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LIVERPOOL ROYAL INSTITUTION. nrIIIE Rev. WM. RITCHIE, LL.D., F.R.S., Professor of _IL Natural Philosophy in the Royal Institution of Great Bri tain, and in the. University of London, will commence a ,COURSE of TWELVE LECTURES on ELECTRICITY and MAGNETISM, on MONDAY, September 2, at One o'clock. To be continued every Monday, Wedne ay, and Friday, at the same hour, to the end of the Cours . The first Lecture will be on the t Mode of acquiring Scientific Knowledge and communica ng it to others. Tickets One Guinea the Course, to be had, with a Syllabus, from the Keeper of the Institution. Dr. MURRAY'S LECTURES on GEOLOGY have commenced, and will be continued every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, to the end of the Course. The Rev. T. AITKIN'S LECTURES on BOTANY will be con tinued every Tuesday and Thursday to the end of the Course. THOS. MARTIN, Secretary. T 0 HN LUCY, Jun., TAILOR and DR • ' R, respectfully it) informs his Friends and the Public t , .t he has Removed to No. 61, BOLD-STREET, • three doo selow Colquitt-street, where he hopes, by strict attention to b , sin.ess, to merit a con tinuance of their favours. A respectable YOUTH Wanted as cm APPRENTICE. AVE L'ICENS'ING SESSIONS FOR THE BOROUGH OF 'LIVERPOOL. CHARLES HORSFALL, ESQ., MAYOR. THE MAYOR and MAGISTRATES herebyve Notice, give that they will hold their next Sessions fo 'the Licensing of Victuallers and Persons keeping Inns an blic-houses within the liberties thered, for the ensuing year n MONDAY, the 26th August instant, at Ten o'clock in the F elation, in the Court room, Chapel-street, and so on - successively every Morning till the business is completed. The Mayor and Magistrates being . desirous, as much as pos sible, to prevent the Licensing of improper persons to keep Public-houses, request the Inhabitants will furnish them, by letter, addressed to the Mayor, with information as to any House wherein disorderly conduct may have been permitted during the course of the last year. By order, JOHN TOPHAM, Clerk to the Magistrates. Town-hall, August 16, 1833. In the renewal of Licenses the districts will be taken in the following order, namely, St. Nicholas's East, St. Nicholas's West, St. George's, St. Anne's, St. John's, St. Peter's, St. Thomas's East, St. Thomas's West. ZatantrZt. WANTED, a MASTER for the Caledonian Free School. Salary £lOO per annum. Applicatipland testimonials to be sent, postage paid, under cover to theyecretary, Oldham street, on or before the 31st instant. W. 11. EWING, Secretary. Committee-room, Oldham -street, August 16, 1833. TO SHIP-BUILDERS. WANTED, a Situation as Foreman of a Ship-builder's Yard, by a thorough Draughtsman and practical Ship wright, of twenty-five years' experience; would h ve no objec tion M et , to acting as aster Shipwright, for any fir at the Isle of Man, or any other part. The most satisfacto eferences as to ability and deportment can be r iven on app ation, if by let ter, postage paid, to A. Z., at Mr. GEORGE SMITH'S, Rock°Cot tage, Rock Ferry, near New Ferry, Cheshire. -vv -ANTED, in a COUNTING-HOUSE, a CLERK who is conversant in accounts, and who writes a good and expeditious hand. Any person answering this advertisement w' I please state his j i age, and to what business he has been accu med, with a spe cimen of his hand-writing, and reference sto character.—All applications to be post paid, addressed to R. V. G., Postoffice, Liverpool. . AHOUSE, connected principally with the Home Trade of this Country, is desirous of forming a permanent arrange ment with a young Gentleman of good family and connexions. To one acquainted with, or whose friends -ess the means of makin him acquainted with, the Shippiny; terest, a preference would 'be given. --Address, post paid, to a .8., at the Office of this Paper. RAILWAY SHARES. GEO. FARRAR, SHARE BROKER, is always open f-)r transacting Business in the Grand Juncti9n (Liverpool and Birmingham), and London and Birmingham Lines. PRICES. £llJ£llss.l£7a ss. 10, Exchange-street East. Kiouranct Xotirc. LIFE ASSURANCE, 1815, EDINBURGH, 5, ST. ANDREW-SQUARE. THE SCOTTISH WIDOWS' FUND and LIFE ASSU RANCE SOCIETY, founded on the Original Model of the EQUITABLE of London, is the oldest and most extensive Life Office in Scotland. Its accumulated Capital and Annual Revenue are of very large amount, and are in a state of st ea dy and rapid increase. The whole Profits belong to the Assured, while there is a complete freedom from persdnal liability. A policy opened previous to 1820 for £lOOO (and s' on in propp , non) Is already increased to £1434 Is. 4d., . .d a p rogressive rate of addition is yearly accruing. The ret .spective and pros pective additions declared at the last, . the second, periodi cal investigation of the Society's affai • out of the proportion of the realised Surplus Fund then divi. I.le, were equivalent to a vested addition, at the rate of TWO PER CENT. PER ANNUM on the sums Assured, and are accordingly taken at this rate in all official calculations of the value of Policies en titled thereto. Thus a Policy for £3OOO, of TEN years' stand ing, was entitled to a Bonus equal in value to a vested addition. of £6OO, or TWENTY PER CENT. on the capital sum As slued, and so in proportion to the amount and endurance of the Policy. These additions are of larger amount than those de clared, under the same circumstances, by any other institution; and it is farther proper to state that, over and above that part of the realised Surplus Fund appropriated in making additions, there still remains a large proportion as a Guarantee Fund wholly unappropriated, in which parties now effecting Assu rances acquire a pro indiviso and rateable interest, in terms of the articles of constitution and laws of the Society. The prin ciple acted upon, as far al possible, of assuring select lives only, should operate as a strong inducement to parties whose lives may be considered as of this description to effect their Assu rances at this office, where they will receive the full benefit of such selection. Tables of the Mortality experience of this So ciety have just been completed, and the low average of actual mortality therein exhibited, owing to this careful selection of lives, as compared with the estimated or assumed rate of morta lity provided for by the calculations, is such as, taken in con nexion with the profitable investment of the Society's Funds, to warrant the expectation of very favourable results at the next periodical investigation. The additions then declared will become absolutely vested at that date on assurances now effected. The Presidents, Vice-Presidents ' Trustees, and Directors, are all personally interested i n th e Society, and must, in terms of the articles of constitution, be Members of the Society of more than three years' standing. PRESIDENT. The Right Hon. EARL of ROSEBERY. VICE-PRESIDENTS. Thomas Francis Kennedy, Esq. of Dunure, M.P. Sir Francis Walker Drummond, Bart. of Hawthornden. The Hon. Lord Moncrieff. The Right Hon. Charles Hope, Lord President of the Court of Session. TRUSTEES. Sir James Gibson-Craig, of Riccarton, Bart. Win. Scott Moncrieff, Esq. of Kirkton. Patrick Cockburn, Esq. Accountant, Edinburgh. Wm. Mitchell, Esq. of Parsons Green. James Balfour, Esq. of Pilrig. AGENT FOR LIVERPOOL AND VICINITY.—JAMES BELL, No. 7, Tower-garden. TABULAR VIEW of the SUMS, including ADDITIONS, payable under POLICIES of £lOOO, and so on in proportion for any higher or lower amount, if becoming Claims during the remaining years of the current Septennial Period of the Society's Progress. Year AMOjNT OP NET St 1S PAYABLE, IF CLAIM EMERGE IN Of Entry 1834 1835 1836 1837 • 1838 18191 £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. a for nd e.) 1454 19 0 1475 16 9 1496 14 5 1517 12 2 1538 9 9 be 1820 1233 2 0 1250 16 6 1268 10 0 1286 4 0 1303 18 0 1821 1217 8 6 1234 18 0 1252 7 6 1269 17 0 1287 6 6 1822 1201 15 0 1219 0 0 1236 5 0 1253 10 0 1270 15 0 1823 1186 1 6 1203 2 0 1220 2 6 1237 3 0 1254 3 6 1821 1170 8 0 1187 4 0 1204 0 01`2`20 16 0 1237 12 0 1825 1154 14 6 1171 6 0 1187 17 6 1204 9 0 1221 0 6 1826 1139 1 0 1135 8 1171 15 0 1188 2 0 1204 9 0 1827 1123 7 6 1139 10 0 1155 12 6 1171 15 0 1187 17 6 1828 1107 14 0 1123 12 0 1139 10 0 1155 8 0 1171 6 0 1829 1092 0 6 1107 14 0 1123 7 6 1139 1 0 1154 14 6 1830 1000 0 0 1091 16 01107 5 0 1122 11 0 1138 3 0 1831 1000 0 0 1001) 0 I 1091 2 6 1106 7 0 1121 11 6 1832 1000 0 0 1000 0 0 1000 0 0 1090 0 0 1105 0 0 1833 1000 0 0100() 0 0 tlOOO 0 0 1000 0 0 1090 0 0 the Claim has been im emerge set down ing year. 4 anager. Note.—This Table proceeds on the supposition that emerges after the Annual Contribution or Premium paid for the year in which it so emerges. If the Clai before such payment, the sums payable will be those in the Table as applicable to the immediately precedi JOHN hPIitAN, I SHAKSPEAREAN COOK.—A boarding-house keeper at one of the v atering places announces, as the main recommendation of his dinners, that they are prepared "by a cook engaged from ,the principal hotel in the town, which is known as the birth ,,place of the immortal Shakspeare." CELEBRATION OF TUE MARRIAGE OF Miss PENNANT TO THE HON. CAPTAIN DOUGLAS.—On Tuesday last the city of Bangor, and other places in the neighbourhood of Penrhyn -Castle, were the scenes of festivity and rejoicing, on the occa -sion of the marriage of the Hon. Captain Gordon Douglas, :‘broth.er to Lord Morton, to Miss Pennant, the eldest daughter of G. H. Dawkins Pennant, Esq. Early in the day the good citizens commenced the business of ornamenting the fronts of their hour-es. The adjacent plantations were made to contribute their "leafy honours;" flags, ribbons, and rosettes were taste fully intermingled; and there was scarcely a &Yelling in the • place before which these ensigns of rejoicing were not dis played. The harbour presented a forest of masts profusely de corated with colours, and a salute battery, planted on fhe quay, resounded " hoarse applause" at intervals during the day. At half-past ten o'clock in the morning, the children of the National and Infant Sehuols walked in procession, preceded by colours and a band of music, to the market house, where they were re galed with cake and ale. At one o'clock, the persons employed at Pert Penrhyn, to the number of 150, dined at the wharf, from tables formed of the sort of slates denominated "queens," the value of which, it was remarked, exceeded perhaps that of the most costly set of dining tables e ver manu f acture d, amount ing to no less tha n £425. In the evening the town was bril liantly illuminated. There was not a house that we could see in Bangor the windows of which were not profusely lighted up, and the effect was splendid in the extreme. Transparencies with ;inscriptions and tasteful displays of coloured lamps, heightened the brilliancy of the scene. There was an immen se b on fi re on Garth ;Kill, and another on the height above Bangor, which were seen - to advantage from the streets, and for miles round -the country, and at sea. The night was fine, and, attracted by the splennour of the spectacle, almost every house poured out its inmates into the streets, which were crowded by men, women, and children, their fves beaming with happiness and hilarity. The utmost order and decorum were observed, not a single acci dent that we have heard of having occurred. A dinner was given to the workmen, about 2000 in number, at the quarries; there were also dinners provided at the Penrhyn Arms and Albion-rooms, to celebrate the event; at the former Sir R. W. Bulkelev, and at the latter W. Lewis, Esq. presided. The chil dren (1' public school at Pont-y-twr, were regaled in their room with roast beef and pudding. Bonfires and illumisiations closed the festivities of the day.—Carnarrcm Herald. Imperial 3:3arliament. HOUSE•OF LORDS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14. The Royal Assent was given, by commission, to the Church Temporalities' (Ireland) Bill, the Dwelling-house Robbery Bill, the Privy Council Bill, the Hamburgh Validatin4 Mar riages' Bill, the Troopers' Fund Bill, the Scotch and Irist Vagrants' Bill, the Burghs' Police (Scotland) Bill, the Law Amendment Bill, the Dean Forest Bill, the Blackfriars-bridge Bill, the Hyde Small Debts' Bill, Thellusson's Estate Bill, the Assessed Taxes' Reduction Bill, and five bills of minor importance. SLAVERY ABOLITION BILL. The Earl of RIPON moved the order'of the day for the house resolving itself into a committee on the above bill. In the committee the bill was advance& to the 22d clause, when the house adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS, WEDNESDAY, AUGLST 14. The gallery was not opened till twenty minutes after twelve o'clock. Mr. M. PHILIPS presented a petition from Ensign Mottram, late of the North Cheshire Militia, complaining of hardships he had experienced in the refusal of certain pay and allowances, of an improper inquiry having been instituted, and of his having been unjustly dismissed. The petitioner prayed for inquiry. Lord G. g ' ENTINCK presented - a petition from King's Lynn, complaining of the sixpences extracted froth the merchant sea men for Greenwich chest. Lord W. LENNOX supported the prayer of the petition, and trusted that the next session would not be allowed to elapse without redress being afforded. He considered that the govern ment was very culpable in not affording redress on this point, and he grieved that the First Lord of the Admiralty yielded to those who still supported this th. Sir J. Cif:ADAM said he should he\ever anxious to relieve to the utmost of his ability the merchant4ervice ; but he could not on light grounds endanger so considerable an amount as was produced by this tax, I:20,000, and an impost that had been so long sanctioned, namely, from the time of William 111. ; the amount was, in reality, not drawn from the men, but from the merchants; in proof whereof he would ask whether any one could believe, in the present competition regarding wages, if the 6d. were reduced, that the rate of wages would not be cor respondingly reduced? That being his conviction, he should undoubtedly deem it to be hig duty to oppose the repeal of this du Adjourned at a few minutes past three o'clock. The house resumed at five o'clock. The house went into a committee of supply, Mr. Bernal in the chair. COMMISSARIAT AND MISCELLANEOUS ESTIMATES. Mr. S. RICE moved that a sum of £2,189,772 be granted to his Majesty for these estimates. He observed that they had been reduced this year by £115,600, the largest reduction he believed which had ever been known to take place in this branch of the public expenditure. There was another point connected with the reduction in the estimates which he wished to impress upon the reel-Alec-Con of the house—it was, that the present was the first year in which no vote for army extraordinaries had been required. This vote was one which was iu a manner placed at at the discretion of government, 'and they were consequently desirous to limit it within as narrow bounus as possible. This they had done, and by a comparison with the votes of former years it would be found that they had been successful. In 1829 it was £700,000; in 1830, £550,000; iu 1831, £550,100; in 1832, £240,000; and in the present year, as he had stated, no vote at all was required. He felt the greatest satisfaction in being able to carry on this branch of the expenditure with the vote of last year. - The government had sufficient funds on hand without asking one tarthing of the house. 'With respect to the vote be fore the house, he had to mention the effective service commis sariat had been diminished by £4,554, and the non-effective by £3,500. The hon..gentleman then proceeded to move the va rious items composing the total amount asked for, all of which were agreed to. LONDIT PACKAGE AND SCAVAGE BILL. Mr. P. TuoresoN moved the third reading of this bill. Mr. ATTWOOD considered the bill to be a measure which was inconsistent with sound financial principles. The object of the bill was to purchase the repeal of taxes amounting to .-E35,000 a-year by a grant of £160,000. lie objected to the payment of this sum of money, because, according to the repeated decla rations of the Chiincellor of the Exchequer, the Treasury could not spare it; and, secondly, because there was no pressing occasion for the measure. The tax was paid by foreign vessels coming to the port of London, and its repeal would be inju rious to the shipowners. Mr. ROBINSON objected strongly . to the principle of the bill, and thought that no reason for foi cling it on at the present late period of the session had been established. Mr. M. ATTWOOD then moved as, an amendment, to leave out all the words after the word " that" in the original motion, for the purpose of inserting words to the effect " that in all Euestions of the expenditure of additional payments out of the xchequer, especial regard should be raid to the interests of those who suffer the greatest pressure of the public burdens." Mr. G. F. YOUNG supported the amendment. The house divided— For the amendment............ 6 Against it Majority ....... After a short conversation, in which Mr. P. Thomson, Mr. Young, Mr. Robinson, and Mr. M. Attwood took part, the bill was read a third time and passed. On the motion of Lord Althorp, the other orders of the day were read. Mr. BERN AL brought up the report on the Factories' Regula tion Bill. On the motion that the report be received, Mr. M. ATTWOOD moved that the house be counted. Lord ALTHORP hoped the hon. member would not persevere in his motion, as he would acquiesce in postponing the receipt of the report until Thursday. The gallery was cleared, but the house was not counted, as we understood Mr. M. Attwood withdrew his motion. On our re-admission we found Lord DUNCANNON bringing in the Land Revenue Appro priation Bill. On the motion that the bill be read a first time, Mr. M. ATTwoon again moved that the house 'be counted. Strangers were again ordered to withdraw, and it being found that only 35 members were present, the house adjourned at three o'clock. HOUSE OF LORDS, THURSDAY, A UGUST 15. Mr. BERNAL, and others from the House of Commons, brought up the Scavage and Package Bill, and the Slave Trade Conven tion Bill. On the motion of the Marquis of WESTMEATH, the Irish In firmary Bill was read a third time and passed. Lord TEYN lIA H presented a petition from a place in the county of Mayo, against the G►and Juries (Ireland) Bill. GRAND JURIES (IRELAND) BILL Was, on the motion of Viscount MELBOURN, read a second time, and ordered to be committed on Friday. TITHE PROSECUTIONS. The Bishop of CHICHESTER said that a statement having been made elsewhere that 5000 or 6000 actions for tithe had been commenced in this country, in consequence of the passing of the act abolishing the non-limitation of claims with regard to ecclesiastical property, he wished to make a few obser v at ion s on the subject to their lordships. This statement was obviously erroneous, because there were no more than 10,000 or 11,000 livings in England and Wales, and it would be most extraordi nary indeed if proceedings of this nature should have taken place in every other parish without the knowledge of persons in the situation in which he had the honour to stand. At the same time, he admitted that it was not improbable that some clergy men, finding that they would be excluded from a certain right, unless they claimed it within a particular time, should be anxious to avail themselves of the power reserved to them withi n th e limited period. But he had lately visited his own diocess, and he repeated that he had not heard du single action of this kind having been brought. It had also been stated that the clergy men had been induced to bring these actions in consequence of a recommendation which had emanated from a meeting of bishops. Nothing was more difficult to prove than a negative, or to disprove a general assertion of that sort; but this he could say, that since he had had the honour of a seat on the bench he had attended almost every meeting of the bishops, and he had never heard any such proposition, or any allusion to the subject whatever, made while he was present. He fearlessly declared that nothing had passed at those meetings, during his presence, which might not, with perfect credit to every person who took part in them, be proclaimed at Charing-cross. SLAVERY ABOLITION BILL. The house then resolved itself into committee on this bill. On the 61st clause being read, which provided that the 52d of George 111., c. 155, relating to religious worship and assem blies, and persons teaching or prachring therein, should extend to the colonies ; the special justices to have the same power in the colonies as was vested in the justices of this country uuder that act, The Duke of WELLINGTON opposed the clause. The British legislature had hitherto made laws affecting the external affairs of the colonies, but had left the regulation of the internal affairs to the colonial legislatures. The present enactment, although professing to be in the spirit of toleration, would really be looked upon, both by the people and by the legislatures of the colonies, as a most intolerant measure. The noble duke, con cluded by moving that the clause be struck out. The committee then divided, when the numbers were— For the amendment . . . . . 15 Against it • . • • • • 31 Majority . . . . 16 The clause was then agreed to, as also were the remaining clauses of the bill, and the preamble. The house then resumed, and the report was ordered to be received on Monday.—Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS, THURSDAY, AUG. 15. The Speaker took the chair at the usual hour. General PALM ER gave notice that to-morrow he would move certain resolutions relative to the repeal of all duties upon articles of use and consumption. To be taken into considera tion early next session. Mr. WALLACE presented a petition from Sir W. F. Elliott, complaining that presentations in the church of Scotland were improperly made with impunity, and stating that the purity of election fur members' of that house was affected by suchim proper presentations. Adjourned at a few minutes past three. The house resumed at five o'clock. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL rose with reluctance to propose that the order of the day for the further consideration of the re port on the bill abolishing imprisonment for debt be discharged. He felt that he could not hope to press it forward this session with any advantage to the public. IMPRESSMENT. Mr. BUCKINGHAM rose, in pursuance 'of his notice, "to move a resolution, that the forcible impressment of seamen for his Majesty's navy is unjust, cruel, inefficient, and unnecessary, and that it is the duty of the house to avail itself of the present period of profound peace to provide some means of manning the ships of his Majesty, in time of war, without a violation of the liberties of any class of his Majesty's subjects." Sir J. GRAHAM opposed the resolution, which, on a division, was negatived by a majority of 5. Mr. ROBINSON moved that a humble address be presented to his Majesty, praying that he will be graciously pleased to give directions that there be laid on the table of the house a copy of the Prussian tariff of duties payable in that kingdom on articles of British manufacture and produce, specifying the alterations made in such duties in the last ten years. This motion was agreed to. POSTOPFICE. On the motion of Mr. Wallace, a return was ordered of the present state of the postoffice establishments at London, Dub lin, and Edinburgh, the names of the persons employed, and their salaries and allowances. TITHE MODUS PROSECUTION. Mr. BLAmt RE moved for leave to bring in a bill to amend an act passed in the last session of Parliament, entituled "an act for shortening the time required in claims of modus decimandi, or exemption from a discharge of tithes." He was induced to bring forward his motion by an anxious desire to allay the irri tation which the recent prosecutions of thel clergy under the Tithe Modus Act had generated; and which would be a serious obstacle to the introduction, next session as he trusted, of a ge neral measure for the abolition of the tithe system in its present ,orm altogether. (Hear.) At that late hour he would only observe, that his bill was not intended to at all interfere with Lord Tenterden's act in its general operation; and was only meant to suspend the workings of a particular provision of that act till the end of next session, before which period ministers and the house would haye full time for considering and bring ing the tithe question to a satisfactory issue. He proposed that all the prosecutions which his measure would suspend, should at the end of the next session be placed in precisely the same situation they were at present. Leave was ~, r iven to bring in the bill. Colonel WILMA his would not, at that late period of the ses sion, proceed with his motion for a bill to amend the royal mar riage act.—Motion accordingly withdrawn. Sir H. VERNEY, for the same reason, kit disinclined to pro ceed with his motion in reference to a new House of Commons. Lord ALTHORP thought that if such a plan as was suggested was carried into execution, no sort of benefit would be derived from it, for the whole expense would nearly be equal to that of building a new house, and would not increase the convenience of the present building. Mr. HurlE reminded the house of the committee which had been appointed on this subject, by whom the proposed plan had been rejected. The motion was, after a short conversation, withdrawn. The foreign enlistment bill was then read a third time and passed. On the motion of Mr. LITTLETON, the tithes (Ireland) bill was committed proforma, on the understanding that it should be proceeded with on Saturday. The spirits licences' (Ireland) bill was read a third time and passed. Mr. HUMS gave notice of his intention to move on Friday for leave to bring in a bill to repeal the acts 60th George 111., c. 10, commonly called the Six Acts. The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the house adjourned at half-past two o'clock. HOUSE OF LORDS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 16. The sea apprenticeships' bill was read a third time and passed. Mr. BERNAL and other members of the House of Commons brought up the foreign enlistment repeal bill, the Customs' laws repeal bill, the wine and spirit (Ireland) bill, and the land revenues' (Scotland) bill. Lord KENYON presented a number of petitions from places in different parts of the-ountry, praying that the hours of labour of children in factoriaNbe limited to ten hours. The noble lord pledged himself to bring forward in the next session of Parliament a bill to effect the same object as had been proposed by that brought forward in the other house of Parliament by Lord Ashley. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. POSTOFFICE. Lord ELLENBOROUGH presented a petition from persons in terested in the trade with the United States, praying for an emendation of the laws relating to the inland postage charged upon letters going from the metropolis through Liverpool and the other out-ports to the United States. The noble lord said that the statement of the petitioners was, that they had hitherto enjoyed the, privilege of sending such letters otherwise than through the Postoffice, but that the Postmaster-General had en forced the laws on the subject, and done away with the practice. He (Lord Ellenborough) did not, indeed, see how the noble duke (Richmond) could do otherwise, as the existing laws were; but he thought that it was most desirable that some arrangement should he made to afford the utmost facilities to the commerce of the country, so far as related to the transmission of letters. The Duke of RICHMOND had been most anxious that a peti tion of this kind should be presented, that he might have the opportunity of explaining the circumstances and motives which had caused him to pursue the course to which the noble lord had referred. He must admit that there was no duty more im perative upon the Postmaster-General than that of giving every possible facility to the mercantile intercourse of the country; but the prayer of these petitioners was that they might be per mitted to send letters for the United States through Liverpool or the other outports, free of postage; and he must say that he thought that compliance,with their prayer in this respect would lead to considerable loss to the revenue. If the privilege in question were granted to the merchants of London, there could be no reason why the Manchester and Birmingham merchants, and the merchants in all other parts of the kingdom, should not exercise it also; and the consequence of conceding the prin ciple of giving up these inland postages would be, that the con cession would be equivalent to the giving up in future of all such postages upon letters going abroad. The noble duke then proceeded to deny certain of the statements of the petitioners. It was not true that the Postoffice had neglected to forward mail-bags by the fast-sailing ships. In the last year 4888 ship letters had been forwarded from London, and from Liverpool 1220 had been sent. Nor was it true that the privilege of sending letters by other conveyances than those provided by the Postoffice had existed to the merchants of London during twenty years. The question was whether or not letters should be sent by these merchants by stage-coaches, instead of through the Postoffice; and if a postoffice was to exist at all, he (the Duke of Richmond) did not see why these petitioners should be favoured to the exclusion of others, who, if the principle they advanced were once admitted, would have as good a right as they had. If the house was prepared to say that a tax upon letters for the maintenance of a postoffice should no longer exist, of course he (the Duke of Richmond) could not but bow to their decision; but he must say that he thought that if taxes were to be reuced at all, other branches of the revenue might be found in which the advantages of reduction would be more universal; he thought that the inhabited house duty was a tax which might with more . propriety be abolished. He could not sit down without observing that attacks had lately been made in another place upon the department at the head of which he was, to which he had not had the opportunity of replying. He had made the most ample inquiries, however, on the subjects to which those attacks referred, and were it not that as a peer he could not there reply to arguments used in the other house, he was in a situation to contradict and correct statements made by the hon. member for Greenock, respecting which he must say that he did not think he had been treated by that hon. member with the candour which one gentleman had a right to expect from another. REAL PROPERTY LAWS' AMENDMENT BILL. On the motion of the LORD CHANCELLOR ' this bill was read a second time. The noble and learned lord previously entered into a statement of the objects proposed to be effected by the bill. The Earl of WICKLOW expessed a hope that the operation of the bill would be extended to Ireland. On the motion that the house resolve itself into a committee on the Grand Juries (Ireland) Bill, The Marquis of WESTMEATH suggested the propriety of the government directing their attention, during the recess, to some plan for fixing the amount of salary and fees to be received by the officers of the different counties in Ireland. The house then resolved into committee on the bill, to which some amendments, chiefly of a verbal nature, were proposed and adopted. The bill then went through committee. Report on Monday. The East India Company's Charter Bill was read a third time, and the amendments of which the Marquis of Lans downe had given notice were inserted in it. The question that the bill do pass was deferred till Monday. CHINA TRADE BILL. Lord AucKLANn, after referring to a standing order on the subject, moved th4l this bill should be referred to a select com mittee. Lord ELLENBOROUGH fully concurred in the motion, and he was anxious to draw the attention of the house to a particular clause iu this bill, with regard to which he should feel it ne cessary to move an instruction to the select committee which the noble lord was about to propose. It had been a long-esta blished custom of that house to waive any inquiry respecting anything relating to the imposition of taxes in bills that came from the other house of Parliament. That such a forbearance on the part of that house on all occasions, and under all circum stances, was for the public benefit, appeared to him to be rather doubtful, but at the same time be would admit, seeing how long the custom had existed, that it should not be proposed to their lordships to depart from it, unless under very extreme circum stances indeed. Now, such an extreme case appeared to him to occur in this bill. In this bill the power of levying taxes was delegated to the King in council, without any limitation what ever. The King in Council was empowered under this bill to appoint officers at Canton, with powers that were not specified, to give them such salaries as he might choose, and those officers would have the power of levying what duties they pleased upon the goods of his Majesty's subjects trading to Canton. They would have the power of levying those duties in a foreign coun try—in China. He was not aware of any such instance of le gislation on the part of the Parliament of this country, and with a view to discover whether there had been any similar in stance of legislation, he would move that it be an instruction to the committee to search for precedents for the purpose of ascer taining whether that house had ever passed a bill delegating to the King in Council the power of levying dutieson his Majesty's subjects. Lord AUCKLAND said that he was as much surprised as the noble lord that the clause in question contained no limitations. In the clause as it stood in the bill when originally introduced thepower proposed to be given by it was limited, and why that limitation had been afterwards omitted he did not know. In introducing those superintendents as a sub s tit u t e f or o ffi cers that bad through usage exercised similar powers at Canton for a long period of time, it was thought necessary, for the protection of the public interest, and the interest of trade, to give a very large discretionary power to the government on the subject.— In the committee which he was about to propose, he would in troduce a clause for limiting in some degree that power, and therefore it would be unnecessary for the noble lord to persevere in his motion for an instruction to the committee to search for precedents, as no precedent of the kind could c e r t a i n ly b e f oun d. Lord ELLENBOROUGH said that under such circumstances he would withdraw his motion. Lord AUCKLAND remarked, that the noble lord was correctly informed when he estimated the expense of those superintend ents at from £27,000 to £30,000 per annum, but he believed that a duty of 10s. upon every £lOO worth of goods would be suffi cient to meet the expense. . The bill was then ordered to be referred to a select commit tee, and the committee was accordingly appointed. ROYAL BURGHS (SCOTLAND BILL. The house went int o committee on this bill, and on the ques tion of the postponement of the preamble, The Earl of HADDINGTON moved, that all the words in the bill after the word `whereas" be left out, to insert a fresh bill of a temporary nature, with a view of instituting inquiry before a final and conclusive measure should be adopted. This amendment was negatived without a division, and the preamble was postponed. Clauses 1 and 2 were agreed to, with verbal amendments. The remaining clauses to the end of the bill were agreed to, and the house resumed. The Scotch Burghs Bill then passed through committee. Both the above bills were ordered to be reported on Monday next. A.Cijourned at half-past eleven o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 16. The Speaker took the chair at a quarter after twelve o'clock, at which time there was a very thin attendance of members. Mr. RICE moved that the house resolve into a committee of sup- Ply .ord G. SOMERSET said that he did not desire to impede pub lic business, but as he had no chance of having another oppor tunity of making the observations he desired to submit to the house, he must trespass on the committee now. He desired to call attention to the consolidation of the Board of Stamps and Taxes. He would not complain of arrangement s that might be economical without affecting the efficiency of the departments and the interests of the revenue, but he thought that in such consolidations care ought to be taken to secure to the public the services of the most able, intelligent, and experienced officers in those departments. In the instance to which he now alluded, setting aside the claims of the old officers, govern ment had appointed as the chairman of the consolidated board an individual who had never before been in the public service. The individual to whom he alluded was Mr. John Wood, who had superseded the two chairman of the late boards, gentlemen who had long filled their situations with great credit to them selves. With regard to one of those individuals, Mr. Mitford, who had been in the office 36 years, and who was now in the full vigour of body and mind—why was he to retire ? He knew that gentleman's ability, and also was aware of the fact that he was appointed by the late Lord Liverpool to his present situa tion, a recent office, on the ground of qualification alone. Mr. Mitford was to b e remove d - on a retiring allowance of £B4O, and was to be superseded by Mr. Wood, who was wholly inex perienced in the duties of the office, and who could give no in formation, either to the Treasury or the public, respecting the department to which he had thus been appointed, over the head of an old, au able, and an experienced officer. He had care fully read over the papers on the subject, as far as they were submitted to the house : and though there was throughout an evident anxiety to effect the removal of Mr. Mitford, to make way for Mr. Wood, he in vain looked for the avowal of any public grounds for arranging the retirement of Mitford. The correspondence did not appear. Mr. Mitford's objections, if he had made any, were not stated; but it was almost impossi ble not to feel that there was some degree of harshness dis played towards an old, valuable, and still efficient officer. Lord ALTHOIIP said that in the progress of these consolida tions and changes several vacancies had occurred without the government having appointed one personal friend to them; they had been filled from the departments; but in this particular he had been very desirous to have the co-operation of one In whom the government could have the most implicit confidence. ( Hear, hear.) He did not deny that by the appointment of Mr. Wood, and the consequent retirement of Mr. Milford, the public would be subject to a trilling additional charge, but the question was whether, in effecting great and important reductions in the large establishments of the country, the government had not a right to place individuals at the head of those establishments in whom they possessed the greatest confidence? (Hear, hear.) Mr. Wood had not been selected on the ground of political adhe rence to the ministers, for while in parliament he had often voted against the ministers; but on the ground of Mr. Wood's independence, ability, and his personal knowledge of that gen tleman, he recommended Earl Grey to make the appointment. (Hear.) He admitted that Mr. Mitford had always acted with zeal and ability in the service of the country, but he thought he should be doing an act of injustice if he did not at the same time award an equal weed of praise to Mr. Thornton, (hear,) the chairman of the other board, who had also retired. The change had only been effected for the purpose of reducing the public expenditure, and the appointment of Mr. Wood had taken place, not from political purposes, but to secure to the public the services of an effective, intelligent, and independent servant. (Hear, hear.) The consolidation of the two boards would pro duce a great saving to the public, not only in the immediate establishments themselves, but more particularly in the collec tion throughout the country. (Hear.) SUPPLY-COMMITTEE. The house then went into committee. Mr. RICE moved that various sums be granted to his Majesty connected with the civil service, all of which were agreed to. The house resumed, the Chairman reported progress, and ob tained leave to sit again in the evening. Adjourned at 3 o'clock. The house resumed at 5 o'clock. Lord G. SOMERSET brought up the report of the select com mittee on the stationery contract.—lt was laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Mr. RICE moved that the order of the day be then read for the house resolving itself into a committee of supply. GREEK LOAN. Mr. HERMES wished to know whether the noble lord had any objection to lay before the house an account of the measures which had been taken to raise the loan for the service of Greece, and of our amount of liability in case of the failure of the Greek government to pay it, and of the steps taken to secure the ap plication of the revenues of Greece to the payment of that debt supposing that it we paid. It was only right that this ac, count should be furnish before the house separated. Lord PALMERSTON sai that there was no objection to furnish the house with the information which the right hon. gentleman required, but he must have some time to prepare the papers containing it. The house then resolved itself into a committee of supply, and voted the remaining estimates. _ After which the house resumed.—Report to-morrow. The Forgery of Stamps Bill then went through committee, and the.report was ordered to be taken into consideration on Monday next. Mr. 1 3 . THOMSON moved the third reading of the . Factories' Regulation Bill. On the motion of Mr. G. Wood, a clause was added by way of rider to the bill, securing as holydays to the children em ployed in factories Christmas-day and Good Friday, as well as ei"ht other half-holydajis during each year. The bill was then, after some verbal amendments, read a third time and passed. s' The Metropolitan Police Bill went through committee, and the report was ordered to be received on Monday. On the motion of Mr. F. Baring, the Buckingham Palace Furniture Bill was read a second time. On the motion of Lord Morpeth, it was resolved, that during the remainder of the session orders of the day should take pre cedence of notice of motion. The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the house adjourned at a quarter past three o'clock. LANCASTER ASSIZES. CROWN COURT, SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, This morning the Lord Chief Justice 'having finished trying prisoners assisted in the disposal of two or three causes, the only important of which are reported below. LIABILITY OF HUSBANDS. AR. NSON v. SMITH.—Ihis was an action brought by the plaintiff, who is a surgeon-dentist residing at Manchester, against the defendant, a publican at Stockport, to recover the sum of £9 10s. ' the value of several artificial teeth supplied to the wife of the latter. Mr. WIGHTMAN, who conducted the plaintiff's case, stated, that in the month of May last the wife of the defendant having lost most of her teeth, complained of the defect to a Mr. Sleddon, a surgeon, who recommended her to apply to the plaintiff, as he was a very scientific man and capable of supplying a defect which we all sympathise with. Accordingly Mr. Pasco Aran son, the plaintiff, was applied to, and he took the model of Mrs. Smith's mouth, and made the teeth, but when he had done so the defendant refused to have the teeth or pay for them, and they were, consequently, left on the plaintiff's hands. The CHIEF JUSTICE.—Cannot he sell them to any body else? Mr. WIGHTMAN.—No, my lord, they are made to measure, and it is very difficult to find one lady's mouth exactly the same size as another's.—(Laughter.) Mr. John Brogden Sleddon, a surgeon, who resides in Stock port, said, that in the month of May the wife of the defendant complained to him of the defective state of her teeth, and he re commended the plaintiff to her. She desired witness to bring him along with him to her house, and he did so on the 18th of May, when, after examining the mouth of Mrs. Smith, it was agreed that he should call on the Monday following to take the model of her gums, and scale her husband's teeth. On the Mon day following witness met Mr. Aranson coming from the house with a fresh model in his hand. He took it to Manchester and made eight teeth for her from it. On the 23d of May the daughter of the defendant was sent to witness to desire him to inform the plaintiff that she would not have the teeth ; hut they were made, and were the same as now produced. This was the plaintiff's Mr. WILLIAMS (the Attorney-General,) submitted that there was no case to go to the jury, for there was no proof of the defendant ever having known or given his consent to the order. The learned CHIEF JUSTICE, after hearing Mr. Wightman, decided that there was a case for the jury. Th 3 ATTORNEY GENERAL then addressed the jury for the de fendant in a most humorous speech. He hoped they would not allow his client to be saddled with paying for a set of teeth, with gold at the top and ivory at the bottom—ornaments for which the wife of a publican, unless she was desirous of becom ing a sinner, had no more occasion than had a bull to dance a minuet in a china stop. (Laughter.) If the defendant had said, " My wife chews'very badly; I don't mind giving ten or twenty pounds for a decent set of grinders for her, for ho conceived there would have been some pretext for the demand." (Laughter.) But it appears that the dentist called on Saturday, and we hear nothing of what passed on Monday, except that he took an impression of the upper part of the lady's jaw, and he had no doubt but if the plaintiff were to place it in the British Museum, or to exhibit it on the jaw of Mrs. Smith, he might make his fortune. (Laughter.) If the plaintiff's wife could not chew beef they might keep it a day or two longer, and if she were then unable to masticate it, why:then let her live on hastie pudding (a laugh), for it was quite unnecessary for her to have them, for if she chewed badly she would eat the less, and therefore it would be a saving to the defendant, and if she eat her meat slowly it would digest better, and she would last longer. On every ground therefore, it was to the interest of the defendant that she should be without them. If she had a fine set of teeth, she might have all the people who came to the house examining her mouth, and although they would not tell her age, yet it might be extremely unpleasant for the customers to be always opening and examining her mouth. It was there fore unlikely that the defendant would consent for her to have the teeth, which might bcytery well for the wife of a duke, eat were totally unfit for the man, unfit for the woman, unfit for every body , except the plaintiff, in order to fix his client with a demand which he hoped the jury would not allow. The learned JUDGE in summing up observed, that if the de fendant was aware of the order being given he was liable for the debt, and the jury found for the plaintiff.—Damages £9 10s. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL.-1 hen I hope you will let us have the teeth. _ _ . The teeth were therefore handed over to the Attorney-Ge neral, who handed them over to his client. CIVIL SIDE, FRIDAY, AUG. 16. Before Mr. Baron BOLLAND. BAMFORD v. HYPE —This was an action to recover damages for an assault at Middleton. Mr. Serjeant JONES and Mr. ALEXANDER appeared for the plaintiff Mr. Pot.Locx for the defendant. The plaintiff, Mr. Samuel Bamford, who was one of the persons prosecuted along with Mr. Hunt atthe time ofthe Manchester massacre, was a local reporter for the Manchester Guardian, and also one of the three constables for the township of Middleton; the defendant, a surgeon, residing at the same place. It appeared that on Good Friday last the defendant spent the afternoon at a public-house kept by Mrs. Chadwick, in Mid dleton. In the course of the evening Mr. Bamford came into the room where defendant was sitting, when the latter accosted him in a jeering manner, saying, " Well, black Samuel, are you come ?" Some words ensued between the parties, which ended in defendant taking plaintiff by the collar and telling him that he might consider that as a challenge. Mr. Bamford replied that be was a peace-maker, not a peace-breaker, and that if the defendant committed any assault he would certainly take him into custody. Mrs. Bamford, wife of the plaintiff, came in some time afterwards, and he left the room with her, bidding the company generally good night, and wishing Hyde in particular, more sense and better manners. Hyde also took his departure, but the parties encountered each other again upon the road, and were found quarrelling near Bamford's house, and assistance having come up at the call of the plaintiff, the defendant, who had hold of Mr. Bamford, said that he had a charge against him. They then all went together to the constable's house, a distance of a mile and a half, and on their arrival there, Hyde charged the plaintiff with putting his hand into his (Hyde's) pocket. The plaintiff appeared at the New Bailey, Manchester, next day to answer the charge, which appeared to be wholly without foundation, and the magistrates dismissed the case. Mr. FoLtoca addressed the jury for the defendant, but called no witttesses. Verdict for the plaintiff, damages £5, costs 40s. SATURDAY, ALGL ST 17. HORSE WARRANTY. BYWATER L. RICHARDSOIV.—This was an action to recover damages for the loss sustained in consequence of a breach of the warranty given with a horse sold by the defendant, Mr. John Richardson, of Liverpool, to the plaintiff, Mr. Thomas Bywater, a horse-dealer residing at Manchester. Mr. PoLLocx, with whom was Mr. J. T. Hopr, appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. A LEX ANbER conducted the defence. The following are the facts of the case, as detailed in evidence, and elicited by the cross-examination of the plaintiff's witnesses, none being called for the defence. On the 17th of April last, Mr. Richardson, the defendant, sent a brown horse, the animal in question, to Mr. Lucas's repository in Liverpool, and with it a letter aduressed to Mr. Lu :as, r eques ti ng th a t it m i g ht b e sold for £5O, and warranting it as sound and steady in harness. Mr. Bywater called at the repository, saw the horse, and was told that it was warranted, and that its price was £5O. Being subsequently introduced to the defendant, plaintiff purchased the horse from himself in person, for 1:40, but allow e d it t o re main at the repository till the 28th of April, when he resold it to a gentleman named Yeoman, for £55. On the 13th of June Mr. Yeoman sent the animal back to the repository as unsound, and commented an action against Mr. Bywater for the recovery of the purchase-money. prom the testimony of Mr. Joseph Bretherton, veterinary surgeon, it appeared that that of saw the horse shortly after it had been purchased of Mr. By water, and then thought it unsound, but did not examine it particularly; on the 2d of June, however, he did so examine it, and found that it was lame of both fore-feet, and that the lame ness was occasioned by the navicular disease, a swelling of the cartilages of th.s leg, which ultimately produces ulceration or ossification, and is rarely if ever cured. It also appeared that a horse might have this disease without its becoming apparent for weeks, or even months, and that the horse in question had this disease at the time it was sold to Mr. Bywater. This was apparent from the previous history of the horse, as well as from the testimony of Mr. Bretherton. In November, 1831, the ani mal was purchased by Mr. Cook, a horse-dealer at Preston, for £45. A few weeks afterwards Cook sold him to Mr. Fazakerly, of Gillibrand-hall, who, in ten days, sent him back as unsound, being both a roarer, and lame in his fore-feet. Cook then put him into a farrier's hands, who blistered his feet, had wet clay put into his stall to cool them, and tied up his head so that he was obliged to stand in the clay. After being thus doctored, Cook sold him to Mr. Richardson, without a warranty for £37, and Mr. Richardson subsequently sold him to the plaintiff. Mr. Bywater settled the action brought against him by Mr. Yeoman by paying £45 into the hands of that gentleman's attorney;— the horse, after due notice to the parties, was sold by public auction at Mr. Lucas's repository for £l7, and the present ac tion was brought to recover £23, the difference between that sum and the £4O paid by Mr. Bywater to Mr. Richardson on the faith of the warranty. The unsoundness of the animal was not denied on the part of the defendant, but it was alleged, that according to the regulations at the place of sale, which are printed on a board stuck up at the entrance of the repository, and one of which specifies that a warranty of soundness given at the repository would remain in force till twelve o'clock at noon, the day after the sale, when the warranty would be complete, and the responsibility o f th e se ll er termin ate, unless, in the meantime, a notice to the con t rar y was rece i ve d f rom the pur chaser, signed by a veterinary surgeon, and specifying the pre cise nature and quality of the alleged unsoundness. Alr. Alexander contended that this notice was sufficiently conspicu ous to render it one of the conditions of sale, and that, as the plaintiff had not complied with it, he was in no condition to recover on the warranty. Mr. BARON BOLLAND, in summing up the evidence, said that if the auctioneer announced at the time of sale a horse was to be taken with all faults, or returned within a specified time, or inserted it in the printed conditions of sale, that would be suffi cient; but it did not seem to him that the mere putting up of a printed board at the entrance of the repository was sufficient, particularly as the horse was not sold by auction, but by private contract. The jury, after a short consultation, found for the plaintiff, damages £23. On the application of Mr. ALEXANDER, leave was given to enter a nonsuit, if it should appear that the notice was sufficient, on the understanding that if the verdict were confirmed, it should be increased by the amount of costs and damages. EJECTMENT. DOE DEM. JOHNSON ty.\\ooD. l2 'lhis was an action of eject ment against the defendant, who occupied a farm at Farnworth, as tenant of the lessor of the plaintiff, but received a notice to quit in June, 1832, which he refused to comply with,. and still holds possession. The question turned on the validity of the notice to quit, which it appeared was filled up by the plaintiff's attorney, he being in a great hurry at the time, as he sat upon horseback, with a black-lead pencil, and afterwards served on the defendant's wife. The writing in pencil was afterwards ob literated either by accident or design, and it was contended that the document was not a legal and proper instrument. Mr. Winder, the attorney, deposed to the filling up and serving of the notice; and Mr. BARON BOLLAND, on examining it, said that there were appearances of pressure on the back of the paper and the marks of letters; it seemed that the blanks had been filled up in the manner described by the witness, and remarked that though the attorney had acted in a very negligent and careless manner, it was nut sufficient to invalidate the notice. The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff. TRESPASS. FAIRBURNE V. TAYLOR AND OTHERS.—This was an action to recover damages for a trespass committed by the defendant, Taylor, a publican of Oldham, and others, on the premises of the plaintiff, Mr. Fairburne, who, at the time the trespass was committed, occupied a public-house in the same town. The plaintiff entered upon the house, the Turf Tavern, in Roy ton street, Oldham, in April, 1832, Taylor, one of the defendants, being landlord. A lease of the house was granted, and an agree ment entered into between the parties, in which a clause was inserted giving uninterrupted possession of the house to the plaintiff. In violation or this agreement, Taylor directed a distraint to be made for the recovery of three quarters of a year's rent, one-quarter of which was only then due; four or five bailiffs, with police-officers, forcibly enter e d the house on the 12th of last, the whole of the stock and furniture, including a large quantity of ale and spirits, were carted away the same night, the following day exposed for sale, and disposed of for only about EU. The house being thus stripped of every article of furniture, and even the grates removed, the . plaintiff was rendered incapable of pursuing his business, although the house was in good credit, the trade was increasing, and there was every prospect of a valuable business being secured to the plaintiff. Strong opposition was shown against the defendant, Taylor, in the course which he had taken, and the plaintiff held possession of the empty house for three months, compelling the bailiffs to sleep on the cold floor. The consequence of this affair was, that the plaintiff was ruined in his circumstances, being deprived of a house and of the means of supporting his wife and family. The defence set up by Taylor was, that he had acted strictly in conformity with the agreement made between himself and the plaintiff, who, he alleged, had given him authority to make the distraint complained of. The case occupied the court the greater part of the day - , and after the learned Judge had summed up the case the jury retired, and after remaining in consultaion about half an hour found a verdict for the plaintiff, damages £lO. The damages were laid at £l,OOO. PURCHASE OP AN AUCTIONEER. LORD V. BRETHERTON.—The parties in this cause were Mr. Joseph Lord, a corn-dealer at Manchester, and Mr. Daniel Bretherton, who is an auctioneer, and keeps a general reposi tory for the sale of articles in the same town. In February last Mr. Lord sent two pairs of four-horse harness to the defend ant's repository, with instructions to sell them for £26. A week or two afterwards plaintiff called to see if they were sold, and was informed by the defendant they were not, but that he had found a customer who would give twenty guineas for them. Plaintiff said that this was not enough, but ultimately he sold them to the defendant himself for £2O, the latter agreeing to take the additional pound offered by the alleged customer, as an allowance for his expenses and c omm i ss i on . The sale being completed, the plaintiff made repeated applications for payment of the £2O, the defendant alleging that he himself had not been paid by the person to whom he had sold the harness, and at length the plaintiff commenced legalproceedings to compel pay ment. The defendant then tendered £l5, and sent in a bill of £5 for commission and expenses, thus making up the difference. It appeared from the testimony of the plaintiff's witnesses, that the defendant had not sold the harness for twenty guineas, but had exchanged one pair for a horse, and sent the other to his brother, Mr. Bartholomew Bretherton, of Liverpool. The de fendant had paid £l5 into court, and the action was brought to recover the balance. Mr. ALEXANDER addressed the jury for the defendant, and was about to call witnesses to prove the expenses incurred by his client in advertising the 'harness, putting it up for sale, and also for warehouse room, when Mr. Baron BOLLAND remarked that if the plaintiff's wit nesses were to be believed, there could be no answer to the ease, inasmuch as the purchase of the hamess by the defendant on the terms stipulated put an end to all claims for trouble and expenses. Under these circumstances Mr. Alexander declined calling witnesses, and the jury found for the plaintiff. Damages £5. LONDON GAZETTE.-FRIDAY, AUGUST 16. INSOLVENT. Aug. 16.—William Bideld, Hosier-lane, Smithfield, carpenter. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. Charles Pearson Charlton, Bath, dealer and chapman. BANKRUPTS. Lewis Wood, Tabernacle-walk, cow-keeper. James Dudderidge, Whitechapel, woollen-draper. John Barnard, Bristol, horse-dealer. Henry Tlor, Bristol, ship-broker. William Homer, Stamford, innkeeper. Moses Whitmarsh, Wantage, Berkshire, corn-dealer. Edward Rawlinson, St. llelens, Lancashire, alum-manufacturer. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. W. Bartley and R. Roberts, Liverpool, attorneys.—T. Evans and W. Worthington, Salford, Lancashire, plasterers.—J. Close and T. Close, Manelester, merchants.—J. Close, T. Close, J. Close, jun., and T. Close, Nottingham, commission-merchants.--T. Close, J. Close, jun., and I. Close, Manchester, merchants.—G. Daniels and J. Wilkinson, Jermyn-street, St. James's, tailors.--R. S. Maples and T. Daniel, Nottingham, auctioneers.—B. M`Leod and T. H. Al' Leod, Stockwell, brewers.—W. Crease and J. Barton, Featherstone-street, City-road, plumbers.—J. Holmes and B. Holmes, Dover, painters. — J. Dixon, J. Allason, and R. Sherwood, St. Andrew Auckland, Dur ham, colliery proprietors; as far as regards the said R. Sherwood. — J. Ogle and J. Gracie, Preston, Lancashire, silk-mercers.--J. Nickels and J. Hunter, jun., Acorn-place, Commercial-road East, auc tioneers.—R. Smith and R. J. Smith, Galley-quay, Lower Thames street, wharfingers.— J. Garnet and N. Garnet, Farley, Yorkshire, worsted-manufacturers.—G. Jones and S. Lambert, Leicester-street, auctioneers.—J. Milford and C. Milford, Exeter, bankers.—E. G. Fordham and G. Fordham, jun., Ashwell, Hertfordshire, brewers. — J. Tingle, J. Tingle, B. Tingle, T. Tingle, Ecclesfield, Yorkshire, iron-founders. DIVIDENDS. Sept. 10, J. Clark, Jewry-street, Aldgate, wine-merchant.—Sept. 13, C. Stuher, Leader-street, Chelsea, baker.—Sept. 10, T. Thirlwell, North Shields, wine-merchant.—Sept. 11, S. Martin and J. Martin, Cheltenham, jewellers.—Sept. 18, W. 'White, Leamington Priors, Warwickshire, upholsterer.—Sept. 10, R. Wrigley, Rochdale, corn dealer.—Oct. 30, S. Cooke, Salford, timber-merchant.--Sept. 13, J. Jones, Carmarthen, grocer. CERTIFICATES, SEPTEMBER 6. J, C. Dunn, Chatteris, Cambridgeshire. common-brewer.—G. May, Evesham, Worcestershire, bookseller.—S. Levy, Exeter, iilverimith. —W. T. Maugham, King-street, Covent-garden, hatter.—F. Preston, St. George's-place, Hanover-square, confectioner.—W.Neville, Earl's court, Kensington, apothecary. THE SHAH OF PERSIA.—The present Shah is excessively fond of money. It is customary in Persia for sovereigns to re ceive a present from their nobles, on the occasion of any for tunate event. Thus when the Shah, who is an excellent hunts man, kills any game, he extends his hand behind his back, exclaiming "Shabaash! ' Sicca babolie !" (a good shot! some money if you please!) It would, however, appear that the avaricious monarch exacts the same tax when he misses his aim. When cards are played in the palace the Shah's purse is kept open, and those who gain are obliged to put into it the tenth part of their winnings. INHUMAN ASSAULT BY TURN-OUTS.—A most inhuman and cowardly assault was committed on Saturday night last by three turn-out sawyers on the person of a poor woman named Pick ering, whose husband is a sawyer, but not a member of the ge neral trades' union. Mrs. Pickering's husband, who is in the employ of Mr. Leland, joiner, went into a public-house kept by a person named Clarke on Saturday night last, where he found three turn-out sawyers named Francis Foster, James Hornsby, and William Murray, who immediately began to reproach Pickering with working for "a knobstick master." Pickering's wife came into the room, and fearing a quarrel would ensue, desired her husband to leave the room and go home. He ac cordingly went out of the room. but had no sooner done so than the three closed the door of the room, set upon his wife, and throwing her on the floor, kicked her in the eyes, face, and every part of her body; until she was bruised all over. Picket ing, 'hearing his wife's cries for assistance, seized a poker which was in another room, and bursting open the door of the room where the fellows were maltreating his wife, rescued her from their fury; otherwise it is not improbable that they would have killed her. A warrant was obtained against the men, and being taken into custody they were brought up at the New Bailey on Wednesday, when Mr. Law, who conducted the prosecution, expressing a wish that the prisoners should be fined for the as sault, Mr. Lloyd ordered them to be remanded until the fol lowing day, when two magistrates would be present, and a pe nalty could be inflicted.—On Thursday the defendants were again brought up, when they produced two witnesses who swore that Mrs. Pickering committed the first assault upon one of their number; but they gaye evidence at variance with that given by witnesses for the defence on Wednesday, and the ma gistrates (Messrs. Brierley and Hollinshead) disbelieved them, and convicted each of the prisoners in the penalty of 40s. and 9s. lid. costs. The money was paid and the prisoners were dis charged.—Mr. Law stated that one of the unionists had been to his office that morning, wishing to make up the matter, but he had thought it his duty to the public to bring the matter before the bench.—Manchester Guardian. ed.—Mr. Law stated that one of the unionists had been to ice that morning, wishing to make up the matter, but he the adjective kyle in which no substantive, contra ,t sought it his duty to the public to bring the matter before to the usual laws of t grammar, , can stand alone, and DlO9 c h.—.l4lanchester Guardign. he is partial to the superlative, scattering his 1S CONTEMPOR<4RF PRESS. The imprisonments that hare taken place, during the Whig reign of liberality under the laws for the suppres, sion of cheap publications, again- became a subjee,t`" conversation in the House of Commons last night. Solicitor-General denied the other evening that the nun. l " ber amounted to three hundred. Whig denials are S ge.; nerally received as affirmations of the fact denied. 0 1 , is in this instance. It appears that the number, in s of being under three hundred, is above four hundred. Lord Althorp acts much after the fashion of a ma rl who sees his house in flames, and instead of endeavour ing to extinguish the fire, sits quietly down to calculate concerning the point of its breaking out. But we do his Lordship an injustice. We do ackn ow : ledge that he went last night one step beyond this point f of philosophical inactivity. He r ea lly went to the polo' of explaining how the flames might be put out. With a simplicity altogther unexampled in the history of Par liamentary man, his Lordship, after having, in his Pe,; culiar way, traced the evil t o it s source , a nd lament ed its operation, declared his convictions as follows: " The only way he saw of putting a stop to such prosecutions, was by repealing the stamp duty on newspapers." The only way he saw of extinguishing the flames Wa,. 5 by pouring water upon th em . It i s not t o be denieo,. Truth and Whiggi sm are f or once miraculously unite° Well, but did Lord Althorp promise a supply of this es sential water? Did he follow up the marvellous adva!Y, tage of his discovery, by engaging to set the Ministerial engine to play upon the "devouring element?" ( l• no; ; not a whisper of any thing of the kind escaped to .. lips of the lordly legislator. It is his business as f: statesman simply to find out the only way in which an evil, avowedly mons t rous an d many -h ea d e d, c an rooted out and destroyed. This " only way," he assur e " us, is by repealing the Stamp-duties on Newsparrt Having ascertained that, there's an end; his Lordship" duty is done. His functions, as a friend to the difrusiT of knowledge, an d a su pp ress O r o f t h e i mpr i son mea. system, rest from their labours at that point. His 13 91, ness is to deliver an opinion, that water will extinguish the fire—not to demonstrate the fact by practical exPr riment. He is to advis e wa t er — an d t o w i t hh o ld it. ' l° prescribe a particular medicine for our disease, a nd t° deny to us what lie prescribes—though he alone i s the keeper of it for the time b e i ng . ,Itt is so—in the sobere st of all sadness, even so. His Lordship assures us, there, is but one remedy that will r ea lly t ouc h ou r Case—ea°, that one remedy wel shall not have. He delivers it a' his conviction that there is a way, an " only" way, b • c d which we may escape the evil, complained of by us a l) ", lamented by him ; and y e t thi s " on l y " way h e keel)' effectually barricaded, and s t ou tl y res i sts every a tteruf' that may be made to throw it open.—True Sun. It will be remembered by our readers that we have O r indulged in any sanguine anticip a ti ons o f th e res ult 0 ' the late contest for the city, although we take leave t ° say that our support of Mr. Kemble has been as zealou s if not so efficacious as that of our worthy fellow-labourer s in the same vineyard. That the c on s tit uency h ave f a iled in their duty has not been owing to the want of good ad vice or of a proper direction, but is rather chargeable O that unfortunate st a t e o f l e th arg y or exhaustion which ` c i commonly succeeds periods of st rong an d l ong continued excitement. Against the proceedin gs o f ministers an d the demeanour of the Commons' House during the whor e , of the sessi o n one C on ti nue d ou tb rea k o f i n di gnat i on , ono feeling of disgust an d con t em pt h ave b een man if este d by all moderate and thinking men ; whilst on the part of the • exalted and designing people, known as the R' adical 01. Destructive party,- disappointment and rage because they had been choused out of their promised share of the boot! by their Whig allies, combined with a thorough knot ledge of their ignorance and imbecility to excite an an; ceasing agitation again s t th em d ur i ng t h e same space 0' time. Against a Ministry supported by a Parliament constituted like the present, national discontent and de' rision warred in vain, and the existing state of lassitude may be fairly ascribed to this long-continued irritation . In the meantime, however, intrigue has been actively at work, and the Government busily occupied in the attempt to disarm the enmity of its ancient allies. Every change that has been operated has opened a wide field of place and patronage, and the Radicals have been tempted back to some show of amity by a share of the plunder. Of the members composing the various emu; missions that have lately been appointed for commercial purposes in France, for poor laws, for factories, for or; porations, the greater part are men lately distinguished by the violence of their radicalism and 'Unitarianism i and it has even been thought worth while by a misera ble ministry to bid for and purchase the services of the subalterns of (among others) that acute republican 1) . 2 " per, the Examiner. What all or any of these commis' sions or boards have beneficially operated in return for their salaries remains yet to be known. These facts will ferve in some sort to account for the renewed alliance between Whiggery and Radicalism , and are a clue to the conjoint activity of both at'the late election. At the same time the moderate and constitu tional party in their accustomed manner.fled from 'the strife or maintained a criminal neutrality. There wag strength enough in the City, property directed, to have returned Mr. Kemble twice over. With all this tri umph, however, of which we give them the full bene fit, we do not think that Whiggery will come into much better odour, or the Whigs be less ashamed of their designation, than heretofore.—Guardian and Public Ledger. The Lord Chancellor, somewhat elevated by libations poured in his snuggery in the house of Lords, thought proper, on Wednesday evening, to reel out of his way 1 0 order to be pert and impertinent to the brother of his Monarch and Master. In the coarsest and most vulgar manner did his Lordship assail the Duke of Cumberland , who had taken no part in the debate, and whose name was not, in the remotest degree, connected with the sub ject under discussion. It is most true, that wine is to the mind what varnish is to the picture—it brings out all the darker parts, and exhibits the faults as well as thq beauties of the artist. The Duke of Cumberland, by a fearless and uncompromising adherence to the principlees of his revered Father, and of the constitution of his country, has excited, in the hearts of all the Political Unionists, Penny Magazine writers, Liberals (as they' call themselves), Radicals, and Revolutionists, a bitter and implacable hatred. In the case of Lord Brougham , this feeling is sharpened by the ineffable contempt which the Duke must feel for all his Lordship's proceedings ; and lie sits and broods over his . antipathy, unluckily for himself, with a bottle of Berkeley-square port wine before him : the varnish is applied with no sparing hand, and when the wine is iii the wit is out—nature prevails—the venom rankles in his heart, and he spits it. The peculiarmode which hi s L or d s hip se l ec t e d f o r as sailing his Royal Highness on Wednesday of itself de - . termines the question o f so b r i ety . Hi s L or d s hip Is reported to have said, speaking of the West India " If his Majesty chose to confer upon a native of the Colo nies, though the colour of his face might be black, the privileg e of sitting in that house, he had as good a right to do so as hi ° noble and learned friend opposite (or either of the two inn' trious dukes—(Dukes of Cumberland and WellingtOn)--the one illustrious by his acts, the other illustrious by the courtesies of tiL House. " The Duke of Cumberland rose to order. He could not conceive upon what ground the noble and learned lord wa s attacking him, for he had not said a word upon the subject, or expressed any opinion whatever on the question in debate. " The Lord Chancellor proceeded with the most rehernen, tone and gesticulation to say that it was the noble duke hiuisel' who was disorderly in interrupting him—and he was now re peating his irregularity. " The Duke of Cumberland again rose to order. He would not submit to these attacks from the noble and leared lord, or an other noble lord, when he knew that they were made with out reason. He rose to know whether it was in order that he should be selected as the subject of the noble and learned lord's observations when he had not spoken in the debate, and when he declared he had never said a word upon the subject to anY man living. " Th e Lord Chancellor said the illustrious duke was wrong in supposing that he alluded to him with any disrespectful in tention. All that he stated was, that any natural-born subjec t of the King, though a negro, if the King should confer ur ri him the rank which entitled him to a seat in that house, had as strict a legal right to sit there as his noble and learned' friend' or as the noble duke, or the illistrious duke who sat near hire' This reference he had a right to make to the illustrious dalot whether he bad spoken in the debate or no t ; an d it w as a re' which he was determined to exercise, whether the illustrious duke thought it fit and orderly to interrupt him or not. It WO 3 right which he had exercised for twenty years in the other house of Parliament; and,. as the privileges of both hous es were the same, it was a privilege which he should not forego" The noble and learned lord made some further observations !I' support of the proposition that the slave who had once been iri England ought to be free." It is clear that Lord Brougham did not recollect wha t p he had said, nor exactly, as we are told, comprehen ,A — a . d what he did ; for that' he of all men alive should sneer b the courtesies of an assembly in which, by courtesy, h e s himself is spoken of as a noble and learned Lord, see n " most conclusive of his state. We are told that the ex; citement his Lordship experienced in the early part the evening led him to lie down on a sofa for two OUP subsequently. ThiS'may be calumny ; but we can as sure his Lordship that he gains nothing by the frequell,l r of these exhibitions. Kean, who was a more popt o actor than his Lordship, lost himself in public estiroa; tion by similar indiscretions; and, however we ll-suite,,,' such antics may be to the cap and bells of the Beef-st e t; Club, they very ill become the crinitory wisdom of t " Chancellor's wig.—John Bull. The Times has been at the pains of bestowing a 03 ,, II ; pie of articles on an advertisement of Mr. Simson, t`t t master of the ceremonies at Vauxhall, with which ), makes itself prodigiously witty. Nothing is more be plorable than the siaht of a blockhead attempting W e ", imit a ti ng jackass, imitatin the movements trn spaniel is but a poor type of the jesting of the Tiin, e ' t i That Mr. Simson writes what may be emphatically Cab e ig the adjective style, in which no substantive, cont r ,7,', / t to the usual laws of grammar, can stand alone, and he is partial to the superlative, scattering his "inns