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.SErTzmuEit 20 - 1 , 1833: speeches, to refine to- listen to4he voice ore of Exete r , c h arm h e never f. , 4) wiselT.'; 71 e charming Bishop ere is in the minds o nine-tenths of them as rooted an antipathy f among the dis sen t ers ( so ca ll e d). theinseltel to the church as e x i s t s - To say that these remarks arc-uo 4 b . - an spirit, would be to treat sy written in a Chris -1 an Aduicate too .Homed and malignant They indicate an ch env, .Homed hatred of the Chu rc h, and: thi. s malignity is rendered more base by being clothed the very best authority, that ? falsehood. We assert, on ." -of th e W es l e y an M e thodi o far - from nine-tenths" • tipathy to the church," the cherishing any " rooted an might say four-fifths of the great majority of them, we the-intelligence and rasp .m, comprehending almost all -- cerely attached to the V 2ctability -of the body, are sin illustrious founder was . -lurch of England, in which thei r as the great temple it • reared, and consider that Church teligion are still prey which the truths of the Chri s ti an • erved in their original purity. Nay, we might go furthe the Weileyans are r, and aver that a large maj o rity o f dissenting only fr ' . mevery sense of the word churchme n , . connectedwithh um her on points of discipline wholly un er rites and doctrines. The Christian Ad vacate, •therefc .re, by asserting that these truly estimable and conscient . ions men are in their hearts hostil e t o th e • Protestant C . hurch, first accuses them of hypocrisy, and • upon this tr .ost foul and false accusation, grounds its second slander of enmity against the religious establishments of the tour try. This • is the way in which societies are broken up, dis card l ,eing engendered by some heartless friend becom - .he advocate of a community whose attachments he .ves to cool, whose confidence he betrays, and whose O r pinions he either wholly misunderstands or systemati cally misrepresents. The Wesleyans should not only . discountenance such an advocate by the mouths of their most influential ministers, but they should, one and all, • for the sake of order and unanimity, cease giving any support to a newspaper, the conductors of which seem to be either .unitarians-op jesuits in disguise, and who ap pear to be actuated by motives of rank hostility to the communion whose orgAns they profess to be. A hollovV friend is worse than an open enemy.' He that is not with them is against them. As to the primary question out of which this contro versy and this secession took their rise, namely, the union of the Wesleyan methodists with the church, we enter tain an opinion rather opposed to that of some of our friends. Upon grounds of policy we should be sorry to see this union effected, unless it could be clone unani • mously, without leaving a remnant of uncompromising dissenters. As this unanimity is at present impracti cable, the cause of religion renders it an imperative duty • • to postpone the consideration of the question. Even if the union were practicable, we are far from being satis fled that it would be a politic measure. In using the word politic we einploy it in that sense only which con • - fines its meaning to the religious welfare of the people. It is extremely doubtful whether the Methodists, if they were to throw aside the exterior manifestations of dis sent, would be able to retain for any considerable length of. time an extensive and commanding influence on the public mind. They are, at present, not only the most useful, but the niost powerful body of religionists in Eng . and, apparent dissenters, but real friends and conscientious auxiliaries of the Church. Knowing all this, and appreciat ing it as it merits, we are the more reluctant to advocate any change, desirable as it is in many respects, which might shake this union,Or diminish this salutary influence. In another part of our present number will be found an article extracted from the Carlisle Patriot, which ex hibits the character of the statesman most concerned in a light too odious to admit of our commenting upon it ac cording to its deserts. Our _contemporary-, however, has done this with far more forbearance than even the brother of the LORD HIGH CHANCELLOR is entitled to under the circumstances, and we leave the castigation for the present entirely in his hands. LOCAL NEWS. THE MAYORALTY.—The annual period is fast approaching when the burgesses of Liverpool will be called upon to exercise their important right of electing a gentleman to fill the civic chair for the ensuing year. Another opportunity will be af forded us of expressing our sense and the sense of the public as to the exemplary conduct of our present chief magistrate : our business now is with the choice of his successor. We are not aware that at any time has it been required of the burgesses to discharge their duty with more discretion and circumspection than on this next occasion. We sincerely trust that on p u bli c principle alone will th ey b e i n d uced to give their suffr ages to any candidate. To say nothing of the chances of a general election, and of the spirit which is abroad, and which seem s t o actuate our rulers to impair, if not to overthrow, all municipal establishments, there is a parliamentary commission about to sit in judgment on this and other corporations throughout the kingdom; and above all, there is the question of the disfran chisement of the freemen, which no doubt the fatuity of a cer tain party will again tempt them to agitate. Who then can for a moment be insensible to the vast importance of having at the head of the corporation a man not only utterly disconnected with this party, but of tried and approved principles, of personal respectability; of firmness and independence—one acquainted with and attached to the ancient rights and franchises of th e freemen, and determined t o m a int a in them against all assaults, open or disguised. The Queen of Portugal is now on her voyage to Lisbon, which place she is expected to arrive at on or about the 24th inst. t ROBBERY.—On Thursday morning last, it was discovered that the cellar of Mr. Guest, grocer, &c., corner of Oxford_ street, Deansgate, Manchester, had been broken into, and three firkins of butter and a cheese stolen therefrom. The police are on the alert, but no clue has yet transpired for the apprehension of the robbers. ROBBERY.—As Mr. Peter Seddon, of Edge Fold, near Bol *ton, was returning home from Ormskirk, in company with his nephew, in a shandry, on Wednesday night last, he was attacked, near Ilulton-htne-end, by six men, two of whom seized the horse, and one of th em dragged Mr. Seddon's ne phew o u t o f th e shandry, and knelt upon him, during which four of the men, although two of them were knocked down, Succeeded in robbißg Mr. Seddon, as well as his nephew, of apwards of £7O. The robbers have not yet been discovered ST. HET.EN'B.—A public dinner was given at the Raven inn, Sts Helen's, on Thursday la s t, f or th e p u rpose of presenting a splendid dinner service to Peter Greenhall, Esq., a gentleman whose spirtedi and liberal conduct has Icing been the theme of raongst his neighbours and fellow-townsmen. The chai r was occupied by J. W. West, Esq., of Cropper's Hill, and one hundred and ten gentlemen sat down to dinner. The i plate bore the following nscription :—" Presented to Peter Greenhall, Esq., by the inhabitants of St. Helen's and its neighbourhood, as a token of their esteem for his private worth and gratitude for his public services." —On the reverse was the arm s of the Greenhall. family. In the course of the evening the healths of Mr. Greenl;ll, his worthy father, and other Members of his family, were drunk with great enthusiasm. SCICIDE.—Mr. Thomas Crompton, cotton manufacturer, near the Robin Hood, Bolton Moor, was found suspended, on Fri day morning last, upon a beam, by a cotton cord. NAVAL AND MILITARY BIBLE SOMETY.—A meetin of the friends to thi s institution held a public meeting at the Town hall, Little Bolton, on Friday evening week, Peter Botha-ell, - Esq.. in the chair. Several eloquent addresses - were delivered by Captains Symonds, Campbell, and Brazzlegate, and by the Ray. Barnard . tilater, Wesleyan minister, Rev. James Fi user, Baptist m i n i ster , an d t h e R ev. S amue l Elli s, I ndependent mi nister. A collection was made at the close of the proceedings. STEAM CARRIAGES ON ORDINARY ROADS.—A joint-stock companv is now formik in London, with a capital of £lOO,OOO in L'2.5 shares, for the purpose of establishing coaches to con vey passengers and merchandise, by steam, between London and the principal towns in England, on the common turnpike roads. Leeds, Bath, _Bristol, Birmingham, and Manchester are mentioned as the first among a number of places to which the coaches are to run. j r. ..GLARY.—On the night of W e d nes d a y wee k, the house of "J Stanley Lees, the Robin H oo d I nn , G re en-acres Moor, liolton, was entered, and £1 10s. i n co pp er , w ith a large quail tity of spirituous liquors, were stolen from the bar and cellar.-- The thieves, not content with their booty, injured the liquor left behind, by pouring sour ale upon it. A large crow-bar was found on the following morning, at the public-house, door. , RADll TSPEECHlPTlNG.—lietherington,the fire-brand editor of the Poor Man's Guardian, and Newsharn, a discharged sol er, have b een on a visit to their brother radicals in Oldham, delivering speeches of the most violent character. Hethering ton, who is a Papist, and was formerly a student at Mavnooth, had evidently an eye to bu s i ness , as amongs t o th er remedies for the evil s under which he described the country to be labouring, he strongly recommended his hearers to purchase his unstamped uewspapers. NEI. , Autn BRITISH LEAF.—Fora considerable time, a Mr. _TFbard Ileale, of Nn. 9, Mincing-lane, London, has been 7- 0 11 n ing slo e and white -thorn leaves made - up for home eonsump- Brit' Irist''ad ofunder the denomination of It Prepared colicl,,s,ll Leaf." but he has not passed it off as tea. It will be re the p ;‘ t ed that, at the commencement of the present mayoralty, j u n b 1 i of the - ente e appear e d before the Lord Mayor in consequence . stati P ,reation of a communication made to his lordship, the - e ' , oet that the bushes of Norwood supplied many of pro grocers of London with what the public believed to be the P r 9 4 " of China Upon that occasion, Mr. llcale very highly p raised his Lord Al a be vera . withencouragement from the ge, but met no . Board of who, on the contrary, exwessed surprise that the U a f Excise allowed such an abomination to exist. p . to evr days labou ago, the patentee seemed to have gone on with his solicitorll uninterruptedly, but, on Monday last, Air. May ow, the ... to the Board of Excise, applied for a search warrant for s _,To prepared British leaf," and, immediately afterwards, a excise or lipvvards of 10,000 pounds weight was made by the officer upon thepremises in Mincing-lane. As La an rd Grey of Groby was on his way to Dunham Massey / 1 ,2_ M onday week, he was suddenl taken ill near Newcastle. Be ing near to the Rev. J. Anderton ' s,of D . dale at the time, his lordship cured without d I was conveyed there, and medical aid pro followinv d N ° was His lordship was so much better on the ,field Courier ' as to be able to resume his journey.—Maccies . A JennE Tr.. Warwi c k As ;.• "Po THIEF-TARFR.—We read that at the late h d the 1 .,,,,,,,, d bu „ - , zes, Mr. Justice Taunt9o, Navin.g finis he d ,a,k e `' lle ", --- " tcok some prisoners" to help his brother LIVERPOOL EXCHANGE NEWS-ROOM. A few individuals, - in temporary official situations connected with this • establiihment, 'gave us the trouble, in the month of February last, of calling the attention of the proprietors and subscribers to their most. unwarrantable proceedings with refe rence to some alterations in the supplies of newspapers to the room, which led to their retracing their steps. We thought the lesson then given to them, and the arrangement resulting from the measures taken at that time, would have prevented the'i'epetition of so crooked a proceeding. We have been mis taken. Within the last ten days the trick, for such it is, has been repeated; and consequent upon that fact is this, the repe tition of our exposure of so unworthy a course. It appears to have been determined, by this quartett of offi cials, to change the list of papers in the room, by increasing the numbers of the local, and diminishing those of the metro , politan, press. In the London papers a most unfair diminution has taken place. In violation of a distinct understanding, which was come to on the former occasion, the radical London morning papers, the Times and Morning Chronicle, have been reduced by only three copies, whilst the Guardian and Morning Post, conservative papers, have been cut down seven copies. In the Liverpool papers the radical publications have been in creased by twelve copies, and the Courier, the only conservative paper changed, is increased :by four copies, thus making a change altogether of 19 to 7' against the conservative or tory press. Let us not be misunderstood. We speak not for our selves; our weekly number of 21 papers remains unchanged. If we acted solely from a regard to our own interest, we might be inclined to say, that we do not care a straw whether a single copy of the Liverpool Standard be, or be not, exhibited in the Exchange room; as we have reason to believe, that every copy taken in that room deprives us of a sale of ten elsewhere. Our charge is against the parties whose political bias, thtis impro perly exercised in a case where they are mere official organs, has led them, a second time, to attempt a paltry trick. But we tell them it shall not succeed. Let us see whether they revise their proceedings, and act fairly and impartially. If so, and promptly so, it may be . well. If not, they shall speedily hear from us again; in a way that will be more in accordance with the principles of justice than agreeable to their own feelings. N&RTHERN HOSPITAL. A.meeting of the subscribers to the new Northern Hospital was hela ou Wednesday, at the Sessions House. , His Worship the MA YO It on taking the chair said, that at their last meeting they had met to consider the expediency of another hospital, which having been determined upon, a committee had then been appointed to carry that measure into effect, which had since that time sedulously devoted itself to that object, and were now prepared to present the subscribers with a report of their proceedings. The Rev. I'. C. GLADIVIN then read the report, by which it appeared that dhe committee had taken the house in Leeds street, formerly occupied by the late J. B. Hollinshead, Esq., at a rent of £lOO per annum, for one year certain, with the power of renewing the lease for ten years, which was recom mended by the committee; at a trifling expense it might be ren pered capableof accommodating sixty patients: The committee had framed laws for the government of the hospital. And the present amount of their funds was in annual subscriptions . E6lo, and in donations £1212, besides - £5O per annum which the cor poration had granted them, besides many promises . from per sons who wished to sec the hospital fairly established before they advanced any thing towards it. The rev. gentleman thought they might congratulate themselves that their previous meeting had not altogether fruitless, and hoped the idea was now removed that the Hospital originated out of motives of jealousy. Thep could now go forward with every hope of success, which would always, he trusted, keep pace with the increase and pros perity of the town. He congratulated the chairman upon its having been commenced in his mayoralty, and he hoped to have the pleasure of seeing him, at no distant period, laying the foundation-stone of a fabric, which would be both an ornament and a blessing to the town. He trusted the hospital would con tinue to meet that liberal support which his townsmen were al ways ready to contribute towards objects of this nature; there must not be, however, any relaxation of energy on the part of its friends, but, on the contrary, additional zeal. should manifest itself, for although they might say their ship was ready to be launched, it still had to be rigged, and a crew of active and in telligent men had still to be selected to command and navigate it. 3tr'." BAssa Li., the secretary, then read over the proposed regulations, which Mr. GLADWIN, together with the report, moved should be adopted. Mr. FREME said, it might be unnecessary for him to dwell upon the great benefit the hospital would be to the poor in that part of the town, but he thought it would prove an addition if, in the formation of the committee, they followed in the track of other towns where an advantage was found in having medical gentlemen upon it. Cases were often occurring in which their presence was necessary; and gentlemen who gave their gratui tous services should not be considered as servants. He, there fore, would suggest that one honorary physician and surgeon should form part of their committee. The Rev. 'l'. C. GLADWIN said, it was not intended to prevent the institution from having the benefit of the experienceof their medical officers, but it was thought they ought rather to form a board of reference themselves than be one of direction, and he considered it would • be more, complimentary to refer to them in cases o f difficulty . than have them giving their opinions in a committee which might not be attended to. He wished that all the medical gentlemen should remain on the same footing. It was intended to form a medical board, and he wished it tube understood that the committee had not the slightest idea of dis respect to the profession in not wishing to have them on the general committee. Mr. LEWIN MosLEY seconded the adoption of the laws which had been-read to. therm He - would not pledge himself to ap prove of them all, but he knew that those gentlemen who had drawn them up had framed and selected those which they thought the best, and he thought it much better that the reso lutions which had been laid before them should be now adopted, and after having undergone the test of experience, those which were not found to work well might be altered at a future meet ing. . He acquitted the committee of any wish to cast the slight est imputation or reflection on the medical gentlemen of the town; and he could not allow such a favourable opportunity as that to pass without congratulating his worship upon the success of a measure fostered by his care, having arrived at the point which it now had, for it having been resolved to establish a hos pital, and a committee having been formed to carry that reso lution into effect, it was no little satisfaction to his mind to meet them there on that occasion, with the fact before them of having such a considerable sum of money in donations and an nual rental in support of an institution which might now be considered as founded, and he was sure would flourish equally with, he would not say superior to, any other institution in the town. Why should it not? The desire to do good did exist, and if it was found at a futitre time that the present building was not large enough, he hoped that an institution which had for its object the removing of pain and affliction from among the poor would not be neglected. It would be a libel upon his native town for a moment to suppose so, and he was sure that every good member of society would come forward in support of it. He was certain that when the laws were passed, and they had appointed a committee, and valuable men for their medical officers, a number of individuals would give it their support, and they would see their charity dealt out to a very large community. Whilst their town was prospering in every thing, how could its inhabitants show their grateful sense of the benefits they enjoyed in a brighter manner than by render ing their aid to those who required their assistance ? lle was confident it would meet with such support as would entitle it to the confidence of all. The Rev. WM'. BLUNDELL wished to know whether the me dical officers were to, be chosen by the general body of sub scribers or by a committee of them. -He thought the choice ought to be confided to a committee, as it was very unpleasant to a merchant to be .solicited perpetually on 'Chiinge, as was now the case, for some medical situation or other; and it was,' besides, a degradation to the medical gentlemen themselves to be obliged to run about the town soliciting votes. An altera tion would be for the benefit of both the subscribers and the medical men, and he should move that the election of the me dical be vested in the committee. Mr. EDEN was neiiiePared to say any thing upon that sub ject, but it struck hint that it the proposition of Mr. Blundell were generally adopted in the various institutions of the town, it would be productive of much advantage, and, he concurred with that gentleman in thinking that it would be to the interest of their hospital was the appointment of the medical men left to a committee'. He considered the present system of election open to this objection, that the subscribers might elect an offi cer disagreeable to the committee and the other medical officers, which, from the necessity o f their all acting in concert, must prove injurious to the institution ; but, on the other hand, if the appointment were left to the committee and medical officers, which gentlemen must be the best judges, it would he discharged more pleasingly to all parties, and if Mr. Blundell would make an alteration in his Amendnient, in order that the medical Men might be included in the committee by which the officers were to be chosen. it would add to its effect, but he thought the al. - teration those.who, from haying been so long ent.,craged in the affairs of the institution, were the best judges. The Hey. Mr. &LWOW. was willing to introduce Mr. Eden's proposition into his amendment. Mr. \Vsi. BROWN had the interest of the institution much at heart, and was persuaded that a number of those who subscribed to the institution expected the privilege of voting in the elec tion of medical officers; an alteration might have an effect upon the amount of their subscriptions. Dr. COLLINS conceived there was nothing more degrading to the medical profession than being obliged to go, cap an hand, soliciting votes in all parts of the town, the more so as it often happened that a refusal was given, not upon medical but politi cal grounds, and nothing could afford him more pleasure than to see the power of appointment vested in a committee. They had instances before them every day in London of the most eminent men in the profession being unable,. because their in terest lay in-a different direction, to gain admittance into a pub lic instit ut i o n--Dr. Johnson, high in practice and reputation, was never able to gain admittance into the dispensaries; Sir Henry Raiford. never could succeed in his attempts of a like nature. Two of the best Scotch practicians, Drs. Abercrombie and Thomson, could never become attached to any public in stitution, because objections were urged against them on this or that account, without any reference to, their professional talents; Dr. Cheyne of Dublin was an o th er instance. In this town an admittance into the dispensary was considered a stepping-stone to the fever hospital, and that to the infirmary, because it was thought that if - a gentleman was connected with the dispensary he must be a man of talent. The result of .leaving the ap pointment in the hands of the subscribers was, that it led to partisanship. lie conceived that as a committee would repre sent the subscribers, the choice of that committee ought to re present the opinion of the subscribers in the same degree as if they had voted themselves. He felt confident that it would not only save the medical men a great deal of trouble, but also ad vance the interests of the institution. He had been a candi date himself, but although he was a candidate now he would never go through the unpleasant fatigues he had formerly en dured; indeetthe was sure every man must feel it as a degra dation to himself, and it was, after all, a mere blind man's buff whether they selected the best man or not. The Rey. T. C. GLA owns thought it could not be advanced by any one present, that, in a general way, talent did not in the main succeed. It would be a very strange thing indeed if every man should cavil because he did not succeed in his ob jects ; it would be similar to the man who, himself mad, thought every one else insane. In every town, the same system of election prevailed, and it was rather strange that in these time s the ballot should be exclaimed against. He would appeal to them whether the generality of mankind would like to forego the privilege of electing the medi c al men, or wh e th er any man would like the responsibility of election vested in.him, when he would always be liable to be taunted with his bad choice, whilst by leaving the matter .to the public there was no responsibility incurred. They would lose, he considered, one-third of their subscribers if the amendment was carried; and'thongh he 'l'llE LIVERPOOL STAN DA ILD. entered into the unpleasantness of canvassing, cap in hand, the evil ought rather to be endured than by removing it risk the possibility of doing injury to their pecuniary resources Dr. Coi.k.i N'S ;vas not opposed to the ballot, as applied to the di rectionof government or of private institutions, but in Dublin the medical men were chosen by committee. Rey. T. C. GLADWIN.—Theu how did Dr. Cheyne not suc ceed thare, notwithstanding his transcendent talents? (A laugh.) ' Dr. Cot.LiNs.--Because he had not a particular interest in the committee. Mon.F.v said, the committee did not represent the subscribers. He had himself seen the difficulty arise in prevailing upon gentlemen to act as a committee; and often upon the day of meeting he had known eighteen men elect themselves. They might be very 'rood men, and have the in terests of the institution at heart; but would it be proper that those self-elected men should have the power of ch005m,., ,, the medical officers vested in them, and that it should be taken from 700 to 800 subscriber's? If the committee were elected by ballot, then it might be done. • Mr. Faiisis thought it!would be more desirable, as the prin ciples of the laws were indiscriminately animadverted upon, to discuss their merits in the order in which they were drawn up. Mr. EDEN objected to that being done. He had not pledged himself to.second Mr. Blundell's motion, and Mr. Motley had given them a most substantial reason against it; besides,: he did not think that they ought, after the committee had devoted -so much time to the consideration of the rules, to offer any op position, but on the contrary should give them their hearty concurrence. The Rev. W. BLUNDELL then withdrew his amendment. Dr. COLLINS could not call to mind any rule prescribing the number of visits the medical men should pay., Mr. BROWN said the consideration of that point would be left to a committee. In compliance with the wish of Mr. DUNSFORD the law rela tive to the medical men was read over. They are to be re elected every year, and three of them to retire in eleven, twelvt, and thirteen years from the period of election. The • resohitions were then put by the Mayor, and carried without a dissenting voice. Mr. ROBERTSON GLADSTONE then proposed the following gentlemen as the members of a committee. Charles liorsfall, Esq., President Mr. A Hodgson Mr. Wm. Brown Rev. Buddicom Rev. T. C. Gladwin Mr. Cartwright Mr. Lewin Motley Mr. Edward Moon Mr. W. W. Currie Mr. James Lawrence Mr. Charles Warner Mr. Thomas Freme Mr. G. W. Wainwright Mr. Harmood Banner. " Mr. T. B. HORSFALI. seconded the resolution,' which was carried unanimously, and upon the suggestion of Mr. LEwIN Mozi.;y s , Mr. Robertson Gladstone's name was added to the list. The Rev. T. C. GLADWIN was glad to announce to them, that the Mayor, Charles Horsfall, Esq., had kindly conseutclt to be their cliairmati for the ensuing year. Mr. WILLIAM BROWN then moved the thanks of the meet ing to the Mayor, for the very great interest he had manifested in the cause of the institution, and for his services in presiding upon that occasion, which being.seconded by Mr. LiGiraonY, was carried unanimously. _ • . The MAYOR briefly returned thanks, and the meeting sepa rated. • PARISH COLLECTOR, A Vestry was yesterday held in St. Nicholas's church, for the purpose of appointing a Tax Collector in the place of Mr. Richard Ellerton, deceased. The attendance, was .exceedingly good, the body of the church being nearly filled. The Rector, Mr. CAMPBELL, having taken the chair, the Vestry Clerk read over the names of the several candidates, and a letter from Mr. R. 0. Harbord, announcing the resigna tion of his claims in favour of Mr. Thomas El'erten, son of the deceased collector. _ _ MY. GODFREY BARNSLEY begged to propose Mr. Charles Hart as a candidate for the situation, whom he deemed fully competent to fulfil the dutiei of the office' to which he aspired. From being upon the select vestry he, (Mr. B.) had many opportunities of observing his conduct, whilst he was employed under Mr. George Forwood, in the service of the parish, and he could testify that. his behaviour had always been that of a zealous servant of the parish. When they had last met for the purpose of electing a collector, the gentlemen of the press had not thought it necessary to attend ; this he was happy to find was not the case at present, and he hoped would not be soagain, as it was important; and as the press was intendedfor the good of the public, itshould be attended to, that the characters andt es timonials o f the candidates for public situations might be laid before the inhabitants of the town. An endeavour had been made by a pathetic appeal to interest the parisboners in favour of one of the candidates, but although he could well enter into the merits of it, and sympathise with the distressed family, he thought that an appointment of this kind should be made solely on public grounds, and on those, and those alone, Mr. Hart stood before them ; he had no particular friends or interest in his favour, but rested his claims solely upon his character, his talents, and his past services to the parish. Mr. Ht TCHINSON seconded his nomination, and considered that he would fulfil the situation, if he obtained it, in an efficient manner. A paragraph had appeared in the paper of Wednes day, written in favour of Mr. Ellerton; and in the paper of that day there was another in reply. The first Mr. H. read Over, and wished to know whether he - should read the reply or Mr. Hart's address? Air. llooEtur TuuNER—" You hail better show up the false hood of the address." Mr. HuTciiitsoa then read the reply. He considered Mr. Hart in a worse situation than Mr. Ellerton, jum, because ho depended upon his own exertions for the maintenance of a wife and four young children, of whom the eldest was under eight. He should rest the claim of Mr. Hart upon the parishioners at large. • Mr. JOHN SANOARS wished to. ask the parish-officers whether or not the late Mr. Ellerton served the parish any longer than a year, that he might thereby contradict the assertion to that• effect which bad appeared in 'Gore's • Mr. ROBERT TURNER said, that so many falsehoods had been palmed upon the parish by many persons.—(ShaThe ! Order!) He would not be put down by any one present so long as he spoke the truth. He asserted that so many strings of falsehood had been imposed upon the parish, that they ought to examine carefully all affecting tales which might be brought before them. —Now what were the present facts ? The children left by Mr. Ellerton were four, of whom the youngest boy was 16 years of age, and the youngest girl 20. He should have voted for Mr. Ellerton himself, had it not been for his artful attempt to de ceive the parish by foisting upon it his address. Mr. WAL CustEß Wished , that the individual merits or de merits of each candidate shculd be discussed when he was pro posed. He considered it extraordinary that an anonymous production such as that which had appeared in Gore's, should be listened to for a moment. Mr. GEORGE WELSH'S name being called out, and no one having proposed him, his name was struck off the list. Mr. \VILLIAM WINSTANLEY proposed Mr. Thomas Pennell, and he was sure that, if elected, be would do his duty faithfully. Mr. RAE seconded him. Mr. WILFRED TROUTBECK proposed Mr. George Barker, and was seconded by Mr. Jos. COOPER. Mr. MILES Booth declined a contest. Mr. JOHN CROASDALE proposed Mr. Peter Rotheram, and was seconded by Mr. JOHN DAVIES. Mr. RICHARD DAWSON proposed Mr. Thomas Ellerton. He had a great respect for the memory of his father, who had faith fully served him for many years as a clerk; he had for seve ral years been an active and steady servant of the parish, and he-was certain that his son was every way calculated to fulfil the duties of the situation. The anonymous letter he would leave to his seconder. Mr. WILLIAM COMER seconded the nomination. Tie agreed with Mr. Barnsley that, as a general principle, it was an excel-• lent one, that a person filling any situation in the parish, should, if deserving, be promoted whenever an opportunity offered itself. Though he did not wish at all to detract from the merits 'of Mr.. Hart, who, he believed, was a very worthy man, he consi dered the situation of Mr. Ellerton peculiar, and that his. claims were stronger than Mr. Hart's. Ile had known his fa ther for the last twenty-five years, and he had never been ac quainted with a more upright or worthy individual in any ca pacity. He was •first in the employ of Mr. Dawson as a 'confi dential clerk, from whom he went to Mr. Swanwick; and had been in the service of the parish for the last four years. He entered Mr. Blackstock's office at the commencement, out of which he was taken, on the motion of Mr. Theakstone, and made a collector of arrears . ; and had conducted himself so satisfactorily in that department, that last year he was appointed one of the collectors, and he was sure that any gentleman who had anything to do with the parish would readily bear testimony to his worth. He was very sorry to perceive the letter in Gore's paper which had been read to them. Now, it' had stated that Mr. Merton had left a family of four children well provided for, that the first, a daughter, was married; the second was the present candidate, the third a young lady who had a good school to maintain herself with, and the fourth a. young man in a merchant's office with a small progressive sa- • lary. He was sorry they should ,have considered the. anony mous letter to be matter of fact, hut had they inquired they would have found it to be otherwise. Mr. Ellerton never was • in better circumstances than he was in when he died, and until the last year of his life his salary had never exceeded £BO per annum; during that period it was £100; he had formerly been a schoolmaster, and afterwards, as he had already intornied them, a confidential clerk to Mr. Dawson and Mr. Sa anwick; in each of which capacities he had never received more than £80; Mr. Ellerton had, with this, brought up his family in an ex ceedingly respectable manner, and trained them to habits of industry ; he had never kept a servant in his house, but. his eldest girl had attended to the household duties until she had reached a suitable age, when she came to his (Mr. Comer's) house as a servant. The next to the eldest was Mr. Thom as Ellerton, the candidate for his father's situation, who had served an apprenticeship to Mr. Hunt, the respectable irenmonger in Church-street, from whom lie had testimonials to his character, which the Vestry Clerk would presently read to them ; after hav ing served seven years apprentice Ship, 'Nil.. H. having no occasion for his services as shopman, he had been employed in the pa rish office under Mr. Dowdall, Mr. Forwood, and Mr. Dixon, since when, on the recommendation of his former employer, .Mr. Hunt, he had entered into the service of Mr. Stansfield, quaker gentleman, who kept an ironmonger's shop in Birken head, where he now remained, who allowed him a salary of £3O a year and his board and lodging in his family. These were th'e falsehoods ' as Mr. Turner had called them, which had been palmed on the parish. It might be better for Mr. Merton's future prospects if lie remained where he was; and had he not two young orphans to provide for, he would certainly have ad vised him to have done so, because he then would have had a chance of entering into business on his own account. The anonymous letter said, that of the two children left by Mr. El lerton Younger than the present candidate; one was a young lady who htid maintained herself by a well-attended school, to her great credit. Now what were the 'facts ? This young lady was a ser vant to the family; she scoured and she washed ; and, thinking that she could contribute by that means to the resources of the family, she had begged her father, a short time before his ill ness, to permit her to keep . a small school : she had done so, and obtained—three little girls, who, on the appearance of the cholera in her father's house, had been immediately taken away from her, and the probability was, that she could not re gain them so long as she lived in her present residence. Her brother, a boy, had been called a young man with a progressive salary. He received £8 per annum for the present year, £lO for the next, with a further increase. Messrs. Swainston and Cram were hiS employers, and they could speak to his services. Mr. Ellerton, be had before stated, had been four years in the service of the parish, during the last year of which he had re ceived £lOO. Mr. Henshaw could bear witness to this. Mr. IiENHANV said that Mr. Ellerton had filled one of the most arduous offices in the parish, that of collector of arrears, until the last year, when on account of his faithful services he had been promoted to the office of collector. Mr. COMER continued. The amount of Mr. Ellerton's sa lary never was sufficient for the last five years, with all the economy and praiseworthy industry of his wife, who was the most pains-taking woman he knew. A relation of his had died a few years ag o , ' leaving bins £560, and what. did he do with it? A friend of his had built him a little cottage!in the suburbs of the town, for which he paid interest of a mortgage—he paid off the mortgage and bought another house in London-road, which produced dim an annual rental of £2B. He was not a very strong man, and that he might live in an ailtsiteation, he had built the cottage he - had just'alluded to, and his obedience to the wishes of the vestry, in removing to a house in the district for which he was collector, he might say had cost him his life. The house he had formerly lived in was let after he left it for £lB per antrum. Being a considerate and prudent man, and calcu lating upon the destitute state' in which his datigotcrs might be placed by his death, in his will he had left them the house• which produced £2B, together with an amount of in the Saying's bank, to be divided equally amongst them. This was all that Mr. Ellerton had left in money besides his quarter's salary, which was not yet drawn, and he was sure there was not a sovereign in the house beyond what was due to the parish, which would no doubt be found correct, as he was so extremely honest that he had known him to borrow a sovereign from a friend rather than take it out of the bag in which he deposited the money he had collected belonging to the parish. The furniture iu the house would, in all probability, - have to be sold to pay the funeral expenses, as the small house alone was left to the boys, which would be an annuity of £9 per annum, with what ever might be left of the furniture after paying the funeral expenses. But for the extraordinary visitation of Providence, which had deprived him of both father and mother in one day, he should have been sorry to have interfered with Mr. Hart's claims. He had known the young man since he *as five years of age, and he pledged himself to his future good behaviour: of his - sincerity - in so doing he could offer no stronger proof than the fact of his having proposed becoming one of his secu rities, should he be so .fortunate as to be elected to the situation. Mr..HtrrcanNsoN wished to know whether he would under take the care of the orphans, in case he married. Mr. COMER was sure he would. Mr. TURNER said ifie3lwere not orphan children, (cries of "Shame," and great laughter,) they were any thing but chil dren. - . Mr. E. D. FALKNER proposed Mr. James Rowe. Mr. JOHN PARKE seconded his nomination; the more they inquired into his character, the more they would like hini. He should leave all the speech-makinc , to others. (A laugh.) Mr. JOHN S OR L EY proposed Mr. Wm. Baylis, and was seconded by Mr. IIALLowEs, who stated that Mr. Baylis was a captain of the Nightly Watch'; he had three children, and he had no doubt, from the faithful manner in which he hadi perfoimed his duties in the situation he now held, that he would be an active servant of the town, if appointed collector. The testimonials of each having been read over, a show of hands took place, when there being a great majority for Mr. •Ellerton, a poll was demanded on - the part of the other can didates, which was appointed to take place at the Sessions house, at ten o'clock this day. THE DRAMA. - - Sin ce' our - last notice of the Th'eatre,. Mr. Vancliiihoff and Miss Huddart have appeared as Sllylock and Portia, in " The . Merchant of Venice," and as Coriolanus and Valumnia, .in the play of " Coriolanus." The attempt to personify the popular creations of Shakspeare's genius requires no small degree of nerve in the performer, because they are as familiar " as household words" to the generality of audiences, and because we are more apt to draw our conclusions, and form an estimate of the merit of a performance from a Comparison with former actors and actresses, than with the Shylock, Portia, Coriolanus, or Volumnia, of the author. In Shylock,. Vandenhaff made what are: called, in " phrase theatrical," some " good points." In the trial scene before the Doge and magnificos of Venice, when Gratiano tells him that his " desires are wolfish, bloody, starv'd, and ravenous," he very deliberately takes " the bond" from under his girdle, unfolds it, and, after pointing for some seconds to the seal with his knife, replies in an under tone, " Till thou canst rail the seal from off my bond, Thou but offend'st thy lungs to speak so loudly." This sarcasm was delivered with an effect that, we believe, it is impossible to excel; indeed the whole' of the scene, as far as Shylock and Portia were concerned, was admirably sustained. Miss Huddart was infinitely more successful in Portia than she was on a subsequent night in Volumnia. • After the play of " Coriolanus," on Wednesday night, the opera of " Guy Mannering" was produced, for the purpose of introducing a corps of metropolitan - singers, consisting of Mr. and Mr. H. Bedford, lir. Frazer, Miss E. Romer, and Miss George, and truth compels us reluctantly to declare that they, are not persons of much " note or likelih'ood." We do not pretend to be skilled in the art and mystery of " casting a play," and therefore are unable to fathom the reasons why Slaiter, a good Yorkshireman, should have been thrust into the part of Gilbert Glossin, which he could make nothing of, and Baker, who, although an excellent comedian, should be put into that of Dardy Dimwit, a character totally out of his line.: MiSs Romer was the Lucy Bertram. In stead of making her appearance at the inn of Kippletringan, followed by the Dominic and her maid, with a mind 'subdued by the scene she is supposed to have just quitted at her late father's house, from which she has been expelled by Gios,in— . entered •alone, and, with one of her most fascinating smiles, sang a bravura! which the uneducated, simple-:Winded Lucy was not very likely to know a note of, and which, had she known it, it was impossible for her fusing in her then.state of mind. These violations of the unities of a piece we know are not uncommon; but we must protest against them as barbarous and unnatural. In this respect we may take a valuable lesson from the French stage, who never suffer the unities of times, places, or seasons to be invaded. As a Scotch actor, and par ticularly as the representative of the low life of the lowland part of that country, Mackay is the best, indeed, we believe the only actor on the stage that has ever attempted it successfully. A new class of dramatic • characters, founded upon the Cuddie Headriggs or Hobbie Elliotts of Scott, or from the Sketches of poor Galt, whose race, we fear, is run, would, if introduced, form an agreeable change from the worn-out race o f Yorkshire men and rishmen that have so long kept possession of the stage. • The " Heart of Mid Lothian" was got up on Wednesday night, and was followed by Weber's "Der,Freischutz." Of the latter we have only to say, that its horrors were in every respect perfectly horrible. PAGANINI'S SECOND CONCERT was more numerously attend ed on Wednesday night, at the Amphitheatre, than either of his former exhibitions here. The dress circle of boxes presented• the gayest appearance, we were going to add, that we have seen for the season, hut we believe we must qualify the expres sion by saying, that it equalled any that we have had the good fortune to witness, The singing of Misses Wells and Watson, although some of it was really very good, was not much attended to, the company, for the most part, in the true John Bull fashion, directing their whole attention to one only object, Paganini—" the observed of all observers;" and if any thing can justify this utter abstraction from all other considerations, and the prostration of the 'mind to the temporary adoration of one idol, the signor's feats maybe admitted as an excuse. In the upper . regions of the house, there was a great deal of up roarious applause that we could have wished, for the honour of good manners and decorum, had been reserved for the Amphi theatre in other day s . At th e c l ose o f eac h o f P aganin i s pieces, an encore was bellowed for by some persons who ought to have known better; the call was not attended to, except in one instance. This is "a custom more honoured in the breach than in the observance." Will the landlord give to his guests a second bottle because the first happens to be good? Truly, this practice of extorting more than we intend to pay for can hardly be called fair dealing. Ilowever, at the close of the " witches' dance," the signor obeyed the call, and reappeared on the stage with one of his most winning smiles, when, instead ofpermitting him to repeat the piece he was thus called upon to play, some musical asses braved out "- Patrick's Day in the Morning," and " Patrick's Day" was accordingly performed, in a rather careless manner. 13y this time, we suppose this illustrious musician has left us. We can only say, that what he has gleaned here, or may collectelsewhere, his extraordinary talents fully entitle him to. LOSS OF THE AMPHITRITE. The following is an official account of the loss of the Amphi trite:— • • Repel Hotel, Boulogne, 11 Sept., 1833. Stn,—ln obedience to the commands of my Lords Commissioner; of the Admiralty, I have made the most minute investigation rela ting to the melancholy wreck of. the Amphitrite ; and as various in jurious mis-statements have go ne f or th, I d eem it r i g ht t o inform their Lordships of my judgment in the case, without waiting the re sult of the inquiry I am making into the conduct of his fllajesty's consul, which will probably take some days. From the numerous vessels passing up and down channel, it ought to be expected that occasional, disasters should occur, and that, ,too, without misconduct being mputable—the present instance of the Amphitrite I consider to be one of this description. The. gale was most violent and unexpected at this season of the year, with a very .heavy sea, and the wind yeering round from the g.W. to. the N.\% placed the ship on the lee shore. The ship behaved very well—was well found, had a chronometer on board, made little or no water. The conduct of the master, more particularly when danger was dis covered, Was seamen -like, judicious, and decisive, and he was per fectly cool and collected throughout. When he saw it was impossible to avoid the land, he told the mate that they " must look out for the best berth, and run her up as high as possible." The helm was put up, 'the after-sail taken in, and the yards squared for 'that purpose as the ship grounded, after which the anchor was let go, and the chain cable shoved out with a view of lightening the ship forward, and sub sequently the shackle was taken out and the cable slipped, that the vessel might drive up as the tide rose, the•main topsails being kept up to assist her. Neither the master, the surgeon, or the crew had any fears for their safety, or apprehended their inevitable fate on the rise of the tide, for the pilots ueclare that no vessel, whatever her size Or strength, could possibly have been saved, and they made no signals. The greater part of the crew . wenthelosv In the evening; someto sup per, and others to the hammocks, and were there till the sea broke over them about nine o'clock, believing, as the ship made no water after striking heavily on first grounding, that she would float up and be left high and dry after high water. No - steps were taken to save the crew, by getting on shore, although they had the means for so doing within themselves by their own boats, and also it was proffered to them in this instance by some gallant French pilots and fishermen, . and it is evident there was a fair and reasonable hope that all hands might have been saved by either •of those means, from the time the ship struck at about half-past four till near seven in the evening. For this sad, this most deplorable error in judgment, they have paid the extreme penalty, and it is through this fatal error the lives of the crew, and the poor, wretched passengers have been sacrificed; for there is no reason to believe, from the evidence of the three surviv ing seamen, (all very intelligent men for their situations) that either th e.rnas t" or surgeon feared or thought about the escape of the poor convicts.. It was at one time ordered by the surgeon, to 'get the long boat out to land the convicts, but most unhappily this was prevented by the interference of his (the surgeon's) wile. This occurence was not known to the master. The conduct of the pilots, Huret and Ter tarde with: their boats' crew of eight volunteers, mostly masters of boats, and llenin who swam off to the ship, was beyond all praise, and they are highly deserving the favourable consideration of his Majesty's government. It was not known on shore or suspected that the ship had passengers on board; till their bodies had been washed up. I am, &c., (Signed) 11. D. MUDS, Captain. R.N. I give an extract respecting the fatal interference of the surgeon's Wife. Mr. John Owen, the boatswain, was the only witness that knew any thing of this occurrence. Extract from John Owen's deposition, taken Sept. 10. " The sur geon called me a ft and ordered us to hoist the boat out, his wife stand big by him. She said that she would not go in the boat with the con vas. The surgeon then said neither the boat nor any person should go on shore that night." Extract from evidence : You have stated in your deposition that the surgeon ordered the long boat to be hoisted out, but his wife refused to go in with the con victs? What was the wife's reason? I don't know what eLse it could be but pride. Did the surgeon appear to spew any fear of the escape of the eon victs?—No. He would have allowed the convicts to have gone on shore but for the interference of his wife. • To Hon. George Elliott, C. 8., fte. ftc. Sze. Secretary, Admiralty. BYRON ON SENTIMENT IN WOMEN.—" Does the cant of sen timent still continue in England ? (asked Byron.) Nothing sickens me so completely as women who affect sentiment in conversation. A woman without sentiment is not a woman ; but I have observed, that those who most display it in words bave least of the reality. Sentiment, like love and grief, should be reserved for privacy; and when 1 hear women allichant their sentimentality, I look upon it as an allegorical 'nude of declar ing their wish of finding an object on whom they could bestow its superfluity. lamof a jealous nature, (said Byron,) and should wish to call slumbering sentiment into life in the woman I love, instead of finding that I was chosen, from its excess and activity, rendering a partner in the firm indispensable. I should bate a woman (continued he) who could laugh at or ridicule sentiment, as I should, and do, women who h ave no t re li g i ous . feelings; and, much as I bigotry, I think it a thousand times more pardonable in a woman than irreligiou."—Lady Ble.sinyter, in the New Monthly Maynene for September. DaNCASTER RACES, (F;IONI OUR OWN Co R RESPON DENT.) This Annual Racing Carnival, which excites the most intenFe interest in the sporting circles throughout the United Kingdo,o, opened on Monday last, With a degree of brilliancy and spirit, apparently exceeding the splendid displays of former years.— Early on Sunday morning, until the hour of starting, the town exhibited the most animating and pleasing appearance, by the number of vehiclei of every description, from the carriage of the peer, to the donkey-cart of the costermouger, eagerly flocking to the inns, boarding-houses, and'other places of entertainment, - preparatory to repairing to the field of gaiety, splendour, and speculation. The inns, boarding and lodging-houses, were speedily thronged with noblemen and gentlemen, mid the stables and coach-honses were equally crammed. with their studs and equipages. Lodgings were let excessively high, a comfortable suite of rooms for the week could not be procured for less than £3O or £4O, and the inhabitants generally appeared very san guine of reaping an abundant harvest. Amongst the noblemen in private apartments in the town we noticed his Grace the Duke of Leeds, his Grace the Duke of Richmond, their graces the Duke and Duchess of Cleveland, the Earl of Wilton, Lord Grosvenor and party, the Earl of Chesterfield and very large party, Prince Esterliazy, the Russian Ambassador, Lord Adol phus Fitzclarence, and numerous other high and distinguished personages. There was not a great deal of betting on the races of to-day, but an extensive business was done upon the all-important and celebrated race for the St. Leger Stakes to-morrow. he bet ting-rooms, which are fitted up on a scale of princely magnifi cence, were this morning very throng with sportsmen and heavy speculators. Muley Moloch was backed at 2to 1, Mussulman, the second favourite, at 3 to 1, and the celebrated Belshazzar, against whose character so many unfounded rumours were pro pagated, came up to third favourite, displacing Rockingham, with every prospect of changing places with Muley Moloch. This improvement in Belshazzar produced much consternation amongst those who were induced, in consequence of the reports that he was amiss and would not start, to bet the long odds against him, and we observed several of the most active of his opponents from Lancashire, who had the advantage of the exclu sive tips, look very blue upon the subject. The Mole was also looking up, and was fancied at 8 to 1. The time of starting was two o'Clock, and the first race was punctual to the minute, as the regulations entered into were to fine every jockey who was not ready when the bell rung. Being the first day, the course was not crowded, but the grand stand appeared - quite full, and presented an elegant cortege of rank and fashion. The lower part was filled with splendidly dressed females; indeed, we do not recollect ever to have witnessed so much beauty, elegance, and fashion concentrated in one spit. In the fashion able group in the stand were the Dukes of Richmond, Leeds, Cleveland, the Earl of Chesterfield., the earl of Mexbrough, the Earl of Wilton, the Earl of Grosvenor, Lord Albert Co nyngham, the Earl of Donoughmore and Countess, Prince Ester hazy, Lord Althorp, Sir Charles Morgan ; Sir John Lister Kaye, Bart. and Lady, Sir It. W. and Lady Bulkele,y, Lord and Lady Rodney, Lord Kelburne, the Hon. E. G. Stanley, the Hon. Charles Grant, Col. Flay, Major Yarborough, Sir L. Glynn, Mr. Osbaldeston, &c. &c. The laws of the racing were, that no person should be allowed. to start any horse for plate,_ match, or sweep, who had not paid up all arrears to the clerk before ten in the morning; and any person having bought a horse with his engagements, the rule as to all engagements subsisting at the time of the purchase, and to be run for subse quently, shall be 'considered as extending to the purchaser, whether they were entered into by the vender or any other person. Every personwho should ride a race was to be weighed immediately after the same, and• be allowed 21bs. above the weight specified for his horse to carry, and no more,_ unless the weight 'he actually rode be declared as the weight he intended to ride; and if any horse run in a race carrying 21bs. above his weight, without such declaration, the horse should not be de clared the winner although he came in first. MoNnAv.--The sports of the day commenced with the contest for • The Fitzwilliam Stakes of 10 sovs. each, with 20 added by the corporation, two year olds 5 st. 10 lb., three 8 st. four 9st, five 9 st. 6 lbs., six and aged 10 st., five subscribers, two miles and a haft'. - u . Five started for this race, and the betting on the grand stand was even °a Colwick, 5 to 2 agst The Saddler, 5 to 1 agst the Elect() filly, 6 to 1 agst Tomboy, and 10 to 1 agst Mystery. The starters were Mr. Orde'; Tomboy by Jerry, out of Emancipation, (It. Johnson,) Mr. Barrow's b f by Whisker out of Alecto, (Lye,) Lord Chesterfield's br h Col wick, (W. Scott,) Mr. Osbaldeston's br h The Saddler, (J. Ro binson,) and Mr. Powlett's br f The Mystery. Tomboy was declared the winner after a smart contest which took place be tween him, Whisker, Colwick, and The Saddler. Iwo only were placed by the judge, but b f by Whisker was second, and Colwick third. The Match for £3OO between the two well-known horses, Pickpocket and Liverpool, which had excited considerable in terest, created much disappointment by PiCkpocket receiving forfeit, the Duke of Cleveland having paid:* The Champagne Stakes of 50 says. each, h. ft., for two year old colts, Bst. 51b.; fillies, Bst. 31b.; 29 subs.; the winner to give six dozen chlMpagne to the racing dal), Were won by Mr. Walker's b. f. Cotillon, by Partisan, (W. Scott,) 11 started, viz., the winner, Mr. Powlett's hr. c. by Figaro. (Wright;) Mr. lieddesdale's b. c. Valiant, by Veloc'- pede, (Wheatlev ; ) Mr. Heseltine's b. c. Warlaby taylock, (Heseltine ;) Maxwell's b. c. Runnymede, by Lottery, (J. Holmes;) Mr. Armitege's ch. c. by elocipede, (Garbutt;) Mr. Skipsey's br. c. Wyndham, (T. Nicholson;) Lord s Lan gford's br. f. Siunmerhill; (P. Connolly ;) Duke of Leed's-1). c. by Blacklock, (Templeman ;) Major Yarborough'sb. f. by Velo cipede, (Robinson;) and Lord Kelburne's hr. f. by Jerry, (G. Nelson.) The above was a very beautiful race. The start was from the Red House, rather better than half a mile ; after a good deal of manoeuvring, and four false starts, Valiant made the.running followed by hr. c. by Figaro and Cotillon; they kept up welftogether until within 8J yards of the winning ost, when Cotillon shot out, and won by about half a length; Pow lett's colt a good second, and Warlaby Baylock third; two only were placed. The betting was 11 to 8 agst Cotillon ; V i to 1 agst Warlaby Baylock; 5 to I. agst Valiant.; 51 to 1 agst_Wlyndhara; 7 to 1 agst Powlett's colt; and 8 tnl - agst Summerhill. The Four Year Old Produce Stakes of 100 soya. each, 11. ft., four miles, eight subscribers, Were won by Mr. Houldsworth's Trident, Whisker; (S. Darling,) beating Mr. Gascoyne's Tube-rose, by St. Patrick, (R. Johnson ;) 5 to 4 was bet upon Trident at starting, but when running 6 to 4 was laid on Tuberose.—Trident too - the lead, was never headed, and won easily. His Majesty's Plate of 100 sovi value, four miles, Was svonby Mr. Osbaldeston's Lady Elizabeth, 5 yrs, (Ro binson,) beating Mr. Houldsworth's li c David, (S. Darling,) and Mr. Mills' 1) h Butcher Boy, by Catton, five years, (Nel son). Butcher Boy took the lead, Lady Elizabeth lying second. On passin the stands the second time round they changed position; Lady Elizabeth pushin g first, seconded by Butchersoy. B oy. After a most excellent and spirited contest between her Ladyship and David, the former won by two lengths, Butcher Boy third. The betting was 6t04 on David, 2to 1 agst Lady Elizabeth, 4to 1 agst Butcher Boy. .• The Match for 50 sovs. each, h ft, between Mr. Eddison's b m Adelaide and Mr. Beardsworth's Tong, was walked oyes for by the former. The Match for 1000 sovs. between Lord Kelburne's Re tainer and Mr. Ridsdales's St. Giles did not tome off, Lord Kelburne having received forfeit. The betting upon the St. Leger to-day, on the course, has notdiffered much from the last quotations • 14iussulman is backed at 3 to 1, and Muley Moloch at 2 to 1. Immediately after the races the company departed for the town. The betting-rooms were brilliantly lighted with gas, issuing from four splendid glass chandeliers, and were thronged to excess. In the evening a grand ball was given at the Town Hall, where the gay visiters tripped it on the "light fantastic toe" until a late hour. It was numerously and fashionably at tended, and amongst the company we noticed the Earl and Countess of Donoughtnore, Sir John and Lady Kaye, and Miss Kaye, the Duke of Leeds and his fair daughter, Lady Charlotte Fox, Sir R. W. and Lady Bulkeley, Sir Chas. Morgan, Lurd and Lady Rodney, Lord Kelburne, Colonel and Air. Hay, . Major Fyffe, Captain Biggs, Captain Hartley, Captain Moore, Mr. Foljambe, Mr. Beresford, &c., &c. The theatre was also ()Pen, under the spirited management of Mr. Ws J. Hammond, and was honoured by a numerous attendance, the play was the. " Honey moon ," rind the entertainments following, " Cupid" and "Captain Stevens." The performances were very respectable. To enumerate all the amusements after the sports of the day would be impossible; there was plenty of card playing ; hazard, une deux =clue, rouleau, and other gambling houses opened by London sharpers in the town, but they did not appear to be much encouraged, although barkers stood at the door inviting customers. Every thing passed off very orderly and without accident, and we were glad to perceive that througfa-the excellent arrangements of the police, those 'pests of race grounds, the. thimble riggers„were non esi inventus. Ledbetter and Tims, the two Bow -street officers, were in attendance on the course, and succeeded in apprehending about forty thieves, and ten were committed for trial on Tuesday. TUESDAY.—This being the day on Which the contest for the :Great St. Leger is decided, the number of visitors from various parts of the kingdom was much greater than yesterday, and from four o'clock in the morning till two in the afternoon shoals of persons, in vehicles, on foot, and on horseback, continued to pour into the town. The betting-rooms boasted of an overfloas mg attendance. Belshazzar was a better favourite than .yester day, and was backed at 5 to 2, Muley Moloch remaining at 3 to Land in . . one instance the former was backed even for a thou sand agst the latter, and many were of opinion that Belshazzar would be first favourite before the sts_rt. I'he course at half-past 'two, presented a most brilliant and imposing appearance from the numerous well-dressed visitors, male and female, who at tended and covered an expansive view. The Grand Stand was crowded to excess, and the middle , ad lower part was adorned by a complete mob of beauty and fashion, amongst whom were many ladies of title. Ve also noticed the Duke and Duchess of Leeds,. the Dike of Cleveland, Prince Esterhazy, the Earl Fitzwilliam,_ Lords Milton, Althorp, &c. &c. The sports of the day commenced with .the race for the Two Year Old Produce Stakes of 100 sovs. each, h. ft., start at the Red House—nine Subscribers, two only started, viz., Mr.,Walker's Cotillon, (W. Scott) and the Duke of Leed's ch. c. Valparaiso, (Templeman). The betting was 3 tol on Cotillon, who won in a canter. The following race was foi'more important stakes, upon which such interest was excited and money speculated. THE GREAT ST.• LEGER. The Great St. Leger, of 50 sovs. each, h ft, for three year old colts u S t 61b, fillies startingst 3lb v , v 7 e s re si s i i h n s i c u r a ib r subscribers. The The odds up to the the betting a time h ' in the tovin; 3 to 1 was taken agst Dlnley, 4 to 1 agst Belshazzar, 7 to 1 agst Aiussulman, 8 to 1 agst Rockingham, 8 to 1 agst The Mole, 14 to 1 agst Revenge, 14 to 1 agst Jack Faucett. The utmost anxiety appeared to be m anifested for the result, hats were off upon the grand stand, all its visitors seemingly on the tiptoe of expectation to see how many would go; at length twenty ap peared on the course, and w e r e received with cheers, namely, Mules , Moloch (J. Day) , Belshazzar cr. Nicholson), Mussul man "(W. Scott), Rockingham (S. Darling), The Mole (E. Wright), Aune (J. Ilolnies), Connoisseur (11. Edwards), Tu tor (J. Robinson), Revenge (J. Chappl e ), -Forrester (W. Ar nall), Carnaby (J. Alarson ), br c by Lotter), (T. Robinson), The Dancing blaster (J. Johnson), b c Lot (S. TempOmah), Jack Faucett (J. Spring), Sister to Retainer (G. Nelson), Tesane (P. Connolly), Deceiver (Wheatley), b c by Figaro (W. Lea), and Glacus (I'. Lye). In the usual way they passed en masse the grand stand before starting, and after inspection the odds did not vary. They came all well up for aistart, and were just off when Henry Eawards, with that disagreeable ma nceuyring for which he is famous ' put them all wrong by start ing off at sco re . Th ey t urne d back, and after a few rotary movements made a most excellent start, the twenty being nearly abreast. Just at, the turn The Mole took the lead, for lowed closely by Belshazzar; all well up. In this situation they remained until near the winning-post, when Rockingham came out, challenged by The Mole, Belshazzar, and Mussulman—the whole posse together—and succeeded in winning, - cleverly by about half a length; Mussulman second, The Mole third, and Belshazzar fourth. The judge placed two, and it is a matter of dispute whether The Mole or Belshazzar was third. We should imagine, from the view we had of the race, that The Mole had it; but, however, there was very little in it. Muley Moloch was somewhere in the centre, but was' lost sight of after the start. Upon the whole the race was as well coutested.as any we ever saw for the St. Leger. NeYer did the horses keep better together, and the contest was the theme.of admiration with all who witnessed it. LOXDON LATEST NEWS. 11;- , lee.day - 1:::',71.8cg, Half-past Serin o'clock. There has been no arrival from Portugal iuce our last, and the. Consul market has slightly improved, 8g j being the quotation for the acc . ount thisafternnon. Exchequer Bills have improved, being at 48 to 50 premium. In our Foreign Bonds the :Northerri Secutities are on the advance, so far as regards Belgian and Dutch, the former_ of which are ,941:i 95 ; the latter 4S 49k. Portugues Scrip is 19-;-; 4 premium, and the Bonds 75 76. Spanish Stock attracts little notice ; the price is 22k. Brazilian Bonds are 68 1 ;, and in other Securities there is nothing to notice. We have late accounts from • Havannah, which state, that notwithstanding th e con f us i on an d consternation spread over the island during the last four or five months, the crop of coffee had bean uncommonly abundant. The exports from. the .lst.of January to the Ist of August had been 1,433,153 arrobes. A great part of the crop had been lost for want of hands, or no doubt was entertained that it would have exceeded any former•.wlars• The stock at Havannah was however exhausted, although a supply from the interior to the extent of 200,000 arrobes was expected. Ready purchasers were found at 9d. to 111 d. per quintal.. The exports ,of sugar during the year to the Ist of August, amounted to 191,834 boxes. Ex changeS had been at a very low standard throughout the season ; that on England was 6 to 7 per cent. premium, and on the United States 4 to 5 per cent. discount. We have.adv ices from the Cape de Verds which stated that the number of deaths by famine there had been much exaggerated, and that instead of 48,000 it did not exceed 18,000 in the whole island. The future hopes of the un fortunate inhabitanti depended upon the rains of August, without which their condition would be one of great misery. Accounts from Sumatra mention that that island was in a very unsettled state, and the Malays were daily becoming more treacherous, and several small parties of the Dutch had been cut off and massacred. The crop of coffee was a very good one; the government-intended to sell about 150,000 picals. We learn by the latest accounts from Campeachy that up to the 30th June 400 persons had died .of the cholera, and that at that date 120 to 140 were dying daily. CORONER'S INQUESTS. An inquisition was taken in the Fleet Prison, on Monday evening, before Mr. Payne and a highly respectable jury, on view of the body of Dr. Gordon Smith, aged 41, a gentleman well known to the medical world for his works on medical juris prudence, &c., who expired in the above prison on Sunday last, after an incarceration of 15 months. It appeased 'front the evidence adduced that the deceased, who was a man of ex cellent talents, was formerly a surgeon in the. 12th Lancers, who, it will be remembered, suffered so dreadfully . at the me morable battle of Waterloo, when Colonel Ponsonby, their leader, was most severely wounded; it was principally through the skill and unremitted attention which the deceased paid the gallant Colonel at this critical time that his life was saved. The deceased, after his return to England, was appointed librarian to the late Marquis of Stafford, in which situation he continued upwards of four years. He subsequently published his cele brated work on medical jurisprudence, and continued to lecture at the Medical Institution, Southampton-street, where he was listened to with great attention for several years. The office of coroner for the city becoming vacant on the decease of Mr. Shelton, the Doctor commenced an active, but unsuccessful, canvass for the situation, which was filled u by the appoint ment of Mr. Payne, the present coroner. The deceased, it appeared, was so much mortified by his defeat that he soon afterwards gave way to drinking and irregular habits, which. greatly impaired his constitution, involved him in pecuniary difficulties, and ultimately brought him to prison, where he gradually sunk and expired. He was attended during his ill ness by Dr. Harrison; of Holles-street, Cavendish-square, an old friend, who evinced the utmost kincin...ss for him to the last. The deceased was much esteemed by many members of this profession to which he belonged. Verdict,—" Died by the visi tation of God." INQUEST ON TILE MEN KILLED IN THE RED SOIL MINE.— The jury re-assembled on Wednesday before Mr. ➢fancier, the coroner, and after having examined a number of witnesses, adjourned to nine o'clock on the following morning. After deliberating the whole of the day, a verdict of " \Vidal mur der" was returned against 21) of the workmen of the Magpie mine, viz.:—S. Turner, Isaac Goodwin, Charles Harrison, John Bunting, Thomas Bagshaw, Abraham I)oxev, George Sutton, James Goodwin, Joseph Baker, Benjamin Marsden, Thomas Skidmore, 'William Stone. Abraham Bertisford, Richard Sutton, Daniel Harrison, Jonathan Rowland, George. Maltby, Robert Walker, George Slack, and Thomas Ashmore. Mr. William Whvatt, one of the proprietors, and Mr. John Green, agent of the said mine, were found guilty of being ac cessories before the fact. '1 hese two persons have absconded, and Newton, an active police-officer of Derby, has been de spatched in pursuit of them, but hitherto without success; 17 persons, charged with the perpetration of this most inhuman act, have, however, been safely lodged in the Derby county g aol to take their trial at the next assizes. Three ofthe2o men (Robert Walker, George Slack, and ThomasAshmore), against whom a verdict of " Wilful Murder" has been returned, are still at large, but, as their persons and circumstances are well known to the public, and as descriptions of them have been sent to the different ports at which they might be likely to em bark, in order to leave the kingdom, the probability is, that ere long they will also be in custody. In addition to his Grace of Devonshire's donation of £lOO, public subscriptions have been entered into for the purpose of alleviating the misert.and . We= reavement brought upon the families of the unfortunate suf ferers. Mr. W. Wliyatt and Mr. J. Green, who are implicated in this dreadful affair, are men of property and respectably con nected. It is understood to be their intention to remain in con cealment until the assizes, and then to surrender themselves to take their trial. —Derbyshire Courier. LONDON POLICE REPORT. MANSION-HOUSE. On Tuesday a young man, named Joseph have, was brought before the Lord Mayor, charged with having forged a c h ec k u pon the banking-house of Sir John Lubbock and Co., for the sum of £3-18, in the name of Mr. Thomas Dutton, an extremely infirm elderly gentleman, residing at No. 7, Clapton-terrace, Upper Clapton. - Mr. Bush, the solicitor to the committee of bankers, attended for the prosecutoin. The prisoner had no legal adviser. Mr. Bush said that Mr. Dutton, in consequence of his very great debility, required assistance in every transaction relating his property, and the prisoner having been in his employment had had frequent opportunities of observing the mode he adopted in reparing his checks for his banker, and sometimes, when the trend who generally filled up th e c h ec k s f or hi m to s i gn was absent, officiated in that way. A clerk in the banking-house of Sir John Lubbock and Co., stated that a person, who gave the name of Walker, presented a check at the counter on the 31st of August, for £3lB, of which the following was a copy : " Sir John Lubbock, Bart - Foster, Clarke, and Co , 11, Mansion-house-street. " London,_ August 30,1833. " Pay Mr. Walker, or bearer, £3lB. " Durrox, TriouAs." The amount was paid in a bank-note for £2OO, No. 3556 • a bank-note for £lOO, No. 4639; a bank-note for £-10. No. 16,969; and a bank-note for £5, NO. 2662; and £3 in money. Mr. George William Turner, of Bermondsey, stated that he was frequently in the habit of attending Mr. Dutton, and tilling up the checks to be signed by him. He knew that Joseph have had occasionally filled up checks for Mr. Dutton, and he be lieved the word Walker in the check produced was in the pri sone"r's writing Very few persons hail access to Mr. Dutton. The' signature to the check was exceedingly like Mr. Dutton's writing. The Lord Mayor.—Prisoner, you may ask any questions of the witness. The prisoner signified that he did not wish to put any ques tion: Mr. Thomas Dutton was then brought forward, and he was evidently in a miserable state of decrepitude. His spectacles were pliced upon his nose, a nd the check was held up to him. He said that he kept a cash account at the banking-house above mentioned, and the prisoner had lived with him. He looked well at the check, and said that he believed the signature was not his. .He did not know of any check for £3lB. The prisoner was remanded for another examination. reviewed the Ist Battalion of Grena dier in state from the. Castlo a u y ni t l i e 'e r t i . - 1 - re in c g ommand of Lieutenant-Colonel Brook. O n G N u l a o r i d i Monday hk til or e to K ur in of the Ist Regiment of Life Guard?' where the regiment had assembled. The • d • I• rk i'n a Field Marshal's uniform, and was ac companied in his carriage by the Dukes of Glcitteester and C u mberland. The Queens carriage preceded th a t o f hi s Ma jocf oies stvoaurcidctuerntato her dt o h t eQneeri, Princess Augusta and Duchess carriages beaded the pr o cession, in which were part of the royal visitors and suite. Prince George of Cambridge rode on horseback. • In the evening the King gave a splendid banquet in St. George's Hall, at which the whole of the officers of this regi ment were present, also those of the Ist Life Guards. The Duke of Cumberland dined with their Majesties, at Windsor Castle, on Monday evening. His Royal Highness re turned to his residence at Kew, and came to town Tuesday morning... .•The Duchess- of Cumberland visited the DUeliehd Dowager of Richmend on Saturdiiv. Her Royal Highness and Prince George of Cumber:and, accompanied by his pre ceptor, the Rev. Mr. Jell, visited the Princess Sophia oil Satur day, at her residence iu Kensington Palace. The Marquis .of Wellesley transacted business Tuesday, at the Treasury. • Lord Holland has left town on a tour, f o r some weekA, in Wales. • CONSUNFTION OF SPIKITS.—A return has been printed, by . quantity of spirits of differentorderof the kindsH o c u o s i e i s I m f e C d o i m n mtiolensd'itolefnt.hnet sections of the United Kingdom, with the duty yielded by cacti in the years 1831 and 1832. The consumption of all sons in gallons WAS, in 1831, in 357,450 gallons ;in Scotland, " 125, being a ucereaso on the England, 12 , 150 , 052, be ing a decrease on the year before of year before of 316,982 in Ireland, 8,740,139, being decrease on the year before o f 294.10 u gallonl s. he total ,de crease of consumption in the year 1631, as compared_ with 1830, is 968,533 gallons. In 1832, there was a further decrease or 775,83'2 gallons. Isiotwithstanaing this, however, the net amount of duty in 1832 exceeded that of 1831 ba: £161,830, being in the former Year £8, 413 , 552, and in the latter £8 '4l, 7' 2 T cause ofthe apparent anom al y is this, that the decrease of con sumption has been in the home made spirits, beari ng a d uty i n Scotland and Ireland of 3 s . 4d. 4j.? gallon, and in Engl an d o f 7 s . 6d. the difference of 3s. 2d. being ►imposedou the d r i n k ers o f E ng li s h distillation. Fo rei g n s p irits bearin g a dut y o f £ 1 2s. ,6d. p er o gallon have had au increased consumption, and hence the rise law s pr , i t a s n not account engaging of, andso much i n as the Scotch an d I r i s h in illi c it reward of, their o b e di ence to t h e of the revenue, in spite of the decrease in the total consumption of spirits. The fatting off in the consumption of home made spirits cannot.be taken as an indication of increased poverty in the lower classes. We trace the falling off to the operation of the T e mperance Societies iii Scotland. In that country, home made spirits have generally formed the staple commix-10 ton. In. 1831, the quantity of home made spirits consumed in Scotland was 5,700,689 gallons, whilst that of foreign spirits. was only 39,744 gallons, and of colonial spirits 125,702"ga110n5. •Last year, however, while the foreign ruse to u 9,236 gallons, and the colonial only sank to 112,020 gallons; the consumption of home made,spirits fell to 4,861,515 being a decrease, as compared with the preceding veal, of 839,174 gallons. If this be the result of the Scotch Temperance Societies, the Chancellor of the .Exche quer will very shortly have to find some remedy against the in ' creasing sobriety of the people ; and so much the better.