The Sun. — London, England, 1837-08-09 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS The Reformers by yesterday's returns gained— In Orkney . . . Dundas - for Balfour. Belfast . . . Earl of Bethlst for J. E. Tennent Gibson for Dunbar. And loAt— In Antrim County . North Wilts . Earl of B lf. t fur Irvine. Nhthuen for Burdett. But we may already congratulate ourselves on the return of Major Aglionby and Mr. James for Eest Cumberland by a great majority. Sir James Graham was on Monday 556 below Mr. James, and 720 below Major Aglionby. It is absolutely impossible for Sir James Graham to succeed, as nearly half of the whole electors on the register have already recorded their votes for the Reform candidates. We confess we derive great gratification from this punishment of Sir James Graham. The success of the poor old dotard Burdett in North Wilts is a circum stance more to be regretted than wondered at, for the resignation of Mr. Methuen, on account of his heavy misfortune, paved the way for Sir Francis ; and when Mr. Methuen made his aps pearance at the twelfth hour, to rescue Wilts from the danger of being r •presented by a renegade, pledges had been given, and it was too late. But in Cumber land we see the triumph of Reform principles, and the sense of the honest and independent yeomen strongly manifested against political bad faith. Sir James Graham was more than a Radical ; he proposed to break faith with the public creditors. From one ex treme in politics he wheeled round to the other, and during the last two sessions he has been the most ran corous and malignant enemy of his former colleagues. In Cumberland an election expresses the real senti ments of the people, for the statesmen do no man's bidding—they are not to be bullied nor bribed. They express their own opinions, which the unfortunate tenancy at will cannot do. It would be a silly attempt were we to deny that the Tories have been successful in several of the contests in counties, from causes which are sufficiently obvious. Faggot voters have been abundantly made, and intimidation to an al most inconceivable extent has been resorted to. But, after all, when the balance is struck, it will be found that Ministers are still in possession of a consi derable majority. We have no doubt, too, that, be sides the number of their certain supporters, not a few Members.whose opinions are not yet positively known, will support Ministers. It will not be in the power of the Tories to embarrass the Government by any factious attempts. If the success of the Tories were the result of any re-action in their favour, it would have been manifested in the large towns. The returns in counties afford little indication of public opinion ; they in general express the proportions in which the land is owned by the Tories, Whigs, and Radicals. In towns of a certain size alone public ouinion dare manifest itself. In all the great towns the Reform Candidates have been triumphant, with some slight exceptions, where the " money power" has been brought to bear on necessitous freemen. So far, in deed, from there having been any re-action in favour of the Tories, the principal charge against Ministers every where was, that they were too indulgent towards the Tories. And that leads us to the subject of patronage. Ministers have been much blamed for not exercising their patronage with a more de cided view to the protection of Reformers. It is but too true, that in many Counties the Tories monopolise the Magistracy to the exclu sion of many worthy Reformers equally, if not better, qualified to discharge its duties. This tells in an election ; and, exept in times of great excitement, men will not vote in opposition to the side taken by those who have the power of injuring them in so many ways. When ,we yesterday alluded to patro nage we meant fair exercise of the powers of the Exe cutive, and not certainly an imitation of the bad practices of the Tories. 'Why, for instance, will the promotion of men like Dr. Musgrave to the Episcopal Bench strengthen Ministers ? Because Dr. Musgrave is pro moted for the qualities which a Christian Bishop ought to possess, and because his support and influ ence may be confidently counted on, on all occasions when measures are proposed calculated to benefit the people and really strengthen the Church. Every appointment of this nature strengthens the Go vernment, because it adds another supporter to the good cause, and places additional power in hands that will make a good use of it. This is not corruption. Ministers have now the command of all the powers of the Executive, and every year they remain in power they will, by the judicious and proper exercise of that power, strengthen the Reform ranks, and weaken pro portionably the ranks of the Tories. Were they, in deed, to create offices not required for the public ser vice—were they to ~vaste the public money in buying over men to counteract the majority of the nation— were their object the plunder of the country, and not the reformation of abuses and good government, this would he patronage in the bad sense of the word. But in the sense in which we use die word they must pos sess strangely-constituted minds who can object to it. We see nothing, then, in the present state of things which can afford cause for gratulation to the Tories, or lead Reformers to take•desponding views of the fu ture.—Morning Chronicle. From all quarters proofs come pouring in upon us of the want of skill and activity of the Reformers in the proceedings preparatory to the present election. At the declaration on Monday last Mr. Hume, ad dressing himself to the Reformers, said, " Do they think, that having gained the Reform Bill, it is enough, and they may sit down quietly and allow its enactments to be carried out or counteracted by those who denounced it as the destruction of the Constitu tion ? . . . My defeat is owing- to the arts and activity of the Tories. They have during the last two years made 4,000 faggot voters, many of them living in other counties, expressly to sw am p t h e res id ent elec tors.' The register of voters in 1835 contained 8,005 electors, and the register of 183 G contains 12,817. I may have lost some supporters, but I have gained many more, as I have polled 1,300 or 1,400 more voters at this election than I did at the last. The majo rity against me are not residents in Middlesex, but men put on the register to answer the purpose the Tories had in view of possessing themselves of the two seats for this county." In confirmation of this statement of Mr. Hume, we received yesterday a letter from Devizes, dated on Monday, in which there is the following passage :—" Since the last general election upwards of forty Wiltshire Tories have purchased, or apparently purchased, small tene ments in the county of Middlesex, purposely to oust Mr. flume whenever another general elec tion should take place ; of course, the Tories of Wilts do not stand alone in thus undermining the Constitution. If no check be put to this nefarious system, in the . course of a few years England will be one vast Rotten Borough." We must take a leaf out of the book of the Tories. There is no use in ascribing our defeat in Middlesex and other places similarly circum stanced to other than the true causes. The Reformers neglent the registers, while the Tories from . the first saw the importance of attending to them. Sir Robert Peel at his Tamworth dinner on Monday last observed, " The advice which had been given to some persons was Agitate, agitate, agitate.' The advice which he would give to them would be this, Register, register, register.' L e t th em b e a l ways prepared for an election."' Let the Reformers, too, be always prepared for an election ; and, above all, lot them avoid the folly of despising their adversaries. While the Reformers have been boasting and passing their time in a foal's paradise tie Tori es have been attending to business. Let us profit by past mistakes.— Mornin g Chronicle. From the disiance between the places of polling in joeeeness-shire the accounts yet received are very par tial. The majority in favour of Glenmorriston at In verness was 14 at four o'clock on th e first day. At Kingussie the majority in favour of the Chisholm was 12. The state of the polls at Grantoun, Fortwil ham, and Broadford (Isle of Sky) had not been re ceived. At Fortwilliam Glemnorriston will have a majority in his favour ; but, on the other hand, the Chisholm would have a majority in his favour at Broadford in the Isle of Sky. Colonel Grant, the Lord-Lieutenant, has, as usual, taken a most violent part in favour of the Tory candidate in this election, and it remains to be seen how far the polling at arantoun may has; been influenced by his partizan- ship. The intimidation attempted by the lairds and the ministers in Inverness-shire almost exceeds belief. In one village in the Kin,Tinssie district there are some forty voters, ail Liberals, and more than half of these have been abeointely obliged to break their solernn pledges and poll against the Re form candidate. One instance deserves to be more particularly noticed. An honest voter of the name of Macdonald, a small shopkeeper, told a gendeman who waited on him on Thursday last that he found that he could not vote for the Reform candidate (Glen ' morriston), as he should lose all his custom if he did, but that he was determined to remain neutral. In the evening of that day he went to a gentle man who talees an active part in the Liberal in terest, and said that to prevent his being troubled any more by either side he solemnly pledged himself not to vote for either candidate. That man was, however, forced up to the poll late on Friday, when they were running it close, by the Rev. Mr. Shepherd, minister of Kine,russie, who look him up, and stood by him while he broke his pledge. It is to be observed that the lairds had all failed in their intimidating threats, and they-set the minister on the poor man, to induce him to palter with his conscience by violating his pledge, and the wicked one prevailed. Mr. Shep herd passes for a very religious man in that part of the country, and this is the way that he shows his sense of religious obligation. If Mr. Shepherd had been a Roman Catholic priest, the Tories would have made a tremendous outcry on account of the interfe rence ; but he is a Presbyterian minister, and all means are fair in the eyes of the Tories, if they only further their ends.—Morning Chronicle. We have to congratulate the friends of the Consti tution on the triumphant success of Sir Francis Bur dett in North Wiltshire. A majority of 475 over the Whig candidate, Mr. Methuen, is a noble proof of the sound principles of the gentry and yeomanry of that county. The Ministers, who made the defeated can didate stand the expense of a hopeless contest, are, it is said, about to console their smarting champion with the present of a coronet. A truly constitutional ex ercise of the power of the Crown ! Him whom the people have rejected with disdain the Queen is advised to honour. Is not this insulting Majesty and dragging the Royal prerogative through the mire ? Cornwall, we see, is likely to follow the example of North Wilt shire, and to reject the vacillating Hussar who has played such fantastic tricks to gain her faiour. It is true that Cumberland appears disposed to reject Sir J. Graham ; but our belief is that his thick-and-thin support of that odious measure, the New Poor Law, will have been the main, if not the sole, cause of his defeat.—Times. We expressed our conviction yesterday that, with all their assumption of victory, the Ministerialists are by this time pretty well awake to the sorry state of their elections. At first, they probably were as confi dent as they appeared to be. They were cheered with the hope, not only that they should increase the num bers of the aggregate force available for their divisions, but that, in a good many instances, they should sub stitute Whigs proper for those very inconvenient con federates who goad them from the Radical benches. Thus, there was something which, as Rochefoucault has it, did not altogether displease then), in the mis fortunes of their good friends Messrs. Ewart, Roebuck, Bowling, and other like patriots, whose constituents have declined to re-engage them. The smaller men of office were even beginning to indulge in a little indis cretion, and talk about the expediency of preserving our institutions, the necessity of:stopping 4omewhere,and the danger of going too fast or too far; in short, they were beginning to resume that tone which they were wont to hold, with so full a chorus, in the golden days of their first reformed Parliament, when the Whigs were strong enough to fight the Conservatives with one hand, and the Radicals with the other, and beat them both. But this pleasing vision was of short duration the dreamers were awakened with a shake even rougher than that by which King William pitched them from their places at the end of 1834. For it was discovered, by the middle of last week, that the town constituen cies of this island had diminished, instead of increasing, the total number of city and borough Members in the Ministerial interest ; and the counties, where the main resources of the Conservatives were known to lie, had their harvest still to yield. As these unwelcome truths came flashing on the reluctant optic,-, of the Whig- Radicals, they winked, and shrank, and scuffled, like rats whose hole has been laid open to the light. The Ministerial writers now opened a new strain. The rivalry amongst them was no longer who should most loudly vaunt their newly-acquired strength, but who should most ingeniously disguise their newly-discovered weakness. To let out the secret of the loss on the elec- tions that were past would have been to damp the elec tions that were to come. No matter that the devices em ployed to conceal the truth were too thin to hide it from the searching eyes of their adversaries, their great ob ject was to keep the fatal secret from their own friends, who, eager to believe what they wished, would look less narrowly into matters of calculation. We will give a sample or two of the way in which the work is managed. Suppose that from the column of the new returns to Parliament a list is to be made of the Con servative gains and losses on the one hand, and the Whig-Radical gains and losses on the other. In run ning down the columns, the Whig-Radical calculator happens, for instance, to stumble upon the return for the cit) of Worcester, and perceives that Colonel Davies is returned, to the exclusion of Mr. Robinson. H o w does he deal with that fact ? Why, he claims, in the most complacent manner possible, credit for Colonel Davies, a Ministerialist, as having di.placed Mr. Robinson, a Conservative ! He sets out, in the first place, by taking it for granted that Colonel Davies will vote with the O'Connell Administration. It may be so, though, recollecting what we do of Colonel Davies's former career in Parliament, and inferring from those recollections that the gallant officer is a Wh: , of the English, rather than of the Irish, school, we are not disposed, ni common fairness, to make so unfavourable a pre sumption against him as to put him down before hand for a supporter of the O'Connell Ministry. But suppose, for the argument's sake, that he were a Mi nisterialist of the very first chop, how is the other part of the case to be made out, that the Member he has displaced is a Conservative ? On eleven questions out of every dozen Mr. Robinson, the displaced Member was the supporter of the Government—an unconnected supporter, no doubt, but still a supporter ; not seek ing, indeed, to he included in the division of the spoil, but almost always ready to be counted in the array of the battle ; hardly ever concurring with the Conserva tives, except when the Conservatives themselves were upholding the Whig Cabinet against its own allies. But because there was .now and then some special case in which the late Member for Worcester would not go the length of voting black what was demonstra tively he had one such little spot of white about him, they wash him white all over, and boast that the blacks have gained a victory by his ex clusion. If there is any precedent for this kind of de• scription, it must be found in the story of the Irish horse-dealer, who being asked by a lady for a white horse, to match in a phaeton-race on the Curragh of Kildare, harnessed for her a brown h orse with white' feet, and assured her that, by the custom of the trade, this sort of horse was always reckoned as a white one. This is one specimen of the way in which unscrupulous people deal with specific instances, and, of course, where there is more vagueness there is still greater scope for the fallacy which is proverbially inherent in generalities. Thus, a Ministerial paper of last week assures its readers that one or two of those who have been returned as C o nservatives wil! support Ministers. This is a cautious statement. Our Contemporary abstains from condescending upon particulars. That may be a very judicious reserve, but, until he shall specify the names of those one or two gentlemen who, having been elected as Conservatives, will sup port the Ministers, we are sure he will pardon us if we take leaVe to doubt his prediction. Now we, in taking our turn, will be a little more specific. We will ask our antagonist whether he is not aware that there mentionedar more btuha name,n one or two members, who can be and who, though generally disposed to f a v our the Ministers and the Movement, make some important exceptions from the sweep of their enthusiasm, and refuse to follow out political theories to the destruction of religious institutions. Did he never bear that Mr. Hayte; the new Minis terial Member for Wells is a conscientious Conserva-' tive upon quegions that regard the Church ? Did he never meet with a pamphlet by Mr. Phillpotts, the new Ministerial Member for Gloucester, in which the Lenrned Gentleman, radically as he is disposed, yet firmly deftnds the rights of the Church, and protests against the alienation of its property ? Has he never been told that Mr. Mildmay, the new Ministerial Member for :Vinche:ster, is a staunch Conservative of the Church, and of her temporal as well as spiritual interests ? Ail these arc things which, if they arc not knosA n already, cannot be known too soon ; and the result is, that, even for the town elections—the great source from which the Melbourne party calcu lated to make good the losses which they knew they must sustain in the counties—even for their town elec tons, the balance stands on that side of the leaf where they have no disposition to read it. Since that account was closed, a new one has been opened— that of the county returns. Substantially and deci sively have the English yeomen done their work. This was no combination of master-manufacturers, no cabal of aristocratic landlords; it was the old English feeling, which rihalds may deride or deny as they list, but which will yet prove all too strong for the utilita rians and the economists, and make good the cheerful atving, that England is still sound at the core. — ; m There are three things to which the present Mi nisters, but especially the three Secretaries of State, have a great objection. The first is Conservative po licy, the second is Radical policy, but the last—that to which their objection is by far the most intense and unconquerahle—is any policy at all of which they are not the paid directors. Any course of policy which would not enable them to touch the public money once a quarter, is abomination in their sight. As for the three principal Secretaries, to whom one other Cabi net Minister might be added, they cannot afford to be without place. . This is a very serious matter to them and to us. This it is which binds them to the O'Con nell yoke, and which, but for the House of Lords, had for the last two years left the British nation at the mercy of a shocking, shameless coalition, a conspi racy of the Ministers of the Crown with the ene mies of that Established Church, of which the Crown i► the head, and ought to be the defender. So far as we can judge of election results,' this state of peril is likely to be become worse and worse, unless something very decided be done by the British people in addition to what they have done at the elec tions. They have at the elections acted nobly, and with reason they may have thought that they were doing enough ; but they did not take into account the kind of enemy with which they have to deal in the O'Connell connection of her IVlajesty's Ministers. They did not think that when they drove fools and blasphemers from the field of candidates, and rejoiced that the British House of Commons would no more be polluted by their presence, they were merely send ing them to the O'Connell smithy, where they are to be forged into links of the infernal chain wherewith the Irish Romanists bind down certain Ministers of the British Crown to their service. In vain are virtue and honesty to triumph in England—in vain are English electors to free the conductors of British Go vernment from the pressure of the Calibans of the po litical world— " - Abhorred slaves, Which any print of goodness will not take, Being capable of all ill." The Irish Itomanists are at hand, to place these mon sters of political vice in that - legislative assembly from which the indignation of honest men had driven them. The O'Connell seats, " —The villains' general home—" are held open for their reception. This is the kind of enemy with which British principle has to contend— this is the foe whom British Secretaries of State must caress, not, certainly, for love of him, but fot fear of the loss of place, which they cannot afford to do with out. We are well aware that Ministers, like all other human beings that ever were in the power of Mr. O'Connell, hate him with the gnawing hatred which all slaves owe to the. tyrant who oppresses while he ,feeds them. Gladly would they see him in his coffin if there were but with him the keys of office, with which they might lock out the Conser vatives, and keep possession. We believe they have as little affection for Mr. O'Connell's policy as ad miration of his manners ; but they love their places much more than they dislike him, or anything else which a virtuous mind abhors, and they see no way of "going on" but with his assistance. It is evident that, while Mr. O'Connell's Parlia- m6ntary influence continues the same, or in creases, as that of the Ministerial party in Great Br:tain declines, the danger of the coalition, and the necessity of it to Ministers (unless they adopt a Conservative line of policy) becomes more and more imminent. If Ministers find themselves by the English elections in a worse condition by twenty votes than they were in during the last Parliament, and Mr. O'Connell's tail is as strong or even stronger than it was before, his importance as a part of the Go vernment is, of course, increased. His power will be greater in proportion, if not positively greater, and he is not a man to abate one jot of his price. He will exact to the uttermost what he knows his assistance to be worth ; and if he engrossed only the whole Go vernment and patronage of Ireland before, he will now take care to make his bargain for a slice of that of England also. Behold, then, the danger if this coa lition be not broken up. See how necessary it is that some national movement should take place—that the Protestant people of England should speak out, and insist that whatever Government we have, it shall be a British Government—that it shall be free from the O'Connell taint. There is no hope of this hap pening through any feelings of compunction on the part of the Ministers in the House of Commons, or any sentiment of disgust at the servitude to which the O'Connell connection subjects them. Mr. Spring Rice is a man of no very elevated sentiment, or nice sense of Ministerial propriety, vet he is the only one of tLe Ministers in the House of Commons whom we cannot conceive, and very readily conceive, capable of descending to the very lowest submission to Mr. O'Connell's views, provided by so doing, and not otherwise, they might retain their place s . Lord John Russell said at Stroud that at present he saw no cause for altering the ancient Constitution of the country. We have no doubt, however, that if he saw his official emoluments in danger he would then see plenty of cause for altering the ancient Constitution, or doing anything else which should seem at the time most likely to keep them in his possession. We can have no confidence in his Lordship's temporary ant occasional respect for the ancient Constitution. His first love was Old SArum: perhaps his last will be a Supreme Council of Irish Romanist Bishops, to manage, after the manner of Whig Commissioners, the secular affairs connected with religion in the United Kingdom. We exhort the Protestant people to believe that, deeply thankful as we are to them fur their exertions at th e e l ect i ons , they must not think that their good work is accom plished. These are extraordinary times, and the evils which exist require more than ordinary remedies. Never since Great Britain was a State has it been threatened with a tyranny so anomalous, so degrading, and so wre7ched in its ultimate consequences as that which may arise from the continued holding of the effectual power of the House of Commons by the Irish faction. The cunning of that faction is great— its depravity boundless. If the Conservatives be strong enough in the House of Commons to outnumber the union of that faction with the blind and the base, who, in stupidity or in sin, yield themselves to its pur poses, thcii all is well. But if that be not so—if we have only gained as much as will weaken without de stroying the coalition monster—then it will be neces sary that every lawful means should be taken to save our religion—our constitutional Government--our rightful possessions, and our dear-bought liberties, from the fangs of the viper which has coiled itself within the sacred precincts of British Government.— Morning Post. Amongst the interesting accounts of the progress of the elections which we this day lay before our readers, the sentence pronounced by East Cumberland on its late recreant representative affords subject of paramount exultation. The traitorous " Knight of Netherby" is receiving, at the hands of an abused constituency, the penalty of his apostacy. Sir James Graham is in pro cess of being degraded from senatorial honours, and East Cumberland of achieving for itself a fair refre- THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 9, 1837. sentatien of its sentiments in the House of Commons. In his address to the people of East Cumberland the renegade Baronet pompously, .and with a braggart air, announced that he would afford the electors a full op portunity of pronouncing by their votes their opinion of his conduct. Ile has done so—but with what re sult ? The poll had not been open many h 011 N, when he was in a minority of upwardi of seven hundred. Evtly heart that values hone::tv, consistency, and truth —:very heart that abhor , cant, hypocrisy, and treachery, must throb with exultation at witnessing the brand of ind'gnant condemnation fixed indelibly on the brow of traitor to Reform.—Morning Advertiser. Tin! Radicals smelt powder when they set all their organs at work to abuse Sir Francis Burdett on his starting for Wiltshire. They foresaw that his high character and his great abilities would be justly appre ei,at d 14 the honest people of Wiltshire, and that his return was as certain as it was desirable to the friends of true reform. The 7 - csult has at once verified their apprehensions and defeated their machinations to pre vent his success. He was brought in, as he ought to he, at the head of the poll, and so far a-head of the Whig-Radical candidate as to have beaten him lite rally out of sight. The numbers at the close were as follows: Burdett Long Methuen Making a majority for Sir Francis Burdett over Mr. Methuen of 455. And this in defiance of the tirades put forth in the Ministerial papers, charging him with apostacy, and with every political crime, and almost every personal disqualification which their imagina tions, fruitful in falsehood, could suggest. Here is another page in the authentic history of re-action. The fact may be denied, but here it is in black and white--not Mr. Hume's black and white--but the black and white of plain, distinct, unchange able arithmetic. 'We shall, doubtless, hear a good deal of vituperation from the quarter to which we have alluded vented a , ainst the electors for pre ferring the Honourable Baronet's notions of Con stitutional Reform to the Ministerial notions of Revo lutionary Reform. They will be taunted as renegades, aye, and as bribed mercenaries, for having chosen rather to improve their institutions than to subvert them in favour of new ones, which they have never tried, and which come to them recommended by the most questionable of all authority—the authority of men whose love of place has extinguished in them every other appetite, who can see nothing in the re volutions of time but the beautiful succession of quarter day to quarter day, and who wish to see nothing established but the regularity and perpe tuity of their quarterly payments. But though the radical press may pour out its abuse, the electors of Wiltshire will find a sufficient counterpoise to that evil in the approbation of their own minds, and in the pride which belongs to men who have made a good choice in defiance of bad advisers. We regret to find that Sir James Graham's position on the poll of his own county is anything but what it ought to be. He is another of thos e t rue re f ormers , w h o , ta ki ng t h e Con stitution for his guide refuses to abandon that guide while dashed about in the angry surge and among the dangerous breakers of change. If his former constitu ents reject him for this cause, they may enjoy a frantic triumph for the moment, but they will have done their best to bring disgrace upon themselves, and ruin upon their country. Let us hope, howiver, that they will awake, while it is yet time, to a due sense of what they owe to the Constitution under which they have enjoyed a greater share of freedom than ever was possessed by any other nation under heaven.—Morn big Herald. A rather laughable occurrence took place the other day in Nottingham shambles, which, among the parties con cerned, has caused no little merriment. A gentleman of true Conservative principles fancying a calf's head for dinner, ac costed his butcher with ' Good morning, Sir—have you a calf's head this morning?' To which the butcher, who is rather famous for his jokes, wittily replied, Yes, Sir, I have two—which do you prefer, a Whig or a Tory ?" Oh, a Tory, a Tory, to be sure,' added the gentleman, laying his hand upon one that had a fine plum appearance, owing to its being pretty freely inflated, This is a Tory, I presume Yes, Sir, it is,' replied the butcher. You will send this, the fine head, the Tory.' and away went the gentleman, no doubt anticipating a delightful treat in the contents of a Tory head. The head was accordingly sent, cooked, and brought to table, when, to his utter astonishment, he discovered the brains were wanting; an inquiry was of course instituted, when the cook declared that in her washing and preparing the head she never saw any. Dinner over, the gentleman called upon the butcher for an explanation, when he positively as serted he had sent the one that was ordered—but as for the brains, added he, there never are any in a Tory head.—Not. tin9hant Review. VOTES OF THE WESLEYANS.—It is satisfactory to mark the position which the Wesleyan Methodists have taken in the recent borough elections, notwithstanding the in fluence actively exercised over them by several of the preachers. Io Salford the baits of Tory ingenuity had no charms, and three-fourths of the members of that religious body recorded their votes in favour of Mr. Brotherton. The independence thus displayed by the Wesleyan Methodist people is a gratify ing illustration of the progress of Reform principles among that slowly-moving body, despite the homi lies of such of their ambitious, but short-sighted preachers as would restrain their flocks from the expression of political opi nion except fur Toryism. If the ministers of this denomina tion were as wise as they are crafty, they would allow their people to indulge their own political feelings, and seek rather to enlighten their minds than fetter their consciences. The spirit with which the people of Salford, Sheffield, and Leeds have emancipated themselves, shows how superior truth is to andsollistry, ad that the clumsy trimming is rightly understood and repudiated, which enforces regard for the Church with one breath, and practical opposition to it with the other. Before the dogmas of the Methodist preachers can be credited, they must themselves retire from their own pulpits, submit to enrol themselves as members of the Established Church, close their own chapels, and recommend their flocks to sit at the feet of Dr. Philpotts and Mr. Gathercole. Extolling the establish ment as the noblest religious institution of the land, and at the same time using strenuous efforts to proselyte from the Church, are extremes too wide to be reconciled in the minds of men of common sense, even by ingenuity much more refined than any yet displayed by the subtlest of Methodist preachers. --.lluuchester Times. The two chcfs-ciceuvre Michael Angelo, " The Conversion of St. Paul," and " The Martyrdom of St. Peter," suspended in the chapel of St. Paul, in the Vatican, and which for more than half a century have been looked upon as lost to to the arts, are about to be renovated by two artists of distinc tion, by order of the Papal Government. It has been ascer tained that these pictures are no otherwise injured than by the offset of the smoke from the tapers and incense. FATAL STEAM-BOAT ACCIDENT.—On Sunday morning the Topaz, a new steam-vessel, belonging to the Diamond Company, while going down the river to Gravesend with passengers, run down a boat containing a waterman named William Darla, and two passengers, and we ate sorry to add, that Davis met with a watery grave. It appears tha't Captain Hubbard, the master of the Swallow, lying in the river, and a friend, had hired Davis to convey them across the river from the Surrey Canal stairs, and on shooting outside the lower tier near the dock entrance, they saw the Topaz coming down the river with great rapidity. Captain Hubbard immediately advised the waterman to lay on his oars and drop astern, but the waterman said there was no danger, and began to pull across in front of the steamer, which was bearing towards them. Captain Hubbard got up in the boat for the purpose of preventing the waterman from going ahead, and before he could do so the steamer struck the boat and cut her in two. The unfortunate water man soon disappeared under a tier of vessels, and perished. Captain Hubbard and his companion kept afloat until water men put off to their aid and saved them, which was effected with great difficulty. Tho Topaz stopped, and rendered every assistance after the boat was struck. The passengers on board the steamer were all of opinion that no blame could be attached to Mr. Fox, the master of the steamer, the boat }having shot out from the tier so very suddenly that it was im possible to stop the vessel or alter the helm until she went after the boat ; indeed the calamity appears to have been the result of pure accident, and that no blame can he attached to any party except to the steam-boat companies, which compel the crews of their vessels to navigate them so rapidly as they all do in a crowded pool. ABERDEENSHIRE.—The Tory Lairds have out done themselves on this occasion; they have shown clear;y what length they are inclined to go to; and they have suc ceeded in proving that they consider the votes of their te nantry as part and parcel of their property. From every polling place the accounts ar e th e same , di s pl ay i ng a brazen faced defiance of public opinion, which we thought few men could be capable of. At our leisure, we shall expose some of their proceedings, and try whether they have really the hardi hood to stand forth in their true colours. It was not merely with their own serfs that they interfered. One, at least, of them, with unblushing effrontery, wont about among the te nantry of a Liberal proprietor, spreading the most false and calumnious reports. For this little gentleman we have a rod in pickle. On the other hand, the Liberal proprietors, in the most handsome manner, signified to their farmers that they might vote as they pleased, telling them only to support the candidate whom they conscientiously believed to have least self-interest and his country's weal most at heart. \%e have seen several letters to this effect, from some of the leading Liberal proprietors in the county, Though the county has been lost, the Liberals have the consolation of reflecting that their must influential supporters resorted to none of that inti midation and cajolery practised E 0 eitensively 13/ the Orange faction.—Aberdeen Herald, PRICES OF CANALS,DOCK STOCKS, ASSURANCE COMPAN!ES,&c. &c. &c. LONDON, 'I U..:S'DAY, AUG. 8 . NunfJer Price of per CAN A. I S. per "Mares. Annum. Paid. Shire. 1,706 7 pes cent. Ashton and Oldham.... Average 07/. h , o.•.sh. 135 1.042 4/. Asnny.sle_le.Z,och „........ A verage 113/. sil. 65 Basinqstoke .. Will. .1;. al I,O'S 51. aft.cisiltftk ~nd . 81 cr!:•:1 ,- c0ny.,,.. LW . sh. We 8,00) I-16sli fit. 6s. Birmingham, I-10th :.I.are ... : .... 57., .er 71/. 2)8 4,0011 Ditto :owl Liverps,:,l Jo-act...l:J:l. lb. 10 , pd 26 60 , Bridg,v,ster and Tamst,n ....1001. o 1•. sill pi 1)4 10.1 4/. Chcisocr and 11!ac!.water. 1:'o/ ob. 11.2 500 481. Coventry 'OO/. sh. 7( 0 4,5 t 5 r'roydon • A verakie :311.25. 10d. sh. 3 2,00: 41. Os. Dudley 1100 71. Der by 1 0(2. sh. II 3 20,000 .......- Dambe and 31.,yrie '•4l. do. 4d. '2041. pd 3,5751 34. Ells, mere and Chester Average I , N. oh. 30 211 40i. Erewash .. OW. en. '7OO 1,297 :NI. Forth and Clyde A % enure 4411:.1t.5. ed. 6 , 0 1 I ~,no 121. Grand Junc•ir,a lOl2. oh. 199 2,i54:11 11. Grand Union ROL sh. 25 1 54 , 20,600.•. I/. per rent. Dir o (optional) Loan lna 70 3,r:9 , 1 Grand Western 1.0 131.125. tad. Glam-rgassAire, Average cost 1721. 130. ld. 230 749 105. Gratith.en l5Ol. sh. 202 6,234 2/. Os Huddersfield average 57/. Os. 6d. sh. 361 Its) Kensington 100 sh. all pd. 10 25,323 I/. 2s. Kennet snd Avon, A verage 39/. iSs. Iod. sh. 211 2,8971 tl4l. Leee'.s and Liverpool Ithl/. sh. 5t 0 545: 13!. Leicester llO/. sh. 2'25 1,897 4/. Ills. Leicester and Northampbn...Aver t. 31. ;Os. 85 2,400 IV/. Morimuuthshire .. looLsh. 200 1:0 10/. Melton slowbray 1(() /. sh. 200 500 251. Alorsey and Irwell lOO/. sh. 570 3,000 11. 10s. NlacclCStield 120/. sh all pd. 54 217 171. Neath tOO/. sIL 325 1,786 34. Oxford lOl2. sh. 524 2,400 5/. Peak Forest - ....... ...Avei.sfre about 78/, sh, 1)14 1,418 12s. Regent's (or London) Aver. 33/. I6s. 60, oh, 1 0 5,1i1t) 61. per cent. eocndale Average SU. sh. 1 , 0 500 8/. Shropshire I 'ssl. sh. 138 800 IV. Ills. Somerset Coal 150/. sh. 143 3,6 0 0/. 41 percent. Ditto Lock Fund Stock l2/. 10s. 511. 111 700 40/, Staillad and Worcester lO2. sh. 711) 500 9/. Shrewsbury 125/. sh. 243 300 W. - Stourbridge 2,647 2/. ,s. Stratford_on-Av is ...Average 79/, 9s. Isd. sh. 50 633 12/. Swansea (00/ sh. 2 2-20 3,7,12 It 15s. Severn 2111:1 Wye an,: Railway ...A c 35/. Lb. 261 2,60 isn. 82/. Ida. Trout and Mersey, 1 share 100/. oh. 560 8,140 Thames 11.1 Medway...Aver. 19/. ss. sil. sh. 2 I ' 000 sh. .- 151 Warwick aid Birmingham . lON, $ll- 2d^1,00015h. 910 11, Warwick and Napton „„„ 1004 sh. 180 6,000 4/.os. Worcest 'r ann Birmingham...A v. 78/.Bs. sh 81 5,000 22.5. Wilts an s Herbs .. Average ((71. 10s. Bd. sh. 22 800 31. Wyrley and Essington 125/. iih 75 IN ...... Wisbeach lO5l. 01, 45 905 1/. Wey awl Arms .1161. sh. 211 DOCKS. 2,600 dr 33p. c. Commercial 100/. sh. 55 1,003 j sh 194,0671/. 6 per ct. East India Stock 110 3,23 . 3,3101/. 51.4.p.ct. London Ditto Bonds 1,350,0001. 11/. p. et. West India Stock 95 2.20.) 2/. 1 9s. Bristol 64,324/. 5/. per cent. Ditto No:cs, various amounts ll9 1,352,752 if per cent, St. Kathat Me Stock 90 504,000 44 per cent. Ditto Bonds lOO 200,000 4 per cent. Ditto Bonds or 10 years 99 Shoreham 1 - Labour 2.500 ........ Deptford Piet ` - 'Ol. sh. 3/. B RI DOES. 1,600 Ifs. Hammersm.ti. 5O/. sh. 221 7,231. Southwark, Old Av. 1131.15. &I. sh. 2 1,700 IL Iss, Ditto, New, of 71 per cent. 5O/. sh. 14 5,000 • Waterloo 5,000 18s. Bd, Ditto, Old Annuities of 2./. 5,000 16a. 4d. Ditto, New Ditto of 71 401. pd 15; 80,0001. 81. per cent. Vitt() Bonus llB 5,912 14s y_au . x1aa11.„ . .,..,..,,, , , , „„ . Avarage_701. 10s. 3d. sh l7 . . AS , U RA Nek.: COMPANIES. 2,000 3110 s Alltleit. 5001. sh. 501 pd $0 50,000 [ 5 / 1 ., r , ( g s r. . t 'l Alliance, British & Foreign 100/. sh. 1011. pd 111 50,000 S per cent. Ditto, Marine lOU sh. 5/. pd 51 24,000 11. per sh. Atlas 501. sh. 51. pd 131 1,200},h. i/. Birmingham t ire 2501. 5h.55/. pd 11,5 20,000 4/ percent. British Fire 2501. sh. 50/. pd 41 12,000 61. percent. British Comusacial 504 ch. 5/. Ixl 61 5,000 61. per cent. Clerical, Medi _al,&c. Life, ICOI sh. 12/10 s p d 4 4,000 21 10s County 1001. sh. 10/. pd 42 20,000 ss. Eagle .. ... 5Ol. sh. I/. pd 5; ~,,„ 5 per cent./ Ec onom i c L itt lOOOl. sh. 250/. pd 373 2,271 225. percent. European Lito 0 0/. sh. all pd 22 50,000 2s. Ditto, New .. . 2Ol. sh. 21. pd 11 1,000,000!. 71. per ct. Globe 20,000 sr. Guardian lOO/. sh. 2711 pd 33 40,000 6s. ed. Hope 501. sh. 51. pd 51 2,400 5/. 7s. 6d. Imperial Fire 500/ sh. 501. pd 19.1 7,500 91. Imperial 121 e.. 100/. sin 10/. pd 10 13,459 4/. per cent. Indemnity Marine 1101. sh. 8/. pd 16; 2,020 81 10s Kest Fire 50/. &h. all pd 82 31. Ditto Life 79 10,1100 168. Law Life 100/. sh. 10/. pd 26 5.000 19s. London, Fira 251. sh. 121. 10s. IA 151 3,900 10s. London, Ship 251. sh. 121. 10s. pd 151 30,0111 51. per cent. Palladium Lit. , 5O/. sh. 2/. pd 2/ 8, 0.1 5 0 ,000 Protector Fite ' , O/. sh. 21. pd 18 s ed 4,500 11. Provident Liie WO/. sh. 104 pd 2 3 100,000 ss. Rock Life 0 01. sh. 2/. pd 64 089,2201 5/. per cent. Royal Exchange Stork... 225 6,000 5 per cent. University Lite lOO/. sli. 5/. pd si 50,000 4 per cent. United Kingdom Life 2/. pd JOINT SIOCK BANKS 25,000 8 per cent. A gri c. and Comm. of Ireland 25/. sh. 10/. pd 14 5,000 A ust rala ia 10,0011 10 percent. Bank of Ili: mingliam 5 41. sh. 101. pd In 10,000 19 per cent. Birmingham Bank . . 5O/. sh. Si. pd 14 30,000 5 percent. London anti Westminster...lool sh. 20/. pd 191 3,000 4 per cent. Lancaster...... lOO/. sh. 20/. pd 3 ,, 25,000 Liverpool 1001 sh. 10/.1.d 171 50,000 71 percent. Manchester and Liverpool] 100/. sh. 15/ pd 20 Discount jj 20,000 7 per cent. Manchester...., ; 1001. sh. 231 pd 27 20,000 Provincial Bank of Ireland 100/. sh. 25/. pd 39 20,' CO National Bank of Ireland 5 ,/. sh. 171/. pd 14; 10,000 5 per cent. National Provincial Eng. lOO/. sh. 35/. pti 32 19,000 Gloucestershire 5O/. sh. 101. pd 20 6,000 lOper cent. Hampshire 50/. sh. 5/. pd 9 GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES. 2,500 11 Ss 601 Bath 9 04 sh. Pl. pd 24 5,000 British JO/. sh. 161. pd 21 moo 15Ziew.et..1 Ditto Provincial 20/. sh. 19 pd 221 928 51 106 Birmingham 5O/. sh. 91 4,230 'llos Bristol 2O . sh. 36 1,500 3' 10s Brighton 2Ol. sh. 11 750 31 les Ditto, New 2,471 41 per cent. Brighton General 201. eh. all pd 17 4,000 4/. Continental Cansolidated lOO/. 11211. pd 85 1,000 10/. City of London lOOl. sh. all pd 180 1,000 61. Di ',to, New 4,0(10 41. les. F.Apittahle 031,1 00 21 per cent. Imperial 'O/. sh. 441 800 Si. per cent. Lle 4 Thaiiet 9 5/. sh. 201. pd 20 2,350 6/. per cant. ' ndependent '3O/. sh. all pd 49 9,000 31. per cent. Phamix 50/. sh. 391. pd 22 1,000 44 per cent. Ratelitf 100/. sh. 80/. pd 55 4,000 South Metropolitan 8,200 51. per cent. United Ileneral 5Ol. sh. 46/. pd 25 210 51. per cent. Warwick... . .. 501. sh. 50 400 10/. per cent Wakefield 25/. sir. 424 12,0 , 0 31. Westmit , ster Chartered 6,000 12s. Ditto New 5l 1. sh. 101. pd 9 KO Yarmouth 201. sh. 181, pd 9 WAT ER wan Ks. 1,000 9s. Birmingham 251 sh. 251. pd 241 1,134 01. East Loudon lOO/. sh. 1404 5,500 21 10a (Sr sod Junction ....Average 41/ I3s. 46. sh. 51 2,000 21. Kent lOOl. sh. 43 372 101. Liverpool Bootle 220/. sh. 3::6 1,500 2/ lOs New diver Loudon Bridge Water Annuities 58 6, tB6 11 15s Manchestei and Salford ,lOOl. sh, 53j 1,000 4 per cent. Satoh London lOO/. sh. 83 8,294 34!. West Middlesex ....Average 13!. I2s. 06. sh. . 90 1,360 1114 s York Building Co. Lessee Prop ..... -100/. sh. 35 IRON RAILWAYS. 1,000 Birmingham and Derby 9,501) Birmingham and Gloucester le/ pd II 7,501) Birmingham, Bristol, and Thames Junction 01 15,!1 , 0 Bristol and Exeter 101/. sh. 10 pd (lj 660 Calcutta and Saugur 7,.5:5) „ . Cheltenham and G. Western... 02. sh. 'A/ 5 3,001 Clarence lOOl. sh. 100! pd 40 12,000 8,000 Dublin and Kilkenny 100/. 5h... 0 4 pd 04 60,100 Eastern Counties 25/ Ph. W. pi 04 Grand Junction 1001 sh. tssl. p 1 165 Great North of England 7l. p,l 51 25,0.13 Great Western inn/ sh. 45/. I'd 52 2,000 Hartlepool ino/. sh. 1001 pd 100 9,000 Hull and - l elby 5O/. sh. 5/. pd 01 10,000 Leeds and Manchester 1001. sh. 5/. pd 14 . 2,10 J 3/ per cent. Leeds and Selby 1,500 it ss, a,103 IA per e S itT s t a i l i t t i l l r :e e n s s g t e t n r 1 . 1 ...1 . 01.1. 1 i5 . h 5 . 11 1 . ,: 07 . -illll.. pd 2 6 7 i i 10 per cent. 10, 1 '00 London and Bright() b 15.000 Ditto ditto (Gibbs' , -20/ sh. I/ pd 0 16, 0 00 Ditto ditto (Itertnie)...so/. sh. 34 pJ CI 1,0:0 Ditto ditto (Coma y)...100/. eh. 3/. pd 04 12,4,00 London and Blackwell SOL sh 3/ pd 20,000 3 per cent. 1 1,. .on n t i l l o o i n i and at,i ( 1 1 3 r ir e n e l i i i n u g l , c i l a i rn . ... 100 0 01. ..?„. 90;'04 1:13041. '25 000 ' o,l'oo L ondon and Southampton -.50/. sh. 401. pd :WI ...... ... 7,000 12,n00 London Grand Junction 5 1. sh. 51. pal '2 1 , 1,000 M • nobest, and Bi minglnim se/. sh. 5/. pd 4/ North Midland 1001. sh. 151. pct 152 Northe'll and Eastern lOO/. sh. 61. pd 01 2,600 Preston and Wyre 28,1i00 ...... .. South Eastern and Dover 1,000 10/. per cent. Stockton and Darlington 501. 555 5 01 : 1 1 .. * . 2 6 :111 1 :1 .. : 0 1 1 3 7 20 91 / 181 11 : 1 1 :1 ;, : d) dd i d u . 1 24 0 (10 3 9,000 Thu res Haven with 1,400 0,003 I Y ‘ o re r s k tm at i l i d 'st N e t r m ? i l ti l" Midla n d reei) MINES. 8,008 Albion C6pper 5l. sh. 341. pd 12 4,000 IL Si. Alten 'Si. sh. 121. 10s d 1 - 1 111,000 ... Ditto Subscription ........................ ' ) `l ' 4 2,000 11. 801.,n0s 150/. sh all pd e 5 10,000 11. lOs Brazilian hop. iss. 5/. pin 35/. sh. 'Jul pd 2 i 0,0 0 Macaulas 6, Cocacs United...2s/. sh 231/. pd 8 11,1410 Ditto St. John Del Rey '2O/. sh. 91. pd 21 10,000 toliv.a Copper Company 201. sh. 20/, pd 5 10,000 ... 20,0111 British Iron 5 O /. sh. 5 0 / pd 261 6,000 ... ...... British Copper 5/. sh. 41/. IA I Casa Branca... ((I!. I.el 64 Caminliga 10,000 11 Copiapo 2O/. sh 12a/ pd 14 8,500 Col , lmbiati. iss. 51. pm...-. 55/. sb. 55/. pct E 1 2,850 31. English l2l Ills. pd 22 20,000 General M' ' g Association...2u/. sh. 151. pd 9 5,155 Mexican Company 10t2. sh 55,V, pd 01 3,000 Polherou Consols lO/. 'sh 8/, pit 7 11,500 !Coal del Monte, Unregistered Ditto Loan Notes 1(0/. pd 112' 30,000 United Mexican, iss. 2pm ....'lOl. sh. all pd 1; Dit• t. Scrip 13 Ditto New Scrip 5/ pd If, West Cork 511/. sh. 50/. pd 38 LITERARY INSIITUTIONS, 1,000 London, with Bronze Ticket 75gs. sh. 20/ 1,5110 Lond 41 University 1101. sh, all lid 234 700 Russell 0 5gs. Y's. 9 King' College lOOl. pd 28 MISCELLANEOUS 10,000 153. Australian Agricultural....loo/. sh 2(1/ pd 31 6,0110 41. per cent. British American Land Company 2:4/. prl 121 10,000 6/ per cent. Canada Company 10. 11. sh. 24! pd 3 3 .. 20. 1 ,000 51 per cent. Upper Canada Loan 9tl City Bonds, 4 per cent ... 10! 15,000 I/. Os. General Steam Navigation ...15/ sh. 131. pd 23 101, per cent. Hudson's Bay Stock 2,000 11. London Coin. Sale Rooms kv, 751. sh, 19 8,000 Caoutchouc Company .25/ sh,. 21/. pd II New Brunswick Land Compa:.y 411. pd 11 2,754 fil. per cent. Reversianary I nterestSoc...llT/1.. ,h i st.. 1 7 7 1: 1. i ll 1 ,4 9 5 1 2,633 bl. per C ent. Ditto New 501. sh. all pd 71 4,000 ... ..... 'litanies Tiimiel 1(101. sh. 171. Isi 11/ 10,000 6s. Van the at...Ws Land LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES. JULY 6. 1537. BANKS. 1,5f0,004. 61 p. et. Ilan% of Scotland S 3/. 6s. Sd. sh. all pd 19. T. 2,000,0) ( 1. fif p. et. Royal of Scotland 100/. sh. all pd 157 e. 5I)0.0 1(71. bp. ct. British Linen Company 1001. sh. •.11 pd 2arl . 3 ) 00,1,00e1. 6!. p. ct. Commercial 5OOl. sh. 1001 pd 1 751, 5, spyjne. ~ . ei, N., !Iona! 2,00 , 00 61 P. ct. Gl.tsgow Unioll pd 7/ . 4,000,001. 4P. ct. We,tern ot Scotland 2OOl. sh 3IV. pd INSURANCE COMPANIES Sc!.-. "50.0005 h 131 p. ct. Scolt 4 sh Union 1. sh. Ifll. p‘ . , 1 9 0/. Ili. 1/, pd • 253 - ,509 6k p. ct. Hercules 1004 sh. 10/. NI ISt ,- 14 - 110 -- ; pie,ooo sp. ct. Insurance Co. of Scotland.... sh, all pd .0.. 50,000 6P. ct. North British "Pu 811 5,000 fl p. et. Edinburgh 1.if0....., lOO 1,000 sp. ct. Caledonia] Fire 2004 sh. 10i IA 1• 1 • Ibol. sh. jot . . ' lx i if A, 100,000 3! p. et, West of Scotland ... , .... , _ .. M ISC ELLANEI/U . ; * ............ 101. Pd .ht's . ... __ 4,810 U l u . and (as Canal 50! ch. all pd 22 1. Alloexecl ............... sh. all pd 651. 5,400 5 per cent. EOinb..Joirit Stack Water.... 25 /. s h , all pd 351. Carron Iron Company ~,,,,r0!. sh. all pd 451. 2,0005 h 15 per cent. S!iotts Iron Founoery ......... 50/. sh 38/, pd 451" i O, OOO 3 per cent. Edinburgh & Leith Glass ....20/. sh. 1 61. pd 8 /. 4,500 10 per cent. Edinburgh C oa l Gas ............ 251. sh. all pd 621. 750 71 per cent. Leith C oa l Gas . . ... 4,450 10 per cent. Glasgow Gds .................... .25/. sh. all ............ 444 1,200 Edinburgh PnO., 3 4 000 5 per vent. Euultahle cgiiivany .25/.4. Pd •vti THE DISTRESSED WEAVERS OF PAISLEY. On Monday a meeting, of gentlemen from Scotland, and several others residing- iu London, hut ii - .:. - crested in the commerce and welfare of that country, was held at the King's Head, Poultry, for the purpose of instituting a sub scription for the relief of a large body of men and their fa• unites engaged in the weaving of fancy goods in Paisley, and wl.o are stated to have been for the lust four month* suffering from want. Alderman Pram was called to the chair. Ile expreexed his sincere regret at ha% ing heard such melancholy accounts front Paisley, and hoped that the more prosperous country men of the distressed weavers of that town, and the bene volent public generally, would come, forward to relieve tin rn. A deputation had come up from Paisley to lay before tl.e meeting the particulars of the distress. The lU'. Dr. 131aNs, one rf the deputation, stated that Paisley had front time to time been severely visited by dis tress, as in the years 1812, 1819, 1826, and for the last four months of the present year. The distress was eoufined to the operatives engaged m the manufacture of fancy goods, who were almost entirely out of employment. The number of fancy weavers out of work and desirous of em ployment, together with their children and wives, who had been engaged in departments of the business, was 14,000 ; but, including the infants, the aged, and the total number dependant upon the operatives, the aggregate of those now suffering, more or less, could not he less than 23,000 fellow creatures. Nearly half of this body had, by their own ex ertions, added to the savings of former years, been hitherto 'able ..to work their way, but fully 11,000 persons had been receiving relief - front the local committal in pro‘isions and reduced wages at about 1204 a day. The money sub scribed for the relief of the weavers was 8,1461., of which 5,0001. had been contributed by the inhabitants of Pakley and the vicinity. But all the money had been expanded, and the treasurer was 800/. in debt. Paisley was :he more likely to be distressed by a depression of trade, for it had neither groat landed proprietors nor capitalists. All the inhabitants were in some dogma connected with the mr.nu factures, and very few of them posSessed independent for tunes. They had subscribed liberally at first, but when called upon a second time not more than 9001. could be collected. The Rev. Gentleman then bore testimony to the exemplary patience, fortitude, industry, and conduct of the Paisley weavers. During twenty-six years he had never known their conduct more orderly than in the present period of z.fflietion. When he was in London three months before, he thought that by this time their distresses would have passed away ; but his hopes had been disappointed, and all local resources being now exhausted, they were obliged to call upon the well-known benevolence of the London merchants connected with the trade of Pais ley, and upon . all other sympathising people. Having had so much to endure through the summer, and having entered the autumn in a state of unmitigated distress, 'his prospects on behalf of his poor fellow-townsmen, as ho turned towards the approaching winter, were filled with horror and alarm. The Rev. Mr. BAIRD (another of the deputation) said that the retail trade and the general business of Paisley was much depressed in consequence of such a number of consumers being so long unemployed. There was this dif ference between persons engaged in the manufacture of or dinary goods and those at work upon fancy goods—the for mer, being always articles of necessity, were sure of a sale sonic time or other, and, if they did not remunerate, would at least save the holder from heavy loss ; the latter de pended upon the fluctuations of taste, and if an order was allowed to survive the fashion in the hands of the manufac turer, its value was lost, and ruin might, consequently, be diffused amongst many industrious families.,, Such was, in a great degrece, the state of the fancy weavers, upon whose behalf an appeal was now made to the public. The Rev. Gentleman then adverted to the dreadful consequences that must ensue if relief were to be withdrawn from the body of eleven or twelve thousand persons who now depended upon charity ; but, if helped over the present crisis, he hoped all would be soon well again, for Paisley had fair prospects before it. - Mr. HENDEItSON, another deputy, stated that about 700 wersons were empl o y e d i n b rea ki ng stones, and many others ere engaged in works of public utility. There were 1,987 `men out of employment, upon whom 6,051 persons depend ed. There were 4,000 persons on the soup list. About 7,000 were able to maintain themselves. Dr. BURNS said that from 2,000 to 3,000 children had been divided into schools, who would be taught by operatives in a most masterly style during the period of depression. Mr. WALKINSHAW moved the first resolution, which merely repeated the above facts, and deplored their ex istence. Mr. CARLISLE moved the next resolution, which stated the necessity of opening a subscription in London, as Pais ley was totally unable to meet the demands of so large a community of distress. Mr. JOHNSON, of the firm of Johnson and Bulmer, called upon the London merchants, who had reaped so much profit. from the Paisley manufacturers, now to open their purses.. —(Hear, hear.) He alluded to the distress produced by the mourning for his late Majesty in the manufacturing dis tricts. It was a serious misfortune that whenever a member of the Royal Family was taken ill a stop was instantly put to the fancy trade. Mr. DALLAS was of opinion that the distress would exist six months longer. He was sorry that he could not perceive the good prospects that other gentlemen had alluded to. Mr. HENDERSON begged to remind the public that the ingenuity of the Paisley fancy weavers had enabled th e fe males of the middle classes of society to decorate themsell es twice a year with articles which formerly owing to their exorbitant prices, they could not purchase more than twice in their lives. Railway speed could not exceed such a pro gress as that.—(Laughter, and " Hear, hear.") A Committee was then formed to promote the subscrip tion. It consisted of the Chairman, who subscribed 9 0/. ; Mr. Hastie, M.P. for Paisley, and several other gentlemeu. Mr. Hastie, brother to the lion. Member, subscribed 261. ; and Mr. Walkinshaw 201. Several other gentlemen sub scribed liberally. EAST INDIA SHIPPING. Arrivals.—Aug. 4, the Egyptian, Johnson, from the Cape, off Dover, sailed May 20, and St. Helena June —. Aug. 5. the Pekoe, Sillies, from Bengal, off Liverpool, sailed March 16, and St. Helena June 6 ; the Colombo, Beck, from Born. bay, at Bordeaux, sailed March 4,- Colombo March 25, and St. Helena June 5. Aug. 7, the Fergusson, Young, front Bengal, off Kingsbridge, sailed March 4, and St. Helena June 10; the Orator, Terry, from Bengal, off Swanage, sailed March 4, and the Cape May 23 ; the Narcissus, Curry, from Ceylon, off Portsmouth, sailed March 0 5, and St. Helens, June —; the Floreutia, Deloitte, from New South Wales, off Brighton, sailed March 11, and St. Helena, June 10 ; the Derwent, Reddell, from Van Diemen's Land, of Brighton, sailed from Hobart Town, April 13. Tli I=abella, Hart, from Launceston to South Australia, *as totally wrecked near Portland Bay —cargo lost, crew saved. Arrival at Colombo.—The Juan, Todd, March 9, from the Mauritius. Yesterday morning, between ten and eleven o'clock, the wife of a police constable of the It division, named Can non, residing in the Stowage, Deptford, missed her little boy, aged four years, and on going into the yard (which adjoins the river) discovered him struggling in the water ; she in sta,,;iy jumped in after hint, having at the time an infant three months old in her arms, and just he was going down for the last time caught him round the body and kept his head above wat•r. The tide carried all three with great rapidity, and it was fully expected they would perish ; but Mrs. Cal!' nen, with an extraordinary presence of mind, made a desperate effort and succeeded in placing her left leg round the moo ing chain of a barge, and remained in that situation until cu Ni by part of tle crews of two colliers. They were brought ashore amidst the cheers of several persons, who witnessed the whole proceeding. SILVER EDGED PLATED DISHES. T. COX SAVORY offers for selection, arranged in his Show Rooms, a most extensive variety of CORNER DISHES. The Set of Four varies in price from Seven to Ten Guineas. T. COX SAVORY, Working Goldsmith, Silversmith, and Watchmaker, 47, Cornhill, London. N.B.—The Handles are made to remove from the Covers, which may be used as Dishes ; thus the Set will form Eight Dishes, when requ►red. 1111?7'Il S. On the 6th inst., at Upper Cover -street, Penelope, the wife of 13. M. Oliver, Esq., of a (laughter. On the sth inst., the lady of the Rev. F. Morgan, of Canter bury, of a (laughter. On the 6th inst., at Uppe r Cl apton, Mrs. C. Chitty, of a son. of a son. On the ith ult., at Portland-place, th e l a d y o f 0 . S m i th, E sq .. On the 7th inst., at Badgemore, Oxfordshire, the l a d y o f Charles Lane, Es q ., o f a dan,gliter. O nth i l e o I, 2 e d it r t n t s la . at E s S q t . .: l A f i l: f a r i f t i l i n c l : p s7C ß h n o u:r v e d l i s e , r in the e cityst ocr, tf. Wor cester,g nah, youngest daughter of Philip Ball, Esq., of the former place. On the 17th ult., at St. Alphege, Greenwich .T. G. Jones , jun., E sq ., t o L ucy, eldest surviving daugther of J. H. Skelton, Es (1. On th e 3d met. at Plumstead, Kent, James Lilly, E sq ., Sur geon, to Elizabeth,, only slaughter of the late 11 It. Nichols, Esq'' of Burton -street, Burton-crescent. On the sth inst., at Boxley, Frederick Selmes, Esq., of Peck; ham, Surrey, to Lucy, thi r d d aug h ter o f J. Hollingworth, Esq.) °` Turkey Mills, Maidstone. On the Bth inst., at St. George's, Hanover-square, the Hon. 0. R. A. Arundell, youngest son o f th e l ate R i ght. Hon. J. Eyerl"o, Ninth Lord Arundell, of W ar d our C ast l e, i n the county of Wilts' to Elizabeth Louisa, eldest daughter of the Rev. J. Jones, of But' Icy -on- the- Hill, Rutlandshire. DIED. On the 26th ult., Alexander James Smith, Esq., aged 61. o f On the 6th inst., in Bishopsgate-street, ' , ;tephen Prior 1133 e, that place, aged 53. -__ • _ Loudon: Printed and I' adiAed by MU IWO Y()UNU. of l ‘ ° ,; 112, Strand, at Th e S an Office, No. li2, Strand, in the cull °s 4 °f ini,44044--Wednesdap August 1837.