The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-10-04 00:00:00

CONTEMPORAI?Y PRES'. lita l . Ve learn at length, after a silence of some duration, te the Dutch government has made a pause in the ca t,tc::.of sacrifice s and humiliations, and that Baron Ver hicii4 Soelen, charged on a special mission to outbid v s , Predecessor in offers for peace, has failed, as Baron hignZnylen did before him, and has, like him, transported pr s chancery and himself to the Hague. The Treasury i: s ' which announces these striking results of the non onervention and peace-breathing policy of the Foreign ce, in place of affording us some insight into the na 0, e of the recstinate provocations which may have stirred up his Majesty of Holland to one other stand in de ner of national interests, real or supposed, finds it infi nitelyth more easy to retiump up its old charges against e Monarch of feigning to negotiate only as a means of e xtractingbites (swindling is clearly insinuated) from his i fi Llt es General a further vote of money, and still dream tg of recoriquering Belgium. These presumptions are "ally charitabl e t owar d s t h e h ea d of a s t a te l a t e an •y' as honourable to a minister who, conscious of the Want's strength behind him, wantonly wields it with all 4iita,ln's consciousness, if not some small portion of his still rich Amsterdam, we are sapiently informed, is 4 11 rich florins. and therefore the Dutch are sneeringly aoselled to aet the spendthrift and eschew the prudent Part. There is another country too which is commonly w l) ,.nted all over the world to pozsess more money than Ivi h, and the tradition still exists of the English traveller, civilly after discharging the costly bill of his Belgian host, rvi v !. l Y bode him in future not to mistake him for his sign— thilc,h was that of the Golden Goose. Now, considering O r e la vish manner in which the talents (such as they are) on Ur foreign department are remunerated, and the rle er°4B charge in the shape of fleets, secret service mo -1431' I° " of national character, to say nothing of the ab aellon from p u bli c wealth by t h e l oss o f commerce , t o b c for the sake of our Belgian neighbouis we have lancr i nitted and stillendure, it must be confessed that Eng ter. is in no'ver y i mm i nent d anger o f f o rfeiting her char ti„ The p os i t i on of our Belgian ally i s, h owever, infi inteasnuic hIY In ore enviable tha n th a t of the lielgian landlord, f ro as the British minister he is leeching is yet far ism,l having discovered, like the British traveller, that he headed the part of the gilded, feathered, and addle biped. The Kin of the Netherlands, we are sa flg:ctilio‘Tlv told, ancies th g at a general war is inevitable; to oFiciore delays to conclude peace in order to be able t o 13 er his army to whichever party would help him back rum. of Holland rejoiced in such Ministers as Mother King William that we know of, there is no tell abg , w hat surp ass i ng f rea k s o f f ancy h e wou ld as t oun d th e o rld with. H e might, for instance, mista k e t h e round instlit. a nd deceitful for the direct way to an object, and ead of the more upright though losinc , game of man tus,fttention for the rights of 'his people, and the re -I,4tZit t o contract- engagements w hi c h h e w as not reso atZ and honourably bent on fulfilling-, he would— ullip n, up a hollo w p eac e, getting hold of Limburg, xis enemies into a false security—at the very I t and auspi c i ous moment, swor d i n hand and army his Ett strike his own bargain and seize on Belgium sD pre , Such, we say , might be the policy and the it ee,.ited, aon • Y of a Sove re i gn en dowed with short-sighted, is and not ov er scr upulous councillors. Happy l i l l i lo r a nation whose destinies are differently swayed, p? under th e c l ou d o f temporary misfortune, the be "‘' of anci en t friendship, and the heavy hand of the Itio ti e "n l oPpressor, remains unseduced into the commis spectq present wrong or immorality for the sake of pro th:7 e, advantage, and hesitates to sacrifice public Phil o N!lough amply indemnified according to that new whi c h PuY and Machiavelian construction of expediency, teach that the end in all cases sanctifies the means. urnardian and Public Ledger. Th e °yr Scotch have a song, of which the burden is, ties ! .17. woo' is ill to spin ;" but it is harder to spin arti tor la this vacant month. We cast our eyes over the Pro ' n ecti°ll of the newspapers of the week, and, with a sigh, we I .: f t ! '" them the very acme of dulness ; with a sigh, tilay - b r 44 for we fear that something of the same kind tnu at said of our Septembrizing labours. But still we so on The writ e • big; at all events, are going on. What a C O4 r vir la Fras er ' s M agaz i ne ca ll s t h e G ov ernment by panto signs, is in full activity. All our institutions are paid ptthy the crucibl e • an d th e c h em ists who operate are handsomelyof for their pains. They are chosen, ti a iP ret rse, from the Whig set with the most amiable par k p ;a •Y• The parti es pl ace d upon th em ," says the writer Ser, are one and all, men who have been long woria ll Ail their various minor departments in the political ' 4l one . man we recqgnize a sub-editor of the is t i n another an assistant getter-up of the Examiner, so o „ ° ,_taer the runner of one of the Times reporters, and C on i . ° the end of the chapter. One whole Board of tiesto,4sioners was formed, with scarcely three excefp jllr,.georn the committee who acted at Cambridge the phte:avendish's election." This is very well for rat az d . e stiising Whigs. As another writer in the same the wl l ll . ° says , "Coleridge must have had the advent of 1)4 3t f i t s in his prophetic eve when he described the re - ° the swine-- ' Underneath a broad oak tree There was of swine a huge company, They grunted as they ate the mast, It i 3 Which fell from its branches full and fast.' " trei, 44 l Paquestionable that more patronage has been ex hou ''' In the three years of the Grey government—more 4 62 RTY People saturated with the public food—than in any ent—more d er et, l Years of the reign of the Tories ;—and all donelun- T t i le pretence ofdoing away with patronage altoget ler. Iv i i , ' l ,e result of the labours of these roving commissioneis cot : oe to upset every thing that is established in the tr itti ritr Y. and that for the almost unconcealed purpose of r d. sk Sterring all power, general and local, from the hands .11; 1 _ e gentry or aristocracy to the creatures of Whiggism. for e Co rporation Commission is particularly obnoxious, to : that strikes directly at the root of all property. We of l not, perhaps, indulge in the gloomy apprehensions tb.! e ' Standard on this subject, but it is undeniable that 811 disclosures made by forcing corporations to produce titles' eir legal papers and documents, will shake so many „ that there will remain no way of remedying the - , e. se • 7:e/lief except by a special act. And one mischief, at all ilt s , is glarin g — v i z ., th e up se tti ng o f a ll f ee li ngs of , r v ci e rence for the - local gentry in the minds of the l owest p ose rs • When they see change made merely f or th e pur v of change—when they find those whom they h e re always accustomed to look up to with respect, ex rllsed to the taunts and insults of hired commissioners, : 4 ,0 often exercise their upstart functions in the most in -I°'ent and impertinent manner—it is impossible that the levelling spirit should not take possession of their minds. in IS easy to predict how this will eventually operate; but, t - t he meantime, the Whigs do not care about that. They :cure their offices and pensions, and make hay while the , 1111 Shines, perfectly careless if t here be neither hay nor utishine left for those who come after them. 4 .,We intend, as soon as these travelling commissioners ZFProach their close, to dissect all their operations, and to ile some history of their members. What a nest of un b us hing jobbery of cradling meanness, will it not then g 1. our task to drag into light I Nor shall we omit what, grinthe Present times, it seems is the only object worth thi g about — t h e o bj ect for wh i ch we sacrifice every or th e honourable, every thing that conduces to the glory .-,R.e inter es t of the country—viz., the cost. W e shall take care that the people must know how •"uch I to , s . Ticney has been sacked by briefless barristers, cads ,0171 readable magazines or reviews, hack newspaper untagers, and the rest of that tribe ; but we must wait r ._, our means of information are more ample. Our readers will find, by referring to an article on the Law w e T o r nissions which we publish in another column, that u already know something b t ..... 4ge. a ou some of the worthies. We adverted ------- ts„c_. a few days ago to the re-appearance in u j il dh ot - Sir John Key, in the capacity of a maistrate at 'person's It tion might fairly have been presumes' that that a ~__ s resump of the magisterial office was merely ztardous trial of his u"Perat e experiment upon the public . temper—a ha style. W e ground —a venture in the forlorn-hope , v, ouid have beencould hardly have supposed that the attempt Joh n by repeated. But we were judging Sir brazenness or tests, and measuring his amount of te by the vulgar standard of every-day effron extraerd• e forgot that certain signs " had marked him roil _ ..e inary,.• and that lie " was not in the common of a. " 1 , 11 ' . e.n.' We had not calculated upon the possibility 41 _ . n ually drive to Guildhall —a public sitting every t ,._`7 ll ,a g of the week, in the character of a city magis- Ow_ metropolitan dispenser of justice. We had seen itync.„"_wyar ills impudence would carry him;, bqt one step be -1.1(T‘l .that of a single trial of public patience, in present e,chimself to notice upon the Guildhall bench, we had eiv/.1 our it simplicossib l ity and want %of a fine imagination, "r 1 ed pe for him to go. Yet such, we understand, is the case. Sir John Key Dias appeared almost every morning during the week, in his "accustomed haunt ;" occupying the seat of justice, as if it had no terrors for him ; sentencing petty larceny practisers, as if he had no sympathy with them ; eliciting the truth, as if he loved it, and were incapable of trading in deliberate falsehood. Had Sir John Key been content to regard himself situ ply as a tradesman, we repeat that we should have left his tarnished character to brighten itself as it might, and only have noticed him whenever he might have chanced to stand in Guildhall in an opposite character to that of a punisher of fraud and a dispenser of the penalties of jus tice. We should•have wished his customers full quires, and, though doubtful, have been mute. But his tena cious grasp of the chair of justice itself renders it as much a duty, as in the other case silence would have been a charity, to assail his knuckles occasionally with the sharp point of our pen. We have no wish to wound him, and he has shown us, by an extraordinary hardness of charac ter, that it is rather a difficulty to do so;—but—he must let go his hold of the chair. Let him take away his hand from among the sacret symbols of truth and mora lity, if he would have his fellow-citizens cease to remem ber the foul spots that are upon it, and that render its least touch polluting.— True Sun. Among thealarming symptoms of the present distem pered time, it is not least that there is, as we have but too often had occasion to remark, a prevailing dispo sition to scorn and trample down, under the name of old abuses, whatever is ancient and venerable among us, for no other reason than because it is sanctioned by the pre cedents of antiquity and the experience of ages. Empti tress and vanity generally go together. Indeed, were it not that the present state of popular knowledge is, per haps, a necessary part of the progress of society in its advance toward something better, it might reasonably be questioned whether the misinformation of these times be not worse than the ignorance of former ages. Common sense, and that moral sense with which God has endowed us, will often enable men to judge rightly, because ho nestly, without much instruction. But there is a kind of half-knowledge, a scrambling acquaintance with odds and ends, picked up here and there, which seems to dis able men from judging justly, even of the facts that come before them. It seems to produce a sort of squint or jaundice in the eye of their mind, by which all objects are distorted, or take the peculiar hue of the diseased organ. Give men a vattering of law, and they are sure to grow litigious; make them a "little learned" in physic, and they become hypochondriacs or quacks; teach them some random lessons in politics and morality, by the help of the flying-stationer, and expect to find them rob bing or slandering their neighbour, and making love to their neighbour's wife. Two years ago the people of one idea referred all the possible and impossible evils of England to the corrupt state of the representation, and called for a reform in Parliament as the triumphant and infallible remedy of all our woes. On that head we believe we may already safely appeal to Philip sober, without much doubt of a reversal of the drunken deci sion. The new specific seems to be, like that of the two maudlin schoolboys, " to strike an eternal .friend ship" with France. We are ourselves indeed most wil ling to make with France the chapman's covenant of " let alone for let alone ;" but we cannot so conveniently as some of our present rulers shut their eyes to what experience has taught us to be the real disposition of the French power and people towards us. We know that the last William, of glorious memory, was the Monarch who first effectually checked the ambitious projects of their darling Grand Monarque, and that this wound of their national vanity continued so to rankle in the hearts of them that hate us, even to the third and fourth gene ration, and the thi rs t of vain glory so to prevail, that Louis XVI., by far the best and most conscientious of the Bourbon kings (he of the barricades not excepted), engaged in hostilities against this country for no other reason than that the contest in America offered an opportunity for aggrandising France by weakening Eng land. And when by a just rettibution, the revolutionary mania imbibed in consequence of intermeddling be tween us aod our revolted subjects, led to the disorgani sation of France itself, and after ten years of foreign war, as well as civil slaughter, the spirit of Jacobinism was burnt out, and, according to the regular progress of revolutions, a military despotism had trodden out every spark of liberty,—when the people was grown sick to death of the bloody and miserable anarchy was first estab lished upon the wreck of principles and institutions, — when the " eternal Republic " had passed from the ty ranny of the mob to the tyranny of the despot, we scarcely need repeat the sentiments of the Grand First Consul respecting England, or the famous, or rather infamous, advice of Lord Palmerston's friend and pre ceptor, the Prince Bishop de Talleyrand, as to the mo- tives for leaving England at peace. And thinks the pene trating Palmerston, or the monarchical and order-support ing Earl Grey, that France and her minions have for gotten " the story of Waterloo," as they have, or for given the triumph of that glorious day? Foiled ambition and wounded vanity are mot so easily lulled to rest.— Tinsel and the rattle of their golden chains may amuse them for a time, but the nation upon which a practical lesson in revolutions which might have sufficed to unZik) , ceive them and all mankind even to the crack of doom has been thrown away and lost, will hardly be taught wisdom or forbearance by the paper pellets, of kid-glove diplomacy, or the blandest smiles of the best-dressed statesman.-441bion and Star. That portion of the middle and working classes who were induced, prior to the late election, to join chorus in the delusive ti 4 big cry of economy, retrenchment, and re form, little thought of the interest which they then pos sessed in maintaining the prevailing state of things. They are now however beginning to discover, and much we fear to their cost, that retrenchment is not invariably economy in the end; and that a parsimonious, penny wise, proud-foolish government, sets an example com pletely at variance with the general welfare of the people. A fair remunerating price for the labour of the working man is, in our opinion, one of the most impor tant objects to which a paternal ,crovernment can possibly attend; it is so closely identified in every respect with the prosperity and happiness of the state. As long as the working man is paid liberally for his labour, we nei ther hear of distress nor indulge in complaintS ; but the moment the machinery of the Whig political economist— who regards the working man as a machine—is brought into play, confusion and difficulties ensue. It has been said, and with much truth, that the working orders, who possess no real property, are but scramblers in society : if the fund of recompense be large they fare well ; if it be small they suffer in reverse ; and the difference in the two amounts either swells the poor-leys, or finds its way into the pockets of those who need it least. A govern ment therefore ought not to yield to the senseless clamour of a mob about economy, retrenchment, and reform; but endeavour to set an example by a liberal recompense of its servants to the capitalists and monied men of the king dom, and by that means diffuse the blessing of comfort and plenty among those who need it most. We have been led to these remarks by the recent con duct of the whigs towards the mechanics in the dock yards ; affording, as it does, a noble specimen of what the working classes may expect to derive when the whigs have carried their economy and retrenchment into effect. The artificers and workmen formerly received 28s. per week. They are now classified, as the whigs call it, ac cording to an improved system, into two divisions; the men in one receive 17s. 6d., in the other 20s. each, per week. The Board of Admiralty visited 'Plymouth Dock the other day to witness the saving effects of their new arrangements, and doubtless expected a very hearty re ception with cheers. They must, however, have been sadly disappointed and chagrined ; for the workmen in a body presented a petition to them, complaining of the new regulations, particularly of the system of classifica tion, which they said depressed the feelings of the work • men, who felt degraded by the distinction, and of the re duction in their wages since July last. The report in the newspapers also states that the " petition contained a table, by which it appears that after the payment of house rent, and other necessary expences, there remains only 2W. a-day for the maintenance of each member of the family of a shipwright of the first class, and of 2d. in the case of other.mechanics of the second class." This was a beautiful illustration of the new system; but as it pro ceeded from nothing but a body of " unwashed me chanics," the first Lord of the Admiralty made short work of the matter, by announcing that the wages had been fixed after due deliberation ; that the classification system was the best in the world ; and that the men who were dissatisfied might leave the yard This was a glorious wing victory over a body of poor labourers, in favour of economy, retrenchment, and reform; and we congratu late the country upon the fructifying influence it - must have upon his Majesty's Exchequer. Let the Trades' Union give up their persecution of the masters, who do the best to employ therm, and look after this.—Cltester" Couranr, We noticed some time ago and made some extracts from a pamphlet which was sent to us, entitled, " The Safety and Advantages of Joint Stock Banking ; by an Accountant." It has we find already reached a second edition, which would seem to indicate that the sensible and dispassionate tone of its reasoning had proved agree able to the public mind. Having heretofore so largely quoted from it, we do not feel it necessary to draw atten tion to it at greater length. It may not be amiss how ever to commend the author for his good taste, in avoiding to preface his new edition with all the particulars of the high and sounding approbation with which the former was received, or to arrange the complimentary para graphs of the daily press in its behalf with all the tact of a Colburri or the perseverance of Solomon with his Balm of Gilead. Another small brochure has also just been sent to us, under the title of Considerations on Joint Stock Banking, published by Fraier ' and Effingh am Wilson, which states the liabilities of shareholders fairly and boldly. It is not, however, our intention to occupy the small space disposable in our columns to-day with a restate ment of our opinions upon Joint Stock Banks or Joint Stock companies in general. Without the slightest spirit of partisanship either for or against particular spe culations, we have advocated the propriety of noninter ference with the public,and laudable spirit for enterprise; and in doing so, we have perhaps been sufficiently severe upbn the mawkish sentimentality of certain journalism which in other days laboured under the imputation of more than common dalliance with schemers a venial trespass, for which the only remedy is thought to consist in a most indignant reprobation of former associations; upon the same principle we presume that the . rouge of twenty-five turns saint and chapelgoer at fifty, not that she has become passionless, but because lovers and wrinkles are rarely found together, and people do not usually sin without temptation. Shares would assuredly be in higher favour in many quarters if they bore the same premiums as in 1825 ; it is our hope, as promoters of legitimate speculation, that premiums will not as heretofore anticipate, but wait upon divisions of profits, and sure we are that in such ease none will risk but those who can afford to lose, and are prepared to insure success, so far as by caution and good management it is possible. - The discredit sought to be cast and the sort of opposi tion made to the establishment of Joint Stock Banks is far from having been justified by anything in' the shape of additional light shed upon the question. The liabili• ties of a shareholder in all or any society are perfectly understood by the hundreds of thousands of parties ain terested in Great Britain, and a j o u r nal or a p mpbleteer \ parading them now as a new di scover y mus t st rely have or expect a class of read ers o f th e mos t s t u pid d e cription. It is probable that such is the fact, and that arguments have been asserted with a view to the market upon the most approved principles of trading. Nobody will accuse us of undervaluing that. majekic national establishment, the Bank of England, or the un doubted security and respectability of private bankers. The first will suffer nothing by the rivalry of Joint Stock Banks ; the latter will become stipulated into more ex tensive usefulness than at present, whilst they possess in the less complex nature of their management consi derable advantages over more cumbrous associations. Our faith is that the public and the State must gain in the competition, and that is the real point of view in which the question ought to be looked at. To the parties who have distinguished themselves by a very gratuitous and somewhat peevish attack upon Joint Stock Associations, we trust the information will be received with feelings of decpt resignation that for one, the London and Westminster Bank will assuredly com mence operations by the Ist of January next, and that the capital actually subscribed by people who can pay up a hunched times the amount has already placed the en• terprise beyond the reach of failure. We trust, and that is our strong ground, that the trading community at large, now little accommodated, will reap the benefit of it, either among their old friends or with the new connexion. —Guardian and Public Ledger. 6t , „ A Saving any part of our baggage was, at first, out of the qu tion; every one lauded pretty m uc h i n t h e state h e got out of bd. _ _ Nothing could exceed the,cool, steady conduct of both officers and men ; instead of any one showing anxiety to save himself, which is exceedingly natural, on the coutrary many showed such reluctance to quit their officers that' they were obliged to be ordered to the boats. We got shelter for that night in an unfinished house belonging to a planter, who treated us very. kindly. The ship went to pieces the dtev after we quitted her. In the course of the day some of the officers of the garrison found their way to us, we being eighteen miles from St. Ann'S, and all that day we employed in saving as much of our baggage as'poSsible; next day we marched .to St. Ann's, under a burn ing sun, in such a plight, many of the poor fellows without shoes, and in a most wotul condition. Two days after, the cola. mender of the forces, Sir Lionel Smith, came to inspect the shipwrecked heroes; after thanking the _men for their steady. good conduct on the occasion, he addressed Captain Arthur, of the 93d regiment, nearly in these words, in the presence of the whole of the troops :—" Captain Arthur, I am a t a l oss •t o ex press to.you my admiration of the firmness, coolness, and judg, ment shown by you on the-occasion I refer to; it is to your judicious arrangement that the whole of the Se men owe their lives; if I had it in my power I would promote you on the spot; but, in forwarding your report of the shipwreck to Lord Hill, I shall feel it'my duty to recommend you to his lordship's notice in the strongest manner.' So 'much: for my first, and I trust, my last shipwreck. :The fatigue, expentre to the sun, and anxiety, and one thing and another, hai completely knocked me up in the mean time; I have been laid up for the last fort night with severe headach, but am, I trust, in a fair way of get ting better. You have no conception, at least I had not, of the devastation occasioned by the hurricane which took place nearly two years ago. This island will not recover from it for many years; the barracks are not half rebuilt, and everything is as uncomfortable as possible."—Glasgow Courier. . Dr. Lushington has given it as his opinion that missionary meetings held in churches, without authority from the crown or diocesan, are illegal. KIRKALDY.—VALUABLE DISCOVERY TESTRD.—A paragraph has gone the round of the papers, setting forth that the manager of the Paisley Gas Work had made the valuable discovery, that lime taken out of a wet lime gas-pUrifier applied to the beard, and taken off by the back of a knife or a thin piece of wood, shaves the face as cleanly as by soap and razor. In conse quence of this important information, one of the men employed at the gas ' work here availed himself of the discovery, by making the experiment on his beard, which was both long and thick. Having lathered well the under part, of his face with the line, he in about fiVe minutes afterwards commenced the scraping operation with the edge of a thin piece of wood, and immediately his face was as well (if not better) shorn of hair, as if he had come through the hands of a most experienced barber. Whether the beard shall grow again or not, remains to be proved; but, be this as it may, John expects to save his penny formerly paid for the application .of the razor, every Saturday evening, and the manager is in high spirits, in the hope that his refuse lime will receive a speedy sale at a greatly advanced price. We should suggest that the next experiment should be made on the back of a Sandy Catnpbell; which, if it succeeded equally well, would make the discovery a still more useful one.—G'aggoic Herald. We - this week record in our obituary the melancholy and un expected death of James Losh, Esq. of West Jesmond, recorder of Newcastle. It will be seen that the learned gentleman was in the North Riding of Yorkshi re a t th e t i me of - his decease, in discharge of his duties as revising barrister, - On Thursday he held a court at Romaldkirk. He was taken ill the same evening, after having dined with his colleagues at Greta Bridge, where he breathed his last on Monday afternoon, tb the great grief of a numerous private connexion, and much to the regret, of the party of . whom the learned gentleman was a zealous and some what effective leader. Mr. Losh was a native of the sister county of Cumberland, where his two nieces now reside, re spected by the rich, beloved by the poor, to whom their hand is ever open. 'To them the blow will be severe; and in this town and neighbourhood there will be unfeigned expressions of sor row in whatever circle the learned gentleman's death may be spoken of.—Neicrestle Journal. AN OPEN HEART.—A noble youth of the family of Mont gomery, from a fall and consequent abscess on the side of the chest, had the interior marvellously exposed, so that after his cure, on his return from his travels, the heart and lungs were still visible and could be handled; which, when it was com municated to Charles the First, he expressed a desire that Har vey should be permitted to see the .youth and exami ne hi s h ear t. " When," says Harvey, "I had paid my respects to this young nobleman, and conveyed to him the King's request, he made no concealment, but exposed the left side of his breast, when I saw a cavity into which I could introduce my fingers and thumb; astonished with the novelty, again and again I explored the wound, and first marvelling at the extraordinary nat ure o f th e cure, I set about the examination of the heart. • Taking it into one hand, and placing the finger of the other on the purse of the wrist, I satisfied myself that it was indeed the heart which I brought him to the King, that he might be ff,Litglaenda extraordinaryto.l.iclliesno thing, and that he might per ceive, as I did, that unless when we touched the outer skin, or when he saw our fingers in the cavity, this young nobleman knew not that we touched the heart!"—Sir Charles Bell's Bridge water Treatise. BRUTAL ASSAULT ON A FACTORY CHILD.—While the bu siness at the New Bailey was proceeding on Tuesday, Mr. Thomas, the Deputy Constable, bmught into court a boy about nine years of age, whom he had just found in the street, sur rounded by a crowd of people, and applied to the magistrates for a warrant against John 'Moores, a spinner in Mr. Faulkner's factory, in Jersey-street, for committing a most brutal and cowardly assault upon the poor fellow. The appearance of the boy was sufficient evidence of the shameful manner in which he. had been treated. He was almost naked, and through the holes in what was once a shirt, his back, breast, and shoulders could be seen completely covered with livid bruises, produced by the repeated blows of a rope; his left eye was black and quite swelled up ; and Mr. Thomas stated th a t th e l ower parts of his . body were in a similar state to those which were exposed. The boy, whose name was James Goodwin, the son of a labour. ing man in Poland-street, gave a very intelligent account of the assault. He said that Moores's piecer and he were strivi ng which could first finish clea n i ng their respective frames, which were next to each other, that he having finished before the other boy, called to him to ask what he was doing, when he made use of an expression in answer which we.shall not repeat —that he'then pushed against the other boy, at which Moores went into a violent passion, and, seizing hold of a rope which was covered with grease and about the thickness of a common bed cord, but doubled sixteen times, he first knocked him down with it and then beat him most unmercifully while he lay on the floor, giving hint three blows on the cheek which Caused his eye to swell—that nOt content with beating him in this way on one side of the body he made him turn over and repeated his brutal violence ou the other side, until he was himself almost exhausted The boy then got up and went home. and he was on his road to the New Bailey with his father, when Mr. Thomas met with him in the street. Themagistrates immediately granted a war rant against the inhuman perpetrator of this act of wanton cruelty, and at the suggestion of Mr. Thomas the boy was taken to the hospital in the New Bailey, where leeches were applied to his eye, and his other bruises were dressed. On Wednesday, Moores was brought up in custody, when the facts were clearly proved as above stated. Mr. David Foulkes, jun, appeared for him, but expressed his inability to say an) thing in extenuation of such conduct; he might state, however, as one inducement to the bench to deal more leniently with him than they would otherwise do, that as soon as the circumstance came to the knowledge of Mr. Faulkner, an intimation was given to the prisoner that he would be no longer employed in that factory. The loss of his work, therefore, would be some punishment for the offence. The magistrates expressed them selves its very strong terms of indignation at the conduct of the prisoner, and ordered him to find sureties to answer the charge at the sessions. Mr. Thomas, who, very much to his credit, ap peared to feel warmly on the subject, declared that ho would pay the expenses of the prosecution out of his own pocket ruler than stiffer such unmanly conduct to go unpunished. The poor boy appeared to be much altered for the worse since the previous dav ; the left side of hiS face was one mass of livid corruption, and it was the general opinion of the persons who saw him in court, that unless great care was taken of hint, hi life would be in danger.—Manchester Courier. OunaNG-On-rap:G.—The following is an interesting account of the chase of a gie-antie specimen of the red ourang-ontaug A boat party, under the command of Messrs. CraVgyman and Fish, officers of the brig Mary Anne Sophia, having lauded to procure water at a place called liambooni, near Touraman, no the north-west coast of Sumatra, on a spot wh ere th ere was m uc h cultivated ground and but few trees, discovered on one of them a gigantic animal of the monkey tribe. On the approach of the party he came to the ground, and when pursued sought refuge in another tree at some distance, exhibiting, as he moved, the appearance of a tall man-like figure covered with shining brown hair, walking erect, with a waddling {gait, but sometimes ac celerating his moti on w i t h hi s hands, and occasionally impelling himself forwardwith the bough of a tree. His motion on the ground was plainly not his natural mode of progression, for even when assisted by his hands or a stick, it was slow and vacillating ; it was necessary to see him among trees in order to estimate h.s agility and strength. On being driven to a small clump, he gained by one spring a very lofty branch, and bounded from one brand' to another with the 'ease and alacrity of auother monkey. Had the country been covered with wood, it would have been almost impossible to prevent his escape, as his mode of travelling from one tree to auother is described to be as rapid as the progress of a swift horse. Even amidst the . few trees that wero on the spot, his movements were so' quick that it was very difficult to obtain a settled aim, and it; was only by cutting down one tree after another that hi;_ pursuers, by confining him within a very limited range, were enabled to destroy him by several successive shots, SUMP of which penetrated his body and wounded his viscera.— Having received tiVe balls, his exertions relaxed, and, reclining exhausted on one of the branches of a tree, he vomited a coast derable quantity of blood. The am munition of the bunt ers being_ by this time expended, they were obliged to tell file tree in order to obtain him, and did this in full •confldence that his power was so far gone that they could secure him without trot', ble; lint were astonished, as the tree was falling, to see him effect his retreat to another with apparently ondi m i li i s b e d vigour. In fact, they were obliged to cut dow n a ll t h e trees bcfire they could drive him to eoraLat his enemies on the groun d, against Awn he still exhibited surprising strength and agility,. although he was at length overpowered by numbers, and de s'. roved by the thrusts of spears, and the blows of stones and other mix' ilea. When nearly in a dying state•he seized a spear made of a supple.wood, which would have withstood the strength of the stoutest man, and shivered it in pieces; in the words of the narrator, he broke it as if it bad been a carrot. it is stated by those who aided in his death, that the human-like expression of his countenance, and piteous manner of placing his Lauds over his wounds, distressed their feelings, and almost made them. question the nature, of the act they were committing. W ben dead, both natives and Europeans couNinplated his figure with amazement. .His stature, at the least computation, was up- Ivardir of sit feet."--The Natttraiifa's Library. n-IESENTE ATIS WIT! • county tinder consideration, the assizes will no doubt be adjourned from' Lancaster, as the agricultural part of the county, to Liverpool; as the commercial ; and Manchester, as the manufacturing portions; and if the same course be pursued . in Yorkshire and other counties, where the local circumstances may render it desirable, we see no reason to doubt that every reasonable complaint against the present administration of justice will be speedly removed. " We would suggest, not only to the uuder-sheriffs of counties, but to the provincial practitioners in general, the expediency of preparing as accurate a statement as posaible of the several parts of each county from which the great bulk of actions come fot trial; and to present memorials in due time for the adjourn ment of future assizes to the localities where the parties and witnesses reside, so that all practicable reduction of expense may be effected. " We refer to another article in this number (page 405-6), in which the expense of trials at the assizes is further ex amined; and we invite additional information and suggestions on these subjects, in order that Parliament, as well as the Judges and the profession in general, may be put in complete possession of all the materials requisite to be ascertained before ariv other extensive alterations are made in our courts of juslice, and especially before the revival of the Local Courts project."—Legal Observer. We have been faftkured with a sight of the first writ that has been issued for the removal of a cause from the pleas of the Exchequer for trial in the Sheriff's Court a Liverpool. After briefly describing the cause of action, the instrument concludes as follows: And whereas the defendant, on the 22d day of April last, by his attorney came into our said court and defended the wrong, &c., and said that he did not undertake or promise iu manner an form as the plaintiff hath 'above complained against him, and of this he 'put himself upon the country, and the 'plaintiff did the like. And whereas the sum sought to be recovered in the said plea and endorsed on the writ of summons therein does not exceed twenty pounds, and it is fitting that the issue above joined should be tried before you the said Sheriff of Lancashire. We, theiefore, according to the form of the statute in such case made and provided, command you that you do summon twelve free and lawful men of your county duly qualified according to law, who are in no wise akin to the plaintiff or to the defend ant, who shall be sworn truly to try the issue above joined be tween the parties aforesaid, and that you proceed to try such issue accordingly, and when the same shall have been tried in manner aforesaid, we command you that vou make known to the .Barons of our said Exchequer what shill have been done by virtue of this writ, with the finding of the jury hereon indorsed, on the second day of November next, that judgment may be given thereupon. Witness," &c. &c. - [We hope that it will be found to work well.—ED. LIVERPOOL STANDARD.) LAW OF DEBTOR AND CREDITOR. The following circular has been issued by the London attorneys:— " And he it further enacted, that upon all debts or sums, payable a a certain time or otherwise, the jury on the trial of any issue, or any inquisition of damages, may, if they shall think fit, allow interest to the creditor, at a rate not exceeding the current rate of interest, from the time when such debt or sums certain were payable, if such debt or sums be payable by virtue of some written instrument at a certain time; or if payable otherwise, then from the time when demand of payment shall'have been made in writing, so as such demand shall give notice to the debtor that interest will be claimed from the date of such demand until the term of payment, provided that interest shall be payable in all cases in which it is now payable by law." "The above is an extract from a recent Act of Parlia ment, and the effect of it is as follows: " If the debt be payable by virtue of a written instru ment, then the creditor is entitled to interest from the time when the debt became due. " If there be no written instrument, then the creditor is entitled to interest only from the time of his demanding payment of the debt in writing, so that in the demand of payment the creditor apprize the debtor that interest will be required from that time. " I think the following form will be sufficient : " I hereby demand payment of the sum of £ due from you to me, and I give you notice that I shall claim in terest thereon from the date hereof to the time of pay ment. Dated the day of , 1833.—Yours, &c.' " Of course you will take care to have evidence of the delivery of the notice ; and it is hardly necessary to re mind you that the creditor himself must not deliver it." EDUCATION. COPY OP TREASURY MINUTE, - DATED AUG. ao. My Lords read the act of the last session, by which a sum of £20,000 is granted to his Majesty, to be issued in aid of private subscriptions for the erection of schools for the education of the chiltircn of theoorer classes in Great Britain. - The Chancellor of the Exchequer, feeling it absolutely neces sary that certain fixed rules should be laid down by the Trea sury for their guidance in this matter, so as to render this sum most generally useful for the purposes contemplated by the grant, submits the following arrangements for the consideration of the Board :- 1. That no portion of this sum be applied to any purpose whatever, except for the erection of new school-houses, and that in the definition of a school-house the residence for masters or attendants be not included. 2. That no application be entertained unless a sum be raised, by private contribution, equal at the least to one-half of the total estimated expenditure. 3. That the amount of private subscription be received, ex pended, and accounted for, before any issue of public money for such school be directed. 4. That no application be complied with unless upon the con-' sideration of such a report either from the National School Society, or the British and Foreign School Society, as Shall satisfy this Board that the case is one deserving of attention, and there is a reasonable expectation thlt the school may be permanently supported. 5. That the applicants whose cases are favourably entertained be required to bind themselves to submit to any audit of their accounts which this Board may direct, as well as to such periodi cal reports respecting the state of their schools and the number of scholars educated as may be called for. 6. That in considering all applications made to the Board, a preference be given to such applications as come from large cities and towns, in which the necessity of assisting in the erec tion of schools is most pressing ; and that due inquiries should also be made before any such application be acceded to, whe ther there may not be charitable funds or public and private en dowments that might render any further grants inexpedient or unnecessary. In these suggestions my Lords concur. A NORTII-EASTER. (FROM AN AMEIZICAN PAPKR.) As we are now threatened with an old-fashioned North East ern storm, we give place to the annexed account of a tempest of that description, which took place during the war of the Ame rican Revolution, in Rhode Island. It is written by a vener able and valued friend, who bore a part in the scene he de scribes, and who writes with as much force and feeling as though he had just come out of it. " Tiverton, R. 1., Aug. 5, 1833. " Dear Brother,—Did you ever see a royal Northeaster, with his Newfoundland fogs on his wings ? I guess you didn't— well, I have—and tell you where it was, and all about it. You know Rhode Wand, don't you ?—Well, it was there. We were encamped near Quaker Hill in '7B, or '79. You have heard of General Sullivan, hain't you ? He was a nice man, and wore gold knee-bands to his breeches. We were waiting for the French fleet to arrive and help us. The British, you know. own Nova Scotia, and all along that coast where the fogs breed. Well, the Tories sent word to the British some how or other that the French were on their way to attack the Bri tish, and what do the rascals all along shore do but get up the Northeaster, and all the fogs they could muster on the banks of Newfoundland, and packed them off to Rhode Island. You Bever in your born days saw such a blow as it was ; and as to the darned - fog, you eauld sake your finger and write yourname in-it. Away went our tents, camp-kettles and canteens, away went masts and yards of French ships, and away went the ships themselves as if the d-1 scut them. This tarnation fog lasted, I don't know how long, and the Northeaster got worse and worser, till many a soldier lost the hair off his head by it! - and it was a miracle that they kept their feet, and they wouldn't hadn't they sat on 'ens. " Well, there we were, pretty well drenched I tell you—how ever it's au ill wind that blows no body good, and we got some thing to eat and drink by it. You never saw the Independent company ? No, you couldn't., for you wan't born then. I'll tell you, they were as pretty a set of Young fellows as ever drew trigger, either in sport or earnest; they were all Boston boys, and as our regiment was raised in that town, our officers and they were band and glove, so they got leave to encamp with us. Well, their w ag ons came down upon us before the Northeaster, without horses, as if the d-1 drove them. We all turned out —out! did I say ? We hadn't had a tent over us for hours ; they were all blown - down flat. 'We ran to stop the waggons, and wheel'd them round, thinking they could not go sideways like a crab, but the instant they came broad side to it, up they went, and trunks of clothes, for they were rich young gentlemen, trunks, hams, tongues, kegs of brandy, loaves of sugar, lemons, and the deuce knew what, all came swimming all about us ; it was a glorious scramble, you may depend. The Independent Com pany, or Cadets as they were called, were rejoiced to get their trunks again—as to the rest they did not care, we did; there was an old stone house near by, only half blown away, and into that by an eddy wind, eatables and drinkables flew as fast as Possible, and there we crowded, and such a time we had on't, you never saw—alil these were times indeed, hams, tongues, le mons, loaf sugar, and old Jamaica and brandy !—Lord bless you, it would have done your heart good to have seen how we ate and drank—there was no roll call—a man could not have sto-id a moment in the ranks, nor be seen if he did; it was a glorious time—a different thing from Valley Forge and all other valleys. he cadets, they were pretty men, but they wan't used to such deviltry as this, and I don't recollect whether they left us or not —they wan't in the skirmish we had after the storm : our regi ment was on the out-post, and we had a brush, no great thing— but I don't think they were with us, and we covered the retreat of the troops, for the - British and old Nick had tolled the French out of sight, and the hest thing we could do was to quit , and glad was I when we got off the island. Our regiment lost eight 'officers and sixty-four men, that is killed and wounded. I don't .think there are Three officers of the regiment now alive—l know of but one, and Doctor Thatcher, who was surgeon, and I doubt if any of the cadets are alive • they were all young and full of . spirits, God bless them, whether in this world or the other. This its all I have to say about the fog and the north-easter, and I should not have said this, but the old bay is to-day at his work : again with another blow. Your affectionate brother, "JAMES MOSIER." WHIG ECONOMY. One of the three great boasts of the Whig ministers on coming into place was economy. How they have economized, in Sir John Key's paper contract, in Lord Durham's mission to St. Petersburgh, in Lord Grey's family arrangements, in Lord Plunkett's (longo posto intervallo) imitation of them, in the Russo-Dutch loan, in the Otho (King of Greece) loan, in the Irish Tithe Arrears Bill, in the West India Compensation Bill we need not tell, for the world well knows already. But we' need tell, that in that popular and very respectable branch of the public expenditure, Secret Service Money, they "econo mize" at nearly twice the expense that we paid in the time of the prodigal Tories; which may be seen by the subjoined ac count, printed by order of the House of Commons : An Account of Sums i sth June, 1832, for S. Admiralty, and Coloni iuited since the 514 , EGRET SEavwg, in ial Department. January, 1&31, to the Foreign Office, 1831 I to sth Jan 1832. 1832 Ito sth Jan. 1833. 1833 to sth June, Foreign Office Admiralty Colonial Department £22,000 1,000 _3,400 £30,000 Total 26,400 Whitehall Tieasury Chambers, £20,000 £72,000 1,000 7,400 32,000 22,000 180,.E CHARLES WOOD. sth July, 1833. On the other hand, it has been the custom for years back to employ in his Majesty's Dock-yards from 40 to 50 old women, generally taken from the parish workhouse, to repair and mend the colours and flags belonging to his Majesty's navy; the earnings of these poor women used to amount to from Gd. to Pd. per day, and their being so employed was a great relief to the parishioners, who otherwise would have had to support them in the workhouse. Retrenchment and economy, however, seem to be the order of the day, for within the last few days, orders have been sent down to Chatham, Woolwich, Deptford, and all the dock-yards in the kingdom, to discharge all the old women so employed, and that for the future such work shall be done by contract. This reduction, it has been calculated, will effect a saving to the country of from thirty to forty shillings per an num!! !—The above display of commendable economy in our able Whig financiers, we copy from the Standard, and grateful ought the country to feel towards the present . promising adminis tration for haVing effected so important a saving as we are about to recount! It is well known that in all the royal arsenals a quantity.of cats are very properly provided to prevent the nibbling depredations of certain marauders called mice, and there is a regular allowance of milk for this useful part of the establishment; within a few weeks a strict order arrived from head-quarters to muster the cats, and to report upon the cor rectness of the milk allowance. The muster took place in due form, and Toni, 'rib, Grimalkin, and a few others, being absent without leave upon a prowl, were struck off from the Strength of the feline regiment, and the allowance of milk has actually been diminished pro raid since the muster, thereby adding at least forty pence to the above-mentioned forty shillings. Alas ! poor old maids and cats.—Carmarthen Journal. TRIAL OF ISSUES UNDER THE LAW ,AMEND- MENT ACT. " We have already noticed (p. 400) the intention of the Sheriff of Lancashire to hear causes, under the 17th section of this act, once in each month, at Liverpool and Manchester, as well as Preston. Under the Local Courts Bill, it was not con templated to hold a court oftener than four times in the year at the several towns in the districts;; so that, in regard to expedi tion, much more will be accomplished than was intended by the Local Court plan. " In the instaniee of Lancashire, the course which has been, or will be adopted, will diminish nearly one half the present distance of the place of trial, in all the causes which come within the scope of the act. The manufacturing and com mercial parts of Lancashire being at Manchester and Liver pool, and their immediate neighbourhoods, it is in those places that the far larger part of litigation has its origin ; and accord ing' to the late practice, it was necessary for the parties, attor neys and witnesses, to travel to Lancaster, a distance of fifty five miles. " By holding courts at Preston, Manchester, and Liverpool, the witnesses cannot he taken more than a few miles from their residence. The distance from Preston to Manchester is thirty three miles, from Preston to Liverpool is thirty-three miles, and from the latter place to Manchester thirty-six miles. The place of trial may, therefore, be so regulated as to bring the majority of the witnesses from the lesser distance of the two — that is, never exceeding seventeen or eighteen miles; and, on the average, it will be an easy journey on foot. " The majority of cases, indeed, arise either actually in Man chester, Liverpool, or Preston, and the witnesses residing on the spot. need not be detained more than a few hours. Trials for small debts may therefore more readily take place th an even in London, where the parties and witnesses are frequently scattered over a circuit of twenty-five miles. We believe, that thus it will be impossible to carry the measures of useful reform further than has been, or will be, accomplished by the Judges under the powers given by the Law Amendment Act, which carries into effect almost all the recommendations of the Com mon Law Commissioners. There remains, however, the con sideration of the alterations as to evidence and costs, on which the Commissioners have yet to mak e reports. " Resuming our subject, it is important that the tinder sheriffs of other counties should, without loss of time, pursue the course adopted in Lancashire, by fixing specific days in each month for the trial of issues under the act, as well as assessing damages on writs of inquiry. Of course the principal towns, with reference to extent of wealth and population, should be selected, and due notice given, so that the complete %% orking of the recent act may be ascertained before ,the next meeting of Parliament. " So far We have spoken only of the facilities afforded by the Law Amendment Act for the trial of causes not exceeding £2O. But it is equallv important to advert to the diminution of ex pense which be effected by the Ass 46 flettio;:al 4ci! 14 the • MORTAL SICKNESS AT HEAD QUARTERS. BIRMINGIIAM.—We haVe the honour to boast that our town is the cradle of political unions ; I trust that we shall soon have to boast of its being also their grave. A great annual meeting was held yesterday, which had been delayed for some months' in order that the greatest attractions, in the form of 11.1.P.s and other influential persons, might be present. Alas the day! The only stranger present was—who ? Thomas Attwood, Esq., M.P., who gave the five or six hundred poor men and women present au account of what he had not been able to do for them in the reformed, House of. Commons; that he had not been able to convert wind into bread, and beef, and beer; nor to render the idle and dissolute comfortable and happy. The pro ceedings Would, however, have been without interest.but for the pathetic' appeals uttered on behalf of the funds of the union, the demands upon which remaining unliquidated amount to three hundred pounds. This was tlie burden of every speech, except that of the " father of unions," who left his children to provide for themselves. In consequence of the debts of the council, it was found almost impossible to find any patriots to serve as "councillors," notwithstanding advertisements have been inserted several weeks inviting "candidates for a seat in the council to send in their names; " the old ones were tired and no new ones appeared. The consequence is evident; the debts remain in static vio, the union without a council, and the grievous wrongs of the people will be unredressed. After en deavours.:to make our neighbours discontented, and vain effoi ts made for some months past in contemplation of "the meeting," to excite the people to a sense of their griovanees, they havn, shown their sense of the merits of` the stewards of theil extorted shillings and pence, by treating . them with silent and bitter negle c t a nd c on t e mpt. But as something must be done to show, a declaration was adopted, having reference to the destruction of property (qualifications), annual parliaments, and universal suffrage. Thus ingloriously has ended the great midland union, whose power was to be "giant-like," and whose voice was "to awake the slumbering spi r it o f lib ery throughout the world," making soverciems tremble, thrones totter,. and em pires quake.—Birminghanz Paper. RAILROADS.-REVIVAL OF BUBBLE MANIA. The revival of the bubble mania of 1825 is evident in the eagerness evinced by the public to gain shares in railway com panies. The vast advantages .held out by the promoters of these schemes seem to have completely deluded a considerable number of the population of Eugiand, who are unfortunately in the predicament of possessing "more money than wit." We really cannot enumerate the number of new companies that have started up within the last few mouths, but there are some amongst the list that merit especial notice. First and foremost is the London and Brighton Railroad Com pany.. Of all places in the united kingdom, Brighton would benefit the least by a railroad. Nay, on the contrary, should the scheme be carried into effect, we have no hesitation in say ing that the ruin of the royal watering-place will speedily ensue. The influx of snobbery brought down by steam-carriages would drive away the aristocratic supporters of th e t own, an d th e Brightonians would speedily find that Whitechapel on a Sunday would ill compensate them for the loss of the West-end the rest of the week. Nor is it quite clear that the steam-carriages on the railroad' would run the regular coaches off the highway, and create a monopoly for the conveyance of passengers to the benefit of the Brighton subscribers to the scheme. The steam carriage rate of charge is fixed at Bs., the coaches now run at is. The fact is, the scheme will put money into the pockets of those whose land lies in the route, and consequently must be pur chased. We query if any others will eventually be benefited. Of a kin with the Brighton is the Southampton Railroad scheme, and the same remarks that we have applied to the for mer may with equa l propriety be attached to the latter. In ad dition to whi c h we may tack the London and Windsor Rail road. We suppose we shall soon have the London and Shepherd's-bush and the London and Camberwell-green Rail ways announced. In speaking thus of "railways i we do not wish to - be under stood as including such enterprizes as the London and Bir mingham or London and Bristol—any means that will afford a quicker transit for merchandize from the outports to the great manufacturing towns and to the metropolitan entrepot, and vice versa, is to be desired. Such are measures of real and solid utility —at feast we are fain to believe that such will be their effect, and they are not to be put in comparison with the pigmy bubble proj ects we have alone thought fit as public journalists to reprobate. —Age. EXTRAORDINARY DEATH OF A MISER. On Tuesday last an aged man, whose appearance betokened the most abject state of human wretchedness, was brought to the London Hospital, labouring under a sudden and violent at tack of hernia. When led to the ward, and stripped for the purpose of being put to bed, he took the greatest pains and cau tion in taking off his clothing, if such a parcel of the most filthy rags could be so called, and expressed the utmost solicitude to have them placed under his pillow. Sh or tly after his a dmi ss i on he was visited by Mr. Scott, one of the surgeons of the b..Pitalt and that gentleman, after - examtnlngTinn, and perceiving -the serious nature of the injury, at once decided, as the only chance of preserving life, that an o p era ti on s h ou ld b e i m mediat e ly per formed. The - patient most willingly assented, and at two o'clock in the afternoon Mr. Scott performed the operation in the most skilful manner; but from the extreme age - of the patient (83 years) and his emaciated state of body, as well as his shattered constitution, he gradually sank, and expired in a few hours after. Just as the operator had finished, the neeeased, finding him self much weaker, expressed a most. anxious wish to, see the clerk of the institution, and on his being brought to the bed side, he requested that that gentleman would get pen, ink, and paper, as he wished him to write out his will. This was done, and on the clerk a second time. approaching the bed-side, the deceased drew from his mouth nine half sov ereigns, which he must have h a d t h ere during the performance of the operation, and hand e d t h em to him. - He then appeared very uneasy, and . though the act must have given him great pain, he raised him self to nearly an upright position in the bed. He then com menced searching through the bed-clothes, and after some time seeing a tenth half sovereign among them, and which it ap peared had fallen froth his mouth, he made a dash with his hand at it, and caught it with the same avidity that a hawk would a sparrow, and handed it to the clerk. He then called for a knife, and cut froui his tattered and filthy garments 96 more half-so vereigns, snaking altogether £53, and acknowledgments for nearly £-100 placed to his account in the Bank of England, and a bond of annuity for £67 per annum. A will, according to his dictation, was then written. In the first pla ce he bequeathed three sovereigns to the nurse of the ward in which he was, and-two servants of the Institution who had attended him ; he left a sovereign to the beadle of Bethnal green, who brought him to the Hospital; he directed that £5O should be expended on his funeral, and the remainder he left to his nephew, a young titan named Mathews, a gardener, residing at Cardiff, in Wales. When told that £5O was a large sum to spend in funeral expenses, and that he could be very decently interred for ranch less than half that amount, lie replied, that he had made up his mind that the sum mentioned should be ex pended, adding, that he did not wish to be buried as lie lived— a vagabond. He said that it was at first his wish to have his body sent for interment to Lincolnshire, but to do the .thiug as he wished, he felt satisfied that £5O would not be sufficient for the purpose, and therefore he had determined on being buried in Whitechapel church. When asked if there was any person whom he wished, or would name to follow him to the grave? He replied,nut ; that any one who wished might, and if no one did, it was his wish thatiu lieu there should be plenty of horses, so that the £5O might be expended. The only part of his his tory disclosed by the deceased was, that lie had formerly been a sailor, that his name was Samuel Draper, and that for his ser vices he enoed a sml ension of E 7 er annum. The bod of the decea j se y d still remains at the hospital to wait the arrivaly of his nephew, who has been written for by the governors of the hospital, who wish him to be present at his interment. SHIP WRECK. We are indebted to a correspondent for the following interesting account of the loss of the Wanderer transport, off Barbadoes, with detachments of the 25th and 93d re giments : " St. Ann's, Barbadoes, 28:h June, 1833. "Our protracted troublesome voyage was wound up by our being shipwrecked on a reef of ro c k s t h ree m il es f rom the land, on making this island,.at three o'clock on,the morning of the Ist instant. About half an hour before this happened; my ser vant awoke me to say the land was in sight, which I saw dis tinctly from my cabin. Shortly after, when I was dressing my self, the ship struck with a tremendous crash, which unshipped the rudder, and rendered h er unmanageable. 'll was immediately on deck, and such a scene presented itself as I shall never forget —the deck crowded with upwards of 300 men, women, and children—the sea washing over the ship, and her bottom thump ing against the rocks—that I expected every moment she would , go to pieces. I immediately called the officers together in the cabin, with the agent for transports, the captain of the ship ; I told them we had a fearful and a most responsible duty to per form, for upon our coolness and firmness the lives of all on board depended, and whatever they m i g ht think of the danger we were in, it was thei r imperative duty to conceal it from the men, and to appear cheerful, and encourage the men in the performance of their duty : for my own part, I told them it was my intention to be the last on board as long as the ship stuck together ; but any other officer who wished to act o therwise, might consult his own feelings and sense of duty. They a l l said they would re main with Me and see the last of it. 1 then addressed a few words to the met, and said I had every confidence they would do every thing required of them, only their safety mainly de pended.on their preserving order and regularity, and obeying the orders they received. Two-thirds of the men were ordered below, to give the others room to stir, parties were told off to work the pumps, and to throw the guns overboard, except two kept to fire signals of distress, but they could not be got to go oft' so we likewise con signed them to the briny deep , and had recourse to small arms, and hoisted signals ou the rigging. In this most unenviable situation we remained upwards of two hours, until day began to dawn, expecting every moment the ship would go to pieces. The moment it was light enough to look out for a landing place, and to ascertain ou r position. it was determined to land as many of the troops as possible, with the ship's boats but unfortunately one of them swamped in launching, and was afterwards saved after a great deal of labour ; and the long boat was so much disabled as to be only able to make one trip. I confess at this time I thought there was no hope for any of us ; fortunately, at this moment a boat was seen approaching the ship, manned by eight negroes in a state of nudity; the sea was running so high it was with much difficulty it could get along , side. The women and children were then ordered into that boat, and two of the ship's boats being ready, the sick and the men least likely to be useful in working the pumps, after which the men from the detachments of each. regiment, but haying only four small boats, it' was nearly two o'clock of the day 'before the whole of the men were lauded. During al:this time we were Standing up to our knees iii crater under a burning sun.