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industry; and again, we repeat, that sound policy demands of us not to fritter away our strength, but to reserve it till its exertion becomes matter of ne cessity. (FROM THE MORNING HERALD. We gave, in Saturday's Morning Herald, the usual Quarterly Account of the Revenue of Great Britain, and we were very sorry to observe that, in every item except that of the excise, there had been a falling off, compared with the same quarter for 1827. The falling off amounted to 449,000/.; but the increase in the Excise being 566,0001., and one being deducted from the other, leaves an increase of 1 17,000/. We also gave the usual annual state ment, by which our readers would see that, in three ankles the increase was 1,000,000/., and in the other three articles, the decrease was 214,0001.; the one being deducted from the other leaves an in crease for the year of 786,000/. The statement we gave did not include the Irish Revenue; in which we should think, when it comes to be produced, there is an increase; for we have observed that, for many years past, there has been an increase of the Irish Revenue, notwithstanding the increasing misery, aecording to the Catholic speakers, at the Catholic Clubs of Ireland. Question, whether Ire land ought not to bear a much greater proportion of the revenue than she at present does ? While England, Scotland and \Vales are taxed 50,000,000/. a year, Ireland is taxed only 5,000,000/. Those who write respecting population tell us that Eng land, Scotland, and Wales contain 12,000,000/. of people, and Mr. O'Connell says that of Catholics alone, in Ireland, there are 7,000,000. Now, if we take the Protestants at 1,000,000, there is for Ire land a population of 8,000,000, which pays 5,000,000/. only of taxes; whereas England, Scot land, and Wales, containing a population of 12,000,000, are taxed 50,000,000/. Have not the Ministry of England been in error taxing Ireland so trivially ? (PROM THE MORNING ADVERTISER.) Not a day passes but the Cabinet to whose pa triotism and talents the honour of this country is entrusted, receives a blow for the sinister un-English policy which it has thought proper to pursue. In this country, its system of blockades has become the subject of universal merriment and derision — abroad they are viewed as indications of weakness and folly ; and in the following notification by the French Minister of Trade of the intention of Russia to blockade the Dardanelles, we read one of those rebukes to the humiliating haste which the Foreign Secretary has betrayed for posting such matters, which ought to be a lesson to him never to he guilty again of similar indiscretions : " Gentlemen (says the French MiniAter, addressing himself to the Chambers of Foreign Trade), the ring's Government has been informed that it is the intention of the Russian Government to establish a blockade of the Dar danelles, with the view of intercepting such provisions and munitions of war as may be destined for Constantinople._.. As soon as I am informed that an effective blockade has been established, I shall not fail to make you acquainted with the fact. This communication is only one which the principles adopted by France respecting blockades enable me to make to you at the present moment. (Signed) "ST. CRICQ." The Government of France, we are willing to allow, has always pursued a different system respecting blockade'', from that which has been adopted by this country, and which its naval power only has enabled it to maintain against the united efforts of Europe and America ; but what a difference there is between the notification of the French Minister of Trade of the blockade of the Dardanelles, and the precipitate haste of the English Ministry respecting those of Oporto and Madeira! Before Miguel's vessels had sailed either for Oporto or Funchal —even, in fact, before they had been manned and provisioned---the Earl of Aberdeen had notified their blockade : the French Minister, more observant of the honour and interests of his country, notifies the intention to blockade, but refuses any recognition until he has been satisfactorily informed that an effective blockade has been established. (FROM THE MORTM4G 3OURNAL alias NEW TiMF.S.) The Morning Post and the Morning Herald- the one the oracle of the milliners, and the other the favourite of the pot-houses—are now recognised at the only ministerial morning papers ; at least we in fer as much from the fact, that on Saturday they were enabled, by the patronage of the clerks of the Treasury, to publish exclusively the quarterly returns of the revenue. We therefore wish both parties joy —the journalists on their elevation, and the Govern ment on their taste. The manner in which our • finance accounts are kept is discreditable to a na rian which is conversant with mercantile affairs ; it is a system of deception the most gross and the most disgraceful that can well be imagined. Nothing could be more easy than to simplify these accounts in such a manner that an ordinary reader would be able to comprehend what is revenue and what is debt—what is the produce of the taxes, and what is a loan from the Bank—what is paid to the Sinking Fund out of the revenue, and what out of Excite filler Bills, which bear a higher interest than the debt they redeem. In fact, nothing could be more eay than to represent, by plain and intelligible tabie's, whether we are in a state of insolvency or in a state of prosperity—whether our expendi ture exceeds our revenue, or our revenue our expen diture. But this would be a display of candour which would not suit the times. It would be an alarming inroad on the art of mystification if the public generally were to be permitted to understand the public accounts—if the jugglery were unveiled—if the people who pay the taxes were to understand, unassisted by the budget, whether they pay enough, or are likely to be called upon to pay more. This would be a most dangerous innovation; and there fore the accountants of the Treasury, seeing that they are in the receipt of liberal salaries, have h f t h er to been most strenuous and successful in re sisting it. They have heretofore been enabled to keep its 71105 r, pleasingly and profoundly in the dark; put IbEth ju s t wh at . they please, and in what shape they picaee , and his Majesty' s ho nest an d con fiding subjectF; ought of cours e to - be grateful. But come we now to the accounts of the quar ter just ended. We are informed by those wh o are not bound to know mow than they are told, or who do not ehoose to with draweolTileh conclu sions except from the miserable d e t a ils they are favoured, that our revenue is Provi v ng sense. that our hope s are brightening—an d that, cluently, the country is in a state f growing and gratifying prosperity. To judge of the prosperity of a people by the amount of the produce of its taxes, we must proportionate the amount with the increase of population. If we corild shots' that as large a revenue is derived, in 1828, from eighteen millions of inhabitants, as was derived from seven teen millions and a half in 1825, this would not be any proof of increasing means or increasing corn' forts among the people. If we could show that the l'^—eresse in revenue is equivalent to the incresze of populatio n , the inference would be more favour able; bnt if, on the other hand, we could show that the revenue has diminished as the population has increased ---always bearing in mind that the gate of impost and assessment is the same—then we would be bound to conclude, however painful the con f e ssion might be, that we are rather in a state of &cline than of improvement. But let the facts speak 'for themselves. we here give the gross foll ow i ng years, en di ng amount tbe reven ue for the on the 10th of October each y ear Yearg IS2S. 1525. 1527. ',Coral Rev £49,7132,186 ---46, '" ;, " .67-46 . 832 ,681-47;616,101 The following are the q uarterl y accounts, ending at the same period, namely', the 10th O ct. in eavh year : Quavers..... 1325, 18i 6 1527, 19?9. Total Quar. l X 13,180 Cl2--.12 a1e,502--- 12 , 902,379-- 1a,e19,9a5 terty tiev. ' Let these results be calmly and fairly considered; let it be borne in mind what we were and what we Nre; let it he borne in mind that we were assured by the Finance Minister of 1525 that a reduction in cur scale of duties and in our rate of excie would benefit the revenue and the people at the Fsrue time; la it be remembered that these reductions were f 9; F 9 9010 9bigct than te increase the gre•F'l amount of our income; let it . be remembered that our expenditure has been increasing while our re venue has been diminishing ; that our expenditure has been increasing every hour since 1825--let all this be recollected ; and, then, let any impartial man pronounce whether the state of our finances at this mo ment be or be not a source of gratification. In the year ending October 1825, the produce of the reve nna was 49,763,7861., in 1628, it was 47,619,101/., exhibiting a decrease of 2,144,6851. ,In the Octob er quarter of 1825, the quarter's revenue was 13,186;64;24; in that of 1828, it was 13,019,91754; showing a decrease of 166,7074—which, in our humble apprehension, is rather an equivocal symptom of prosperity. This may indeed be a prosperity of Lord Goderich, but we are sorry to think it should be the prosperity of the Duke of Wellington. But as the increase and decrease in the produce of the customs and excise are the best criterion of the eon• dition of the people, we shall exhibit these for the same years, ending in October 1825. 1827. 1828. • Customs £14,30(1,151 £15, 436,127 £ 16,403,142 £16,358,170 ci se Total £335,926,866 33,25.9,951 33,6 13,690 !t I,t• 64, I 8 Decrease (2,666,912 2,313,176 ),662,715 Here, upon these two articles alone, notwithstand fig the increase of population—the increased exports of cotton yarn—the increasing prosperity of all classes—the flourishing state of the silk trade--and all the other• proofs of improvement—here, upon these two articles alone, is a manifest decrease of 1,662,718/. We are, however, told, that the ac counts ought to be viewed in a more favourable light, especially as, during last October quarter, 657,133/, was received in the shape of duties on foreign corn, and only 90,0001. in the present quar ter. The Minister who can take advantage of this qualification ought to be immediately dismissed from office; it either manifests a total ignorance of finance, or it is a proof of unblushing and official assurance.— If he had not received this 657,132/. last year, would he not have been • just so much more deficient— would he not have had that sum to make up in some other way--and would those who, upon the profits of this corn speculation, were enabled to indulge in more luxuries, not hare consumed less, and of course have diminished the gross amount of the produce of excise ? But that Mr. Goulburn should take credit for the errors of his predecessors is unpardonable. The corn duties of last year were obtained under representations which were little less than fraudu lent. The farmer was robbed to benefit the manu facturer; and yet Mr. Goulburn almost regrets that he has not a similar sum to swell the account of the present year---an account which has been bolstered up by the most severe exactions—by selling stamps by retail at a discount, by encouraging gambling with cards, by suing every poor debtor for arrears which he must starve his family to make up, and by keeping the doors of the Treasury open on the day of return, like an oyster•shop in Drury-lane, to the latest possible hour. These are paltry practices, unworthy of an English Minister, and sure symptoms of waning means and desperate resources. There is, we admit, a small comparative increase in the present quarter; but if we take our expenditure into account and the condition of the manufacturing classes, it is impossible not to see that, as a nation, we are in a worse situation now than we were in the end of 1826 and beginning of 1827. The soup-kitchens are indeed not yet re-establi;thed, but to this we must resort again before many months pass over our heads, as we will probably demonstrate in our paper to-morrow. (FROM THE NEWS.) It is evident from all the accounts we continue to receive from Ireland, that, unless Government promptly interpose, the proclamation recently issued by the Marquis of Anglesea will not only_ be inter preted, but acted upon, in one . way only—namely, against the Catholics. It is in vain to talk of inzpar when on the one side we see Placemen, Pensioners, Governors of Counties, and Justices of the Peace, arming their dependants and, encouraging ,them in their outrages against their Catholic fellow 'subjects, without the slightest reproof from the Executive ; whilst the instant a Catholic raises an arm in self-defence, he is seized and incarcerated for his pains: Were not the aggressors so directly under the influence of the Government, the conduct ob served towards the two parties would not be so glar ingly partial;—hut it is well known that, living as the major part of them do on the taxes, the slightest hint of disapprobation from head-quarters would suffice to stop them in their insulting career. Until this dis approbation is made manifest by the dismissal of one or two of the principal Orange ringleaders, we shall ever maintain that justice is not dealt with an equal hand in Ireland. (TROM THE WNDAY HERALD.) With regard to the Manchester Tories, nothing can depict their chop-fallen state at the extraordinary silence of Mr. Peel. They had invited that gentle man to dine with them on Monday last, and made every arrangement, not only to keep the thing snug, but to enjoy an ascendancy toast with nine tunes nine, and deafening cheers. But, alas, what a fate was theirs! The health of the Right Honourable Gentleman was drunk, and he returned thanks in the most gracious arid feeling manner. Protestant • Ascendancy was given, but he neither cheered or spoke—" One cheer more " was echoed 'through the splendid room, but the Right Hon. Gentleman clung to his seat as if he had been nailed to it ! All was , now dull and dark—the hearts of the Tories died within them, and it is confidently asserted, though we do not 'vouch for the truth of the rein don, that some of those who were present at the dinner, and were disappointed at the silence of the Home Secretary, have since been " scared with dreams and visions of the night "—strange fancies that the Pope was the King of England—the Scar let Lady the Queen of these realms, and the Catho lic Association of Dublin the Imperial Parliament of Great Britain and Ireland ! We have not, how ever, heard either that Mr. O'Connell has been ap pointed First Lord of the Treasury—Shell the leader of the House of Commons, or Jack Lawless, Secre tary for Foreign Affairs; though, from - what is ge nerally reported and understood in the political „circles, there seems to be no doubt that a measure, havingtte Emancipation of the Catholics for its ob ject, will be introduced in the course of the next Session of Parliament. r eve) (FROM THE EXAIISINER.) The m o b of this c ountry , t h e d ra ff an d c h a ff , t h e rubbish of degree, from prince to peasant , is we fear, ave rse to the Catholic cause ; but this mass is to be acted u pon by the superior intelligence. The head of society, as of the body, is a small part, but the directing power resides in it. The bell-wethers guide the flock.sa Nito7nhatan‘dve e n courage the to see m ore activity on t h e part of the liberality of t t b b e e ne,:;ltill:ettr.3sr'pitNi‘t'isi,icohthrnerawY sanct io n likely to comm it them selves to erro r b y the mere s olicitation of example There is in th e moral as well a s' the physical world wondrous force in attraction, and individuals will incline to bodies; hence the Brunswick Clubs are dangerous; unless a counterpoise is presented. For having expressed this app rehension, we May be blamed by those who will describe it as comfortoing, the enemy ; hut contests, we subm i t to t the tthereobi obj ectors, ars is no are not decided by delusions a nd misrepresenta tions. It is not by averring dai ly that considerable amount of Anti-Catholic feeling in the rabble of the \ country, that we can extinguish that feeling. We have of late years had examples enough of their fool's paradises.] During the Spanish Con stitutional struggle people was assured that every thing was going on well, till the very moment of titteCrttut and destruction. rhe same flattering tale was told in the case of the attempt in Austrian Italy. The same again, only a few months ago, in the instance of Portugal. In spite, however, of the asseverations of the Press, the Austrians have ruled tbc'ir -slice of Italy; Ferdinand has established his despotism ; Miguel has succeeded in his usurpation; and delusion has served only to exasperate disap pointment. SUCh has been the effect, when we have merely been the spectators of the concerns of others ; but more disastrous will be the consequence of encouraging a false confidence in the conduct of our own contests. The bigots are taking to the field, and liberality, tinder the conceit that it is a Sampson, is in its slumbers. Where there is such activity on the one side, and such inaction on the other, there should be a far wider disparity of strength than we believe yet exists in this instance. With respect to th e s tate of opinion, th ere i s t hi s remarkable circumstan ce to be noted, that t h e yout h of the cou n t r y i s as generally prone to lib era l opi nions a s t h e age d are.aver se from th em ; an d the most determined and truculent enemies of the Ca tholics are a nc i en t bl oc kh ea ds, who w ou ld b ra i n To leration with th e i r cru t c hes, Liberal cl u b s , sane tioned and supported as they might he sanctioned and supported, would soon, even by the force of contrast, bring the Brunswitkers into contempt.— But the nucleus is yet wanting. loathing, as we do, all sorts o f cant, an d ce rtai n ly, as much as any, Jacobin cant, inasmuch as with the pretension of justice it is perpetually committing injustice,- we cannot conclude this article without.begging that our readings of ' 6 rabbles and mobs of the vulgar" should not be misunderstood as implying any indiscriminate disrespect to the members of any -particular class. Om• argument simply is, that ignorance and vulgar prejudices are to be found in all orders, and too fre quently in the very highest, where the exercise of the understanding almost or quite as rare as in the lowest, for the noble, whose ease excludes the sti mulus to the mind, is pretty nearly in a parallel in-. tellectual sloth to the . potter of Scripture, " who bendeth his mind down to his work ;" or of the husbandman, " whose talk is of hullecks," and who lacks the " wisdom coming of opportunities of lei sure." As there is, according to our view, a rabble from St. Giles's to St. James's, so, however, there is also an aristocracy in-all orders, which we recog nize and respect—the aristocracy of the intelligent and enlightened, a handful of which, acting in con cert, should be sufficient to guide the inert mass of the nation. (FROU THE ATLAS . ) COMPARATIVE PERIODICAL LITERATURE.-If the intellectual superiority of a country is indicated by the number of its public Journals, the United States of America is the most intellectual country in the world. For a population of eleven millions and a half, it provides 840 Journals, being in proportion of one Journal to every thirteen thousand five hundred people. England, with a population of upwards of twenty-three millions, has only 483 Journals, mak ing the proportion as one to forty-eight thousand five hundred. But there are many gradations of the scale between both. Saxony has fifty-four Jour nals, and her population is only one million and a half, being in a proportion of one to twenty-six thou sand. Denmark, with a population of two millions and a half, publishes eighty Journals, being. one to thirty-one thousand. The Netherlands, containing upwards of six millions of inhabitants, has 150 Jour nals, being one to forty-one thousand. Pri.:ssia, whose population is twelve millions and a half, has 288 Journals, producing a proportion of one to forty three thousand; and the German confederation, a population of thirteen millions and a half, issues 305 Journals, being as one to forty-four thOusand five hundred. As we descend we find Sweden, France, Switzerland, British America, Hanover, Bavaria. Portugal, Tuscany, Austria, the States of the Pope, the Brazils, Russia, Spain, and Africa, all graduat ing to a still decreased proportion, until we come to Asia, which terminates the point of the publishing declivity. In Asia—hot, happy Asia—where there is a population of 390 millions of people, we find the literary periodicals amount to the number of twenty-seven ! being in a proportion of one Journal to every 14,414,000 persons! As a little learning is a dangerous thing, the Asiatieg should burn the twenty-seven editors, and bury the.types in a desert., FROSI TUE . SPRCTAITOR. ) At the close of the new number of the Foreign Quarterly Review, there is an article, calculated for attracting popular attention, on the views of .Russia and the prospects of Turkey. Though written by a person who is evidently conversant with the ques tion, and capable of bringing actual knowledge to the handling of it, yet it is far too prophetic for us. It deals in futurity, and disposes of events with an awful rashness. Political quidnuncs who deal in prophecy, w ill, in the course of ten .pages,.foretel a score of catastrophes, These persons seldom take chronology along with them: granting. that the events they predict may take place in the course of time, the period of their happening makes all the difference. Other things must stand still for these oracles to turn out true ; before one-tenth of their predictions have come to pass, other events, that had never been taken into consideration, step in and sweep away all the rest. The object of the writer in the Foreign Quarterly is to frighten us once more with the bugbear Russia. - The state of affairs in the East is a natural 'subject of speculation; -and all who sympathise with the well-being of mankind in the mass, must take some interest in the result : whatever, face, however, the die may tur n u p, w_e believe that the world will be pretty much where it was; the real interests of England, at least, we are very confident, will not be affected either one way or the other. We wish that able men, who really possess intelligence, would he content to give it us nettement ; the broderie of declamation. and predic tion is altogether superfluous. In political arguments it would greatly tend to the prevention of error, if writers would not personify Russia, Austria, and France : it is under the idea of these said figures being never-dying, that 'diplomatists attribute to them long-cherished schemes of policy, deep de signs, principles from which they never depart, and so forth. The fates of nations fluctuate with the temper and talents of every fresh minister or acting ruler : every successive holder of office takes his own view of the interest of his department; and the perseverance or the instability with which it is pur sued, depends altogether upon personal charac ter, personal feelings, personal foibles—a good or a bad stomach, health or sickness, fine weather, or a bad day's sport. We pretend not to have been be hind the scenes, but we believe it to be a truth, that, people who really do the business of the vorkilhave reason to laugh heartily at the deep-laid schemes and reasonings of newspaper politicians, who, like the writer we are speaking of, thinks a great deal when Lord Burleigh shakes his head. The Court Newsman announces, with all pomposity, that the Duke of So-and-so this morning transacted business with Lord So-and-so at the Foreign' Office—what does this mean ? , k`r Lord Aberdeen, standing with his back to the- fire, with a coat-lappel over each arm, between a yawn and a smile, sees his Grace of Wellington lounge in to tell him—what ? that Mr. Petre has wou the St. Leger, and that he is going to dinner. It would he unfair to the work from which we have taken a text for these remarks, if we omitted to add that the sth number o f t h e , 'oreign Quarterly possessed many excellent properties. It is remarkable for its industry ; within the same . space we hardly ever saw a greater condensation of labour, sobriety of tone is (notwithstanding the Russian -ar ticle) another of its characteristics : it is impartial, serious, steady. Of originality of mind we do not detect much; of play of imagination there is but little; the collaborateurs of the Foreign Quarterly are pioneers—this is, better than sharp shooting. The b est paper beyond comparison in the p resent number is an analysis of - the latter To "ilea of L a pl ace ' s M ecan i que C e l es t e . C op i ous , lucid, and comprehensive, the hand of'a master. is visibl e in every sentence; it is not the meagre abridgment of a man who reduces the sense of his A shrew(l man of the North,' who soinetimea pries into affairs, and favours us with his confidential opinions, has discovered that "transacting business" at the Govern ment offices, commonly means neither more nor less than r. call for the quarter's salary. . A Scotch discovery, author page by page, but the enlarged view of one who has long been familiar with the subject, and sits down to write out of the fulness of knowledge. A more interesting or important contribution to po pularinformation than an intelligible account of the later discoveries of Laplace, could not easily have been thought of; and it-is saying everything to state that the article on the subject in the review before us, is a fit and worthy supplement to. the paper of Professor Mayfair in the. Edinburgh R ev i ew , on the earlier volumes of the same work. MEETING OF GIBRALTAR MERCHANTS. A meeting of Gibraltar merchants took place on Saturday last, at the City of London Tavern, for •the purpose of taking into consideration the most efficient mode of rendering assistance to those per sons who, it . appears, are suffering from ,want at Gibraltar, in consequence,of the fever at present raging there.: . Shortly after two o'clock, W. WARD, Esq. M.P., took the chair, and having briny stated the object for which the meeting was convened, read the following circular, whiCh had been published at Gibraltar by the Committee officiating there, for the purpose of showing the really distressed state of those whom it was now proposed to relieve. "At the present crisis, when the inhabitants and troops of the garrison are afflicted with severe sickness, and death from hunger threatens a consi derable number of families now encamped on the neutral ground, the Committee instituted by his Excellency the Lieutenant-GOvernor, to administer to the crying necessity of the hapless portion of the . population of Gibraltar, earnestly call on a generous and humane public to crime forward ith their dona tions, and prevent, by their timely aid, the increase of the disease, by want and the starvation of their fellow-creatures.' Mr. &taus said that the nature of the disease at •, , „ present raging nau been ascertained to be of that pe culiar kind that its virulence would not extend be yond the walls of the garrison, and that conse quently all persons who fled to the neutral ground would have no danger to apprehend from. its effects, even if persons infected with the distemper were ad-, mitted among them. By the latest accounts it-lip peared that between 3,000 and. 4,000 persons had 'encamped without the walls, out of these the greater number were poor people, who had earned their bread by daily labour, but xere now of Necessity thrown out of work, and coasequently had no means of raising money to supply the necessaries of life. He should conclude 'by moving that the following resolution should be adopted by the meeting : " Resolved—That this meeting, impressed with the conviction of the evils that will result under the circumstances described, unless adequate relief be afforded, do enter into a subscription in aid of the one commenced at Gibraltar." Mr. AvENDEN seconded the resolution, which was put by •the Chairman, and carried unanimously. • It was then moved by a gentleman whose name we did not learn, that a committee should he formed of those merchants who had resided at Gibraltar, with a view of more effectually forwarding the object of the meeting. - John Robert Ward, Esq. was appointed trea surer, and the banking holise of Messrs. Veres, Ward, and Co. as the depository - of subscriptions. Several other matters of a trifling nature were then discussed, and the meeting adjourned shortly before three o'clock. • • DUBLIN. • Yesterday the Magistrate of Ilenry.street Police office was visited by a fair .youtig woman, who called herself Mrs. Conway. She came with a complaint against her " lord and master," Mr. Conway. Mr. Conway was old, and Mrs. Conway, with the ex ception of her eyes, was very young and very pretty, and took care to display a neat foot and uncle—dif ficult things, it is said, to he found amongst our lush beautie4. But Mra. Conway . having put forward one of her little feet, and tinning the pupil of one eye as if she'were' looking out in the street,' and the other as 'if admiring the aforisaid foot, she mad e a long and melancholy complaint of how sh e h a d the misfortune to marry that Conway—how . old . and in , capable he was of paying her those delicate little•at tentions which all young women expected from every man of common gallantry—holy he acted like a brute by beating het, and giving her two black eves in the course of every three months—how he had first killed her, and. afterwards " murdered her entirely," &c. PouL• Mr. Conway patiently listened to his mis deeds recounted by his young and ill-used wife. When called upon to answer, he delivered the fol lowing oration, which was evidently prepared for le occasion : My Lord, and Gentlemen of the Jury--.-When ever you marry, take care that your wife has no mo ther,—all my misfortunes, my distress, and my ruina tion, and desperation, come of my having a mother in-law. Oh ! it's she that is the real mother-in law; for L that am her son-in-law, she has in law ; and even her own daughter is now a daughter in law. Oh; the villainous vile old mother-in-law.— Oh ! she has a tongue like a serpent, a nose like a . hatchet, an eye like a gimlet, and, a hand like a hammer. Oh ! Mrs. Conway, Mrs. Conway, it's you that would be the decent, nice, comfortable, well-behaved little woman, but for your mother— that's my mother-in-law. Please your Honour, my house-is not my own, once Mrs. Conway's mother enters it—my bed is not my own, for my mother-in • law sleeps in it—my breakfast is not my own, nor my dinner; nor my supper, for my mother-in-law eats them—and my wife is not my own, because she is the daughter of my mother-in-law. Now, instead of beating Mrs. Conway, I never do such a thing—l only leather her mother. It was to her, and not Mrs. Conway, I gave the two black eyes, as you would see, if she was here to the fore ; and -why shouldn't I heat her, when she put up my sweet little wife to take away my things ? My mother-in law robbed me. Mrs. Conway—No, please your Worship, it was I. Mr. Conway—My mother-in-law pawned my clothes. Mrs. Conway—No, it was I. Mr. Conway—My mother-in-law got drunk with the money. Mrs. Conway--No, it was I. Mr. Conway—My mother-in-law came in and broke all the things. Mrs. Conway—No, it was I. Mr. Conway—And it was my mother-in-law that came and tore my cravat and scratched all my face, before I laid a hand on her. Mrs. Conway—Oh, oh ! indeed, your Worship, it was I did that. The Magistrate—Then, according to your own confession, I must dismiss this complaint. Mr. Conway--Ve r y well, your Worship, and I am now ready to forget and forgive all, and take her home to me again, if she will have done with her mother. Mrs. Conway —Have done with my mother ! never, Mr. Conway; oh ! she is the kindest, best, and darlingest creature that ever lived, and not to be matched from the lower end of Townsend-street to the upper end of Constitution-hill, in making a drop of burnt whiskey. Indeed, your worship, he is always beating me, and I don't know for why a sweet smile), except, indeed, that he is a bit 3ealous of me. (with Mr. Conway--No, indeed, I am not ; I am willing to take her home at this very minute, if she will have done wi t h my mot h er- i n -l aw , No, then, I w ill never go h ome t o y ou aga i n , M r. Conway, s a id t h e lady, office; I will. as she walked out of the summon you to the Court of Con science, and you will he made to - give me a separate maintenance, and then I can live in peace and quiet ne--s with your mother-in-law. TuomsoNr.—The Seasons " have lately been tranOated i n t o It a li an p ros e, by P ATAIZO M USCHI , and published at Fl orence , Courant. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET._.On Saturday John Green and Edward Gerald were brought up for examination, the former charged with stealing several ends of cloth, the pro perty of his master, Mr. Gustardi a draper, raiding in Bedford-street, Covent-garden, and the latter with inciting him to commit the said robbery, and receiving part of the property, knowing it to have been stolen. Both prisoners were 'remanded for a week, to give the prosecutor time to make further inquiries. A fellow named :William Gent was brought up on a *arrant, charged with. cruelly ill-treating his wife. The CoMplainant,,, a very decent-looking woman, who was scarcely able to stand in consequence of the injuries she hal sustained from the defendant's violent conduct towards her, stated that she had been married .to him about ten years, and that latterly his•conduct bad bees violent in the extreme. Last Wednesday evening on his r e t urn i ng h ome from chapel, he beat h e r first with his fist,, and afterwards knocked her down a chair, with which he continued strik ing her until she was covered with bruises from head to foot. She also sustained a very serious internal injury from the effects of which she was not likely to recover for a considerable time. The defendant, in answer to the charge, commenced by stating, " I had been to a meeting of an hoxiliary mis sionary society, your Worship." Mr. Ilm.rs—Don't talk to me, fellow, about missionary societies. A wretch who could treat his wife in the brutal manner you have done is a disgrace to any society. Defendant coutinued—And when I left chapel one of the members and myself had a few glasses of gin together, and then I went home, and laid down on the bed, as I was very sleepy, but my wife would not let me lie, and so I admit I was provoked to thrash her. Mr. HALLS—AniI so, after attending these missionary meetings, you and the members go to the public-houses and get drunk, and then beat your wives. You must find bail, and I hope your wife will exhibit articles of the peace against you. The defendant was then locked up ; and the unfortunate complainant was led out of the office apparently in a dying. state. TUE LATE SINGULAR FRAUD. two of the morning. papers of Saturday there is a lohg account of a conversation between. Mr. Horatio Philippe, the bookseller, and the ma. gistrate, at Bow-street, respecting , the affair in which Messrs. Sparrow, Earle, and Leitch, are mixed up. We can'safely assert that no application or conversation between Mr. Philippe and Mr. Halls passed at all on the subject. It is true that some circumstances were stated by Mr. Philipps in his own shop when some gentlemen were present, but not at Bow-street. MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—On Saturday the pro prietors of= several houses in Frith-street, Soho-square, were brought before Mr. DYER, the sitting magistrate, under warrants, to compel them to enter into sureties for their appearance at the approaching sessions, to answer bills of indictment then to be preferred against them at the instance of the parish authorities of St. Ann's, Soho, for keeping disorderly houses, or, in other words, common brothels. Mr. Allen, jun., attended on the part of the parish, to inquire into the sufficiency of the sureties to be required, and a great number of the respectable inhabitants of Frith street and that neighbourhood, who are dreadfully annoyed by the nuisance of these houses, were present to watch' the proceedings: The first two persons placed before the magistrate were Thonias' Mennen and Mary, his wife, the admitted pro prietors of the house No. 44, in Frith-street, and they were called upon to enter into recognizances, themselves in 401. each, and two sureties, responsible householders, to be bound for each, each householder also in the sum of 401. The next couple were William Vinter and Mary, his wife, the acknowledged proprietors of the house No. 21,:in Frith-street, and they were ordered to enter into the like recognizances as ie the first ease. Next came George James and Anne, his wife, the ad mitted proprietors of the house No. 21 A, in Frith-street, the same in which the family of the Goddards performed so extraordinaty a scene a few days ago ; and here the par ties were also required to procure similar sureties as in the two former cases. This last house and the adjoining one, No. 21, were ori ginally one mansion, where Velno's Vegetable Syrup was first manufactured ; but after the removal of the manufac tory some years ago to Berners-street, Oxford-street, , this building was divided into two distinct houses, now num bered 21, and ,21 A. In the coarse of the day all the above parties having pro cured the necessary hail, and entered into their recogni zanees, they were discharged out of custody. • The persons who bailed those individuals were Mr. • Martin, a cheesemonger; Mr. Webster, a chandler; Mr. Bennet, a glass-cutter; and Mr. Bernard, a butcher, who. each became reponsible in double recugnizances ; this is 80/. There are several other proprietors of houses in the same street still to be brought forward ; and Mr. Allen ex pressed the determination of the parish authorities to sup press this nest of brothels, by prosecuting the law against them to the temost. Mr. .I.ones, a pawnbroker, appeared to answer an infor mation Keferred against him by Atkinson, . the noted in former, for taking more than the legal interest on a pledge ; but Atkinson totally tailed in his proof, and be had to pay all the costs,—a circumstance upon which Sir George Far rant, the Magistrate, congratulated him. Margaret Stark, in custody upon a charge of deserting a female infant not more than four months old, by leaving it exposed in the street at night, was brought up for final examination. A constable belonging to'St. Giles's parish, to the work house of which the poor infant was discovered, stated that the child had died on Thursday last, and an inquest had been held on the body, when the jury returned a verdict " that the child had died of disease, brought on from ex posure to the cold air by its mother." The jury, the constable said, had deliberated for five hours, as to whether or not they should bring in a verdict of " manslaughter" against the prisoner ; but as it was, the parish were,deter mined to prosecute her for the desertion. The prisoner was ordered to give 48 hours notice of bail. A very respectable-looking well-dressed man, of middle age, named Charles Archer, was charged with begging in the streets. One of the constables of St. James's parish stated that he saw the prisoner ask charity of a gentleman in the street. The prisoner addressed the Magistrate with much fluency, and contended, that although he might have asked for a little temporary relief for himself and his family from a passer by, he was not therefore, a fit subject for punish ment under the vagrant laws. He bad been, he said, for many years a respectable and respected tradesman in the City of London, and had five apprentices of his own at one time, and every body who knew him respected and esteemed him still, although he' had fallen into decayed circum stances. On Monday next he is to enter, he said, upon a situation as clerk in the manufactory of Mr. Browne, of New-street square, Bethnal-green, which will enable him to support his wife and four children respectably, and it was nothing but their immediate necessities that could urge him to ask charity of any one; it would, therefore, he said, in the most emphatic manner, be a shame and a scandal to send such a man as he was to prison as a vagrant. After the prisoner had concluded a very long and loud harangue, Plank, the chief officer, said, that he was re luctant to interfere to the prejudice of a person of the pri .eoner's appearance ; but when the prisoner talked so largely, he ought to have recollected that he was at this office once before on precisely a similar charge to the present, and that he then told exactly the same story about getting a situation as clerk, &c. that he told now ; and from his appearance and manner, he was then discharged without any inquiry being made as to the truth or falsehood of his statement. The prisoner admitted that he had been here before under similar circumstances to the present, but he then, as now, told the truth ; he did get a situation at that time which lie held until lately, but now lie was again (not from any fault of his) thrown out of employment. Mr. DYER. said, th a t on t hi s occas i on he should certa i n l y have inquiry m a d e as to the truth of the prisoner ' s state ment before lie parted with hi m , an d d espa t c h e d a constable for that p urpose, who, on his return, reported that Mr. Browne b a d certa i nly engaged the prisoner to go i n t o hi s service o n M on d ay next, an d hi s w if e an d f am ily did li ve , as he said, at Red Lion Wharf. Mr. DYER then discharged the prisoner, and advised him to continue in the situation he was going to on Monday, and by his own exertions prevent the disgrace of his again begging in the streets. James Springett, a tailor, residing in Dean-street,:Soho was brought to the office upon a warrant, charged w i t h u t , saulting a youth, named Joseph Pit. The complainant stated, that he is in the set vice.of 111 Turner, a button-manufacturer , in Hatton-garden ; and on Thursday list, by the directions of his ouster, he.called upon M r . S pr i ngett f or the payment of IL lbs, due to Mr. Turner, but Mr. Springett said that he could not then, pa) the demand. Complainant ventured to urge the defendant for payment, observing, that it was very in c o nven i en t, t o hi sending so far for such a trifle, and that this was about tin fiftieth time that Mr. Turner had either called or sent.fot it, which was the fact ; upon which the defendant seized him with great violence, shoved him up against the wall, and kicked him with great force out of the shop; much so, ~_ 'C..rrc.-'; t t h h e at k h ic e k h . ad been ever since in great pain where Mr. Springett, in his defence, said that the c°_. 01 conducted hi mse lf w ith grea t i nso l ence , and it in - cause a man could not: pay a,debt upon' the in:llSil was to be insult e d by a y ou th lik e t hi s ;,.apdbil74 , impossible th a t h e cou ld h ave h urt .t h e non1P101:70 as he had nothing, on but a pair of list slippers %pi The complain an t d en i e d moa t poaitively.,oloro an uncivil word to Mr, Springett,. beiond.Arri number of times that the debt had been sent, r IY Mr..DrEa said, that if even the lad had, ti which, from his manner now , h e 'did not beli eve;, 1.1 0 brr , was very easy for Mr. Sp r i nge tt t o o r d er him, ~, gently out of his shop, with ou t ki c ki ng hitn'.llol;gl manner that was described; and as for ;t14 4 1:a ridiculous excuse of having on• only a.paiti of. 111 " -- oi it was quite unworthy of an y attention.:. : ` -l e said Mr. Dyer, "if a man cannot pay his debt* to be civil in his refusal." . The complainant's ,father, - a respectable-114 1 1 said, that he really would no t h ave advised his)!it i .,lr this proceeding against the defendant,' bad not,r f or complained very mu c h when lie' came home of Mk . ff . suffered from the kicking he received. .01 Mr. DYER and Mr. CONANT, th en conv i c ted .5 0 0, in a p ena lt y o f 20 s . an d costs f or t h e assault,, aid _4ll that he might consider himself as having W is j ' o 4 l with great lenity, by having only se small a•fiii° upon hint. . ' , Springett said that he was not able to pay the!: Mr. DYER—Then if you do • not pay it, I ,e ms assuredly summit y ou t o p r i son forthwith# and 07 be very reputable for a tradesman keeping , a,Ali shop, as I understand von do, to be • it, to , the, Correction. The defendant then borrowed the a friend who accompanied him, and In a few minutes after the parties Ballard, the officer, brought Spin Magistrate, accompanied , by father, who said, that when they got ,the office, Springett .commenced a sf( them in the most foul and insulting ; Mr. DYER told Springett that if- . duct again, in the slightest degree, he 'to find. heavy ,sureties to keep . the ' him to' Walk home quietly; and bear. , penalty that his . misconduct had . .bfetigh . . . . UNION4HALL.--Mr. Hillier,; of" St. Saviour's parish; attended . .,b g e) . . - for the' • purpose of complainin -- sition attempted on the funds of iti, that four Irish labourers had:made to be passed to their native Country, selves to be is want, and Unable to i the journey. Upon questioning, thew, they had only slept two or three nigh) ding that they had returned pennylr witbeut being enabled to obtain won their application, Mr. Hillier stated men, who pretended to such distress, I served that - morning to share 171. bet duce of their united labour in the col ing they pleaded they were unable to Ireland. The four men being present, and . hiving been made in their bearing, the Magistrati t yo them if it:was true they had divided, 17/. betweelr,4o..N, One of them, who was spokesman on the IS o r i If;t: -5: said,-,—" By my sew]; your honour, we are 00 ti -rit -:. - I 'q church mi ce ; we h ave not ss. between us.' , _.(„ 1 0 1- - ' "r r i turning round t o one o f hi s compan i ons, he apP5,01 4 , , , t him as to the truth of his assertion; saying,. i i g ie' -'4 , 42 Leary, is'nt it t rue w h at / h a ii sa id ?" " D— , -1 a - lig ;- L : a responded Paddy, shrugging up his shoulders. i'-' A lio Mr. Hillier stated, th a t b e h a d o b t ai ne d hi s • i n io7 oo D. relative to the division between them of .the J7i.% 1- ': - !• , ,i , respectable.man who wa s an e y e - w it ness o f the tro __ . 7 'i- ,; -, and who would n o t h ave asser t e d a f a l se h oo d .. Blr, t . .:, - I added, that it w as th e pract i ce o f I r i s h labourerkt - ~..A season of the y ear , to flock up to London efter !A ll • A over, with plenty of money, merely for the pwrl getting passed h ome . S ome o f those "laboutel% known to accumulate a good deal of money in thi.0.7 0 and instead of travelling back to Ireland on their - et' they generally placed that burden on the parish wig" applied. ' j 0 Mr. HONE—This is a most improper practice, I° l ol be checked. The Magistr a t e th en as k e d th e men b° came to this country., , - . . • ' otiol They replied that they trudged the road from where they landed from C Ol l. • • ' 0; j 1 Mr. Holtz—Then you must trudge . back vain, for travelling at your owe expence. It .is evident, jj the Magistrate, you have earned money harvesting, a st_i3O rishee are not to be a t th e expence o f passing, nitin men who' ave already in th e i r po,sa ess i on m ime& IT . . . to enable them to do 80. . . . . . . The men then retired, sadly di sa pp o i n ted. a the 10 / their application to be passed. -- . - - .' t,- ..~ + ~l ~` . ~:6 ! C t ill • .1 ; • - 1 4 J is 401 1. SHIPPING: iN-TEL-L.l-GE-NCE. LIVERPOOL, , • Fatnar, OCT. U.—Wind S.W.—High yam( s minutes past twelve .-- Arrived the Rowan, GurrellPes'ii, New York ; Mary Catherin e , H o d gson , from Cbar l / 1 Sceptre, Howes, from Pernambileo;' Noriral,'-!s#l' from Montreal ; Aurora, from Carnarvon ; MinerV* o o' ter, from Archangel; Pion eer , Mulberry, from Vr e Bee, Hannah, from Oban. ' •1$ 18 '$ '2t CLEARED OUTWARDS..--PCI'IeVeTRACe, .BrOWO , CA!Matti. „, SATURDAY', OCT. 11.—High water - au miau.- 9 eo pe twelve.—Wind West.—Arrived the. :Hanpahl , S, from Aliramichi ; New F e li x , Loughligny, from si,:d ° f r o. Henrietta, ----, from bantzic ; .Lark, Stranraer; Heywood, Burrell, from Africa; Mary, from. Ballina. CLEARED Otyrwattns.—The Nandi, flawkio s V Calcutta ; America, Evans, for New York ; Et a for St. Vincent's ; Recina, KoOps, for All David Cannon, C a i n , f or N ew O r l eans ; M a tilda, well, for Lusitania. • „ 1 4 2.1 BIRTHS. .; pol On the 7th inst., at M a tl oc k B a th, Derbyshire', 1"" of D. Godson, Esq. of a daughter. At Rossmore-pai k, county Monaghan, the ladY ft° Hon. Richard Westenra, of a daughter. „gfoi 4 On the sth inst, in Ex e t er , th e l a d y o f S. Moo n Esq., solicitor, of a daughter. e Idf On the 2d i ns t., a t Ki ngsnympton parsonage , t of A. Pinney, Esq., of a daughter. On the Sd inst., at Torre, the lady of Captain 664 Woolcombe, 11. N., of a son. MARRIED. _ A isth On the II th inst., Mr. Ja mes P es t e n, of / 4 'o. Ilerts, to Clarissa Sarah, eldest daughter of Afr• Soanes, of Mile-end, Old-town. .10 0 - lie 11th S^ _At the th inst., at St. Pancras New Church, 'tie R:w. Proby John Ferrers, Thoma s Gl o i er K eus it, v n g, ners'-hall, Dowgate-bill, F..sq., to Janet, the Y°l daughter of the late Francis Gregg, Esq. On the II th inst., at Finchley, by the Ree• 40 0-. Worsley, Phillip Charles M oore , o f D oc t ors ' COLite i only son of the late William Moore, Esq., to 4 ' 1 ,,,7, r eig . Ross, second daughter of H enr y D ar l o t, E sq ., o f the 1".- Post-office. 0 71 On the 11th inst., at , St e pn e y, by th e Rev. .1 John R. Haldane, Esq., to gliza E., youngeit daug the late John Pickering, Eng., of Mile-end. On the Bth inst., at Tunbridge, Musgrave Briscoe,' te of Devonshire-place, to F ra n ces , slaughter of the t e Woodgate, Esq., of Spring-grove, Kent, and: 01 '' Viscount Boyne. el On the Bth inst., at Bangor, N or th Wales, CE lea Henry White, M. P., for the county of Dublin, , t° 4ib nor, eldest daughter of W. S. D em p s t er , E sq ., 01 Sutherland. On the 29th ult., at D Brul D og:ne-sur-mer, Jolt ' l4)ne Esq., of Harley -street. On the 10th i ns t., i n G rosvenor - p l ace , Archibald 'la x 7 ribanks, E sq ., on l y son o f S tewart Alajoribanks, ESq:' On the 3d inst., at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, in the year of her age, Jane, widow of the Rev. Nathaniel fel son, and daughter of the late Lieut e nant-Colonel Fnrye, of Farnham, Bells, who was killed 'at the WO Minden, on the 31st of August, 1759. _ On omtehwe c l l h t a h lin in d s y t : , of Lewisham,is3othyear, at (b is the is lior uth of c 0 r:0; th o 1 law), Mr. Benjamin Houghton, of Waltham Abbey, lel re' a widow and five children : a m os t am i a ble a nd highq. d ilf spected man, and his loss is deeply deplored by his fr and friends. On the llth inst., Mr. John Walker, ion of the late B pd Walker, bookseller, Paternoster-row, leaving , a .wil s seven children unprovided for. On the 9th inst, at Ramsgate, Simon M‘Tnvish, The Rev. Richard Hargreaves,. M.A., Vicar of HiV Kent. Wr;i• ti t • At Ipsd en , near W a lli ng f or d, th e R ev . W. H. , 1 8.D., incumbent of the united parishes . of North Ipsden„ and Newnham Murren, Oxon. - - °1 PiIINXED and PUBLISUED by NURDO YOUNG, St 7,r OF ICE, 112 1 STKA LOI4DO2ir keeping a,, 1 7/ 0 0 1 ' I4E " re sent to the, )P kik}lllll '4l e amount of s 'l' I paid tbe Oar s had quittedro neett L 416 11 ' 5 7 1 0 0 0 '0, i ol a nt outside thi vs „, ~np vonep of libus• t i he aliould . cod r g o peace. Jae with s , tili l 7 %VIA tight',lll3oifir7 4'•41. 1 . 1 ooe of refore , k etristr . - of " a * . parish. 18e r applieritibry far ryi tlescribiais D pay the esP . .,j nn, they adrsr ob, 7 „ Aka i Oita ilk the P ar c° '";ttike less from the 010/ 4. 1 11011 rk. Suhavr /neliu I that these r eel ' had actually 1 7 , twee's them, .t!" tc! th wintry, nottynd " to pay the p 7 - ,te, the above et"pliPl*e' 21 , tt/ , '~ I : 93 : 47i • +~~ 1 ~' ,„, „,, :.3 , s