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verforming quarantine within the limits marked out by the ' said yellow buoys. V. And it is hereby further ordered, that all vessels coming fsom any . port or place in Europe, without the Streights, or on the Continent of America, at which there is not a regular esta blishment for the performance of quarantine, declared sufficient by his Majesty in Council as aforesaid, and having on board any of the articles hereinafter enumerated, being the growth, produce, or manufacture of Turkey, or of any place in Africa, within the Streights of Gibraltar, or in the West Barbary, on the Atlantic Ocean ; and all vessels and boats receiving any of the said goods, wares, or merchandize,or other articles as afore said, from or out of the said vessels, shall, together with all persons (as well Pilots as others), goods, wares, and merchan dize, and all articles on board thereof, perform the same qua rantine, for such time, in such manner, and at such places re spectively as is herein directed with respect to vessels coming from the Mediterranean, or from the West Barbary, on the Atlantic Ocean, with clean bills of health VI. Provided always, that in case it shall happen that any vessel being `liable to quarantine, and having a clean bill of health on board, and bound to any of the ports or places afore said, shall have passed the port or place hereby appointed . for such vessel to perform quarantine, either from the Commander or Master, being ignorant of his liability to perform the same, or from the said vessel having been carried past the said port or place by stress of weather, or any other unavoidable circum stance, the said Commander or Master, upon proof thereof being made by the oath of such Commander or Master, and likewise of the. pilot (if any on board), to the satisfaction of the -Super intendant of Quarantine or his assistant, or of the principal or other officer of the Customs authorized to act in that behalf, and that the said passing such port or place was not done inten tionally, and with a view of evading the regulations of qua rantine, may be permitted to proceed and repair to any other port or place appointed for the performance of quarantine in the discretion of such Superintendant or his assistant or the principal or other Officer of the Customs authorised as aforesaid keeping the proper quarantine signal hoisted during the whole time, and such Commander or Master shall there perform qua rantine with such vessel, and all persons, goods, wares, and merchandizes, and other articles on board, in the same ma nn e r as if he had been bound to such port or place. VII. And it is hereby further ordered, that no vessel liable to quarantine, not bound to any port or place in the United Kingdom or the Islands aforesaid, shall touch at or attempt to enter any port or place in the United Kingdom, or the Islands aforesaid (whether such port or - place shall have been appoint ed for the performance of quarantine or not), except for orders, or in consequence of stress of weather, or any damage, loss, or accidents of the seas, the circumstances and necessity of which Shall be proved upon oath as aforesaid to the satisfaction of the Superintendent of quarantine or his assistant, or of the prin cipal or other Officer of the Customs authorized to act in that behalf, and that the Commanders and Masters of all such yes sells, by whom and with respect to which such satisfactory proof shall have been made as aforesaid, shall be examined, by such superintendent or his assistant, or the principal or other officer of the Customs, and shall give .true answers upon oath to the preliminary quarantine questions hereinafter directed to be put to the Commanders and Masters of all vessels liable to. perform quarantine, and shall likewise strictly. conform in all respects to all such directions as they shall receive from such Superintendent or his assistant, or the principal or other Offi cer of the Customs as aforesaid, as well with respect to their stay or continuance at such port, and their departure from thence, and repairing to any other port or place for that pur pose, as also with respect to all other orders, regulations, and restrictions, touching or concerning quarantine, and in default ' of making such satisfactory proof, or giving true answers to such questions, or of obeying and complying with such di rections, orders, regulations, and restrictions as aforesaid, the said Commanders, Masters, or other persons having the charge of such vessels, shall be compelled forthwith to pro ceed to sea with such vessels; and the said Superintendent or his assistant, or the principal or other Officers of the Cus toms, shall use all necessary means for that purpose, call?ng to his aid the Commanders or other Officers of any of his Majesty's ships of war, if their assistance shall appear to be necessary. VII!. And it is hereby further ordered, that .where any ves sel shall attempt to enter into any port or place in the United Kingdom, or the Islands aforesaid, whether such port or place shall have ,been appointed for the performance of quarantine or not, the Superintendent of Quarantine or his assistant (if there shall be such Superintendent or assistant at such port or place), or if not, the principal Officer of his Majesty's Customs at such port or place, or such Officer of the Cus rems as shall be authorised• by the Commissioners of the Customs, or any four or more of them, to act in that be half shall go off to such vessel, and shall, at a convenient distance from such ship or vessel, keeping to windward, de mand of the Commander, Master, or other person having charge of such vessel, answers to the following preliminary questions : . Ist. What is the name of the vessel, and the name of the Commander or Master ? 2d. Are you the Commander, or Master ? Where. does she belong ? 3d. From whence do you come ? 4th. To what place are you bound ? . sth. At what ports have you touched since you left the port of your lading on your homeward voyage ? 6th. What vessels have you had intercourse or commu nication with on your passage, and from whence did they come ? 7th. Did the plague or any other infectious disease or dis temper prevail in any degree at the place from whence you sailed on your homeward voyage, or at any or the places at which you have touched ? If at any, say at which, and when ? Are any persons on board your ship suffering under any infec tious disease, or have any persons died or been ill of a disease of that nature in the homeward passage ? And if any, what number ? And if any have died or been ill of such disease, were their bedding and clothes destroyed ? (If the vessel shall have sailed from any port in Europe, without the Streights, or on the Continent of America.) 6th. Have you on board any goods enumerated in this list ? (Handing up a list of articles enumerated) if you have spe cified the same, and whether they are of the growth, produce, or manufacture of Turkey, or any place in Africa within the Streights cf Gibraltar, or in the Nest Barbary on the Atlantic Ocean, or what other place ? Have you any declaration to prove of what place they are the growth, produce, or manu facture ? (If the vessel comes from the 'Mediterranean, or from any other place respecting which there is any Order in Council in force concerning quarantine.) 9th. 'lave you any, and what bill of health ? 10th. What number of officers, mariner, and passengers, have you on board ? (And in cases of vessels coming from or having touched at any port or place on the Continent of America, or the islands ad jacent thereto, or coming from or having touched at any ports in the West Indies, the tbilowing questions are to be put in addition to the aforesaid questions) :--- 11th. In the course of your voyage have any persons on board saffere,l from sickness of any kind ? what was the nature of such sickness, and when did itprevail ? How many versons were affected by it, and have any of them died in the course of the voyage ? 12th. How tong after sailing from-your, port of lading, cr having touched at any port on the Continent of America.; or the islands adjacent thereto, or any of the ports in the West Indies, was the first appearance of disease observed ? 13th. • How had the persons attacked been employed before - they came on board ? 14th. if:x(l they-beer. employed in loading or unloading the vessel before she left the port ?, 15th. Had the place which inhabited before they sailed the reputation of being healthier or was it subject particularly to the fever incident to the coitus ry ? 16 Hatt the fever been frequent in the place before the ves sel sailed ? 17th. Did the persons who were ill on boatel your vessel fall sick nearly abcut the same time, or within a few days of each other ? lid the disorder spread successively from one to an other and increase considerably or did it abate gradually and cease to multiply as the distanci'69lll the ports you sailed from 07 touched at as aforesaid increased ? 18th. What was the greateel, number .of persons ill at the most sickly period of your voy4e ? 19th. What were the whole number of persons on board your vessel when you sailed ? 20th. What is the whole numbe'r of persons now ill on board your vessel ? 21st. Can you state what were , the symptoms of illness with ,which your crew was first attacked, and what was the daily succession and changes in them till death ? 22d. Whether any wed what medicines have been used, and what methods have been adopted to prevent its spreading among the erew ? 23d. Whether attention has been paid to cleanliness and ventilation on board your vessel ? 24th. When did you sail from the port or place from whence you took on board your outward. cargo, and at what place did you touch before you arrived at the port or place where you took in your present cargo ? 25:h. Did you carry any bill of health with you to the port An/place where you took in the cargo you have now on board ? Prom what place ? Were the said bills of health clean, unclean, or suspected? A nd such Cornmander, Master, or other person having charge of such vessel shall, upon such demand, give a true answer to .such questions in writing or otherwise, and upon oath, or !tot upon oath, according as he shall be required by such Superin tendent or his Assistant, or principal Officer or other Officer of the Customs, authorised as aforesaid, under such pains and penalties as are inflicted by the said hereinbetbre-recited Act. And if it shall appear by the answers so given to the said questions, that the said vessel is liable to quarantine, the said Commander, Master, or other person having the charge or command thereof, shall be directed to repair, and shall repair forthwith, with such vessel to the proper place appointed in that behalf, for the performance of quarantine, and shall not be permitted to remain in or enter into any port or place, other than the port or place so appointed as aforesaid, unless compelled by stress of weather, damage, loss, or other injury, unavoidably occasioned to the vessel by the perils of the seas ; which stress of weather, damage, loss, or other injury, and that the said damage, loss, or other injury was unavoidable, and not wilfully or intentionally done or occasioned, shall be made appear by the oath and examination of such Comman der or Master, and the Pilot (if any) on board, to the satis faction of The Superintendent or his Assistant, or the principal or other Officer of the -Customs, authorised as aforesaid, at the port or place in which he shall be so detained, or into which he shall be compelled to enter as aforesaid ; in de fault of which satisfactory proof, or when the cause of such vessel so coming in as aforesaid shall no longer exist, such Superintendent, Assistant, principal or other Officer of the -Customs, authorised as aforesaid, shall direct, and (if neces sary) compel such vessel to repair to the proper place appointed in that behalf for the performance of quarantine, and shall use all necessary means for that purpose. IX. And it is hereby further ordered, that on the arrival of any vessel liable to quarantine, in . any port or place hereby appointed for the performance of quarantine, the Superintend ent .of Quarantine or his Assistant, or, in case of such Super intendent and his Assistant being otherwise necessarily en gaged, the principal-Officer of his Majesty's Customs at such port or place, or such Officer of the-Customs as shall be duly authorised to act in that behalf (together with the Medical Attendant), in such cases as shall be thought to require his assistance, shall go alongside such vessel in a boat (keeping to windward), and shall see the Officers, crew, and all other persofii belonging to or being on board such vessel mustered on the gangway, and the Superintendent of Quarantine, or his Assistant, or such principal or other Officer of the Customs authorised- as aforesaid, shall then and there, in the presence of the crew, put the following questions to the Commander, Master, or other person having charge of the vessel :- Ist. What is the name of the vessel, and the name of her Commander or Master ? 2d. Are you the Commander or Master ? 3d. To what port or place does she belong ? 4th. When did you sail from the Port or place from whence you took on board your outward cargo, arid at what places did you touch before you arrived at . the port or place where you took in your present cargo ? sth. Did you carry any bill or bills of health with you to the port or place where you took in the cargo you have now on board ? From what places ? Were the said bills of health clean, unclean, or suspected ? 6th. From what port or place does she now come ? When did you sail from such port or place, and at what place or places have you touched in the course of the voyage ? 7th. Have you any bill or bills of health on board ? From what place or places ? Are the same clean, unclean, or sus pected ? Produce them. (If the vessel shall have sailed from any . port or place in Europe without the Streights, or on the Continent of America.) Bth. Of what articles does your cargo consist? Have you on board any goods enumerated in this list ? (Handing up a list of articles enumerates)). If you have, specify the same, and whether they :Arcot the growth, produce, or manufacture of Turkey,. or of any-nlace in Africa within the Streights of Gibraltar, or _in , the We'st Bar bary, on the Atlantic Ocean, or of what oilier place ? Have you any declaration to prove.ofewhat place they are the growth, pro. duce, or manufacture ? 9th. At what place or places was the cargo, or any part thereof, taken on board ? On what day did you arrive at the place orplaces where you took in the whole or any, and what part of the cargo ? And on what day did you sail from such place or places, and what part of your cargo was taken in at each place, and when ? 10th. Did the plague or any other infectious disease or dis temper prevail in any degree at the places from whence you sailed, or at any of the places at which your cargo was taken on board, or at which you touched ? If at any, say at which, and when. I I th. Did you hear of any report, or are you aware of any suspicion having existed at the time of your sailing, that the plague or any other infectious disease prevailed at the place from whence you sailed, or at any other place in the Mediter ranean (or in America or the West Indies, as the case may be.) 12th. What number of officers, mariners, passengers, or other persons, have vou on board ? describe the number of each. 13th. At what port did you take on board your passengers ? 14th. Were they residents at that place, or had they been embarked as passengers on board any other vessels from any other places, and from what places, and - at what time ? 15th. Do the said Officers, mariners, passengers, and other persons consist of the same individuals as were on board at the port from which you sailed upon your homeward voyage? If an/ other persons have been taken on board, or if any of your Officers, crew, or passengers have quitted your vessel since you sailed from such port, or before your arrival at this place, or if any other alterations in that respect have taken place, specify the same, the causes, and the time or times of such alterations. 16th. What number of persons (if any) have died on board during the voyage ? Outwards or homewards, or at any part at which you have touched ; When and in w hat part of the voyage did such person or persons die ? Of what disease or distemper ? 17th. Have any of your Officers, mariners, or other persons of your crew who sailed with you on your outward voyage died or left the vessel? 18th. In the course of your voyage outward or homeward, or at any port at which you have touched, have any persons on board suffered from sickness of any kind ? What was the nature of such sickness ? When did it prevail ? How many persons were affected by it? Are there any convalescents on board? Or are all persons on board at present in good health? 19th. Were any of those who died, or who have been sick in the course of the voyage, or at any port at which you have touched, affected, or suspected to have been affected, by any infectious disease or distemper? Were the bedding and clothes of such deceased and sick persons destroyed ? If so when and in what manner ? Were any of the persons immediately employed about the sick after wards taken ill ? If so, of what disease, and in how many days after having been so employed ? 20th. At what precise time did such deaths happen ? In how many days after being indisposed did the sick die ? What were the most obvious appearances of the disease ? 21st. Have you spoken to or otherwise had any communica tion with any vessels at sea during the voyage ? What were the names of such vessels, and to what country, port, or place did they belong ? From what ports or places were they coming, or at what port or places had they touched . on their voyage, and to what country, ports, or places, were they bound ? What was the nature of the communication held ? Nirhat do you know re specting the state of health on board such vessel ? 22. Have there been any letters, parcels , or other articles delivered out of or received into your vessel from any vessel or boat met with on the voyage, or before or since your arrival at this place, and what were such letters, parcels, or articles, and where were the same delivered or received, and little or out of what-vessel or boat ? 23. Have you any packages or parcels which you have taken charge of ? If so, what are their contents, and when and where did you take them on board ? 24th. What Pilots or other persons from the shores of the United Kingdom, or from the Islands of Scilly, Guernsey, Jer sey, Alderney, Sark, or Man, have been or are now on board your vessel, or have had any communication whatever with the ship's company, or any of the passengers during the voyage homewards, or before or since your arrival at this place ? If any such Pilots or other persons have come on board, and have afterwards quitted your vessel : specify the names of such persons, and the time, manner, and circumstances of their so quitting your vessel ? .25th. Did you leave any. British vessels at .any of the ports you sailed from ? If you did, mention their names, and the names of the Commanders. 20th. Were such vessels loading, were they near their depar ture, and whither were they bound ? 27th. Did you meet with any British vessels at any of the places you touched at ? If you did, say when, where, and what were the names and destinations of such vessels, and to what ports or places did they belong ? 28th Do you know whether any foreign vessels, loading at the port from which you sailed, were bound beyond the Streights of Gibraltar ? and if so, what were they, and whither were they bound ? 29th. Do you know whether any person whatever, employed in loading your vessel, or in bringing any articles into it, or having any communication on board thereof, was taken ill during such employment or communication ? or whether, by the absence of such person or persons in the course of such em ployment, any suspicion was entertained of their having been taken ill ? If so, of what disease ? 30th. Do you know whether or not your cargo, or any part thereof, had been long in warehouse, before its being taken on board ? If you do, say how lona ° . Have you any knowledge of its being packed or handled on shore, or conveyed from shore, or stowed on board by persons affected with the plague, or any other infectious disease or distemper ? X. And it is further ordered, that the answers to the afore said questions shall be taken down in writing, and the Com.. mander, Master, or other person having the charge of such vessel shall solemnly make oath to the truth thereof before the Superintendant ofQuarantine, or his Assistant, or the principal or other Officer of the Customs authorised as aforesaid (as the case may be), and such Superintendant of Quarantine, or his assistant, or such principal or other Officer of the Customs as aforesaid (with the advice of the Medical Attendant, if such ad vice shall be judged necessary), shall, according to the answers returned to the questions herein before set forth, then appoint a proper place or station for such Commander, Master, or other person having the charge of such vessel, to repair to with such vessel, who thereupon shall, as 'soon as possible, after having answered the foregoing questions, repair with such vessel to such place or station where the said vessel shall be forthwith placed, and shall there perform quarantine accordingly ; the said Commander, or Master, or other person having the carge of such vessel carrying with him the log-book, manifest, and all ship's papers, all of which he shall there deliver to the Su perintendant of Quarantine, or his assistant, or to the principal or other Officer of the Customs authorised as aforesaid (as the case may be), the said log-boot, manifest, and papers having been first immersed invinegar and fumigated ; and such Commander, Master, or other person having the charge of such vessel, shall there solemnly make oath to the truth of the con tents of such log-book, to the best of his recollection and be lief, or shall state and specify upon oath in what particulars alone the same, or any part thereof, is false and incorrect, and whether every particular entry therein was made as soon after the fact as possible ; and if not, for what reason it was delayed, and when it was made; and also to the truth of all other ship's papers, before such Superintendant, or his Assistant, or the principal or other Officer of the Customs authorised as afore said, and shall obey or conform to all such directions as he shall then receive, touching the performance of Quarantine, from such Superintendant, or his Assistant, or the principal or other Officer of . the Customs authorized as aforesaid. XI. And it is hereby further,ordered, that in the case of vessels liable to quarantine arriving at any of the ports of the United Kingdom or Islands aforesaid, if any suspicious circum stances shall appear in the answers returned to the said ques tions by the Commander or Master, or other person having charge of any such vessel, or from any other circumstance, the proper Officer of the Customs at such port or island shall immediately transmit such answers, and give notice of the cause of such suspicion to the Lords of his Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, and the Commissioners of his Ma jesty's Customs, and shall, without regard to the bill of health whether clean or otherwise, order such vessel to a station dis tant from all other vessels in the same port or place, and put her under special guard, in order the more effectually to pre vent all communication therewith. XII. And it is hereby further ordered, that vessels liable to quarantine as aforesaid, and being furnished with clean bills of health, as well as the crews and passengers on board the sameihall perform a quarantine of fifteen days, in the manner heretofore practised, which quarantine shall commence from the time when such part of the,c,argo, if any, as is hereinafter enumerated, shall have been delivered into a floating lazaret in Sandgate Creek or Milford ,Haven, in case the ship or vessel shall perform quarantine in Standgate Creek or Milford Ha ven; or .into the lighters, or other proper vessels appointed for that purpose., in case the vessel shall perform quarantine at any of the places hereinbefore appointed for the perform ance thereof by vessels-bound to any of the out-ports or islands aforesaid; but- in cases where no part of the cargo shall consist of such enumerated goods, then such quarantine of fifteen days shall commence on the day on which the Master or other person having charge of such vessel shall have arrived with such-yeesel at the station so appointed as aforesaid. XIII. And it is hereby further ordered, with respect to all goods, wares, and merchandizes coming from the Mediterra nean,. or -from the West Barbary, on the Atlantic Ocean, in vessels furnished with clean bhlik of health, that all goods, wares, and merchandizes, other than such as are hereinafter enumerated, shall he aired and treated on board the vessel in which they shall arrive according to the manner heretofore prac tietti respecting such goods imported in vessels furnished with clean bills of health, and shall continue to be so treated for and during the space of one week ; and all such goods, wares, and merchandizes as are hereinafter enumerated, so coming in vessels with clean bills of health, shall be removed from the vessel to the place appointed for that purpose, and shall be aired anti treated in the manner heretofore practised with regard to such goods, wares, and merchandizes, and shall continue to be so treated for and during the space of 15 days. XIV. And it is hereby further ordered, with respect to all goods, wares, and merchandizes, and other artic l e s as afore said, irought or imported in vessels not having the plague or other infectious disease or distemper as aforesaid actually on board, and which may arrive in any of the por t s of the United Kingdom or the Islands aforesaid, coming from the Mediterra nean, or from the West Barbary, on the Atlantic Ocean, not being furnished with clean bills of health, that such goods, wares, and merchandize, and other articles as aforesaid (such vessel having first repaired to Standgate Creek or Milford Haven, as herein before directed) shall perform quarantine in a floating lazaret, either at Standgate Creek or Milford Haven, and no where else, in the manner and for the time hereinafter mentioned. XV. And it is hereby further ordered, that immediately after the Commander, Master, or other persons having charge of every such vessel so arriving with a foul bill of health, or on board of which infection shall have appeared, shall have under gone the examination hereinbefore directed, and shall have ar rived with his vessel at the station so appointed as aforesaid, two Quarantine Guardians shall be placed on board such vessel by the Superintendent of Quarantine or his assistant. XVI. And it is hereby further ordered, that all persons on board any vessel under quarantine may be permitted to have communication with others by letter's under the following regu lations and restrictions, viz.:— An Officer appointed by the Superintendent of Quarantine shall daily, at a fixed hour, go round the different lazarets and vessels in quarantine to receive letters, the usual precaution of dipping such letters in vinegar, and putting them into the fumi gating box, being always first observed ; and such letters shall remain in thel fumigating box until such time as the Super intendant shall give directions for taking them out to be for warded, and no person, except the said Superintendent of Quarantine, or his Assistant, or one of the guardians on board the vessel, shall be permitted to deliver such letters from such fumigating box ; and the said persons so hereby authorized to deliver the same shall take care, where several letters or papers are inclosed together; to slit open the covers in manner prac tised in the lazarets of the Mediterranean. And all letters to such persons so under quarantine shall be delivered to the Su perintendent or his Assistant, and shall be distributed by him, or according to his directions; and no communication or con ference shall he had by persons not under quarantine with per sons so under quarantine, except by permission, or in the pre sence of the Superintendent or his Assistant, and under such regulations and restrictions as shall be directed by the said Superintendent. Provided always that the Medical Attendant and Superin. tendant, or his Assistant, or any other person duly authorised by an .Order in Council, may go en board any vessel under quarantine, without such Medical Attendant or Superinten dent, or his Assistant, being in any way subject to the restraint of quarantine. XVII. And his hereby further ordered, that a night watch shall be regularly kept, and a sufficient number of guard boats and Officers shall be appointed, for the purpose of preventing all clandestine communications with persons under quarantine; and all the boats belonging to vessels under quarantine, either at Standgate Creek, Milford Haven, or at the other out-ports, shall be taken from, them, and no use made of such boats, ex cept for the purpose of carrying goods to the lazaret, or, upon occasions of necessity, such necessity to be determined by the Superintendant of Quarantine, and such boats shall not be de livered up to the Coinmanders or Masters of such vessels, until the expiration of the quarantine to be respectively performed by them. XVIII. And it. is hereby further ordered, that the Superin tendant of Quarantine, or his Assistant, or some other proper person appointed by the Superintendent, shall, as 'often as re quired, afford assistance and provide necessaries for the per. sons under quarantine, taking care to allow of no improper communication with the persons employed for that purpose ; which persons shall always place their boats to windward, and shall deliver, by means of buckets, the articles supplied by them. XIX. And it is hereby further ordered, that the quarantine guardians who shall be placed on board vessels, shall be in structed to take especial care that nothing whatever be deli vered from on board such vessels when under quarantine, with out an order, in writing, from the Superintendent, or his Assist ant, every such order to be entered in a book by one of the said guardians, and the original to be delivered back to the Superintendent, or his Assistant and nothing, however little susceptible it may be thought to he of infection, shall he con veyed from one vessel under quarantine to another, nor any personal intercourse be permitted from any such vessel to another ; and one of the quarantine guardians, when there to required by . the Superintendent of Quarantine, or his Assist ant, shall - accompany the lighters and boats which shall be employed in passing to or from the vessel on board of which such guardians are placed, chain ,. the passage of su ch li g hters and boats to and from such vessel, ' in order to prevent any com munication in the transit of the cargo from the vessels to any floating lazaret, and shall take care, after every removal of goods, that no remnants of cotton, or of any other enumerated article, remain in the lighters or the boats, but shall, before leaving off work, collect and deliver such remnants into the lazaret with the last package which they shall then carry from the said vessel. i t [The remainder to-morrow.] QUEBEC, JULY 4.—The John Barry is off here from Cork ; she has been on shore at Bestamite's Point. THE ARCHBISHOP OF DUBLIN. We are happy to see that the Dublin Guild of Merchants have paid a just tribute of respect to their amiable and distinguished Archbishop. On the 23d ult. the following excellent Address was unanimously agreed to : " MAY IT PLEASE YOUR GRACE, " No act of public duty has, at any time, been discharged with more heartfelt gratification by the Guild of Merchants than the present, when we approach a Divine, who, during a long series of years has proved himself the talented, unwea ried, and unbending supporter of that Church, of which, in this country, he is at once the ornament and the safe guard. A public duty, indeed, we conceive .it to address your Grace, in the language of gratitude and of praise, at the present moment ; when we reflect on that clear, luminous, and valuable evidence before the Committee of the House of Lords, which is at once an exposé of the true principles and real state of Protestantism in Ireland, and of the ,actual inten tion of those who, forgetting that they are but a tolerated sect, act as if they were a privileged body ; and while they malign and libel the Established Church, its Minsters and supporters, seek, by its overthrow, to form a basis for the towering pillar of their pride, which aims at that supremacy bigotry would establish, and superstition maintain. " The unceasing animosity evinced towards your Grace—the vituperancy with which you are assailed—the insults that have been patiently borne by you, call for this expression of our feel ings, ever warm in the cause of Protestantism and of Loyalty, and we beg of your Grace to accept it, as a tribute to worth— an offering to truth. " In testimony whereof, our common seal is hereto affixed." To this Address his Grace returned the fol lowing Answer:— " GENTLEMEN—The Address with which you have been pleased to honour me demands my sincere thanks. " The cordial terms in which you express your sense of my endeavours to discharge, the duties of the station in which I am placed, and to promote the interests of the Church in which I am appointed to serve, .are gratifying in no common degree. The warmth of your attachment to that Church is mani fested by the high value which you set on every effort for its prosperity. ~ . " Whilat tIW genuine principles of the Reformation are sincerely felt, and manfully avowed by the informed and influential classes of our community, we shall have little to fear from the violence of its open enemies, or the machinations or weakness of its temporising friends.--- The cause of true ' religion cannot fail, even under the deser tion of its nominal followers. Superstition cannot put down Scripture. The conviction of this truth affords a Christian con .solation in these unchristian days. The public cause being felt thus secure, in the midst of clamour, it is scarcely worth consi dering what calumny may cast upon individuals. As to that which you remark to have been so unsparinglay heaped upon myself, I feel but a small concern ; at the same time, it is gra tifying to think that what has drawn forth, from a certain tie. scription of persons, continued revilings, has appeared to such men as compose the Guild of Merchants of the City of Dub lin, a fit subject of commendation." . . SPEECH OF THE LORD BISHOP OF LICHFIELD AND COVENTRY, AT A MEETING OF THE SHROPSHIRE AUXILIARY BIBLE• SOCIETY. Scarcely recovered from the pressure of domestic affliction, and labouring as I do under the weight of official busi ness and of some degree of indisposition, I should have.excused myselffrom participating this day in your proceedings, had I not felt your meeting to be one of paramount importance, and one of that class in which I always take pleasure. To open the Word of God to every eye that will see—to present it to every enlightened mind that will understand—and to bring it to the door of every heart that has been opened by the Holy Spirit—is a work of the highest interest and of the most exquisitedelight —a work of duty of the purest kind, by a participation in which the humblest Christian furthers the precept of his divine Master, which com mands his faithful followers to " preach the gospel to every crea ture." It is that operation which goes to overthow the dominion of Sin and Satan, and to produce that blessed consummation when "all flesh shall see the salvation of God." As Englishmen' we must have a peculiar pleasure in promoting the spread of scripture truth, in disseminating the glad tidings of salvation, in sending the Word of God to all nations. As Patriots and as Christians, we must feel it our duty to fulfil the calling of our faith, whichl directs each of us to act as a Missionary in the cause of our Master. As Protestants we must feel it an obligation upon us to assist in dispelling those mists which bigotry has raised round the pure Light of the Gospel ; and no means can be so effectual for this purpose as our strenuous efforts to spread the Word of God. Blessed be his Holy name ! we must feel that pleasing task to be not only a duty but a debt, our sense of which can never be so well expressed as by our endeavours to send fOrth to the hundreds of millions of our benighted fellow-creatures the glad tidings of salvation—considering thatthese hundreds of mil. lions of human beings possess only a knowledge of natural wants and human passions, and live under the degrading and despotic dominion of human sins ; and that by no other means than those which the Scriptures afford can they be brought to glorify God, and to live to the glory and honour of his holy name.— But I must confess, however gratifying is the consideration of this extended prospect, that my mind, perhaps, for want of more comprehensive views, is disposed to compress its scope, and to watch the operations of the Bible in a single soul. Take ia child just able to comprehend its simple truth, and behold the mode by which it instructs him in his youth, confirms him in his manhood, consoles him in his old age, supports him in death, and finally leads him to glory. Contemplate its adap tation to the daily affairs of life, to every case of strong temp tation, to every instance of bitter bereavement ; see how by it sins are checked, and how the performance of duties is promoted—how comfort is administered, how love and cha rity are encouraged, and bow much good is done to the soul of any one to whom it has been presented. Let us then look from this effect on an individual soul to the fruits which may be anticipated from a diffusion of the Word of God among the countless millions of the heathen world ; and as a point of duty, as well as a point of gratitude, I can but impress upon you a consideration of the pleasure to be derived from a parti cipation in the spreading among all nations the pure light of Scripture Truth. In a spirit of true Christian charity let all of us say, This is ourcause, and we will go on under any sacrifices,and under any privations, assured that our labour will not be in vain in the Lord ; that We shall have an amplepayment in this life,as well as in that which is to come. Under these impressions, and with these views, I willingly and cordially accept the office of Patron of your Society. At the same time I beg to lament that my distant residence,and official situation and duties will prevent my lending thatlactive aid, which it would otherwise bei my highest pleasure to give to your proCeedings : but yet, as placed officially in this district, I shall feel a gratification in my humble co-operation ; and an additional pleasure will be derived from the call thus made upon me to labour with my Reverend Brother, your ve nerable President, so greatly and deservedly respected for his able and persevering efforts, and so highly esteemed among yourselves for his unwearied attention and assistance. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. WARWICK, MONDAY, Auo. 8. The Assizes commenced here this morning before Mr. Justice PARK sitting 'at Nisi Prizis, and Mr. Justice HOLitOYD in the Criminal Court. Mr. Justice HoLROYD, in his charge to the. Grand Jtiry, ex pressed his regret at the great number of prisoners (65) whose names appeared in the calendar, and which was quite astonishing considering the short period which had elapsed since the last assizes. He had looked over the depositions, and was glad to see that there were few cases of great enormity among them. His Lordship, in allusion to the case of Stockman, the pugilist, charged with robbing a -man at a recent fight in this neigh bourhood, said he understood that prize-fighting had been of late repeatedly caried on in this neighbourhood, in defiance of the Magistracy. He expressed some astonishment that a more effectual stop had not been put to assemblies so dan gerous and disgraceful, and for which the statute and common law had amply provided. If the individual authority of Magi strates was not enough, they might call for the aid of the Sheriff and his posse, lie wished it to be generally understood, that not only the promoters of such assemblies, but all who were pre sent at them, would be answerable for such consewiences as might ensue ; and he wished Magistrates to remember, that they were entrusted with the duty of preserving the peace, a not less important duty than that of punishing those who should break it. He was compelled, and it was extremely painful to him that he was obliged to do this, to allude to a disgraceful and inhuman spectacle which had recently been exhibited in this town.— Nothing could be more cruel and disgusting than the exhibi tion of wild animals of a generous nature in sanguinary con flict, for the sake of gain to the miserable people who kept these animals. To every sensitive and well-regulated mind, such a spectacle must be revolting in the highest degree. The commonly received notions of society ought to have prevented such an odious scene; but since they had not had that effect, be would inform the gentlemen lie was now addressing, that the practice was as contrary to law, as. it was repugnant to every principle of humanity. It was laid down in Mr. justice Blackstone's, and elsewhere, that all such exhibitions were nuisances, and might be suppresse, and the persons concerned in them fined. The nuisance becine still greater if it cau sed danger or alarm to the persons preent , and there could be n t) doubt that the lives of the keeper and other persons attendinl wild animals were at every mount in danger. He trust..a that if in future any attempt sheid be made to repeat the (Ire; gusting and unchristian practice he spoke of, the magistra.,, would recollect that they possessel the power of preventing and that it was their imperative dtty to exert that power. Several cases of larceny were tied, but none of them P ° ' sessed any public interest. TUESDAY.—NO case of anyparticular interest took P lact this day. CROYDOr, Auo. 10. ( Before the Hon. M. Baron GRAHAM.) Louisa Catherine Jr:ifi.eys, sated in the calendar to he i l : dieted f age, and Louisa aillbton ad 12 years, wer e to for conspiring and con ta lera t ing together to set fire „, the house of John Byng Banks, at St. Mary, Bermondsey, u„, the 21st July. In another set of counts the object of the 0 11 spiracy was alleged to be, to attempt to set fire to the house. The case excited extraordisary interest. The wretched Pr I'j, soners were overwhelmed vith grief during the whole UP They had been in confinement since the 28th of July. , d i e Mr. ANDREWS (with WlOlll Mr. THESSIGER) stat ed Case for the prosecution. The following witnesses were then examine fad do A n l e a s r o y nSiowreeettinhgan—l w a yeti.rt at in the factory. In the month of September last I Was die o T A i l i r e . Banks prisoners ' s w c t e o r r e y, , ap a p and e fined to my bed with illness. Early one morning in i f month the prisoners came to my bed. Billington asked In „ could keep a secret I made no answer. She then said,„,,, am going to set the house on fire to-night, at seven o'c l gei Both prisoners said they would set the house on fire. t he assigned as their reason that they wanted to get away fror n . o g, factory. They came up again to my bedside in the evens ale at seven o'clock; I was still in bed. They brought a end up, and set it on the table. They said to another gill; S t ies Christina Slack, and myself, "We are going to do it. te r. tina Slack said, " Pray don't; if you do, I'll tell 111,00 They said, " Pray don t;it is only our fun." I don't that whether they took away the candle or not; I did not know t he they were going to do it. I did not afterwards hear that house had been set on fire. Agar ° Cross-examined by Mr. ADOLFHUS—There are 65 - in the factory ; they sleep in two rooms. lam one of the .. t s ones; there are many younger than me; lam thirteen 1 1 70 old. We are employed in embroidering lace. The pro st were apprenticed after me. We go to work every mornifeo. half-past seven, and continue till half-past seven in th.r..„,eo ing ; we work only twelve hours a day. When the pri7ht told me they were going to set the house on fire, I th ne fttft 0 was a bit of fun. When we behave ill they beat us il l cane. rlO l Christina Slack—l am fifteen years of age; I ha ve ~- I, tiA two years next March at Mr. Banks's factory. remettl":011 1 : last witness being confined to her bed in September. I re„o her the prisoners coming into her room one morning b etw r , t o and 9 o'clock ; I was present. They said they were Fi n,, leir set the house on fire in the women's room. They said 024,0 object was to run away. 1 told them not to do it, for I .7. the tell of them. In the evening of that day I saw Jeffreyo Type work-room, about 7 o'clock. Billington came in; she 5 01 ‘711; for a candle; she did not get one then, but she did af terw o I went with the prisoners to a room up stairs; one of th e , they were going to do it. 1 did not believe they were in .d then. I asked them if they were going to do it. They sai were. I told them not to do it, or I would tell of them• or then said they would not do it. Then I left the room. A nthe 4 pened that night in the women's room. Some wome n stye ise were burnt. Both prisoners ran away that night from 7000,t. tory, but returned next morning. I never heard them 000'' any dislike to their work. They complained of being V° scud confined. They never made any particular complaint 1 00 said they did not like the place ; they would not stop• nothing about the fire in July. • area Cross-examined by Mr. Law—There are some cluI.101100; young as nine years in the factory. They all coniPl al k being too hard worked. We breakfast at eight o'cle c have half an hour. We dine at one, and have an hee;:totol,' leave off work at half-past seven. There is a school in the PP; The Rev. Dr. Harrison—l am well acquainted , l istrt te 4. Banks's factory. I visit it by the directions of the Nab; lv., ‘ at Quarter Sessions. I have visited it twice since Ju n ae ' a s'; I give Mr. Banks no notice of my visits ; I have neve r "sett' cause of complaint—quite the contrary. The children W I A present at these visits.tW been of Cross-examined by Mr. ADOLPHUS—I have only of to the factory since my appointment. lam the father mily myself. Then, being the father of a family and a clergy ,At ask you whether employing children in the manner g 19 been proved, for twelve hours continuously, is a Pe e ,,,/ of treatment ?—( With considerable hesitation)- -1 within the Act of Parliament. 0 14 • As a man, a father, a clergyman of the Church of 1 .4° 0 , oti as a minister of that Gospel which teaches peace, che n t ooll e d compassion to our fellow -creatures, is that a pron er i a d treating these tender infants ?—(Greater h e sitation.) -- 0000 1 0 concerned in business of this kind. Have you the feelings of a man ? Have you t he o o 1.0 of our common nature ? If you have, I ask rit,. uP poilitif oath whether it is a proper mode of treatment for alire ll „,ulsl/ tender years, to keep them twelve hours at work , ‘ - p oseii i i them only one hour and a half for refreshment fula sn ee r to (With hesitation)—l go by my instructions accortllD° bo s Act of arliaent. I ask P youyour opinion upon the facts which I ° l l ol• proved ' , oar ) Mr. Baron GRAHAM—These questions are as - dres M se to the Jur as to the witnesses. 1 01 r. d ts Anr.Prsus y —My Lord, this is addressed t o t t to every man who hears me. The witness may tell t ° pleases. Mr. ADOLPHUS—Now, Reverend Sir, you are the this factory : I ask you, is that the treatment upon we' ad report favourably ?—Come, Sir, let us hear your sno t es; Witnes—(Great hesitation.) I can't say. I s ' llll for in business of this kind. .$1 ). treatmentlll r A D tOoL employP us ‘V childrenhat ! c o a e n t ' h t ey tenderou t el I a W ge 1 for 12 hours a-day, in the manner which has been p hid, can't you tell me that, Reverend Sir ?—Noanswer•_. forc e , Mr. Baron GRAHAM—I don't know that you e.'"' to give an answer. •, / iP6At i Mr. ADOLPHUS—The Reverend visitor not D O o th f e i r ro i 1., t 1 A / an answer is just as satisfactory. I shall ask 11° ti! elf 0,00 questions. ell o f Mr. ADOLPHUS then addressed the Jury The wee tls• prisoner Jeffreys, in a most affecting speech. e. O of fo il prosecution was to strike terror—to rivet the c 119 ": to tel, , 1 1 ,! unhappy white slaves, and check the voice ocn i i o stev;(iP, in eloquent accents against their heartless tas' h ich old‘lfeiljj the various scenes of wretchedness and miserY Adolphus) had witnessed, he confessed he n e te eSw i tte so degrading to the human sP?ecies as this four of s Sixty-five unhappy captives, immured within botiood and almost chained to the drudgery of their 13toviacote,j ployment ! The Legislature lad hurnanelY e r t he _ s li d , gulations for ameliorating the condition nt t bst,r spinners in the North. The infant slavery e d to 5 „':013 3. 0 f , the world had been abolished, and he h°l 3 " - tfill s ,Vll‘ blishments like Mr. Banks's subjected to similar r e f o ie , With what feelings must ladies of fashion contetioec ti a t e tr of ferings by which their tamboured finery was p t e ra Joy looked to the manly hearts, the sober judgfilee"; t otieja r a d erring integrity of the Jury, in treating this. We, sol' i manner it deserved, and he doubted not that tneropy with joy the opportunity of dismissing these Oh lie from their bar. rea t t osi Mr. Baron GRAHAM summe d up the case i , ff „ n o The Jury found both p r i soners Not Guilty; '- delivered to their m o th ers f or t h e pur p os e of '- again to the factory. i f/ NEW SOUTH WALES RAT.—T of cumstanee occurred the other night, at the house - i gll ls ,f r be son, watchmaker, (leorge-street, near the King's n• "v Or t og well known that Mr. It. has a family of ehilu r- ;is dren, five Themof quite babes, have their and lay two a bed. About midnight, on Fri a l iel l g a lie l ' a ti last, Mr. IL's .Idest son was disturbed i ' by som e "AI he supposed ter le a cat; In a few momen s after, the animal found its wg ' O Ol 0 0 1 bed-room, and ti,re in like manner created 3 9 i r'e b AI 9 1° , P , knocked off the bet, and expressed great displea s- in?" PP ing : it was then kn l yn to be a rat. The horrid a l : r elye l tifi ll he gave a kick, and it `00 111 : to be retarded from the object in view by i t es seca, ll cti li de j made another attack. Some moments after the all one of the little being inclined to sleep, even the little creature ths ted o p tio o also fell asleep. mo• D in b .iowever, pr e °d he fo- 11 1:31 v ii! girls wts heard to scream ; ba t tl t VlO O O l O / mal scene. The bed, coLtaining Lava l e tte a i r i r oja, 0 1 ,0 r, drenched in blood. The m.1)1.0 seized the cliia t i b 013 00 Y the nose, and immediately ieel,'w the forebea 0 00 0,07, teeth had entered a win that (aused the blood c osil ) l i o ve d tli d t piously. Lavalette vas nearly in a state of A i % las t : e 4 I „"tf, d ' quite colourless. It supposed that the aniVr e - liea h '' 5 0 ,,' P el v d satiated h blood, and alarminglyated• l ' -e l .)11/- lower end of the tom are infested w i . l 6 n1 0 0 1 1 4 ° 1 , 1 vermin. Plenty ofgood stmt.; co t 4 (instea d °' to° 1( 0 111 ' annoying curs) wale' be of' great advantao I ItC• where children costitute so great a *portion of • ( Sydney Gazettepec. 2. )