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HOLYHEAD, Noy, 4.7—Arrired the Elizabeth, from bernerara. _rrile Amelia, from Quebec, was on shor6 in the `4lll ( Marine], Liverpool, on Tuesday. COMMON COUNCIL.-(THIS DAY.) thi l t Special C ourt o f C ommon C ounc il was h e ld ci mmiting, for the purpose of receiving the report _the Committee, relative to the o ffi ce of Secondary lud othe, business. After the minutes of the last Court had been read, MI:. Alderman WOOD said he had to prevent a Petition from the ticket-porters of London. The Peti tioe was th en rea d. I t set f ort h t h e var i ous „.Vileees that h a d f rom ti me to t i me b een gran t e d m by acts of the Common Council, and prayed that the Court would protect them in the mainte tililee of th ose pr i v il eges; b ut t h at t h ey h a d o f l ate lien much infringed by many wharfingers and others til P l °Yjog other persons, not regularly admitted by a Muster and Rulers of the" Tackle House,'.' and enot put a stop t o , t h e p et iti one rs would no t b e 4 ble to maintain their families, who were depending IPon their labour far support. Mv- Alden:Mß WooD then moved that the peti- ' , / ,2t l be ref e r r ed to th e Committ ee o f G enera l P ar - , re% : he thought the Corporation were bound to Acid the rights and privileges of the City of 4 . o ltdo e . Mr. TAYLOR opposed the petition. The peti- Zrers claimed the r i g ht o f l oa di ng an d un l oa di ng vessels arriving or departing from the port of 117,htion, a thing whi c h it wou ld b e utter l y impos , „_'• for th em to accomp li s h ; h e s h ou ld t h ere f ore ''Oset to its being sent to a Committee. r v. Alderman WooD thought it unnecessary to PAY at length, as he did not expect any opposition, `' t other w i se h e cou ld conv i nce t h e C ourt t h at t h e 0o et p orters were qu i te a bl e to perform all the work to which they were entitled. of The petition was then referred to the Committee General Purposes. tt ___r. Alderman WooD had to present another peti t7o, which h e h o p e d wou ld meet w i t h t h at attent i on ° Which the unfortunate petitioner was entitled. ;t it vraa the petition of Thomas Bell, son of the late 4_olloTur to Thoma s Bell (Hear, hear), who with so much himself filled th e o ffi ce of Sheriff; it 44 E41, that ever since the death of his father in the /ear 1 824, he had been in the most distressed cir ,,Tostancee, not having been able to obtain any per- Z e tnent employment, and having a wife and family ,_ ' Pe 4 ding upon him for support, he trusted that in 'oeider at i on of the services of hie late father, they 1 t i,.. Qu id appoint him to some situation in the gift of L'"' Court. The worthy Alderman said, he. could testimony to the seal and ability with which tr Thomas Bell filled the office of Sheriff, and he , 14 Ped they would think the son entitled to one of the `Any places they had at their disposal, the petitioner Ss a man of unimpeachable character, of sound 'figment,,_ and good education, but by a series of mits 'whines; had been brought into the most abject oats of poverty ; he thought the Court might ap int him to the situation of Deputy Sea-coal Meter. qa moved tha t t h e pet i t i on b e re f erre d to t h e Com 14ittea of General Purposes. Deputy ROUTH seconded the motion from feelings of compassion to the poor man. He had rin-ccasTonally employed him , and found in him a (Treat ,7 41 of zeal and industry ;he was con fi dent that he '?' 4l d fill with credit any situation to which he f il lt . be appointed. , • SAIRUEL DIXON—My Lord Mayor, without Y hostile feelings to the petitioner, I shall more as 41 -" I . ! Intendment that the petition be laid on the table. th e t h prayer was granted, every person who had had bo o ambition ( an d h e k new many w h o h a d) to as pi re hrgh offices in the Corporation, should they be +e unfortunate, would think themselves or their dies entitled to be provided for by this Court. M. Alderman WOOD trusted the Court would .. be guided by such considerations as those !nen -711. od by the worthy Member; they need not be 41 t1 of any such applications. Here vas a man r°l4essed of great knowledge, master of several lan -14, 'Rea, and good moral character; h e th ere f ore .3 ` 4 (1 hop e t h at he would not suffer by such a consi gyration. Or. DIXON could find no case where the parties been brought to a similar state of destitution q lrough their ambition. A long conversation here ensued. It was at last 4 Seed that the petition should be referred to the ''"vvt and coal committee. vo The Court was proceeding with another petition °au eta Reporte r left. , ; TIIE MARKETS.-(TIUS DAY.) HAY MARKET:3--(At per Lqod of li Trux3e , 3.) E". helayy Lowlau,l XI ST. !( .I .w A) IIa E y S''I. .42 15 to ..f..3 0 ii - 7 'iNvf Meadow Hay 3 5 3IC tZIV Upland - Meadow and Rye-grass Hay...... 3 15 4 15 tli7t 4 Hay 315 0 0 :or. .1:1 h. to A.:l 161 Wheat Straw 1 16 2 0 A ,(., d supply, and a dull trade ; prloes ai last clucked. t' SMITHFIELD. i,;, - ?`" so heavy L ow l an d M ea dow Hay ...............:f2 10 t 3 ..t3 0 IZc ... New 51e dow Ray 0 5 3 10 i , ," Uuland Meadow and Rye-gras,a Hay 3 10 s 10 t, -ver IL,y (extra tine?.. i 5 1(1 ... Generally S 15 5 5 4 St raw £l 12 to £ 1 M--Wheat 'traw 1 113 9 ei .-apply limited, trade dull, and prices a.s on Tuesday. ----- The French Ambassador held a very long ktference on Tuesday evening with the Earl of AIFIi 4"N'y at the office of the Secretary of state fur Foreign ~"kirs, understood to be in consequenee of a cocninunica ``% fro m the Duke of Vt'srAnicTow. His Excellency interyiews with bis Lordship yesterday, at the Foreign ` ll4 ce. aud ,Lfterwarda lieu; off despatches to his Govern 'tent. t Th e Spanish Minister Om a special mission), Brazilian Minister, and the Neapolitan► iNfinister, had ' 4 '*rviews With the Earl of AIItRDEEW yesterday. The Mar q uis DE RIENZI left town on 'rues 4ight for Falmouth, where it was expected the Mar '%.l4 would embark on hie retnrn to the 13razile. tte, The LORD MAYOR transacted busine , ss yes ci4Y at the Home Office- bevat c hes were received yesterday at the frc'u the Canadso. Mr. SHEIL ha: received an invitation to din- Zfrom the Roman Catholics of Preston, which his pro litinual engagements in Dublin obliged him to decline.— / Nland ett town Last evening for Liverpool, on his way to iti We b e li eve t h ere i s n o reason to doubt t h at q 141 8te Vs have it in contemplation to concede the Claims - 11,1 1 1.1 e Catholics next Seesien, accompanied , however, with fricti ons an d cenditiors w hi c h ma y probably caus e t h e c 4 ll :"lirs to reject the loon. We need scarcely Ray that Ouke cf WM.LINGTON is not a man to throw the Pro `fttt Clintch, without itcurity, into the hands of its 1 1 t4i ,"; and us the Afsociation have already declared their 10,," , fY to ought hut ooquedified ounce-,.ton, we may not ‘vuoonably anticipate the result we have stated. Other 14e4 " , 1re9 will also be adopted, ~ u ch as the cffectrtal sup (ln of the Catholic Association, and (we believe) the ; n ian chivment of the forty-shilling fi - eoliolders tvhich 4ti 'ga to• t o remove t h e s ti ng of "Agitati on ," and which dauzlttte. lL'fact to h a v e been resorted to long ago.---,Bric/acit LITER ATTIRE. NOLT,EKV..Vt Ises. - Notwithstanding that England, from ti we iiu. memorial, has been considered on the Conti neat as a mere nation of shopkeepers, wealthy, indeed, but semi-barbarous, - as regards the ele gancies of civilization ; there are few countries to be found, not even among those who most zea loUsly profess their scorn , capable of com p e ti ng with her, whenever in art or science (with the single exception of .music) she chooses to put forth her. energies. She has but .to desire ad vancement, to obtain it ; to wish to become diss tinguished in the Fine Arts, to be so.. In sculp- She stands ne ar ly, if n o t qu ite, ture, especially, unrivalled. -Italy has had her Canova, superior certainly to any single artist that England has yet produced : but this latter has had, and still has, a galaxy ofgenius, while the former boasts (we refer only to modern times) but the solitary sculptor of Venice. Men, suck as Nollekens, Flaxman, Chantrey, Westmacott, Sievier, most of whom are yet alive, do honour to the name of England ; they serve to refine, elevate, and purify her taste, and prove of what flights of ge nius she is capable, .when circumstances call forth their display. To Nollekens, the eccentric subject of the present desultory and diverting me moirs, a high rank must be assigned among modern artists. He was the Opie of sculpture, full of in vention and power,but harsh, rude, and unpolished. In his busto-s (so he loves to call them) he gave nature, mere nature, as he witnessed it, in all its shivering nakedness ;. he resorted to no embel lishments of fancy or refinement ; was incompe tent to the delineation of dignity, if not palpably visible before him, and even then was some times at fault ; but confined himself exclusively to the vulgar and striking parts of portraiture. In a word, his intellect, though vigorous, was essentially plebeian, and stands *out in some what grotesque contrast to the numerous aristo cratic busts by which it rose to eminence. Flaxman, by far the loftiest name in English sculpture, possessed a mind replete with gran- deur and sublimity. Every part of the human figure, of which he had the same idea as Chan trey of the bust, glows in his hands with intellect and action. His groupings and compositions from Homer, )Eschylus, &c. are among the choicest creations of genius ; nor is it too much to assert that his shield of Achilles is equal to any thing produced by the Greeks. His chief, indeed his only defect, is his execution in the marble ; it is slovenly, at times capricious, and gives us the idea that Flaxman, in his sympathy with the sublime qualities of. his art, looked down with scorn upon its mechanism. Chantrey, unrivalled in his busts, gives to the human countenance all the intellect of which it is susceptible. He selects the finer parts of expression with consummate tact, judiciously softens down the rough, refines the coarse, and thus imparts dignity and even sensibility to his productions. His monumental figures are simple and unadorned, his draperies broad and flowing, and the figure is distinctly preserved beneath them. There is a sensitive and eleva ting tone of poetry about all Chantrey's produc tions, which itv impossible to mistake. He witnesses-nature; as Euripides is commonly said to have delineated man, not as he is, but "as he ought to be.; hence no one inspires us with such pure, filling, and satisfactory admiration. Westmacott is a well-educated sculptor, of great taste, but not much originality ; his designs in marble are almost invariably well executed, and his judgment, though not brilliant, is un doubted. Sievier has much tenderness and delicacy in his production ; a voluptuous, but at the same time a fancy chastened by discernment, and a natu rally refined apprehension of the beautiful. He is a severe observer of nature, as in the bust of Lord Eldon, and not without power, as in his " Christ on the Cross ;" but delicacy and sweet ness and pathos are his fortes. Of Rossi, we have not much to say, he is hard and clumsy, and his works bear about them au elaborate and plodding impress. Having thus sketched the leading charac teristics of some of our most eminent modern sculptors, we come once again to the subject of the present memoirs, the heartless—avaricious semi-idiotic—semi-barbarous Nollekens. The volumes throughout teem with animated sketches of his own and his wife's (herself a nondescript in her way) character. IN ithout pretending to any very considerable reach of biographic ability, they just possess sufficient distinctness and power of individualizing character, to enable us to recognize Nollekens, when his mind was in desabille. But we must not, in read ing the work, overlook the animus that per vades every page, and points every anecdote. Mr. Smith, it seems, expected, and with great justice, a legacy from his old friend and patron. lie was disappointed, and the result of that dis appointment is, we think, clearly manifest in every paragraph of the work before us. It is not our intention to go systematically through it ; indeed, its very rambling incohetent charac ter would effectually prevent us, were we so inclined ; but simply to cull here and there an extract, without the slightest attention to regu larity in our selection. The following are among the most amusin g specimens of th© vo lumes. In the fir s t i t i s B ann i ster who speaks : , 4 Did you ever, L,y good f e ll ow, h ear of Ned Shuter ' s imitation of the London cries? He was the most famous chap at that sort of thing ; indeed, so fond of it, that he Wculd frequently follow people for hours together to get their cries correctly. I recollect a story which he us e d to tell of his following a man who had a peculiar cry, up one street and down another, nearly a whole day, to get his cry, but the man never once cried ; at last, beiiig quite out of temper, he went up to the fellow, and said, You don't cry; why the - don't you cry The?" man answered in a piteous tone, Cry! Lord Mese your heart, Sir, I can't cry ; my life's dead; she died this morning.' " • . . . " Those who recollect the figure of Dr. Wolcot in his robust upright state, anJ the diminutive appearance of Air. Nollekens, can readily picture to themselv e s their extreme contrast, when the former accosted the latter one evening at his gate in Titchfie ! d-street, nearly in the following man ner:—` Why, NolWr en s, von never speak to me now ; pray what is the reason 7 1 —Nolle4cris 4 Why, y ou h ave published such lire of the King, and had the impudence to Fcnci them to me ; but - Mre. Nollekens burnt them, and 1 Amire you'll send as mote; the Royal ast very good to me, and are great friends to all the artists, a n d I don't like to hear any body.say. any thing against them.' ifprm.. which the Doctor put his ..aue upon the sculptor'ashouldec, and exclaimed, Well ia.;4, little Sollv I like the man who sticks to his friend ; you shall make a bust of roe for that.' I'll see you -- first!' answered liollekens, and I can tell you this bitsidee, no Jean . in the Royal Academy but Opie would have paitu-ed your picture, and you richly deserved the broken head yon got from Gifford in Wright's shop; Mr. Cook, of Bedford-square, showed me his hand kerchief, dipped in your blood; and so now you know ow mind. Come in, my Cerherus, come in.' liis dog th en followed him in, and he left the Doctor at the gate, which he barred up for the. night.". The subjoined sketch or Mr. and Mrs. Nol lekens, when their domestic sensibilities were ra ther below zero—a circumstance which, as En field's Speaker happily observes, " will occur iu the best regohited families,"—is richly C om i c . It sheiidestt'fiOWerful indricementto matrimony; " One day Bronze heard a more violent disputation than tn... 111 between her master and mistress ' What !' cried 14r, what ! Madam, you're at our old tricks again ? twopence, indeed ! I say 1 paid yoti the twopence for the lettrt, and I'il take my 'davy of it Very well, Sir ; very well : mighty well, perfectly correct, and perfectly just, Mr. Positive, I dare say,' retorted Mrs. Nollekens; " you shall see, Sir, from this very moment I will never pay for a let ter of your's again 'Then, after a pause, her bit of slate was thrown on the floor, and the lady in a whining tene, which convinced Bronze she was wound up to the highest pitch, cried with a half-stifled sob, ' You know---you know—you vile little thing! you paid me only two shil lings and sevenpence on last Thursday's account.'—' I tell you this, and now mind what I say,' replied Nollekens, that if it was so, it was your own fault ; for I never will pay a farthing more when you have once smeared the slate : that I tell you.' A knock at the door insured Bronze to go in and say, Flush ! hush ! there's a knock at the street door.' I don't care,' exclaimed the sculptor, she shan't colly-wabble me : go and see who it Want any fish to-day?' asked an Irish fishwoman ; 'it's Friday, .bless ye I don't care for Friday. I've had dinner enough, quite enough,' answered Nollekens, who walked out of the room with only one slipper on. Betty ! Betty! shut the door, it is very odd that people will not take an answer,' rejoined Mrs. Nollekens.'" Mrs. Angelica kauffinan, who, by the way, married a footman in mistake for a peer, in imi tation, we presume, of Master Slender who married a post-boy, is a name well known in the annals of the Fine Arts ; it is not, however, equally well known, that she Was a finished coquette : we extract therefore a superb specimen of her abilities in that line : " The reader will probably recollect the manner in which Angelica Kauffroann was imposed upon by a gentle. man's servant, who married her under the name of Count Horn, and the way in which his treachery was discovered, as related in the early part of the present volume. Angelica, however, was universally considered as a coquette, so that we cannot deeply sympathise in her disappointment; and as a proof how justly she deserved that character, I shall give an anecdote which I have often heard Mr. Nollekens relate. When Angelica was at Rome, previously to her marriage, she was ridiculously fond of displaying her per son, and being admired ; for which purpose sht one evening took her station in one of the most conspicuous boxes in the theatre, accompanied by Nathaniel Dance and another artist, both of whom, as well as many others, were despe rately enamoured of her. Angelica, perhaps, might have recollected the remonstrance of Mrs. Peachum, where she says-- . Oh, Polly ! you might have toy'd and kited ; By keeping men off you keep than on :' However, while she was standing between her two beaux, and finding an arm of each meet lovingly embracing her waist, she contrived, whilst her arms were folded before her on the front of the box over which she was leaning, to spleen the band of both, so that each lover concluded hint self beyond all doubt the man of her choice." The following is worthy of the author of the Lord Mayor's Voyage to Oxford," who has already celebrated in that unequalled production, the sylvan graces of Paddington, Uxbridge, and Brentford Butts. He will here find a rival. " I ought to have noticed in a former page, that when it was customary for so mnrh company to visit Uxbridge by the barges.drawn by horses gaily sleeked out with ribauds, Mr. and Mrs. Nollekens, with all the gaiety of youthful extravagance, embarked on board, and actually dined out on that„pla-day at their own expence. The sights they saw on this memorable aquatic excursion afforded them mutual conversation for several weeks ; and Mrs. Nollekens actually tired her friends with letters upon their aanal adventures from Paddington to Uxbridge, and from Uxbridge to Paddington. In these epistles she most poetically expatiated upon the clearness of the water, the fragrance of the flowers, the nut-brown tints of the wavy corn, and the ruddy and healthful complexions of the sot. tagers' children, who waited anxiously to see the vessel ap proach their native shores. The only fatigue was the hasty walk from Mortimer-street to Paddington, and the loitering return froni Paddiugton to Mortmer-street, where, soon after their arrival, they refreshed themselves with an additional cup of tea, and for that evening indulged in going to bed before sun-set." " Nolleken's old coal-box was of a square shape ; it had been a lawyer's wig -box, that had been sent with a bar rister's wig to be modelled from. The box had been mended with bits of tin, which he had picked up of a morning near the dust-heaps in the fields; but his house contained nei ther coal-hods nor scoops; nor any thing like the splen dour of a certain eteattd Lord, who had his coronet painted upon his coal-scuttles. - " Nollakens o'o-u baited his rat-trap with an unusual quantity of cheese, thinking to catch all the vermin at once, nevar dreaming that when one was caught the trap would shut the rest out, an that the solitary visitof would eat up whole. Why the rats infested his house, Bronze de. Llama she never could make out. Food they certainly had not ; and an old rat might have said to Nollekens, when he was busy in setting his trap, • Fear not, old fellow ! for your hoard ; I come to lodge, and not to board.' " A lady of high fashion once brought her child to have her beautiful arm moulded. Mr. Nollekens, who, as usual upon such occasions, began with to t h e chid, What a pretty handy-dandy !' was requested by the lady not to utter such nonsense, but to proceed with his task ; adding, that her child's nurse was a wellteducceel woman." We might add a hundred other extracts, equally amusing and characteristic ; but enough has been already given to sc:t forth both the ec centricities of Nollekens, and the spirit of his biographer. Mr. Smith has raked together with singular diligence every thing that could possibly tend to depreciate the great sculptor ; truth, how ever, is apparent throughout ; the only ques tion, therefore, that remains to be consi dered is, how far he has exceeded the usual license of biography. We rather incline to the opinion that he has kept within the limits ; for, as Nollekens was a man of little or no sensibility, whether public or private, we do not see why he should not be described as such. With regard to the literary department of the work, it is beneath contempt ; there is no effort at criticism, no analysis of the sculptors of the day, no enlarged delineation of character ; nothing to make us feel that we are standing in the presence of genius—the voiume.i, from first to last, are mere gossip ; a collection of old wives' talcs, the facts alone of which are related, while the reader must himself draw the proper inferences. We are informed that the KING Ivill not take possession of his apartments at Windsor Castle, this year. His late indisposition, and his present delicate state of are ntentiim4 its the rea.sor.l.--Moruiv BOLIVAR MINING SCHEME.— A nominally public and general Meeting of the afinc-sairl Mining Scheme took place yesterday at the Office, in Gveat Yirinclitater t.treet, Old Broad-street, but for reasons best known to the parties theingelves, the Reporters of Papers were r fused ad mittance, uules , L= they proved theimelves sb-arebolderx DRURY-LANE THEATRE. Miss PHILLIPS made her appearance twit night, before a crowded audience, in the very peculiar and difficult character of Mrs. Haller. sueressful, and fully justifies our proags eminently t)sticns that she needs nothing but time and practice to mature her powers. The scene in which the faithless but penitent Mrs. Haller reveals the circumstances of her guilt, was played with the most genuine pathos by Miss PHILLIPS ; every word told, being replete frith sweetness and delicacy, and that strict regard: to propriety which an irctresi of taste and sensibility never wholly loses sight of. One of Miss Prttwes's chief recommen datiens is her voice: it is replete with melody, and breathing the very spirit o f sens ibili ty . Sh e looks, however, rather too young for such a part as Mrs. Haller, and should have previously tried her powers as Juliet, which we conceive is made for her. It she be successful in this trying part, the modern stage will present the extraordinary spectacle of two first-rate Juliets; a thing hitherto unheard of. Mr. YOUNG'S Stranger was admirable,, it is how ever well known, and 'needs no further analysis. FARREN'S Solomon, though somewhat stiff, was not without humour. HARLEY'S Peter was richly comic. The play was received with enthusiastic applause, owing chiefly to the great hit vnade by Miss PHILLIPS as Mrs. Haller. COVENT-GARDEN. The Soldier's Stratagem, a new piece in three acts, translated, of course, from the French, was brought out here last night. The plot is some thing to the following effect : Colonel Larritx, Mr. KEMBLR, having been wounded in an engagement, is carried to the castle of Baron Moll, Mr. FAWCETT, a stupid old gentle man, whose household, as fares the audience is intro duced to it, consists of a daughter, Matilda, Miss FORDE, her servant Bertha, Mrs. HUGHES, and a footman, Ifatzback, KEELEY. The Colonel falls in love with the lady, and discloses his passion to her father, who gladly receives him; but, hearing that his younger brother Ernest, Mr. GREEN, is in the neighbourhood, and about to visit him, and fearing that if he sees the lady he will become his rival, he makes his tneesenger drunk, and tries to prevent his entrance 'into she castle. Ernest sees in Matilda a lady whom he has met in Paris, and to whom he has sworn eternal love. The Colonel finds his fears are realized, and in his attempt to get rid of his brother, and in his brother's attempt to gain the lady, consist these soldiers' stratagems, which, it must be confessed, are monstrous clumsy ones. The Colonel says his duties as Governor of Tilnitz corn poi him to depart, and that his brother must go with him. Ernest reminds him that be may dele gate his authority to any other officer ; and the Colo• nel adopts the suggestion by making him his de puty, and commanding him to set off instantly. He then proposes himself to the lady, who, believing Ernest is false, accepts the Colonel. Ernest makes use of his authority to compel the Baron to turn his brother out of his castle on pain of being shot, and then contrives to introdude himself. A short explanation serves to reconcile him with Matilda, and by this another stratagem is brought to bear, by the Colonel's having him arrested. The matter is then fairly put to the young lady's decision, who says, that us she-has promised to take the Colonel' for her husband, she will be as good as her word but confesses that she loves the younger brothe r better; upon which the Colonel, who for a strata. gist is an uncommonly good-natured person, relin quishes his claim, and Matilda is married to Ernest. From the very nature of this plot, a failure might reasonably have been expected. These expectations were not disappointed; the audience, from first to last, heard the piece with apathy, if not with dislike, and scarcely listened to the announcement of its repetition on Saturday. The opera of Rosina followed, in which Miss BYE FIELD performed the character of liosina. She is a sweet singer, and was received with consi derable applause. During the evening a great inconvenience arose, in consequence of the gas being permitted to escape. Mr. FAWCETT apo logized for the accident ; but a remedy, not an apology, is wanted. The house was tolerably well When Miss PATON was taken ill on Thurs day at the Musical Festival, and search was made for a medical gentleman to render her assistance, not one was to be found in the church : this, considering that the Fes tival was for the benefit of an Hospital, is rather curious. Brighton Paper. The proportions which the different sects in Holland bear to one another may be judged of by the fol lowing table, which Was made in October, 1826 : Members of the Reformed Calvini Cherch 1 C!!',599 Roman Catholics Evangelical (or Lutherans) Jews of Spanish and Rortuguere origin... 2,520 21 493 German. and Sclavonian 0rigin...18,978 ' Re-established Lutherans Mennonites (Doopagezinden, 1. e. Teleiobaptists) 1,946 Remon.trants (Armenians) Episcopalians 237 Greeks, Armenians, Quakers, and other Sects Total Inhabitants 200,784 SUICIDES.—SeveraI suicides have lately oc curred in this city and neighbourhood—evidence sufficient, no doubt, that the influence of a November fog is as fatal on this side of the Tweed as on the other. We have heard that, within the last ten days, one poor man strangled himself—another shot himself—an elderly woman poisoned her,elf—and a girl, after having been in church on Thurs day last, cut her throat. It is not true, however, that an unfortunate man destroyed himself in consequence of being involved in au assurd gambling transaction with the gen tleman who exhibited himself last week as a wife-hunter ou the Calton-hill. A military officer did, indeed, on Tuesday morning last, terminate his existence, under pe culiarly distressing circumstances ! but he was nowise con nected with the matrimonial hdveuturer, who, we have good reason to believe, was really serious in his speculation, and for whom we can make no better apology, than that he is a foreigner, and of course net aware of the spirit of the people among whom he has come to reside.—Edin burgh Observer. MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR.--A few days ago a peg old woman, named CAMPBELL, arrived in town from Ireland, in search of her sou, when, having assured her self of his welfare, they again parted—lie to seek employ ment in the country, and she to return home. On Friday night she lodged in the house of a man named FluaT or BURKE, a colder, who keeps lodgings in the West Port; and it being Hallow-eve, the inmates passed several hours in dancing and drinking. The old woman, it is said, re luctantly join e d in the revelry. She also partook of the liquor, and went to sleep on a straw pallet close to BURK E ', own bed. In the course of the night shrieks were heard t„ ) procud from the house; but the neighbours gave no het , ' to them, being familiar with such MOlSeti. Next morn ing a woman, who chanced to Vi-Sit BURK CS, Saw the stran ger lying, apparently a corpse, half covered with straw.— She made no remark at the time, but in the eveniug a re port became current that the ld woman was not only dead, but that she had cools urZairly by her death, and that her body had been sold to a public lecturer. lire police were instantly on th e alert, and in a short time four prrsens, in cluding BuRK E and his wife, were taken into custody. The Jy was found on Sunday morning, in the lecture room of a respectable practitioner, who riot only instantly gave it o p, but expressed his anxiety to facilitate the investigation. Yesterday the body - .vas examined by several medical men, lint the result has not tranvilt4.l..—Edintnovh 01,arrcr• ANNIVERtARY of HARDY'S ACQUITTAL A revs. table party of lipwardi, of 100 persons utet to digs at the Golden L'on, S m i t hfi e ld, yester day-, to cow - if-titmice of its being the anniversary of tl Th;71.7 Hardy, dritit. g t he d esperate iii i jt:oents and which fix - Initial, i t w ill ; acquittal c :ff. l be remembered, was followed up by those of lime Tooke and Thelwall; upon which the Ministry o f that day drew in their horns, and declined offering any evidence against the other ten persons included in the charge of constructive treason, .. At six o r 'clo'ck the company sat down to dinner, Mr. Harmer having been unanimoußly called to the chair; and the seat to his right being occupied by Mr. Hardy, who has now reached his 7Stit year, and still looks strong enough and upright enough to be able to stand another nine hours' speech from Lord Eldon, who , then officiated in the honourable capa city of Attorney-General against the thirteen. The CitAtam.tx, in rising to propose the first toast, observed, that it was too often the case that the toasting of the Chief Magistrate of the kingdom was made to precede every thing elset'as if the people had been made for the convenience of the King, and not tile King for the convenience of the people.—(Applause).—He did not, for his own part, approve of such a measure, for he thought that it conduced as much as any thing to make the people overlook the circumstance that it was in fact from them alone that all the power of the Monarch ori ginated.—(Applause.)--With this feeling in his mind, he was glad to find that ae Stewards, who had undertaken the arrangement of the toasts (and he was happy to say they were such as he was sure Would meet with tile general approbation of the Gentlemen preseyt) had placed as the first toast on the list, " The Sovereignty of the People," which he, therefoi e, begged leave to propose to them; and he trusted that they would drink it with three times three. The toast was then drank with the proposed ho nours, and received general approbation. The next toast was " The King, and may he never forget his own declaration—that the Crown is only held in trust for the benefit of the people;" with three times three, and applause. After some other toasts, Mr. HARMER rose for the purpose of proposing the health of three patriots of 1794, who were still moving on the scene of life; and in having to propose such a toast he expe rienced great pleasure. It was now thirty-four years since one of the most dangerous attempts ever known had been made to introduce a new interpre tation of our laws, and to ratify its introduction by the spilling of unoffending blood. That attempt, he was delighted to say, had failed entirely, and he trusted that they would long continue to celebrate the anniversary of so fortunate an event. They were indebted to Lord Eldon for " one cheer more" and certainly, if his Lordship had had his will in those days the country would be indebted to him for" one law more."—(Laughter and applause.)— Thai law, however, owing to the exertions of Lord Erskine and the honesty of a British July, had dis appeared, and he trusted that one so monstrous would never again be heard of.—(Applause.)— When he looked to his friend on his right, Mr. Hardy, he could not but congratulate him on the manner in which he bad triumphed over this infa mous attempt, and having now survived it for four and thirty years, he would at least wish him hislife and health for sixteen to come, that at the end of that period he might be present to celebrate the jubilee of his triumph—(Applause)—and a joyous jubilee they would have of it. In conclusion, Mr. Harmer begged to propose " the health of Thomas Hardy, John Thelwall, and John Richter." This toast was drunk with three times three, and great applause. Mr. Titonms PURDY presented himself to the Meeting, and was greeted with hearty cheers. He said that he felt most sensibly the honour that they had just paid him, and after thanking them for the favour they had conferred, he proceeded to call the attention of the Meeting to the proceedings of the London Corresponding Society immediately pre vious to the indictments that were laid against so many of its members in 1794. There was a letter which he had written to the Rev. Mr. Bryant, of Sheffield, and which the Attorney-General, Scott (Eldon), had, on the trial, taken particular occasion to lament the absence of, which be (Mr. Hardy) would read to the Meeting, and they should judge for themselves how far the contents were treason able. The letter was to the effect, that being given to understand that the Rev. Mr. Bryant was a great enemy to the Slave Trade, the writer had concluded that he could not be so without having the general liberties of mankind at heart; presuming on this, the writer took occasion to detail to him the plan and progress of the London Corresponding Society, which had - only then just sprung into being, and concluded by requesting information from Mr. Bry ant, respecting a similar Society which the writer was informed had just been organised in Sheffield, and of which he did not doubt the Rev. Gentleman was a member. (Applause, and cries of " There's no treason in that.") Mr. Hardy then read to the Meeting several documents connected with the Lon don Corresponding Society of 1794, which certainly appeared to have any thing but treason for their ob ject, and concluded by again returning thanks for the honour which had been done him. (Cheers.) Mr. JOHN RICHTER then rose to return thanks. He had been, he said, a politician for a great num ber of years, having begun his career as early as the year 1787, when the contested Westminster Elec tion took place between Lord Hood and Sir Cecil Wray on the one hand, and Charles Fox on the other. (Hear.) And he remembered in those days, that regularly organized mobs were engaged on the one side, and on the other, for the purpose of carry. ing on pitched battles in the front of the hustings , . Westminster Elections, he thanked God, were car ried on in a very different manner at present; and he attributed the great improvement that had taken place, in the first instance, to those admirable songs ss ti T .e i tett upon enby Charles the m multitude; _Dtiitttrirtliien; andand iate which rwa l itds had a t o gr t e i a l e t e system of instruction promoted by Mr. Lancaster; to which might be added , the information afforded by the London Corresponding Society. (Hear, hear.) With respect to the indictments of 1791, he never could make out why he had been 4c) far favoured as to be included is them ; but all that he could say on the subject, was, that he had then acted as he had at that time thought right; and he had not, since that period, seen any reason for changing his opinion. (Cheers.) The number of those included in the Government indiennents was thirteen, for which reason they had been by some compared to Jesus Christ and his twelve Apostles—(A laugh)— but, at all events, if such were the case, this at least he would say, that there was no Jndas among them. (Loud cheers.)—Since that time great changes had taken place—such as he certainly had thought he never should have lived to witness; the people were daily advancing in knowledge—liberty was making rapid strides — an d on l y l et his Grace of Newcastle, the Lord Bexley, and the Lord Kenyon, keep writ ing on, and the triumph would be complete; while, by the way, he would just take that opportunity of saying, concerning the Duke of Nesvraele, that there was more treason in the letter he had published, than in the whole of the Correspondence of the London Corresponding Society, ever produced. — (Loud S o ciety, or of any other society the metropolis applause.)—While speaking on the course of improve meat he had lately xvitnessed, he must take the li berty of referring toe d inner at which he had been pre_ sent on last Mondas(Mr. Shell's), and at w hi c h he had heard more r eal elo q uence, more sou nd logic, and iet o tntor, either e pow werfiutlhn o reasoning, withoutioiint h t an hlev,litit ever lis itsd of paru a- Neut.— (Cheers.) —Of Mr. Sheil l he could sav t h at he bad listened to him with the greatest pleasure, nor could he even admit that it answe re d to Cob beet's account of it, when he talked of Sh e il' s vomit ing out his saliva (cheers) he would not have al luded to this abuse, but that many of the company might have read a fresh attack in the Morning Paper of that day, or might have to read one in the IN , Courier of that evening,--(Applause.)—lle • wands by saying he was happy to see the great and happy change, which had taken place L. h time; and whether or not he might lire lb ) ea. - a more to :see the jubilee of the acquittal of the pa triots, he could not say, but he trasted to sea the day when the reformation in public opinion, which had been so leng going on, would be completed, slid then he would die content, and say " Now, Lord lgt thy servant depart in peace, for mine eves seen, thy salvation." Mr. Richer then sat el owe, amid the general cheers of the Meeting. The CHAIRMAN, after having given the " Purity of Trial by Jury," proposed the health of " Benja.- min Flower." Mr. FLOWE R returned thanks. He said be had not attended their meetings for twenty years, but his heart was always with them. In the year l'af4-, when he conducted the Cambridge Intelligencer, he was transported with joy at the news of the acquittal of Hardy, looke and Tbelwall ; and headed the, account of the trial with -the largest letters that his office afforded. They owed that entirely to Trial by Jury, and it was their duty to impress this on their children, and on their ehildrens' children, that this was the only means preserving inviolate their civil, political, and religiow:. liberties. That day was celebrated for three great events—the landing of King William at the com mencement of the i'tevolution, the Gunpowder Plot, and the acquittal of those men in whose honour they had met. He looked upon all those as great events. He rejoiced in the Revolution, end only regretted that the principles from which it took its rise had not been more closely adhered to. He was a Cluis• flan, he was proud to say so, and the principles of the great Founder of their religion, which he re joiced to follow, were equality for all, and good will to mankind. The speaker, after a few remarks in a siwilir strain, concluded by thanking them for drink ing his health, and proposed " The Liberty of the Press." There then followed the health! of—" Sir Franci4 Burdett"—" The Founders of the American Re public," amongst whom was the name of Thomas Mr. GALLowAr expressed the benefit be had de rived from belonging to the Corresponding Society in the year 1794. He described that Society as a po litical school. He had lately been congratulated by some friends that he was not as violent as he used formerly to be; but the fact was, not that he wa,k; less violent (for he was more so), but that the Pub lic mindliad advanced, awd that those individual - , who had congratulated him had themselves received the benefit of improvement in the knowledge of their r ights. Mr. VVOOEER, ,dter a few prefatory observations, in which he'expreieed the obligations he was under to Mr. Harmer, proposed that gentleman's health, which was drank with great applause. Mr. HARMER returned thanks, and observed, that though his professional duties did not enable him to attend much to politiCal subjects, yet, on every op portunity that offered itself, he • had stood forward as the advocate of Ihe,,,Fights of man. Several i9aascb rrer• drfank,. , and the convi. vialitY of did gee t rig was kept np till a late hoar. SPORTING INTELLIti ENCE. HUNTING INTIILLIGIINCE. ATTOINTDIENTS 10K 711Lii Tile Brighton Harriers, 011 Fridays, near the 11* Mazda:vs at Patch= ; and Wedsies4taym, u.wer the Bare Coarse Mr. Freeman's Harrier, on Friday, at Ginge Furze ; :ad Satarday, at the Cross Reads, Rod, Farm ; at eleven. The Gransden gorauls, au Ft iday, at .BartansWand, at tea. His Majesty's Sing-koartie, en Prickly, at likvialer t at half-peet ten. The Hohne Barriers, en Friday, on Cl a atd° 4 Dowoe. The Sinnington Fox-hounds, on Friday, at Kirkdalo Wath ; at ten. Sir T. Sykes's Pox-V °wads, on Friday, at Langton, at ten. The Boronghbridge Harrier, on Friday, three mks en the York Road ; at half-past ten. The York City Harriers, on Friday, at Knapton, half-past ten. • The Illackatoor Vale Hounds, on Friday, tit Tersarit'l Wood. The Surrey Harriers, oe Saturday, at Sandersteed. 'The Northumberland Fox-hontula, en Saturday, Et Netherwitton ; at ten. GREAT FOOT RACE - AT CHESTER. A rase which has excited extraoriiiniry 'intereee in this neighbourhood, was decided . on the Race Goatee on ;Won day, between West, one of Lord Grosvenor's footmen. aui Lewis, better known as the Antelope, from the neigbboor, hoed of Delamere Forest. It was for 1001. aside; the distance 160 yards, West is a fine athletic young man, measuring nearly six feet; Lewis is mut•.h shoi ter and vers slender. Both virties were sanguine, and betting was' . even at starting. The distance was run ill 1a West winning by a little more than the diameter of biA person. Many thousand persons were ccilectetl:tc wit Lits the: race, end the disappointment of Lewis's friends, vrho ivtd. come to town in great numbers, is more ea,ily conceived than described. Much money was won and lost. CHASE EXTRAORDINARY. A stag having lately made his appearance in tile) neigh bourhood of Elsdon, intimation s+f the e;runnt4taore way sent to Henry Boag, Esq., of Trewhitt, who arcnidingif went over with his Fox-hounds on Thursday tip niglit. and, after an excellent run of an hAti anti ten without a check, succeeded io taking it in iallatit . style, It proved to be alias briek,'lnd ti - "uPP"ea ttYhave ed from the west .of Tbme Merc,,,, , p. • , PEDESTRIAN MA tu T a ;: \tiv,)ed A n G aue A drbe l ru N tro S u : k(tob q o l t Sl ha F iea(tie,t On Monday, to decide a wager of fi fty so vereign s-wih twie'oerrndunojfnotinvheeeerßanFoyyitlaplralr)o7;tohCf4tHilhe ground) fifteen milee ,tbryv w hours. The space, one mi 1.. ., 'our, Was rueemured to thi noith of the Cav a l ry B arracki, at Brighton, making tvrt. railed out and home. The first live miles were peiformed in fifty-two minutes and a half, the second five in 'fifty-fotit, minutes and a ka/f, the third in fifty-nine minutes fifty, sev in e u n tes set :::d ds thr th ee e a cc omplished With thi rteer , m hetacsokubdais being o• spare. The first six emits were covered in sixty-three minutes. MATCH TO RU TEN MILES IN .59 MINUTES. Cbotes, the celebrated pedestrian, undertakes to perform this Wonderful task this day, at Hampton's Cricket Oretand, near the New Church, at Camberwell. He eoiramenees at three o'clock, The wager-money is 401., and the betfine is six to four in favour of the completion of the truitria. utr - SVRREY T HEAT RE.— ,v e perc eive that ..vstf , . WA YLETT 19 to take her benefit at this Theatre ou Tues day next; judging from the marked success which bar,. st. tended this distiuguished actress during h er short engage.- ment at this Theatre, as well as front the excellent a hilt of fare " provided for her friends, we can have no doubt but that she will meet with corresponding support on Tuesday next. It is whispered, we understand, in the whiskey how of Werburgh-street, that several hundred of the Northern Orangemen hav e arrived in town for the purpose of effecting a forcible dressin g of tho statue in College green, on to-morrow (Tuesday).—Dublin Morning Re. gister. The new pier, which will be commenced as soon " the necessary powers are obtained, will extend is a straight hue about 150 feet beyond the-breakwater, and then break off to the right and left, in the form of a letter 1 . A convenient place of embarkation in all times of tide, and in all winds, will then be formed. The proprietors of the several steam-packets have signified their intention to support the undertaking, by engaging to land their paste. gers upon the pier.— Southampton Paper. On Wednesday last the Ses.tous of the Peace og w ita a :A h lti c ht l ee d gGfloorrLi*:...d.o__Jtonewyenartoir:sthFenaatedv:rshzettheate7R;zbecoianugraamwaiitd:: paset On the decease of an old lady in this eity, few days since, an interest note upon one of our banks, for several hundred pounds, bearing date as far back as 1792, was found in her drawers. It had never been presented for accep t an ce, nor had any interest, which amounted to nearly an equal sum with the principal, ever been paid. The whole of the then existing firm are going to their long h „, n , ; but, tutteh to the credit of the present bankers, it was immediately honoured, although payment might haves been le ally refs -A —.Plymouth Gazieks