The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-10-08 00:00:00

Oct()Eta 8, 1833. 4/ 7,1.• a sova. . b e made in the course of last year by the ship 4 !Worst, in the. Company's employ. We haVe long been impressed with an Opinion, that the occasional interrup teleas.given by the Chi nese aut h or i t i es to t h e tra d e o f t h e oio°r°l3anY in teas, wou ld , at no very di stant per i o d , l ea d iosome ende avour b eing made to carry it on through other channels than the solitary port of Canton ; and our .t..notions were more decidedly confirmed upon this point, the mom ent t h at the last interruption took place, about tWo years ago. It is unnecessary for us here to claire how far the voyage of the _Amherst arose out of il nat occurren ce . I t is sufficient to state that a Compa . s hip —not only w i t h out t h e i nstruct i ons of t h e Direc coirs at h ome, but evidently, as appears by the documents question, to their great annoyance—did make • .tt voy age along the north east coast of d put into several with the did trade, a n d h o ld man y commu ni ca ti o n s the Mandarins and other authorities of the " celestial empire." It is equally clear, front the reports made by t wo Persons i n the Company's employ, engaged in the v t ° Yege, that a strong i mpression exists on their minds as 2 . the pos s ibili ty of conducting an extensive trade upon t his hitherto untrodden and strictly-forbidden ground ; and the details show that such a trade might be made to ibclucle, among other things; large• transactions in teas. 'low far the course pursued by the - parties .engaged in th e Conduct of the voyage may have been consistent with s t ri ct prud ence, or whether that course was not liable to fair objection in many respects, is a matter upon which w e may venture to express some doubts, not to be more etPlicit. That, however, is a question upon which doubts er opinions would now be'nflittle avail. The main con alderation at the 'moment is this ;—that, whereas the . trade b etween the Eas t India Company and China has hitherto been carried on exclusively through the port of C4n totl, It has been proved, and that by persons in the employ of the Company, that fine ports, populous cities, extensive trading districts, and great facilities for corn 1/?eree, are to be found along the north east coast of that I ,_ °llll trY• How f ar th e j ea l ous i es o f t h e government may "I relax e d to allow of.such.c.iransnstances beinevrendexted. available for commercial purposes, is a matter that the future alone can determine. The fact is established that thos e oPportunities and facilities do exist. .The circumstances attending the voyage were briefly the se: --On the 26th of February, last year, the Amherst sail ed on the expedition—touched at several ports, and reached Macao, .on her return, the sth of eptember, hav ing Occupied somewhat more than six months in the un (lertaking. Mr. HUGH HAMILTON 'LINDSAY; secretary, and the Rev. Mr. GUTZLAFF, a clergyman, long resident in China, and an excellent linguist, accompanied the t c ,ke rn, and made their separate reports, bearing date e lOth of October last, at considerable length ; particu arly that of Mr. LINDSAY, in the form of a journal or narrative. It appears that the Court of Directors were ttetitt a inted with th ese occurrences on the 6th of March last; si nce, on that day, they expressed their disapproba ,°n of th e m i ssion, in a despatch to the P res id ent an d d oele e t Committ ee of Supercargoes at Canton; to which Ar Pateh they refer in a more detailed one of the Sth of waY, that can scarcely Vet.have reached its destination. e men tion these dat es t o s h o w the recent 'character of the whole matter. Whether the disapprobation expressed rels founded c hi ef l y upon apprehended mischief with the lln"e authorities, in consequence of so decided a (led a;°ll from the established practice of the Company—or nether the spirit of monopoly, and dread of future con letlences to th e i r commerc i a l interests, through the en 'PrizeZ of privat e m erc hants, had its full share in inducing -e ' l di sapprobation on th e part of the court, are points beyond our power to determine. There is, however, suf 7.seent that i s i nteresting i n t h e d espatc h o f th e C our t of ! Directors, as well as in the reports of Mr. GUTZLAFF and fir. L INDSAY, to induce us to give extracts front them, as Lie and space may permit, preparatory to the publication I l°rne important tables and statements, relative to the : la and China trades, to which we intend devoting bi -111 ° 12 of our succeeding publication. I n Blackwood's Magazine for the present month there 18 a review of the "Memoirs of Marshal Ney," in which We find some interesting: speculations upon the great vents in the life of NAPOLEON, and particularly upon his 'net:laced invasion of England. The reviewer ascribes the• def eat of BONAPAIME'S plans'rnore to the - slemiervietarY; of Sin ROBERT Cs.t.ime than to the splendid triumphs of NELsos. That the invasion was seriously determined upon is now adulated by those who were for years the toast ineredulous on the subject, and the writer in Black wood is of opinion that it would have been carried into efr eet, hut for the accidental rencounter between VILLE -I:Ellviz and CALDER which prevented the French 'admirals from c oncentratinfr their fleets in the channel, at the tune when Lord NELSON was actually led away by a false went in pursuit o f t h e enemy, to the West Indies. On b-cie grounds it is con t en d e d t h at Si r R OBER T CALDER, by "Inpelling VILLENEUVE to fall back upon. Cadiz, entirely, though unconsciously, frustrated the " greatest 11 nd best combined project ever formed by the Emperor INAPotEosie' Th e po i nt is ably argued by t h e rev i ewer ,. 4 d al though its admissi on goes to over t u rn the opinions w n hiCh ha ve h itherto prevailed,, still this should not cause t e h q sur prise, when it is c o n s id ere d t h at th e evidence and best proofs o f th e f act h ave b ut rece ntly transpired. that O nl ie y painful p ar t o f t h e _ now settle d controvers y is which relates to Sir ROBERT CALDER himself. He oad f ou ht g VIL LENEUVE against fearful odds, CALDER N Rc ," ° nly seventeen s hip s of the line, while VILLE-, t* ' l3 had twenty-seven—fought and beat him—captured Ca ( !hi3 ship s, an d compelled the rest to take refuge i n s i Notwith s t an di ng thi s v i ctory, for suc h i t was , fr: RO BERT C ALDER was b rought to a court-mart i a l , dis aeed, and dismissed his Majesty's service. The adtni n.l!tration of that day were averse from bringing the o` ad miral to t r i a l , b ut pu b lic opinion, speaking through the u A us e of Commons, compelled th em , as i t usua ll y d oes, ` l ° an act of injustice, in utter ignorance of • the nature d c irclets of CALDER'S despised and condemned victory. t At we willingly turn, the leaf upon the melancholy. sub 31e. et, and allow air k_,HRISTOPHER NORTII himself, or his i le Utenant, to Pursue his speculations upon those fiat outtotned boats and that terrible invasion which were W°l lt to scare the dreams of our childhood, when the men of . 016 present day, then armed with swords of lath and muskets of titaber, and sixpenny cannons, used to draw themselves up 'in military order, and tit themselves for the combat which was hourly expected. Ebony loquitur : t; is a curious speculation, now that the event is over, what would have been the , fate of England, if Napoleon, with otte hundred and fifty thousandinen, had, in censequence of the . it leCess of these combi na ti ons , l an d ed ou the shores of Sussex. We are now compelled, with shame and sorrow, to abandon the doctrine which, till the list three years, we held on this letject, tit d are decidedly of opinion, that he woald hare 7cltleved the overthrow of the British empire. Not that the mere e of N apo l eon ' s army, great as it was, could have in th e en d lit Nligated the descendants of the conquerors of Cressy and Agin enurt. The examples of Vimeira, Maida, Alexandria,Corunna, dad Wat er l oo, where treops who had never seen a sho t _ r ,!: in an ger , at once defeated the veterans Of France, even -I_euert commanded by the able s t officers, is suffi c i en t to prove t h e s e e ril e . E ngland was invincible -if she remained faithful to her -18 Sot would she have remained faithful to herself ? That . re goesti on . T he events of the last. three years, have awa ka"44 to the mournful conviction that she would not." It, words With shame and. sorrow"that we read the se in- rnackwood's Magazine. Is the old man getting t h M : tn ish ? H as t h e mountain dew lost its virtue ? Is to `re t rlo breeze npon the. hills, no trout in the str eams , n o : 41, T: 10331.0 n Benv enue, no mus i c , the bagpip es, or in the peat reek Alas it would app ear so, . My ou r with Wl a i anc ient ally of the north, who has battled tip N A p oL gs oisi an ,: , J , , rob ins all his life, wo u ld no t con j ure face of theE earth, itnl ° ;incibles," long sin ce swe pt f rom t h e hallowed cauldro n of la r nn evo a lu n ti a o d n d . itional charm in the u n - We not only differ from our friend on this subject, but We eutertain an opinion v as i c.n of B __ APART with respect to the threatened in one, althoug ' h N we E 2 Which is -by no means an isolated we aedne.ver yet seen it. avowed in the discussion. It is,p Pea c e is from our gate. t‘ desirable to keep war away an attribute of religion, and we e4rnestly prily that it may prevail in our time. It is our nati onal boast th at for teig n f oe has landed . upon a l Our mg , period of years e f r o- Q. 4.1.i.ul aa o Our hom es we reu, our hearths c?Ilr kbyr.ss our altars undesecrated, while the spawn of the French revolution overit fortli as a band of robbers, and spread desolation over the rest of Europe. For this we can never be sufficiently thanl.ful. But We cannot help thinking that NAPOLEON's threatened invasion, bad it taken place, would have done good service, and been a salutary example to the people of the present generation. The writer in Blaikwood imagines that the levellers of the present day are more numerous than they were at the commencement of the present century. This we must. take leave to deny. They are numerous enough, Gud knows, but for our presentpoliti , cal unions, composed of the scum of society, we had then corresponding societies, the members of Which were of a more respectable grade. There were two hundred thousand sworn rebels and traitors in Ireland. We had republicans in every street—wild enthusiasts, half mad, worshipping the Goddess of Reason—shallow empirics and desperate knaves shouting " liberty" in every pot house—and the government of that day had great diffi culty, in hanging a few of the leaders, transporting a few more, and keeping in proper subjection the mass. We have no such men now, at least in England. The men who preach resistance to the taxes, no church, no King, Sze. &c., are, hardly worth powder-and shot. The French revolution has lost its charm. It came like an angel's smile, and went like the vision of a demon—beautiful at first, but all begrimed, horridly mangled, and covered with blood, at last. Our countrymen have discovered that it was a splendid fraud, like a 'murderer disguised in a virgin's rObes. Its " freedom" was tyranny, fur it ushered in the foulest despotism that ever was established on the face of the whole world. The debased wretches of Paris did not so deem it,.for they hugged their chains like galley slaves; but the rest of Europe is not so easily imposed upon. It is after a mature consideration of these incontrover tible facts that we have come to the conclusion that a dash of invasion would have heei4 useful .to our countrymen. Sir CHRISTOPHER thinks that an hundred and fifty thousand ,F-reachmea,..haeoled- thtinnpriaciplea .or the still more unprincipled BONAPARTE, assisted by the EngliSh jacobins and the Irish rebels, • would have overturned the• government, and destroyed the British empire. The foes from without, and the heartless foes from within, says our friend, would have put an end to the British monarchy. We respect age and good intentions, but we must vote against the assumption. Our conviction beats the other way. We are satisfied that the invasion of England would have been, at a much earlier period, a more perilous one to the fortunes onslarotaoN than his subsea cent invasion of Russia proved to be. We will suppose, for the sake of illustration, that two hundred thousand Frenchmen had landed on the shores of Kent or Sussex, and that without any materially opposing obstacles they had reached Lon don. Before reaching it, however, let it be borne in mind, that at least one-half uf that " first city in the world" would have been burnt or laid in ruins :—a serious calamity we concede. In London the invaders, as a matter of course, Would have been joined by all the towering jacobins and republicans of the day. Old HARDY, the shoemaker and patriot, now defunct, would have hoisted the tri-coloured flag. HORNE TOOKE, the schoolmaster, would have taken the oath of allegiance to BONAPARTE. WATT, who was hanged, and Sxravrao, of the corresponding society, who was banished, would have gone over to the invader. Poor .WarrumaN, had he been Lord Mayor, would have pre sented the Corsican with the keys of the city on London Bridge. THELIVALL, " who lectures as he goes," (we quote the rhymes of CANNING,) would have joined him. BURDETT Might also have been seduced into trea son, for which his bead and lands would have had to pay afterwards. The HUNTS, FEARONS, PEARSONS. WHAL LEYS, BISHES, FAITHFULS, STEVENS, WOOLER% HARMERS, and such like respectable persons, would have paid court to the Emperor!- Some ten thousand thieves, swindlers, and other rogues'in desperate circumstances, would have gone over to the cause of " reason and freedom." The gaols would have disgorged their myriads of true and tried patriots. In the provinces, perhaps, a few thousands of shirtless weavers would have joined the invader's " in vincibles." The rq ublican ! l of Liverpool, to:the number of half-a-dozen dozens, would have followed the example. Thirty or forty of the.aristocratic Whigs, perhaps, would also have taken rank nrider NAPOLEON, 'and swelled his -conquering tra sbor4 ire tvviitZl bate ensuarec"ftfie' vilest portion of our population—caught all the bad—all the felons—all the infainous of avast community. Here, then, we give NAPOLEON a free passage for two hundred thousand Frenchmen, (more than Blackwood bargains fur) and fifty thousand more of the dross of our countrymen ; and we moreover give him possession of the remaining houses, the re-opened gin-shops, and the ruins of the metropolis. What then ? The battle is not half begun. We have got the invader on our soil.— We have him housed in St. James's Palace. He is strut ting upon English carpets, eating beef from the fens, and drinking wine from Portugal. But we have him, and his resources are cut off: We have our mountains far north, as the last retreat. We have five hundred thousand vo lunteers and militia. We have an hundred thousand brave Orangemen in Ireland, whose fathers shed their blood at the Boyne. We have twice that number from Scotland. We have the northern counties of England bristling with bayonets. We have hardy loyalists from Devon and Cornwall, who would not do child's play in a case of this sort. We have our . aristocracy, with the exception of a few base Whigs, ready to waste their best blood in a cause so dear to their patriotism. and their household honour. We have been faMiliarly speaking in the present tense, but we revert to the past for the sake of correctness. — Having given the invader the aid of - domestic traitors, let us see how short would .have been his triumph. How short ? A month ? ; we give him three months; at the end of which period be would .have been cut to atoms piecemeal, and not a single man of his invading horde would have been permitted to return to France to tell the fate of his comrades. NpxsoN - , returned from the West Indies, would' have taken care of the channel. Our fleets would have surrounded the island. No Frenchman would have been spared by sea or land. The invaders, in a very few weeks, would have been annihilated, and BONAPARTE, instead of dying at St.' Helena, would per haps have found a grave in some convenient ditch on the western borders of Yorkshire. But this would have been no triumph. His two bun dr,tl thousand men would not have been a mouthful.— We should have pitied them '; for to a dead certainty they were entered, as soon as they landed, in our obituary rolls. As to the English Whigsand Jacobins who joined BONA PARTE, they would have undergone the same fate, and the same funereal rites. Such of them who did not fight— and this would have been the minority—would have lived to enjoy the honour - of being hanged. Perhaps a few hundreds would have been shot, but the favour would have been too expensive to confer upon all. Hanging would have been the order of the day. London would. haVe been purged of its scoundrelly and gallows-ordained Patriots.- Its jurors, who protect murderers, would have received a seasonable hint. • Its bankrupt shopkeepers would have been taught a lesson. Its Philosophers would have been drenched in the gore of republican politics.— The scum would have been skimmed from the surface of the waves of agitation, and as a recruiting serjeant once said to the Mayor of Exeter, "I am a medical practi tioner in the physical world, sent to remove, by my re medies, the moral fever, which is as destructive as it is contagious." Whatever the timid, the. falsehearted, or the pluckless may say, (Ctintsroputalinows what we mean,) we contend that the invasion of England by BONAPARTE would have been—his own ruin of course, and the shame of France to boot, but also the glory of England, inasmuch as it must have insured the annihilation of all.the gangrened politicians who have lived to disturb public happiness during the long period when our very existence as a nation seemed to be at the mercy of a military robber. But NAPOLEON is .dead, and with the dead we war not. We thank him fOr k.Oping the degraded Parisians in check and in chains—we thank him for grinding and trampling upon them —we thank him for making them slaves and tools-and when we have ari . Opportunity we shall, in honour of 010 deceased, sprinkle . salt upon his tomb, We understand that some sort of a concert was given last night at, the Amphitheatre, for the private benefit of a remnant of those distinguished artists whose services were so unboundedly rewarded during the festival. We have no wish to underrate talent : but after such a tor rent of music, so well repaid by an exchange of sove reigns for notes, we had a right to expect some sense of gratitude or liberality on the part of the performers. The conduct of the managers of the festival, in ma king the reporters fur the journals pay for their admis sions, as if they were receiving instead of conferring a favour, borders as much as possible upon what is called shabbiness, and strews the very low'rate at which the Li verpool press has hitherto been estimated by the musical committee. "They advertise with us !" Very true, but very stingily ; so much so, that had they expended twice as much in giving publicity to their intended per formances, their receipts would have been increased, and they would have conferred a greater favour upon those charities of which they are the patrons. They advertise —why ? Because they are bound to do so—because pub licity is indispensable—and they pay for their advertise ments, because they cannot well avoid it. But are these sufficient reasons for compelling the press to pay for ad mission tickets, in order to discharge an-irksome, a labo rious, and a very disagreeable duty ? A little acquaint ance with the fashionable world would teach gentlemen that such treatment is unmerited, and extremely illiberal, if not prejudicial to the benevolent object they have in view. In addition to this, it has been represented to us that the conduct of some of the directors, or subordinate directors, was ill suited to the_ situation they filled, and even harsh and uncourteous. We have no wish to go further into details, nor shall we, unless - compelled ; but we hope these blemishes will be corrected on the next occasion. But if we have reason to complain of the officials of the festival, we have.much stronger grounds for deprecating the meanness of the performers, for whose benefit the con cert of last night was designed. TheSTANDARD had no re presentative present, for this plain reason, we have,had a surfeit, and were not to be fleeced a second time. We have paid endirgliTo7Variii . driy - already; and a C"olitribUtiOli from this establishMent to. Madame MALIBRAN, Signor DON ZELLI, and M. DE BERIOT, after the compensation they Pave received, strikes us to be pitching the notetoo high, and singing tremendously out of tune., We bid them adieu with all respect, in the hope that the next time they honour Liverpool with a visit they may better de serve the commendation we have bestowed and the for bearance we have shown. These people should not give themselves too many airs. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. , LONDON LATEST NEWS. Saturday Evening, Half-past Seven o'clock. The King of Spain, who had as many lives as a cat, is at last dead, and we believe the accounts on this subject published in the evening papers are for , once correct. This event has had but slight efiect on the money market, consols which were 88i closing at 88i sellers; Spanish stock, which was at 22i closing at 227, to 23 ; and Portuguese scrip, which was 22A closing at 231 A. The northern bonds have been tolerably firm, and Russian telt off at 1021 103; Dutch, at 44 496; and Bel gian, at MI. Greek bonds arc 38 to 40, and Brazilian 671 681. Very little speculation.,has taken place in the market since we last wrote. Great doubts are now entertained whether the•recent intelli gence of Marshal Bourmont's resignation is correct, or, rather, few doubts are now entertained of its •incorrectness. What turn will be.given to the affairs of Don Carlos, by the demise of his brother remains to be seen; but, beyond doubt, this must have a very important sway over affairs iu the Peninsula and iu Europe, generally. The advises from Alexandria state; that the revolt in the Hedjas was rapidly increasing, and that Turu Mines, who was at the head of the revolters, had many thousand inen,under his command, and it would require a strong army and much blood shed to subdue him, the inhabitants being universally in his favour. He had already plundered several caravans. Mehemet Ali was preparing an expedition against him. This chieftain, on the return of his fleet from Syria, intended visiting Candia. Letters from Gibraltar have been received to the 16th ult. The cholera was understood to be approaching nearer to that place, and the most strict examination of both goods and pas-, sengers coming from Spain was observed there. The commu nication had not, however, been closed up to the above date. Accounts from Malaga to .the 18th ult. inform us that the crops of fruit were most.. abundant and that the prices were: coming down in consequence of the Americans having made their purchases at high terms. Oil on board was worth 1.:40 per tun, and was expectedto be higher, as the crop was bad. These letters make no mention whatever of the cholera. By advice; from Batavia we learn, that the ports of Pontonaak and Sambos; upon the eastern side of the. island of Borneo had been declared free of all duties inwards or outwards from the Ist ofJanuary,lB3l, from which time no foreign yessels Wotild be permitted to trade on any portion of the eastern coast of Bor neo belonging to the Dutch. The bank of Java is said to be in a very prosperous state. At the annual meeting it was an nounced that the net profit of the -last Jive years had been 466,935 florins.4Qing 2u-per cent. Ariumavapitatof 4iyarniLlienti, The . nosertio . r-General orltatavia had ordained . that the duties . of export upon the coffee crop of the Dutch India possessions shouid be, it' l.y Dutch vessels bound to Holland, with a goar a n.: tee that it shiald not be landed in any other than a port of Holland, two florins per pical; if by foreign vessels, four florins per pleat; audoWithout distinction of flag, live florins per pical. Accounts from Valparaiso inform us that the Government had prolonged from. one to three years the term granted to the foreign merchants for transit, and minced the transit duties to 3 per cent. By accounts from Corfu, we find that Amen Pacha had marched from Janina with a large body of insurgents with the intention of attacking 'feplin, but he had been completely routed and compelled to take shelter in the former town. Th e insurrection, however. in Albania, seemed by no means likely to have an early termination, as the Sultan's commanders were not strong 'enough to assume the offensive, and were compelled to limit their means or warfare to defending themselves wh en attacked. THE DEPUTATION SYSTEM-ASSESSED TAXES. The London papers of Saturday contain an amusing account of an interesting scene.between Sir William Horne and a de putation of his constituents for the borough of Marylebone, on the subject of sundry prosecutions instituted in the Court of Exchequer against certain of his Majesty's lieges by his At torney-General, for conspiring to obstruct the sale of go o d, seized for the non-payment of assessed taxes, the said lieges of his aforesaid Majesty being a portion of the £lO constituen c, by whose suffages Sir Win. Horne was returned to Parliament at the first general election of the reformed House of Commons. The deputation was headed by a patriotic journeyman coach painter, who was one of the unsuccessful candidates for th e honour of a seat in Parliament at that election, and, disdain ing to found his claim to this distincti o n u p on any qua lifi cation as to property, asserted his superior purity from being one of the leaders of the political unions, through whose instrument ality his Majesty's Whigs had been retained in power for the purpose of subverting the constitution. The principal spokes man was a Mr. Birch, whose moveable chattels had been seized upon, who informed the learned Attorney-General that two thousand - of his constituents had formed themselves into an association for the purpose of resisting the payment of "ob noxious t axes ' , (d o ubtl e ss a very pleasant piece Of informati on ) , and after most pathetically an d e l oquen tl y d escr ibi ng the inconveniences arising from distress warrant s o f an y ki n d , in formed the l e arned knight that he was one of the parties pr o . ceeded against, and that " These prosecutions were instituted in the 'Exchequer, in the nam e of the Attorney-General. Now, as Sir William Horne was his Ma jesty's Attorney-General, and as lie was also at the same time one of the representatives Of the borough of Marylebonc, he (Mr. Birch) a s one or his constituents, and as one of a deputatioh from a large por-. tion of the electors, be;y,ed to know what course he intended to take in respect to these prosecutions I" To this Mr. Birch might have ailied, "call you this backing your friends, Sir William Horne :" The question was enough to pose a wiser man ; it was, however, parried with great pro fessional ingenuity, for " Sir W. Home replied, that if he were called upon by the glvcrn ment to give an opinion on the subject in question, he would give that opinion, fearlessly and faithfully. lie would only be consulted by the . government in his capacity as l ega l a d v i ser to die crown, and his opinion would only apply to the law of the case. With respect to the policy of the law, he could not in that capacity say any thing. All he could or would do would be to give his opinion as a lawyer, and as one sworn to give an honest opinion. This he would fearlessly do. 4 . 4 Mr. Birch—But are you • not, Sir William, sometimes called upon to give an.op . inion as to the policy of enforcing the law Sir W. Horne repeated that his Majesty's government would only consult him in his capacity•as legal adviser to the crown. " Mr. Birch said that the Attorney-General. had the power, if he thought fit, to prevent the prosecutions to which he (Mr. B.) had re ferred. " Sir W. Horne said he was not aware that he possessed such a. power; but on the act being' handed to him by Mr. Birch, he per ceived that he was so far empowered. " Meesrs. Savage and BirCh observed that they thought that Sir William might, in his capacity of representative for Marvlebone, give expression to his opinions to his Majesty's government as to the policy of this law as relating to assessed taxes." . To which Sir William replied; that he could only do so in his ljgislative capacity. Whereupon " Mr. Birch, and other members of the deputation, remarked tha. 4 ' it would be as well that the.hon. and learned gentleman should know that the spirit of opposition to the p ayment of assessed taxes was most general throughout the metropolis, and that in scarcely any part of it could there be found purchasers for the property seized for the non payment of these taxes. This was proved by late seizures made m the borough, and other parts of the metropolis," • " Sir W. Rorie, in reply to the deputation, said that any of the in dividuals cited in the Court of Exchequer could put in personal ap pearances without the necessity of employing a solicitor. He. how ever, expressed a hope that gentlemen. would not allow a spirit of opposition to excite them to act contumaciously towards the law; for, however. painful it might be to enforce the law, it would be necessary to uphold•its . majesty.' How very obliging in Sir William, to inform his Majesty's contumacious subjects, whom in his official capacity he is called upon to prosecute, how they can best .go to work to maintain the tight against his royal master. Poor .man, what could he do ? He appears to have felt the difficulty of serving " two masters, " and perhaps will own that there is some truth in the text, "Ye cannot serve God and Mammon." How very unkind it is in Mr. Baron Bayley that he' will neither die nor resign his seat on the Exchequer bench. Shouldeither of these events occur, which we should most seriously depl ore , . we should like to see Sir William trying his quondam constituents, and compelled to listen to the evidence of Earl Fitzwilliain and Mr. William Brougham on the part 'of the defendants: "C ! this would be a glorious sight.tO see." Sin PETER LAURIE declined to be put in nomination to serve the office of Lord Mayor a second time, alledging that it would not be acting forr to his brother Alderman. (I3v-the-way, Fare brother is an auspicious name for the new Civic Chair.), We hear that the swindlers and swell mob intend to have a congra tulatory dinner upon the occasion of Sir PETER'S . retirement. The new Lord Mayor, however, says that lie has been an auc tioneer, and he thinks he can hammer away at even such A bad Sot u they are.- LOCAL NEWS. On - Saturday morning, man employed as a bricklayer's labourer, at work in arbuildirig in Wapping, was ascending the scaffolding, when a plank upon which be stood ...aye way, and the - man actually fell a height of nearly thirty feet ts into the cel lar, without the least possible injury. He was, of course, stnn= ned and much alarmed, but very shortly resumed the hod. On Friday afternoon, a young girl in Soho-street, who was engaged in cleaning the outside of a bed-room window, stand ing upon the stone, the poor lass overbalanced herself, and fell into the street, nearly 20 feet, and, we, regret to say, was much injured, having broken one oiler legs above the wide, and severely cut herhead. . 'We are much surprised to see that respectable people do allow their female servants to expose themselves to danger in this manner, independent of the mode licaev of the situation, when a glazier's man; at a trilling charge, would do. the same work more effectually; and without any risk of life or limb. . On Sunday evening, about eleven o'clock, as Mr. J. J. Caparn was proceeding down Dale-street, when near the bottom he was attacked by a villain, who knocked him- down and im mediately decamped. , Two very considerate persons, a man and a woman,. quickly came to Mr. Caparu's assistance, and after proceeding a few yards left him, when. he found that his kind friends had made free with his purse, containing £llos. in gold and 3s. 6d. in silver; upon the alarm being given, the watchman of the beat'shortly was in attendance and pursued the wretches, but iu vain, no clue to them could be obtained. This is rather a new system of robbery here, and it behoves the police to keep a strict look 'out for such characters, the town at the present, moment being pretty well stocked with them. Mr. C's. knee is severely cut by the fall. On Saturday morning last, an accident of a very serious nature,. occurred on the arrival of the. Lancaster and Liver pool mail-coach at the Angel Inn, Dale-street. It appears that the driver, guard, and paSsengers had alighted with the exception of one gentleman,—when the horses took fright, proceeded up the street, turned the corner, and at full speed'galloped down Castle-street and reached Pool lane, when they were thrown down by coming in contact with a milk-cart, and the gentleman precipitated to the pavement :—he was in stantly cop veyed to 11Ir. Scott's surgery, in an ahnost hopeless state, where every means 'that humanity and medical skill could suggest for his restoration was used, and we are happy to add with good effect, as there is now hope of the gentleman's ul timate recovery. Too much praise cannot be attached to Mr. 'Scott's skill and attention both in this and past occasions of ac cident. On Friday last expired, if the residence of his tutor, the Rev. W. Clerninson, minister of Tranmere, Richard, eldest son of Richard Smith, Esti., 'of Bankfieid, near Ulverston, in this county, and great-grandson to the late Admiral Smith, of Sea combe, Cheshire, in the eleventh year of his age. His mild and amiable disposition endeared:him to all who knew him, and his hiss will be long and deeply mourned. He bore his tedious and painful illness, (supposed water on the brain from a spinal affection,) with ,the . moit extraordinary fortitude, patience, and resignation. Srritlarewbil'i .thv' earthly lot-is east; T le hour that closed thy sufferings here is past, • And thou art gone. in lice's first opening bloom, Alovely victim to the silent tomb. • If youthful excellence deserves a tear — If worth and virtue merit honour here— On thy cold grave shall many a tear fall fast, And honoured be thv name while life-shall last. ~~ _..-: PaoposED BLIND Asyr.bi. 7 ,A very. respectable meeting summoned.by the bbroughreeve and constables, was held at the Town-hall; on Thursday forenoon, to consider of the best means of setting •on foot a public subscription for the purpose ,of rendering available the munificent bequest of the late Tho mas'Henshay, Esq., of Oldhain, for the establishment at Man chester of an asylum for the blind, by providing the necessary buildings, which, by the testator's will. cannot be erected or purchased 'with the funds he bequeathed. After considerable discussion, it was sig,gested by Mr. George Hadfield that it would he desirable, before commencing the subscription, to ap point a committee to confer with Mr. Ilenshaw's trustees, re specting the scheme to be adopted for the government and con duct of the proposed institution in various respects, and a com mittee was appointed for that purpose accordingly.—Manches ter Guardian. THE KING'S SPEECII.-0!Connell, in a letter to his consti tuents, enumerating the benefits he has conferred upon them by -his senatorial labours, during the last Session, thus charac terizes the speech from the throne at its close :—" It sinks be neath the dignity of vituperation, and is readily consigned to the manufactory from whence it sprung—a plagiary, a flat pla giary, extracted from the brain of one of the hired puffers of Warren's jet blacking; it covers with ridicule those it praises, and gives a triumph to the objects of its futile attack." . . ROCHDALE FLANNEL. MAIIKE.T.—OD Monday last, the flan_ nel market was very dull, and it was with difficulty the forme r prices could be me.intained. But the manufacturers seem de_ termined rather to stand than give way, as the raw materia continues to advance. SHOCKING MURDER AT BOLTON.—On Friday morning, a little before eleven o'clock, whilst that portion of the 35th tegi ment now stationed in Bolton, were on parade the barrack yard, a private named John' Wilson was picked out of the ranks and ordered into the gdard-ht use for beine drunk ;_ but he had no soonerarrived there than he deliberately levelled his piece, which was loaded with.ball, and fired amongst the men on parade ; and, dreadful to relate, the ball passed through the intestines of private Edmund Martin, also through the hand of private Thomas Brunsfon, and lodged in the butt-end of his musket. Martin only survived two hotirs; and Wilson is now iu the dung on awaiting the coroner's inquest. The deceased had been in the• regiment twenty years, and• would have re ceived his discharge •in a few days. The distance from the guard-house to where Martin was shot 'is abokit fifteen yards. It is not known When or where Wilson charged his firelock. A NEGRO FANCY BALL IN JAMAIC A , OR BLACKS ante WHITES.—A free black, fancy ball took place on Thursday night last; at Mr. Morell'slong room in Church-Street, Kings ton. Carriages - Ike., began 'to: arrive about nine o'clock, And the assemblage about ten struck' us as exceedingly pleasing, and picturesque. -There were .Spanish dons and donnas, Italian princes and princesses; French counts and countesses, 11;101 and military officers represented to the life, 'and with all the grace and eleganeenf the Alitack school. The . representatives gie,X . O.IOIeSS characters with dignity. The person who was soecially invited • to represent Lord Mslgrave was absent throughindisposition. The ladies' dresses were rich-, fanciful, and beautiitiL The group looked like the sons and daughters of jollity and revelry, and -gave delightful specimens that they 'were the children of harmony _too. A splendid supper was served up about three O'clock in the morning, and nothing'coull exceed the gallantry of the gentlemen duriug the entire night—all was pleainre to the brim; and all was joy and delight:—The dancing was kept up till a late hour, and the daughters of TerpSichore resembled so many sylvan Goddesses tripping it along on light fantastic. toe."—Jamaica Dispatch, Auaust 3. [lt is not announced - in the paper from which the above i s e xtracted that . the funds of this fancy bail were to be ap propriated iu aid of the anti-slavery society—but surely these tdack gentlemen could not be so ungrateful for the bene volence of that - society, so zealously exercised in their attempt to wash them white, as -to overlook the suitable opportunity of thus aiding their-means for that purpose.] • PROCEEDINGS op TilE COMMISSIONERS OF THE WATCH, LAMPS, - 84 E.—A meeting of this board took place on Friday, when the following commissioners were present :—Messrs. Wales, Walthew, Nelson, Gill, Thornhill, Beason, Goore, Tay lor, Nicholson, Browne, M‘Gee, and Chalmers. Several watch men were discharged for drunkenness and neglect of duty; and one, who was found asleep on duty last Friday morning, was fined 2s. Gd. and removed. The board also conhrined.thefines levied by. the Superintendent on some watchmen for minor offences.—Mr. Ben, slitter • and plasterer, complained of the watchmen for reinovine some ladders from the front of a house in Price-street, althnugh they were placed •close to the house on his men leaving their work. It was ordered that they should be restored without expense, arid that a notice be issued to master tradesmen, requesting them to take down all ladders from -the • fronts of buildings during the night.L-4'wo gentlemen laid a complaint against one of - the captains and a watchman, for in and ill-using them in Williamson-squar e , at half past t err i 2 t ng on Thursday morning. The captain and three watch men proved that-. the complainants were in company with dis orderly -women, and that, although requested, they refused to disperse. . The Commissioners dismissed the complaint, but, at the seine .time strongly impressed • upon the captain and men the .necessity of discharging their' duty, on all occasion; with calmi:ess and moderation, declaring that violent measures should never be resorted to except in repelling an assault.— The following resolution, equally important and acceptable to the parishioner; was, after creating much. discussion, unani mously carried :—`• That the editors and reporters of the differ ent newspapers be invited to all meetings of this board, and. that-they be requested'to he pleased to p iblish all such pro ceedings as may be interesting to the parishioners."—The ac counts were.readsand passed; .balance in hand 1:785135. Albion. . • • THE BUILDERS' TURN-OUT.—WC . believe we may at length state, that the absurd but mischievous turn-out of workmen employed in the building tradeS'is, srifar as Manchester is con cerned, nearly at an end. The Men, finding that their places were fast filling up by . new hands, and that there was no chance of carrying their paint, have many of them this week shown great anxiety to return to their work, and numbers of them have done so, wherever they could be received; but we believe a large' body arc likely to be left without employment. As a last effort, a sort of convention of delegates from the various unions of the building trades in this and several other counties was held in the chapel of the Rev. James Scholfield, usually called Christ Church, in Every-street, Ancoats. These dele gates assembled in the town on the afternoon of Thursday week, and went in procession to the chapel, where, at first, they occupied the burial yard, while the minister performed a fune ral service in the building. They then changed places, the delegates taking their seats in the chapel, where they continued their deliberations for some trine. Of course we can state no thing.of. .what took place in this secret conclave; all we can say is, that there was a considerable consumption of beer, &c. in the neighbourhood ; and that the debates continued till about half-past ten' o'clock at night. The following morning they again assembled' about ten o'clock, and resumed' thou! sit tings in the same place. They left it in the middl e o f th e d a y for abo u t t wo h o urs, and on their return resumed their delibera tions, which again continued to a late hour, when the conven tion terminated. We understand, that in .number they ex ceeded four hundred, and that, they occupied quarters in dif ferent public-houses in Ancoats, where they, no doubt, disbursed the funds of their respective unions in a manner very satisfac tory to - themselves, if not to their constituents. Whatever may g have been the nature of their delib era ti ons, th ey a pp ea r to have terminated in a total failure ; for, d ur i n the prese nt week, the men in this town in various branche s o f th e b ui lding trade have, with the greatest eagerness, end eavoure d to return to their work. • As we foretold some weeks ap..,0; many of them are, how ever, too late; a fact that the following dialogue, (which actu ally took place between a respectable master mason in this town and some of his turn-out workmen) at once evinces and elucidates :—The men, all of whom had been in his employ, having naked hini to take them again; henaturally put to them the question—Why did yen turu.out ? 'Men. —Why we didn't like it; but we were. forced to do so. Master.—Well, if you had remained at your employment, I could have taken a great deal of work, which I have been obliged to decline undertaking; the summer is now over, and I have no work for you. Men.— But you,have many new hands who are not by any means such good workmen as we are; could you not take us on in their places? Master.--I know that many are not able to get through the work that you could; bat, after employing them through the • summer, and finding them trustworthy, and not to be led away from their work, I will not turn them adrift now the winter is coming. 'When that is over Inlay be enabled to give some Of you employment again; but you deserted me when' work was plentiful, and I cannot employ you now it is scarce, without doing injustice to others.—Manchester Guardian. The young Earl of Hillsborough ' eldest • son of the Marqui s of Downshire, is making the grand tour. At Copenhagen, last month, his lordship discovered, in the university there, two very ancient Irish manuscripts.. It. was thought that. there were many more in the same language in the Danish university: The -Earl of Kerry anct_Lord Henry Fitzmaurice, sons of the Marquis of Lansdowne, are also on the continent; the former has been alooad since May last. Lord Henry, We' believe, is at-.present at Municb.. THE "S TO KING; S - .11_1 M? LIGE. . . . , .. . „ In the New York Commercial ALLertiser of the Ith.lt dui MO we find an account of a wedding between one RED' LIGHTNING," alias STORM KING," alias." PETER JoNEs," an Indian. of the Chippewa.natiou, and an English lady. It appears that PETER., daring his sojourn in England, preparing for the missions among his red-brethren, has won the heart of a lovely, delicate, and accomplished young English lady, whose.religious zeal has induced her to fa low hi m ou t t o A mer i ca , where the .ntiptial . knot was tied, and the happy pair set off for the wilds of .Upper Canada to 'Spend the honeymoon. We aie sorry we have not room for the whole account, which is really a tale of Inte rest. We guess the writer of the article has credit.among his countrymen for gallantry. At all events he deserves it, for he bewails her fate in most, .pathetic . terms; • in which w e s h ou ld h ave b een di s p ose d t o j o i n , had we been there : • •• • • • "Our emotions were tumultuous and painful. A stronger contrast was never seen. She all in white, and • adorned with the sweetest simplicity : her face as whife - Lts• the gloves and dress she wore—rendering her ebon tressey r plaf:ed a la Ma donna on her fair forehead, still darker. • tre in rat lee common attire —a tall, dark, highboned, muscular Indian. She a little, delicate European lady—he a hardy, iron•framed sou of the forest. She, accustomed to every luxury and indu:gence—weii educated, accomplished, and' well-beloved at home—posscSsing a handsome income—leaving her comforts, the charms of civit ized and cultivated society, and sacrificing them all to the cause she had espoused—here she stood, about to make a self-immo lation ; and, far away from country and kindred, and all the endearments of a fond father's house, resign herself into the arms of a m an o f t h e woo d s , w h o cou ld not appreciate the sacri fice ! A sweeter bride we never saw. We almost grew wild. We thought of Othello—of Hyperion and the Satvr—of the bright-eyed Hindoo and the funeral pile ! She looked like a drooping flower by the side of a rugged hemlock ! We longed to interp ose an d rescue her. But it was none of our buiiness. She was in, that situation by choice—and she was among her friends." "That she is deluded, and knows nothing of the life she is to. encounter, there can be no doubt. As evidence of this, she has brought out the furniture for an elegant household establish ment—rich china vases for an Indian lodge, and Turkey car pets to spread upon the mora,ses of the Canadian forests f In stead of a.mansion she will; find a wig -wain, and the manufac ture of brooms and baskets instead of embroidery." "Poor girl! we wish she•was by her father's ingle in Lam beth, and Peter Jones preaching to the ( ihippewas , with the prettiest squaw a mong th em fur his wife !" GRAND FANCY BALL. The following names were omitted in our-former list Air. W. P. Hutchinson, jun., as a Knight Templar, in full costuintof the order. . • Miss - 1 - iutchinsou, in a Spanish costumis," Crich and very handsome dress. Miss Ann Hutchinion, in a pretty fancy dress. Miss Alice Hutchinson, in a fancy dress ; she loulted a lovely little sylph. Mr. N ell, in the costume of a Polish nobleman. - M rs.. Neil, in a very` pretty- Polish .costume. • Mr. Sharpe, of Coleraine, in a Swiss costume. " A brave Swiss boy." Mr. Henry Byrom, as a Pplish.Jew, o.ne.of the best supported characters at the ball. • Mr. Roger Lyon Jones, 85, Great George_street, as a Cir cassian uslan. Mr. William Norris, as Count Almaviva, in " The Marriage of Figaro." Miss Norton, .of Manchester, appropriately attired as a Scotch lassie. Mrs. Henry Sudlow looked remarkably well in a superb fancy dress. Mr. Samuel Sudlow, as a Spanish Bandit. Mrs. J. Hodson Kearsley, Higher-hall, Indley : elegantly attired in a court dress. Miss Evans, Liverpool, in a fancy dress. Mr. Richard Eccless, Wigan, grotesquely habited as an English nondescript. Miss Anne and Mies Jane Eccles, Wigan, two beautifu young ladies, elegantly attired in a splendid fancy dresses. Mrs. R. Millen, as the Lady Rowena: a lovely and perfect personation of Sir Waiter Scott's Rowena. Mr. W. Pooles, llooiey-hill, Manchester, as J am ies Fitz- James. Mrs. W. Ponies, of ditto, in a fancy dtess. Mr. Ralph Clay, as an old English baron. Mrs. Clay, as a Florentine. Mr. T. NV. Clay, as Conrad: an elegant dress, and univer sally admired. " That man of loneliness and mystery, Scarce seen to smile and seldom heard to sigh. Whose name appals the fiyrcest of his crew, And tints each swarthy cheek with sallower hue."—Byron Mr. George Clay, as Charles VII., of Prance: Mr. N. Roberts, as an Andalusian. Mr. W. 11. Martineau, in a Polish dress. Mr. Bratitiurn;of Northwich, as a member of the Cheshire hunt. 111 r. Henry Barker, of ditto, as an old English gentleman. Mr. T. R. Barker, of ditto, as Rodolph, in Der Freischutz. Mr. W. F. Barker, of Hawarden, as Ali Pacha. Mr. Critchlow Harris, of Beaumaris, as a horse marine. Miss KvPin, of Crickieth, as a Welch peasant. This lady, with her initting, attracted universal attention. Mr. Ilerbert Wall, of Hereford, as the Grecian Morpheus, sustained-hi s character exceedingly well. Miss Jones, of Beaumaris, a ppeared to great advantage as an Austrian peasant, the becoming dress of that country disco veting a most symmetrical figure. SPORTLVG:LVTELLIGENCE. • • There has been considerable business effected upon the turf, in our sporting circles, 'since Friday, which - was' principally upon the Mostyn Mile race at the liolywell Hunt Meeting, which eminences on the 15th, and upon the Derby 'and Oaks. Fro. t NlAuty Lord -1,141.t004-04%strorm-14.-Fortw'rer a t-e are the f avourites at a b out equal o ds, and each party being sarivuine, a great sporting treat is anticipated. For the Derby, Bibastes, The Ottardian, Olympic, Etninana, and Sister to ,G a l a t a h ave all kiind spii lied friends at the prices quoted bel ow . Th e following is the latest state, of the odds : CI LEARWELL ST AK us next Newmarket Meeting.-3 to 1 agst Nevi4le's Arnado by Sultan (offered). ' - TYIE Most YIV MILE at Holy . well, 2to l ag.st Per severance, ( tk; ; 5 to 2 agWthe Chancellor, (tk); 5 to 1 agst Birdcatcher, to 1 apt J; ck - Faucett, and 10 ' to 1 agst any other. GARDEN" SL AKES next Newniatket Meeting.-2 to 1 offcred on the field, offers to take 3 to 1 about each of two, or 7 to 2 about the who,e ; the favourites are Kate and Romcival. Tit E DER BY.-12 to 1 agst Bubastes, (t) ;17to 1 agst (t); 17 to 1 agst Guardian, (t); 16 to 1 agst Comet, (t); to 1 agst Emigrant, 20 Li' it , rq Mr. Chifney's coif, 25 to 1 agst Delirium, (t) • 50 to 1 asst Sister to Galata, (t); 5 J to 1 a g st Arnado. li',U;oo between - Comet and The Guardian. OA KS.-7 to 1 ags. Cutitlonl3 to 1 a to 1 apt Arnado, (t) ; gs:: Zulema, (t); 'l4 to 1 agst Loui sa, (1); 15 to agst 20 2J to 1 agst Prd e n ce filly, ( t 25 to 1 agst Sister to ,holey Aloloch --, ( 1 ); 25 to 1 agst Maid of Underley. isi Ewsimix.ET klasr OCTOBER MEETING.—This interesting and important meeting, although the sports were not quite of the first rate character anticipated by the lovers of the turf and field sports; went off towards the conclusion with great anima tion. The St. Leger Stakes of 25 sous. each, were wou by Lord Exeter's Sir Robert, (Connolly,) beating Young Rapid, Shy lock, Tutor, EgYptus, Dirce, Cactus, and colt by Gustavus. ' l ' his was a g oo d. betting race, Cactus and Young Rapid the favour ites, the winner 'was not expected to take the victory, and so much as 10 to 1 was laid against him, The Town Plate of 50 sous. value, run for on Thuriday, was won by Mr,. Stonehewer's Chantilly, beatin g R eve l r y, O c tave, Laud, and filly by Emilius. Revelry an d Octave the favourites; 20 'to 1 agst the winter, — The king's Plate,' value 100 sovs., was winked over fur by Ernest. - - SALE Ofd Brown STOCK.—,On Saturday last the Horse and Carriage Repository of Mr. 'Likes was much thronged with sportsmen and gentlemen in consequence of a sale of Blood Stock taking place, chiefly the property of Sir John Gerard, who is reducing his racily, establishment. Amongst the 'gentlemen present we noticed Arr. Henry Stanley, the honourable member for Preston. The first lot was Marston, a chestnut gelding, five years old, by Manfred, out of Paulina, by Orville, - which was knocked down for £4O. Protogenes, a gray gelding, font years old, by Rubens, out of Maid-ot-the-Mill,was knocked down at £4O. • Only That, a brown filly, three years old, by Partisan, out of Scribe, by Woful, £27. Dame Durdatf, a bay filly, three years old, by Banker,-out of Euxton's Dam, £6O. 'Bryn, a bay colt, two years old, of Agnes, by Shuttle by Fungus, darn by Topsy Turvy, out ; £lO ss. Brown colt, two years old, by Partisan, out of Scribe, by Wofut, £4O. Chestnut yearling colt, by Predict or , out of o;trich, by Buzzard, £3O. A broWn yearling colt, ow n b rother to Bryn, £l6. by' Whisker, out of Jenny Wr en, , by Younoodpecker, stinted. to I'ie dictor, this mare h as won eighteenW races, and was sold for £2lO. Brown mare, by Jack Spigot, out of Caifaccaratadaddera, stinted to Predictor £2'2. A - brown shooting pony, £l3 10s. A chestnut yearling 'filly, by 'Battledore, out of Brunette, £2l. For the tray colt by Lottery, out of Primrose; engaged 'at ton in 1831 . sind 1835, there were no bidders, supposed .to be in consequence of the engagensents. Mahooba, a bay filly, four years old, by Saladin, out of Primrose, by Comus, £24. Osman. a brown colt,' four years old, by Muley, out of Sweet Pea; by „ Selim, £37. Scrivenor, a chestnut colt, fourVears old, by Ban ker, out of Sister to Rosanne, £35. A bay colt, 4 years old, by Fi garo, out of. Clinton's data, £37. A chestnut colt, by Petty Lelv, out of Woodbine,- by. Comus, t wo y ears o ld , £2V.. ralist, a well-known brown horse, was knocked down at £l2, which concluded the sale of blood stock ; after which the auc tioneer proceeded with the sale of hacks and hunters', which generally fetched good prices. Their Royal Highnesses the Dake and Duchess of - Caml ridge are expect , d in Landon in the (ionise of the week. The Duke and Duchess of Hamilton will shortly proceed from Lansdowne-place, Bath, to Brighton, where their gr aces have erigard a hou se for the season. EA RE Y • FROCEEDINGS IN A NEW TERRITORY : THE FIRST BA LE.—T he first indication of regular society is generally pub lic holidays. The 4th of July, the day of independence; the 22d of Feb.; the birthday of Washington ; the 3d of Jan., the battle of New Orleans; are so many occasions. Some time before, a public meeting is convened at a tavern, and a chair man and secretary (for every thing is done in form,) are ap poiuteckby acclamation. An orator proposes to celebrate the day, and gives his reasons; afterwards, another moves that there be a dinner; the proposition is discussed, and is opposed, for want of a room large enough to contain those. who would deshe to partake of it. Another proposes a barbecue,—dining in the open air: this is supported, and carried; another, that a speech be delivered:. carried also. Somebody proposes a ball; but there are only three ladies in the town who dance. Had there been four, apsur&lfy the motion would have passed. The meet ing appoints a chairman, and a managing committee, and separates. The resolutions, duly signed; are inserted in the newspaper, (for already there is a weekly one,) to the great satistaetion of the editor-printer, who is short of matter. On the day appointed, 'the citizens form themselves into a proces sion, and proceed. to: the:church, or the tavern, to the court house, or to a granary, according to circumstances, and hear a speech, which is in general sensible and eloquent; for I must always remind you of the contrast which is found' here between the man and what surrounds him. From thence the meeting repairs under the trees, where an ox and some pigs roasted await them. The expense is defrayed by subscription; and toasts are given expressive of the political opinions orthe peo ple. The following year there are another barbecue, speech, and ball. - Thetall is also by subscription. This time the court house hal; keen . prepared for the purpose • 'the jedge''Skinch is occupied•by. an old negro scraping the violjn, accompanied by two little negroes.piayiug the tambourine and triangle; tallow candles illuminate the scene;• but the women are as pretty and as smart us - at New York. The planter bas deed his coarse hunting-iaelM, laid drawn front' his trunk the bine frock - of fOrnier titnOS'audiTano.ther •couutil, and his Minuets are those of tha• best society. The defecti of the'music . dO bat augment - tls4 mirth - of the daaceri.L-3 , itirlei United St a io, 24 idi t ;". • , 7711? D 11.111.4. Daring the lass week. Sheridan Elno , Nles has been perform , ing in Ins own. plays, The Wife, • William Tell, the. Hunch back, and Virginius;ani so far vangaishod the. fascinations cf music, as to collect tolerably good* anHiences; and particularly on Wednesday night. The Hunchback was repeated lait night to a full . pit, and good show of company in the dress boxes. It is qatte unueccessary to make any observations On a play that is so faniiiiar to ail 'play-on:1g people, and has been so often quoted that scarce a line %law tit rememtiering. remains - unquoted. But for his reputation as an author, Knowles would ne'er have occupied any very high ground as an actor; incleio, all his fame iii the latter character is wholly depentlent upon it. As a painter may lie supposed to know the lineaments of the face he meant-to delineate, so the actor, where he chances to be the author, may he supposed to kaow " what manner of man" the creature of his fancy should appar-athecefore *so long a s Knowles confines himself as an actor to those characlers hid • own, he will most likely continue to he a star in the theatrital hemisphere. Ail the actors that we have .scen in the " Hunch back" appear to consider it as an ezact copy. of the cram-,sensitive Black Dwarf of Si: W a lt er S cott. • Knowles, on the contrary,. gives a very different outline, which, however, he is not sufficiently. skilled in theatrical tactics to fiat up according to his own conceptions. lie gives to him a great degree of morbid sensibility on the subject of his personal deforn.ity, an infirmity that all taose unfortunate beings labour . under ; he makes him also. irascible, but when his anger is not reused, .gay almost to levity • Farren, on the contrary, represents him as a gloomy misanthrope, that, like Richard - the Third, seeks to avenge the wrong done him by nature in denying hint the vantages of "fair proportions:" on the whole imman race. Mss Ellen Tree looked - and acted - the part of Judie beauti fully ; many of her attitudes would have formed a fine study for a painter. Her passionate exclamations when smarting under, what fete women can bear, the wounds inflicted upon the pride of the sex, when their faith i s d o ubt e d or th e i r l ove re jected, were admirable; as was the struggle between that truly feminine pride and her love for the. first object of her affections, which no woman can throw away at will, were equally admirable. The scene between Julia and Sir'l'homas Chord, when he appears before her as the page of her newly betrothed lord, was equal to any thing that we have ever seen. Her grief was of that ex quisitely tender character, that might almost be said to have been sufficiently patent to soften even urarb.e. We allude to the following passage : " Julia—Clifford! Sir Thomas CiViiftl—Na ;tam! Julia—l called thee, Clifford; thou . cell'it me—Madam !" Lacy sustained his part exceedingly well; indeed we du not think.it could have been done much better. _ 111 x. Clark, the stage manager, takes his benefit .011 'Monday. next; and we most sincerely hope that it will be a good oue, which we may add his industry and judgment justly etiditla , him to. • N, FACTS, AND ,FICTIONS. • On Monday week their Majesties .went to Kew, to pay a farewell visit to their .Itoyalsllignessses the 'Duke cud Ductless of Cumberland anklieince George, ;Their' --,l,l4aatle s s*raretresari, . to Windsor in the evening. OnWednesday the King went' to London, and give audiences to, some of his popular and higly gifted ininieeers at St. James's, and returned to the eerie in toe evening. - • The Marquis of Aaglesey had an audience of the King on • his.lordship's return from Ireland. Their Majesties - spent 1 , riday efternoon at the Virginia,Wa ter,- enjoying the favourite amusement of his late Mejeety - ,, sailing on the lake. The baud of the Ist Life Guards attended in another barge. •. • ' Their Royal. Ifighnesses•the Duke and Duchess of Cumber land and Prince George, attended by Sir John'Slade, left town on Tuesday for the continent; on which day the Duke of Wel lington entertained his royal highnessattlinner atWalmer Cas tle. There were present to meet the illustrious duke, the Earl of Roselyn, Earl and Countess of 'Guildford (from Waldershare,) Lord Carrington (from Deal Castle), Lord.and Lady Gran ' vale Somerset, the, Marquis of Douro, and the Right lion. - the , Speaker of the House of C,lninsuous (from Lattriston Cottage). , The Duke of Cumberland slept at the castle, and proceeded to Dover at ten o'clock on Wednesday morning, accompanied by the Duke of Wellington and the Marquis of Douro. Early in the morning; a large gUard of honour cable down from the castle, and was posted at the front of Wright's Ho- ' tel. The guns from the heights soon announced the approach of royalty, and shortly after the cortege came in sight; in the first carriage were their Royai Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cumberland and the Duke of Wellington, With Prince George. They did not alight, but proceeded to the stairs at the Cross Wall, where the•eteedner Lightrkind' a boat was in attendance, and-Where the stairs had been carefully car peted, and took water. So soon as the sailors let fall their ours for departure, the great guns fired a royal salute. The Duke of Wellington having seen his illustrious guests safe in the boat, went to the south pier, and with a large number of respectable • persons saluted them as they left.the harbour's mouth: When they arrived on board the Lightni»g, which waited at anchor in the roads for them, the royal standard was hoisted at the meet head, and they started for Calais. It was calculated that they ' would be landed there about half-past two p. in. The Duke of Wellington was attired in the Lord Warden's uniform, and wore onty the star ,of the Order of the Garter. In the afternoon, a special but open court of the corporation was held in the Town-hall, for the purpose of swearingenhis freeman of Dover, the Speaker of the House of Commons, the Itt. Hon. Sir Charles Manners Sutton. He wore the star and ribband of a Grand Cross of the Bath, and, after taking the oath of a freebie's, (the members of the corporation in their gowns, all standing,) in.a short but admirable address, assured them of his high gratification at receiving, _unsought and unex pectedly,•the honour which had been thus conferred upon him. He adverted in a touching manner to the memory of his revered father, in whose late diocese the coporation of which he had now become a rnembc;r is situated ; and to the affection which he - knew that • his father had borne. towards Dover; and laid em phasis especially on the encouragement which such an honour, so bestowed, gave to a man honestly to exert his best talents, and not to spare any labour when, with integrity, eugaged for the good of his country. In that view he received the honour, with a still greeter degree of interest. The corporation showed, by the manner in which this speech 'was received, that they en tertained fur the Right Hen. the Speaker of the house of Come eacrue the. seepeet which- is srlue• ekia.antgabie •psswe-efehleahil.lties • ' and to the and ieseaitialit;v with which he has so lung fulfilled the arduous duties . Tof his high and important office. Lord and Lads Lincont are gone on a visit to the Duke of Newcastse, at hi:, newly purchased estate, Haifa& in Wales. The yeeerabie Earl- of .Elsiou has returned to his mansion at ' Eficombe, in Dorsetshire, from visiting some estates purchased by his lordship the north. Although Lord Eaton is a dative of Newcastic-upon-Tyne, and whist he was at the bar regulat lg went the northern circuit, he has, lately, either for recreatiou • . or on business, gone to the north since his elevation to the peerage. DIPLOMATIC INTELLIGENCE. —:q. (le Bacourt, First Secre tary of Legation to the French Embassy, remains at Prince Tallyeranct's mansion in Haeover-square, with the rank of . Charge d'Affinies. Of the large . estalhishinent kept up by the Prince, four servants only have been retained to attend oft the Charge d'Affaiies. The Princes carriages and horses, all of which were hired, have been returned to the livery-stable , keeper. . FORTHCOMING MARIZIAGI7.3 OF • Marriage is under stood to be on the tam:, between the Honorable George Au gustus Craven, brother of Earl Craven, and Miss Georgiana . Smythe, daughter of Mn.i f'l'at Smythe. and niece to - Mr s . Fitzherbert. A sister of Miss Smythe was united last year to Sir Frederick Hervey Bathurst. It has been stated, by S e i s= take, that the young lady yragto be the - future Countess Craven, although Lord Craven is not, we hear, on the eve of matrimony. . Mr. Craven, it will be recollected, was mentioned as a suitor for the hand of the accomplished Miss Fanny Kemble, before , her departure,:for the. United States. It is reported (hat the ce reniony will not take place until the return of Mrs. Fitzherbert from the German Spa, in December. A matrimonial alliance, it is said, will shertly take place betweeo Captain Trotter, ; of the 2d Life Guards, and one of the Hon. Misses •Liddell, daughter of Lord Ravensworth, and sister to. Viscountess Barrjugtcn. SCOTCH PREDICTIONS.—A Scotch paper, speaking of the Duke of BCCCLEUGH, states that, although a Tory, there is not , a more popular man in Scotland. "The Whip (it says) ad mire his condescension and afrahility—the Radicals toast his health at their public (linnets." We can easily guess at the cause of this phenonaenen. His Grace is an in - imensely rich man, which, in the minds of ail the Sawney Whigs and rods, covers a multitude of sius.-- e stge. . • "THE STATISTICAL SOCIETY."—A 'puff paragraph in the ministerial 'papers speaks of a meeting of " the Satitistcal So ciety." 'What sort of statistics are. the objects of its care :nay eionty conceived, when in one batch Of names, announced as honorary members, a r e to befound those - of. Prince TALLEY • RAND, Earl' GREY, Mr. PouLa'rT THONISt*4 and Mr. Cot.- , • • nutlet ! The contributions expected from these worthies are— from the first, a protocol en - the statistic% of diplomatic bribery ; from the second, a familiar table, illustrating titehero.se preduco of' a premier's patronage; from the third, a treatise on the " fructifying" powers of beans, hog's bristles, and castor oil, under a well-managed " censotidation't of duties ; and frem the last, a curious account, ellowing-elue.uet produce of the Put.iiig • islands to E , tyland.- s • • THE CO - MMON LAW.—flow can I , we are to - helicuellegelexplain ty o ou the exist ence of this law, which „ or i g inated, if writers, -in the customs of the ancient•Britorirt; watlisogifi es ti,y g l o -Sexous; uuderthe Noieeet,s . the laws and usages of the Au became mixed with the feudal doctrine ; followed, step by st e p, the progress of enlightenment ; arid alwareexactly expteesed the wants of the nation. Where shall I fine it, that I rime show it to You •It changes every day . iii evety state. Sir Willie:it Blaekstone, its his learneticolumentaries, has taken, it as it were, on the wing, ard made a portrait °fit, which was, no very like itsat the time; . and iu England people recognise it. , there still, although, since h his Le t k u il l i e l , 4e it c l o ia n s ti b n e u e e n s a ne n uc a l u i t a il l o te ri t i c ;. l. .centradietory maxims, aTthidisimlili.rocvnendsitstisnienangeedineehi!„di ;11,1 often over l o aded with divisions, distinctions, decision e, which are still explained, for fear they shoual be understood. On 'one side, for • • instance, my Lord Coke tells you very gravely that common. - sense is part and parcel of the law of Englettah-swhv have tot his hook to .quete to you?--brit a little farther en 1-. e adds, that the Christian religion, - as understood by the English chorchs. • • .• of his time, is also a portion of the saute common law. • After wards he tells you that the common law existed 'hum time he- He explaiuS, finally, that the common sense ‘s !rich he speaks is not that ofall the world, but a legal commuli senee,—moulded, , probably,• in the interior of the jualkes' wigs of his time.-11fur s State/. 2: A CHEAP .101'11NLN.—011 harselay e eettings, a man having . • the appearance of a farmer's servant, end attec . a two-horse. coach ou the stand in St. Ann's-squai e, to take him to the vil lege of Moston, vi here he said he had some urgent business to -, transact. On. arriving at Ilarvithey tar, the coachman learned for the first time that •liis customer had no nititiey, but` he did . 'sot hesitate to pay the toll, on . the assurance that the 'landlord of the public-house at .MoSton Was indebted 'a consi derable sum to the man, and the object cf his journey was, in fact, to receive the money. So free from suspicion was coaehee thing . wrong was intended, that he not only paid the htoll,a :bra sire:erect himself to be treated with brandy and peter. , to the amount of four shillings, paring for it hircsiX, 4w - ever, on the prounse of repayment v. hen they arrived at Moston. On , reaching true end of the journey, the customer alighted, and called for more brandy and water, but the coachman thinking '. • it was high time to look after his fare, niadC some inquit'les ' from the landlord which c o nvinced him to his utter nisniay that he had been dumped, and that the story about the money was nothing but an idle tale invented by his customer in cider that he might ride to Moston gratis. He accordingly contrived to get the nian once more into the coach, and tesreailig the doors upon him drove back to Manchester, and handed him over to the police. On F riday, the man, who called himself , John Regan, and said he was the. 5Th of a farmer at Davy Itultne, was brought before the magistretes to answer for his ,conduct; but the only defence he could make was, that Le wanted to go to Moston, anal that he thought i iding was easier than walkiug. The coaclunien.demanded eight as his fare: . and feta shillings expended in treating, himself With , brandy; and waiter, but the whole of tie assets found upon the . " • • priSoper were. only teh-phuce iu cueeer. Tlie . ina g i § !r4es re- •• gretted that they could: not help the' Orhichman out.' of -tEe'eti- • , ' deniina into which he had in'enght himself •ny hhohredulity, but e they Obtaiued,a promise from •the erisoner thet•he would pay . • the denten:l'in the coarse of the day • Le wee oasigtquently (,;:auisr. •• • ' • •