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HE PRINCIPAL OFFICERS of HER that fkey are re a dy to DISPOSE OF, such pers as ons may willing to tender for the same, a uantitv of UN SERVICE BLE BRASS an d IRON ORDNANCE, Old Shot, Shells, fast and Wrought Iron, &c., &c., in Store at the Royal Arsenal at Woolwich, which have been divided into Lots, and may be viewed upo n app li cat i on to t h e S tore k eeper at th a t pl ace a n y day ''' un `las 1) exce P te( pre vious to the day fixed for the delivery of the T enders. .‘ catal ogue of the severa l lots may b e o b ta i ne d b y p e rsons I.v Woolwi c h, to b ecome purc h asers at th e St ore keeper's Office, .‘ Dulwi c h, and at the Secretary ' s Office i n P a ll Mall, where th e Tenders for the whole or :any number of the said Lots are "' hu t , / t d . elivered on or b e f or e Saturday, the 23d November, By order of the Board, R. BYRAM, Secretary. MANCHESTER and LEEDS RAILWAY. TENDERS FOR LOANS. R T he DIRECTORS of the MANCHESTER and LEEDS ntILWAY COMPANY are prepared to receive TEN on RS for th e LOAN of MONEY, in sums of not less than e Thousand Pounds each, secured by the Bonds of the Coin -lanY, for the period of two sr not exceeding fi v e years. In terest thereon will be allowed at the rate of Five per Cent. per an payable half-yearly, in London or Manchester. T he Tenders to be address d to the Chairman. Dated this sth day of November, 1839. H. HOULDSWORTH, Deputy Chairman. Cl ew"-buildings, Aunts-bank, Manchester. ULL AND LONDON STEAM SHIPS, to and from St. Katherine's Wharf. CHANGE of DAYS for the WINTER MONTHS. u The Public are respectfully informed, that one of the Humber i jnon Steam Company's safe and powerful First Class Steamers, "Ilberforce, Vivid, and Water Witch, will, on and after Wed nesdaY, the 13th November instant, leave London every ' Wed- PKlay ant 4 Saturday Morning, at Eivht o'clock precisely, and MI Hull same days and time. 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These PILLS have now been before the Pub lic for more „ icsitn FORTY YEARS, and, so unexceptionably use:ul have they proved, both to individuals and families, that they have Oita.ined a reputation and patronage which no medicine of a sitnilue kind can pretend to. They are prepared without a particle of mercury or other mineral. Their qualities a re not at all injured by , e, or change of climat e . In takin g these pills, no eon " A-tn nment or ateration of diet (avoiding intemperance) is re tared. They seldom operate till eight or Liver and Bowels, ten hours after n , ; en, and then gent Y. They relieve the 1 "''• tone to the Stomach, strengthen the digestive organs, and invigorate the functions of the whole b od y , and thus be come to both sexes (for they are quite ada p ted to each) an Uhl, means of averting disease and rest orin g health. u r t te their b en eficial effects; Messrs. 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" God uses not to capti vate under a p erpetual childhood ,f Prescription, but trusts man w ith the g ift of reason to be his "o chooser. There were bu t little work left for preach th!! if law and compulsion should grow so fast upon those UgS which heretofore were governed only by exhortation. • . . . . . . _ hearst, what more national corruption, for which England r ill abroad, than household gluttony ; who shall be the inhi bit of our daily rioting ? And what shall be done to iniii ut,the multitudes that frequent those houses where (I..unken re'S is sold and harboured? Lastly, who shall forbid and cepa 2te all idle resort, all evil company? These things will be, ""d Must be. th is He who were pleasantly disp osed could not well avoid to liken 8 Act' t o the exploit of that g allant man, who thought to r"und up the crows by shutting his park gate. • • • Impunity and remissness for certain are dithe bane of a. corn "wealth, but here the great art lies, to sc er the l ap , 19 is to bid, and restraint, an 4 u nishment,:and in what things persuasion only is to work. If ev er y action which is good or 0 1 ' in man at ripe years were to b e under p ittance, perscrip ii° z? , and compulsion, what wer e virtue but a name, what ,- :aise could be then due to well d oin g , what, gramercy, to be 1 1 ° uor, just, or continent ? " Wherefore did he create p assions within us, pleasures round about 3IS, but that these rightly tem p ered are the very ingre dients .of virtue? Why then should we affect a rigour cont rar y the roavner of God and of nature? • • • c ;Were 1 the chosen , " he ar him y e aiders and promoters of, 'tisllgilto,, speaks, and his is a name— " such as ne'er Shall sink.whi:e there' s an echo left to air," i 6 a dra m o f viell,doiNZ should be preferred before many times as l t iluch the forcible hindrznee of evil doing. For God sure Pas ii the growth ancicompleting of one virtuous person, more an the restraint of ten vicious."—Extracts. National Education.--" Ths Bishop of Norwich said the l ' f lea a clergy which was now passing away had had the most alunrable op tunity of instituting schools in their parishes, .por and of educating the people in the principles of the Church of " All that mortal art bath wrought, 'Eklgland. If this had been done thirty years ago. and educa. In our cell returns to nought; tints extended to . teaching the children obedience to and re- The molten gold returns to clay, 'Pees for the law, and the frugal husbanding of their means, it The polish'd diamond melts away. weuld have been impossible to have raised infuriated bands of All is altered, all is flown— lrial_ iont,ents like the Chartists of the present day, and England Nought stands fast but truth alone." would hasse a ver different aspect. He did not cast a general In Politics we shall be Radicals, and devotofedth to the People, co ndemnation onyihe.clergy of that p eriod, for many of them utterly regardless of the smiles or frowns e and had fully dove their duty ; but he regretted that so golden an interested few. Such a course, we know, is always perilous Opportunity hid p asse d—an opportunity that would take the and often profitless— greatest labour and energy of those anxious to impose on the " Hard is his task who edits—thankless joii— rising generation to reclaim Alike A weekly journal for the factious mob ; The Sun, No. 14 65/ " We cannot on this' , im Auguit the Bth, 1839. Alike undone, or if he praise or rail ; ceasion lay down our pen without en deavouring to impress on the religious and Protestant part of For this affects his safety, that his sale He sinks, at last, in luckless limbo set-- the community, the unspeakable importance o: speedily taking If loud, for libel—and if dumb, for debt." measures to purify and purge the Church." We sha always be happy, when we can agree with those "If there be truth or euusisteney in ma o s i n cere Protestants men who, nowever they may sometimes err, have rendered must turn against those have iven such prodigious ' advantages e fficient service, and made many sacrifices for the cause of to the Popish superstition."--The Morning Sun, Tuesday, liberty; but w shall not advocate that wait-a-while policy September 10, 18 39 . wh ich holds out promises to suffering millions which are never With this exhibition before the count ry, . " e., the Head f likely th e Church having taken no exception, but • • • o aly father, Time, is weak and grey, l "how impiety and profaneness should only providing, to be real.zed be delivered," "if the With waiting fora better day," ' A'ulden o pportunity" had not been suffered to escape b y the We s h a ll judge the Government by its acts, and shall oppose away," . at who se generation of Clergy passingdoo rs l a y the aPremier, be he Whig, Tory, or Radical, when we find him reFoach of " infuriated bands of Chartists of the present day," averse to the removal of the ; emoant of the Penal Code, which, then a Journalist with his ten thousand tongues stimulating the absurdly enough, forbids the appointment of a Roman Catho- People to ' and "etsurtn against those lie Chancellor —a Colonial Secretary, when he resists the " purge and purify a Churcha,'d N v ho have givenadvantages to the P°P'sb Ballot ; or even so amiable and enlightened a Statesman as superstition," such prodigious what should be their compunction .. See The the pres — ent Irish Secretary, when he seems half disinclined S an, October 21,1 and November Ist. . Pcblished in 1820, price ld. (e'en a pennyworth) shall put to g ran t an increase of popular privileges to the Irish people. Conscientiously believing that Ireland never can become gene " Mark now how a plain tale rally h a p py a r id conten"ted until she again has the advantage of a DOMESTIC LEGISLATURE, we shall persevere, by you down." Considerations on the General Distribution of the Bible. arguments and facts, to advocate the ioy the late Daniel Carpenter, Esq., Author of " Dialogues a nd Letters on the Doctrines of the Established Church." " The s t of liberality (as it is pin termed) that is now so . as not more beneficial to Ireland than the Sister Kingdom. We will brio ' REPEAL OF THE UNION, Kingdom. 1 a er n e iversally diffused throughout this country, and so rapidly in- aided the by the light b • humour. We shall be g e :n re t T i: ttlfieolfdotulriev‘h,aeas: we e til s l h e a ry o il f reason, g iven birth to ideas on the rigade of wit and staid with the steady, and mirthful with the light-hearted. " l ug , appears to me to have oubject of religion, more particularly, so threatenunprecedented, uthn; t om w g e rav e to reisonable, and, in my opinion, so dangerous, as to , glittering like a brook in the sunshine," y, subversion, at no very distant period, to all order and tiovern meld, civil and religious." " That there are great errors in the c .omposition of our The Statesm will find; "'ln lively to severee.. "run on an us political n Lawyer will discover ' th F a r d . . t ' kno w a thing or two • the Physician shall Chur c h Establishment, (I mean in the disposal and a minis ra- proclaim us lovers of the healing art • 'the Sportsman shall tiun of it s property) cannot be denied : but these are no argu- l earn that we can clear a ccuntry with h im. " THE WORLD" Meats f or it s ut t ert ' annihilation. Every human institution, to t h e L a dy of Fashion shall be as a Court Gazette, and the with how much widom soever it may have been formed, is liable A gri culturist shall not have to complain of our egr ece • the to error and abuse. The constitution of a Government, like i n t e rests of the . Merchant and Manufacturer r shall receive our ; visit the studio of the Artist; that of an individual, is subject to infirmity and disease. But close attention , the United Service will find us, as of old, at 'what should we say of that physician, who should propose to tubed to the cloth ; we shall " take our garland and singing r emove a disorder by t a ki ng away the life of the patient? Yet, robes about us with the Poet ith a e n b d es v t ar p i e e n ty . extraordinary as it into; appear such is precisely the plan pro- • and deal our impartial,, criticism at the Theatre red by some emp i r i c ; s o l cur i' n e• the disorders of the Church. ; Every nur i b o. er of THL WORLD," in richness . It aPpears to me t o be a sufficient exertion of religious charity I will be a . a s aznie ; and arrangements have been made to 6 allow the free exercise of their modes of worship to the se- ' embellish its columns with sketches from some s feral sects who dissent from our Church. Such an admission cads of the day. will 1.) , no means implies that they are individually right. 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By GOLDING BIRD, M.D., F.L.S., F. G. S., Lecturer on Natural Philosophy at Guy's Hospital. London : John Churchill, Princes-street, Soho. Prithee do not reject us • Till you've read our Prospectus. Early in this month will be published, what every impartial in dividual will admit is much wanted in the Irish Metropolis, a really Honest, Able, and LIBERAL WEEKLY JOUR NAL, which it has been determined shall be called H E W 0 R L D. Now that we have sat down to draw up our Prospectus, we do solemnly protest that we would have given a considerable sum could we, by any means, have induced Lord Brougham and Viscount Palmerston to perform the duty for us, by way of proxy. The one would have described all that " THE WORLD" ought and will be, a thousand times better than we can ever hope to do ; while the other would have en shrouded all our errors and weaknesses in so murky a mantle of mystification, that they would have escaped the " audax et vigilans" scrutiny of the keenest customer in the New Police. Failing in our attempt either to enlist the ex-Chancellor, who was in hot haste to meet the hero of Waterloo at Dover, or the Prince of Protocols, who assured us that " he had not a paragraph in him," the last having been expended to complete the piscatory portion of the Queen's Speech, we had some notion of applying to Sir Edward Lytton Bulwer, but feared he would be too Whiggish and classical. Then we turned our eyes to Eaton-square, and thought of placing ourselves under an obligation to Sir William Alolesvrorth, but changed our mind, lest his Durham politics should creep through a transparent veil of Radicalism. Tom Wyse we were half in clined to solicit, but he wouldhave been rather heavy, and had enough to do in Waterford. Richard Sheil had the next place in our consideration, bxt his style would have been too spark ling and light for us ; and, moreover, we knew that ha was busied not only in preparing a patriotic address to the electors of Tipperary, but also in obtaining some knowledge of the tallow and molasses trade out of M'Culloch's " Commercial Dictionary." Having at length seen that we must ourselves put on our apron, and take up our tools, for the due execution of the un dertaking, we were fairly bothered deciding whether the affair should be extremely long and dull, or uncommonly short and merry. Conscience whispered that we should speak the truth, but we remembered that the philosopher of Malmesbury has denounced all truth-telling public writers, as 'ciangerous to the . safety of a corrupt and tyrannical commonwealth, all has re commended that both them and their lucubrations should be bundled off to some comfortable and hospitable country, like. Australia or New Zealand. Our , disposition and, interest , prompted us to treat a grave matter with becominz,serious ness ; but then the advice of Pliny flashed upon our memory,' (Ut in vita sic in studiis.pulcherrimum, &c.) where he recom mends us to mingle mirth and gravity in our studies. We feared to be vivacious and pointed, lest we should be condemned as frivolous and slanderous, and suffer that public displeasure which has ever been visited upon unhappy authors since the time that the Athenians burned the books of Protagoras, and:, the Romans hunted Diogenes and his companions out f. - - city, for telling more than the y wish e d to hear. " Hqsnan Natur," as Dick Stapleton phrases it, would have .inclined us to be a little vain, thereby following the counsel of Lord Bacon, who informs us that " the fame of Seneca and Cicero was kept fresh by their boasting, which seemOole like varnish, that not only makes wood shine, but last ; btu we'drew ourselves up, and, upon reflection. decreed that self-praise, so far as we were concerned, should be monopolized by the com pounders of Morison's Pills, and Holloway's Poor sYan's Oint ment. Here, then, we were at a dead-lock, and seizing our pen, first wrote a furious letter to Dr. Dionysius Lardner, com plaining that science had not yet discovered some piece of me chanism that might manufacture Prospectuses of all sorts and sizes by steam— then set about inciting one after the good old fashioned plan. The Amphitryon thinks the choicest blessing of life a re cherche repast; the exquisite prizes above all things a well-cut coat, or an unobjectionable cigar ; the Ennuyee pants for the last new novel, or the opera; the Rational Man abne loves an honest and clever newspaper. But where is he to find it? Most assuredly not among the Liberal. Journals of Dublin ; for we, not long ago, went over the catalogue of the Liberal Me tropolitan prints with the talented Mr. George Robins, who confessed, with a yawn and a sigh, that beginning with the oldest, and leaving off with the youngest,—" the chief of the Irish Press," (a tribute, by the way. paid to our own humble exertions by the honest Sheffield Iris)—" he. never had the misfortune to have submitted to his inspection so bad a lot, or one which would furnish such scanty materials for the puff ex traordinary." Spenser tells us that the Dublin Liberal News papers, or " carryers of mutes," in his time were " fooles and notable rogues." Tom Moore, if we are to believe Willis, has described the present generation as downright blockheads ; while Mr. O'Connell, by way of driving home the nail, designates the whole concern " A PALTRY PRESS." These be hard lines, as the sailors say, but " non nester hic sernio." 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STOVE ON PRINCIPLES ENTIRELY NEW, AND UNEQUALLED FOR COMFORT AND ECONOMY. By her Majesty's Royal Letters Patent.. . • IHE CHUNK PATENT ', STOVE, invented bMr R. PROSSER, Civil Engineer,fiiidistin gnished from al l others by its .entire freedom !frotriAust or smoke ' its great economy of fuel, and its perfect iafety :from fire. It has been a source of great comfort in the nOrserrand oed-room of he invalid, affording an uniform 'temperature through the day and night, with only one supply, while the most delicate test cannot detect anything arising from its use which is injurious to health—it merely warms the air without decomposing it ; and, as there is no door, none of the gases generated by combustion can pass into the apartment. Wherever warmth is required, this Stove is applicable. It is as desirable for the drawing-room as the laundry ; for warming greenhouses it possesses extraordinary claims, the very great expense of building flues, and afterwards the immense con sumption of fuel, being avoided. For workshops and ships' cabins it is invaluable ; it requires attention only once in twenty-four hours, during which time the cost will not exceed twopence. Price, Plain, 3/. ; Fluted, 3/. lOs. Manufactured by the Sole Proprietors, RIPPON and BURTON, WELLS-STREET, OXFORD-STREET ; of whom may be had detailed Catalogues of tke l'rices of Fenders, Fire-arms, Warranted Table Cutlery, Superior Nickel Silver, &c., 20 per cent. under any other old-established House, which can be forwarded for a single postage. Establishe dlB2O. SIGHT AND HEARING. THE INVISIBLE OPERATIVE VOICE CONDUCTOR, effected by the Messrs. S. and R. 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SOLOMONS DISCLAIM all connection with persons of the SAME NAME, and the sale of Amber Spectacle:: in doing so they state the HISTORY of AMBER, from the Dictionary of Arts and Sciences" of Andrew Ure, M.D., F.R.S., &c. &c. Amber is an indurated vegetable juice, and not produced by the laws of crystallization, but by the same causes which influence the mechanical condition of gum. Insects are often found embedded in it. Amber is most powerfully electrical by friction—very hot, to such an extent as to explode into fragments ; the workmen, too, are subject to nervous tremours in their wrists, arms, &c. ; they en counter great danger by handling such dreadful. excited electric.; Amber grows with lime, and is apt to take fire, and is of such a soft nature when exposed to warmth that it swells, bubbles up, and will burn away with flame." The above Dr. Ure's statements are further confirmed by Sir D. BREWSTER and Pliny, as also by Parks and Heny no Chemistry. Thedestructive effects of such a material for Spectacles, to imperfect vision, are fully and most satisfactorily explained in Messrs. Curtis and Dollond's Second Edition en the Preservation of Sight, and may he asoertained at any respectable Optician's in London. The Messrs Solomons' newly-invented 'ipectacle Lenses are not constructed of suck a material" but which are very superior, and b r ing baok at once dimness o sight and imperfect vision to its original and natural state; these Spectacles , and very small Voice Con d u ctors for Deaf persons, are only to be b ad at their Establish ments, 39, Albemarle-street, and 96, Cheapside. No Travellers are employed. RE-ANIMATION. 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Observe each bra is signed J. P. Seddon. MRs.GORE ' S NEW NOVEL.—We are requested to state that Mr. Colburn, of Great Marlborough -street, has this day published " Preferment," a Novel, by Mrs. Gore, author of " Mrs. Armytage," " Stokeshill Place," &c., in 3 vols. post Bvo., which can now be had at all the Libraries. Mr. Colburn has also just published " The Duchess of St. Albans' Memoirs," in 2 vols. post Bvo., with Portrait, 245. RORY O'MORE FOR SIX SHILLINGS, FORMING THE NEW V OLUME OF " THE STANDARD NOVELS."—Now isn'tit a treat to get " Rory O'More," the celebrated in Irish story, in song , i n m u s ic, and on the stage, complate in a single volume? Complate did we say ? nay, more than complete ; for the same hand which invented and traced the romance in so popular a manner, has also adorned it with all an artist's feel ing and talents. " Rory's Return Home," painted by Lover, and engraved by Greatbach, is a most cha racteristic frontispiece, and the " Farew e ll t o the Land of the West , " by the same, a vignette of touching in terest and beauty. Far and wide as " Rory" has tra velled arbeforaez,hte.e w ill now greatly extend Us limits.— L TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sta,—Therc can be but one, way of carrying the Penny Postage into operation, and that is by the adop tion of my plan (now before the Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury)—all the long-winded wire drawn communications mean the same, but they all lack my explicitness. All plans must be simple —easy to be understood — giving no extra trouble. Because country postmasters and country letter writers are not the most enlightened classes, many being unable, and more being unwilling, to comprehend any thing less simple than the present— There can be but four ways. 1. By pre-payment. Absurd ; because it would re qtfire constant attendance in many post-offices in the night as well as the day ; and when the post-office was.about to close, wolud be impossible, if', as is expected,-Ike let ters will be increased sixfold, unless, indeed, the number of clerks be materially increased. 2. By stamped sheets of paper. A plan utterly in admissible for several reasons : it would derange the whole paper trade ; it would be monstrously unjust to many, and would require uniformity of folding to exhibit the stamp. 3. By stamped envelopes. This pet plan is liable to many objections ; it is unjust, because many short letters receipts of bills, country orders,announcements of births and other family events, &c., will be written in the en velope, rendering a sheet of letter-paper unnecessary ; secondly, it will add enormously to the bulk and weight of the millions of letters sent by post ; thirdly. there will be no security that three or more notes, on very thin paper, be not included in one envelope ; and, fourthly, forgery cannot be prevented. There remains but one plan more, and that is by " adhesive penny stamps"—stamps of a circular form, like medallion wafers, to be wetted by the tongue and affixed to the letter (already closed with a wafer). I therefore propose that every letter put into any post office, written on any sort of paper, after the Ist of Ja nuary, 1840, shall go free to every part of the United Kingdom, if it shall have upon it, at the time it is put in the post-office, a penny adhering stamp. The dangers are-1. Forgery ;2. Falling off of the Stamp. First —Forgery. Every stamp is liable to forgery, whe ther on a sheet of letter paper, an envelope, or a penny adhesive stamp. The security is—firstly, in the adop tion of a superior mode of distribution ; secondly, in their being sold by Government in wrappers of exqui site and almost inimitable engraving ; thirdly, by vary ing the tint of the paper on which the "penny adhesive stamp" is stamped—by the appointment of licensed sub distributors—by a simple system of permits—and, finally, by the appointment of District Penny-post Inspectors, whose duty shall consist in visiting extensive districts, purchasing penny stamps, examining them and the per mits, and who shall travel by mail free of expense—in a word, by the appointment of talented and educated gentlemen, whose duties shall be somewhat analagous to those of the Assistant Poor-law Commissioners. These are the securities from forgery. This is the business of the Exchequer. The people have nothing to do but to buy a penny stamp and stick it on. But, secondly, the stamp may fall off. This will be of no consequence, as the present Post-office stamp, somewhat altered, having a cross in the centre (instead of the present filling up), must be stamped upon the penny adhesive stamp, by every postmaster, instead of at random as at present. This " marginal stamp," of which a specimen is sent, will firstly spoil the stamp for future use, and secondly, by pointing out the place from which the stamp has fallen, be delivered free, because it proves a penny adhesive stamp had been placed on. Where there is no adhesive stamp the " marginal stamp," is to be put upon such letter, the postage of which unstamped letter is to be 4d. There are other provisions for the safe delivery of money letters, which are not in future to have any exter nal mark or figure indicating the value of their contents. Such is my plan—at least a rough and hasty sketch of it—penned in extreme haste as you will see ; and I finish I as began, by lauding its superiority over all others.—l am, Sir, yours, &c. Cambridgeshire. J. H. W. P.S. The penny adhesive stamps may have wafers on their under surface, or some adhesive material like court plaister, or transfer-varnish applied just before affixing. Boxes containing from twenty to one hundred stamps. Wafers and adhesive liquid with brush would save the saliva, and make " assurance doubly sure." HAMBURG MAIL. ST. PETERSBURG, OCT. 29.—His Imper ial High ness the Grand Duke Alexander is expected to arrive ,tts.ddy. from Moholeef, at .ZArskojeselo, where.the Im perial Family now is. His Royal Highness Prince Albert or Prussia, 'who went from Moscow to Nischner Ncrvogorod, arrived at Zarskojeselo a few days ago. For some weeks past we have had a continuance of fine mild weather, so that many plants are beginning to flower again. MUNICH, OCT. 31.—Though the King has been able to go out since last Sunday, the physicians will not allow any long or fatiguing exercise in the open air. The in tended hunting parties are consequently put off. DARMSTADT, OCT. 9.—Baron Von Brunow, Russian Ambassador Extraordinary at the Court of the Grand Duke, delivered his credentials to-day to his Royal Highness in a special audience. HANOVER, Nov. 4.—His Majesty the King went yesterday to Gohrae to a hunting party, where the Duke of Brunswick is to join him by invitation. His Majesty is expected to return to Hanover on Sunday next. HAMBURG BORSEN HALLE, Nov. 9. Bills. Money. Austrian 5 per Cents. Bank Shares An 10-Russian Loan .. Ictii, 106% Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Certificate Inscription, Ist Series Russian 5 per Cent. Hop, and Co. 3d and 4th Se .i, s Ditto in Certificates Dutch ctual Debt, 2 pe Cent. 5O 50% Ditto Polish Bond New ieket Anglo- ,:aiiish Loan, 3 per Cent 7l 70% Norwegian Lean, 19:14, 4 per Cent... lOl 4 Spanish, New 3 per Cents. 24 ' . EXCHANGES Os: LONDON. HAMBURG, Nov. t 3.-13. 0--Two months, 13. 3%. PE'TFIRSBURGEI, OCT. 29. ....Two months, 39%. tirrocittiot.m, Niv. I.—Seventy-five days, 11 31. CHRISTIANIA, OCT. 30.—three months, 4 100. BELGIAN k V NDS—filltiasiELs, Nov. 9. Actual Dcbz, 2!.4 per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Ccnt F 1 Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per'Cent. _......—. 3 per Cent. 7l Loan of City, 1932, 4 per Cent 95 Society of Commerce, 4' ;per Cent ll4 Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent 7l National Society . — Exchange on London (short) —Brussels Papers, Nov. 9. Three young men sent to the University of St. Petersburg. have i ust been brought back under an es cort of the armed police. The arrest is said to have some connection with the late occurrences in the camp of General Geismar. The regiment bearing the name of the Prince of Warsaw has been entirely cut up by the mountaineers of the Caucasus. The native chief Schamil, who has succeeded Kasim 011 a, is daily be coming more formidable, and has managed to unite all the tribes under his domination. He has adopted the use of the Arabic language as the surest means of enabling the different races of people to understand one another, and act in concert." The well-known Prince of the Peace, who once disposed of the treasures of Spain and the Indies, has been lately sued at Rome for a debt of sixty Roman dollars. REMOVAL OF THE BODIES OF SUICIDES.— At an inquest recently held before Mr. Higgs, on the body of a person who shot himself in a public-house, the landlord, Mr. Bishop, asked the Coroner whether the e by keeping landlord of any tavern or public - house, or the proprie tor of any private house, in wni ch any party had com mitted suicide, had died sudden l y , at be en killed by ac cit'ent, could on his own respon sibilit y re move the body ? Mr. Higgs replied certainly. Mr. Bisho p con o t n i l n y ue v d :y The reason for his asking the q uesti on was, that tthehe frequentlylandlords bodies put ouft, o f pt eu p r s u o b gn l r i se c a - htwohui whose sc e co deathssnv weree nienc not might have been occasioned as above -men ioned, but also were severe losers in a pecuni ar y p oint of view, as many of their par:mr c ustomers had a decided objecti on to spend their evenings in a ho use containing M the corpse of a suicide. r. Higgs said the landlo rd might apply to the beadle, or consult the p arochial authoriti es as to removal of a body. Mr. nisbnP said he was aware of t that, ion. but Could that h was o re nt n o o v t e h o i s bodyobject o inn his puttin gw o pot sibi- lity ? Mr. H ggs an swered —Yes , to an y P lace o f sa f ety , say an undertaker's ; but the landlord of the house where th e su i c id e was committed was liable for i ts cus tody. M r . Bi s h op conc luded by remarking that thi s was a very imp or t an t ques tion, and on which a deci s i on h a d iI a coroner never in hisrg general o pinion ec e o o l e 'et ionbeoen thatgive nonbyanY C oroner . I t had been the corps e , except in cases juryo of naturalsat d o e n a t i, h ,i e , w co o u f l could the be body,rem ov removed The conversation t here ter m i nate d. Very ea r ly s ymptoms of winter have show n them selves in severa l par ts of Europe. In W arsaw, t h e streets and ro o fs of the houses had , on th e 29th u l t., been completely covered with sn o w for two day s previ ously. I n D res d en . on the 3 0 th, the snow lay a f oot d eep No judg e has yet been appointed unde r th e Ha ifix, liudeerstield, and Bradford Small D e b t : A ct , an d the business of the Courts is entirely at a stand.--lla /Az. Express. . SHERIFFS-SUBSTITUTE. COUNTY OF RENFREW. (From the Scots Times.) At the meeting of the Commissioners of Supply at Renfrew, on Tuesday, the rogue money assessment or the year was fixed at 355. in the hundred pounds. Last year is was 255. ; in the previous year, 10s. ; and in 1836, Bs. The advance is in consequence of a debt of 1,4001. lying upon the county. Some conversation took place relative to the esta blishment of an improved police force in the county, and a Committee was eventually appointed to take the mat ter into consideration. _ _ At meeting of the Quarter Sessions, afterwards held, Mr. WALLACE rose to introduce the resolutions of which he had given notice, for raising the salaries of the Sheriffs'_ Substitutes throughout Scotland, and especially that of Mr. Campbell, Sheriff-Substitute at Paisley, and Mr. Marshall, residing at Greenock, which latter gentleman had the miserable income of only 2001. a-year. Mr. Wallace spoke nearly as fol lows :—I hope this large and respectable meeting will kindly indulge me with a patient hearing on this important subject, for sure am I that not one man now present will deny that the Judges of the land ought to be adequately paid, and that the salaries of Sheriff-Substitut es come far short of a fair remunera tion for their arduous, continual, and most laborious duties. These duties had been frequently increased ever since the establishment of Sheriff Courts on the present system in 1727. In the last twenty years, an enormous increase has taken place in the duties imposed upon Sheriffs, and a high responsibility has very lately been added to the office of Sheriff-Substitute, in conse quence of the change in the law respecting the resi dence of the Sheriffs-Principal. I wish particularly (said Mr. Wallace) to impress upon this meeting and :he public these two important points—namely, the continual laborious duties of Sheriff Substitutes, and the great additional responsibility thrown upon them, in consequence of the late Act of Parliament relieving Sheriffs-Principal from their required residence of four months in each county. No one present will dispute its being absolutely requisite that our resident Judges should be at least as highly educated, upright in charac ter, and learned in law, as the Sheriff-Principal, whose chief residence is now in Edinburgh. Let me now reca pitulate the extent of jurisdiction and the nature of the duties incumbent on our resident Judges. In their Courts the nice and difficult questions arising out of Commissary and Consistorial cases, Admiralty cases, Bankruptcies, Sequestrations, and Cessio Bonorum trials are now added to their former labours. Cases of nuisance, scrutinies, and removing of tenants now be long to these Courts. Diligence on certain bills of ex change and personal diligence are among their duties. Summary trials conected with the police of the county, likewise with criminal cases requiring a jury —are among the weekly and daily duties of Sheriff-Substi tutes, involving great personal labour and responsibility, for they must take full notes with their own hands in both instances. Sheriffs in Scotland perform the duties of Coroners in England, and, as I now think, this diffi cult task is better performed, upon the whole, under our Sheriffs than in England under the expensive and often very objectionable duties belonging to Coro ners. I make this statement to my friend the She riff, principally in order to show that I am at all times ready to admit an error in judgment, for I have formerly contended in this Court in favour of a Coro- ner's Inquest with the aid of a jury. Our Sheriffs are the chief conservators of the public peace, they are Justices of Peace, Commissioners of Supply, and the highest police officer in each county. They are bound to attend to the Weights and Measures Act, in which, I grieve to say, they get neither support nor enoou- ragement in this county. They must regularly inspect the jails, and the asylums of unhappy maniacs, friendly societies, savings' banks, appeals under the as tessed Tax Acts, commutation of Tithes, and re ports on the public registers, to the Court of Jus ticiary, compose part of their duties. The licensing of persons for the sale of liquors, and taking cog nisance of any combinations injurious to the peace of society, the execution of Crown, Parliamentary, and Exchequer writs, adjusting the lists of jurymen, at tending the circuit criminal courts, the election of Members of Parliament, and directing returns called for by the Secretaries of State, and by Parliament, all belong to the duties of Sheriff. Substitute. They hold courts for ascertaining and fixing the prices of grain, from which the fiars are struck which now regulate the yearly value of land on many extensive estates, and also the stipends to be paid to the clergy of the Esta blished Church. When population censes are required, the ever-at-hand Sheriff , Substitute is called upon for them,. and the new county constabulary, which evi dently will get a fair trial throughout Scotland, must as a matter ofCourie, loosk io our resident judges as the head of this rural police, and though last not least in the long, though imperfect enumeration of duties now made, Sheriffs have from time imme morial had the honour of conducting civil jury cases, and assessing damages created by the forming of canals, railways, roads, and other public works, so that they are constantly called upon to preside, with the aid of a jury, where the liberties and properties of the sub ject are in dispute. It has already been stated that the duties of Sheriff-Substitute have increased greatly within twenty years, but in truth they have been in creased enormously since the passing of the Reform Bill, and have been increasing yearly. The reduction of Courts in Edinburgh has added greatly to the duties of Sheriffs' Courts, and it is quite just to say that, in proportion as their labours have been increased, those of the Court of Session have been diminished. The salaries of Sheriff-Substitutes have remained stationary during this accumulation of labour, whilst emoluments formerly within their reach have been entirely taken away, and this without any acknowledgment or com pensation whatever, The extent of duty now per formed in the Small Debt Courts, and it was daily in creasing, has added immensely to the labours of the Sheriff-Substitutes, and has been no less a boon and a blessing to the people. The Parliamentary returns now in my hand are ample proof of the well working of the Small Debt system, both in the stationary and Cir cuit Courts. These Courts alone have been of service to the public, and I am no less grieved than ashamed to s Av, the pecuniary allowance for travelling charges is unjustifiably low, and derogatory of the character of the country and the Judge. Five pounds is the most al lowed for a Judge going the Circuit ; and such is the mean shabby way in which their accounts are audited, that I verily believe they have been cut down by the value of a bottle of beer, and a gratuity to the boots of an inn for his services. Some of these Sheriff-Substi tutes bold many Circuit Courts in the year. For instance, in Aberdeenshire there are 26 Circuit Courts, in Argyleshire 16, in Ayrshire no less than 32 held in large and populous towns, the whole of which is per formed by one Sheriff-substitute, whose whole income, as resident Judge of that important county, being a county nearly eighty miles in length, is only 350/. a-year. This is enough to show the nature of the labour required of gentlemen having at their disposal only the miserable pittance of 5/. for the whole expenses of their circuit—a sum utterly inadequate for the larger counties and Highland districts—such as Ayr, Argyle, Aberdeen, Perth, Sutherland, &c., &c., in which, as well as in the other counties, I have reason to believe the Sheriffs are left considerably out of pocket upon the five pound allowance, without taking into account the absolute tear and wear and waste of clothes in making their journies in open carriages, and frequently in open boats. Very differently and very properly are the Judges of the Supreme Court treated when they are on circuit, as are also the Sheriffe-Principal when attending these Judges and their own courts of re gistration. These more favoured, but not half so usuful public functionaries, have ample allowances to cover all their expense% of every kind, without minute and degrading scrutiny. This is a matter which must be altered, and our oldest and most useful Judges must be treated as they well deserve. To prove the discreditable and dis honourable manner in which our county Judges are treated—it may fairly be maintained that all around them in their courts are in a far better pecu niary position than they are. The returns before Parliament will show the large and increasing incomes of the Clerks of Court, whose incomes may be found from 3,000/. down to 500/. a-year, while the Judges on the Bench have not more than 3001. to 400/. at the very most. Another officer of Sheriff Courts may be also cited in proof of this—that is, Procurators-Fiscal, whose emoluments are also in creasing, and many draw from 1,000/. doivn to 2001. or 300/. a-year from the pockets of the peopl e . Next come the procurators for practising before these courts, who now-a-days are a very num erous and respectable body, well educated, well dressed, and in ease and affluence, as compared with the Judge ; for I have reason to believe, that, in our cities and larger towns and counties, practitioners before Sheriff Courts have professional incomes as high as 2 ,000/. a-year, and varying downwards to 5004.—a sum b eyond the salary of any sheriff_nay, more, it will not be wrong to say some c l e rks employed by gentlemen of the provincial bar have salaries of one and two hundred a-year, which latter sum i s eq ual t o t h at of no fewer than sixteen cou nty judges in Scotland. T his, said the Honour able Gentleman, is absolutely shanacfel ; it is too ; it can no longer be sollaitted to —(Cheers.) Now let us see what claims are made on this most respectable class of Judges. The routine of their Courts is too well known to require to be entered on. Taese are held once or twice a week for ordinary busi ness, and about as often for small debt business ; and this during the whole year ; for the vacations in the larger counties, having larger towns are much more nominal than real now-a-days. In fact, the duties of resident Judges in such counties may be called continual, with a slight relaxation during the vacation. Their resi dence is required by law to be constant. It may he said they are continually before the public, officiating either hi their ordinary small debt, civil jury, sum mary offence, or small debt Circuit Court. They must and do reside in our largest towns, where they are sub ject to all the expenses incident to these—such as house rent, public and town taxes, and the mainte nance of themselves . and families. Where can any set of men be found having such wretched incomes, and such an accumulated load of daily business to perform, under the immediate eye of an active band of able lawyers, and a watchful and intelligent community ? I have now imperfectly gone through, more briefly than I had intended, the difficult task I had under taken. For many years past, both in and out of Parliament, my endeavours have been continually exerted in favour of an improved system in our Sheriff Courts. I have humbly but zealously assisted th e Lord Advocates of the day in furthering the bills through Parliament, the working of which has thrown such a load of duty into Sheriff Courts. I was accessary to and supported on principle that Act which debarred Sheriff-Substitutes from deriving any emolument, and confining them strictly to their salaries. It was no neglect or fault of mine that these were not properly increased, when the Act was passed taking away all ether sources of income. I found it in vain then to persist in the attempt, but having resolved on not losing sight of what I co nce i ve d t o b e an imperative duty, I framed the resolutions which I will now submit to this crowded court, in the confident hope of unani mous support, in a case so well worthy of the sym pathy and justice of this most respectable meeting— if I obtain which I shall have no doubt of the suc cessful result of a measure which clearly involves the dignity and station of our resident county Judges. Mr. Wallace concluded by proposing that the resolutions should be adopted by the meeting, and transmitted to Lord Normanby, her Majesty's principal Secretary of State. Copies likewise to be sent to all the Conveners of counties in Scotland. Provost FERRIE of Greenock said be bad great plea.- sure in seconding the resolutions, and he trusted 'they would be received with the unanimous approval of the meeting. He likewise trusted that the other counties would follow their example, and that the result would be au immediate increase in the remu neration of these hard-wrought, ill-paid, gentlemen. Sheriff DUNLOP said he sometimes differed from Mr. Wallace on legal points, but upon the present occasion he was extremely happy to agree with him in every word he advanced. He then referred at some length to the greatly increased duties of the Sheriff-Substitutes, and the total inadequacy of their salaries to support them in the station in which their legal situations ne cessarily placed them. The CHAIRMAN cordially concurred in the object of the resolutions. Sheriff CAMPBELL said if this had referred to himself alone, and not to his colleagues in the same situation, he would have felt it to be a point of delicacy to have said nothing till the result of their application was known. He felt that he was not so much personally interested in this matter as others, and he could declare that he felt more for the benefit it would confer upon gentlemen as deserving, and not so well situat e d o th erw i se as h e was, than for himself. He had been already thirty seven years Sheriff-Substitute for the county of Renfrew, and, from the course of nature and from the increasing duties of his situation, he could not be expected to iserve muchpay o f l o S ri gt Stipendiary n dar Mr. C. 3r, Magistratesto the in England difference com pared with the Sheriffs in Scotland. A Magistrate had lately been appointed in Staffordshire, with a salary of 8001., and the twenty-seven Police Magistrates in the metropolis, had each a salary of 1,2001. a-year, and none of them required to bring to the exercise of their duties such varied and extensive acquirements, or were in trusted with matters of great responsibility as the She riff-Substitutes of the counties in Scotland. The Sheriff- Substitutes had already prepared a memorial to Go vernment upon the subject, and he thought such a meet in.- would have the very b es t e ff ec t upon t h e m i nds of the Members of her Majesty's Government in their be half. Mr. C. concluded by thanking them sincerely for the manner in which Mr. Wallace's motion had been received by the meeting. For the long time he had been amongst them he had enjoyed their - almost Uninterrupted favour, and if a few drops of bitterness had ever been infused in his cup, he had no reason to complain, as it was the fate of human nature, and at the present time he begged leave to be understood to entertain none but sentiments of the deepest gratitude for the kind manner in which he had always been treated.—(Cheers.) The resolutions were put from the chair, and carried unanimously. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. CAMBRIDGE, Nov• 9.—On Monday last the Rev. Ralph Tatham, D.D.. Master of St. John's College, was elected the Vice-Chancellor of this University for the year ensuing. On Wednesday last, Alexander 'l'. Cory, 8.A., and Richard Ferguson, 8.A., of Pembroke College, in this University, were elected Foundation Fellows of that Society. The Vice-Chancellor has given notice that the ex amination for the Crosse Scholarship will take place on Tuesday the 26th instant. On Monday last the following gentlemen of St. John's College, were elected scholars of that Society : Woolley, Ward, J., Coombe, Williams; 8., Pitman, Oak, Dean, Griffith, Wood, W.S., Calder, Rhodes, Spencer, Pagan, Ellis, R., Wrigley,. ' Stock, Hibbs, F ros t, A. H., Sl a d e , Gifford, Hardi s ty, Wingfield. CHRIST'S COLLEGE.—The following gentlemen, who were nominated in May last, were last week admitted as Scholars of that Society ;—Samuel C. Sharpe, Richard D. Fowell, S. Kirke Swann, George A. M. Little, Ed win H. Vaughan, Robert J. Snape, Henry G. Baily. CAMBRIDGE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY.—At the an niversary meeting of this Society, held on Wednesday last, the Gth inst., agreeably to the Ch arter , t h e fol lowing Officer s an d Council were elected for the en suing year :—Dr. Hodgson, President ; Dr. Clark (re elected), Professor Cumming (ditto), and Dr. Peacock, Vice-Presidents ; Dr. Paget, Treasurer; Professor Whewell, Mr. Hopkins, and Professor Willis, Secre• tunes ; Rev. J. W. Barnes (selected) : Professor Sedg wick, Dr. Bond, Rev. W. H. Stokes, Rev. S. Earnshaw, and Rev. W. L. P. Garnons, Old Council : Messrs. L. Jenyns, Babington, Ansted, and Gaskin, New Council. In the evening the President, ex-President, and several of the officers and members held the anniver sary dinner of the Society at the Eagle Inn. The So ciety has now completed its 20th year. On Tuesday last, being the anniversary of the Gun powder Plot, a sermon was preached at Great St. Mary's Church, by the Rev, the Master of Emmanuel College, from John iv. c., 24th. v., " God is is a spirit, and they that worship him, must worship in spirit and in truth." THE NEW LIBRARY.—A few days since F. H. Dickenson, Esq. of Trinity College, who originally con tributed ten guineas toward this work, visited the new building, and was struck with its beauty and general excellence that be gave an additional sum of fifty guineas towards its completion. On Thursday, the 31st ult., the Rev. W. E. L. Faulkner, M.A., late of Corpus Christi College, in this University, and Rector of St. John's, Clerkenwell, on the occasion of his being elected to the perpetual cu racy of St. James's, Clerkenwell, was invited by his friends to a very handsome dinner, at the Albion Ta vern, Aldersgate-street, at which a numerous company were assembled. The Chairman, W. Nicholson, Esq., on behalf of the meeting assembled, then presented the Rev. Mr. Faulkner with a very splendid Polyglott Bible, printed in eight languages, magnificently bound together ; and a set of robes of the richest manufac ture. On the cover of the Bible was engraved, on a large silver plate, an inscription expressive of their sense of the merits of the Rev. Gentleman, and his long and valuable services as Rector of St. John's. This is the second tribute of respect he has received from his people, four years ago a splendid service of plate having been presented to him. PREFERRED.—The Archbishop of Canterbury has granted a dispensation to the Rev. John Bluck, M.A., Rector of B owers Giff or d , E ssex, to ho ld t h e sam e with the Vi carage o f M ountness i ng. On F r id ay t h e Lord Bishop of London i ns tit u t e d t h e Rev. Gentleman to the r Vicarage of Mou n t ness i ng , vacan t death of the Rev. W. V i . p ß ri o d w d s e k e i , ll. m. P A a ., tro to n, th L e or y d ie P ar e a t g r e e. of BteThe ox Re d v , Essex. Patron, R. B. De Beauvoir, Esq. The Rev. Henry Jenkyns, 111. A., Professor of Greek in the Uni versity of Durham, has been collated to a Pre'oetidal Stall in the Cathedral of Durham, vacant by the death of the Rev. R. Prosser, D.D, The Lord Bishop of Winchester has collated the Rev. William Gibson, M.A., to the Rectory of Fawley, vacant by the death of Lord Walsingham, The Rev. Charles Dunne, M.A., of Oxford, has b een i nst i tuted, by the Lordßall iol BishopColeg ofe , Worcester, to the Vicarag e o f Elders field,l Worcestershire, vacant by the resignation of the R e v. A. B. Lechmere. Patron, Sir A. Lechmere, Bart. The Rev. George Richard Amsey, of Acomb Hall, near York, to the Perpetual Curacy of Wilsdon, Yorkshire. Patron, the Vicar of Bradford. The Rev. Wm. B. Delmar, to the Rectory of Elmstone, Kent, vacant by death of the Rev. J. Gregory. Patron, W. Delmar, Esq. ERGYMEN DECEASED.—The Rev. Charles Ag Hunt, 8.A., aged 37, incumbent of St. Peter's Chu Blackburn, after an illness of nearly twelve rn the duration. The Rev. Morgan O'Donovan, Re or of Dundurrow, and Chaplain to therorporation of Cork, aged 71, On the 27th ult., at Westerfield Hall, near Ipswich, in his 91st year, the Rev. William Betham, Rector of Stoke, Lacey, Herefordshire, and:many years resident at Stonbam Aspal, in this county, author of Genealogical Tables of the Sovereigns of the World, and of the Baronetage of England. He was the father of Sir William Betham, Ulster King at Arms, and also of Miss.Betham, Authoress of the Lady of Marie, Sze. lISERABLE CONDITION OF THE FRENCH ARMY IN AFRICA. The Courrier Francais draws a deplorable pie- cure of the hardships and sufferings which the I French army of occupation have to endure in Africa. " One troops," says that paper, " are there placed in a condition unworthy of the grandeur of France and of modern civilization. They are exposed, is the midst of peace, to evils far more frightful than the horrors of war, and the trials they have to un dergo, after so many victories, are more arduous than the misfortunes that could afflict them after a defeat. The soldiers no longer fall, as in the days of glory, under the fire of the enemy ; they pine and die away by platoons, by companies, by battalions, of fever, which undermines their constitution, and the occurrence of which might be so easily obviated. Almost entire regiments have disappeared without having seen a shot fired. This fatal ' harvest' of men," adds the Courrier, " is unusually immense ' in 1,839. We kave ascertained the numbers, but dare not publish them, lest it excite in France a cry of horror, which would make every heart vis orate, except those of our soldiers themselves. We shall only affirm that in less than five months several battalions of 600 men lost 2(!D each, and have now 300 sick ; that detached com panies have lost two-thirds of their men, j and continue their service with. the other din (that is when the latter is fr.l,e from fever) ; and finally, that we have seen ),ospitals,.where no bete- ' rage could be administered to the sick for want af • phials. We are wrong, perhaps, to call them hospitals, for there are only two worthy of that name in Africa —the hospital of the Dey at Algiers, and that cif Douera, in tie neighbourhood; the others are mere wooden barracks, built of roughly joined planks, whera the heat of a burning sun penetrates diving the; day, and an icy cold during the night. In these I wretched sheds most of the sick soldiers have no beds, and elsewhere, that is to say in vet too many places, those sick lie under tents, some on straw, others on the bare earth. In conclusion, everybody may have seen in Constantine itself, in a city whitota we have now occupied two years, the unhappy sol- . Biers, whom the Duke of Orleans caused to be re moved from the streets, where they were lying on the ground, without any other cover than their great coat and a camp blanket." The Courrier then contends, that the army of Africa was in need of the articles most necessary for the preservation of life in nearly all the camps, and even in certain towns—Constantine for exam ple. In that city, independently of the sick who were lying in the streets, those within the walls were so huddled together, that the nurses or at tendants could hardly squeeze themselves between the beds to supply them with drink. In the bar rack used as an hospital at Philippeville 950 sick soldiers occupied lately a space scarcely sufficient for lodging 300 men in sound health. The writer of the article states, that so com pletely unknown was proper accommodation for the army, that he had seen officers who for itve years had not slept on a bed. " 'Whom; has passed once," continues the writer, " through the camp of the Dix, or in that of the Thoutmettes, will never forget the sinister aspect of those huts, of dried stones, covered with brambles, real lion's dens, which had to be abandoned because every body died in them ! " The soldiers of the army of Africa are cer tainly not ordinary men. It is impossible to form an idea of the strength of the constitution 9f such of them as have the good fortune to survive the in t clemency of the climate and the privations which` aggravate it. One would suppose that they deemed themselves invulnerable, from the arduousness of their labours, which appear beyond human power. There are some who scarcely sleep one night out of four. In the morning they escort convoys or cou riers carrying despatches ; in the evening they patrol the country, and during the day they are en gaged in the works of the camp, and are not allowed a moment's repose. They have not even time to clean their clothes and arms. A battalion of 600 men reduced in the course of a few months to 82 able to bear arms, performed with those 82 men the service of the entire battalion. The Arabian plunderers, emboldened by their weak. ness, often come and carry off horses and mules from the very gates, and even within the precincts of the camp. It i s not uncommon for the Chas seurs d'Afrique to remain on horseback during 13L hours out of the 24. The soldiers of the waggon train, indefatigable in peace god war, who are so useful and so little appreciated, die often of fatigue at the head of their waggons, without uttering a murmur or a complaint. " One-fifth of the army of Africa have perished in the hospitals or on the naked ground, within the last 1.5 months, and two-thirds the remainderare now ill. The other third consists of between 7,000 and 8,000 unconquerable athletes, with hearts of steel, upon whom neither the elements, disease, nor the enemy's arms exercise the slightest influence. They alone perform the whole duties of the army, and go through hardships of which no description could give an adequate idea." MORE SEIZURES FOR CHURCH- RATES AT PONTEFRACT. The Persecuting Church appears disposed to carry things with a high hand in Pontefract, as elsewhere. There the Church which reaches, " Provide things honest," shows its appreciation for the apostolic injunc tion, by plundering the people of their goods and chat tels ; and there, too, do the pretended ministers of the " poor man's Church," swell their own wealth by the human law which starves their congregations. The following is a statement of this last instance of Mother Church oppression in Pontefract : " On Thursday, the 31st ult., warrants of distraint for Church-rate were served on Anne Tatham, of Jubilee Place and Thomas Lee Taylor, of the Market Place, Pontefract. The rate, in the first instance, Was thirteen shillings and two-pence, but together with the warrant and other ex penses, the demand was increased to eighteen shillings and ten-pence, for which amount kitchen utensils nero seized by the agents of the Law- Church, worth about thirty shillings. In the case of Mr. Lee,the rate was five shillings, and with expenses, the demand amounted to twenty-two shillings and eight-pencc. Articles were seized and carried away from his shop (two pair of cut decanters of the value of two pounds and nine shillings). The whole were sold by public auction in the Market Place, on the following day, when, from the great scarcity of bidders, they were sold for very much less than their real value. There was little or no competition for them ; the company present being evidently disgusted with the exhibition, and unwilling to identify themselves with a system which, under the cloak of reli gion, has nothing in scripture to support it." Such are the means the Church employs to gain support to her instituCons—the bum bailiff, the auc tioneer, and the attorney. Such are the missionaries whom the Establishment sends forth ; and, by way of " converting the heathen," ransacks them of their goods. Who would not resist such a Chu r ch , made up, as it is, of Oxford-nourished bigots, whose only heartily per formed work is to rail at their fellow Christians, and throw enlightenment. poplar education a lishrnents have no w arrant e i t h er in religion or in p They hav e ever b een the allies, tElsw political every obstacle in the way of if not the actual agents, of politi ca l oppression and in atib cal experience. justice. They have persecuted for conscience sake, ene couraged ignorance, and fostered vice ; and every out rage like the above, on the rights of property of the public, demonstrates their existence to be utterly incom patible either with justice, morality, or true religion.— Leeds Times. LOCAL COURTS..— A meetin g of the princip al inhabitants of th e t own was h e ld at ile Town Hallon MoP day evening last, the High Constable in the chair, to receive information from Mr. Evershed on the subject of the proposed establishment of a Local Court for the recovery of small debts in the borough of Brighton and its vicinity. After hearing the statements made by Mr. Evershed, and entering into c onsiderable discussion thereon, resolutions were passed de claring that, in the opinion. of bhat meeting, it was desirable that a Court of the kind described 1.5 Mr. Evershed should be established in the Borough and that a town meeting s hould be convened to take the matter into consideration ; for which purpose, a re quisition to the High Constable was put in course of signature at the meeting. A Committeee of gentlemen was also appointed to act with Mr. Evershed in carrying forward the proposed measure, and a subscription list, in support of a guarantee fund to provide for the ex pence of an application to Parliament, was opened by the gentlemen present, Mr. George Wigney being ap. pointed treasurer.--Brightotz Gazelle. Just published, gratis, CHURTON'S ANNUAL CATALOGUE OF CHEAP BOOKS. The above can be sent by pest as a single letter. 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