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TIIE LONDON JOURNALS. DAILY EXTRACTS MONA THE :MORNING PAPERS, February, 1, 1822. [NEW TIMES.] The Suffolk Meeting has read a lesson to the Country Gentlemen of England, which will not soon be forgotten. The great Landholders were called together to sanction a Petition, throwing the blame of the Agricultural Distress on the Ministers. The matter had been artfully managed —all parties were agreed—" Little difference of opinion was expected"—" No petty resentments were to mar their exertions for the common good." !ifti Henry Bunbury proposed the Resolutions — Sir Robert Harland seconded them—Lord Hunt ingfield agreed with the preceding Orators— Lord Dunwick wished " before the meeting separated" to say a few words.—Nr. Merest, Lord Calthorpe, Mr: Gooch and Lord Henry Fitzroy, were all more or less cordially in favour of the Resolutions, as at first proposed.—When Jo ! a Mr. Grigsby, or Wigsby, or some such name, starts up, and at once turns the current of popu -1.-.r frenzy against the great men themselves.— " Down with your Rents !" drowns the cry of No Taxation." In vain did a patriotic Ba ronet avow himself a staunch friend of Reform. " We cannot believe any of you," retorted a real Reformist, " until you drop your Rents.— We want deeds, and not words." In like man ner another Noble Orator was answered, when he pathetically said, that he " felt for the poor Farmer who had the unhappiness to live under an equally unfortunate Landlord, who could not impart that relief which equity and charity de manded, and which, were it in his power, he was _perfectly inclined to afford,"—the plebeian au ditors roundly disavowed their belief of any such liberality, and asserted that their Landlords " had the powers but not the will." Now, let us pause upon this picture ! Here is the plain, honest, farmer, suffering under the 'pressure of distress. Ile is called away from his occupa tions, to listen to the factious abuse of Ministers, - who, he is told, are ruining him by taxation. In experienced as he is in political reasoning, a mo ment's reflection teaches him, that of all his out goings, his taxes are the lightest and his rent the heaviest. If the remission of the one will relieve him, much more will the remission of the other. He therefore naturally replies to his noble and honourable advisers, " Relieve me yourselves— drop your rents—l want deeds and not Ni'OrdS." LTHE TIMES.] Yesterday the Report of the City Committee on the outrage at Knightsbridge was taken into consideration by a Court of Common Council, and that Report was all but unanimously con hrmed. We are more in love with peace than party, and 'therefore agree in an observation made by one worthy Member, that as the deceased had zo relations bitried at Hammersmith, it would have been much better that the funeral proces sion should not have been directed to that church. But the matter being thus determined, what right had the military to interfere ? Surely, if there is such a thing as discipline in the British army, soldiers may be kept in order, though a mob may not. But an outrage upon the Sheriff, - who had nothing to do with the determination to bury the bodies at Hammersmith, but who was called from his home merely by his sense of duty to preserve the peace between the parties, was most atrocious. [MORNING POST.] The Common Council met yesterday to take into consideration the Report of the Committee appointed to inquire into the truth of tl►e asser tions made by Mr. Waithman, in his letter to Lord Bathurst. This Report, it will be recol lected, declared that the gallant Alderman had established his case; but the evidence on which it was founded having, unfortunately for the credit of the Committee, been printed, proved directly the reverse. The history of the Com mittee itself is rather curious. It consisted of twenty-six individuals, only fourteen of whom signed the Report, and if we are not mistaken, out of these very 14, two have since very sensibly expressed their regret at having sanctioned it with the authority of their names. The Common Council has however now relieved them of all shame and responsibility on that head, by tak ing the whole upon itself. It has agreed to a Report which would clearly have been ne gatived in the Committee, had votes followed thoughts ; and it has agreed to it, not because unanimity of opinion prevailed in the Council; but because both parties were desirous that the matter should be brought before Parliament. The friends of Mr. Waithman, in the vain hope of justifying their Report, and the friends of truth, in the confident expectation of proving its fallacy. In the course of the discussion, instead of any attempt being made to impugn the cor rectness of the statement which we gave of the Knightsbridge affair at the time when it took place, the evidence of the Gentleman who wrote that statement was appealed to by all parties as that on which they could rest with most con fidence, on account of his candour and strict im partiality. [BRITISH PRESS.] There are some persons trembling for the safety of the present Ministers, who have the hardihood to deny the existence of the distresses under which the agriculturists labour, and who even presume to sneers at the sufferers, as if they now complained solely for the pleasure which the' act of lamentation is ridiculously supposed to, yield. . The Noblemen and Gentlemen who have attended the meetings lately held in various parts of the country;prove, however, that they en tertain too lively a conviction that the complaints of the agriculturists are founded in truth; and a large number of them have given a substan tive assurance of their sincerity by the genero sity; justice, and wisdom with which they have consented to remit a considerable proportion of their rents. These great landholders have been the strongest supporters of the Ministers, and may indeed be said to hold in their 'hands the legislative authority of the empire. They ap. pear almost unanimonsly in the ranks of the pe titioners to Parliament for relief, and - seem to agr-e with those who hold that Parliament grant no relief but by remission of taxes. An opportunity will immediately be granted to them of carrying into effect their own suggestions, and we shall soon see what projects the landholders are capable of devising and executing when they wield the power of the Legislature for their own assistance. [MORNING lIERALD.I The accounts from the principal marts of Turco‘Russian intelligence are as vague as ever. They rather, if any thing, incline to the side of peace—of which, indeed, the very duration of the negociations affords a presumption. The accounts from Odessa and Saint Petersburgh state that the Divan did profess to accept the Russian Ultimatum, but in an evasive manner, amounting to the non-acceptance of it. The evasion appears to be some counter demands which the Divan had coupled with its agreement to the Russian proposition, one of which is, that the rebellious Chiefs should be yielded up to the Porte. Considerable alarm was excited at Con stantinople by a tumultuous movement among the" Turkish students," a class educated in the particular study of the Koran, for the purpose of becoming the expositors of Islamism. It ap pears their spiritual studies did not exempt or exclude them from the use of arms, with which they 'paraded the streets of Constantinople. The accounts from the Archipelago represent the Turkish power in that quarter as reduced to a 'nullity. The Greek cruizers exercised an unre sisted dominion in those waters. In the Morea, too, the Greeks had gained a complete ascend ancy, and Prince Ypsilanti had his head-quarters at'Argos. It would appear, however, that Turkish garrisons still occupied Athens and the fortress of Livadia, though Attica and the country of Li vadia were in the hands of the Greeks. [MORNING CHRONICLE.) The Chancellor of the Exchequer urged as one of the reasons (certainly not one of the least in fluential) for keeping up a large standing army after the conclusion of the war, that the popula tion of the country was much increased. The same reason is repeated in the late Ministerial Manifesto, the State• of . the Nation. There are two purposes for which armies are required, one to defend a country against foreign enemies, and another to set the opinions- and feelings of the people themselves at defiance.—When the object is defence against a foreign _enemy, the in crease of population is a reason for diminish ing instead of augmenting a standing army, if a standing army is deemed at all necessary. The greater the population the less it is exposed to be attacked from abroad, and the more easily and speedily, in cake of attack, the means of efficient defence can be organised. It might be necessary that Frederick of Prussia, with his four or five :millions of subjects, should retain a large mili tary establishment in time of peace, because with such a limited population, the men necessary for the formation of a large army could only be ob tained with great difficulty; but a country like France, for instance, can always obtain from her po pulation a large army without much delay . or difficul ty. It is only when asystem of government involves a defiance of the opinions and feelings of a people, that their increase in number can form a reason for augmenting the standing army. When a go vernment discharges its duty in any thing like a bona fide manner, all that are sound in the com munity are tacitly leagued with it, and cheerfully support it. Nothing but the grossest misgovern ment can ever inspire the great body of a people with hostile feelings towards the State. They are naturally interested in the preservation of order, and, when u government answers its proper purpose, they defend it on the same principle that they defend their lives and properties. An increase of population does not alter the state of things, for it brings with it a corresponding increase of the number of the well affected. The inhabitants of the United States, for instance, seeing to demonstration that their utility and advantage are the objects which their public functionaries have in view, never think of opposing themselves to these functionaries ; and should the population amount to a hundred millions instead of ten, the handful of an army now kept up would probably be diminished rather than augmented.—A President of the United States might say here is a thinly peopled frontier, and it is necessary that forces should be stationed along it to prevent the incursions of savages ; but when the population of the frontier increased, he would withdraw the troops, because the savages would no longer dare to make incursions. The Govern ment of such a country would indeed no more think of setting the feelings of the people at de fiance than it would think of preventing the waters of the Mississippi from mingling with the ocean. arnmaxi; ,etwommirzoomel • A. WOMAN Wilo SPOKE WELL without a Tongue. This woman was a native of Monsaray, in the territory of Elvas, in Portugal. The case was attested by WILCOX, Bishop of Rochester, then Chaplain to the English Factory at Lisbon, in a letter dated from that city, Sept. 3, 1707, and was laid before the Royal Society in London. The following is an extract from the letter:— " The Conde d'EiticEvitA, a Nobleman of letters, and cu rious in natural knowledge, brought from the frontiers of this country a woman without a, tongue, who yet speaks very well. She is seventeen years of age, but in stature exceeds not one of seven or eight. I was with her at the Count's house, and made her pronounce every letter of the alphabet, which she can do distinctly. She has not the least bit of a tongue, nor any thing like it, but the teeth on both sides of her under jaw turn very much inwards, and also meet. She finds the greatest want of a tongue in eating, for, as others when they eat, move their meat about with their tongue, she is forced to use her finger. She praends to distinguish tastes very well, but I be lieve she does it very iniprfectly. Her voice, though very dis tinct, is a little hollow, and like that of old people who have lost their teeth." ATTEMPTED SUlClDE.—Yesterday, about 11 o'clock in the forenoon, the attention of the pas sengers in Goswell-street was arrested by the extraordinary conduct of a respectable, middle aged man, who paraded the middle of the road in a very singular manner. At length, he sat down at a door, and pulling a razor from his pocket, was in the act of cutting his throat, when a young woman rushed on him, and seizing his hand, rescued the weapon from his grasp. The unhappy man refused to give any account of him self; and walked off. COURT OP COMMON' tOU,NCIL. Yesterday a Court of Common Council was hold, which was made special, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Committee of Ge neral Purposes, relative to the inquiry into the dis turbance at Knightsbridge, on the 21st Augetst, 1821.—Mr. Knox Child was elected a Governor of St. Thomas's Hospital, vice John Aldcock, Esq. Deputy, no longer a Member of this Court. On a question of Privilege, relative to an alleged act of delinquency of a Member of the Court, referred to in our former Report, strangers were excluded. The debate continued with closed doors nearly an hour. On our admission we found that it had been moved that the Report of the Committee thereon be received ; to which an Amendment was put that it be printed and dis tributed ; which was carried by a Majority of 22, the numbers being—For the Motion 39—For the Amendment 61. Several Officers of the Corporation were then re-elected according to the annual custom. Mr. Alderman BROWN reported that the health of Marshal Wontner was so far restored since his late severe accident, as•to enable him soon to dis charge the duties of his situation, and he was ac cordingly re-elected. Mr. Alderman Woon suggested the propriety of providing for Mr. Wontner, by a place of equal value to that which he now held, whenever it was in their power, as the activity which the situation of City Marshal required was not com patible with his state of health, and a better arrangement might, be made in consideration both of his ease and of the public service. DISTURBANCE AT KNIGHTSBRIDGE. The Requisition making the Court Special, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Com- Mittee uf General Purposes, upon the Riots at Knightsbridge, was then read ; and also the Re port of the Committee, which has been already published. Mr. FAVELL then rose and said, that as often as he had occasion to trouble the Court on spe cial summonses, he trusted that before he sat down he should be able to show, that few cases had occurred in which special summonses had been more warranted ; and if he were to judge from the vast numbers by which the requisition had been signed, and the alacrity with which it was done, he should say that the subject before the Court was considered of very considerable mportance. Before he called the attention of the Court mere fully to that question, it was but doing justice to the Committee to say, that they were entitled to great thanks for their laborious investigation and very luminous Report, The investigation was indeed a iwork of considerable labour, and was carried on with a marked dili gence and anxiety to come at the truth. The result was, the production of that clear and able statement which was borne out by a body of evi dence irresistible. Indeed, so conclusive did he consider that evidence of the truth of the state ments contained in the report, that he thought it. would be impossible there could be a vote against its being agreed to. The motion for receiving and agreeing to the report would, he was satis-, lied, be carried without dissent, though he would admit that there might be a good deal on the resolution with which he should follow that mo tion up. In looking at the evidence annexed to the report, it was remarkable that so long after the transactions in question, and from persons wholly unconnected one witki another, there should be such a coincidence with respect to the con duct of the Sheriff, if that conduct had not been as it was described. Even the testimony of Mr. Derbyshire, the gentleman who attended to 1. report for The. Morning Post, and who could not be suspected of much prejudice in favour' of the worthy Sheriff, was in this respect in coin cidence with that of the other witnesses. In forming their judgments on the present important question, there were three points which the Court should consider. First, the conduct of their cer, the Sheriff, as it stood affected or not by the evidence; next, the conduct which Government had pursued in the affair; and, last of all, the resolution to which they should come on the subject of both. In examining the conduct of the Sheriff, he could afford to dismiss from his consideration altogether his merits as a man and a citizen ; he could afford to dismiss from his mind, all recollection of what he and others of his fellow-citizens knew of the virtues and good qualities of the man, and the merits of the offi cer, on other occasions ; but he .could not afford to dismiss from his consideration, that the honour of the city of London was insulted ;n the person of this officer; he could not afford to dismiss frinn his mind,. that in his person the peace of the county of Middlesex was, to use the mildest term, violated by soldiers, unrestrained by their officers, or by any officer or magistrate except by the Sheriff.— (Hear, hear !) He could not dismiss those reflections from his mind. because they proved to him that in the out rage to which he alluded there was a violation of that ancient rule and practice of Cie country, that a Sheriff had, by the power with which he was invested, authority to put aside, by means of the old constitutional force of which he was the head, even a military body who presumed to dis turb the peace and disobey his lawful commands, tending towards its preservation. He was no lawyer, but he knew enough not to be ignorant of this—that a Sheriff, as such, had an authority greater than any Nobleman in a county ; and that in such a case as that before the Court, of breach of peace by the military, his authority was greater than that of the Duke of Wellington himself, had he been present. .11e could not conceive any thing more flagrant than an attack by armed men on part of that community, for whose protection and defence they were rained and supported ; and it was a species of outrage that required the more effectual and speedy pre vention, as, from the similarity of uniform, it was generally difficult afterwards to point out the 'offenders. It was therefore, he considered, the duty of a public officer, vested with the powers of a Sheriff, to be present,, aiding to keep the peace. 11e knew there were some persons who thought that it would have been better had , the Sheriff not attended at all; but, know ing that the funerals of the two unfortunate men would drab* togetlier a large concourse of persons—knmiltig also, as he must, the great degree of irritation which existed in the public mind as to the cause of the death of these men—aware of those circumstances, as the Sheriff must have been, be would ask any man of common sense to put his hand to his heart and say, was it an occasion •when that officer ought to have stayed away ? He (Mr. Favell) very well knew what would have been said in certain papers if the Sheriff had not at tended. It would have been tauntingly said that he had interfered on other occasions, but that, perhaps, tacitly approving of these processions, he had taken no notice of them, and therefore was absent. This, and perhaps even a worse motive, would have been ascribed for his absence; but he knew his duty, and, regardless of any per sonal_ risk or inconvenience, he was present at the head of a small portion of the city police: and, indeed, he would not here omit to mention (for he would state every thing which he knew could bear on the question) that he was very credibly informed, that if the Sheriff had not on that occasion performed his duty spiritedly and manfully, the King's barracks would have been in great danger from the indignation of the people, aroused by the highly improper conduct of the soldiery. Fo►'his conduct on that occasion, their Sheriff had deserved the best thanks of his fellow-citizens. It was true that for his gPneral con duct while in office he had been thanked before, and there were substantial grounds for that pro ceeding ; for on that, as on every occasion through life, he won his laurels before he wore them. He now came to what had been the con duct of Government on this occasion : and the first circumstance was—that no communication whatever had been made to the Sheriff or to other civic officers on the subject, no mention of what steps had been taken, or that any had been used, to preserve the peace of the city. There was a communication made by a gentleman, one of the Solicitors to the Treasury, to an indivi dual who was one of the committee for arranging the funeral ; and it was there stated, that legal means would he used to prevent its passage through the Park. But he (Mr. Favell) wanted to know what legal means had been taken— what assistance had been provided, to assist the Sheriff and his officers to keep the peace ? In re ferring to the neglect of the Government in this instance, one was naturally reminded of the ex, traordinaryproceedings of Ministers with respect to the funeral of her late Majesty; for to the irri tation which those proceedings had produced might be attributed the whole of the melancholy circumstances which followed. It was to their unmanly insult to the memory of that illustrious Princess, in turning her funeral aside from the' last tribute of respect m hich the loyal feelings of the city were about to offer to their departed Queen, that disturbance of the peace of the.me tropolis was owing ; for what could be better calculated to excite the anger and indignation of the people of this country, than that the peace able expression of their loyal feelings should be met by Government with the bayonet and •the broadsword ? [A MEMBRIt here rose to order, and observed, that no part of what the gentleman was now al luding to was contained in, or directly connected with, the Report of the Committee.] Mr. FaIiELL maintained that he was quite in order, in al luding to the conduct out of which the proceedings under the - consideration of the Court had arisen. lie then continued— He had alluded to the indignities offered to the remains of her late Majesty by the agents of the Government. Oh, if the spirit - of that illustrious Lady could have witnessed those in dignities ; if she had seen the • indecent haste with which her _remains were born& along ; the escocheons on her coffin cover ed with mud and filth ; and, above all, if she had seen the spear of the soldier turned against the heads of those who had attended to respect her memory, she would havacried out " This is the unkindest act of all ;" and in her prayers to the Recording Angel, to erase the injuries which had been heaped upon her, she would have implored another tear, to blot out this last indignity. But to return to the subject more imme diately before' the Court, he could not but again express his surprise that no communication was matle•to the Lord Mayor, or e - a subject on which he must; as chief Magistrate of the city, have felt a deep interest. This afforded another proof of the ne glect and intentional disrespeetlo the civic authorities wheh it suited the views of Ni inisters. In a case like the present, in volving so many important considerations, it 'was proper that a strict investigation should take place into the Conduct of those who, he would say, had evinced such a disregard of their duties as had been shewn by some of his Majesty's Ministers. Ine deed, from the tone of Lord Bathurst's leiters, one would have been led to suppose that a strict inquiry had been entered into by him; but that he could not have made any diligent exami nation into all the circumstances of the present transactions, was clear from the evidence now before the Court. The Court, however, had done its ditty. It bad made the necessary in quiry as far as its own dignity and the character of one of its officers were concerned. He , trusted that, eventually, justice would be done elsewhere, and that a case where blood had been shed, and manslaughter committed, would not be enfihred to pass over without the strictest scrutiny. After a few more ob servations, which were not distinctly heard below the bar, the worthy Member concluded by moving the first Resolution. ' Mr. EicKE seconded the motion',arsel went over several of the tonics urged by the mover, to shew that the conduct of the She rit had been most praiseworthy. In adverting to the evidence, lie said, that from the testimony of Mr. Derbyshire, who had been present at the meeting from the Morning Post, it was clear that the conduct of the soldiers had been most violent ; for he stated that the barrack-gates were burst open, and that soldiers armed rushed out among the crowd. Now, he would ask,' was it to be borne, that, in the heart of the metropolitan county, an attack should thus be made by•armed soldiers upon a crowd of unarmed citizens ? It had been said that no communication on the subject of the funeral was made by Government to the Sheriff. Now, he would call this roost culpable neglect ; for Government must have known that a great degree of irritation existed in the minds of the people, for a Jury had found that one of the deceased, whose funeral was about to take place, had been wilfully murdered by some of the soldiers. His Majesty's Government seemedready enough to use means to prevent the procession from passing through the Park, but they took no pains to keep the soldiery from the people. Taking into con sideration the conduct of Government on this occasion, as well as on that of the Manchester business, and other affairs where they seemed to have forgotten that we were - a free people, he was disposed to exclaim with a celebrated writer, " Is the Con stitution asleep. ?" Indeed, that it was asleep, or quite inert, seemed to bathe opinion of many of those who were loudest in proclaiming their attachment to it. He was rather surprised at an instance of tins kind which occurred a few days back at the dinner given to celebrate the accession of his present Ma jesty. At that dinner, which was attended by many of those gentlemen who were always professing their attachment to the King and Constitution, and at which a worthy Alderman, the father of the city (Sir William Curtis), presided, the following toast was given :—" The Constitution ; it has stood by us, and we will stand 'by it." This was followed, not by the band striking up " God save the King," " Rule Britannia," " Bri tons strike home," or any other of our National airs, but by the tune of " That is all my eye and Betty Martin, o." Hear and laughter.)—The gentleman concluded by expressing a hope that a strict inquiry might be instituted in another place into the whole of the affair at knightsbridge. Mr. JUPP supported the motion, and dwelt upon the portance of the decision come to by a Committee, not .appointed for the purpose, and in which parties might be said to operate, but by a standing Committee, consisting of men selected with out any reference whatever to political opinions. The evidence brought forward was, in his opinion, irresistible proof of the justice of the Report which the Committee had drawn up.— That of Mr. Derbyshire, who it was not to be supposed was i particularly biassed n favour of the Sheriff, but who, he would say; gave his testimony in a fair and manly Mariner, went di rectly to show that the conduct of .the Sheriff had been most praiseworthy; while that of the soldiers was by no means as peaceable as it ought tO hate been. The letterwritten by- : the High Sheriff, and every thing he had chime previously to the procession, were, to his mind, complete pxoo' that the High • Sherifrs object was to preserve the peace, and to prevent the .ef fusion of human blood. how very little must the command, ing-officer at the barracks know of 'lnman nature, when he could -have acted as he did ! Could he riot , have seen the tend ency of men's pasSionS, and the reimlts of the state of irritation which then existed, as the. High Sheriff' had seen them ? Ought he not to have saidlo the " Wait till this • procession is over, and then you can go quietly." The Hon. , lllember had no hesitation in saying, that the.commanding officer had not done his duty. He had sent an ungracious, uncourteous mes sage, accompanied with a profane oath—" My Men arellot. to be prisoners." The Chief Magistrate of the County had done his duty manfully, with great presence of mind, and with unshaken courage. The thanks which had been given to him, he was fully:entitled to. It was owing tO Hui that more blood had not been shed.—(Applause.) The Resolution was now put by the COrnmon Sergeant, that the r:port be approved of; and after.a general show of hands was raised, Air. SAMUEL Dixox rose, but was assailed by cries of , " Order" from all parts of the Court, and a general confusion-- among the members ensued. . . The Lonn MAYOR-It is my opinion that the question is carried.—(('reat cheering) • Mr. DIXON was still up, but what he said we could not learn: Mr. FAVELL felt sorry that the• Hon. Gentleman 'had bent '•disappointed of his speech, for he (Mr.,Favell) always wilily-a, to hear the reasons for dissent given. But as he had another .resolution to propose, the worthy Gentleman would still have. an opportunity of giving his arguments to 6e Court. Here, however, he must congratulate the 'Hon...Aidernian (Waith man) on the complete proof of his manly and correct conduct, and the universal testimony borne to his discretion-and huMa pplause.)—W as it, then, possible that ;he report which ,they had so approved of should lie a dead letter on their - table ? Wuat would the public say of them if they.we,re.,content with.; out anyinquiry, and Appeared to be quite :titisfied without fur.; then proceedings ? If they acted so, they wotilfl-betray the trust reposed in them. lie. therefore moved another. resolution. (It stated the outrages detailed by the evidence before the Commit tee, and among them the intent to aFassinate the High Sheriff; it expresSed'that the Government app caret tdhaye, instituted no inquiry into these outrages; and , it therefore proposed a peti tion to the House of Commons, praying for a strict and minute investigation of all the circumstanc,%) • •, ' • Mr. Jury objectedo the terms used. The evidence did not appear to him to warrant the inference that assassination had been intended. _ . Mr. S. DIXON said he did wish the subject to come before the House of Commons, because both sides would there be heard.' The only way tole unanimous Was td hear only one side : . here they had most certainly done. theta -He believed that the late Sheriff had meant , well ; but he would ask whether it would not have been more becoming, and attended with a 'greater degree of propriety, to have used his influence with the friends of the deceased in order to prevent the precession ?. He had a right. to ask them what good motive there could be for a proceSSion to Hammer Smith, 'Where 'the deceased had nor been resident, and had had tio .connexions. Another thing which might have been urged 'waS, of :ill the days of the week making choice Of the Sabbath, when a great f er number of per sons could attend than on any other day. The worthy Member then entered into minute criticisms upon the evidence. Ile did hope that the Petition, remonstrance, or representation would go to the House of Commons. Mr. ECCXE wished the words of the Resolution to be altered , Mr. CnocKEn said, that if it proved that a carbine had been directed against their .High Sheriff; there was not. one of then! who would not give his vote, and the aid of his nurse, to have such a darin‘r outrage 'prosecuted abut the eviaence did not establish such a proof; therefore he thought the resolution was not properly worded: [Tf;e tlietedier hcfe entered into some details respecting the evidence, quotine passages which described the carbine as not directed towards'fhe 'Sheriff. Mr. R. H. Woods said, " It was as soldiers. have it,. when about to put it to their shoulder—the muzzle towards the Mr. Tyas said,!" I saw this man with a tarhine ,ou .Ins Shoulder, and moving it about as if to get an nine at Mr. Waltinnan ; 'and „. conceive, (this is only matter of opinion), butuiy. opinion' evas, that if he could have. fired at Mr.. ‘Vaithman without hitting orre'of his comrades,' he would have 'fired."] He was anxious that the subject should go to the ,I - louse of Commons for ill vestigation. Mr. II uncomnE.rose to read other parts of the evidence, which clearly proved that there had been an intent to murder the Iligh Sheriff. Mr. Tyas, when asked, ".in die act of pre.. seating it ?"—added. Yes ;he moved it about as if to obtain a sight, I judge, to fire at.' "Asif ' he was taking aim ?"--- ' Certainly.' If there •had . been murder the officer ought iq have been made amenable for it. But for the firmness, cool ness, and humanity of th e Sh er iff , more bl oo d :wou ld have, be,r, shed, and in their own nei g hb our hOOd- they would haVe ' la ' Manchester Massacre. Mr. GALLOWAY felt astonished that political opinion& coni(- make men bear acts of outrage committed against theiforo-' nents with patience—he bad alniont said with.exultaticri, The firmness of the High Sheriff had been ecinal to. his judgment-- his humanity to his.bravery. Had he been shot, then would there have been dreadful bloodshed indeed. If they expressoa not indignation at military outrages of this kind, they, in • eocii mon with all England, would soon have cause to lament their supineness. Mr. PIPER read passages of the evidence to sheW that the carbine, had been presented. . Mr. PAT Tt N . made a few observations. The question was then put by the Common Sergeant, and carried by an immense majority. . A petition was' immediately read, founded on the last resolu tion, and agreed' to. On Saturday, the Bth of December, Mr. IVRA the new President of Demerara, arrived there with his wife and family. It is understood that he was to be sworn in, and open the Court on the 11th of that month. Mr. Rourin and family were at that time there, and were not expected to leave the colony until 'the spring.. Last night, about half-past nine ,o'clo.ck, one of the most beautiful and best defined Lunar Rainbows we ever saw, was visible in this city. The centre of the arch was about. 20 deg. above the horizon,. in a clear sky. The part of the circle formed extended from about N.E. to. S. I. the moon being about the same height above the horizon in the western part of the Heavens. It continued perfect about ten minutes from the time we first observed it, when it gradually disap pear ed.—(Glasgow Courier, Jan. 29.) SHOCKING ACCIDENT.— Wednesday evening/. Mrs. MARIA CORAN, a lady 73 years of age, re siding at No. 121, Chancery-lane, whilst sitting by the fire, her dress was blown by a current of air to the bars of the stove, and in a moment the unfortunate lady was enveloped in flames. Her infirmities prevented her assisting herself, and ne persons being in the room at the time, her situa tion was dreadful. At length her shrieks were heard by some persons, who wc at immediately to her aid, hut not till she was burnt in the most terrific manner.. She was instantly conveyed to Bartholomew's Hospital, where death put an end to her misery soon 'afterwards. BI,RTUS. On Tuesday, the 29th ult., the Lady of Sir Frederick B a ker, Bert., at his house in Jerrnyn-street, of a son. On the 30th ult.;iMary, the wife of Mr. Charles Marten, of Cross-lane, St. Dunstan's-hill, and Queen's row, WAlwoith , of.a son, her tenth child. MARRIED. • " . On the 25th ult., at SalisbUry, John rein Tinney, Esq., O f that City, to Charlotte, relict of the Rev. Arthur May. DIED. On Saturday last, after a lingering illness, John, the se - 60 11 4 son of John Marshall, Esq., of Ardwick, near Manchester.' On Wednesday last, in the 79th year of his age, Thoni l9 Fitzherbert, Esq., Deputy Lieutenant of the County of Susse's - On the 30th ult., at Delancey-place, Camden-town, miah Spicer, Esq., in his 110th year. On Monday, the 22th.ult., Alicia ' the wife of Mr. -sairr. , o Jackson, of the Stock Exchange, and Hackney, agul ‘rri: After a few days' illness,. at Glasgow, Capt.j. Avelifor9- () ,, the 77th Regiment ; having actively served 22 years in the Regiment. • Printed and Published for the PROPRIETons, at OFFICE, 112, Strand, by J. B. CARSTAUtS. !juil Iti the J 4. to to rt PRI hey )3(t Offi The C9IIJ hs t 1141 d tila I ,