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ground ; for it is not for us to offer any opinion i question, the subject of so much angry dis cussion arriotw eliedicalanen: -to the nature of this dilease. We wish Merely, while recommend ing:64.4irecautions,before the disease has made progitess, to guard against any unnecessary a ppre tteinlionS. The evil of the disease itself is nothing in comparison to the evil that would be produced by . ..guy alarm which might have the effect or throwing the working .people out of employment. We have received a multitude of publications on the subject, but from our unwillingness to spread alitui, before the disease had made its appear ance among us, we ham avoided noticing any o f th e m._ In one which we have received this (jay ) , entitled " Observations on the Pestilential Cholera ( Asphyxia Pest:fie:an), as it appeared at Sunderland in the annths of November and December, 1831, and on the measures talcim for its prevention and cure, by Wm. Ait,sworth, Esq., Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, late Junior President of the Royal Physical and other Societies of Edinburgh, &c." we find the ' following remarks, which seem particular de servnT of attention at this Inotnent t— ".Whetber the cholera is criosidered infections or not, the samUlittlfaSUre ought to ht pursued on the first arrival of the jdivaße. Like the Pollen of Plants, which loses , its aciivity - wiA conveyed to a certain distance by the atmos phere; so.rectisin disorders, as the yellow fever, may go in vesselste rlstuntelimes ; and though the crews have not been alifeetod:by the disease, yet will they communicate i• to persons newly exposed, and will infect whole towns when ether circumstances are favourable to propagation.- " The Lerms of an epidemic : radiate as if front a tom - - mon centre, 'and they will iliminiA" in intensity as they hmouted;ffitsed. The germs of'ati infectieui•diseatee'irac: I With tifeic,victisnss.and are regenerated by the very mew tid actitm which they themselves excite. An epidemic propagates itself almost immediately over a populous city —an infretious disease only in proportion ti, the numb er of points over which its gernis are dis.setniiirited ; in the en't the 'first eases are the most fatal- - -in the other, the d;gta t' t , *•!3tiligi 1401;4 bra reacliedtita Dorsi ;3111 th e one, it retl'ains lonce.,t where the streets are narrow-, And the air pent, up and conficed—in the other it retrains longest 'Ade If ere is poverty, drunk, tines', or debility,' to pitadiaPapetles:itti attacks. iniboilythere can he no doubt, hut tho the Orecentionaey mettettreCtoi ate Stxt artis%,;t•ot the rhseaie should * : the seqUestraittwo t the atilictill , frotW the h ea lthy, and. their removal. to an hoepital in a l well. vetwila t, tied commodious situation ; Ind this ADAM. con. . time se fong as circumstances and the spread' of the dis ease wilt allow it." • • We cease more thaitl•once alluded to the total absence of poliee in the metropolis with regard to beggars:and vagrants.. Mr. Ainsworth -ob serves •• .«,,1 ; p l ink that the progress of the Indian' pestilence in ibis country, as well as on the, Continent, Mark it out as on, of t c l,e most controllable diseases that ever, assumed the cbaractsr of a pestilence, brAlt from the short time whicw apparently the virus can remain' latent in the human sys tem, or active in apparel, anal frrii the few, except the intemperate, who appear exposed to its morbid iefluerer. - And from these consideration*, convinced with others, of the improbability of introciucinc any general system of se clusion into, this kingdom, I c:innot too much enforce the necessity orimperling f ts far as possible, the progress of vagrants across thedoulatry, and that more especially in she vicini'y of the,diseas*. In a letter to the Editor of The Medical Gazette, 11In. Greenhotv, of North Shields, says, All he little tcavns and vilLges round about us ars suffering under a grea,empt-tali4 4 " owing to tl.e unrestrict e d admission ofniendicaiitc vaijitaints; Dennis 111‘Gxv in, who took' the disease. to Noitih rne , from Sunder - land. ~: : rhe put, itt - ,Svith Shields-was a boy from Gafe ! ,bLad. Aledlar weMais -took it to Houghton ; a op yeller tolthirpeth ; ant I have no doubt its arrival could similarly be traced to .13ntb;:m, Haddington, and Tranent ; and all towns upon the same high ro,:d. A wandet er almr) perished of the disea-e at Doncaster ; but luckily there were no other cases." .. I dr.. Warburton, alluded last right to the means . of disinfection adopted by the Central Board of Health,which he said were disagreeable and useless, and spoke of the method which had been discovered by Mr. Henry, of Manchester, namely, exposing objects to a heat of 200 de grees, which entirely freed them from the power of infection. We confess—considering the high name of Mr. Henry—that we ate rather surprised that his discovery should have been treated .with so much indifference at a time like this. Mr. P. Thomson said— . ‘‘ That the statements of Mr. Henry on the subject had been referred to the Board of Health ; and that the gentle man who attended there on Ms behalf was told, that if he would construct his apparatus, and exhibit the effects be fore the Board, every atteution - would be paid to it. Mr. Henry, or at least the gentlerofia who acted on his behalf, had list been prepired to incur an eapenre of three or four pounds for that purpose; and he (Mr. P. Thomson) thought that lie could not recommend the Board to incur that expeuee ; for then they would be furnishing precedents for similar expences, of experiments to be made by all other persons who were desirous of submitting their opinions on other matters of science connected with the subject." It was sensibly observed by Mr. Hume, that the Government ought not to hesitate about an expellee of this kind; and Mr. Warburton ob served, that there was a marked difference be tween this case and others of the kind referred to, as the experiments had been made and pub lished, and Mr. Henry had proved that his plan, if adopted, must be successful. It would be absurd to think of throwing the expellee on Mr. Henty. We trust the Government will at once see the necessity of attending to this recom mendation. We are glad to learn that the higher orders by no means display any umie cessary alarm ; and that it. is fashionable at the West end of the town to ridicule those who shcw symptoms of unnecessary apprehension Morning Chronicle. It always appeared to us unreasonable and un just, and we have frequently expressed the opinion, that Legislators should be protected by any privileges of their own making against the operation of their own laws. Thus the Par liament of England have passed laws by which the body of a debtor can be seized like the body of a criminal, and thrown into prison, and it matters not whether the non -pa} nent of his debts be the result of dishonesty or misfortune ; but the creditor, however grossly defrauded, cannot touch with the finger of the law the bodies of Members of Parliament themselves wh o leave their debts unpaid. One would have thought that the Members of a Legislature who framed such severe laws against debtors in gene ral were of so strict a spirit of honesty that they abhorred the very idea of running in debt, and, in the excess of a virtuous severity of morals, confounded all insolvency with crime. Yet the very existence of a privilege which exempts Members of Parliament from arrest for debt is a standing proof of their aptitude to fall into the de. linqu ncy w hi c h they punish in others. We are aware that the argument used in defence of this p. ivilege is, that it protects Members of Parliament from being taken assay from their public duties by fictitious arrests. If this lie an argument worth any thihg, it must go the whole length of proving the propriety of abolishing the practice of arrest for debt altogether —f or it there are per sons who would, through motives of malice, or to serve some evil purpose, cause Members of Parliament to be seized and throw n into prison on false affidavits of debt, how much m ore lik e ly is it that persons not having th e same station or power as Members of Parliament have may be arrested and thrown into prison upon false affi davits of debt, from motives of oppressi on or revenge ? It is true the law has provided certain modes of redress for chose who suffer false im prisonment in this way, for they may bring an indictment of petjury,upon theaffidasit, or they May brink an aetion to :obtain Compensation - in damages for the false. imprisonment. s But there are cases in which the arrest itself may ruin a man, and, though the law is.open to him, it is only open upon such costly terms as he may be too poor to pay, Unless he. snbmits to the. degrading v e xations of suing ire . forma pau penis. it, contrary to every day's experience, it , ke :,untended that those remedies are effectual to. I prevent the abuse of the law against persons who are not of the Legislature, then it follows, as a necessary inference, that they would also. be effectual to prevent the false or malicious arrests of Members of Parliament upon trumped-up charges of debt. Why then are they not con tent with the protection thereby afforded, with out assuming a privilege which can only shield them from the just demands of their bona fide creditors ? We are glad that Mr. Baring has obtained leave to bring in a Bill to limit this pri vilege of arrest, although we would rather see it abolished. The object of Mr. Baring's Bill appears to be to do away the exemption from arrest in case of judgment debts remaining for ti certain time unpaid, but to leave the privi lege as to arrest on mesne process untouched.— We would have the whole privilege taken away, because it is only just and reasonable that the persons who are deputed by the country to make laws should be subject to the laws of their dwn making ; and because we are of opinion ' that, as soon as Members of Parliament found tiseinsehres liable. to, be held to bail for debt, there Would be. some chance that the law of arrest for 'debt,. Which works so much private evil and public injury . , would be entirely abolished. We need not here repeat,the arguments which we have so .often used in support of the proposition to abo lio the law of arrest for debt. When the Le gislature raised the bailable sum from 101. to 151., and subsegueutly from 151. to 201., it acknow ledgeo .the bad principle on which the . law was grounded,. although it wanted the courage or the 'wlsdom to_ afford effectual relief. Mr. Hume, pinsued for some time, with great apparent. e4.rnesttiess, the laudable object of procuring the. repeal of the law of arrest for debt, and we sup ,, phrted him ; ,hut . he has, for a considerable time pt, been silent on the subject, and we . , do find that be; took the opportunity of Mr. Baring's !lotion ,to re-assert . his opinions on this impoirs taut question. The great argument in favour of repeal of the law of arrest for debt, in a public Oint of view, is the false crelit . and the habits 0 extravagance which it createsisiod the detri , nit thereby done to the ; moral of, society.— Mornine. Heral,d. • • The petition from CaMbridge against the Reform Bill, which was presented last night by Captain Yorke, sounds like a note of prepa ration. The petitioners particularly objected to the lOts franchise, and to the metropolitan dis trict representatives. We may thence conclude that the great struggle will take place upon those two points,' and that, though rumour as signs to the violent Anti-Reformers an intention of grappling more directly with the principle of the measure, the moderate party in the House of Lords will be satisfied with a compromise to the extent of the propositions we have men tioned. Perhaps it would be possible to effect some modification of the 101. franchise, if the Opposition would be satisfied with that alone; but we have no idea that Ministers would or could consent to abandon that part of their plan which goes to enlarge the representation of the metropolis. If the principle of extending the franchise be at all recognised in the Bill, we do not see upon what pretence the metropolis can be excepted. Whether numbers, intelligenCe, or property, be taken as the basis of representa tion, or whether in their combined influence they are to confer the right, London and its en virons possess claims which cannot be frittered away by the sophistry of interested parties. Doc tor Johnson, himself a Tory, acknowledged and admired the intelligence of the people of Lon don. Is it to the most intelligent and active part of the population that the Legislature should be most unwilling to extend the privi leges of freemen ? We shall look forward with some curiosity to the debate which is to en lighten us on this new principle of Government. Morning Herald. At the present time there are, upon the coast of Africa, two colonies—one of English, the other of American origin, constructed upon dif ferent plans, but intended to effect similar ob jects, namely, the gradual abolition of negro slavery in the We!..t India colonies of Great Bri tain and the United States of North America ; and also the interruption of the contraband slave trade on the coast of Africa itself--the 'land to which Christian nations have taught one of the worst of crimes, the deprivation and sale of hu man liberty. One is the colony of Sierra Leone, the other Liberia : the former a colony tinder the authority and superintendence of the British Government, though, we believe, originally a settlement of the African Company ; the latter a settlement upon a tract of country purchased by the Colonization Society of the United States fr9m African Chiefs, for the purpose of affording an. asylum to emancipated slaves, and a residence to . such free persons of colour who may be de sirous of emigrating thither from the American territories. Of the colony of Sierra Leone much haS been heard ; and much of what has been heard has been lamented. We believe that it has operated as a powerful check upon the con traband slave trade, on that part of the African coast where the colony is situate ; but at the same time, the climate is so destructive to the hejskle of, Europeans, or whites in general, that much of what. humanity .gains in one . way it loses in the other. if many blacks are saved from the horrors .of the slave ship, and the tortures and the lash of a hopeless bondage, many Europeans are cut .off its the prime of life by pestilent distempers;—the track of that mercy which breaks the chains of the African is moistened with the tears of widows and orphans, and the services of Christian : benevo lence are performed within the shadows of the region of death. Liberia, which is situate in the neighbourhood of the Cape Monteserado, and the river of the same name and that of St. Paul, is also very unhealthy to whites, but it ap pears not to be so with regard to coloured people. It is true that those coloured people from the North and middle American States have to undergo what is called a season ing —that is, they generally take the fever the first month of their residence, but it i s. said to have rarely proved fatal since accommodations have been prepared for their reception- Those from the other States either escape the fever al together, or have it very slightly. So Capt.'s, Sherman, who has had some experience of the place, declares; and Doctor Mechlin, the agent of the Society, states that the bills of mortality would show a less proportion of deaths than those "of Baltimore, Philadelphia, or New York. But the great distinction between. Serra Leone and Liberia, ,is, that, ; in-; the ,latter - colony, • no! fvhite people are alltiwcil to reside for the pur- I Pose of trade, or pursuing any mechanical busi ness, such being .interided for the .exclusive teneflt„of the.coloured•people. This regulation, ivhile it ' lessens the chances of mortality, also laves the blacks from being exposed to the mor tifying distinctions which difference of colour breeds, where the white retains all the pride of .4is ancient superiority, and the black cannot get rsd of the conscious humiliation of his recent bondre. Besides., the assumed superiority of the Wiles, and the insolence and injustice which it often engenders, is too apt to provoke the san guinary retaliation of the savage natives. What else gave rise to the fatal conflicts between the Government of Sierra Leone and the Ashantees, Which exposed that colony a few years ago to the danger of utter annihilation ? But though the native tribes on the borders of Liberia displayed some hostility in the very commencement of the colony, yet since then two native Kings have put themselves and their subjects under the pro tection of the settlement, and other more distant tribes have solicited their friendship and alliance. In Monrovia, the capital of this independent black nation, a newspaper, called the Liberia Herald, has been established, which is published monthly, and more business is said to be trans acted at that place than at any of the old Euro pean settlements on the Gold Coast. Agricul tural labours are also prosecuted, and there are schools to diffuse the blessings of education, which may eventually be the means of commu nicating the light of moral and Christian know , ledge to the benighted millions of the African wilderness. The American Colonization So ciety only professes to colonize free people of colour, whether they were previously free, or made so, for the purpose of being colonized in Africa, with the consent of the slaves Ulm . selves ; nor do they think it prudent or safe. to dthes ia'em p ig op h t t d d at is io i n To h in o t p . es which Atlie verse . out t o circumstances • i I. a .abolished the slave trade, or, in other Ame r lords, prohibited the importation of slaves fionythe lst of January, 1808 ; England from t e 'lst 'of March in the s a m e y e ar. Si nce tt en the local Legislatures of nine of the Ameri can States have abolished slavery ; while it sill' :ptevalls. in all the thirteen chartered and 4ven Crown colonies of Great Britain. Many the slave-holders in the States of America, Where slavery has not been abolished, had de clared their willingness to abandon the property in slaves as soon as means could be procured for heir voluntary emigration—and these means the Colonization Society endeavour to afford.— Morning Herald. Our contemporary the Courier, last evening, in a flippant article of more than ordinary length, passed a high eulogium upon Sir James Graham, to,. the unexampled zeal and ability which he has displaycd in the management of his department, as more particularly exemplified in the reductions of the naval estimates for the ensuing year, and the consolidation of the Navy and Victualling Boards with the Admiralty. Without stopping to point out the incongruities of our contempo rary, ours be the task to shew the greater folly of that charlatan of a Statesman whom it professes o eulogize, and to expose the weakness and ar rogance of the arguments by which he attempted. on Tuesday evening to justify the abolition tab two most w , eful departments, and the appoint ment of creatures of his own to perform the exe-, cutive duties now under the controul of those Boards. Sir James, after a fine rhetorical flow rish, asserted that by the Bill which he asked leave to introduCe he proposed to abolish the < navy and Victualling Boards on the following grotinds.: First, Because it was wrong in principle that three Burris in the Naval Department should all derive their power from the same authority, namely, the letters, patent of the King, which necessarily led the minor Boards to consider that their authority wan co-equal, co-existent, and co-ordinate with that of the superior Board. 2dly. That from this circumstance the minor Boards had always acted upon the p; inciple of opposition to the authority of the Board of Admiralty; and 3 , 11 y. That the result of this had been to impede the . public service, to divide responsibility, and to misappro priate the public money. And Sir James did not hesitate to attempt to illustrate his position by a statement of what he called facts, but which Sir Byam Martin, Sir George Cockburn, and Sir George Clerk incon trovertibly proved to have no foundation in reality, and to be pure and genuine fictions of the eloquent First Lord's creation. Now, with regard to the assumption that opposition on the part of the inferior Board to that of its superior must ne cessarily ensue, from the mere circumstance of each holding its appointment by the same descrip tion of instrument, it does really appear to us that a snore childish assertion could not have been made. We never heard of a case in which a Captain or Lieutenant of the service over which this logician presides, resisted the authority of his Admiral because they held their appoint ments by a commission from the Admiralty; and it would be as reasonable to assert that the rea son of Sir James Graham and his Naval col leagues at the Board not pulling together upon all occasions was that they were appointed by the same patent, as to assert that because the Ad miralty,Navy,and Victualling Boards are all con stituted by letters patent, they must necessarily struggle for the mastery, and forget the superi ority of the one Board and the inferiority of the other two. But if Sir James had ever read those instruments he would have known that, in most express language, power to give instructions and directions to the Navy and Victualling Boards is therein given to the Admiralty, while strict obe tlience to all the directions of that Board is posi tively enjoined to the inferior Boards. As, how ever, it suited Sir James's purpose to usher in his assertion that these minor Boards had improperly resisted the authority of the Ad miralty by some kind of reason why such resist ance had been made, he appears to have ran sacked his brain for this principle, which could never have had any real existence, and then to taken his assertion cltehaar a tly s i p ts r hh a ea c , t vd i n ca n l boy p .f r os o u o i dß o a f yt o i ni ts n have r c h o l r t r r e u c t t h n . e ss :r h forgetting isw as Martin, who, in answer to the vague statements of Sir James that an under current had run for a rec c t e i s o st i uy in o srofthpos e p A itn to d io miralty t , he po st s r i e ti a v m ely of as t s h e e rte d d i : with the frankness and firmness of an officer who had served incessantly and with credit for forty six years, ththeel!taavtyemiteonatrdof had Sir n Jameswil fully was resisted ,untrue; nor could it resi st , t h e Ad miralty htat ; but . when that Board had hastily s d tendency, opinion e given orders impracticable to be executed, or Navy Board to the Admi ralty,failed zealously had I p s r a e d e d s i L l e a t e l tf i i u n l I y t n s h t o e a re case e s : e t ' asd faithfully to obey the orders it had received. Tlts was fully co nfirmed. by Sir George Cock burn„ who declared that during the twelve years he sit at the Admiralty Board, the subordinate departments had co-operated with the Admiralty with the utmost zeal, and that he firmly believed bgreateWpossible advantageAo thn 431 - /ice had een _derived from the full consideration which subjeCts, which 'had been in,thelfixst hastily decided, had necessarily receivtidi,fromthe ipferior Boards having stated - their i;i6fs';6pftlii, subject when they differed. in opinion uPon.lit. By this means the question was fully discussed, and the service derived the advantage of all the judgment and experience of the respective de partments. This was a triumphant answer to Sir James's assertions; and now let us set , . ghat were the proofs which he adduced of the evils of the resistance and divided authority which he thus gratuitously and without foundation stated to have existed. The pretended proofs were these : st. With regard to the Navy Bumf!, that a certain wharf wall at Woolwich, for the reconstruction of which Parliament had granted a specific suin, ha•i been com pleted within a less period than was expected, and that, consequently, a larger ,•um had that year been expended fin• this work than bad been voted, whereby a Itss sum was applied to other purposes. 2dly. That a certain !edger, in which the receipts and issues at the yards, ordered to be kept in the Navy-office, had not been entered up closely. _ . 3dly. Thit an order, ,aid to have been given by the Admiralty, for the discharge of some worktnen in the yards, had not been promptly obeyed ; and itthly. That five tons 1,1 copper had been stolen from Chatham -yard, which could not have been the case if a pro• per system of frequent surveys of remains had taken place. These were the mighty proofs of malversation, resistance, and misconduct, on the part of -the Navy Board. And how were they answered ? Why, it was positively sliewn that from an un looked-for accident to the wharf wall at Wool wich,-while Parliament were not sitting, it be came necessary, in order to save the remainder and a much greater outlay, to proceed on the work by night and day, and that this had been done under the express orders of the Admiralty. That the ledger had been kept up as clo , ely as in the nature of things, and the number of clerks which could be employed upon it, could be done. That no such order as that stated by Sir James Graham-to have been - given 'for the discharge of the workmen had, ever been received by the Navy Board. Thato3iith respect to • the stolen copper, discovery was immediately made and .t!le partiei convicted ; and that. •as for the wise plan of frequently taking surveys to ascertain the're maiiiii% quantities of stores, it was utterly im practicable and impolitic, each survey occupying several months, and costing 'many thousand pounds. The vindication of the Navy`Board from the slanders of Sir James was thus complete. Nor was the defence of the Victualling Board less satisfactory. This department has on many oc casions been the subject of animadversion by Sir James, and a charge of misapplication of the public money has also been made against it. On this occasion it was asserted that tour great public works had been erected without applying to Parliament for grants equal to the expense, viz. : The Melville Hosp tal at Chatham. The Cam Mill Deptford ; and The new Victualling Eqablisliments at Port , mouih and Plymouth. This was the gravamen of the charge against this, hapless department, for which it is to pay the penalty of its annihilation ! And in what manner, was this charge ansWered? Why, that 'the construction ,of these works had in each case been- sanctioned ;by Parliament,' but that the Boatel of o Adroiralty itself had thought it better to ask alinually for a small grant only for these works; but • then to allow the surplus which re onexpended from other grants for the 'rictiialling Service to , be applied to these useful purlsos s, Parliament made cognizant of the fact in the ensuing session. .This :explana tion-appeared to be entirely satisfactory, to the Hoiise ; and, upon the. resumption the; de bite which , will take place upon the-second, read ing-of- the - Bill, we have full confidence that it will he shown that the subversion a these Boards, though it may appear to produce a tem porary saving of establishment, will necessarily lead to dangerous consequences,' by . throwing upon the Board of Admiralty details which it never can: properly attend to, and which must therefore be delegated to persons of. inferior-re sponsibility and knowledge ; that the system of the controul of the expenditure will be less per fect, and the examination of accounts less corn plete ; and that, finally, no object is gained but to remove one set of old and faithful servants to. make way for other more favoured persons, whose merits may be found to consist in subservieiicy to the ruling powers more than in useful know ledge of business and aptness for it. We there fore yet hope that the ruthless destruction of these amongst other ancient institutions may be averted, and the tried services of useful depart • ments retained, in preference to the adoption of theoretical scheines founded upon mistaken views or perverted facts.—Morning Post. When we alluded, the other day, to the im mense saving of almost a million sterling, which had been effected in one department only of the public service, we were not aware that the First Lord of the Admiralty had it in contemplation, 1437 a better arrangement of the civil departments to make an additional saving offifly thousand a year ! Such, however, is the fact, as ou.- readers must have learned from the report of Sir James Graham's speech in yesterday's Paper—a speech replete with sound sense, and highly creditable to the Government as well as to himself. This additional saving met with no approbation, or rather with a very cool reception, from the late occupants of office. It was too good an opportunity for Croker to vent his disappoint ment at not being still Secretary to the Navy, to be allowed to pass without due. improvement ; and he accordingly remarked with his usual flippancy, that he " disputed Sir James Gra- , ham's facts, denied his .reasons, disapproved his policy, and doubted hi,s,success." But does the country care about, his doubts, denials, and disputes ? Was the Navy ever adthinistered more discreditably to the country than when the Right Hon. Gentleman was- Secretary to it ?• Was it not of all. the' other departments of the public service, the Augeari stable which most of all re-. quired to be thoroughly cleansed ? We'.can easily suppose-that , Mr. Croker does not view with any peculiar gratification a reduction in the naval department, which will have the effect of greatly curtailing the patronage of future Lords and Secretaries; but whatever may be the nature o f the objections which he may urge against the Bill brought ill by Sir James Graham, the country, we are inclined to think, will not be very apt to join with him. ,It has no :ympathy With sinecurists and useleis places, and will very justly, as well as very naturally, conclude that he who proposes to 'extract the smallest sum of money from its pocket is'hs best and most disin terested friend. The plan for the futiire adini v eitiser. nistration of the affairs of th e navy h as alSo t h e additional recommendation, ofsimPli c itY and effi'- ciency.—Mornzng A 4 HISTORIC DOUBTS.—At a sale of , antiqui cies on stmlienar .put up a helmet which he deciated had . beeri the hged-piere of,Rownue, the Roman founder; afidecl theileareed knight of the hammer, "whe ther he was a brew; or an iron founder, there exists a doubt." IRISH , EDUCATIONiIi tact " .•• • ,-;•• .• • • The adjotitinett stibieetWas held ye4i 'ford* - ' fturaerOti‘ thaii the r i tOn:;t l i4, l3 f 9 i o;Vet S t4el , o4°4P!Pqi.t las VW°, pc. • ettiiggkl ,we o!roopvedgpeotoky I ItArdik ,13 0174)7,` 1 4tlead. le, • Montagu,-,st*ttormti awl M P 4 Sir E. .Hayea,4l.l 3 :l Role, Stewarti:M:P. ; A. l .Chiehoter, 1111 Pi ;'Cape : • Sone4, t Capt..Voitte, k.M4 M.Y. ;- Sir . .1.- 13r - ydge9. M.i ) ; - ; Colonel Rochfort, M.P. ; Colonel CY- Ments, M.P. ; Hon. C. Blayney, M.P. ; Mr. Percwal, &e. There were also present many of the persons who distinguish themselves at the Common Cornell of Dublin by their ascendancy principles. Lord LORTON was called to the Chair. A prayer hair in, been read, Alt. GOtnO'N, M.P., went over much of his forim r .ground, for the instruction of those who had nor been pre sent at the last meeting. The Board of Irish Education, he said, was about to derinze totally scriptural eduerrion in that country. He had procured a proof-sheet of the selection from the Scriptures now printing under its au thority, and in a most important passage he found that not only was the Burnish interpretation retained, but a controversial note from •the Dttuay Bible ac tally app,ndeti. By this it was repusented that the Virgin Mary (ipsro would crush the setql of the serpent. Such were the ex tracts from that Bible now wrested out of the hands of the Protest ,nt population of Ireland.--(Cheers.) . • Tite CHAI It MA N hrul received letters from various Noblemen and gentlemen expressing their full coacurrence in the objects of the meeting, but lamenting their inability to attend it. Among these were letlers from 31arquis of Chohnondeley, Lends Wincbilsea and Mountsandford, Archdeacon lid!, and Professor Scholefiehl. Lord RADSTOCK moved the fourth resolution (three having been carri; don the last day). He deprecated the introduction of party feeling from th:• sister country, in which it had taken root. Christian principles were th,- true foundation of national policy, end this should be par ticularly borne in mind when this metropolis was agitated from one end to the other by discussions on political sub jects. The present plan would never succeed, and those who had the controul of the Protestant population would withdraw the children that cry for hunger at the top of each street from such polluted systems. He would con clude with asiniple supplication to the Throne of Grace. His Lordship then recited a passege from the Psalm,. The Hon: and Rev. G. Notts, stconded the ri-solution. The present scheme of legislative instruction was en ad verse to the feeling and religion of the people over whom the Government possessed control, that •it •‘‘• as second• to ,the Inquisition alone in tyranny. The Ministry cared not tar Christian principles; their rule was adherence to a worldly policy, and they had formed an alliance with Ca tholics against the welfare of Catholics themselves ; they had strengthened with rhv arm -of legislative power, the arm of a Papistical hierarchy, to expose the children of Ireland to worse than a spiritual de-itb, and prevent them fr..m ever rising to the rank of God's freemen.—(Cheers.) Three was something awful in this deference to the Ca-. tholics of Ireland rather than to the word, of the living God.—(Hear.) The Rev. C. BENSON (Nlsster of the Temple) spoke in support of the reaslution, which passed unanimously. Lord BEXLEY moved the next resolution, which was grounded on four resolutions adopted at the Dublin meeting. • Tile Rev. Alr. BI OWNE (a Presb)teri in minister from Scotland, as we understood) spoke in support of it at con siderable length. They were called on to arrest the evils which thr e at e n e d destruction to all the social institutions of Ireland. Ramer policy had signally failed. When that country showed symptoms of an inflammatory tendency, she was blooded with bayonets and bullets. When brought to a Liw condition by this treatment, it was judged proper to nourish her into strength by throwing open the army and navy to Catholics, and founding Popish colleges. lie to- k shame to himself for having been an advocate of the' great measure of conciliation, and bitter was his repentaßce, (Immense cheering.) It had served no purpose but to pamper the Catholics into greater insolenee.—(Cheeti:) This country had been sitent.tiro.lonla, but Prot st entisirtu was awaking from its slumbers. The . ,orduaucc.,,t4; time of - peace lay idle on the rampart waniea:ba a - ma t e it , to ignite it, and make the earth trentble thunders.—(Great cheering.) . • li • • t A. PRINGLE, Esq., M.P., seconded the rtsoltnion, _••i which pa-sed unanimously. W. M. KERRISON, Esq., moved the next re6o. lotion. • The Rev. Mr. Dmi.ow seconded ,it, and declared that the motion of making the e•tabli-lied-Churchof any country that of the majority was an exploded doctrine. The resolution then pa'sed without opposition. Lord INGESTRiE moved the next resolutiob, which was seconded by the Rev.-H. 111'NEILE, and passed ntianimously. Lord KENYON having been then called to the chair, thanks - were voted to Lord Lorton, and the meeting sepa rated at a quarter after five o'clock. - -- - POLICE INTELLIGENCE. B 0 W. STREE T. Yesterday Mr. Pilfold, an officer on half-pay, and pos sessing considerable landed property in Essex, was brought up on a warrant before - Mr. MINSHULL, charged by the parish officers of St, Martin's with having left his wife chargeable to the funds of the parish. One of the overseers deposed that the defendant's wife had made .application to the parish for relief, stating that she ,had been deserted by her husband, who was a pati,ibioner of St. Martin's. This was some time ago, and 114 had been relieved to the amount of 15/., which suet they now claimed the repayment of from the husiband, together with security for her future maintenance. Mis: Pilfold, an elegant-looking woman, was called for word, and deposed to the same effect. A solicitor on behalt of Mr. Pill°ld pleaded that be was not liable to be sued for the maintenance of his wife. on the ground that she had committed adultery, which he was prepared to prove in the cross-examination of the lady herself if the worthy Magistrate would permit, for he dare say she would not deny the fact. Mr. 111.mstlum. said the lady was certainly open to cross examination ; but if the solicitor could prove the fact by other testimony, it would, he thought, be the more deli. cate course. The solicitor then called Mi. Headach, a clerk in the house of Greenwood and Cox, the army agents, who de posed that in the month of July, 1826, Mr. Pilfold brought an actio❑ against a French gentleman, named Beete in the Court of Common Pleas for criminal conversation with his (Mr. Pilford's) wife, and the Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff, damages 1001. Witness was present at the trial, and heard the evidence, which was most conclu sive as to the adultery. _ The solicitor, upon this testimony, submitted that his client might to be discharged, it having been decided over and over again in the superior Courts that on the proof of adultery on the part of the wife the husband was absolved from all legal obligation to contribute to her maintenance. But he had another objectifin, namely, that Mr. Pill()) I, after the action, in order that his wife might not be left in a state of utter destitution, consented to make her an allowance of 1301. per annum, and so far from attempting to evade the payment of that allowance he had during the last year paid for her use 521. 10s., in proof of which he had receipts to produce. This circumstance alone, the solicitor added, was sufficient to protect his client from any proceeding by the parish officeigi wit =lO bad been de.: , tided' in a case reported in " Barnewelf• end Alderson" that a man paying his wife a certain allowance, with which she not l expressed iabie t h oan e y r s co e I i f n i sa m t l i : fie (a ory d ptv s was ceedi . n t g h e ca ont s here), parte e r e) of , was parish. The overseers objected to the reception of the testi mony of Mr. Headitailt as to the trial and verdict, inas much as it was tnaV.eF,of public record, and a copy of the record ought to have been produced inste td of parole evidence. The solicitor said, the process of obtaining a copy of the record would be very expensive, and submitted that the proof already adduced must be sufficient to convince the Magistrates that a case of adultery had been established to the satisfacti•m of a Caurt and Jury. Mr. Mirisuctr. was of the same opinion, and discharged Mr. Rif°ld, upon his; pledging hii honour that he wotikt. be forth Coming on a future day if called upon. " • •MARLB OR 0 U GIL STREET. Mr. Purcell, an artist, residing in the Hainpstead• road; yesterday appeared before the presiding Magistrates, t f. E. CONANT and H. M. DYER, Esqrs., to answer the coma plaint, or rather extortion, of the driver of the eafr6t4o2 The circumstances detailed more than ti , ual imposition on the part of a conscientiou3 cab-driver. The chariot, er stated that the eentletnan hired him about half-past nine on Tuesday evening, and desired to be driven to Di.t.ry lane, and when he got there, he axed him where he shou!d set him down, and he s.,id " Drive straight on," and on there arrival at Drury-lane theatre the gentleman got out and drank some ale at a public-house, treating the " whip" also. The artist who was under the influence of liquor, then again got into toe coach, and was driven towards Temple oar, and in answer to the complainant's interrogatorie,, still said " Drive straight on ;" and therefore he was driven to Whitechap,l, where he turned his horse's head, and " Drive straight on" being repeat.d, lie went tO llatnpsteat-road. The gentlernan had by tfii. timelines into- a profound bleep,,and 'could - hardly .articulate the niany•-•ime •rtfore.tnentintier instt•setirilis, h ,o stratight t; on,el ? a or d te word ae, t ti iafrf 1 hat to . 'HuiritnierWm itli, ...sit& • t , hiir and-art ivetl:lif the poii'&- sfitlisi of Sti. , .4iiine;s's:aa aqttat'4 4 ` e t t he: •resi_qed, inure partituialy tol#ol df* 'Plir4r-atid•-'tnntity'; n tlib' - 'ectitrgeTof coulter traieliing." . • • Toe complainant was of opinion that hu , 'had Myer! hi 4 fire 25 miles. H , • knov he bail iltiven fast the whole, ' 4. • In ileetor Clements oriservPii tottt,he was at the , wr i t • • Wheri !lie aitt: the driver then eaio he stopped at several places. Mr. Purcell declared that he had only been driven filial Cie Hainp•ti•ail•road to Drill y-1 ine and hack ; the re- . ni.do.l,r was a tissue of lal.ehoods. . • The Magistrates, to mark their sense of the imposition, • reduced the chili) to 4s. which is now lying et the office for the prop; ietor of the cab. THAMES OFFICE. Y , --ter;lety Mr. Henry Sage, a medical practitioner, of No. 123, High -street, Wapping, waited upon Mr. Bai.;• LANTINE, the sitting Magistrate at this office, to acquaint him di it a fever of the most malignant kind, and of which several person. ha;-: died, was at that time raging in the parish of St. George in the East, and that the subject requirel the prompt interference of the Ma;:istratea and • loam authorities to prevent its ektensien, or f iberwise the test alarming eonseieences might eosin.. 14r. Sa t te men: '- tinned secstr.l ett , es which had come under his notice. in - Star-roust, Albion-street, Commercial road. He believed the diata,e was caused by the filthy state of the court. in --- front of it, and within three virds of the house Nor. 4, where so many ,'oaths had taken place, was a black ditch, tilled 'with putrid carcases of cats and (toga', which emittoni a most intolerable stench, quite sufficient ;o cause Piatria fever. There were also two privies, one on each side of the house, , hich had over flowed, awl a pig-sty at the hack, which had not been cleaned out since the swine had been removed. The parochial authorities had lately c,used.the hous e to be lime-washed, hut had neglected to remove the other nuisances, whioili had produCed the f6er. Mr: 11ALLANTIHE having sent for the churchwardens of St. George's, ordered that the nuisances complained or. should be instantly abated, and directed that the sick per sons and their families should he relieved by the parish. Mr. Sage then directed the attention of the Magistrate to another receptacle of filth and misery, called V;ne-court, Ratcliff, in which, he said, a cane of Cholet:a bbd that morning occurred, and terwiintied fatally. The patient, however, one Callaghan, an Irishman, was a man of grossly intemperate habits. Mr. BALLANTINE, after bearing the statement (which was confirmed by the inspector of police), gave some di- !; reciions to the officers, and soon afterwards the thorough fare through Vine-court was stopped up, and a placard • was posted at the entrance signifying the same. Several individuals had previously entered the room where the corpse was lying. The body was ordered to be interred as soon as a deep grave could be dug. , THE MARKETS. 'COAL MAR Per Ton. &ties 20s. Od. Renshaw Main 16 6 Dcan's Primrose---. 17 0 Fast Percy. 18 6 Ilebburn Main —.—. 21 0 _ 0 Kollingworth 21 0 rnttnh Windsor—...... IS 6 South Holywell 16 0 St. Lawrence Main...-. 19 R 6 Pantiekt rownley ' 19 0 West Hanley 20 0 Mangum , • • .21 0 18 0 Wall, Ent Callerton 16 6 , Ditto Bell,Robson,&Co. 20 0 Ditto Bewicke and Co. 22 0 Walls En.l Parr and Co. 19 6 Walls End G05f0rt.11........ 22 0 :Walls End Deaidn—...4... 21 6 ,Walls End,Hiltla -20 9 21 Ships ar 197 -..yqur4l:lt,Y colt • . ET.—Feb. 15, it Tnn. Walls End Hotspur.... 20s. 61. • Walls End Newmareh. 21 0 Ditto. Northumberland 20; 9 Ditto Peareth... 17 0 Ditto Perkins and CM.. 21; 0 Walls End Riddell's.-- %1 0 Walls End Russell's... .8 6 ~'• Walls Lnd Eletton 22 Walls Endl.atobton..; 22 6 %P. E. RiMsell's Hetton 22 9 Walls End Stewart's .. 23 0 With; }NM 22 3' Cowpen 20 6 Walls End 16 9 24 0 Wrtitir - 22 0 New - Fioekton, Milne, And Co l7 6 ilkstone Field and Co. 18 6 Silkstone.Fopplewell smith Hetton Seatn.-:.: 17 0 Tan2elCFracter.—......... 19 - U 1 ived, 20. pp itl "1/IE WE d.• A1.411.K Wheat. ; Barley. Oats, .Bans. Per Quarter. i. to s. Is.to s. S. to j. t. to s. .62,. I 31!, - 43 ;22 $0? Andover.—.....—: 73 80 137 41 '•— • Birminglianti z .. 7 ,,, 56 AG. ;44 1 ; 32 sridport '56 4 . " 30 30 54 Cirencester,,, , „ .50, 0i 26 hal, wog IT tartnr,d0n........4.t....' • ' 36 ' 4tY'' qo Guildford 48 •74 . 1 23 32 26, 35 —.. 43 .tienley `. •-54 3 L g3Da3O =' l 33 213 - 40 Hereford 84 92 44 48 40 Highworth (3`) SO 32 . 42 1;28 34 56 Maidenhead 65 88 13296122 30 37 54 61. 39 Reading ___ 65 90 31 47 21 ,32 42 -TO 3-2 27 21 ,27 -54 Southampton 54 '6B 37 40 28 32 46 , Stroud .C 4 78 34 38 22 32 48 fewkeAury '65 ' 74 - 40 42 30 '3B '44 Uxbridge 48 74 27 ,40 ;23 . P 3 „42 4', %Vantage—. 58 80 30 '43 21 '3O —"'46 Warminster ...-- 45 C 4 30 43 20 28 46 Windsor--.--. 21 22 50 Woreester—,......... 165 66 -44 .51 31'. 12 .44. ;so ULL MARKVIsr-Feb. 14. 565. —3.505. 545. ln bond... —I. —a. —S. . —s 20s. 225. Old •—s. —a. 245. d.... —s. 16s. 20s --s. 16e. 18s. — a . I —a 345. 38s. Line. & %Vold —s. 34s 365. als. 34s 365. Foreign —s. 365. 38s. —s. 38s. 4 , a, Grey —s —s. —s Foreign —s. 30s. 365. none. H Wheat, Old - Foreign Oats, Poland - Small or Feed - Foreign Barley, Norf. & Sul - Foreign Beans Pease, White Tares Rapeseed, in bond CHELTENII A M Per Bushel. s. d. to s. d. wheat.... 6O 80 Barley 4 0 5 6 Oats 4O 43 Roans Pease 5 0 7 0 Hay 3/. 103 11A !MET.—Feb. 14. Pet lb. d.tod Beef 6 7 51titton Veal Pork 0 0 to 31. 15s. Od. per ton LEWES MARKET.—Feb.I4. White Wheat (per quarter) X 3 4 oto £3 8 0 " Red ditto--. 3 1 0 3 5 0 Barley 1 13 0 1 15 0 Oats, New 1 1 0 1 6 0 Pease 1 16 0 1 17 0 Oil Cake, 12 0 0 oer thousand. .KEYS.—Feb. 8. DUMFRIES MA a. d. s. d. 1 e. d. a. d. Wheat, Imp. Bush... 6 9 to 7 0 Butter, I6oz 0 0 t o 0 U Barley ......... ........... 3 8 3 9 Eggs, dozen 0 0 00 • Oats Flour, 14th. Oatmeal Potatoes, cwt. MANUAL STRENGTH.—On Thursday' last a young man named LAITY, a working miner at Wheal Vor, • undertook for a bet of 20s. to run a wheel barrow filled with stamps, sand, &c., weight 1601lis. (himself weighing but 150ib-.), from Wheal Vor to Helston market-house, a distance of three miles and a quarter, without stopping or letting down the barrow—a feat which he actually pt r formed, and won the b,t in fifty six minutes. The recently published " Memoirs of Madame Junot" have been singularly fortunate in their reception in this country, particularly among readers of the fair sex, as her narrative is chiefly directed to the elucidation of the state of female society-in Fiance during the great, revolw tion,,and,t4e subsequentatteendaney of flonweAWea. The'.. anecdotes of Joszvnivnt and other • Celebrated ladies are numerous, and to the Tait degree interestin g ; and in these volumes will be seen, for the first time, the effects which • the politiCal troubles of France had on the conduct and opinions of women, particularly in the upper classes. BIRTHS. On the 13th inst. at Earl's Croome Court, the Hon. Mrs. W. Coventry, of a daughter. On the 1 lth inst. Mrs. S. Lepard, of Newington place, Ken nington, of a son. On the 13th inst. in New Broad-street, Mrs. G. Beale Browne, • of a son. On the Itlth inst. at Croydon, the lady of A. F. Bainbridge,( Esq. of a daughter. On the 12th inst. in Great James-street, Bedford-row, the lady of G. Waugh, Esq. of a son. MARRIED. • On the 15th inst. by special licence, in Brunswick-square, r M‘Gill, Esq., of Montreal, Member of the Legislative Council,,. Lower Canada, to,Eliza, only daughter of J. .Shuter, Esq., of Hoconab-house,' Hendon; one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace, and Mikity- Lieutenant for Middlesex. On the 15th St. ticorge the Martyr,, Queen-square, Mr. Richardson, of ,to Miss Isal;tdhs Thompson, of Great Orinond-str. et. , On the 14th inst. Mr. t T. 'l.onsdale, of Kliig.'stfeet, Covent garden, to Jane, youngest daughter of W. Wilson, Esq., of the Minories. . ..; :.DIED. On the 12th inst. at Linderidge HOuse, Deyonshire t the Dow a,ger Lady Pole, aged 74. • • On the MK inst. in Upper 13r6olte.sereet, Marianne, eldest daughter of Michaellituce, Esq.;iind , ltisdy Parker. On the 12th inst. at George-street, Euston-square, Mrs, C a ., therine Elizabeth Dwyer ' •clatighter oftirß.,;ate it. 'rwylOrd, gsq. D and relict of Captain wYer , . • On the 13th inst. Theodore;Second `gbh Ldr'"Mr. Scudding, of , Gordon.street, Gordon-square, St, Paberagli On the 11th; inst. at, Edinburgh, the, iteri Dr. J. Hodgson, Minister of idantyye, ileac tianalion.• -OA the 'llth inst.. agOd 43; Mi. IsaicS,pyer, late of New York, f i :sou of Mr. S.'Spyer;-oslingtOn. • • On the 1 1thinst. at Torquay, Win. 'Lane F OX , Esq.. , Fet 1 NTED A NI , PIALISILED nv UItI)0 Y 0 U N ,AT VIM .; , SUN 'QFPNE, lIL , . ipuAND, LONDort. P