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- //‘- ~-,., ec—t,,-e) --- ---- t- k ~`~i so utterly untenable and ridiculous, that they mus t be viewed with the scorn, contempt, arid derision of every honest man in the kingdom, of wl.atever shade or party. Is it possible their majority will besr them out on this occasion ? For the character of Parliament we hope it will not—looking to the last division we fully anticipate that it will not.— Morning Post. CON TRACT FOR IRISH BEEF AND PORK. VICTUALLING OFFICE, JULY 30, 1831. 1 , 1 ,E Commissioners for Victualling his Tu Es daiesty's Navy do hereby give notice that on b ` 1 • the 13th day of S2ptember next, they will tr e et -ea dY o receive 'readers in writing (sealed up), and Ilti t s fi ' r the supply to this depaLtment of a quantity of 13 E ,„," SALT MEAT, equal to 4-,000 and Navy Tierces of 10,000 N av y Tierces of POiK, - on Aeparate v e nd ers, all t o b e cure d i n t h e editing mtason, lo ,be deli rered seven eight parts parts thereof in Tierces, and the tnain ing one- e i g hth par t th ereo f in Barrels, into his Ma p3itY's V ictualling Stores at Deptford, Portsmouth, and b il Yrficu ti 3 , in such proportions as shall hereafter be agreed otheoae half thereof by the 28th day of February, and the pa r half on or before the 31st day of May, 1832, to be h f ter it a n r . t e ts usual by bill s w ithout interest, payable 60 days '" • ( if 'iue condi t i ons of t h e C ontract may b e se en at this by applying to W. Alves, E , q , Agent for the 4 c..'t,toi tualling at C or k, or t o the Collectors of his Majesty's 144ns at Limerick, Belfast, Waterford, and Newry, r to the Secretary to the Postmaster-General at Dublin 1 , : o tender for a l ess quan tity than shall be equal to 300 Init r t e e r i o 1 Beef, or to 300 Tierces of Pork, will he ad at ' and each Tender must specify the price in words ap p ?gth, and b e d e li vere d b e f or e One o'clock on the day tw o in ted, and mus t b e accom p an i e d by a letter signet by th e respectable persons engaging to become bound with k e ? a rty tendering in a penal sum equal to one third of o , t -°l ount of th e C on t rac t for the due performance of the It i s 0 1 , 11 - to be expressly understood that the Tenders for D ork e ef are to be distinct and separate from those of the Th, Li t b., 14 ' P,e f, rson who makes the tender, or some person on must attend to answer when called for. _ M. WALLER CLIFTON. LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 23, 1831. No. i 23.52. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. CHOLERA. PAPERS relative to this DISEASE, by the BOARD of HEALTH. Printed by authority of the Lords of his Majesty's Council for the information of the Public. Winchester and Varnham, 61, Strand ; and sold by all Booksellers, price One Shilling. uency. Its principle, therefore, involves a two-fo'• )peration, both tending to the one object—keel:Jon of election. To attain this great object it wa , is necessary to break down as to reconstruct. A neasure of Reform which only effected the de molition of the rotten boroughs would have been but A half measure. A plan which only went to create an Additional number of independent voters, without cutting off the rotten boroughs, would also be a half measure. No real and effective Reform could result from either. Ministers by their Bill proposed to combine both, and thereby give the country the benefit of a full and efficient plan of Reform. It must be owned that Ministers did not, from the be ginning, choose the simple and obvious means of effecting this plan of Reform which were within their reach. They preferred operating by a more complicated machinery than a reference to the an cient Constitution of the country could have sup. plied. The diversity of qualification with which they doled out the elective franchise was calculated introduce confusion into a system already toc con..,,sed, and to encumber the exercise of that va luable franchise with vexatious litigation. Still the goodness of the principle induced us to be in dulgent towards the defects in the details. We wished not to stay the force of that axe which appeared to be uplifted against the roots of the tree of corruption, because it did not seem to us to be wielded in the most scientific manner. We would rather have seen the " flourishing rottenness" that overlaid the Constitu tion cut down clumsily than not cut down at all. But now that the principle of the Bill has been broken in upon—first, by the division of counties; and, secondly, by giving the elective franchise to tenants at will, we can no longer look upon the mea sure as the same which we had front the beginning strenuously and sincerely advocated. We have not changed our opinion of the Bill, but the Bill itself is changed. It is no longer the same measure, in fa vour of which public opinion had so powerfully de• dared itself. It is, in fact, no longer " the Bill, the whole Bill, arid nothing but the Bill !" Whatever I special pleading there may be on the subject, com mon sense tells us that tenants at will can have no will of their own. Why do landlords at any time prefer tenants at will to tenants with the fixed and determinate interest of a lease ? Simply because they know that the former are in a state of complete subserviency to their wishes, and the latter are, to a greater or less extent, independent of them. It is true that to get rid of such a tenant, a landlord must give six months' notice, ending with the year of tenancy ; and it is equally true, that in some cases a litigious tenant may baffle his landlord's efforts to dispossess him for a year and a half; but how few will incur this vexatious, or, perhaps, ruinous, contention with their landlords, for the sake of giving an independent vote ? If there should be a few independent ex ceptions, they will, indeed, only prove the rule of the general subserviency. The Marquis of Chandos, in proposing the extension of the elective franchise to farm tenants at will, knew of course that he was not aiding the Reform Bill, but serving the cause of Anti-Reform. His Lordship has been, from the beginning, a frank, determined, and manly opponent of the Bill. He has•never disguised his sentiments on the subject. He declared his hostility to it on the hustings, and, in endeavouring to neutralize it, he has acted consistently. But have they acted con sistently who obtained the people's suffrages at the last election on the pretence of supporting; the Re form Bill ? The Marquis of Chandos is an avowed enemy, who makes his attack after a declaration of war—not so those false friends of Reform .who voted with him, and who took advantage of the Popular excitement in favour of Reform to get into Parliament upon false pretences. It is easy to guard against an open enemy, but we have no protection against the blow aimed by a treacherous friend. The people gave an unsuspecting confidence to the profess e d advocates of Reform, who deceived them, but it will be their own fault if they are deceived again. If property be made a basis of the elective franchise, where is the property of tenants at will They have none whatever. Their name implies that they hold whatever they occupy at the will of another. The whole of the forty-shilling free holders of Ireland were disfranchised because they were not sufficiently independent. Yet their pro perty, such as it was, was for life. They used to be driven to the hustings like cattle to the market by their landlords, until the paramount influence of the priesthood caused them to rebel—that is, to vote independently of their landlords ; and then—what then ? They were disfranchised; a good lesson to the tenants at will in England, if ever they should become refractory, like the forty-shilling freeholders of Ireland ; but this cannot occur, as there is no priesthood in England that has a greater influence over them than their landlords possess. The farm tenants of the DOke of Buckingham are tenants at will, and he own s a considerabl e part of the county of which he is Lord Lieutenant. Hi s Grace has , obvious interest in obtai n i ng th e elec tenants at will. A M orn i ng P a p er says ere not defeated on th e notion o f therefore, i t s t i :seer Ministers . w Lord Chandos. If they were not defeated, they must have compromised the principle of the Bill. If they did not c ompromise it, they may in a great measure retrieve it yet, by giving to all householders in the counties the right of voting without any wher qualification than paynrrnt of h.res. Nothing short of this will avail.—Morning It is a vain delusion of the Tories and their diur nal minions of the Press, that the displeasure avowed by the honest advocates of Reform at certain votes which have recently passed the House of Commons, viz., that for qualifying tenants at will, and that lot breaking up the independent interest in counties, — t we say, a vain and drivelling imagination, that such a sentiment proceeds from, or in any manner ,!onnected with an hostile policy towards the King's \linisters. The desperate boroughtnonger may de- On the Ist of September will be published, THE FAMILY LIBRARY , No. XXIV. containing the LIFE of Sir ISAAC NEWTON. By DAVID BREWSTER, L.L.D. F.R.S. John Murray, Albemarle-street. sire, but the people do not, that Ministers, by meanly abdicating the Government, should betray at once, a trust the most sacred, and a cause the most glorious that ever was confided to a band of English states men. We touch upon this matter for eo other reason but that weare aware of the manoeuvres practised with characteristic diligence by the subaltems of the Tory faction in all the societies to which they have ac cess, and seconded by the fallen spirits of the Press, with a view entirely to misrepresent and discolour the essential principles by which the friends of Reform have been governed in their frank disap proval of the concessions made (we think needlessly, and therefoie weekly) by Lord Grey's colleagues in the House of Commons to the harassing demands of the Tories. To deny that the votes on tenants at will and on ceunty divisions were utterly incon sistent with the general purport of the Bill, and pregnant with consequences the most embarrassing and pernicious, would, in us, and those who thought with us, have been a fraud upon the country. But to assert, on the other hand, or to hear, without flatly contradicting it, that such incidents in the passage of the Bill through Parliament, could so vitiate a reforming, though not infallible Administration, as to open even one distant ray of hope for the Tories,—that the people of England would for get the main distinction between Reform and Anti- Reform, and listen patiently to a grave proposal for bringing back intootlice the surviving representatives of a faction to which the empire stands indebted for more than half a century of systematic misrule, — is more than befits the patience of that man who has one spark of reasoning faculty or of upright feel ing with him. No, the liberal Ministers may go partially wrong, and be assailed, yea, sorely vexed, by the remonstrances, complaints, arid chidings of those Reformists who anticipate gloomily the effects of their occasional unskilfulness ; but the Tory fac tion had better put it out of their heads, that because Lord Althorp might now and them employ his force more like a practised workman, there will therefore be any disposition among Englishmen to renew the old experiments with Messrs. Herries, Dawson, and Co. That day, we guess, is over. In the mean time it must not he concealed that the blunders in grafted on the Bill have borne sad fruits throughout the more intelligent parts of the country population, as well as near home. We shall insert to-morrow (as we have no room to-day) an able and im portant letter from " A Forty-shilling Freeholder," who describes the circumstances on which the county division clause will have to act in many parts of England, and the ruinous consequences of its operation. After showing that the oligarchy have not in the late election ventured to face the nu merous instructed and active constituency of the manufacturing counties, and that all the great counties—such as York, Lancaster, Devon, Durham, Gloucester, Leicester, Stafford, Wilts—have fought and achieved their independence, the "Forty-shilling Freeholder" goes on to a-1; what have been the general nominations of " Huntingdon, Westmore land, Monmouth, Rutland ? Whom have the Welsh counties deputed, and who have been the hungry and never-satisfied nominees of the Scorch fens ?" Under open voting we gather from him that the Parliamentary conduct of a Member might be measured almost infallibly by the number of his constituents. " Terminate the county fran chise of the town freeholders—divide the coun ties into halves—enfranchise the tenantry (at will) of the landholders, without the ballot— and air overwhelming power will be given to the aristocracy, not merely in the counties to be divided, but in all the counties of Eng land, Scotland, and Wales." Thus, take off the town votes of Worcestershire, and divide the county—what happens ? Lords Beauchamp and Foley will between them return the four Members. Divide Lincolnshire—Lord Yarborough nominates two Members out of four, and Lord Monson one or two others, as an indemnification for Gatton. Lord Warwick does as much in Warwick county, though the intelligent freemen of Otte town dismissed his brother from the hustings. The Marquis of Hert ford and Sir George Chetwynd pick the other moiety of Warwickshire to the bone. The Duke of De vonshire returns for one half of the county of Derby. The Barings for an equal portion of the two coun ties of Hants and Devon. Our correspondent pro ceeds with u series of useful—we trust they may yet be turned to use—useful calculations upon the actual numbers of freeholders in other counties, and, to our judgment, proves beyond all gee ,. f l a io ta n l , te l i t ito ,i ise i e on o t f vi i‘ ll iern in b e e r r , s ery of in p st a a r t l t i c a e m , e b net t t o hi t t i t re their fre e by the people. Upon the tendency of the two in auspcious changes thus made in the original struc ture of the Bill, to prod uce a demand for the ballot because it, is our trust and firm persuasion that the majority of tire House of Commons will yet revise their vote, arid not drive the people to ways anti means which are really unknown to the practice of the Constitution, and perhaps inconsistent with its spirit. When we are charged with turning round upon the Bill which we first so strenuously sup ported (and do now support more strenuously than ever ; but that by the by), it ought to be in quired into tvhe.ther the Bill may not have turned round upon itself. The first intent of the Bill gave the county franchise to none but independent electors —copyholders of ten pounds, and leaseholders for a term of not less than twenty-one years offifty pounds; next came the short term of seven years, and last en term at all. Then there was to be—what all the intel ligent world considered a great public good—a re duction in the gross number of the House of Com tnotis, of upwards of 70 Members. But all these Retiorms were subsequently unreformed, —a vast addition was made to the number of county repre sentatives,—and vast pains have been taken that the nomination of these should be confined to the will and pleasure of the Aristocracy. After such a catalogue of metamorphoses in the Bill, shall the unbiassed portion of the Press be blamed for marking them out to public notice, and avowing that the support of the measure, as now modelled, rests on grounds in some respects very different from those whereon it formerly depended ? We repeat it, Bill ought to be well purged of the impurities with which the Tories have contrived, and have been suffered, to load it. But again—these same Tories need not fancy that by attaching some small discredit to the Minister, they gain any benefit for themselves : none whatever.—Times. There can be no doubt that a most serious blow has been struck against the pinciple of the Reform Bill, by the success of the motion which gives the right of voting to faun tenants at Olt, paying air annual rent of tifty pounds. Any man who denies this must be ignorant of what the principle of the Bell is, or he must have a hardihood of assertion, which he of the bronze forehead and ivory hammer who graces the rostrum of a mock auction might envy. What is the principle of the Bill ? To de stroy' a dependent and create an independent confAi- COMPANION TO THE WAVERLEY NOVELS. Now in course of publication, in small Svo. beautifully printed and illustrated, price Gs. each, STANDARD NOVELS and ROMANCES; comprising the best Novels and Romances of Modern Tittles. 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It would appear from language used printed, ed in speaking of them in Parliament.— :ee l' ph i The petition, a sme s W e say nothing now of theconducts on of the Baring, b e cause they may be considered as but really it is not easy to find a j;,tstineation for the conduct, of Mr, etjeaot Wilde, who, without knowing anything of the conduct of the Deacles but what he had picked up from depositions,and without knowing anything of those who made Ce depositions, and whether the depositioms were true or false, took it upon him to pronounce them guilty, and thus, in a manner, to outlaw them, for no landlord would let a farm to such a person as he repasented Deacle to be. As to the retaining the money of those whom he thus condemned, we attach no importance to it, because every profession has its own morality, and the morality moneymorali tyof the B a r rigorously f o rbids the anyre assQuamed thatrou a n s f d a w e l t i , a f t o e r ve w r ii ß ich ut h l e ie b o a u d g i l l i o t not to hav e other evidence than what turned out to be utterly worthless, and was in conzequencedisbelieved—aJury finding in accordance with the views of the Judge. Col. Evans is entitled to peat praise for his persever ance in this affair. For the sake of all parties, both Magistrates and petitioners, the matter must be fur ther, inqui re d i nto. By the bye, M r. F ranc i s Ba ring s inference from the discrepancies in the state ment of circumstances between the witnesses at the tr ial, and , the 4tatement in the petition, that no credit was due to either, was not a legitimate one. As a Magistrate, he ought to know something more of the rules for judging of evidence. Any barrister would toil him that nothing is more sv.picious in evidence than the complete coincidence in minute particulars of a number of witnesses to a transac tion. It affords presumption of concert and con spiracy. The most that we can ever have in evi denee is an approximation to certainty, and the sum- 77 ./7 ~- • . ,AA....tagt, 0/ 7 f / ~ f . . / . i ,° e‘S., . - 0101311.,.. ( ‘ 44, '' le .let9 - ~... , , ......, . ..... -"' -"." ) .. . . . Ala , ''' k tivi "- " =-",. .„''''''.-• ,44 (' ' I .: 7 , \ . . ~• -- / irt 1 " I " sk- 't - 6. - I.Tii - ' • --- - - .4 0 9 '- ' " ---. N ~ ~ , ,„, ,d •- - 0;...-.- . .3-,,......,...,.;, .. ...; .7.:, ---- .'t,t Vellk i l'OP Y ~, . 1 .....' ,44 440!,•,.." ' ' , . ' 4 ,, - Y.''A': - ' ,/ 1 - .:,,,tl - "S •••• ..!.14:1C-1-,... _____) -* P K opp . - / ..i. :.:.,..., • - : .V. . /-,,, \,.,: \ ,•. • "i;! , - .... 1 .. --•,:„;, , ' V' s.. ..,..„. , . 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The declarations that the safety of Ireland is bound up with the maintenance of a yeomanry, composed exclusively of Protestants, amounts to this—that the Catholics are not to be trusted ; and when men are told that they are not to be trusted, they seldom fail to prove that the character is not undeserved. The worst of the [natter is that we can see no end to the evil, which perpetuates itself in a more and more aggravated form. The existence of a Protestant yeomanry must continually add to the irritation and disaffection of the Catholics, and the irritation and disaffection of the Catholics must render the Government more dependent on the Protestants. Better far than continue this policy, would it have been to make perpetual Helots of the Catholics, to allow no man professing that belief to acquire property, or acquire knowledge ; because then the task of coercion would have been more easy. Why were they suffered to obtain property, to obtain the elective franchise, to obtain an entrance into the Legislature and high places, if a system is to be persevered in with regard to them, which must provoke their indignation, while they have additional power tomake it be felt? Last night Earl 'Wicklow, alluding to the reports of conferences of the Irish Members with Earl Grey, observed that— " The Ministry had brought into the other House a most unconstitutional Bill (the Irish Arms' Bill), which was another proof that they felt alarmed for the peace of t!.e country. But that Bill had now lain dormant for a month, and he concluded that the country was now consi dered to be in a peaceable state ; and if it was, they owed that to the yeomanry alone.—(Hear, hear.) He looked with the most serious apprehensions to the effects which these reports were calculated to produce on the minds of the Irish yeomanry, and in Ireland generally. On the part of the yeomanry of the north of Ireland, these rumoured projects would be met with contempt, and a determination not to oppose but to counteract them, and to organize them selves into an irresponsible body. In other parts of Ire land, where Protestants were few, a still greater alarm would be created. In these counties some of the yeomanry were Catholics, but most of them were Protestants, and when deprived of their security, they might be driven by despair to abandon their country." here we have a threat that the Government dare not interfere with the Irish yeomanry—that the yeo manry are too powerful for the Government, and will only obey such laws as are agreeable to them. We do not wonder that Earl Grey should observe, that " with respect to his opinion as to which was the most constitutional mode of pr; serving the public peace, whether by a yeomanry force, or by an in crease of the standing army, he would say, that if the peace of Ireland were to be lamentably dis turbed—and lamentable the effect must be, if it should be disturbed—he should prefer an increase of the military police, or of the standing army, to the existence of these corps.—(Hear, hear.)" Then why not trust to a military police and a standing army ? A military police and a standing army are, no doubt, a heavy expence; but the expence would be temporary, for the causes of the irri tation being removed, it is to be hoped that the effects would cease, and that the prosperity and . . . improvement of the country would gradually blend Catholics and Protestants into one nation. the Ca- tholics could see no humiliation in the employ ment of a military force. English and Scotch soldiers would not share the party spirit that divides Ireland. They would be impartial. But the wounds of the Catholic must continually rankle so long as he sees the Protestant alone armed, and armed professedly fur his coercion. The Catholics must be less than men if this treatment do not fill them with discon- tent. If it be of importance to retain Ireland con nected with us, it must be of importance to guish a spirit which renders the tenure of Ireland precarious in the extreme. There must be two na tions in Ireland so long as the Protestant only has arms, and the Catholic sees himself viewed as irre. coverably disaffected, and kept down only by the presence of the Protestant. Time, therefore, in stead of healing the divisions, can only inflame them. Earl Grey's answer pleased Lord Wicklow, and it pleased the Marquis of Londonderry i but we know wham it will not please, anti we regret that his Lordship should conceive liitoself driven to the necessity of relying for the possession of Ireland on Protestants along, " At that meeting (the second alluded to by Lord Wickl.)w) nothing more was stated than that some new rei,ulations might be applied to the yeomanry, into the details of which he would not at present enter. But this he would say, that nothing was in contemplation which could properly be considered Cs in the least degree an insult on the yeomanry, or as calculated to hurt that sense of honour which they justly entertained, or to detract from the merit and value of their services," These observations will sink deep —his Lordship may depend on it they will not soon be forgotten. It may be true, as the Marquis of Londonderry ob served, " that the declaration would do a great deal of good (in another quarter) and quiet the minds of many gentlemen o_f property." But large landowners and tithe-receivers do alone furnish that security on which a Government ought to rest. As to the yeomanry, they ate 01 /. .3 mere tools of the Protestant Church.— 3I Chronicle. The 21st clause, by far the most important of the constructive clauses of the Mil, comes on for dis cussion this evening, together with the extraordinary proviso therein contained, that the elective franchise shall not be exercised by householders whose rents are made payable more frequently than once in every half-year. The deceit and prevarication prac tised with regard to this clause has been already sui t liciently exposed and can never be forgotten : it has been undeniably sliewir by the testimony of Mr. Gregson, who drew up the Bill, that the pleas of inadvertance or ignorance were both false ; the country knows the insertion of the famous proviso to have been the deliberate act of the Ministry— that it is a provision against which Mr. Gregson earnestly protested, and upon which the framers of the Bill insisted, after its etleet had been cleady pointed out to them. ,`they in their calm and deli beratejudpeen t considered this provision an improve ment, as tending to give to property that due influ ence of which it wauid otherwise be deprived— a policy obviously distasteful to their radical sup , porters, and in fact treacherous towards that party, but which they hoped neve“heless to infuse into the Bill, and thus cheat the no -property men out of their promised and expected prey. We concur with the Ministry in consitlering the proviso, on the principle above voted, a decided iteerovement on the Bill; so think also the Tory party in Parliament. If then that party be true to themselves they will strenuously oppose its erasure from the clause, arid, whenever it may come under consideration, we earnestly hope they will do so. The position of the Whig (riovernment has been awkward enough on many leading questions, but any ground the) may attempt to take on this particular point will bi VOLUMES ALREADY PUBLISHED. No. I. THE PILOT, BY COOPER, Originally published in 3 vols. "We consider this to be the best of Mr. Cooper's works."—Literary Gazette. " The Pilot for six shillings ! This is, indeed, a phe nomenon in the history of literature."—Spectator. No. 11. CALEB WILLIAMS, BY GODWIN, Originally published in 3 vols. " One of the most singular and powerful works of fic tion in our own or any other language."—Allas. No.III. 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And on the Ist of September, THE SCOTTISH CHIEFS. By Miss JANE PORTER, revised, with a New Intro duction and Notes, written expressly for this edition. Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington street. BOARD AND EDUCATION, AT MUSSELBURGII SIX MILES FROM EDINBURGH. Musselburch, Aug. 4. THE GRAMMAR SCHOOL of MUS SELBURGII was this day examined, by a Com mittee of the Presbytery of Dalkeith, in presence of the Magistrates and a numerous and respectable company of visitors and friends of the young gentlemen under Mr. Robertson's charge. The course of study at this school is very extensive, including all the branches of a Classical and Commercial Education ; and the manner in which it is conducted by Mr. Robinson, the Rector, and his Assist ants, deserves the highest praise. After a strict examination, the younger part of the pupils were found to be well grounded in the principles, and the more advanced part, to have acquired an accurate and extensive knowledge of the English, Latin, Greek, and French Languages ; Roman Antiquities, History, Geogra phy, Arithmetic, and Mathematics. They also exhibited many excellent spe.imens of their attainments in Writing, Book-keeping, Drawing, and English Composition. On a previous day, they were carefully examined with respect to their knowledge of the principles of religion ; and the Committee were highly delighted with the judici ous manner in which Mr. Robertson communicates religious instruction and forms the minds of his pupils to the love of it. On many former occasions, the Committee have ex pressed the high opinion which they entertain of Mr. Robertson's talents and character as a teacher; and they have found their opinion amply confirmed by the Ex amination of his school this day. They can now, there fore, with renewed confidence, recommend it to the public, as an excellent Seminary, where all the branches of a Classical and Commercial Education are taught in the most approved manner, and where the utmost attention is paid to the religious and moral instruction of the young. JOHN PATON, Minister of Lasswade, Moderator. LESLIE MOODIE, D.D. Minister of Inveresk. JOHN THOMSON, Minister of Newbattle. JOHN RAMSAY, Minister of Williston. JOHN ADAMSON, Minister of Newton. JOHN HENDERSON, Minister of Tranent. N.B. At the Annual Examination of the High School of Edinburgh, on Friday, the sth inst. four young gentle men, previously educated at this Seminary, received public prizes in the Rector's Class, viz.—Messrs. James A. Frazer, Thomas Carte, Alexander Robertson, and Ebenezer Ro bertson. The School will re-assemble on TUESDAY, the 13th day of September next, when Mr. Robertson can accommodate• a few more ADDITIONAL BOARDERS. Mr. Robertson is to remain in London about eight or ten days. Cards of terms with references to be had at Messrs. Cochran and Pickersgill, 1 1, Waterloo-place; John Murray, Esq., Albemarle-street, London ; the Rev. Dr. Brunton and Professor Dunbar, Edinburgh. London, Aug. 23, 1831. The harvest is in considerable progress in this neighbourhood, and the weather having been remarkably fine during the past week, a great deal of grain, particu larly wheat, is already housed. The crops promise to yield most abundantly, particularly in Marshland, nor do we hear the least cause of complaint, either as to mildew or otherwise.—Norwich Mercury. The cutting of the harvest is going on most prosperously all over the carses, and it the fine weather continues, will be nearly over by the end of next week. On Saturday last Mr. PEN ROSE of Munal Mill sent to market fourteen bolls of new oatmeal; it was of excellent quality, and the oats of which it was tie produce weighed forty-four pounds per hu,hel. PENROSE also cut down a field of barley last week quite ripe, which was sown just twelve weeks ago.— Caledonians Mercury. Two respectable looking young persons, brother and sisier, on Friday attended at Worship-street police-office, to request the Magistrate's advice. The young woman, who held in her al uss a fine infant about 15 months old, s'ated that about two hours before a de cently dressed woman came up to her, while she was waiting for her brother in Pittfield_street, Old -street, and requested as a favour that she would bold her baby for a few moments, while she ran to a confectioner's up the street, for a parcel that she had forgot. Applicant took the child, and tl.e mother ran off, but never returned. Applicant therefore wished to knew what she was to do with the child, as she bad been to the parish workhouse, but they had refused to take it in. One of the overseers of St. Luke's being present, promised the Magistrate to take care of the child, but not without lecturing the appli.. ca nt on her stupidity in sufferin g herself to be imposed upon, and the pariah burden thus increased. We noticed in a recent number the ages of persons at Chstteris. By the kindness of M r . P AUL CuErFis s, our agent at bishops Stortford, we are enabled to give our readers an interesting statement of persons, The ages of these 133 p ersons w h o se lives at that pla ce, for the last 17 y ears, ha ve ex ceeded the venerable sp an of " three score and ten." I.i amount to 10,65(1 pears, and 1815 ..................... 180 averagingupwards o f 80 . Of Died in 1813 1814 ... . whic h 18143 .................... '2 59 were between 74 and w) 1817 ................... • 80 and 85 1818 ..................... 85 and 90 1819 ..................... 10 1. , 2 were 90 18.0 ..................... 11 1 2 9l .. 7 182 18 2, 3 ................ ll 1821. 4 1825 1826 1827 9 18 ' 2 S lO 1829 li 1830 2 92 1 ....... 94 2 ....... tit Of the above 5S were males. 75 ....... females. One stone in the church-yard records the age of ICO. We th ink the above may chal len g e for longevity any town ,n the kingdom,—Hertford Paper. .erogatisre Cot t 4 , Great Sol f Surrey, 41 ° m : ;yin and testanr le ' coo as soon as f (Tu tors hereirn coney I may it'd ecurity, ban d 'e„ • Coutts "i; the said sums ed in equal pro of my ilte la he decease of on decease, then s: te may (lie pos-` t. :o, aid legitimate eldest son, Wi n ' s :, 'hole of my li brA t e and all the P. ill t, at the Univer,slo; !',lliston, I beque 4 , ), chain and c o ion, Charles 11 " o f ed, that in cO v shall e remaining a l , he Surrey Thesl become possess at, scenery, maelon , manuscripts' s:i 'ge ment ; and t:, It of 150 L ip , ri t is between his tu Lucy Ellistontrin to he placed; ' F A • as he may COntp my desire, i 64 , 01 I may die pos 4 e' ye as early as 0°, 4 be e put out to mentioned, and ion of the in te ed d a ughters,lf ey ma y respec t " l And f or t h e t' ,r-mentioned , lliam Moore, g't' o f Winston, hey will under; ny funeral. a t tatious kind; lic l; in oak cant' , b e centre plate ; Ell; , lielnius (sic) ll 4 ; ie Aprz d T z., and that n'i Loose, so that ' I/ be g the same sb i lto d left behind• to and thstribul,edeoe which I rnaY I t r last will and t , r se , id Robert 111 ,, i `,,0f this eighth .;. W. ELLlSx l9 i v e ed, by the B °, o l for his last la' i) , at his reque' t 'o ch other, har es )RGE 'AIRBROTIO st, 1831, befo re it's, and SurrT or , me of the exe c° ot o being first 0 0, , the other W e !' ' ution of the w' ll oe . S Depot}' o" nder 3,000 1 . tten in so tremor tile Chronicle to south part of eport of a mu 'he culprit, a a shortly broug t infuriated Per' on the bodies by of age, and 94:1 n, deposed that, prisoner abou t 5t 45 years °lw o deceased, 1 1 ' 89 , ing, about haw`,,,,i , and asked 0 5 1 , made ready 111 . hat day, for 'C IO j ock previouslf, Ci o'clock) Mrs.. did, went nu t ' r Loner desired 11 ‘1, 1 back, and ret u '; Id. The dinue r o the room thee Y.,1 oner, and naothotco diughter by a iv the prisonc. , 'II prisoner Wl') sat to table 1 4 6 she was not tre k Whether she lisd did so ; he nor. Airs • Carr 1 hat he meant' all-inch gouge 4; she put 01 , ield to preser o A and let out th e ; a word. his wile, Ter) who wt , , stabbed her 'P on which sbeo‘'‘, ied in less than y Ann Dona ° 0 used wife, an u t O r two or three pt il he was endes o 0 part of the `lo iggan) pursull wounded ch i i I o the baby out 1 .1 but the pris cnie t bil e gouge in the to t ken up a clai r o t nce of his 0w0,.# rnied by the 4 1 ted the door, r quietly. 0 to these fact' , 0 • ve d fe) had l iv ed v intented with ' l, O sy, though be,_4l r drunk or, :T e l wledge and b ilful Murder in an. var rant az a/ 0 e i ice lodged n ' to fur the las t n the employwo It the exceplioo Ataracter. Countess of rk, the lady of , Mrs. Rhodes, ° y, by the c • t ol tighter of C 3 E, r ajar-General 'I. Paine , of 131; h L a mbeth , of Chathai o :, arch, CaP! a !'" of Emma Got"' Olive, Rec c t t ° i r :P t . i .. i owlite:* o', • .lioUse, 133t1" o i " _ a Con' reet, Ceo ll [xlen. Fp rß Lieut. J. r. Jo LoNDO'• IRON MANUFACTURE. Just published, price 6d. A T REATISE on the MANUFACTURE th e L , of IRON, with numerous Cuts ; being No. 106 of ibrary of Useful Knowledge. r - Baldwi n a n d C ra d o ck, Paternoster-row. The wrappers of the recent numbers contain a list t he Tr eat i ses h i t h erto pu bli s h e d. Of the Farmers' e, !% printed also under the Superintendence of the .So ho) for t h e Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, the following 1. bee n published, viz :—The Horse, in 15 numbers, at hers 4 Zill or pike ; e Bs. 6d. in cloth boards three num three Select F arms ;" and a Treatise on Planting, in of th li n'berst. An Account of the Dog, by the Au t h or -4 t of th e H orse , w ill be immediately published in C: e tt e ie t :tuolier s ; anti this will be followed by a work on he üb-n,ber 15 of the MAP S , b y th e same Society, will t li ' th ed on the Ist of Sept. and con tain Ancient axi I "r ov ee • ' ( Ir Gallia Transalpina ; and Modern France, in FRAUDS IN PATENT PENCILS. 0 kJ ORDAN and Co. respectfully solicit Ptaeti i _ j 't t he public attention to the frauds which are daily „ for tvA-" 1„, same. Upon them , as regards their Pencils, and the lead s Poa; to l ng the s To guard the public against iru ' I 'ns Patentees are in duced to make th e following 01 pen , t : Lo o k f or the L on d on Hal mark on each silver f t! . e " - ease. 0. 4 Lod, Z4 ' S Murdan and Co., Patentees and Makers, on the Y of th e ea e sat . T he genuine leads in boxes have a yel low belt, „ g S. M. and Co.'s seal in wax. qua EDAR PENCILS.—.These pencils contain the same o f p ene d . pure Cumberland lead as their silver patent CABINET MAKERS' SOCIETY, 71 , LE A. DEN' El A LI—STREET. WM. THURNELL solicits the Nobility, Gentry, stoek andof r. Publie best selected largest and ODDS to inspect the -ABENI . ETUPHOLSTERY and th„h_ in England, warranted of the best Materials of e Society's workmanship, (suitable for all purposes, from cottag e to the mansion,) enrolled agreeably to Art of AP:.1111111ent, and is founded for the su pport of industrious t!.hanies, who all combine to produce only the vcry f e l s 1 at the lowest possible prices. The Funds o t • " e tY provide for its members in sickness and old age, 4 64, and r etur fur survivors . sincere thanks to their numerous Patrons, includ iteL° ILlcyalty, Nobility, and many of the first Families in bee' i ngdom, for the extensive and generous patronage I,, t() tved on them during the last fourteen years, and hope humble endeavours to merit future favours; at terti 84111 e time earnestly solicit a trial, as the only cri t.°l.l4,?'Y which the merits and decided advantages ?1 this Iti a , 4 l l slnnent can be fairly estimated. Every article is - ",'d at the lowest read looney price, and from which I,4l4°atements are Made ' , Ley are all warranted, and if a elnnt basements exchanged within twelve months, free from Ito ki t A printed list of articles and prices will be for ect by letter, post-paid only. 1 / 1 By Order of the Trustees, •-ea denhall-street. THOS. HASLER, Secretary. I N t he morning of Life, when the blandish e taents of pass i on " t a k e th e reason p r i sone r," it is vo tt vd more to be lamented than wondered at, if, in the of deceptive pl e asure, the unhappy traitor against tk ! .... 4 .'" of nature pays in lonely disappointment a fearful " fir his rebellion in the compromise of his mental „ as as bodily powers. To all persons so circumstanced whoa 4 quire the professional aid of men . of experience, uc ee s , f tt imle has been for twenty years studiously and s , - (::::,,;iutrnytildee voted to the complaints arising from nervous pro'it"ltY, whether natural or acquired, GOSS and CO. most consolatory assurances.. The youth who whiZter v ated his frame by the strangely fascinating Bin, poor v i ct i m o f f o ll y w ill too readily compre . h . en d furth er description, may find relief from his er eati t o kindly taught to regain his lust place in the sca l e of ,f ti 6 4 . The sufferer who, from another extreme o.in '4av—ince' has with unbashful forehead, wooed debility, ktit'u lees' to renovate nature, and repair his abused co.n froilltTn• The man of pleasure exposed to and suffering tt, "e 4 Venerea, however aggravated by malpractice of e t q „ ua ek, or the ' concealment from diffidence, may find of a'tin restoration ; and finally in cases where the delay to i L tu ntil:bial pledge has almost extended disappointment whi,Zair , they off e r to the married female those hopes I% she can reasona bl y apprec i ate . ev er , s ,, s t 9 . GOSS an d C o. are to b e cons ulted, as usual, par d ay, at th e i r h ouse; an d pa ti en ts in the remotest i 4 is g ?' the country can be treated successfully on deserib vice id the case , an d enc l os i ng a remittance for Ad ciiie al l!! Medi c i ne. No difficulty can occur as the Medi -141 he secu re l y pac k e d, an d care fully protected from qtr " vation. GOF,S and Co., M.B.C. Surgeons, *,* N ° r • 1 1 4 B;itiverie-street, Fleet-street, London. t Il k U 't published (Twentieth Edition), 1. The lEgis tees: .fatniliar commentary ou the above Diseases.-2. te......3.q)11.41i5t, a popular treatise Lues enerea,&c. iva '-Ygeiana, addressed exclusively to the Female 'ott, r Y be had at 23, Paternoster-row, London ; Row 72, Grafton -street, Dublin ; 86, Trongate, Glas- I t 'qu g it t 9 , Calton street, Edinburgh ; Wrightson, Bir ; Duffield Bath • Reid, 8ri..01; Weller, Chet. Loder, Il ' righton% Wood, liuntingdon ; Hatt, ;('sl s , ; Trewman, Exeter ; Deck, Ipswich ; Hollson, Vkltt Go re and Son, Liverpool ; Sewler, Manchester ; p 1 tt1d,,: 114 Todd, S!wffield ; Bacun and Co., Norwich ; Lowndes, and Slatter, Oxford ; Brodie and .S slisbut y ; and of all Booksellers, Price s each, RS. HACKNEY-COACHES. The Bill for consolidating and amending the laws relating to hackney-coaches, and the registering and numbering of waggons, carts, and drays, used in the metropolis, now before Parliament, has some very useful provisions, from which an improvement of the present state of the law may be anticipated.— Among the new regulations we find that on each hackney-coach the numb er ofthe persons the names of tiie required to convey, are to be painted. The drivers and the watermen, who attend at the places where hackney-coaches stand or ply, are to be licensed, and th P e r° d P ri r s i • e e t r ° Ma'y and also d to wear on the breast numbered badges, by which they may be individually identified. The clause respecting back fare will put an end to the unrea sonable demands on setting down in .11‘Adarnized roads, as the payment is not made to depend on being " off the stones," but on a fixed distance.— That distance we, however, think might have been extended. It is commensurate with what is called, according to the Bill, the limits of the metropolis, and these limits are defined to be the circumference of a circle, the radius of which is of the length of hree miles from the General Post-office. Now we apprehend that this circle, especially to the west- ward, will pass through places which are usually considered parts of the metropolis, where there are abundance of standings for hackney-coaches, and where the chance of such coaches being hired long after eight in the evening, when the demand far back fare begins, is not less than in many standing nearer the centre. Besides there is another circle in the Bill, that within which the plying for hire con stitutes any carriage a hackney-coach, and the radius of which is five miles from the General Post-office. Disputes may arise from the confounding of these two distances. By the clause respecting licences, it seems to be the wish of the framers of the Bill that no hackney-coach proprietor should hold less than three licences. We do not perceive any good policy in such a regulation. It will be a check on individual industry, for a poor man might hope to become the owner of one coach, who never will look forward to obtaining, in the first instance, three.— The public would be better served by the proprietor and the driver being the same person, and this can only be the case with the holder of a single licence. No agreement with the driver of a hackney-coach to pay more than the legal fare is to be binding, but a driver who agrees for less must abide by his bar gain. The propriety of this arrangement cannot be questioned. The driver is not likely to be imposed upon, and will not engage for less than his fare, except when he has an advantage in so doing. In general, the clauses for securing the responsibility of drivers, watermen, and others, and all the regula tions which form what may be called the police of the Bill, are judicious and well calculated to pre serve order among the troublesome persons for whose government they are intended. With regard to the financial part, the fares fixed by the Bill are perhaps as moderate as the rate of taxation imposed and the chances of employment will admit.— The price of a licence for each coach is .5/. and the holder of it is obliged to pay to the Stamp-office 10s. weekly. To render the use of vehicles of public convenience cheap would be a most desirable object; and if the state of the revenue does not admit of a sufficient reduction of the duty, might not a compensation be found by transferring the burden to carriages kept for pomp and ostentation by the rich ? But the intended alteration of the law, by which, according to the declaration of Lord Al therp, stage-coaches are to be allowed to take pas sengers from one part of the metropolis to another, will probably remove all cause of complaint on this score. We shall then have long coaches going in every direction. If this should somewhat lessen the number of hackney-coaches, it will improve the condition of those that remain. The hackney-coach may thus become, in certain degree, an object of luxury, and be chiefly resorted to by those whose fastidiousness will not permit them to take a seat in an omnibus. In that case the price of the fares might be raised, for it is right that pride should par. The scale of fares for hackney -coaches proceeds on the principle of giving for any distance within a mile Is., and for every other half mile, or any frac tional part of half a mile, Cd. If hired by time, Is. for half an hour, Is. 6d. for three-quarters of an hour, 2s. for one hour. But the progressional in crease is not regular. For one hour and 20 minutes, the fare is 35.; for one hour and 40 minutes, 45.; for two hours, ss. ; three hours, Ss. ; four hours, 11s. Any further time in the proportion of 6d. for every 15 minutes. For cabriolets, or one-horse coaches, two thirds of these rates. It is already known, that it is intended to remove the jurisdiction from the Commissioners of Hackney-coaches to the Stem p office. The Bill also recapitulates all the Acts of Parliament relative to hackney-coaches, repeals them, and consolidates all the provisions which are retained with the new regulations into one Act. We should be glad to see this example followed in every subject of legislation. INTERESTING NEW TRAVELS, jUSt published by Messrs. COLBUAN and BENTLEY, New Burlington stroet.-1. Sir Arthur Brookes' Travels in Spain and Morocco, two vols. Bvo. with plates. " Many of the most unfrequented and interesting parts of Spain and Mo rocco are for the first time rendered familiar to the English reader in this work."—Morning Post. 2. Major Kep pcl's Journey across the Bakan, two vols. Bvo., with ‘ plates. "An animated picture of the present military condition of Russia and Turkey."—Sun. 3. Mrs. Colonel Elwood's Journey Overland to India, two vols. Bvo. with plates. " She delights us in all her descriptions." —Monthly Review. 4. Captain Kotzebue's New Voyage round the World, two vols. post Svo. with plates. " Few things in literature are more fascinating than accounts of voyages of discovery; and none of these, not even Captain Cook's, is superior in variety of scene and incident to the recently-published volumes of Captains l'ioT4it au E. "-31orn ing Post. Some idea of the extent of Norfolk farms may be formed when it is known that one occupier in the western district this year expended upwards of 1,100/. for manure (brought many miles), notwithstanding the immense quantity made at home, and the put number of mlieep annually folded ou the grounds. On another farm 48 acres are consumed in paths and fences across the lands. An extraordinary instance of longevity lately occurred in the island of Jamaica, in the person of JosErtl Root, a black, belonging to Mosaics HALL'S estate, who died at the advanced age of 146 years, Ile remembered the Duke of ALBEMARLE, who ELM , ceeded to the government of that island in 1697. His daughter, GRACE MARTIN, an inhabitant of Spanish Town, and upwards of S 5 years of age, says be had a complete set of new teeth about 25 years ago, which re mained sound to the day of his death. His hair had turned quite grey ; he retained his sight and memory well, and had all his senses perfect, except that of smelling. He was inclined during the last 27 years of his life to corpu lence; never sick but once, and all the physic he ever took his life was one dose of nut oil. He had 2G children by different women. His appetite was always good, and, a few days previous to his death he walked a distance of four miles. His dissolution was gradual, and unattended by pain. ABOLITION OF QUARANTINE IN RUSSIA. —The Russian Government has done away with all qua rantine. The reason assigned for this is, that the whole empire being infected, nothing remains to be gained by the estrictions, which were in other respects inconvenient and imperfectly fulfilled. It is stated in the official order, that travellers will be delayed but a very short time; any who may he ill of the cholera on board vessels, or boats, will he sent to the hospitals, and the conveyances suffered , o proemcl after having been fumigated. It is curiatas that, although this announcement, which implies quaran_ tine to be useless or unnecessary, is contained in a decree of the Emperor, a double sanitary cordon is neverthOess kept up round the court at Peterhoff,—Neelical Gazett,. la a ' r NEW SYSTEM OF CHEMISTRY. 'elv days will be published, in Two very large and A° l° ,4'ely print e d Volum e s, Bvo . with Wood-cuts, SYSTEM of INORGANIC CHE MISTRY. lie • By THOMAS THOMSON, M.D. 114 Professor of Chemistry in the University of Glos . P r i t gow, F.R.S. &c. ' &c. 1. 12 ed for Baldwin and Cradock, London, and Wm. ', ll ',_°°d• Edinburgh. "1 0 , recently published, by the same Author, in Bvo. price 16s. boards, A E 1. LL OUTLINE of the SCIENCES of HEAT and go CTR ICITY. (Being a Portion of the General 4111 of Chemistry, by Dr. THOMSON.) Pru„ 4 ,' o ATTEMPT to ESTABLISH the FIRST r ,PLES of HEMIS RTY b EXPERIMENT. In 2 C vols. Svo. price 1 y /. 10s. hoards.