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LITERATURE. TEE GRAMMATICA L SPELLING-BOOK. Orr and Smith, London, 1836. This is one of the most sensible little works of the B ° ll We have ever met with. A compendious English grammar is prefixed to it, remarkable for the brief simplicity of its rules ; and at time end of the volume there are extracts from the poems of some of our most admired writers, every way calculated to rivet the atten tion of youth. ZARDNER'S CABINET CYCLOIMEDIA. No. 83. Longman, London, 1836. `Jr• Swainson is the author of this volume, which Is Wholly of an ornithological nature, and contains some very curious particulars respecting the habits, of birds, illustrated with a variety of well exe cuted wood-cuts. To those who are fond of zoologi cal pursuits, the book will be found extremely inte resting. MA RR 1,4 GE. Smith and Elder, London, 1836. This is an essay on the subject of Marriage, and the various duties incumbent on all coupled folks ; it is t he production of the Rev. H. C. O'Donnoghue, and evinces much good sense, expressed in familiar and perspicuous language. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NE WMARKET - AmARKET SECOND 0 CTOBER MEETING, M atch YESTERDAY, , 200, h. ft. D.lNl.—Colonel Peel's Slane, 7st. 111 b. re ceive d from Lord Exeter's Aurelius, Bst. 6 1 b. :Hatch, 2 00, h. ft. D. M .— M r. K en t' s Ai r y, 5 yrs, 9st., re ed from Lord Suffield's Promethean, 3 yrs, Bst. slatch.-100 each, h. ft. T. Y. C. l e yonel Peel' s N ew li g ht, 7 s t. 21b 'it. Kent's Airy, Bst. 121 b 5t04 on Newlight. Won by three lengths. Match.-100 each, h. ft. T. Y.C. A f T r• Grevale's Marmalade, Bst. lllb Nat 1 ford Suffield's Promethean, Bst 4tol on Marmalade. Won by two lengths. . l landicap Sweepstakes of 10 sous. each. T. Y. C. 9 Subs. l ' i ° lo nal Peel's Newlight, 3 yrs, ist. 21b Tilbrook's Emelius, 3 yrs, fist. 131 b rd Egremont's Helga, 3 yrs, 7st. 101 b 3 s. ihe following also ran :—Lord Jersey's Darius, 5 yrs, Sst. 101; 41r S. Graham's Zulima, 5 yrs, Bst. 101 b. ; Mr. Gardner's Ethilda, e a s, Bst. 101 b. ; L o rd Exeter's Jemmy, 3 yrs , g 81b. ; Mr. w son's Fair Jane, 3 yrs, ist. 61b. ; and Mr. feog 3 ers's Professor, Yrs, 6st. 101 b. t„ l3 i e tting-5 to 2 agst Newlight (taken) ; 4 to 1 agst Ethilda , 5 ' agst Darius, sto 1 agst Fair Jane, 7to 1 agst Zulima. Won by a le ngt h . Lord Chesterfield has sold Priam to Mr. Tattersall for 3,500 Lruineas. A n DUMFRIES RACE S.—Til URSDA r. -old Cup Stakes of 10 sovs. each ; three years old, 7st. 31b. ; four, .Bst. Mb. ; five, Bst. 121 b. ; six and aged, 9st. 21b. Two t tr tades. 11 Subs. t • rtd Egli amsai , 's Inheritor. 5 yrs or - ntotl , s Rolus, 3 yrs Won cleverly. FRIDAY. ~, The e Dumfries Stakes of 10 sovs., 5 ft., with 20 added, were I , l ked over for by Mr. Ramsay's Luther. ifty sovs. given by his Grace the Duke of Buccleuch ; three yrs old, 75t.41b.; four, Bst. 41b. ; five, Bst. 111 b. ; six and aged, 9st. yHeats, two miles. Lord Rich ' I"Ph I I ' a g ed Lord Eglinton's Rolus, 3 yrs .. 2 . " 3. • N. R. Ramsay's Luther Won very easy. A NORTHALLETO MEETING.—FiuDer. Gold Cup, value 100 R gs. ; N three yrs, 7st. ; four, Bst. ; five, Bst. 91b. ; six and aged, 9st. Two miles. Als Sir R u t son ' s Jordan, 3 yrs F. Lye 1 r J. P. Beresford's Burletta, 4 yrs arr. Bell's Zebetta, 3 yrs sto 4 on J or d an, 6 to 4 ags t B ur l e tt a , an d 6t o 1 agst Zebetta. j ° r ( lan took the lead, was never headed, and won by three quarters of a length. A Silver Cup, value 501., with 20 added ; three yrs, 7st ; four, 1, Bst. 31b. ; five and upwards, Bst. 101 b. Heats, two miles. jr• Dawson's Patriot, 3 yrs Lye 5 1 1 a ir Claridge's Aveline, 3 yrs 1 3 4 air. Hartley's br. g. by Waverley, 3 yrs air. T. Dihton's Peter Simple, 5 yrs ?qr. Maynard's Durham, 4 yrs sto 4 agst Peter Simple, sto 2 agst Patriot. After the second heat Peter Simple agst the field ; 2to 1 agst Patriot, and 3 to 1 agst Avelino. Three excellent heats, and each won by a length. SATURDAY. Th e Selling Stakes of 7 sovs. each, with 15 added; two years, Est. 1011)7 ; three, Bst. 101 b. ; four, 9st. 51b. ; five and upwards, 9st. 21b. The winner to be sold for 100 sovs. Mile and a dis tance• 4 Subs. Skipsey's Cuckoo, 2 yrs G. Barker 1 blr• bawson's Parthenian, 2 yrs 4l r• Wormald's Miss Charlotte, 3 yrs . . 3 Resseltine's Meg Merrilies, 3 yrs 6to 4 agt Cuckoo. Won by a neck. A Produce Stake of 25 sovs. each ; colts, Bst. 51b. ; fillies, Bst. 21b ; . . T. Y. C. li k f r• Skipsey s Slashing Harry Hesseltine 1 Colonel Cradock's c by Voltaire 2 A , 5t06t 0 1 on Slashing Harry. Won by half a length. 'date of 501. for all ages; three yrs, 7st. ; four, Bst. 51b. ; five, Bst. 81b ; six and aged, Bst. 121 b. Heats, two miles. th• Skipsey's'T he Bard, 3 y rs Vtor• Armitage's Peter Simple, 5 yrs ... 3 1 r. Bo wes ' s Th e Z egr i M a id, 3 yrs 41. . Wormald's3liss Charlotte, 3 yrs... P• Jaques's Burletta, 4 yrs ... 5 3 2 2tol on the Bard. Th ree fine heats. Mr. Clarldge has sold Aveline to Mr. Hesseltine for 50 guineas. NORTHAMPTON—Moxner. irROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.A ) match of rather an unusual kind came off to-day. A r z tebrnan n am ed Daniel , who dr ives the "old Northam p ton, " 1%1 a wager of 501. with Lieutenant Wellesley, of the 12th tsars, that he would ride a horse of his own from London t Northampton, and come in with " the Telegraph," Man. ! fi Qter fast coach, which leaves London at a quarter before 3,x, and arr i ves h ere at about the same time before twelve. T he wager was laid on the 19th of Se p tember, and was to Z l e off within a month. T his bein g the last day, and it i tl th, n g,l'retty generally known that the match would come off, thc, Wuo le of Bridge.strect , an d the line of road leading out of town to London, presented, from the thousands that had cembled to see the parties come in, a very interesting ap. i n eltte nce ; and as there were a g reat number of bets depend , that the the issue, the people b e g an to be anxious at finding 4 the Telegraph did not, as they supposed, keep its time. I: t .IY before twelve, by Northampton time, however, Mr. 1 ,._ 1 . 1 te1, accompanied by a large number of friends on horse i;7lt, who were residents in the borough, made his entrance ~jo the town, and was loudly applauded. In a couple of itullutes after the Telegraph followed, with a heavy load, being Minute punctual to its time. It was then found that the I) 4 lll 'ampton clocks were ten minutes before those of London. 11 0 11 L 'el kept before the Telegraph all the way this side of lit t r' l ifle, and the horse, as well as its rider, appeared very a:ice : distressed. The distance is sixty-six miles, and the time 1 10 ,...P 1 .ed in running was six hours, all but a minute. he ae is not known in the sporting world. The LIan HUNTNG APPOINTMENTS „blethian harriers meet to-morrow at HilarySt ; Fri • it St. Mary Hill-10. • Codrington's Hounds on Friday at Maiden Bradley-10. at , 1 '• Portm an ' s Hounds on Thursday at Barton House ; Friday , "iPle Ha ll 10 F , at • arquhar s o n ' s Hounds on Thursday at Sydling Barn; Friday, 1-Au_rrawell. 'T u • Candler's Hounds on Friday at Frieze Wood—half-past 10. th Aeq t Brighton Harriers on Mondays at Patcham ; Wednesdays, I ,e Race Course • Fridays, at the Dyke. d i 'he Brookside Harriers n Mondays at Newmarket Hill ; Fri 13i at T,,lscombe Tye—half-past 10. Alure's Hounds on Thutsday, at Euston Park ; Saturday, at s .ton Colville. p ut " . J. Flower's Harriers meet on Wednesday at Eccles—half -10 Saturday, at Bridgeham-11. T• he C• H. on Wednesday, at Sparkeford Bridge ; Saturday, at -•,,uttr's idge. k i ",; (r • Hounds on Thursday at Batcomb Wood ; Saturday, at if Weston Inn—half-past 10. T l , r J. C. .Bulteel's Hounds ori Friday at Meavy-10. do "e York an d Ainsty Hounds on Thursday at Whisley ; Satur le I:ill Moor—half-past 10. T h e Eddlethoipe Hounds on Friday at Galley Gay-10. T h e Earl of Harewood's Hounds on Friday at Cock Bridge-10. Hurworth Hounds on Friday at Neasham-10. The Cleveland Houn d s on Thursday at Easington-9. 7,. 1 e Sinnington Hounds on Thurs da y at Sinnin g ton-9. Charborough Hounds on Thursday at Ham Turnpike-gate. At r e • H. on Friday at Piddlewo rth Parish. • "illiPps's Hounds on Thursday at Dowlsdown-10. Af• -Lie Burgh's Hounds on Saturday at Bushy Heath—hf-p.lO. Frei - well's Hounds on Thursday at Wincheomb Town ; Sa ' T h Y Becht Ford Inn-11. Cheltenha:n Harriers on Thursday at Warden Hall-11. 11 ,1; Carr's Hound s ' on Thursday at The Chace. Th e „r Af enmoutlish're . ..qounds on Friday, at Craig—half-past 10. e Nast no s Har i n Friday at Felsham Farm—half-past 10. A----QuIZCS. Skili„ , RILLIANT AND ....,EM.--',..0 T il't 8 ,-.... ' ri, club to which these fast. trig te gl i . _Yachts belong seems doomed to tome inishal ) Lla would hive heentlithey undertake. The contest of yes . r ofisoli, in every but f or ti ttle best of any emanating from the Club this Leatsue unfortunate wounding of a man on the return of op as T he match had been got up to give the Gem an p ar aa th e — Y °J . showing her superiority in a stiff gale ; but,r than b Th 4 .atch of yesterday went, they arc no nearer the as mark board .i °r e• The articles of the match were drawn out on 1,, .. a `-tub m a Venus steamer, on the first day of the British Yacht t he - t ch (which was re-sailed), and they stipulated that ~40tntest should take place within. Pb fortnight, from Green- Odd s e , ° , Gravesend and back, and be saint: by Club rules. The Po sed teri by the Brilliant were six to four, sis#id the 301. prod their 2 ,Y, t hem was accepted IN the Gem, who fsisiki good w as th .• at the York Hotel, Wat.crinn-road. The Brilliant on e w ; favourite, and at starting yust4f4y morning two to ertg ag , s , i ° , f fered on her. The Industry, a very_sipAll boat, was ei ltliC — ' °r the Commodore and Stewards, but not sore than anchor Ho nine were on b oar d. The two y a chts were lying at • At at i ons as early as nine in the merniri,g, and proceeded to their Ill'ey canted r "nd well, but th e Brilliant was not lio aJert in hoisting as her adversary, but she still was well under weigh before her adversary, and showed the wav down. The start had been early, and in consequence of its being half-past nine there were but few persons out, the day and the distance not agreeing sufficiently to tempt any any persons from their homes. At Woolwich Reach the Brilliant, in beating down against the dead noser, was a quarter of a mile a-head. Throughout the way to the Half-way House the gentlemen were surprised at the speed of both boats, and the Brilliant was a good mile a-head on the larboard tack. At Grays the Brilliant had im proved her advantage by half a mile, but the Gem worked better, and her weatherly qualities were shown when the breeze freshened. The tide bad made here, and the two boats worked the slack down. The Brilliant rounded the boat below the town at 56 minutes 30 seconds past one, and the Gem at 58 minutes after one. They shifted their jibs for running, and the Brilliant astonished every person by her extraordinary power. She could only be compared to a steam-boat. The Gem spanked up well, but she was no use to her opponent, and in each succeeding reach was more astern. The Brilliant rounded the boat off the Hospital at 38 minutes 15 seconds after four, and her adversary at 45 minutes after. The wind or light air that prevailed was east north-east. The Gem at at the station was the weathermost boat. The yachts were not started untill three hours after high water ; half an hour sooner would have saved their tide down, and been more judicious. The Brilliant is a beautiful boat to windward. The three matches have proved that the Gem, in light air, is of no use to her, and, as regards the Gem, it was the opinion of the gen tlemen that she was not very well handled. We have before alluded to an accident, which cast a gloom over the victory of the day. Mr. Hewes, after weathering the boat, was deter mined to fire a signal. There was no paper on board for wad ding, and a kid glove was jammed into the mouth of the piece. On its being discharged, a waterman, who was standing on the Parade, fell. The glove was one of those which button, and was of brass, had perforated the unfortunate man in the stomach. Mr. Hewes, on ascertaining the injury he had in advertently done, took the wounded man on board the Dread nought. Mr. Hewes then applied to the Hospital, and a gen tleman, who we understood to be Sir Richard Dobson, imme diately inspected the wound. His opinion was that the inflic tion was dangerous, but that, if no inflammation ensued, the man would have every chance of recovery. Mr. Hewes was but a very sorrowful winner. He expressed his deepest regret at the accident. The Duke of Beaufort and Earl Manvers are among he last arrivals at Bath. The Earl and Countess of Beverley, and Lady Mar garet Percy, have left Orwell Park, Suffolk, for the Con tinent ; they will return to England in two months. The Earl and Countess of Charleville, after paying a visit to the Earl of Wilton, at Heaton Park, embarked fbr Dublin, on their way to Charleville Castle. His Lordship has relinquished his claims to the vacancy in the Irish representative Peerage, in favour of Viscount Hawarden, who will be, therefore, elected without oppo sition. The Earl and Countess of Mansfield have been entertaining a select party at Scone Palace during the Caledonian races. Among the visitors were Lord William Graham, Sir Stratford and Lady Canning, Lady Glenlyon, and the Hon. George Murray, Lord and Lady Ruthven, Hon. Captain and Mrs. Villiers, the Austrian Count Erdody, &c. Hedworth Lambton, Esq., M.P., and his Lady, have arrived at Murton House, near Chester-le-street. The new theatre in Norton Folgate, of which Mr. Cockerton is the sole proprietor, and which has been some time erecting, under the direction of Mr. Beazeley, is now nearly completed. It is a large, handsome structure, ca pable of containing three thousand persons, and to guard against accidents, is formed with numerous landings and doorways. It is said that Mrs. Meader (late Miss Clara Fisher) who has been eminently successful in America, is on the point of concluding an engagement with the spirited and indefatigable lessee of Drury Lane Theatre. The Earl and Countess of Munster and family are expected at the Lodge, Bushey Park, on Thursday next, from Brighton. The Marquis of Clanricarde arrived in St. James's.. square, from Compeigne, and afterwards set off to join the Marchioness and family, at Portumna Castle, in the county of Galway. The castle, which was partly destroyed by fire seven years ago, has been rebuilt. The Marquis of Hertford and his extensive suite are still at Brussels, whence it is said his Lordship goes to Paris for a short time. _ _ _ The Earl and Countess of Errol and Lady Adelaide Hay are expected early in the ensuing month from Scotland. After paying a short visit to Lord and Lady Frederick Fitzclarence, at Etal House, near Berwick, the Noble Earl and family will proceed to join the Court circle at Brighton. The Duke of Grafton and Lord John Fitzroy leave Euston Hall, near Thetford, this day, for the Newmarket Meeting. The Lord Chancellor Plunket sojourned a few days at the St. James's Hotel, and then proceeded to Dublin to open the Michaelmas Term. The Hon. Mrs. Blackwood, sister•in-law to the late and to the present Lord Dufferin, died last week at Wex- ford. - Stafford Smith, Esq. was buried at Chelsea, and (from a whim of posthumous vanity) in his full court dress, of a blue silk coat, white satin breeches, waistcoat to cor respond, pumps and silver buckles, rings on his fingers, with his gold-headed cane in his hand. This piece of va nity exceeds that of the nobleman who, while dying, hav ing been created a knight of the garter, ordered his star and ribband to be put on as be lay in bed, and so contem plated his new insignia. Mr. Bradbury succeeds to the vacancy of gentleman of the Chapel Royal, and Mr. Haw kins is his deputy. The office of deputy becomes one of consideration, because the holder is secure of an appoint- ment. Mrs. Ann Mitchell, of Bosham, who died lately at the age of 100 years, walked to Church on the Easter Sunday preceding in her wedding-gown, which was made for her eighty years before.—BatE Gazette. A distress warrant was executed on the goods of the Rev. D. E. Ford (Independent minister of Lymington), on Monday last, for the payment of Church-rate, amount ing to 10s. lid. ; the goods are to be sold on Saturday next. Mr. Ford has put forth a handbill, in which he very briefly and satisfactorily states his reasons for the refusal of the rate :—" I am," says he, " a Protestant non-conformist ; I consider all State establishments of religion decidedly wrong, and were the congregational form established to morrow, the next morning would find me a non-conformist, a Dissenter still. There is a point at which compliance becomes criminal ; I have now arrived at that point ; they may take my goods, they may imprison me ; I was going to say they may burn nae to ashes (but, thanks be to God, those halcyon days of Church dominion are passed), but not one farthing shall they obtain from me by compulsion. I have now set an example which I am determined to abide by, and on my dying bed I shall have the consolation of feeling that I was at least consistent ; that I did not preach one thing and prac tice another."—Brighlon Patriot. SHOCKING ACCIDENT.—On Tuesday last, soon after the Railway train left Greenhead for Carlisle, Mr. R. Gordon, one of the guards, imprudently attempted to pass along the carriages, by jumpin g from step to step, when his foot slipped and he fell, with his legs under the carriage, the wheels of which passed over him. One of his legs was nearly cut in two, and the other dreadfully injured. Am putation of the limb was had recourse to, and he now lies in a very dangerous state.—Carlisle Journal, THE WEATHER.—Wet ! wet ! wet ! ! !—and nothing but rain says the mercury. Yet whenever we see a fair " blink," our hopes mount directly ; but, alas ! in a short time on comes the regular drizzle, and down we fall below zero. We trust things will not continue long thus, else many a field of excellent corn will be destroyed. It is truly lamentable to observe the eager and wistful gazes that the Irish reapers cast over fields, as they wend their way homeward, that want but a few days of sunshine to make them ready for the sickle ; fain would they stay. but the weather presents little inducement. In this quarter, a few patches here and there are cutting down, but in others the corn is ao green that we are afraid there will be no " kirn" this season at the cutting of it.—Glasgow Liberator. The Postmaster-General has granted a mail coach from London to Wisbech, on the petition of the inha bitanis.—Slar in the East. New silver mines have been discovered at Tchere- panoosk, Krakoosk, and Ridlersk, in Russia. The veins are said to be numerous and The smelting houses at Zlaloust are already employed in extracting the metal, for which, hitherto, Russia has been tributary to Sweden and England. The Emperor takes groat interest in this new produce of the country. On Thursday last, October 6th, a fine royal stag, of an extraordinary colour, being nearly white, or a silvery grey, was shot in Mar Forest, by James Cattanach, head Forester to the Marquis of Carmarthen.--Aberdeen Gb- server. A lady, the other day, observing some fine•looking app l es in the market, inquiv4 of the owner if they would , 4 bake well , " " Bake well," exclaimed the woman, " bless you, ma'am, thgy're the best apples in the world—they'll boil, w bake,ih ; 3 ch Wo need not say that qii w) !l ua,ttes the g oo d wow) not keep her t . 2_l r roast a pples look o These Houses of Industry," says Paulicrer (the friend of Dap ) stvift), " were first contrived by Mr. I3en. Houghton, Weaver, M 4 3 Pirpr4l ofleer worthy Clergymen, for talking up cripples that he in t 4 stropt§,Polks without legs, that !My!" at the corners, and sucli like vagrants. We have the *ol i ve to hear that all the ballad singers, blind harpers, hackball, aP , 4 TP4Py other nefari ou s old wo men, arc in there already.' He 4408,` My nephew Todd, and I,subsprihe to it qjmu4lly, and wh en I di e , I w ill l eave it a legacy in my will," TFIE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER is, 1636. COURT CIRCULAR,. Count d'Aglie, the Sardinian Minister, and Baron Mal titz, the Russian Charge d'Affaires, transacted business yesterday at the Foreign-office. Viscount Palmerston left town yesterday for Hampshire. The Sheriffs of London and Middlesex transacted busi ness yesterday at the Home-office. Sir Henry Parnell has arrived in town from Paris. The Governor of the Bank of England transacted busi ness yesterday at the Treasury. Sir Robert Peel, accompanied by his Lady, left town yesterday morning for his seat, Drayton Manor, Stafford shire. Sir Robert arrived i❑ town on Friday, from the Continent. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. C. .1. Tennant, Esq.. Mrs. Tennant, and Miss Tennant, at the Sackville Hotel, Sackville-street, from the Continent; Mrs. Dunlop and the Misses Dunlop, at ditto, from ditto ; Baron and Baroness Ende, at ditto, from Portsmouth ; Mr. and Mrs. R. Hargrave, at ditto, from Foots Cray. DREADFUL GALE. Guernsey was visited last Wednesday evening by a gale of wind which, acting upon, the sea at the high water of a spring tide, caused such devastation on the eastern coast of this island, as was never before experienced, except perh a p s in the storm of November, 1825. The weather was rather finer than usual early in the morning, and the mercury in the barometer was slowly on the rise. It, however, began to blow rather freshly from the S.S. W. in the forenoon, increasing- considerably in the afternoon on the flowing of the tide, at which time the barometer indicated a rapid fall, and the appearance of the firmament to windward was portentous of a coming gale. By five o'clock it was blow ing quite a gale from the South, and the sea in the offing was already running fearfully high. About this time the sloop Britannia, Shean, master, which had got under weigh from our roadstead, with the intention of proceeding for Lyme, was compelled to run for shelter into St.. Sampson's harbour. The schooner Elizabeth, Bound, master, with part of a cargo of fish from Gaspee, also arrived off our roadstead from Jersey, whence she had sailed about noon, and there not being water enough to allow her running into the harbour, and the master not feeling disposed to bring up in the roadstead, she put out a signal for a pilot, when three pilots went out to her at the hazard of their lives, and having succeeded in getting on board, safely ran her into St. Sampson's harbour. At five o'clock the cutter Frederick, Kellaway, master, which had left Alderney in the morning, was descried in the Great Russell making her way through seas that were awful to behold. There were at this time, we are in formed, three hands at the helm, two of whom were lashed. She ran into the harbour like an arrow, passing within a few inches only on the lee side of the cutter Maria Ann, that had been hauled between the pier heads in the morning. A French chassemaree also ar rived soon after from the southward, and took refuge in the harbour. At six o'clock the gale was still increasing, and the wind having got to S.S.E., or within a point or two of the very worst wind that can blow from our harbour, the sea began to break over the outer parapet of the south pier, and to render it impossible for any one to remain there without being drenched. By half-past six the gale was at its height, and angry billows bounded against the outer wall of the south pier, as though they would destroy every thing► before them, then threw their foaming tops some fifty or sixty feet high among the rigging and upon the decks of a tier of vessels, most of them cutters, that were moored on the south pier rings, whilst on the pier itself the solid waves so emptied themselves that the water between the outer and inner wall was frequently from two to three feet high. The sea at this time was making au equally fearful breach over the breakwater of Glatney Es planade, hut as it was very dark, and no living creature could with safety venture along that path, it was impossible to form any correct estimate of the ravages which the sea was making in that quarter. The newly-formed land on the south beach was at this time, as might have been expected, very much exposed, and long before high water the greater part of a cargo of timber that had been piled close to the angle formed by the pier and the outer face of this land, was sent adrift. About one hundred pieces kept floating outside of the large stones heaped over one another to protect the land, and by breaking the sea no doubt contributed to prevent its being wholly carried away ; but perhaps twenty pieces, each of them a foot square and about twenty feet in length, were thrown over the wall upon the flags of the pier, and there, by the mere power of the sea, piled on each other as though by the hand of man. All the slight buildings erected on this strip of land, some of which were used as dwelling-houses, greatly suffered. At about nine o'clock, the cries of dis tress proceeding from La Jenne Sophie were heard. This vessel was stranded. The crew, however, by holding out, and watching the reflux of the waves, were saved. Shortly after seven o'clock, or about an hour before high water, the wind during a very heavy squall veered a point or two to the westward, and from that moment it began gradually to lull. The swell, however, for at least two hours after, was fearfully high in the harbour ; but by ten o'clock, when most of the vessels began to take the ground, it had considerably subsided, and they all grounded without receiving any very material damage. The pier of the Glatney coast suffered severely. We feel deeply concerned to be obliged to add, that a crack, of about forty yards in length, commencing at the angle formed by the land on the beach, is visible on the pavement of the South pier, and that it bears no equivocal indications of its having been caused by a loosening, not of the pavement, but of the whole of that part of the struc ture. Indeed, we have heard a gentleman whom we know to be a competent judge in such matters, give it as his opinion that a not very prolonged continuation of the severe shocks which that part of the pier received between half past six and half-past eight o'clock, must have terminated in the falling down of the whole of this already loosened por tion.—Guernsey Star. DEPARTURES. Mr. and Mrs. Botfield,f;;;theSaciville Hotel, Sackville street, for Brighton ; the Rev. T. D. and Mrs. Betts, from ditto, for Woodbridge; Miss Betts, from ditto, for Hastings; Mr. Doughty, from ditto, for Brighton ; Lady Rosse, from ditto, for Brighton ; Mrs. Hall Dare and family, from Nerot's Hotel, Clifford and Cork -streets, for St. Leoeard's. LORD BROUGHAM.---Great disappointment has been felt, and regret expressed, at the necessity which pre vented his Lordship from accepting the invitation to dine with the Reformers of the Scottish metropolis. We un derstand that the Magistrates, and other inhabitants of Hawick, had applied to secure no less than fifty tickets for the dinner, and that the applications from Aberdeen, Perth, Dundee, and other towns, were also very numerous. It was known that an overwhelming number intended to have come from Glasgow : so that, had the dinner taken place, it would, in all probability, have rivalled in numbers and brilliancy auy public demonstration of the kind that ever took place in this city.—Scotsman. The Duke of Newcastle became the purchaser of nearly three-fourths of the Crown estates at Newark, sold on Friday. The purchases were made at very high prices. Earl Spencer, Lord Godolphin, and other distin guished persons, have been during the past week on a visit to the Bishop of Ely, at the Palace, Cambridgeshire. Viscount Ebrington, with his eldest son, are sojourn ing at Tattershall, Lincolnshire, on a shooting excursion. Lord Brougham is not expected in town for a fort night. His Lordship left his seat, Brougham Hall, in Westmorland, on Wednesday last, as was stated, but not with the intention of immediately coming to London. Dowager Lady Vernon was taken dangerously ill last week ; an express was sent off to Lord Vernon, who was attending the annual inspection of the Staffordshire Yeomanry Cavalry, in which corps his Lordship holds a Captain's commission, and he left immediately. The following noble and distinguished families go into mourning for Lady Elizabeth Loftus, daughter of the Marquis of Ely :—The Marlborough, Montagu, Montrose, Wellesley, Wellington, Abereorn, Galloway, Erroll, Dash wood, Egerton (of Tatton Park), Tottenham, Fitz Wygram, and Loftus. Lord Suffield will take the Chair, on the 24th inst., at a public dinner to be given to the Mayor of Norwich. . . Al the York Municipal Revision, the whole of the Conservative objections were disallowed, from the signa tures to the notices being by the clerk of the objector, in stead of himself. Mr. John Bligh, the English Ambassador, and his Lady, arrived at Stockholm on Saturday, on board the Lightning steam-boat. At the Quarter Sessions, on Friday last, Charles Graham, Esq., B. E. Hall, Esq., and Robert M' William, Esq., were appointed visiting Justices to the Westminster New Gaol. The Marquis of Anglesey has arrived in Paris from the German Spa. MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—On Saturday last were married by special license, at St. George's church, Hanover-square, the Marquis Graham, eldest son of the Duke of Montrose, and the Hon. Miss Beresford, daughter of Lord Decies, and niece of the Viscountess Beresford. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. William Beres ford ; after which the company went to the mansion of the Marshal and Viscountess Beresford in Cavendish-square, wherein they partook of an elegant entertainment. At the hour of two, the happy pair set off for Bedsbury-park, in Kent, the seat of Lord and Lady Beresford, to pass the honeymoon. TIIE LATE GALES.—On Sunday three fishing smacks arrived at Hore's wharf, Wapping, with damaged flax, part of the cargo of the schooner Howden, of Goole, (a foreign trader,) wrecked on the Long Sand during the late gales, when all on board perished. Captain Phipps Hornby, C. 8., a cousin, we believe, to Lord Stanley, is the new Naval Aida-dc-Comp to his Majesty, vice Raines, deceased. A vacancy arose in the number of Militia Aides-de-Camp to the King by the de cease of Lord Dufferin. Mr. Justice Patteson has tendered his resignation as one of the Judges of the Court of King's Bench, his Lordship's retirement being occasioned by an increase of the malady of deafness under which he has long laboured. The hawking on Netley Common, last Thursday, by the Grand Falconer - of England, the Duke of St. Al ban's, went off admirably, and a numerous party afterwards retired to Bittern Manor House, the seat of Mrs. Stewart Hall, where the Duchess awaited their arrival. The Earl of Clare on Saturday last gave his nume rous tradesmen and labourers his annual feast at' Mount Shannon, when the company, in number 200, sat down at three o'clock to a most sumptuous dinner of roast beef, plum pudding, &c. The Noble Earl, the Countess Dowager of Clare, Lady Isabella Fitzgibbon, and all his Lordship's household, assisted to see that all the guests were taken good care of. His Lordship gave the health and prosperity of John Abraham, his honest and faithful steward for 21 years, which was drunk with three times three. Dancing was kept up till a late hour. Two splendid carriages are about to be shipped for Rio Janeiro, for the coronation of the young Emperor of the Brazils. All the ornaments are of solid silver, and are very massive. Lords Loftus, Alford, and their party at Flowe r _ dale, in Ross-shire, N. 8., have had excellent sport on the moors this season, having killed 900 head of grouse, 13 red deer, and 500Ibs. weight of salmon, some weighing 241, 20, and 181bs. each. Had not the weather been most unpropi tious, they would have been even more successful. The Duke of Argyll is expected in town, in the course of the present week. The Duke and Duchess of Somerset left their seat in Devonshire, on Thursday, on a tour in the north. They arc expected to sojourn some time in Scotland. The Earl and Countess of Sefton and the Ladies Molyneux are at Frankfort-on-the-Maine, where his Lord ship's youngest son, the Hon. Charles George Molyneux, is Secretary of Legation to the Diet. A miner named Andrew Taylor lost his life in Croft Pit, near Whitehaven, on Friday night last, in con sequence of a portion of the roof falling upon him. Mr. Villiers is stated to have wholly recovered from his indisposition. The Espanol vehemently complains of the Ministry having issued orders to the Intendants not to require from English subjects resident in Spain any contri bution to the forced loan of 200,000,000 rials. Rossini's opera, The Siege of Cori nth, adapted for the English stage, is in rehearsal at Drury-Lane Theatre, in which Balfe will sustain a principal character. Miss Bruce, Mrs. Bishop, Mr. Pearsall, and Mr. I , Machin, arc engaged for the subscription concert to take place on the 25th of this month at Birmingham. The Marquis of Anglesea is making vast improve ments at Beau Desert Park, near Lichfield. The Mar quis and Marchioness are expected at their magnificent chateau on the Ist of November, from the Continent. The venerable Earl of Egremont is, next to Royalty, the greatest benefactor Brighton ever had !—the chain pier is said to have owed its restoration entirely to the Noble Earl ; nearly all the improvements in that fashionable re treat have been suggested, and in part carried into effect, by the liberality of his Lordship, whose private charities are also unbounded. His Highness Prince Esterhazy has arrived at Chandos House, from Paris, where he remained a fort ' night, on his way from Vienna. The Marquis and Marchioness of Ailsa and their daughter, the Countess of Newburgh, arriye t l last week at Hassop Hall, Derbyshire, from Buxton, The Marquis of Ahereorn is making vast improve ments at his chateau, Bentley Priory, and also at Barons Court, where upwards of 1,000 men have been emploYed citaing the summer months. The Du oc i Duchess of Northumb er l an d are dis pensing ke their hospitality to a seleot Omit) of friends and re latives, at Alnwick castle i Lord.and Lady Lucy Clive, Lady Caroline Stanhope, thQ Misses Perot, iklr. and Mrs. Ayusley, Itio % ~.... Ii lie late Mr. Harris, chorus-master at Drury-lane Theatre, has left a widow and seven young children un provided for I but, most fortunate for ti i p m , Mr. Harris was a member of the 'royal *)Piety - of Musicians, from the funds of which the widow will receive thirty guineas annually, and each child trelve guineas, besides allowances for schooling, &c. ; and, as they attain the age of fourteen, 25/. will be given with each as an apprentice-fee. Hence the value and importafee of such an institution, SCOTLAND. On Thursday last Ben Nevis—the highest mountain in Britain—was the scene of an accident of a very distressing and melancholy nature. In the forenoon of that day, Mr. Samuel Macdonell, a fine young man about twenty years of age, son Captain A. Macdonell, Fort William, set off for the summit of the mountain, accompanied by two young gentlemen from the South, one of whom he had been ac quainted with in Glasgow. Mr. Macdonell having been frequently on the hill, it was deemed unnecessary to engage a guide, and accordingly the party left Fort William about eleven o'clock, to task their pedestrian powers upon an ex cursion from which they promised themselves much enjoy ment— " Youth at the prow, and pleasure at the helm." They scaled the gigantic precipices with comparative ease, and having satiated themselves with the magnificent pros pect from the summit, prepared to descend. They had loitered away a considerable part of the after noon, and by the time they returned to the point opposite the house of Glen Nevis, it was six o'clock, and the evening was fast setting in upon them. At this place the party had separated, one being in advance of Mr. Macdonell, and the other a little behind him. The grass was wet and slippery, and Mr. Macdonnell amused himself by sliding down parts of the hill to outstrip his more cautious companions. The latter remonstrated with on the danger to which he exposed himself by such:, a prac tice, but lie persisted, till at length the unhapp y youth lost the power of stopping himself and his ;got coming in contact with a stone, he was precip: headlong down a deep ravine. The gentlemaa in the rear hurried to where he lay, and found linri weltering in blood and quite insensible. He lifted him from the ground, and carried him to a spot loss dangerous in appearance ; and then pro ceeded onwards in search of his companion, whom ha over , took at a short distance. He briefly described the melan choly accider4 that had occurred, and directed him to return back to the place, while he himself made his wav to Glen Nevis to procure assistance. About an hour elapsed before he got there, but this being accomplished, not a mo ment was lost in obtaining torchligbts, and individuals anxious and ready to render what aid was in their power. Here, however, a most-painful cause of delay took place : the young man not knowing the local bear ings of the hill, and being otherwise confused and shocked with what he had witnessed, could not recollect the exact spot where he left his companions —he wandered about in quest of them, imagining every fresh turn or ascent would lead them to the fatal place ; and thus four hours were spent in the fruitless and heart-sickening search. At last one of the men heard a faint cry, which the shepherds at first thought was that of a lamb, but which proved to be the moaning of the second of the party, who was lying ut-. terly exhausted, and in danger of perishing from ealrl and fatigue. He had also been unable to find the spot where their unfortunate young friend lay, &Atte., ai the party car ried this gentleman to Glen tiuvis, where restoratives were promptly administered, avkti ho again re v i ve d. A f res h party , consistin g o f Dv, ()tighten, Captain Macdonnell, and the Rev. Mr, Clifford, now set out to join those already on the bill, and after a long and anxious search of several hours, they discovered the body of Mr. Macdonnell in the place to which it had been carried by his companion, but every trace of life had fled. There were several cuts on the head, particularly one large wound on his left temple ; and it was supposed that death must soon followed the fall, the immediate cause being concussion of the brain. The feelings of Mr. Macdonell's afflicted parents and friends, at this sad and lamentable bereavement, it is impossible to describe. The deceased was a young man of honourable and gentlemanly feelings, and we% qu,4l a universal favourite in the district, that his c1,r4:41‘ 4as spread a defy and gene ral gloom over tl i o wit, c town and neighbourhood. Much praise 'ts d A c to the t wo y oung gent l emen w h o wore w i t h Al r,Macdon e ll on the hill, 411t1 whose endeavours, though all in vain, to procure assistance, and succour their unfor tunate friend, put their own lives in considerable danger. The kindness and attention of Mrs. Smith, Glen Nevis, will also he gratefully remembered by those in whose me :nodes must long be graven the melancholy circumstances of this disastrous day.—lnverness Courier Qf Wednesdey. paid visits t o th e E ar l o f m - The Right H on . Si r R o b ert i"1"' —air, after having syjournincr fn. - P . ~. ankerville and Earl Grey, is a4,Threin, Speaker Es g -- ... .ew days with his relative, Charles John Gl at Axwell Park, near Newcastle. Lady have left ' of the House of Commons and his Castle Howard, the seat of the Earl of Car lisle, for the purpose of visiting Lord Dundas, at Aske Hall. Not only is the death Of Mrs. O'Connell hourly ex pected, but Mr. O'Connell's eldest son labours under a se vere, perhaps dangerous, malady. Daughters and grand children, too, are ill to such an extent, that Darrynane might be likened to an hospital.—Dublin Correspondent of the Chronicle.' REGISTRATION. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) The Borough Registration of the Burgesses of North ampton has just terminated. There has been a great in crease in favour of the Liberals ; and had it not been for the partiality of the Mayor (that Mr. Freeman whose dis graceful assertion respecting the Dissenters' meeting-houses made him so notorious), there would have been a much greater increase than there is. One decision affected the claims of a great number of the Reformers ; and the Mayor and one of the assessors, Mr. Marshall, a Tory shoemaker, residing in Gold -street, when they found that their party would he placed in a minority by it, actually decided against their former decision ! The case was this :---A number of persons resident in the town had their rates paid in compo sition by their landlords, but their names appeared in the rate-books, and all of them were liable to the payment of their rates, if their landlords failed in paying them. This is proved by the landlords generally refusing to pay sines the passinr , of the Corporation Reform Act ; but their landlords h ' ad.paid the sums for which they had compounded, and the tenants had made up the full amount of their rates, in order to vote on a church-rate question, and they now claimed a right to vote as burgesses having paid all rates. The first claim of this kind that came on was that of a Tory, and. was taken suddenly„ The Mayor and assessors immediately decided in favour of the claimant ; but when these excellent judges saw. how their decision would work, they reversed it, and a large number of claims were conse quently rejected. Mr. Hollis, one of the assessors, how ever, very strongly objected to this decision, and the Court was generally indignant ; but our Mayor is not the man to be moved by the objections of any one, and he willed that the claimants-should be erased, though he took care to re tain the Tory on the list. The assessors at Leicester have, on the contrary, decided that persons in this situation are eligible, and their names are of course retained. It is to be hoped that the termination of this man's ca reer as Chief Magistrate has nearly arrived. His conduct would be discreditable to any person, but to one filling .his office it is shameful. On Thursday last a respectable tradesman was tried at the Borough Sessi o n s as a rece i ver 1 of stolen goods. His previous character was irreproael:,_ able. There was not the slightest evidence against Shim, more than that he had a sack of corn in his possession, which he, as a carrier, had received to convey, to Woburn. On this sack he had given half-a-crown, which he was to receive again from the person to whom the corn was to be delivered ; a practice not at all uncommon with country carriers where they know all parties concerned. The Jury, as was anticipated, immediately acquitted him. There was not the slightest proof of guilt, more than his having the sack, which he had never attempted to secrete. In about half an hour afterwards the Mayor came in and asked the Recorder what he had done with -. The Recorder re plied, that he was acquitted. " Acquitted !" said the Mayor, " If you are going to acquit people in this way, we shall have the town full of thieves. .-The man deserved to be transported ; and, Sir,- you may depend upon it, that wherever we can summarily convict we shall not trouble you, for it is of no use sending prisoners to you, if you are going to let them off in this manner." The Recorder, knowing the gentleman he bad to deal with, made no reply, and the Dogberry took himself off in high dudgeon. REGISTRATION OF VOTERS. LONDON. MONDAY.--Mr. William Besto's claim to vote in respect, of a warehouse in Wood-street was, after some opposition on the part of Mr. ROWCROFT, admitted. In the course of the examination, the par4h rate-book having been produced in evidence, Mr. Rowcar, FT required to be allowed to inspect it. Mr. Suits reciised his assent to the request, and appealed to the . court whether there was any thing in the Act which compelled overseers to show their rate-books to any other person than the revising bar rister. For other parties to inspect the rate-books might be productive of the utmost inconvenience. Mr. ROWCROFT contended that the very wording of the Act shoWed that the rate-books were to be open to the in spection, at pleasure, of counsel on either side, as well as to the revising barrister. Besides, it was absurd to talk of the rate-books as such very private documents when it was well known that every parishioner had a right to inspect them. Mr. CRAIG sa►d that his present view of the point was, that the overseer was not compelled to exhibit his rate books to other than the revising barrister ; there was no information, however, contained in the rate-books which the overseer was not called upon to give if required of him. The vote was then, after a short public examination, allowed. The rest of the day was occupied in the consideration of two disputed claims, those of Mr. W. Clark and of Mr. God dard, in both of which the barristers' decision was postponed till this day. MIDDLESEX. Yestin•d a y the Revising Barristers for the County of Middlesex, Messrs. COVENTRY and KEENE, attended at the Castle Tavern, Brentford, and disposed of the lists fp.; the districts of Twickenham, Isleworth, Heston; Hanwell, Perivale, Brentford, Acton, Greenford, Northhelt, and Ealing. Mr. Gregory and two other gentlemen attended as agents in the Conservative interest, and Messrs. Coppock and Davis for the Reformers. The total number of votes objected to by the Reformers was 2.5, of which they sustained 12, and by the Tories 35 (including the names placed on the church-door by the overseers as parish clerk, but disowned by both parties) out of which they sustained 15. Mr. S. Dyer claimed a right to vote out of a rent-charge of 41., which was paid to him for the last 33 years, in lieu of a room over the porch of a church which had been taken upon his entering office, for the purpose of certain repairs which were considered to be necessary. Mr. COPPOCK objected to the vote. Mr. GREGORY, in support of the vote, called. Colonel Clitherow, who stated th a t w h en h e was hurrlwarden he recollected paying Dyer the 41. a year. Mr. COPPOCK asked- Col. Clitherow if the payment he referred to was not 'before the 1 3 7. - ssif"4 of the Reform Act, and Col. Cli+. l .ferow replied Vag, it was many years before. Mr. T A .EENE then rulel in the absence of all docu rP:entary evidence in proof of the claim, that it should be expunged. - An argument took place in the course of the day upon the right of trustees to vote under particular circumstances ; the case was deferred. The contest appears to be carried on with great zeal by the agents of both parties. BOROUGH OF FINSBURY. Messrs. JOHN TAMLYN and THOMAS FALCONER, the Barristers appointed to revise the lists of voters for the bo rough of Finsbury, commenced their sittings yesterday morning, at the White Conduit House. Mr. FALCONER received the lists from the overseers of the parishes of St. John and St. James, Clerkenwell. St. Luke's, St. Mary, Islington, St. Mary, Stoke Newington, Lincoln's Inn, and the Liberty of the Rolls. Mr. Penfold appeared for the Conservatives ; and Mr. M'Phail, the Secretary of the Finsbury Reform Club, for the Radicals. LINCOLN'S INN. (Before Mr. FaLcoNga.) There were three claims in the'lists of Iglalcoln's Inn, and no objections. Mr. James William Mills claimed to be registered in respect to chambe:s in the Inn ; he '.iad removed from No. 20, Southampton-buildings, Chancery-lane, about April last. It was proved that the house in Southampton-build ir.gs was in the parish of St. Andrew's, Holborn, and that the rates had been paid. It was stated that the Inn was extra parochial, and that the bencbers paid an annuity to St. Andrew's, in lieu of poor and other rates. Mr. FALCONER decided, after some discussion, that par ties ought to be prepared with the requisite proof, and as there was no evidence of successive occupation, he must disallow the claim. Two gentlemen, named Duval and Keene, who had re moved into the Inn, claimed registration. Their claims were supported by Mr. Penfold, and objected to by Mr. The cases stood over for proof. ST. LURE'S PARISH. In this parish there were nineteen claims and four ob jections. Mr. Rowland Wilks, the vestry-clerk, produced the list. Among the claims was a somewhat singular one. Jan Gilbert claimed. He had been assessed for a horse and a dog, and had not.paid the rates. He was not liable for any other assessed taxes —Claim disallowed. Edward Medley, baker, No. 'lO7, Old-street, claimed the franchise. The investigation into this claim occupied some time. He rented a shop and apartment of a person named Bickers, for which he paid 201. a year, and had a a separate. e ntrance. He had claimed to be registered ; but the parish officers had not put him on the list, It appeared that Bickers was rated, and had paid up to th e usual period. Mr . r; A tcoNER, after a lengthened 6067, allowed the claim. 'qr. Eugene Borhen and three other foreigners were ob jected to on thQ or•otmd that they were aliens, and incapa citated from voting, 'rile necessary qualification was proved. Au Italian, named Persa, was called to . prove that the , parties were aliens ; but he said he did not know them. Mr. FALCONER disallowed the objection, observing that it was always extremely difficult to prove the persons to be aliens. The Learned Gentleman then proceeded with the parish of St. Mary Islington, and rose at four o'clock. The Hon. Capt. Phipps, brother to Lord Mulgrave, again spoken of as a candidate for the city of Lincoln. ( ; . - 0 ,, , "... ' ~.., SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNAL Mr. Leslie, of St. George's, Hanover-square, has added a postscript to the pamphlet which we noticed some days ago, in consequence of the observations we made on his argument aLrainst giving poor-laws to Ire land. We stated that the lower orders are uniformly found in a state of extreme destitution and demoraliza• tion where there are no poor-lims ; and that wherever poor-laws exist the population is orderly. Mr. Leslie says, "I owe it to myself, to my argument, and to my readers, to show that I am not so ignorant of the con dition of Europe, or even of America, connected with the operation of the legal provision for the poor," as is implied in our stricture that he was not sufficiently ac quainted with the actual condition of Europe. We shall allow Mr. Leslie to state his own case in his own way : I shall take the countries of Europe in the orclec 'in which the worthy writer in the Chronicle has placed, teem, and from the most authentic documents, published uy the authority of Parliament—from the valuable 'statistical works of G. R. Porter, Esq. (the most recent of which, just published, The Progress of the Nation. : Population and Production,' should be in the hands of every one who is anxious to promote the best interests, of his country), from these authentic sources I preset;, facts to maintain all the positions I have taken in the 'oreceding pages, and to demonstrate that whenever a ro'Jr-law system is a part of the domestic policy of the cont./try, no matter what may be its political constitution, whe:tier it be monarchical or re publican—whether the rel ; •gion be Catholic or Protestant— whether labour abounds 'ar, ( l is well remunerated, or the very reverse be its cond;tion, one uniform and unvarying result attends that CP.tal principle ; creating misery, which it afterwards can ;either control nor mitigate. DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE. " Ho . l.LA'' . o.—Pauperism is rapidl y i ncreas i ng ; one i n every 'nine is a pauper. The poor colonies of Holland' in, 'lB2O contained 1,475 persons ; in 1831 the number ',lad increased to 7,353—an increase ill ten years of 432 per cent. Orphans, foundlings and children abandoned, maintained at the public expense in 1820 were in number 226 ; in 1831 they had increased to 2,297, or 916 per cent. The number of beggars in Holland kept at the public expense in 1822 was 300 ; in 1831, 2,406, being an increase of 700 per cent. _ _ " North Netherlands.—The number of persons relieved by the direction of the poor-house in 1822 was 174,802, while in 1831 that number bad increased to 248,380, or 41 per cent. " United Netherlands, with a population of 6,166,854, recently contained 11,440 charitable institutions, which contributed to the support of nearly one in five of the whole population. " GERMANY.—AS it is impossible for me to. Know what portion of this vast territory is intended 'fly the worthy editor of the Chronicle as exhibiting the. advantages of a poor-law system, I cannot enter upon tllis part of Euroco at present. " SwiTzEntmin.---Canton of Berr.e. Every one is en titled to receive support out of t}'.e public property of the commune to which he belongs +, if that property fails, then from the landed proprietors. The number of poor has in creased in proportion as ti:.o number and amount of the re soraces for their relief l eave been multiplied and the Go vernment of the civnton have declared, 'that numerous examples might he cited where whole families ha* .e lived in depenitence upon the commune from year to yr,ar, and even. from generation to generation, and who 'nave found in that resource their means of existence, while examples of a contrary nature are e.rtremely rare.' " But perhaps the most important evidence :Is to the pernicious tendency of the poor-law system iP.. Switzerland is to be gathered from a recent state de , cument of the Grand Council of the Canton de Notre pays offre done un etrange spectacle : une, 'bienfaisance pub lique et privee sans cesse croissante.:, et fine misere que la swpasse toujours. Ce contr.iie est plein d'instruc tion, et nous vous prions de Y,.ge pas I'oublier dans la suite de cette discussion. MAis un peuple qui se trouve dans un position pareille, peut pas la supporter long temps ; ce ma l a i se s 'il et Ait prolonge deviendrait intole rable ; it faut y Porte - :•em e d e . Telle est la pensee qui a inspire toutes les prJt - ,tions dont nous sommes appeles a vous entretenir.' " Thus it app'iars that although the public and private beneficence or.' that country is constantly increasing, yet the misery which it is intended to prevent always sur passes it. " ARK.—The poor law system commenced in this eoun+.ry in 1798, and no change in the law has taker:, place sinrse 1803. His Majesty's Secretary of Legatirn states VI the English Government that the poor law s:i; stem has produced a most injurious eject upon the iw;ustry of the people it has lowered the middle men tf, be poor men, and it has converted the labouring poor in'au paupers.' " SWEDEN.—It appears that, under t'„ie existing system, Pauperism has increased in Sweden in, a greater ratio than the population, and it is feared that, the moral effect pro duced upon the labouring class, b'y the existence of a fund upon which they have a legal claim, has occasioned, al though not in an equal degree,, many of those evils which the same system has brougl',"c about in England. The food of the agricultural labour,ers in the southern provinces is po tatoes and salt fish ; - in the northern, porridge and rye bread. Wages avi,rage the whole year round sevenpence farthing a day. • " NORWAY.- —Mr. Senior states, • that the great pecu liarity of the **system in the north of Europe is the custom of afforu . nr' s ?ow by quartering the paupers on the land holders ~n the country, and on householders in the towns. It 18 '40 be regretted that the information respecting tho e - Y:tsting poor laws of Norway is not more full and precise. "I:n 1829 a Government Commission issued, and two pro ects of law for the relief of the poor were d r a wn u p i n 1832, I j but the result is not known.' ENGLAND.—,AS some are of opinion that no such scenes of misery and destitution as exist in Ireland, where there are no poor-laws, could by possibility occur in Eng land, I would direct their attention to the recent destitu tion and misery of the entire population of the parish of Cholesbury, in Buckinghamshire, and to the TOTAL FAI LURE OF THE POOR-LAWS OF ENGLAND to remove that distress. I would then direct their attention to the fact, that that misery and destitution was occasioned BY THE POOR-LAWS OF ENGLAND. " SCOTLAND, too, has her poor-law system, and while it is suffered to remain a dead letter in the statute-book, no injurious consequences are perceptible ; but as often as tho system is called into operation, with its machinery of compulsory assessments and legal claims upon it, then the misery which flows from it is instantaneously demon strated ; and it is only by retracing their steps, and annihi lating the compulsory fund, that the evil is overcome. The evidence of Dr. Chalmers, before the Houses of Par liament,• and his yob:table works on political economy, sup ply facts which arc conclusive on this subject. " AMERICA,'--There can be no doubt of the fact, that labour exists almost to an unlimited extent, in the United States ; nor can there be any doubt that the 'remunera tion for it is good. Now—notwithstanding These advan tages—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 so- ciety. In Massachusets, where a first-rate artisan can receive for his labour from 9s. to 12s. 6d., and an inferior workman 6 s . 9d. a day—where the commonest labourer receives, per annum, from 56/. ss. to 671. 10s., and 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." Mr. Leslie will perhaps be surprised when we tell him that all his statements are beside the question. The question is, not what are the number of poor maintained at the public expense in any given country, but what is the condition of the labouring classes, and what influence has that condition on the preservation of order, without which capital cannot be embarked and improvements undertaken. What we have always maintained is, that a provision for the poor is essential to a good police—that without ordel• in a country wealth can neither be accumulated, nor properly en joyed—that it is for the interest bf the rich and middle classes that the poor shoul-a' not be left destitute. Where there is no provisio-, r for the poor, a class grows up with disorderly habit: s , whose notions of comfort arc low, and who spr P:ad moral and physical disease throughout a . nr, un t r y. When Mr. Leslie tells lug, therefore, that the number of poor is great in a country, • 'ne tells us nothing which bears upon the question. In Holland, for instance, the number of poor ; :s great, but the comforts of the lowest labourer are great. Holland and Belgium are cultivated like a garden. Cleanliness and order pervade the two coun tries. No starving wretches are allowed to disturb, hy their squalid appearance, the enjoyment of the pr s . sengers along the streets and highways—to diss•2mi nate typhus and other contagious diseases ; no 'sturdy brigands alarm the pea ce f u l cit i zens . Withou', a pro vision for the po or , w h o wou ld li ve in a co - antry like Holland ? As it is, Holland is, after Er () land the 1 richest co un t ry i n E urope w i t h re f erence t o n umber of inhabitants. Why is it that rich men viill riot reside in Ireland ? It is because there is a wrlnt of security for life and property. A man who should attempt to turnips, would be laughed at. They would be all taken up by the poor. 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