The Sun. — London, England, 1834-10-10 00:00:00

>AY.) rs of Bat the Pur P ° ' . lace I n the P e ince becool ) " d 3 {ea mo prietor s : meeting' lieof he liber t y hould be all' pity at large' l a t e ly take 9 ,be d to a b -3' to 5 untibu"" o f purpOS e rces ircurDS ta Con S th 3 ues questions er to do• situation i", ' •en ) uld be g" om tb the c° of con ditio res ts of Failure o f til° the Court °f stat i n g tba,' ny of th e Prr his fission oo t a effects, fat re move di t oceeded . )nd that Inre cation Of t :a ' eminent , a , casti r , en ce a ree v u rl r est. et hing sho a l) , lring the a ti o f f posseble, doubt nd 3 110 parties tl ,ot :hong .„:0/ soreeoutv the P e oda ti° tornin le bad nee et a oint° re o 0 P il t L BUN ; v iov e d to owe state he sta'`,,i;ctl ig le gam t irf; to disc r e urt of ' p the 00) Nl° temen t ° Hous e I : ist a i 'e n° Pr e" it hat c° gl. : e n Cef e occur' s e ot. a prece lost by the the c Bse ;bat rn porta llt d th an then ;cr b y for fou r tinue DO ) Ills, the Ctio:0; at Co Gu "rP°ll, 3 l! , ) a tte nd ne o no s eot^ loonsidwevere"l„tion c f the object ° a the an ies, o , it ion in foro le liserl tit horiti es : Toat °rie tbe Idress:Tfdor ,rd , for C o9 ' , , 0 f Wo p e rig, s . i d I ld at t°l tl ci' hat the q ri; he Cle 'J rn t 3 ... z o ing I va lla that lie s houl d , P ;re nissionerc „ thei r p c 3 r w ho 313 , 1 1)), : s.%P ress e ilar s Lint e , nority Ar e wee' for ha t racie e rPf 10 OP at thabaler; o is trod Lle• ploor ac o b, 303° t° d, b °tll r iøs vor•- l cs oo o o, 3 e efj at th o'e r° „hicl% c i, 6( .0 ' 1 4P I t° l/ • c re AL- a to!, g , ti 3 •••'' (,; 4 4 0 .... "' 4;3 I" 3 9 *** 5 4 40 ° 1 ° • rig' s , tr; ; ..•• .3 0 1 1 t o 4 • 6 r ather .. r ice s d s ' ' ne h i ' 2,00 bt 4 reP° : t 'ocl o n r low er ' btjt Col° has bee n c wt. f o r ,ct r k t ware bcli " ,erg ''i cjov e; tic. a t ' Lema n & o la p art - c,f and " oolg• 61 3 ' a t 4`2s. bcs mod 4 1 , the , c loc': an , a 5 t o 'S o y ,re a 1 WO ' Coo co ter. arr a' Chad rtSTIVAL, RMINGHAM GRA' •- m usicAL • -- -- --- --- -- • ----. ii...„,„....._ WED:iIBI)AY EVENING'S CONCERT. Th e t OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) 14 ..''_e Performance this evening took place at the theatre 4,14 m-street. It presents a beautiful appearance, having Glr gell basely"mPlet renovated by Mr. Finlay of Covent- e 7: Wh o jildg4ll executed his task with great skill, taste, and m arket, ib t i e It is i n s i ze considerably larger than the Hay %i The th eatre was well attended by the most 2 kieet: los. asse mblY, and the receipts produced the sum of k n The performance consisted of a miscellaneous , ss in. arid the last acts from the operas of " Otello by . 4 11 'n,,,' and " Anra Bolena," by Donizetti. Caradori ' 4l 'er Pri—a "nua, and Castelli and Curioni performed the thov, dlaraeters. The overtures of ~ Egmont," by Bee (el.:ll).,a glorious composition, and " Oberon," by Weber, kq el . it."'nably Played. " The British Oak," by the i ry le,r Newkom m is a vulgar melody " full of sound and walkiln'fSing nothing;' The " Septett" of this composer 4 ed 4 ° Prformed. ' This piece has no claim to originality, et,l.otwithstanding the exquisite playing of Nicholson, Ilet v t i' e ' Willr 4 „ , Mackintosh, Platt, Harper, and Drago " wi l w as heavy and uninteresting. Horncastle's Round, %,I',ol4,at„pL,aughltig Paces here are Met," excited universal 'lliss'V Laughter. On the entrance of Terrail dressed as d greeted ,aFtail, the audience broke through all re!traint ne t go k "A with every demonstration of their mirth, which the i .: A . aPParently with equal good humour. To increase h; L'ileulo,.:t - • mi' exit from ot Uation of the parties, Mr. Terrail, in making ss '. being unaccustomed to appear in female attire, 1141 al his f° q . lag, and again set the house in an uproar by Ha ndel MORNING'S PERFORMANCES. , kort a i Drer'ermance of this day was the " Messiah" of the *ui ^raii;landel. The " Messiah" is well known, and so in owr a . Part of our national Music, that to make any long foroi ere It s several movements would be superfluous ; but Dp. , sati a s tl r lie us t, attend the Hall this morning as we could h` : " 4 , 11.11 Y make a comparison between the effects . f l i, Ve4 triir t) ; 3 ' t " Performance of this Oratorio here and in "t ter Abbey. We give the decided preference . to Itiiinh.ll:le'hall in Birmingham: The solos were more dis li'llificeat,(l, and the accompaniments of Mozart were de her, P l aYed. The chorusses were given with great INly',and with a unity, precision, and effct that was pei jielisitclisiebe.,„trri.sf!':,;". It was in the chorus, " For unto us a aiat the great resources of the whole . or- Pa ssa ra z p er e laid under contribution. In the subdued andpia,io / dlicl i ' f i s we missed the half defined and mysterious sounds hearßheu `'ed around us when at the Abbey, nor did the chorus d • to Parts appear to h ave t h e b o d y o f t one whic s h_ ~r e rle need in th e f ormer p l ace, b ut i n t h e forte pa !lificeri"te wer e more th an amp l y compensate d b y th e mg ileet of th e un i on of all the performers. the In ta. ri eL,4klah Chorus" (which was encoredat the request of the the President of the Hospital), and 11, 1 11 )10 6 e", the brass band was most . effective . ; and the I, 4o wi a , Proved a valuable assistant in enrichinc , and ,‘ lB as n ° , w eight into the bass. Mr. Machin sang the first . ‘ e ex ') " But who abide," with much judgment- . --if " „P t the slif,ht mistake in he close of the recitative. : 4 1 , ,aiso t lt w o e il f: thi t i a e t is a oei / nl i ogw m , ealvdnner in which he gave the first move . - a . s a I g0 , 0 , d contrast to the difficult agl- The trumpet shall sound," . he d i % 44 k l rl ' e° e a rf r : , , , e ' t a i n il l i t s h s e i r n e ain ap n p o e f ared too much effort. Phillips " The people that walked i o n t. 40,ess? and " Why g do the Nations." The genius u hese 44a4,11n,the orchestral arrangement of the first of t el a ark ' in th e a i rs 0 thou that tellest," and " Thou eak th em," is one of the few happy effects whic , h , .i Nee fr.,.°41 additions made to another writer's works. rte . ip '' a.r e e l atl Y,'" was sang, without . expression, by Caradori, thedi,ess'Y executed. We missed the fire of Mrs. Wood h 'Peci a g e r,sitY with which this song abounds, and more e i rt he exquisite tone and pathos at the cantaba • ‘ Ce shall k peace." She was not more success !,lterela h er other song. Thecelebrated Recitative, " There 44 ' by The Knyvett, made us think of 14fraitiha-alen withglregret The point " And they were . sore ov uut . 1 , 1 which Mrs. Salmon was accustomed to give in all le .vvhis . pers,was by Mrs... , Knyvett altogether Q gi IP in Miss Clara Novello s performance . of the e 't," 'e shall feed his flock," " How beautiful are the t. ‘ratit tl a[; ll ` l e "If God be for us," we see an example of the ;''ent th ef the system of education pursued on the Con sZlaew i: er e Pu.re intonation and absence of all affectation th e ir tha sZ. ba ve profited by the instruction of her for ° Hor astle and Hawkins each sang leis k tl ll l a g Horn castle but it is in the chorus of this , i ," 13 great master shines forth in all 4r e wri tt n 'lle wonder is not that Handel should . r6 l : at i) . ll o e t t j i ll at e l e n r two sublime chorusses in each o f his 'C at , h, „ Id S all his great oratorios the same vigour, tr- 4di tlonal . tupendous power, should be displayed. 14?,ehe rus,b for the brass band were of great effect point out to the attention of atn4-aVvett,ut b 4ri d Y h e°lll4 l4e o d t e h in er e 'rnu to sical directors, a mistake which the performance of the " Messi d a er- It aadi n , e "' in Our apprehension, is a complete =sun Ileru,'mand perversion of the intentions of Mozart. Upon t 'ltiv e - " 1 ef the score, it will be perceived that this ima.ghi °,4t of leaves the whole of the Oratorio wzt 4n iroducti on o f t rom b ones , unt il b e comes to t h e 4 n) e ae t, where, in the semi-chorus " Since by . Man DrelZeatli," he brings them into use. The custom e Na r a " i n this country to accompany this chortis on tie Mozart had evidently presented to mind ‘ l , iis mnst” 111 f ,, 4 1 ..e i dea as he uses on the entrance of the (3 , le Bo i n t ellan," intending, by the sepulchral and unearthly -ese tremendous instrument . s, to give the greatest bough an d solemnity to the expression of the words, al- N Z s ' we might, by following strictly the score of Mozart, (It 0-rotewhat fromthe chorusses preceding. Yet we are kid i tr i ° 4 the general effect would be greatly exhausted, tti 4 i a l t the free use of the instruments in question in the b k eit: would amply compensate for their previous a 17nli 'Ny vile Chevalier Newkomm may here take a lesson - „, °z art, and we beg to remind him of the care taken vil)t a ist eat writer in the use of the trombone. The re lletti:itoeunted y ester d ay to 6 , 2861. 16 s. 6d., an d i t is latkr t t b °r eY will realize upwards of 9,0001. by this even --iling performances. ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE. ti7aecl l ' S i v ,Z i°l -c Queen is the title of a a n piece which was P e !' t o! ' bill, a s The piece is said to 'light f .. cr t.he drama.e, d was charactFrise e d in e o , : it i e n an historiel a ry,,,°., i , old English pli . of the seventeenth 1 E hth, having become 711 1 , _ .‘ ste r of Harry t,..e p4t, is ' 4 lll of the King of France, u n ative a widow ' lll . e 'l by the Royal command to zgnce, escort e e D rt „lie l ; t. ll d the action of the play commences ffolk momentis at the . u h k e e r of to her S for her t '4 t I)," Presence and society of the Queen have revived in lZ k reZ °f the Duke an attachment he entertained and similar emotions ve b was united with the late King, is made, and a Ill s t1 : 11 ,,,: "4 „ ti ,_ °11 , a mutual declaration of love 4 ' l CT' awakened in the mind of Mary. After much doubt l'''e he ° Lie d i) ace. remains in France until he has ph-"ltlge take, 1 Alarmed, however, lest his Sovereign I v hr ed _ n ed, the Duke iioetiey. omise of absolute pardon but he Suffolk returns,_ Ac com • by the Queen, . toi s :oo ter re pained from Henry, through bliki 444 cia‘ches England 'y to assert to the Qi,ien and the to his than Henry disclaims his pro and had tt(ls,;:rel;,.tillat, co efaPheLs 4 ne u v i er e- intimated their marriage to the ISZtI thth b u t had pretended he had done so, hi o i l f . o r , iv _z_etur n as the most great embarrassment ites. , i s t,'...eness. Of course that he likely way of leadmg follows, to nhi•l'lghtened by the King positively stating Su m lk a In this dilem ma /1 /01411. 1 !Ister to be united to the Grand Turk, and . . fIiRV,, , tirer of the Czar of Muscovy. of Howl,' , I Th o ,' but-jauke, and their attached ttendants resolve on ha divav 'eY are again foiled by the watchfulness 4 4, I 1 by 4, 1 7 ev ' Duke that the King was close at b t °lll. how er, is fully won by the apt . use of a timely sioit and olsey to the , t Wll evezheard all. Suffolk is at . °lo e a th • and he adroitly converts . his hate pas his lait y, 4 e hint is given, caught in the height of his . pas- The King is ~, 40d ° , 11 1 str e d his censure to eulogy. a e and all that has o c et ,',._e t ot ~a t gem ; ~ a little flattery does well sometimes , , iS',Tecl, 1 ," 111 Y fully pardons the N for el arcs t a , that end had , and to '4le/k but d .1* - h t from in th a e rri fir g st , he had intended is abed h. the husband of his sister,. a , . ottli ,, Duke and es oawhich is materially 81 st ed .'e of the m • fable of the piece , all ir° a tiii e by a , main q„_ , 8 p a ,,, -econd plot made up the widow an attendant on d th"en. 1"0 Suffolk, and Isabel, of the loves of Harry Col „tete i s 0 1 th e wn -. th - a go od d of n • • In the earlier sc . enes the oyes 1i,„ 4 ..e .1,. . eal ability. bringing to ertiget_hos,oef 41,1,(I Isabel are happily which these mate . rials are employed in.uen equivoq i the 'A to su ch ` S uffolk and the Queen; d But is efficiently ma ' nage for the o rct auth or - s a e state of things yet higher praise ; and ii4tiat,, ver , s n entitled to a and the , each ki th l t r s pe ettiik e r clwere, for the most part, a nd I ppee t to c h aracteristics._ ffir a ' eia llelleparole, : l lp, i ;°/Se f‘ French courtier, the 2 ' -- - - V.izsi. d e advantage. IJI the case t em u s e Par e ke et kteh.`ealball Thevra.. .haracters were _ T c h a is st w t a o s 11444441:pity. ' M. 'fl ge i f: " . i s h the and Duke played u o °J. S ht from his act in til til Y ri i . alt Mr' We r ' the should hardly have thou o Such, however, e is he acquitted himself a with t ° t, 54 be author of the piece.was lt it e d on hi 0 merited the applause which t b tri - - dbe said. It is a are hatsaltildio theali;illsOf the music little d n r ee and therefore wne any „t4le elst„%eenelude tiZ ii‘l'h. E. b l t Vit e ll ' ad been assigned freely able 11, not have been de rau . . " tit at; 'he would s his ' u f ded of any valuabtl.e.erer: - a PPla use te was announced for repetition amidst consid der- Tot i ................,—...",.--,—..... the -qt _ cloT cc There k that fashion t o -e rouNicleen saYs and it is a common remar lh *c ' i3l ' '----- _there is nothing new under . 4arieied ~o n ce in seven years. Some 1 peop_e, for instance, ° be Z, ots were amon g ~ the things that were," . and not are gla d ly e laserva a gain bv the present generation . But a e \1 71143 to ththele,al;Pendages of the old English g e en a tl m em en a g n, n a s s r o uave • nu Bull, making their appearanc r i ., -ell to s o i l a fact, obr,etved.c 1 pair of these agreeable me i Ili ti d Pa , st f as i lions, ati ' e 3 e ' e alves ‘-' I f cm 'am- without sundry Af or e,a of adnd , %.It. in the last few days—notlr v' ' a g some large and well-m -ht 7,9 eteeortaistion from the fairer portion of the creation.— COURT CIRCULAR. Viscount Melbourne left town last evening for Panshanger, Herts, the residence of Earl and Countess Cowper. The Right Hon. Charles Grant had an interview with his Lord ship previous to his departure. Despatches dated the 26th of August were received yester day at the Colonial-office, from the Governors of the Leeward Islands. Viscount Palmerston had a dinner party on Wednesday evening, at his residence in Great Stanhope-street. Amongst the company were Viscount Melbourne, Viscount Althorp, Mr. Secretary Rice, Lord Auckland, Sir George Shce (En voy Extraordinary to the Court of Berlin), and the Russian Charge d'Affaires. Lord Auckland had an interview yesterday with Mr. Secre tary Rice, at the Colonial-office. The Marquis Camden arrived in town on Tuesday evening from Malvern. . Lord Palmerston left town yesterday on a visit to the King at Windsor. - Lady Elizabeth Talbot has finished touring, and has arrived at Troy, her Ladyship's romantic seat in Mon mouthshire. Viscount and Viscountess Strathaven are arrived from a Continental tour at the Denbies, the beautiful villa of Mr. -Joseph Denison, M. P. for Surrey. Sir Henry Peyton arrived in Griosvenor-place on Wednesday from Swift's House, near Bicester, in Oxfordshire. The worthy Baronet is among the few remaining members of the Four-in- Hand Club. The Marquis Conyngham arrived yesterday at Dud 12y-house, in Park-lane, from Buckhurst;ball, near Windsor. His Lordship came to town unexpectedly, to attend some im portant arrangements connected with his office as Postmaster- G en eral. Nottwoop.—The Evening Parties are very gay. Cards or music every night at the Countess of Essex's, Mrs. Lucy Manners's, and the Countess of Beverley's. Lady Ald borough was there, but left abruptly. SIR WILLIAM COURTENAY.—Notwithstanding this unfortunate individual is confined in Burming-Heath Lu natic Asylum, pursuant to an order from the Secretary of State, there are persons in this city (Canterbury) whose in fatuated obstinacy still incline them to the belief that he is the identical Lord Courtenay. But will our readers credit that several poor persons are weekly paying sums of money, on condition of enjoying certain small estates when the Knight shall be " put in possession of Powderham Castle." This we vouch for as a fact. —Kentish Chronicle. We believe that we may now state that the Chan cellor of the Exchequer's private tutor, Dr. Allen, is to be the new Bishop. _ _ LORD BENTINCK.—By letters received here yes terday afternoon we learn that his Lordship, the Governor- General is " alarmingly ill" at Bangalore. The public ser vants from the different bureaus who proceeded from this to meet his Lordship, fur the purpose of aiding him in his schemes of investigation and retrenchment, are, in consequence of this untoward event, completely at a stand still. The authentic source from which we have derived this piece of in formation cannot allow us for a moment to cherish a hope that there is any misrepresentation of the distinguished perso nage's health, and sincerely must every friend of India grieve should the melancholy anticipations of his medical attendants be realised.—Bengal Hurkara and Vurtman. KIND RECOLLECTIONS OF HIS MAJESTY.— Sir Henry Wheatley, of his Majesty's Privy Purse, has trans mitted a handsome donation from his Majesty to an old sol dier, in remembrance of an act so long as 55 years ago, the presentation of a set of colours to a newly raised regiment of light cavalry, called the King's American Light Dragoons, of whom the old soldier, F. Sturm, of Topsham, is now at the present time the only man in the United Kingdom alive who witnessed and shared in this particular honour. This most gracious act of his present Majesty, this hale old veteran tells 03, will all his lifetime be remembered by a deeply-feeling heart with the utmost gratitude and thanks towards a noble and humane King—God bless him. In that regiment he lost his left eye, and had his right shoulder and two ribs fractured ; he is new nearly eighty years of age, and reads and writes without glasses.— Western Luminary. LIFE ON SHIP-BOARD.--Life is idle and monoto nous. I have lived upon prose since I have been on board : it is the sea system, and I must yield to it. If you imagine that there is any poetry in the life of a sailor, how greatly are you mistaken 1 Nothing is more like a convent than a ship of war. Every day resembles the one before ; each hour brings perio dically the same task ; there is no care for anything external, and within, a profound reliance on the return of breakfast in the morning, and dinner in the evening. One is sure, when night comes, to find one's bed made, and on awakening in the morning a change of linen. This uniformity might suit a stu dious life : but beware of it. The day drags on, and is wasted on words and trifles. —Jacquemont's Journey in India. Last night, under a warrant from that most efficient Magistrate, Thomas P. Yokes, Esq., a party of the county police proceeded to Ballyvistea, county Tipperary, bordering the county Limerick, and apprehended there Mathew and Daniel Molony, respectable farmers, charged with conspiring and employing others to murder Thaddeus R. Ryan, Esq. of Castlejane, in this county. The county gaol now contains not only the actual assassin, but also the original conspirators in this case. The Molonies were put out of possession of some lands by Mr. Ryan, the object of their vengeance.— The Lord Lieutenant has offered a reward of 1001. for the men who fired at and severely wounded Thaddeus Ryan, Esq. of Castlejane.—Limerick Paper. DEPRECIATION IN THE VALUE OF SHIPPING. —Some interest was manifested on Wednesday by merchants and others, respecting the sale of the East India Company's fine vessel the General Kyd, which since 1813 has been in the Company's service. As however the privileges of the East India Company have ceased, they have no further occasion for the employment of this ship, and therefore it was offered for sale. The General Kyd is 1,318 tons burthen, copper fastened, with bolts of the best material. She was built at Calcutta for the East. India Company's service, and has per formed nine voyages. The vessel has three flush docks, and recently underwent extensive repairs and improvements. The vessel being in excellent condition, might be almost imme diately employed in trade. The vessel was put up for sale to a full attendance of the commercial and shipping interests, and ultimately realised 9,1001. It it believed that the original cost of the General Kyd, with her improvements, &c., amounted to 100,000/.—Morning Paper. GAMBLING IN THE PUBLIC FUNDS.—The em ployment of pigeons is now understood to be fairly organized to convey regularly the transactions of the Paris market in time to effect business in this on the following day. Thus the fall in Spanish stock which occurred in Paris on Monday was known here on Tuesday, and immense sums were made by selling on our high prices, and repurchasing at the depression which the regular report of the Paris Market necessarily pro duces, without the slightest risk. All attempts to discover the parties engaged in this notable scheme have hitherto failed. From observations that have been made, however, their plan is supposed to be to send the pigeons to within sixty miles of Calais, express thither and across the Channel, and employ the winged couriers again from Dover to London. Many persons have been on the watch to gain an exact know ledge of the system pursued, and to frustrate it, if possible, but without success. It has had the effect, we believe, of curing some of our exclusive-information speculators of their gambling mania, but will still be highly mischievous to those whose trade it is as jobbers or middlemen, to transact profes sionally all business of that kind.—Morning Paper. CITY, THURSDAY EVENING.—There has been a considerable amelioration in the pressure for capital among the mercantile classes in the city, and although the attempt has been repeated to cause a renewal of the alarm felt a week or ten days ago of a panic, it has failed. There have been, however, one or two failures announced to-day ; one, it is feared, to a pretty large amount, the unfortunate firm having been engaged in the fancy trade. A rumour has also been current of the failure of an important establishment connected with banking affairs in the North of England, but we have good reason to hope that the report is untrue, although it is saidto be the fact certain bills drawn upon a London banking establishment were returned—in consequence, however, we are assured, of some informality. At all events, it appears certain that the formation of the establishment referred to is such, that its resources are more than sufficient to meet all engagements upon it. And this is another instance, we think, we may venture to state, of the impolicy of parties indulging in their love of communicating information, the foundation of which is based merely upon the rumour of the day. At all times it is imprudent to throw out hints of the solvency of banking or mercantile establishments, upon the authority only of reports; hut• at the present moment, when the commercial and trading interests of the city are fast recovering from the excitement which recently prevailed, such conduct is doubly reprehensible—in most instances these rumours are circulated with avidity, in order to answer stock-jobbing purposes. The statements in circulation relating to the produce of the revenue for the financial quarter, which will close to-morrow, are of a favourable character. The approaching period for the pay ment of the quarterly dividends, added to the payment of . the dissentients to the plan for the conversion of the Four per Cents, which will commence to-morrow, must tend to afford considerable relief to the commercial interests. The amount due to the dissentients to the reduction of the Four per Cents, is stated to be about 3,soo,oool. —Morning Paper. Some - unpleasant rumours have been afloat to-day respecting the failure of a joint-stock bank in Edinburgh, having a branch also in Glasgow. The foundation of them is, that the house in London conducting the agency for that bank refused acceptance yesterday to their bills, and to-day it is added, has also refused payment to others which have arrived at maturity. On this latter point there is still sonic doubt : and it has been stated this afternoon, in explanation of the refusal to accept, that it arose solely from some irregularity in point of form, which need not of itself affect the credit of the establishment in Scotland. It is also said that the manager is on his way to town to give the requisite explanations on the subject. There is some hope, therefore, that the rumours in question may prove wholly unfounded.—Morni ng Paper. REEF OF ROCKS IN THE FIRTH OF CLYDE.— In a former number we noticed the existence of a reef in this Frith, which had not been laid down in any chart; and this morning we received the following notice from Mr. William Gibson, master of the schooner Robert, of Whitehaven, and, for the guidance of strangers, we beg our contemporaries will tranfer it their columns :—" Yesterday, on my passage from THE SUN LONDON, ritifiAY, OCTOUP.II 10, 1834. Belfast to Irvine, my vessel, the Robert of Whitehaven, struc on a reef of rocks about a mile to the south of TurnberrY Point, where she lay for seven hours, and where at low wate she ebbed quite dry. Had the wind changed, the vessel to a certainty must bare been lost ; but being from the S.E. and calm, she got off without damage. This reef is called the Briss Rocks, and as they are not laid down in any chart I have seen, nor any beacon placed to point them out to the mariner, they are extremely dangerous, espcially to strangers."—Ayr Observer. THE NEW MARKET.—Yesterday week the first stone of the building intended for the York Union Bnnking Establishment, was laid ,by the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor. This is the first erection commenced in the New Market Place. —York Chronicle. MA NU FACT URES.—In England ,the number of lives dependant on a first rate manufacturing establishment may be reckoned not by hundreds but by thousands. One leading firm in Manchester is said to pay a million a year in wages. One branch of manufacture (that of cotton) in England alone, exclusive of North Britain, is calculated habitually to employ in factories, exclusive of hand-loom weavers, printers, bleachers, dyers, cotton thread lace makers (an important and increasing branch of industry,) no less than 212,800 individuals, and to distribute annually amongst them in weekly wages, 5,777,434/. 14s. Id. - - - - OIL TRADE.--A letter from Corfu dated August 26th has the following :--The quantity of oil obtained this , year has exceeded all our expectations. Still the prices con tinue to rise, and from all appearances they have not yet reached their height. This rise has been partly produced by the announcement that the duty had been lessened in England, but the market of Corfu has. been principally influenced by the failure of the crop at Genoa. In fact, the Genoese and the Venetians, who furnish Lombardy with oil, have been forced to come here to obtain it. The growers, the specu lators, and all those concerned in the trade, seeing their advan tage, raised the prices. The immense number of buyers, and the arrival of so many vessels, insured sales even at the most exorbitant prices. The price of a barrel of oil (containing 18 gallons) is at this moment 10 talaris and a half (about 21. ss. 6d. English money.) LIVERPOOL COTTON-MARKET, OCT. B.—We have no change in our Cotton Market to-play. The sales were 2,500 bales, at steady prices —viz., 20 Bahias, 111 d. ; 25 Sawginned Maranharns, 101-d. 100 L'iguayras, 10141. ; 80 Sea Islands, 19d. to 20-id. ; 100 Barbadoes, Ned. Remainder in American, from Bd. to 91d. CANADA.—The communications from Quebec come down to the Bth of September. At that date cases of cholera had nearly disappeared in that city and at Montreal, but the few letters that are in London assert that they cannot expect to be long free from cholera if the English emigrants are allowed to come out in their present filthy condition. A strong remonstrance we understand, will be made to the Go vernment for an alteration of the law bearing upon this point. CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.—There are fewer vessels in Table Bay at present than we remember to have seen at anchor there for some years at this season. The whole num ber is only six, and of these two will leave us in the course of the week. The import trade however, has been super abundant for a considerable period. Many articles of Bri rish woollen and cotton fabric, notwithstanding the heavy rise which has taken place in England on all staple articles, may be purchased cheaper here than at the manufactory. —South African of June 25. BOULOGNE, OCT. 2.—The Government brig Sal mon has come into port, having on board the life-boat intended for this station : it was built in England, and has served as a model for those which have been built in the Government dockyards. This boat seems admirably adapted for the object it is intended for. It is now necessary to build a houses to muster the crew, that it should practise and sail in her at the very first foul weather, in order to acquire the requisite confi dence. Reliance may be placed for the accomplishment of this in our Humane Society, and in the generosity of the in habitants, to supply them with the necessary funds. BOMBAY.—We learn by the accounts received from Bombay that it was reported that Bussorah had been oc cupied by a force in the pay of Mehemet Ali, Pacha of Egypt. Several of the Company's cruisers had gone to Bahreim, a flourishing island on the Arabian side of the Persian Gulf, in order to blockade that place in event of redress being refused for an outrage committed on the Company's agent there, who it appears had been bastinadoed, and a considerable sum of money extorted from him. These vessels had been despatched by the Resident at Bushire. It is stated that Captain Wil cock, of the Royal Navy, who has been some years in the East, had died in a native boat on his progress from Bushire to Muscat, having caught the fever usually so fatal to Euro- peans. STUTGARD, SEPT. 27.—The vintage has been exceedingly productive in the whole country, especially on the banks of the Lake of Constance. The oldest inhabitants do not remember such a year. In the valley of the Necka, the fruit-trees, which border the road on both sides, are bent under the weight of the fruit, and it grieves to the heart those who pass by, to see the quantities of beautiful rosy apples that lie spoiling in the ditches. But what avails it? Heaven sends the fruit in such abundance, and man dares not eat it, for a malignant dysentery is raging in our beautiful country. Ess lingen, in :particular, has suffered very severely, and it is melancholy to see what a number of the inhabitants are in mourning. In the capital there have hitherto been only a few cases, and the general mortality is said to be even less than in preceding years. GLASGOW HARBOUR, &c.—There has been very. little business doing at the quays during the past week. Three vessels have arrived from foreign ports—one with another cargo of hemp—which shows, by the number of vessels hay.. ing hemp cargoes arrived this season, the great increase in the trade of rope-spinning at Glasgow ; part of the cargoes of hemp have been re-shipped to Greenock. It will be observed that a vessel from Cadiz has arrived with a part of her cargo of wine for Liverpool, and which she goes round with after the wines for Glasgow are discharged. By the steamers from Ireland, a deal of new corn has been received in sacks. The Irish are pushing in their corn to this market to catch the first prices, while our farmers are thinking when they shall sell theirs. We trust the intended new corn market will give the small farmers a better chance, and that they will be as active as the Irish farmers.—Glasgoto Reporter. INVERNESS.—The weather is as warm, clear, and genial as in the beginning of August. The bustle of the harvest has, indeed, ceased; the farmer has gathered in his latest sheaf, and though the produce has been less abundant than in some years, the grain is of excellent quality, and it has been all secured before the gloomy mists and rains have descended to darken the prospect. Our woods, which last year presented an unusual richness of autumnal foliage, have scarcely yet lost a leaf, but here and there they have assumed their sallow livery. The nut-gatherers arc at work on the banks of Loch Ness, which promise to yield a good return of this delicious wild fruit, as well as of brambles, both of which are already hawked about in bags and baskets for sale. The birch-tree is the peculiar pride and ornament of our Highland mountains, and we can testify that it has lost none of its grace and beauty by the slight tinting the leaf has undergone.—A verness Courier. RAVAGES OF THE CHOLERA.—The Frankfort .Journal of the 3d inst. remarks that " in no part of Europe has the Asiatic cholera proved more destructive than in Sweden. The disease has carried off one-tenth of the population of Got tenburgh. The capital has lost one.twenty-eighth, and as great numbers are now lying ill, the proportion of deaths may be much greater. In no part has the disease made such ter rific ravages as in Nikoping, a maritime town in Sweden, about fifty miles from Stockholm. Official accounts give 15 deaths out of every 100 inhabitants, which constitutes more than one-seventh of the population who have been carried off. Entire families have been swept away. In one instance, in a family of five persons every soul perished; in another family, consisting of seven, only two survived. It does not appear that any particular class of persons is affected more than an other. In the year 1831 the wet weather was generally sup posed to have occasioned this dire calamity, but we have bad during the present epidemic hot days without a drop of rain ; nevertheless, its ravages have been unparalleled." NEW POOR LAW.—CURIOUS QUESTION OF SETTLEMENT.—At the Maldon petty sessions on the 25th ult., the overseers of Steeple applied for orders of removal from their parish of a pauper, who had gained a clear settle ment at Beckingham, by renting a large estate some years before. The 6Sth section of the Poor Laws' Amendment Act says, that "no person shall be deemed, adjudged, or taken to retain any settlement gained by virtue of any pos session of any estate or interest in any parish for any longer or further time than such person shall inhabit within ten miles thereof." The Magistrates doubted whether the welds "in terest in any parish" were to be understood as applying to the occupiers as well as owners of estates ; and if there were, then another question arose as to the distance. The overseers of Steeple admitted that the distance from their parish to Beck ingham, by the nearest road or footpath, is considerably more than ten miles; yet, by crossing the river Blackwater in a boat (but there is no regular ferry-boat), it is certain that it is much less than the ten miles. The Magistrates, under these circumstances, doubted if they could remove the pauper to Beckingham, and postponed the further consideration of the case to the next petty sessions. Under the Reform Bill, the revising barristers very generally decided that the distance from one place to another was to be determined by the nearest footpath. AWFUL DEATII.—On Wednesday afternoon, an inquisition was taken at Southall-green, at the Three Tuns, near Hayes, before Mr. Stirling, on view of the body of George Prickett, who was struck dead under the following circumstances Robert Savage Hayes, salesman, de posed, that on Monday last, about six o ' c l oc k i n th e evening, he was passing Southall-green, when he saw the deceased fling a clod of dirt at a man in a waggon. Ile fell immediately as it was out of his hand. Witness went up to him, and asked him if he was subject to fits. He had just time to say N o !" when he expired. Witness then inquired of a man in the cart, of the name c) Curtis, if he had flung a potato at the deceased? He replied that he had, and that it had hit him below the ear, when he instantly fell. The man then came from the cart, and picked up the potato, which, after showing - to witness, he flung away. The potato was produced. Mr. Adam Suth erland, sur g eon, sworn , said that lie saw the d ece ased immediately after ke was seen to fall. He then sa w no e xternal sign of the cause of death. In a short time he heard that he had been struck with a potato. He examined the parts injured, and found a little discolouration, but does not believe the blow to have been the cause of death, but that he died. in consequence of the rupture of some blood-vessel. V e rdict , --Visitation of God. SECOND EDITION. SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock. THE LONDON GAZETTE THIS EVENING. FOREIGN-OFFICE, Ocr. 10, 1834. It has been notified to his Majesty's Ambassador at Constanti nople, by a communication from the Ottoman Government, dated the 9th of September 1834, that the blockade of the island of Samos has been raised. FOREIGN-OFFICE, OCT. 10. The King has been graciously pleased to appoint Sir George Shee, Bart., to be his i‘lajesty's Envoy extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of Prussia. ST. JAMES'S-PAL ACE, OCT. 8. This day Namik Pacha, Minister on a—special mission from the Sublime Porte, had an audience of his Majesty to deliver his cre nentials To which lie was introduced by Lord Viscount Palmerston, his Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and con ducted by Sir Robert Chester, Knight, Master of the Ceremonies. ST. JAMES'S PALACE, Ocror,F.o 8. The King wa; this day pleased to confer the honour of Knight hood upon Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas S. Sorrell, K. H., his Ma jesty's Consul-General for the Austrian States in Italy. WAR-OFFICE, OCTOBER 10. 6th Regiment of Dragoon Guards—J. Brett, Gent., to be Cor net, by purchase, vice Cruickshanks, appointed to the 78th Foot, Oct. 10. 7th Dragoon Guards—Major F. Brownlow, from the half-pay Unattached, to be Major, vice John Gowdie, who exchanges, re ceivingth the difference, of reneelOct.lo. 22d Regiment Foot—Ensign A. H. Russell to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Goulden, deceased , J ul y 23 , Ensign J. M. Carew, from the half-pay of the 6th West India Regiment, to be Ensign, vice Russell, Oct. 10. 37th Foot—Ensign J. R. S. Wilson to be Lieutenant, by pur chase, vice Storey, who retires ; S. R. M. Byrne, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Wilson, Oct. 10. 625 Foot—C. H. Gason, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice R. Cason, whose appointment has not taken place, Oct. 10. _ 75th Foot—Ensign W. Brumell to be Lieutenant., by purchase, 'vice Jackson, who retires ; J. H. Cox, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice 'Brume% Oct. 10. 78i1 Foot—Cornet J. A. Cruickshanks, from the 6th Dragoon Guards, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Gillespie, who retires, Oct. 10. 79th Foot—Lieut. G. Johnston to be Captain, by purchase, vice Mathias, who retires ; Ensign E. J. Elliot to be Lievtcnant, by purchase, vice Johnston; W. Monro, Gent., ta be Ensign, by pur chase, vice Eliot, Oct. 10. 97th Foot—R. H. S. Jackson, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur chase, vice Earls, who retires, Oct. 10. HOSPITAL STAFF. • T. Alexander, Gent., to be Assistant-Surgeon to the Forces, vice Robertson, appointed to the Ist Foot, Oct. 10. Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of the County Palatine of Lancaster. W. G. Bell, Esq., May 9; and J. Towneley, Esq., May 10, to be Deputy Lieutenants. • . 3d Regiment. of the Duke of Lancaster's Own 'Militia. W. C. Pickup, Gent., Sept. 29; and F. Watts, Gent., Oct. 2, to be Lieutenants. DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY. WILLIAM JOSEPH HUFFY, printer, Budge-row, Wat ling-street. ROBERT DAVIES, licensed victualler, Clerkcnwcll Green. RICHARD ORMOND, coal-merchant, Wilten-place, Knights bridge. PI!OMAS WARD, hatter, Liverpool. BANKRUPTS. HENRY FRANKLIN FOLEY, surgeon, Windsor, to sur render Oct. 21, atone, and Nov. 21, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Ullithorne, Red Lion-square ; Waithman, Basing hall-street, official assignee. Honourable GEORGE LIONEL MASSEY; lodging-house keeper, Brighton, Oct. 23 and Nov. 21, at two, at the town Hall. Brighton. Dangerfield, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London; Brinton, Kidderminster. WILLIAM POOLE CREWE, surgeon, Newcastle-under- Lyme, Staffordshire, Oct 24 and Nov. 21, at twelve, at the Rce Buck Inn, Newcastle-under Lyme. Swain, Stevens, and Co., Frederick-place, Old Jewry, London; Foster, Wolverhampton. JOHN BRADLEY, joiner, Clown, Derbyshire, Nov. 4 and 21, at one, at the Rutland Arms Inn, Bakewell, Derbyshire. Parsons and Benn, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. WILLIAM LONG, grocer, New Sarum, Wiltshire, Oct. 13, and Nov. 21, at eleven, at the Black Horse Inn, New Sarum. Holding, Salisbury • Smith, New Boswell-court, Lincoin's Inn. THOMAS MULLINS, scrivener, Gouthurst, Somersetshire, Oct. 22, and Nov. 21, at twelve, at the Commercial-rooms, Bris tol. White and Whitmore, Bedford-row, London ; Bevan and Brittan, Bristol. JAMES SEDDON, fustian-manufacturer, Radcliffe, Lanca shire, Oct. 28 and Nov. 21, at two, at the Commissioners'-rooms, Manchester. Hampsov, Manchester ; Adlingtun, Gregory, and Faulkner, Bedford-row, London. WILLIAM MOODY, scrivener, Caistor, Lineclnshire, Oct. 2 and Nov. 21, at eleven, at the Red Lion Inn, Caistor. Dyneley Coverdale, and Lee, Gray's Inn, London ; Marris and Smith Caistor PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. S. and J. Robinson, lace-mcu, Nottingham. D. W. Hubbard and W. Kent, linen-drapers, Cambridge. .1. Murray and It. Diggles, Batavia (as far as regards R. Dig gles). E. Edwards and J. Lister, browers, Kingstoon-upon-hill. J. Jaggar, S. Sykes, and W. Priestley, cloth-manufacturers, Lockwood, Yorkshire. M. Mallyon and T. Matthews, innkeepers, Sandwich. G. Bennett and T. Westbrook, linen-drapers, Maidenhead, Berks. J. Piercy and J. Bowie, grocers, Fetter-lane. T. Webster and R. Hancock, attorneys, Queen-street, Cheapside, London. R. Richardson and J. Bedford, wire-workers, Birmingham. F. Carpmeal and M. S. Tuck, schoolmistresses, Brompton. J. E. Bostock and E. Bostock, boot-manufacturers, Liverpool. A. Bridge and J. Collinge, sloggers, Rawtenstall. E. Sykes, R. Hind, and J. Sykes, innkeeper, Kirkheaton, York shire. W. Allan and Co., Scottish Ale-brewing Company, Pollard's row Bethnal-green. F. Mangles and J. F. Turner, ship-chandlers, Wapping. R. Parkin and R . Jones, coal-merchants, Liverpool. J. Adamson and mith, carriers, Bradford, Yorkshire. J. Jubb, jun., J. Staniforth, jun., and J. Marshall, malisters, Drake-house, Beighton; Derbyshire. W. A. Vaughan and S. Thomas, drapers, Aldgate. W. Welch and E. Oldershaw, farmers, Gedney, Lincolnshire. H. R. Warren and E. G. Wood, brewers, Liverpool. T. Crout and H. Linging, gas-fitter, Hoxton. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL' S. The betting was confined to the following race : CLEARWELL STAKES, P.P. V UESDAY NEXT ) . 2to 1 agst Mr . Wreford 's Free 'ill (taken) 5 to 1 agst Mr. Greville's Preserve (taken) 7 to 1 agst Sir M. Wood's Lot (taken) 250 to 25 agst Mr. Sowerby:s Constantia (taken) 400 to 25 agst Mr. Greville s Medea (taken) 50 to 25 on Mr. Gentle agst Constantia (taken) EPSOM OCTOBER MEETING—CONCLUDED The following is a return of the running yesterday : The. Nork Stakes of 5 sous. each, and 25 added; three yrs, 7st. four, Set. 31b. ; five, Bst. IMb. ; six, and aged, 9st. Mares and geldings allowed 31b. The winner to be sold for 120 sovs., &c. New Craven Course. 7 subs. Mr. Harrison's Denbies, 4 yrs N. Farrell 1 Mr. Dockeray's Trickery, 4 yrs Mr. Saour's Raven, 4 yrs 3 Mr. Lambden's Revealer, 5 yrs Mr. Gardnor's Myrrha, 4 yrs 6 Captain Skipwith's Lady Charlotte, 4 yrs 6 Betting—Even on Raven, 3 to 1 agst Trickery, and 4 to 1 agst Denbies. Trickery took the lead, and made play for a quarter of a mile at a moderate speed • Denbies then ran by her, increased the p ace, and cut out the work to the roads. where he was tackled by the others, excepting only Lady Char lotte, who was in a bad place throughout ; they ran abreast, and it appeared to be anybody's race to within half a distance from home, when, beaten by the pace, Trickery, Raven, Myrrha, and Revealer, dropped off, and Denbies won very cleverly by a length. It was a good race for second between Trickery and Raven, but the other three, technically speaking, were nowhere. The winner, who was claimed, was ridden very neatly by young Farrell. The Woodcote Stakes of 5 sows. each, and 25 added; three yrs, 7st. ; four, Bst. 31b. ; five, Bst. 101 b. ' • six, and aged, 9at. Mares and geldings allowed 31b. Winner to be sold for 100, &c. Heats, the New Mile. 6 subs. Sir G. Heathcote's Figaro, 3 yrs. A lad 1 1 Mr. Pigott's Pincher, 3 yrs Mr. Bishop's Jenny Wren, 4 yrs Mr. Molony's Wassailer, aged First Heat— 6 to 4 agat Pincher, 7 to 2 agst Jenny Wren and sto 1 agst Wassailer. This was a very curious race ; the riders of all but the Canopy filly waiting orders, and she, over powering the little fellow on her back, went sailing away fifty or sixty yards in advance of them, arid never allowed them to approach nearer till past the chair. In the second heat she permitted them to run with her till half way up the straight course, left them there, won in a canter, and was claimed ; the odds after the first heat were 2 to 1 on her. This terminated the meeting, which, however it may have disappointed public expectation, was better than could have been anticipated from the disadvantages under which the Com mittee laboured. Whether there will be any second meeting next year w ill depend on the result of Mr. Briscoe's action. The Gra n d St an d was opened and the victualling department provided by Mr. Hare, of the Roebuck, at Richmond, and we were happy to observe that the patronage bestowed on both was quite as good as could be expected from a very thin company. NOTTINGHAM RACES, Ocr. 8. Produce Stakes of 50 each, h. It. 5 subs. Mr. Houldsworth's Darius Walked over Two Year Old Stakes of 30 Boys. each, 20 ft Half a mile. Mr. Houldsworth's Hectic Mr. E. Meynell's Regret 2 Mr. Lacey's f. by Filho X The Cup Subscription of 10 sous. each. Two miles and a half. 13 subs. Mr. E. Peers Noodle Mr. Houldsworth's Darius Mr. Walker's Consol ...... A Maiden Plate of 60 sovs. was won in two heats by Mr. Rids dale's Festival, beating Air. Gilbert's Roman and Mr. Gee's Watnall. RICHMOND RACES, Ocr. 8. A Free Handicap of 5 SQVS. each, and 30 added. Htats, once round and a distance. Mr. Dawson's Pestilence Mr. S. Fox's Mrs. Oakley Mr. Francis's Frank The Gold Cup Stakes of 10 sovs. each (7 subs.) wa' walked over for by Mr. Orde's Tomboy. 1 2 3 3 GREECE. The Journal de Smyrne contains the following intelli gence from Napoli, dated the 18th of August :—" The clemency shown by King Otho to Colocotrom and Kolio pulos, who were condemned to death by the tribunal at Napoli, far from inspiring the adherents of those rebels with a feeling of gratitude, excited in them a degree of confidence, which manifested itself in a fresh attempt to overthrow the Government. Two nephews of the par doned traitors, Mitros Plaputa and Nikitas Zerbini, joined by all the partisans of the Government of Capo d'lstrias, who were known in Greece by the name of Napists, have contrived a plot, which has broken out at the same time at three points of the Pe ninsula,—viz., at Andritzena, Popeubza, and a village near Megalopolis ; all the intriguers and vagabonds in the country hastened to join the standard of the insur rection. Happily, the number of the rebels was small, not withstanding their intrigues and efforts of all kinds to aug ment their party, and the measures taken by the Govern ment with equal promptitude and energy, sufficed to defeat the treasonable projects of the rebels. Divisions of the gendarmes, which had proceeded from different points, at tacked and dispersed the rebels without difficulty, and took several prisoners, among whom are said to be D. Kallerqi, D. Tzokris, Sacheropulos, Nikitas, &c. ; they have _been brought to Napoli, and are confined partly in Itschkeale, and partly in Burgi ; and it is to be hoped that the Government will not again commit the fault of letting the trial be so long protracted, and that no second Polyzoides will be President of the Tribunal. This con spiracy, like the preceding, took for its pretext the defence of religion, which the Government, it alleged, was continu ally attacking ; but the real object was to overturn the ex isting order of things, to throw the power into the bands of the Napists, and set Colocotroni and Koliopulos at liberty. The insurgents hoped that the pretext of re ligion would draw many discontented persons from their duty, but they were disappointed. A great number of Roumeliots took arms to repulse the rebels, and several Capit.ani who distinguished themselves in the long struggle for independence, among whom is the brave Colonel Grivas, have voluntarily offered their services to the Regency. Kolios Piaputas, who modestly assumed the title of Governor-General of the kingdom, has been obliged to retreat to Elis, abandoned by all his partisans, and closely pursued by a detachment of Gendarmes. The rebels have been likewise defeated at every other point, and order is every where restored. The Austrian Observer says, "the latest news which we have received direct from ✓ Napoli, and which is of the date of the sth of September, confirms the entire suppression of the insurrection in the Peloponnesus. The main body of the rebels from 1,000 to 1,200 strong, was attacked, defeated, and dispeised, by the Roumeliots under Grivas, on the 2I st of August, at the village of Sole, near Karitene. Seine days later, one of the principal leaders of the insur rection, named Grizzali, who had concealed himself in a cave near Pfari, was arrested and delivered up by the country people. It is hoped that the other instigators of the insurrection, who, since their defeat, are wandering singly about the country, will experience a similar fate." VIENNA SEPT. 29.—Five per Cent. Metalliques, 99 1 4 ; Four per Cent. Ditto, 90%; Bank Shares, 1232.—Allgcmeine Zeitung, Oct. 4. MEMOIR OF SIR JOHN LEACH. (Abridged from the Legal Observer.) Sir John Leach was, at the time of his death, one of the best judges on the bench, having preceded in his appointment most of his learned brethren. He was of humble, though respectable parentage, and received little from his relations but a plain education. He . was born at Bedford in 1760, where his father was a tradesman ; he was one of several sons, and he, as well as his brothers, was intended to remain in that grade in society. We have understood that one of his brothers (who was afterwards appointed his prin cipal secretary, as Master of the Rolls) was an enter prising man of business, having obtained a patent for making lace, which he brought to great perfection. John Leach was educated at the Grammar School at Bedford, and placed in the office of Sir Robert Tay lor, the eminent architect, to whose business he ap lied himself with great attention and perseverance. His not continuing in this profession has been attri buted to accident ; it is said, that being engaged as a poll clerk at a contested election at his native town, he attracted the attention of Mr. Piggott (afterwards Sir Arthur Piggott), who was engaged as counsel. He was so struck by young Leach's energy and acute ness, that he advised him to study the law. This is, however, one of those semi-dramatic inci dents which are generally thrust into the bio graphy of eminent men. We believe the fact to have been, that in the office of Sir Robert Taylor he met, as a co-pupil, the late Mr. Samuel Pepys Cocke rel!, and on that gentleman commencing business for himself, he requested the assistance of his friend ; and it was owing mainly to Mr. Cockcrell's recommenda tion and encouragement that Mr. Leach commenced the study of the law. Be this as it may, he entered himself at the Middle Temple on the 26th of January, 1785, and became the pupil of that eminent draughts man and Judge Sir W. Alexander, then in great prac ice as a junior equity counsel. In Hilary Term, 1790, he was called to the bar by lat society, and chose the Home Circuit and Surrey He soon obtained considerable practice in .iese courts, and was distinguished for his neat, accu rate, and forcible speeches—his pleasing and lucid statements of cases. The first important matter in which he was retained as counsel was the Seaford election, both at the election and the subsequent petition against it, which was his first connexion with that borough, which he afterwards represented in Parliament. It is here also observable, that Sir John Leach is: another instance of a person being successful in his profession . although called to the bar after the usual period of life, he being thirty years of age before he obtained that degree. In 1800 he thought it prudent to relinquish all common law business, and confine himself to equity practice ; and although this important step did not at once meet full encouragement, no very long period elapsed ere he became extensively employed. He was particularly celebrated for his able and correct plead ings in equity ; they are in fact the foundation of many of the private MS. collections now in the profession. Some of them, marked J. L., have been printed in the collection by Mr. Van Heythuysen, and they have long been valued and followed by the practising equity draughtsmen of the present day. In court he rose ra pidly into eminence, combining very considerable with great powers of arranging and condensing facts. His speeches always enforced attention, being clear, precise, and nervous. He contended often, pre eminently even, with Sir Samuel Romilly, and was ge nerally preferred to Sir Anthony Hart, to both of whom he was constantly opposed, more especially when he became King's Counsel. His temper was warm and irritable, and he was frequently involved in personal altercation with the advocate to whom he was opposed. •His talents as a speaker not only secured his employ ment in the Equity Courts, but gained him considera ble business at the Cockpit, more particularly on West India appeals. He was, moreover, distinguished for his despatch and powers of disposing of his business. In politics, although he never took a very active part, he was a Whig, and was early introduced to the leaders of that party—Mr. Fox, Mr. Sheridan, and others. In 1807 he took a more distinguished stand both in his profession and before the public. He was one of the many eminent lawyers introduced into Parlia ment by a rotten borough. He had ever since 1792 been more cr less connected with Seaford (now en tombed in Schedule Aof the Reform Act). In 1705 he had been elected Recorder, and having resided anti purchased property in the place, he had by degrees obtained sufficient influence. in the borough to return • both of its members in the general elections in 1806 and 1807, in opposition to Mr. Ellis, of Esher-park, mho .had returned the members at the general elections of 1796 and 1802. In the election in 1807 Mr. Leach was returned for that borough, together with Mr. G. liibbea, and voted with the Whig' Administration. It was in Hilary Term in this year also that he obtained a patent of precedency—a d;Ninction which be well de served, both by his talents anJ the extent of his .busi ness. The usual compliment of Lseing made a bendier of his society followed this promotion. In 1810 he received the honorary degree of Doctor . of Laws from the University of Oxford, on the installation of Lord Grenville as Chancellor. The arduous duties of a leading counsel in the Court of Chancery now devolved on Mr. Leach, which, however, he w as fully qualified to perform; but they probablyrevented his takinc , a very 11: politics. He did not speak oft c en in the House of active prt Sessions. L 9 Commons, although when he CLQSC to ad c'rtssh spoke with effHouse,ect, and was tened to with respect and attOtion. His most remarkable spec ches were on the Duke of York's affair, on the motion of Colonel Wardle, in 1809, and on the bill for creating the Vice-Chancellor's Court. In the former, March 10, 1809, he defended the Duke, which so pleased his Royal Highness that he called on . Mr. Leach the next day, begged his acquaintance, and introduced him to the then Prince of Wales. This was the founda tion of that confidence and intimacy which subsisted so long between the late King and the subject of this memoir. His speeches on the Vice-Chancellor's Court Bill were all •in opposition to the plan. His great speech was on Feb. 15th, 1813; and probably at that period he hardly thought that he would have been the second Vice-Chancellor appointed under the measure which he so strenuously opposed. We have said that Mr. Leach was never a very warm politician ; and with a fickleness to which lawyers are said to be more than usually prone, iio thought pro per, soon after his visits to Carlton-house, to waver in his adherence to the 'Whigs. In 1811 he spoke in favour of the Regency Bill, and thought it advisable to print his speech ; and from this time the favours of the Court flowed in upon him. He was consulted by the Prince of Wales as to the propriety of issuing a commission to Italy respecting the conduct of the Princess of Wales ; and in 1817 he succeeded Sir Thornns Plomer as Vice-Chancellor, and was knighted. On his acceptance of the office of Vice-Chanecllor, Sir John Leach took the Chiltern Hundreds, and, we believe, parted with his interest in the borough of Seaford on the usual terms. His appointment was on the whole considered a proper one, find gave satisfac tion to the profession ; and no better proof of this can be given, than that Mr. Bell from that time confined himself to the Vice-Chancellor's Court. In May, 1827, he succeeded Sir John Copley a:3 Master of the Rolls, on his acceptance of the Great Seal. In 1829 Sir John :each agreed to change the hours of the. sitting of his Court, which he appointed for the morn ings instead of evenings, as theretofore ; and on this new morning Court being established, Mr. Bickersteth and Mr. Pemberton selected his Court as their favou- rite field of practice. Sir John Leach held the office of Master of the Rolls until his death, which bnp- penal at Edinburgh, on September 16, 1834, on hip road to visit the Duchess of Sutherland. He was about 74 years of age. Sir Join Leach will long be remembered as a Judge. His most remarkable qualities were his power of seizing on the important points in every case that came before him, and in his being able to deliver his opinion on them immediately, in a manner the most clear and precise. Although his long practice, and a life spent in the duties of his profession, bad stored him abundantly with the decisions of former Judges, yet legal learning was not his most eminent quality. He chose frequently, however, to rely on his own opi nion rather than on that of those who preceded him ; he very often disregarded the cases cited in argument, and decided on his own judgment. He almost always paid attention to his own reported decisions, in some cases, where even they had been disapproved of by powers of disposing of his bust other Judges. His ness were such as few men possess. Of him it is to be recorded, as it was of Sir Thomas More, that he left no cause remaining unheard, but on calling for the next cause, was informed that he had disposed of them all. His manner to counsel rendered him frequently un popular with the bar. He had great excuse in the dis eases with which he was afflicted; but the agony which they occasioned him, increasing the natu ral irritability of his temper, betrayed him in the early part of his judicial life into alter cations hardly becoming the bench. He seemed, perhaps unconsciously, to take and give way to likings and dislikings in his intercourse with counsel, which rendered the task of addressing hini frequently an un pleasant one. it is only justice to say, however, that this manner was greatly softened, if not entirely al tered, in his latter years, particularly since he accepted his last office. At the same time it is right to men tion, that to so high a pitch did the feeling of the bar on the subject come, that at one period, when Vice- Chancellor, he was waited onby the most distinguished counsel of his court, who formally remonstrated with him on his manner—an interview which was not with out effect on him. vM Sir John Leach was by no means satisfied with dis tinction as a lawyer. Political honours he had never much covetted ; but he was always desirous of mixing with the great and noble. He was on terms of intimacy with many distinguished persons, and both received the visits and accepted the invitations of a lon;_ -, list of royal and noble personages. His tastes were'fastidi ous—at least we must say so when we record the fact ttiat but few lawyers were invited to his entertain ment, except on some marked occasion, as on his ele vation to the office of Vice-Chancellor and Master of the Rolls, when some fonnal dinners were given to all the practising barristers of his court. Fashionable society was his chief liking, and he was desirous of shining rather as a fine gentleman than as a judge. He established several aristocratic retreats around London ; and at these—at Cashiobury and Osterly Park—he frequently passed his time from the Satur day till the Monday, although even here the lawyer peeped out in the shape of a bag of papers, which usually accompanied him. He was neat and precise in his dress,. and in private courteous in his manners. He was abstemious in his diet ; if his cellar were well stocked, and his cuisine in the best taste, it was to please his guests, and not himself ; if he were a fre quenter of the feasts of others, it was to partake the society, not the dainties of his hosts, as his own home made bread and linseed tea generally accompanied him on these latter occasions. He was a man of active habits, and fond of exercise, particularly on horseback. When the sittings of the Rolls Court were in the even ing, he did not allow this circumstance to interfere with his fondness for gaiety. In spite of the fatigue of his judicial duties, he dressed again for the parties of the 'night, and an hour after he had presided in his Court, might be seen talking over the nothings of the day in the crowded saloons of fashionable life. These frequently he did not quit until an early hour in the morning ; but he never allowed his pleasures to inter ; fere with his public duties, as few Judges were so punctual in Court as he. These habits of life, how • ever, probably injured his constitution ; he was afflicted with two dreadful diseases, having been twice operated I on for stone, and more recently had his eyes couched [ in consequence of cataract. He was fond of music, in which he had some taste, and latterly generally spent • his long vacations abroad. His private life was distill - guished by great amenity and inoffensiveness. A bed of strawberries, of the roseberry kind, in Mr. Burnett's garden, st Litchureh, near this borough, is now pro ducing a second, and an abundant crop of fruit, of fine size and ilavour.—Derby Reporter. PROFANE ABUSE OF TEMPERANCE.—SeveraI of the recent American papers Mention - instances in which the fanaticism of temperance bus teen carried to such an extent among some of the Protestant sects, that communicants have refused to use wine even in the sacrament of the Lord's supper, ,and have substituted buttermilk or lemonade instead of it I This is really a most revolting and profane abuse of a valuable prin eiple-Dublin lilortiiny Re f itster. On Sunday morning, shortly before ten o'clock, a fire broke out on the premises of Mr. Pick, grocer, Kir:l7. - 1 Mreet, in this borough. It originated in a beam being laid directly into the chimney, which had taken fire the day before, and smouldered through the night. It was very fortunate that it broke out in the day time, or the consequences might have bern more serious ; as it is, the damage amounted to nearly 6001. We are 7lad to observe Mr. Pick was insured to the whole amount. 'At one time great fears were entertained that the wholee• premises would have been burnt down ; but the very praiseworN activity of a large concourse of the inhabitants of the borough,. and a plentiful supply of water moon subdued the fire.—Derby Reporter. A meeting of the Stamford Magistrates was called on Thursday, to lake into consideration the refractory conduct of some of the prisoners in the gaol. It appeared that on Wed nesday afternoon four of the prisoners, named Wells, \\raiding, Hewlett, and Hewerdinei, all notorious characters, of Stamford, were confined in the day-teem in consequence of having dis obeyed the roles of the prbon, when they commenced an at tack upon every article in the room, which they destroyed ; they then broke the windows and pannels of the do or , and elf deavoured to break the lock, with a view of making their and even the bibles es cape,belong- arming themselves with the legs of the tables and stools i=fleyetcloEtroyed. With the assistance belong ing carryt othtehpetriisio3pw)oesree o f t he police the prisoners were disarmed, ircned, and placed i n se parate cells. The facts having been fully stated upon oath, t h e Magistrates directed that they should be severally kept in solitary coofinement, in irons, and fed upon bread and water for the space of ten days.---Boston Herald. I