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LIVERPOOL, INFIRMARY AND ASYLUM. tT a GENERAL MEETING of the TRUSTEES holden on the 30th day of August, 1833, SAMUEL HOPE, Esq., in the Chair, The following "Report on the Case of Dr. Baird. adopted at a Special Meeting of the Medical Committee of the Manchester Royal Infirmary, on the 10th of August, 1833," having been read, viz., "We, the undersigned Physicians and Surgeons of the Man chester Royal Infirmary, having carefully and maturely con sidered the several documents transmitted to us by the -Corn mittee of the Liverpool Infirmary, relative t the conduct of Dr. Baird, in making a private examination of he female S. P. V., and likewise those forwarded by Dr. Bai , in explanation of the circumstances which led him to ma such examination, are unanimously agreed, " That, owing to the conflicting n ure of the medical evi dence, it is impossible to arrive at any satisfactory conclusion, as to the question, whether au examination of such a particular nature was or was not essential to the perfect understanding of the disease of S. P. V. But, we are also satisfied, from an ex amination of the affidavits of the young woman and her parents, sworn before T. C: Porter, Esq., and in the absence of all evi dence of impure or sensual motives, that no imputation rests upon the moral character of Dr. Baird, for his conduct on this occasion. (Signed.) " EDMD. LYON, M.D., " JAMES LOMAX BARDSLEY, M.D., " J. DEVENPORT HULME, " J. A. RANSOME, " RICHARD TIIORPE, " WILLIAM JAMES WILSON, " THOMAS TURNER." It was moved by Richard Radcliffe, Esq., seconded by Wm. Browne, Esq., and unanimously Resolved,—That, as the Medical Board of the Manchester Royal Infirmary are unanimously of opinion that.no imputation rests upon the moral character of Dr. Baird for his conduct on this occasion, it is the opinion of this Meeting that no further proceedings are necessary. It was moved by Edward Gibbon, Esq., seconded by the Rev. R. H. Formby, £M., and Resolved,—That the Chairman be requested to communicate the thanks of this Meeting to the Medical Committee of the Manchester Royal Infirmary for their kindness in undertaking the investigation of the subject referred to them by the Trus tees of this Institution. It was moved by E. G. Deane, Esq., seconded by M. D. Lowndes, Esq., and Resulved,—That the Report of the Medical Committee of the Manchester Royal Infirmary and the Resolutions of this Meet ing be published once in each of the Liverpool Papers. (Signed) SAMUEL HOPE, Chairman. It was moved by Edmund Molyneux, Esq., seconded by Richard Radcliffe, Esq. and Resolved,—That the thanks of this Meeting be presented to Samuel Hope, Esq., for his impartial conduct in the Chair. WHIG JOBBING. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STAND.IRD. Sin.—Although it is my fortune to be one of those, in the matter of politics, whom you, as a champion of conservatism, must hold in great aversion and reproach ; although I am, I trust, a thorough Radical, yet do I sometimes concur with you in your views of Men and measures, and find much satisfaction in doing so. Perhaps my reasons, as a Radical, for preferring your party to that of the Whig liberals, or liberal Whigs, might not, on some future occasion, he unacceptable to you. I have determined, in justice to myself and to those whom I deem true Radicals, to draw them up somewhat succinctly. A statement of that kind is in my opinion much wanted, for the twofold pur pose of showing Whigs that it is not,, as they always affect, our undue violence that separates us from them ; to strip them of the pretence that they are a more judicious and more moderate party than we are; of the pretence that they also are reformers, standing, as they would have the world believe, between us graceless, outrageous, destructive, revolutionary dogs, and Jou Tory conservatives, whom. the modest creatures, with equal truth, describe as the sole patrons and incorrigible adherents of political corruption and tyranny. But of all these things here after. At this time I have another object in addressing myself to you. In your paper of today (August 30) you speak of the jobbing of the present ministry; and, having very briefly adverted to that of Sir John Key, you come to that of " our respected townsman," as the Mercury would say, Mr. John Wood. That it is A JOB I have no doubt; that Mr. Mitford, in the prime of life, has been laid aside with a thumping pension in order to make room for Mr. John Wood as a devourer of taxes, I am not inclined to dispute ; but, happening to know something of the matter, I venture to submit to you other reasons than those to which you have ascribed the transformation of my old re forming acquaintance into President of the Board of Taxes. Your idea, Mr. Editor, is, it seems, that the appointment of John Wood to a lucrative place is in return for the transfer of certain electioneering interest in the borough of Preston to a young member of the Stanley family. How flattered and how pleased must Mr. Wood and his little circle be with your inis take! And the JOB of his appointment, if it had no worse origin than this, would not have been worth my attention. How Mr. Wood first got elected for Preston, and it was quite a touch-and-go affair, decided by the happy concurrence of several little accidents; and how he got re-elected again and again, although a thing to laugh at in an idle gossipping mo ment; how all these things happened, is not worth committing to paper, and I shall not therefore trouble you with them. But as for his interest in Preston, that is to say, his electioneering influence, it never was anything beyond the narrow sect of which he is a member, and their immediate dependants. And the people of Preston would laugh at the idea of-John Wood being patron of the borough, and especially laugh at the idea of his patronising a member of the Startles , family, the little finger of any one of whom is of more weight there than are the loins of John Wood and those of his whole coterie to boot. No, sir, John was worn out at Preston, and the public utter ance of his name there, at the last election, would have seriously damaged the cause of any candidate. It is to something else, as I am satisfied, something much more profligate in itself, and much more injurious to the country, that he owes the accom plishment of His JOB. You know how naturally the members of a sect cling to each other; and you know that their adhe rence is tenacious in the inverse proportion of their numbers. All this is not only very natural, but highly commendable, pro vided that due care be taken that the community at large do not suffer thereby. Now this, I take it, is the clue to Mr. Wood's appointment. However small as a lawyer and a states man, Mr. Wood, through the bustle and activity of certain very close connexions of his, joined to a pretty competency in those means which no people in the world know better how to esti mate than-do the brathren.of his tribe : however small else where, Mr. Wood was of some importance in his circle, even before his becoming a member of Parliament. That elevation, which in such a circle must always be regarded as a sort of era in its history, an additional emblazoning of its 'scutcheon, tended -very greatly to raise him on high amongst them; and the reverence of his fellow-worshippers was not diminished by the share he had an opportunity of taking in the late modifica tion of the Test Act, nor by his occasional petty tiltings at the Established Church; nor were they scandalised, nor their in terests and respectability endangered, by any downright radical assaults on any of " the establishments and institutions of the country," . as you Conservatives call all those things by which we are plundered and enslaved. In short, John behaved him self as a good and thriving member ought to do; and having so served them, and being, as I said before, worn out at Preston, his brethren in the house, of whom there are, you will recollect, Sex eral from this neighbourhood, have all joined in recommend ing him to the ministry, who, influenced doubtless by their well known liberality, by congenial kindness, and by the me mory of the little aids he had rendered them whilst lie had the seat, the ministry did the ma, and thus handsomely provided for " our respected townsman." This, Mr. - Editor, is my theory as to this JOB. Of course neither the ministry nor the brethren have made their confes sions to me, graceless Radical that lam ! I know all that I have said as to the "interest" of John Wood in Preston. But the considerations by which these ministers have been induced to quarter him on us at the rate of fifteen hundred a year, they must be with me matters of inference : it is by putting things together that I come to the conclusion; and a sound mode of reasoning you know it is, Mr. Editor, iu politics as well as in mathematics. • • And, bow many of the brethren are there on the commissions, Mr. Editor? Ah ! the commissions ; that other batch of jobs. And how are they to be paid for? Why, by votes, to be sure. The brethren in the house recommend suitable persons to suit able jobs, to be sure, and the ministry kindly concur in the recommendation, expecting only, as " one good turn deserves another," that when they want their thousands and their mil lions voted, the brethren will not be unmindful of their concur rence. Heigh, ho ! Mr. Editor, thus it is that the political world goes; every hundred that John and such worthies get costs us at least a score of thousands. You know that it was so before this Whig reform, and when your frienas were in power; only without the palaver and cant that we now have, and without the terribly unhinging measures by which this shallow set of minis ters, and their most profligate house, are now uprooting every thing that is valuable. When will you Conservatives, those of you who have and who seek no corrupt interest, when will you consent "to stay the plague ?' It is to be done by calling in at least all tax payers fur voters, and by giving us another election. Then may you hold your estates in peace and security ; but not till then.—Yours, &c. TII OS. SMITH. Gloucester-place, Aug. 30, 1533. -Varliaintnt. HOUSE OF LORDS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 29. His Majesty having signified his intention to prorogue the Parliament in person, the usual preparations were made suit able to an occasion of so great a matter of state ceremony. lii the course of the forenoon vast numbers of persons began to congregate on the line of _the royal procession, from St. James's-palace to the House of Lords. A great number of police were stationed on the same line to preserve order and regularity, under the superintendance of Comuiissioners Rowan and Mayne. Sir Frederick A. Rowe, chief magistrate of Bow street, was also on duty ; and in the immediate vicinity of the entrance to the Houses of Lords and Commons, Mr. Lee, the high constable of Westminster, had stationed a strong party of the local constabulary of the city of Westminster, to prevent interruption to the members in their progress to those houses. About one o'clock a detachment of the Royal Horse Guards (Blue) was stationed along the line of approach, and at the same time a detachment of the Royal Horse Guards (Ist regiment), dismounted, arrived, and lined the passages leading from the royal entrance at the House of Lords to the Painted Chamber. 11osepissagesand the Painted Chamber contained a great number of ladies. The arrangements in this part of the house were so well ordered—the doors being thrown open at an early hour—that the inconvenient crowding sound the entrance, which had occasioned much inconvenience on former occasions, was wholly avoided. Nothing could be more orderly . than the whole of the internal regulations on the present occasion. In the body of the house, arrangements had been made for the admission of the usual number of Peeresses and ladies en titled to admission on Peers' orders (orders given in this in stance by the Lord Great Chamberlain), but the number of Peeresses in attendance was much smaller than usual, owing, no doubt, to the late period to which the session was protracted. There was, however, a very splendid display, if not of rank, at least of beauty,—no bad substitute for mere rank, where display must contribute so much to the interest of the scene. When the time for the arrival of the Royal procession had nearly come, it was found that the seats within the House of Peers, intended for the ladies, were not so fully occupied as was ex pected. The officers to whom the arrangements in this respect were assigned took immediate steps for supplying the defect, and with that urbanity and disposition to accommodate the pub lic which distinguish them, and, we may add, which distinguish all the officers in every department of the House of Lords more than any other portion of the public service with which we arc acquainted, they came to the Painted Chamber and invited a sufficient number of ladies into the house to occupy the seats thus left at their disposal. _ By the time at which his Majesty arrived the whole of the seats in every part of the house assigned to strangers were oc cupied. Most of the Judges took their seats on the woolsacks near that of the Chancellor. The Foreign Ambassadors occupied seats, partly on, and in part above, the Bishops' benches. The LORD CHANCELLOR entered the house a short time be- fore one o'clock, and (after prayers by the Bishop of Hereford gave judgment in an appeal . case. The house then adjourned for a short time, and ou being resumed, some bills which had come from the Commons, and some which had remained over, were read a third time and passed. His Majesty entered:the house a few minutes after two o'clock, when a message was sent desiring the attendance of the House of Commons; soon after which the SPEAKER, ac companied by a considerable number of members, attended at the bar. The SPEAKER, in presenting the Appropriation Bill (the sup plies of the session,) and praying his Majesty's assent thereto, delivered the speech usual on such occasions, taking notice of the prominent acts of the session. His MAJESTY then addressed both houses as follows : "MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN, "In opening the present Parliament I stated, that never, at any time, had subjects of greater interest and magnitude called for your attention. " The manner in which you have discharged the duties thus committed to you, now demands my warmest regard, and ena bles me to close a session, not more remarkable for its extended duration than for the patience and persevering industry which you have employed in many laborious inquiries, and in perfect ing the various legislative measures which have been brought under your consideration. " I continue to receive from my Allies, and from all Foreign Sovereigns, assurances of their friendly disposition . " I regret that I cannot yet announce to you the conclusion of a definitive arrangemeet between Holland and Belgium ; but the convention, in conjunction with the King of the French, I concluded, in May last, with the King of the Netherlands, prevents a renewal of hostilities in the Low Countries, and thus affords a fresh security for the general continuance of peace. " Events which have lately taken place in Portugal have induced me to renew my diplomatic relations with that king dom, and I have accredited a Minister to the Court of her Most Faithful Majesty Donna Maria. " You may rest assured I look with great anxiety to the mo ment when the Portuguese Monarchy, so long united with this country by the ties of alliance, and by the closest bonds of in- terest, may be restored to a state of peace, and may regain its former prosperity. _ . . " The hostilities which had disturbed the peace of Turkey have terminated, and you may be assured that my attention will be carefully directed to any event which may affect the present or the future independency of that empire. `_Your investigation, carefully prosecuted during the last session, has enabled you to renew the Charter of the Bank of England, on terms which appear to be well calculated to sustain public credit, and to secure the usefulness of that important es tablishment. " The laborious inquiries carried on by committees of both Houses of Parliament, for several successive sessions, have also enabled you to bring the affairs of the East India Company to a satisfactory adjustment. I have the most confident expectation that the system of government thus established will prove to have been wisely formed for the improvement and happiness of the natives of India, and by the opening of the China trade a new field has been afforded for the activity and the enterprise of British commerce. " The state of slavery in my Colonial Possessions has neces sarily occupied a portion of your time and attention commen surate'with the magnitude and the difficulty of the subject. Whilst your deliberations have been guided by the paramount consideration of justice and humanity, the interests of the Co lonial Proprietors have not been overlooked. I trust that the uture proceedings of the Colonial Legislatures, and the con duct of all classes in my colonies, may be such as to give full effect to the benevolent intentions of the Legislature, and to satisfy the just expectations of my people. " I observe with satisfaction that the amendment of the law has continued to occupy your attention, and that several im portant measures have been adopted, by some of which the title to property has been rendered more secure, and the con veyance of it more easy; while by others the proceedings in courts both of law and equity, have been made more expeditious and less cost's. The establishment of the Court of Privy Council is ano ther improvement, which, while it materially assists suitors at home, will, I trust, afford substantial relief to those in my Colonial possessions. " You may rest assured that there is no part of your labouis which I regard with a deeper interest than that which does, by well-considered amendments of the law, make justice easily accessible to all my subjects. With this view I have caused a Commission to be issued for digesting in one body the enact ments of Criminal Law, and enquiring how far and by what means the Criminal Process may be assimilated to the other branch of our jurisprudence. "I have also directed commissions to be issued for inves gating the state of the municipal corporations throughout the united kingdom. The result of their inquiries will enable you to procure those means which may seem best fitted to place the internal government of corporate cities and towns on a solid foundation, in respect of their finances, their government, and their police. In the meantime, two important acts have been passsed for giving constitutions, upon sound principles, to the royal and parliamentary burghs of Scotland, and your attention will het After be called to the expediency of extending similar advantages to the unincorporated towns in England which have now acquired the right of returning members to Parliament. " It was with the greatest pain that I felt myself compelled to call upon you for additional powers to control and ,punish the disturbers of the public peace in Ireland. This call was an-' swered, as I confidently anticipated, by your, loyalty and firm ness. I have not found it necessary, except in a very limited degree, to use the powers thus confided to me, and I have now the satisfaction of informing you that the spirit of insubordina tion and violence which had prevailed to so alarming an extent, has i❑ a great measure subsided. I• look forward with anxiety to the time when the painful necessity of continuing those mea sures of great but unavoidable severity shall cease; and I have given my assent, with unqualified 3atisfaction, to the various sit. lutary and remedial measures which, during the course of the present session, have been proposed to me for my acceptance. The act which, in pursuance of my recommendation, you passed with respect to the temporalities of that branch of the United Church which is established inilreland, and for the immediate and total abolition of vestry assessments, and the act for the better regulation of juries, both as to their civil and criminal functions, affords the best proof that full reliance may be placed on the Parliament of the United Kingdom for the introduction of such beneficial improvements as may ensure the welfare of all classes of my subjects, and thus effectually cement that legislative union, which, with your support, it is my determina tion to maintain inviolate. " GENTLEMEN OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, "-I thank you for the supplies which you have granted for the services of the year. The estimates proposed to you by my direction were considerabiy lower than those of the former ses sions, and you have wisely applied the reduction which has thus been effected to the diminution of the public burdens. In the course of judicious economy, combined with a due regard to the exigencies of the state, I am persuaded that you will persevere, and thus confirm the title which you have acquired to general confidence, as the faithful guardians of the honour of the Crown, and the true interests of the people. " MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN, " In returning to your respective homes you will carry with you the gratifying reflection, that your labours have been sedu lously emploveilor the benefit of your country. "During the recess, your attention will be equally directed to the same important object, and in this useful and honourable discharge both of your public and private duties, under the bles sing of divine providence, I confidently rely for the encourage ment and support of my people in that love of liberty, and in THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. that spirit of industry and obedience to the law, and that moral worth which constitutes the safety and happiness of nations." His Majesty having concluded his speech, The LORD CHANCELLOR said, it is his Majesty's royal will and pleasure that this present Parliament be now prorogued, and this Parliament is accordingly prorogued until Wednes day, the 3ist day of October next. His Majesty then left the House in the same state as he en tered. HOUSE OF COMMONS, THURSDAY, AUG. 29., The Speaker, habited in his full robes, entered the house a few minutes before two o'clock. On the gallery being opened, we found Sir It. INGLIS addressing the house, on bringing up the 41st report of the committee on public petitions. The hon. baronet took that opportunity of calling the attention of the house to the duration of its sittings during the present session, and those of preceding sessions of parliament' It appeared from a state ment, which had been prepared with great care, that the house, during the present session, tad sat more than twice the number of days and nearly three times the number of hours that were occupied in the session of 1826, during which the house sat 64 days, or 457 hours. Even the great reform session of 1831 sat only 98 days, or 9LB hours; while in the present session the house had, up to yesterday, sat 142 days, or 1,270 hours. (Hear, hear.) The session of NA it appeared, had occupied 125 days, or 645 hours, giving an average proportion of 5 hours each day; the session of 1807, 86 days, or 431 hours, giving also an average proportion of 5 hours each day. In 1811 the parliament sat 135 days, or 588 hours, which gave an average of only 4-1 hours each day; and in 1814 the sittings occupied 127 days, or 476 hours, which was not 4 hours each day. It was a cruel - mockery to compare factory labour with the labour of the house, for from these statements it would be seen that, during the whole session, the house had been occupied 9 hours a-day on an averag, and for the much larger portion of the session, namely, since Easter, very considerably more than 12 hours a-day. (Hear.) He begged to observe that these facts had not been collected by himself, but by one of the most able and intelligent officers of the house, whose presence prevented him (Sir H. Inglis) from saying more. The hon. baronet concluded by moving that the report be printed. Mr. COBBETT inquired from the Solicitor-General whether the men who had been illegally tried at Clerkenwell, and who were now at Portsmouth, under sentence of transportation, were to be tried again before the sentence was carried into effect. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL was not in possession of any recent information on the subject. Those individuals who had been iu the same way convicted at the Old Bailey had all been tried again under the special commission, and with respect to those who'had been tried at Clerkenwell, he (the Solicitor-General) had applied to. the Secretary of State for the Home } Depart ment, and had been informed that none had been transported, awl that the sentence would not be carried into effect. Mr. COBBETT said that he understood the men were now at Portsmouth, on board the hulk. The report was then ordered to be printed. WARWICK ELECTION. Colonel EVANS rose and said, that even at this late period he felt it his duty to submit a resolution to the house on - the sub ject of the alleged conduct of the Earl of Warwick at the last election. The noble earl was now returned, and had made a statement upon the subject in another place. It was certainly matter' of astonishment to a great portion of the country that the noble lord opposite (Lord Althorp) should not yesterday have stated what course the government intended to pursue on the subject. In consequence of the answer given by the noble lord yesterday, he thought it was due to the dignity of the house, and to the rights and privileges of the Commons at large, that it should be stated what was to be done in the matter. With out impeaching the conduct of the noble peer alluded to in the report of the select committee, but with an earnest hope that that noble personage might be able to make good the statement he had put forth in another place, he (Colonel Evans) should move the following resolution :—" That it appearing by the re port of the select committee appointed to make inquiry into the circumstances of the late election for the borough of Warwick, that the right hon. the Earl of 'Warwick, lord-lieutenant of the county, and a peer of the realm, in violation of the resolutions and standing orders of this house, and of the law of the land, is deeply implicated by his agents, and the application of large sums of money in various corrupt and illegal practices during the last election for the borough of Warwick, and that Alexan der Brown, the steward, and various aldermen and burgesses of the borough were implicated in various illegal practices, the Attorney-General be directed to prosecute the Earl of Warwick, and all others named or described in the report of the said se lect committee, as concerned in the unlawful proceedings afore said." Mr. CORBETT seconded the resolution. Lord ALTHORP had certainly not expected that any motion such as the present would be brought forward on the last day of the session (hear), and more particularly that it should be done without notice, and in the face of- a notice now on the votes for the next'session, when the charge which had been made against the noble earl could be fully investigated. The hon. member by his, motion called upon the house to direct a prosecution without affording it an opportunity of investigating• the merits of the case. (Hear, hear.) It was observed by tie hon. and gallant member that his (Lord Althorp's) answer had caused ff r eat astonishment amongst a great portion of the country. & . ow, as that, answer was but given yesterday, though it might be known in the metropolis and in the city of Westminster, yet it scarcely could be known, if read at all, by the great por tion of the country. It was not the wish of the government to protect any person guilty of a violation of the rights and privi leges of the house; on the contrary, the government was deter mined, whenever a case was, brought before them, to examine it_ carefully, and would be perfectly ready to deal with it next ses sion. The hon. gentleman now asked the house to give judg ment upon a' case not heard, and to direct a prosecution totally unprecedented, without any means of discussing the case. (Hear, hear.) He objected to the motion for want of notice, and for want of information on which to act; in point of form, too, it was irregular, for the proper mode would be to• move an address to the Crown, to - direct such a prosecution, but, at the present moment he (Lord Althorp) conceived the best course he could pursue was to move the previous question. (Hear, hear.) Mr. CORBETT observed, that though there was information contained in the report quite sufficient now to proceed upon, yet he felt great satisfaction iu hearing what had just fallen from the noble lord opposite, whom he believed to he sincere in his declaration to do justice to the dignity of the house: Sir S. WHALLEY hoped the hon. and gallant member for Westminster would rest content with the declaration of the government, and not persevere in his motion at this period of the session. . - - Mr. C. FEnGusoN said that if the facts disclosed before the committee could be made out, it would be the duty of the govern ment to take the subject into its consideration. The high rank of the noble earl was an additional reason why, if guilty, an example should be made. Sir R. INGuts said that if the allegations contained in the re port could be made out, the noble earl was even now liable to indictment. • The hon. baronet was understood to oppose the motion. Colonel EvAics again rose, but was called to order by the Speaker, in consequence of the appearance of the Gentleman Usher of the Black - Rod (Sir Augustus Clifford,) who ap proached the table, and in the usual terms summoned the atten dance of the house to the House of Peers, to hear his Majesty's speech on the prorogation of Parliament. The SPEAKER accordingly, attended by all the members pre sent, then proceeded to the House of Lords. - After an absence of about half an hour, The SPEAKER returned, and, standing at the table, read to the house the speech which had been delivered from the throne, for which see the lords report. The SPEAKER, after shaking hands with Lord Althorp, Sir James Graham, and other members of the government, then retired, and the members separated. DREADFUL FIRE-FIVE PERSONS BURNED TO DEATH. On Wednesday night last, about half-past eleven o'clock, a most alarming and destructive fire broke out in the house of Mr. Josephs, hatter and general salesman, living at No. 19, Monmouth-street, Seven Dials, which burned with such fierce ness and rapidity, that the safety of the surrounding neighbour. hood was for a long time in imminent danger, and we regret to state the melancholy fact that the lives of five persons fell a sacrifice to the devouring clement, and that three others are missing, who, it is much feared, have shared a similar fate. The following account we have gleaned from the neighbours and others who witnessed this lamentable occurrence : At about half-past eleven o'clock on Wednesday night Mr. Spencer, bricklayer and plasterer, residing at No. 73, Monmouth-street, was just retiring to bed, and was in the act of fastening his win dow, when his notice was suddenly attracted by a dense smoke issuing from the front of Mr. Josephs' shop. He directly crossed over, and on examining the premises found the shutters so heated that he could not bear to hold his hand to them. Feeling convinced that the hous.l was on fire, he ,nave an alarm, and a number of persons having quickly asseMbled, they suc ceeded in forcing down one of the shutters, but the moment the rush of fresh air was admitted, the whole of the internal part of the shop burst into one body of fire, and blazed forth with such violence that the flames reached half across the street. Every effort was made to arouse the inmates; but the progress of the devouring elenfent was so rapid.. that iu less than five minutes from the commencement it had reached the first floor, and was2quiekly . extending itself to the upper stories. in a few seconds after this a female in her night clothes, with an infant. in her arms, made her appearance at one of the second-floor windows. She threW up the sash, uttering the most piercing shrieks for assistance, at the same time holding her child out at arm's-length to save it from the heat, and calling to the per sons in the street to rescue her. On perceiving the wretched parent thus imploring protection for her offspring the crowd below stood horror struck, and no endeavour was made at the m oment to procure a ladder or other convenience to assist her escape from so perilous and appalling a situation, The dense cloud of smoke which shortly afterwards arose from the lower part of the premises obliged her to retire from the window, and i n less than a minute after the whole apartment was filled with flame, and the unfortunate woman was seen by the neighbours opposite struggling with her babe in her arms, until she sank on the floor, apparently in the greatest agony, which a most horrible death in a few seconds terminated. The most painful I a nxiety was then felt as to the fate of the other inmates, as the whole of the house was let out to lodgers, two or three families occupying every floor, and there being' no means of escape but from the top of the house. The Phoenix engine speedily ar rived, and was quickly followed by several others belonging to the London Fire Company; but, owing to some mismanage ment, either respecting the water or some other cause, the roof of the house was in flames before they could bring any one of the engines to play upon it. The efforts of the firemen were then directed to prevent the adjoining houses catching fire, which they, with very great exertion, succeeded in doing, and in about an hour the tire was sufficiently got under to prevent any further mischief occurring. A large body of police congre gated on the spot on the first alarm, and rendered very effectual aid by co-operating with the firemen, and keeping off the crowd. A scene of a truly heart-rending description was witnessed amongst the lodgers, some of whom having missed a child, or other relative, were to be seen running about the streets half frantic, making anxious inquiries of every one they met, while others were only restrained by force from again entering the burning premises in search of those who were absent, although their death by so doing was inevitable. At present the exact number of those who have perished has not been ascertained; but, yesterday morning, about nine o'clock, five bodies were dug . out of the ruins, so dreadfully disfigured, that scarcely any vestige of a human being remained distinguishable about them. They were conveyed to St. Giles's workhouse, and have since been identified as those of a family occupying the front room on the second floor, consisting of a man named Collins and his wife, who sold fruit in the street, (the same female who was seen at the window, and who had only lain in thirteen days,) her infant, and her husband's brother, a very fine young man ; the fifth is that of a female who occupied the back room on the se cond floor. Three other persons are now missing, and there is no doubt but they • have met with a similar fate. Various ru mours are afloat respecting the manner in which the fire ori ginated, but it is generally supposed to have been caused by the gas having been negligently attended to.—London Paper. CONTEMPORARY PRESS. Lord Palmerston has done wonders; he has acknow ledged the Brazilian Princess, and sent her an ambassa dor—a Russell too. But the order of things seems to be rathe'r inverted, for, instead of sending an ambassador to the Queen, we are waiting for a favourable opportunity to send the Queen to the ambassador. What incalculable weakness has Lord Palmerston ex hibited in the whole of this affitir—we say Lord Palmer ston, because the present Government is a Government of departments; every man is independent at the head of his own office; every man for himself, and Old Nick for them all ; and, accordingly, the flippant viscount has been suffered to carry a dandy project of his own into effect, not at the risk—but with the certainty—of a Peninsular war, in which, by the precipitancy of his movements in recog nising the Brazilian pretender, England must, if she have any regard for her national character, necessarily en- gage. How a man with Lord Palmerston's opportunities could' have been so ignorant of Don Pedro's character as to sup pose that he—kicked off of his constitutional throne— would, with that of Portugal in his posgession, give it up in favour of his daughter, we do not comprehend; but even if his ex-Majesty should be frightened into this course, and by the aid of English neutrality the poor girl should be foisted upon the Portuguese nation for a mo ment, how long will that order of things last? We will tell Lord Palmerston—exactly as long as the constitution in Mr. Canning's time lasted—that is to say, so long as English troops, and English ships, and English marines remain to enforce her sway and support her dominion. Don Pedro is hated by the Portuguese-Lnaturally enough, for he went out of his way to. denounce his coun try and denationalize himself—he spurned his country men, and gloried in becoming a Brazilian, which he is, by every law that nations recognise ;—so is his daughter. The Portuguese people will neither forgive nor forget the insult offered to them by this charter-making charla tan ; and the fact of a Brazilian princess being his child, is of itself enough to support and strengthen the party of the lawful King. That Don Miguel is the lawful King we know ; but we did not know, until the Times one day last week favoured us with the informatiOn, that ministers (whose organ it is) were equally satisfied with the right, of Don Miguel to the throne, and made that the ground for liberally oppos ing hiM. The Times of Tuesday says(in its private cor respondence), " The partizans of legitimacy pretend that Don Miguel is supported by a 'formidable force.'! This is curious; the only ground upon which our Government could hope to stand in the discussion of this question is its belief in the right of Donna Maria. Now if we, who maintain that she has no right at all, and, therefore, above all other reasons maintain the right of Don Miguel, are denounced as the partizans of legitimacy, it is clear that our opponents in the cause admit that Don Miguel is,.the legitimate monarch. What we have always said we still maintain—that Don Miguel is the king de jure. That he has been King de facto through several years of trying circumstances, is most true ; and most true is it, that without the infam ous interference of the Foreign ()knee in a case *here the King of England himself stood pledged to perfect neutrality, Don Miguel would have remained King of Portugal. For who are the people who have driven him from his throne and capital ? The Portuguese, his own subjects ?—No. The Brazilian people exiled his worthy brother, Don Pedro, and have thus entailed him upon Portugal ; but Don Miguel has been defeated by French robbery and English meanness ; an army of hired mer cenaries have deprived him for a moment of his throne ; and while our Prime Minister has had the hardihood to deny in the House 'of Lords any knowledge of wbat,was going on (justified only by the ignorance in which Lord Palmerston must have kept him), every preparation has been made to secure the expulsion of our ally from his kingdom—our Navy have been instructed to salute the Brazilian girl's flag the moment it was hoisted—to land our marines, it the revolution were doubtful—and a Lord. something Russell has been established in Lisbon, with credentials to the Pretender, cut and dry, in his pocket. However, the affair is but begun—the tocsin is only sounded, and we congratulate the departmental ministry on what has already occurred. Mr. Stanley wants twenty millions of money for his West India experi ment; Lord Althorp wants three or four millions for the Bank--a million or so for the Clergy ; Mr. Grant wants nine or ten millions for the East India Company ; and Lord Palmerston will very soon want twice as much as all that put together to carry on a war, in which he has so madly—not madly, but stupidly—involved' the country. To Spain we ought to look with great interest. The King, if not dead, cannot long survive. The power and influence of M. Zea de Bermudez (generally character ised by the Times as a liar, a cheat, and several other equally bad things), is a man of honour, firmness, and sound principles ; he loves his country to his heart ; he knows her character well, and in him all good Spaniards should have faith and confidence. We believe they have, and we trust that his influence may continue and strengthen, even though it should go the length of ing our Foreign Minister even more ridiculous than he is at present, supposing such a consummation possible. We again repeat our belief that if. the Portuguese na tion are as firm in tireir support of Miguel as they are de cided in their hatred for Don Pedro and his Brazilian child, the cause must triumph, and so far are we wedded to entire neutrality upon such questions. that if we thought the Portuguese nation did not feel as we believe itdoes upon this point, we should not advocate the cause of the King so warmly and earnestly as we feel it just and right to do. We wonder when Lord Palmerston heard last from Lord Ponsonby—and what his Lordship says ?—J ohn Bull, One of the foremost assailants of the Church, and de nouncers of Tithes, exhibited in the late discussions in the Commons upon the Tithes Stay of Suits' Bill, was Mr. William Brougham, of whom we must here take leave to. say a word or two in relation to the subject—a word or two which will bring the subject home much nearer "to his business and bosom " than may be agree able; though with that we have nothing to do—it is his affair, not ours. Mr. Brougham, as we have said, assailed the Church, and denounced the Tithes. jn the case of Kendal, to which he particularly referred, he even disputed the right of the vicar - to his dues, as the property of the Church—pretending ignorance of the fact, that the right is based upon even a better foundation than that which gives his learned brother; the Chancellor, his £12,000 a-year—his unlearned brother, the M.P. for Kendal, the £2,000 a-year sinecure he still holds in the Patent Office —and himself his £3,000 a-year place as a Master in Chancery. And yet, though the foundation of such right be the law, confirmed through the lapse of ages, Mr. William Brougham would refuse him to enforce it, whilst he would sanction his brother's claim to put into his pocket thousands of the public money, by 'virtue of an appointment which he and his party long, long ago condemned as a gross and abominable sinecure ! Such is Whig patriotism! But more than all this, and what we had more espe cially in view when we set out with these remarks: this said sinecurist brother of the said Tithe-hating Mr. Wil liam- Brougham—to wit, the Reforming Member for the Boroug ,- 4,061a1- . --is himself "a Tithe-holder ; and— tell it hwark, proclaim it not in the streets of Kendal" ; :' tiijactually one of the very vile crew who have instituted those prosecutions to recover Tithes against which the hon. - member fulminates such terrible denunciations: Yes—incredible as it may seem, it is nevertheless true, that Mr. James Brougham, M.P. for Kendal, is lessee of the Tithes for the parish of Brougham, in the county of Westmoreland; and it is no less true, that this self-sanie Mr. James Brougham, not content with the amount of Tithes that haS sufficed for all time past, has actually commenced suits for enforcing: , further exactions ! Even green Tithes have been paid in that parish, without demur, hitherto; but this - is not enough, and the hon. Reform. Member for Kendal has instituted actions for the recovery of agistment-Tithe alone! One of these actions is against a fanner of the Earl of Lonsdal&s, a Mr. Nelson : we mention names, in order to afford proof that what we state is true. And here we cannot refrain from noticing the striking con trast which this case presents in the conduct of the two parties to whom we have alluded. The Broughams have ever been amongst the loudest declaimers against Tithes, and denouncers of what,they have . nit scrupled to term clerical rapacity; and yet here is one of them pocket ing his Tithes, and enforcing his claim thereto even to this very rapacity itself—saying, with Shakspeare's Shy lock, that he'll " have his bond, and not be made a soft and dull,ey'd fool, to shake the head, relent, and sigh, and' yield to intercessors." The Earl of Lonsdale, on the contrary, has shewn no such enmity to what the law recognizes as the property of the Church—has put forth no such winning wiles wherewith to gain popularity ; and yet the noble Earl, although he is a considerable Tithe proprietor, has not instituted one single, solitary suit to enforce his claims ! We only ask the reader to look, im partially " on this picture, and on that."—Carlisle Pa triot. RAMSGATE.—The servant of a Miss Champion (a lady of con siderable property, at present sojourning at Ramsgate for the benefit of her health) happened to be walking under the cliffs at the flowing of the . tide. He heard the voice of some one cry ing for assistance, which he discovered to have proceeded from a woman with her two children in her arms embayed by the sea, and up to her waist in the water. 'He immediately rushed to her assistance, and rescued her and her two children from their perilous situation. On hearing the mother exclaim that there was another, he again dashed into the water, when he found a male child struggling to clamber u l / 4 a rock; in his company was an old woman (the latter having been twice washed away by the waves), both of whom he also fortunately succeeded in rescuing from a watery grave. On reaching his mistress's house, the circumstance had such an effect on his mind that it was with difficulty he was restored from a long fainting-fit. It is worthy of remark that the man who thus fortunately recovered so many of his fellow beings from a watery grave was unable to swim. SEPTEMBEA 183 S. LONDON POLICE REPORT. MANSION-HOUSE. On Tuesday the Lord Mayor received the following ,letterf the publication of which will put mercantile men on them guar d against the manoeuvres of the ingenious imitators of Coster ‘.` Bristol, August 28. My Lord,—The annexed is a copy of a letter writterr to us by a person calling himself Thomas Bennett, 178, Fleet-stre b e t ' l London, to which letter my brother replied by acquainting ie that we never knew or had such a person as W. H. Stephenson in our employ. We find that he has . written similar letters to nearly 50 of the first houses in Bristol. He paid the postag e of the letters. " Our opinion is that it was to get the signatures of the dif ferent mercantile firms here, for the purpose of making us e 01 the imitations of those signatures, either in obtaining towods or in forging . bills ; and, as each of the mercantile houses horo he has written carries on a very extensive business, I thong:lit it my duty to give intelligence of this person to your Lordship, knowing, as all the world does, how indefatigable your Lordslut) is in your endeavours both to prevent and to detect crime. 1 ( f your Lordship will after this information prevent the surmisei nefarious operations of•this man, you'will confer a great Venefit on many merchants and commercial houses here. _ • ... " With the greatest respect, I remain, my Lord, " Your Lordship's most obedient servant, " THOMAS FUIDGE. " 178, Fleet-street, London, Aug. 16. = " Gentlemen,—l am referred to you by a William HenrY Stephenson, who has applied for a vacancy in my counting house. - He states having been in your employ nearly two year! up to January last, since which he has been abroad. A candid statement as to his abilities, integrity, and general conduct, during the time he was with you, will oblige, Gentlemen, your most obedient servant, " THOMAS BENETT. " `To Messrs. T. and 11. Fuidge; Clare-street, Bristol.'" The Lord Mayor observed, that he had no doubt whatever of the bad intentions of Mr. Bennett, who evidently belonged to the school of Coster and Co., and was perhaps at that moment committing plunder in some way or other. His lordship then despatched an officer to No. 178 - , Fleet-street, to request the fa vour of a visit from Mr. Bennett, to account for his correspoa - • deuce with so many commercial men. The officer, on returning to the justice-ream, reported 11Ir. Bennett as non est inventus, and stated that the p eo pl e of the house said that they understood the gentleman was a commerc ial man ; that a boy called occasionally for any letters which aright • be left directed to him, but that at present they believed he was at Bristol on commercial matters. The Lord Mayor said it was quite palpable that Mr. Bennett was one of those villainous swindlers with whom the town swarmed, and whom he was most anxious to crush. He thought it necessary to express his surprise how any house of character could receive letters for a person of whom they had no know ledge, and pointed out the necessity of abandonin g a practic e which, to a certain extent, encouraged and aided the d ec eption. The Lord Mayor also received the following communication , which caused some laughter ; " Park-hill, near Nottingham, August 27- " My lord,—By this day's post, I have been favoured with a letter from Joseph Ady, of the Circus, Minories, respectful!): offering his advice in a suit in Chancery, wherein some part of my family are the defendants. Owing to your lordship's expo sure of this fellow's humbug system, I have thought it. prudent to follow the advice you gave to the public, and have en closed, him a farthing money letter, together with a letter, a copy °' which I trouble your lordship with. " Grateful to your lordship for your advice, and also for the publicity you gave this fellow's practices. " I am, &c. " WILLIAM HANNAY!' The following is a copy of a letter tent by Mr. Hauaay_to_W" shameless hypocrite : " Nottingham, Aug . . 17. " Joseph Ady is informed that a rascal who had resided in the town of Nottingham for 30 years (just the time Joseph i s stated as having resided in the Circus, Minories) of the nameof William Ady, was hanged here the other day for wilful Maur" der, and . as the writer has but little doubt of the relationship, h e yet lives in h o p es th a t J ose ph Ady, of the Circus, Minories, will himself ere long give dignity to a halter. " Joseph Ady is a d v i se d ( gra ti s ), an d the thing will tur n out considerably to his advantage, not to try his luck again in Not tingham or it s v i c i n ity, th e Lord Mayor of the city of London . having been at some pains to show up in such beautiful style, the conscientious an d res p ec t a bl e mo d e of existence practisea by Mr. Ady. The on ly mor tifi ca ti on th e wr it e r feels is, thathe is at such a distance from the said Joseph as not to be able to practise upon his carcass by slashing him with a good horse whip, or, by a vigorous effort, slip his head into Chancery!' The Lord Mayor, upon reading the abovementioned letter; said-he had good reason for believing that the Bank divideu a, book speculations of Mr. Ady were at an end, -the press having given such prompt and availing assistance in celebrating h is professional labours. We understand that the Post-office has for a considerabl e time returned the money charged to poor people for the colnit municatious transmitted to them by Joseph, so that he $ 0 " be deprived of the gratification of supposing that he is any longer capable of adding to the pecuniary necessities of his unfortunate fellow-creatures. The Lord Mayor has received letters from all parts of the country, expressing the warmest thanks for his resolute per'e verauce in exposing and chastising the trickery with which th e metropolis abounds. Edward Dell, commonly called Parson Dell, a young roll who is in th e h a bit o f s t ree t an d fi e ld preaching, was broup before - the Lord Mayor, charged with having defrauded a was' goner of the sum of £2. The waggoner, it appeared, had been one day one of the con gregation of Parson Dell, who was preaching in a sugar hogs' head, about twenty miles from town. As the former was a l ! extremely simple looking man, the parson marked him out fo r an experiment, and spoke of the devil and damnation in suc h style that the waggoner considered him a most wonderful der. gyman. As soon as the sermon was ended the parson intro duced himself to the waggoner, and gave him further eviden ce ' of a very extensive acquaintance with what was going forw arE in the regions of brimstone and fire; concluding with a wish is take a place to London in the vehicle of which his admirer wa4 the driver. The waggoner consented, and also allowed himse" to be prevailed upon to let the parson have the handling of,t,t, c e s sovereigns. The moment, however, an opportunity °tiered ""a parson - shoved a smock frock over his black clothes, slouches. his hat, slipped out of the waggon, and actually passed te_. waggoner on the road. The two sovereigns did not last long re London, and the parson was obliged to have recourse to til t Scriptures again, and was holding forth to the bummarees ea mudlarks at Billingsgate, when the waggoner caught his ey, e ., This was an awkward incident for the parson; but he suddanu • changed his voice, and turning his eyes in upon his nas e t squinted so horribly for the purpose of deceiving the vision his old hcquaintance, that the crowd burst into a roar of laughl The waggoner was rather shaken in his faith by th e extraor," nary alteration in the countenance of the preacher,. but the a e._ ception was attended with too much pain to be carried on lort i ; and Dr. Dell's eyes resumed their old position in his head: countryman seized him and demanded his money. The preachle, denied - the soft impeachment; and said that he never saw tit. waggoner before, and that he would complain of the viol ent ' done to him in his calling to the Bishop of London. The Lord Mayor asked the prisoner if he had a license tp preach?. The parson replied, that he did not consider it necessary.„„h The Lord Mayor observed that the present was a case ifh i proved how necessary it was, for the practice differced awfully from the preaching. h a lf The waggoner said that the parson had left his niPe to smoked upon a fish stall, just before the spirit moved hits„ " jabber" about the place of punishment for all evil doers. ja thought," said the countryman, "when I need him going on to his preachment, that he was just the very mon as out to g o that place himself." (Laughter.). The parson was then remanded. On Friday the Rev. Mr. Smith, who is. called "Boats' Smith," Caine to the justice-room to complain to the I 't he Mayor of the conduct of the police in lugging him through r¢ streets from Farringdon-street to the Compter, and to reat ee thanks to the Lord Mayor for having released him from duraaer just as lie had fallen into a profound sleep in his cell, el' prayers and a glass of cold water. or '1 he. officers stated that Mr. Smith had been locked 0P,.. ' O l having caused an obstruction in the streets, and a crowd, w" enabled pickpockets to exercise their callin. • Mr. Smith said the crowds who stopped to listen to him w et ", not afraid of 'pickpockets, for they consisted of poor c hida o sweepers, dustmen, nightmen, coal-whippers and others, W were no objects for the work of the pickpockets. The Lord Mayor observed, that without wishing at all to t ies , with what Mr. Smith considered to be his religious d i. "„", e . e 's he could not permit obstructions in the streets. The ornnw" - were already too serious an evil. Punc h Mr. Smith.—l want no more latitude than is given to and Judy ; and my object. is to render benefit to toy t e , - o of citizens. I wish you could see with what attention the : oa r listen to me. Look at the present state of Billingsgate eta , pared to what it was. All the fish women and poor people h t he played there are completely changed in their habits. 1 w l3 people who call me a mountebank would give me a mount ebal,o Pr Mr . G ivil. ege oldham, the clerk of Billingsgate, who was presen,te°e: other business, stated that the manners of market had " jo g greatly altered since Mr. Smith was in the habit of address4r them, and that to his knowledge many drunken vagabond s reformed. , b e e Lord Mayor s ra s i a t said d s t h c a u t l l n e g could r ev have ijedp t n h o e ob u j obstru s "led or inconvenience d by the selection of improper p for exhibiting in. beclicti°wneat?,: GUILDHALL. The same Mr. Smith mentioned above, the itinerant p rea ge d was brought before Mr. Alderman Kelly on Friday, eb3/...ith by King, one of, the beadles of *. Andrew's, Holborn,ft) ' l .'', 9 obstructing.the footway in Farringdcn-street, a little he o'cloCk on the receding evening. at King said the p defendant arrived with about a dozen h°';,., ° te-` 1 his heels, and a man carrying a portable pulpit, having aw.tio-te4 which he sang a hymn and began a prayer. In five nillthere. about 200 people assembled, and in five minutes more hi''` might have been I,(XX), the defendant having stationed itivi self only two doors from Holborn. Witness called t°,,, 1 1 0 to come down, and when he had finished his prayer he .„rio down, but as lie did not seem inclined to go, nor the P - bilo to suffer him to'go, witness ordered a street.leeper to take to the Compter. The pulpit was pitched on the footwaYi i i yeti Mr. Savage, a common councilman, said the officer ha!".. pa properly discharged his duty, for he was sworn to mows' , sauces, and was fully empowered by law to do so. Mr. Smith's ire was aoused at being deemed a nuisaneteti',al;eje he predicted that when Mr. Savage was lying on his d e l . . he would alter his opinion, and regret what he had del.. he denounced the authority exercised by the constable of 1, ot up whomever he pleased, of his own motion, as tyranni4tor a ballad-singer, or a party of musicians, or an exh'" a he c i ; Punch and Judy, were permitted to have little throngs, 0, 0 them, why might not a preacher? The obstruction 'l ay t , case being the same, why tolerate one' and chase a' to other ? ev ccd Mr. Savage said musicians and singers were not all t stand about in the city. hing Mr. Smith resumed. — He was engaged in p reae gospel free of charge fo the p o or , and in so doing he ° ` t 5 complishing what the magistrates avowed they were lit,othe ' patent to effect—checking the progress of crime. i n obedience to Christ's commands that he went for t L it de streets and lanes to preach the gospel, and he could n° nP 011 from the practice. Mr. Alderman Kelly asked if he had been locked al/ night. Mr. Smith said he had not. The Lord Mayor ha - pr released him. (Wei efl Mr. Alderman Kelly was in doubt whether the et.ovve not gone too far in detaining him, when Mr. Smith s'icer,.4ot. intention-to-go by descending from his pulpit. Howe do Smith might have avoided the interruption by choosei4igh,,eot, convenient spot and ao eaylier hour, The 'good h oc'tlo l was vitiated hy the opportunity afforded for pickt a tliP,te, g ° when Mr, Smith chose such a public situation as he t ; instance, In a thoroughfare like Farringdon-strce wit Other crowd would be an obstruction to the public, and an ; c ite' to the housekeepers. Trusting Mr. Smith would atte points hereafter, he should now discharge him.