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ROltv VDITTO - N. tANK of ASlA.—Capital, 1,000,000/. in ° nail 10 c 000 of 1001. each. One per Cent. deposl, p a -pp tcations for Shares must be paid into Messrs. Smith, F )ne, Smith, and Co.'s. Lombard-street, or Messrs. Hercies, ,2raahar, and Co.'s, St. James's-street, Rankers to the Com ;t_ltY, previous to the closing of the Registry when the all ';:: l t ia ° , f ie ll lo Shares reserved for distribution in Englan will R. I. Al A IN. Bat i k of R. 24, Great Winchaster-atre , Old Broad-street. aid 0 Itl EN — T A STEAM NA%IG ATION COMPANY, for establishing Steam miniraunication with British India, &c. ; under Royal Charter is lacorporation, granted November, 1640. Capital One Mil in 20,000 Shares of 501. each, with authority, under the ; ne tion of the Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Trea -47, to increase it i 3 1,500,0001. DIRECTORS. Orlhur Anderson Esq. iCapa Samuel Thornton, R.N. Vharit Bourne, Robert 'llurburn, Esq. t Ohn a Canaphell, K. C. H. 111'Gliie Willcox, Esq. cry Carleton, Esq. Charles Wye \Villiams, Esq. Jos t ph C. E wart , E sq. P eter J o h n D e Z u l ue t a, r• sq. \p , Ilattley Esq. all powe r to , add to their titnber, and elect a Chairman and Deputy Chairman. The Managing rirectors. t ALI nrr a as{ The on. J. T. I. Melr'lle. ,lameaan Hunter, E.q, 41;r s„ I lta—Messrs. Willia ms , D eacon , L a b ouc h ere, an d C o. SO NDING CUUNSEL—TI. Itellenden Llci loks---.1. It. De Mole, Esq., Merchant er Tailors q. ' Hall ; J. A. M`Lrod, Esq , Billiter. street. St:cal:TAßN—Mr. Jamcs Allan. tn, uirectors have the satisfaction to announce to the Proprie coll,al the public, that the Charter of Incorporation for the bili, a nY, which, among other advantages, limits the responsi kri`,),i,of S hareholders te the amount their respective sub .' Lu4 s, has received the Royal Assent. 61:1Pplicants for Shares are informed that the Deposit of l it 17 hare will b e requ i re d to b e pa id on or b efore t h e sat na raruary, 1841, to entitle Subscribers to receive a Di " Of the profits, which will be declared in May, 1 141. , A 0 further i ns t a l ment on such Shares will be required fur inotiths. treT(h_e following vessels, now the property . of the Company, qove7Ployed under the Mail Contracts with her Majesty 66 6 00 nra ''ut, foe %inch services the Company receive annually -- - ' • - -;. - '- `. ' - i --' - 7 . 'L' :. ',' ' . , - • . :I? 1: - :. 5- t . _ , _ . i - 4 .., itlia" - 1; 4,2 • -;,•,•• , •-•-tt .c••• , .. 14 7 : 41_,....-. • ':';%;;.il''--.• ..' ''' l •4•`_," : 1 .46P ''''' , _ . _ .• C.,i , "A* •• . ' .o• .."------- cr1..,) ' 4 . , . s: • . 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The Hare, steamer, drove to sea, came behind the south pier, where she bccamo a total wreck ; the Safety, steam-boat, lost; George and Ann, steamer, lost; Prince Albert, steamer, sunk, and much injured; Earl Durham, steam-boat, sunk, and greatly damaged; the Neptune, steam-boat, drove from Hetton Spouts to the ferry-boat landing, having lost paddle-cases, paddles, rudder, stanchions, and bulwarks. The brig Queen Victoria, Sunderland, has lost foremast, main-topmast, main boom, bowsprit, and carried away her stern and a considerable portion of her bulwarks ; a Rochester burge, timber laden, drove behind the south pier, but was after wards towed into the harbour again ; Petrel, of Sundel*- land, lost bowsprit, and had her bulwarks stove; a foreign vessel (Dutch) was cut down to the water's edge, present ing a most lamentable appearance ; the Era, of Rochester, drove to sea without any living animal on board, save a dog; the brig Jean was driven to ssa, and has not yet been seen or heard of; the Gamma was also driven to sea, with only one boy on board, but has since been reported to have got into Hartlepool ; and several other vessels, whose names we have not been able to ascertain, were likewise forcesi out by the pressure, some of which, having crews on board, were brought up in the roads, and afterwards towed in ; but the number missing is not correctly known, such is the general confusion. N. es are ricer b! to 27i p r to 20 1 P e tende lle i , int Pt LON DON, T URSDA Y, JANUARY 21, 1)7341. No. 15.093. PRICE sd. MORNINGS AND EVEN:INGS. PANORAMA of the CITY of CANTON, elabo rately finished by a distinguished Chinese. The fine Model of the Under Cliff of the Isle of Wight, and the Painted Glass Pictures, after Martin and Danby, are all to be seen by arti ficial light, under a magnifying power. Sixteen Hundred Works % , hieh display eminent Art, and simplify Practical Science, and a continuance of novelties. 17th urges the payment of Tithes from the author:ty of the Law of Moses.' " Ethelwulph's reign furnishes us with a subject, which, though mentioned elsewhere, it will not b amiss to repeat a ittle more largely of in this place; I mean the grant of Tithes. The Charter runs thus : " I, Ethclwulph,• by the grace of God, &c., have, for the ealth of my soul, and good of my people, taken the prudent resolution of granting the tenth partof all the lands throughout my whole kingdom to the Church and Ministers of Religion, &c. &c.—Dated the Palace at Wilton, in the year 854, Indic tion the second, at the Feast sf Easter." The terms, date, and subscription of the Charter, have in duced several learned men to believe it spurious. But without entering into the controversy, I shall content myself with ob serving, that long before this Charter the Clergy of England claimed a right to the Tithes, if they were not already in actual possession of them. This is evident from the 17th Canon of the Council of Calenith, held in 785, where we find they urged the payment of Tithes from the Law of Moses. If this Chas ter, therefore, is not to be considered a forgery, it seem at least to be of very doubtful authority. Add to this, that by the tenth part of the lands must necessarily be meant the tenth part of the profits ; which must be owned to be a very forced interpretation, especially in a primordial Act such as this."— Page 1 11, Rapin's History of England. " The plan which I have to unfold may at first appear start ling, . . . to introduce within the Christian Church. It may appear to encroach by those who have strenuously ad vocated the sacredness of the clergy's income, and entered their decided protest against any reform being necessary, as re lating to ecclesiastical affairs."—Espilon Theta. "The King, Henry the Fourth, representing to the Parlia ment his great want of an extraordinary aid, the Commons went in a body and addressed him, That without burdening his people he might supply his occasions by seizing the revenue of the clergy.' Ihe Archbishop of Canterbury resisted—the Commons brought in a Bill to seize the clergy's revenues— the solicitations of the Archbishop were so prevalent with the Lords, that they threw out the Bill, so the Commons were forced to find other means to supply the King's occasions; the clergy granted a tenth and a-half. "—Page 495. " The Commons, willing to comply with the King's ( Henry V. ) demand of a subsidy, presented an address, praying him to seize the clergy's revenues. The clergy perceiving their ruin inevitable, came to the resolution to resign a pa , t of their riches to the King in order ts, save the rest."—Page 509, Rapin's History of England. (1. )—See the Sun, Nos. 14,628, 14,662. PUBLICATIONS. SEIZURE FOR CHURCH-RATES. , s and f°r Holden a NI; p ri cesb 0 0 0 0 (OW 'o-daY ' ; 465 Just published, price Iss. TIE POST-OFFICE LONDON DIREC TORY, FOR 1841. CONTENTS:- STREET DIRECTORY, (the first ever published of the Metropolis, to include Merchants and Tradespeople, as well as Nobility and Gentry.) Commercial Directory. Trades' Directory. Law Directory. Court Directory. W. Kelly and Co., 19 and 2 Booksellers in Town and Count Tho Church has fallen foul of the Dissenting minis ters at Harlestone, the adjoining market town to Bun gay. The following letter from a Dissenting clergyman of that town explains the case. It has been widely cir , ulated and made, no doubt, some impression on those who conscientiously refuse to pay for the support of a Church which is the richest in the world : THE INUNDATIONS. (From our Evening Edition of Last Night.) BRENTFORD. NEW BRENTFORD, TUESDAY EVRNINO..---The distressed boatmen, with their wives and children, are still domiciled at the National School-room, in the Butts. Last even ing they were, through the kindness of the vicar and churchwardens (aided by the trifling subscriptions that have come in), again supplied with coffee and bread and butter, and at night with a supper of beef, bread, and beer. Alsi, the bc;.utifol arid varied Experiments, the Chemical Lectures, Alieroscope, Diving Bell and Diver, and the Models in motion The Band of Music performs from Three to Five, and from Half-past Eight to Hal-past. Ten o'clock. Parliamentary Directory. City Directory. Conveyance Directory. Banking Directory, See. !0, Old B.iswell-court, and al try. , 3‘; Admission, One Shilling. ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION, REGENT-STREET. TO JOHN GEDNEY, ESQ. ONE OF THE CHURCHWARDENS OP REDENIIALL WITII II IRLESTON, NORFOLK. --- SIR,-The Church-rate war has commenced in our quiet little town. On the 12th inst., the Rector's War den, with a constable, entered the house of my brother minister, the Rev. S. Laidler, and took therefrom one table and seven chairs for the rate of Is. 5Nd. On this disgraceful proceeding I address you, Sir, rather than your brother in office, because you are the Parishioners' Warden, supposed to be the guardian of our interests; and because you are capable of being reasoned with. I hare long admired your eff.irts to break the trammels of agricultural prejudices; and ycu have done much to add to the stock of the farmer's practical knowledge. Let me then call your attention to the injustice and im piety of compelling Dissenters to support your Church. You take the Bible to be the authoritative test of what the Creator requires of his creatures, and you profess to de rive your views of religion from the Word of God ; and thus far we agree: but here the agreement ceases. lam punished for taking the Word of God as my rule, and you are rewarded with my chairs and tables for your interpre tation of the same rule. The law of man comes between me and the law of God, and requires me to support your form of religion, which I reject as being opposed to the Bible. Do you approve of this? Let us change posi tions. Suppose the Catholic religion once more estab lished, yourself a Dissenting Protestant, and Mr. Aldons taking your chairs and tables to pay for his high mass. Could you then approve his proceeding, or recognise his moral right? It does not a whit alter the case, whether you are the Dissenter or I. The reasons which would justify your resistance in the case supposed, are the very reasons which justify Dissenters in their line of conduct. But Church-rates are the law of the land No. There is no law to compel the parishioners to make a rate ; and until a rate is carried in the vestry, there is no law upon the subject. Suppose a bad law authorised you and your fellow Churchmen to repair your own private houses, and charge the expense upon your Dissenting neighbours, would it not be simple robbery to take advan tage of such a law? No, Sir, it is your own voluntary act, and not the law, which makes the Church-rate. But I take higher ground. A thing may be legally right and morally wrong. A rate may be legally made, but, with my convictions of what the Bible requires of me, I may be compelled to resist the payment of it. In all civil affairs, I acknowledge the supremacy of " the powers that be," but in the province of religion I utterly deny their authority. The.question is simply this, whethecis it right, to obey God or man ? I cannot obey both in the matter of Church-rates—to which I shall do homage, judge ye. The inquest on the body of William Spruce will, it is understood, be held to-morrow afternoon, when the whole of the causes of this direful calamity will no doubt be de veloped. During the day several of the leading millers, maltsters, and whartingers have been in communication with the City Navigation Committee, and with the directors of the Grand Junction Canal, on the subject of raising and re moving the wrecks which now totally impede the naviga tion of the canal, and thereby ascertaining the extent of damage done, and a meeting of the parties in crested was convened at the Three Pigeons. At seven o'clock the meeting assembled, when Mr. HALL said that the City had no jurisdiction in the matter, and that the duty belonged to the Canal Com pany. Sir Francis Head said, " Yes, wo'll help you, and you must help us, for, although the navigation belongs to the Company, the boats and freight do not." They had, therefore, to settle what body of men each of the sufferers could send to assist, and Sir Francis Head would meet them at nine o'clock to-morrow morning to settle the re mainder. STEAM. THE GENERAL STEAM NAVIGA TION COMPANY'S splendid and powerful first-class STEAM SHIPS are appointed to sail for -1 DIN BURGH, front Brunswick-wharf, Blackwall, every Saturday Night, and alternate Wednesday, at Ten. The CLA RENCE next Saturday Evening. NEWCASTLE, &mit Downe's-wharf, every Saturday Night, at Eight. The LONDON MERCHANT next Saturday. SUNDERLAND, from Downes's-wharf. The TOURIST, Monday, January 25, at Seven Evening, and February 5, IS, and 25. TO MASTERS OF COLLEGES, SCHOOLS, &Lt., &c. Just published, to be had, gratis, of all Booksellers in Town and Country. CATALOGUE of WORKS in all Branebe3 of EDUCATION ; including many New Works, with a Selection of Books suitable for Prize 3, for GI a clu.ltes at the Universities, for Boys' Schools, and for Ladies' Schools. A poor boy, whil e i n t h e act of leav i ng a ship which was in imminent danger, by means of a rope, was unfor;u nately cut in two owing to the vessel he was leaving closing with ancther ship near Mark Quay. Ile was the last one left on board, the others having succeeded in getting from her. The coal drops and part of H et t on - spouts were carried away by ships coming in contact with them, and several of the Sunderland arid Durham Railway Com. pany's stacks sustained partial injury. The most disastrous and melancholy case is tLat of the brig Newby, which lies bottom up across the harbour mouth, and must become a total wreck. This vessel wag driven against the north pier, and the crew, seven in number, were with great difficulty and immense danger drawn on to the pier by means of a rope, thrown on board by Mr. Garthwaite, dock-master; the men one after the other were drawn along this rope and landed on the pier. At this moment the vessel went over, and an active young man, John Davison, son of Thomas Davison, harbour master, was forced overboard by the main-boom, and drowned. Jd ;Lc} , e , to '-;" t ki to '2 14 ,4 co Ji) Printed fcr Longman, Orme, and Co., Paternoster-row ; London. tor% Cj „ :14 „'” The above %% ill be sent free, by post, to any person ap plying to the publishers for it by letter. YA 1311 OUT IL from London-bridge -wharf, thQ RAMONA, every Saturday Evening, at Six. IPSWICH, from ditto, the ALBION every Wednesday and Saturday morning, at Seven. To seeure berths, and for all information, apply at the Offices of the Company, 69, Lombard-street; 37, Regent-circus; and 33, Leaderiliall-street. On Monday, Feb. 1, 1841, will be published, price ss. (to Le completed . in Ten, or not exceeding Twelve, parts), Part 1. of A DICTIONARY OF CI ENCE, LITERATURE, and ART, k_7 comprising the History, Description, and Scientific Principles of every branch of Human Kuotis ledge ; with the Derivation and Definition of all the terms in general use. Illustrated by Engravings on Wood. General Editor, W. T. MANDE, P.R. S. L. and E. ; assisted by JOSEPH CAU \TIN, Esq. CONTRIBUTORS IN TUEIR SEVERAL DETARTMENTS. W. T. Prande, F. R. S. J. C. Loudon, F.L.S., &c. J. Cauvin, Esq. H. Mcrivale, A.M. 'l'. Galloway, F. R. S. &c. R ev . C. Merivale, A.M. G wilt, F. R. A.S. F:S. A. ,&e. J. R. AP Culled', Esq. J. Limilley, Ph. D.,F.R.S ,&c. It. Owen, F.ll. Ss, &c. *„," The Prospectus may be had of all Booksellers. London : Longman, Orme, and Co. cou ptr/ ~,, . 45 •• e Small Parcels to be sent to the Offices, and Goods to the respective Wharfs. , 69 Tons. Horse Power. °RIENTAL .. c (I A R G E t iV) L1N 7 1;.111' . -•00L ... 1,5-10 RR AG k ::" ....... 78• 111 FR ' N ZA 687 'IA Al 5 ROv ........................... - ' • .A . fok` r k L it ° TAU, I - ur SE- • Thi3T. anees hav e been effected on all these Vessels. litrl y f , °m Parly has been formed under circumstances pecu • th e f„,l'.'oilrable for insuring its success, and the prospects for I. TH:Q are based on the following advantages, viz. : t e,11 :: ii already possessed of property in steampping, &c., Pr6 m , e g d e a mount, in active and profitable employment, and the 1i,,,54)._ extension of its operations :cannot fail to render tho 2 . ;1'414 established greatly more productive. . hav e a ',c management is under tire direction of parties who st eam etm.lpetent knowledge of all the details connected with of • t i i T'aVigation, (let ivecl from long practical experience, some sitt er having been engaged in this branch of business for 3 " 1 Years, fr om '' important branch of the Company's business arises With i4h4e4,l!'eady established trading and passenger intercourse 1t , t eninsula. l 'yerr i ,,, " ,, s ,, t .. h e advantage of two beneficial Mail Contracts with 5, -F L •• th e i r ,liie liability of Shareholders is limited . to the . amount of The arcs, by reason of the charter of incorporation. b t wine ,', l.° E sPectus and form of application for shares may be o 4ege -" tne Company's Office, 51, St. Mary-axe, and at 44, e,„ irr '4-street, London •at the City of Dublin Steam-packet 1 .4(1 e n Y'' Office. Liverpool and Dublin ; also of the Bankers ()Leiters of the Corn i pany. IIY order, JAMES ALLAN, Secretary. 1 A ONDON and BRIGHTON RAILWAY COMPANY. e 0 Notice is hereby given that the next HALF-YEARLY MEETING of the PROPRIETORS of this COMPANY will be held, pursuant to the Act of Incorporation, on WED NESDAY, 27th January, 1841, IA the London Tavern, Bishops gate-street, at One o'clock precisely, when the following Direc tors will go out of office, but being duly qualified, offer them selves for Re-election :—John Harman, Esq. ; John Cattley, Esq. ; H. M. Dyer, Esq. ; John Hodgson, Esq. ; Lieutenant- Colenel Moody, R. E. ; and at which Meeting certain Shares upon which the Seventh Call has not been paid, and have been in consequence thereof declared forfeited under mi nute of the Board of Directors of 19th June last, will be submitted for confirmation of such forfeiture; and at which Me4t , rtg there will be laid before the Proprietors certain arti cles of agreement entered into between this Company, and the London and Croydon, and the South Eastern Railway Com panies, relative to the joint purchase, enlargement, alteration, and proprietorship, use, and management of a station for the said three Companies near London-bridge, in the parish of St. Olave, Southwark, in pursuance of the Resolution of the General Meeting held on the 30th of January, 1840. The Transfer Books of this Company will be closed on the 16th inst., and remain-slint until after the Meeting. Under provision of the Act of Parliament no person can vote at this Meeting who shall not have paid all Calls due. JOHN HARMAN, Chairman. THOMAS WOOD, Secretary. London and Brighton Railway Office, 10, Angel court, Throgmorton-street, Jan. 6, Is4l. WINDSOR. Shortly after nine o'clock on Saturday evening the lower part of the town was laid several feet under water, in con sequence of a violent rush of waters from the uplands in the Great Park, in the vicinity of Cranbourne. In the space of less than half an hour, without any previous warning, such was the rapidity of the progress of the stream, that the whole of the houses on the south side of Gloucester-place were inundated, the cellars, parlours, and kitchens being tilled, and the . main road leading from Windsor to Ascot, for several hundreds of yards, three and four feet under water. A gradual rise con tinued till past one o'clock ou Sunday morning, when the water partially subsided, after doing consider. able damage. Mr. Oliver, the proprietor of the Ade laide Hotel, in Sheet -street, will be a sufferer to the extent of upwards of 1001. In less than ten minutes from the first indication of the flood, his wine cellars were completely filled, rendering it impossible to make any attempts to preserve his property. Pipes of wine and hogsheads of spirits immediately floated. The vent-pegs, from being knocked against each other, were in some forced out, and a quantity of wino and spirits thus sacri ficed. A policeman on duty hearing the cries of some dogs in a stable at the rear of the house of Mr. Lawrence, an extensive builder, called that gentleman from his bed between one and two o'clock in the morning, and he, on hastening to the stable discovered his horse standing in four feet of water, and two favourite dogs swimming about the place nearly exhausted. The trains between Windsor and Reading have been considerably delayed. On some parts of the line the water has been two or three feet in height, running through the furnace of the engine, and thus putting out the fire. The Thames commenced rapidly rising on Sunday, and when this account left Windsor yesterday, the waters were on the increase. A great portion of the Little Park, near Datchet, is flooded to the depth of several feet. The Brocas, at Eton, is simi larly flooded and the whole distance from Windsor to Surley Hall (upwards of two miles), and for a considerab'e extent beyond, is one sheet of water. We have heard that several sheep were drowned near Maidenhead in the course of Sunday night. Oa Satu:day evening, while several parties were enjoying a glass at the Hope lan, at Frog more, the water suddenly and unexpectedly rushed into the parlour, and in less than a quarter of an hour it had risen to two feet in height. The damage done for many miles round Windsor, and the destruction of property, arc most extensive. The late severe weather had caved considerable dis. tress and want among the humbler classes, particularly shipwrights, and the awful calamity of to-day must be felt in a greater or less degree by every class of the commu nity. The banks, and quays, and piers have all day been thronged by thousands of anxious spectators in the coun tenances of many of the shipowners were depicted con• sternation and dismay. The following vessels, although seriously damaged, I ave succeded in getting into the North Dock, so that, in the event of another rush of ice, which it is doubtful will take place, they will be secure from further risk of damage The Epsilon—main boom carried away, and stern and bulwarks terribly shattered; Boreas—eat-head and lar board bow stove in, stern and quarter much damaged ; Sunderland packet—both quarter and stern shattered, bow sprit gone, and bow stove, main yard broke, and stern carried away. Also the Coadjutor, Swift, Nouel, Kent, Economy, Delta, Melrose, Antrim, Th omas an d Mary— all considerably damaged. Fearful as this account is, though it comprehends all that the greatest industry could obtain, it is by no means an adequate picture of the distress and ruin which prevails. a 0 U o 'i, 5 0 4 0 f 6 i " U ulO 6 0 0 g " No mention, L'ishop Barlow observes, is made of tithes in the grand codes of canons, ending in the year of our Lord -157, (which, next. to the Bible, he considers as the most au thentic book in the world). During all that period, there fore, both the clergy and the Church appear to have been sup ported by the free gifts and other oblations of the pious."—See Selden on Tithes, an Barb. Rein. 169. SIR WALTER SCOTT'S HISTORY OF SCOTLAND. SCHOOL EDITION. In Two thick Vol,. bound. to ge th er or separately, THE HISTORY OF SCOTLAND, from the Earliest Period to the close of the Rebellion, 1745-4 G—contained in " Tales of a Grandfather," by SIR WALTER SCOTT, Bart. Rohnt Cadell, Edinhurgh ; Whittaker and Co., London. Of whom may he had : I. LIFE OF SIR WALTER SCOTT by MR. LOCK HART. 10 Vols. 11. WAVERLEY NOVELS. 48 Vols. 111. SIR WALTER SCOTT'S POETRY. 12 Vols. IV. PROSE WRITINGS. 28 Vols. " Tithes, from the Saxon word Teoda, which signifies the tenth part of a thing, may be defined to be the tenth part of the increase yearly, arhiing and renewing from the profits of land, the stock upon lands, and the personal industry of the in habitants."-2 Black. Corn. 24. From the above readings the following scale is deducible:— Allowing agricultural produce to realise thirty per cent., which is absolute—tithe impost to bo included—and increase being considered synonymous with produce—a tenth is 131. per cent. Here we must observe we think the imposition of three half pence in every shilling quartem loaf a severe infliction for our spiritual edification. Albeit it would almost pass without a murmur, but that our hallowed Faith enjoins us " To feed the hungry"—and its denunciations are upon those who are unmind ful of " the child of misery bai.tised in tears." Ethelwulph's Charter.—A to nth of the profit, 3/. per cent. Hebrew. New Translatior —A tenth of a tenth taken on roduce, 265. per cent. Hebrew —A tenth of a tenth, on the increase or profit ; 6s. per cent —An Insight to " Forced Interpretation." We cull from the " blaze of eloquence" of immortal Milton the epitaph for the patron of this work Revolutions of ages do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of which whole nations fare the worse." NEW WORK ON STRICTURES OF THE URETHRA. Just published, price ss. i Ck_ PRACTICAL TREATISE on the CAUSES, NATURE, and TREATMENT of STRICTURES of the URETHRA, and their CONSE QUENCES. By FRANCIS BURDETT COURTENAY, M.R.C.S.L. And late Surgeon to the Metropolitan Infirmary for the Caro of Strictures of the Urethra. CONTENTS. FUR COATS, Argyll Rooms, 246, Regent. street. The Proprietors of the Hudson's Bay Fur Es tablishment invite the attention of the Nobility and Gentry to a unique and splendid COLLECTION of FUR COATS, manufactured from the skin of the Hudson Bay Seal, in the prevailing fashion, by superior Artistes. It is perhaps scarcely necessary to add, that they are impervious to wet, afford greater warmth than any envelope hitherto introduced, and arc sur passingly elegant as an article of costume, without being ob trusively conspicuous in their appearance. ARGYLL ROOMS, 246, REGENT-STREET. SUPPLY OF WATER-LONDON AND WESTMINSTER WATER COMPANY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Office of West Middlesex Water Works, New-road, Jan. 19, 1841. Sir,—My letter of the Bth instant has been miscon strued—the object of the concluding paragraph was to state that, notwithstanding the West Middlesex Com pany had incurred a very great expenditure to render the water supplied bright and pure at all seasons, no in crease in the rates had been ma; on account of that outlay. jro FU R S.-WATERPROOF CLOTH COATS, lined throughout with Fur. The Proprietors of the Hudson's Bay Fur Establishment have the honour to an nnunce that, in compliance with the 11 ishes of several Noble men and Gentlemen, they have manufactured an assortment-of CLOTH COATS, ft om the Patent Waterproof Cloth, lined throughout with Fur. The most approved modes have been adopted, and they are manufactured in a superior style, by first-rate Artistes. )rtler of the Board of Directors, M.K. KNIGHT, Secretary. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. ARGYLL ROOMS, 246, REGENT-STREET. T H E VESTA PATENT STOVE, That 70s. lain. VEs• ri a Madei ra c li mate in En gland may be produced by the brly,th',STOVE, pl an t s o f th e mos t t en d er ki n d regu i r i ng !te br , e ave prov e d d• in sick rooms it h er as been found invalu- ay ng one ;yen degree of tempo throughout the n o t Zht. The Vesta Stove has no doors, and as there gib ed "Y fire i n contact' with the outer case, warmth is ob the usewi'llout any of the unpleasant effects complained of in Outliers. The fire can be kept alight the whole season, is re lQtl eap part containing the fire is not open during the time . it the § t " l 'shed with luel. The fuel passes from the Hod into thef "0 ,without being seen, preventing entirely any escape ih fee:llozious vapours, and that annoyance from . dust wh o l v c e h ti iron, to tit u.R other stoves, arises from Vi . e fuel betug e Hod into the Stove, or what is worse, into r a em funnel ttii,i n - `PY it into the stove. 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The Publication will commence with a DIGEST of the EVIDENCE given before the IMPORT DUTIES' COM MITTEE; price Half-a-Crown, to be ready on the 6th of Lotxton t How and Parions, 132, Fleet—sitret. POPULAR EDITION, Price Half-a-crown, isy post 3s. MARRIAGE —Its Intent, Obligations, and Physical and Constitutional Disqualifications Medically considered; with interesting and remarkable Illustrations, gra phic, narrative, anti remedial : an original, comprehensive, and important Work, addressed chiefly t• Young Men, and called PROFESSIONAL RECORDS. Also, Companion to the same, called MEDICAL CON SULTATIONS. Price 2s. tid. Sherwood, 23, Paternoster-row; Carvalho, 147, Fleet-street ; Hannay, 63, Oxford-street; Harris, 25, Bow-street; and all Booksellers. N EW TRANSLATION OF THE BIBLE. Church Extension.—Mr. Hume's amendment to Sir R. Inglis's motion, that an humble Address be presented to her Majesty, praying that, before recommending this House to grant any further sums of public money towards Church Ex tension, her Majesty would be graciously pleased to take into consideration the rich and valuable endowments which are al ready possessed by the Established Church of England and Wales, as well as the large sums of public money which have been granted for Church Extension since the year 1809. " That her Majesty will be graciously pleased to consider that, in the opinion of a large portion of the people in England, the present revenues of the Church, if wisely administered, aro amply sufficient to provide religious worship and instruction for that portion of her Majesty's subjects belonging to the Established Church of this kingdom."—The Sun, No. 14,833, `Friday, May 22, 1840. " We observe in a pamphlet, ' Anti-Deist,' published by Mr. Bellamy, that Exodus, c. iii., v. 22, is a grois mistransla- tion. He notices a number of other errors in the translation of the Bible now in use, equally hostile to the true meaning of tho writers. It is not a little curious, that many of these mis translated passages, which give meanings in direct opposition to the real ones, have been as stoutly defended by eminent theo logians as any in the whole book, and long commentaries have been written upon them, expressly to show their beauty and propriety."—The Examiner, Dec. 24, 1821. To COARESPONDENTS.—" The Bible.—We have been so earnestly exhorted to persevere in opening our Paper to the dis cussion of the merits of the New Translation, as a question of the utmo: t importance to the interests of mankind, that we feel it to be our duty to comply. Our Correspondents, therefore, shall be attended to in turn, as we have reason to believe that the Heads of the Church have already directed their attention to the controversy."—The Sun, London, Saturday, Dec. 5, 1818. " Surely the elevated patronage which this New Tranlation has deservedly obtained, should operate as a general example and incitement. Shall the Bible, with its many acknowledged errors, descend to posterity polluted with all those errors ; or shall it be transmitted to the latest generations of mankind, with as much of its original purity as it is possible for human sagacity, loaowledge, and diligence to elucidate and confirm."— The Sun, Monday, November 23d, 1818. . The Sun, Septem ber 30th, October 7th, and 28th, 1837. " Published in 1818 and 1819. Parts 1 and 2, price Ns. each, dedicated by permission to his Royal highness the Prince of Wales, as Regent. " The New Translation of the Holy Bible, containing the three books of the Pentateuch, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, and reconciling the numerous discrepancies in Jerome's and the European versions." Part 3d in 1821, containing from Numbers to Deuteronomy. By John Bellamy. SPECIMEN OF EMENDATION. Authorised Version, Deuteronomy, chap. 14, v. 22 :—" Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed." " It is a well-known maxim of English law, suggested by common sense, and recognised by every principle of justice, to infer, that the long and uninterrupted enjoyment of a civil right must have originated in a regular grant from the original owner, although no express evidence can be produced of ex istence of such conveyance." On Tithes.—Quarterly Review, No. 53. New Translation:—" A tenth thou shalt tenth, of all the increase of thy seed." Note—Onkelos, the most eminent of all the learned Rabbis, who lived before the dispersion of the Hebrews, and consequently made the translation of the Sacred Volume into Chaldee at the period whorl the Hebrew ssas a national language, thus translates the clause—Gnasaara . " a tenth thou shalt tenth," which is the same as the Hebrew. The Septuagint 3EXXI - 0•1 CGT.4OEX.C.C . n.t.IG - Ei (both Alexandrine and Vatican) " a tenth thou shalt tenth." The learned Selden, Le Clerc, and other great authorities on tithes, say—" It is not likely that the Levites should have had a tenth of the whole produce of the land, because the number of the tribe of Levi, compared with the numbers of the other tribes, was so trifling. Neither could it be of all the produce of the land, but of the increase of the seed; as it is truly said in the common version : for the increase must necessarily have been that part of the produce after the seed employed to give the increase, had been returned to the grower out of the gross produce; otherwise it could not have been said it was the "in crease of the Seed." When the harvest bad been ended, and all gathered, then the husbandman laid aside his great themma, otherwise called the first fruits of his threshing floore, of which it hath beene spoken in chapter on first fruits; which, though it were one of ten, in respect of that portion which the Levites received, yet it was but ene of a hundred in respect of the husbandman's stocke, who payed the Levites; the Levites payed a tenth por tion unto the Priests ; this they termed Magnasher min-ham magnasher, the tithe of the tithes, Nell. x. 3d. The Pharisees would pay a tenth, Mat. xxiii. 23 ; and hence it is that they boasted, They gave tithes of all that they possessed, Luke xxiii. 12."—Civil and Ecclesiastical Rites, used by the ancient Hebrews. Dedicated to the Earl of Pembroke, Chancellor of the University of Oxford. By Thomas Godwyn, B.D. 1634. " The Council of Calcuith, or Calehlte, held in 785. or, ac cording to others, in 787, on account of erecting Lichfield into an Archbishopric, ratified the Canons of a Synod that had been convened just before in Northumberland. Gregory and Theophilaet, who presided as the Pope's Legates, acknow ledged, in their letter to the Pope, that they were the first that had been sen t i nto England with that character. The follow ing are some of the Canons of the Synod of Northumberland, ratified by the Council of Calcuith:-Bth. The ancient pi ivileges of the Church are carefully to be preserved. The " In the House of Lords, the debate being on. he state of Ireland, the Earl of Liverpool said, The Noble Lord had in sisted on tithes, a property to which the Church had a right. He could not go quite the length of his Noble Friend, and be lieved that ultimately the question must come under the con • sideration of Parliament."—(Hear, hear. ) See Morning Herald, June 20, 1823. There is the recorded vote of the House of Commons to 10 per cent. property or income tax ! being oppressive. Under the operation of the property tax an esquire whose principal of 10,0001. netted him 5001. per annum, paid to the State 50/., under the operation of the tithe composition, an outlay of 500/. subjects the cultivator to the same 501. ; this, in deed, is " th' oppressors wrongs." " The alarm excited by announcing a proposed continuance of the income tax was nosy beginning to operate ; and the city of London commenced an opposition by presenting to Parlia ment, on Feb. 8, two petitions against the tax, one from the Lord Mayor, Alderman, and Common Council, the other from the Lord Mayor and Liverymen, both expressed in strong lan guage, respecting the odious and inquisitorial nature of the tax. The Ministers and their adherents increased their efforts to make it appear that the opposition to the tax was fastened by popular clamour and party manoeuvres. This attempt re ceived a anal defeat by a petition, presented an March 18. by Sir William Curtis, from the merchants, bankers, and traders of the city of London. The number of signatures was '22,000. March the 18th the Chancellor of the Exchequer proposed the continuance of the obnoxious tax several other speakers fol lowed on each side. At length every voice was drowned in the cry of question, and the House divided, when the numbers were, for the continuance of the tax; 201, against it 238, majority 37. When the result was announced, a long and loud cheering arose in the House, which was re-echoed by the crowd that filled the lobby and avenues, and the event was felt throughout the na tcri nnewpcsima 1t nnual REPisteY " It has been presumptuous," so we read in the pithy Examiner, No. 780, " to dabble in chemistry ; to look through a telescope ; to inoculate for the small-pox ; to abate the viru lence of a pestilential disorder by the salutary assistance of a cow; lastly, and we trust the argument will be deemed con clusive—to read the Bible. And in what has all this pre sumption generally consisted? In the anxiety of some men to know more than it was convenient for other men they should know. The moment the daring inquirer discovered a truth— a truth !—which threatened to militate against a profitable system of error, then the awful secrets' were invaded—the ' ark of the sanctuary' disturbed. Any Barabbas of the day was milk-white compared with the daring offender : in a word, ' away with him.' Could great men thunder,' says Shaks peare, there would be nothing bet thunder.' Could they make a thirst for knowledge sinful and presumptuous, there would be a most inconvenient multiplicity of awful secrets.' " Having now emerged from the honourable estimation in the community, we take leave to mention a few whose great names gave permanency to the system. " Protest." "In our opinion, therefore, the land is sub jected to a direct taxation, amounting on the rent, tithe, and poor-rate, to 33 per cent !" On the amendment of the Duke of Wellington upon the Corn Bill. Signed Duke of Newcastle, Earls Rosslyn and Lauder dale.—Journal of the House of Lords.—The Times, June 5, 1827. "It would shale the foundation of all property in the king dom."—Mr. Peel.—The News, Sunday, May, 23, 1825. " Because he had an apprehension and timidity." Mr. O'Connell, Herald, Dec. 2, 1836. It is nosy more than thirty years since the eminent linguist Bellamy divulged his biblical emendations, through a.periodicil of the highest literary character in tho country, the " Classical Journal ;" it is twenty. two years since we became adherents to his promulgations, and with an intent watchfulness, The Sun, the Examiner, and the Chester Chronicle, are the only Papers amongst the range, who have promoted the matter held to be " of the utmost importance to the interest of mankind," and " a life beyond life." This enables us to repel the imputation to the " Continental Despots," we rather say Sovereigns of Europe, or "the cruel and faithless bigot," and it may go to assuage the acerbity of vituperations against them, when one whose purport was and is " of the utmost importance to the interest of mankind," and "a life beyond life," has received such an act of unexampled injustice from the press of England.—We hope this will nut be overlooked by the Germanic Diet on the regulations of the Press. " What complaint does the bulk of the people make of the Legislature ? It is charged, in the case of the Corn-laws— openly and distinctly charged, with inflicting hunger, disease, and death on large portions of the community to enrich its members. It cuts down the population, as Lord Ashburton affirms. It curtails the supply of food, it limits the demand for and the Wages of labour. It plunders the working-ela-ses to put wealth in the pockets of the Aristocracy. All these things are the very reverse of its duties. It holda power to cherish and protect the people, and is highly criminal if it shorten a life unnecessarily one day, or misappropriate one slick of the property of the obedient people."—The Sun, No. 14,869, May 6, 1840. " Thu Anti-Corn-law League yesterday closed its sittings, and the members declared that they did not despair. Neither do we. Our conviction that the Corn-law is a most iniquitous impost is strengthened by what has occurred in the House of Commons. We believe that to preserve such an impost for any length of time is isevond the power of the House of Com mons. The debate and the division of Tuesday may help the degradation and destruction of the Parliament, but they can neither alter the public opinion of the nature of the law, nor maintain it in opposition to the public conviction;'—The Sun, May 28, 1840. It being spoken by him, " who spake as never man spoke." Mathew, c. iv., v. 4. " But he (Jesus) answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God," it being our purport to carry out, and the majority of a House of Commons to abro gate the mandate of the Deity himself, (2) though what we submit " may at first appear startling," emboldens us. This train of thought leads us to entertain the idea that it is a national degradation ; that those in the receipt of from 3,0001. to 30,000/. per annum should " writhe from the hands of pea sants their hard-earned pittance" of three-halfpence in a loaf, and this, too, for the support of an Establishment of high in tellectual character. The country's dignity demands the abolition. _ _ _ Therefore we hope that her 'Majesty will be pleased to pro mote an assessment of one-half per cent. on all houses at a rent of 501. per annum, 1/. per cent. on all houses at 100/. per an num ; two per cent. on all at 2001. per annum ; three per cent. on all at 2001. upward! at the annual rent-charge. This paid into her Mmjesty's Exchequer, the Clergy to be paid by a gra duated scale. We pray her Most Gracious Majesty " hear us fur our cause," that it may disarm every depraved mind against her " sacred person," and that no— " Peasant shall have cause to say, Heaven shorten Victoria's happy life one day." (1.) *„.• Dedicated to his Royal Highness Fred er i c k, P r i nce of \Vales,the History of England, written in French by M. Rap i n tie Thoyras, translated into English with additional Nota,, by N. Tindal, M.A., Vicar of Great Waltham, Essex, 1732. Richard Bentley, New Burlingtun-street. ( Publisher in Ordinary to her i‘lajesty. ) _ _ _ By Appointment : Budd and Calkin s Booli . selferS toiler Ma esty, Pail-mall; Longman, Rees, Orme, and Brown, St. Paul's, London. By Appointment : W. Wright, Bookseller to their Majesties the Queen, the Queen Dowager, and all the Royal Family, Pall-mall. (2.) Letter to . . . . on the Rev. W. L. Bowles' Str►c-tures on the Life and Writings of Pope,".By the Right Hon .I.ord Byron, and that Noble Lord's works complete in one volume. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. Amsterdam : J. Muller and Co. Leyden : W. H. Hazenberp,.. Paris : Arthur Bertrand. Venice: J. B. Missiaglia. Petersburgh : Schwetschke. 1826. A New Plan for Church Reform : in a Letter addressed to the Right Hon. Lord Viscount Melbourne, and the Right Hon. Lord John Russell. By Epsilon 'Theta• London ; Hatchard and Son, No. 187, Piccadilly. CILAITEIL a. Symptoms resemble those of Causes of Strictures. Stricture. Divisions of Strictures. CIIAI . TEIT. Iv. Consequences of Strictures. Of the Treatment of the Mala- CHAPTER. li. dies Consequent upon Stric- Of the Different Modes in ture. practice for the Cure of A PPENDIX. Strictures, by the Bougie, Cases Illustrative of the Su th • Catheter, the Lunar periority of the Author's Caustic, and Cutting In- Mode of Cure over the Treat struments. The Author's ment by the Bougie, Cathe- Mode of Cure. ter, Lunar Caustic, and Cut- CPIAPTER 111. tins Instruments. On the Diseases where the Sold by Baiiliere, Medical I Simpkin and Marshall, Static rine -street, Strand ; Barlow, : ginale, Liverpool: and all Boo' )kseller, 219, Regent-street; re-court ; Onwhyn. Cathe rninghain ; Itoss and Night 11ers in Town and Country. _ . . 00PAIBA.—Upon reviewing the catalogue of evils produced by Copaiba, it may be fairly asked is there any one possessed of common prudence who would employ it? Can any unprejudiced and conscientious person advise its use ? ' Are we "to do harm that good may come ?" any more in physic than in morality, when too the former is certain, and the latter more than doubtful —for we must not forget that Copaiba is as uncertain as it is injurious—at one time appearing to sud denly check and overcome the disease, and at another entirely failing in producing either. It is also deceptive as regards the permanence of the desired effect. The patient frequently re joicing in his supposed recovery, and in a few days, or even hours, is sadly disappointed by the return of his complaint with renewed or increased virulence—the symptoms being much ag gravated by the consequent loss of time and the unequal action of the medicine. It is now clearly the duty of the medical profession to avoid and reprobate the use of a drug which has so little to justify its administration, and so much to condemn it. If such baneful effects as described are to be attributed to the pure Balsam of Copaiba, it can be readily imagined how much they are aggravated by the adulterations daily practised, ilj-V-WirfbAtitiv wear, less of + . srpentina, mast idle, rejected astonishing ts what an extent this disgraceful practice is carried; more especially since the nostrums formed from it have so much increased. It is frequently to be purchased in this state at retail druggists for less than the cost price of the genuine article—a strong proof that such must be factitious—indeed it is a fact that this natural production of South America is actually made in England. Not many years since the Sun Fire Office refused to indemnify a party for loss by fire, on the ground that the premises had been used for hazardous purposes, not expressed in the policy, namely, that of making Copaiba. Such being the fact of the drug itself, the argument will, of course, apply with snore or less force to all preparations of or from it, for so powerful are its injurious properties, and so closely are they connected with those (if any) of a beneficial tendency, that to abate the one is to annihilate the other. As existing in nature, they are allied ; and by such nicety of chemical union, that to separate them is (by destroying the original prin ciple of combination)—to produce a most unhappy result, namely, an inert substance, and one still more acrid than the drug in its natural state; one of these is produced when de privet], or partially so, of its nauseous flavour ; to deprive it of • which is to separate the active principle, and thus destroy all chance of success from its use. Now, how is this known result al tempted to be avoided? By incurring a still greater evil— that of combining with it equally injurious, though more pala table, drugs, as Spanish flies, potash, stimulating gurus, by which the original disease is greatly aggravated and pro longed. In conclusion—avoid, at all times, and under all dis guises, this pernicious and ever-adulterated drug ; suffer not any one to persuade you to its use ; withhold from your confi dence the professional man who persists, contrary to reason and experience, in prescribing it for you—for, be assured, sooner or later, more or less, you will suffer from its baneful influence. The Balsamic Pills, prepared by Mr. Wray, 344, Strand, and Holborn-bill, are free from any of the above objections ; they act specifically on the urinary passages, and, from their tonic properties, tend to strengthen the system and improve the general health. They require neither confinement nor al teration of diet (except abstinence from stimulants, where considerable inflammation exists), and, as experience has rmply proved, they will effect a cure sooner than copaiba (the dangerous results of which, is the inflammatory stages, are tco well known to need further comment), or any other me dicine in present use, and may be justly considered the only safe and efficacious remedy in all stages of those disorders. In addition to these advantages, the very convenient form in which this invaluable preparation is effered to the public must also be considered a desideratum. Prepared only by M. 0. Wray, and sold wholesale and re tail, at 118, Holborn-hill ; and 344, Strand, one door from C a therine-street; and for the accommodation of Shippers and Seafaring people, at No. 8, D ar kh ouse- l ane, L ower Thames street. May also be had of all respectable medicine venders ni town and country, at 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d., and Us. each box. Patients in the remotest parts of the country can be treated sue!essfully on describing minutely their case, and enclosing a remittance for medicine, which can be forwarded to any part of the world, securely packed, and carefully protected from observation. FOGS AND DA,Hp ft A RCLAY'S ASTI-I mA'ric CANDY has, JP for many years, been proved an effectual Preservative groin tic ill effects of the Fogs and Damp Air, which, in the Winter Season, are so prevalent in this Climate. Its etrects arc to expel Wind. to preserve the Stomach limn the admission of Damps, and relieve % hose who sutler from Difficulty of Breathing. Prepared only by Barclay and Sons, 95, Fart ingdon-street, London; ari d Sold Retail, by their appointment, by Sanger, 1:4), Oxford-street ; H. Burlield, ISO, Straus; March, Ilolborn ; Johnston, CS, Corn_ hill ; G ifii,rd , 104, Strand ; Hallows, Druggi-it, High-street, Is lington; Hendebourck, Druggist, Church street, Hackney; and by a irespectuble Medicine Venders in Town and Country. Olisery e one can be genuine, unless the names of "Barclay and S o ns" are on the Stamp affixed to each Box. From the late Henry Cowper, Esq., of Tewen Waters, Herts, to Messrs. S. and B. Solomons, 39, Albe murk-street, Piccadilly, opposite the York Hotel, and 76, King William-street, 13 ank of England.— .. Gentlemen, having been deaf for many y ea ! s ? I was induced from recommeralation to try your Invisible V o i ce C on d uctor . , and I have great pleasure in t ellin g you that they enable me to hear persons in company an d at a place of worship most distinctly ; and in c onsequence o f t h e great advan tage which I have derived, I have recom men d e d many persons to you, and their report is similar to mine—moat favourable. TLe Spectacles and Hand-glass which you have sent me are very e xcellent, and. suit my sight pre cisely, and surpass anything . of the kind I hav e ever tr i e d ; the transparency of wire> is so brilliant, t h at, although I have rsse d m y 86th*ar the 2-od of May l ast , yet they enable me to read, &c., by candlelight with the greatest than havi ng a p i ece o f l ease and comfort to myself.—Gentlemen, I return you my e. best thanks, and remain your most o b e di ent servant, HENRY CONYPER.-June 22, 1839." The Invisibl e Ope rative Voice Conduct or for deaf p erso ns is not the least ii% perceptible ,:aool ee extreme nit else i,ietmsg nor aepil calacc idee; soltmorei f e they uncomfortable I n c) hiveaaeifornnocinsfioas. hose immediate boeT valuable inventions l date relief t o o ld stand ingf the Royal F am ily, an d the unqualified approbation of above four h un d re d o f t h e prineipa • 1 members of the medical prof ess i on. Observe, has aingianiun.teb.eeiient particulars 89, Albemarle-street, opposite the York Hotel, and 76, King William.strect, City. No eJneozion with persons of the same name. - Th e flag on the Round Tower of Windsor Castle, which it will be remembered suffered material da mageby the violence of the wind. In the paltry . spirit of economy, which is had been in on Sunday morn the castle, an old flag is usually hoisted during stormy concerning weather, the new one being only kept for gala days. iy observedsome in since,the most big, a large rent was perceived in its centre, the wind at the time blowing rather violently.. To sewn the large flip a small one is sometimes hoisted. When seen from the Shortly after the flag town it has all the appearance of a p oc k et h an dk erch i e f , and excites pretty general ridicule. But to return to our particular case. Never was a grosser act of injustice perpetrated. I say advisedly, that the rate, for the payment of which Mr. Laidler's goods bare been seized is a nullity, and the Churchwardens know it to be such. The vestry-book, produced before the Ma. gistrates, proved that the rate was, by a blunder, made at a vestry meeting a fortnight before the Churchwardens were themselves appointed : and I am competently ad vised that the distraining Magistrates, the Rev. Mr. Spen cer, Rector of Starston, and J. Havers, Esq., a Roman Catholic, have subjected themselves to an action in trespass. This, Sir, is the case I have to bring before you. The rate in question is confessedly illegal—yet you have ven tured to distrain the goods of a respectable parishioner for not paying it. What is this? Is it not theft? If you had acted legally, the case would have been one of oppres sion ; but as you have acted in opposition to the law it is tkft, and nothing else. You shrink from this conclusion. But remember, that as you are one of the Churchwardens, you are responsible for all that the other officially does. I call upon you then, as a conscientious man, to wipe your hands of this foul deed of injustice and impiety. Put an end, as you have the power of doing, to the injury thus done to the principles and feelings of your Dissenting neighbours. Allow me, Sir, through this medium to address a word to my fellow Dissenters, You, my friends, cannot, with disgust and execration, wi!ncss the outrage committed by the harpies of the Law-church onMr. Laidler's domestic comfort. Many of you attend upon his ministry, and look up to him as your spiritual instructor. You will now flock around him to tender him your sympathy, and to manifest your approval of his principles. A cleaving disgrace will rest upon the head of that Dissenter who now shrinks from his duty. I have beard that there is not an auctioneer in Ilarleston who will undertake the job; I am sure none who makes any pretensions to respectability will do so. And if the thing be so disgraceful that no auctioneer will sell, who mill be base enough to buy ? I now, Sir, commend this matter to your serious atton tention. You and the liberal members of your Church have a duty to discharge b o th t o y our own characters and to us, namely, to discountenance by word and deed the AlatliA.R9w.e.A.-kavirritx.74 , loD. _ f_Thss the Incumbents of Ilungay and Braintree are also Arch. deacons, the venerable men Glover and Oakely.) Until you do this, you violate the golden rule of Christianity, " As ye would that men should do unto you, do ye also unto them." Come out, then, and take a stand against the High Church bigotry which frowns upon us on every side.; Show your attachment to your principles by supporting your own forms of worship, but let us Dissenters alone. This is all we ask of you, let us alone ; and until you do this we shall never rest. Your's respectfully, Ilarleston, Jan. 13, 1841. DAVID -LLOYD. THE ASHTON MURDER. T HE EXAMINATION OF THE PRISONERS. ASHTON, JAN. 18.—The prisoners Paxton, Rowbotham, and Irving, and another, Joseph Mowcross, since arrested at Oldham, were this day brought up for examination before Messrs. Jowett, Lord, and Wright, Magistrates of Ashton-under-Line. Mr. Alcock, superintendent of police, stated, that the four prisoners now before the bench were apprehended under warrants, charging them with having on the 30th of October, with other sawyers of Manchester, conspired to injure and oppress the master sawyers of Ashton in their trade. Benjamin Goldthorp being called, said that he was a master sawyer ; that early in the month of October his hands had turned out. Garland (the man murdered) was one of those whom he afterwards got to work for him, and he continued with him up to the 31st of October. lie frequently saw the turnouts . passing his timber-yard, in bodies of from four to twelve. He saw none of the pri soners now before the bench amongst them, but Mowcross was one of a deputation appointed to meet the master sawyers. Peter Keogh said that be was a sawyer, working for Mr. Cowley, of Ashton. He had worked for him seven or eight weeks, and jived in Manchester. On the 31st of October he went there with his brother, Patrick Keogh, and his nephew, James Keogh, John Marcy, and Thomas Garland. They were on their way from Ashton to Man chester, when they were met, between the hours of four and five o'clock, about a quarter of a mile from the Ash ton Church, by from 12 to 15 men coming from Manches ter, and who commenced beating them with bludgeons, because they were not members of the union. Cross-examined by Mr. Foulkes—l could only recog nize one man, named Roberts. He stepped up, and struck my brother on the left eye. I interfered, and prevented him. What took place after I cannot tell. I thought it best to make my escape. A man followed me. He struck me with a bludgeon. I don't know him now. I saw only one stick. Garland was mortally wounded. The men with me were sawyers not in the union: I know the man who struck my brother, and no other. He was the man who came into Stone's yard. His name is Thomas Roberts. I have known him for five years back. There was light enough for me to see half an hour after this took place. I have seen three of the prisoners before, but they were not present. I have always had a great esteem for them, and they for me. I mean Rowbotham, Paxton, and Irving. Ido not know the other man, Ido not know that they belong to the union. I had not time to recognise any of the parties on wasT t a lo s m a w a Thomas e ß r. o t t e H r fl e e l w d or s k a e i dd for r e lived rs . the loads, but believe the prisoners were not the re . a e r n , e h a e n s d . Horner, ter, who was a cabinet-maker and timber-merchant. He was top-sawyer, and Patrick Lenand was his partner. They were not in the union, and had not been for four or five years back. On the 31st of October they were at work, and at seven o'clock in the evening two men came to them and said, Patrick Lenand must go to the Smith field Tavern, as he was wanted there. He went on to state otl.er particulars, involving coercion and com bination. When his examination in chief, and cross examination was brought to an end, Mr. Foulkes, the professional advocate of the prisoners, addressed the Bench, and contended that his clients had infringed neither against the statute or common laws of the land, for, by the 6th George IV., sec. 4 and 5, he held that their proceedings came indisputably within the recognised limits of the law. Every man had a right to es timate his own services, without certainly resorting to via lance, and such was not the errand of the prisoners. Upon the very evidence of Butterfield they were entitled to an acquittal, for, according to h ia own showing, what the de legates were sent to do, they were instructed to do it civilly. If the delegates bad rambled to the King's Head, or 500 other houses, or committed any acts of violence, his clients could not be considered responsible beyond the authority they had given. The prisoners were finally ordered to find bail, them selves in 1001., and two sureties in 501. each, to answer an indictment at the next assizes for illegal conspiracy. HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.—The fist ordi nary meeting for the present year was held on Tuesday afternoon, Dr. Henderson, V P., in the chair. Numerous presents were announced. The meteorological register kept at the gardens since the last meeting, from December 7to January 19, gave—barometer, highest 27th Dec. 30.644 inch, lowest 11 th Jan. 28,864 inch, making a range within a fortnight of II- inches ; thermometer, highest Ist Dec. 56. F. ; lowest 7th and Bth Jan. 6. F. ; and quantity of rain 2.68 inches. Sir F. Pollock, M. P. was admitted Fellow, and the meeting adjourned to Feb. 2. ESSEX—Loss OF LIFE. The inundation of the river Lea has caused considerable damage throughout the western division of the county of Essex. During the whole of Monday this part of the country, to a distance of about six miles in length, reaching into Epping Forest, was one vast sheet of water, the depth in many parts where the land lay low being five or six feet. The prospect from the line of the Eastern counties Railway caused much alarm, as north and south of the line, as far as the eye could reach, was one united body of water, which was banked up by the railway, and had its outlet only through the arches. From that portion horses and cabs were seen swimming in various directions, and vast quanti ties of timber were floating upon the surface of the water, the greater portion of which was the property of Mr. Gear, timber-merchant, and one of the contractors for the East ern Counties Railway. Yesterday boats were being roved about in the neighbourhood of Stratford and on the Marshes, between that place and Lea-bridge, collecting the timber. In many parts, owing to the rapidity of the current, the ground has been furrowed up three or four feet, and it is feared a vast breadth of land will be found to be swept away. car►ying with it. the seed ancl a gront nnrf inn of swimming and borne along by the flood, went to its as sistance; they, however, soon found that they were unable to stem the force of the current, and were un fortunately drowned. In tile neighbourhood of Wan stead Abbey much damage has been done to the ground, and the farmers have sustained extensive losses. The red bridge near there is carried away, and the low lands arc all flooded. On the Northern and Eastern Railway, upon a survey of the line taking place, it has been found that a depression of the embankment has occurred between Lee-bridge and the line of the Eastern Coun ties Railway, so as to remove the sleepers. The trains have not proceeded on the line since Sunday. On that day, about half-past one, the train that went down to Broxbourne was compelled to return upon reaching Lee bridge, to the station, at High-street, Sboreditch, when the passengers received back their money. The Direc tors of the Company have since provided conveyances, at railway prices, for those persons who have been in the practice of travelling by the line. THE ROADS AND COACHES. Yesterday many of the mails and coaches arrived after their time, hut not to the extent of delay on Sunday and Monday, as generally the floods were subsiding, and the condition of the roads were improving. The mails and coaches from the eastern min . :les, came in without much delay. The mails arrived in time at the Post Office, with the exception of the Devonport and Bristol, which did not arrive until a quarter to ten ; and the Ipswich mail, which arrived at ten. The Bir mingham trains came in as usual, but there was a con siderable delay on Monday in the arrival of the Derby Junction trains, in consequence of a severe influx of water near Loughborough, the water having accumulated in many parts to a depth of upwards of fifteen feet. There was also some delay in the passage on the Great Western Railway. A great deal of water had also accumulated in many of the cuttings of the Southampton Railway. The driver of the Devonport mail reported having seen the bodies of three men in a barn near Shuter, about six miles from the Basiugstoke station, who had been drowned by the flood, and the destruction of property about this part is considerable. It has been ascertained that eight cottages have been washed away at Stonehenge. THE WEATHER. The lowest point of temperature in or near the metro polis was yesterday morning, at four o'clock, at the ZJolo gical Gardens, where the thermometer stood at 32 F. The mildness of the weather singularly contrasted with the severity of the few previous weeks. Yeiterday evening the wind veered round to the north, and the thermometer sunk several degrees. Some snow fell in the course of the night and this morning, with a sharp north-cast wind. DREADFUL DISASTERS AT SUN- DERLAND BY THE FLOODS. SUNDERLAND, JAN. IS. —Neva'. within the memory of the oldest inhabitant has the shipping interest of this part sustained, by river floods, damage and loss so extensive as that which has this day ban occasioned by the breaking up of the ice in the river Wear. The thaw and the heavy rains to the westward, which prevailed for two or three days, had led the crews of the respective vessels to use ever y pre caution in securing them, so as to withstand the pressure of the vast body of ice which would inevitably, on its breaking up be borne along with the ebb-tide ; but notwithstanding the utmost vigilance on the part of the crews and the river authorities, the harbour from the entrance to the Hetton Coal Staiths, (a mile and a half in length), presents one vast scene of wreck and confusion. The main body of the ice, borne down with increased rapidity by the floods, swollen by a continuance of rainy weather, reached the harbour at about half-past four o'clock this morning, bearing away with sweeping and irresistible sway all before it—driving from their moorings (and, in some instances, with their moooi ings) upwards of 100 sail of ships, several steam boats, besides innumerable keels and other small craft, to gether with rafts of timber, all huddled together in the most distressing confusion. The scene which presented itself at day-break was truly terrific, and is beyond description. Vessels entangled with their broken masts, bowsprits, rudders, bulwarks, stanchions, stems, sterns, bows, and gigging, so as in many instances to render it impossible to identif y the respective properties. The ice is so compactly formed into one solid and extended sheet that it has remained immoveable during the whole of the day, undisturbed by the flux and reflux of the tide, inter spersed, as we have stated, with detached pieces of tim ber, broken spars, wrecked boats, and damaged keels, and men and boys, walking without trepidation, from side tl side, in pursuit of what they might find of value. In the present confused scene, it is difficult to furnish any thing like a correct estimate of the damage done to property, or of the number of lives lost, as several vessel s have drifted out of the harbour, and it is hoped some are on board. The following i s a partial list cf the vessels, w hi c h h ave been driven from their moorings and are laying about the harbour in great confusion :—Tho fine brig Pilgrim, of Lynn, sunk and almost a com Henry,lete wreck i n th e middle bel ong i ng to Sunder of the harbour ; William land, sunk, stern-post and rudder given way, bulwarks and stanc hi o ns stove in, and foremast carried ;way ; Kirton, se riously damaged and sunk ; Resour se , di smas t e d, broad ! side swain, and decks partly carried away, supposed to bo SlR,—Allow me to correct an error in the article in your Journal cl Saturday last, relative to Manchester b:coming a port, wherein it is stated that the project for eutt:n; a h hip-cit. a' from here to the River Dee was submitted to the public (about sixleen years ago by the " late Mr. W. W. Tait." As this gentleman is alive, and in good • health, the mistake your Correspond nt has unintentionally fallen into, may inflict unnecessary pain to absent connections and friends, have the goodness, therefore, to give this an early insertion.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant, Manchester, Jan. 19, 1841. E. M. JONES. FR ENCII PRESCRIP TION S. Notwithstanding the proverbial uncertainty of the female sex, there are two points of certainty regarding a Frenchwoman, viz., if you offer her a book, she will ask, are there any pictures if you recommend her a medi cine, she s% ill ask, I; it sweet ? Two points of certainty, io such a wavering mental compass, is a degree of con stancy qui te wor th y to rank with the trade-winds! ture of contempt and dread which is highly amusing : contempt at our supposed inferiority of science, and dread of the powerful and injurious system of prescrip tion, of which they consider calomel, quinine, and prussic acid to be the fatal graces. Tine following curious remedies are all deemed infallible in Franco for a confirmed pulmonary complaint ; and any one of them is considered sufficient to cure consumption, asthma, or even atrophy : A glue bat/i. A warm bath, in which two or three pounds of fine glue have been dissolved, until the whole feels adhesive, and leaves a coating on the skin ; taken every day, and no other sort of ablution allowed ! The aromatic Soup, made of chickens filled with dates, figs, and raisins, and then boiled until the whole forms an undistinguishable mass of meat and sweet, which is to he eaten with the soup every two hours. The mixed flavour of fowl and figs is really an increase on the horror of the schoolboy trick of recommendieg " a sugared oyster." Snad-pask, and scolloped Snails.—la the first of these dainty preparations the snails are boiled in milk and sugar until the whole forms a jelly when cold ; it is then cut in pieces like jujubes, and to be taken corn:tautly. The second-named luxury is used at table by the healthy as well as by invalids, as the English have scolloped oysters or j dressed crab ; and in our - country a new French dish being considered a great prize, who knows but the following genuine receipt may lead a fashion ? Collect several dozens of the largest snails, of the white-shell kind, put them into a covered earthen ware vessel to keep them fast and fasting during twenty-four hours ; then put them in a deep pan full of new milk for another twenty-four hours : next give them another day of fasting in the covered vessel, and on the fourth day they are to be shelled, mixed with crumbs of bread, spice, and butter, baked in silver scallop shells, and then may be eaten—by any one who has resolution, or a pulmonary illness ! Lastly may be mentioned the syrope d'orgeat, in which the French have great faith ; it is the juice of sweet almonds, prepared with gum and a quan tity of sugar, to form a thick syrup ; a teaspoonful of this is mix( d with a tumbler of hot water, and niakes a mawkisli, sickly, warm drink, which soon palls the invalid, to whom it is unmer cifully prescribed day and night-- a sort of saccharine Sangrado system. Camphorated cigars and cigars of stramonium are greatly recommendcd for female patients; and, in fact, there saems in most of these popular fancies a sort of struggle after something to astonish, and cure by the effect of imagination. A contrast to the foregoing is the last r:ew German whim, a system of universal cure by cold zuatei• coPit'us, draughts of the pu re e l emen t una d u lt era t e d by sugar, orange flower, orgeat, capiliaire, or the many sirc.,”ivi with which the materia medico. of France accommodat: s the female palate, enabling the gallant sans of E.cula plus to answer affirmatively the unfailing question, " Is it sweet i''' . BitommTAlrts, .1 AN. 19.—Artived, to pass the winter season, the Earl and C ou ntess of Carnarvon and family, at the Royal Kent Library; Captain Fletcher and family, of the Ist Guards, and tb, Rev. Mr. Mathias Edward liis Botso Fletcher, and Efsatin.. ily and at and family, at Belvedere Cott a g e ; Captain Teske and family at Regent Cottage; family, at P u rmont House; Ogle House ; Mr. Robinson and family, Mrs. Arm•t rong' & at Nelson-place, SLe. &c. T uis fashionabl e a n d h ea l t h c. place is now beeeincai g s r i e o at x f . a_veu l r t ite l l ) N e . it h l o i behoves pubic. I ND ISTINCT INDISTINCT l p‘t"envdeerryfunllcpainecseto o sftre . li d g i t v lise n n e value the i m p t o h r a tazi e 3 , o t f o that and preserve it, particularly when these means are within . ;..)pli ,, cation arc bah de. and the ( re 3 s 6 u . lt o s ld fro ßt i :n l d h e i strre.c.t, rliegaleith(ol and immediately Mt. S o o o l d o m i n , ns o r (i n j d o C w r o y . , Opticians, &c. Cheapside), have effected an examinationf or o f have ci e scientific t i ri e 0 d i - mprovement in Spectacles, a " patcat," and the strict e bservers, as well as the all pow crful test of persona o ' l . exp i ericnce, have established thew visionsuperior c on y tiinl their r x a c ot e ff l eo l c c : n es e: . arc a ' both t e application to irn aired d eir lim app l p delightful and instantaneous. renderlng the most minute refreshing bj.'cts c p 'm e ) r i f u e e c s t s i to perfectly th.e distinct,E. c o; t a b l e , by day or candle-light; in short, their superior powels, and freedom from the injurious properties of glasses ordi narily sold, have secured for them the po7..crful recom mendation of Sir B. Brodie, Bart., F. R. S. ; Sir An thony Carli . sle, F. R. S. ; Sir J. E. Anderson ; M. D.; Dr. J. Johnson, Suffolk-place ; Bransby Cooper, Esq., F. R. S., Spring-gardens ; Martin Ware, Esat. ; C. Aston Key, Esq., F. R. S., &c. &c. &u.—E. Solomons and Co.'s Voice Conductors, when placed in the Ears, - cannot be seen, and enable Deaf persons to distinguish the faintest inflections of a distant speaker. Being in no way cue. fleeted with any other houses in London, and having oc casion to guard the public against mistaker, which a. l ,jadl larity of names (aided by various schemes that are resorted to by empirics) have in several instances occasioned :Emu disappointment to the incautious, they call particular attcn lion to the following address-34j, Old Bond-street/and 4 Old Jewry, "City. , :~