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FRENCH PAPERS. From the illotateur of Sunday, Sept. 5.) The 'Official Part contains three Ordinances of the KING. 1. Dated September 1, contains the nomination of several Prefects. 11. Louis, ate.--.on the report of our Secretary of State for the Department of Ecclesiastical affairs and public in struction,We have ordained and ordain as follows Art. I. Are named Directors in the Department of Eccle siastical affairs and public instruction. For Ecclesiastical affairs, the Sieur Abbi de la Chapelle, one of our Almoners. And far Public Instruction, Sieur Petitot, Member of the Ro 2 yal batmen. . The Directors named by . the preceding Article shall have under the orders of our Minister the signature of the Corre spondence which shall concern only tile preliminary proceed- Ings and the transmission of decisions. In the absence of our Minister, the Director of Public In struction shall preside in the Royal Council. 3. M. de •Maussion, Member of the Royal Council, shall re phew Petitot in the functions of Secretary of the Council. 4. Our Minister Secretary of State of Public Instruction and. Ecclesiastical Affilire ' is charged with the execution of th e present Ordinance, which shall be inserted in the Bulletin of the Laws. Given at the Tuileries let September, 1824, the 30th year of our Reign, LOINS. By the King, The Minister Secretary of State for Department of Ecclesias tical Affairs and Public Initruction, D. Bishop of HERM OPO LIS. .111. Relates to the approval of the regulations of a Fire Assurance Company at Dijon. ( From the Etolle, dated Monday, Sept. 6. SEPT. s.—After mass, the King re ceived the Grand Dignitaries, the Ambassadors, with the Nuncio at their head, the Ministers, Marshals, Peers of France, Deputies, and a great number of Functionaries, Civil and Military. Rear. Admiral D'Augier, appointed to the command of the Port of Toulon, and M. do Fres ton, Prefect of La Mayenne, were admitted to the honour of taking the oath to his Majesty. Errol"' the amstitutionnel tfSuuday.L PARia, Snot% s.—The day before yesterday an Evening Paper announced, and all the Papers of i*ostertltly repeated it, that an unfortunate event had disturbed at Perpignan the general joy with which the fAte of his Majesty was celebrating.— I t is there stated— " The tables had been laid in the galleries leading towards the Court of the Barracks of St. Martin, occupied by the sth regiment of the line, and the non-commissioned officers and soldiers of each cernpany were dining together. Measures had been taken to prevent any misuse of wine or spirits. floe Lieutenant- Generals and Inspector-General of Infantry had been to visit 'the spot before dinner, and had found every thing in the best order. A short time after they went away, the soldiers, with a .vlew to add to their amusements, fired their muskets in the air, but some of them not being v er y collected , made use of ball .cartridges. The balls struck against the walls, which made the danger evident, and a dd e d to t h e zea l w i t h which the practice 'Was put a stop, to; but before this could be effected three per sous were wounded, amidst the sounds anti the cries of Joy ; Corporal Legros, M. Juliani, formerly drum.mejor, and SI. Maury, music-master at Perpignan. The two first died of theirrsvounds, the latter Is not in danger. The hall-cartridges 1 must have been received for firing at the target, and those who ought toeee the cartridges returned after every exercise,• are touch to blame. ,Orders have been gical that this neglect should be punished. This unfortunate occurrence has caused the greatest sorrow to the officers and men of the sth regiment. They intend to offer an indemnity to M. Maury for the loss he may suffer by being unable for some time to return '2 his mil stall! avocations, but, there is still the regret that the other evils are Irreparable:" Since the .censorship has permitted the pub. lielltion of this account, we cannot discover the motive which made it 'suppress the same article, intended to appear in the Constitutionnel of Sept.:only tiliferomen we can discover is in gm names of the throe unfortunate victims. 'Legros *IOU our account Called Leg rits, .1 urinal Juliana,who was not, but, Was on the point of b tetxmii ng drum-maim., • and M. Maury was ~ called Mnuriu, and organist of a church, which is not incompatible with his being a music master. Couru, JuLY SO.—The sea is once more co , vered with tho ruins of the Ottoman fleet. The shores of the Archipelago resound with the cries ••of the CraMiB victorious. The intrepid Canaris, the hero of Greece, set fire to tho Turkisli fleet .at Mitylene, on the night of the 21111 and 25th of the present month. The Captain Perim, with a •small number of vessels, succeeded in escaping, 'and took refuge in the Gulf of Smyrna. This is What we have summarily learnt of this great .event. Greece will be liberated by it. Atm 1.--IL was in the morning of July 7, three days after the affair at Ipaara, that the squadron ofAdmi ralM Mulls V°Cos, arrived at the anchorage of that island, where ii,ooo Turks were disputing for the ruins of the half destroyed city which they or- cupped. The Captain I'echa had left the vicinity 24 hours be. fore. On seeing the labarum the barbarians uttered fearful . thee. They considered themselves betrayed, and offered no .resistance, and 2,000 Sehypetars, Mahometans, were the only persons who resiated. Their efforts were vain. Two Turkish frigates and ten brigs being set on lire, carried terror among the infidels, who threw themselves into thew, and on the loth, , in the evening, more than seven thousand infidels had perished. The shore was covered with ruins, the hills stained with blood, and the Greek squadron having chased about sixty vessels, •forced forty of them ashore at Chio, where a great number of .Turks lost their lives and property. Our 51alta Correspondent saps, the L'acha of Egypt has given up the contracts made with Nola for transporting troops to Greece. The motive for this change is not known. Boug!lago is the name of the person whom. the Greeks hung at Ipsara on July 12th. He went there with about twenty Franks and a band of Jews, who all suffered tine sante fate, to speculate on the plunder of the Christians. ( From the Journat de, Debalit.) MADRID, A ura, COUthiEt of the CO. vernor of Tarifa has displeased the Government very much; though he would not, as some of the other d ' join oin the • -C ons titutionalist on their entering the town, hp, took refuge at Algeciras, where lien. O'Donnell gave him a command. The Minister of War, however, has ordered him to be arrested and tried. The last letters from Grenada and Andalusia, though written with reserve, excite much uneasiness; they speak vaguely of sonic vessels under the Colombian flag appearing the iltediterranean, which seem to have particular views on Malaga, Estapona, Marbella, and Huelva. letters from Gibraltar, and others from Oporto, agree in saying that the Constitutionalists have a directing Junta at Gibraltar, with large sums of money, and quantities °farms, at its disposal.--- We can say nothing of the truth of this, but the quantity of money possessed by the assailants at Tarifa, gives the former part of the amnion an appearance of .correctness. Several Constitutional bands are also said to be formed, both foot and horse, in Extremadura, in the inonntaimi of , • Ronda, and at Niebla,, in Andalusia. those are the r:pons of the party ; but it in certain that a large band (titbits in the . .vicinity of Aranjuex, which levies contributions on all the neighbouring villages and on passengers. (From the Courier Francais.) PARIS, SEPT. 6.—The arrival 'of M. Hurtado, the Colombian Minister, at Paris, has already in spired nn anonymous author with a pamphlet, in which he requires that the Holy Alliance should take .arms to re-establish the authority of the mother countries over their colonies. The Drys -1,04,, 'nano finds this proceeding rather too quick, and it proposes, that, acknowledging the ludo- P"d"" f the "lollies, the Governments they have formed for themselve s should be destroyed. _Four thousand infantry are now collecting at Brest, intended to reinforce the garrisons of the Antilles ) Guadaloope the Isle of LlaUrbon and ,fienegal. • ' RUSSIAN MANUFACTURES. ST. PETERSBUGH, AUG. 17.—The Senate has promulgated by two Ukases, dated the 22d and 23d of July last, two Supreme -Resolutions, of which the following arekthe chief heads :- 1. In consequence of a petition to the Board of 'Finance, by which many of the principal manufacturers of printed calleeei solicit an exemption from import duties for the white calicoes which they print in their establishments, and on a representa tion of the Minister of Finance, his Majesty the Emperor has been pleased to order that not only the manufacturers who are the authors of the petition, but all others who shall produce the certificates Tertuired by the regulations of 1020, on this sub. ject, provided their machines are of the same kind as those Of the former, may for the space of four years fi.om this time lit port, free of duty, the finest white calicoes,.on condition that each piece,nne arsheen broad and thirty-six long, shall not weigh above fourpeunds and three quarters; for this purpose, as well as for the importation duty . free of cambrics, muslins, and jeconets, which is also authorized for the same time and on the same conditions, permits shall be delivered to them con formably to the regulations in the liberty granted in 1020, for one year to the same manufacturers, and prolonged for another year by a Supreme Decision of July 1, 1821. The number of pieces of plain calico which each manufacturer may receive annually duty free is fixed: at 6,01)1) per machine, , and at 25 per table. This immunity may be revoked if circumstances shall make it seem necessary. The manufacturers are at liberty either to order their calicoes directly front abroad, or to purchase on the. Exchange of St. Petersburgh those which have not yet paid the duties, provided thy answer to the conditions above stated. . tfin receiving the calicoes duty free, each manufacturer must deposit at the Custom House a bond in writing, to produce at the end of the year authentic certificates, sewing that the whole of what they have received has been actually printed. If the manufacturer has not printed them at the end of the year, he shall, within two weeks, pay the whole Import Duty fixed by the Tariff, without being therefore exempted from printing them, which he shall be obliged to do immediately. He shall not be allowed to receive any more, duty free, till he has paid those duties ; and if it is proved that he has sold plain calicoes, he shall not only be irrevocably deprived of the immu nity, but also proceeded against by law as guilty of a fraud on the Customs. 2. On the application of the merchants of St. Petershurgli, and the recommendation of the Minister of Finance, his Im perial Majesty has been pleased to permit that th e I m p ort Duty, which by the supplement to the Tariff of 1822, pro. mulgated lust year, was raised to one ruble 25 copecs silver per pood gross weight on oil or barrels, shell be taken Bence. forth ou the net weight, deducting 17 per cent. for tare. RAIVISHORN CHURCH. (From the Glasgow Courier, Sept. 4.) Yesterday, the foundation-stone of the Rams. horn Church was laid by the Hon. Ole Loan PROVOST, in presence of the Public Authorities. At two o'clock, the procession moved from Hutchesons' Hos pital to the site of the building, in the following order : Town Officers in scarlet uniforms, carrying halberts—the Lord Provost's Officer—the Magistrates, in full dress—the Representatives of the M erc h ants ' an d Trades' Hauses—the Judicial and Civil Officers of the Corporation—the Beadle of the Church—the Rev. Dr. Ranken, In his gown and bands— the Members of the Ramshorn Session—An Operative currying the inscription plate—the Architect, with the principal elevation of the building, Supported by the Contractors, &c. &c. When the procession arrived at the site of the building, the Rev. Dr. Ranken offered up a very impressive prayer nearly in the following words : " 0 Lord; Almighty God, we adore thee as the Creator and Sovereign of the Universe, as very great and to be held in rove recce by all that draw near to thee. Thou art clothed with ho.. your and majesty, thou coverest thyself with light as with a gar. merit. All nature is subservient to thee. Thou makest the clouds thy chariot ; thou walkest on the wings of the wind s thou makest thine angels spirits, thy ministers a flaming fire. Thou !eldest the foundations of th e eart h t h at i t s h ou ld never be moved. " We adore thee as not only great, but gracious and merciful, as so loving the world that thou gayest dune only begotten Son, that whosoever believed ) in him mi g ht no t perish, but have everlasting life. Herein bath God commended his love to us, in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us. We thank thee for that atonement which he made for us, by which we are delivered from condemn a ti on an d gu il t , and from all the evils of our sinful nature; by which we are restored to thy favour and resemblance, and by which a new and living We is opening up for us In thy presence and to eternal life. We pray that our sins may b e pardoned for his sake, that we may be saved from wrath through him, may be animated by bit spirit, and may be foully justifi e d thy tribunal. " We rejoice in the assurance which, before our Saviour left this earth, he addressed to hi s Ap ost l es , an d to the Church in eiery age, saying, " Up L I am with you alway, even to. the end of the world;" -‘‘ on a Rock will I build my Church, and the gates of bell shall not prevail against it. We are wit nesses this day of thy faithfulnes in the fulfilment of this pro mise. For thou .bast not only from time to time raised up Pastors and Teachers, to minister the Gospel, to feed thy people with tint word and bread of lif e , b ut thou hest provided for them suitable accommodation for their sacred assemblies, for receiving religious instruction, for devout worship, and for the decent and orderly administration of solemn ordinances ; assuring us, " In all places where I record my name I will come unto you, and I will bless you. "We who are now present before thee offer thee our most sincere and fervent thanks for this occasion of our meeting. to lay the foundation of a new church, as a sanctuary for thee and thy people of this parish. We now solemnly set it apart, and consecrate it in thy name, and for thy service. May the build ing prosper; may no injury hefal the workmen; may the edifice be stable, and of long continuance ; may pious and able, zealous and fitithful Ministers successively' occupy it through many generations; m a y th e peop l e h ere eagerly receive thy doctrines and testimonies from their mouths, and glorify thee by manifesting the fruits of their faith in the holiness of their lives. Have respect to the prayers•and praises of thy servants and people, Oh, Lord God, whi c h t h e y s h a ll o ff er f rom t hi s house hear thou in Heaven thy dwelling-place, and when thou hearest, answer and forgive. ".May pious and upright, active and faithful, men he ever found willing to undertake the respectable and useful office of the Eldership, to serve in this house of God, to watch over the morals of the people of this parish, and to administer prudently the affitirs of the poor. " 0, Lord ! we pray for thy Church over all the earth.— May thy name be hallowed—nifty thy kingdom come—may thy will be done on earth, as in Heaven. We pray more espe. chilly for the Church of which we are Members " Peace be within her walls, and prosperity within her palaces." May they prosper who love her pe a ce. " We pray that thou mayest ever promote the best interests of the British Empires long preserve and abundantly bless thy servant, our Sovereign George our King; may his throne be stable, and his reign prosperous anti peaceful. " Abide, we pray thee, in this city. May thy servants, the Magistrates and Council, continue to be successful In their ad. ministration of, Its affairs. We thank thee for the good spirit which animates, and for that wisdom which guides them, in their attention both to the civil and religious interests of this great city. Requite th em w i t h t h y favour personally, in their families and worldly concerns, as a reward for their faithful public services. " May the Minister* of the Gospel, also, in this city be faithful and successful in their pastorial duties, and have the happiness to see thy pleasure prospering in thei r h an d s. " And how to the b'ather, Sion, and Holy Ghost, one God, whom we adore, be ascribed, as is due, all praise and glory, fur ever. Amen." the public funds, to do It in a manner not unworthy either of the purpose to which the building is appropriated, or of the character of the City, of which it is destined to become un or. nament. " In retiring, as many of us are about to d o , f ro m the ser.. vices of the public,i it, cannot fail to be a satisfactory reflection, ''that we have been enabled to afford effectual assistance to so liany undertakingsouseful in tlitutselves and interesting to our Allow-citizens. " In alluding more particularly to the business of the day, all I feel necessary is, t,) congratulate my Rev. and inueh.re r spected Friend, his Sess'on and Congregation, on the prospect they have of suitable and comfortable church accommodation ; and to return thanks in my own name, and that of the public, to Baillie Hamilton, and the other Members of the Committee, who have exerted themselves so laudably and so effectually in the promotion of this important object" - Three cheers being given, Millie iiA3tILTON replied as follows : _ Loan—lt gives me very itneese pleasure to have this opportunity of congratulating your Lordship, my Brethren of the Magistracy, and the other Gentlemen present, upon the very Interesting ceremony which we have just witnessed—the laying the foundation-stone of a Church which will be highly orna mental to the City; and I am sure it must be in apeculiar man. ner gratifying to the worthy and venerable Minister of this Parish, and to his Congregation, to ha ve so near a prospect of a suitable place of worship being provided for them—that he may long be spared to labour among them with that fidelity and success which he hat; hitherto done, is my earnest wish. I agree perfectly with your Lordship, that it is our duty to have a due regard to economy in all public undertakings : at the lame time, when improvements are necessary, as in the the pre. sent instance, I am convinced that the citizens of Glasgow would wish to see them conducted with that spirit of liberality which ought ever to characterise the Rulers of this great and flourish. ing City. " I beg to return to your Lordship the sincere thanks of the Committee on Churches, for the handsome manner in which you have been pleased to acknowledge their services upon this occasion ; but our thanks are, in a more especial manner, due to Mr. Cleland, who has given the most laborious and unwearied attention to this undertaking, as indeed, he does on ev er y occasion when the good orthe City is interested. " 6 I shall not trespass further on your Lordship's time, but shall conclude with my e arnest p rayer t h at A lm i ghty Go d may prosper the undertaking." On which the whole assembly gave three hearty cheers. The various bodies then returned to HutchesonViospital in the same order they came, and partook of wine and cake. The procession was guarded and the site of the building protected by a numerous body of Police Officers, under the direction of Captain llardie. The w e ath er was very propitious, and we have not heard of any accident having happened. INSCRIPTION ON TliE The Ramahorn Church, Originally erected in the year 1720. A plain Edifice with a Square Tower t Dedicated to the Worship of God. It'the year 1C24, • Rebuilt, Enlarged, rind Improved. I fi e ce and Chaste; Elegant, y e A t An i E tu d p i • An Embellishment to the City, And better adapted, in its Construction, for the Celebration of the Holy Bites of.the • National Religion. By the Favour of Almighty God, The Honourable William Smith, Lord Provost of Glasgow,. Laid this Foundation Stone, •• On the third day of September, Anno Domini MDCCCXXIY. In the fifth year of the reign of our Most Gracious Sovereign George the Fourth, In presence of the Magistrates and the • Representatives of the Corporation of the City, Merchants' and Trades' Houses, and Ramshorn Kirk Session. Ballet; James A. Anderson, Esq. William Lang, Esq. • James Browne, Esq. William Knox, Esq. William Hamilton, Esq. Mungo Nutter Campbell, Esq.. Dean of Guild, William M`Tyer Esq. Convener of the Trades' House Laurence Craigie, jun. Esq. Millie of the River and l jFrills of Clyde, William Mitchell, Esq. Pnricipat Millie of Gorbals, John Morison, Esq. Baillie of Proven. Which Undertaking ,lay the Supreme God ,Bless and Prosper. ON 'rut nEvltnsic Or TtirrLATE. Committee or Caution To whose care the Erection of tho;lll:ildingis entrusted. Bane Hamilton Convener $ Bantle Browne, .Anthy..ll,anken, Esq. Balllie 11Iitchcll , William , Rodger, Esq. Archibald 14swson, Esq. Peter Itiitrlees, Esq. Thomas Rickman, Esiv Architect. James Cleland, superintendent. Messrs. ALAl:mkt Broom and John GallOway, Contractors. Clergymen of this Church, and Population of , the City at the time of their induction. - Inducted in Soule. 2c1, , Mr. Mr. John APLaurin, John Anderson, 1720, populati on , 15, 162 1723, 3d, Doctor Robert Findlay, 1736, 23,94 46 6 4th, Mr. Archibald Bonar, 1783, sth, Dr. Alexander Rankers ,1 , 1.85 including lAr 08 0 whom God preserve, f Suburbs, "), '- Census, 1021-147,043—Population, 1824, supposed 153,013 Parishes formed from the original Parish of Glasgow, after the Re. In 1560, I st Parish, Inner formation Digit, Sir Alexander Lauder, Minister: 1592, 2d Parish, Twin, Mr. John Bell, Minister. 1622, 3d Parish, Black Friars, Mr. Robert Wilkie, Mi nister. 1648, 4th 'Parish, Outer High, Mr. Patrick' Gillespie, Minister. 1637, sth Parish, Wynd (now St. George's) Mr. John 1720, 6th Parish,4:3hriti se ha Ali ms il t i t s o t r e n r , Mr. John Anderson, Minister. 1763, 7th Parish, St. Andrew's, Doctor William Craig, Minister. 1782, Bth Parish, St. Enoch's, Doctor William Taylor, M inister. 1119, 9th Parish, St. John's, Doctor Thomas Chalmers, Minister. 1820,10 th Parish, St. James's, Mr. John Muir, Minister. P. S. The Barony Parish was disjoined front the Parish of Glasgow in 1595. Mr. Alexander Rowat was the first BRISTOL AS: , EZES, SEPT. 6. ITOW v. MITCH. This was an action to recover a debt of 141..55. The names Of the parties' furnished the" facetious Sergeant," as Mr. Ser geant Pell is now generally called by his brother Barristers, with a copious theme to r e ve l i n ." He first of all took th e names in their individual form, and after driving unfortunate " How" through all the changes and vicissitudes which it ever experienced, had " yet," as he himself observed, " a dif ficult task to perform," for " Aluch" remained behind. He as sured the Jury, that slight as the case was, and brief as should he the prOof, yet, if they gave their verdict for the plaintiff; all an d events,rang the n they would be for ever remembered as on that day having done collectively, e/1' a t e te n n ge went s uponn to " end.ospeakw m o u f c thh'e' namest o n After which Mr. Cleland read the inscription on a metal plate, and then deposited it in the foundation. When the operatives had finished their part of the ceremony, the Lord Provost laid the foundation-stone with all the honours usual on such occasions, pronouncing the Masonic Benediction, vikt— " May the Grand Architect of the Universe enable us sue cessfullyto carry on and finish the work of which, we have now laid the foundation -stone, and every other undertaking which may tend to the advantage of the City of Glasgow and its inha bitants, and may this building be long preserved from peril ~............--...__. and decay." JAMES ST -- -- '''''' • REM' DUBLIN POLICE 0 FFICE.-- , On which the assembled crowd gave th r ee ch e e rs . On Saturday evening, between eight and nine o'clock, Major been placed in the centre of an encl ose d area , an d s p o k e a DAWVON recei ve d i nformation that property to the amount of s follows : 1,0(101. was concealed in a. gravel pit off the Long-lane,near the " GENT LEMT W—l need not inform y ou th at th e , cause o f Royal Hospital : h e p rocee d e d to t h e pl ace , anti found an fin. manufactured goods, which he secur e d and our meeting this day, to lay the found a tion of a P ar i s h Ch urc h mense quantity of raw s ilk s , toge ther with a v ar i ety o f other for the City of Glasgow, is, the unexp ec t e d an d p rema t ure materials in raw caused to be lod decay of a church erected only a century ago. in ged the Police-office James's-street, wh ere " It is one of the happy effects of the Ju di c i ous s y stem of those articles remain for the inspection of the public. A w oman economy which has distinguished the conduct o f our pre d eces - was apprehend e d on .Bow Bridge, with two parcels of the samesore in the management ,of the City funds, a nd w hi c h I trus t quality of articl will ever continue the characteristic of the Magistra c y of Glas- FEMALE S es as those found in the Long-lane. ITU:JIM—An inquest was holdyes. mow , that while we are always found ready to afford reasonable Willa)? evening, at the Hums, Gutter-lane, on the body er M ary aid t o every public improvement, we are at the same time never Wilkinson, aged 21 years, a servant to Mr. Coles, a r ibb on . totally unprepared to meet a sudden and unexpected call, such manufacturer. The deceased had lately been observed tolabour as the present; and lam sure It must b e matter o f sat i s f ac ti on under great depression of spirits ; when called to on Monda to every one who hears me, that while renewing a n edifice de- morning, she was mi sse d f ront h er r oom l an d on the h y ouse voted by the piety of our ancestors to: the service of the Al- being searched, she was found suspended in the cellar. 'V er di ct mighty, we are enabled, without an undue encroachment on —" Insanity." Mrs. How proved that she had gone to Mr. Much for the amount of the bill; that he told her to go to Mr. Parry, with whom he said he had left the money; and when she refused to do so, he told her either to go to Parry or to go to 11-11. Cot:l./sm.—And I suppose you declined to go to either ? Indeed, I did.—(A laugh.) Verdict for the plaintiff. FOR THE SUN. if, like the Priests of old upon the Tripod, fully possessed with their cruel Divinity, they could only bring forth sentences w or thy o f the oracle, or of the God who presided over them, as they were stirred up by lashes and by tortures to a demoniac phrenzy. This surely is such a madness as none but the mad can enjoy ; all well consistent with the hy- perboles of ancient poetry, but not with our life of prose. We pedestrians must take the hum bier and more natural course, and leav ing the argument a posteriori to its merited obscurity, address ourselves' directly to the bead itself a priori at once. Not anxious to improve our health at the expellee of youthful blood, Wo will no longer follow the savage example of these " conscientious prigs of the ancient system," al they are humorously stiled in the Tales of the Travellers, " who think to do their duty by. their scholars in flogging them soundly, and that they may do this in order, arrange them in classes, and flog them in droves along the high. ways, just as cattle are driven to market, whet& those which are heavy in gait or short in leg , have to suffer for the superior alertness and longer limbs of their companions•" As now it is not so much the fashion to belie" in the mental efficacy of corporeal flagellation, but to think that though we spare the rod, e' o need not spoil th e child ; and that many a chil; 1 ' on the contrary, has been spoiled by too boot as well as t oo l en i ent di sc i p li ne , we Would re• commend, in mercy t o th e r isi ng ge neration, a n easior and less complicated machine than was formerly set to work for the manufactory o f scho• larship—a plainer and more familitir Gramm," than any yet published should be written by one who is not a mere Grammarian, odePle ti the capacity of youths in general, as brief e s A it can be made, so that it may be easily committed to memory, and yet comprehending all t hat a is necessary f or t h e fi rst e l e ments: grammar which may teach the scholar to learn as he is taught to pray, not by recollection only or by rote, but with the understanding also; and one which gives boys credit for some share of Ile derstanding, which, as it blossoms forth, among the Classic Authors naturally makes I Grammar of its own, and a c orns to be ,hackle d one moment longer than is necessary leadiogid strings, which after a time only encumbers it 'f t ° their irksome and officious assistance. Su" Grammar I would recommend to be publish?' under the auspices of the Head Masters of 1 0 great public schools, and proclaimed, as LILL7 ' ... was formerly, to be taught throughout the lant 11 " all schools, public or private, under the peuel t i d of any master breaking the law to be dogg ed soundly by his own boys for the first offence; and roves s and for the second to be obliged to teach the Westminster Grammar every day without inter' • mission for the whole year. I should not only recommend this proclamation of one Gramm ar for its utility i n its e lf, b u t w h en b oys are t a ught In the different schools, and there are as many Books of Elements as there are teachers of them, whe," the pupil goes from one school to another, he is often sadly perplexed with the difference, and has the most difficult of all tasks to unlearn wind he has been taught almost from infancy. GRAMMAR. MR. EDITOR—It has always been a wonder to my mind how much Grammarians have from the beginning puzzled themselves to puzzle their scholars in the very first elements of Grammar. Instead of imitating the simplicity of nature in her, elements, they have tried all they can to make the science as complex as possible, bring ing forward parts of speech as original, which have no more claim to originality than the lan guage which they talk; dividing and subdividing nouns and verbs, without mercy, upon the poor victims of their caprice; heaping up one definition upon another till the sense is buried in midnight darkness ; and, instead of making Syntax a beau tiful order of agreement and government, agree able to its real meaning, flowing from a few simple principles and level to the common capa city, bringing back, by their jargon of what are any thing but rules as they are called, old chaos and anarchy itself, and concluding the chequered ' scene with such a prosody, without rhyme or rea , son, as makes a concordia discors to the juve nile poet, rather than the true harmony of the ancient Muses. Why all this confusion and dif ficulty has been introduced into elementary trea tises, which are designed for children in general, it is not easy to tell, wlien they are known to issue from the pen of writers who are by no means children in understanding, and who have been the most celebrated for genius of their age. If I may be allowed to guess —may it be the same principle which they have imbibed at school, when they were in the first classes, to fag others, having been so fagged themselves ? Or, in Grammar, is it as in re ligion—in order to excite curiosity and make the more awful impression, that they make the whole a mystery ? Or do these great men, whose object is to instruct others, stoop to so low a vanity, as to wish to magnify their own powers in the sight of ignorance, and interpose clouds and darkness round, about the throne of learning, that they themselves may be thought to have pierced with an eagle flight above them all ? Whatever may be the cause, the effect is too certain ; and a plain, short, and at the same time comprehensive Grammar, is yet one of the desi deranda in this land even, which has been so long and so eminently enlightened by the greatest luminaries of Greek or Roman fame. Lilly's Grammar, which was in such high repute with a former age, as to be proclaimed throughout the country as the only legal passport to Latin, is now exploded at some schools, and melted down, in others, into the Westminster and Eton. Of the first of these, I have heard it has been said by a man of learning who had taught it there for 30 years, and of course had known it for nearly 30 years more, that lie did not yet under stand it. The other seems to have monopolised the attention of most public schools as well as private, in one form or other, and excepting the Charter 'louse Grammar, which yet Is , founded upon it, is most assuredly one of the most luminous and instructive. But neither of these has yet dared to travel far out of the aucient record, and, like pious children, appear to treat with delicacy, and a sort of veneration, the errors of their fa, there, forgetting that mercy to those who went before them, is, like the " tender mercy of the wicked, cruelty" to those who are to come after them ; and nothing can be more cruel than to torment children with rules and definitions, which they are to learn by rote, or by heart, as it is termed, for no other reason than it goes to the very heart of a boy of genius to be obliged to pore all day upon two or three lines in a to reign language which he cannot understand, in order to "make him comprehend that language it self. Such unnecessary impediments could never be thrown in the way of the scholar, if the teac h ers were not influenced by the motives which have been surmised above, or by a fa vourite notion with some of the stricter and more austere disciplinarians, the Martigophori of old, whose maxim it was (I suppose, as Nature is said to run so rapidly from one ektreme to the other), that the only solid and effectual way of penetrating the head or citadel was to make a breach at the other extremity. Or perhaps the modern Or bilii, may be pleased with these impediments, as they tend to that exercise of the arm which has been by some reckoned so salubrious to them who are natural heirs of the gout, or have as just a right or title to it, through their own sedentary, or less official and less innocent habits. How ever this may be, there is nothing more certain than that the publication of grammars has been hitherto too much like the publication of banns, to illustrate the cause or impediment, why scho lars should not be called into the precincts of literature, rather than to introduce and qualify them for its understanding or enjoyment. I know it has been said that the memory is the only faculty of a boy, whose understanding is seldom open to the reception of ideas ; and there fore it is right to store his brain with words which are so readily received at an early age, when sounds supply the place of sense, that lie may be ready furnished with a copia verborum, when his sense may be able to interpret the sound. But the question is, whether if the boy has been from the first in the habit of taking sound for sense, he will not continue to do so all his life, particularly if he is not endued with a more than ordinary share of common sense, which is only called common, because it is so commonly useful, or like lucus d non lucendo, because it is so uncommon. It appears to me, that the best way to instruct is to begin well, dimidiunt foal est incipere, and no good beginning can be corn. Alex. The foundation, whether of Grecian or Roman architecture, must arise like Nature her. self from simple elements. Babes must be fed with milk, and, not like men, with strong meat, nor even with black broth, like Spartans, for whom it might have been expedient as well as the cruel scourgings to which they submitted their youths, as they were to be trained up to scenes of blood and violence, and to any but a taste for polite literature. This is the chief taste which we would inspire our children with, a n d a curious and novel mode of inspiring It would be, to suffer genius to expire and writhe under the bloody lashes of infuriate pedagogues ) as BOW-STREET-aim DAY.) UTTERING COUNTERFEIT MONETe—Margaret Barry, a decent-looking woman, underwent a final examination on a charge of uttering bas a and counterfeit money. It appeared that the prisoner had passed a bad hall-crown to a pub lican in Hanover-street, and on her endeavOUlllig to dispose of an o th er near t h e same s p o t for a trifling articl e , s h e was pursue d an d t a ken ill custody. The Solicit or o f t h e Mi nt a tt e nded 0" distinctly proved both the half-crowns to b e counterfeit, and ma d e f rom t h e same die. T he prisoner was fully committed for trial. THE SILK TRADE. WORSHIP SrßEßT.—Yesterday Sam. PT ierl a journeyman silk weaver, against whom a warrant 1,11( tit he issued, ansl who for a few days escaped the vigilance of _... police, was brought before Mr. BENNETT under the follottisii charge:— .. t er. It appeared the prisoner had been employed by , a Mr. 114 '. 1 1,. low, of Church.street, Spitalfields, t o weave 120 yards of t o . He had received 30s. in advance, and before the work rya pleted he sent it, part made and cart unmade, with A st r ., ll ,`lr . to the house of his employer. The Magistrates then: " - aw l the Act lately passed for regulating wages between masters-, men, recommended the difference to be adjusted by Referrees were accordingly appointed, and they decidsd ttill'el, the journeyman should finish the work ; at the same &Li t a allowed him 14d. per yard, being the sum which the Ln'ik of regulations und er t h e late Spitalfields Acts allowed for nr: 1 ,01 the mi n 1 iassa m an ufa c ture r , ut: a 4r M a: celeitmuederewensrascr:alpttihoonug; h to li w e h w ic as h the master agreed: b to tit_ t _ n ° othst the journeyman not only refused, but engaged isitu,r m - plete repeatedly solicited Mr. BENNETT inquired of Mr. Clarke (one 0, 1 :,,t'; h - econo wo m rk r. of ß a E n w o w th E er T u T r:fi af ni t s er he co d. tors) whether, at the time the prisoner gaged with - g II aware of the consequen en ces - T p h r: :e d r t' t l i t r fil l Mr. Clarke said, he must be aware of it, for he ar les ag die of the danger of engaging with one master , a n ' ..- VI of silk, n A oxi ct, 1 , 0 134 understanding that the prisoner had a fitmily, t iev " e ' ... to the House of Correction for fourteen days. as . Ff. nsulting the general Silk lifat:y Anne Richards was brought forward under a, . hp I of having wilfully and maliciously wasted one ounce ell".'01. fields. 0 1 the property of Win. Stuckey, of Wood-street, It appeared Mr. Stuckey kees a silk-winding factole; tho the prisoner hail out of Ilb. 9oz. o f silk wasted lies. r il°r „„rag the regular allowance; that, as is usual with other 1133 ,0er Curers, Mr. Stuckey . stopped the value of the silk eut. s u o tes wages; that she then summoned him, when the 3114 . 1 1 . 0 atd decided that he should first pay her the wages, and t hen " against her for the injury. Oft Yesterday they appeared ; and Kennedy the offiettl iate at examining the silk, declared that it was wilfully done w,1, 1 1, „ A .., sw t t o tiit i lh n li j nd u go re isulbr h al e ir r i e hE n cose i la p ‘ toyer, and that its value was sue sh'"J' a t of fourteen days. Mr. Stuckey said he should be satisfied to get the an w " the injury done him. Mr. kesua said amount—she *Sh removed to the leek-up room. yg a hon t e o u t ton was drbheeeri, being g h e nefoHouse Act ordered oc ohfei could n tiongl: Correction.,idsgi i Visit w h t. lei:: ;t to The Bishop of LIMERICK is now on a vis i t Edinburgh. Sunday se'nnight his Lori.- for preached i n S t . J o h n ' s Chapel ) in t h a t cith the Bishop SANDFORD. At a last, Lord meeting LOWTHER proposed of the Commissioners, no Sa w fu i r day_ r: that ' t Al 4 ADAst should b e a pp o i n t e d surveyor °f or, road f rom Sh ap to Eamont Bridge, i n Westin of land, an d w hi ch was rejected by a ali" t i 15 to 7 votes.—(Carlisks Journal,)