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THE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUT ING the OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRE !AND do hereby give Notice, That on TUESDAY, the 31st instant, at One o'clock, they will be ready to receive Tenders, under Conditions, which may be seen at the above Office, or upon application to the Collector of Customs at Aberdeen or Lerwick, er to Lieut. Pitt, R.N., at Leith, for the CONVEYANCE of MAILS between ABERDEEN or PETERHEAD and LERWICK, in the Shetland Islanils.97 All Tenders are to be nude upon the printed form provided for the purpose, which may be had upon application as above, and they are to he addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty, at Seutereet.plitee, with the words " Tender for the Convey ante of Mails," and " Comptroller of Victualling " in the left bend *erase of the envelope. No Tender will be received after One o'clock in the Day of Treaty, nor will any be noticed, unless the Party, or an Agent for him, attends. 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Such, indeed, would be the course that J. T. Betts and Co. would pursue, were it not for the numerous and specious attempts to foist upon the world articles presumptuously of f ered as substitutes for the Patent Brandy, without the most remote pretensions to approach it in quality ; attempts which, however short lived, impose upon J. T. Betts and Co. the ne ceuity for issuing, from time to time, a caution to the Public to satisfy themselves of the identity of the Spirit which they pro cure. If purchasers would take only that simple precaution, and really obtain Betts's Patent Brandy, the complaints in cessantly made of the defective character of Home-made Brandy, would soon cease to be heard. So unbounded is the confidence of J. T. 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GENTLEMEN—Last winter I apprised you that in future you could obtain no Solution of Magnesia from a THEN agent of our's in London ; that person has since set up for himself, and has garbled tho eulogium which you wrote in your Medico- Chirur. Review, and has applied your testimonial to an imita tion of his own, not in existence when you published your fa vourable opinion of the genuine article. If characters, intended for one person or thing, can be thus transferred to the purposes of others, then all confidence would he at an end, particularly in matters connected with Medicine, Health, and Life, and the merit and credit of all discoveries and improvements would be alienated in open day. As friends of fair dealing I beg of you to favour me with your opinion of such conduct.—l remain, Sirs, yours sincerely. JAMES MURRAY. N. B. We have continued to use and. prescribe Sir Jas. 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James Sprigg 0 10 0 _ _ _ Mr. W. F. Paul — 0 10 0 Mr. George Christopherson 0 10 0 Mr. Payne Mr. George Cowell _ _ Mr. William Cuddon, Bungay Small sums DRURY LANE THEATRE. The delightful old .opera of Love i n a Village was revived at this theatre last evening, "with the costume of its time." This attention to costume is all very well,and is de serving of great praise, as denoting a desire on the part of the management to do all that can be done towards realizing the creations of the poet—but why in an opera attend to costume alone—why not represent it with the music of the time also—why not give us the ori ginal music and songs of Love in a Village —the whole music, and nothing but the music of the opera? This is of infinitely greater importance in an opera, considered as a w ork of art, than the costume. The music is characteristic of the taste of the age in which it was composed, and there were many songs introduced into the opera last night which, albeit beautiful in themselves, and exquisitely sung, accorded ill with the general character of the piece. Mrs. Alban Croft made her first appearance as Rosetta, and her Rosetta was an improvement on her Polly, inasmuch as she did not overload her songs with ornament ; her voice is melodious and and powerful, and she has it completely under her command. She was well supported by Frazer, as young Meadows, who was in excellent voice, and sa:g with great taste and feeling. Lucinda found a very able representative in Miss Betts, who sang with great power and execution, and was rewarded by the hearty plaudits of her audience. Mrs. Waylett, as Madge, was admirable. This lady's repre sentation of the Country Lass is at present unequalled on the stage—dialect, dress, action, all was perfect. Hammond made a very good Hodge, and Leffler a jolly Hawthorn ; while the Justice Woodcock of Dow ton, like old wine, is not the worse for having a smack of age with it ; and Mrs Selby, asSOer, Deborah, was as proper and decorous an old maid as 2oUldThe desired. The opera altogether is well got •np, and well per formed, and we would advise all admirers of old English ballad operas to witness its representation. The house was respectably filled. EAST INDIES. HERAT. " Letters have been receivedfrom Herat dated 9th August. The envoy and officers of the mission, arrived there on the 25th July with three lacs of rupees, without meeting with any interruptions, on the route from Can dahar. They were busy making out plans, sections, and estimates of the expense necessary for the repair of the works. The place is one mass of ruins. The breaches in the walls, the Persian trenches and mines, are still visible. Owing to the tyranny and oppression of Kam ran's vizier, it is nearly depopulated ; he having sold all he could get hold of as slaves. In 1826 the population amounted to 40,000 or 30,000, now there are not more than 8,000. The Turkomans bring down horses, for which they will only take slaves in exchange. Eleven young fellows is the price of a good horse. Every thing is very dear, owing to their having been no harvest for two seasons. The Persians left the surrounding coun try a desert, not a vine or fruit tree to be seen. The climate is delightful at present, but the winter is said to be severe. The officers have had a ruined palace al toted to them. They went to the palace the day of their arrival, and salaam'd to old Kamran, who looks as if he was nearly worn aut. They dined next day with the Vizier ala mode Affghanee. He is said to have good cooks and excellent sherbet, but the wines were execrable." THE ARMY OF THE INDUS. We subjoin our latest intelligence from Candahar. CANDAHAR, AUGUST 18, 1839.—Every thing 1S quiet here, but the dawks between this and Cabul are quite cut off, and we have no accounts from the army ahead. A messenger from the Shah to the Prince brought the intelligence of his having entered Cabul, on the 4th instant, but we have no letters testifying the statement. I am sorry to say, most distressing accounts have just been received of the breaking out of cholera at Quetta in Shawl, where the 2d Brigade is stationed. We heard some time ago that this insidious and merci less scourge had followed the heels of our army from Bliawulpore, by Roree and Bukkur to Shikarpore, and thence across the desert of Cutch Gundava to Bhag and Dadur ; but we were in hopes, the Bolan Pass, and Solyman range would have checked its progress. I am sorry to say, we have been disappointed, and the cholera is playing sad havoc amongst the troops— Lieutenant Baynes, of the Bombay Artillery, a most talented and gallant officer, besides a well-known sportsman, rider, hog hunter and writer in the Maga, with five Europeans of his Company, have already fallen victims, and numbers of the Se poys of the 31st and 42d Regiments, with bearers, camp followers, &c. are daily carried off. I hope to God it will not spread to Candahar, for if it does, the crowded and filthy state of the city is enough to make it conta giods, and our troops, after the hardships they have en dured, the loss of bedding and clothing, want of food, and .bad Attah and water, are ill fitted to contend, with diseases of an y kind. ;The co r prat' Quetta hav e , each about 200 men in the hospital, whilst here we are pretty healthy, but we hear Girisk has become so sickly, that Captain Woodburn, who commands there, is meditating bringing his corps into Candahar. You are mistaken in supposing Colonel Stoddart has. .been liberated. Letters having just been received from Herat, stating all was quiet there, and that letters had been received from Bokhara, dated the beginning of July, at which time Stoddart was still a prisoner. No instructions have yet been received to proceed against Kelat, but the 2d Brigade are daily expecting orders to take it, We hear reports of great discontent among the Shah's officers, and that Nicholson and Moorhouse have ten dered their resignations. We are of course all most an xious to know what is to be our destination, and what corps arc to be left in Affghanistan, for to suppose we can leave the country to the care of the Shah and his troops, while the whole of the chiefs are at large, and when not more than the two capitals and some five miles round them have been conquered, is incredible. If any party is left, we feel assured they will be treated with as much consideration as the Shah's officers, and get the same allowance as they do. Double full batta is not sufficient to make up for the additional expense of residence here, but this is surely the least Govern ment can have the conscience to grant.—Delhi Gazette, September 25. The following is an extract from a commercial letter received by the overland mail from India : " Singapore, Aug. 19,1839. " Our latest letters from China state that Commis sioner Lin had issued an edict, which was placarded at Macao, requiring that the ships and merchants should go to Whampoa and Canton in five days time, or other wise should leave altogether. There was also a thun dering edict addressed to the Portuguese Governors, demanding a Chinese who was a Catholic convert to Christianity, and who was accused of opium dealing, to be sent to him in five days, or he would come down with 20,000 men and drive all hands into the sea. This man claims to be a Portuguese subject, and was to be protected at all hazards. Two Englishmen, formerly Supposed to be opium dealers, were also demanded, that they might be strangled." SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. (LLOYD'S.) . VESSELS SPOKEN WIT/I.—The Gunga, of Whitehaven, 24th ult., lat. 37, long 14 ; Sir William Bensby, Quebec to London, 6th inst., lat. 49, long. 7, by the Tyro, Wool verton, arrived at Falmouth; British Merchant, Bombay to Liverpool, Aug. 26, out fifteen days, by the Tigris, Symons, arrived at the Cape of Good Hope; Commodore, London to the Mauritius, Aug. 10, on the Equator, by the Robert Brown, Mansfield, arrived at the Cape of Good Hope ; Clarence, of Hobart Town, with 500 barrels, by the Lady Blackwood, arrived at Sydney ; Elizabeth, of London, out thirty-three months, with 2,100 barrels, by the Pocklington, arrived off Otabeite ; Mitbridates and arrived a b t St. Hele na; P ro t eus , Bombay, e astward of Mada- S ca Isabella Uda, this side of the Cape, by th e S tar, arrived at 14 t s .H r, ,in April, with 1,100 barrels, British Sove re i gn, i n Apr il , 600 barrels, Nimrod, e b ill y n t a h ; e F G r i a ll i s i e k Y la ' nd fr , fro mm rri ß i n May, with 800 barrels, Lucy Ann, in June, with 500 barrels, and Sarah and Elizabeth, of Hobart Town, out three weeks, clear, lsy the Clarkson, arrived at Sydney ; Lady Leith, with 300 barrels Woolach, with 400 barrels, by the William, arrived at Sidney. The following has been received from the AdMiralty, addressed to the Secretary at Lloyd's Admiralty, Dec. 9 1839. " SIR,--I am commanded by my Lords' Commissioners of the Admiralty to transmit to you h erew i th, for the in formation of the Committee for managing the affairs of Lloyd's, an extract from the Journal of St. Petersburg, regarding the Northern Lighthouse of Catherinenthal, at Revd. 4, I am , Sir, your most humble servant, " Mr. Dobson, Lloyd's. "J. BARROW." Extract from the Journal of St. Petersburg, o f the 15th Oct., 1838 " The Hydrographic Department of the Mi n i s t er o f Marine h as j ust ca used to be published in the Commercial Gazette a no ti ce , stating that, in order more easily to dis tinguish d ur i ng the day time the Northern Lighthouse o f Catherin ent h a l, a t Reval, from the buildings near to it, a small octagonal tower in the form of a p yram i d, painted in white, bl ac k, an d r ed stripes has been constructed on the roof of that lighthouse." EASTERN COUNTIES ' itAILWAY.-ROM FORD, MONDAY, DEC. 9.—We have it from good au thority to state that the Company have concluded an arrangement with the house of Rothscbilds, for the with more energy in to enable the loan Company o 0 f, . f e considerable d r e a r i al railway sum o e f eed the completion of other parts of the line.—Essar Mer cury. FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE. BY THE QUEEN.—A PROCLAMATION. VICTORIA, R. Whereas our Parliament stands prorogued to Thursday the twelfth day of this instant December ; we, with the advice of our Privy Council, do hereby publish and declare, that the said Parliament shall be further prorogued, on the said twelfth day of December instant, to Thursday the sixteenth day of January next ; and we have given order to our Chancellor of that part of our United Kingdom called Britain, to prepare a commission for proroguing the same accordingly; and we do hereby further, with the advice aforesaid, declare our Royal will and pleasure, that the said Parliament shall, on the said Thursday the sixteenth day of January next, assemble and be holden for the dispatch of divers urgent and important affairs : and the Lords Spi ritual and Temporal, and the Knights, Citizens, and Bur gesses, and the Commissioners for Shires and Burghs of the House of Commons, are hereby required and commanded to give their attendance accordingly, at Westminster, on the said Thursday the sixteenth day of January next. Given at our Court at Windsor, this ninth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine, and in the third year of our reign. GOD save the QUEEN. WHITEHALL, DEC. 9, 1839. The Queen has been pleased to grant onto Sir Alexander Anderson, Knt., Colonel in the Army, and Companion of the Most Hon. Military Order of the Bath, her Royal licence and permission, that he may accept and wear the insignia of a Knight Commander of the Royal Portuguese Military Order of St. Bento d' Avis, which the Queen of Portugal hath been pleased to confer upon him, in testimony of her Royal approbation of his gallant conduct during the Peninsular war, when serving in her Most Faith ful Majesty's army, as Colonel of the 11th Regiment of Foot, and that he may enjoy all the rights and privileges thereunto annexed. And also to command, that her Majesty's said concession and especial mark of her Royal favour, be registered, together with the relative documents, in her Majesty's College of Arms. WHITEHALL, Dec. 9. The Queen has been pleased to grant unto Col. George William Paty, Lieut.-Col. of the 94th Regiment of Foot, Cern ',anion of the most Honourable Military Order of the Bath, and Knight of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic order, her Royal License and permission, that he may accept and wear the in signia of a Knight Commander of the Royal Portugese Mili tary Order of St. Bento, which the Queen of Portugal hath been pleased to confer upon him, in testimony of her Most Faithful Majesty's Royal approbation of his gallant conduct during the Peninsular war,. particularly at the assault of Badajos ; and that he may enjoy all the rights and privileges there unto annexed; provided, nevertheless, that her Majesty's said licence and permission (loth not authorise the assumption of any style, appellation, rank, precedence, er privilege appertaining unto a Knight Bachelor of these realms : . . And also to command that her Majesty's said concession and especial mark of her Royal favour, be registered, together with the relative documents, in her Majesty's College of Arms. TITHE COMMISSION-OFFICE, Lownox, Dim. 6. The Tithe Commissioners for England and Wales have ap pointed Charles Thompson, of Hare-court, Temple, in the City of London and County of Middlesex; Esq., Barrister at Law, to be an Assistant Tithe Commissioner for especial purposes ; and he has this day been duly sworn in before Mr. Justice Maule, one of her Majesty's Judges in the Court of Common Pleas, according to the provisions of an Act passed in the 6th and 7th William the Fourth, c. 71, intituled " An Act for the commutation of tithes in England and Wales." OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, DEC. 7. Corps of Royal Engineers—Second Captain W. Gregory to be Captain, vice Jones, placed on Seconded List; First Lieu tenant J. Walpole to be Second Captain, vice Gregory; Se cond Lieutenant G. A. Leach to be First Lieutenant, vice Wal pole, Nov. 28. Commission by th. Lord Lieutenant of the County of Brecknock , Royal Brecon Militia— W. Malbon, Gent. to be Lieutenant, Dec. 6. Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of the West Riding of the County of York, and of the City and County of the City of York. 2d Regiment of West York Militia—H. Boynton, Esq. to be Captain, Dec. 3. Southern Regiment of West Riding Yeomanry Cavalry— W. R. Read, Esq., to be Captain, vice Holland, resigned, Nov. 4. Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Warwickshire. Warwickshire Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry—J. Boult bee, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice Hewitt, resigned ; the Right Hon. G. Guy Lord Brooke to be Cornet, vice Boultbee, promoted, Nov. 29. WHITEHALL, DEC. 6. The Lord Chancellor has appointed W. Teale, Gent., of Leeds, H. E. B. Giles, Gent., of Hanley, in the Potteries, Staffordshire, B. Chesshirs, jun., Gent., of Birmingham, and E. Williams, Gent., of Brecon, to be Maste rs E x t raor di nar y in the Hi g h C ourt of Chancery. The following places have been duly registered for so lemnising marriages therein, pursuant to the Act of 6th and 7th William IV., chap. 85:— Ararat Chapel, Waentrodan, Glamorganshire. Ebenezer Chapel, Newport, Southampton. Baptist Chapel, Lyme Regis, Dorsetshire. DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY. THOMAS PHIPPS THOMAS, plumber, Cheltenham. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. WILLIAM HAGUE and SAMUEL HAGUE, yarn mer chants, Manchester. PRICE sd. JOHN THOROGOOD. (From the Leicester llierczny.) REPORT OF THE DEPUTATION APPOINTED BY THE LEICESTER VOLUNTARY CHURCH SOCIETY TO VISIT MR. THOROGOOD IN CHELMSFORD GAOL. On arriving in London on Tuesday morning, the 27th of November, your deputation lost no time in waitin g on the representatives of this borough, to request the favour of their arranging for the presentation of your memorial on behalf of Mr. John Thorogood to the Queen. Rather than delay its presentation till her Majesty's next Levee, which would not occur till Parliament re-assembled, when either of the Members for the borough might be in troduced, it was thought better that it should be immediately done, and that your Deputation should accompany Messrs. Easthope and Ellis to some Minister of the Crown. On Wednesday morning your Deputation went on to Chelmsford, where they gained ready access to Mr. Thorogood, with whom they spent some considerable time, and, having presented him with fifty pounde, the sum which his friends in Leices ter had committed to their care, returned to London the same night. On Thursday, at an early hour, your Deputies met the Members for Leicester again, through whose energy and kindness an interview was effected at the Home Office the same after noon, with the Marquis of Normanby, her Ma jesty's Secretary of State. They have to acknow ledge the courtesy of his Lordship in the prompti tude with which he, with, they have reason to believe, great inconvenience to himself, responded to their request, as well as the manly freedom and good feeling with which he listened to the statements it was their object to make. From the conversation which passed, your Deputies learnt that the prerogative of the Throne does not extend to Mr. Thorogood's case, that there are no constitutional means by which he can be set free, except in the alteration of the law ; that the Government, on Lord Normanby's re sponsibility, is disposed to give the question their best attention. They cannot, however, conceal from them selves or from the friends of freedom at large, their conviction that the object of their sympathy will be permitted to linger and to die in imprisonment, and the law which consigns him to it be continued unal tered and unmitigated unless publi c f ee li ng awa k e . Her Maje s ty' s nistry see the difficulty attendant on any attempt to interfere with the ecclesiastical policy of the country, and will continue as heretofore to be paralysed by it if left to their own inclinations and councils. Nothing will be done except by re solution and perseverance on the part of the Dis senters, and with these nothing will remain to be done. The abolition of Church -rates, like every other great measure of improvement and reform which the last twenty years have produced, must be obtained by the loud, constitutional, unfaltering voice of the people. That voice is already reaching and will presently command the ear of the Senate. It is with very much pleasure that your depu ties bear testimony to the respectful, urbane, and generous conduct of Messrs. Easthope and Ellis, the esteemed representatives of your bo rough. Their time, their counsels, and their active exertions were most cheerfully afforded, and very essentially aided your Deputation in the business of their mission. To their honour, whether as private gentlemen or as public men, they, without solicitation, spontaneously added their names to the list of contributors on Mr. Thoro good's behalf, and expressed their willingness to assist by their purse at any time in carrying on our local contest. Your deputation feel personally in debted to the Members for Leicester for their Ca tholic and honourable behaviour, and feel assured that the numerous Dissenters of this town and county will duly appreciate their conduct. In Mr. Thorogood, the victim of Church tyranny, your Deputation found a man who combines true modesty with noble independency —deep feeling with iron courage—hatred of spiritual oppression with much reverence for true religion. A man whom no bribes can lure and no threats alarm—a man who, should his life be spared, is destined to put the question of coercive exactions for a State Church to a fiery test a man whose principles they approve, whose spirit they admire, and whose acquaintance they feel honoured to have made. They ascertained from Mr. Tlio rogood that he had been brought up in the Church of England, and that he had attended on its worship till circumstances led him, on some oc casion to a Wesleyan chapel. His opinions and sentiments respecting the nature and claims of Christianity gradually changed. He began to take his religious instructions and impressions from the Scriptures rather than from the dogmas of any sect, either endowed or voluntary. He distin guished between vital and nominal religion—between a politically established hierarchy and a Church of Jesus Christ. From this time he imbibed a deep con viction of the evil tendency of state religions, and in this, his present conduct and resolution take their rise. Before his incarceration for non-payment of a coercive rate, he contributed a sovereign towards a chapel-of -ease which had been opened near his re sidence, and which was to be supported by volun tary contributions, and though comparatively a poor man, he promised to give another if required. Bigotry, fanaticism, avarice, and the love of no toriety may be charged upon him by his enemies, but such allegations are confuted by the whole tenour of his life, and by the very mould of his character and of his mind. Whatever be his defects these can never, without violating both history and philosophy, be attributed to him. The compo sure with which he spoke of his sufferings terminat ing only with his life, the temper he breathed to wards his persecutors, and the gratitude be evinced towards hiS friends, commanded the esteem and awakened the admiration of your Deputies. Your Deputation have only to remind you that there is no escape from the fangs of ecclesiastical op pression, but by an inglorious compromise or an al teration of the law, that this legislative change may be effected by the firm, united, and constitutional efforts of the non-conforming body, that the present is the time, not for hesitation, but for ac tion—that apathy is more to be deprecated than opposition—that the battle will presently be fought in high places, and they conjure the friends of free dom, of equity, and of religion, to aid in the conflict. J. P. MURSELL. E. MIALL. Monday, Dec. 3 1839. THE MARINE OFFICER. By SIR ROBERT STEELE.-Our Marine Officer is a very lively, plea sant, and intelligent fellow, and we have accordingly great pleasure in directing the attention of our readers to his autobiography. We confess that the commence ment of the work, in which the writer gives an account of his birth, parentage, education, and first entry into military life, and which is admirably written, reminding us often of some of the best parts of Peter Simple, had led us to anticipate more personal adventure. When fairly embarked, Sir Robert Steele does not confine himself to his own adventures, but touches, from time to time, on most of the leading events of the late war— fighting many naval battles o'er again, and giving the honour due to many gallant spirits, who seem to have been overlooked in the muster called for the distribution of laurels. For Marine Officers Sir Robert's book will have peculiar attractions, as it records many anecdotes of the h ero i sm and fidelity of the corps, which would not discredit the palmiest era of Roman valour.—United S:rvice Gazette. MRS. GORE'S PREFERMENT."—Speaking of this clever novel the Literary Gazette says— " Among the most lively, acute, and successful painters of life and manners in our day Mrs. Gore had de servedly taken a high place—so high a place, indeed, that she hardly needed Preferment' to advance her higher. But as she has chosen to claim another title to our applause, it is but justice to award it. ' Prefer ment' is an exceedingly clever and amusing produc tion, and quite worthy of the author's reputation. Th e characters belong chiefly to the upper walks of society, seak and are drawn with distinct features, so as t o a ff ord much variety to the sundry affairs in whi c h they p and act. There is a verisimilitude about the whole which gives reality to the relation ; and events follow each other in such rapid succession, that the interest is perpetually kept up, and we do not tire even of the brilliancy that sparkles throughout." RURAL POL E.--A t a meeting of the inhabi tants of the parish of Watford on Monday ft: to the Magistrates in Quarter Se&sions Iva"; unanimously agreed to, deprecating the introduction of a rural police into the parish. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) BIRMINGHAM, TUESDAY.—Yesterday this borough was thrown into considerable excitement by the report confidently put forward that Mr. Attwood had an n.. unced his intention of vacating his seat for Birming ham, and that he had actually applied for the Chiltern Hundreds—a step which was taken without any inti mation being given by the Hon. Gentleman to his con stituents or any of his private friends. Immediately on the authenticati on o f t hi s i mportant fact, steps were taken by the influential Reformers in the borough to provide themselves with a candidate to represent their interests in Parliament, and a meeting of gentlemen re presenting the various sections of the Liberal party was promptly held, when, after a careful consideration of the position in which the constituency was placed, it was unanimously resolved that in case of a vacancy actually occurring, Joseph Sturge, Esq., should be requested to allow himself to be put in nomi nation. In the course of the discussion which took place a doubt was expressed whether Mr. Sturge would be willing to come forward in such an emergency, but this apprehension was at once set at rest by the distinct arid unqualified avowal of some of Mr. Sturge's most intimate friends, that if honoured with this mark of confidence and respect, that gentleman would willingly become a candidate for the suffrages of the electors, and devote those energies in Parliament, which he has ever freely given out of it, to the best interests of his fellow countrymen and of his fellow-creatures, of what ever clime or comur, throughout the world at large. Guided by their former experience of the expense of elections in Birmingham, the subject of " Ways and Means" occupied no small share of attention, when some gentlemen connected with the Anti-Corn-law movement offered to put down 5001. towards defraying the neces sary expenses, and to advance 5001. more if required. Other parties have also liberally come forward, and on a committee being formed, a large sum was subscribed to bear Mr. Sturge harmless through the contest should one take place. In opposition to Mr. Sturge, rumours are rife that Richard Spooner, Esq., a former Radical candidate for the borough of Stafford, is about to be again started here in the interest of the Tories and the Church. Between two such candidates, no honest Re former can hesitate for a moment, and when we take into consideration Mr. Spooner's former rejection for the borough, when put up in opposition to the present Members, and the very select support he then received, there is little real ground for alarm or doubt that the cause of liberty will suffer in the event of such a strug gle. Mr. Sturge comes forward with an unblemished poiitical reputation, based on sterling moral worth. His public benevolence is not confined by the limits of coun try—he has proved himself a friend to millions of the human race ; and it is not too much to assume that to his individual exertions and princely expenditure in the cause of suffering humanity, that England is indebted for the removal of the foul stain of slavery which so long attached to her name. This is not an isolated instance of his benevolence, or his public spirit and ardent exer tions in the cause of religious freedom, as an instance of which it may be mentioned, that when it was proposed to have the Rev. Mr. Burnett, of Camberwell, returned by the Dissenting body in England, as the representative of their opinions and sentiments, Mr. Sturge nobly offered to subscribe 1,000/., and to contribute during the period Mr. Bur nett might continue in Parliament, 2001. a year to- ( wards his support. His brother, Charles Sturge, also nobly came forward on the same occasion, and offered towards the same object 1001. per annum. As to Mr. Sturge's political views, it would be a libel on human nature if philanthrophy and intolerance be found to exist under any form in the same mind. It may not, however, be out of place to say that he is a strong opponent of the Corn-laws, and every cruel enact ment which tends to enrich the great at the expense of the poor. He is an unflinching opponent of Church -rates, a friend to the Extension of the Suffrage —an advocate for the Ballot, and every other measure of necessary and practical Reform ; above all, he will pin hi s opinions to the sleeve of no man or Minister of the day, in order to serve the purposes of personal vanity or private ag grandizement—and his circumstances fortunately place him above all t em pt a ti on as regar d s th e l a t ter —f or h e. is in ev er y sense o f t h e wor d a t h oroug hl y h onest and in dependent man. That he will be returned with a tri umphant majority, should the Tories have the foolhardi ness to risk another defeat, there does not exist amongst the independent burgesses of Birmingham the slightest doubt. DREADFUL PERSECUTIONS OF THE CATHOLIC MISSIONARIES IN CHINA The following details of the inhuman persecution which has been carried on in China, against the mis sionaries and the newly conrerted Christians, is from a letter of Mr. Delamotto, Pro-Vicar Apostolic, to Mr. Galabert, Missionary Apostolic at Sincapore, dated from Upper Cochin-China, 3d January, 1839: " Eighteen hundred and thirty-eight has been a year of sorrow and misery for Tong-King and Upper Cochin ' China. The sword of persecution has committed ter rible ravages, and heaven has been peopled with mar tyrs ! The two Dominican Bishops of Eastern Tong- King were arrested and beheaded in the month of July last.* Three Spanish fathers of the same order were also arrested and beheaded. Seven native priests, four of them from the French mission,were also arrested and beheaded. All these generous Confessors and martyrs have illus trated the Church by the courage, firmness, and con stancy which they exhibited in the midst of torments : all have shed their blood for Jesus Christ. The Right Rev. Joseph Mary Havard, of the diocese of Rennes, Bishop of Castoria, and Vicar-Apostolic of Wcstern Tong. King, died on the sth of July last, after three days' illness. Behold Tong-King, then, without a Bishop ! I have been informed that Mr. Simonin, died in his flight to the mountains, but I have not yet re ceived any official intelligence concerning him. We have also had a furious crisis in Cochin-China, on the oc casion of the dispersion of a small college which we es tablished in private. Mr. Candath, who was at the head of this college, and the Christians of the place, not having taken sufficient precaution, its existence came to the knowledge of the Pagans. They endeavoured at first to extort money, but not obtaining any, they denounced the village to the mandarin, as containing a European, a native priest, and a college.—On the 7th of June, the mandarin blockaded the village with three hundred soldiers. Early the following morning Mr. Candath and the Annamite priest, Joachim Chien, succeeded in effecting their escape. All the chiefs of the sillage were arrested, put in the cangue, and conducted to the chief town of the province, Cuang- Tri ; there they were put to the question and torture, and had the baseness to apostatize. A young pupil of Mr. Candath's, eighteen years of age, and who was arrested with them, has consoled the Church by the generous confession of his faith, and in spite of the thousand tortures to which he was subjected, unshaken even unto death, he terminated his life by martyrdom. Mr. Candath, after wandering about incessantly pursued by the Pagans and the soldiery, died of hunger and hardships in the mountains of Upper Cochin-China, on the 26th July last. Father Joachim Chien succeeded in escaping his pursuers. Dear Mr. Jaccard was in volved in this affair, through the hatred of some man darins, but particularly of the Kinz, who for a long time was seeking some pretext to get rid of him. This generous Confessor was strangled, together with his pup!' Dominic, on the 21st of September, festival of St. Matthew. The search against Mr. Candath and Father Joachim Chien has been pushed as far as that part of Tong-King which is next Cochin-China. Mr. Bone and two Tong-Kinese priests were arrested, and suffered martyrdom. Mr. 13orie was beheaded, and the two others strangled for the faith, the 29th September last." * These two prelates are Dr. Ignatius Delgado, Bishop of Mellipotamus, Vicar-Apostolic since the 14th of Feb. 1794, and Dr. Dominic Henares, Bishop of Fesseitte, co adjuvr since the Bth Sept. 1800. GLASGOW.—THE NEW PLAN OF POSTAGE. —ln Glasgow the change, which commenced on Thursday last, has had the effect of increasing the n um . her of lett e rs s en t a nd rece ived by a very large am ount, extending indeed to nearly double th previous average of transmission ; or, in other words, if the numbers passing through our post-office may be reckoned on an average 50,000 per week, which, we believe, is not far from the truth, the increase during the last three days, if kept has up, will give a return of nearly 100 , 0 00. As with the old system, the n um b er of prepay mentsdoubled ; but we have b een surprised to compared learn that in proportion to the great number forwarded, those which weighed above the single standard of half an ounce were very few. Those letters which paid the first or fourpenny rate, and contained inclosures, were no doubt very numerous, and this leads us to the sup position that the public would have been perfectly satisfied, and the revenue much better protected, had the old system of charging double letters a double price been still retained at the reduced rates.—Glasgow Herald. PRESENTATION OP PLATE TO LORD WODE ROUSE.—The owners and occupiers of land in the hun dreds of Tunstead and Happing invited the Right Hon. Lord Wodehouse, Lord Lieutenant of the County, to a dinner at North Walsham, for the pur pose of presenting that nobleman with a service of Plate, as a testimony of their esteem and approbation of his services during a residence of forty years in that hundred. This testimony was the more honourable, inasm uc h as it was distinguished by its freedom from political feeling. All parties joined in this expression of good will towards a nobleman to whom, however some some may differ from him in political opinions, the in habitants of the county at large will unanimously accord to him honesty of purpose , sincerity of opinion, and a wish to promote the happiness of all with whom h connected.—Norwich _Mercury. . vV THE INDIAN ARMY.--Arrangements have been made by which the officers and men of the Queen's service in India will no longer be su bj ected to . loss by exchange. Their pay in future to be issued at the uniform rate of two shillings per rupee. —United ervice Gazette. BANKRUPTS. EBENEZER FLINT, hosier, Ludgate-hill, to surrender Dec. 19, and Jan. 21, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Belcher, official assignee; .Hardwick and Davidson, Cateaton street. ' ELIZABETH SAUNDERS, grocer, Chesharn, Bucks, Dec. 19, at one, and Jan. 21, at eleven, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Gibson, Basinghall-street, official assignee ; Maxon Little Friday-street, Cheapside. HENRY - THOMAS RYALL, engraver, York-street, Portman-square, Dec. 20, at half-past ten, and Ja n . 21, at eleven, •at the Court of Bankruptcy. Clark, New Broad street-court, official assignee ; Meredith, Heathcote-street, Mecklenburg-square. JOHN DICKINS, junior, grocer, Bourn, Lincolnshire, Dec. 23 and Jan. 21, at eleven, at Standwell's Hotel, Stam ford, Lincolnshire. Allen, Gylby, and Allen, Carlisle-street, Soho-square ; G. W. Wilders, Bourn. JAMES SAINT, builder, Haltwhistle, Northumberland, Dec. 30, and Jan. 21, at eleven, at the King's Arms, Carlisle. Welford, Hexham, Northumberland ; Foster and Evans, John street, Bedford-row, London. THOMAS SIMONS, builder, Exeter, Dec. 21, and Jan. 21, at twelve, at the Royal Clarence Hotel, Exeter. Turner, Exeter; Turner, Bedford-row, London. RICHARD PICKERING, victualler, Birmingham, Dec. 23 and Jan. 21, at one, at the New Royal Hotel, Birmingham. Chaplin, Gray's Inn-square, London ; Harrison, Bi rm i ng h am . DAVID H IMPHRYS engineer, High-street, Lambeth, Dec. 21, and Jan. 17, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Birehin-lane, Cornhill, official assignee; Meymott and Sons, Great Surrey-stre et, Blackfriars-road. JOSEPH WHITEHEAD HALL, paper-manufacturer, Diggle within Saddleworth, Yorkshire, Dec. 31, and Jan. 21, at twelve, at the Commissioners' Rooms, Manchester. Richards and Walker, Lincolns' Inn-fields, London; Higginbottom, Buckley, and Lord, Ashton-under-Lyne. SARAH JONES and JOHN JONES, machine-makers. Manchester, Dec. 24, and Jan. 21, at ono, at the Commissioners' Rooms, Manchester. Milne, Parry, Milne, and Morris, Tem ple, London • Worthington and Hamilton, Manch es t er . MOSES ! MEADS and JOHN MEADS, hosiers, Wood borough, Nottinghamshire, Dec. 19, and Jan. 21, at eleven, at the George the Fourth Inn, Nottingham. Yallop, Basing hall-street, London ; Parsons, Nottingham. JAMES BUXTON, JOHN BUXTON, and THOMAS BUXTON, cotton-mpinners, Leaven Greave Mill, Lancashire ; Dec. 30 and Jan. 21, at twelve, at the Commissioners'-rooms, Manchester. Emmett and Allen, Bloomsbury -square, London; Alexander, Halifax. ROBERT WEAKLEY, hotel-keeper, Devonport,Dee. 20, and Jan. 21, at 11, at Weakley's Hotel, Devonport. Sole, De vonport ; Sole, Aldermanbury. CHRISTOPHER WEBSTER, senior, banker, Hulme, Manchester, Dec. 26, at eleven, and Jan. 21 at two, at the Commissioner's Rooms, Manchester. Makinson and Sanders, Elm-court, Middle Temple ; Atkinson, Birch, and Saunders, Manchester. JOSEPH LOSII JAMES, bookseller, Durham, Dec. 24, at eleven, and Jan. 21, at one, at the Bankrupt Commission Room, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Freeman and Bothamley, Coleman-street. DIVIDENDS. H. and G. M'Minn, woollen-drapers, Liverpool, Jan. 10, at one, at the Clarendon-room, Liverpool—C. Sayers, money scrivener, Great Yarmouth, Jan. 2, at one, at the Bear Inn, Little Yarmouth—M. Exley, mercer, Bromsgrove, Worces tershire, Jan. 8, at one, at the Crown Inn, Bromsgrove— W. Phillips, marine-store dealer, Liverpool, Jan. 9, at one, at the Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool—G. Eld, miller, Foleshill, Coventry, Jan. 7, at eleven, at the King's Head Inn, Coventry —J. Bristowe, ship-broker, Poole, Jan. 7, at eleven, at the Old Antelope Inn, Poole—J. Brearley, J. S. Wood, and J. Wood. corn-millers, Rochdale, L ancas hi re, J an. 1, at one, at the Sessions House, Wakefield—N. and J. Gerrard, cotton spinners, Manchester, Jan. 6, at eleven, at the Commissiontrs% rooms, Manchester. CERTIFICATES.—DEc. 31. T. Johnston, draper, King's-place, Commercial-road, Mid dlesex—W. Scott, wine -merchant, Lime -street, City—W. Johnson, cabinet-maker, Harlow-place, Mile-end-road—T. Yates, scrivener, Welshpool. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. T. Butler and T. K. Margetts, carvers and gilders, Oxford —J. R. Wood and J. Webb, milliners and dress-makers, Duke-street, Marylebone—E. Wilcock, W. Wilcock, J. Wil cock, and H. Wilcock, millers, Liverpool—J. Irving and G. Irving, woollen-drapers, Newcastle-upon-Tyne—G. Imms and H. Youell, florists, Woolwich—C. Mott and W. Mott, gre errs, High-street,Whitechapel—J. Smith and W. Hardy, licensed victuallers, Leeds—G. Naylor and A. Naylor, bard-manufac-. turers, Halifax, Yorkshire—G. Wilson and W. Hirst, wine merchants, Huddersfield—H. Thompson and S. Ivory, timber merchants, King-street, Clerkenwell—J. Robinson, W. Clarke, J. Clark, jun., P. Clarke, and R. Phippin, engineers, Man chester, (so far as regards R. Phippin )-11. Rainsbottom and G. Pickup, woollen-manufacturers, Shuttlevrorth, Lancashire— J. Sayer and S. Lowe, cattle-salesmen, Smithfield—H, C . Wingfield and 0. D. Mordaunt, solicitors, Great Marlborough street, London—W. Murfin, J. Driver, and W. Walke r , carriers, Sheffield—J. P. Hauck and A. Hauck, furrie rs , Li verpool—J. B. Faulkner and C. Flude, Liverpool'—N, Can statt and M. Dyte, surgeons, St. Mary Axe, Lond o n—..ll, Spoor and J. Spoor, hatters , Durham —M. Foster and J. Thackray, coachmakers, Wrexham, Denbigh. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. WILIAM WIGHTON, merchant, Dundee, Dee 13, and Jan. 2, at twelve, at Denham's Hotel, Dundee. • JAMES PARKIN, coach-builder, Perth, e and Jan. 6, at twelve, at the George Hotel, Perth. Dec. • 4 It is with much regret we announce the death of Allan Cunningham, Esq., the Australian Botanist and traveller, who departed this life at Sydney, New South Wales, on the 27th of June, in the 48th year of his age, after a lengthened illness, which he contracted during the rainy season in 1838, in New Zealand, whither he had gone on a Botanical excursion, previous to his intended return to England with the results of many years journeyings„ o 10 o 0 10 0 0 10 0 1 0 0 Friends of Religious Liberty at Dunstable 5 5 0 Peter Rogers, Alargaretting, Second subscription Friends at Blandford 4 6 6 Reverend T. Woods . ........ 2 2 0 Friend to Religious Liberty, Dover One who wishes that all would practise that religion which teaches on earth peace and good-will to wards men 1 10 0 A few Friends at Buckingham Chapel, Pimlico W. J. B lota Benjamin Smith, Esq., M.P 1 0 0 Joseph Hurae, Esq., M.P. Mr. Bousfield 1 0 0 Mr. Barchart Enemy to Intolerance Samuel Courtauld, Esq., Bocking 1 0 0 Mr. James Young, Hackney 1 0 0 Mr. J. Hughes Mr. W. H. Strange .. 1 0 0 Mr. James Strange... Mr. R. Wakefield, Clapton Mr. H. Travers Mr. Joseph Stevenson, Clapham ... 1 0 0 H. T 1 0 0 Subscriptions under £1 Leicester subscription . .. 60 0 0 Friends at. Craven Chapel, London John Easthope, Esq., 31. P. Wynn Ellis, Esq., t.P Edwd. Smith, Esq., Sheffield ' A Friend 5 0 0 An Enemy to Tyranny 5 0 0 Suhscriptions from Bishop Stortford, per Mr. Wa terman Stoke Newington Church-rate Abolition Society ... 5 0 0 Mr. Besley A few Friends of Freedom after a Dinner at Toxteth Park, Liverpool T. S. Duncombe, Esq., AI. P Mr. Smith and Friends 3 0 0 Friends at St. Ives ... 2 3 6 J. R. Mills, Esq Thos. Hawes, Esq., Lavender Hill Rev. R. V. Yates, Liverpool John Cropper, Esq., do. Mr. Bricknell, Herne-hill Mr. Geo. Gray, Borough-road Mr. J. G. Wigg, King's Lynn 1 1 0 J. Elliott, Esq., Great St. Helen's 1 1 0 Rev. J. Gray, Brixton J. Griffiths, Esq., Clerkenwell-green Mr. Sam. Batton R. M. Savill, Esq., Colchester.. J. M. Martin, Esq., Birmingham 1 1 0 Mr. Brooke, Dewsbury: 1 1 0 J. P. Smiths, Esq. 1 0 0 J. H. Warter, Esq. J. Burls, Esq Mr. J. Jackson John Southall, Esq., Leominster E. P. Southall, Esq., do. Samuel Southall, Esq., do. John Southall, Esq., do. G. Newman, Esq., do. *-4:nris unde • - Subscriptions under 1/. Mr. D. Lloyd, Harlestone, Independent Minister Maurice Jones ' Leominster, B a ptist Minister . William Ratlibone, Liverpool William Earle Friend at Holloway, per Mr. Beasley DR. YARNETT'S Restorative Tonic Drops and Pills, an unfailing Remedy for Nervous, Local, and General Debility. This celebrated physician never, perhaps, exerted his vast talent and experience mere beneficially for mankind, than in the prescription for the preparation of the above-named remedies. It is an incontestible fact, that every species of nervous, local, and general debility, so often the me lancholy result of youthful imprudence, must, without fail, yield to its sanative and renovating powers. Its operation is not only certainly successful, when duly persevered in, but it is also produced without the slightest risk or inconvenience to the patient. Prepared and sold, wholesale and retail, by Elliott, chemist, &c., 22, Lisle-street, Leicester-square (and may be had from all respectable patent medicine venders in town and country), in bottles, with a proportionate number of pills, at 4s. 6d., I Is., and 215., duty included. SIGHT AND HEARING. THE INVISIBLE OPERATIVE VOICE CONDUCTOR, effected by the Messrs. S. and B. SOLOMONS, Opticians and Aut hits to the Royal Family, 39, A lbe. ?parte—street, Piccadilly. and 96, Cheapside, by which thousands of 'Tar persons have been greatly benefited, is the size of a seven. shilling piece, and when iixed into the cavity of the ear is soft and Place, and not more perceptible than having ; a piece of woo l in its Pule° by which the faintest whisper at a ü blic assembly is heard With ' distinctness. And defective VISION is brought to nature by t he use of newly-invented SPECTACLE LENS ES: th immeately th ey are placed 13 efore weak and imperfect eyesight, either by day rvcandlelf 4 , 1: every object becomes clear and distinct, and the most ja rnite particle is seen with great distinctness, by the use of which -4 ,11 the sight and hearing become much iniproved. 's'he Messrs. SOLOMONS DISCLAIM all connection with persons °I the SAME NAME, and the sale of Amber Spectacles: in doing 8 0 they s t a t e th e HISTORY of AMBER, from the Dictionary of Arts and Sciences" of Andrew Ure, M.D., F.R.S., &c. &c. " Amber is an indurated vegetable juice , and not p roduced by the laws of crystallization, but by the same causes which influence the rnechanical condition of gum. Insects are often found embedded in :t o Amber is most powerfully electrical by friction—very hot, to subjer t i t e o xtent as c a to explode into fragments ; the workmen, too, are counter eat danger tremours in their wrists, arms, &c. ; they en , s with Amber gra . d " ger by handling such dreadful excited electrics; soft nature when ex h ale. and is apt to take fire, and is of such a will burn away with ifrasmedet? warmth that it swells, bubbles up, and The above Dr. Ure's ;y,stat eme ntsas are further BREWSTER. and Plinc onfirmed by Sir D. Thedestructive effects of suctls° by Parks and Hen) , on Chemistry. vision, are fully and most LYttiaterial for SpeetncleS, to imperfect Curtis and Dollond's Second EdiLsofac o torilK explained in Messrs. and may be ascertained at any respec table e Preservation of Sight, The Messrs. Solomons' newly-invente d Optician's in London. constructed of such a material ; but which ar e Lenses are not very superior, and bring back at once dimness of sight and Perfect vision to its original and natural state; the s e S pectacles, m and very small Voice Conductors for Deaf persons, are only to be had at their Establish. Inents, 39, Albemarle-street, and 96, Cheapside. No Travellers are employed.