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/1 . • ' • . -• • ~~ : . 1 1:i t i,;•"4"- 7 - EAST INDIA HOUSE, JAN. 24, 1827. SPORTWG INTELLIGENCE. I_ HE COURTof DIRECTORS of theUNITED COMPANY of MERCHANTS of ENGLAND Trad ing_ to the EAST INDIES, do hereby give Notice, That a SPECIAL GENERAL COURT of the said COM- PANY, will be held at their House in Leadenhall-street, on 'VtivalotspAr, the 7th FEBRUARY Next, at Eleven o'Clock in the Forenoon, at the desire of more than Nine Proprietors, agreeably to the following Letter, received this day, viz.:— " TO THE 11, , NOURABLZ THE COURT Or DIRECTORS OF THE EAST INDIA COMPANY. " We, the undersigned Proprietors of India Stock, duly quali fied, request that a Court of Proprietors may soon be called, to which it is our intention to submit the following Propositions : " Ist. To deliberate on the present State of Oriental Educa tion-, connected with the absolute necessity for the whole of the Company's Servants in Hindoostan to acquire at least some collo quial knowledge of its popular tongue. " 2d. To determine whether the elementary acquisition of Hindoostauee in this country he not indispensable to Candidates for official appointments previous to their nomination by the Court of Directors, in order so far to secure the future good Government of British India, and the durable prosperity of that vast Empire. " 3d. To decide also on the propriety of the proposed preli minary qualification for Free Merchants, Mariners, and others, be fore granting them a licence to reside among a hundred millions of Native Subjects, in daily contact with those European Inha bitants, who, in general, know nothing of the Hindoostanee ) and consequently may injuriously impede through the multifarious transactions of public or private life, not only the local Autho rities, but the common weal of the People and State. " 4th. For a Copy of the Regulations issued by the Court of Directors, relative to the public examinations at home and abroad of persons intended for the Company's service in India, on their respective acquirements as Oriental Scholars, with the view of securing efficient servants for the effectual management of numerous important affairs in our extensive and extending Do mains in the East. • " sth. To compare the real expense of the 'two systems of Oriental tuition existing here since 1818, with the notorious dis proportionate results of each ; the total charge of one mode of Oriental Instruction alcne having amounted to 64,0001. for 560 Students, while that of the other was only 4,0001. for communi cating similar information to 1600 Pupils at the Hindoostanee and Persian Lecture Rooms in London, many of whom are now not only very useful Interpreters, &c., but arc able and ready to exe.• cute other responsible functions in the East Indian Service. " 6th. To recommend the adoption of some plan here for the immediate encouragement of appropriate military education and Or iental literature,with colloquial proficiency among theKing'sOfficers, the Company's Cavalry and Infantry Cadets, &e. to the serious atten tion of the executive Court, which has done nothing yet to en able youths to proceed hence as Officers, or Linguists, to India, well qualified to command numerous bodies of brave men, by speaking the most current local dialect, and being, at the same time, as well instructed as the Engineer and Artillery Students have long been, at Addiscombe, in those arts of war and tactical exercises inseparable from tbn due performance of their respective duties in the Indian Army," `‘ JOHN BORTHWICK GILCHRIST, " JAMES PATERSON, " W. MAXFIELD, " W. MASON, " LEICESTER STANHOPE, " JOHN CAPRON, Finsbury-square, " JOHN NEILL, " JOHN LEDGER, " JOSEPH HUME, ." R. SLADE, " J. KIERNAN." " JOSEPH DART, Secretary. London, January, 23, 1827. EAST INDIA HOUSE, JAN. 24, 1827. HE COURT o f DIRECTORS ofthe UNITED 1 COMPANY of MERCHANTS of ENGLAND Trad ing to the EAST INDIES, do hereby give Notice, That the SPECIAL GENERAL COURT of the said COM PANY appointed to be held at their House in Leadenhall-street, on WEDNESDAY, the 7th of February next, is made FURTHER SPECIAL, for the purpose of laying before the Proprietors for their approbation, in conformity with the 17th Section of the 6th Chapter of the:By-Laws, a Resolution of the Court of Di rectors of the 10th inst., appointing an Assistant in the Medical Department at the Company's Depot at Chatham, with a Salary of SOO/. per annum, and an allowance of 401. per annum, for House Rent. Copy of the said Resolution now lies open at this House, for tha perusal of the Proprietors. _ JOSPPH DART, Secretary. 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THERE WILL BE SOLD, Within the Royal Exchange Coffee-house, Edinburgh, on a day to be afterwards named, if not previously disposed of by Pri vate Bargain, TIE LANDS and ESTATE of FINCASTLE, with or without the FREEHOLD QUALIFICATION belonging thereto. As also, the LANDS and GRAZINGS of RICHAEL and OLASCHORRIE. I. The LANDS of FINCASTLE are situated in Athole._ They consist of upwards of 460 acres of good arable land, and about 2600 acres of excellent green, woodland, and hill pasture, These pasture lands are well watered, and are esteemed of a very superior quality for the rearing and feeding of cattle. A considerable portion of them is susceptible of being brought into high cultivation, for there is great abundance of shell marl very near the surface, and an inexhaustible quantity of limestone acces sible to every part of the estate, and of peat moss and wood for burning the same. The lands are subdivided with stone dikes, and a substantial boundary fence of the same description almost surrounds the whole property. There are also several valuable plantations of oak, birch, ash, &c., and the proprietor has recently planted upwards of 70 acres of hill land with larch and spruce fir, which is well inclosed, and remarkably thriving. The grounds are well stocked with game of every description.— There is a right of fishing in the river Tummel, which abounds witl. pike and trout, the latter of a very superior quality. There is also a right to a third of the salmon fishing in the Linn or Falls of Tummel. At one of the falls there is au excellent meal mill, with a command of water, and fall sufficient for turning rnachi• very to any extent. The water has never been known to freeze or run short. The Mansion-house, to which a suitable garden is attached, is fit for the accommodation of a large family, and is surrounded with fine old trees, part of which forms an avenue of great beauty. The offices are substantial, and in good repair. The road to the Mansion-house of the property is good, and diverges from the great north road to the celebrated Pass of cranky, the scenery of which and of the property itself is of the most picturesque description, particularly that of Loch Tummel, which, from its many peculiar beauties, is much admired and re sorted to by strangers. The Highland coach passes daily at the junction of the roads. 11. The LANDS and GRAZINGS of RICHAEL and GLAS CHORRIE are situated in the forest of Athole, and comprehend some arable and about 5,000 acres of hill ground. These gra sings form an excellent sheep walk, and abound with grouse, ptarmigan, and every description of hill game, and are surroun ded on all sides by the Duke of Athole and Gordon's preserved grounds. The proprietor has recently built and furnished a very complete substantial Shooting Lodge, with stable and dog kennel, which is of easy access, the great north road running within a mile and a half of it. The Lodge, with the Shootings, have been let for several years past at 1501. per annum. The rental olthe whole estate is 1,2261. lbs. 4d.—The public burdens are trifling. An estate combining so many advantages, and affording every requisite that a complete Highland property can possibly furnish, is seldom in the market, or to be m e t with. For further particulars apply to Patrick Stewart, Esq. at Fletcher&ld, near Forfar; Captain James Stewart, at Kinvaid, near Perth ; Captain Gilbert Stewart, at Allean, who will give directions for chewing the property ; James and Alexander Macdonell, writers to the signet, 10, Broughto n Place, in whose bawl s are the title-deeds ; or to William Wedderspoon, writer in Perth ; either of whom wil l receive offers for a private bargain. Edinburgh, 6th January, 1827. The inhabitants of Chile are annoyed by an insect called henchuca, in the shape and form like our common house bug, but of the size of our cock-chafer. This winged insect con ceals itself by day in the thatch and cane roofing of the houses, and sallies forth by night in quest of food. They annoy people much after the manner of our bug, but from their size are terrific enemies. They are thin and fiat like the common bug; but after satiating themselves with blood, of which they take as much as the medicinal leech, they become quite round.—Freeman's Journal. CURIOUS CIRCUMSTANCE. --- in consequ ence o f information received by the Police-office of this City, from dif ferent quarters, strong suspicions have been for some time enter tained tkat a base coin manufactory existed somewhere in this neighbourhood ; and Dawson, the superintendent of Police, with Hill, the conductor of the watch, have been extremely active in their endeavours to ascertain the fact. On Saturday morning, about twelve o'clock, they set off, with one or two assistants, for Brown's-lane, in Hanbridge, where they found a small cottage, w ith the doors locked, the windows darkened, and the keyholes stopped up, and every now and then a noise issued from the house similar to that made in the operation of coining. Two men were, therefore, placed at the back door to prevent egress that way, and Dawson and Hill rushed in at the front door, and found a man hard at work—not coining, but printing pocket-handkerchiefs. — They then searched the house, but found nothing to confirm them in the suspicion they at first entertained ; however, as printing handkerchiefs, without notice having been given to the Excise, was clearly an offence under the Act 25 of George the Third, and 1,0 of Anne, they left an officer in the house, with strict orders to take care of what it contained, and not on any account to allow the man to leave it, while they went to give information at the Excise Office ; they had not, however, been long gone, before the man, under some pretence, got the officer to open the door, which was no sooner done than he slipped by him, and taking the key, locked him in. It is almost needless to add that the man escaped, the goods were forfeited to the Excise, and the noise heard was occa sioned by the stamping of the handkerchiefs.— Chester Advertiser. LITERATURE. CONFESSIONS OF AN OLD BACHELOR. LONDON, 1827.-pp. 371. What an abandoned, disconsolate, hypochondriacal (to use Mr. Sheill's exuberance of epithet), detestable ano maly is a confirmed old bachelor; one, we mean, who, throughout life, has steadily adhered to his selfish prin ciple of living alone, heedless of the charnis of woman, un touched by the spells of home, unaffected by the sight of children I If this principle proceed from early disappoint ment excuses are certainly to be made for it, but, if it ori ginate in a perverted turn of mind, preserved and fostered by prejudice, it deserves unqualified condemnation. The first law of nature says—" increase and multiply." Addi son, too, lays it down as a rule, that " man seems merely sent into this world in order to provide himself with a suc cessor." How great, then, must be that selfishness which sees generations pass and repass, children dawn into men, and provide themselves each with an inheritor, yet lives alone from day to day, deaf to the first call of in stinct, and unconnected with the great family of man. We can always tell an old bachelor ; he is an animal never to be mistaken. His face is usually clouded and saturn ine; his manners forbidding, his voice tuned to the coarsest notes of melancholy. He is also powerfully odo riferous, takes an immensity of snuff, which dribbles down his white cravat, dresses in an old-fashioned suit coeval with the Pyramids; talks of the friends of his youth, who ;e very names have been lost in the remoteness of antiquity; pretends to flirt with young ladies before com pany, but is frightened out of his wits when left alone with them ; shrGuds himself from head to foot in flannel; wears square-toed creaking shoes; puts three blankets on his bed at night; belongs to some club of old fools like himself, reads every line of the newspaper (we do not wonder at this if it be the SUN) from the first page to the last, ad vertisements included ; and, in fact, is altogether a delect able compound of nervousness and abomination. On the other hand, look at your father of a family, consisting of sixteen—" longs and shorts," Hexameter and Pentameter children, as they say of Latin verses at Eton. He is a lively, mercurial, sociable fellow, old, perhaps, in years, but young in. spirit, charitable in disposition, from an experienced consciousness of what the weak ness of nature demands, and sensitively alive to the charms of woman, from a grateful recollection of the happineSs she has brought him. After dinner he is in his glory ; the nursery bell is then rung, and down comes his troop of young ones with their round laughing faces shining under the effects of the soap with which the nursery-maid has bounteously larded them. In a few minutes they have all ranged themselves in order; the glasses of wine are distributed with a due attention to seniority, and the youngest (who, by the bye, is generally the favourite) is sure to place herself on Papa's knee, to tweak his nose with her youthful digits, stick pins in the calf of his leg (which if he happen to be in ill-humour is highly gratifying), and throw his wig, should he be unfor tunate enough to wear one, head-foremost at her brother John. We ourselves can properly appreciate thase pecu liar blessings, inasmuch as we have been thrice married, and are at this present moment of writing, the happy father of two and twenty bouncing pledges. Indeed, our progeny is so numerous that should it increase like the national debt (and we much fear it will), we shall be actu ally compelled to keep an Inventory of our children. But to return to the Old Bachelors in the confessions which he has here lain before us, he evinces throughout an un settled vacillating fastidious disposition. He is besides a coquette, and this in a man is detestable. Hear the fellow's impudent acknowledgements : I used regularly to make ten or twelve fancy I was in love with them; I handed all with equal politeness to their carriages ; I adjusted the shawls of each with equal assiduity, and wished them all a good night with equal kindness. 'Whether I created any jealousy amongst my numerous partners, I do not know." But we do; a person of this disposition would be about as likely to create jealousy among females as a negro in a white neckcloth. What ? the man who could flirt with a tough old spinster of fifty, with the same satisfac tion as with a fair girl of eighteen ; who could see no more in the eyes of sixty than in those of sixteen; he create jealousy ! No, no, your subject for exciting this pas sion is far more dangerous in character. In the first place, he is usually of superb dimensions; se condly, his manners are cheerful, persuasive, and soft, almost to effeminacy; thirdly, his conversation is strongly tinctured with sentiment; fourthly, he dances, walks, and above all, sits gracefully on horseback ; fifthly, be is a little, but not too:much of a dandy ; sixthly, he repeats fluently from Moore and Byron ; seventhly, he possesses consummate impudence; eighthly, he knows how to round a tasty compliment; and lastly, how to talk non sense. Now all these fascinating qualities (especially the last), meet only in the gifted person of Mr. Joseph Hume; but as he has chosen to devote his undivided at tention to politics, there is no other individual within the sphere of our recollection, who can properly be called " a lady's man," and as such, a fit subject for inspiring jealousy. To resume ; in the course of his " confessions " our old Bachelor talks much of the danger of making what he calls " a hasty match." Now this, though vastly moral no doubt and edifying, is mere humbug. Is marriage a thing for a man to stand shilly-shallying over, like a brisk dose of Epsom salts ? Is he to consider and reconsider about it; as if debating the probability of his being hanged or not? Far from it, marriage is like a_cold bath, the longer you stand shivering on the brink, the more reluctant you feel to enter; but rush boldly in, make one desperate plunge, and depend on it, you will find the dip much more comfortable titan you had expected. There is a great deal of valuable time lost in this methodistical mode of committing matrimony. A man instead of falling properly in love, head over ears, as all good Christians should do, considers the matter, us if it were business, with such sangfroid, that he could almost toss up, heads or tails, marriage or no marriage. And is this the way to play with the gentle yielding heart of woman ? With her, who gifted by nature with sensibility, far more refined and g h i e ' r 'es choice ? Th e b are up her whole soul acuteunhesitatingly than man to can ever obj ec f t e cl o f , idea of such deliberation is ungenerous, it implies the possession of every bad quality by a woman, whereas, in nine out of ten cases, it is the man alone who entails misery on the wedded state. For our selves we are of opinion r that no gentleman, with the usual allowance of youth in his composition, sh ou ld t a k e more than twenty minutes to fall in love and reso l ve on mar riage.in that time. , Consider He h m ow eet m s, u l c e h t business us se, suppo a beautiful virgin, may be got through slim, sent i menta l, a nd so forth, at a b a ll. Th e i r eyes (tak ing for granted a certain instinctive sympathy of soul be tween them, without which matrimony is horrible) sud denly meet ; in five minutes they have both had time to blush and be pleased with each other ; in just about five minutes more, the gentleman has contrived to advance to wards the lady, and shew her, by his faultering voice and manner, how decidedly he is smitten. Thus you see ten Minutes only have elapsed, and yet within that short space, judiciously made use of, two hearts hav e ma naged to find out that th ey were formed by a just Providence for each other. Th e next ten minutes are devoted by our intended Benedict to an introduction to, and conversation with, the PRICE 7D. young lady's father, about the weather, and such like common-places : in the course of which he discovers that he is a good-natured old gentleman, snug, independent, and smiling. What follows: why he makes up his mind at once, that he is the very man for a father-in-law ; so re turns to his newly-discovered idol, dances with her, hor ribly nervous of course, and out of time, the whole even ing; meets her again the next day, unbosouis the state of his heart, draws from her a kindred confession, and then walks into the old gentleman's study, proposes himself as a son-in-law, and ten to one is accepted. We forbear giving the details of the ceremony, how the bride (as ig the fashion) wept at church; how the bridegroom, in the ex cess of his agitation, kissed the clerk in mistake for his wife; and how, finally, he became the father of some 0113 dozen thumping - children—all this we forbear, lest by our rapturous description, we should too highly excite th.; sen sibility of unmarried ladies. But we are wandering sadly from our subject, which was the Confessions of an old Bachelor; let us then, dispatch one glass of wine, stir up the fire, mend our stump of a pen, and thus fortified, proceed. He describes himself as a man, who in early youth, was inclined towards marriage ; but from. a certain modest reserve of character, accompanied by inordinate fastidiousness, could never find an object to suit him. Accordingly he pours forth his ". Confessions" (which, though divested of incident, yet describe very happily the solitary feelings of a Bachelor) in a strain of mingled sentiment and sarcasm.. It seems he was once in love with a pretty Scotch girl, named Ellen, whom he thus eloquently describes : Time, however, which is able to mitigate the severest smarts, of course brought some alleviation to mine ; it was a very long in terval though before I could rise in the morning or lay my head upon my pillow at night, without giving vent to my distress, with out recounting the charms of my mistress, and dwellinc , upon her various beauties,—her languid dark blue eyes—her light flowing hair—her delicate oval face—the soft outline of her small Grecian nose—her arched eyebrows, some shades darker than her hair— the soft tint of her cheek—her dimpled chin—the slenderness of her throat—the snows of her neck. All these beauties became gradually less and less constantly present to my recollection, in the midst of the college avocations and pursuits to which . I subse quently addressed myself. Change of place, change of scene, change of society—how much does it efface impressions once the most deeply stamped on the heart ! At length, after an interval of about six years—after the lapse of that chasm which I have left unsupplied in this narrative, and subsequently to the attainment of my twenty-second year, I once again saw Ellen. She was much grown, and considerably altered : her features had become larger, which, I think, is seldom an im provement ; it was none to her. Her complexion I did not think quite so soft and fair as it had previously appeared to me. Still she was very lovely. Her hair had become a good deal darker : perhaps this was an improvement. I felt the sparks of my old flame ki►idle in my breast ; and, alas ! I also felt the necessity of extinguishing them as they rose, by the cold and chilling reflec tion that their encouragement would be in vain. The reversal of my former prospects of independence, will explain ail this without further detail. I have thus already laid before the reader two bitter instances of dis appointment : the one in having my love snatched from me, when the possession of her might have been possible; the other, in being tantalized with having her in my reach, when the possession of her was to he despaired of. This flirtation goes on well enough for some years, in the course of which our old bachelor takes occasion to abuse " Platonic attachments." We are glad of this, for we ourselves have studied love as one of the Fine Arts during the best part of a long life, and are quite convinced that what is called " purity of affection," unlinked with less celestial sensations, is all moonshine. Pray, let _us ask, does a young gentleman, when pressing his lips to those of his mistress, think for an instant of the beauties of her mind? _Far from it ; mind is well enough in its way, but for heaven's sake, let it not monopolise all. To return. On the marriage of his " adored Ellen," our unhappy bachelor falls in love with about five other ladies, one of whom is described as being a decided " blue,"—a character not much to onr taste. In the progress of these amours, he depicts with great felicity, a fond and youth ful couple, who have been but lately married. The de scription is certainly beautiful, but not exactly borne out by the reality. Young married folks are too apt to indulge before friends, in those playful endearments, which, how ever interesting when alone, contrive to lose their flavour beforo company. Conceive howfoolish a third person looks while an uxorious pair are billing and cooing on the sopha before him. He longs to join in the sport, but cannot for the life of him tell how. The Legislature should really ' look to this, and pass an act to prevent all lovers from " cooing" before strangers for the first three months; after that time there is no fear of their doing so. We have dilated somewhat luxuriantly upon the subject of this " Bachelor's Confessions," because the subject is greatly to our taste, but must now close our Review with an ex hortation to all marriageable folks, to get wedded as soon as possible. " A married man," says Doctor Johnson," has many sorrows, but a single one has no enjoyment." In youth he is a cypher, in age a solitary. The ties of chil dren, those strong links which chain us so firmly to our nature; the affection of woman, in adversity our support, in prosperity our pride; the thousand nameless little pleasures which spring up, and blossom spontane ously- in the heart of the married man, lending lustre to his eye, music to his voice, and buoyancy to his gait; all these are lost on the bachelor—he dwells apart from human nature—an Anchorite in thought; a solitary in the midst of society. . When he goes down into. his grave, who is there to weep for him ? When h . his memory is on the wane, when the friends who knew him in youth know him no longer in his age; who is there in that dreary hour to cheer his solitude; what voice is there to whisper " love in his ear," what sunny countenance to look tenderly in his face, and light up his languid eye ? There is not one—not even one kind heart to which lie can thus turn for consolation; like Logan, he is the last of his race, and the same tomb whit'.' closes over his ashes, closes but once and for ever over his memory. We have had during the past week another dreadful snow storm. The weather has been for some time singularly changeable, frost and thaw givinr , place to each other in rapid succession. The snow and rain that have fallen•have caused the river Tyne to be so much swollen, that the water, while we are writing, has nearly risen to the top of Newcastle Quay.__ Tyne Mercury. RUINS OF BERDA.—The ruins at Berda are said to be very ancient; by some thought to be those of a city of Amazons, who, according to history, once inhabited this country : but while the existence of these female warriors is a matter of doubt, the site of one of their cities_ does not deserve much notice; nor indeed does the appearance of these ruins justify the assign ment of an earlier date than the beginning of the Mahometan era. A dilapidated wall, running north and south, can be traced for up wai ds of a quarter of a mile. At the end of this, enclosed in a quadrangular fort, is a ruined mosque of glazed tiles, like that at Bagdad, attributed to Caliph Alraschid. Near the mosque I was shewn some mounds, which were called the remains of fire temples ; and a little further on was the tomb of a near relation of Mahomet, before which my guides fell on their faces, and re mained prostrate for nearly a minute. The person here buried is said to have been the grand-niece of the prophet, which, if true, would give to these ruins as remote a date as a thousand years. We quitted Berda at eleven, and passed through a continuation of the forest. The game that I saw on this march is incredible : partridges weregettiug up every moment almost under the horses' feet, and hares literally galloped in droves before us along the road.—Keppers Journey from India. TATTERSALL'S.--Fer a ng lter y a e t s i Stakes,The b t e h t e ti .- • " u mll on all the from the following statement of odds • yesterday apyrowdauseetdobany whichenorm :m ill be wet collected DERBY. 71 to 1 agst Glenartney S. to 1 art Tatler 14 to 1 agst Espagnolle 15 to 1 agst Defence 20 to 1 agst Elfrid 22 to 1 agst Spondee 22 to 1 agst Alameluke 22 to 1 agst Gustavus 24 to 1 agst Trump eter. 25 to 1 agst Cather ine Q 5 to 1 agst Dahlia 30 to 1 agst Turcoman 30 to 1 aget Augusta 40 to 1 aget Gamelius 40 to 1 agst Cressida 1,000 to 15 aget Constantine" OAKS. 5 to 1 agst Maria 12 to 1 agst Tetteridge 13 to 1 agst Brown Duchess 16 to 1 apt Translation 16 to 1 agst Sonvenir 20 to I aget Calypso 22 to 1 apt Lunacy 25 to 1 agst Hampden 25 to I agst Pantina 25 to I agst Scornful 14 to 1 agat Reriemer 15 to 1 &gat Oliveta 16 to 1 apt Sangho 15 to I agst Popsy 20 to I agat Gran!q 22 to 1 agat Matilda Those marked thi ,EGER. 22 to 1 agst Moonshine 25 to 1 agat Jupiter 28 to 1 agst Emma $O to 1 agst Nivalis 30 to 1 apt Nonplus LS ) were taken. EPSOM RACES, 1827. FRIDAT.—The fiat pear of a renewal of the Oaks Stakes of 50 sovs. each, h. ft. for three yr old fillies, Eitt. 41b. Last mile and half; the second to receive 100 cove. ont of the stakes. (50 sobs.) lAI. Derby names Mr. Booth Orey'e b. f. by Spectre, Poulton D. of Grafton's br. f. by Woful, teal ch. f. Novice, by Saint, Rowena names f. Linda, by Ranter, Enchantress D.. of Rutland names b. f. by Ardrossan, dam bj a on of Dick Andrews lA. Jersey names f. by Wofnl, Miltonia Gen. Grosvenor's b. f. Icaria, by The Flyer, dam by - Dick Andrews •f. by The Flyer, Mite, by Meteor Sir J. Shelley names b. f. Abigail, by Whalebone, Louison's darn Ld. Q. IL Cavendish's hr. f by Partisan, Barossa Mr. Lambtotes eh. f. by Abjer, The Duchess b. f, by Comus, dam by Shuttle br. f. Clati, by Smolensk°, dam by Precipitate Mr. Oreville's b. f. Miriam, by linalebona --.ch. f. Maria, by Waterloo, Belvoirina Mr. Ridadale names Mr. Lumley's b. f. by Tramp ch. f. Lunacy, by Blacklock Mr. Batson's f. Prrtisan—Jessy D. of Richt - 11011We b f. C !., •re, by Smolensko-;-Medora Mr. L. Charlton'. tr. f Slipsi , p, by Smolensko—Old Maid b. f. Scornful. by Woftil--Scratch's dam names f. by Quizzer—Sleight-of-hand Mr. Nowell's b. f. Souvenir, by Orbille—Dulcamara, by Waxy ro. f. by IlainboW—Scheberazade hr. f. by Rainbow—Brown Duchess, by Orville b. f. by Comus, dam by Election—Fair Helen Mr. J. Rogers's Whimper (sister to Aline,) by Woful—Bizarre --- ch. f. Languish, by Woful—Tint Ld. Stradbroke's ch. f. Arethissa, by Quiz—Persepolis Mr. J. Coventry's eh. f. by Phantom—Dido Ld. Vernlam's b. f. by Whalebone—Varennes ch. c. by Soothsayer—Bets b. f. by Captain Candid—Pantina Mr. Milner names ch. f. "Vincent, by Connie Mr. Rawlinson's b. f. by Spectre Mr. Ormsby Gore's Belvidera, by Blacklock—Mies O'Neill Mr. Forbes's gr. f. by Smolensk°, dam by. Selim Mr. Mytton's ch. f. Harriette Wilson, by Ilianfred,-Sybil • br. f. Lark, by Rubens_tella b. f. by Rubcns, dam, Pauline by Orville Mr. Thornhill's ch. f. by Merlin—Seamew • ch. f. by Merlin—Morel Sir W. Wynn's b. f. Smolensko, dam by Beningbrough Mr. Rush's b. f. by Pioneer—Ringtail Mr. Mills names Ld Plymouth's di. f. by Carinon-halluliee Mr. Tarleton's ch. f. by Selim, dam by Scud • Mr. Harris's b. f. by Tramp, dam Remembrance Mr. Doddington's ch. f. by Woful—Spindle Mr. Burgess's b. f. by Woful—Allegretta Mr. Tomes's b. f. by Sir Oliver—Miss Hap Mr. Bodenham's b. f. by Bustard—Fillikins . Mr. J. Smith's b. f. by Carbon, dam by Gohanna, Ld. Huntingfield names b. f. by Catton, dam by Wazy—Bixarte . Ld. Wharncliffe's ch. f. sister to Hampden f. by Filho da Puti—Calypso Col: Wilson's f. by Rubens_Tippitywitchet ' Ld. Anson names Mr. Prendergast's f. by Comus--Eliza Ld. Orford's f. by Merlin—Shoveler f. by Rainbow, dam•by Rubens—Tumbler's daai Mr. Scaith's f. by Whalebone, dam by Seymour f. by Whalebone—Vignette Mr. Dean's f. by Woful, dam by Walton—Mendora's damn Ld. Egremont's (sister to Addy) by Whalebone—Wasp f. by Whalebone, dam by Teddy Mr. West's Rachel Reysch b. f. Clematis, by Waxy Pope—Cobbea Mr. R. Wilson's bl. f. Emma, by Smolensko--Mirth, b. f. by Smolensko—Mary, by P rec ipitate Mr. Maberly's b. f. Livonia, by Smolensko—Stella, by L'Orieint Mr. Yates names Ld. Clarendon's f. by Partisan--Doana Clara Mr. Forth's b. f. Translation, by Interpreter--Dandizette's dam ch. f. by Interpreter_Sagana • Mr. Ryan's eh. f. by Soothsayer—Blacklock's dam Mr. Tharett's hr. f. by Smolensko--Azor's dam Mr. Hunter's 1.. f. by Orville—Canvas (The Malton Craven Meeting to-morrow.) MAGISTRATES OW YORKSHIRE.--We last week copied a paragraph from a neighbouring Paper, stating, in allusion to an observation made by Mr. M. A. Taylor, at the meeting of the Magistrates for the county of Middlesex, that the pecuniary business of this Riding is never transacted by the Magistrates with closed doors. Upon inquiring in the proper quarter, we find, that at the time when Mr. Taylor was in the habit of attend ing the West Riding Sessions, the rule was to exclude the publics from the room. Latterly this rule has been relaxed, though the doors are by no means at present thrown open on all occasions. When they are closed, it is, however, more to prevent crowd and interruption than from any wish to prevent disclosure; so much so, that at the last Sessions, it was named, that in future it would be more convenient for the financial business to be transacted in the Court than in any other room ; and this seemed to be the pre- , morevai iu t g e f e feeling Magistrates o t r f a t t e l e act Magistrates. in e yr o f the We are lic co th n e vi be nce th at do eb ia : far as the management of the county purse is concerned, we are sure that the public would have much reason to be satAfied. It is true tliJ sum raised by the entreat is large ; but when it is known to what numerous calls this money is by law subject, it. may be doubted, whether the private affairs of any gentlema i n n i t n h t e h m e c au ott a n g tz The Conversaztone , or weekly Meetings exhibit greater cliforerrecerreyss. or more strict Eveningeconomy in at the Royal Institution, have commenced for the season; the second assembly was held on Friday last, and was tern nume rously attended. It cannot, indeed, be a matter of surprise that they should be more attractive than the formal sessions of other literary and scientific societies ; the unrestrained intercourse which is here afforded to men of literature and science, is likely to be productive of good, not only to the Establishment, but to society at large. Mr. Brande, in the Opening Lecture to his Course of Experimental Chemistry, on Saturday, adverted to the subject in terms which have our full concurrence. After mentioning the rapid increase of the list of members, and the improved aspect of the finances of the Institution, he said,— " One feature of our Constitution seems to me so important, that I cannot overlook it—l mean the weekly meetings of-our Members, which are characterised by a natural and friendly in terchange of information ; and at which he that is so fortunate as to have any new discovery to impart, any new views to dis close, or any illustrations of art, science or literature,' to offe r ' may explain and illustrate them to an audience, destitute of *rake' severity—free from all feelings of jealousy and rivalship, unre stricted by useless forms and obsolete ceremonies, and always (as experience c a e n instructs v pr seriously omote the v views of tho believe) sew h r o ead eo y in , able le forward, an d willing • independ ent iene, til e e to x and thankfully to receive tb.. iZormation which they impart. This fterautettutehoaft the e r e l x n p s e ti e t t u a t: i c o n ne see of m i s ts to be b n e e a fits ve a r n y d im ad po van rta ti nt eg otz t t have ventured , to hold out, will be more than realised': that What has begun so auspiciously will continue to thrive ; intercourse will tend to remove those petty jealousies and-hurtful so apt to feel, feelings of ill-will which badly regulated minds are when they witness the success of contemporaries and the program s and tthat such o fe f e r u i n v g als ; th a a n t d o , f in a short, n earnest l d e a d d ; shier to e pfr o oo n rt e e tcht gE w e e r ai a, nf l ar a d endxo extension nsionofth promotion of literature, an arts." ‘ ,l "•-•-, `-, Xt' - ') "' • ' .) 11 1 116%; I ° •044. 4.1' • - • .. •,, - s , "i , ;'• 0 ( r - , . . ~,, ~, b • t r ' i i ., . ' ....: tel, f - '' , l:. .7,77 , - ` - '`N 1 ,,,..., . C .so ‘ C_ , • ~, , ( ~..,. ‘\, ...1 0 3 , ..... ,. `"- ..,, ,,, : ~,, ,, ,,o - .. ,:, 4 ~ ,. / i ,e ... __,....„- -.. ~.,:,,,5,,, TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 6, 1827.