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'['LIE LQNDON JOURNALS. DAILY Extracts from the Morning Papers, Jan. 23. NURSING POST . - j r His Majesty's frigate Creole arrived on Wed nesday at Plymouth from Rio Janeiro, which she •idt on the 27th of November. She has brought papers and letters of the 26th. The former are aimuit entirely silent respecting the species of counter-revolution effected by the Emperor; but the latter give some interesting particulars of that event. it appears that notwithstanding his professions of attachment and fidelity to the esta bliShed order Of things, Don Pedro was not satis fied With the limitations which the Congress proposed to set to the Sovereign authority, and -that he adopted this violent measure, not to make himself altogether despotic, but to have it in his power to frame such a constitution as would he more consonant with his views .91 Government, and bY possessing the merit (according to their doctrine) of having ema nated- from the throne, Would render the Allied • Monarchs more disposed to recognize the independence. of the Brazilian Empire. The manner in which the Congress was dissolved, however, is not calculated to increase the pbpu larity of the new Emperor in his own dominions, whatever may be its effect on the Europeati Sovereigns; and he would no doubt have fixed himsetf . mere firmly on the throne by securing the confidence and affection of his subjects, than by courting the friendship of foreign despots.— The example of hurbide's downfall should have taught him that it was dangerous for a new Sove reign to become too soon the persecutor of those froth whose hands he had received the crown.— Some of the private letters represent theagita tiOn of the people to be so great at Rio Janeiro, that a new revolution was daily expected, and -the merdiants were takingall possible precautions for the protection of their property. it had been expected that'the Emperor would have issued a public declaration of his motives for having solved the Congress and banished some of its mem bers without trial; but it does not appear that that expectation had been realized. The, eyes of most people, it is said, were fixed on Lord Coch rane, who was considered to hold the balance of power and the fate of the empire in his hands; and it was believed that the titles and honours lately bestowed upon him and his officers, had been granted in contemplation of the late change, and in order to secure their-fidelity and support during the critical period by which it was known that it must be followed. [MORNI`NO CHRONICLE.] The Journal des INbats has the following note on an article from the Austrian Observer, dated Constantinople,Dec.lo, denying that the ;reeks had obtained any naval victory over the Turks at Scopolo (the article will be found among our extrarts from German Papers). " We con ceive ourselves certain of the purity of the source whence we derived the details which we published as to the victory gained by the Greeks in the Gulph of Talanta over a detachment of the Turkish fleet. We consider these details very exact, and we doubt whether simple denials from an Aus trian residing at Constantinople, can descredit the report of eye-witnesses." Our readers, when reading the confident assertions of the Austrian Observer, ought to - bear constantly in, mind, that almost all its accounts of the transactions be tween the Turks and Greeks have been proved false ; and that that Journal has been even forced to admit successes on the part of the lat ter, which it had formerly denied, on what was alleged to he the very best authority. [MORNING RERALD.] The accounts lately received from Rio Janeiro, by which it was represented that he " Constitu tional Emperor" of Brazil had kicked the Con stitution from beneath his feet, and sent the most prominent of its partisans upon a forced voyage, are distinctly contradicted by the intelligence re ceived yesterday. There has been a change of Ministry, and his Constitutional Majesty seems to have effected this rather by a political coup de main, than by any of the ordinary modes o. re gular Government. The political institutions of the country, however, appear still standing, and even untouched. Some individuals are or dered to leave " the empire" for such ports of Europe as they think proper to proceed to, within a certain specified period. From the length of time allowed for preparation, and the allusion to the family of one of the parties, it is most probably intended that they are for ever exiled from Brazil. A sen tence of this kind pronounced, as it would appear, simply by the " Imperial resolution " of the Monarch, is not confor ma bl e t o t h e common notions of what is Constitutional. His Brazilian Majesty, however, gives a reason or justification, that the safety and tranquillity of the capital demand it. It seems most probable that some conspiracy was discovered—but of what nature, acid with what designs, does not appear. It may have been an intrigue in favour of the mother country, to unhorse the " Constitutional Empe ror," like that which in Portugal took down so effectually the Constitutional King, his father. [NEW TIMM] Notwithstanding the efforts of a large party, aided as they have been by extensive orders from the country for sales in the British funds, the plenteousness of money has at last preponderated, and all the British securities yesterday advanced. Consols closed more than a half per cent. better than the day preceding, and a further advance in them is confidently expected by the best informed persons in the market ; for they say, that although speculation may for a time prevail, truth must eventually succeed ; and hence Consols closed with what is termed a firm market at 892. The improvement which took place in the French Itentes at Paris on Tuesday, has in some measure assisted the firmness of the British market. The proceed ings in the Foreign Market may be noticed as follows :—The Mexican Loan was much talked of, and business was said to be done in it at if premium. It will, be recollected, however, that as yet all the proceedings in this Loan are transacted in the dark ; the Loan is not yet in cluded i❑ the Foreign Security List. The Greek Loan may be said to be nearly rejected by the public, every person being most anxious to dis claim all cornexion with it. Spanish Bonds at one time of the day touched 24f, but closed at 241. Russian Bonds, as do those of all the Northern European Monarchs, continue gradually to advance in price. LTHE TaxEs.] A statement in the New York Papers, which are arrived to the 26th ult., confirms preceding rumours, and if true is of great importance. It is asserted, on the authority of information from 'Washington, that the British Government had offered to confederate with that of.;"America. to resist any attempts of the Holy Alliance against the newly established independence of the South American States. The statement is counte nanced by Mr. Canning's declaration, that this country would not suffer Spain to confer her nominal supremacy over any of her colonies on any other Power more capable of obtaining real possession of the ceded territory. If the fact is as stated, America would have had the greater confidence in putting forth her late declaration, that she would not suffer any attempt from Eu rope to overthrow the independence of the late Spanish provinces. EBRITISH PRESS.] Accounts frorn Colmar to the 10th of January, in the German Papers received by us yesterday, state the report of the Opposition Deputies, Messrs. d'Argenson, Kcechlin, George Lafayette, and Berguen, Representatives in the last Cham ber for the department of the Upper Rhine, be ing about to be summoned before the local tri bunal at Allkirk, on account of their memorable Metter circulated in that department, on the ex pulsion of the undaunted Manuel, and which as signed to their constituents their reasons for with drawing themselves from the outraged Chamber, and taking subsequently no part in it;deliberations. Every opposition possible will now be given to the return of the Opposition Deputies to the new Chamber; and a proceeding of this sort is pur posely adopted at such a period. Manuel will most probably be re-elected, and again expelled by the violenceof the Royalists, and the Chamber will a second time become a scene of violence and armed outrage. The Spectateur Oriental, the apologist of the ferocious Turk, and of the worst atrocities of that barbarous power, under date of the 28th November, affects to give a most gratifying picture of the situation of hapless Selo: according to this wretched Journal, that island enjoys perfect tranquillity ; that is, the quiet of the grave, the peace of the church-yard, and the silence of the tombs. The impartiality of the Smyrna Journal is well known and appre ciated; this Paper has latterly become very mo derate and philanthropic ; twelve m o nth s s i nce it denounced the Greeks as rebels, whose necks must fall to the scimitar and bow-string, without hope or consideration. At present, however, its tone is completely subdued. " Humanity now (the Paper says) has no wish to form but that " of seeing the Greek revolution terminated, not " violently, but in a manner that may content " both the Turks and the Greeks, Unhappily (it modestly adds) the a ccomplishment of this " wish is remote." It is indeed. So far we agree with the writer of this article. A con summation of this sort - is one the managers of the Smyrna pener alone can contemplate; nobody be side is insane enough even to think of it. The Greeks can be contented with nothing short of absolute independence : the Turk aims at nothing short of universal extermination ; he would reign amid the silence of surrounding d eat h sooner than ceose to govern by a code of ferocious oppres sion. The Smyrna Journal adds, that "it is the " history, and not the romance, of the Greek re " volution they have undertaken to write." But this Journal, the hireling Gazette of the Mussul men never will be referred to for th e history of the glorious efforts for liberty of the Greeks. Their actions will be recorded by other pens, and be known and remembered in their great result and their unparalleled effect, when the calumnies of the Smyrna defamer are long forgotten. BRITISH PEERAGE.—There is an investigation now going forward, proving a claim to a title supposed to be extinct in the BERKELEY Family. The claimant is Digby Berkeley, Esq. great grandson of Dr. Henry Berkeley (formerly of Ardustan, in the county of Carlow, and at that period one of the Masters of his Majesty's High Court of Chancery in Ireland, being appointed to that situation by his near relation, the first Lord Berkeley, of Stratton, when Lord Lieute nant of I reland, in the reign of Charles the 2d), by his first wife Catherine, daughter of Essex Digby, then Bishop of Dromore, and sister to the then Bishop of Elphin, and which Essex Digby was the son of Sir It. Digby, and Lettice Lady Ophaly, the daughter and then sole heir to Gerald, Earl of Kildare, the ancestors of the present Lord Digby. The claimant's grandfather, also a Digby Berkeley, succeeded his father in the estates in the county of Carlow, who married an Elizabeth Prettyman, the daughter and sole heir to the then Sir William Prettyman, of Loddington, in Leicestershire, Bart. From the recent discovery of certain documents, and the success which has hitherto attended the necessary searches, little doubt is entertained of the ultimate establishment of his claim.— A case is now pending, to be laid before the Law Officers of the Crown in England ; and if they should give their opinion in the claimant's favour, a question of considerable moment will take place on an ejectment about to be brought for the recovery of the whole of the property in the county of Carlow, where the only difficulty that can occur will be, whether length of adverse possession, connected with the grossest fraud, can bar the right of remainder-men. BOW-STREET.—Anthony Bryan, the proprietor of one of the St. Alban's stage coaches, was fined 51. and costs, for plying for hire with his coach as :i hackney coach on the paved street, the sagie not being a hackney coach. IS THE YELLOW FEVER CONTAGIOUS? This question is of such great practical im portance, that it is proper to give publicity to the following Letter of Sir GILBERT BLANE to the Admiralty : it is from the Medical Rep sitory : " Sackville-street, London, Dec. 15, 1823. " Sift,—Be pleased to acquaint the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, that in virtue of their Lordships' directions I have been furnished by the Commissioners of Victualling with such documents as have come to their hands regarding the ap pearance and fatal effects of the yellow fever at the island of Ascension ; and I have procured further information relating to this subject from the Navy.office, and the office of the Paymaster of Marines. I have also been favoured, through the politeness of Dr. Burnet, one of the Medical Commis sioners of the Victualling Board, with the sight of a pri vate letter to him from the commander of the Bann sloop of war, from which I derived important information on the same subject. " The result of all these sources of information is, that from the time the fever showed itself on board his Majesty's sloop of war Bann, a few days after her departure from Sierra Leone, on one of the last days of March last, the crew at that time be all in perfect health, till her arrival at Ascension on the 25th of April, there died 13 men ; and 20 between that time and the 2d of June, when the epidemic was supposed to have ceas ed ; and that by a report, dated the sth of August, there died of the garrison, among whom the disease broke out a few days after the arrival of the ship, 18 men, 5 women, and 4 children ; besides one child, stated in the report to have perished for want of sustenance after the mother's death. " In order to estimate the rate of sickness and mortality in the crew of the Bann, it is necessary to state that there were mustered on board of her, on the 31st of March, 107 men and officers, being only three short of compliment ; besides 29 su pernumeraries, native Africans. 7 t appears that no death oc curred among the Africans, so that nearly one-third of the ship's company was carried off by this disease. It appears by the surgeon's journal, that 99 had been seized with it; and I was informed by the Paymaster of Marines, that it appeared from his correspondence, that of the twenty-eight men and offi cers first stationed at Ascension, in September, 1821, there died none , nor was there even a single case of sickness among them from that time till May, 1823, a few days after the arrival of the Bann. During this time the garrison was neither in creased or diminished. But the rate of mortality is not to be computed on the number of twenty-eight, for there were six men at a distant post to whom this disease did not extend ; so that out of 22 there died 16, that is, somewhat more than three-fonrths. " Two beloneing to his Majesty's ship Driver also died at the island of the disease. The death of Captain Saumarez, of the Bann, which happened subsequently to the above report, being added to these, the total loss of lives amounts to the num ber of 62, including the child. " As this garraison was quite healthy at the time of the arrival of the Bann, there can be no doubt of the disease be ing contagious; and the medical officers, upon whose convic tion of it not being so the commanding officers omitted to take any effectual means of cutting off intercourse between the ship and the garrison, have since, in their official communica tion, explicitly declared their change of opinion. At the same time, they describ e d t h e di sor d er a s posses s i ng the true charac teristics of the yellow fever in that aggravated and infectious form in which it has shown itself in the West Indies and North America and Spain. The detailed account given by the surgeon of the Bann leaves not the least ambiguity regarding its nature ; for, among ot h er s ymptoms, he enumerated the skin tinged with yellow, ass um ing a deeper rk_c o a i o n u d r deepered fluid h like and, before death, the vomiting of ada coffee-grounds :' these are characteristics which will apply to no other epidemic. " 'Without entering into any detailed history of the diiease, far le ss o f t h e c ontrov ersy regar ding it, it may be satis factory to th e ir Lordships t o b e informed, that the fi rs t account of it on record in the British Colonies in the West Indies, is that of Barbadoes, in 1647, and in North Ame rica, that of 1693, at Boston, to which it was carried from Martinique by the fleet under Admiral Wheeler. In Europe, its first appearance was at Lisbon, in \ 1723. From these pe riods it continued to make its appearance in all these regions, but at long intervals, particularly in North America and Europ e , But in 1793, a new era of its prevalence corn.. menced, for since that time it has been infinitely more frequent and fatal in the West Indies and North America. This increased prevalence did not commence in Europe till the year 1800, w hen it appeared at Cadiz in all its horrors, after an in terval of 36 years. Since that time it has visited this place four times, and has spread from thence to other seap ort towns in the south of Spain, at short intervals. Among other places in this line of coast, it has visited Gibraltar—first, in the year 1804, when m ore than one-third of the garrison and papule tion were carried off; and several times since, but with little loss, on acc ount of the preventive means adopted —means which had been wholly neglected at the first visitation. " It is remarkable that this pestilential epidemic has never shown itself except in tropical climates, or at those seasons in temperate climates in which the heat ascends to the tropical height. This has perhaps been one of the chief causes of the disbelief of its infectious nature. But not to mention the esta blishment o f it, by evidence, as a matter of fact, it may be re marked,bears a close analogy to the a gu e, w h t c a h t h i a n s t s neverres pect it been known to exist but under one • particular range of atmospheric heat, th oug h l ower th an that of the yellow fever for it is only ; .0 temperate climates that it has eve r prevailed —having never been known between the tro pics or within the Polar circles. It even disappears in tempe rate climates during the solestial heats, which equal the tropi cal, as is well known in Lower Egypt ; and in the north of Europe it becom es extinct in winter. "Another cause of the incredulity regarding this fact, is the great resemblance it bears to that form of the yellow fever which is at all times more or less endemic in the West India Islands. This, in ordinary circumstances, is not contagious, but becomes so when it is engendered and fostered by corrupt ed human effluvia, under those circum s t ances o f f o ul a i r occa sionally creat e d by crowding, filth, l ong pr i vat i ons, h ar d sh i ps , and defective ventilation, more particularly incident to ships and to times of war. It is under such co ncurre nc e of incidents that this fever takes on a more int ense virulence an d a conta gious character, whereby it propagates and speeds itself in the manner of a pestilential epidemic. What I wish most anxiously to press on their Lordships' attention is, that a great proportion of the medical officers of the navy, like the two alluded to (before what they witnessed at Ascension), are said ac t ually to disbelieve in the contagious natureof this fever, in a n y of its sp ec i es , f orms, or circum stances." Their Lordships will readily apprehend, from what has happened on this small scale, what must have been the effect of this opinion, if erroneous, held by those whose duty it is to sug gest the requisite precautions in the case of the fleets, armies, garrisons, and great towns, which have been exposed to this malady for the last 30 years on the continent, and in the islands of Amenca and for the last 23 years in the South of Europe ; and what must in future be the effects of this singular delusion should it continue to prevail and to he acted upon as hereto fore in his 'Majesty's service by sea and land. " Deeply penetrated with these sentiments, I feel myself irre sistibly called upon humbly to submit to their Lordships, whe ther some steps might not be taken, under their authority, for promulgating th ese an d s imilar truths, with a vi e w to enli g ht en and guide naval offi cer s, military and medical, in the exer cise of this part of their duty, so that such a cautious system of conduct may be adopted as may prevent the recurrence of the like calamitous and tragical events in all time to come. I am inclined to believe that, as the greater part of the medical officers of the navy, as well as the army, are now well edu respectable character, it is from a want of cated, and of a highly due information that this fatal error has prevailed so much; for there are already on record many facts, as strongly in evi dence of the contagious nature of the yellow fever as those that have so recently occurred at the island of Ascension, which, were they generally known, could hardly fail to carry convic tion to every rational mind. Of this kind might be quoted the various instances of the communication of this disease from one ship to another, in the middle of the ocean. It is obvious that any one of these facts, duly attested, would by all the laws of evidence, be sufficient to establish the proof of this point, eo as to decide the question ; and the force of so many could not fail to prove irresistible, were they generally known. In apology for this long address to their Lordships, I take leave to plead, that besides the great importance of the subject, it has been my lot for the last 44 years to have either been en gaged in actual employment in the medical service of the navy, and occasionally in that of the army, or in the absence of such employment, to have devoted almost an unceasing attention to such studies ; and I have felt none of my duties more imperi ous than that of inculcating, to the best of my judgment, a just manner of thinking on the subject of infection in general, and particularly that of the desolating malady now in question. I trust, therefore, that my earnestness on this subject will not appear to their Lordships in the light of an improper and offi cious interference, proceeding, as it does, from a person not in actual employment. I feel, further, that what I now do is not unbecoming of me in the character of first physician to our Sovereign, and as an act of gratitude and duty for those re wards and tokens of approbation which I have now the happi ness to enjoy from his Majesty personally, as well as from the ' State; not to mention that call upon every well-disposed per son to take a serious interest in matters which involve the kte, of so many human beings, and of so many of his fellow subjects of the most valuable class. " I have the honour to be, Sir, " Your most obedient humble servant, (Signed) " GILBERT BLANE. " To John Wilson Croker, Esq., Secretary to the Admirality." " P.S.—My fear of trespassing on their Lordships' time and attention having induced me to make my statement in as few words as possible, I have perhaps done wrong in omitting some important circumstances which it shall here advert to as briefly as possible. A few days before the Bann sailed from Sierra Leone, the Captain sent some of his men on board of a merchant ship called the Caroline, to assist in bringing her to an anchor. This ship had lost by the yellow fever al most all her hands, to the number of twenty, none having sur vived but the master and two others. There was also, at that time, an unprecedented loss of lives from the same fever among the white inhabitants of the settlement. It is described in the reports made to the Medical Board of the Army, with a sight of which I was favoured, as a fever widely different from the ordinary fever of the country, both in its symptoms and in its degree of malignity ; such, indeed, as had never been known before in that colony, and as occurring at a season of the year which is usually the most healthy. It is also worthy of remark, that his Majesty's sloop of war the Driver, which had lain at Sierra Leone at the same time with the Bann, arrived at Ascention with all the crew in health ; and that I found by inquiry of the master of the Caroline, that none of the ship's company of the Driver had been on board of his ship, nor had any intercourse taken place between the two ships af ter the breaking out of the fever. Some of the men of the Driver, he said, had been on board of his ship, but this hap pened many days before the sickness had commenced. " G. B." COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL. Yesterday, the first Court of Common Council for the present year was held for the dispatch of a variety of important business. The LORD MAYOR informed the Court, that a vacancy had happened in the Sea Coal Meters' Office, by the death of Mr. Henderson, the principal Land Coal Meter. It was for the Court to consider when they would appoint a person to fill the office. Mr. SOUTHGATE begged leave to correct a misstatement which had gone abroad very extensively. It had been stated in nearly all the papers, that the Sea Coal Committee had re eommended an increase of twenty-five additional Sea Coal Me ters, in consequence of the alleged inadequacy of the present number. He begged leave to state, that this report was quite unfounded. The Committee had entered into no resolutions on the subject, but would be prepared to report to the Court on that subject, and on the high price of coals, on the next Court day. Mr. OLDHAM presented to the Court a Petition from Mr. Lavie, the agent to Captain Samuel Brown, of the Royal Navy. The petition stated, that it was the intention of Capt. Brown, at the next Session of Parliament, to petition for a bill to allow the erection of a wrought iron Bridge of Suspension over the Thames, for foot passengers, as well as for beasts of burthen, and that he had given notice, and taken the requisite steps for bringing this Bill into Parliament. It would be so constructed as to have only three arches, and their height would be such as to allow the tallest vessels to pass under it without lowering their masts. The scite (as we understood the Petition) would be from Little Tower-street to Horsley-down on the opposite shore. The Petit:on went on to state, that great advantages to trade would be derived to the counties of Middlese x Surrey, and Essex, by the erection of such a bridge, especially during the building of the new London Bridge, and that the proposed from praying, time that the l ep C bridge would be completed in one twelvemonth from th e t i me passing would grant g the Bill.— permission to the Pet ition er to erect two columns in the river for the purpose of s us p en ding the iron work. The Petition moreover prayed, that the Court would appoint person s to ex amine and re f The its Petition commencement, concluded o byr fm o repo rt on the plans. The Petition was referred to the Th ames N avigation Com mittee to examine andreport upon it. Mr. SLanz presented to the Court a Petition signed by Messrs. Rundle and Bridge, and many respectable inhabitants of the vicinity of Fleet-market, praying that they would take some measures for - removing tile market to a more convenient scite. T h e Petition stated, that it would be a great improve ment of the City of London to remove Fleet -market alto gether. It mentioned the great inconvenience that result ed from its present confined and crowded state and the frequent 4 , locks up" of carriages in the line of St. iaul's and the Strand, in consequence of the present thoroughfare noti, being su fficient. It stated, that by making an open, wide, and spacious thoroughfare, by the removal of the Market al together, the greatest benefits would be conferred. An ex cellent way would be made to enable carriages to return to the West-end of the town up Holborn, and it would greatly facilitate the grand improvement contemplated by the Cor poration of opening a direct line of communication between Blackfriars-bridge and the great North Road. The Peti tion stated, that many respectable females were deterred from going to the Market by the thronged state of the surround ing avenues with carriages, and the crowded state of the Mar ket itself. The Market, too, being a covered way, was at night the general receptacle of prostitutes and the worst of characters. If the Corporation should consider of a scite, the petitioners pointed out to their notice the West-side of Fleet-market, which was covered with wretched crowded houses that were inhabited by people of the lowest and vilest description. If these houses were pulled down, which might be done to the advantage of the inhabitants, an elegant market might be built on the nit; with convenient approaches, which were so much wanted. Mr. SLADE, in seconding the prayer of the Petition, adverted to the spirit of improvement which he said had gone forth, and expressed his confidence that it would a dv ance . This market, instead of being a public convenience, was a public nuisance. He trusted that in a few years as many improvements would be effected in the City of London as had recently been effected in the City of Westminster. He moved that the Petition should be referred to the Improvement Committee. Mr. HuRCOMB E seconded the motion. Mr. TAYLOR supported the motion, and said there had been no improvement made in Westminster for the last three years, that would be equal to the improvement to be made in the City of London, by opening the communication between the North Road and Blackfriars-bridge. The petition was referred to the Committee of Improvements. A Report was brought up from a Committee relative to the erection of a new Post-office. The Report stated the proceed ings, and the sums already expended for clearing the ground for the scite of the new Post-office. As-far as the City was concern ed, little remained to be done ; but as to the expence of erect ing the new building, and the probable time that would be taken before it was completed, the Committee could state no thing, for by the Act they were allowed no controul over the building, or th e sum t o b e paid, b u t th e y h a d reason to believe that Government would soon commence the important work.— The Committee referred to the Clerk of the City's Works, which stated he had been informed that the new building would be speedily commenced, and that excavations were now making for the foundation. The. Report was ordered to be entered on the Journals, The Lord Mayor declared a vacancy in the situation of Bricklayer to the City, by the resignation of Mr. Poynder. The Courtsconfirtned the Elections of Mr. Deputy Oldham, Mr. R. Carter, and Mr. Filby, to be Governors of Bridew e ll and Bethlem, St. Bartholomew's and St. Thomas's Hospitals. It is said that the ma❑ JONES, on whom Sir ASTLEY COOPER performed the operation on Friday last, of taking off the thigh-bone at the hip joint, is in a rapid state of recovery, and that the greatest hopes exist of his being finally restored to health, the wound gra nulating very fast, and the adhesions of the upper parts being perfect. Great numbers of persons have applied to see him, but none of course are admitted, quiet being absolutely re quisite. The following notices are issued from the pa rish church, Leeds :-1. That persons cannot be married if their names are not given in for publica tion correctly spelt; except they come imme= diately to the sexton, to have the spelling of them altered and corrected before they are published. 2. That a soldier's alleged widow, notwith standing the publication of the banns between another man and herself, will yet not be married to that MOD, except, on coming to be married to him, she produce a War-office certificate of the death of her former husband ; which certificate i s eas ily obtained on application, by a letter 'di rected to the Right Honourable the Secretary at War, War Oflce, Lon flen.—(Leeds Independent.) COMBINATION AND BARI3AIIITY. DUBLIN, JAN. 19.—0 n Friday evening about eight o'clock, a gang of miscreants, at least 20 in number, rushed into the house of Patrick Kahil, a poor man who resides in Stradford-row, off Summer-hill, and beat and stabbed him so ter ribly, that he now lies in Jervis -street Hospital, it is said without hopes of recovery. Not con , tent with this brutal manifestation of their fero city, the savages attacked his wretched wife, who chanced to enter the house while they were en ' gaged in this diabolical act, and left her in a state of insensibility, covered with wounds and bruises. The unhappy woman is in an advanced stage of pregnancy ; and to complete the satanic cruelty of the barbarians, they nearly strangled three infant children that were in bed when they burst in. Kahil, it seems, is a journeyman sawyer, and after obeying the ruinous mandates of the " body men" for several months, until his miserable family were reduced to beggary, being some times for several days without a meal of victuals, the unfortunate 13u ing accepted of emu ployment from Mr. White, of Mecklenburgh , street, last Thursday, on wages somewhat lower than those detestable assassins deemed' consistent with their lawless regulations. They beat and abused his brother in O'Brien's public-house., in 'Marlborough-street, afterwards. There were twenty of them.—The Police arrested five sus- , picious persons, four of whom were sawyers, one a schoolmaster, named Casidy. A quantity of papers were discovered in their possession ; they are of a very mysterious nature. On searching their residence, in one of them two bayonets on poles were found, two pieces of Iron shaped like swords, and three large bludgeons, such as have been used for the purpose of combination, and called slaters; a blow from them is generally likely to produce death. The five men were taken in Smith's public-house, in North Cumberland. , street, by Montgomery, Kelly, and some police patrol, by whom they were brought up before the Magistrates of the Head Office on Saturday, and have been committed to Newgate for further examination.—(Dublin Times.) I MR. PIERCE'S DISAPPEARANCE. BRISTOL, JAN. 20.—You have heard of the mysterious disappearance of Mr. PIERCE, a solicitor of this city, being one of the firm of Palmer and Pierce ; but the par ticulars, in some points, have neither been very circumstan tially nor very accurately related, beyond the details of the placards, offering the reward for the discovery of him. I will relate some facts, presuming, however, that thi s may b e an other instance of the f a t a l effects resulting from gambling, or from being known, by some means or other, to gamblers. Mr. Pierce was what some term a "gay" young man. He was a good deal in company, and in very varied company; and. amongst other things he was a good deal attached to what Mr_ Beard, Mr. White's brother-in-law, in his communication with. Sir Richard Birnie, called " Pl ay. " Mr. P. belonged to a c l u b, the members or which bound themselves never to play for less than five guinea points, of ten guineas the game ! Such is the rumoured character of the - Whist Club of which Mr. P. stands as a member. He, however, was known to be fond of always playing " very high ;" and it was also known, as he made a sort of boast of it, that he never was without a hundred pouads or two in his pocket to meet emergencies. Besides this, he displayed rings, costly gold chain, &c. He was a single man, and resided with his mother and two sisters at Clifton, which is across the drawbridge, and a short distance out of Bristol,— His office is in Bristol. Since Mr. P.'s alarming disappear ance, his mother has been exceedingly ill; and, I lament tot add, she is not expected to live. On Saturday fortnight Mr. P. dined with Mr. Protheroe, riving at that gentleman's residence at five o'clock,. At severs o'clock he was summoned from the party on some business; , which having dispatched, and having paid 301., he returned to• the company, and remained there till half-past twelve. When he left such company, he was not apparently any worse for what he might have taken during the evening. Where he went to then is not known ; but between two , and three o'clock in the morning he was seen crossing the draw bridge alone, as if he were on the route to Clifton. Beyond that period there is no trace of him. His absence, though it alarmed the family, was not thought of very seriously at first, as about two years ago he set off to Taunton, and there re mained three days, without any one knowing what had be come of him, till he returned and personally related particu— lars. However, his present disappearance assumed an alarm ing aspect from the circumstance of a hat having been found next day on the banks of the float or riv er , w i t h the name of " Chapman, London, maker," inside of it, which hat, ors inquiry, turned out to hav e b een M r . Pi erce ' s. The water in the float was drawn off for two days, and drags used in every direction ; but instead of meeting with any thing of Mr. Pierce,. the workmen curiously enough met with the body of an Ex-a' eiseman who had been missing for more than two months !' There is every reason to believe that the Exciseman fell inter the water in a state of intoxication, and was thus drowned. However, as to Mr. Pi erce, i t i s remarked here by those whir recollect under what circumstances some other murders have' been committed, and who know Mr. P.'s habits in having mo ney about him which might make him an object of assassins-: don for the purpose of plunder; that it is not very likely the' assassins (supposing Mr. P. unhappily to have been so de- - stroyed), would have left the hat to show where the body might be speedily found; on the contrary, they would be more likely' purposely to place it at some point where the body was not to be found, in order to distract attention and search. There are' rome house: of a particular character—for there are such houses in Bristol as well as in London—which ought at once to have' been very rigorously searched; but any search now, after there has been such ample time to dispose of any clothes or pro.- - perty that might be possessed, would, it is to be feared, be uses- , less labour. Extract of a letter from Philadelphia, dated December 19, 1523 :—" COBBETT has petitioned the Legislature of Pennsylvania to refund the amount of a fine (2,000 dollars), paid by him some years since into the State Treasary, It might as well " wrestle with a ghost." BIRTHS. Yesterday, in Bryanston-square, the Lady of Thomas March, Esq., of a dauOter. On the 14th instant, Mrs. Headlam, wife of the Rey. Jahr: Headlam, M'yclifre, York, of a son. On the 18th irstant, at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, the wife Cf . Cuthbert Dunn, Esq., merchant, of a daughter. MARRIED. On Tuesday last, at March, Mr. John Parkinson,„ to Miss' Graves, eldest daughter of Mr. Robert Graves, of the former On Thursday the 15th inst. at Twickenham, Mr. George. • Edward Holmes, of that place, to Harriet Nice Robson, se" cond daughter of the late Mr. George Robson. DIED. On Tuesday, the 20th instant, at his father's house, in Bryan; - ston-square, Robert Shuttleworth West, aged 15, second son 01. James West, Esq. • On the 15th instant, Joseph, only son of flenjainin GOD' pertz, Esq., of Kennington-lane. On the morning of the 20th instant, after an illness of only a few Lour 3, Sarah, second daughter of Thomas Leighton/ E;q., Surgeon, Westgate -street, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. On the 14th instant, in her 13th year, Mary Eleanor, second daughter of the Rev. Henry Deer Griffith, of Albion-street , Newcastle-u pon-Tyne. At the Island of Trinidad, on the 30th June last, in eonSr quence of a fall from his horse, James Boyd, Esq., Captain I °' his Majesty's ,9th regiment of foot. 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