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AMERICAN FINANCES. REPORT FROM THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY. The Globe of Wednesday night contains the Report o the Secretary of the Treasuay. It occupies nine columns of that paper. The Globe says, " It will be found one of the ablest papers emanating from that department. It is replete with fact and information, and presents new and strong views having a bearing on the great financial question, which we trust will be carefully considered." Subjoined is a condensed view of the receipts and means, as well as the expenditure for 1838, as aicertaincd and estimated, also the funds not available in that ye it The Conditions may be seen on application to the Post Offices at Grantham, Dcncaster, Leeds, Wetherby, and Carlisle, or at the Office of the Surveyor and Superintendent of Mail Coaches in London. The Tenders are to be endorsed Tenders for the " London and Carlisle Mail Coach," sealed up and addressed, to her Majesty's Postmaster-General. WITH Wlll6-1 THE "TRUE SUN" IS NOW INCORPORATED. By Command, W. L. MABERLY, Secretary. No. 14,452. LONDON, WEDNF:SDAY EVNING, JANUARY 2, 1839. PRICE sd. NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSU RANCE SOCIETY, 26, CORNIIILL, LONDON. Notice is hereby given, That the HALF-YEARLY INTEREST on the CAPITAL STOCK of this SOCIETY, due on the 31st alt., will become PAYABLE on the 10th instant, and PRO PRIETORS can receive the same at the Office on that, or any subsequent, day between the Hours of Eleven and Three o'Clock. By order of the Court of Directors, F. FERGUSON CAIVIROUX, Secretary. RECEIPTS OR MEANS. AMOUNT. Balance on the Ist of January, 1838 D.37,166,251 98 Receipts from Customs 17,478,770 56 Receipts from Lands 3,136,828 54 Miscellaneous Treasury Notes issued Second and Third Bonds of Bank Unitcd States of Pennsylvania EAST AND WEST INDIA DOCK COMPANY. The DIRECTORS of the EAST and WEST INDIA DOCK COMPANY hereby give Notice that a HALF YEARLY COURT or GENERAL MEETING of the said Company will be held pursuant to the directions of the Act of the Ist and 2d William IV., Cap. 52, at the East and West India Dock House, No. 8, Billiter-square, on Tuesday, the Bth day of January next, for the purpose of declaring a Dividend on the Capital Stock of the Company, for the Half-year ending the 31st instant. By Order of the Court, H. LONGL ANDS, Secretary. East and West India Dock House, 28th December, 1838. N.B. The Chair will be taken at Two o'clock precisely. RAILROADS. THE NEW POOR-LAW. D. 75,294,206 01 EXPENDITURES. Civil and Miscellaneous first three quarters D. 4,029,674 13 Military, first three quarters Naval, first three quarters 4,325,563 21 rmirnate of above expenditures for fourth DEBENHAM and STORR will SELL by AUCTION, on FRIDAY, the 4th, at Eleven, at their Rooms, King-street, Covent Garden, UNREDEEMED PLEDGES in gold and silver watches, plate, plated goods, elegant jewellery, linen and woollen drapery, silk mercery, table and bed linen, bed furniture, window curtains, chimney and pier glasses, Brussels and Kidderminster carpets, prime feather beds, rosewood book-case, household furniture, a profusion of Ladies' and Gentlemen's excellent apparel and other effects, pledged with the following pawnbrokers prior to February, 1838 : —Muneaster and Warr, Skinner-street, Summers, Ba th-street, Smelling, Clarendon-square, Somers' Town, Turner and Son, Crown-row, Walworth-road, Walmsley, High-street, Borough. _ May be viewed and catalogues had at the Rooms. IRELAND-PROVINCE OF ULSTER. COUNTY OF DOWN. Alexander Moore, Plaintiff—The. Honourable Lady Harriet Porde, William Evans, Morris Bayly, James Miles Reilly, John Lush ington Reilly, Mary Anne Bayly, Clayton Bayly, William Mor ris Bayly, Henry Meredyth and Mary Anne, his wife, Andrew Nugent, and the Rev. Henry Maxwell, Clerk, Defendants. PURSUANT to a Decree of Her Majesty's Court of Exchequer in Ireland, made in this cause, bearing date the 21st day of November, 1837, I will, on Thursday, the 24th day of January, 1839, at the hour of one o'clock, in the after noon, at my Chambers, on the Innis Quay, in the City of Dublin, set up and sell to the highest and fairest bidder, _ . . All that and those the LANDS and PREMISES eallecl the HOLLAMOUNT'ESTITE, consisting of the Towns and Lands of Dromonaghous, Farranfad, Cargagh, Ballydonety, Maghera leggin, Woodgrange, Hollymount, Cranley's Quarter, Ballintogher, Ballvsugah, Russell's Quarter, and certain tenements in the town and 'demesne of Down, situate in the baronies of Lecale and Kinne larty ; and also all that and those the Manor and Estate of Ard keene, consisting of the towns and lands of Ardkeene, Lisbane, Ballybranigan, Half Quarter of Cookeetown, Ballywhillert, other wise Ballywhillar, Ballymaenamee, Tullymally , Ballyward, Bally cranbegg, Ballygela, and Kirkstown Quarter, together with the se veral Islands in the Lough of Strangford, called Scattrick Calf island, Ramish, Trasnagh, Inishamen, Leycarrick, Craggery, Islandroe Monastres, Bird Island, Longsheela, S an d roc k, Longisland, Islandfad, Islandcor, and Partan, situate in the barony of Ardsall, which said lands and premises are situate in the county_of Down, in tbo pleadings mentioned, or competent part thereof, for the purposes in said Decree mentioned. Dated this 6th day of December, 1838. ACHESON LYLE, S. R. For Rental, and particulars of Title, apply to Rowland Craig, attorney for the plaintiff, No. 47, Lower Gardiner-street, Dublin, and Downpatrick. FrIHE PATRONAGE, ADVOWSON, DO NATION. PRESENTATION, or NOMINATION of and to the RECTORY of the PARISH of LIVERPOOL, and of and to the several CHUCHES of ST. GEORGE, ST. THO MAS, ST. PAUL, ST. ANN, ST. JOHN, and ST. MAR TIN IN THE FIELDS, and of and to ST. JAMES' CEME- TERY, in the parish and town of LIVERPOOL. TO BE SOLD, By Order of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England, Firstly—Of and to the sole RECTORY of the PARISH of LIVERPOOL, in perpetuity, after the decease, resignation, re moval, or other avoidance of both the Incumbents of the Medieties of the Rectory, one aged 62, and the other 52. The yearly emolu ments of the sole Rector will consist of Stipend amounting to 4001., payable quarterly, and secured by Act of Parliament ; moneys arising from Seat Rents, and the Surplice Fees, and other Ecclesi astical Emoluments and dues of the Parish, also secured by Act of Parliament. These Rents, Fees, Emoluments, and Dues, for the year ending Ist of October last, are stated at 936/. 12s. The rights and privileges of the Rectory will comprise the nomination of four Parish Curates, at yearly Salaries of 180/. eac h, p a y a bl e quar t er ly, and secured by Act of Parliament. Secondly—Of and to the appointment of the sole MINISTER to the CHURCH of ST. GEORGE, in perpetuity, after the de ceases resignation, or removal of both the present Chaplain and the present Lecturer of that Church, one aged 47, and the other aged 34. The yearly emoluments will consist of Stipend amounting to 2501., payable quarterly, secured by Acts of Parliament, and the Surplice Fees and Dues, heretofore belonging to, or usually re . ceived by the Ministers. Thirdly—Of and to the appointment of the sole MINISTER to the CHURCH of ST. THOMAS, in perpetuity, after the death, resignation, or removal of both the present Chaplain and present Lecturer, the one aged 46, and the other aged 38. The yearly emo luments will consist of Stipends, amounting to 269/. 7s. 6d., con sisting of 80/. psyable half-yearly, 1051. payable quarterly, and 451. payable out of Seat Rents, all secured by Acts of Parliament; and of the sum of 39/. 7s. 6d. arising from Queen Ann's Bounty ; and also of the whole of the Surplice Fees and other emoluments, here tofore belonging to or usually received by the Ministers. Fourthly—Of and to the appointment of the HEAD MINIS TER or CHAPLAIN, and the SECOND MINISTER to the CHURCH of ST. PAUL, in perpetuity, viz.—of tile Head Mi nister or Chaplain after the death, resignation, or removal of the present Incumbent, aged 33; and of the Second Minister after the death, resignation, or removal of the present Incumbent, aged 42. The yearly emoluments of the Head Minister or Chaplain will con sist of Stipend of 1701., payable quarterly ; and a further Stipend, not exceeding 701., nor less than 50/., payable half. yearly, as may be fixed by Commissioners after every avoidance (the amount fixed by the Commissioners as to the present Head Minister or Chaplain is 50/. ); sf which Stipends are secured by Acts of Par liament ; and of the Surplice Fees and other emoluments hereto fore belonging to, and usually received by his predecessor. The yearly emoluments of the Second Minister will consist of Stipend amounting to 1001., payable quarterly; and a further Stipend, not less than DOL, payable half-yearly, as may be fixed by Commis sioners after every avoidance (the amount fixed by the Commis sioners as to thC present Second Minister is 70/. ), both which Stipends are secured by Acts of Parliament ; and of the Surplice Fees and other emoluments heretofore belonging to, and usually received by his predecessor. Fifthly—Of and to the appointment of the MINISTER of ST. ANN, in perpetuity, after the decease, resignation, or removal of the present Minister, aged 74. The yearly emoluments will con sist of Stipend amounting to 1501. whereof 70/. is payable half yearly, and 80/. is payable quarterly, secured by Acts of Parlia ment ; and of the Surplice Fees and other Ecclesiastical emolu ments heretofore belonging to, and usually received by the Mi nister. This Minister has the appointment of Clerk, Sexton, and Verger. , Sixthly —Of and to the appointment of the MINISTER of the CHL'IRCH of ST. JOHN, in perpetuity, after the decease, resig nation, or removal of the Incumbent, aged 76. The yearly emo luments will consist of Stipend amounting to 50/., payable quar terly, and such further Stipend, not exceeding 100/., nor less than 30 /., payable half-yearly, as may be fixed by Commissioners of the Church after every avoidance (100/. is the amount fixed by the Commissioners as to the present Minister) ; the further Stipend of 2 0/., payable quarterly ; all which Stipends are secured by Acts of Parliament; and of the Surplice Fees and emoluments heretofore belonging to, and usually received by the Minister. The Minister of this Church has the appointment of a Curate, after the decease of the present Lecturer, aged 72. The Stipend of the Curate will be 1001, payable quarterly, secured by Act of Parliament. Seventhly—Of and to the appointment of sole MINISTER to the ,CHU RCH of ST. MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS, in per petuity, after the death. resignation, or removal of both the present first Minister, aged 52, and Assistant Minister, aged 33. The yearly emoluments will consist of Stipend, amounting to 3001., pay able quarterly, secured by Acts of Parliament, and the whole of the Surplice Fees and other emoluments of the Church. The sole Minister will have the appointment of a curate, at a Salary of 100/., provided by Act of Parliament, and payable quarterly ; and the Minister will have the appointment of the Clerk and Sexton. The Patron for the time being of this Advowson has, under a local Act of the last Session, ( 1 and 2 Victoria, c. 98) the p ower , if h e shall think roper, of sanctioning the exchange of each or either of th e p resen i Ministers desiring the same, with a Minister not being a you nger life than his own. The Council hereby bind themselves And to reverse this privilege to the purchaser of the,.A.t?vise Eighthly—Of an; - 1 to the appointment of n'itiv ISTER to St. JAMES'S CEMETERY, in perpetuity, after the decease, resigna tion, or removal of the present Minister, aged 32. The early emoluments will be Stipend, 10 01 . , Payable half_ -y early, and a D ;vel ling-house, secured by Act of Parliament. T he Act fo r thi s Ce metery requ i res , th a t th e Minister shall be licensed by the Bishop of Chester : and it enacts that the Bishop shall have power to re voke, summarily and without process, any such licence, and t o remov e such Minister for any cause which shall appear to the Bishop to be good and reasonable, subject to an appeal to the Arch.. bi:thop of York, to be determined in a summary manner. A.ll are in th e P a tr o nage of the Mayor, Aldermen, and Bur gesses of the Borough of Liverpool. Th e %Nerving local Acts relate to these Advowsons and P n r d ese 2 n 6 - I!‘itions viz.)( to the Rectory, 10 and 11 Wm. 3, c. 36, 2 , " e '• 3 , c. to St. George's Church, 1 Geo. 1, c. Thomas's, 21 Geo. c. 24, and 3 Geo. 4, c. 19 ;to St. Pau s 1.12 a Gee.l -a Paul a S u t d . St. John's, 2 Geo. 3 c 68, and 7 Geo. 3, c. 80 ; to St. Ann s, 3, c. 38; to ' 10 Geo. St. 11.1artin's, 10 Geo. 4, c. 11 : and to St. mes s Cemetery, 7 Geo. 4, c, 5 2 ; and to all of them, 4, • 11, and 1 and 2 Victoria, c. 9b. Such Persons as are desirous of making Tender for purchase, at the or ~ T r ay receive F orms of Tender at the Cffice of the Comm issioner, ' 1:). 5, 'Whitehall-place, London, between the hours of 11 a nd 3 ; Office of the Town Clerk, Town-hall, Liverpool ; or a t _, e . "face of M essrs . Adli ng t o n, Gregory, Faulkner, and Follett, solicitors, Bedford -row, London. The T en d ers must be delivered in dup li cate, sea l e d u p an d di. rectal " To the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England," with marked thereon, " Tender for the right of presentation to the Rec tory of the Parish of Liverpool," or " fender for the right of pre sentation of Mi n i s t er t o t h e Church of St. John [or St. George , St. Thomas, St. Ann, or St. Martin-in-the-Fields, as the case may be] in the Town of Liverpool," or " Tender for the right of Presentations_u of Head and Second Minister to the Church of St. se v 1, in the Town of Liverpool," or " Tender for the right of pre tetation of the Minister to St. James's Cemetery, in the Town of ra t i v s 7P° ol ," as the ease may be, at the said Office of the said Corn .mciers, on or before Friday, the Ist of February, 1839, as 44 the I %Lnister of St. John ; on or , before Friday, the 15th of Feb ruary,__ 18.39, as to the Minister of St. George, and the Bead Ali . 'pser and Second Minister of St. Paul, respectively ;on or before a ,! . . 1 ,1ay, the Ist of Mareit• 1839, as to the Minister of St. Thome; St- Ann, respectively ; on or before Friday, the 15th of March, 1839, as t o t h e Mi n i ster 0 ; St. M ar tin, and the Minister of St. J ames's Cemet er y, respec ti ve l y • a5.. 4 on or before Monday, tin , Ist of Ap r il , 1839 ceived as to the Rect or ; but no Tender will be re pafter 12 o'clock on those days, respeetivoly, nor will any the _ paalbe noti ce d un l ess ma d e i n t h e sa id F orm , and &livered at ,„ or Office of the C omm i ss i oners. Torvin.fur,ther inform and particulars apply to the Town Clerk, nad, Live r p oo l ; or a t the O ffi ce of WWl's. Adlington, Gregory, Faulkner, and Follett, solicitors, Bedford-pol l ifinc,lon. b ~I JP : PUBLICATIONS. This day was published, with a Dedication to the Members of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce, CORN LAW FALLACIES WITH THE ANSWERS. By the Author of the " Catechism on the Corn Laws." Reprinted from The Sun Newspaper. Published by Effingham Wilson, 18, Bishopsgate-strcet. Price Sixpence. On Saturday next, in 3 vols. post Bvo. , price Twenty-four Shillings, R OB 0 F THE B 0 WL. A Romance of the Days of . Charles 11. By J. P. KENNEDY, Esq. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. In One Volume Svo., SAM SLICK'S BWBBLES OF CANADA. WILL BE PUBLISHED art the . 9tICINST. Richard'Bentley, New Burlington-street, Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty. ILIINDEN S ROYAL GALLERY of BRITISH ART. The SECOND PART of the above work was published on the 26th of December.—Containing:— Painted by Engraved by The Smugglers Intrusion Sir D. Wilkie, R. A...F. Bacon. The Ruins of Carthage The Festa of the Pie di Grotta T. Uwins, R. A. S. Sangster. London : Published by the Proprietors, at 18 and 19, Southamp ton-place, Easton-square ; sold also by F. G. Moon, 20, Thread needle-street; It. Ackerman and Co , Strand ; and by every other respectable Book and Print•eller in the kingdom. THE LIFE, TIMES, and CHARACTERIS TICS of JOHN BUNYAN, Author of the " Pilgrim's Progress." By ROBERT PHILIP. Complete in One Volume, Bvo., bound in cloth, price 12s. With a splendid Portrait and Vignette, a Fac-simile of Bunyan's Will, and an Engraving of his Cottage. London :—George Virtue, and all Booksellers. Published on the Ist of January, No. I. (to be continued Monthly), Price ss. 6d. with Coloured Pl a t es , i n l arge 4t o . T HE ANIMAL KINGDOM OF THE BARON CUVIER, Enlarged and adapted to the present state of Zoological Science. Illustrated after the Original Drawings of Audebert, Baraband, Cramer, D'Orbigny, Edwards, Geoffry St. Hilaire, Gilpin, Huet, Marechal, Nitschmann, Oudart, Titian, R. Peale, Pretre, Re doubte, Reinold, A. Rider, Savigny, Werner, A. Wilson. &e. &c. Sold for the Proprietor at 13, Hill-street, Edinburgh, and by Smith, Elder, and Co., 65, Cornhill. On Saturday,; Jan. 5, will be published, T HE BRITISH and FOREIGN REVIEW, No. XV. CONiZNTS :- 1. Early Progress of Papal Power. 2. Manners and Society in St. Petersburg. 3. Language and Literature of the Moriscos. 4. The Austrian Commercial Treaty. 5. Mrs. Jameson's " Winter Studies and Summer Rambles." 6. The East India Company and the Native Princes of India. 7. Improvement of Ireland—Canals and Railroads. 8. The Canadas. R. and J. E. Taylor, Red Lion-court, Fleet-street. This day was published, price 10 s . 6d. b oar d s , S even th Edition, of B OOTE'S HISTORICAL TREATISE of a SUIT at LAW, with Notes By GEORGE THOMAS WHITE, Esq., Barr;ater-at-Law. Also just published, 255. boards, The PRACTICE of COUNTRY ATTORNEYS and their AGENTS in the SUPERIOR COURTS of LAW at WEST MINSTER, with the alterations made by the New Insolvent Debtors' Act. London : Shaw and Son!, Fetter-lane. 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CORNS, Bunions, Tender Feet, Gouty Affections ‘...} in the Extremities, Rheumatism, Lumbago, Sciatica, Tic douloureux, Chilblains, Hooping Cough, and Ringworm, are a small part only of the long list of diseases and injuries which are promptly and effectively cured by SHARP'S ROYAL BRITISH CERATES AND LININIENT, in the different forms which are given to them to meet the emergencies of each case. Persons suf fering under any of these attacks are invited to obtain, gratuitously, full printed details, and the highest testimonials of these valuable preparations, from the Proprietors, Sharp, West, and Co., 153, Fleet-street, London ; from the licensed Medicine Venders in all parts of Town and Country ; as well as from established Agents in the several British Colonial Possessions, and most Foreign States. Sold in Packets at 13 1 / 0., 2s. 9d„ 45. 6d., and I ls. each, Stamps included. THE JANUARY NUMBER OF COLBURN'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE AND IIUAIOURIST, EDITED BY THEODORE HOOK, Esq. CONTAINS :- Widdlezig. By the Editor. Shakspeare's Historical Plays. An Evening at Sea, and the By the Right Hon. T. P. Polar Star. By L. E. L. Courtenay. Journal of a Residence in Little The True History of a Great Pedlington. By the Author of " Paul Pry." The Cloud of Canvass. By E. lloward, Esq., author of " Rat_ tlin the Reefer," and " Out ward Bound." Lettars from Ireland. By John Came, E N . Scenes in the Life of an Adven- Pacificator. BY H. Brown rigg, Esq. Lesson in Dinner Giving. By Benson Hill, Esq. Personal Narrative of Tristram Dumps. The Lesson of Life. By Douglas Jerrold, Esq. Fanning_ Improved. By Miss turer. Sheridan. Lines. By Mrs. C. B. Wilson. The Literature of the Month. Cr The New Year being a favourable opportunity for com mencing a periodical, those who may . desire to become subscribers are requested to forward their Orders immediately to their respec tive Booksellers. _ _ _ Henry Colburn,Publisher,l3, Great Marlborough-street. ARMY AND NAVY. THE JANUARY NUMBER OF T HE UNITED SERVICE JOURNAL, AND _ NAVAL AND MILITARY MAGAZINE. Contains, among other important Papers : A Call to Men of all Parties, on A - Military Execution at Barba the State of the Navy. does Letteit ehe Earl of Hardwick, The Waterloo Albums of 111 present state of the Occupation by the British of the Nalyl Island of Karah, in the Per- Sketch of the Campaign of Kos. sian Gulf, and the Port of tatina in 1.837. By Sir Gran- Aden, at the entrance of the villa Temple, Bart. Red Sea On the Civil Engineering of The Canadas. By a late Mili- America. tart' Settler Notes of an Eastern Traveller. The Practice of Courts Martial, dited by Lieut. J. R, Well. and the Judge-Advocate-Ge gm!, r . , R. S., Bce. neral's Department Memoirs of . 11, Costello, for- Military Occurrences in Canada merly Serpent nine Brigade, and India, &c, Iteiximent Distribution of the Navy and egion, now a Wank, Army in full lam itisChaLptain Rife of the Tower. With all the Naval and Military A Visit to the Kum , . Intelligenpe of the Menth. • 4 + Th os e who may desire to commence taking f , The United Service OrdersiJmOrnadiaUrntlte w ith the New T ear , are requested to sen d t h e i r " iy to their respective Booksellers or Newsvenders. Henry C,olburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborougla-street. ___—...-. -------__ A CARD c with whtch Messrs. RO W- I- G ENT I Y, and PUBLIC TO the NOBILITY, at large. The opening of a New Year nattirally excites the proudest emotions of griAitude for the unprecedented Ph-erPPPg LAND r4d SON have been honored with iespct to their celebrated articles, viz. ROWLAN ..'S itACASSA 't ' IL' for H AIR ROWLAND'S KA LYDDR, for the SKIN, and ROwLA N n,, s 013 ONTO for the TEI:01, pat 4 pf Which have obtained a celebrity pre-evnia44ly great. Messrs. R. aka §, whde they respectfully . so lirit a PPP l ingance of tha pitrenage, earnestly Cadiicn RIR Public against Imitations Oloach. ' iiOWLAND'S KALYDOR Sias the: Name and AddresS Of the Pro_ priejorg, DJ ; the Government Stamp, and in ittia . LAND'S ts DO N. 779 which j, ', on the Vg . raPPeTi ow. has the same on the Governm iii wsg ' Pi affixed on each hoc, anfi the MACASSAR OIL is distinguiglea tsy the Names on the Lable, in Red, thus A. RO WLAND A; SON, foi,) /I ATTON GARDEN , And Counter-sigtie,si 4,,Lyx. ROWLAND. It is i Aispensably nece,sary to ask for n ROwlaud,'s." tO Hattop Clacton I.cindon Jan. to. /1 1 I '• rIPO DANIEL O'CONNELL Esq., the _AL Apostle of Peace and Goodwill; or, as 'designated by his Countrymen, " The Great and Good." Sir,—My Commission to call upon my brethren to search into and take up the real name of their forefathers—ANGELS''—(not Angles or Ingles, literally hole-and-corner men and devils) pre dicted by Gregory the Great, confirmed by the writings of the Venerable Bede, and fulfilled by Egbert, A.D. 823—is at an end: but net so the warfare which has grown out of that commission, against any new adoption of the name of Briton. The objections against the Irish beim , . called West Britons are 1. The name has long been appropriated by the natives of the county of Cornwall, in England. 2. The name of West Britain instead of Ireland, will not sound well either in English or Lstin--Little Britain worse still : how infantine the Royal title of Queen of the Great and Little Britons —of the Great and West Britons, how incongruous. 3. The alteration of Britannia to Britain, or G. 8., is bad, de origine morover, it was so altered by the sole will and caprice of James 1., and probably against the will of the people. 4. The term Briton may agree with Britannia, doubtfully so with Britain, but certainly cannot agree with Great Britain. 5. The Irish have not the same reason for upholding the name as the Scotch ; out of love for the name-giver. He was, I believe, the first Royal renegade or waverer from the faith of St. Patrick, equally claimed as the forefather of the Scotch as of the James also sent Presidents into Ireland, who boasted they would cut with the King's sword King John's Charter to pieces, level their cities with the ground, and strew them with salt. His really Protestant Predecessor, Elizabeth, was toe discreet to enforce the cruel Acts against the Irish Catholics. 6. Although the English and Scotch may persist to glory in their new .fangled, half-formed, barbarian name, the Irish can have no more reason than the negroes to adopt it. Roman Catho lics especially ought to execrate it as a name, being a lie and against the truth : moreover, the name was anathematised (I am stating from recollection, Gildas or Bede, or both), by St. Augus tine, together with the people and their Church in particular, because they would not with him preach the word of God to the Saxons, though dwelling together in the same land (gene invitata); and the success of the Saxons, by the famous Alleluia victory, over the Britons, the precursor of their almost entire extermination, has ever been held by good Catholics to be the consequence of that sentence, and time would seem to prove the heavenly fiat of this authority of the Holy See. Ido not think the English would hug the name so closely if they feared the coming of the Britons to claim their own again, so much as they pretend to fear the subversion of their Church by the Catholics claiming our cathedrals and colleges as their own. Surely somewhat may pacify these worldly wights. I entreat you there fore not to take the accursed name of Briton in any form : but, as it is ascertained, en the best authority, that of the Angel, or Eng lish blood, now existing on the Irish soil, far the greater portion circulates in the veins of the Roman Catholics, continue to exhort your countrymen, as that zealous Apostle, St. Paul, sets example, not to wrangle about the distinction of sects and creeds, but rather, with the English and Scotch in 'Union, join to sing with ANGEL name,4 The Angel's Hymn, Glory to God in the Highest ;on earth peace, good-will toward men." ANGELUS Omnium Sanctorum Thamesis. Dec. 25, 1838. 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HENEKEY and COMPT., Gray's-inn Wine Establishment, 23, High Holborn, London BETT'S PATENT BRANDY.—To guard the Public against being misled by the numerous imitators of tho Pater.t Brandy, and to assure them of the utter futility of all attempts to rival that celebrated article, the Patentees need only state that the peculiarly wholesome properties of their Brandy— attested by many eminent Chemists, and frequently published since its introduction in 1829—are secured by Patent Right, which, in itself, forms a sufficient guarantee, if purchasers be careful to esta blish the identity of the article. The only Establishment of J. T. Betts and Co. is the Distillery, No. 7, Smithfield-bars, leading to St. John-street, where the Pa tent Brandy may be had, either pale or coloured, in quantities not less than two Gallons, at Eighteen Shillings per Imperial Gallon, for Cash on delivery. ALLEGED INCREASE OF SMALL-PDX.—At the last meeting of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical So ciety, Dr. Gregory, the physician to the Small-pox Hos pital, made a statement, of which we g ive a condensed notice. He stated that in the middle of November, 1837, there had been a sudden and marked increase in the num ber of patients admitted into the Hospital, and which had continued up to the present time ; so that from the Ist of January, 1838, 681 cases had been admitted, and of these 281 had previously been vaccinated. Startled at this in crease, he had made inquiries from various sources, and found that the disease was spreading in the same fearful manner throughout England, scarcely a town or village having been free from it since last November, and the in crease throughout Europe had also been great ; but on the Continent the alarm had been taken, and re-vaccination practised to a great extent. In 1833-4, small-pox was very prevalent at Copenhagen, and in 21 months 1,000 patients were admitted into the hospitals, of which 900 had been vaccinated. These are important facts, bearing on the prevalence of small-pox, and the present failure of the vac cine lymph as a prophylactic measure, and should these statements be borne out, will show the necessity for the immediate adoption of sanatory measures to prevent the spread of so dreadful a disease. An inquest was held on Friday in Brick-street, Park-lane, on the body of Elizabeth Gaddell, who was burned to death under very distressing circumstances. It appears that deceased, who was between seventy and eighty years of age, and had been upwards of twenty years in th'e service of Lady Cockerell, lived with her daughter in Grantham Mews. On Christmas evening the daughter went. out, leaving deceased in charge of her two grand children, and on returning home about twelve o'clock, was horrified at finding her mother's body lying within the fender, her legs being totally consumed by fire, and the trunk smouldering. Of course the poor woman was quite dead. How she had come into that dreadful situation can only be conjectured. It appeared in evidence, that about eight o'clock deceased had put the children to bed, having first read and explained to them a chapter in the Bible, and nothing further was seen or heard of her till the body was discovered in the manner already noticed. Notwith standing her age, she was not infirm, and was a person of very temperate habits ; nor was she at all subject to fits, or to sudden attacks of illness. Several persons residing in the neighbourhood were in a situation to have heard her cries, had she given any alarm when the accident took place, but nothing of the kind occurred. It was most miraculous that the fire had not communicated to the carpet of the room, in which ease the children would, in all probability, have fallen victims. The Jury returned a verdict of An the cou n t ry a f ew years ag0. 1,14.-sTlie Sacred Ac cidental Harmonic Death. It was stated in the room, but not in evidence, that a son of deceased's had been accidentally burned E xE t T % il death H Society met on Friday night at the hall of this establishment, and paid the best and most appropriate compliment to the season by performing the Messiah. They mustered strongly, as usual, making up a baud, vocal and instrumental, of up wards of 500 persons. The solo parts of the oratorio were sustained by Miss Wyndham, Miss Birch, and Mrs. Toul min (late Miss Woodham) , Graham , Turner, Novelle, and Atkins, and, for the most part , in a Very creditable man ner ; none of the ladies have that powe r an d f u l ness o f voice requisite to do full justice to the them es in this m ost sacred and epic composition, but they make some amends by sweetness and neat execution—in Miss Wyndham's case by most delicate expression, Brabotn maintained almost all his qid pre-eminence in the (*fort ye, my Penple,r , " Every Valley," and f! Hp that dWelleth.lt Re was eti thwiwically er jc , re d ip the spirited air "Thon . shalt break." choruses were finely executed, improving as they advanced. The hall was thoroughly crowded by a mot attentive and, seemingly, most gratified audience. Notwithstanding the favour with which the public generally have been disposed to regard railways, and the large degree of alowance with which for a considerable time after the opening of those finished wholly or in part they were willing to bear with errors of management and grievous disappointments in the promised accommodations as to comfort and punctuality as well as safety, it cannot be denied that this patience begins to fail, and that complaints are heard on all sides that railways, as at present conducted, have been far from realizing the fine promises made in the outset by their projectors. There would appear to be not only a want of system among the ser vants of the Companies along the lines, but also of subordi nation, which necessarily creates often much confusion which it would seem there was no competent autho rity to remedy. As an example of the sort of managemen, and the inconveniences to passengers, the following remarks recently made by one on the London and Birmingham line may serve to place the subject in a proper point of view. The time of starting was eight o'clock in the evening, and the train was detained at each station from eight to twenty mi nutes. Between Coventry and Birmingham the detention ex• needed two hours, in consequence of the engine, for want of sufficient power, having to be sent back about two miles to Coventry for the assistance of another engine, so that even tually the train did not reach Birmingham until half past nine o'clock in the morning, thus occupying 131 hours in a journey formerly made by coach in about 12 hours. In proceeding from Birmingham to Wolverhampton, a distance of 13 or. 14 miles, neatly two hours were spent. On arrival at Warring ton, where the train separates, one part for Liverpool and the other for Manchester, the guard was heard making the in quiry what engines the people there had ready, to which the immediate answer was not caught, but the rejoin der of the guard was distinctly to the effect that " then we shall be two hours in going to Manchester." Such, indeed, was the fact. After a heavy drag of seven or eight miles, the train came to a dead stand, and the en gine could no longer move it. After some time spent in fruit- I less efforts, the engine was detached, passed to the rear at about a quarter of a mile behind, and then, being turned upon the same line of rails, was directed with full force against the train, without any previous warning to the passengers. The shock, of course, was terrific ; the thick glass plates of several of the carriages were shivered to pieces by it, and se veral of the passengers were thrown down or pitched forward by it, and some more or less bruised or shaken. As predicted, the two hours were occupied in the passage to Manchester, a distance of 16 or 17 miles. The train leaving London at 8 in the evening, and the regular hour of arrival at Manchester being half-past seven, the next did not, in fact, reach_ its destination till half-past one. Much of the irregularity and mischief migl.t be avoided if a proper responsibility were lodged in the proper quarters, which does not appear to be the case at present. Backed by the passengers, one of the guards on another occasion did finally succeed at Birming ham in procuring an assistant engine, for which he insisted, on seeing what a heavy train there was, and how inadequate the power laid on. It would seem that the proper quarter in which to vest more power, and therefore a greater respon sibility, is these guards themselves, with whom alone the passengers can hold communication now, and are naturally disposed to rely on or apply to, as under the system of com mon coach travelling. It is stated that these servants are but inadequately paid, which, if the case, is but a short-sighted policy. The preferable way to insure the services of respect able and competent persons would be to have a respectable scale of remuneration, and lodge in the proper hands a greater share of authority. The railroad system of management, with reference to the carriage and delivery of the mails, creates moreover much dissatisfaction. So much is this the case, that petitions have been signed, or are signing, in various parts of Yorkshire, praying the Post-office to discontinue sending by railway, and to replace the mails on the road, and forward the mails by them as before. The management of railways, it will thus be seen, has become one of great public interest, and it is probable must become a subject of inquiry in the ensuing Session of Parliament, when it will perhaps be found that too large a discretion, and powers too ex tensive, have been conceded to the railway companies without providing those necessary checks and responsibility without which abuses will be multiplied. At present both the public and the Post-office are almost entirely at the mercy of the companies, to whom monopolies of the most extensive nature have thus been granted without the reservation of the power of it terference in the proper quarters. These remarks are not made with any view of injuring the immense property now embarked in these undertakings, but to stimulate all concerned to the fulfilment of the duty they have incurred to the public in connexion with them, by which alone they can become valuable to the community and profitable to themselves.— Times. To say nothing of the numerous accidents which are con- tinually occurring upon railroads, not a day passes that we do not hear of the insolence, the extortion, and breaches of faith which the proprietors of railroads sanction or permit. When the habits of a whole people are to be changed by the intro duction of new and untried experiments, persons who have charge of the matter have generally the common sense and the policy, if we may so say, to " gild the pill," by making the change as imperceptible and as little inconvenient as possible. The persons in question appear, however, to be influenced by no such caution or restraint. Having obtained from the Legislature powers with which they ought never to have been intrusted, they openly declare war upon the public, and having driven, for a time, all other modes of conveyance from off the roads, they resolve to ren der their monopoly in the very outset, as onerous and offen sive as possible. Not satisfied with innumerable one-sided rules and penalties particularised in their Acts of Parliament, they possess the power of making by-laws, enforced by pe nalties, which have the same authority as the law of the land ; by which means the Directors may, if they please, to-morrow inflict a penalty of 51. on any person wearing his hat, or his nightcap, blowing his nose, or singing a song, in any of their carriages, while for delays and losses on the road, or any of the numerous inconveniences which the public who travel or send by them experience, no remedies or redress are provided. It has been said, and we think truly, that the public will not long put up with these things. Either these railway people must alter their manners and conduct, or Parliament must make them. We admire the new and splen did powers of steam, and would give .every reasonable en couragement to their extension. But those who have the charge of these experiments defeat their own object when they render their adoption offensive to the community, whose sanc tion of them is essential to their success. We write strongly, but in no unfriendly spirit ; one of our objects being to protect the public from injury and insult; the other, to show the per. sons in question how much they are enemies to themselves.— Morning Herald. THE CREW OF THE BRIG THETIS SAVED.---. The London, Leith, Edinburgh, and Glasgow Shipping Company's steam-ship Royal William, Captain Richardson, arrived at Leith yesterday morning from London. On Mon day morning, before making Fiamborough Head, the Royal William discovered a boat to the eastward of her with two blankets spread for sails, and immediately went to her as sistance ; but, from the heavy swell running, and the be nu - abed state of the persons in the boat, it was with dial 9 culty that they could be removed from her, They proved to be the crew, twelve in number, of the brig Thetis of London, Captain Paine, from Hamburgh bound for London, which, early on the morning of Saturday, had, in very thick weather, struck on one of the banks to the southward of the Leman and Over, and after heating over the shoal, sunk in deep water. They had barely time to g e t th e l ong -b oa t out, and to get a small quantity of provisions and a compass into her, before she went down ; bid the compass being broken in putting it into the boat, and having no water, they were buffeted about by the waves for fifty hours in this me. laucholy plight before the Royal William f e ll i n w i t h t h em. By the attention and kindness of Captain Itiohardsoe, they are all now doing well.---Vcolsman of W e d nes d ay . The punishment of imprisonment, without precau,, tionary measures at the expiration of the term, is„ in nine cases out of ten, wholly insufficient, The beggar or the reputed thief is let loose again to resume his former occu pation, and to be retaken and again imprisoned, so on to the end of the chapter. At a recent meeting of the Mid.. dlesex Magistrates, Mr. Ballantine suggested that when the term for which vagrants and reputed thieves were co lnstead of thei r b e i ng t urne d l oose prison gates, they should be gent by rn tinipitotieldthweawsoerixdpiarteddr a turnkey to the police office whence they were committed, and gaoler. If this course were adopted, misery Nagistrates of the office to l and crime might easily be thence. he delivered pro,nco Huez n,ta o s ; iu e su r eh r e t Q the the d. which he belonged would,in all such cases, readily make inquiries into the individual's case , an d if t h ey f oun d h e had on place to which he could immediately resort for shel ter, or any hope of employment, compel the officer of the parish where the act of vagrancy of which he had been convicted was t take care of him for a day or twos be done, either by passing him to e tliing committed, eeuid9 his parish, or finding him work, to prevent the absolute nec essity of leis resorting again t o his former practices as a m eans of existcnoo, AI , I4PORP IN T ERM ISSION IN THE F LOW OF till so RivEns.—Loose accounts have lately appeared in some of the journals of a nearly simultaneous suspension of the ;saw of the Nith, the Teviot, and the Clyde, doring a short in terval, and about the time of the late remarkable depres gip Q the bacortieter. It is to be hoped that individskals Who may have opportunities of collectieg authentic observa tions regarding the alleged (wuqences, will take pains to d 9 so t sntl to 1 - fankinii them to some scientific friend here, tor, the purpose of being laid before the Royal Society, and used in the investigation of the causes of such phenomena. —Scotsman. Yesterday several members of the Committee of the Board of Guardians of the City of London Union appeared before the Lord Mayor for the purpose of bringing a charge against six able-bodied men, who, being paupers in the union work house at Peckham, bad committed acts of dangerous insubor dination in refusing to perform the labour appointed for them. The Loan MAYOR, after having fully entered into the in vestigation, said that the defendants had certainly been guilty of rebellion in a place in which a small act of insubordina tion might lead to serious outbreak. They had refused to do any work, and incited others to follow their example. lie felt it to be his duty, under such circumstances, to send each of the defendants to the House of Correction, to work at the treadmill fur fourteen days ; but he hoped that upon their re admission to the workhouse they would not be reproached with the conduct which led to the punishment, nor the punishment itself. THE COAL TRADE. Yesterday Sir J. Duke waited upon the Lord Mayor, in consequence of having seen in the newspapers a statement, in which his nacre and that of his partner bad been used by an applicant, who mentioned that they were the consignees of a cargo of coals, and made some observations on the practices of the trade. Sir J. Duke requested to be informed by his Lordship what the names of the captain and of the vessel were, which were not stated in the proceedings on the occasion? The Loan Maxon said, that the captain did not mention the name either of himself or his vessel, but expressed himself in the manner reported on the subject of the refusal of the harbour-master at Gravesend to allow the vessel to pass up to the Pool without a certificate of the sale of the cargo, or a no tification that she was to go into dock. The captain had, his Lordship added, said that he would at once apply upon the subject at the counting-house of Sir James Duke and Co. Sir J. Duke said, that no application whatever had been made at the counting-house on the subject since the reported representation before his Lordship. He regretted that such information had not been recorded as would enable him to trace the matter to the party who had appeared at the Man sion-house. If the vessel had been in the condition stated, and the master had made a declaration of the fact, her cargo would undoubtedly, under such circumstances, Nave been immediately sold ; but it was most necessary that care should be taken that no wilful evasion of the by-laws should be allowed. The Loan MATOR promised to obtain for Sir James Duke from the harbour-master at Gravesend the names of the master and the vessel. Sir J. Duke expressed his thanks to the Lord Mayor and Alderman Copeland, for the manner in which they had spoken of him in alluding to the subject, and declared that he was most anxious to assist in maintaining the by-laws, and, as far as he was concerned, preventing anything like imposition on the public. The LORD MAYOR said he was persuaded that Sir James would not sanction anything at variance with the spirit of his high reputation. BUCKINGHAM PALACE.—Orders arrived from Brighton on Monday night to prepare the Palace for the reception of the Queen, on Tuesday next, the Bth instant EFFECTS OF DRUNKENNESS.—On Wednesday night a market woman, forty years of age, named Mary Crowley, residing in Monmouth-street, Seven Dials, re turned home in a state of intoxication, having been out all day soliciting " Christmas-boxes." She sat down near the fire on a basket, in which was some straw, which ignited, and the flames communicating to her dress, she was so shock ingly injured as to expire before she could be taken to the hospital. ROMAN CATHOLIC SOLDIERS ORDERED OUT OF A CHAPEL—A. correspondent of the Londonderry Jour nal states that the Roman Catholic soldiers who compose part of the 64th Regiment, now quartered in Derry, attended Divine Service at the chapel, as usual on Sunday last, being accompanied by an officer. Previons to the celebration of mass, it • was intimated by the Right Rev. John M'Loughlin, that the subscription to the O'Connell Compensation Fund, which had been commenced on last Sunday, would be continued, for the purpose of giving those persons who had been pre vented by absence, and had not contributed, an opportu nity of doing so. As is usual on such occasions, he expa tiated on the merits of Mr. O'Connell, and the deep debt of gratitude which all Irishmen owed to him, particularly those of the Roman Catholic body. At the conclusion of his ob servations the subscription was proceeded with ; when, very shortly afterwards, to the surprise of the congregation, the officer in command of the military was observed to rise from the pew in which he had been seated in the gallery, and re tire from the chapel ; this was followed by the immediate withdrawal of the soldiers, who were marched off to their barracks without being permitted to wait for the celebration of mass. The writer having described this as an act of nar row-minded bigotry and military tyranny—th e editor of the Journal remarks We have doubts whether an officer in command of troops, who are present at a placo of worship, could, consistently with the regulations of the ser vice, allow them to remain while anything of a political na ture was being transacted, The rule whi c h es t ranges soldiers from polities, to be good, must be absoluta." A MAN OF SOME IMPORTANCE,—The following annoqucement of a marriage appears in a Lincoln Paper of Friday :—" On Monday, the 17th instant, at the Holy Trinity Church, Hull, Mr. Robert Willerton, bricklayer, surgeon, sawyer, ventriloquist, and comic singer, tempora rily employed to drive dull care away,' at the Caistor Union House, to Ann, fourth daughter of Mr. Samuel Waters, of the Free and Easy Hotel, Union-lane," - - Various meetings in different parts of the kingdom have been held in aid of the Wesleyan Centenary Fund. The whole amount at present raised it is considered cannot fall short of 103,000(, These district gatherings are to be followed by circuit meetings," when those in the humbler ranks of life will no doubt be found equally ready, accord ing to their respective abilitios, to contribute to so interest ing an object, The scarcity of provisions at this present season has developed facts of the existence of which many in this country have hitherto little dreamed. A state of things which must alarm every reflecting mind has lately been im perceptihly (and on that account the more dangerously) progressing. According to the statement of the principal men of Manchester, at the meeting of their Chamber of Commerce, last week, foreign manufacturers are not only able to rival them in the markets abroad, but successfully aompete with them in England itself ; being able, after paying a protecting duty of 20 per cent., to undersell us in our own country. On the other hand, the condition of the agrinitural labourers of England is represented as most deplorable. The rate of wages in Wiltshire, Dorsetshire and Suffolk, range; from ss. to 9s. per week, while the bushel of wheat fetches 9s. 6d. The labouring men in those counties are consequently obliged to live on potatoes and salt, and to drink warm water coloured with the rasp ings of bril.ad, The Sun truly remarks that "as long as such statements are a tolerably correct representation of the eonditon of the people, theft, outrage, and incendiarism may be anticipated."—Silurian. DISCOVERY OF A MURDER.—Ou r readers will remember that in the month of August last, we gave the particulars of the finding of the body of a man, in a field on Mitcham-common, and it was stated at the time that suspi cion was entertained that he had come by his death by foul twang. Ho had, it appeared, gone from his home about a week before, taking with him his watch and a good suit of c!othes: On Friday last, as a labouring named Page was at work in the osier-bed at Camberwell, in which, it will be remembered, the legs of the unfortunate Hannah Brown, the victim of Greenacre, were found, he saw something on the water which attracted his attention, and he drew it out, and it proved to lie a east. He immediately gave information at the ,cation-house, Brixton, to inspector Bass. Upon a further search being made, a hat and handkerchief were found, that have since also been identified as belonging to the deceased, Some other information has been obtained, ef hich it would be at present premature to make public, which leaves not the slightest doubt but that the deceased was robbed and murdered, and then carried to the place where he was found. Inspector Bass is actively engaged in tv.eing out the case, and it is to be hoped that his efforts will be successful in bringing the guilty parties to justice. The man Pag e who found the coat of the deceased is the ' sa me person who found the legs of the ill-fated Hannah Brown. On Saturday afternoon, while two watermen were d ra gging the river in front of the St. Katharine Dock Steam-Packet Wharf for a boat, they brought up from the mud the body of a man, in an advanced stage of decompo sition,, whL - A subsequently was discovered to be that of a -respectable Greenwich carrier, named Willoughby, who has been missing Once the 28th of November. On that evening deceased had waited upon the Harbour Master on liuncss, and had beep tald to call again in half an hour. He had .stAiMi - l uently been seen near the spot, but all fur- Ow traces were lost till the body wag found in the manner described. In the pockets of deceased were found several papers, and money, amounting to about 51., which he had r eceived on the day referred to. The body awaits a Ciaronees invest, quarter Public Debt for the year Redemption of Treasury notes for the year 8,089,440 64 Balance on the 31st of December, 1838 34,866,987 33 D. 75,294,206 01 UNAVAILABLE FUNDS IN 1838. Deposits with the States D. 28,101,644 97 Due from the insole cut banks before 1837 ... 1,100,000 00 Due from banks that suspended payment in 1837. and not payable till 1839 2,400,000 00 Part of mosey in the Mint Total D. 32,101,644 97 From ba'ance on 31st December, 1838, being D. 34,866,987 33 Deduct total unavailable, as above Available balance remaining......... D. 2,765,342 36 The Secretary of the Treasury says— " A list of all those officers who, on the 12th of October, 1837 (the time designated in the resolution of the House of Representatives), stood on the books of the Treasury as h ►ving neglected to settle their accounts in season, may be seen, with the amount charged to each, in the printed re port made on the 15th of January last (document No. III.) ; but several of these were not then actually indebted to the United States, though, having neglected to adjust their accounts at the Treasury, they came within the ex press words of the resolution, and, consequently, were in cluded. Some defaults have occurred, or been discoicred since October, 1837 ; but it is not apprehended that any losses will ultimately be sustained from them except in the case of the former collector of New York. That case has been recently detected, and the defalcations are supposed to have been continued for many years, and to have reached a large amount. From their character they could, per haps, have been effectually prevented only by penalties for false returns, a system of cash duties, and personal inspec tions of money and vouchers, with punishments for misuse of the public funds, similar to what was urged in the report from this department on the finances in September, 1837, It is intended to make the particulars of this case the sub ject of a special report to the President, for the considera tion of Congress." THE AMERICAN CONSTITUTION. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) President Van Buren, in the Yankee phrase, goes the whole hog in speaking of the admirable working of the United States' Constitution. " Agitating collisions," he says, " between domestic sovereignties, and temptation to interfere in the intestine commotions of neighbouring countries, have been successfully resisted, and doubt.- ful questions of domestic policy, have been quietly settled by mutual forbearance." This would be good if true ;" but, unfortunately for his veracity, the present state of affairs in America proves the very reverse. Why is Great Britain obliged to keep up an army of twelve thousand men in Canada? Because the Executive has not the power to prevent the citizens from interfering in the concerns of their neighbours. How comes it that Texas is occup;ed by Atnericei r squatters t The same an swer. Why is Lynch 'law inflicted on the \Vilberforces and Clarksons an broughams of the young republic, and no punishment follows ? Because the Executive is power less, In one State the Speaker of a Provincial Congress rushes from his chair, and stabs to death in the senate-house a fellow-citizen, and no punishment follows. In another State, according to the last accounts, the Speaker, and nearly all the members are expelled, and the sovereign people occupy the Halls of Legislation in Pensylvania—the land of the religious and peaceful Quaker, Penn. Who are to punish the sovereign people ? The excitement on the Slave Question, so far from being" quietly settled by mu tual forbearance,' is on the point of breaking out with tenfold violence. It cannot be smothered much longer. Can the Executive protect a lecturing abolitionist in Ca rolina or Georgia ? Or could Congress pass a law for protecting slaves, which would be obeyed by the slave breeJing States ? Many of the articles of the American constitution are excellent, and we would do well to copy them ; but there are some radically bad, and others which have not yet been tested by experience, and their praises Van Buren might have left to be sung by his great-grandsou. The conduct of the American citizens is increasing Toryism in the States to a vast extent, and before fifty yee,rs pass away the Southern States may have a Chief 1 1 4 lagistrate dilating in his Message on the beauties of a limited Mo narchy, and something more. REFUSAL OF A CIIURCII-RATE IN LLANFI II A NGEL-AR-ARTIL—NIN Dickins. the Churchwarden, called a special parish meeting, by a notice posted on the Church door and other places, five or six days prior to the holding of the meeting. The notice stated that the meeting was convened to assess a Church-rate for the present year, and Friday, December 14th, 1838, was fixed for holding the same, at the parish church, at ten o'clock in the forenoon. Conformable to the notice, the parish officers and others concerned assembled, and in the absence of the Rev. Mr. James. the Curate, on the motion of Mr. D. Beynon, se conded by Mr. J. Phillips, Mr. E. Evans was elected chairman. The notice of the meeting was read by the Vestry Clerk, and on finding that the last rate was not ac counted for, a motion was made by Mr. David Beynon to adjourn the meeting to December 12th, 1839, which was seconded by Mr. J. Phillips. Soon after the Rev. Mr. James entered, and after a long dispute on each side, a general poll was agreed upon for three days, that is to say, till four o'clock in the afternoon of that day, and from eight in the morning till four in th e even i ng o f b oth Satur day and Mond a y. Both sides exerted themselves to the uttermost : the horses had a weary time of it. When the poll was made up on Monday evening, there was for the adjournment 106 ; against the motion, 75; majority for the adjournment, 31. If this rate had been carried, so small a sum as a halfpenny in the pound would have been sufficient for the purposes of the rate. But it was resisted on principle,—sound, rational, consistent, and Christian principle, and most cordially do we congratulate the majo rity on the gratifying and triumph an t resu l t. W e are not ignorant of the b r ib ry and intimidation that was resorted to by some of the minority ; but we have no room to nar rate the particulars that have reached us.—Weishnzan. MUNIFICENT GIFT.--It is with no ordinary pleasure that we have to record another act of princely munificence on the part of our highly -respected townsnxn, William Dorward, Esq. This is a donation of 2,00(11, to the Congregational Union of Scotland, a moiety or which, by the appointment of the donor, is to be applAed to the uses of the Glasgow Theological Academy, ur aer the care of the Rev. Greville Ewing and Dr. War - ';iaw. By this, and a former donation of the same amr,unt, these institu tions are laid under everlasting obligEions to Mr. Dorward. Such beneficence is above commer.itation. Whilst Mr. D. is by daily bounty supplying the ilnmediate wants of the poor in the town, and the House of nefuge, erected by his generosity, is sending out fair promise of a kindly, hospitable shelter for many a weary head, or home for many a friendless outcast in this and coming generations, such a donation as this de clares him to be awake to the spiritual wants of his fellow countrymen, and that he is seeking to to remove it, in the speediest and most direct method, by sending ministers to itinerate in the destitute and thinly-peopled districts, in, which there must always fewer facilities for spiritual in struction than in others more densely peopled. We only wish that many of the wealthyi n the ..Ind would approve their zeal for the spiritually ignorant poor in the same manner.—Montrose Review. AN IRISH ATTORNEY.—On the trial of an action brought by an attorney for the recovery of Lis bill of costs, which was heard in the Court of Exchequer, Dublin, last Wednesday, the defendant's Counsel read from the plain tiff's bill the following items :—" To anxiety of mind and want of sleep occasioned thereby, for fourteen days, at 108. per diem, 71. As . I was walking through town about your business I was run over by a car, and I did not know what became of me until I found myself in an apothecary's shop, very sore and uneasy, in fact, I escaped by the skin of my teeth from death —for all this lost time I was a fortnight sick) and for anxiety of mind, not talking of great bodily pain, I charge the moderate sum of 12/. To time lost in endeavouring to borrow money for you, which I could not get, 10/. To great inconvenience in selling your house, and loss of time in drawing up deeds and leases, 100/. l * (Roars of laughter, in which the Court heartily joined.) The Chief Baron charged the Jury, that as the action was brought on a judgment obtained by the plaintiff, they must find a verdict for him, but recommended the defendant to bring the can io n a court of equity.