to shoot on them. As the weather tinues moderate, we hope to hear of some very 1'4;0 catches. On Sunday night a quantity of herrings vio taken in the Mounts-bay, which is a very rare occurrence, indeed, our Correspondent says none were ever taken t,bege before, although at St. Ives they had been captured ini k a ,„ o quantities. As many as 20,000 to a boat have now u7O taken at Penzance, as well as large quantities of hake s some mackarel.—Coruubian. • LADIES' GOLD WATCH -ul l 'h,ind A variety of excellent and carefully finished Ladies' Secont":„Att Gold Watches, many of them in accordance with the l a test T ron , with Gold Dials, Jewelled, tcc., are offered for selection, P r ' tele ' Six to Eight Guineas each, at T. COX SAVORY S, maker, Gold and Silversmith, 47, Cornbill, London. N.B.—Second-hand Watches purchased in exchar, BIRTBS. ir On the 10th inst., in Bruton-street, Mrs. Richard Bestil° On the 6th ::" 1. B erens ot "::. daughter. On the 9th inst,, ~ at Fintray House, Aberdeenshire, the /106. Lady Forbes, of Cra." Tievar, of a son. Torr iPr On the 9th inst., ton-square, of a daughter, Holt, of a son. _ a ~, , it‘iiierfcii.dYe4l7.atthear Flower, Usq., of Mrs. Htzsve,...o22N. ' __../ On the Bth inst., at Stroud-gnecn, . —.. Mr. John il liie, John Ps On the Bth inst., at St. M M 4 a R It r i ' l s, lE K li enningfOn. of Winchester, to Louisa, youngest daughter of Ns. - -ni S' o' the Clapham-road. . ti ? On the 4th inst., at St. Anne's, Limehouse, ~ Mr. 141 L ,: 1 Forsaith, toClara,eldest daughter of the late W. Il• ' Esq., R.N. h e gr' On the 9th inst., it the parish church, High WYew n- ,:„gest John Henry Spicer , of Glory-mills, Wooburn, to Ell"' ° Be c ks. daughter of W. Allen, Esq., of Brook-house Loudvvatexi lllcro On the 7th inst., at Chacombe, the Rey. Brook-house, Richard I' 4 I b ,. Vicar of Kineton, Warwickshire, to Beatrice Lucy, second (Wig ter of the Rev. Egerton Stafford. ow' d On the I 1 t.h inst., at St. Pancras Church, George t . 8. the Shuttleworth, jun., Esq., of Mccklenburgh-street, to Atari 9 youngest daughter of T. Horne, Esq., of Christchurch. s/ 4.1 On the 11th inst., at St. Luke's, Chelsea, Martin LindssPoci to eldest son of Wra. Lindsay , Esq., of Carolina Port, Du n , „ ,tif Sop!iia, youngest daughter of the late Jonathan Harrison, -r' s '''' Lewes. Sussex. - A at P i6f r On the Bth inst., at the Chael of the British Embassy ~ James E. Roney, Esq., to Sarah Matilda, youngest A. ~,,;'::uin, Esq., of R 4. egen -street,London. -----"" danhter 0 Matte — O e o .i f the 9th ititt,, 01. . the 813teinEe'D. Wort hi n g, l‘lis° Maria Fair°3'l3e: College House A i ' l ' Cert Die Ilth inst:, at ' I.7ituti;lle.!l', James Lindsay's 3(1. ' , 86th yeti'. i f , firs. ~ vanguaruf On the 15th ult., at sea, 011 board H.M.S. Lieutenant W. Topham, of the 1' yal Nivines. Age d 42 ' , off' J. On the 9th inst., s Q t u a ee t n ll -s o i v r t e v e - t p . lao ( e% ill'ai:i! la i ft . ! Ot .Iklr• th j o ° l:te ;IP' land, of the Excise-office, and youngest ciatOtta u` J . On t L h e id B d t i h a r i tl n , s t l . ? line Sur e rey street, On the Bth inst., at Hastings, Mary Ann, you o l.. qc3t e' 0, i ter d o ii aged 75. On the 29th nit., at Brighton, and many years of 1 ) ? r5- the' Portman- square, aged 51, Joseph Woolley, Esq. a an d o n r On the 16th ult., at Cassel, illathilda Louise, aged "' sci.• ° 2d inst. ,George, aged 8, children of Herman Sillem, Clapham-common. Strand, Thos. ...1kW1:31511.:01;: On the sth inst., at Kenmure Castle, New Robert Nixon, i 13. D., aged . 78. f the c ' e -01 On the 10th inst., William Hargrave, a member 0 4 t he trs of Friends, at Green-lanes, Stoke Newington, a ged 1, 1 , 1 " . : 11 tbe of John and Wm. Hargrave, 13ishopsgatestreet, L 0 1 Be i rrY l3 "" oll" On the sth inst , at p Cheshunt aged 18, Saone __re, 1, Gallowa, t he Ilef ; four fk on of the late J. Cross, Es'q., of Charterhouse-scle' Ina' don, and of the former place poet of 150erclOt' •On the Bth inst., in London-street, Edinburgh; son, second daughter of the late Mr. Wm. pat so goverb ol, On tho 7th inst a od 57 Charles Walton, Esq' °f Essex, late Major 4th g Dragoo ' ns. I - a 14°. 1 London: Printed and Published ----1 ; ;1 " gtraods I n ti 4 112, Strand, at The Sun 011 ice, No. 112, - 1 of Middlesex.—Monday, November 13 / 183 " Mll_ RDO Y0t.114 ,i, coos/