The Sun. — London, England, 1837-12-25 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Queen's Bench animadverted on the commitment for trial of Lord James Beresford for such a ridiculous affair as that on which he was charged. The manner in which the Jury kicked the case out of court does not say much for the sagacity of the committing Magistrate. Now that a Lord has been a suf ferer from the oppression to which Englishmen, more than any other nation in Europe, are subject, of being involved in proceedings, in many cases ruinous, for the most absurd causes, we may hope that attention will be drawn to the subject. In no other country than England would the circumstances alleged against Lord James Beresford have been deemed deserving of a moment's notice ; but here it warrants the depriving of a citizen of hisliberty, and may ruin him in in toll.). Suppose the alleged offender had been a poor man,be might not have been able to find bail, in which case he must have been withdrawn from his daily avocations and immured in a prison till trial. 0 that holding to bail ! How glibly are the words pronounced by magis trates, without reflecting on their awful consequences. A matter which no one would think of punishing, even if exer cising the utmost severity, by more than a shilling fine, may first, if the defendant, be held to bail, subject him to a long imprisonment, and then lead him to expend large sums in a trial. Lord James Beresford, in this trumpery case, must have spent at least 200/. in fees to counsel and other costs. The system of holding to bail in cases in which outlawry would be an infinitely more severe punishment than any which a Court would think of pronouncing ought to be done away with. In all such cases a notice to appear in Court ought to be deemed sufficient. In the constant state of emigration of the people of this country our towns always contain multitudes of strangers, many of whom must find it utterly impossible to procure bail. This out rage on common sense ought not to be suffered longer to ex;st.—Morning Chronicle. Little, if anything, is yet established with regard to the unfortunate state of Lower Canada beyond the amount of Saturday's intelligence—viz., that there had been conflicts between the Royal forces and the P.ipineau faction, with va ious, but no decisive, success on either side—that the insurrectionary movements were confined, with perhaps here and there an individual exception, to, inhabitants of French descent—that amongst them the hostile spirit to wards Great Britain was extensive, though far from uni versal, and that the British population of both provinces were arming genAaelly, and with great eagerness, to sup port the dominion of the mother country, and put down the rebels. If this simple outline were to embrace and to express the tuhole condition of the question, it might not be very difficult to foretell the result ; at the same time, no candid or strong-minded man can shut his eyes to the obvious truth, that let the conflict, so far as its military character is concerned, issue in defeat or vic tory, it will require a long period to restore the relations of parent state and colony to the same footing of mu tual tolerance (we say nothing of friendship) which existed even two years ago. To take the most favourable view of the case—namely, the prompt and absolute suppression of the rebel power—what must. be the feelings of the Cana dian malcontents towards those '.mho by force v;:11 have sub dued them ? Mortification, soreness, bitterness, vengeance. What must be the spirit of the British Government in its treatztient of them ? Distrust, coercion, arbitrary, military (lietatio,;. The exercise liencefo.th of any deliberative or legislative iencdons by a body of representatives composed of delegates chosen from among the chiefs of the present insurrection, or men who sympathise with them (and none others would assuredly be elected by the French Canadian multitude, on the heels of a civil war). is a mere chi anent, unless Great Britain means to vest authority in the bands of her declared enemies, to be employed in a/claiming her own councils, and harassing and ob structing every breech of h, r system of colonial govern ment. The disslhition, therefore, of the representative Constitution of Lower Canada appears to be one among the ..neca.:sary consequences of this di,astrnus rebellion. But there is no alternative betwe,n civil and military govern me at. Supposing, therefere, the former to be at an end, or indefinitely suspended, a question would then arise for the people of England to consid er —y,;., whether the retention of Layer Canada by the open and un :vied exercise of mili t try force would or would not be worih the attendant cast and trouble. That, we repeat, may and must be a question by and by. The qmstons which actually press upon us are of a far different character. It has heee a standing argument used in palliation of stall extensive insurrections at all times, that if the pe eple did not feel grievously galled and vexed by some oppression or suffering caused by misgovernment, they tleve. , would plunge into rebellian. There may be some truth in this a priori apology for insurrection, and when taken with certain qualifications ; but positively true, or without exception, it tindoulitedly is not. There are such things as rebellions for specific objects, but for the fur therance of which among the multitude the real end is not promulgated ; nor are those circumstances in the condition of the people to which rebellion might administer any prac tical cure brought prominently forward or dwelt upon by irs authors. Rebellions differ in their principles and mo tives. The Scotch rebellions of 1715 of 1745 were re bellions for a definite purpose. They were not caused by any sense of practical grievance on the part of the lower orders who engaged ; in them. They were insurrections against civil and religious freedom in favour of Popish intolerance and of feudal and Courtly power. The rebellion of our North American colonies in 1774 -was one founded on the joint consciousness of right and confidence of power against the injudicious asser tion by perverse and unreasoning rulers of princi ples inconsistent with the habitual relations of parent state and colony, as well as with one great fundamental maxim of the Constitution of England; and no enlightened Englishman has ever quarrelled with the justice of the cause against which his country then contended, however he may have deplored the dismemberment of empire which followed. The Irish rebellion of 1798 was not caused by any peculiar pressure of grievance or suffering upon the body of the people. Their enjoyments or privations had undergone no change in the 18 months following the Christmas of 1796. Yet we find the peasantry of lqunster at that inclement season harnessing themselves by hundreds to drag the King's artillery against the French invaders, and in the June of 1798 confronting the bayonets of the same troops, and the fire of the same cannon, in the cause of united Irishism, and for the expulsion of the Protestant a d British power out of Ireland ! How was this ? Why, there has been, it is unquestionable, an inherent and general sense of destitution and consequent suffer ing among the peasantry of Ireland, on which, as a natural and convenient basis, any instigator to rebellion can at any time erect his machinery, and raise " the people," though without assigning the relief of hunger as the specific benefit which he proposes. The rebellion of 1798 in Ire land, therefore, was the immediate consequence .of an active and successful organization applied to the perennial wretchedness of the South of Ireland by emissaiies from the United Irish Directory in Dublin—in its form and cir cumstances a factitious and false rebellion, but potently assisted by causes deep seated in the nature and the growth of Ireland. Now, it is but just that we should bring the argument a priori abovementioned into contact with thia Canadian question, and sce how far it goes to excuse, or to account for, the general concurrence of the French Canadians in the schemes of M. Papineau, and for their apparent readiness to shake off the Sovereignty of the Crown of England, at the risk of being shot in battle by her troops, or being hinged by the sentence of her tribunals. Can we infer from what has yet tran pired that the rebellion of Lower Canada has bona fide proceeded from the wrongs inflicted on that province, and that the people have risen against the laws merely by reason that the laws oppressed them? That is an impor tant question, inasmuch as it involves the whole morality of the strife between England and Lower Canada. It vrouldsbe impossible to pursue such a subject through all its details within the space allotted to an ordinary news paper article : but its outline seems to be naked and simple enough. What say the advocates of the Canadian move ment on this occasion ? No Member of the House of Commons. among the half-dozen who were not ashamed to reproach the British Government for their abandonment, late as it has been, of the truckling and despicable system by which the Canadian rebels had so long been encouraged in their outrageous insults to this country—no one Mem ber, we say, has ventured to describe in other than terms of the loosest generality what really are the grievances now suffered by Lower Canada. Vague allegations of griev ance, indeed, we have had from these Canadians in abun dance ; but beyond a short hint about the heinousness of this country not acquiescing submissively in a tot a l stop page of the supplies by the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada, there is not a word indicative of definitive griev ance.. Mr. Warburton out-Papineaus them all, for he chargls it as a crime against Great Britain that she does not sacrifice the dominion over her s own North American po,isessions at the first cry of discontent from the most seditious of her subjects, without so much as stopping to examine how far the complaint may be justified by facts, or be utterly and altogether groundless. Mr. Roebuck, in his letter, published three days ago, does not state dis tinctly one single grievance. The Learned Gentleman, to he sure, talks much about the " atrocity and folly" of the .British Government towards Lower Canada. but in what either consists he leaves to the imagination of his readers. But each and all of these Canadian advocates, in and out of of Parliament, deal properly in reference to the war with t 'be United States, and the disgrace as well as entire over t 'wow incurred by this country ere the close of it. The et ily tolerable account of the matter—and that drawn from a poech as meagre and as coldblooded as ever fell from a M mister of State on an occasion so momentous—is that the Ca z •dians required a degree of power over the composition and tcasures of the Executive Government as would amoun tota abro g r 1;( not merely of t,he Royal prerogative exercised in aII other parts of the empire, but a practical renunciation by Canada of the sove reign supremacy of the parent state over her colonial possessions—in fact, to an entire extinction of the actual relations of the two countries, and the establishment of Lower Canada with its French population as an inde pendent state, with an absolute command over the course aad trade of the St. Lawrence, and an irre sistible mastership over the intercourse between Great Britain and her own native subjects, not only inhabiting the noble province of Upper Canada, but possessing nine tenths of the property and intelligence of the Lower Pro vince itself. The demand, therefore, has not been for the " redress of a grievance," but for a spoliation of those ac knowledged rights by the nature of things inherent in the British Crown over every colonial dependency thereto be longing, and a reconquest from England of that whole ter ritory which was assigned to her by solemn treaty in the year 1763. It is easy to talk about the Government of this country having invaded the right of self-taxation and over the " public revenue" possessed by the Canadian people. What says Lord Stanley on that specific question ? Why, that any control by the Legislature over the revenues of the Crown in Lower Canada was matter of express com pact between the Crown and the Assembly, stipulating that on the surrender of its own domains or the proceeds of them by the Sovereign, the Assembly should be bound to vote supplies for the maintenance of the civil govern ment. And what has since happened? Why, that the As sembly broke its faith, and after the engagement •f the Crown had been honourably executed, the said Assembly stopped the supplies, thus achieving what in it lay to wards a dissolution of the whole machinery of govern ment. Whatever three might therefore be in the general observation fitmiliar to most speculative men, that rebel lions usually spring from real oppression, the Canadian mal-contents have so contrived it as to withdraw their own case from the benefit of such a conclusion, because they have stated what they term their grievances, al though their English advocotes have not, and have proved to the world, that the incentive to this rebellion is not a mass of grievances unredressed, but that it is the vindictive craving of ambition frustrated, of monopoly defeated, and of national antipathy met by calm defiance. We have seen and shown, that the rebellio❑ of 1798, which arrayed in arms against Great Britain the males of 3,000,000 or 4,000,000 of Irish fanatics, was the result of a systematic and artful organization, commenced and con summated throughout the South of Ireland within the period of 18 months. It is very easy of belief, therefore, that the rebellion of Lower Canada may have been the exclusive workmanship of incendiaries directed by a few central chiefs, acting upon a far scantier population than in Ireland, and within a smaller compass, but having for its materials a race of ignorant men, jealous acid fearful of their British neighbours, and therefore actuated by an en venomed hatred of them, as the Irish are at all timesby a vague exasperation at the wretchedness of their own physical condi tion. We have treated this whole question of the revolt in Canada more generally, and we apprehend less irritably,than may suit the excited tempers of tnost English readers at so cri tical a time. Had the proposition been put to us four or five years ago, to fling Lower Canada overboard altogether, as a dependency more expensive and troublesome than bene ficial, we hardly know what our answer might have been, always securing the rights and interests, and consulting the inclinations of our dear native countrymen in the Upper Province, and ialaining the single fortress of Quebec. Now, the time has gone past for such discussions. The national honour is involved in the necessity of crushing this wanton and audacious attack on the integrity of the realm. Tile rebellion of Lower Canada must be put down ; re bellion will not be confined to the western shores of the Atlantic. What the conduct of our illustrious Ministers has been, and what is the retribution due to them, we shall inquire anon.—Tunes. FROM FRIDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE DIVIDk;NDS. At the Court of Bankruptcy, 13asinghall-street. W. Tatchell and S. Clarke, hemp dealers, Great Eastcheap, Jan. 19, at twelve—W. Bennett, tavern keeper, Arundel-street, Strand, Jan. 22, at half-past twclve—W. Ilibbert, butcher, Mount-street, Grosvenor-square, Jan. 22, at half-past eleven W. 11. Page, linen draper, Plymouth, Jan. 22, at half-past one— A. Colviu, merchant, Calcutta, Jan. 16, at twelve—C. George, hattor, Hunter-street, Old Kent-road, Jan. 12, at half-past tweli. —E. Baily, cattle salesman, Yately, Hampshire, Jan. 12, at twelve —J. Drabble, axletree maker, Kent-street, Surrey, Jan. 13, at one —J. Rawlins, dealer in building materials, Curtain-road, Shore ditch, Jan. 13, at two—J. Roots, milk dealer, Cross Keys-mows, Alarylebonc-lane, Jan. 13, at eleven. In the Country. J. Haworth and S. Davis, ironmongers, Manchester, Jan. 16, at eleven, at the Commissioners' Rooms, Town Hall, Sheffield—S. L. Tapscott, coalmcrchant, Minehead, Somersetshire, Jan. 16, at eleven, at Sweet's Hotel, Taunton—J. Weekes, tanner, Sidburv, Devonshire, Jan. 17, at twelve, at the Old London Inn, Excter— T. Oldham, calico printer, Manchester, Jan. IS, at twelve, at the Commissioners' Rooms, Manchester—J. L. Radley, dealer, Old ham, Lancashire, Jan. 20, at eleven, at the Commissioners' Rooms, Manchester. CERTIFICATES, JAN. It M. A. Stevens and A. Oldrayd, lodging-house-keepers Bed ford-square—T. Vertue, merchant, Woodbridge , Suffolk — R . Perry, dealer, Aston, Birmingham—R. Hutchinson, and R. Hutchinson, curriers, 3linories—W. Mill, builder, Little Britain— C. Parker, flax spinner, Haughton-le-Skerne, Durham—S. and T. Simpson, dealers, Arede, Louth—J. Sumner, carpenter, Edg baston, Birmingham—T. Holt, cotton spinner, Birtle-cum-Baus ford, Lancashire—J. Idorsfall, stuff-dyer, Leeds—J. Pensam, victualler, Fleet-street—N. Wehnert, tailor, Leicester-square—T. Wiggerhain, ale merchant, Birmingham. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. J. Vassiere and 11. S. Bayly, brace manufacturers, Commercial road, Lambeth.—H. A. Raymond and R. Still, attorneys, Lin coln's Inn—G. Creswick and T. Walker, stone dealers, Sheffield— B. Walker and J. Edmondson, worsted spinners, Mytholm Royd, Yorkshire—G. Hammond aid J. Lebley, flax spinners, Leeds—G. and J. Gamsom, corn merchant, Buckingham, Nottinghamshire— E. Wilson, J. D. Wilson, and J. E. Wilson, hatters, Gracechurch street—J. Bailey, J. Floyd, and G. Shubotham, manufacturers of china, Lane-end, Staffordshire—S. S. Wayte and S. Alford, at torneys, Bristol—J. Barsham and W. Nockells, oxalic acid manu facturers, Marsh-gate, Stratford, Essex—S. Smith and T. Nutter, manufacturing goldsmiths, iliddleton-street, Clerkenwell—E. 11. Watts and W. Miller, tallow chandlers, Blyth, Northumberland— S. Clarke, J. Clarke, and M. C. Clarke, linen drapers, Great An eoats-street, Manchester—T. Flockton, W. Flockton, and 'l'. M. Flockton, tar distillers, Webster's Wharf, Potter's-field, south wark (as far as regards T. Flockton)—W. Chaytor, J. Frankland, J. Wilkinson, W. R. C. Chaytor, and M. 11. Chaytor, bankers ; Sunderland—W. Matthews and P. Newman, grocers, Winchcomb, Gloucester—A. Bray and . W. Sykes, dealers in rags, Huddersfield, THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1837 SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION. THOMAS INCHES, cattle dealer, Beech Hill, near Coupar- Angus, Dec. 26 and Jan. 11, at twelve, at Wallace's Inn, Beech Hill, near Coupar-Angus. EAST INDIA SHIPPING. ARRIV4LS, DEC. 23.—The Malay, Welsh from Ceylon, off Dover. Sailed foom Galle, on the 27th of August, and St. Helena, on the 30th of October. The Semarang, Meacom, from Batavia, off Portsmouth, for Holland; sailed on the 31st of August. DEPAETURES !Rost SAuouß, (Bengal).—The Moulmein, Sept. 16, for the _Mauritius ; the Paragon, Sept. 18, for Bos ton ; the Lady h`ayes, Sept. 18, for China ; the Daniel Wheeler, Sept. 19, .for Liverpool; the Atlas Sept. 19, for Bourbon ; the Warrior, Stone, Sept. 19, for London ; the Sylph, Vial!, Sept. 20, for Singapore and China ; the Courier de Bourbon, Sept. 24, for Bourbon ; the Anna Maria, Sept. 24, for Bombay ; the p hilanthrope, Sept. 24, for Bombay ; the Jessey, Auld, and E lizabeth, Sept. 25, for Penang ; In dependent, Sept. 25, for , Bourbon ; the Sultan, Poole, Sept. 25, for Liverpool ; the A riel, Sept. 25, for Singapore and China ; the Margaretha C latherina, Sept. 26, for Batavia ; the John, Marsh, Sept, 26, for Liverpool; the Sir Edward Ryan, Sept. 26, for Arracan ; the Moulmein, Motechane, and the American, Sept. 26, for Singapore; the Earl Grey, Jalbert, Sept. 26, for the Mt :111 - 4415. BENGAL, Ocr. .19.—Vesse .ls proceeding down the River Hooghley.—The Etlmonstono, for Bombay ; the Balguerta, fer Singapore and China ; the Ruparell, for Bombay ; the Artemise, French frig.l.te, for --; the John, Hepburn, for Moulmein; the Ranko vn, Mandarin, and Emily, for Liver pool ; the Lonach, for t e Mauritius ; the Minerva, Brown, for London ; the Isabella Cooper, for Liverpool ; the Antonia , Pereira, for Chi na ; th e E Powis, for Mauritius ; the Bengal Packet, for Singapore and l mina ; the Jean, Geddie, for Lon don. Ships loading for London—The Reliance, Hope, Prince Regent, and Renown. For the Cape and London— The Salcana, Perfect, and Coromandel. For Liverpool— The Queen Mab. For Bristo I—The William Barras. For the Mauritius—The Emerald 1 "s le, Dona Pascoa, Eliza, Bri tannica, and Thomas Blyth. ,r China—The Bombay, and Waugh. For Bombay—The Fl rtfield Say. ARRIVAL AT KEDJEREE._The Elizabeth, Kelso, Oct. 9, from the Mauritius. ARRIVAL AT ME MA DRITII IV," -The True Love, Coulton, from New South Wales. MADRAS, OCT. I3.—The : dine rva, Ireland, is loading for London, to sail the Ist of Novi slnbe r. Her Majesty has been g ractousiy pleased to uecome Patroness of the Royal Naval,ll. Military, and East India Com pany Life Assurance Society, 1 Waterloo-place, Pall-mall. A Special .Turyman, on .his way to the Queen's Bench on Saturday, was arrested for debt, but Lord Denman immediately ordered his discharo We know not what characi the Duchess of Marl lyn•ough would have given to tb Radicals, had such a sect existed in her days, but it c ouLcl /las ve hardly been more unfa vourable than that she attributed. to t:ie two great parties that then divided the State. Her tc mpt:r,!aow ever, was soured by dis appointment and old age, an d her description must, therefore, be taken with limitations. 1 'he fc llowin x - r is an Extract from her " Private Correspondent I,"h ttely published:— " Both parties find fault with E Ich other; and for my own part, I believe them both to blame in man y th ings ; but surely the Tories arc the worst, and have always done ti nc 3 cost mischief. I believe there are many knaves among them, but 't is certain the majority of them are fools; and the principles that they p rofess are both foolish and false. Many of the Whigs must be allowc d to have sense, and to be much more capable of managing a govern). It ?nt than Tories. But the ma jority of them are knaves, and they ha ve shown, when they are in em ployment, that their chief aim is to 'keel their places, and raise them. selves without any regard to the got ' the public." MONEY MARKET-SATURDAY Private letters from Montreal state that it was ascertained M. Papineau was at Highgate, near Burlington, just over the frontier line, between the state of Vermont and Lower Canada. A re ward of 5001. had been offered for his apprehension. The Mr. Brown, who styles himself General of the Canadian rebels, is an American, and was a bankrupt ironmonger at Montreal. The Go vernment of Lower Canada are strongly reproached in private let ters for their wavering policy in leaving in the Commission of the Peace Mr. Dennis Viger, the particular friend and co-agitator of Papineau, and formerly the grievance Ambassador of the party in this country. He is the uncle of Mr. L. Viger, one of the con spirators actually in custody. An application, it appears, had been made to the Judges to admit the conspirators who had been arrested to bail. Two of the Judges (English) had declared against the application ; but two others (French Cana dians) were favourable to it. These last judges, Mr. Bedard and another, are said to have been raised to the bench by Lord Gos ford, and it is apprehended that, with his usual weakness, he will side with their decision against that of the others. The greatest excitement has prevailed in the money-market all day. Consols opened at 93, but the rush of sellers was so con stant and persevering, that they commenced declining inimedi ately, and so continued until at half-past one the prices were 91/ to /. They finally closed in a very feverish state at 914, as the nearest price for the opening. Bank Stock, 204 ; Ex chequer Bills at 2Ad. per day, 455. to 475. ; at 2d. per day, 41s. to 435. ; and India Bonds, 265. to 28s. premium. The depression in Foreign Securities followed, if it did no t q uite equal, that in Consols. Spanish Active closed at 19A to a with Coupons ; Portuguese Five per Cents., 29 to A ; the Three per Cents., 19 to ; Brazilian, 79 to lj ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half p er Cents., 52/ to -& ; the Five per Cents., 99 to A ; Mexican, 26 to A ; Colombian, 23* to 4. Shares were almost unsaleable, and in proof of the sort of confusion in the market, London and Bir mingham were quoted so widely as 55 to 60, and Great Western were Bto 9 premium. Southampton old shares 16 to 15 discount; New Brighton, 2-1 to / per share. The shock thus given to all kinds of money property by the Canadian rebellio n is of very serious amount, and gave rise to severe animadversions upon' the conduct of the Government in the management of the affairs of that province. A strong impression pre vailed in the Stock Exchange, and even out of it, among intelli gent persons, that the result of this insurrection would be the separation of Lower Canada, if not of the Upper Province also, from this country. Merchants, on the contrary, perfectly and personally conversant with Canada, with the state of par ties there, and in constant correspondence with it, express no such apprehension, but, on the contrary, declare their satisfaction that the long-pending rebellion has at length shown itself in its worst shape, and their confidence that if the Government here do not as usual interpose to damp the spirit of the loyal inhabitants and to repress the energy of the local authorities, the rebels will be dealt with as they deserve, and the insurrection will be crushed. They feel that their properties; of which many have an immense stake in Canada, have been in daily jeopardy for several years past, and they themselves labouring in a constant fever of apprehen sion. Now that they know the worst, their minds are calmed, and they have less fears as to the future. Several of the speeches de livered in the Commons House last night by the friends of the Canadian rebels were adverted to in the strongest and most un qualified terms of dissatisfaction. It appears that even Mr. Edward Ellice himself has declared to his friends in the city that the present troubles of Canada are principally attributable to his nephew, Lord Howick, rho, when under Secretary for the Colonies, granted all demands of the agitators without stipulation, in the expectation that they would then vote the Civil List and the Supplies; and they having thus obtained their wishes refused the votes expected. Mr. Ellice has large possessions himself in Canada, and can judge with sagacity where his own interests are concerned.— Times. THE LATE STORMS. ALARMING FLOOD AT BRADFORD AND LOSS OF LIFE. No such flood is recollected by the oldest inhabitant, either as it respects the height of water, the extent of damage, or the loss of life. It had rained very perseveringly on Sunday and Monday, and likewise on Tuesday afternoon, and the water in the beck was considerably swollen, but yesterday morning the torrent came down thicker and faster, and fur six or eight hours, it rained witllout intermission ; the water poured down our in clined streets like small rivulets, and the streets were deserted save by those whom necessity obliged to be about their dail3 avocations. In many parts of the streets the water was at least six feet deep. Much confusion and mischief necessarily occurred. The pavement in severel places was torn up by the force of the current. From the brewery of Messrs. Whittaker, not only empty casks, but barrels of ale were swept away ; and at one time a waggon laden with wood was seen floating down the tide as stsadily and rapidly as though it had been a steam packet. Large quantities of wool, manufactured pieces, groceries, .barrels, timber, &c., might be see.i floating about in every direction. All the warehouses, shops, &c., in these localities were visited by the floo l, and the vast quantities of goods, of various descriptions, that they contained, seriously damaged, and in many instances wholly destroyed. Several persons attempted to cross the water on horseback and in carts, but its depth and impetuosity obliged them to relin quish the attempt. The worst, however, remains to be told. Fearful as is the loss of property, and this doubtless will extend to some thousands of pounds, that is of secondary importance to the loss of life. Three persons we know have perished in the flood; and there are strong grounds for apprehending that this number is not all. Thomas Keeton, the head ostler at the Sun Inn, whilst waling up to his middle attempting to save some floating casks, near Illingworth's Mills, in Union_ street, suddenly got beyond his depth, and was carried away. Assistance was vain—the poor fellow has not since been seen. A female, named Susannah Lightowler, from Wishey, im prudently attempted to cross the Thornton-road when the stream eas strongest, and though the water was compara tively shallow, she was washed away, but her body was subsequently discovered. A child, belonging to one T. Taylor, Dunkirk-street, was in a cellar with her mother, when the water rushed in, and filled the place almost instantly ; the mother was, by the prompt exertion of her neighbours, res. cued ; the child perished. Several wretches availed themselves of the confusion to plunder their suffering neighbours. There are at present three corpses lying at the Court house, namely, Susannah Lightowler, Thomas Keeton, and a child, which perished through cold, on its mother's back, as she was begging from house to house ; she gives her name Catherine Laggot. In addition to the three mentioned in our first edition, as being drowned, it is reported that three others are yet missing, and that a lad and two horses were drowned at Thornton. An inquest will be held this afternoon on the individuals now lying at the Court-house. At Bolton Low Fold, the inmates of a cottage were sud denly alarmed by the ingress of the water. The father and mother immediately rushed out, leaving an infant asleep in the cradle, which was somewhat inhumanly left to perish in the waters. We fear we shall have further disastrous particulars to com municate next week.—Bradford Observer. FLOOD AT THORNTON, NEAR BRADFORE.—HORSRS DROWNED. —On Wednesday, owing to the overflowing of the beck which runs through his land, Mr. Isaac Wood, of Kipping, had two valuable horses drowned in crossing over from his farm at Headley to that at Kipping. It providentially happened that there was no loss of human life. One boy, however, who was upon one of the horse's backs, and several others narrowly escaped losing their own lives in endeavouring to save those of the horses. FLOOD AT WAKEFIELD.—On Wednesday evening, the river in this town rose higher than has been known for several years past, occasioned by the late tremendous rains. Com munication was stopped up both in Kirkgate and Westgate, and passengers through these streets were obliged to be coil- ' veyed in carts, &c. The estimated damage sustained in the corn warehouses alone is from 3,000/. to 4,0001. Two horses were drowned; one was taken up at the bridge, and the other floated down the river ; others might have passed down un noticed. Several sheep and pigs were drowned. The water began to subside about one o'clock. GOOLE.—We understand that the flood has caused very extensive damage to the public warehouses, &c., of this port, and that it will require several thousand pounds to cover the loss ; but the particulars have not yet reached us. Horbury Bridge has been so much damaged by the flood on Wednesday as to become impassable. DONCASTER.—On Thursday, in consequence of the preva lence of heavy rain, the Don rose to a great height, and over flowed its banks to a considerable extent. DEWSBURT.—On Wednesday night Dewsbury was visited by one of the largest floods in the recollection of the oldest inhabitants. To crown the whole catastrophe, the town was enveloped in darkness, the water having got into the gas-pipes, which the Directors, up to yesterday morning, had not been able to remove. HALIFAX AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD.—On Wednesday after noon a considerable portion of the neighbourhood of Halifax was completely under water, caused by the recent heavy and continued rain. The lower part of the town has sustained con siderable damage by it, and the dyehouses, mills, and other works adjoining the water side in Southowram, have suf fered severely. The road from Todmorden to Halifax was so dangerous i as to arre s t th e p rogress o f th e Persever ance coach n the eveni ng , an d we un d ers t an d th a t t h e greatest praise is due to the coachman for the exertions he made to secure the safe landing of his passengers. The water was as high as the backs of the horses, and though the inside passengers made a shift to get upon the scats, tke water reached them to the knees. We have not heard of the loss of any life. THE VALE OF TODMORDEN._A correspondent, writing from Hebden-bride, says 7 .‘‘ The Vale of the Calder was yesterday (Wednesday) visited by an inundation greater than any in the memory of the oldest inhabitant. The rain com menced about six in the morning, and continued till three o'clock, when the flood reached its greatest height. and household g hen. Thesud denigtht.Se furniture was the rise that there was. but little goods,timeferremovir were soohurried quantities away a t y mbb y e t r h , c spec tacle as seen from the hills was magnificent—th e bottom of the valley was completely covered, and resembled a large and rapid river.' - The mail-bags between Kingsbridge and Salcombe are conveyed by a donkey. This member of the long-eared tribe also enacts the duty of a mail-guard. Whenever it ap proaches either place, it gives note of its arrival in its own pe culiar manner—braying. The functionaries of the post-office are, it is said, to recommend this useful Servant of theirs to the treasury, as eminently entitled to double remuneration for its services. On Sunday last, I\lr. R. Childs, of Bungay, in a supposed fit of temporary excitement at about eleven o'clock in tie forenoon, threw himself from an upstair window, about thirty feet high, and is so severely injured, that there are no holes of his recovery.—Nwfolk Chronicle. Amongst the items in the charge on the Civil List, is 100,0001. for the pay of the salaries of the great offiems of her Majesty's household. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, (Continued from our Firat Edition of Friday.) The ATTORNEY-GENERAL here proposed to put in an affi davit of Mr. Duthie, to which Sir W. FOLLETT objected, and after a protracted discussion, The COURT thought it was a ♦ery doubtful point ; but upon the whole it would be better not to receive the document re- ferred to. The examination of Mr. Carland by the Attorney-General was then continued. Mr. Duncombe perused the affidavit ; I think I read it over to him before it was sworn. I think it was sworn before Lord Henley. The reason why the affidavit was not filed before the motion for the injunction was made, /gas, that I did not take an office copy of it, not thinking that the motion would come on that day, till near one o'clock. 1 gave no directions that Mr. Duncombe's name should not be mentioned in the course of the proceed- inns on that motion. James Lewis Knight Bruce, Esq., (Queen's Counsel of the Chancery Bar) was then called, and examined by the At torney-General. I held the plaintiff's brief, and made the mo tion for an injunction. On that day I wished to attend her Majesty's Levee, but was prevented by being compelled to leave town for Cambridge, where I was last election an unsuc cessful candidate.—( Laughter.) The motion was for an ex parte injunction on the usual terms. I did not mention Mr. Dun- combe's name. I received no instructions on the point. The omission is frequently made under particular circumstances. But I thought, that as at the time the election for Finsbury was going on, and knowing the misrepresentations which sometimes are circulated, it would be better for Mr. Duncombe not to mention his name. I stated the principal facts is the affidavit, and handed up my brief, with the affidavit, to the Vice-Chancellor for his Honour's perusal. His Honour granted the injunction, on the defendant paying 3501. into Court. Every substantial part of the bill is verified by the affidavit, and there was a fair ground for the motion. Cross-examined by Sir W. FOLLETT.-The injunction was to stay execution. In this case it would not be sufficient merely to allege fraud in the affidavit to obtain such an in junction. It is doubtful whether in such a case the injunc tion would Not issue, if the plaintiff stated no facts which had come to his knowledge since he had given in cognovit for judgment. In such a case I should be disposed to direct that the other party should have notice given them of the application. It is one of the first duties of Counsel applying for an ex parte injunction, to lay the facts contained in the affidavit fairly and faithfully before the Court. If there had been a material difference between the bill and the affidavit, I should have felt bound to mention it. But it is not the practice to read the bill so carefully as the affidavit. The cross-examination of Mr. Knight lasted for nearly three quarters of an hour. Mr. CHANDLESS, of the Chancery Bar, who was with Mr. Knight for the plaintiff, on the application for an injunction— The injunction was dissolved solely on the technical objection that the affidavit had not been filed when the injunction was granted. This closed the plaintiff's case. Sir WlLLiast FOLLETT called the attention of the Conit to the circumstance that the Attorney-General had not attempted to disprove the justification set up by the defendant, and ho would have no right to call any evi dence for that object at a further stage of the proceedings. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL repeated that he had closed his case. It was for his Learned Friend to prove, if he could, the justification of the defendant. Lord DENMAN expressed an opinion that evidence could not be brought in reply to falsify the justification. Sir W. FOLLETT then addressed the Jury for the defendant. The characters of both Mr. Daniels and Mr. Duncombe depended upon the issue of this trial. Was it not surprising that Mr. Duncombe had brought forward no evidence to prove that the transaction :regarding Keely was bone fide? It ap peared that the plaintiff's attorney had been in connection with both Mr. Keely and Mr. Bentley, who could state the truth of this transaction, yet had not the Attorney General dared to call either of them into the box, though it was quite evident that neither of them came hostile, but, on the contrary, friendly to Mr. Duncombe. On the part of Mr. Daniels, however, he ( Sir W. Follett) would not shrink from proving the charges which that gentleman had made publicly against Mr. Dun combe, and which he still believed to be true. This was no political question ; it was a question, whether Mr. Daniels had been guilty of malicious slander, or Mr. Duncombe had been guilty of what had been imputed to him? When a gentle man offered himself to a constituency, as a candidate for the honour of representing them in Parliament, they had as much right to inquire into his personal character, as his roli• tical opinions. With regard to the transaction connected with Mr. Keely, Mr. Duncombe's object evidently had been to stave off, if possible, the legal proceeding s of Surr till he was elected for Finsbury—of which im doubt could have been, nor, on his part, was, entertained. And for that object an application for an injunction in Chan. eery occurred to him as the best course to pursue. The application was accordingly made, and the injunction granted, which would be an effectual security against arrest on the legal process. No notice had been given of the appli cation to the other parties interested. It was quite accidentally discovered by the solicitor of Mr. Surr, and immediately an application was made to dissolve the injunction. It was laid down by the highest Chancery authorities, that no Injunction could be obtained to stay proceedings upon executions, unless fraud was imputed to the plaintiff. Such fraud was imputed to Mr. Surr in this case, in the bill of Mr. Duncombe ; but on the Vice-Chancellor's inquiring for the affidavit, it was found not to be contained in it. That affidavit had not been filed until the motion for injunction had been granted, and the Vice- Chancellor dissolved the injunction—in the Times report it was added, " with great indignation." The letters referred to had been written by Mr. Daniels under a firm conviction of the truth of the charges which they con tained—with no personal feeling of hostility against Mr. Dun combe. He ( Sir W. Follett) considered this to be a suffi cient answer to the case of the plaintiff. But, as the Counsel of Mr. Daniels, he would not permit the question to rest here ; and, painful as it was to him, he was afraid that it would be his duty to prove, as he believed he could, that Mr. Duncombe was guilty of the charges which had been charged against him. There was no allegation on the part of Mr. Duncombe that he had paid the 9001. bill—what had be come of it ? Did Mr. Duncombe really mean to. say that he had been swindled out of it by Mr. Bentley ? Why, at this moment Mr. Bentley was in his confidential employment ! The real fact was, that in 0ct..1834, Mr. Surr becoming bank rupt, assigned to hie trustees the bill for 9001., drawn on Lord Thynne, due Nov. 20, 1834, by Mr. Duncombe. The bill was dishonoured by Lord Thynne, and the trustees were left to their remedy against the drawer, Mr. Duncombe, who being applied to, promised, in December, 1834, to pay the 9001. in three in stalments of 2501. each. At the same time he stated that he was informed Surr had not given full consideration for the bill. That offer was accepted. Mr. Duncombe was elected Member for Finsbury before either of the instalments became due, and as a Member of Parliament was of course secured against arrest for debt. In March 1835, he was written to by the solicitor of Surr's trustees on the subject, but no answer was received. Had Mr. Duncombe been swindled out of the bill by Bentley, and Surr had not given full value for it, that would have been a valid and legal defence to any action upon the bill. He does not plead that to the action, but acknow ledged the legality of the demand by offering a cognovit for the amount. Nay, he actually gave one upon which judgment had been entered up. Mr. Murray wrote to Mr. Duthie, who was then the solicitor to Mr. Duncombe, to say that an attorney of the Temple had waited on him on the part of Mr. Duncombe's father, offering 3001. for the debt, and stating that Mr. Duncombe's debts were 170,0001., and that he had only an income of 8001 . a - year , which was an allowance from his father, and paid quarterly. Mr. Duthie was aware of the fact, but both he and Mr. Duncombe had, till within a few weeks, thought that Mr. Duncombe was heir to an estate of 9,0001. a year ; but it turned out that though his father was in possession of an estate worth 80,0001., it was mortgaged to more than its value. The Learned Gentleman read several let ters which passed between Mr. Duncombe and Mr. Mur ray, showing that, for upwards of a year, the former throughout acknowledged his liability for the bill, in conjunction with Lord Edward Thynne. Things went on until the King's death ; then matters assumed a very different complexion, and then Bentley, who was now branded as the deceiver in the case—the stealer of the bill—comes to Mr. Murray, and offers on the part of Mr. Duneombe a pay ment of 3001. and security for the remainder, which was declined. Even down to the 18th July repeated offers were made. The dissolution took place on the 17th, and then, Mr. Murray having refused to take a compromise, come the proceedings in Chancery. Before the 18th July, when the dissolution took place, Mr. Duncombe had never at tempted to dispute his liability, but then having only 3501., which Mr. Murray refused to accept, a week was of great consequence to Mr. Duncombe, and then he changes his attorney ; he takes the papers from Mr. Duthie, and puts them into the hands of Mr. Carland, and then the bill in Chancery was filed. The case was clear that the l was filed or the mee purpos of delay, in order that Mr. bil Duncombe f r might be re-elected,es and then he could again set Mr. Murray at defiance. Looking at all the circumstances connected with the transac tion in the Court of Chancery, they were pregnant with sus picion, and showed clearly that Mr. Duncombe intended to defraud Mr. Surr's trustees of their just and legal remedy. The next part of the charge was that Mr. Duncombe bor rowed the money from a personal friend. The Attorney-General had stated that Mr. D. had borrowed 1801. from a Mr. Keely in March, upon a check drawn on Childs for the Ist April. SATURDAY. At half-past nine this morning Lord Denman took his seat on the bench, when the examination of the witnesses for the defence was proceeded with. Five witnesses, including one of the Reporters of the Times, were produced on the part of Mr. Daniels, but nothing material was elicited from them, with the exception of the statement of Mr. Duncombe's account in Child's Bank, by one of their Clerks, upon which much stress , was laid by counse l f or t h e d e f en d ant. Th e A T TORNEY -GENERAL replied at grea t l eng th, an d t aun t e d Mr. Daniels with having shrunk:from endeavouring to substantiate the charges on the libels and pleas ; to support which he contended not one tittle of evidence had been produced. Mr. Daniel knew well when he was bringing this action, that he had no chance of a verdict. His only object was, to use a homely phrase, to throw a great deal of dirt, that some of it might stick. Lord DENMAN summed up the evidence, and the Jury re tired at five minutes to three, and at four o'clock returned a verdict for the plaintiff.—Damages, 1001. THE QUEEN V. BERESFORD. Mr. Serjeant Andrews and Mr. Chambers conducted the prosecution, and Sir W. Follett, Mr. Adolphus, and Mr. C. Phillips, appeared for the defendant. The indictment charged the defendant, Lord James Beres ford, with having indecently exposed his person on the morn ing of the Bth of July last, in the Haymarket. It appeared that about 20 minutes after 5 o'clock on the morning in question, the defendant, with four other gentle men and two females, came out of Coventry-court into the Haymarket, and that the defendant separated from his party and went on the kerb-stone where he performed an office of nature. The witnesses, being two policemen, a hackney coachman, and a cabman, stated that he did this in an in decent manner. The policeman went up to him before he had completed his object, and took him into custody. His Lordship walked quietly with them to the station-house ; he was afterwards taken before Mr. CONANT, at Marlborough street, who, upon this slight evidence, bound the partieg over to prosecute. The witnesses gave a varied account of the transaction. There were two ladies at a distance in Jermyn street going out in a carriage, but there were no other per sons out at that early hour except some hackney and cab gentry. Sir W. FOLLETT, in a speech of great power, said that, in his experience he had never seen a case with so little founda tion, and of so serious a nature, brought into Court. Lord Beresford was a gentleman of rank and station, and an officer in the army, and it was impossible to suppose he had acted in the manner described with the intent this indictment would suggest. In a case of this kind the intent was the gravamen of the charge; and what was shown was merely that these parties had been up all night, and that the defendant had gone into the street fo the mere purpose of relieving nature. If they found a verdict of guilty in this case, there was not a man in Court who would nut be subject to a similar prosecu tion—it was a case that ought to be scouted out of Court. He would, however, call some of the officers of the defend ant's regiment, who would state what kind of young man he was, and he was sure they would immediately acquit him. Captain James—l am Captain in the 90th Regiment of Light Infantry. Defendant is in the same Regiment. He is twenty-one. He bears the highest character for decency and propriety—a perfect gentleman. Major Slade : lam in the 90th Regiment; defendant has been under my comreannd for four years; I consider him an honour to the service and to his rank, his conduct unexcep tionable—quite purity ; never heard him on any occasion drop a word that a maiden might blush at. Mr. George Dawson, also in the 90th Regiment: I concur in the character given of him. Lord DENMAN here commenced summing up the case. He stated that in all probability the policeman imagined that the case would be dealt with in a summary manner. It was un fortunate that this young gentleman should have been brought there on such a charge. It was necessary on this indictment that the defendant should have had some evil intention. The Jury said there was no necessity for his Lordship to go L further. Lord DENMAN : You think the case is not proved. The Jury : Oh, no.—Verdict—Not Guilty. ELECTION OF COMMON COUNCIL MEN. The election of members of the Thursday last, and was finally co turday evening. The following is in all the different wards : Those with an asterisk against t WARD OF FARRD [Returns sixt€ One vacancy caused by Mr. Dc Mr. Obbard 3`2._ Mr. Burn Mr. Bedford ..293 ..._.349 - A - 1 - r: Blackett, Dep. Mr. Edk ins* Mr. Anderton Mr. Taylor Mr. Beckwith 3lr. Ramshaw,_ ..314 _2'26 ~.332 .273 The first sixteen wi Common Council commenced on oneluded in all the wards on Sa is a correct analysis cf the results he name are new : candidates: 4 . GDON WITHOUT. ?en members.] ?putt' Titiktier resigning. Mr. Marriott ........266 Mr. Figgins '309 Mr. Galloway 932 Mr. Price.. 9 64 Mr. Savage...... 260 Mr. Charles ... 255 Mr. Woohad. Mr. Vl illiams. 205 Mr. Wells* 112 ere declared elected. LANGBOUR NE WARD. (Returns ten Members. ) Mr. Stubbing 139 ' Mr. Snelling Mr. Carter l3B Mr. Unwin Mr. Frodsham Mr. Morrison 132 Mr. H 0 NV ard' Mr. Adamson .. ............ ... 132 Mr. Collinson* Mr. Dixon A scrutiny was demanded by Mr. Collinson as regarded the vote given for Mr. Howard, and hence the first nine candidates only were sworn in. TOWER WARD (Returns twelve Members.) Mr. Drinkald Mr. Robinson... .. ........... 143 Mr. Oakley Mr. Edwards Mr. Joyce Mr. Finnis Mr. Briggs M. Selson 137 I Mr. Jones* Mr. Redhead The first eleven only were declared duly elected. Alderman Lucas stating that for the twelfth member allowed to the ward the votes for Messrs. Young and Rowe being equal he must make a special return to the Court of Aldermen, who would issue a new precept to determine the question. The Alderman was pressed to give a casting vote, but declined, considering he had no authority to do so. BROAD-STR (Returns tei A vacancy caused by N 79 91 70 53 Corney Jupp Deshons Moo❑ French, The first ten were CHEAP (Returns twel 95 I 80 Brooke .. Fenning Jones w Elderley Cuthbird Hardwick Newton Watson The first twelve returned T the retirement of Messrs Fla& EET WARD. a members. ) [r. Peppercorn retiring Stewart Gadsden • Heppell Musgrove Trott* declared elected. WARD. ,ve members. ) May Hickson Oliver* Phillips* Lucas* Richardson Wilkinson* 14 sere were two vacancies caused b . a- and Fawcett. CORNHILL WARD. (Returns six members. ) Mr. Bramwell, after two days contest, resigned, and Mr. Har• rison was returned in his stead. ALDGATE WARD. (Returns six members.) Rice Green Lake* Mulliens The first si COLEMAN-ST (Returns six 118 I 127 127 The first si: Allen .. Hunter Hall .. Davies WARD OF CRIPP (Returns eigl ,55 ix returned. 'REET WARD. c members.) Hale Johnson* I Bracker• returned. LEGATE WITHIN. ht members.) Wilson I Sutton I Beeton* Whitelock' Brown Smith Sagurs Hoole Brass The first eight returned—Mr. Whitelock resigning on Friday evening. The vacancy was caused by Mr. Wilshire retiring. 46 In Farringdon-within—Messrs. Hartley, Emerson, and Ridley returned, vice Filby, Dunnett and Roberts, who retired. There was no opposition. In Bishopsgate—Messrs. Weston and lieynon retired, and Messrs. Carr and Thomas were elected in their stead without op position. In Bread-street Ward—Messrs. Holmes and Cracklow retired, and Messrs. Shuttleworth and Battams were returned in their stead. In the following wards the old Members were returned without any opposition :—Dovrgate, Candlewick, Cripplegate-without, Queenhithe, Aldersgate-street, Lime-street, Vintry, Castle Bay nard, Cordwainer, Bridge-within, Billingsgate, Walbrook, Bassi shaw, and Portsoken. In Portsoken ward, for the first time since the dispute as to the aldermanic gown, the proceedings of the wardmote were allowed to go on quietly. Mr. Michael Scales absented himself from the wardmote, after addressing a circular letter to the householders, stating that he protested against Mr. Johnson being considered Alderman, and declaring his continued intention to carry forward the appeal brought by him into the House of Lords. In Lime-street, Candlewick, and some other wards, a reform of the system of City police was recommended. In both the Cripplegate wards, and in that of Farringdon-with out, resolutions in favour of Municipal Reform were passed, to be based on a constituency of all rated housekeepers; the limits of the wards to be equalised ; the Aldermen elected periodically, and the City funds to be under the sole control of the Representatives of the City, as consisting of Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons, duly assembled in the Council Chamber. SMALL-Poi.—The many-headed monster—a denomina tion given to the people by certain philosophers—turns out, after all, to be right. On the introduction of inoculation into England in 1720, and for nearly a century afterwards, there was the strongest popular antipathy against the prac tice ; and this antipathy is now justified by Sir Henry Hal ford, Sir Astley Cooper, and Dr. Parris. In their last re port to the Home Secretary on the National Vaccine Institution, they state that a question had arisen whether the introduction of inoculation into this country were the blessing which it claims to have been ; and add—We know that, before the practice of it was brought from Constan tinople, the small-pox used to prevail epidemically, now and then, and to occasion a great mortality when it did pre vail ; but there were intervals in which 'the disease was scarcely heard of; and we really believe that the loss of life occasioned by the small-pox recurring after considerable intervals has been far exceeded by the accumulated mor tality of s uccessive years, in consequence of the disease being c ontinually propagated through the practice of ino culation. The same report states that if 300 children be vaccinated, one of them on an average will be susceptible of small-pox afterwards, but in a mild and perfectly safe form ; whereas, if 300 be inoculated, one will surely die, and that, before vaccination was established, 5,000 persons died of small-pox in the metropolis every year—whereas, last year, only 300 died of that distemper. How hard Whitfield worked in his better days may be estimated from what he did in his latter ; when declining health compelled him to relax, he put himself on what he called short allowance ; that is, he preached once every week day, and thrice on Sundays. 70 GOOD THINGS The English newspapers have lately exhibited a number of wonderful accounts, taken from those of America. But they have not yet reprinted all the extraordinary matters that are to be found in the transatlantic journals. They have neglected stories enough to make a work as large as the biography of Munchausen. As it would be a s ubject of regret that such statements should be forgotten for want of a due portion of notice, the Bristol Mercury notices a few of the most remarkable. SENSIBILITY or A BRICIL—As a boy was walking by the side of a house the other day, he accidentally trdd upon a beetle, and passed on, leaving it in appearance half dead. In a short time after, a loose brick was shaken by the wind from a chimney exactly above the spot where the beetle was lying. Finding itself free and unsupported, it. descended towards the earth, as other bricks usually do in similar circumstances. But as it approache d the beetle, on which it was apparently about to fall, it sudde nl y ste p ped, as if deterred by concern from hurting it ; and, strange to relate, it continued suspended in the air till the insect su.c ceeded. in crawlin fom under it, and then completed its fall without farther hesitation. Wed hav e never heard of any brick in England possessing like insensibility. QUICK COMPOSITION.—It rarely happens that we .I.Tve to relate so remarkable an instance of expeditious writing, as one which has recently come to our knowledge. ith* —, of —, lately began a novel at sunset. He wrote as if inspired. His thoughts flowed with the most amazing rapidity. His hand hurried over the paper s o o swiftly, that he himself could not see it move. B efore o'clock at night he had completed his work, when he went to bed, an slept soundly till eight, at which hour h e com mitted the manuscript to Mr. —, the bookseller , who consignedit instantly to the press. Such facility of com position has never been exhibited by any of the John sons, Burkes, or Southeys, of the mother-country. It is calcu lated that this gentleman may produce thirty thousand novels every year, being about eight a day, without deny in g himself any reasonable recreation. EXPEDITIOUS TRAVELLING.—A steam-engine has re cently been constructed by a gentleman of this n eighbou r " hood, by which carriages are drawn along a railway with such expedition, that the eye cannot catch them in their transit. The passengers enter the carriages, and are !e i t _ down at their journey's end, before the moment in wh ich they entered them is concluded. They find themselves in the place in which they wished to be, without being at all able to conjecture how they could arrive at it. t challenge Booby Bull, Esq., to produce any thing Wl' to this. BOILED PIG.—At a certain feast lately, it was resolved to boil a pig whole. But some wicked wag, after the hair was taken off, seized an opportunity to smear it with India rubber. The consequence was, that after the pig had been in the cauldron 6 hours, the water had made no impression on it. When the carver stuck his knife into it, it started up and ran away. Yet it had certainly been killed before it was put in the pot, but it is conjectured that the hot water had such an effect on it as to renew the vital heat, so that it required only the prick of the knife to remind 4 that it was alive. Such susceptibility of re-animation is not inherited by the pigs of any country but our own. SINGULAR BALLOONING.—AS Mr. Jonathan was as cending in his balloon last week, it was assailed by two currents of air, running in different directions, the one be neath, and the other above ; the one of which drove the car upwards, and the other the balloon downwards. The car was no sooner hoisted up than it was driven down again, and the balloon was no sooner down than it was hoisted up. Ia this manner the balloon and car continued to spin over and over, like a tumbler on a stage, for seven days and two hours, at the end of which time, Mr. Jonathan descaded unhurt. He felt no incon venience from the whirling after the first five minutes ; and having stocked his car with abundance of provisions, he a te them with as much ease and zest, as if lie had been on firm land. His sensations, indeed, were so pleasing, that be thinks of waking another excursion in the same direction , to see if he can meet with the same currents of air, and be whirled round in the same manner again. We question if any English aeronaut will be found of equal intrepidity. ADVANCE OF SCIENCE.—A gentleman has recently in vented an instrument for communicating a knowledge of trigonometry. It is called the trigonometrical pop-gun, and is warranted to inject a knowledge of the subject in less time than can be specified. A professor of moral philosophy has also brought to perfection a medicine, by which any man, whose imagination predominates ov er his reason, may, on taking a few drops of it, find his reason re stored to her proper power and dignity, and imagination trampled under feet. We should like to hear of inventions • of equal utility coming from the other side of the Atlantic. ELECTRIFYING A GARDEN.—A market g ardener,!whose trees had been suddenly withered by drought, after re volving many schemes for their restoration, at last thought of employing an instrument-makar in the neighbourhood to construct an electrical machine for the purpose. An ap paratus of great size and power was accordingly completed• and brought to bear on the south-west corner of the garden. The effect produced was such, that, though the piece of ground was a hundred acres in extent, the animating po wer spread through it in an instant, and before the third shock had been given the trees were all budding and blooming as they appear in the month of May. We recommend si similar experiment to any of our English friends who maY suffer in a similar way. GARDENING OPERATIONS FOR. THE WEEK. ( From the Gardener's Gazette.) Sow LETTUCE, the Cabbage kind, and Cos in frame, with out bottom heat, to be merely protected from wet and frost- You may sow some in warm situations to run their risk, but is frames you are sure to succeed. RADISH SEED also may be sown in frames, for succession . Melon and Cucumber beds which have been used and don° with, where there is little or no heat, are good for this purpose. Sow Pass (all the early kinds are good) for successin° crops. Draw earth close up to the roots of those already above ground. BEANS—plant some early Magazans. MUSNROOM BEDS must be protected from frost, by a goo d thick covering of straw. ASPARAGUS.—Hot-beds must now be prepared to force it: make the dung up 3ft. Gin. or 4ft. thick, and a foot wider tit° the frame, and put good rich soil 6 inches thick, and when th e rank heat has gone off a little, place good three-year-old s trong, plants as close together as they can be laid, so that the franle will cover them, and afterwards si x i nc h es more mou ld ab o / 6 the crowns ; put on the boxes and lights, and merely 0 ° little air to let off the steam as it r i ses . I n F e b ruar y you M a ' cut excellent Asparagus. ye FRUIT Room.—L oo k over a ll ga th ere d F ru it, an d retn°.b all that are damaged ; cover all that will damage by frost"' a thick covering of straw. HOTHOUSE AND GREENHOUSE, as before ; but especially 10° to the drainage of the pots. • Bring in from the general st ore , success i ons o f Hyanl n .. O o .. s ' and other bulbous root s t o f orce , a l so fl ower i ng s h ru bs, i" - rican, &c. All American plants and other shrubs, &c., in pots, t ° main out of doors, should be plunged. be Hedges may be plashed and clipped, new hedges MO planted. SILVER WATCHES TWO GUINEAS EA te cl, An Assortment of Second-hand Watches, all of them wa rrail " et and of various sizes, may be selected from, for the above price' T. COX SAVORY'S, 401 Working Silversmith, Goldsmith, and Watchmaker, 47, C` g. " ► London. . N.B. A pamphlet, containing a detailed list of the Pri t e i „ or Plate, Plated Goods, Watches, Clocks, &c., may be had gr' will be forwarded in answer to a post-paid application,___. B RTHS. On the 21st inst., at the Re I ctory, East Hcrsley, the 1 01 - f t he I ° i Hon. and Rev. A. Percival, of a daughter. f *.flei On the 22c1 inst., the lady of A. G. Finlaison, E5q.2,... ° Cb — On the 17th inst., at Annett's-crescent, Islington Air" . John On Home, of a son. , Mr. •"- On the 18th inst., at Camberwell-green, the lady °' Deane, of a SOY.°bat, of a On the 17th inst., at Bath Lodge, Ch e l sea , M rs . Ant r ' daughter, still-born. E. Got- On the 14th inst., i n C onnaug h t - square, t h e l a dy of J• f Rober t don, Esq., of a son. On the 15th inst., at Me c kl en b urg h- sq uare, the la d y 0 fle r ' Burra, jun., Esq., of a daughter. of the On the 16th inst., at Sutton-place, Surrey, the lady f pro- F. Vincent, of a daughter. ~,iv o the i J the O ro n e th s e in l it s h t , h E in sg st . . , , o i f e a J s o o h n n . -street, Bedford-rovr, On the 14th inst., at MChAaßritßoo/ECDho.reh, rh ries , second Fran son of Wm. Hedger, Esq. of West-square, S"tuvrar On youngest daughter of M. Elwin, Esq., of Charlton.. Ram, near Dover, - -- 1 , to .. the 14th inst., at Charles Church, Plymouth, price 0 . 7 t he i l i a n te gs, Esq., of Padstow, Cornwall, to Jane, only daughter . H. Blackmore, Esq., of St. Austle,irit2r iitle ntY' ...........-- - DIED. Radcliffe, On the 21st inst., Frances Dougla s, onl y child o f D. Esq., of the Strand, aged 14. L.imb ett ' On the 20th inst., Elizabeth, only daughter of W.I . Esq., of Woodmanstono, Surrey.Vernon, ate En' On the 10th inst., aged 20, Braddyll Francis ire; ' a Clow sign 20th Regiment, son of the late Geo. Vernon, sq• , torf Castle, county Dublin. Samuel Hardistl' On the 17th inst., at Hamprtead, Ed w ard . . Esq., of Great Alarlborough-street, aged 48. . , , ohn Ell:- On the 1 9 th inst., at Kirkstcad Hall, Lincolnshire J son, Esq., aged 29. gear- Admiral of On the 13th at Brighton, John Tower, Esq., the Blue, C. 13., aged O• w ife of Mr. T. Wood , of . gi v4 s-stre ett On the 18th inst. , Ann, Holborn. E a ged 45. • ~... At Brixton-hill, Streatham, John Nowby, eq. , , ~.. Ells On the 3d inst., in Upper Park street, Islington,agerul';,. t Beth Mary Ann, wife of Mr. W. T. Adrian, of the of I ea , Oxfo rd-stree , On the 19th inst., Mr. Samuel Rickaer_ds,.. London, and BeeStoll, Nottingha.momshire , ag d 4 ' .............. ! . .. !!.-;": ______-- iN161.. 4f 14 London: Printed-and Published by lk , lURDO YOU— , 4s wty 110 Strand, in uo4 112, Strand, at The Sue Office, No. - 1 _,,. ( f Middlesex.—Alonday, December, 25, 1604 ■