The Sun. — London, England, 1827-10-23 00:00:00

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VW II ''S. ch has ar rl 4 to this will ShOr til o ite a 1 09 _ 4 14 lan sup t he 7age, 1 4 ° 4 Ac t t; the ri 3 eil l " have s 0 : 11 . ro ; ) de Ja nel oe , 2711. , tes ll le if an/ Ja ain any th i ; o f the 2 5t e e shade bi t state, With for the AC ; Exchtvic( Lyres, 49 61; 61i t ; Ditto, 6 IT utse, 75 ;1' raziliau, Q 1 6, • share ; 11 !' I United MV o' CLoct• t, very lit tle ' lied at 811 ire Cursor ng a larg er iarket th °° d low er e nionlevt, require° Exchequer 55;• I ; 0 CO busiiiess nor, se_, , r a trifliPt t garter , rolle , cek ; it I' of of maw t it (catt le throtig,ll :‘re F tioci c k will tie st indic.* on of per" followitig 'duals sP' .The 1v 31 : hraily arc port time LAW INTELLIGENCE. -(THIS DAY.) . , COURT OF KING'S BENCH. (Before Lord TENTERDEN and a Special Jury.) HALSE V. HAW KINS . Thi. was an acti on f or a ma li c i ous Prosecution "'Might by one of the embers for the Bore T ugl e a of St. Ives, against the oth M er sitting Member. h action arose out of some occurrences which took pilaee at th e last general election, and it was expected p l ace m an y curious p ar ti cu l ars wou ld h ave been dis cet', °at aft er th e case was ca ll ed on the Attorney ; .er a l stated that it had b een sett l e d b etween the ... a t ie; and ' v erdict was t a k en b y C onsent for the plaintiff a wt. LO rd TuNTERDEN hop e d t h e Hon. Gentlemen b '''° Were etw een the parties would have a better unde rs t an di ng m for the fut ure . OLIVIERA V. TASLOE. i g Thi s was an act i on b rought by the plaintiff, who a Portuguese mercha n t, t o recover 45004, the amo unt of a bill of exchange, drawn by J. Wieman ant hree mont h s ' date, and accepted by the defend ant The d e f ence set up was, th a t th e transact i on. of w hi ch the action arose was usurious, and th erefore that the plaintiff could not recover. Lord TENTERDEN was of opinion that there was elidence of usury in the particular transaction for W hich the action was brought, namely, the accept ancez of th e b ill of exchange, and a verdict was there /ore taken for the plaintiff. T HE COURT COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. 1- --- ( 1G liT OF COPPER-PLATE ENGRAVERS RETAIN COPIES OF THE PRINT. Th e „ muanay V. HEATH AND OTHERS. "Pper. question in this case, rbspect e d t h e r i g h t o f ' plate engravers to retain, for their own as ; 7 "d benefit, impressi ons from such plate s or; leY had been employed to engrave. The question ginated in the Court of Chancery, upon an appli cation by th e pl a i n ti ff , M r . Murray, of Albem ar l e - St reet, to restrain the defendants from publishing or exPosing to sale certain impressions t a k en f rom a plate "Itch Mr. Heath had been employed by the plaintiff tO engrave. The late Vice-Chancellor granted the i nJunction, upon the undertaking of Mr. Murray to brin g the question of right before a Jury, and for that purpose the following issue was agreed upon : Ist.—Whether there was any general practice or usage itinungst persons exercising the art or business of copper plate engravers in this kingdom, for them to take for them ;elves any number of impressions not exceeding twelve, ,t, l ) ::,__ every copper -plate engraved by them for any other ,rar'edo _employing them to make such engraving, for re pleam:eer urtleir own use and benefit, at their free will and for , L. , ithout the license and consent of their employer that pur no ,_ The second count was the same, except that it raised the s q i n o, e l s B t . io n a 8 to th e engraver's right to retain eight irpres : There - were other Tints as to the engraver's right to Ilse. appropriate a single impression to hill own r t Selgeant WILDE, Mr. Serge a nt JONE S, and "uTextrtsoN, appeared for the defendants, and Messr s "Pport of the affirmative- of the issue, called Dow, Rose, Goodall, Smith, Portbury, Land tBe-„l.lVinden, and Lane, engravers, all of whom deposed ta°•'.z:lo general practice of copper-plate engravers re -4:11:5 ctrrtain nu mber of imp ress i ons for their own '4. e"e use. This was upo n a general understand and the c onsen t o f the proprietor was aid asked except w h ere the print was a private one it r th , t A ll ! party ow n i ng i t might not wish to have sold - me Public.. One of th e w i tnesses only had were ally of th e i mpress i ons so kept, but there Sol,e instances in which the impressions had been jg r s public auction. si'u C olnaghi, p u bli s h er an d pr i nt - se l ler, in Cock pre Itre ct, said that the cus t om o f reta i ning im pri:tos'°lls was restrainable at the desire of the.pro (lN Prlt was his gene r a l Practice, in the 1 • in It to a s k th e engraver what number of essisons he i nten d e d to reta i n, and they seldom ( *eded s i x. pi:%()ti!er witnesses were also examined, afttr which, ititiffSergeallt TADDY addressed the Jury for the %,the • J ustice GASELIZE left it t o t h e Jury to say, the ir. 7r it was the practice of engravers to retain for aqd awn use any and what number of impressions ; th e 4 80, whether it was the usage t o sell those which 4: ll 4 Ppropriateil. retains Jury found that it had been the practice to htit zawnber of impressions, not exceeding eight, eta*, at i tad not been the usage of engravers to theme for sale. POLlcia IXTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY. 4,-, L ....Ally,. GUILDHALL. uating eotti -Juke, mang fi elcl stood charged with PrikMer w ai . lt ted a most violent assault on a boy. The and Lfi- Yest eh r in the employment of a Spithfield butcher, of af, teraoon t . while driving out of the market he desired the "'Y to y tu s eeP, assisted by a boy , ah.,411,, o:::ert.he_vsheep,. prisoner who not having satisfactorily obey_ f:4tC lick , laf I immediately attacked by the. h 4t . most furiously on the head with a drover 's ,c. 0,.. ek, which knocked him down, and rendered it T - ` l l for him b, - be carried instantly to the Hospital. to i„ 4 rgeon of the a • ved wPaal sent to say it was impossible Na - .. tn Q bar be re mov es .en l - . t('-daY,and therefore the prisoner snded till Thursday. PUBLIC SALES.(THIS DAY.) p il l' AIL WINSTANLEY, All TUE MART. 4,„- F ie A IR. Estates, consisting of the Old Port ot-t•'' With farm-house, barn, stabling, malting, dairy, hu:lge, laundry, &c.; the Hill Farm, with cottage, LI ' 3tabli and sheds; the Llys Grounds, the eYrk (-, St a bli ng, and sundry lands, cottages, e• th e Farm, h 3 t-e wh ole •• .• about 460 acres, in the • [lrish contamma • elo h e3 , of O swestry, Lyllatin and. Whitdtiington, the '' iand tax 121 3s. lid. exclusive of. .tto on du Nt4g•es• • included in the purchase, pro•• th ey ' ' p. ? _ timber The 1,,000/. rrcia) In 'teOlold Dale House Estate,.. three miles et • Nnpric c'n, in the West of Yorkshire, ttleaduw,g,f, farm-house barns, Riding building; and 4earlY t 1 1 17 , 4: Pasture lands, in all out-buildings, acres, let for i 4,400/. Tito p; - o rs, at 240/. per annun-- kNi y 68 •ece3 of Freehold Pasture Land, 10001. The ab ode zte'''' adjoining the preceding lot— dlree lots were bonajide sold. containing A t e , BY MR. HOGGART. litZte Ol7teiall:ld Parnily Rouse, near the sixth mi . le- London-road to Bromley, Kent, with sitge)h,acia.drsb:littld6inogi., "ailed garden, lawn, &c., held ' -i. 4 "onm, land-tax redeemed .20 &inaeas. Ditto d• • • a jounng-.-380 guineas. tl‘f"P°l43ll°l'd Far m, at 8p near Hadleigh, p4,.,_1k, comprising about 81 acres of arable and Vllr-land, let at 7.5/. Per annum, held of Over- ..41all, quit-rent 2/. 19s. 2d. a-year, and an ar -11, e l ine on death or alfenation-1,1801. NI Freeholdp and part Copyhold St. Andrew's. b e rate, 13 miles from Norwich, compris- Inausion-bouse, park, grounds, farms, ',lu l l s pa, t - ' /lad buildings, and 532 acres of arable ilk 681" land, rental and estimated value 114tion; Per annum; timber, &c. to be taken at a 4.."-29-. opt annum; in taxes and rates about 601. a , )3004 - 4, 14 k, -IkS * NA RWOOD AND HAINES, AT t h . , i GARRAWAY'S. ', tViti4Old Dwelling -house, No. 36, Cheyne lit 38ea, held for nine years from Michaelmas ,1446%* 10s. per annum; fixtures to be taken at Il e e '„---I.B' 'guineas. : 3, 141 ad °I tarke 's brown', and other, pro -43'. 4 1, - p ro - Th e taken ) place when our account left ``ie........._result Will be given to-morrow. r t tt ivr ---___---.....................1 littu ay two oxen were the fol (14 u rY, d tatwith ribands, and on 0' Y lion, ecc " . of I°M led round the It- 41 - --' 3heeP anuenvent the satue ceremony; NCl,,,.ltere purchased by a subscription from the ,' t u -- the tow; end were the roasted in the "4441ebrete the event of the entire deliverance of he Malady with which it was lately affected. V ve r ,, : ,Lf Persona were collected, and the day' 4"..'.4ltlY'''" Oxfrrd sktarial. DESPERATE GANG OF SMUGGLERS , SPIRIT OF THE PCBT.IC JOURNALS. We have inserted th e best and most practical of the letters which, w e have received on the Malt Duty. The rest, in truth (we are sorry to snub 'our correspondents), are not deserving of much attention. It is inconceivable with what indig,nation the maltsters " take - up". those parts of our articles which make against them, and how entirely they .omit noticing whatever we may have said in their behalf. \A re repeat new,, what we said at first, that Ministers have n o right to direct the process of malting, but only to ob serve it. We will not explain to those who do not choose to understand what we meant by the assertion that the Act has not imposed one half penny additional duty upon the article taxed. Indeed, that which follows renders the expres sion perfectly clear. " The *present. Act merely provides against frauds in the collection of the old &ties. As to our statement that if the re venue were not improved from this quarter, it would be improved from another, we should be glad to sec that opinion falsified, and so much lopped from the expenditure as it had been erro neously hoped to raise from the provis,ions of this new Malt Duty : but we expect no such result. With respect to the Act itself, it is singular that our correspondent should not observe, that even according to his own concession„the Act does no harm to the maltsters during the winter months, the busy Beason for malting ! Let it not be thought by this remark that we arc advox eating the Act in question . ; but we must notice undeniable facts, which others are endeavourin g to keep in the back ground." Of the trad e s immediately connected with the manufacture of malt, not one member has moved except Barclay, the brewer; and—which is of more importanc e still —some of the most eminent malt-makers acquiesce in the propriety of the Act. The real ground of debate between maltsters and the Go vernment, and the occasion of the new Act, is this —(for we shall now tell the maltsters nearly all we know on the subject)--that Govcrinnent had teas son to suppose, that generally throughout the United Kingdom from 10 to 15 per cent. of th 6 malt made escaped the duty. See the article " Brewery," in the last supplement of the E n .. cyclopedia Britannica, wherein will be found the accurate details of certain experiments made by a man who at least had no interest in falsify , ing the truth—Dr. Thompson, of Edinburgh: Be it observed here, that it is the British ptslv lic,—the poor labouring beer and porter drinkers,—and not the Ministers, that we are defending ; for, supposing the maltsters to pay duty on 100 quarters of malt, whilst they make 110 quarters, they sell the additional ten at as high a price as if the duty had been paid upon them, therefore pocketing both the value of the malt and the duty. Such being, we have reason to know, the conviction of Government, and (in part? the ground, of the con v i c ti on , h ow were we s hocked, 'on observing a set of maltsters come forward, and assert in the face of open day, 'that upon thousands of quarters of malt which they had made, the return of malt was no greater than the original barley. Our feelings of pain on this occasion were something similar to those which we experienced when Old Cohbett brought forward his unhappy son to . that Treadful evidence in a Court of Justice, in the : use be twixt himself and. Mr. Wright. We do hope that the Excise-office will be particularly careful in' the selection of the officers to whom they con fide the duty of inspecting ,maltings conducted upon so singular a principle. We had written the greater part of the above, when we received the decision of Government to the application of the maltsters, contained in aletter addressed o Mr. Wodehouse, Member for Norfolk.-- Times. THE MARKETS. -(THIS DAY.) SSH THFIELD. .f. s. s. Lowland Mead. Hay 3 3to 4 0 Upland Ditto 4 5 5 5 Rye-grass Hay 4 5 5 5 New Meadow Hay 315 5 5 Supply short, and trade ra COUNTRY CORN MARKETS. WAKEFIELD, Oct. 19. There was a good supply of Wheat fresh up the River as well as from the farmers; good quality sells slowly at much the same prices as were obtained last week; but the damp and inferior are very dull. Oats are very dull, and Id. per stone lower. Good Malting Barley is scarce, and ready sale at an advance of Is. per quarter. In Beans no variation, but the sale is heavy. Wheat, Norfolk and Suffolk, Red s2s. to 575. fine 595. White-. 565. to Ms. fine fils. ,---- New, Red 4Gs. to 5•25. fine 565. White Foreign, Red 49s. to 525. fine 555. Barley, Norfolk and Sullblk Lincolnshire 3os. to 325. fine 345. - Yorkshire Wold 29s. to 325, fine 335. Beans) Small sl.s. to 575. fine 595. - Tick Oats, Poland and P o t a t o 4.55. to 48s. fine .10s. 225. to 295. fine 3s. Friezland and Small 2os. to 265. fine 28s. Healing 1230. to 1434 d. per Stone 5he1 ........................... 325. to 335. --s. to -s. per Load: ling... ............................... 3-Is. 425. fine 453. per Load. .Rapeseed ......................... 2w. os 23/. Os. 251 Os. per Last•• • NORWICH, Oct. 20. We have again to report a short supply of Grain at market.. Good Wheat is Is. per quarter dearer, and all descriptions fully maintain last week's prices, with a ready sale. Barley in demand, at an advance of 2s. per qurter. No alteration in Oats, Beans, and Pease, the supply being very short, and the demand limited. Flour is in request at last week's prices. Wheat (per qr.) ... 445. 565. 60s. Beans (per qr.) B arley Oats 22s. 265. 235. Flour, fine (per sack) 40s. 425. CANTERBURY, Oct--- Having but a moderate supply of Grain upon our market this day, the prices last noted were fully supported, with a free sale for all descriptions of fine quality. Hops are looking up in price, but as yet few sales have been made. Wheat, white s6s. to 60s. ---- red 4Bs. to 545. Ba --s. to -- s . 26s rley 26s. to 3-18. Oats Beans 3ss to 40s. Pease 43s to 495• . . .. A strike of potatoes, from a root o f 11b. 2ox, divided in 21 sets, on being taken up on the 13th inst., pro duced 1171 b. of potatoes, at Southam, Northamptonshire. Three stacks of hay were totally destroyed on Wednesday by fire at Fritton, Norfolk. Three men are committed to Norwich Castle on suspicion of wilfully set ting fire to the same. At Salisbury Michaelmas fair on Tuesday there was but a small quantity of cheese pitched, which met with a dull sale at the following prices :—Best Somer set, 68s. to 745. per cwt. ; second ditto, 625. to 665. ; best North Wilts, 60s. to 655. ; second ditto, 545. to 58s. ; skim, 245. to 30s. A considerable quantity remained un sold. Onions were in vast abundance, exceeding in quan tity, and also in quality, any before remembered at this fair ; they fetched from 2s. to 4e. per dozen ropes, and from 4s. to 6s. per sack. There was a large quantity of potatoes, which fetched from 3s. to ss. per sack. Aires ford Michaelmas fair on Thursday last was very fully at tended : lambs fetched from 10s. to 20s. each; ewes, 17s. to 245. ; and wethers, from 225. to 355. Pigs sold at very high prices. --County. Chronicle: ' HARVEST.—The promise of an excellent and early harvest has been in some measure blasted by a very unexpected and unfavourable change of the weather. For this fortnight past we have had a great deal of rain, which has often fallen very heavy, and followed by warmness and a heavy (lamp atmosphere, threatens very bad effects to the out-standin g corn, which in some districts, we regret to hear, is much more considerable than we had been led to expect. It is satisfactory, however, in this doubtful state of part of the crop, to learn that the largest proportion of all kinds of grain, in general so abundant, is safely secured in the stack-yard, with some few exceptions, in good con dition. In this quarter the price of oatmeal has, from the favourable appearance of the crop, fallen of late considers blv.—Aberdeen Chronicle. ' USEFUL TO GARDENERS .—.. The following method of driving worms, caterpillars, and all other sorts of insects from trees, has lately been practiSed in America with singul ar s uc cess:—Bore a hol e. i n t o th e t run k o f t h e tree as far as the heart, fill this h o l e w ith su lph ur , an d place in it a well-fitted plug; a tree from four to eight inches in diameter requires a hole large enough to admit the little finger; in the same proportion for larger or smaller trees. This will usually drive the insects away in the course of 48 hours, but, uniformly succeeds, perhaps some times after a longer time. The sale of the following celebrated Hunters took place at Tattersall's yesterday, and drew together a large assemblage of Noblemen and Gentle Men of distinc tion in the Sporting World :—Clinker, by Clinker, dam hy y Sanch o , grand-dam by Fidget, out of Lily of the Val ley' b y Eclipse, s o ld f or 500 guineas—Moreton, a bay geldin g , 20 0 gs---W a t erman , a brown gelding; by Clinker, out of a half-bred mare, 200gs—Harlequin, a brown geld ing, by Clasher, 200 gs--Justice, a bay gelding, by Orville, 195gs—Derby, a ro an ge ldi ng, by Worthy, 150gs—Ves tris, a chesnut mare, b y Wheatear, 145gs--Bowsprit, a grey gelding, 23gs—Grenadier„a c.hesnut gelding, Meaux, 1 35gs—Roseden, 120gs 27gs--- s Bob Short, by Cheshir e C heese (aged), 42gs--Bedism) g P 6() ecfr gs o — , 7 T O ie gks—, 1257, Dick Vau g h an, 245 s--Tamaring, 105 g— s 105gs—Guy Fawkes, 6 years old, by Welbeck, out of a Cerberus mare, 60gs. The whole of the above were stated to be well-known hunters in Leicestershire. The first nine were the property of Captain Ross. Bor sold f deaux, a 61gs. white charger, for mer l y b elonging to his Majesty, or PEACE AND PLENTY. ---4 Protestant Clergy man, living in the neighbourhood of Birr, King's County, where an inveterate animosity exists between the hostile I names of Cummins and Derrick, happened incautiously, in the presence of labourers, to express an opinion unfavour able to one of the opposing parties. His words were re ported (with embellishments, of course), and accordingly the testy gentlemen, came at night and set fire to his corn stacks. A country fellow, of whom I inquired into the degree of estimation in which this gentleman is held, assured me that he is a very good jintleman, and the neighbours likes him as well as the Prtesht. "The devil they do !" quoth I; "how Caine they to destroy every grain of corn a f whi acti ch on he had inthate th " wor c, ld ?" 4, .Ogh—pooh! it was only Only a faction !"—" Ay e , t o b e . done .-- sure—what else? He joined the Coomminses and the Dharrighs boomed him." This was, no doubt, very satisfactory to the sufferer: and so, indeed, my informant seemed to think it, for he subjoined, "Let his Reverence keep up his heart, and how, for I'll be bound the Corn minses will crap the willians, and the divvil's cure to them." ~ I take it for granted," said I, " that you are not a Dharriyh but a Coornneins 9".-..." N e ith er one or the other, Master; lam a Fogarty. My , faction lies beyant Razyray (Rosen.%) and w e li c k s the Spooners, the Lord be prais e d; every year rielar, in Shi nronc. " -- " In deed ! you 'surprise me. I was told that this part of the world was in a state of peace."—"Paice I and so it is, your Honour, Paice and Flinty! but, by J.—..- 4 it, plinty of ,fightini" t ew,DWgitt Aventng ?c;t. • --- • HAY MARKETS. —(At per Load at 36 Trusses) • ST. JAMES'S. X. s. X. s ' X. •s. X. s. Lowland Mead.Hay3 15 to 4 10 Clover Hay ...... .... 4 10 to 6 6 • Upland Ditto 4105 10 Oat Straw llO 114 Rye-grass Hay 4lO 510 Wheat Ditto ll4 118 New Meadow Hay 4 5 4 5 • The best Clover Hay 45., Straw 2s. per load lower than last quoted ; in prices of Meadow Hay no alteration. Supply rather limited, and trade, on account of the Hay, and Straw having taken the rain, somewhat dup. - Cloy. Hay generally 4 10 to 5 15 Do. extra tine 0 0 6 6 Oat Straw llO 112 Wheat Ditto . ler dull, at Saturday's prices. COLONIAL MARKETS. PLANTATION SUGAES.—The grocers are purchasing rather freely this morning at last week's prices, and the importers appear inclined to meet their views in order to effect sales. There is a good supply at market. The re .finers are endeavouring to pick up such qualities as are fit for the pans, at from 625. to 645. The deficiency in the present stock between this and last year is upwards of 9;300 casks. Foreign Sugars very little doing. REFINED SUGARS. —The accounts received from Ham burgh yesterday not being quite so favourable, has caused a flatness in the demand for low lumps, and notwithstand ing their scarcity, they can be purchased 6d. per cwt. cheaper; in other descriptions there is no alteration. CoFr.zz.---The public sales of Friday last went off with considerable spirit at very full prices, both for Plantation and Foreign; of the latter 955 bags were offered, end nearly the whole sold as follows, viz, good -ordinary La Guayra 418.'a 425.; good to fine ordinary coloury Brazil 425. 6d. a 465. 6d. ; ordinary ditto a 88s. ; ordinary pale St. Domingo bought in 88s. 6d. a 395. 6d., but for which 38s. 6d. was bid. This morning only one sniall sale has been brought forward, consisting of middling Jamaica, which sold 665. to 748. ; good middling ditto 76.4. a 775. and a small parcel pale Brazil, which was bought in at 395., 38s. bid. Fauiv.--A public Sale of about 5000 boxes old large Valentia Raisins was brought forward this morning, but of which very few lots were sold, price 455. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S.—Ocr. 02. The attendance was pretty numerous, but the betting continues dull ; in fact the betting men are far from having recovered from the effects of the heavy defalcations on the late, St. Leger; a very heavy and general gloom pervades the betting circles. Between four and five o'clock the business began on the Derby and Oaks, (the betting for the last Newmarket Meeting having previously been brought, to a close), and a few bets were made on the following horses:— DERBY. 8 to 1 agst Mr. Thornhill's Merchant, by Moslem. 8 to 1 agst 11ir. Petre's The colonel, by Whisker. 17 to 1 agst Duke of Grafton's Druid, hr to Dervise. 25 to 1 agst Mr. Thornhill's c. by Merlin ---Shoveler. 80 to 1 agst Mr. Sadler's br to Defiance —taken. OAKS. ; - 9 to 1 agst Duke of Grafton's Turquoise, by &lin, 12 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Trampoline, by Tramp. ST. LEGI,It % * 10 to 1 agst Mr. W.- Scott's Velocipede, hy'Blacklock. 12 to 1 agst Mr. Petre's The Colonel. 12 to 1 agst Colonel King's 13essy Bedlam, by Filho. or, to 1 agst Mr. Watt's Sister to Memnon, by Whisker. 25 to 1 agst Mr. Petre's c. by Magistrate--Juliana. 40 to 1 agst Mr. Petre's Mabby, by Whisker —taken. 1,000 to 10 agst naming the winners of the three Stakes. A gentleman took 100 to 5 that he named the winners of the 12 matches at Newmarket next Monday. 6 to 4 was betted on Bishop Sharpe agst Dutch Sam. THEATRES. DRURY LANE. After the play of Pizarro the equally well-known extravaganza, entitled Giovanni in London, was re vived last night at this Theatre, on which occasion Miss Love in breeches made a very gentlemanly Giovanni. The house was well attended. COVENT-GARDEN. Mr. Kean last night made his second appearance here in his favourite character of Richard, to which Mr. C. Kemble good-naturedly played Richmond, and gave it an importance which it never before possessed. It would be idle to dilate on Mr. Kean's " crook-backed hero," enough to say, that with more tempered energy it was distinguished by his charac teristic defects of slovenliness and inattention to minor points, in order - to make a hit in particular passages. It was, however, well received, particu larly the death scene, which exhibited fearful enemy. COBURG. This entertaining little place of amusement was well filled 'last. night, in compliment to the newly engaged operatic performers, Miss Forde and Messrs. Pyne and Melrose. The play was the " Lord of 'the Manor," in which, in addition to the vocal abi lities of the above three, (most of whose songs were encored), the audience• was gratified by Mr. Da ridge's versatile genius in Sir John Contrast, and Sloman's 'rich delineation of Moll Flaggon. It is by such a display of spirit, followed up with un abated perseverance, that the manager has already i acquired that encouragement from which he is now reaping the harvest. SURREY. Miss Graddon and Master Burke still continue to draw attention to this Theatre. Last night they were both eminently successful : the former as 110 7 salving, in the Devil's Bridge ; and the latter as Doctor O'Toole, in the laughable farce of the Irish Tutor. Miss Clara Fisher, as appears from an Ame rican Paper, has made a decided hit among the Yankies. She has.even ousted the Sea Serpent. ENGLISH THEATRICALS IN FRANCE.-- It would appear, from the following account given by the Quotidienne of the representation of Jane Shore in Paris, that the English style is so much liked as to render a change in the whole system of acting in France probable. " The manner in which Rowe's tragedy has been performed ;as given a great lessen to our tragic actors.. It would have afforded a gratifying triumph of Tidma, the only actor of our times capable of understanding and appreciating the dramatic system of the English performers. The Parisian public may now judge whether pompous emphasis, psalmody, of pauses, declamatory sipg-song, and studied gestures, are tragic elements; or whether the ex pression of the soul, nature, and grace, are not surer means for affecting the hearts of an audience. That 'expression, that nature, and that grace, constituted Talmo 's qualities, and were the cause of his prodigious success ; and those precious qualities he owed to the English,---a fact, which he avowed himself with pleasure." The Quotidicnne then bestows considerable praise on Mrs. Waugham, Ab bott, Mason, and Chapman, who performed Alicia, Hast ings, Shore, and the Duke of Glos'ter. With respect to Miss Smithson, it speaks (and the Constitutionnel and the Journal des Debate are still more enthusiastic) in the following terms Miss Smithson was admirable in every part of her character. We, who have seen Miss O'Neil in Jane Shore, must confess that she frequently re minded us of her. She threw into the whole performance a shade of gentle melancholy, and an affecting union oflove and repentance, which proves a deep knowledge of the re sources of her art, or rather a remarkable degree of tragic instinct ; for it is by her fidelity to nature, still snore than by artful combinations, that Miss Smithson has enchanted *all Paris. It was necessary that she should come over to France, to make our tragic actresses comprehend that it was possible to depict during a whole act the torments of hunger, to pass through every stage of a long and rending agony, and to drag an exhausted frame on the scene, with out ceasing for one single moment to be touching and pathetic,—without assuming one attitude which was not noble and graceful,—or without producing one inflection of voice which did not reach the soul. That scene has produced so great an impression, and the actress appeared so sublime;that we predict that ere long our system of de clamation will be altered, or that French tragedy will no longe r be borne in Paris." Cruikshank it seems is about to employ his l aughter -stirring pencil in a set of new illustration s of the celebrated tale of " John Gilpin." • FASHIONABLE ARRIVALS.—The Earl and Countess of Harewood, at Harewood House, in Hanover- Square, from Yorkshire; the Dean of Team and Air. Car ter, in Guildford -street, from Ireland ; the Earl and Coun tess of Belfast, at their house in from a visit to the Duke of Devonshire, at his seat, Chatsworth, Derby shire ; Hon. Colonel Anson, at his house in Curzon -street, May-fair, from Newmarket; William Gaven, Esq. and Lady, at Warne's Hotel, Conduit -street ; Captain Frank lin, at ditto; Mr. and Mrs. Stodden, at Fenton's Hotel, St. Jaines's-street, from Wales; Mr. and Mrs. houn, at ditto, from York ; James Crompton, Esq. at ditto, from York ; J. Bennett, Esq. at ditto, from Paris ; Christopher Cooker, Esq. at Jordan's Hotel, St. James's ! street, from his seat in Hants ; William J. Campion, Esq. at ditto, from his seat near Brighton. CHANGES. —The Earl and Countess of Jer sey, at the Duke of Bedford's seat, Woburn Abbey, from Newmarket; Lord and Lady Churchill, at their seat in Oxfordshire, from Richmond Park ; the Hon. Mr. and a 0 C. Mrs. Sturges Bourne, a t t h e i r seat, Testwood House, 1 1 Hants, from a tour ; the H on . A gar and Lady Georgina Ellis, at Roehampton, from a v i s it to P r i nce Leopold, at Claremont ; Lord and Lady A nson, at their seat, Sling borough, Staffordshire, from N ewmar k et; the Duke and Duchess of Richmond, from New mar k e t, to H anham Hall, Suffolk ; Lord Althorpe, for Mr. Coke's s ea t i n N orfolk ; ' the Earl of Chesterfield, for his seat in Leic e st ers hi re ; Si r J. Conroy, Bart. from Kensington Palace, f or Wales; the Hon. Mr . Dec Chamberlin, Roos, rif3r.no,m Esq, Newm fo a r rk lr e e t ian t d o ; M l a 7 l i . s l ,co en u H nt a e l s l s , Suffolk; u Hopetoun, from the Brunswick H o t e l, J ermyn - street, f or Fm Lord Lynedock, from Warren's* Hotel, Re gent-street, for Euston, Norfolk; Mrs. and the Misses Sober, from ditto, for Hastings; J. S. Russell, Esq. from ditto, for Worcestershire; J. Barnaby, Esq. 'from ditto, for Worcestershire; Hon. Captain and Mrs. Montague Stopford, from Jordan's Hotel, to Ireland ; Captain R. Edwards, from the Burlington Hotel, Old Burlington and Cork -streets, for Sussex; Captain H. Rose, from ditto, for the Continent; Captain White, from Warne's Hotel; S. Levy, Esq. at Ellis's Hotel, St. James's-street, from Brighton. BRA VERY OF A FRENCH CAPTATN.--A short time after the Olivier, Captain Olive, left Alicant, she was captured by an Algerine. The pirate took out four of her crew, and sent on board sixteen Algerines.— Captain Olive and one seaman only were left on board the Olivier. During the day, some of the Algerines went below to drink. Captain Olive gave a signal to his sailor; and, when they were half-"drunk, he shut down the hatches. The Algerines on deck endeavoured to resist; but they did not succeed. A vessel was in sight; signals of distress were made, and a Spanish vessel assisted the Olivier into a Spanish port, where she is now performing quarantine,... ,share th 4 licq're. THE GAME OF SKITTLES NOT PROHI BITED BY TIIE . 7'ZILAI S OF . A PUBLICAN'S RECOGNIZANCE. —ln the course of an assault, case heard to-day, at Bow street, Sir Richard Birnie decided that skittles were a law ful genie, as tending to promote exercise, in contradistinc tion to such sedentary:arnusements as dice, dominoes, cards, bagatelle, &c. A NARROW ESCAPR.—A very ludicrous occurrence took place at Chieveley, last Saturday. The banns having been published in the usual way, of Daniel Painter and Lucy Smith, the parties attended, accompanied by F. Full, as father, and Raehael Smith, as bridem a id. Painter never harin g W i tnessed the ceremony of matrimony before, Full 'officiated for him, and was to all intents and purposes married to the fair one. When the name of the bride was about to be inserted in the Register, it was dis covered, to the consternation of the whole party. The Rev. Gentleman /elt very angry with the parties for inch con duct, and at length adjusted the circumstance, and married thy Air PC t 9 he; flight Wet. MALT TRADE. Many persons who are extensive , dealers in malt have had their trade thrown into a state of most serious dilemma, owing to their having large quantities of malt in their possession, which was made prior to the New Act, coming into operation, and consequently they are without the 'certificates to prove that the duty has .been paid on such malt, which the Act now requires ; and they dare not send out any of it, because they run the risk thereby of incurring a penalty of 2001. on each delivery. Many applications have been made to the Excise officers and supervisors for the necessary certificates, and they say that they have no power to grant them. Thus these extensive dealers in malt are completely brought to a stand still in their trade, and many of them are subjected Co great inconvenience, with the risk of considerable injury to their credit, because it prevents them from turning their malt into money, to meet their current engagements. . C. MOREAU'S STATISTICAL VIEWS OF IRELAND. The following interesting intim-m.6On on the Statistic of Ireland is extracted from the valuable Tables of Mr. Usar Moreau, F.R.S. on the past and present State o; Ireland, just published by Treuttel and Co., and founded on official documents. C- , Provinces of ' I n Details. Con- Ir e l a] Ulster. LeinsterlMunsteri naught. l y *---• --- I-- Extent in Engli s h square miles 8,375 7,360 9,276 7,191 32,3. in l i c ' res Pla " °" 3,14:3,000 2,792,550 • ,377 , 15 0 2,630 , 300 119436 ~., No. of counties 9 l 2 6 3 - Baronies 6B 111 68 4 4 2 h Parishes $ lBl3 306,445 241,186 269,708 138;349 959,61 ?. lB2l 359,801 278,398 306,995 197,408 1112,9 No' of Families in i ' 1821 390,709 352,320 357,366 211 .637 1312,0: -Males, Do. 968,061 859,798 960,119 553 t - Fenutles,Do. 1,030,433 897,694 975 ,193 5 ,948 56,281 345 3341,9(9, ' Occupation--Agri culture ............. 328,793 252,608 320,063 236 , 605 1138 ,0( Ditto, Trade, Ala nufactuies, &c... 581,127 215,835 115,917 224,1651170,04 All other occupa tions ............... Total occupied 1,056,7 - 641,658 616,059 522,360 2836,31 Total population 1,908,491 1,757,492 1,935,612 1,110,229 6801,82 Representatives- ' : 35 25 12 10 Total No. of Free holders viz 76,3 45 36,751 53,623 43,708 210,43 Do. registlired at .........._______Xso 1,088 5,371 6,79.5 1,082 15,13 1,724 2,835 5,572 882 11,06 us. 72,737 28,492 41,256 41,744 184,22 Total No. of Con stables, viz. Chief Constables 55 69 53 43 221 Constables 1,491 759 825 3,853 Education, viz. No. 5ch0015...1824 3,449 3,492 3 , 559 1 , 523 11 , 82 . 1 -- Scholars...lB2l 104,734 114,298 121,295 46,486 394813 -1824 141,2: 158,740 188,206 71,721 560 ,549 - 8y5........1821 69,4. I '75,516 89,225 31,380 265,606 - ----1824 80,977 92,130 120,878 44,890 , 23%875 ....-Gir15.......1821 35,214 38,788 , 40, 1 )70 " 15,105 129,207 -----....1824 57,21' 62,557 c+ 1 , 02 2 23 , 97 ' 207 , 79 3 Sex not stated 1824 3, ' 4,053 3,306 2,859 13,881 IRISH LINEN TRADE. A View of the extraordinary Increase of the Linen Trade 2 1 of Ireland, in its Exports to all Parts of the World from 1710 to 1823. Annual Linen. Official Value of th e Li nen Average of the Plain Plain Total Linen and Yarn. and Yarn. f Official Exported. Coloured. Coloured. Value. ;77 _ ____ Yards. Cwt. .Z. X. X... 1710 to 1719 4981,281 12,194 1 13,735 112,286 226,022 1720 to 1729 3,82.5,931 J 1,723 191,295 87,238 278,534 1730 to 1739 5,217,95(3 15013 328,151 81,76. 4.13,328 1710 to 1740 7,491,625 20,853 516,655 125,121 641,770 1750 to 1759 12,715,922 26,091 818,771 156,567 975,33) 1760 to 1769 16,087,410 32,392 1,071,828 200,353 1,272,18/ 1 77 0 to 1779 20,310,819 31,752 1,443,4;11 110,51'7 1,633,949 1780 to 1789 5,189,245 32,155 , 1431,999. 1040,34 ~1,11- 4 031 1790 tc , _4799 ' 744= 10 ;48f -1 '2,730071 122,905 2,853,876 .rdoo to TBO9 38,163,686 12,657 2,556,125 75,943 2 632,069 18101111819 11,857,007 1308 „2,701,95 M 18,588' 2,970,563 1620 to,/$23 11,2/21336" 1 i1;416 ' 2917,497 11,498 2,991,995 1 1 1 --- 26,871 ,1 -------- 1,479,866 . rno to 1827 , 27 -......_ 00,636 20,0108 1,352,m4 I tlTMeirmagaint 1 We understand the Duke and Duchess of St. ALBANS have for several days past been on a visit to Corby Castle, the romantic seat of 11. HOWARD, Esq., where, we understand, they still remain.-- Carlisle Journal. On Thursday last, being the Michaelmas Ses sions at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, the Right Worshipful BEx_ TABUN SORSBIE, Esq., Mayor of that town, gave (aCcord iug to annual custom) a grand entertainment at the Mansion-house, to the Magistrates who had sat upon the Bench, the Recorder, Sheriff, Barristers, and Gentlemen who had served on the Grand and Petit Juries, in all nearly eighty gentlemen, who spent the evening with great hilarity and satisfaction. INSURANCES. —The Magistrates and Town Couucil here, at a meeting held yesterday, adopted the re solution of requesting Mr. GRANT, M.P., for this district of Burghs, to exert all his influence in obtaining a modi fication of the enormous tax on Insurances against fire, whFn the subject may be brought before Parliament. —Inverness Courier. WEYArourtr.--This celebrated and fashion able bathing place will shortly have to boast of a marine esplanade a mile in length. This season it has been at tended by more visitors than for many years. • The town is greatly enlarged and improved, a n d it s ce l e b r i ty ' may be regarded as fully established. The Sessions were held on Monday. The phenomenon of the burning hill is become much more extended. It DOW actively emits sulphureous smoke in sixteen different parts, and occasionally fire. In very wet weather the smoke is most sulphureous and in larger quantities. When the wind is off land the effluvia is observable three milts at sea.—Hants Chronicle. I A great number of the Nobility have been lately to Sheffield visiting the splendid shew rooms of Messrs. Joseph Rodgers and Sons, cutlers to his Majesty and the Royal Family. Among others were the Marqui s and Marchioness of Londonderry, Lord Milton and Family, Earl and Countess Grey, Earl of llarrowby, and the Honourable Miss Ryder, with many others, " (Inas none prrescribere longum est." ANECDOTE. -Cardinal Richelieu one day said to M. Lort, a celebrated physician, "I am grey-headed, y e t my beard is black. Your head is black, and your beard grey ; can you account for thes:: appearances, doctor ".Easily," replied de Lort ; " they proceed from exerci, f rom lab our o f t h e parts. Your Eminence's brains havea l a bour e d h ar d , and so have my jaws.—"Frerich R Arras, IVAL STINGERS. —Dr. Arne was once ask ed by two vocalists of Covent-garden Theatre, to decide they had finoisi;ed, the Doct or , a dd res si ng th e fi rs t, sa id_ which of th em sung the best. The day being appointed, both parti es exerted themselves to the utmost, and when my yo Ah, ah !" sa id t h e ot h er , exu l t i ng l y , "I knew I sho u ld w i n my wager." ." Stop, Sir, y ou are t he worst singer s l i s h a e y a s rd th i e n Docto, "I have a word to say to y ou before you go —as for you, Si r , you cannot sing at all, "—Mirror. A y ou ng Attorney lately attempted to quiz a country Pa rson, who had a large tobacco box. " Parson, " said the limb of the law, " your box is large enough to hold the freedom of a Corporation." " Sir," retorted the ParAsons,h,o,,ritt timewill bolicl passengers in an d on the Despatch coach oAylesbury, were surprised a few miles from London, by the appearance of the vehicl e o f M r. lg az t f io re c edom but yours.. Pocock, of Bristol, containing two passengers, dra wn a l ong, the turnpike-rid by the power of artificial kites. The vehicle was running at the rate of about twelve miles an hour. Last week application was made to Sir Richard Birnie, at 13ow-street, for the assistance of the prin• cipal officers, to apprehend some of a most desperate gang of smugglers, who had assailed and wounded several of the persons engaged in the Preventive Service on the coast of Dorsetshire. Captain Jackson, Inspector on that station, and Lieutenant Sparks, who acts under him, had re ceived instructions to seize upon th e smugglers, who it was expected would resist and fight to the last ex tremity; and Sir Richard Birnie' immediately directed Bishop to join on this hazardous,:occasion. The smugglers had, on the day the conflict took place, landed 120 tulis of spirits on the beach, when they heard the report of a pistol (the signal from the watch of the Preventive Service) amongst the cliffs. They were, however, too numerous and too well armed to care about the efforts of so small a number of opponents as that part of the country could send against them, and they determined to give the Pre ventive Service a complete dose. So systematic is the smuggling plan now become, that those engaged in it ridicule the very name .of the Custom-house.— When the monied man gives notice of his wish to have a quantity of spirits, the gangs round about are at once informed of the necessity of whichth their a p l r v es m en ad ce e , and they meet at an appo i nted place with the grea instrument s test punct callersuality,a , r , m m e:r ing N e vi s t , h „ swords, pi s t o l s , and like flails, and with which they can knock people's brains out. Those instruments are a new invention as weapons of attack, and there is no possibility of ind , guarding against them, on account of their capacity of flying round the body. The place where the spirits were landed is called ,202 Ringbourn, and is in the vicinity of St. ioeo Alban's Ilead, and a troop of the Preventive Ser -32 vice speedily attended to!the summons, and attacked 294 ,275 the gang. The bloody and determined character of 4 0 99 the latter may be guessed at from the fact that they 1,688 w,02 met those who went to take possession of the ,033 " crop," as smuggled goods are called, with a round ~ 1 . ) . 2 6 of ball cartridge. There were between 70 and 80 of :06909 t 1 the ve smugglers,so rvice, s 0 and that the n moreo latter e t l e o 0 of course f t e Pr e o v v e e t r i . - n ,„ powered. S evera l were woun d ed upon both sides, 22,360 2 836315 61,590 528 and it is beli eve d t h at two o f the smugglers were 5 killed upon th e s p o t. D ur i ng t h e e ngagement a 1,110,2296801,827 few of th e P revent i ve S erv i ce, who had concealed 12 100 themselves in the cliffs, shipped the tubs in their 431 cutter, and before it was concluded they were on 139 their way t o t h e C ustom- h ouse. The swingels ,063 were found upon thi s occas i on to do great execution. ' 2 ' 2 9 Heads and arms were broken with them, and we ,317 understand that all round the coast they are now in 2 ' 25 use, and that th ose w h o are placed to protect the .237 656 coast have given up the idea of performing any ser vice to commerce against a system so organized and ,823 terrible as th a t i n w hi c h t h e population • along the ,813 ,549 shores unit e a l most to a man. Some of the Preven ,6o6 tive Service had taken particular notice of the ring -875 leaders of , th e gang, and wa r rants were issued for 207 793 their apprehension. The habitations of smugglers are generally situate in desolate spots on the sea shore, and in fact cannot be mistaken. The prin cipal person, whom the neighbourhood called the Captain of the gang, keeps a public-house called " The' Ship," near Woolbridge, on the W eymout h.' road. His name i s L ucas; and he keeps the house for. the accommodation of those engaged in contra band matters. Captain Jackson, his assistant, and Bishop, went well armed, at two o'clock in the morning, to Thomas Lucas's house. Bishop knocked at the door : 0 24 gently, and the smuggler asked in a 'gruff one, t _ " Who i s th ere ?" "It only I, Mr. Lucas,'' re one, plied Bishop, " M rs . S m i th ' s little girl--I want a ,j 4 s} ,'little drop of brandy for mother, for she is bad in yd 9. her bowel s ." " Very Well, my dear," said L ucas , 3 m 6 and opening the door, found himself in the formi dable grasp of the police officer. Henry Fooks, of ,50:1 :995 Knowle, near Corfe-Castle, was the next prisoner they took, an d hi m t h ey also seized without a blow ,866 upon either side. They afterwards apprehended three other persons, and the five were Drought before ,111 r. Frampton and other magistrates, at Dorchester, where they. underwent several examinations. The three latter were discharged, none of the Preventive Service being able to identify them as part of the gang. Lucas and Fooks were tally committed for trial. I Three of the Preventive men swore, that Lucas was the most active amongst the gang, and that Henry Fooks was the second in impetuosity. The gang, after having overpowered them, ordered them to sit down and not to stir until the word of com mand should be given. This gang is as desperate and more numerous than that which, about two years ago, fought with the Preventi ve men, at Bi lsington, in ' Kent. Upon that occasion Bishop and Smith, and the inspector, apprehended 16 of the most' desperate of the smug glers, all of whom pleaded guilty, and were trans ported for life. The person who derives the great profit from the contraband trade, pays to each of the men employed in carrying the tubs the sum of ss. for each cargo. The men, who are designated " fighting men" . are paid 20s. each for the job of guarding the " crop," which is now daily brought in without even the affectation of concealment. The agent, who is called the " spotsman" from one of his important duties—that of selecting a proper spot upon which to land the " crop," is the only person besides the purchaser who knows in what place the goods are to be deposited.. The phrase " honour amongst thieves" is unknown amongst smugglers. If any one of these fellows, who are ready to blow out a man's brains for 205., by any chance gets a hint of the place of landing before he is actually led to the spot, he runs off to the Customs, and barters with the information. The spotsman sometimes finds it necessary to drop the tubs into deep water by lines, to which he attaches a buoy imperceptible to every eye but his own, and to which sinkers are also fastened. This operation is called " putting r no op cni riucninutibnhesertacnewel,lieatsth-; visitsangdr a Et : pi ' npg s l p a o ci t er s: na. a n u d , Traahciiseosrhdea ceitiachiglreltsac:i‘ creeping for max." He;constantly a d opts this t p h la er n , when gc the luggercannot,onae. o ccountnofocthcaesiwoenas: when a sufficient number of fighting men - are not to be had, a watch on the cliff will " flash a lugger off," (raise up a light as a caution to the craft), and the spotsman will go 20 or 30 miles round, and" cellar" his crop immediately before a cutter heaves alongside. There are but two cutters in this spacious district. Those are manned by as spi rited fellows as any in his Majesty's service, and are in constant communication with the revenue officers. The luggers are also provided with picked men. Those which sail from Folkestone are the finest in the world: and the Folkestone smugglers are so expert and celebrated that they will not allow any other upon the coast to join them. They call all other seamen foreigners, and they generally, when they get a heavy crop, sail off with it to a distance of 200 or 300 miles. The population of Deal is now in a half starved condition, on account of the vigilance of the revenue officers ; but the enormous gangs which flourish elsewhere are not to be put down, or even checked, except by very numerous preventive troops. The spirited inspector to whom we have alluded is well acquainted with the character of this lawless. rabble. They are bold and fearless when assembled together and in liquor, but when they are roosted . (single) they are stark cowards. By way of variety, they sometimes steal sheep or rob houses, and they often go in bands of 20, to assist each other, at it distance of 20 or 30 miles. The poachers are or ganized in the same manner. WHIMS AND WONDERS. ---A new and unique Entertainment, under the above title, (first produced at the Haymarket), will shortly be introduced in this city ; in which dramatic representation is* made subservient to scientific exhibition. In the present dearth of public amusements in Dublin, (by the way a strong feature of her fallen state), such an entertainment will, doubtless, re ceive patronage equal to its merits...-.Dub/in Freeman's Journal. ' We refer our readers to an account of the Devonshire County Sessions, in another part of our paper. The Chairman (Mr. Creed) alludes to the great increase of crime, and to the melan choly prospect as to the future which was afforded in the circumstance of the offenders being nearly all of early years. He seems to think that-a practice prevalent in the West of England, of binding out all the children as apprentices to farmers, is attended, on the whole, with mis chievous results. h The law (he observed), it was true, surrounded the apprentice' with such protection as it was in its power to bestow, but it was only in extreme cases the law could inter fere, and those were little acquainted with human nature who would not be ready to allow that much h ars h ness an d neg l ect might take place I ere the law could interpose." Thiv. is one of the melancholy results of the Poor Laws, which it is much easier to lament than to point out a ' remedy for. The parent is the best, nay, the only good guardian of his own child ; but, under the parish system, which makes every labourer a pauper, the children belong, as a matter of course, not to their parents, who are merely in struments in the hands of the parish for beget mthaseter be beget ting them, but to the Parish. No one can sup ply the place of the parent at that important period of life, when the character is forming ; . and the absence of all those charities of life 'ex perienced under the parental roof, and on the recollection of which we dwell wi o tl s tr u h e is h f c O o i l i d d worst ell:110/st csathilioaairiftseitrhaelyldeyarocrstiu,tvefuvmel naidlsishpmoouuslisdtti thedisposition. n. have Can we • . blooded wonder, system then, that sbo n l t d h e become victims so of the late Mary Wollstoncraft, pests of society? In that interesting frilgment strangers,pressions sintamtipl c ed e oonnrsea o fe f m h al e e r M a p a b r "r a o le gr i .a i l d l e e o r in :h e lle d fr y p l io 7 '' childhood to maturity, are delineated•with fear ful truth. Speaking of the woman 'by whom she and a num b er o f other poor children were nursed, - and wh o was i nured to the sight of children dying in her hands, th e fictitious narrator oh= serves, ".I never was a bl e to. awake in her th e kind f ee li ngs w i th wh i ch nature h as en d owed our sex. . . . •- ~ The fowls may creep for shelter under • the wings of. their mother, Which are always ready to cover them ; no one asked after'me—nO one pressed me against her - warm bosom ; I was allowed to pine in neglect, to cry for cold and hunger till my strength was ex hausted, and then fall asleep, without having been. prepared by the necessary symp a thy for sleep, or awakened with the tender care which every rn o _ ther so well knows. The West Indian slave- n o p ; r ie e r n , ti l e ik es e , the ma 3, be master guiltyof othfemsenewhreertucl:tdy before :' , 4i l.' interest in , ..lr' the law can interfere, but be has an • -- ." '''''''' the future well-being of the youthful''' "' - which these temporary slave But the cure for all these evils pected from the restoration of the negro, -r : : , .k,.... , can only be ex- '' l * -W ' ;' ‘ owners haYe not. - ' . -7, :t" poor to their independence, and the controul over their own offspring. The child of a Scotch peasant, if ill who will se ld om be a harsh judge in the case o treated by the mast er w h om he serves, can apply his own son, or unwilling to protect iin so long as we treat t h e poor as brutes, _ tio him, . parent, But f we must expect the melancholy 1-f...cid+. -- ^