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fond of farming, that he succeeded in raisinc , a field of turnips, by proclaiming at the chapel-door, afrer they had begun to be of a size for pulling, that he wished them all taken up by the people ; and they, suspecting some trick, kept away. The nuisance of squalid and im portunate beggars is complained of by all who visit Ireland, as insupportable. A provision for the poor would prevent the extreme destitution which is the cause of outrage, and, by introducing order, would favour the groWth of a middle class. Throughout Prussia and the greater part of Germany (in parts of Germany villenage still prevails, and in others re strictions on marriage, which would not be tolerated in free countries) there are provisions for the poor substantially the same as ours. If Mr. Leslie will look at several works of authority, as those of M. Busch, for instance, he will see that before the people of . Ilamburgh established that system which has been so often commended, the poor were a com plete pest—that all sorts of contagious diseases were generated—that punishment was a mockery. In Norway the poorest man is even sumptuously lodged, and a person in rags is not to be seen. In Sweden and Denmark, though in a less degree, the people are comfortable and well clad. In Swit zerland there are, no doubt, many poor ; but that country is a model of industry and order. A Swiss cottage has become proverbial for comfort. As to Scotland, if Mr. Leslie had either seen that country, or received accounts of it from any well-informed person (for Dr. Chalmers has the faculty of imagining facts), he would never have stated, that as often as the Poor ; law system " is called into operation, with its machinery of compulsory assesoments and legal claims upon it, then the misery which flaws from it is instantaneously demonstrated." The Highlands is the only part of the country where the poor are dis regarded, and there the condition of the lower orders is hardly one whit better than in Ireland. They are utter strangers to comfort and cleanliness ; their cabins are hardly fit for pigs. The parts of Scotland where the poor are provided for by compulsory assessment, as Roxburghshire, Berwickshire, East Lothian, &c., are pointed at with pride by the natives of Scotland, as models for high farming, and for the comfort of the labouring classes. Indeed so superior are the south-eastern districts to the rest of Scot land, that in offering prizes for neat cottages they are excluded, as requiring no stimulus. If Mr. Leslie were to ask one of the rich farmers of that part of Scotland if he wished there were no Poor-laws, he would laugh at him. Poor-laws are the sheet-anchor of the capitalist who wishes to be without fear for his property. We defy Mr. Leslie to point out any one country of Europe in which farmers live in good houses, the labourers live in com fortable cottages and have a clean and decent appear ance, in which capital is embarked freely in agricul ture, and an appearance of order every where prevails, where there is not a provision for the poor. Poor laws are the foundation of social order. There be no good police without them. They force the rich toy look after the poor, if they do not wish to become poor themselves. Mendicancy is of all ways of pro viding for the poor the most costly, whether we regard the moral or the pecuniary waste it occasions. Mr. Leslie looks only to the tax of poor-rates—he does not see tbat mendicancy prevents the creation of pro perty. Abuses may creep into the administration of poor-laws ; bat property is a hardy plant, and in self defence it will g rapple with the abuses. But when once a people are depraved by mendicancy, the very magnitude of the evil and insufficiency of means to meet it render recovery almost hopeless. Though, for instance, poor-laws were introduced into Ireland, a generation would at least elapse before that country could be placed in a state of order.—Morning Chro nicle of Saturday. TO the EDITOR of the MORNING CHRONICLE. Sir—l think you will see the propriety of allowing me a space in the Chronicle to-morrow for the following observa tions on your leading article on Saturday on the postscript to my pamphlet on Poor-laws and Ireland. You state these words, " We shall allow Mr. Leslie to state his case in his own way." Nothing can be fairer than that assertion ; but permit me to remind you that in the quota. 4 ions you have omitted the most important parts of the sectjon America, and the whole of the section Ireland. As to the portion relating to Scotland, you deny the truth of my p os i,'io'n,—" that as often as the Poor-law system is called into operation, with its machinery of com pulsory assessments acrd legal claims upon it, then the mi sery which flows from it is instantaneously demonstrated." You then proceed to state " that the parts of Scotland where the poor are provided i cr by compulsory assessments, as Roxburghshire, Berwickshire ; East Lothian, &c., are pointed at with pride by the native; of Scotland as models for high farming and jinr the comfort o filie labouring classes. Indeed, so superior are the south-eastern districts to the rest of Scotland, that in offering prizes .rOl. neat cottages they are excluded, as requiring no stimulus. t If Mr. Leslie were to ask one of the rich farmers of that part of Scot land if he wished there were no Poor-laws, he wc.tald laugh at him." All this may read very well to persons ill-informed upon the subject, and you have set it forth in such an authori tative manner, that the presumption is that your account of that part of Scotland is correct, and that the cause (1 the comfort of the labouring classes is the compulsory as sessment. In the discussion of the very grave and important ques tion which is the subject of my pamphlet " Poor Laws and Ireland," I take my stand on facts, and the authority of documents which cannot be impeached. I will at once submit your statement about the south cdstern districts of Scotland to this test, and show you what is at the present moment actually occurring to one of the counties which you have selected. " BERWICKSIIIRE. — On Tuesday, the 4th of the present month of October, the Commissioners of Supply for Ber wickshire held a meeting, at which, on account of the alarm ing increase of pauperism, and the great expense upon the county—the poor-rates only amount to .5,3501.—the fol lowing committee was immediately appointed on the sub ject :—Sir H. P. H. Campbell, M.P. ; Sir David Milne ; Mr. Spottiswoode, of Spottiswoode ; Mr. Dickson, of Bil chester ; Mr. Home, of Gunsgreen ; Mr. Milne, advocate ; Mr. Greig, of Eccles ; Mr. Roy, of Nenthorne ; the Hon. General Maitland ; Mr. Turnbulk Mr. Turnbull, conve ner ; and three to be a quorum." Such, then, is the fact in one of the counties of Scotland ; and whether the rich farmers of Berwickshire would laugh at Mr. Leslie or not as to his opinion of the poor-law sys tem, they could not by possibility alter that fact ; there is the compulsow system of the poor-laws at work, demora lizing and degenerating the inhabitants of Berwickshire ; the expenditure increasing, and a committee of the most influential men in the county just appointed to consider as to a remedy. _ I am, Sir, your obedient servant, Conduit-street, Oct. 16. JOHN LESLIE. The following are the parts of the postscript to which Mr. Leslie alludes : " AMERICA.— ' There can be no doubt of the fact, that labour exists to an almost unlimited extent in the United States, nor can there be any doubt that the remuneration for it is good. Now, notwithstanding these advantages, that immense continent has, in some of her States, the plague-spot of a poor-law system rapidly interfering with industry, and extending itself over the surface of society. " In Massachusetts, where a first-rate artisan can re ceive for his labour from 9s. to 12s. Gd., and an inferior workman 6s. 9d. a day ! where the commonest labourers receives per annum from .56/. .ss. to 671. 10s. ; an d the subsistence of the working classes is such, that ' there are very few who do not eat meat, poultry, or fish, twice or three times a day,'—there is, or was, a poor-law system. " So early as 1639, the 43d of Elizabeth was trans planted to that State ; and in a very recent State docu ment, the Commissioners appointed by the House of Re presentatives trace to that Act THE PAUPER SIISTEM un der which we are now living.' In this valuable document the rapid increase of pauperism is declared to be nearly equal to the increase in England ; and further, that the radical evil of the Act of the 43d of Elizabeth, which provided for a compulsory support of the poor, and of the order by the Court of the Colony and Province of Mas sachusetts Bay in 1639, was on the very principle of the substitution of such a provision for them, for that prhich God has himself made alike in the very constitution G I human nature, and throughout the records of his re ve,sleil will. The provision fir the employment of the idle beta we therefore, as a matter of course, a direct bounty upon idlene. 7 ; and idleness and vagrancy, in a large part of the parent c ountry, have grown in a f ea rful proportion to the poor-rates' of that country.' And these American legis lators dell. that the system of p oo l laws creates an in definite amovnt of artificial property, and through the increase of th ig poverty, they lead to an indefinite increase of abjectness, Intaery and crime.' " The State o f New York , and others of the United St; rtes concur kr accounting for the moral leprosy with which the poor-law' system is covering the land of America. oi pudop.—Tiv Parliamentary returns exhibit the followmg facts, as to the lands, the landowners, and the agricultural labourers and their families : " First as to the land.—A Parliamentary return of 1827 shows the number of acres in that country to be 19,441,944 ; of these 12,123, 0 80 were cultivated, 4,900,000 were uncultivated, and 2,416,644 were unproiltable. Ano ther Parliamentary document shows that the cultivation in iS36 has extended to 14,600,000 acres, the average rant of which is I s. Gd. per Irish acre, equal to 14s. 2d. per English acre. " S,.eond as to the landowners.—The gross rental of land in Ireland (exclusive of the towns), is not quite ten millions per annum, from which is to be deducted tea per rent. for defalcation and collecting the rents. A return from the masters in Chancery shows the incumbrances on that rental to be 3,000,000 per annum, leaving the net rental at 6,000,000 per annum. " Tli I RD.—The labourers and their families in Ireland who look to agriculture, and to it only finr supporl,' are neatly two-thirds of the whole population—say five millions. " What is the popular outcry to remedy these alarming evils, which arc evident on this simple statement of well-au thenticated facts ?—Pass a powr law—tax the land. " Ir the net rental of the land in Ireland were taxed by means of a Poor-law Act at five shillings in the pound, :pis/ by way of commencing the poor-law system, without any deduction for the expense of collecting that tax, or any de falcation in the payment of it, it would produce 1,500,000/. which being divided among the five millions of the Irish po pulation, comprised in the class agricultural labourers and their families, it would just give each of them six shillings a year, or not quite three-halfpence a week. " But I say that if the legislature were even to pass a Poor-law Act which would have the effect to send all the proprietors of land and their families into exile, and to give the whole net rental of the land in Ireland to the agricul tural labourers and their families, that whole net rental would then give only each of these poor persons twenty four shillings per annum, or not quite sixpence each per week. " It was upon the knowledge of such facts as these, that I founded the argument and the suggestion in the preceding pages, to relieve and improve the condition of Ireland. From the common revenue, I am of opinion, she must re ceive the first means of relief ; the longer that is delayed the more will be required, and the less effective will be its application ; and until the facts I have produced, are over turned, I shall continue to agree in opinion with Dr. Adam Clarke, that when Ireland gets the poor-laws with which she is now threatened, the present rising sun of its prospe rity will sink below the horizon to rise no m ore. " We insert a letter from Mr. Leslie, to which we have subjoined those parts of the postscript to his pamphlet to which he says he attaches the most value. As for the United States, it would be beside our pur pose to enter into any discussion with reference to a country so differently circumstanced as Europe. There have been abuses in the Eastern States as well as in England, and these are well pointed out in the evi dence laid before Parliament by the Poor-law Com missioners. With regard to Ireland, there are, no doubt, difficulties in the way of a poor-law from the extent of the misery. Had poor-laws been enacted in that country one hundred years ago, the destitution would not now have reached so formidable a magni tude. But Mr. Leslie and other opponents of a poor law must bear in mind, that the poor are all at pro stmt subsisted out of the means of the country, and subsisted, too, in the most oppressive and injurious manner. The great evil of the existing system of supplying the destitute is that it represses industry and improvement. But if Mr. Leslie will look into Mr. Revans's book, he will see that he has greatly exag gerated the difficulties to be encountered in providing for the poor in Ireland. With respect to Mr. Leslie's Scotch information, it is really worth no thing. " There," he says, "is the compulsory system of the poor laws demoralizing and degene rating the inhabitants of Berwickshire." This is worthy of Dr. Chalmers himself. In 1808, the rental of the land of Berwickshire, according to Ker's Agricultural Report was 230,0001. If we suppose it the same now, 5,3501. would be about Gd. in the pound. It is very proper in the landholders to en deavour, if possible, to prevent an increase of the bur den ; and Scotch landholders may be safely trusted with their own interests. But will any man in his senses say that sixpence in the pound ig an alarming expenditure for so important an object as the mainte nance of the sick and disabled poor ? In 1808 the expenditure on the poor, according to Ker, was 3,1141., but the population has since increased. In 1814 the rental of the lands, mines, and fisheries of Scotland was 5,041,7791. The poor are better pro vided for in Berwickshire, and the other south-eastern counties, than in the rest of Scotland, because the standard of living is higher. But if we were to sup pose the poor- of Scotland provided for in the propor tion to the rental existing in Berwickshire, this would only give 107,0001. for the poor of all Scotland. Sir John Sinclair, in his General Report of the Agricul tural State and Political Circumstances of Scotland, vol. iii. p. 228, observes that in East Lothian, Berwickshire, and Roxburghshire, the farm-servants are more comfirt able than in other places ; and he adds, " Perhaps there is nowhere to be met with more active, respectable, and conscientious servants, more faithful to their employers, and at the same time more attentive to the interests of their own families, than this class. itJot one instance occurs of any of these people soli citing' relief from the public, unless when by some accident they are disabled from labour or ove rtaken by th e i n h . ,:mities of age." If Mr. Leslie had re flected for a mo:nent he would have seen that 5,3501. is a very moderate sum to cover the inevitable casu alties of the populatiGn of a country of which tL rental is 1-21 of that of ail Scotland. There is no such thint; in any part of Scotland as the applicatioi; of poor-rates to the maintenance of the able-bodied ; and the degeneracy and demoralization of which Mr. Leslie complains is the not suffering the aged and sick poor to die in ditches and spread typhus, as in Ireland. Demoralization applied to any agricultural district in Scotland is an absurdity. In the county to which Mr. Leslie alludes the late Sheriff-Sub stitute stated that during the whole time of his being in office, nearly twenty years, a single agricultural labourer had not been charged with a crime. But all this is beside the question. What we maintain is, that without a provision for the poor, order cannot be preserved in any country, and that a poor-law is, therefore, essential to a good system of police. It is for the interest of those who possess pro perty that those who have none should not be aban doned to destitution. In any given number of people there will be a certain amount of infirm, disabled, and diseased persons who have no relations to provide for them, and these must either be provided for by casual charity or regular rates, or they must starve. In a very simple state of society, casual chari,jr may, after a sort, provide for the poor ; but to a country auvancing in improvement, mendicancy is an intolerable nui , 4aTte• That country which leaves its poor to casual charity must be in a low state of civilisation. We have to combat two descriptions of opponents—those who would give a stimulus to pauperism by rendering paupers more comfortable than industrious labourers, and those who, because abuses have crept into the administration of poor-laws, would abandon the poor to destitution and disease. Mr. Leslie is a clever ad ministrator ; and we believe his own parish, St. George's, Hanover-squaro, has afforded a beneficial example to other places. We regret that he should have afforded the opponents of the new law a handle to prejudice the p e ople against it, by representing the advocates of am e nded administration as opposed to all relief to the poor.—Morning Chronicle. The appearance of the present state of parties, as contrasted with that of any former period since Lord Melbourne's resumption of the reins of Government, is truly encouraging to the friends of the Constitution. On all s id es we see one o f t wo i n dications, neither of which ca n he mistaken as to its political import—lst, The established strength and well-grounded cot - Mace of the Conservative party ; and, 2d, The wretched squabbles and cotrespondino apprehension of the Whi g - Radical faction. This last beggarly assortment of empty-head is manifestly bewildered—and, to use an expressive phrase, wholly at a loss to know " which way v e to every'turn. possible of truly, y, after having already turned' to e politi ca l hid eousness , i t mus t b e a severe tax upon theirpw,o,nantec, i i a ng L e e n a u d it e y , t hy whichisno w theythe mtrn are t i l now perplexed. , of the faction. In other words, this flock of black sheep are bleating for a shepherd who may bring the degenerate Whig Aristocrats and the desperate ltadi cal Democracy once more (in semblance at least) within one and the same fold. For this purpose, the Master of the Ministers will not do for many reasons. However the Whits o f biah-sounding, names may feel THE SITIr44 LONDON, TUESDAY. ; OCTOBER 18, 1:36. disposed to smother ttee,:ir hate and veil their scorn of the Irish demagogue, are convinced that many a sturdy Radical would eta nd out against such base do minion if openly avowed.. O'Connell has too deeply outraged the decency, the feelings, nay, the very na tionality of the English people of both sexes, to admit of his ever being an acknowledged leader of any but the merest rabble here. And even half of this re spectable class is made up of his own rent-pavers " nate as imported." But the truth is, that, apart from all this, Daniel has his own work to do just now, where the general supporters of his policy begin not alone to fall away from him, but to adopt measures of virtual and very slightly-veiled hostility against him. This great setter-up of the Ministers, and would-be puller-down of the Conservative Peers, is very likely to close his political career without his tail—or with only such miserable joints thereof as will make his exit ludicrous. Thus, all thoughts of his Leadership is lost to the Whigs ; and, as to the Radicals, they, from the mild-spoken Mr. Shar man Crawford to the infuriate Feigus O'Connor, are openly denouncing him as the enemy of the poor laws, and, in short, the friend of no one but himself. We suspect the death's head and cross-bones must be in requisition to ensure the next rent. Where then are the faction to turn, or rather where have they turned ? To Lord Brougham . I It is highly amusing to see the eager haste with which the Ministerial papers, when they found that the ex-Chancellor had from some cause or other declined the honour of being trotted out, dis claimed any participation in the affair. The Whig organs denounced the invitation as a Radical manoeuvre to punish Ministers by bringing Lord Brougham into fashion, and to play off his Lordship against the Go vernment. From all this we infer, as indeed also from the tone of his Lordship's reply, that now, as hereto fore, the Noble and Learned Lord's political friends are puzzled as to what he is to be at next. It is because he has not declared for the Government that the Ministerial prints, on a very sound principle, suppose that he is against it. The " fixed resolution to resist all attempts, whether to dictate or obstruct his course, let them come from what quarter they may," reminds one forcibly of almost the very words of the same personage when a candidate for the Peerage, and the threatened pro poser of a Reform Bill. Yet we need not go so deeply into the question of his views. There is quite enough in the way of retrospect to account for his re fusal to dine with the Edinburgh Liberals, without our resorting to speculation. It is a recorded fact, that of all the exhibitions made by Lord Brougham in his eccentric tour, none was less likely to be pleasantly re membered by himself or his friends than that of the Edinburgh Reform Festival. It argued, we think, but little taste in the Scottish chiefs of the Whig- Radical faction to take advantage of almost the first week of his Lordship's restoration to health for the purpose of inviting him to a spot fraught with such peculiar recollections. However, Lord Brougham has declined the proffered leadership. Indeed, how he could join the O'Connellite faction, after having told the " Big Beggarman" that the rent ought to make " every fibre of his body quiver with shame," and after having been told by that person that he (Lord Brougham) talked " a greater amount of nonsense than any man living"—how this could be, it were difficult to conceive. Nor is his Lordship a likely man to forget certain personal slights on the part of others whose greatness he himself unques tionably " holp to make so portly." For our part, we don't see any great practical good that could re sult even to the present incapables from a junction with Lord Brougham beyond this—that he cer tainly could, and in all probability would, hasten the crisis of their fate. His restless energy would be impatient of the passive office-holding of such persons as the Premier and his associates, while the impetuosity of temper for which Lord Melbourne likened him to a shrewish mistress would bring the House about their ears. Where, we repeat, can the forlorn people find a Leader ?--Tirnes. What say the Tories now ? We are curious to know how they relished our columns of yesterday. They contained reports of the proceeding at no fewer than three great Reform Meetings in different parts of the country. The most remarkable attribute, perhaps, of the proceedings of those meetings was the singular unanimity of sentiment which characterised the speeches of the various gentlemen who spoke on the question of further reforms. The language of all was of an " on ward" kind. None seemed satisfied with the reforms already effected : all urged the necessity of pressing forward in accordance with the spirit of the times. What now becomes of the Tory cuckoo cry of re action ? Where is that re-action ? Is it in Limerick ? The events of Wednesday last are the best answer to the question, In the county of Fife ? Let the speeches of Sir John Campbell, Mr. Ellice, and the other gentlemen, who spoke at the dinner there, the other day, speak to that point. Is it in Cheshire? Ask Mr. Marsland and the 250 independent g entlemen who dined together at Stockport on Wednesday. Or shall we seek for this re-action in the smaller villages of some comparatively retired part of Scotland, where the people are remote from the turmoil and political agitation of great cities and populous manufacturing towns ? The reception, as recorded in our columns of yesterday, given to Mr. Gilion, by the inhabitants of Airdrie, furnishes the best answer to the question. Where, then, in the name of all that is marvellous, is the re-aethso et) much boasted of of late by the Tories? ball we answer the question because they will not ? I t exists nowhere but in their own imaginations. We are wrong ; it does not exist even there, The Tories can no longer woo themselves, and keep 6 i up their sinking spirits " by even fancying that there is a resale tion. That re-aetion has only one local habitation ; it exists in the reports in the Tory journals, of the after-dinner speeches of country Conservatives—it ex ists nowhere else. There was one remarkable feature in all the reform meetings to which we have referred: Almost every speaker dwelt on the necessity of some thing doing done, not only to make the House of Commons more in harmony with the people, but to give them any chance of removing the obstruc tions to sound and salutary legislation interposed by the House of Lords. Mr. Ellice, junior, one of the most promising Reformers of the present day, insisted on the ballot as the grand panacea for the present anomalous state of thin g s. We have re iterated the same thing over and over again. The people never will have the power to which_they are entitled, nor the Commons be ever a fair representa tion of public opinion until we have the vote by bal lot. Give us that, and we will work wonders. Give ns the fle))0t, and then see whether the Lords will dare to repeat eery of the fantastic tricks, in which, for their own amusement, end with the view of insult ing the country, they indulged cP largely last session. The necessity too of the Commons tatting up a more decided ground than they 4eye yet done is now he come apparent to all. Before a can have Peerage Reform, the Commons must reform thempielves : they must turn over a new leaf. We must have more litto ral measures from them, and we must, too, have more energy and decision in forcing those measures into law, be the consequences what they may. The error last session was to entertain too great a horror of con sequences. " Let justice be done though the heavens should fall," must henceforth be the motto of the Re. form party in the House of Coinmons,—Morning Advertiser. It was natural enough to presume that the delay in applying their measures of municipal reform to the most corrupt Corporation in the empire—a step so creditable to theprinciples and consistency of our Whig Ministers—would at least have been turned to account ;,)14t Corporation itself, in averting the necessity of the prun iiig knife as far as in them lay. We are tired of asking what tl,.a Commissioners are about, or the their .salaries,wh e th er fie delay their cau se of the delay—at wll4 waterioolaces they may otigl,4ol)rnwlilnetgiprthey arc not in fact actingin o4eclience J[4. wiw4er is not in- I3urke" the to biober powers ? be prudent , or ppsaketq en counter altogether, a t e s n o d n i4 e , w i , f de o h ss i h ti l n eJ ay to not counter ? Be this as it may, the had policy of the Cur- Dorado!' itself, in slighting the loess mitentfrp, thus afforded them, remains equally gonsPiconous and irra, tional. To those inclined to fatalism, the conduct of this extraordinary body would furnish abundant argument. Of their obstinate resistance to taking tim e l y warn i ng , almost every one of their acts since the cubject of cor. borate reform was first mooted has borne testimony. As one instance among many, only look at their conduct on the flagrant abuses in the gaol of Newgate being made known. Not content with denying and palliating- facts, the existence and the flagrancy of which were as pal pable as the sun at noon day, they retaliate upon the prison inspectors in every possible mode of personal recrimination. Instead of kissing the rod, and endea vouring to profit by its wholesome infliction, they would have us believe that the worst conducted prison in the kingdom is the very best, though, after labouring this point ad nauseam, they actually turn round and propose to burden the country with the expense of rebuilding it. What ! rebuild a prison which has no defects ? Truly these civic sages rival in consistency their Whig masters. But what may be fairly called the bwzne bouche of this immaculate body, is to be found in its recent ad herence to those gastronomic propensities, of which it would not be too much to say that in process of time a million of money, probably, has been expended, which might have been more reasonably and rationally em ployed in improving the city, in diminishing local bur dens, in mitigating distress, and in various other com mendable purposes,which so wide a field for action must from time to time have presented. But even with the wand of reform, which may rather be characterised as the scythe of death hanging over their heads, the ruling passion wears to be irresistible, and " Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die," the only text on . which they are all agreed. To ask what City feasting costs, requires an answer which we cannot give ; but is an an answer which, if truly given, would, we have no doubt, astonish the inquirer. Laying the expendi ture of the several Companies and the Sheriff's out of the question, the annual grant to the Lord Mayor on this head is bad enough. The guzzlings of Guild hall and the Mansion House, however are not suffi cient, but each of the Committees into which the members of the Corporation divide themselves must have a separate gournzanderie of its own. This had grown to such an extravagant pitch that the members themselves began to be ashamed of it, or afraid of the consequences ; but to abolish it altogether was a ' point of self-denial to which these worthies had not attained ; and they, therefore, refer the tavern expen diture to a Committee, which reports the following as the future scale ; which, without any remorse or misgiving, is readily adopted, and that in the face of a Government Commission sitting to investigate the necessity of Municipal Reform : The Irish Society (exclusive of journeys), per ann , £2OO City Lands Committee 4OO Bridge House Gresham 25 Sewers Navigation Coal and Corn General Purposes Corn Meters 5O London-bridge Approaches Blackfriars-bridge Nightly Watch Library School . Market In all £2,675 Now, when it is considered that most of the persons who propose this honest mode of disposing of money, not only not their own, but of which they are the sworn and appointed guardians, are most of them pro fessed Reformers, and whose virtuous indignation is roused at every head of expenditure which has for its object the maintenance of our institutions in Church and State, can any one suppress his indignation at such barefaced profligate inconsistency, or cease to wonder at the slowness with which the reform they preach reaches themselves ?—Morning Herald. The communication of our Lisbon correspondent deserves the serious attention of our readers. The British Admiral has, contrary to the remonstrances of the existing Government, placed the Talavera, a ship of the line, with her broadside to the square of the Custom House, and in such a position that she can batter down the whole of the city in a short time. The usual anchorage of ships of war is between Belem Cas tle and the Packet Stairs, and none but the Portuguese vessels: are permitted to go higher up the Tagus ; but it seems, for reasons best known to the British Mi 'lister and Admiral, that the Talavera has been planted in the most favourable position for offensive operations against the city, a display is kept up of boats passing and repassing from the her to the rest of the squadron, and marines are landed in the most conspicuous man ner, for exercise. What is all this done for ? Clearly to overawe the people, or to aid the Queen, or rather the Prince, in his desire to overturn the Constitution of 1820, and to restore the charter of Don Pedro. It is undertaken by a hint from home. Ferdinand is nephew to the Duchess of Kent, and cousin to the future sovereign of these realms. Lord Palmerston is already canvassing for their favour by playing any part at Lisbon that may suit the views of the Prince Con sort and of his wily adviser, M. Van de Weyer. We are no admirers of the Constitution of 1820, and we believe it has been imposed on the Queen-by a small faction, as the Charter of Don Pedro was by a still smaller, backed by an English naval and military force ; but we think it is an awful thing to find a Bri tish Minister and Admiral disregarding the remon strances of an existing Government, and assuming a warlike attitude without any explanation. Sade Bandeira is as much the Minister of the Queen of Portugal as Mendizabal is of the Queen of Spain. The Constitution is imposed upon both sovereigns by the same means, and Lord Palmerston will not he permitted to make a distinction in the one case which he does not in the other—to place Mr. Villiers as a guardian to Calatrava, and to put Lord Howard . de Waldenlin opposition to the Conde di Li nares. We are by this step giving a final blow to the British interests in Portugal. The Miguelites, or ra ther Royalists, for personally Don Miguel has not any friends, hate us for our conquest over them ; the Queen's party, because we made the convention of Evora Monte, and did not annihilate Don Carlos and Don Miguel ; and now the Constitutionalists will look upon us as enemies to their cause and country. We have earned the national hatred from all parties. Viewing the mooring of the Talavera in an offensive position, against the remonstrances of the Queen's Government, as an act of hostility to Portugal, and tantamount to a declaration of war, we are anxious to know what opinion will be entertained of it by the European Powers. Whether to please the cousin of of our future Queen, and the neice of our future Regent, or merely as a thoughtless action of the British Admiral, this extraordinary step has been taken, we cannot help viewing it in a most serious point of view, and of calculating that seriots embarrassments may be the consequences of it. It will be seen by our correspondence that an abortive attempt has been made to overturn the Constitution, and replace the Charter of Don Pedro ; and that the poor Queen has had to undergo the indignity of being questioned by her Ministers as to the sup. posed part she has taken in it. Tears were the only answer of the daughter of Don Pedro. The threats of the National Guard have more influence on her than the remonstrances of her husband, sup ported, as they are, by the British Government and a British fleet. It is difficult to say which is more e mbarrassing,—the state of Spain or the state of Por tugal. The finances of both are alike exhausted, the Oovernmentg overawed by a Ministry chosen by the mob, and each are hurried into ruin by the pretended friendship of the British Minister. They are both on the eve of a counter-revolution, To whatever part of the Peninsula. Lord Palmerston turns himself he must find serious matter for reflection, and, if he were capable of examining his own conduct strictly, abundant Ma= ter i a l for self-reproach,—Mornina Post, An agent was lately sent by Don Migtiel 4 rigi to sell two diamonds belonging to that - edam Liam!, disposed of them to a jeweller, for b 0,600 francs, he has re. turned, with the money to Rome. It 4 rief4 l lY reports(' tilat the French (loyemment hay,c cr(l,ere4 1 /13/1 packets to go in future to liamsgate, _instead of Dover, from the obstructions caused by the bar at the utter 14 Ce • — _ - _ , Kegtis4 Ob4CrVen 4 4WISW4Rp Tile 04Y last two respectable f erna i ps , b o th in the greatest state of agi tation, entered the shop of Nr. 1). Woodhonsc, chemist, 18, iking William -street, London,hridge, and almost w ith., out uttering a ward proceeded up the stairs into the 'raw ing-room, where the youngest of them was delivered of 4 premature child. We understand that the mother is likely to do well, CORONERS' INQUESTS. Yesterday a Coroner's Inquest was taken before Mr. WILLIAM CAI:TER, Coroner for Surrey, at the Hero of Waterloo, in the Waterloo-road, on the body of John Am bridge, aged.s9, who was found in the Belvidere-road. The foreman inquired of the Coroner how it was that no jury had been summoned before that day, when the (I.e -ceasNi had died on Wednesday last ? The Co aoNER replied, that it was only on Friday last a messenger came to him at Kingston, and not from the pa rish authorities, who were the persons who legally should have communicated with him. Foreman—Then if you had not promiscuously heard of this case, as of others which are now awnitin an enquiry before you, we should have had no inquest ? ColloNilia—l suppose not. Forethan—Then, by what authority are we summoned ? CORONER—By my. ttithority. I had certain information given me, upon which I wrote to the, parish authorities, stating that they ought to have sent me notice. Juror—Until this day it was usual to have the beadle:; employed. Now he perceived that. Mr. Smith, the pa rochial constable, had the superintendence. Mr. Smith said that the Chairman of the Board of Guardians, Mr. Shadbolt, had ordered the beadles not to interfere any further in the matter. Juror—Since the new Poor Law Act has come into ope ration the beadles are no longer sent, but messengers. CORONER-Still they are constables, 'and have as much right to interfere as another parish officer. Juror—Then is this alteration the effect of the ne►v Poor Law Amendment Bill ? CORONER—Yes, from information given to me it appears that the Board of Guardians have ordered the beadles not to give me any more notice, becauac they account them as their messengers. Juror—lt is a pity but what they had let the practice remain as it was. CORONER—There is now a body of a new-born child, which has been buried, having been found on Kennington Common, on Monday, on which I am to hold an inquest this day. Several Jurors cried " Shame !" CORONER—An inquest ought to have been held last Monday, as now, from its state of decomposition, a post mortent examination would not be likely to lead to satis factory results. The evidence was then taken, when it appeared that the deceased, who was a horse-dealer, on Wednesday-night last, between five and six o'clock, was found in the Belvidere road in a state of insensibility. He was taken to the Green Dragon, where he was attended by Mr. James Cooke, sur geon, Bridge-street, Westminster, who found life extinct, stating that he had died of apople x y. Verdict—" That the deceased died by the visitation of God." The distinguished party who have been sojourning' for the last fortnight at Oakley Park, the agreeable resi dence of Sir Edward and Lady Kerrison, in Suffolk, sepa rated on Friday. On the preceding day the festivities concluded with a rustic fete, when upwards of 200 cottage and other tenants dined in the park ; there was an abund ance of good old English fare, and the festive scene did not terminate till late in the evening. The allottment system, which has been some length of time in operation on Sir Edwardss estates, appears to be attended with great success STATE OF NEWGATE.—On Saturday the Gaol Committee met at Guildhall upon special summons, to take into consideration the report of the Sheriffs relative to Newgate, Alderman Venables in the Chair. Under Sheriff Wire stated that the expense of altering the prison to the full satisfaction of the Sheriffs would amount to 8931. He then exhibited a plan, specifying the changes which he stated would remedy the capital defects of the prison; pro vided it was merely used as a place of security before trial. The King of Holland is about to undertake a journey of inspection of all his fortresses. He remains still uncom promising on the subject of Belgium. The estates belonging to the Corporation of Hun tingdon were sold on Saturday, and realised only 2,2051. The Earl of Sandwich was the principal purchaser. The sum is not sufficient to pay off the outstanding demands against the Corporation, and they do not appear to have any means of raising the deficiency.--Canzbridge Chronicle. Between four and five o'clock, on Saturday morn ing, a destructive fire broke out in the warehouse of Messrs. Clayton and Thomas, sugar refiners, Lower Deptford, and in about an hour the premises were reduced to little better than a heap of ruins, part of the exterior walls only remaining standing. The fire was confined to the ware house in which it originated, it being fortunately almost an isolated building. We have not been able to ascertain how the fire originated. In consequence of the measures of the Bank of England for raising the rate of discount, the Bank Com mittee at Vienna have had an extraordinary meeting to de termine whether this example should be followed. The Committee has resolved to make no change.—Allgenzeine Zeilung. Wm. Marsden, Esq., LL.D. F.R.S., who recently died, in his 82d year, at the Edge Grove, Aldenham, was author of several well-known works connected with the history and languages of the East. His family were of Derbyshire extraction, but he himself was born in Ireland, and went to India at an early age. Soon after his return to this country he published " The History of the Island of Sumatra." About 1795 he was appointed second Secre tary to the Admiralty, by Lord Spencer. After his retire ment from public life, in 1807, ho resumed the studies of his youth, and has left behind him a number of publications which are all well known to the Orientalist. Since the death of Lord Stowell he has been the senior member of the club which was founded by the great lexicographer, Dr. Johnson, Edmund Burke, and Sir Joshua Reynolds, and known by the honorary designation of " The Club." Mr. Marsden some time ago exhibited'a not very common instance of patriotism, in voluntarily resigning a pension of 1,500/. a-year, which had been bestowed on him as the re ward of his public services. AN INDIAN COOK.—Sir George N —t, a Gene ral Officer, many years of whose life had been spent in both Indies, had once in his establishment a black cook, an admirable artist, who could not, amongst other things, be equalled in the composition of stuffing a turkey. One day Sir George gave a dinner—it was, we believe, in the East Indies—and a dindon, as usual, graced his table. " The bird is fine," said the guests, " but, if we may presume to remark it, the force-meat is not so delicate and good as usual." " And I can tell you the reason why," replied Sir George ; " my famous old cook is dead, and the fellow who supplies his place has, unfortunately, no teeth far, my dear friends, you must k now t h at t h e far-famed, deliciousforce, meat of my late lamented chef de cuisine obtained its per fectibility by being always minced in his mouth."—.:3lirror. - ----• • • The very spirited s t a t ue o f t h e great Prince —of Conde, upon the Bridge of Concord, leading to the Cham ber of Deputies, at Paris, in which he is represented as casting his Marshal's baton iuto the enemy's lines, as a sti mulant to his soldiers to recover it, but which, when it was erected, the Quotidienne made a joke uFon, as if the ensign was flung in derision at the Ciiuber, is to be removed to Versailles, wh ere it will be placed by the side of that of Louis XIV., in the Court of Honour. The statuary of the Pont do la Concorde, though perhaps a little colossal for its situation, is very characteristic and impressive. The portrait of Sully is very striking, PRINCE POLIONAC.—This distinguished prisoner has addressed the following letter to the Chief Editor of the Courier Francois :—Ham, Oct. 11, 183 G.—" Sir, in your Paper of the 7th inst., you mention a visit, which you say was lately paid by M, Gauthier to the ex-Ministers, con fined at 11ant, M. Gauthier, with whom I AM not ac quainted, has, in fact, been here, but he ,only visited one of the prisoners, and I am not that ace t consequently the de tails of the conversation which you mention cannot regard me : neither do those reports contained in your Paper of the 7th inst, If, during the bard trials I am subjected to by Providence, I carefully a avoid a vain, pueliio, and os tentatious display of firmness, believe, Sir, that I am not less able to support my long-sutreriN,, with the calm courage befitting a man of honqu, 1 beg you will insert tilisletter in your next number, and receive the aSSIIVIIIOO of my distin guished oonsideration.—Prince PQLIGNAC." LIBERTY OF THE PRESS.—The Liverpool news papers have alwai4 boon in the habit of publishing a second edition, oontaining the corn-market reports, by which means the corn-markets of Ireland, and other parts of the kingdom, are put in possession of the prices of corn at Liverpool much earlier than they otherwise would be. Such an arrangement has never benefitted the Liverpool Press one farthing, the second edition being merely for the accommodation and information of the public generally. The Liberal gentlemen, however, at the head of klairi, wild prate so frequently about the liberty of pr.ess, the air We breathe, and so forth, lutye jti tbeir wisdom con sidered the publishing ; I Mportant piece of informa tion in A t lg,cc\r,ici .€‘4lon as too great a liberty, and have ordered their. stamp, distributors to issue the llowing cir cular, which has heen served oil 41Aa proprietors of each paper. This is Auqcbq s ejtitCn of the practioal liberality of the_Wl.i.iss §irk - 1 d. ireted ;c1 'Aequalnt you that the Commis sioners pf *MP ah3d TaA j es consider the reports of the corn, market Oyeriisementg, and that such reports cawski bo inserted ;u' any edition, subsequent to the AtTA, without sub jecting every advertisement in such, edition to he charged with duty ; and if the v,r4eCiee be continued after the present notice, dtlV WW; be assessed thereon accordingly. " I am, Sir, your obedient Servant, " Liverpool, Oct. 12. " S. STANNIFORTH." SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. VESSELS ENTERED INWARDS AT THE Cv- TOM-HOUSE, OCT. 17. The Columbine, Scrannack, from Hamburgh; Sir Edward Banks, Norwood, Rotterd am ; Ebenezer, Wakeham, J er sey ; Little Catharine, Dunew, B e lize; Aldbro, Murphy, Gijon; Sir William Curtis, Hamond, Villaviciosa: Urania, Cyler, Jersey ; Sarah Ann, Dennctt, Zante; Montreal, Chaplin, New York ; Orwell, (..;ehett, Harling - en ; Orsea, :KnaPP, Virginia ; Alice, Bcgg, Grenada; Mary Ann, Ellery, V ir " ginia ; Symmetry, Dare, Bordeaux ; linmony, Taylor, La' bradore ; Union, Clursh, T r i e ste ; Louise Baellie, Muter, Demerara ; Achilles, W ea th er ly, Belize ; Anna, Bullero, Palermo ; Good Intent, illoody, Cadiz; Planet, Houghton, Cadiz ; GirafF, Prince, Sydney. ENTERED OUTWARDS FOR LOADING, Oct 17 ' The Ramona, Bridge, for Rotterdam ; Kent, Tune, Bou logne; Jane Lockhart, Calford, Demerara; Thomas and Alfred, Synnett, Demerara; Transit, Wrightson, Lisbon; West ladian, APCarthy, St. Vincent's ; Alkmaar, Heath, Rotterdam; Betsey and Sarah, Bloom, Leghorn; Mary Maria, Jattin, New York. CLEARED OUTWARDS WITH CARGO, OcT. 17. The Tribune, Ellis, for Fayal ; Harlequin, Middleton, logne; Kent, Tune, Boulog ne; C o l um bia, Web"' St. Mary's; Elizabeth, Thrumpt, Barbadoes; Frederick, Wes' sell, Lubeck. CLEARED OUTWARDS IN BALLAST, Ocr. 17. The Lady Amherst, Roster, for the south whale fishery; Kingberg, Nielson, Norway; William, Bayley, Medemblik. ARRIVALS AT LIVERPOOL, OCT. 16. The Elizabeth, Brown, from Demerara.; Coeur de Lion, Robinson, Quebec. Sailed the Sheffield packet, flarkstallt for New York. EAST' INDIA SHIPPING. The Thomas Dougall, Brown, from the Mauritius, at Liver pool, sailed 7th April ; T r i ncoma l ee 26t h M a y, and St. Helena 17th August; Aleyor, from Batavia, at Cowes Childc Harold, Willis, from. Bombay, in the Downs, sailed 6th June, Cape 16th August, and St. Helena Ist September; Zeno, Lawson, from Singapore, at Liverpool, sailed from Anjer 31st May, and St. Helena 16th August. Passenge r* per Child Harold, from Bombay—William Young, Esq.' Hon. Captain Moore, 24th Regiment ; Lieut. Johnstone' R.N. ; Lieut. Richardson, his Majesty's 6th Regime nt; Baron Hargure, and one servant. Arrivals at Valpar a i so .—Th e Eli za, J u l y 21 , from t he Sandwich Islands. Departures from Valparaiso.—The Australia, July 10, for London. Arrival at Bahia.—The Lady Kennaway, from Loria° l4 sailed the sth August for New S'outh Wales. Arrival at Rio.—The Tare, Aug. 21, from London. Departures from Rio.---The Memnon, Aug. 11, for C f or Manilla. ; Eole, Aug. 21, f or C a l cutta ; B e l haven, A ng . 25 1 Manilla. Arrival at Madras.—The Sir Edward Paget, from Por ts ' mouth and the Cape. Arrivals at St. Helena.—The Brian Boru, Aug. 25' from Manilla, and sailed 26th f or Li verpoo l ; M onarch, Aug. "'"' from Calcutta, and sailed 23d for Liverpool. for • Departures from St. H e l ena .—Th e R ate liffe„kug. 22 ) - London. Arrivals at Batavia.—The Climb, May 28; sailed J Oll l 5 ; Asia, May 30, from New South Wales; Omega, 3 1 , f ? ° „ 1 " . Canton ; Virginia, fro m M an ill a ; F r i endsh i p, June 2, 11.°5 Amsterdam ; Ulysses, J une 3, f rom S y d ney ; Lou i sa, June from Boston ; Richard Reynolds, Juno 12, from Sydney' Venus, June 13, from Gottenburgb. Arrivals at Samarang.--The Henry W e ll es l e y, May 18, from Sourabaya; Sumatra, May 31, from Batavia; FaYou' rite, June 3, from Sourabaya. Departures from Samarang.—The Bardaster, May 12 1 • Susan, May 26 ; J ames P att i sou, M ay 26 ; Diana, June 3, all for China. Arrivals at Anjer (Java.)—The Lotus, May 28, f rom Batavia, f or H am b urg ; J eannette, May 29, from Man ill a , for New York; Exchange, June 2, from Liverpool for Canton; Egham, June 12, from London, for Singapore. 5, Arrivals at th e M aur i t i us .—Th e C onsolation, June - 2 „ from Calcutta ; A c hill es an d A m b assador, from [4oo°u' Falcon, from Marseilles. Departures f rom th e M aur i t i us.— Th e Kerswell, Jima (nr for the Cap e ; hi s M a j esty ' s s hi p R attlesnake, June 230,;„2 New South Wal es ; M ary , J une 24, f or the Cape ; Oak, June 26, for Calcutta. Arrivals in Table Bay (Cape).—The Friends Goodwill' July 24, from Al goa B ay ; Sk erne, July 26, from it: River; Thomas Sno o k s , J u l y 27 , f rom L ondon; St. Helena' July 29, from Algoa Bay; Mary, July 29, from Algoa 1 3 1' Sesostris, July 30, from Portsmouth, sailed August 7 for I" dras and Calcutt a ; Resource, Aug. 1, from St. Hele na ' Kerswell, Aug. 1, f rom Algoa Bay. Arrivals in Algoaßay.—The Glory, July 12, from London ; Kerswell, July 17, and Mary, July 18, from the Mauritius; Reform, July 31, f rom T a bl e B ay ; M orn i ng Star, A u g' i from London. Departures from Table Bay.—The Henrietta and lio 5 July 15, for Bat av i a ; M argaret Wilkie, July 22, f o r Madr a and Calcutta ; F r i en d s G oo d Will , A ug. 5, for Algoa Bay' Fair Barbaria n , A ug . 7, f or Al goa B ay; Emma, Aug. 7, Kangaroo Islands; Northwester and Shylock, for St. Helen- Ligoneer, hug. 9, fo r B re d e Ri ver . The dhilde Horold, arrived from Bombay and the Cor, e ' reports the total loss of the barque Doncaster, Captain Prit chard (which sailed f rom M aur i t i us 18th June for London ),: d the reef L'Agullus, a b ou t 70 m il es S. E. of the Cape of o° 4 Hope, supposed on th e n i g h t o f t h e 17th July, and every s °" on board perished. The Dorothy, Captain Newbold, which was driven on sill in Plettenberg B ay , near t h e Cape of Good Hope, drag from her anchors 14th July, and capsized. Ships Spoken With.—The Atlas, Hunt, 'from London to Mauritius, 15th Sept., lat. 10 37, N. ; Elizabeth, from Liver pool to H o b art T own, 6th Sept., lat. 12, N., long. 24, " ; Ann, from London to Launceston, 3d Sept. let. 11, N., I(4 °. 24, W. ; Si r Ch ar l es M a l co l m, Lyon, from London and Ce:: lon to B om b ay, 10t h J une, lat. 4, S., long, 82, E. ; ereste (whaler), from the South Seas, 12th Sept., lat. 17, N• 26, W. ; M onarc h, from Calcutta t o Liverpool, 12th i Sep ' lat. 48, ion.% 21 ; Westmoreland, from London to Van 9 , 1 e; men's Land, Sept. 10, lat. 13, N. , l ong. 87 ; Pyramus, 11; Cork to N ew S out h W a l es, 31st Aug., let. 13, long. 21,/ Clifton, from Lond on t o Chi na , 20t h July, lat. 13 1 0, long. 25 45, W. A great sensation has been produced in Paris bY the condemnation of M. Dupont, one of the most distin guished lawyer s , an d w h o d e f en d e d t h e unhappy Morey Ni.till the proc e s of Fi esc hi) b e f ore th e Ch am b er of Peers. 'b Dupont, in defending a prisoner for forgery, made a sP,,l, c i s which was report e d by th e G azette d e Tribunazi.r. 1 4". report contained some words offensive to the Court. Dupont d en i e d th em to b e hi s, and the editor sa id Wl had been in ser t e d b y m i sta k e ; nevert h eless the newspaperr. was acquitted, an d M. D upont was suspen d e d f or one Yello The Bar of P ar i s h as entere d a protestation aga i ns t tb proceeding. On Monday week, Mr. Holcroft, of Evenbib taking aim a t a coc k p h easant, kill e d t h e p h easant an d als o a hare and a rabbit.—Northampton Chronicle. e ad' 7 9 T11 HIGHLANDER S .—O n W e d nes d a y the b .."- quarters of that distinguished Regiment, the 79th, or o p moron Highlander s , including grenadiers, light ceffiPathe and two batt a li on companies, band, colours, &c., wid er at command of Lieut.-Colonel Ferguson, disembarke d Newhaven from the Maitland transport, from Queb ge 'fi l le immediately proceeded on their route for Glasgow. . 00i Colonel of th e R eg i ment, General Sir R. C. Fergu—be and Gene ra l St uart an d the North British staff, j o i ne d- t h Regiment on l an di ng, an d proceeded at their hea d t hrone the city. Th e rema i nder of the Regiment, about 15u j number, w ere to em b ar k i n the i llarquis of H un tly, hire ship, and may be daily expected.—Edinburgh Pat (AY VEMTISEMENT. ' The NEW FLAT GOLD WATC l ,. it lf are offered in double-bottomed engine -turned cases, with ael - el eo finished vertical movements, jewelled and warranted for t var .. Guineas each, or, with highly-finished horizontal movelueV or kini ranted at Nine uineas each, at T. COX SAVORY'S' doll. Goldsmith, Silversmith, and Watchmaker, 47, Cornbill, Lon BIRTHS. son. On the 16th inst., th e l a d y o f Henry FeHowes, Esq., 0 ' a l ig On the 16th i ns t., at Halesworth, the lady of the Rev, Sam Blois Turner, of a daughter. On the 15th inst., at Frettenham, Norfolk, the lady of the Ref. James Shirley, of a daughter. of S On the llth inst., Mrs. J•ine Smith, Water-lane, Brix— daugh On the 14th inst., Mrs. Whittem, Little Queen-street, Llnc°l°'4 Inn-fields, of a daughter. MARRIED. e D ale' On the 15i1 inst., at Epsom, Mr. John Thomas Hehns!° - f street, St. Jame s ' s , to .1 Air.Dorling, e Jane youngest daughter of Epsom. 1 ,, to On the 15th inst., Mr. Thomas Brown, of Slough , 13 , 1 '7,4 of Mary Ann, the eldest daughter of the late Mr. Godfrey Ril e " — Stepney. v oc ien, 0 n the Bth inst., at St. Pancras Church, Strethill Oakes . r t „ Esq., Mornington-place, to Emma, second daughter of the late '' Roberts, Esq., of Camden-town. elde st On the 13th inst., a t Monkweannouth, George Williare, son of J. F. H arr i son , E sq ., of N ew B roa d- s t re et, to Agnes'N;idest daughteropk- Esq., of 4 of William Harrison., ' 1 - 11 aTang e ' I'llwe -„, wearmouth. _.------'... DIED. r ~,, &I s Cm Monday, Win 17th inst., in the Ha market, after a , e - ot _ lt t illness, A. C. tleyer, Esq., the 'oun Y ger, aged 19, stuT e a of law in the Middle Temple, and son Y of -Mr. A. C. eY- ' Chatham. est On the 16th inst., in Wimpole-st r eet, Eliza Anne, the yoog On the 14th inst., Henry G. Wilson, Esq., daughter of M. D. French, Esq., of the Island of Tortola:l3 On the 16th inst., in Sloane -street, Mrs. Harper, aged 1 ,he lste M, Wilson, Esq., of Guilford-street. On the 15th inst., at Chiswick, Mrs. Frere, aged 68• abter of J. On the 14th inst,, at Tunbridge Wells, Alaria, eldest dau,, Kerie, Esti, tai' Gloucester-place, Portman-square. Mai. On t,Lz lAtt inst., at Kentish town aged 84, Mrs. Anna el , \''frizy, relict of Mr. I '' - ' d- eice of the s' lenry I , oysey, and gran n John 'Wesley. Lister' • his 71st year, On the 10th inst.,Shld 'Nall, Yorkshire, Mrs. At 1 en _,...............___..._._...._..................._0n1y son of ~ • aged 70. Ettl•' lll ' On the 14th inst., at Bethnal-green, James Jenne____........mr),', • ---- ______=---• _____ - ----- •G _f V °. 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