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Pottrp. LINES FOR MUSIC. (FROM THB DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE.) " Alemorieg that make the heart a tomb."—SHELLEY. ALAS ! I waken as from sleep To days gone by— And turn myself slide to weep, I know not why-► There is such sorrow in the thought That all is o'er, — That happy spirits can be brought To smile no more So heavy falls upon the heart The well-known theme, That grief of life's the waking part, And joy the dream ! Oh, bitter are the blasts that sweep My onward path— Calm is the smile as infant-sleep That memory hath ! The past is glowing in the dies Of distant years— I strive to look—alas I my eyes Are drenched with tears ! cannot visit ye fair climes ! Ye smile in vain— The spirit of those earlier times Wakes not again 1— Yet let me strain my swimming sight-- Loved—loved regard! Oh, could this gaze thy fated flight One hour retard ! 'Tis weak to cheat myself too long— One look—away ! Now back to calmness—and the throng Of cold to-day ! THE MAGAZINES. Fraser of this month is as brilliant as , ever. There is a capital article on the " Factory System;" "The cele brated Trials of the 19th Century" are full of romantic interest ; there is an excellent and graphic Sketch of Dr. William Dunlop, and an equally amusing biography in one page, under the head of a The Gallery of Literary Characters ;" the articles on " Church Reform" and Tay lor's Life of Cowper" are well worthy of perusal.— Among " The Fraser Papers" for April we find the fol lowing, which is all we can make room for at present : MATRIMONIAL ADVERTISEMENTS. We give the following as we received it, omitting only the address. It came with a pamphlet entitled " Some Remarks on Matrimonial Advertisements, being an Inquiry into their use and abuse ; and addressed to the Heads of Families." "The Editor of Fraser's Magazine is requested to accept a copy of this work; and if he should have leisure to make men tion of it in his review, and that it is customary to pay for such notice, it will be immediately complied with, on addressing a note to "—=-- Square," We want no deuceur for " contributing to the comfort and happiness of our fellow-creatures," as the author describes his business to be. Sure we are that he (he is, by the by, an old Quaker) will be found a most accommodating personage, and no doubt those gentlemen who employ his mediation in affairs of amatory advertising will not be disappointed, lle acts the part of marriage -broker; but as he is one of the Society of Friends, he is of course far too conscientious and strict in his religious principles to think that the intervention of parson or priest is necessary on all occasions. He has too great a regard for the arguments on this head of "the unrefuted Barclay." As, however, he is so kind as to offer to bribe us, we cannot be so unkind as not to melee some extracts from his book. One relates to a butcher's daughter. "I know some young ladies who have been expensively edu cated, and who might have been agreeable, if they had acquired the rare accomplishment of a little common sense. They were born over their lather'rebop, a wholesale butcher and, cattle dealer. He left them £130,000; and I see they have just put ,up a gorgeous hatchment upon their newly-taken mansion in the purlieus of London. If you sit with them half the morning, little else will catch the ear beyond Milady,' and her Lady ship,'—a titled acquaintance they lately placed up in the half starved widow of a respectable tradesman, who was knighted in the reign of George 111. One of their father's craft, a good looking and well-conducted young man,—their superior in some, and their equal in every other respect,—lately proposed to ful fil an old engagement with one of the girls, and he was sum marily and haughtily rejected on account of his trade ! By the by, they have discovered a similar name in the peerage, and it is now understood they are a branch of that family." Why need these fair butcheresses torment themselves ? More than one butcher's daughter is to be found in the aristocratic leaves of the peerage—more than one butcher's grandson sits among the Lords and Commons of England. And there was Michael Scales, the other day, who would have been the Mem ber of parliament for London, only he was beaten. Why do not some of our poets write us an amorous ditty of a butcher in love. It would be a glorious theme. The next concerns the inordinate expectations of the women, —on which point we suppose the broker is a competent judge. "The inordinate expectations of some women really passes -wonder. A lady with £2OO a-year writes me word that she will not marry unless I can procure her an income of £l5OO. Ano ther, with £75 a-year, and passee, requires good looks, distingue manners, and a carnage; her own money being secured to her. And a Scotch widow, with one child, ordinary person, and sans sees, desires me to introduce her to a gentleman of ancient fa mily (she is of course descended from Wallace,) with at least £2OOO per annum, that 'she may regain her former position in society ;' and by way of recommendation, she assures me, that she was so devotedly attached to her husband that she will never allow her feelings to be implicated again. For this £2OOO a year and a husband, both good things in their way, I may reckon on receiving her hest thanks;' and she is at this me.)- merit exceedingly angry with me, because I do not give her the introduction immediately. There are others who betray a wa tt,' contempt, or an innocent ignorance, of orthography, who seriously reply to announcements headed A man of hereditary rank,' &c. But these are some of the inconsistencies all must expect who hazard a public advertisement." Why so fierce about orthography ? Our Quaker ought to be far above such contracted notions. The fair ones who write to gentlemen and ladies in his profession arc not qualified to fill chairs in the London University, or any other such learned seminary. They have their own appropriate places to fill, and no doubt they do it adequately. Our amiable Quaker himself, when he says " Harlequin enonce de verites en riant," or talks of "the embarras of a shy debutante," &c., &c., dues not ortho graphise over correctly. 'What the deuce has spelling to do with his business! ' One statistical table, and we have done. " A calculator has made out the following estimate of the chances of matrimony a girl has at the different periods of her life. Out of 1000 women, 32 are married between 14 and 15 ; 101 between 16 and 17 ; 219 between 18 and 19; 233 between '2O and 21; 163 between 22 and 23 ; 102 between 21 and 25 ;' 60 between 26 and 27 ; 45 between'2B and 29; 18 between 30 and 31'6 14 between 32 and 33 ; 8 between 34 and 35; 2 between 36 and 37; and 1 between 36 and 39. To judge by this table, a lady of 30years would have only 28 chances of getting married out of 1000; when passed 40, the chances are far less. There, ladies, then—there's your Bioscope. So, as old Her. rick says, " Gather your roses while you may." This book of billing and cooing is appropriately published b) Turtle; and the first author referred to is Archdeacon We hope the Quaker is satisfied; and when we apply to,him, we expect he will pick us out a good sample. Blackwood comes this month in a double tide upon us, and therefore do we find the greater ditEculty in making any selections from the numerous and valuable papers .which the two numbers contain from a review of " Mo therwell's Poems." We extract the following verses for the benefit of our fair readers. The reviewer introduces them with these observations : Wordsworth speaks of " old songs that are the music of the heart," and they overflow Scotland.- - Some are mirthful—but Taure are .melaneholyt-and many so sad—airs and all—that a sobbing will at times interrupt the voice of the maiden at her wheel, singing to herself " Of sorrows suffer'd long ago• L LIVERPOOL STANDAR. li. Motherwell has imbibed the very soul of such strains as these —nor is he here inferior—we say it advisedly—to Burns. Has either the Shepherd or Allan Cuuninghame, in their happiest veins, surpassed Motherwell in his " Jeanie Morrison?" lIEID IS LIKE TO REND, WILLIE. My heid is like to rend, Willie, My heart is like to break : I'm wearin' ail my feet, Willie, I'm dyin' for your sake Oh lay your cheek to mine, Willie, Your hand on my briest-bane : Oh say ye'll think on me, Willie, When I am deid and Bane Its vain to comfort me, Willie, Sair grief mann ha'e its will : But let me rest upon your briest, To sab and greet my fill. Let me sit on yOur knee, Willie, Let me shed by your hair, And look into the face, Willie, I never sail see mair 1, I'm sittin' on your knee, Willie, Por the last time in my life : A puir heart-broken thing, Willie, A wither, yet nae wife. Ay, press your hand upon my heart, And press it mair and mair Or it will burst the silken twine, Sae strand is its despair ! Ohwae's me for the hour, Willie; When we thegither met': Oh wae's me for the time, Willie, That our first tryst was set ! Oh wae's me for the loanin' green Where we were wont to gae And wae's me for the destinie That gart me luve thee sae ! Oh ! dinna mind my words, Willie, I downa seek to blame : But oh 1 it's hard to live, Willie, And dree a warld's shame ! Het tears are hailin' ower your cheek, And hailin'. ower your chin; Why weep. ye sae for worthlessness, For sorrow and for siu ? I'm weary o' this wand, Willie, And sick wi' a' I see : I canna live as I ha'e lived, Or be as I should be. • But fauld unto your heart, Willie, • The heart that still is thine : And kiss ante mair the white, white cheek, Ye said was red langsyne. A stoun' gaes through my heid, Willie, A sair stoun' through my heart : Oh! hand me up, and let me kiss Thy brow ere we twa paint. Anither, and anither yet!— How fast my life-strings break ! Fareweel ! fareweel! through yon kirk-yaird Step lichtly for my sake ! The lay'rock in the lift, Willie, That lilts far over our heid, Will sing the morn as merrilie Abune the clay-cauld deid ; And this green turf we're sittin' on, Wi' dew-draps shimmerin' sheen, Will hap the heart that luvit thee As wand has seldom seen. But oh! remember me, Willie, On land where'er ye be : And oh ! think on the leal, leal heart That ne'er luvit ane but thee ! And oh ! think on the cauld, cauld mools That file my yellow hair ; That kiss the cheek, and kiss the chin Ye never sail kiss mair! We have much pleasure in calling attention to the 4th number of the Dublin University Magazine," a periodi cal of great merit and truly conservative principles, and which is fast rising to distinction in the realms of litera ture. We have only room for the following extract,— " England in 1819 and Ireland in 1833." Poor Partridge was never more astonished (after the fracas with his tender spouse) at seeing his own blood rise up in judg ment a g ainst him, than the unfortunate clergy and police are to find that THEY are the murderers, and that the death-howl (which is set up with as much loudness, and just as much sin cerity as the keening at an Irish wake) has been raised over some riotous and lawless ruffian, who was prevented from de spatching his victim. This is, you will say, very audacious buffoonery. True ; but unfortunately it is very successful. Such is the temper of the times, that this buffoonery which might be deemed farcical, if it were not "too tragical" mirth, is well received even in England. Indeed, the prediction of the bard of Ireland (as he is called by the cligue) seemsAo be fulfilled at the present day, Thy masters themselves whilst they rivet thy chains, Shall pause o'er the song of their captive, and weep. Dingy coalheavers, sinewy blacksmiths, have their tender sym pathies excited by the swelling theme. Riotous operatives, whose faculties have been enlarged by passing from the manu factory to the treadmill, and whose maxims of state policy have been quaffed in at the alehouse, put their marks to petitions which are poured into Parliament, and entrusted to some dis creet and learned senator, who will gravely assure the house that " Tenterden steeple is the cause of Goodwin sands," and that the slackness of trade in England is unquestionably pro duced by the exactions of the clergy upon the Irish peasantry. Such is the condition of the clergy: such the adversaries to whom they are exposed. • From the great Cerberus down to " the little dogs and all, Tray, Blanch, and Sweetheart.," all bark at them—every order of intellect, from an O'Connell down to a Finn, from the colossal head down to the great toe* of the party ; and, indeed, their state may be well compared to that of the sick lion in the fable, who, ,though he suffered from the trunk of, the elephant, yet was more hurt by the uplifted hoof of the ass. Such, I repeat, is the state of the clergy : their ene mies have prevailed, and they may say to them—" This is your hour, and the power of darkness." What a striking similarity, when we compare the awful cir cumstances of England, in the year 1819, with the state of Ire land at resent—and would we could say of Ireland alone—if the present system be long continued. Indeed, at all periods of the history of the world, the precursory signs of revolution and rebellion have been much the same, and this sameness of symptoms is a most providential safeguard. It seems to he one among the many indications of the way in which amoral Pro vidence controuls the ' affairs of the universe. The Supreme Disposer of events does not interpose a miracle to stay " the madness of the people ;" but, if the rulers should be perverse or infatuated enough not "to ask a sign of the Lord," in the hour of peril, •he forces one upon their view, if they will but have " the eyes to see, or the ears to hear." He seems to call their attention to the records of the human race, where they will find that He has established it as a law—that similar effects spring froth mania': causes; to the invariable connexion which has ever subsisted between unchecked licentiousness and open re bellion—to 'the various instances in which (under his protec tion) promptness and energy have saved the land : and when fear and despondency are paralyzing their counsels, He seems to say to them, as to the Jewish leader, " Why criest thou unto me; speak unto the children of Israel, that they, go forward." Yes, it is the fact, that whilst that true wisdom,- which marks the statesman, is ever rich and new, and varying in its resources prospective, , remedial, all-embracing, consulting for the interests of the whole community, and not for the present occasion merely, but, for ages yet unborn; .a merciful Providence seems, on the other hand, to have restricted the cunning of the agitator. He cannot find out new channels for "abounding iniquity." He must fall back upon the clumsy artifices of his predecessor in guilt—the vulgar invective—" the scurril jest—the lie so oft o'erthrown." Hence it is that we see so strong, so pervading, a likeness between such portions of the history of mankind. it is but the same filthy agents, working upon the same filthy ma terials ; but, perhaps, in no parader - that could be traced, are the points of resemblance stronger than between the period I have just alluded to and the present. If we wish to refresh our recollections on the subject, (and it will be a refreshment in more ways than one,) let us take up any one of three of the most powerful displays of senatorial eloquence that ever thundered within the walls of a British parliament, the speeches of lii•en vale, Canning, and Plunkett—bursts which seemed at once to awaken the shunbering, moral might of England, and call upon her to shake off the horrible nightmare by which she had been so long convulsed. What, do we find then upon a survey of that period? Itiner ant demagogues, paid too, not men loving mischief for mischief's s ake ; but influenced by more selfish and solid considerations ; penny subscription orators, " Fortune hunters who would not court even deformity itself until they found that she was well portioned."—Fellows of this 'description, assembling large and portioned."—Fellows mobs, under the preposterous pretence of.petitioning; but in fact for the purposes of intimidation and disorder. Again, a licentious and infidel press ; and (in point of talent) such a press !! ! Black Dwarfs, Medusas, &c. " Uorgons, Hydras and Chimceras 'dire," it was no longer' the Boiing brokes ; the Voltaires • but the Cathie., and the Hones. It • ist Citizen—l the great toe, sir How am I the great toe, sir 1 Me - mewls—For that being one o' the lowest,' basest, poorest of this most wise rebellion, thou goest furemost.—Corielwius. was no longer (to borrow the conception of our great painter) the " harlot infidelity" with something like beauty ; and tricked out in the ostentatious finery of prostitution; but the same wretched creature, with features bloated and rutalized by ex cess, beating hemp amidst the vile inmates of the workhouse. It was no longer Satan, under the form of the " archangel ruined," but the foul and venomous " toad squatted at the rab ble-ear." We all recollect this vile crew (their dullness un fortunately for a long time operating as a protection) speaking a language to which Englishmen had never been familiarized; the mingled and virulent dialect of treason, blasphemy, " ma lice, hatted and all uncharitableness," assailing every order and institution, around which the habitual and long cherished affec tions of Englishmen had been entwined. Again the magistrates, men, who in defiance of every risk, at the peril of their lives and fortunes, set themselves to stem the desolating torrent; held up to general execration ; petitions hawked about from one pot-house to another, thumbed by every greasy ruffian whose name was enrolled as one of the sovereign people, call ing for justice on the devoted heads of their oppressors; and those very petitions, presented to the Legislature by certain " Knights of the Post," who were ready (in addition to the damning internal evidence upon the documents themselves) to add the still more damning evidence of their own personal testi mony. Again, the very judges of the land, bullied and brow beaten, and held up to detestation and assassination; one of them, because he had declared his opinion in a charge to the grand jury of York, " that the riots had arisen not so much from actual distress as from acts of evil-minded persons," openly prescribed; astonishment expressed that " none of the staring thousands should raise his knife and plunge it into the bosom of the monster, who could coolly insult his sufferings." Such were sonic of thei symptoms at the awful crisis I have alluded to, a crisis, however, when England's good genius prevailed and rescued her from the most awful fate that God in his inflictions ever sent upon a nation—the despotism of the mob. After the passing of the bill of 1829, we all flattered ourselves, (however we might have differed upon the accompanying mea suzes,) that at least that horrible goitre; the Catholic Associa tion, had been deracinated. Have our hopes been realized. Has it not again appeared in a form, if possible, still more foul and loathsome. Have we not the Arena pouring forth from its vomitories at midnight, and through the heart of our metropolis, groups, and such groups !! ! Spouters, whose style of oratory, (if we must "squander away" such a term,) may be, for noise, and filth, and fury, compared to those mud volcanoes of which we havo lately heard so much. Poor wretched tradesmen swindled out of their weeks earnings, and returning, maddened by want, and riot, and intoxication, to their naked and famish ing families. THE LONDON PRESS. (FROM THE STANDARIL) The following we believe to be a. faithful outline of the plan for the settlement of the West India question. A loan of TWENTY MILLIONS is to be negotiated upon the credit of the colonies. The legislative assemblies of those colonies which have any, are to be called upon to guarantee this loan ; and in the colonies which have not legislative assemblies, some agreement is to be come to with the planters for the like purpose. The loan is to pay an interest of five per cent. being reserved for the creation of a sinking fund, and the remaining sum to be payable to the subscribers. We have not heard that the Government of England is to give any counter-guarantee—but we presume that as 18 or 19 millions are expected to be raised, such a gua rantee is to be given. The money so raised is to be applied as follows, to the immediate emancipation of the whole negro population,— that is, if we may apply the term "emancipation" to the shifting of the slaves from their present condition to that which we are about to describe. The planters are to be paid an ad valorem price, rang ing between £lO and £2O per head for their several slaves. The slaves then, de facto, cease to be the planters' property, and . become the indented labourers, as it were, of the public. They are, however, to be held in gangs upon the estates, in the cultivation of which they are now employed ; they are not to be removeable, or to be permitted to remove for any purpose whatever from these estates, which are thus to be at once their parishes [in the English sense], and their place of im prisonment. These public labourers, and state prisoners are to be compelled to work six days of the week, and the compul sory instrument is to be supplied by a numerous and effi cient white police, acting under a subordination of ma gistrates communicating with several colonial.governors. This is all we know; but we presume that the slaves are to be allowed some wages. . The first objection in order of time to the scheme, and the only one that we shall notice to-day is the expense. Can the West Indians afford a million a year for the pro posed loan, and at least three times as much for a police force sufficient to keep 800,000 refractory negroes work ing at a rate at which they have never worked 'before ? (FROM THE GUARDIAN.) There is now a vacancy for Westminster, and who so fitting to represent a great trading city as a gentlem an practically acquainted with trading interests in all their multiplied shapes and bearing ? And if to this valuable and useful species of knowledge we add unsullied public character, talents undoubted, acquirements of a high order, but above and beyond all, benevolence of heart and care for the poor never perhaps equalled, certainly never surpassed since the days of the immortal Howard —sure we are that the voice of the public can designate but one man answering to these irresistible qualifica tions—and that man Mr. Sadler. To the disgrace of Leeds, its mill tyrants, its Unitarian grinders of the poor, the portion of its Press which curries favour with rich supporters by offering up the poor as victims to the Moloch and Mammon of its own base idolatry, Mr. Sad ler was excluded from Parliament in favour of a mill owner, and a young gentleman who writes in Ladies' Albums, figures in the Annuals, exhibits in the Edin burgh, and got a place under Government, because he once, and once only, caused Sir Robert Peel for one mo rnent to forget his temper. To repair this national loss—this national disgrace—is in the power of the city of Westminster. What honour may it not by such a choice retrieve And achieve ! And how many hundreds of thousands of those little children now inhumanly sacrificed to grasping avarice—of whom our Divine Master has said, " Suffer them to come unto me, for of such is the kingdom of Heaven,"—will live to bless the city for its choice. (FROM THE TIMES. )_ As a practical illustration of the injurious tendency of the China monopoly on the general commercial and ship ping interest of the country, we may state, on the au thority of a correspondent, that there is an American vessel now actually loading in the London Docks with British Goods for Canton, whither, by the Company's charter, no British ship, except in their awn employ, can be directly sent. The chief trade to Canton in ex ports for the payment of our teas is, it is true, conducted by merchants independent of the. Company, though by a circuitous route and by shipping which has no direct com munication with England. private trade between India and China is of much greater importance than that of the Company, but, by the Company's monopoly, it is precluded from giving any direct employment or encou ragement to British-built shipping. Under the present complaints, therefore, of want of employment from the shipping interest, the opening of the China trade cannot fail to be hailed as a great pro spective benefit. The shipowners of the port of London may, indeed, anticipate a falling off in the employment of their tonnage, in proportion as the China trade is ex tended to the outports ; but that deficiency will be nearly counterbalanced by the increase of the general trade with "" the celestial empire," of which London, from peculiar circumstances, which we cannot stop to enumerate,. must always enjoy more than its proper shre. Th e . t r v ea irl i complaint among intelligent mend n the e that the China trade should be opened two or '" e iho' N hence—but that .the monopoly of the Cotte n /ped; by the proposed arrangement, be so long CO r yond the legal expiration of their charter. ponem ent of the opening of the trade for threeoi anticipated . to be virtually a renewal of the Trw ilu s r e ilitt i five or six years more, as the extensive tow, which . the Company hasat work in China inust i b,: v , an Immense ascendancy over the private t i .rau e :p c er,: two first years of our free intercourse. .11°`'" In shall have no more American loading for Cant. °P e d • lt Lend . on Docks, while British shipping is prol e passing the Straits of Malacca. (FROM THE SUN.) l i e I Notwithstanding the reform that has taken PF,, gil constitution of the Commons, the old habit e . tongue" on every, even the most frivolous, ec i c a e ' d, ifs 'flourishes in as high perfection as ever. In ue rr - he thing, the breed of talkers is on the increase. - , 5 " is ethes loquendi is spreading. The "gift of tongu-st.s longer confined to the Newman-street Chape l • e t to l phen's beats it hollow. A man might sooner end of a Devonshire lane than to the end of a Pl,. phi tary oration. For the future, we shall head et t itY mentary report with the words . .4 Much Ado au" thing." -ors! This is a lamentable state of things, and, t` , 1 ):ar it is, we see no remedy for it. Reform, it i s not reach the evil. Discretion has no influence, short of some strict prohibitory duty on s enatori al g ot° fying can be of the slightest avail. Why sboin“,,r-e talk be taxed as well as other things ? There are on knowledge out of the house, why should therehis taxes on ignorance within it ? An impost of this would be wonderfully productive to the ExcheV i e i e . then how humane, how just ! The Speaker be lengthened at least a dozen years, and , I vits j folly would at once find their proper level. ;',We co end,f' hon. members drive a free trade in talk, ann quence is, that no other trade or business is ati: t h Uf We are now fast approaching the third In e :dol session, and, as yet, little or nothing has be e 'his We are still where we were (or nearly so) Wb el , j , a t jesty delivered his opening speech. All the g r ji tions of the country are still at the starting-P° s l . to indeed is muzzled, and a padlock is beingma n ui lli tel" mouth of O'Connell—but where is the Irish v — fo form Bill ? where is the English ditto ? "°si; the assessed taxes progressed ? does any one ~rls, has become of the taxes on knowledge ?" to ty's free pardon and a reward of a hundred po il l.,o o ' man who will come forward and declare all her, t he has heard of Ministers' intentions with respe ct use' , , tress of the country. Alas ! the proclamatien,i t Even the bellman himself would be sent rou nd 1 • inquiry without avail. We are by no means the advocates of violent;redioo but when the " soothing system" has been pr att le out success, it is clear that, as a last resource'„ r our) attempt the compulsory. Mr. Cobbett, we v `i ti. ,ge l ;l proposed some years ago to put a stop to Mr. loyal orations by the application of a sledge ' 1 .,, that portion of his outer-Adam in which, by ti ot 4 courtesy, intellect is held to reside. Now we, c is , oa d : think that the same experiment might be sal - e 'age j i tisfactorily attempted at St. Stephen's. The ~s ; Slid mer is sadly wanted there. In the hands of O R - on te it might be wielded with the happiest effect. r o d, II : , once saved by the cackling of a goose ; E u g00 0: ;1 unfortunate, is being ruined by the cackling °, 50 6 11 Surely, then, as drowning men catch at str aw iat have no objection to catch at a sledge-nano er f de" - tion. We suggest this experiment by way ° hint to the incorrigible. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. of t d ? 1 ,, D 1 r ti l LONDON POLICE, MANSION-HOUSE.—The —„.° l fe rt. o f cieved several letters from manufacturers in di T n e n ' o do o , 5 the country, containing orders from persons in late - 4 rious articles, and expressing their belief that the, d vo t , io nation of Richard Coster, at the Mansion-house! h a l 0 35 t ioe! plete stop to the exertions of a great many nonno uo lca to city of London. The following is one of the CO'' l ee S o f " My Lord,—Having just read an account of h i a rge b elt tion of Richard Coster and Edward Smith, on a, c st , isle fiery, taken before your lordship on Saturday 1 % 1 ,0 c c hand your lordship a letter, dated 16th instant, wh l o f pr, ° ,l 4 1 to be written by the same party, with an intention . 13 ea' i iip IRoods in the same way as those obtained from M r ', iora s ilo ngham. The country is greatly indebted to Y° 3 be.-' exposing such swindlers as those men appear t° ,' , main, your lordship's obedient servants, " Wymondham, March 27. . [dr y ' ad " " W. TIPPLE 3 .0 The following was enclosed : Oa "aft Messrs. Tle and Sons. "Sirs,—l l want to purchase 50 to 200 pieces of 611ijech coloured bombazines to send into France, an„ . (l s ' s j o ess smuggled in at a great risk, consequently my Sel l ,br t . l must be secret, and not through any agent hei 2,ll re,o'orio a r 0 ' 5 8 0 ) return of post if you can supply the goods, i nn f ;plic u e r t o o ti i delivered in London, carriage paid, and, shall remit money beforehand, depending on Vl' the ° ,4e me the goods by return of coach on your recocillos36 i " THOIkIPSON, 2, the George, fit. " London, March 16." His lordship also received letters from merf dot' c~Plld, i 4 various parts of the country, stating that if th e vo r„bo51(0, not taken place so soon all over England, tue2,,te probability, have been robbed by the sWindlinn o . ur del ";;i 0 „ 1/ tr,,1 fer of cash before the delivery of the goods bill i „,,rell e f groib) a ld opening the eyes of the manufacturers. The 0131 3,: Pj 11 Coster has certainly caused a great sensation, al l tic enA t e men who have been unfortunate enough to be Idol' ;7;0 1 transactions with some of his agents, in the belie „f a ot,t\'" s ol respectable, have made repeated inquiries at tbe e ' ves tr ‘ ale respecting him. Amongst those who feel an je t ies lo;4 l , 4 lo of this prince of swindlers, as the lord mayor st Y gentlemen (one of them a barrister) whom one ,° o s. 0,1 0 arrested for the sum of £5OO, a farthing of whic'e l e iceP in order to prevent them from being iii the waY, isk er' - sion, when their presence might have proved " the head of the great plundering establishtnee t i j3)1 1e r, 6 ; It is rather singular that the apprehension „till° IC oil Sr • b more accomplished, though a less experienee,, he re J o di f have immediately followed that of Coster. " - ‘ ," ii 0 1 1 , - ese " e d,' derstand, upwards of fifty cases-of forgery el l— of iug-houses against Byers. The uttering of O le o Pl e "i i ries caused a great deal of surprise when it w, de` ti o the Justice-room. The wife of the prisoner I.cayien to 11 - tit bed, attended by a medical gentleman; and ". 10 3 0 40e:0 services were no longer necessary, Mr. /W ig a eci,botdi check for £lO, stating that he had no chang e i : scF 4e i the difference between the amount of the eheS - Dy t. 1.0 11 1. of the bill. The bill was immediately cashe," o , 9 ,o I thateur i w t h n o .a , s up a o f n or p g i e •e r s y e . nting it, received the 1"e 1 1 1 OA c c 1 c e ' II 0, 1 1 ii) OnTuesday week upon the ballot taking Ptieu e , l ° , e w i li z o* , of Commons for a committee to try the ineriseasc, , I w d, troverted elections it so fell out that Mr- P f the •,i e cte o member for Sonth , Durham, was chosen 0 1 ,1 ° to be;boo• 6 , from whom the committee was subsequeu,',),.. ‘ of t b- Th e it very serious difficulty arose as to the eligibo l 'i c ices• a ree t o ber, and the mode of dispensing with tits sc r o , , o ,o ; ing• o ti9 vine act giving no. power to set aside• bis °w e t ° c ,be i ' / wo' l positively each - member left upon the list,: T . soi n oti° s ,l o ,o sworn at the table of the House, it was, al` e iiitgla i e "`' 0 dilemma in which the house had understood that one or other of the c onilit v io isut 0 3 °4A ; strike out the name of the hon. member, to°. c if ; ü bc r uc, 0 question yet remainsundecided—whether aoYacitatehicb of IP have taken or to retain his seat, who is incl a ties;„ c t ives ° ing his share in every part of the a rduou s „ re seo i " a 011.,J sarily belong to the station of one of the rer h r ,-Le If ie ) people.—Morning Herald. _ fo rt 5 0 ,11, 0, , Bradford market, on Thursday, was flat.:iiituts be ing placed its to o a fro et , in prices having taken place which the ol i ; 11 , 0 ing; yet, says a correspondent, "it' w as market."—Leeds httelligeitcer. Imports. 4.57 , h. ...n................._____ 'DIES, CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, Is%l t , iDeDD., ti e r , , fin Bombay, with 2507 bales 150 hf 1 irow• ,-, Horsfall, Son and co-1 hd 2,ladetr: le...l t i l 'xs, 2 small bits coats unkn, Ibx cot 11, ? e k P Dk t lettaZ i tti, aflnco.....BlllaitoT6'tibausg,s w su i: r. l o b r x ae w r- atehes an , y t , rVEB r INDIES AND MADEIR A. os, bt1 3 , 11 , fin Kingston, Jamaica, with 15 hds 1 ,Oftiv . `Cit , l4 ~"'StIC, J Hall and co P 34 hds sugar, Slum \ q ,,e "cine, J Itoldsworth-1 pipe wine, L Ilbt 9, , 67 bags 41 brls pimento, 2 pnsru iii(1 1 ,,,,' '• Hatton -20 hds 6 brls Ihf brl sugar, 5 ' 1 (IT ", 4 --1 brl sugar, Jee Brothers and co,-1 d, S I el 44;10--102 bags 3 brls pimento, 15 hds rum. i1ta,,,,,,14,,%4 eoffee, A and J Caanpbell and co-17 do , 41(1 - -N, J Adarns--.5 tea 8 brls coffee, 54 bag , thda ' Joseph --50 bags pimento, J m Wood 'trt, tefPr, It Ilibbert-15 tcs 2 brls coffee, 'lr 1/ Vo't't'it:l6'ntsit ehoattrobna,lolls ,;‘ON • k'od. J Bibby and co-30 tcs 35 brls col :1 3 , ,),z , 17 serons indigo, 28 bales t cotton, cotton, lux r d , Hh th s•P Dk "e0., - ,: t , fin Barbados, with 636 hds 6 tcs sug :',lllek -.has do, Gibbs, Bright and co-8 tcs di q( 4 0 arrowroot, J Gowling-B Dk Ikleontarbados with 389 hds 12 b.% sugar, 9 pekt ° ,4 1 , V", ilds su_ga'r, order-Q Dk 0, 4 , 6;1. fin Demerara, with 308 csks melasses, ( '' k r i a b larn and Taylor --30 pns 18 Ms 10 brls rt , e y w e i s t with L 3 l o t 2 h hds eri a 42 d tcs an d 4 C 2 l itti ll ll 66-I)°t: ` (,M su ' ga °r r d , e o r-4 r d e ' q Murray -P Dk Ore, Wiiii.,,_. SOUTH AMERICA. ags -4 , 8 , fin Pernambuco and Paraiba, with VI hodlo'', lq,°l4.las, Asbridge, fin Alaranham, with 7921 ~',O Drothers-100 bags do, Foster Brothel s ‘), Todd Naylor and co-51 do, T Hesket f r m_ K Pa D rai k ba) 1020 bags cott( ,I;lactii:--108 bskts tapioca, H Castellain and co-1 , 11--G Dli "'6, 1 I,'S well, fm Bahia, with 2 bxs specimens, Bat sit doBautples, Golborne and Dobbs-1 bx coni t % ,34,,,,"1 Coraber-I do, C Lyon-1451 bales cot! teolktteiniens natural history, 1 case bird skins, • i . ,1) -4,0 cmdle, order-G Dk le % Pl4Lima, with abt 100 t Nicaragua WC' Oki ell t pearl shell, 15 ox hides, 1 ble Flor d• d 'ks bx cords nnkn, 4 bls vacuna wool, A ",,erk,A,enria skins, J Newson and co-1 bx cont re 1 141 3 . 4 Pattern samples, order-P Dk r t e rig, landraa, with 178 bags cotton ts 3 o l tn, hques co --50 do, Leech and Ham ~. eyworth and co-24 bits 1 tee brown su er vo b its 50 a s sugar, order-240 dry hides, L I:itiNtro, UNITED STATES. 4 3 d. 2 frn New Orleans, with 270 bales cotton, .3,1 4 , w ° ' k l elly, Prevost and Bl l do, Roski kes sk tr,„ Smith and Son -198 do, e° W Forde and c '. 'S4,,'. 2 ..bag!s cotton seeds, order-P Dk t.,, ( 10, i,__,,,.New York, with 218 bales cotton, taeeed , 6`;',9, l •ligton and co-140 hides, Dennisto e eq., ' b _ l, l Bride -1 case conts unkn, D Gibt • ).1 ° 195 1 .;,•, I s Prel do, V Shiels and co-1 prcl do I ,, l at on, ;ILe s.!otton, 1000 brls turpentine, order lit e....2tii! Charleston, with 300 bales cotton Ni l 25 , i ,• ) „,': 10 ., W btuart-18 do, J Elder-775 do i t 4045 : 1 : 11,40 ':anPdu Charleston,,.Pl. Charley k m s h r 4 d 99 e r bk ea, :t", ° , 1 , 1 ,,c . s fm ton with 132 tea 39 h i.t tl,i , hii '''''..e and Prichard- 2 -41 do, W Stuart atti' e ' l e aad ° , u o gh,, fin New Orleans,with 1260 ball r tuv,„ bk-.. 0 do, Isaac, Low and co-1 brl In, :1i e...... 1, do ': J , -1 ,0 do, Martineau, Smith and ( - ba P les D c k ottop, W SI k i ' ti Ch4 ti rder.....p i i' l lY and co-S do, C Challmor iliCrlation) lAr.,_ 1 -4,00...,9 9 p A ' i . hn Charleston, with 125 . bales cotto: I , bi t p o , ri , s __ 0 2 14 csks seeds, order-P Dk ' l % ke tchl, r v.)r fm New Orleans, with 942 bales cottc • ;4 14 c.fr do 'ln New York, with 345 bales cott wc.....6 ,rlVoairrnight Shiels and co-200 tcs ek h l ) ,,,, ' O . Solt° '4 (,"aP e ' 1; Fisher a 2ht G A, 4,,,,50•-...5 brls isin 1 4 •••... p b r t rro brls tar, 284 brls turpenti dsharn---1 do, do, D 51arples--: o 'ter aiad e ' IL ' o n and Cort-2 weighin ,, mad. al e d o, . L ., ,o•--1 bx 1 bndle conts unkn M D Wothe a a 3 s , Bonn-100 Baring, Brothers do , l , V a ß n y d e re c , k t ro, 11, p . i 5,5 , nee, f in r N'e Broth e n ' O t::, a d i'leb le, , u ntt others a O g d en and co-11l do, A Tayl al " e O --226 do, Keill and Cou: Savannah, with 605 bales cotto •• r, „c O --134 d -, rot Savannah, with 800 bale , ‘`ter--abt 30 t stone ballast, said ill -- ' 45 7 do, ~,(,),:_, Bolton, Ogden and co-33 do, It•Ne v b 4 t, e, ,4 , arnum , fin B krlllParrl ' e l a cd c0.....,5 9 av ,,annah, with 1 hf tee rice, ; i t, a 4 e ,--- -121 d o 10 0 1 189 d o ~,,, Rathbone Brothers and co— Volt,Theux__lss.,i. Crowder-161 do, A Taylor i i. X• t lin 5 a ,,,„., ' lO , order -P Dk ea, W and J Brown and co I, ,Pipaviri,„htall, with 597 bales cotton, Isaac. re'to I t ''' an d e O- -309 do, Bolton, Ogden an ) gtl rn' N ew 0 .11 o, ri .1, deans' with 983 bales cotton, Rosl Fl o e, f rn New .....16 J N o t A O rle d o, . Howard-P Dk ' l l a, rott•--_ 76 ans. w i th 50 bales cotton, J iico 4 4 01 51° ' lO . ord do, Melly, Prevost and CO2 -- ix, 4 1 4 02:1e5, f in , T e_r:--I3 Dk N4e0,114 cotto n `i i 7w Orleans, with 26 hds tobacc sa k ,_ to ni 4 do, s 3 0 ,,,,and J Brown and co-100 do, `siOarr et-- -B Dk - " Al and co -158 do, Roskell, Og 1, i lte r os.iian e a y , ,folt, ell . lii adnod, 0n0....3...rder-dGinD:kil ,41441eitiagon, Miller * 194 4 0, 4 „and co--2.a ~'M Charleston, with 200 bale: `,%l' Robe 41 arriso . ) .,"e. Sands, Hodgson and co lt, lop,,,,rr s _: u 731:•"" t 1, Sands D Buchanan-49 kii\l,4 , winta l'. ~,,,i l ii. and c0.... 6,, h ril New Orleans, with 252 bales litA t lP 27 ' tio - • OW Orleans, with 231 b les cotton,. •',,,sstl e ~,e e" - -1 124 do, ord ' ' Ot t 7 0 t1 e ' ' o ole, f in i i h . order -B Dk . 4 , ' , el k 0 . 513 do Il o ile, with 224 bales cotto: il •hob r,as tat i is. P atrY and co-676 do, R Wits U , Ili ee ut .a• .i storY, Ibx t,l ts o der-P Dl I,* ... 4 . 1 . Liddell, fin Norfolk, "- •' • r • 2 hthroolat do, Hagarty andJ N'ygt i .l:,, withdo,l,,v II e o f iron, Cropper a erdein-- ° 1,.. a ar • Gre a en and So. C 0...-113 IL.S.. Cril -014 rlson-(for exporta a ti d on) 24 Pit hapine ean. y ol , , k. 1 ,1 407.' 1 co-.74'1n New Orleans with 445 bales A,3 Melly a - do, G Green and ' Son-172 do, Lo VII -,, d o „nu co -84 do, Keill and co-298 d 1gi1,, 4 , e,!. fin'N'a6'arty and Jerdein-P Dk L d-,Y40, iiThell,`Z Orleans, with 192 bales cotton, 1 ,0 o _, atry aii nen and co-216 do, conmann, '' ki' l l t e d e o ard it F sa o- van l 4 n Uo, l l ; ll t e h llyi ) , l f r . r i z .l o e s s t a e n o Lc i c 11-1 A Shiel l ,; c a Zer--63 do, Cropper, Benson a aek e _ , - m o rie, feh co -82 do, W and J Brown a N b s l i ,_ tin4t aarleston, with 26 bales cotton, C ' ri," l ., 14,11,addy , N , N rl . (l Oath -21 do, Baring Brothers ,l, 't and Larlan e f _ at s.„ o n, Cordes and co-P Dk %, ', anr--,, 213 ba rn N ew York, with abt 70 t fusti ,Likil i „ bt u Ilro u .. A r cocoa, Bell and Grant,--471 be VI et„ben, t limn . , and co-21 bales safflower, 11 4 e 0,11,, - a nd co-.4' 0 " and J Jackson-231 bales /I kV' - 'aini; ".Pmrips o r t mas cochineal, Ewart, Al} .1,,t1)ZZ1,...,......5',1,139 1,,,,r3,1-4tales wool, Baring Bro c 9 l b,' A ,,Cam%,,,tto n 7 sea sh ellsrder__p Dk , 54 bales cons .1;• , ‘VI '' a. 1 4 00 'i• 1,4,N,A1in, liriill Charleaton, •,,,„. with 125 bales, cotton, I ittanan 1'i1t ,, ,, --6 e 9 do, , Bower anti Son-94 do, 1 % V)s on : r bq a rt and co -15 do, Bolton, Ogden E k - ? 00 ( 1 0. g „,,, I ,i e , c O - . 244 do, order-P Dk 1 A rik oi t , ,f,', with 173 bales cotton, Cropp, ~,!..2y, t m, N ..". O;, with and _co-272 do, R Wilson. -4 d9 do, AN p il ~, Taylor and u i r _. n 6 1 Go,,eans, with 1012 bales cotton, Bi Bit i ,"' ol and co-P Dk „...1e&;29°2",.ex,,,t's mahogany sle P • Will' 'IS.I1 AMERICA, 1 lalcs NI IR o c2o st a , Ilai• f, K ii 4--2 3 do 112GP I ,and en ", rab,,t airclough-50 tics meta „es, wl 1:c, N S, with 2G hds 15 tx 1 ;Ir ile us sum. , 0 ' 5 2 , he„ . ', l lnd Taylor-45 tc3 sugar, tii o s Hay nes, „Cter......q, abt 25 c whalebone, NA , t 1 0 , 1 t 7 , 10 ,_",rali a , n , Dk 1 1,„ 43 " 0 ,, d, 87 1 0 ' esks bottled wine, aht 62 ea :. fin Nassau, N P. and St i t,,,,0, , I It& u ork, II g a. , l -48 visa ark,t J :Wright, ,1 1 kir, it'rb u o x ils aPpl, 1 b x 5i,(11),,11._ 157 pa horse 2 bra lime, R F 1 as) 1 esk h at s work 8x 1 bx old sill 4 r„,,,,,.. , -, "Ie and qnty wrt iron, Plk• S PAIN v h '4gol D p !6°4,,, ste n, Blundellq °II TUGAL \l4l-sabt 5 t euk w ' f m, Lisb o . • pipe h e4iiin, Laraberrt . cl- ''' ' l ' Ain' with. 1 2 11' i ta. ,' 1 111 Ons j Ind co --11g chats 48 rb • olives, ii ibb, an ,,.. do, 156 do, J Adam °s tern 1 , 1 1 . w i l _ o 9--1 bx conts unk . S 44L er, f ° vrs--.5 hf chats orar • A ker ao .ril Lisbon, kith 1 Cll' el /11‘ . .. 4 lack ,kk kt e ht 17 hfists leamtirews-e d fture, R l‘lonro tt‘ti:,%vie,:ilocinhstL42 hf - e ° l l , u st ' J e , Collin l4° t o ' I I k t.L da' `via l'ennin,; " .3ichaersa - ,.., tatl i _ges, an ord e er-C Dl do, Saidl% 4l " - • 1 5 hxs (b; ...tn 302 large (14,2t2it:,4.11,!..tt0 i laster-g Bk . ,' • o dd Naylor and c c , ,, , E UROPE, `tilarle'rliet, f :1 4 ‘ 1 '' hull in 110 tterd ,1te,,0 rushes, GK 1 ata ' w ith , 1 • k. / Lori i iet . - 0 Dk 0 tr.,5 6 141418 Lase_ pictur( "AS 50„cs gel 1 !: 4 14‘ ii7.l.g ette, f in 0.,._ L. 4,," 4 X 10 bales e ••"vml. with 60 '. seer, 1...... T , r odilla hemp t oak bark, it,lbt , c Je.,..e..„1-%alal. with 1/ e,A order--g Dk z , ,,,1i NV171,11 1 "e 0 ' 1 Masts, 10/ c 21 s s, p e ~arsuerg , A nd ‘-nristenson-11 D e ir Qn ' f m Douglas, !