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THE LONDON JOURNALS. DAILY Extracts from the Morning Papers, Sept. 24, 18'25. [MORNING POST.] PARLIAMENT.—We rejoice to have it in our power to put an end to the general anxiety I created by the expectation of an immediate Dis-' solution .of Parliament. The subject was amply canvassed in the late Cabinet Council, and, we are authorised to state, it has been finally deter mined that there shall he No Dissolution of Par liament this year. There never was a time, cer tainly, at which an Administration could have more confidently appealed to the gratitude and sense of a nation than at present ; but as there is no fear of an interruption of the peace, prospe rity, and general contentment which we enjoy, there is also no reason for hastening an appeal, which, whenever it is made, will find the people fully as sensible of the advantages and blessings of onr enlightened system- of policy, as they can possibly be now. Mr. Martin, whose complaint against one of our contemporaries for the re-publication of a libel inciting to his assassination, had engrossed much attention during the last three or four days, obtained yesterday all that he wanted, the indi vidual in question being held to bail, himself in 8001. and two snreties in 4001. each. In the course of the proceedings the Counsel for the de fendant indulged in a latitude of language which he took for wit, but which more nearly resembled insult. This was borne for a considerable time with great good humour by the benevolent Member, although his favourite measure, one which does honour to his name and to the country in general, was loaded with abuse. At last, however, an epithet escaped him, which induced the Bench to deprive him of the privilege of a reply. The burst of indignation, however natu ral, was the more to be regretted, as the attacks to which be had till then patiently submitted, were really of a nature which required an answer; and had the Hon. Gentleman only trusted to his wit, there is no doubt that it would have inflicted condign punishment on his assailant.—(lbid.) [MORNING CHRONICLE.] The English Funds varied but little yesterday morring.—Consols for Account opened at 881-1, and closed at 88-11. Exchequer Bills were higher, 4 and 5 premium. In the Foreign Market there was great alarm, particularly among the holders of Spanish Bonds and South American Securities. Old Spanish Bonds opened at 19, fell to 17, and were, at the close, 18 to 188. The rumours of a Loan to Spain, exclusive of these Bonds, continued to be currently reported ; but, as far as we have yet been able to trace them, without any foundation. Colombian Bonds were 75? to 76 ; Mexican Scrip, 10 dis.; in Greek, as in the Stocks of Continental Europe, there %vs, little variation. The prices of Shares were en tirely nominal. 41 .* The leading article in this Paper to-day consists merely of comments on Mr. Martin, of no interest to the Public, parti cularly as we have given an account of yesterday's proceedings at Bow-street, which concluded the business there, sad referred it to another tribunal. [NEW TIM Es.] Notwithstanding the very confident expecta tiou,.which has been entertained in various guar terss of an immediate dissolution of Parliament, we can assert with confidence that there will be no dissolution this year. We have received the Bogota Paper, El Con. stifigional, of the 14th July. It is rather singu lar that the proceedings of the Colombian Con: gress should not be brought up to a later date in this Paper than the 18th of February. What would our Readers say, if instead of laying be fore them, as we often do, a long debate within live or six hours after its close, we were to wait four or five months ? These things only show how much in its infancy Representative Go. ♦ernment is among the South Americans. As to the Constitutionnel, it is certainly by no means an ill-conducted Paper, though its ap• pearance is somewhat curious—the three first pages being wholly Spanish, and the fourth page partly Spanish and partly English. The most important intelligence in this Paper is that received from Peru to the Ist of 'May, which we fiud copied into the Jamaica Papers just received. Bolivar had set off for Upper Peru, and General Rodit still held out in the fortress of Callao. The Peruvian Government had appointed a Minister Plenipotentiary to Eng land. This is proceeding a little rapidly. We have only sent to Peru a Consul, a commercial rather than a political officer. It is probable that agents of a higher diplomacy will ere long b e appointed to that destination ; but in the mean. time the new Republic, naturally e nough, grasps at-a closer union with a Power so preponderant as tbat of England. It appears that the town of Chuquisca has declared for the independent cause, and that part of the forces of Olaneta have also come over to the Independents, [BRITISII PIt.ESS.I . We lay before our readers to-t - i 4, from several ,sources, a great deal of additional intelligence ~from South America. Our advices from Bogota ..are dated the 20th July, and from Lima the Ist Nay. The Deputies were arriving to the general Congress of the new American States at Panama.. Three Representatives from Peru had arrived ; their names are not mentioned. Mr. Alaman has been deputed from Mexico, and Molina . from -Guatemala. During the absence of the C,,torn ..biAmDeputi,?.s, Mr. Ravenga. wall, fill .:the .office of Minister of Fina;!ce ; and nespito -.will hold- the portfolio of Foreign Affairs. The proceedings of this Congress are Ole objects of -anxious attention. It is .probable that the dis.' pule between Brazil and Bucnos Ayres will be discussed there, and some general resolution adopted on behalf. of the allied Republics. The .:-Colombian papers contain some dispatches from Gen. Sucre, which have ceased to be of importance since we had information of Olaneta's defeat from Buenos Ayres. The correspondence .be tween the Papal Court and the Colombian Envoy will be,perused with considerable interest. The Spanish Government is evidently in high favour at Rome ; at least as compared with the new Re public, on which the Pope seems to have looked with indifference, if not with hostility, until the course of events made it necessary to adopt a more favourable policy towards the Colombians. Their Envoy had actually received orders to de part from the Papal States ; but as things have happened, the Cardinal Secretary of State de clares the order to have been a forgery, and that both the Pope and he himself were equally sur prised to hear that such an order had been is sued ! The Colombians believe, or pretend to believe, that this order was forged by the Spanish Embassy. We have no doubt it was perfectly genuine, but circumstances have since rendered it expedient to disavow the act. We are glad, however, to observe, that the Colombians have not forgotten the " Pastoral Letters of his Holiness, exciting the people of America to the violation of their oaths, and to anarchy." The Decree of the Dictator of Para guay, for the suppression of all convents and houses of religious orders, is a document, indica tive of the prompt and decisive character of its author. With all his prejudices against foreign intercourse, Francis does not appear ignorant of the art of promoting the welfare of his people, or apprehensive of carrying into execution any measure he judges conducive to that end. [TUE TIMES.] We have much pleasure in expressing, on an thentic information, our belief that all hopes of raising money here on the part of Spain, however favourable the terms, without an acknowledgment of the Constitutional debt, have been quite ex tinguished. So recently as the visit of several eminent capitalists to this city, a proposition was made to them by the Spanish Government for administering to the necessities of Ferdinand by a loan, giving them carts blanche as to terms, except that notice was to be taken of the bonds of the Cortes. There was no act of submission, DO degradation even in providing the security for the repayment of this debt, which Ferdinand would not have acquiesced in, could this difficulty only have been sur , mounted. Cellectors might have been appoint ed for his whole revenue, such as it is, under the immediate coatroul of the contractors, and the wealth of the clergy, had they insisted on it, might have been made in a great degree re sponsible for the money advanced. The gentle men alluded to, however, remained firm. Their stake in the securities of other Governments was too large to allow them to sanction by any act of theirs, and from any motives of ulterior benefit, a breach of public faith. They therefore trans mitted to the Minister of his Catholic Majesty a declaration, signed by every member of the firm, that underany circumstances, and whatever induce ments were held out, they would never advance money to Spain, unless a recognition of the bonds of the Cortes formed one of the conditions of the contract. It was thought right, once for all, and in this direct and peremptory manner, to pledge every partner to refuse both now and hereafter to become a party to an act of injustice, and to se cure themselves from the insult of any more such propositions from the most degraded creature that ever bore the name of King in Europe. [THE PUBLIC LEDGER.] We have received Jamaica papers to the 10th ult. Through this channel we have intelligence from Lima to the beginning of May, and from Bogota to the 21st July. That from the former city holds out a hope of the immediate surrender of Callao—Rodel, the Spanish Governor, bay ing, it is stated, offered to capitulate, pro. vided he obtained for himself and the garrison favourable terms. The same intelligence an nounces the capture of the only armed vessel which Spain had in those seas ; and yet Ferdi nand asserts his claims with as high a tone as if he had a formidable fleet and a powerful army to support them. However, he will change this tone shortly ; or, if he does not, the South Ame ricans will carry the war into his European pos sessions, where they would find thousands upon thousands ready to hail them as friends and deli verers. If 5,000 of these brave troops, who have effected the liberation of Peru, were to make their appearance on any part of the Spanish coast, they would shake the Throne of this doughty Monarch ; and what is to prevent them, if the latter persist in his absurd pretensions ? It would be attended with less trouble and expellee to transport an army'from the shores of Colombia to those of Old Spain, than to convey one from Co. lonubia toPeru ; and if France opposed it,she would violate her neutral character, and forfeit all the advantages she now promises herself, from a com mercial intercourse with the New States. In the mean time, the General Congress of those States was about to meet at Panama, as we learn by the last accounts from Bogota. The Colombian De puties were on the point of setting out, and, dur ing their absence upon this important mission, the duties of their respective departments (Foreign Affairs and Finances) were to be discharged by Messrs. Ravenga and Respi to—the former provisionally superintending the Finance Department ; the other, that. of Foreign Affairs. The Learned and Patriotic Alaman is to represew l'iexico at this august meeting,where the de. tin:es of a vast Continent are to be.fixed upon the imm9table basis of justice,and Molino is to appear there as the Representatival of Guatimala. No Deputy from BUPIIOS Ayres is announced as yet ; and there is the sa me omis sion with respect to Chili and Peru. The last State, however, has appinted a Minister Pleui potentiary to our Government ; and as the inde pendence of Pen' is now unalterably fixed, and her happiness lik e ly to be secured by wise in. stitutions, the appointment will no doubt be met by a corresponding one on the part of England. The character of our political re lations with that, State will, in all probability, be definitively fixed before the next Meeting of Parliament; and we should nit he surprised if Ministers were to decide on it immediately.,— The only cloud that darkens t he h orizon of South Am er i ca , is the misunderstanding between Brazil and Buenos Ayres ; but i t is on ly a flitting one; and indeed we look upon it as the harbinger of a long calm. The party, who has provoked the controversy, will, to a moral certainty, pay the full , penalty of his rashness ; and the Brazils will noionger present the anomaly of being mis governed,whilst every other part of South America enjoys the blessings of legal rule. Don Pedro will compromise himself too much to be able to recede ; and, whilst he is weakening himself, by employ ing his troops and shipping to vindicate an unjust claim abroad, he will leave himself yOthout re sources at home to meet the dangers that are sure to arise from the notorious discontent of his sub jects. The Brazilians, who submit from compul sion alone to the present system, will display their real sentiments as soon as they see the means which are now employed to coerce them, wasted in a rash quarrel with a neighbouring State. LMORNING HERALD.] It is equally lamentable and disgraceful to see one of the wealthiest parishes in the kingdom continually furnishing the most harsh and dis gusting instances of abuse in the treatment of its poor. Scarcely a week passes that we have not to detail some instance of its parish officers with holding relief from persons who most require it—of attempts to force people into the work house, from no other motive, as it would seem, than to diminish the few comforts which they enjoy ; and then comes an expose of the mode of victualling the inmates of this very workhouse, which if correctly stated, calls, we think, for the immediate examination and correc tion of those in whose province if lies to super intend such things. The true objects of the Poor Laws are, to maintain such of the aged and the young as require assistance, and to set the robust and able-bodied to work. The latter, probably is not a very easy matter with London parishes; but that there should exist any defi ciency` in the other, reflects any thing hut credit upon those who are so solicitous to undertake the discharge of duties which they appear so egre giously to misunderstand or abuse. The error originates in such parishes as that to which we are alluding in the constitution of its Vestry, where rich and idle people, for the sake of power and consequence, embark in pursuits of the na ture of which they are entirely ignorant ; and who, therefore, trust the details which it is their own duty to superintend to people who are for ever throwing dust in their eyes, who lead them to suppose that poverty and crimes are synonimous, and who flatter their views of arrangement and economy by dealing out in pitiful rations food scarcely sufficient to support nature. Why do not the Magistrates look a little more than they appear to do into these matters ? It is of little use that solitary cases of this kind are brought to light by occa sional exposures through the Press of what takes place at police-offices, unless the whole system is inquired into, and public feeling set at rest by the active interference of impartial and compe tent inquirers. We are no friends to extrava gance or misrule ; and, instead of suggesting any thing which would increase the high rates already charged upon the inhabitants, we think they ought to be and might be diminished. But we think that economy begins at the wrong end, when the poor, for whose support the money is princi pally raised, are doomed to such a scanty allow ance of food, while expences of other descriptions do not appear to be pared down with quite so saving a hand. That the Poor Laws are much abused, we readily admit; but rightly viewed and rightly used, they present the finest system of benevolence known to any country ; and if those who have the exercising of them would re member that the first principle of real charity is to help those who cannot help themselves, we should see the downhill of life made less irksome and more comfortable than it now sometimes is to the aged, the decrepit, and unfortunate. CORONER'S INQUEST'. DEATH OF JOHN SPOTTISWOODE, ESQ. Yesterday an Inquisition was taken before RICHARD CARTER, Esq. Coroner for Surrey, and a highly respectable Jury. at the Holland Arms Tavern, Spencer's place, on the Brixton-road, on view of the body of Mr. John Spottiswoode , an attorney-at-law, who died suddenly at his re sidence at North Brixton. Martha Fuller sworn—l have been in the service of the de ceased gentleman for the last two years. On Tuesday I waited upon him at his dinner; it was about nine o'clock in the even ing, he having been out during the day. Soon after eleven o'clock, the deceased, Mrs. Spottiswoode, and myself, with an other female, all went to bed; the deceased then appeared to he in as good health as he had for time past enjoyed. About three o'clock in the morning my mistress rang the bell which banes at the bed-side. I instantly said to the young woman, " O dear.! 0 dear! I am afraid some one has entered the house, and is murdering my master and mistress." On open ing the door I heard my Mistress scream out, and I then thought she was in a fit. She soon called out again, and said, " Martha, come to me, for your master is dying." I immediately pro. cured a light, and repaired to my mistress's bed-room, on enter ing which I observed my master, now deceased, lying with his head on my mistress's arm ; they were both in bed. My mis tress told me to fetch a doctor, and I procured the assistance of Mr. Christie, who came iii about ten minutes. Previous to going for medical assistance, 1 observed my master to breathe, but on entering . the room again with the doctor, he was lying a corpse. • There was no blood about the bed, nor do 1 know the cause of his death. Mr. Adolphus Christie sworn—l am a surgeon residing at North Brixton. On Wednesday morning, about half-part 3 o'clock, the last witness called upon me to attend the deceased gentleman. I went immediately, and on entering the bed room, I saw Mr. Spottiswoode lying in bed. I immediately examined him, but the powers of life were totally extinct; and it is my opinion that he died in consequence of a sudden effu sion of blood on the brain, occasioned by apoplexy. There were no marks of violence whatever about his.person. The Jury having viewed the body at the deceased's dwelling, on their return, they unanimously pronounced their verdict— " Died by the visitation of God." BEER.—Sotne idea may he entertained of the quantity of beer drunk in the Metropolis, from the fact of one house alone employing 60 drays I , and nearly 200 horses to carry it about. MELANCHOLY CIECUMSTANCE.—Yesterd a y morning, as a remarkably fine boy, named Da vis, residing at No. 5, Canterbury-street, Corn wall-road, wes following some sheep which were passing near his own residence, he was acciden tally upset by one of the flock, and his neck dislocated by the fall. The boy rose, but imme diately dropped down and expired. TI:)e body was carried into Mr. Brookes's surgeon,,in West minster-road, who found that nriy means that could then lie used would he ireffe':l”al but stated as his opinion, that had it tg,',:at-,•,:57::1e to have rendered assistance at the irr.,):p-nt toe acci dent occurred, life might have been pr'''''ed•- , The mother is inconsolable. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, SEAT. 23. IMPORTANT TO ASSIGNEES. In the matter of WitaaAm GowLAND, an insolvent dis. charged in the month of July, 1824, Mr. PoLLocx shewed cause against a rule Nisi, obtained on a previous day by Mr. Heath, to be served on the executor and executrix, for them to shew cause why they should not pay over to the assignee to the estate of the said insolvent, such sum out of a certain legacy of 1,0001. bequeathed to Sarah, the wife of the insolvent, since his discharge from this Court, by the last will and testament of one William Bennett, lately deceased. The case being one of a novel description it occupied the Court for a considerable time. The facts connected with the case are briefly these— The insolvent was discharged by this Court on or about the 23d of July, 1824, his schedule then containing debts to the amount of 270/. or thereabouts, and Mr. George Ellis Cooke, a respectable jeweller in Jewin-street, was appointed assignee to his estate and effects. Since the insolvent was so discharged, a 3lr. Bennett (now deceased), by his last will, bequeathed the sum of 1,0001. to Sarah, the wife of the insolvent, to be paid by his executors, &c., within 6 months after his decease, which happened about March last; she (Sarah) being niece to the defunct. It was sworn, when the Rule Nisi was obtained upon the affi davit of the assignee (Mr. Cooke), that the insolvent had at tempted to compromise with all his creditors, by paying 3s. 6d. in the pound; and some of them through ignorance had cc.. tually done so, and signed a release. Mr. Cooke, however, and several others, being privy to the request before named, and in order that he (Mr. Cooke) might properly discharge his duty to the Court, and the rest of the creditors, he thought proper to bring the matter before the Court, in order that it might give such direction as it might think fit. It appeared, moreover, that the assignee was entirely disinterested on his own account, as pending the proceedings he had been offered the full amount of his debt Mr. POLLOCK observed that this proceeding was one of the most extraordinary that ever came under his observation. The insolvent, it would appear, had compromised with some of his creditors, by the stipulation to pay 3s. 6d. in the pound, and Mr. Cooke, the assignee, had been offered the whole of his de mand; therefore, why he should come forward and trouble him self about the other creditors, he (Mr. Pollock) was at a loss to know. Notwithstanding this observation, he did not mean to complain of the assignees, Messrs. Cooke and Mitchell, but he must say that they seemed anxious about matters which did not appear to concern them. The Learned Gentleman said he had no objection for the matter to he referred to the Officer of the Court, for him to explain what money was due to the creditors. Mr. HEATH, in support of the rule, submitted that the con duct of Mr. Cooke was laudable and judicious, especially when it was considered that lie was not actuated by self-interest, but from a desire to perform a public duty, which, as assignee, he owed both to the Court and the creditors, whose interests he was bound to protect. If the creditors had any of them agreed to take 3s. 6d. in the pound with their eyes open, he (Mr. Heath) could not help it ; but several of them had repeatedly complained to Mr. Cooke that they had acted in ignorance. The COW RT suggested that if the matter was reterred to the officer of the Court, sufficient money should be deposited to cover all such demands as were liable to be made. A Creditor observed that he for one had signed the release, but at the time he did so he was entirely ignorant of the state of the insolvent's affairs. The COURT interrupted him and said it would not enter upon that subject at present, as that point might come under consideration elsewhere. After a long conference, the COURT ordered that a copy of the deed of release should be tiled, and that the officer of the Court after investigating all the circumstances, should report what sum was due to the creditors, the assignee being allowed the costs connected with the rule obtained against the executors. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. TRICKS OF A YOUNG DISCIPLE OF CARLILE. GUILDHALL.—Two meanly-dressed lads, named John Barkley and Henry Conyers were brought up yesterday before the Sitting Magistrate, Mr. Alderman LUCAS, on a charge of attempting to obtain money under false pretences. Barkley was immediately recognized as having been committed from this Office between two and three years ago, for selling Car lile's publications in his shop in Fleet-street, and for which of fence he was subsequently imprisoned six months in Newgate. The circumstances of the present charge were as follows :—A letter had been received by post br Sarah Richmond, an upper servant with Mr. Lake, of Chapel-street, May-fair, about three weeks ag o, puryorting to be from Edward Chandler, the waiter at the hite Hart public-house in Oiltspur-street, requesting the loan of it. and stating that he would send a person for the money next day. A female called accordingly the next mom ing, and Sarah gave her a half-sovereign, saying that it was all she could spare Mr. Chandler. This letter, however, turned out to be a forgery, and a similar letter, containing the like request for the loan of 11. purporting to come from Sarah Richmond's brother, and directed to Chandler, arriving by the two-penny post on Tuesday, Chandler suspected it to be an imposition, and when the prisoner Conyers called for an answer, gave him in custody to Sheppard the officer. Conyers's statement was, that he knew nothing of the con tents of the letter, but had been sent by a young man, who was waiting his return under the gateway of Bartholomews Hospital. Chandler and the officers went thither immediately and found and secured the prisoner Barkley. On his being confronted with Conyers,. the latter immedi ately identified him. Barkley did not deny having sent Conyers, hut he had no knowledge, he said, of the letter purporting to be from Sarah Richmond's brother. The one he sent Conyers fur an answer to was respecting some orders for the Coburg Theatre. Daniel Richmond, whose signature to the letter to Chandler was forged, was stated to be the Commander of a small vessel now at sea; there was no likelihood of procuring his attend ance and therefore the prisoner was discharged. On searching the person of Barkeley, it appeared that he had been making a similar application for money to his old master, Carlile ; a letter from the latter, of which the following is a copy, was found in his possession : Dorchester, Dec. 26, 1824. SIR-If I could assist you without doing others an injury or injustice, I should be forward to do it. Such an application as you made for the loan of money would obtain attention from no one, because when the purpose is good it is always wise to state it, as an additional claim. Pounds, or a pound, is a matter of consideration to me under present circumstances, whilst I have debts at least to the amount of 3001. In every other respect my sentiments correspond with the inclosed letter—that ray offer of assistance refers to a time which Is not yet arrived—my libera tion. As a proof of the difference of my situation during your imprisonment and at present, I have to observe, that I do not and cannot allow the men in Newgate any weekly sum of money, and this is a reason wh y I cannot and ou g ht n ot to lend you what you ask. affairs, With reference to what you s a y about havin g been offered money eo my n to make what money I can only say that you have myhearty you can upon that subject. Take care to make a g ood bargain, and to have the money before you begin ; then tell all you know. It is possible that the Ministers might fancy a thousand circum stances that do not exist, but I am quite sure you can tell them no more than they know. I will tell all myself if they will pay my debts. Respectfully yours, _ . RICHARD CARLILE. Tn. John Barkley, Printer, 114, Drury-lane, London. ASSAULT ON A CLERGYMAN. L A MBE'iII-STREET .—Ye sterday Mr. John Benjamin Fit diet, a gentleman residing in Prince's-square, Rateliff-high way, and Mary, his wife, were brought up on a warrant, charging them with the commission of a violent assault on the person of the Reverend P. Wahlin, the officiating clergyman of the Swedish church in Prince's-square. The Reverend complainant stated, that on Monday evening, about eight o'clock, he was on his return home, when, as he passed the de fendants' door, he observed them both standing on the steps. Be had scarcely advanced a few yards from where• they were, when a large dog rushed open mouthed at him. He had not at the time so much as a switch to defend himself from the attack, and must have inevitably been torn to pieces, had he not, by a powerful exerti o n o f hi s arms , th row n the animal off. As be was in the act of so doing, and protecting himself from the dog's ferocity, the f ema l e d e f en d an t, M rs . Fitchet, rushed towards him and seized him by the coat, which, with the as sistance of the dog, thevqiterally tore to atoms. The garb was here exhibited, and afforded ample testimony of the defendant's dexterity in the work of destruction. The parties were held to bail. Examples of LONGEVITY are less frequent in Portugal than in any other country, but the fol lowing is an exception worthy of notice. On the Bth of last month there died, iu the nunnery of San-Bento-d'Ave-Marirk, an old servant at 128 years of age. She had been a century in the service of th e vionastery, and had been constant to her d u ti es t ill t h e l as t five years. She pre served her intellectual faculties to the last. PRESERVATION OF LIVES• Mr. COSNARIN, of the Isle of Man, has pubil °c ed the following observations on the mesas . preserving lives on board Steam Packets of the " Although all passage vessels, particular.; steam packets, should be provided with a 51 _ able number of small boats, for the preservatigu• passengers in case of danger, still it i s i ' fi r r parent, that though each vessel may have thr ee n 'y four fine boats in readiness (which are as in a- h i o. tafferel rail, and one on each side of the as can be conveniently slung, viz. one over,t, yet from the immense numbers who e mbark, at,. probably may amount occasionally to abo t'a. or 200, if there were a dozen of boats they a s 5 be insufficient in time of calamity. Therefore, a an auxiliary in such cases, I would strongly .commend that each steam packet or passage Ye s ; sel should have a range of sitting forms, of al - P a a two feet high, to be placed fore and aft, n he convenience for sitting upon, on each side.o.l,‘%. vessel. To each form (which ought to be 00: feet long, capable of allowing six persons tosni thereon) there should be fixed underneath th! seat, 12 inches depth of corkwood, to be snug' ly fitted in, so that, in the event of arPare pt , danger (should the vessel sink by fire or otherivis% each form, by being inverted, and having a brea" rope fastened between each of its legs, as A sur port, would be capable of containing six }Nise n ' gers, till relieved from their perilous situatioao q uartet These forms, fitted as I have mentioned, vv° lll in addition to the usual number of boats eniPlo; ed, be the means of preserving a tenfold numb° of lives, besides affording more agreeable acce.°:: modation when on board, and being n owise l e ; convenient when on deck. As the spacioUST °° J,. on board of the steam packets, is such as tu. s is mit of eight or ten such forms on each side, It o evident, that when such a useful and simple ale a _ A _ may contribute to such great and general gO7, that hereafter all passage vessels wil l p r°/t re them; and I do not hesitate to say, that N , go they enjoined to have them, it would not be . 00 unreasonable provision made for the preservadtto, of the passengers, who are generally soWse do, pay very well. In addition to these acconuna be , Lion forms or life preservers, there ought t ( placed in the fore, main, and mizen chains, Qcii. in each), a life buoy made of cork wood, wb,ioc would always be in readiness for any accindeero happening at sea, besides being useful as fen jo on board the vessel, in harbour, or at an W' ltting these forms, which may very jostil pd termed " life-preservers," I would recolnuleasi h i e " that they should be ranged fore and aft f 0 t he'. accommodation of passengers, and that • st is should have a hanging board upon hi n g es 0 sides of the form, to fall down so as to cover 'Fe inlaid cork wood. When danger became °Pot rent and unavoidable, then let the forms hwehicb. loose from their bindings, and inverted ; nst, means the cork wood would become oPllrsip is the hanging sides would double bac k and c be ing the shape of a roof, the cavity continually filled with water, would e au ss pot form to float in such a steady posterE;S:breofr to endanger its being overturned. 1 f t h e legf, rope, as described, being fast to each ° fon d 0 1 of the form, would unquestionably he . it° great support to those lives depend"' o wlet buoyancy, and be the means of preser ving :oa ie Providence, numbers who otherwise w° evitably perish." of whicl the __ COAL AIARKET, SEPT. 23. l as IA" Burdon, 39s—Heaton, 40s 3d—Hebbur n Main, — s yy Holywoll, 383 6d—Killingworth, 39 Tanfield Moor , ;Of Eud /3 Willi ng ton, 40s 6d—Wylam, 38s 6d—W alls ,1 ° 64 , • 39s—Walls End Burraton, 39 s—Wal ls End Green's' j‘' isr 1 Walls End Hotspur, 39s—Walls End Newmarch, 4" 3- *" P o at End Russell's, 41 s 6d—Small Coal screened, 210--116 s or Main, 369,—Lyon's, 39s Bd—Walls End Stewart's, 4' 22 Ships at market, 20f Ships sold. COURSE OF EXCHANGE, Seyt• 93 S' r • C , A mstet dam Ditto, at Sight is 0 Rotterdam Antwerp, fT e l, Hamburg]) Altona ..... . ........................... • 3 1 4 ' 0 `). Paris,3 Day's sight .. .................... 0 .11'1" Ditto ...... , Bourtleatix, ditto Berlin .................... 7.. mod Frank Girton the Main ............. :... • •• 161 6°. 9 - i 53 P . 9 64 ............ t iff ........... . 6 (O ....... . 37 plc cadia 3 6 ..Ri1b ua. ............................................. ............................. f,tfe ° Gibraltar ............................. • ° 49 ' 4 Leghorn ........................ a . .. . .... Geiloa Nlalta. ... . Pale! nif• ......................... ... 5 5, 1 , Lisbon ................................. Oporto . • ............................. ............. _52• Pete' .... ...... Vienna Trieste .......... Madrid ............ Rio.laneiro .................... Bahia ............................... • . ceoi. Dublin .... I; .... • 91 131.11.1,10 N. F ol' 01'e Portugal Gold, in Coin.. • . .............. • • •'; 17 . 10i Foreign old; 13:irs ........... ........... o,° (;old; oultloons ................. • ••• •• 0 0 0 1 New Dollar 6 ............ ••• . - ........ 0 5 1) Silver Standard in 13ars•• • • •-• Lincoln's-inn; oil. On h n e formerth 064" et, to Charity, the youngest daughter , l i a n c s e t : a t nditotilreir,E POO uglas SkeoltAlir. vir? Robert Tr O h n lit t y h 27 th On the 20th f Woodward, of the parraCk Pep daughter barrow, fo r , of the late William HarleY„ of Chiril,e_l"die Fte•' m wi o th tl o ie u r t , William Collett, i ns " that 1 Adore/ 01 rector o. t-at v ace. On the 14th inst., aged nd fertner Y s t thirty years rector of Farnham, Essex , a gob e ' eof. oAtxutg.ours,d.t.,sawtr_nlitEborDual:airo,rieEyil:r(Eat.flottonliu.,tvioiwthiirtifectier°,:e.).l,lelii A few da l ys ;ince, Barker, of St. II 1 • New College-tan'coueg! who formerly een s.passaps, Worcester to, rrnerly kept a coffee-house near _sat ofesp, rsa SUDDEN DEATII.—A fine little boY, l'uj3o, of Pie", DOI age, belonging to a person of' the name °lino o.a Ile Rev. Thotnaa3ll:l:7o:4 ney,strl was sent with litsabtrotthlete da‘f;lictledaysitgese'n art!ee_, o.nhairsribvrinogthaert tritifilelatliflibectilvitasy taputiu life biltetcotie.secsitibrels I , o . !t , r le row, but before he could reach bomeje , it t han _ ia t o .-„ feelings of its parents can .bettetr.l t0f.1e,1,, The poor little fellow, over che.erttil tford;''e robaala a ' sn ' uy s l c ' lin o a u e 14titynoega,s sorry I LI: d i , 0 O W I t l c. ;Veil; ,he 5.04, sorry f or } i• • rude colt as )0. at tt oc . 0- ' Printed and Publish ed for -7 Pa° eij CA.39 h • • O FFIC E, No. 112, St and.