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They state ielgud's e‘tpedi as entirely va consisting only imbrouski, who s proceeding on urgents. Wilna '0 cavalry, with 11, and Ann en nd twenty-four te Niemen, are young lady, the nt of Hutans. thuania, to join al Gielgud was ;amogitia. :It is in engagement &cannon ; an which he took awski marched of the line and Ly of the Poles, kowski has had ians ; that nu le environs of had passed the Polish cavalry moral Daridotl . ,ki. of a revolution 1. The letters ; detained four Lted 9th May, he non-arrival express from on the 30th of ere, we might isle. • the Account .nt nothing is 1826) 98% % asc. par , 8 9 r ONE. the present h of informa. Consols have F 3 for the ow suspected to bring the ess at Brus ,nued for two that quarter, ved at Calais) Brazil Stock, LOCK ULTURE .h winds,with en succeeded breezes, with eneral atrnos racles of lin- LI pulse. 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An INTRODUCTION' to PRACTICAL ARITH METIC, in Two Parts, with various Notes and occasional Directions for the Use of Learners. By THOMAS MO LINEUX. 14th edition, 12mo. Part I. 2s. 6d. bound. Part 11. 4th edition, 2s. 6d. bound. KEYS to both Parts. 6d. each. Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green. LINLITHGOWSIURE. COMPACT AND BEAUTIFUL. COUNTRY RESIDENCE FOR SALE. TO BE SOLD BY PRIVATE BARGAIN, THE LANDS of BRIDGECASTLE and WOODBANK, with the Mansion-house, Offices, Garden, &c., lying iu the parish of Torphichen, and county of Linlithgow. This property contains Two Hundred Imperial Acres. The grounds have a south aspect ; are well sheltered with valuable pl antat i ons, nearly forty years old ; are conve niently subdivided, substantially enclosed, and intersected with good roads. The soil is in general a good loam, adapted for all sorts of crops. The enclosures are well supplied with water. The lands are susceptible of great improvement, and limestone is to be had in abundance in the neighbourhood. The current lease expires with the three subsequent crops, but, if a purchaser desires, the lands will be sold disencennbered of any lease. There is a valuable working Colliery on the estate, with substantial Houses for tenant and workmen, in a situation which pro duces no inconvenience, and the lands abound with iron stone, which may also be wrought to great advantage. A fine trouting stream forms the south and south-east boun daries. The old Castle, on the margin, sheltered and adorned with fine old trees surrounding it and interspersed through the lawn, was anciently the residence of the Earls of Linlithgow, and is in complete repair; the apartments in it are fitted up ss as to afford a comfortable residence to a genteel family. The Garden is extensive, of a peculiar character, and singular advantage as to situation and aspect, and in excellent order. There are Stable, Coach-house, Pigeon-house, and other Offices attached.. The lands hold of the Crown, and, with the superiority of others adjoining, the entries and casualties of which are not taxed, afford a freehold qualification in the county. In short, a more desirable Estate of its extent is seldom to be met with. If a purchaser inclines, a considerable part of the price may restrain in his hands, on the security of the property, and possession may be had at any timo. Part of the Furniture of the house may also be had at a valua tion. The situation is five miles from the county town of Linlithgow, two from Bathgate, and about twenty from the cities of Edinburgh and Glasgow. Further particulars will be - communicated by Mr. Watson, 19, Melville-street, Edinburgh ; Provost Boyd, Linlithgow ; or Robert Logan, Esq. banker, No. 2, Char lotte.row, Mansion-house, London, all of whom are Possessed of lithographic plans and measurements of the property. N.B.—The value of this Estate will soon be greatly en hanced by the completion of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Rail-road, the line of which, by the recent surveys of Messrs. Grainger and Miller, and Mr. Stevenson, engineers, passes through the west end of the property, close to the colliers' houses and working pits, thereby affording the utmost facility for bringing the minerals and farm produce to the Edinburgh and Glasgow markets, and opening an easy and expeditious communication between the mansion house and both these cities. SCOTLAND. VALUABLE AND BEAUTIFUL ESTATE IN THE COUNTY OF FIFE FOR SALE. - - THERE WILL BE EXPOSED TO SALE, BY PUBLIC ROUP, (Free of Auction Duty,) Within the Royal Exchange Coffee-house, Edinburgh, on WEDNEsDAT, the 7th September ne xt, at Two o ' clock, THE ESTATE and LANDS of SCOTS CRAIG, comprehending the entire parish of F e rry-Port-on-Craig, and part of the adjoining parish of Forgan, in the north-east of Fife, and stretching beauti tifully for five miles along the south banks of the Tay, from immediately opposite Dundee to its confluence with the sea. The Estate contains about 3,000 imperial acres, mostly I arable, and much of the soil of first-rate quality, and is subdivided into seven farms, (sour of them large,) occu pied by respectable tenants, besides a considerable portion, possessed as acredale land, in the immediate vicinity of the village of Ferry-Port-on-Craig, and feus in and around that village, and the lately established village of I Maryton, adjoining to Newport. • The farm-houses and offices, as well as the church and manse of Ferry-Port -on-Craig, are of late erection, and most substantially finished. The Estate possesses extensive and valuable Salmon Fishings in the Tay, and along the coast, which formerly yielded a very large return. They are let on lease, with a break on the event of a change in the mode of fishing, which would produce a great additional rent. At the thriving village of Ferry-Port-on-Craig th, re is a commodious Port, to which is attached an exclusive Right of Ferry across the Tay to Broughty, and up the Frith to Dundee. This passage is known to be the best across the Tay, and from the level roads to it on both sides, and other advantages and privileges, particularly for cattle, it forms by far the most eligible, as well as direct line, for the great northern traffic. It has been retained for some years in the proprietor's own hands, on the old system of sailing boats, and has yielded a considerable an nual return ; but arrangements were recently in view for establishing a steam-boat, which there can he no doubt would make the Ferry productive of a handsome revenue. The Estate is intersected by the turnpike road from Cupar to Ferry Port-on-Craig, and an excellent new road skirting along the coast nearly three miles, has lately been made at a great expense betwixt that village and Maryton. There is a considerable demand far feus at both of these villages, and from their neighbourhood to Dundee, and their own local advantages, this demand may confidently be expected to increase. There are on the Estate a large and commodious mo dern Mansion-house, beautifully situated among thriving woods, with a southern exposure, an extensive antique garden, suitable offices, and a small home farm, the whole affording a delightful and convenient residence for a gen teel family, and the lands and plantations abound with game of every description. The present land rents and feu duties amount to about 2,64 . 0/., but improvements being contemplated under the existing leases, a c onsiderable rise of rent will take place on their expiry ; and in the mean thee, there is an yearly increase from the demand for feus, for granting which power to resume land is reserved in the leases. The presen t rent of the Salmon Fishings is 600 /. Under new arrange ments a large revenue will arise from the Ferry. The Land Tax is redeemed. The stipends, which are chiefly payable in victual amounted last year to 153/. 11s. and the school salaries to 321. Is. 10d. The teinds of the parish of F e rry-Port-on-Craig are exhausted. The Church is under the patronage of the Crown. The Estate holds of the Crown, the valuation being 2,497/. 13s. 9d. Scots. An Estate combining so many important advantages is very seldom to be met with. A complete survey of it has recently been made, and lithographed copies of the plan w ill i n a short time be ready to be communicated to in quirers. There Avill be exposed to SALE at the same tinie, The LARGE INN and PREMISES lately possessed day Thomas lloneyman, and other HOUSES in MARY- Oi•T, Lad the INNS and other HOUSES and PRE MISES' in FEDRRY—PORT-ON and of he -C-RAIG, possessed by James Pryde, avid Black, rs. • For farther particulars apply to James Brown, ac comptant, 91, George•steeet ; George M‘Callurn, W.S., 40, India-street, Edinburgh ; Messrs. Drummond and Berwick, writers in Cupar; tr Blackaider, land valuator in Glannie. Edinburgh, ‘?..l•th lone, 1831. 1.- //4ee t I . o. 12,109. BOARD AND EDUCATION. Al' a Long-Established Seminary (Twenty Years by the present Proprietor), near Town, a rural and healthy as at fifty miles distant, Young Gentle men are liberally Boarded, Educated, and Parentally Treated at Five and Six Guineis per Quarter, inclusive from thi time of entrance, to he paid in advance, or Quarterly. The Premises afford every accommodation, with exten sive Gardens, Play, Pasture, and Fruit Grounds, and are contiguous to the open fields. Particulars at 16, Norfolk-street, Hyde-park ; at the Hatters, 10, Water-street, Blackfriars ; 130, Whitechapel Mr. Pettingerfi r Green Dragon Tavern, Stepney Church ; and of Mr. Todd, Agent to the School, 23, Little Queen street, Holborn, who will give any necessary information. Pupils entering now will not he charged for the present Vacation, which will expire on the 18th July. A half Boarder, of about 13 years of age, wanted. ARTIFICIAL TEETH, AND FILLING DECAYED TEETH WITH MINERAL SUCCEDANEUM. MONS. 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MARKET. 7 JuIy 1 The supply of Wheat this morning was small, partly owing to an obstruction in the river. The finest fresh samples of Wheat were taken off at last Friday's prices, but to sell other kinds lower prices must have been submitted to. No material altera tion in other Grain. „..... -..,.. -....... Wheat, Red, Norfolk and Suflblk 5.35. 595. to 635. fine 676. Lin. and Cam. s3s. 595. to 62.5. fine 645. -- Yorkshire 545. 575. to figs. fine 635. - W hite 565. 616. to 655. fine 695. - Foreign, Red 51s. 575. to 625. tine 6th. White 565. 61s. to 655. tine 695. Barley, Norfolk and Suttblk --- Lincolnshire 24s. to 31s. fine 31s. ----- Yorkshire Wuld 3os. to 325. tine 343. - Foreign -s. to -s. fine -s. Beans, Small ^7s to 40s. tine 425. -- Tick 36s. to 395. fine 41s Oats, Potato 2ss. to 295. fine 31s. -- Poland -s. 245. to 275. fine 295. - Friezland and Small -s. 225. to 265. fine 275. - Mealing Md. to 14%d. per Stone. Shelling 355. to 365. Oil. per Load. Malt 4ls. 455. fine 48s. per Load. Rapeseed SCOTCH MARKETS. Wheat. Aberdeen -- 50 6.1 Berwick— 44 46 Coldstream 40 49 Cupar 52 75 Dundee-- 50 66 Elgin ----- 58 G 3 Inverness-- 40 52 Kelso . 45 48 Kirkald 42 70 Perth --- 50 62 The size of the m Barley I Oats. 30 35 30 26 28 30 32 39. 31 32 35 39. 31 98 30 27 39 21 27 asure va Beans. 23 27 22 23 20 24 2S 30 27 29 20 26 22 29 23 25 25 32 21 23 ies throng, tOatmeal. 38 40 42 44 Hs 30 29 32 40 41 38 40 19 21 34 35 29 32 43 48 22 24 :flout the 48 - - - 43 44 I— Country. EDI NBU RGH CORN AI A RM.:F.—June 29. We had a small supply of all kinds of Grain to-day except Wheat; and sales dull. Wheat Is. down on the top, and Is. Bd. on the average. Barley 3d. downonthe top, and average the same as last week. Oats p also are down 2s. 3d. on the top, •am 1 id. on the average. ease and Beans Is. up on the top and average. Wheat. First 7:2.s Od Second tiO3 Od Third 4Os thl Barley. 34 6d Od 3ls Od Oats. 3`s Ud 30s Oil t2r,s 4d Pease. 41s Od 42s Od 403 Od Bemis • 44s Od 42s Od 40s Od _ ...... .... - P R;CES OF Papvl4l o NE:, 4 e . Beef, per 1b.., Os. 3d. to Os.7ti. Fresh 13utter,lb.0s.9.1. to Is 10 Mutton____.,.... 0 5 0 7 Sa lt Ditto—,—. 0 9 Veal 0 3 0 8 Ditto, per css t. 80 0 0 0 0 . 0,1 _ ~..0 4 0 6 E gg s, per doz. 0 0 0 0 Pork Lamb, per qr. '2 0 3 6 OatStraw(hp'.) 8 0 8 6 fallow, cwt. —.35 0 37 6 wheat Ditto.. 6 6 7 g Quartern Loaf 0 9 0 0 Barley Ditto ~. 6 0 6 g Potatoes, 1711 b. 0 6 0 0 Hay, per 5t.,.... 19. 1 3 GLASGOW CORN Wheat and Barley are dull of fully Is. per boll IDwer than last good deal of ,business has been. and Pease. Wheat, per 2401 b. s. d. s. d. British, old 340t033 -- new 260 300 Canada, tree '4S 9 31 0 Irish 7si‘ailAc,ialn(l9arttl;elir).. Oats are week, but at this reduction a done. Little change on Beans Barley, per amb. • English — 0 Scottish QS 0 -- 0 Iri`h ~,,,..: ZI 0 0 Oats, per 2641 b. a. d. s . d. Irish ................... oto2l 5 British ................ 22 0 22 6 Bean), per 2601 b. E ng lish ............. "1.2 0 2 (3 Scottish . ............. 21 0 21 6 Pease, Scottish ... 19 0 22 0 Oatrito al, per 140Ib. 19 0 21 t 1 Flom ,er2Sillh „. 51 0 ;,:10 LONDON, 310NDAY E SHERIFF'S COURT, JULY 2. SINGULAR CASE OF ASSAULT.-310015E V. ADKINS. This was an action for the recovery of damages for at assault, by which the plaintiff sustained a broken nose. ['he case was conducted by the solicitors to the parties. The solicitor to the plaintiff stated that his client was a veterinary surgeon of respectability, who, having occa sion to go to the East India warehouse in Cutler-stret t, was most desperately assaulted by the defendant, former') L journeyman, but now a master dustman. Upon re ceiving a blow from the defendant, the plaintiff naturally retaliated, upon which the gentry of Cutler-street in sisted upon a fight, and the defendant struck at the un friended plaintiff, who, although merely endeavouring to guard himself, received a blow which made his nose or r level with the rest of his face. There were several cir cumstances which rendered the case an extremely hard one to the plaintiff. After witnesses bad been called to prove the plain tiff's case, The solicitor for the defendant said that the quarrel Iriginated in a contest about a lady, to whom each of the parties paid his addresses; and the plaintiff consented to tight it out on the spot when they came in contact. The defendant proved himself the better man ; and as " none but the brave deserve the fair," the lady made her election accordingly. James Aaron deposed that when he saw the parties the plaintiff was using terrible words. A Juryman—Mention some of the words. Witn e ss—He said he'd be bless'd if he wouldn't spefilicate him, and send him to the eyes and limbs' shop, for to get himself new eyes and legs, for that he'd quench 'em and break 'em—(Laughter)—and other horrid words, enough to make any lady's hair stand.—(Loud laughter.) Well. they set to, and we kept a clear ground for them ; and everybody said, when they looked at the plaintiff, " I'm bless'd if any body can hit him i❑ the konk, any how."-- (Loud laughter.) At last, after they had fought about three rounds, the plaintiff gave in, and it was as fair a fight as any body ever seed. Cross-examined—Knew the defendant, but never drank more at one time with him than a quartern. Other witnesses of the same stamp gave similar evidence. Verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 201. CHEAP LAW-SECONDARIES' OFFICE. The following notification has been submitted to the pro fession at the Secondaries' Office. SHERIFFS' FEES. Until these are settled by the Legislature, as recom mended in the subjoined extract from the Law Commis sioners' Report, the Secondary desires the public will con tinue to understand that the customary gratuities (as dis tinguished from the fees framed nearly 400 years ago) will be received as optional, and not officially required. On this subject the Secondary confides in the justice of the public, and assures the profession and others that the duties of the office will be punctually and faithfully executed, whether or not such customary fees be given. Extracts from the First Report of his Majesty's Com missioners for inquiring into the practice of the Courts of Common Law, 18th February, 1829. " The fees which are in strictness demandable upon an arrest were fixed nearly 400 years ago, by the Statute of the 23d King Henry VI. ; and having received, since that period, no legislative revision, are consequently so trivial as to constitute, at the present day, a merely nominal compensation. They consist of 20d., payable to the She riff, and 4d. to his bailiff, for the arrest, and 4d. for the bail.bond. A much higher rate indeed is recognized in practice ; it being usual in taxation of costs to allow Is. for the warrant, and for the arrest 10s. 6d., if it take place in town, and one guinea if in the country, besides Is. per mile for conveying the defendant to gaol. But these re munerations rest upon the precarious basis of custom, un sanctioned by law ; and iu their aggregate amount, besides, appear to be wholly inadequate to the trouble of the arrest, and to the risks which attend the taking of bail. The consequence is, that the officers who indemnify the Sheriff, finding the lawful premium of their insurance too low, protect themselves from loss, and secure a profit by taking fees, warranted neither by the Statute of King Henry VI., nor by any practice of the Courts. Besides the warrant and arrest fees (which are payable in the first instance by the plaintiff ), they always, in cases where deposits are not made, take from the party arrested some payment much exceeding the petty fee authorised by the Statute in respect of the bail-bond. In London, where the duty of taking bail is discharged by the Secondaries themselves, and not as in other counties, by the bailiffs, the fees so taken have been taken avowedly ; and have been fixed and moderate in their amount, heing settled upon a scale proportioned to the sum for which the party is arrested." " The fees to which the Sheriff is legally entitled upon arrest, under the Statute of King Henry the Sixth, and even those which are allowed in taxation for the arrest, are (as already stated) too low to form a just compensation for the ordinary risk in the fair and regular execution of bailable writs. By increasing and regulating the amount of these fees, we apprehend that the temptation to make improper exactions, upon false pretexts of the insufficiency of the hail, or upon any other fraudulent ground, will be greatly diminished. We therefore recommend such in crease and regulation, and have suggested, among the pro posed regulations, a scale of fees, both in respect of the ar rest and the bail-bond, which, to the best of our informa tion, we believe to be well adapted to the object in view." —P. 113. " That the Sheriff be entitled to demand of the plaintiff, For every warrant which shall be granted to Ins officer upon any writ of capias, the sum of £0 2 6 And for instructing such officer, (if required by the plaintiff so to do), besides postage (if any), the fur ther sum of 0 3 6 For an arrest made within one mile of the Sheriff's of fice For an arrest made at a distance of more than one mile from the Sheriff's office For conveying the defendant to gaol from the place of arrest, per mile 0 I o That, where the defendant shall be discharged from arrest upon a bail-bond, the Sheriff shall, previously to such discharge, be entitled to de mand from him the following fees : If the debt for which the defendant is arrested shall not exceed 5Ol 0 10 6 _ . 1 _1 0 10i1 .150/ 1 11 2 9 .3t 0/ -- OW 3 3 0 500/ 4 4 0 If it shall exceed 5001 5 5 0 For the costs of the affidavit of the execution of the bail-bond 0 1 0 For tilin g the bail-bond, with affidavit of its execution, If the arrest be made in London or Middlesex 0 2 0 If in any other place 0 4 0 That where the defendant shall be dkeilarged from ar rest upon deposit, the Sheriff shall be entitled to de. mand frum him as a fee, for the payment of the de posit into Court, and the return and filing of the writ, the sum of O 2 6 -I'. 151.- The Corporation are, we understand, determined not to sanction the prices usually charged for the business done at this office, nor to adopt those recommended by the Com mittee, which are, it will be perceived, higher than the re , . gular charges, but will insist upon the strict observance or the Statute above quoted. The deficit in the annual receipts of the Secondaries, in consequence of the liberal arrange ment of the Corporation towards the public, will be made good from the Chamberlain's office. This arrangement completely puts an end to the differences existing for so long a period between the Corporation and Mr, Carqther, the senior Secondary. Scale referred by cite ljommi,sioners—Appendix ' p. 979. Under 20/ £o 10 6 Above 201. and under 30/ 0 ;5 0 Above 311 and under 200/ 1 0 Above 200/. and under 400/ 1 11 Above 4001. and under 700/ 2 2 Above 7001. and under 1,0001 212 ° Above 1,000/. and under 2,000 1 -• 3 '3 °, Above 2,000;. and to any am0unt,......., not ekteeding 5 5 (' Fee on btillond under SOOong process 1 1 0 On Thursday, on gg CA LCRAFT'S Divorce Bill," a petition was presented to the [louse of Lords, praying that the evidence taken on the former Bill may be received as evidence on this Bill, which Fay ,r was complied with, and afterwards 7,:rs. Lola was ordered to attend their LoLiships on the 12th July next, on the occa sion of the second reading of the Bil', for the purpose of being e x am i ne d at the b ar. The iron tr a d e o f thi s coun ty state, i n a very depressed condition. —Wolverhampton Chronicle. In additi on t o th e var i e d an d i n t ere sting exhi bition at t h e Colosseum, the spirited directors h ave just add e d a splend i d Grotto, or Marine Cavern, w hi c h har monises extremely w e ll w i t h th e f oun t a i n and surrounding and,scenery,is, we reg ret to we doubt not, will be much admired, VENING, JULY 4, 1831. LONDON UNIVERSITY. A general meeting of the shareholders of the Londe University was held in one of the schools of the University at two o'clock, on Saturday last, for the purpose of con sidering the propriety of appointing a select committee to inquire into the past and present state of the affairs of the Company. At two o'clock precisely the Council entered the room, and among the distinguished persons then pre sent we observed the Attorney-General, Sir T. Denman M.P., Mr. Hume , M.P. , Mr. Warburton , M.P. , Mr. W. Marshall, M.P., Mr. John Wood, M.P., Colonel Jones, Alderman Wood, 'M.P., Mr. W. Smith, and several of the most eminent dissenters in London and the neighbourhood. The meeting was by no means numerous. On the motion of Colonel JONES, Mr. GREENIIOI . C: IT, of Bow, was called to the chair. The Rev. T. YATEs rose to bring forward a resolution founded on the terms of the requisition. It might be asked what were the grounds for instituting such an in quiry. One of them was the universal sentiment of dis appointment anti dissatisfaction which bad sprung up in the minds of the proprietors during the last ]S months.— He had recently called on a large number of proprietors. and from all of them had he heard expressions of •dis- content. Some of them had even exclaimed that they did not care if the University went to the dogs. So discordant; however, were the reasons which several of them gave for their dissatisfaction, that he thought it almost impossible to arrive at the truth.— The same discontent which prevailed among the pro ' prietors, prevailed also among the professors of the Ifni. versity. They had complained that they had been com pelled to submit to such a series of insults and persecu tions from the Council, that they felt at once disgust, des pondency, and despair, and that they cared not if their connection wish the University was immediately dissolved. With regard to the Medical Schcool, it was quite dis organised, and all the schemes of its professors were thrown boo disorder. The usual arrangements of such schools for the winter were generally published at this time of the year ; so that it became necessary to lose no time in re-arranging these matters. He was of opinion that if these matters could be again put in a good train, the University would succeed to the extent of their wishes, anti that it would become, as with its advantages it ought to become, the most numerous and flourishing school of medicine in the world. He should next proceed to men- tion to the proprietary the causes of that alarm now so generally felt as to the success of their undertaking. The proceedings of the Council at their different meetings were of course secret ; but facts did, some how or other, some times transpire as to the mode in which they conducted the affaits of the Society. It was a general feeling that when a meeting of Council was summoned, one set of men came to settle a point on one day, and another set came on ano ther day. Thus their time was often unprofitably taken up • in reversing the orders of one another. It was also stated that there were some influential men in the Council, who, from the superiority of their talents, exercised too much weight, when they attended, over the minds of their less gifted fellows. In this manner, an opinion had got abroad that the acts of the Council were isolated and uncon nected,—that there was no uniformity in them,—and that, consequently, the Council itself made no way in the Inca sums necessary to the welfare of the institution. If the proprietary were to judge of the acts of the Council by what occasionally came before them, they would see that there was no want of promptitude in the Council as to the expenditure of money and as to the filling up of places; but they would likewise see that there was a want of promptitude in other matters, in which their measures ought not to have been defective. Their powers, by the deed of settlement, were most ample, and he thought it right that they should be most ample, provided the pro prietors took care that the Council attended to their duty. Now, in the 6th section of the statement published by the Council in 1827, as explanatory of the nature and objects of the institution, there was, under the head of " Disci pline," this observation :—" The powers of the Council cannot, of course, extend beyond the precincts of the University ; but rules will be established upon this im portant subject, applicable to the different parts of the sys tem. As soon as the Professors are appointed, such a code of regulations will he framed as shall appear to be most effectual for securing regularity of attendance, a due at tention to the business of instruction, and a correct and orderly behaviour on the part of the students." He had to complain that now, at the end of the third session since the erection of the building and the appoint ment of the professors, not a single regulation had been framed, much less put into execution. Why such an omission had taken place was a point into which he wished inquiry to be instantly made. He would now plot • •e d to show the ruinous ef f ects of the mode in which • the Council had acted. In the last report presented by the Council to the proprietary, the Council called the particular attention of the proprietors to the state of the finances. Now he found the finances in an alarming state. In last January it was stated that besides the site of the land, the funds of the company were 10,0001. ; but it appeared that, of this 10,000/. nearly 7,0001. consisted of arrears due front old proprietors, who had not paid up the money on their shares. There was every reason to believe that they would persist in refusing to pay up their shares, because they were dissatisfied with the management of the institu tion. At any rate he should like to know what had been done, and what was to he done, as to those arrears. He now came to the consideration of the complaints made by the professors of the institution. A year ago their situation had been described by themselves in terms which excited general disgust and dissatisfaction. The warden had been i n co nsequence put upon his defence. The warden replied in a calm and dignified manner to the charges referred t'ar. n which? refused, an d p er h aps pro perly against him, and cleared his character fro m all imputation. —(Loud print have e ° t to ' t h l e rat es ) could wished statements then made, had give n to the p ro p rietors a facility of inquiring into their accura c y . A committe e of inquiry was then moved for, but re fused. Wh at had been the constluence? ey re thatf cries refused, to Council," reply ll i e o o That as the committee had not been granted, Sinop had gone on from bad to worse; and he would venture to pre diet, that if the committee were refused now, things would be still worse when the motion was next made. The Pro fessors still continued to complain not only of a want of power collectively as a body to enforce their due athority, but also of the neglect and insult which they experienced front the Council. Some of the Professors even imagised that the proprietors entertained the came sordid motives which they imputed to the Council.—(A cry of " Ni.") For his own part, lie considered that the Professors had just right to complain that they had no power to enforce their authority of the students, witieh was certainly R no veltycomp compelling in t g in t i it ' e e rasti ty teni l l f a .g n i t ' s l l o t f i ( s )n t d e n T t i s: e a y t their r I ll e o ch l i7es a . ns H o e f was informed by ot7tonftteirlecdstiundethnetsctiahsasteln,ovtbliactioirle,tlattnilouineed ,l w ila e l r f e f e"; h er e p ru rZ b 4 ' at any given lectgre, and that even the iitude:At , ' themselves wished that some more strict regula , with going er f e ohr w is as etwan u e n e g f m ee a s n well acquainted, who yo h had scare y ever had paidrf which his paronts who ly,i t ,i,,r i oel o i.e:e n uoda s sgsei s en l emf t should nttdeden itl b schou e l et, different untry, Now to their ciasseS, must spend their , time in nilenesa, this liable to all those conta. d. 5 3 i ° c t : h ;: d a u n even if ;;Lich % ;ll l e " r e were t'ls rules, tttetr 7h: l r L e s t ninations with n •e:2 no rules on the point of attend ance, were notoriously personsori o t complain si v i(h io a h s a i l i l e a t proprietors It e p rogrels i ad m made eb right theto power to enforce them. He construe xto a uni t ) 1 ( sie:cri t,ut. se likewise arse toki Theyt: adhere a as might be able to woik e ' quations and to il them who sus peal or to expel w s. r t i u te de, a n( t c s. o.rrec i t_ ie let l t i e a r d or be c e o n mi:( o is r e ro a i. n , F,oglish theme. nei ally, thactoutit'l.zfoivorti: satin; but there were numbers of l a report circulating very ge• been recently going to struck at that accouyt He had heard that students had been expelled nb their expulsion ' by one 7? .:,pt ;45 of t:louncil, and that beget reversed by the meeting which young o e a : s : \g‘;sl ith e d a L nd had T : c o , s o s y : p r suspension them. n o a n s a novelty in all giber Universities i o ; t e te r , s I s t : e h s i c % h o :iknewci deservedz oth This in t g h e c n t f a ol t e . s i s n- as a; j l ta ° s i s h ed ef tv U it ; l li io v. u er' t s pr .j a tribu nal. To give such appointment of the Professors tic v ;t_ t h o e t s b e e n c te o n i c i;l e ci ;f ul e p x n p e u , l w si a o:i pl p a e e v in e g r 000lfa,111:1;isli of g r i trial fiy e years e b a e r f s o r e e hi a p dous risk. Instead the character and young men under a tremen . moving that a Select Committee he appointed Coun cil ought not to have veil one week to elapse after the se e , g - s t h l tri b u e without instituting regular system of discipline. Rev. Gentleman concluded b i n t o the past and present state of the University, with full to a inquire ti e p u i ra by :;' R ;AO: . . • ' _ . °..,...-.... 4 2 ' e ) IN 1:71111\ '' , ..t yol. •' . `l ....,.........:, ~.,___, - - -- .......-. - ItiL., ,i d s 11 • ' ; ;-,',.;;,j '' , • *** • .te °". s . ~.....,:-,5 )4 4, , ... v :- t, • • .......,..,„,,,,,,,„ ~ , -.7., - 'tea ..,....,,,, ~ ._ •.-.3- , _ . - ~),- ..,, , kt,,-,,., y i ~. .. 0 .. -- --.- 7 ) ( f ,- „------,, ~- , c _ i4 . ? ,- . ?..,:,--: ; ,4. 0 1 ~ . \ ,-,---- „ - ~„ ;V a r t iiiii ' ' ' 11) 1t 4 .• , ,111..( , ,,11 10... L :, i t i 1v4 , 4.11 ip ~ 0 17'1 ' .St‘ (p/ 4 t ; / PRICE 7n. power to offer such suggestion; as may appear to them best calculated to promote its prosperity, and with full pawns to call for persons, papers, and records. Mr. NH- noLsoN, in a brief but pointed speech, secoried the resolution. Mr. WARBURTON agreed with Mr. Yates as to the ex cellent prospects which the institution might have for pro ,noting education, and for raising an income equal to meet their expenditure, had not certain disagreements heel, thrown in the way, which had prevented the good the) had all anticipated. He was therefore favourable to ti e institution of the Committee for which the Rev. Gentle- mm had moved. He thought that the Council ought to have the advantage of the opinion of the great body of pro arietors, in examining into the course which the Council hod hitherto followed, and in devi.ing a remedy for an) thing wrong which they might unintentionally have sanc tioned. He would shortly go over the reasons which Mr. Yates had given for his motion, as he thought that Air. Yates was perfectly in order in stating them. That gen tleman had first stated, as one of the evils of our system— srising„ though he did not say so, out of the members o. nit,e council being too numerous—that on one day some individuals of the Council agreed to one course, and that on another day other individuals of the Coun cil set aside and recommended another. Now this certainly was an evil, and he hoped that one of the sug gestions of this committee to the proprietary would be, that the number of the Council should either be tempo rarily or permanently restricted ; or that there should he ene governing body, appointed by them, with an uni formity of proceeding, on which all persons interested, the Council, the Professors, and the students might be able to calculate. At present the want of uniformity in the resolutions of the Council was any thing but salutary. Again, certain funds of the institution had been devoted to the support of the dispensary. It was reported that the attendance of some of the medical professors was not so regular as might have been expected. It was therefore determined by the Council that their apothecary should give an account to them of the attendance of the pro fessors. This resolution was objected to by some of the professors, as implying on the pat t of the Council a want of confidence in their regularity; and the consequence was, that at the next meeting of the Council this very wise resolution, as he (Mr. Warbutton) thought, calling for an account of the attendance of the Professors was set aside. One word now as to the regulations about enforcing discipline. He did not understand the Rev. Gentleman to state that there had been any riotous or disorderly con duct on the part of the students within the walls of the University. All that be had complained of amounted to this—that there was 4) roll-c ill, by which to ascertain whether the students attended the lectures or not. It would be inn the recollection of the proprietors that it was one of the recommendations of the Council, at the commencement of the first session, that the beadle at the door should every day put down the names of all the students who attended. The Professors said that this would be an exercise of authority inconsistent with their functions, and the recommendation of tine Council was not attended to. In his opinion the Council ought to have in terfered and enforced it. It had been said, too, that the parents of the students had at present no means of know ing whether their children were making a satisfactory progress in their studies. Now the Council originally in tended that the Professors should in all the classes, save those of medicine, make a monthly return to the warden of the progress made by each student. To this course again the Professors objected. Now he was of opinion that if the attendance of the students had been regularly checked by the beadle, and if the returns made monthly by the Professors to the warden had been regularly persisted in and forwarded to the parents, the public would not have heard of any of the objections now made to the want of discipline i❑ the University. The Rev. Gentleman had likewise complained that the Professors had no power col lectively as a body. To that he would merely reply, that in a new Institution like this they ought not to be preci pitate in delegating away the power of the Council. It _ . was an unfortunate circumstance that the Professors were all appointed without signing any paper as to the condition of their tenure of their Professorships. He conclueed by once more expressing his gratification that a Committee was to be appointed to examine into and to remedy the errors of Council, and he trusted that their report would be sanctioned by the proprietary. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said, all that his Hon. Friend Mr. Warburton—from whom, as a member of Council, he had sometimes differed—all that his Hon. Friend had said merely proved that there was a great variety of opi nions among the members of the Council. There was one point which the Council, the proprietary, and the era. feseors ought never to lose sight of, and that was, tLat the only one great principle which could give this society suc cess, was the principle of conciliation,—(Great cheers.) He therefore could have wished that the Rev. Gentleman had spared the observations which he had made respecting the promptitude of the Council to expend money azd to create places. Ile declared upon his honour, that whilst he had been a member of the Council, be had never himself been actuated by, nor had he seen any other tnem lows of the Council actuated by any thing like interested motives.—(Cheers.) He thought that if this Committee were appointed, there would he found, on examination, much to be applauded, much to be lamented, but nothing to he censured, io the conduct of the Council ; nay more, nothing which could prevent this institution fro - 4 'acquir ing great celebrity as an instructor of yet;,th, and a disse minator of knowledge. He wishe4 this motion to be con sidered as a mere initiatory witeitture, and, in the expegts. don that it would 2;(1 abroad that nothing was dee;ded here to-day, he uheald give it his support. Colonel JONES also supported the motion. As one of the requisitors he begged te, state, for himself and his bro ther requisitors, that They had no latent wish to east any slur upon the All they wanted was, t,t get rid of the difActilties which checked the progress of the in stitutien to that perfection which they all anticipated. It would have been better for the institution had this inquiry been instituted at an earlier period ; but wheel the motion for it was last made, it was refused by tba lawyer-like interference ut a very influential personage.—(hisses.) Mr. P. TAYLOR sai,d, that if there was any fault in this case, the bl;tme of it ought to resit as much up= the proprietary as upon the Council. All that they could now do was, to rectify past errors ; and ha hoped that the Committee, which they were now going to appoint, would effect such alterations in the present system as would pro. duce the permanent prosperity of this institutin, Mr. W'. TOOK E said, that nothinr :4'441 be more gra tifving to him personally than, tx appointment of a Ct , m mince. Mr. et.tat - KE hoped that they would hare r d an una nimous vote on this motion. Ile was sorry that Mr. Yates had gene so much iota detail as he had done. If, instead of pursuing that course, he had merely :AA that differences of opinion as to the proper manaiement of the institution existed among the Counci;,, he would have laid sufficient grounds for the poiprietors to investigate those differences. Mr. R. O.:Eu objected in general to the arrarviitents of the institution. The worthy gentleman, was going into an explanation of his peculiar theory of society, when he was met by a loud and pitilvas storm of hisses, which be bore with the equanimity of a stoic. Mr. Hu:ai at last interposed. They Wee met that day, not to discuss what system z.f education was best, but to decide whether a Committee should be appointed to inquire into, tha nature and appointment of the prewar Council. He was sure, therefore, that his Ho•.:. with his experience in public matters, mat see that he was out of order. Mr. R. OwEN pmisted for a short time longer 7, ha finding the zeluetance of the meeting to listt - Al to his spe oul..tive opinions on mankind insuyeabie, at length sat down. The res,olv,t;;4l was thin put in the ordinary way, and „j:: 4iC> Air. HOME then proposed reJoh.z:;ic, , n to the effect, that the proposed Committo cons ,9t of nine persons, I,f whom five shall ho,a q4ornm. In so doing he took occasion tr., express', iris, deep regret that a man of such respect4;lity and talent as the Warden should have been attacked as_ he had been on the presmt occasion, lie asserted that there was not the slightest shadJv of pretence for saying that the appointment of the Warden was a job. The only error committed on that head was, that the Council had fixed too high a rate of salary for the Warden, in conse quence of the sanguine expectations of the success of Vie institution which some of its members entertained. In conclusion he !novel that the following gentlemen consti tute the Ciimmitter Booth, Fearon, Gowan, Hart, Gretu!• ough, Nicholson, Thom peon, Vigor , • Yates. Sir G. Plumes, M.P., seconded the resolution. Some conversation then took place as to tlie le , 10 when the Committee should make their report. A t, e • some discussion it was determined that the report should be received on that day three weeks. Mr. A. T. TnamrsoN said that both as a professor an I a proprietor be begged leave to address a few words tot e meeting. He thought the time fixed too distant. Tie state of the University was such, that expedition was ne cessary. It was now seven weeks since the medical ses sion had terminated, and as yet nothing had been done for the completion of the medical school. There were two chairs in the medical schools now vacant, as also the situ ation of demonstrator in anatomy. The resignation of two other professors might also be expected. Arrangements for filling up these vacancies should be gone into instanter. To make this statement was one of the reasons of his ris ing, but his principal reason was to say, in justification of himself and his brother Professors, that na exception was t be made as to the confidence of all the Professors in the Council in all important points. He had, however, occa sionally felt that there was mote delay than was quite eN_ usable on the part of the Council in 'deciding upon propo. dtions made to ~ hetn by the Professors. The resolution was then agreed to. Thanks were 0.01 voted to the Chairman, and the meeting brohe up, aster a oast rambling, desultory, and unconnected discussion, a; half-past five o'clock. 'NFORMATION RESPECTING CHOLERA AIORBUS. RET UR PRESENTED TO PAR EMMEN]. Dr. Witler having been instructed by the Clerk of the Privy Council, in a letter dated January 14, to obtain the most correct information as to the characteristic symptoms, history, prevention, or cure of the cholera, sent his first report from Moscow, dated March IS, and his second from Petersburgh, dated the 29th of April. The following are copies:— SECOND REPORT FROM OR. WALKER ON THE TO C. C. GKEVILLF, ESQ. St. Petersbnrgh, April 17 (29). Stit,-1 had the honour of rel.orting to you from Moe. vow, for the information of the Lords of his Majesty's most Hon. Privy Council, upon two of the points respecting the disease prevailing in this empire, and stated my con viction that it was not the plague, but the same disease with the •cholera morbas that had ravaged the territories of the East India Company. I also stated, that I deemed. it absolutely necessary, for the purpose of procuring further information on the other points laid flown in my in structions, that I should proceed further than Moscow. I was afterwards induced to change the plan detailed, in so far as not to go to Nishni Novgorod, as I found, from in quiries which I was afterwards able to make at Moscow, that I was not likely t 9 get any information there worth the great delay which, from the season of the year, 1 must incur by going there. As the disease appeared to be at an end at Moscow, and as various official documents which I had required for assisting me in the duty intrusted to me, could not he ready under two or three weeks, I deter mined therefore to set out immediately fur Jaroslaw, and the rest of the places which I- had mentioned in my letter that I intended to visit. I was excessively delayed by the badness of the toads, having been, for instance, nearly six hours in going the first stage of not quite toles from Moscow. On my arrival at .Taroslaw, 1 found that the disease had already ceased in ths! town of Vo logda ; and that, wit!, the badness oh the roads, and ow cer fain quarantine, and perhaps two, I should be detained much beyond the time I waa, by my arrangement with Lord He)tesbuty, warranted to employ, and 1 therefore gave up my intention of going to Vologda, and pro. ceeded along 'the Volga and toad by which the disease ap proached St. Petersburgh last year. The roads were in such a shocking state, that I could travel only very slowly ; and being detained also four days lay the breaking up of the ice on the rivers, I was 13 days in coming from ,Taros_ law, a distance which, either in winter or in summer (evert with the halts necessary for my inquiries), would not have s a , ste a n ta to o e f o I t t h l M e 11 :1 1 1 1 f C o a r t n e i a t t h i o e n re: v u i l i i t e s 1, 01 1 m ha v v, (l:l b v e n e required above half that time. I was exactly seven weeks absent from St. Petersburgh. collectoLser from others resp ec ti ng t h at most i mportant t v o at l io l n point, the contagious or non-contagious nature of the disease. In Moscow by far the greater part of the medical men are of opinion that the disease is not contagious, but pro duced by same peculiar state of the atmosphere, not cog nizable by either our senses or by instruments; that this was proved by almost every person in the city feeling • during the time some inconvenience or other, which wanted only the exciting cause of catching cold, or of some irre gularity in diet, to bring on cholera; that very few of those initnediately about the patients were taken ill. That per_ sons had put on the clothes of patients who were very ill or had died of cholera, had lain in their beds, or even alongside of corpses, had bathed in the same water where very bad cholera patients had been bathed just before, and that none of these persons were taken ill. That a strict investigation had boen made into what were reckoned the first four cases occurring in Moscow, and that it was proved that they had neither themselves been in any in fected place, nor had communication with :my one coining irom such a place. I confess, however, lam not quite satisfied with thia, because—first, in a place of such an extent as Mc.szaw, every one can conceive it perfectly pos sible that there may have been cases before th, se without its being known, and I have the cettainty myself of its being possible, for it occurred to inn while I was there, to know of four eases that had never been reported to the police, nor seen by a medical man. 2. One of the four cases had only a few days arrived from Simbirsk, so that he might have brought the seeds of the disease with him, because the disease was in the district of Simbirsk in the end of August, and he died in Moscow, I think, on the 16th of September. 3. This investigation was not made by medical men, but through the police, which I du not reckon the proper method, et , i the people are so afraid of them, that it is next to impossible to get at the troth. am also not quite satisfied that there were so few of the .attendants in the hospitals taken ill, for I have a printed statement (or rather a copy of it) of one hospital, and oral information of two others, in which the attendants were taken ill in a far greater proportion than out of hos pital. I bad, of course, immediately on my arrival in Moscow, requested such a statement of each hospital, and as all the cholera hospitals, except two, had already been shut ins senile time, I expected it would have been fur i\ithod immediately, as 1 found that all the medical gentle men expressed, and indeed showed, the utmost readiness to communicate every information, and a statement was already printed of the patients in each hospital, but in which that most important point of the number of at tendants taken ill was not attended to. Not having re ceived it, after repeated applications, I had it mentioned three days before I left Illoscow, to the Governor Prince Dirnitri Gallitzin, who, in toy presence, desired the Se cretary of the Medical Council to write to the different ' gentleman, that ho ordered it to be furnished without de lay. It is now four weeks since I left Moscow, and I have not yet received it, so that I am not able to adduce the ex pe'• - -i-n“e in the hospitals es in favour of eitkrr opinion, and begin to fear that accurate accen.ants may not, have I!Rem kept of thos.e. cases. Still all these gentlemen (the. I anti-cantagianists) acknowledge, that where a number of clud:;xa patients are collected together, it is perfectly po sible that the disease, like some others, may become con tagious. I did not )earn that the c3ntagionists in Mos• cow had ally strong particular instances to prove the communication of the di.e.a.,t from one individual to another. Indeed, one gentleman confessed to me that he himself having been so strongly convinced of the contagions nature of the disease, he supposed that it was not doubted by any , (1..7.0, and therefore never thought of searching out and establishing the facts which could Prove that the opinion was founded on undoubted facts. One gentle man, who was the inspector of the hospital of which I have a cepy of the printed statement as abovementioned, was at first a non-contagionist, but found himself forced to adopt the opposite opinion, because so many of the at tendants at the hospital under his superintendence were at tacked with the disease. n the. rest of my journey, however, at Jaroslaw, Minsk, loga, Ustuskna, Soniina, Titzvin through all which places the disem made its approaches towards St. Peters burgh, 47,',d where, from the small extent of the field of oh stlvaSion,, every, case came under more immediate inspec tion, fou,nd every where the medical men and others con vinced that the disease was brought up to them somehow or other by the hams which came up the Volga from Nishni Novgorod, ah...) other places where the disease hail been ; they aaid, that the first attacked with the disease were al ways boatmen, and it was only afterwards that the disease appeared among the towns-people. Only at Jarnslaw it was doubtful, whether the first was not a merchant, who had been to the fair at Nishni. But after the disease got Ito a town, that it could not be traced from one ,to an (idler, and that very often, perhaps most frequently, only one to a Etmili,.whi!c in others every one was attacked with it. ii),.:Cturogacmhotlniii:ii,nva.ghvitihsieserisovirniotelni i a t s s slow r atyliacinoc);asni r icp tl i t r, l o t l ieidep that t othrr pf.lrnon party d e ny ) along the g reat liners of water coinrnunicAtion, Beans.