The Sun. — London, England, 1837-02-13 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1837 . . 2 • • PRICES 01' STOCKS THIS HAY Al' IiNE O'CLOCK. i Bank Sick. - indni suit, - 3 per Cent. Red. ... .... 90 1 ,6 f 0742 'Ditto Bonds " 24 '2 - 2 p en. 3 pm Cent. COO 3 ......... ... ... 44 .)!* %% South Sea Stock - ....... .... - . si4 per Cent. • - Ohl Annintis . .... ..... ....... ........ ..• D.ttn Red... 1 , " 14 7K New Ditto ........•.. 15 . . 1 .. ... --.... .. -- New 344 per Cent ltiV4 3 per Cent. Annuities, I --- Exch. Dills, £1,0(r...... 28 W 28 pm. UV* iktlp A Ma:Mosta expire Ditto ........... ...•'/.0..... 28 26 18 pm. .4.01. 5, lffl ..14 1,16 Ditto F•rnail .. ......... ...•28 26 2 - 4 pm. ilitt 91, 1A.1? ...... -...- Ditto Commercial •-- - pm. J.,'" bs ; 1."... ••••• se ..... 14)4 Dittn Advertised - pin Jan. S, RI ...... ...•..... ..... .-- Bank Stock for Acc0unt......... April 5, Wt..... ~,.. ..... ...., -- Indic. Stock for J Accc.tint an. 5, 1nr.......-...... ..... --- Consols for Acconnt ... SON !-.', 0 ribittto ••.. ............. ..•-•.... - pm• I _ - PRICES OE FOREIGN' FUNDS THIS DAY A p ONE O'CLOCE. Auarien Bonds . ................. - i e•rtiviaii 13oilds .. ..... ......... .. Delete:. 80ud....... ..... ... •.... -1 D•tto AczoiLat .., - Ditto A.ccotu t...... ......... .. -I Portlignoiellim.l3,......, .......... _ Brazilian - Bond. ... .. . ............ 85N! Ditto Acenu..t - . Ditto Account _ ..... ... ........ - Dittn New Bonds Pmenos Ayres Bonds - ' Ditto Account 4Bi , Ditto Atcount .....•......... - Ditto, 3 per cent. 3 41 Chillian Bonds ................. -, Prucsiali 80nd5.... .. . - Ditto Account .. - Russian Bonds, ital ....... .... cmumbian Bonds ....««..«..... - . Ditto Account - Ditto Accoui.l - Cotumbien 110ndi,19021 2 5 4., ' Spanish Bonds - Ditto Accoyint - D mist) Bonds-- - , Ditto Bonds, 1: , 34 ... ... 25 5 .4. Ii s'• '`‘ Ditto Account ... ....... „ ..... Ditto Arcotint 25% wi, 3-7iN coec.k Bonds.. - French, 5 per cent.... ..... -t: -.. Ditto Bonds, 18'5 ' -- I per cent -1. --c. Ditto A t z'otint .. ..... ......... --- 3 per cent. Mexican riont:y. 5 per cent.... - ---- Exchange -f Ditto Account ...... ........... - Dutch, 2i.i P ar cent. 54 '3 , ,.., Ditto, 6 per cent. . ..... ..... - , Ditto At count - Ditto Account ........»...•... Ditto, 5 per cent Neapolitan..., ..... ..„," ..... ....„ -' Ditto Account - ----- PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK Paid. Per Share Dublin and Kilkenny Railway Comp an y .... .... '4:4 - 2!g Brighton (Rennie's) t) IN London and Green rich R a ilway Company 2O 21 t.; 1 W e stminster and Greenwich Railway Compa n y 2 ,i.:•; 47'4 _— PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, FEBRUARY 10 3 per Cent. Consols ..».»........ 89 Grand Canal Debs. 6 per cent i 91.4 Ditto Reduced... ...... ......... - Ditto, 4 per cent.... ......... 5'114 344 per Cent. Stock 9fii Hibernian Bank Ditto New, 1830 97N City of Dublin Steam Co. - 346 per Cent. Debentures 9ok4 National Insurance Co - Bank Stock .............. ........ ... 199 1 ,.', , City Debentures; 4 per cent -- Royal Canal Stock 3t Ballest Otticc Debentures, 4 Grand Canal Stock 27% per cent. --- MAILS. Arrived. Due. Arrived. Due. Arrivet. Due 0 America.... ..... . 0 2 France... ... „.. 0 1 1.i5t. , n 0 0 Brazil ........... 0 0 Gucrii.S:Yersey 1 0 Malta 0 Buenos Ayres.. 0 1 Hamburg 0 1 Mexico 0 0 Carthagena ..... 0 1 Holland ......».. 0 0 Ostend 0 2 Dublin... ..... 0 0 Jamaica ..... ..... 0 0 Sweden .. . 2 Flanders 0 0 Leeward Islands 0 2 Watertiird ...... . 0 HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE To-monrtow. M0rning......... I minutes after 9. I Evening...... 35 minutes after 9 The publication of THE Sum NEwspArsa commenced this day at 10 minutes past Three o' Clock. _____ LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 13, 1837. We have before us the copy or a Petition to Parliament from the inhabitants of Rochdale, in the county of Lan caster, which displays the atrocious iniquity of the Church rate system in a light so striking, that we should consider ourselves guilty of a dereliction of duty did we not lay before the public the facts which it details. Some time ago a meeting of the inhabitants of the above mentioned parish was duly called for the purpose of sanc tioning a Church-rate. The rate was objected to on the several grounds, that after deducting the amount of certain illegal expenses incurred by the former Churchwardens , there was a sufficient sum in hand for all necessary pur poses ; that there were in the estimate brought forward by the Churchwardens sundry charges which had no business there—such, for instance, as 901. for a hearse, 201. for rent. &c. &c. ; and that besides all this, there were arrears of former rates uncollected sufficient to answer all the legiti mate purposes for which the new rate was demanded. An amendment proposing to adjourn the consideration of the rate to a future time was moved and carried, and this deci sion of the meeting was confirmed after a five days' poll, by a majority of 147 votes. Here, our readers will say, the proceedings surely ter minated—the rate-payers, legally assembled had refused the rate, and there was an end of the matter. So thought the people of Rochdale ; but, alas, they were grievously mistaken ! They reckoned without their host. They had to learn, from sad experience, that there are such things as proctors, vicars-general, and consistorial courts. They were bad boys, and a touch of the ecclesiastical rod, it was thought, would be good for their refractory souls. Accord ingly, Messieurs the Churchwardens, met in full —no, not in full conclave—but, nevertheless, they met, and by their own authority made a rate for the full amount of their estimate, and the rate thus made they got confirmed by the Reverend and Worshipful HENRY RAIKES, Clerk, Master of Arts, Vicar-General of the Right Reverend Father in Gov, Jour; BIRD, by Divine permission, Lord Bishop of CHESTER, and Official Principal of the Consistory and Epis copal Court of Chester. Citations were issued in due form and, as may be supposed,without any unnecessary delay, and half a d,zen of the defaulters were summoned to appear before their spiritual " pastors and masters," to purge them selves of their heinous transgressions—some of which amounted to the enormity of Bd. and 9d. sterling money of Great Britain. The parties cited appeared under protest, ar.d pleaded that the proceedings were irregular, as only eight out of ten Churchwardens were the promotors of the suits. And who does the reader suppose was the Judge that tried this appeal ?' Some impartial person doubtless, qualified to do j ustice between the contending parties. Oh ! na—that would not have suited the purpose in view. The Judge before whom this appeal was heard was the identical HENRY RAIYES, Clerk, Vicar-General, &c. &c.; who had previously confirmed the rate ! It is needless to say that the protest was overruled by this righteous pluralist, who united in his own person the functions of Judge, Jury, and party concerned. The defendants appealed against this sentence to the Supreme Court at York, and applied to the Churchwardens for their consent to tr) the appeal in (me only of the six cases, as the other five cases would 'be governed by the decision in the one selected for trial. This, it wilt be allowed, was not a very unreasonable proposal, and had the object of the Church authorities been justice, and not persecution, it would have been assented to at once. But it was indig nantly rejected, and the whole six cases were removed to Yo►k, and the processes introduced into the Ecclesiastical Court there, at a great expense to the defendants. The Chancellor of York, however, happening to know some thing of the law, sustained the protest of the defendants, and decreed that the names of all the Churchwarden! ought to have been used in the citations. This was the law of the case ; and justice, as well as common sense, re qUired that those who were found in the wrong should have borne the expense of their illegal proceedings. In the Ecclesiastical Courts, however, the question of costs is not one of law ; it, is left to the discretion of the Judge, who in this case found nothing in his breast to plead for the defendants. They had refused Church-rates—he refused costs. The Churchwardens having got so well out of this scrape, immediately commenced proceedings de novo, issuing cita tions against the same parties, with the signatures of the ten Churchwardens, though two of them protested in the Court at Chester against the use of their names in a proceeding of which. they entirely disapproved. That Court, under these circumstances, dismissed the suits— a;ain without costs ; and the prosecutors now, in their turn, appealed to the Court at York, which reve.-scd the decision of the Court at Chester. They then exhibited their libel before the Ecclesiastical authorities at York, and there the matter rests at present, without any chance of a final .settlement till it reaches the Court of King's Bench. If it is imagined, that during the course of these various proceedings against the six individuals who appeared t o ‘ the citations, the oth er i n h a bit an t s o f R oc hd a l e wer e ex empted from Churchwarden persecution—this we can only say is a proof that those who think so are not acquainted with the working of the Ecclesiastical system. We can as sure them that there there is no running over of the milk of human kindness—no unnecessary expenditure of charity or forbearance. We shall see that the opppressive suits in the public Courts which we have detailed were only a portion of the proceedings with which these worthies were harass ing the people of Rochdale. There was a little episode enacting within the precincts of the parish, which is so per ' fectly in keeping with the main action, and indeed tends so much to illustrate the animus of tho Church, that it would be a sin to omit it. No sooner had the parochial authorities dragged the de fendants into the Court at Chester, than_ they issued war rants of distress against six other persons, who, relying on the illegality of the rate, had not thought it necessary to appear before the Magistrates, and a levy was made on their goods. One of these persons, a man named MUMMY was lying on his death-bed. 'tic kind-hearted Churchwar dens of Rochdale sent their agents into this man's housc, to distrain his goods for the value.offmr-penee ; and these ruffians, not content with taking articles of furniture to a hu►idred times the value of the sum demanded, actually ached the Family Bible, which had been in the family nearly a century, and bore it off in triumph to their in human employers ! That they had been instructed to do this there can be no doubt, for the Bible was sold by public Auction at the instance of the Churchwai dons of Rochdale ! They no doubt thought that the Bible had something to do ,:itl► the refusal to pay Church-rates. They reasoned, that if this man had never read his Bible, he never would have found out that Christianity rejects the compulsory support of the pocket, and requires the voluntary embrace of the heart. Therefore it was, that their vengeance was di rected against the sacred volume. It may also have oc curred to them that a man, who had been in the habit of reading the Bible all his life, might feel a pang at parting with it, at the moment when it was most precious to him. Now we ask any right thinking man, of whatever reli gious persuasion he may be, whether a system which gives birth to such proceedings as those which we have been stating, ought to cont;nue a day or an hour longer ? Is it not the duty of every man who values the blessings of reli gion to exert himself to wipe away this reproach from a Christian land, to stand up for the honour of the Christian religion itself, against the unholy practices of those who are thus under the garb of friends acting as its deadliest enemies? It is ;it vain for the cold•hearted hypocrites who prate about the connection of Church and State to attempt to say, that the Church of England can be strengthened by a tax wrung from the people by means co oppressive and cruel that they shock and disgust every feeling of justice and humanity in the breast of-man, No—such support as this is a source of weakness, not of strength ; and if not removed in time, it will assuredly soon make the whole Ecclesiastical edifice totter to its fall. Captain CHETWYND has given notice that he will move to-night in the House of Commons that the SPEAKER issue his warrant for a writ for the election of a Member of Parliament for the borough of Stafford. Mr. DIVETT in tends to move as an amendment the suspension of the writ till next session. • •. We think the Gallant Officer might have saved himself all this trouble. He knows perfectly well that no writ will ever again be issued for Stafford. That borough has been found guilty of bribery to an extent unprecedented in the history of corruption, It has been proved to be rotten to the very core, and although that very rottenness may be a sufficient reason for the great anxiety displayed by the House of Lords to - prevent its disfranchisement, by refusing to pass the Bill for that purpose twice sent up by the Commons, yet they will not gain their point here. They may, by their obstinacy, prevent the Representation of some other unrepresented place, and thus diminish by one the number of the Com mons—they can do Nothing more. This evening Lord JOHN RUSSELL will bring before the House the important question of a Poor Law for Ireland. We are of course unacquainted with the plan which the Noble Lord intends proposing as a remedy for wretched ness, we believe, without a parallel ; but whatever may be its defects, if based upon the recommendations of the Poor Law Commissioners—if it recognise the right of the starv ing poor to compulsory relief—it shall have our best sup port. A Poor Law so framed as to meet the wishes of all parties is what we do not anticipate ; nor shall we be found opposing any measure which, though defective in some points, is nevertheless calculated to promote the social happiness of the peasantry, and to increase the security of life and property in Ireland. For the List seven years has this Journal advocated unremittingly the right of the poor of Ireland to the benefit of a sound and extensive sys tem of Poor Laws, as a protection against the tyranny of absentee landlords and middlemen—and therefore it is not without a degree of exultation that it invites attention to a measure which promises to involve the happy termi nation of its labours. We will neither anticipate details, nor attempt to reply to possible objections. Better oppor tunities for discussing both will shortly present themselves. In the meantime we call upon the real friends of the Irish poor to bestir themselves in behalf of their famishing fellow countrymen. Now is the time for generous exertion. By 1 bringing the question thus early in the Session before Parlia ment, the Government allows itself time to examine carefully every suggestion that may be submitted to it, without en dangering the passing of some such measure as the one now contemplated. The distressed state of Ireland is fully admitted—the impossibility of the longer continuance of this distress, without provoking an agrarian warfare, is proved. Parliament has therefore only to deliberate upon a remedy, and that it must now do without regard to the cries of faction and self-interest. The well-being of Great Britain imperatively calls for the speedy amelioration of Irish misery. Our readers will find, on reference to another part of The Sun of this day, some account of an important public meeting on the subjeot of " the revenues of the Welch Church," which took place at Chester on Friday last. It seems that the Commissioners who were appointed in 1835 to enquire into the state of the Ecclesiastical Establishment in England and Wales, recommended in their Report that " two new sees should be erected, and two old ones abolished." This recommendation has been attended to, and it is proposed, says the Rev. Mr. EVANS, " that after the demise of one of the Bishops of North Wales, the two sees of St. Asaph and Bangor shall be united, and the re venues devoted to episcopal purposes in England, which of course contemplates the appropriation of a very large portion of the Ecclesiastical revenues of North Wales to objects unconnected with the Establishment as it ex ists in that country." We never heard of a proposal more flagrantly unjust than this. Well may Welshmen be indig nant at it—well hold meetings throughout the. Principality, and protest against it in the strongest terms possible ; for it is neither more nor less than an act of spoliation--of direct robbery, perpetrated by the powerful against the derence less, solely because the former think that the latter will be able tb offer no effectual resistance. Wales, it is well known, is a poor, rocky, thinly-peopled country ; and yet the Church Commissioners seriously propose to impoverish her still further, by depriving her of a large pottion . of her Ecclesiastical revenues, in order to support a Bishop of MANCHESTER—the most flourishing town in England, and situated in the- heart of its most opulent county ! If Lancashire languishes for a new Bishop, why not insist on her paying for the luxury herself ?—Why compel poor Wales to administer to her thirst for episcopacy ? The thing is monstrous, and if the Welch do not rise, to a man, in bold, determined, but. constitutional, opposition to the proposal, we shall say that they richly de serve to be plundered. Mr. PARRY well ob served, " I am quite at a loss for - language to express my abhorrence of such an act of preposterous injustice and oppression towards my countrymen. I say it is an act of dire spoliation ! It is robbery—sacrilegious robbery ! And if the rich and opulent people of Manchester will conde scend to receive it, I can never look upon them in any other light than as " receivers of stolen goods !" This is forcible, stirring language, and. will, we are sure, be echoed from one end of the Principality to another. The present is a most important crisis in the history of the Welsh Church Establishment. That Establishment—thanks to the neglect of its pluralist, and non-resident, members—is already in a state of decrepitude ; and".if this additi9nal blow be given to it, it will perish at once, never again to raise its head in the Principality. There is, therefore, not a moment to be lost. The. Welsh must speak out ; and what is more to the puipose, they must make their Parlia mentary representatives speak out also. , I We are glad to find that Admiral ELLIOT, undismayed by the result of the last election, or the disreputable tricks of the old monopolizing party, has announced his intention o f again contesting the county of Roxburgh. In no county in Scotland have those vile means, so well described by Mr. HORSNIAN, been more resorted to than in that county, now represented by Lord JOHN SCOTT, and now canvassed by his relative, the Hon HENRY SCOTT, eldest son of Lord POLWORTH ; and; we confidently believe that the liberal electors are fully prepared to do their duty, I:nd convince the county-mongering aristocracy that they are determined not to be handed over like serfs to one nobleman's son after another, to suit the views of the Duke of BUCCLEUGH. The many struggles which the il- lustrious house of ELLIOT has made for the inde pendence of that county—the protection which it was ever ready to afford to men of liberal opinions against the powerful influence of the old Tory electors—and the effi cient manner in which Roxburgh was represented during that great contest which ended so triumphantly in extort ing the franchise from a miserable monopolising minority of 144, and conferring it 0n . 1,260 electors—will not be for gotten. That great measure has• been followed up by the present Government. No country in - the United Kingdom has derived more benefit from the Whigs than ScotlamL The Scotch people know that but fur them the crying abuses in their burghs, and in the exercise of Church pa tronage, :would have remained undiminished, and that the very men wl;orn the H, n. Mr. SCOTT would support, are resolved to refuse further redress not only to them, but to the people of the Sister Island, struggling now as the Scotch long did for their rights and independence. Con sidering the character of the people, and the gratitude which they have ever shown for the blessings of Reform, when the trial comes, we have no fear for the result. The Paris Journals of Friday and Saturday have been received. M . M. TRIERS, ODILLON BARROT, MAOLTIN, and GONNERON, succeeded on Thursday in effecting a reconciliation between Marshal CLAUSEL and M. Du- PIN. The testy President, after much per:nasion, was pievailed open to decline returning an answer to the Mar slial's second communication, so that the affair is settled after the most ridiculous fashion possible. There arc rumours of a change in the Cabinet. SOULT, it is said, has positively refused to accept office, save on terms to which the KING will not listen. M. 'TITTERS is therefore again in a fair way of being restored to the good graces of Louis" PHILIPPE ; though, as will be rernorn , bared, the EE-President of the Council stated in the course of the debate on the Address to the Throne, that he no longer entertained a hope of entering the Cabinet, yet is he now regarded, even by the Court, as the best prop of the tottering dynasty of Orleans. Several individuals accused of participating in regicidal plots were arrested on Thursday. The Paris Court of Assizes has acquitted the Sieple of the charge of libel preferred against it by the Government, The verdict must have surprised the Proprietors of that Journal, as it banteringly offered to pay: the fine the day after it was seized, confident, no doubt, that sentence would be given against it. The subject of the libel was an article on the appanage demanded by Ministers for the main tenance of the Duke de .NEmoutts. The Journal des Debats has a loan article on the cap ture of the Vixen by Russia, the object of which is to prove that if England submit to this aggression, the Treaty of Adrianople will lead to results of which Western Europe can hardly form a conception. The dominion of Russia in the East will extend so rapidly as, in a short time, to peril the existence of other States, now independent. FRENCH FUNDS.-Psats Fria. 10. Five per Cents., 109 f. 20c 25c. 30c. 20c. Three per Cents. 79E 45c. 55c. 50c. Bank Actions, 2,400 f. Rente de Naples, 98f 45c. 40c. Roman Five per ents., 102 1 4% Spanish Actives, 26,1i,%1 , ,. Spanish Differes, 114 1 4. Spanish Passives, 7,A%%. Belgian Loan. Five per Cents.. 103. Belgian Society, 1,5601 Portuguese Three per Cents. 31 1 A 1 ,6%. EXCHANGE ON LONDON. One month, paper, 25f. 30c. ; money, 25f. 27},c. Three months, paper, 25f. 10c. ; money. 251. 1 0 c. -Court Authentigue. FRENCH kUNDS.-Psatr, Y. 11. Five per Cents.. 1091 20c. 15e. 10c. 20c. Four per Cent., 1011. Three per Cents., 79f. 35c. 40e. 35c. Bank Actions, 2,400 f. Rente de Naples, 981. 40c. Roman Five per Cents., IC2 I A 102 Spanish Actives, 26 25% 26. Spanish Passives, 7. Belgian Loan, Five per Cents, 103. Brussels Society, 1,5501. Portuguese Loan, Three per Cents, 31 30% 31. EXCHANGE ON LONDON. One month, paper, 25c. 30c. ; money, 251. 2714 e. Three months, paper, 251.10 c.; mousy, 25f. 10e. -Court Authentigue. LAST PRICES. Five per Cents., 1091. 33c. Three per Cents. 79f. 50c. Bank Actions, 2,4001. Rente de Naples, 98f. 6nc. Roman Five per Cents., 104. Belgian Loan, 103. Portuguese Three per Cents., 30%. Spanish Active s, 211. Spanish Passives. 7. Spanish Differes, 8%. Belgian Society, 1,550 f. Letters from Bayonne of the 7th, San Sebastian of the 6th, and Bilboa of the 4th inst., have been received. The Chiistina force pow north of the Ebro is said to amount to upwards of sixty thousdknd effectiite troops; of which fourteen thou:a►ndare at San Scbastian.The accounts fromßilboa state that GOMEZ was arrested, and brought before a Council of War at Durango, on the Ist inst. He was accused of at tempting to escape to France with a large share of the trea sure seized by his bands in Estremadura and Cordova. The Guerilla Chief seemed greatly dispirited, and, after being interrogated by Don CARLOS, was conveyed between two files of musqueteers to the Castle of Guebara to await the trial of a court-martial. We be t 3 observe that there is not a word of this in the Bayonne correspondence, which is of a date three days later. There wirsoon be plenty of hard fighting in the Basques, unless Don 6ARLOS sudden) , quit the country. It is con fidently affirmed that .he meditates flight, seeing that his cause is for the present hopeless, and that, if taken, effectual measures will be adopted to prevent him from again kindling the flames of civil war in the Peninsula. The latest advices from Madrid are to the sth instant. They contain no intelligence of importance. Serjeant GAR• CIA (the hero of La Granja, as he is called,) has been ar rested Ly order of NIENDIZABAL, for personally insulting him in his ministerial capae'ty. GARCIA had been recom- mended by RODIL for preferment in the financial depart went ; but asMENDIzABAL was in no haste to make out an appointment for him, he dared to tell the Minister to his face that he had been used in " a rasouhly manner." The words were hardly out of his mouth when I MENDIZABAL or dered him into the custody of the guard, by whom he•was conveyed to prison. Brussels and Gorman Papers have been received. The Alijerneine Zeilunj of the 6th inst., publishes a letter from Constantinople, which states that before the receipt 0 . dispatches from London, Lord DURIIAM had not protested in any manner against the capture of the Vixen on the Cir cassian coast. M. BARANTE, the French Ambassador at St. Peters burgh, has addressed a letter to M. WEYER, the F r en c h Vice-Consul at Moscow; to the effect that his Excellency will insist upon justice Lein' done to the French Professor about to be expelled tite Univcisity of Cason, by order of the Russian Government. The Second Chamber Of the kingdom. of Hanovcr, passed Per the third time, on the nBth ult., the law for emancipating Jeers. the Hanoverian ' BELGI AN I , UNDSBatisscr-s, Fro. 11 Actual Debt, 7. , .!:', per Cent :........... 53 Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent..... lOOl4 Loan of Thirty Mi11i0n5......., .......... 92% Loan of City, 1.3:2, 4 per Cent 907,i Society of Commerce, 4.4 per Cent 1:11 Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent l3l Brussels Papers, Feb. 12. DUTCH FUNDS—Amarcessas, Fee. 10. Money. Bills. Actual Debt, 214 per Cent Ditto, ditto 5 per cent. Amort Syndic, 44 per cent.-- ....... ..... Ditto, ditto, 3 , per cent. ........ ..... ..... Commercial Company, 4 , 4 pit cent 181.4 Itol, Ditto (1532 and 1833) 5 per cent. Exchange on London, One month 110? 914 DS. mouthsVi a aim . A . ~..F. . E li . r.. 21 1 0 .03i. .. 9 :3 0 .. .. 1317,70:05511:04, . AUSTRIAN FU Tw N ° Five per Cons. Metalliques .. Four per Cents. Three per Cents. Bank Shares —Allgenzeine Zeitmtg, Feb. 8 HAMBURG BOItSEN HALLE, FE B ft, Austrian Met d al i l t i t lues, 5 3 per per e c e e r n it t.. ............... 74 tr, Ditto ditto 4 per cent ...„..,.„........ - 4 _ Ditto Ditto Bank shares la39 1n37 74 Anglo_Russian Loan lO5 kw 3,,, Paper Inscription, 6 per cent — Russian 5 per cents. Metal. Russian inscription, Hope and Co., 3d and 4th Series Ditto, Certificates Portuguese Regency Bonds. 5 per cent 4714 47 Ditto, Ditto, 3 per cent 3m. 30 Dutch .2!,.. per Cents. Ditto 5 per Cents --• Polish Bonds, 3 per cents. New Tickets 1 1 4 04 15 , 3 , Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per cents 7 t 71A Norwegian I-can of ISA, 4 per cent 5.........„ RI Spanish, in piastres, :1 per Cent. — .... Cortes Loan, 5 per Cent.-- <2lj .. 2 1,, Greek 4 per cents. 11:33, guaranteed by Fraoce 93 9 , 2 ,. , EXCHANGES ON LOIMON. '!' HAMBURG, FEB 6.-13 ili ; two months. 1311. . STOCKHOLM, JAN. 20.—TWO months, 11 38. ST. PETELSCURGII, JAN. :I. —Three months, It .74 • BREMEN, FEB. 13.-I'IVO months, 5 8. 13b:KL1N, FEB. 4.—Three in • tubs, 6.:3%. —Hamburg Pavers, Feb. 6. J ~ Lisbon Papers t o the sth inst. inclus:ve, have b een re ceived. The Miguelite bands continue to commit great ex cesses in the interior of the kingdom. The capit a l was tranquil, and the QUEEN in g ood health. A change in th e Cabinet was deemed unavoidable. On Saturday, a well-dressed female, about 40 years of age, and who is understood to have resided at ARAB, near Wakefield, walked sonic miles upon the Doncaster road ; and when about a mile from Nostel, ask e d a person how far she was from th a t place ; ad ding, " 0 dear, 1 think I shall never be there." On arriving at the pl ace , s h e threw herself into the l a k e , by the P riory, and a l t h oug h she was seen at the tim e , life was extinct before assistance could be procured..—Hava E./press, AYLESBURY-(THIS DAY•) The Tory candidate for this county will not he allowed to walk over the course as he anticipated. The Liberal party have nominated Mr. Dashwood, who formally sat for Bucks, and have pledged themselves to keep the vote open to the last, and a severe run will be the result. The following hand bill was circulated throughout the county this morning, and great excitement caused thereby. The Liberals are in high spirits, and calculate upon the show of hands. Mr Leader nominated, and Mr. Stone seconded the nomination. ELECTORS OF BUCKS! A Tory eandidatc has been named to represent you ; a candi date on the Liberal side will he offered to you, this day, at the hustings !!I One party now monopolizes the representation of the county ; it is for you to' decide whether you will in crease the .power of that party by giving your votes to their candidate, or whether you will assert your independence by electing a man of Liberal political opinions. Considering it an imperative duty not to allow the liberal portion of the county constituency to remain as it now is, totally unrepre sented, without publicly protesting against the evil, or attempt ing to remove it, we Lave determined to nominate • GEORGE HENRY DASHWOOD, Esq., - . Of West Wycombe Park, as a fit and proper person to repre sent you in Parliament. We confidently expect that you will do your duty as Inde• pendent Men, and show your gratitude to him for his exer tions in your cause, by making every effort in your power to place him once more in the House of Commons, as the Liberal' Member for Bucks, JOHN TEMPLE LEADER. WILLIAM LO\VNDES STONE. Aylesbury, Mouilay, Feb. 13, 1837. rarm.kadma•m•algratamisiCaLamminnimalliMblael, TtIF, MARIKWV.SI,-( I.'ll IS DAY ) . CORN EXCHANGE... The arrivals of both Grain and Flour in the past week were moderate, and transactions in the trade were to a limited ex tent at no variation in prices. This morning. the fresh supply of all sorts of Corn was again short. In consequence of the small quantity of fine dry Wheat for sale, it obtained Is. per quarter advance on last Monday's prices, but other qualities remain as last quoted. Barley and malt continue to meet 4 very heavy sale, and hardly maintain the toms of last Mon day. Beans sell slowly, at no alteration in value. Peas of both kinds are rather cheaper. For good Qats the demand is fair, and the prices firm other desoriptions experience a dUll sale. In the Flour trade there is little doing at the previous Monday's rates, PRICES ON BOARD OF SHIP. Wheat, Red (old) .4s. 623. --White (01d)... Ws. 645. ---,Red ;1836) 44s. 50s. --Fine _ 52;.551. Superfine ..... cos. ---WlCte (1836) 465. 525. ...------- Fine sls. 565. __---- Superfine 60s. 625. --.—Foreign free Rye Ns. 3is. B.xrley .263. 265. Grindin. -- Malting 345. 375. Malt 46s 55s Fine New s6s. 625. Pease, Grey, New 345. 375. ---- Maple New . PBs. 393. White .384. 40e. -- Boilers 40s. 425. ARRIVALS OF " Beans, Small knew) 149.4‘25. (old) 415. 5( 15. - lick (new) 3ls Wis. (old) .... _. - Harrow (new) ...365.385. --- (old) 42s. 46s Brack • 345. 3Ss, Oats, Feed 2 Ss• 3 O• New • 0 44.275. - Poland 9.35. 32s New 24s. 30s. - Potatoe 30s. 325. New - Scotch 3O .33 s. - Irish 235. 26s. 28s Flour Town ;per sack) , 52x.55;. Weconds 46, 50s. - North Country 42s 45 . Bran _ GRAIN 1.. LONDON Wheat. Barley. English I 5,083 qrs 5,246 qrs. Irish . Foreign... ........ 1,730 815 DURING LAST WEEK. Oats. -Flour. /363 qrs 5.: 1 116 rack. 17;46 3,835 DENHAI.L MARKETS. by the Carcass. NEWGATE AND LEA At per stone, I a. d. to s d. s al. to s d. Beef, inferior 2 4 2 6 Mutton, inferior 2 6 210 - middling ... 2 9 3 0 - middling 3 2 2 9 - prime large .... ..... 3 2 3 6 - prime 4 2 4 6 .-- prime mail 3 8 3lb Perk, large 3 4 4 2 Veal NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE CORN MARKET.—Feb. 11. We had a fair supply of Wheat both from the country and coastways at this day's market, which was taken off slowly at similar rates to last Saturday. Barley was in very limited demand at our quotations. The supply of Oats was good, and the sale brisk, at last week's prices. Malt barely supports our quotations. The supplies of Rye continue large, and prices are again Is. per quarter lower. There is little passing in Beans or Peas. The arrivals of Flour, particularly from Nor folk and, Suffolk, are abundant, and the sale is slow at our qua tations. New. Old. , Wheat, Northumberland ¶5.. 575. sls. (12..1 Norfolk and Suffolk s4s. fi11i....... 55, ttl,. Berwick and Scotch 49s. !L..... —s 534. ---....Foreign Rye, Norfolk and Suffolk 3ss. 405........ —s. —s. -- Foreign' —s. —s —s. —s..- Barley, Malting, Norfolk and Suffolk— Ms. 40s —a. —s. Grinding and Feeding. 2tis. 28i. —a. --s. i Malt, Norfolk and Suttblk sB'. fdi Beans, Small 'IS.. 42i —s. —s. Tick Prase, White Igs 42g ...a —a. --6 Gray o.tts, Northumberland, Potatoe _ _______ _ Feed _ ....... 20s 2fls '26s. '2B --- Foreign —s Flour (per sack) —s. 3415. 465. THE FUNDS.---(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Our arrivals this morning are, two French, two Ostend, the Hollaud and Hamburg mails, a Lisbon mail by the Ecpoir —sailed Feb. 5, and a mail from Mexico by the Hope, sailed from Vera Cruz Dec. 23 ; Havannah 11th Jan. ; ship letters from Berbice and Madeira. The mail from Mexico brings accounts of a counter revolu tion against the Government having been discovered. This information we had previously received by the late arrival of the American papers. The Dutch papers state that the Netherland Trading Com pany intend further to increase their capital by raising a loan of 12 millions of florins. 1,4 - .4 1, 4.111ik . 1 4 •4;. „ 1,04, - . flax. MARKET SMITHF: 'IEL This day's supply was very good, and the sale was dull at little alteration from the prices last quoted : Fitters YEA STOWE OF 8L TO SINK THE OFFA LS. s. d. to s. d. 8 d. to s ti Inferior Beasts 2 2 2 4 Inferior Sheep ...... ...... 0 10 3 • Second quality ditto 2 8 8 9 Second quality ditto 3 6 810 Prime large 0xen......... 3 6 310 Coarse.w..olled ditto 4 4 4 8 Prime Scots. dtc. ...... .... 4 2 4 4 Southdown Wethers Large coarse Calves 4 2 4 8 Large Hogs 3 6 4 - 0 Prime small ditto 5 0 5 '2 Small Porkers.. 4 4 4 8 Suckling Calves each l7 u 35 0 Quarter old Pig teach) 12 u 20 0 stII.FLY, AS PER. CLERIC'S STATEMENT. Beasts. I Sheep. I Calves. 1 Pigs 3,344 27,200 180 327 About 350 of the Beasts came up the St. Alban's road ; about 1000 up the other northern roads; about 630 (ineltuling Irish) from the western and midland districts ; about 1050 he'll V orfolk, Suflblk. Essex, and Cam bridgeshire ; about 190 from Ktnt and Sussex ; and most of the remainder font the marshes; &c. in the neighbourhood of London. THE F UNDS. Consols opened this morning at the prices they closed at on Saturday, 89:i for the Account, and for Money 89a 1, little doing as yet. Exchequer Bills, 26 28; India Bonds, 22 21; Bank Stock, 207 208 ; India Stock, 257 258. Spanish Active opened at 253 1, at present 25' 4 1 26; Pas sive 71 4 ; Deferred, II s ;,i.; Portuguese, 484 49 ; Three per Cents., 311 ; Columbian 251- 26 ; Mexican, 251 ; Dutch, 53Z- 5-I,i. For a length of time past we have not had a Monday morn ing so barren of news. lIALF-PA ST ONE O'CLO CK.. We continue in the same dull state as in the early part of the morning, without any further arrivals or the least news to ommunicate, and the Funds have taken a heavy turn. Consols, which were in the early part of the day 894 for the Account, have since receded to 801-, at present 891- i; Money 89a 4, some Money Stock having been brought to market. Money is also very scarce out of the House. Exchequer Bills, 26 28 prem. ; India Bonds, 22 prem. ; Bank Stock, 2091. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active has receded from 251 26 to 25 a ; Passive, 7-4- ; Deferred, 11 a; Portuguese lower, 481; Three per Cents., 31. THREE O'CLOCK. Consols for the Account,, 89i i. Mr. Wallace, the acute and industrious representa tive for Greennek, continues to ply the Post-office functionaries with unwelcome inquiries. The Hon. Member is about to investigate the extent of loss accruing to the public in conse quence of frauds committed by persons in the employment. of the Post-office, and the security (if any) fer the restitution of money purloined from private individuals by such persons. There is another point to which Mr. Wallace has directed his attention, wit h which we are familiar in Hull ; namely, the exaction of a yearly tax by Postmasters, under the name of box-money, which, we believe, was in this town originally de manded as a gratuity to the clerks, but has, in course of time, found its way to the pocket of the principal. This, when en forced as it has been in Hull, by the adoption of a system of annoyance towards those who will not submit to it, is a species of levy as impudent and irritating as it is Some time since a fraud was attempted to be com mitted upon Mr. Wise, the landlord of the Weymouth Arms, Weymouth-terrace, Hackney-road, by a man who endeavoured to procure change for a note of fifty pounds ; very fortunately Mr. Wise discovered that the note was not drawn on the Bank of Engl-.nd, but was a barber's note—the " Bank of Ele gance." Licensed victuallers cannot b-, too cautious to whom they give change for notes or gold, as a set of swindlers arc lurking about the metropolis ready to entrap them whenever opportunity may occur. By our last accounts from Kirkwall, we regret to observe that Influenza has been felt very severely at that place, and all over the Orkney Islands. On Sabbath before last, the churches in Kirkwall were in consequence of it very thinly attended, and the trade in the place has suffered con siderably from the same cause.—lnverness Courier. 'NFL ' UENZA.—We fear that this trying disease has extended itself rather than abated its progress among the in habitants of this city, where its prevalence with more or less violence may be said to be all but universal and from the cx traordivary number of deaths which have recently taken place, there can be no doubt that its effects have been in many in stances fatal to those whom it has attacked. —Coventry Herald. The influenza, the prevailing epidemic of the season, has been very fatal in this neighbourhood. As a proof of it we may state, that our last week's Review recorded the deaths of no less than 134 persons, and this week we have a fearful catalogue of those who have paid the great debt of nature. — Sickness is still exceeding prevalent, and the disorder has spread over not only this country, but also the whole conti nent.—Nottingham Review. INFLUENZA.—Decker, in his " Wonderful] Years," printed in 1603, speaks of persons who were appre hensive of catching a disorder which prevailed at that period in London similar to the influenza, and says, " they did go, most bitterlie up and downs, with rue and wormewode stuft into theyr cares and nostrils, looking like so many bores heads stuck with rosemarie to be served up at Christmas." ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCELYA RD. BY A VILLAGE lIYGEIST. " Gentlemen of the Jury, these quacks call themselves Hygcists. Here is a full-length portrait of their great founder, nhich is placed as a frontispiece to their pamphlet. Here he is, gentlemen, resting on the monument of one of his own pktients ! No doubt every church-yard in the country might be able to furnish evidence against the Hygeists."—[ Vide bergeant Wilde's Speech at the Trial of " Morrison v. Harmer," in The Sun of Saturday.] The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The gathering clouds frown darkly overhead, Tir'd nature sleeps, while I, to thought a prey, Hold my sad vigil by the abundant dead. How frail is life I when, six years last July, I came to practise in this hamlet lone, 'Twas populous as a bright, frosty sky, And now, full half its population's gone Surely the heavens their curses on it shower, For, 'stead of lusty Life's blythe laugh and shout, Death's sullen bell goes tolling every hour, 'Till rope and elapper aro alike worn out ! 'Tis scarce two years since one inured to slaughters, A soldier, famed for deeds of valour done, Came here with four fine marriageable daughters, And eight moons after—left with only one ! Here too there came a sportsman frank and free, And how lie 'seeped the spot's infectious ills, IR, I confess, a miracle to me, Particularly as he took no pills V 'Neath yonder yew the villas*; barber lica, Calm as undreamincr, childhood in its cat, He called me in, and, ranch to my surprize, Just one brief fortnight after, he was not ! Next him, reclines full-length his eldest sister, A spinster, sapless as an old park paling, But, dry albeit and tough, one morn WC missed her— Sad miss for me, for she was always ailing. Hard by, sleeps one was once the han.let's pride, A buxom, merry lass—her name was Nancy— But she caught cold, was dosed, and how she died, I leave to kind and delicate souls to fancy. Scarce was she earthed, when to 1 upon the brink Of the same dull, dead, Acherontic lake, Stood a pale tailor ; but, I rather think, I gave him brick-dust powders by mistake 1 They bore him to his grave in solemn state, Eight men in whom health's ruddiest colours shone, But ere the next spring came, those physicked eight, Like Peel's fond hopes of place, were past and gone ! But bark, e'en while I moralize, a sound Comes from the barber's last, long resting-place! It heaves—it yawns—and froth the abyss profound A spectre starts, and stares me in the face. Hal 1 it approaches, grimmer far to see Than Hogarth's ghost that haunts the church of Chiswick ; " Nay, never shake thy grisly locks at me, Thou can'st not say I did it".—'twas the physick ! The phantom heeds me not, but from each bier Summons its ghastly tenant ; see, they rise, The Dead ! and howl in my distracted ear With vulgar glee, " let's Burke him, d—n his eyes I" Hands off, ye fiends—vain prayer, with mightiest force They grasp my throat:; I pinch—_l scratch—l scream— Kick right and left as vicious as a horse ; Then waking cry—Thank heaven, 'tis but a dream ! * Morison's pills, of course. THE SUN EXPRESS. IRISH MUNICIPAL CORPORATION BILL. Lieutenant-Colonel Yorke is desired by the Lord Lieu tenant to thank Messrs. Johnstone and Co., for their obliging attention in forwarding to his Excellency the Express Edi tion of The Sun Newspaper, containing the whole of Lord John Russell's speech, on introducing the Irish Municipal Corporation Bill in the House of Commons on Tuesday even ing last. Dublin Castle, Feb. 9, 1837. THE DEBATE.—We are indebted to our Ne*s-agents, Messrs. Johnston, of Eden-quay, for an Express Edition of The Sun, containing a full report of Lord John Russell's speech. The effort is highly creditable to the Editor of The Sun, and has been most promptly and judiciously followed up by our agents in Dublin.—Eublin Evening Post. SUN EXPRESS.--For the ample report of the speech of Lord John Russell, which we publish this day, we are indebted to the enterprising proprietor of The Sun. We received the express copy of that journal at an early hour yesterday morn ing.—Freentan's Journal - We feel indebted to Messrs. Johnston and Co. for an Ex press Second Edition of The Sun : although we received a copy of the Second Edition of that journal in our own parcel, yet we are not the less obliged to them for their indefatigable exertions upon all occasions.—Cork Standard. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(TIIIS DAY.) DEAL, FEB. 11.--Wind S. S. W., blowing hard in squalls, with rain, throughout the day.—Arrived the Camilla, West, from Newport to Ostend. The Pilot, from Bremen to Balti more, lost anchor and cable, and proceeded to Margate; others have been sent after her. The Patriot, for the Mauritius, Carshalton, Park, for Jamaica, Westminster, for New York, and Andromeda, for Sierra Leone, drove during the day, but brought up again and remain, apparently all well. FEB. 12— Wind W. S. W., moderate. Sailed the Westminster, for New York ; Ann, Griffiths, for Bombay ; and Verada, for Madeira. PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 12. —lt blew a heavy gale all Friday night and yesterday from S.W. to W. S. NV., but moderated in the e vening.—A French chasse maree, salt laden, was wrecked yesterday, near Chale Bay, at the back of the Isle of Wight—two of the crew drowned. His Majesty's ship Fair Rosamond, came into harbour from Spithead. Sailed on the 1 I th.— Sailed the Mary and Elizabeth, —, for Sunderland ; John, Kidd, for ditto ; Economy, , for ditto ; and John, —, for London. TORBAY, FEB. H.-Arrived the Perseverance, Adams, from Cadiz. P L YMOUTH, FEB. I.—Arrived the Bene Fico, Alexandria. Eti.mouTri, FEB. 1 I. —Arrived his Majesty's ship Espoir, —, from Lisbon—sailed sth inst. ; Hope, packet, from Vera Cruz—sailed Dec. 23, and from Havannah Jan. II BRISTOL, Fall. 11.—Arrived the Aquillar, Alluard, from Oporto. Mii.vorto, Fen. —Arrived the City of Londonderry, f rom Dublin, with pumps choked, bound to London ; and the Francis, Smith, fr,m 'Cardin; leaky, &c., bound to London. M ARG ATE, FEB. 12.—Arrived the Bromley, Knox, from Berbice ; Aristides, Hart, from Oporto ; Apollo, Nlunden, from Waterford ; Three Sisters, from Waterford ; and Me _ grie, Sutherland, from West Port. RANisGATE, FEB. 12. -_Arrived the Pelican, Duheaume, from Seville. LIVERPOOL, FEB. S. S. W., very fresh. —Ar rived the Huddersfield, Ilall, from Bombay ; Waverley, Phil. lips, from New Orleans ; St. Mark, Homes, from Savannah ; and Messenger, Ballune, from Trieste. DUBLIN, FEB. to.—Arrived the Hope, Wade, from St. Mi chael's ; George and Henry, from Oporto ; and Richard and Ann, Way, from London. CORK, FEB. 10.—Arrived the Kate, Hancock, from Halifax. Off port the Tory, Reed, from Bombay. CA lIMA RTHES, FEB. 9.—The Bristol packet, in leaving th e river yesterday missed stays, went on the rocks at Blackpo o l, and fell over, but afterwards righted, - and has put back to charge. DUNGARVAN, FEB. B.2—The Jane. from Newport to Water ford, was stranded at the entrance of the harbour, with loss of rudder, and six feet water in the hold. SCARVI O ROUGH, FEB. 4. —The Three Broth e r s , f rom Hartle pool to Whitby , w a s abandoned in a sinki ng state off Huntcliff the Alert, of Stockton, and had h er stern stove bPooarrtd. of O b t y h _The Champion, from Stockt on , was run on in the ground in the harbour. NlAuvronT, FEB. 11.—The St. George, of Dublin, in at tempting this harbour yesterday got on shore, but has been got off, and into the harbour, without any material damage. The Henrietta, from Liverpool to Antwwp, is on shore at the entrance of the Scheldt. The Jane, Wakatn from New port to Waterford, is on shore near Dungarvan. The Au m o f Whitchaven, is on shore near Workingt on , w i t h l oss of foremast, The Steamer Sc urr , f rom Dublin, is on shore The Spanish packet Wootton , from Genoa t o Li verpoo l t n' near 'ltt & r e y . port. struck on the Black Rock on the coast of Wexford 9th inst., and went to pieces—only the mate and one man saved. Matches, and the Ocean, ' Dublin, hare rrY' Thompson, b o th f rom lost an anchor each. We have sincere satisfactionlnbeing enabled to an nounce that the Lord Lieutenancy of the county of Fife is to be conferred on Mr. Ferguson, of Raid', who now represents East Lothian or Iladdingtonshire. This appointment affords a renewed proof that the present Government arc determined, without reference to other considerations, to bestow important situations on those best fitted, from their knowledge, experi ence, and habits, efficiently to discharge their duties. On this occasion they have most properly disregarded the practice, which has too long prevailed, of placing at the head of the counties any individual who acts with the Government, merely because he is a Peer. We have great pleasure in stating that a pension cf one hundred pounds a-year has been conferred on Mrs: Pond, widow of the late Astronomer Royal ; and that a like pension of one hundred pounds a-year has been conferred on Mrs. APerie, widow of Dr. M‘Crie, author of the Life of Knox. At Windsor, last week, an even bet of five hundred pounds was made, that at the next general election, the coun ties of Berks and Bucks, which are at present represented by Conservatives, will return four Liberal Members out of tho. six. The gentleman who made the bet on the Liberal side will himself be a candidate for Berkshire. We have no doubt the best is safe, and that these counties will endeavour to re deem their characters the first opportunity.—Aylesbury News. --a _-,_ LITERATURE. G'ITY C ORP 011 A TION : ANNUAL. Thomas, London, 1837.- Under this head we have seen a lively quiukal report of the proceedings, and speeches supposed to have been delivered at the . several city of London wardmotes on last St. Thomas's day. The idea is ingeniously worked cut, and will, no doubt, take with the citizens. It should, however, have been ptiblished some weeks since. FINE ARTS. • FN DE .10 S PORT AND PA RB 0 U OF GREAT BRITAIN. Part IV. Tilt, London, 1837. The v:cw of Sunderland Light-house on the South Pier is by far the best engraving in this Number. It is the work of Findea from a design supplied by Palmer, and is executed in his most careful manner. It is full of life and variety, and has a very pleasing--- not to say, picturesque—effect. The Part conta;_ii. four other engravings, each of which displays skill and diligence. Sly " AK SPEA RE GALLERY. Pc,r•t Tilt, London, 1837. The present Numher of this work contains portraits of three of Shakspeare's female characters—viz., Imo gen, Cleopatra, and Queen Margaret. The first, which is engraved from an original engraving by Parris, is the best ; for it conveys a vivid idea—which is more than can be said of the Cleopatra of the ro mantic heroine of Cymbeline. Imogen is represented standing at the mouth of the 'cave in an attitude of alarm, with her sword half drawn, hiving heard the sound of approaching footsteps ; and never did al‘rin assume a more graceful or becoming expression. As an engraving, this ideal portrait is very carefully finished. The chief defect of Queen - Margaret, is that the countenance is wholly destitute of expression. MEMORIALS OF OXFORD. Nos: 47 and 48. Parker, Oxford, 1837. When completed, this work will certainly be the minutest and most voluminous of any that has yet ap peared on the subject of Oxford, and its archltectural antiquities. It is got up in a most pains -taking man ner ; is well engraved ; and the literary explanations of the different plates show evident marks of research and plodding industry. CHANCELLOR OF GLASGOW UNIVERSITY.— We have great pleasure in announcing that his Grace the Dike of Montrose has been elected Chancellor of the Univer sity of Glasgow, in the room of his late lamented father.— Glasgow Herald. Over the whole of Dumfries-shire and Galloway, influenza, like the state of the _atmosphere that prciduced it, is to be found in every nook or- cranny. In a parish church within half-a-dozen miles of Dumfries,: the congregation on Sunday last consisted of less than fifty persons, and as the day was very cold, the clergyman after reading a chapter, and commenting on the same for about ten minutes, dismissed the congregation. The petition of the members of the church and congregation of the Particular Baptist chapel, at Woodhorough, in this county, for the entire abolition of church• rates, re ceived 108 signatures. A similar petition of the same body at the village of Calverton, received 210 signatures. THE INFLUENZA.--So fatal has this disease been that the church-yard in Ely appears like a newly turned garden. We are glad, however, to state that the disease is not now so ♦iolent. ------- During the prevailing influenza, an industrious shoe maker at St. Neots, of the name of Hackle, his wife, and a , family of four children, were all attacked. The children have been all swept off: the wife has been in a precarious state, and the poor man is now dangerously Cambridge Press. Lord De Roos is the Premier Baron of England, the patent bearing the date of 1264. The barony was called out of abeyance in favour of the late Baroness, who was .the daughter of the Hon. Capt. Boyle, son of the Earl of Shan non, in May, 1806 ? and it was on her Ladyship's demise in 1831, that the present Peer, then the Hon. Henry William De Roos, succeeded to the title. His Lordship, whose father *as Lord Henry Fitzgerald, is in his 47th year. MoNmourn BOROUGHS.-Mr. Bailey has finished his canvass, and Mr. It. Blcwitt, who we last week stated had consented to become'a candidate , is now payin g hi s respects to and canvassing the electors.— Cambrian. The Oldham Radicals are in communication with W. Sharman Crawford, Esq., the representative of Dundalk, on the subject of his appearing as a candidate for Oldham at the next election.—Manchester Guardian. THE OLDIIAIII TURN-OUT OF SPINNERS.--This contest bears no appearances of a speedy termination. Mon day morning is to test the inclinations of the operatives, whe ther they are still for standing in the way of a return to work at comparatively good wages compared with those of the vici nity. The power-loom weavers of Walshaw and Greenback mills are again out.—Manchester Guardian. EXCLUSIVE DEALING. —The Rev. H. Rector of Bedworth, has, with the most prompt ingenuousness, put an end to all conjecture, and lays claim to the merit of thrusting into society this firebrand of exclusive dealing. The Rev. Gentleman scorns to argue the propriety of this ' system in an isolated case, but rests his defence on the broad ground of principle. " Though I could," says he, " d e f e nd my daughter's conduct in the particular instance in which she was engaged, 1 scorn to do so, when I am prepared to defend a Churchman's non -dealing kith Dissenters generally, upon principle ; and I hesitate not openly to avow that my directions to my family are, not to deal with Dissenters."—Coventry Herald. THE DEVIL'S IN THE BAG.—A person lately setting off on a journey put a box -of lucffer matches in his carpet.bag, and on opening it at the end of his journey, lie found the greater part of the contents burnt to a cinder. The United States Arsenal at Watertown, Massa ehussetts, containing 70,000 stand of arms, was entirely de stroyed by fire on the 14th ult. The value of the property destroyed was estimated at 1,000,000 dollars. The carriers -of the twopenny-post letters had a general meeting on Wednesday evening last, for the purpose of forwarding their petition to Parliament. It was nu merously attended, and conducted with the greatest propriety and unanimity. Few claims have been made on: the con sideration of government more entitled to a favonstablurecep tion than theirs. At the different card-playing clubs, it is proposed to have a waiter, whose peculiar duty it shall be to cut the thumb nails of the members. Yesterday afternoon, about half -past 2, a young man named William Hellsey, a cabinet-maker, was drowned in the river near Waterloo-bridge. The deceased and another youth had hired two small wager boats for the purpose of going down the river. They both passed under Waterloo:bridgc, one keeping close in shore, and King in the middle o f the stream, when a sudden gust of wind overturned King's b o at, and he almost immediately disappeared. His companion was so much terrified that he had not the power of assisting and the Thames police, who were close by, went to his aid, and rowed lion to Hungerford-market, where he learnt that his friend was no more. The lad displayed great emotion, and went home crying bitterly. On Monday an old man, upwards of seventy years of age, named Richard Johnstone, living at Colesne, n ear Devizes, died under the following horrible circumstances :--- He had kept his bed fur sonic years, owing to a paralytic affection, and some,,rersons hearing that he was almost starved to death entered the cottage, ashen they found him lying on the bedstead with scarcely any covering over him and none under him. It was then ascertained that he had been in that situation for three months, without a change of clothes. The sacking bad rotted, and part of his person rested on the floor. Ile had not received any food for some days. His right foot had rotted away, leaving nothing but the bones. Information was given to the relieving officer, and Mr. Washbourne, the surgeon of the union, was ordered to attend to him, but 01 bearing that the man had been bed-ridden for some years, and not being himself well, be did not go to him for three or four days ; in the meantime the man died. A Coroner's Jury re turned a verdict of " Natural Death," accompanied by opinion that Johnstone's death was accelerated by the neglect of his wife, who appeared to be of weak intellect, and unfit t° have the care of him.—Devizes Gazette. The Cumberland Pacquet states that upwards of four thousand persons (one-fourth of the population) in Car lisle, arc snaring from the effects of the influenza. In the course of the alterations proceeding with at Chester Castle, a fine remnant of Roman masonry is brough t into view ; it had been obscured for ages within the love''' r buildings of the old gov ernor ' s h ouse ; cleared of the bricks a nd coating with which a had been faced up, it now exhibits th e perfect Roman arch. In the atter-construction of the tower_ (the present magazi ne ) , presume d to b e Norman, this arc h %% 41' made available for its support, one of the massive angles beiqr raised upon and shouldered on it. Among the foundatio n ' stones of the adj acent p il e of build i ngs which has been rasc`, away were other relics denoting the antiquity and defers" purposes of thi s or i g i na l stronghold. Among them a me!o,. mental inscripti on, commemo. sting one, a Przetor,whose °f I 1 had been the c h arge o f the roads. Thi s was d ec i p h e red o oi Hemingway, in a note of his history of that ancient city. n _a the very remot e dat e o f the arch no d ou b t can b e enter tat , from its after uses in th e constructi on o f t h e tower, itself :, old as to be termed by Speed "J u li us A gr i cola ' s 'Diver. Mr. Britton, an acknowledged auth or i ty f or antiquarians, attre recent visit and inspection, decidedly pronounce d i t of P" Roman architecture. o ive It is the intention of the E ar l o f E gremout to this fear the same encouragement to emigration as on form occasions,.if there should b e persons enough wishing to avai l themselves of the opportunity.--Brighton Gazette.