The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-10-11 00:00:00

NEW SONGS. T HR.6 GLI THE WOOD; sung with rapturous applause by Madame Malibran; composed by C. E. Horn. 2s. 2 OUJOURS GAI; sung by Madame'Vestri j s in the Farce called "My Eleventh Day-;" composed by C. E. Horn. 2s. THEY BADE ME SING, THEY gA.DE ME SMILE; composed by C. Smith. 2s. DOWN, DOWN IN THE VAL EY ; sung by Mrs. Wavlett ; composed by A. Lee. 2s. THOSE LOVELY EYES; sin y Mrs. Waylett ; com posed by A. Lee. 2s. THE FLAG THAT BRAV'D A THOUSAND YEARS; sung by Mr. H. Phills ; composed by - S. Nelson. 2s. THEY SAW THAT I WAS FAIR; written by the Hon. Mrs. Norton; composed by J. Blockley. 2s. I CANNOT BEAR TO PASS THEE BY; sung by Mrs. Wood; composed by J. Tomlinson. 2s. Published by CRAMER and Ce., and sold by RIME and Sax, Liverpool. GOLDEN BALL ESTABLISHMENT, 2, WATERLOO-PLACE. CHURCH-STREET, NEW WINTER GOODS. TRALPHS and Co. feel pleasure in acquainting their • Friends and the Public that they are able to offer them FRENCH and BRITISH MERINOS, INDIANNAS, SAXONY CLOTHS and SILKS, at ltiwer prices than last year. Their Stock of the above is con4derably larger than it has ever been, and will be found, on i pection, to contain the most beautiful Shades and the ehoic Textures. To their Collection of PRINTS FOULARDS, Persian CHINTZES, and richly coloured T ILLED CAMBRICS, for Dresses, they particularly invite attention, as being the largest, the newest, and the best in Liverpool. A lame quantity of F L ANNEL S, BLANKETS, COUNTER -I:)ANE-S, and QUILTS ; also a few sable BOAS and MUFF'S, which they have had on hand since last season, of which their friends shall have the advantage, as the whole will be sold without the least advance. GLASGOW LOTTERY OFFICE. 103, STRAND, LONDON. • AGENTS. LIVERPOOL SAML. FRANCEYS, Stationer, 7, High street, Exchange. DITTO EGERTON SMITH al Co., Lord-street. MANCHESTER TIMES OFFICE, Marke street. LEEDS W. E. SOMERSCALE, Bookseller, 60, Brig gate. HCHHERSFIELO MOORE, Booksel Market-place. HALIFAX WHITLEY and B TH, Booksellers. rHE SCHEME contains PRI ES of £ 15,000, £lO,OOO, A £5,000, £3,000, £2,000, £1,500, £l,OOO, besides 1995 from £5 to £5OO. Any number in the above Lottery can be had (if not previously disposed of by the commissioners,) on appli cation as above, or to R. WEBB:103, Strand, London. Schemes can be had gratis. Ticket Half . . .. £7 6 0 I Eighth £l 18 6 Quarter 3 15 6 Sixteenth 0 19 0 YORK ZE$7. A NEW UNIVERSAL SAUCE for Fish and Game, most _LI. highly approved for enriching Gravies, ups,_ Hashes, Steaks, Chops , and all made Dishes; prepar by N ASH and itinniNo, York, and sold in half-pint Bottles, t Is. 6d. each. The above Sauce has been highly approve , and is now con stantly used by some of the first Epieur the age, as one of the finest Zests extant ; and for Chops, St s, and Cold Meat is decidedly superior to any sauce ever offer d to the Public. The Proprietors, desirous of contributing to the pleasures of Bons Roans, have, with a view to facilitate its general introduc tion among men of taste, appointed as sole Agent for the sale of it in Liverpool, Mr. THOMAS NIXON, jun., Italian Warehouse, Castle-street ; and in Manchester, Mr. YATES, Italian Ware ouse, Old Exchange. IFRANCIS DOGGETT, 66, VINE -PLACE, LORD -STREET, 17 sole AGENT in Liverpool for BETTS'S PATENT FRENCH DISTILLED BRANDY, returns thanks to the Public fur their very liberal support of the above incomparable Spirit, which has been certified by the most eminent chemists to be as pure and wholesome as the best varieties of Foreign Brandy, and continues to be recommended by, the Medical profession in most parts of the kingdom. F. D. also promises to supply every Article in the Wine a 'd Spirit trade, whole sale and retail, free from adulter ion and on the very lowest terms at which genuine com odities can be afforded. F. D.' lays a disappointed and a ry assailant before the Public in his own words, extracts from his letter to J. T. Betts and Co., February 11th, 1833. The whole of it and others dated December Bth and 24th, 1832, and January sth, 1833, may be perused by those who incline, at the above address. James Isiorval's anxiety to sell, as Agent, Sub-agent, or Traveller, the Brandy he now abuses, must be evident to the reader. The merit and success of that which he subse quently espoused—on his services being declined by J. 'l'. Betts and Co.—have been gravely and, doubtless, truly represented in open Court by his Employers, as appears in the report of a trial Desanges v. Desvignes. F. D. has bestowed no intem perance or spleen on J. Norval, but has coolly opposed to J. N.'s misstatements facts ,furnished by F. D.'s assailants. J. N.'s attempt at a hit in the concluding paragraph of his ad vertisement is a most ludicrous and discreditable - failure. EXTRACTS FROM JARIES NORVAL'S LETTER TO J. T. BETTS AND CO " February 11th, 1833. " I was sorry to learn by your letter that in the mean time you declined the offer as agent, convinced as I am that it would ultimately have led to your advantage. In the first place, from my very extensive knowledge of the trade, and the pecuniary resources of each of its members, I am certain that a bad debt could hardly have happened ; and, in the second place, from my intimacy with the dealers, I could have persuaded many of them to buy your spirit who otherwise would have never thought of it; and, iu the third place, from the connec tions I have formed in every town and village around Liver pool, the quantity I could have sold would be very great." " I would propose that you would appoint another agent to meet the orders from the country, who would occasionally travel to forward its sale; ant and I certain that if I were a immense p• pointed I could do an business in this way, not only m this immediate vicinity, but in the more populous parts of Ireland, where I have connections formed, as also in Scotland, fur every town of which I have persons in the trade who pur chase from me. _ " I have to request your answer to this proposal, and hope that it will be favourable to my wishes." The following extract may serve as a full answer to James Norval's boasted preference given to E. li. Desviiines's Brandy, and should as ever require a "placard" or "long WINDED ADVERTISEMENT," the following is recommended as particu larly adapted to the purpose; and should his real opinion of J. 'l'. BErrs and Co.'s BRANDY be desired, the curious may be grati fied by perusing his repeated applications to become theirAgeut, Sub-agent, or Traveller. His amusing Letters on the subject lay at the Office, 66, Line-place, Lord-street. From the Times of Friday , 21st June, 1833. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, THURSDAY, J UNE 20. (Before a common jury.) DESANGES 17. DRSVIGNES. This was an action for a Breach of Contract, and also fur work and labanr. Mr. Serjeant Wilde conducted the Plaintiff's case; Mr. • Serjeant Taddy, Mr. Robinson, and Mr. Martin were counsel for the Detendant. _ It appeared that a Monsieur Desprk having set up a Brandy Distillery in the neighbourhood of Golden-square, which he carried on in partnership with the defendant, the plaintiff, who had previously been a diamond merchant, in consideration of a promise from Mr. Desvignes to obtain la share in the busi ness, took an active part for one or two months in furthering the interests of the concern, and negotiated with a Mr. Love day for the purchase of certain premises, in which the business has ever since been carried on. No specific contract, however, was made with him as to the share he was to have iu the con cern; but the defendant subsequently promised to compensate him for his services. Evidence was adduced on the part of the defendant, to show that the speculation had turned out an on prcfitable one, notwithstanding a change of experiment had, been tried, first from distillation from rum to distillation from potatoes, and afterwards to distillation from whiskey; and that, therefore, the plaintiff had lost nothing by not having had a share in it, even if he had contracted for one, which it was contended he had not. The Lord Chief Justice was of opinion that there was not sufficient evidence to support the counts on a special contract for a share in the business; but that the plaintiff was entitled to recover, on the coromcoa count for work and labour, some remuneration for the services he had rendered to the defendant. the jury found a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages £.IXI BANKRUPTCY COURT, OCTODEIt 8 (Before Mr. Commissioner MEM VA L E.) A meeting of the creditors of Mr. Thomas I. Dimsdale, corn-factor, was held to-day, for the further proof of debts and the final examination of the bankrupt. The Court room was very much crowded by persons in the corn trade, as well as creditors, to hear the proceedings. • An application was made to the commissioner for the restoration of a.bill of exchange, drawn upon Sir Thomas . Champnevs for £5OO, which had been lodged -as a col lateral security for bills held to the same amount by the client of the applicant on the bankrupt, but which has been disbursed. Mr. M'Leod, the solicitor to the estate, said two sets of bills had been given for the same debt, and the ques• tion was, whether the official assignee should give up that or Sir Thomas Champney's. The Solicitor for his creditors said he could not consent to the bill being given up unless it was distinctly under stood that it should not be hereafter a burden to the estate. Mr. Commissioner Merivale said he could make no order on the subject. The Court of Review might be •applied to on the subject. The solicitor of the holder of the first set of bills com plained that, if the bill wds not given up, there could be no remedy against the party on whom it was drawn. The Commissioner intimated, that if an arrangement could be come to upon the subject, and an offer made to Mr. Belcher, the official assignee, he would advise him how to act. The suggestion was adopted. The proof of debts then proceeded, but the amount proved during the day was not considerable. The state ment made by the bankrupt as to the accounts is as fol lows :—The debts amount to £30,000; to advances on goods £29,000; amount of goods on bond (consisting of corn, &c.) £38,000 or £39,000. The total amount of debts is stated officially ar£6o,ooo, and the liabilities to £12,000, while the total available assets are not more than £2,000. The Commissioner asked the assignees if they were satisfied with the accounts handed iu by the bankrupt ?, The as s i gnees re pli e d th a t th e y w e re quit e satisfied with the accounts ; there was nothing irregular, though, as the court would see, the balance showed a very heavy l oss . They could only deplore that such was the case; but they felt hound t o sa y th ere was no thin g th a t ap peared unfairin the accounts. The bankrupt then passed hi s fi na l exam i na ti on , an d the further proceedings were adjourned. RUMP STEAK AND BEEF STEAK. —Two Frenchmen, on their return from London, compared notes. "Oh !" save Monsieur de la Chicorie, "to bsf roti is charmant a London." " Oui, yes," replies M. des Eptn arde ; " d . at is vrai ; but j e p re fl re d e rum-teak." "Le rum-teak; vat . s . de rum-teak ?" " Vovez -Tons, it is toujours de hif - teak , mats day call it rum -teak, Par ceque day put de rum iu de sauce."—Ameriran paper. rawveci,sv.r . ,krirt , etnox LOSS OF THE EARL OF WE'AYSS In pursuance of the order issued for the invastigation of the loss of the Earl of Wemvss, the following magistrates assem bled at the Hare Arms, at Dorking:— Frederick Hare Esq., (Chairman) ; the Rev. John Hare; Captain Davey, it.N.; D. Iloste, Esq.; E. Rolfe, Esq.; and the Rev. H. North. Captain Nesbit, the master of the Wemyss, was the first wit ness called.—He stated that he left London on the '29th of August last, having on board nineteen passengers, male and female. On Saturday, the 31st, about two o'clock, he passed the Dudgeon. It was moderate weather, and continued so un til six o'clock, when a breeze sprung up from the north-east, and continued fresher until it became a hurricane. He then ordered the mainsail to be reefed, and in so doing the topping lift broke, which caused the mainsail to split. Witness then went on to state the condition of his sails, and contended that they were in perfect repair when he left London. The Leith Company were the owners of the vessel. Mr. M`Murton, the agent, got all the sails repaired to his satisfaction. The vessel drifted in the south-west direction, without any sail set, until about four o'clock, when he came to with both anchors in five fathoms of water. He knew that he was upon the Norfolk coast, hot could not tell upon what part of it. The anchors sometimes held and sometimes gave way, until the vessel got into three fathoms of water. The vessel drew eleven feet of water, and accordingly struck abaft, in consequence of which he slipped the cables in order to get her head round to the land. She grounded about half-past ten p.m., the 31st. At that time he supposed the tide to be ebbing; he judged so from having seen a light two hours before from the shore, which he supposed was a signal for him to slip his cable, as it was high water, but he subsequently understood it was a signal made by the coast guard. Notwithstanding held on at anchor, and did not slip until the vessel struck, he not choosing to run her on shore; but it was not from any want of knowledge of the coast. — In different parts of the vessel the water varied from one to three fathoms. From that period until two o'clock a.m. on Sunday the vessel became more steady, and the water varied from one to eight feet. lie had never been requested by any person on board to send the passengers on shore, and if such a request had been made, he could not have done it. At half-past two he hoisted the boat out, and tried to have communication with the people on shore. He used the boat astern, and found that all would not do; that he .could have no communication. 'l'be men in the boat made a signal to have the boat back again, in doing which they pulled her stern out. He tried the pumps several times, and at three o'clock in the morning there was no water in the ship. The sea was coming in breakers over the ship. He broke one pane or glass in the skylight in the fore most cabin. The spray of the sea washed him, but no solid water. About eight o'clock. ann. (to the best of his knowledge,) he went down to the ladies' cabin, and at that time there was no water there. The ladies were then standing upon the cabin floor, and ha said, " Ladies, keep yourselves quiet, for in two hours the tide leaves, and I would fain hope.you will be able to walk on shore." He then returned upon deck, and in five mi nutes' time she filled from a leak in a her bottom, which he has since found was from the keel giving way. The sea broke over her and filled her completely in au instant, in the time that he crawled from the companion to the mast. Ali the skylights had been covered with painted cloth made- for the purpose at eight o'clock on Saturday, and continued to be so until after the wreck, when the sea washed them off the deck. The hatch way was battened down, except the space left for the companion ladder. He gave no directions about the ladies being placed in the upper berths. He has every reason to believe, and thinks, that if the keel had remained whole and no leak occurred, he should have been able to have got the passengers safe on shore. If the vessel had not sunk from the leak in her bottom he does not think that she would have taken in water enough above to fill the cabin. To the best of his judgment believes it was 11 a.m. when he left the vessel. David Muckle Reid stated that he was mate to the Earl of Wemyss smack, which passed the Dudgeon at two o'clock on the morning of the 31st of August. The wind was from the south-west, and blew a stiff breeze, with showers, but got calm about five, and continued so until seven, when it blew violently, and the vessel pitched very heavy and lost the stern boat. The statement of this witness during the greater part of his evidence was merely corroborative of that of the last witness. He went on to state that, after the vessel struck, he went into the ladies' cabin and saw about two inches of water on the floor. It ap peared to be coming from underneath, and some was also com ing through the skylight, which was partly broken. On going on deck he saw the sailors removing some of the bedding from the forecastle, and saw the gentlemen rushing from the cabin. He (witness) was at this instant struck by a wave, which knock ed hint down, and on his recovery he observed two sailors stand ing by the after cabin, and lamenting that all the ladies had been drowned. They were engaged at the time in putting down a stick, in hopes that some persons would lay hold of it. Mr. H. Garch stated that he was a passenger on board the Earl of Wemyss smack, from London to Leith. On Saturday, the 31st August, eariy in the morning, a strong gale of wind arose, and about six o'clock, a.m., the stern boat was washed away. He was then in the gentlemen's cabin, and heard the cry, " The stern boat is gone,'' and the noise occasioned thereby.— At the same time he beard from the people on deck that the sails Lad been blown away. He remained in his berth until about nine o'clock, when, in consequence of the water having made its way through the upper.deck and bull's eyes, his mattress became so wet that he was obliged to get out. The mattresses of Masters Wallace and Hamilton were also quite wet, and he carried the latter into the ladies' cabin, and gave him to Mrs. Hamilton, his mother. During the whole of Saturday, from about ten in the morning, the ladies' cabin, except for a few minutes at intervals, was kept open, owing to the great anxiety to communicate with the male passengers on the impending danger, ;as the storm continued the whole' day, so much so that no food, except biscuit, could be, or was supplied. — Witness had, at the request of his friend Mr. Hamilton, agreed to accompany Mrs. Hamilton and her children to Scotland, and, with the exception of a few minutes on Saturday evening, he re mained below either in the cabin of the gentlemen or the ladies' cabin. He remained in the latter front about four o'clock on Saturday morning. On one occasion he went to get refresh. ments for the ladies and children; on another to collect some things together; and a third to make some inquiry as to the real situation of the vessel, with a view to calm them, the ladies, and his own fears for their safety. About two o'clock on Sunday morning, the vessel then being aground and perfectly quiet,' several of the passengers cause down from the deck, and though he (witness) cannot recollect the exact language they used, he knows that they stated that the lead had been cast, and that there was not more than two feet of water round the vessel; that there were men on the shore with lights ready to receive them, and smooth water towards the land ; that there would be no difficulty in reaching the shore, and that the pas sengers were to get ready to go on shore. Mr. Logan, one of the passengers, told witness and the other passengers that the captain had told him that the. tide was ebbing, and that they would soon be able to walk on shore without wetting their .feet. At this time the passengers, particularly the ladies, who he had asserted took refreshments, and had selected the few things which they wished to take .with them, were fully ready and anxious to go on shore, but the information that the tide was ebbing calmed their minds, and particularly quieted the fears of the females. Witness continued satisfied on the subject until four o'clock, or it might be later, when Mr. Logan jumped up, and calling for the steward, said, " Steward, tell the captain I ant sure he is mistaken; I am sure it is flowing, and not ebb ing ;" and repeating, " I rim now sure he is wrong, for I hear the title beating against the vessel, and she is becoming lively." On his attention being drawn to this fact he with the other pas sengers very quickly discovered that the vessel was again mov ing, and in a short time afterwards she began to roll and kept striking heavily against the sand. The captain then went into the gentlemen's cabin, and calleafor the almanack, and inspect ed it to ascertain the state of the tide. Mr. Logan also inte•ected the almanack, and the captain found and admitted that he was wrong, and also that the tide was indeed flowing and not ebbing. At the time the almanack was referred to he heard the men take out the boat, in doing which they broke the glass in the skylight of the gentlemen's cabin, and every wave that broke over the vessel the water continued to pour in in quantities. It. was the same in the other skylight. He had previously heard Mr. Logan tell the mate to put a tarpauling over the broken skylight, but' this was not done. Shortly before the last sea broke over the vessel the skylight of the ladi es ' ca bi n was bl own away. A heavy sea then broke - over the ship, and filled the ladies' cabin with water. There were then in it Mrs. Pvne, Mrs. M'Queen, Master C. Pine, Airs. Hamilton, Miss Hamil ton, Master Hamilton, Miss Roach and Master Roach, Mrs. Cormack and child, Mr. Davis, and witness. At the moment the sea broke in Mrs. Hamilton seized his (witness's) hand, and entreated him not to•lease them, and lie was in the act of assuring her that he would not, when the sea broke in and bu ried them in darkness, and, with the m omen t ar y o pportunity afforded hint of seeing and feeling, he was satisfied that the wa ter came in from above and tuft below. Witness had no recol lection of what took trace afterwards, nor was he personally aware how he was saved ; but he understoed that he had been drawn through the skylight of the cabin by one or two of the men on board. Just before the heavy sea broke in, the ladies and children were huddled together in one berth. 'lie attri tributed the loss of life which had taken place to the negligence of those whose duty it was, particularly when told so, to secure the skylights. Witness protected his own life by clinging, to a rope attached to the mast, and got on shore, where he expe rienced the kindest attention from the Rev. H. Browning and the Rev. Mr. Halloway. The witness then described the` find ing of the body of his friend Mrs. Hamilton, her children and the other sufferers, and concluded by saying that he had on board a paper parcel containing some clothes, and in the pocket of one of the pairs of trowsers was a purse containing eighteen sovereigns, neithenef which were restored to him, nor could he find it among the luggage biought on shore, though-other clothes were found among the property brought on shore. John Large, of Brancaster, mariner, described the stranding of the vessel - , and attributed it to the ignorance of the crew. He was on board the vessel before she was abandoned by the captain and crew. He looked at the skylights and hatches. There was no appearance of a nail or canvas round any of the skylights. The main hatch, where the goods were, was scarcely battened down, and was not removed until after he was on board. He was the third man on board the vessel. He saw the body of a lady brought up through the skylight. The body had a reticule hauging on the right arm. The reticule dropped from the arm of the lady into the water, and felt through the skylight. He had the body in his arms. He stood over the skylight, and drew up the bodies, and delivered them to others wfili stood near him to be placed on the deck. He fished up the reticule which dropped from the arm of the lady. It was not fastened to the body when he got it up. Mr. Reeve said to him, " Give Ime that l'ag." He reached out his hand and Reeve took it; he saw him open it and go aft To get the bo dies out of the cabin he was suspended by the heels through the skylights. The water in the cabin at that time was two feet from the ceiling of the deck. When suspended he could see the bodies as they lay in the cabin. - Eight of them were hud dled together in one berth in the starboard quarter. Their faces at that time were partly above water, but the sea must have gone over them when the vessel was rollin The body of the stout lady was lying in the after berth. When he - was getting the bodies out the tide had ebbed five or six feet; the vessel was lying almost dry. Charles Large saw the vessel on shore, and went on board. He stood by and saw the bodies of those that were drowned brought up from the cabin through the skylight. He saw Mr. Newman Reeve take a ribbon from the body of the stout lady; the ribbon was fastened to a light-coloured chain, and it would not come away. He (Reeve) then put his hand under the lower part of tier dress, between her gown and petticoat, and pulled the chain downwards; there was fastened to the chain a dark-coloured bag. When he drew his hand from her dress he saw the bag in it. He then again went to the person of that lady, and took one or two rings from her fingers. He then saw him take one of the ear-rings which had a drop in it from her ear. He was after taking the other ear-ring. The ear from which it was taken was either red or bleeding, and he turned away his head. He then saw John Large fishing abort through the skylight in the cabin. He saw him bring up another,bag of a dark colour. He saw Newman Reeve take this second bag from John Large. He (Reeve) examined every body as they came up from the cabin. As they were laid on the deck saw him in all take four rings. The bodies were warm when they were put into the waggon. He saw Reeve go up to Brown's body as soon as it was placed iipon deck. He pulled his Watch-chain to get at the watch. The chain broke, and he then opened his trousers and got the watch out of his fob. He also took a boa, and some silver and halfpence. , He also took something from one the of pockets. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FRANCE, PARIS, OCT. s.—We gave in the Moniteur of the 27th Sept. and 3d of October news from the camps of St. Omer and Rocroi ; those which we receive from the camps of Wattignies are not less satisfactory. In those several camps.the men are remarkable for their good conduct and excellent discipline. Marshal Gerard announces that he has been equally satisfied with the precision of the troops in the different mancruvres. The health of the troops encamped at Wattignies is very good ; the number of sick is about one in eighty. The Marshal says, he cannot give too much praise to the ex cellent dispositions of mind of the young soldiers ; the camp of Wattignies is full of names, emblems, devices in honour of the King and Princes, and which call to mind the generals and battles of France;_ the emblems are the work of the soldiers themselves. The foreign officers who have visited the camps have been struck with this demonstration of spirit which ani mates our troops, and with their excellent discipline. Marshal Gerard, before his departure from Wattignies, issued the following order of the day : ARMY OF THE NORTH. ORDER.—In the head-quarters at Maubeuge, the 2d of October. The Marshal commander-in-chief has not been less satisfied with the second division of the army, and troops of the camp of Wattignies, than he has been with those composing the camps of St. Omer and Rocroi. At his arrival he remarked their con duct, their good health, and discipline. He has been affected by the manner in which they received him in the camp. The cleanliness which prevails throughout the camp, the manner in which the soldiers perform their various duties, the perfect har mony which reigns between the different corps and with the in habitants, all denote the excellent spirit of the troops, and the wisdom of their chiefs. As to the instruction, he found it as complete as he could wish. He has been very well satisfied with the different military evolutions of the troops. Marshal Gerard feels pleased in giving to General Gerard, as well as to the generals and officers under his orders, the assurances of his lively satisfaction, and he hastens to communicate it to the Minister of War, in order that it may be laid before the King. MARSHAL COUNT GERARD. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Cbe Eibtrpool .tanbarti. FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 11, 1833. It was only in our second edition of Tuesday that we were enabled to confirm the important news relative to the death of FERDINAND VII., King of . Spain. His MAJESTY died on the afternoon of Michaelmas day. In consequence of this demise, and the fear of civil war in . Spain, the French funds have fallen nearly two per cent., and the English funds about one per cent. Orders have already been issued for augmenting the French army, and it is confidently stated that a corps of observation will forthwith be stationed on the Spanish frontier. It is likewise reported that Don CARLOS, the claimant, in opposition to his niece, the infant daughter of the late king, has entered Spain, and has been pro claimed king in Catalonia. At all events it is the universal opinion that a great struggle is about to commence in that interesting but unfortunate country. The Salic law has prevailed in Spain since the time of PIIILIP V. until last year, when it was repealed by FERDINAND, in order to secure the succession to his daughter, an infant between three 'and four years of age. The invidious nature of this re versal of the order of succession, when CARLOS was heir presumptive, and the father also of sons, is the worst part of the proceeding, and which is likely to lead to tha t contest which all Europe would have reason to deplore. France will of course take part with the female infant, instigated thereto by mere selfishness on the part of Louts PHILIPPE; but as the motive of this sucker of the Bourbons will be easily penetrated, and as he and his family are universally despised, (some proofs of which we give in another place,) it is questionable how far the army will aid in supporting his narrow but ambitious policy. It is obvious, however, that this demise will effect an important change in the face of affairs in Portugal. Don CARLOS and Don MIGUEL are both embarked in the same cause, and will be found ere long fighting the same bat tle. It is singular, we must confess, that we have no certain Intelligence from Lisbon of a later date than the 17th of September. But it matters not. No news, to say the least, is not good news to PEDRO; while the death of FERDINAND is the most unfortunate event that could have happened. We wait, therefore, with some anxiety the arrivals of the next few days. If Boun- MONT has committed the command of Don MIGUEL'S army into other hands, the cause . is easily found in the occurrences now explained. We may depend - UPon it that he has not quitted the lines without leaving an able general in his room. LOUIS PHILIPPE may well feel uneasy in his new position, for the cause of CARLOS in Spain, and of MI GUEL in Portugal, is the cause of HENRY V. in France. Before these conflicting claims are all severally adjusted, the English funds, we suspect, will have to undergo, many serious transitions. We have already alluded to the unpopularity of Louts PHILIPPE and his family in the north of France. O n that occasion we published an extract of a private letter from St. Omer, written by a sincere admirer of the Citi zen King, in which the cold reception of the Duke of ORLEANS and his brother, at a grand review in that neighbourhood, was graphically and sensitively described. Another letter of a later date, (St. Omer, sth Oct., 18330 from the same correspondent, alluding to the same visit of the Princes, says,— " They were obliged to accept the only entertainment offered to them, which was a ball given by a very rich pipe-maker and his wife, the daughter of a Calais milliner, all the nobility, being Carlists, having left St. Omer to avoid them ! The partners selected by the two princes (there being no female persons of sufficient consequence present) were the daughters of a retired officer and a London bookseller. This elated our countrymen, who threatened to give them a ball on the Monday following, but this being de trop, the two neglected youths, instead of at tending a grand review which had been arranged for them, went to Boulogne—and so ended the visit of royalty to us." We suspect that there will be an end of something else soon, and the safer course for LOUIS PHILIPPE to pursue would be to make way for HENRY V. with as little delay as possible. When the French Government are so con scious of their weakness as to order a watch to be kept upon the Duchess de BERRI and a-poor steam.bcat, they must be in a bad way. Most of our readers, we presume, have heard of that strange compound of fiction, eccentricity, and absurdity, the late JEREMY BENTHAM ; and many of them, we also presume, are aware that this JEREMY BENTHAM previ ous to his death, and of course before his dissection — for dissected by the surgeons' hands the philosopher li terally was—bequeathed to one Dr. BOWRING, the whole interest which he (BENTIim) had in the Westmin ster Review. This BOWRING was a sort of philosopher in a small way himself. BENTHAM was to BOWRING what tile ETTRICK SHEPHERD was to his dog, with this dissimilarity, that they did not go to church together. BOWRING was the Editor of the Westminster Review, but the bequest of his patron made him a proprietor as well. Having been reared in the Benthamite school lie naturally enough became a publicist and a politician —a profound dogmatist on law, morals, and social govern ment—and last, not least, a poet of transcendant origi nality, having been for some time the accredited Eng lish versifier of the ancient and modern bards of Mag yar and Yahoo. But it is only in his character as a reviewer and an employe of the present administration that Dr. BOWRING is particularly known to us. During the hurricane of the reform bill he aspired to a seat in the House of Com mons, and offered himself upon Whig principles; but, unfortunately for the world, the worthy electors could not discern his merits, and he was unceremoniously rejected. Whether the honourable candidate spent any money on the occasion we cannot tell, or whether the treasury, having guaranteed his return, were, in consequence, bound to make him compensation, is also to us a secret ; but this far we know, that, soon afterwards, Dr. BOWRING was despatched on one of the most extraordinary missions to France that ever was contrived in the annals of jobbing. For the last two or three years the defeated candidate has been studying arithmetic and book-keeping in the bureaux of Paris, for the benefit of the British nation In this, the greatest mercantile and commercial country in the world, no man, it would appear, is deemed compe tent to instruct Lord ALTHORP how to keep his finance accounts. The Whigs send to Paris, not only for their principles, but also for their counting-house forms.— BOWRING is employed at a salary of from £l,OOO to £1,500 a year in teaching how to rule, square, divide, check, and balance the Treasury books, and, in order that he should have enough to do, and that his salary might continue like a pension for life, he was further in structed to collect evidence at Lyons with respect to the silk trade, for the benefit of Mr. PouLETT THOMSON, al though he (BowurNG) knew just as much of silk as Mr. SILK BUCKINGHAM does of Greek, or Mr. JOHN GULLY of the five predicables of Aristotle. We can understand the KEY job, the WOOD job, the RUSHTON job, the PARKES job, and five hundred other vile and barefaced jobs, but the BOWRING job is quite beyond our limited compre hension. Be this, however, as it may, the job is staring us in the face; the protege of JEREMY BENTHAM is in the re ceipt of his pay, and still continues Editor of the West minster Review. In this capacity, or rather in that of a Whig pensioner, BOWRING may be presumed to be friendly to the present administration. His reproofs in the Reriew must be taken to be the gentle admonitions of a sincere and grateful friend. He cannot, surely, like the merchant of Venice, take monies of the Jew and spit upon him for his liberality. He cannot surely eat his patron's beef, and at the same time, like LEIGH MINT, betray his weaknesses, or slander his reputation. And yet, in good sooth, what we are about to notice gives strong indications of something as radically repul sive. But to keep the reader no longer in suspense, we have to state that the Westminster Review for this pre sent month of October contains an article, evidently from the pen of BOWRING, replete with the peculiar slang of the salons of Paris, and apparently written in that city of slavery, in which article Lord GREY, his col leagues, and the Reform Bill—the darling bill !—the healing measure !—are torn to pieces after the most ap proved manner of Indian warfare. The matter is ve nomous, but charity forbids us from predicating that the motive is malicious. We are bound to assume that the Doctor writes in the pure spirit of friendship; but if what follows be friendly, what in the name of Plato must unalloyed enmity be? The article to which we al. Jude is entitled The Gone-by Session, and its " dulcet notes" are these : Page 388.—" There is not, nor has there been, a more awk ward thing in nature, or human works, than the present House of Commons. The mob of Rome might be counted upon with as much certainty, and guided by reason to the full as easily as this mob of gentlemen. The medium kind of thing by them called a reformed Parliament has demonstrated its capacity for good to be midway between helplessness and mischief; if between these stages a difference can be found. In after times the past session will be styled for distinction's sake the first session of the do-nothing Parliament, or the session of the shearing of th e hogs." Page. 408.—" There would have been a disposition to rely on the Ministers to some certain extent. Now nobody has faith either in their honesty or firmness." Page 423.—" The Whigs indeed are to be feared. Avowers of good and doers of mischief. Ignorant, self-sufficient, wanting honest . enthusiasm, what reliance can the people put on them ? Let the events of the session speak for them? The people have been in fault certainly for chusing such a house." - Page 430.—" The men who govern the country look neither behind nor before them. The whole world is to them the little spot on which they stand, eternity the moment present. They hare not principle, and are crushed by detail. They are content to mend a small hole, when all the rest of their vessel is ready to break out, and give them another and another hole to mend. They are the men who put new wine into old bottles, when it would cost us little both of time and money to have new." This is the language of pure friendship—homely and coarse, but true ! It must have required some nerve untouched by a £lOOO a year to have spoken out so plainly. The people of the Times newspaper could not write more savagely against the Whigs if the Tories were once more in office. The following is equally in the philosophic strain: Page 402.—" The divisions on questions of taxation have been the chief skirmishes of the session. The same hesitating policy, or want of policy, has been shown by the ministers in this as in other branches of parliamentary business. They have re sisted first and then have yielded. If a general should take the field, unprepared as they have done ;—if, for instance, he should transmit one report of his plan of operations, when he knew, or did not know, that he meant to change it next day for ano ther, as the ministry did to the West Indies, and should be guilty of meeting the enemy without plan or purpose, he would be broken without mercy." Page 39.—" The very first act of the ministry in the house betrayed feebleness or treachery." The next extract personally concerns Dr. BOWRING himself. The reader has already been made acquainted with the nature of his avocations in Paris, and the fol lowing is a rather splenetic commentary thereon : Page 400.—" There is one point which is even of. greater value than retrenchment; it should have been the first step to it —the establishment of a business-like system of accounts. Have the ministers completed their plan for the reform of the Ex chequer ? And if so, why has it not been produced to the house? Think of a nation carrying on its business with accounts that would disgrace a huckster! The measure has been promised for two sessions; the happy new year will probably have the good fortune of bringing forward another indication of its birth." There is more in the above than meets the eye. The book-keeping reforms of the Doctor have not been pro duced to the House! This is the sore point. Lord AL THORP seems to set no value upon BOWRING'S new sys tem of accounts. It is quite possible that the noble Lord does not understand them ; it is also possible that other persons more competent than his Lordship are equally impervious to the accountant's explanations, and there may be some hardy enough to whisper that they are nonsensical, empirical, and impracticable. In this latter case it is easy to account for the Reviewer's bitter ness. His hobby is spavined and won't go, and Bow- RING imagines that this is more owing to the ministerial rider than the poor hack herself. Of course we are un able to decide who is right and who wrong. The only way to amend the matter is to continue the Doctor in the public service for a few years longer, and instruct him to write a quarto volume in elucidation of his hi therto neglected improvements. When this is done, and some five or ten thousand pounds more are ex pended upon the job, the public will be in a condition to decide which is the greater blockhead--=the minister or his man 1 We shall only trouble the reader with one more e x tract, and have done. The doctor is a poor man and a defeated candidate, and, therefore, on the subject. to which he refers, speaks, or, we should rather say, writes, feelingly : Page 389 and 390.—" If there be not a sufficient number of men fit, then let the constituencies offer pay. And after all, this is the best way, and the only way to obtain true talent. Many - well-meaning persons apprehend that adventurers will start up. Who is an adventurer ? Every man whose progress depends on his exertions and his talents." In this we detect the modesty of the veteran jobber and the usual hankering after money. They al e always looking after the pay. It is not that which goeth out of the head, but what comes into the pocket, which concerns the modern patriot. The money ! the money ! is the thing. They are not content with plundering the public by means of a ministerial job, they are anxious also to prey upon their constituents individually. WHITTLE HARVEY, FAITHFUL of Brighton, WHALLEY of Mary le-bone, and some twenty others, are perpetually calling out for pay, and BOWRING joins in the cry in the hope that something may turn up for him. But the Doctor's definition of an adventurer is equally amusing and characteristic, for no one is more compe tent to speak authoritatively on the subject than himself. "An adventurer," he says, is a man " whose progress depends on his exertions and his talents." 1 Be it so, Doctor; but then, by your own definition, an adven turer is a thief. A swindler on the stock exchange is an adventurer. A clever rogue who picks pockets is an adventurer. A government underling who trades in the funds is an adventurer. A minister who deals in tallow or barilla is an adventurer. Louis PHILIPPE of Paris is an adventurer, and so is Don PEDRO. But the most dangerous and most detestable adventurer of all is the man who panders to di l e mob for the sake of popularity, who favours every delusion in or4er to gain admirers, who : professes liberality, but is whuily influenced by a love of pelf, and who pledges himself to remove mountains, merely that he may be enabled to deal in corruption. The Doctor may apply the definition to himself in any way he pleases. The old factory system has been brought once more under review in a horrid case of cruelty which occurred at a flax-mill in the vicinity of Leeds. A poor boy, it appears, was partly beaten and partly strangled to death, and a coroner's inquest has returned a verdict of man slaughter against the overlooker by whom the injuries were inflicted. This, as far as we remember, is the first case that has come within the reach of the law since the memorable inquiry conducted by Mr. SADLER. The re sult of that inquiry was a volume of evidence, replete with acts of cruelty, torture, long-continued oppressions, long-tolerated vices, and disgusting demoralization. The case before us is, of course, an isolated one, and it occurs in the worst locality ; but we have this advantage in founding any arguments upon it, that the facts stated are given upon oath, in an open court, before a disinterested and impartial judge, with counsel present to cross-exa mine the witnesses, 'and conduct, the defence. This cir cumstance removes all suspicion with respect to preju dice or passion on either side ; and as the facts are incon trovertible, all that remains to be done is for humanity to say whether such a system should be suffered to exist. The treatment which the poor boy, now in his grave, experienced at the hands of the overlooker, JOSEPH RAT CLIFFE, is thus described by two or three witnesses. For instance : " About a fortnight before he left Mr. Walker's (the mill in question) the heckles had broken at his machine. The deceased then went to fetch a ladder to get some new heckles, which were in a cupboard some yards from the floor, and by accident he pulled some of them down with his smock. The overlooker, Joseph Ratcliffe, who was at the machine, then went and took the ladder (which was a light one) and struck the deceased at the back of the neck with it; he fell on the floor." "On another occasion the overlooker pulled some flax out of his holder, and told him it was not screwed tight enough. The long brush was near him ; he took it up, and struck him over the head and shoulders with the shaft. The deceased had not done or said any thing before he was struck. The witness could see the overlooker pull it out, and he said he should screw the holder tighter. He then struck him three or four times very heavy blows; he cried out, and the more he cried out he laid on heavier." This is bad enough, but the crowning cruelty remains to be told:— " The deceased and myself and some of the boys were playing in a shed in the yard in the. morning whilst the bell rang, and we pulled some mats down, When the .bell rang we went to work; the overlooker called him up to him, and said something to him. which I did not hear. He then called the rest up. I was one of them. The deceased then said he could not think of all of them that had been playing. He pointed some of us out. The overlooker inquired about the mats. We told him we had been playing. He then payed us with the rope over the back. Knew the rope, because I had been payed before with it. We went to our work, but the deceased stopped with the over looker.—(The Witness here produced a rope about a yard and a half long, which he bad brought from the shop.)— The overlooker put the "loose, made to slip, round the neck of the deceased, he threw the other ore,' the steam-pipe, drew the deceased up, and let him hang there for three or four minutes, with his feet about two or three feet from the ground, and his body about two feet from the pipe; he then let him fall on the floor with the rope round his neck, took it (II; struck him on the back, and sent him to his work. Worked all the day. I heard him complain of ,his neck being stiff that day. He came to his work atter that two or three days, but never came again, He came to his work about a fortnight after the time he was struck with the ladder and the brush-handle.— After that he left for good, now about twenty-nine weeks since. Saw him several times struck with the rope over his head by the same overlooker before he was struck with the ladder. 'First heard him complain of the pain in his neck that day ho was hung by the neck. The weight of his body hung by the rope. The rope is kept on purpose to beat us with." Will it be said that the owners of the mill did not know that such a rope " was kept on purpose g " But let this pass. The concluding evidence is that of Mr. Swim, the surgeon to the Leeds Infirmary. He states : • "idly attention was called to him as a case of most serious injury produced by blows. I examined and found him in a state of hopeless palsy. I found a trifling swelling at the back part of the neck, below the setting on of the head; that was the whole of the external appearance. I have, since his death, examined him, in conjunction with Mr. Win. Hey. On dissecting the muscles at the back part of the neck the scalpel penetrated the sac of an abscess, from which a quantity of thick matter was evacuated. We found caries of the spinous process of the se cond vertebrae, and also of the transverse processes of the fourth, fifth, and sixth vertebrw. There was also a considerable thick ening of the membranes covering the spinal marrow. The abscess which was first opened communicated with the spinal canal, and the spinal marrow would in consequence be com pressed just above the part from which the nerves are trans mitted to the superior extremities • that would produce the palsy of which I have spoken. lam inclined to believe that this disease has been produced by external injury. A heavy blow inflicted about the neck is likely to produce such a disease. I think it might produce the same effect if the boy had been suspended by the necicfor two or three minutes; I should think a mere fall not calculeted to do it. We attribute the primary cause of death to that disease of the spine which I have mentioned. The injury which he had received has been the immediate cause of his death." Mr. Wm. lIEy, the other medical : witness, states, that the boy was "dreadfully emaciated," and was, when he saw him, in the "most helpless and loathsome condition which any human being could be reduced to !" The jury, it is true, have returned a verdict of " manslaugh ter" against JOSEPH RATCLIFFE, but are JOSEPH'S em ployers to escape? The evil is not in individuals more or less ferocious, but in the system ; and so long as ropes are allowed to be " kept for the purpose," the rope ought to be applied to the owners of it, as the real offenders. We refer our readers to a letter on the sugar trade, under the signature of "A West Indian," given in our present number, which will well repay the trouble of perusal, by those who take any interest in the affairs of the colonies. As the facts are important, so is the rea soning, throughout our correspondent's letter, most judi cious. He is evidently master of his subject; and has taken a rational and business-like view of the question, with reference to production, consumption, and revenue. In the second part of Blackwood for the present month, under the title of "British Tropical Colonies," and in the form of a letter to Mr. STANLEY, as colonial secre tary, we also find a luminous and most comprehensive view of colonial affairs, which is not restricted to the concerns of the British colonies, but is carried over those of all other countries in the western world, in cluding the United. States. This letter is from the pen of that most able and intelligent writer Mr. JAMES M'QUEEN of Glasgow; of whom it is not too much to say, that, in extent and value of information relative to the colonies, he has no equal. It was our wish to have made some extracts from this ar• title; but the facts and arguments are so interwoven, that we are unable to take any moderate portion which shall conclude the branch of the subject upon which it treats; and the whole article the press of general mat ter for our columns will not admit of our giving. It is, therefore, our intention to embody some of the impor tant facts contained in Mr. ITQUEEN'S letter into our own statements ; which we should, however, be ashamed to do, without acknowledging the channel from which we derive them,, and the diligepve,. research, and talent displayed in - their 'original compilation, .OGTO ELF .11, 18:13: LITERATURE AND THE FINE ARTS. We have received the twelfth volume of Valpy's 'PlaYs Poems of Shakspearc, with illustrations from Boydell's and we need only say that this elegant and popular work OW tains, as it advances, the strong claims which it made atllo upon public patronage. The present volume contains Anton/ and Cleopatra and Cymbeline. The fourth number of Valpy's National Gallery of and sculpture has also come to hand, and a more bco l ' work at so modest a price we have seldom or never seat'. NEWEST LONDON FASHIONS. ( From the Warld of Fashion, a Monthly Magarilie.) MORNING DRESSES.—ChaIys have yielded for the ma he t Indian silks, which imitate the foulard so closely, as fq taken for it. The favourite patterns arf , very full of coll t r il we have, however, remarked some very beautiful dressei ; c o black ground, and two roses, thrown at a little distance each other, one pink, the other feuille 'none • this same pit fn is given also on green and blue, th e co l our of th e roses varV i j accordingly. Redingotes are still very generally worn , l a r ds until some newer.material appears, they will consist of ibu a rfr . of the richest shades and colours. Ap rons h ave not lost fa s°ll 3 , particularly in the country; some are now m ade of the nne k: merino, grey, ornamented round with printed patterns in b l 5 some persons give them an additional finish of black lace. , e d apron of green gros de Naples, embroidered with black silk eeg with lace, and Having shoulder-straps united to the belt en ca orii had a very pretty effect; (the shoulder-straps were also trire_lutiveic with lace, and gradually widened to the top o f the arm-) l u the y ladies wear worked muslin aprons, lined with rose-colour; are trimmed round, and the pockets edged with narrow lac e l i g , EVENING DRESSES.—Those most in favour are black 111111,di ornamented with various beautiful designs. A brown dres s, a _running pattern of sweet-peas, differently coloured , 'See charming effect. Full-dress hats are trimmed with blond t., and flowers,- Under the brim is worn a deep blond. The Sa du Levant is still unrivalled: it breathes of the g6rgeous en ic i and when the lamp-light falls on the glitterin g f o lds, yeu e • a bright Sultana unveiled before you. Th 6 co l o urs of tu'"i la- quisite material are always of the brightest and softest Isle h s l ue , FASHIONABLE COLOURS FOR THIS AlONTH.— Ray WOßur ti or every shade of bright green, jonquil colour, Marron, Sala& rose-colour (of a deeper tint,) Bishop's purple, and cherry-0 STATE OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE. The letters received from Conitantinople, from various sources, are all at variance with the ministerial statements of the minis terial journals. We know not from what member of the cabinet the Bulletin du Soir receives its information, but we do know that some of the ministers have received intelligence of a very differ ent nature. In the first place no one thinks of attributing the fires at Constantinople to, any other than political motives. — Such,, in that land of despotism, is the expression of popular dis content, the prelude or accompaniment of revolution, and in the state of popular excitement in the Turkish cwoital, people must rely a great deal upon public credulity to attempt to' persuade us that ten fires, or incendiary attempts, in the space of a fort night, can have proceeded from fortuitous causes. There is but little address in thus concealing the real state of things. The evening paper of government is not mote adroit, when it tells us that it is false that the Sultan had sought anew for foreign . intervention. Illahmoud has uo other means of personal safety; and he applied for it as early as the latter end of August last. The Sultan's treaties with Russia have given him right to do so, and have conferred upon the Emperor that of protecting him. No objection was made to these treaties; they were not protested against, and nothing can prevent their being put in execution. 'All that can be said to explain the ministerial denial is, that the French ambassador was not officially informed of the steps taken by the Sultan. It may be easily conceived thatthe Porte did not consider such an intimation as a matter of necessity. Moreover, the Russians have never lost sight of their ally; they have vessels at Bourgas, at Heraclea, and still nearer to the Bosphorus. If the Russian forces had not made their ap pearance up to the date of the last letter, it is because they lose nothing by gaining time. On arriving, after the consummation of a revolution, things will be greatly simplified; the greater the evil the more necessary, the more durable the second oc cupation. The situation of the Ottoman empire is more criti cat than ever, or rather, that empire no longer exists. It is no longer indhe power of the Sultan to reconcile to his sway the population of his capital, and we may daily expect the account of the catastrophe. The inertness displayed hy England on this matter is no ex cuse for the cabinet of the Tuileries, and there does not exist a deplomatist who does not feel that the interests and dignity of France have been constantly sacrificed to a system for which her enemies are not the more grateful; and whilst the treaties between Russia and the Porte have met with uo oppo sition from France, still less have the arrangements concluded at Munchengratz been prevented; and there, it is certain, the affairs of the East have not been forgotten. The case, "in which Providence should dispose of the Ottoman Empire" had been foreseen long before the Congress, and the bases of an equitable distribution of the Turkish provinces laid down.— Moldavia, and Wallachia, and Servia, belong no more td the Porte, and ere long both Bosnia and Albania will probably devolve likewise upon the representatives of Providence. The Juste-milieu will then, no doubt, boast of their own disinter estedness.—Courier Francais. TO CORRESPONDENTS. VERA X will find an answer to his inquiry in one of the lead ing articles. Our correspondent from Warrington is informed that a full re port of the proceedings of the Festival, including the Fancy Ball, has been forwarded to every subscriber within our reach whose papers are sent by coach. Of course we could not supply those who receive the STANDARD through the post-office. COBBETT VERSUS RUSHTON AND OTHERS• (Prom Cobbett's Register.) t t h i ' "In my Registers of the 14th and 21st of September, 13 c t '4tomplained that Wood, (emphatically called John,) d ;or flung me back at Preston; that Rushton, who had roar! him on that occasion" 'and that Parkes, whom I had dete‘. e in the act of whispering for the . Whigs in order to get a l ea stead of a 10 pound suffrage : I had complained that thesl, were now eating taxes; or, in other words, coming, swing' iig and with jaws wide open, at my victuals and-drink. KO e e something of their appetites, and not knowing when they ip to stop, I naturally became alarmed, and began to cry out de r an endeavour to defend my bacon and my beer-barrel, tt Yoe necessary for me to inflict heavy blows on the assailants. 0 , cannot effect a defence of this sort by merely pushing th e I • n g sailant back; soldiers do not defend a breach by merely tak. o , o the assaulters by the hand, and gently handing them down t o l the tosss. But, I was, they may say, unjustly severe • tha t pp attack on them was personal and outrageously violent.' I this; I say that it was just, and that is all that I care about: of Cobbett then proceeds to animadvert upon the character...„ the persons who form the travelling commissions. He saY s ' o , "But, again I say, that this commision ought to have n r e ri ; sisted of lawyers, famed for their knowledge of real proPe of magistrates of independent fortune and of unquestiona t o integrity and impartiality, together with a peer of the ta s o stamp and character, anethat this commission ought to fl i p been occasionally assisted by one of the most learned 04 . 0 ; judges. Here arc immense masses of property to be dealtivid it estates of all descriptions, held by all sorts of tenures; a n t he would have been better to pass a law at once, to confiscate to whole, en masse, and bring it to account to be delivered ar c a the Jews,—it would hale been better to make a sweep a t O w of freeman's rights, of burgess's rights, and all sorts of right' of have tumbled - house, land, manors, privileges, and all sor ts o property belonging to corporations—to have tumbled it and y e s together, rather than set men like Rushton, who was the ° t o, day keeping a shop at Liverpool, selling m a th ema tical WO ments ; and who has been, even in appearance, a barrister 0 one twelve months or less; better to have demolished the 10 " 00 at once, by a short act of confiscation and of general ap plicat,i rs , to the purposes of the Jews, than to insult peers, common to magistrates, and the whole nation,.by setting a man like thje e { the investigating of tenures, plivileges, and rights, satect them of a thousand years' standing. This has been the soil if of my complaint. It is the subject of my complaint still; 0 , 4 0 I have further complaint upon the subject, it is this—that 1 o f not see the justice in making the nation pay the expeos s o e,• this commission. If abuses be to be corrected in corporal s of the correction, if it take place, is for the immediate beue those who live under those corporations of •' and I can see 00 ' l; i son at all for the people of the parish Ash being taxed toP for an inquiry into the state of the corporation of Guildfah However, this is an objection of less weight than that wh ic li al have to the constitution of this commission; there are lea' „a and experienced lawyers enough; there are magistrates t; peers, in whom the people would have had entire confiders ';,- and therefore such men ought to have been chosen. This c., n bo mission will not give satisfaction to the people at large, "„ e a never will believe that the thing can be well done by 8 - means." THE DYING MISER. • Monday Mr. Banister, one of the inspectors of the B di or of police, made a communication to Mr. Gregorie,. at Que m i square, of a case of the greatest apparent destitution be '— ever met with in his life. It appeared from the statement that between seven and AI o'clock. on Sunday evening police constable Burke, of _t,lt s . division, No. was called upon, while on duty in the ve;pii hall-road, by seine gentlemen, to remove - a crowd a bops a s women who were disturbing the dying moments of an old It e t in an empty house, or, more properly speaking, a wretc%, hovel, at a plaie called the "Five Chimneys," in the Vaux l r e a, bridge-road. The constable found a great crowd asseul b and, with the assistance of some gentlemen and neighbours, b 0 seeded in getting the crowd away. On entering the hove' ve y found the old man lying on the bare boards, with a rag to co him, and not a vestige of any sort of furniture in the b° ll 'to He was to all appearance in a dying state, and not a persq e p , assist him in his last moments. Nourishment was insvoedield procured, as the poor creature appeared to be quite helpless:,,Ll imbecile, and nearly starved to death. A young man nati e i Wise, who entered the house with a constable, in the ktO 0 0 - manner volunteered 'his services to sit up and assist the eit man during the night; and a neighbour lent him a chair Leo on, while others sent several blankets and sheets, for the t o man to sleep on, and he was for the time made as comf or t i a pr as circumstances wculd permit. Monday morning, Mr., 0 0 nister hearing of the circumstance, went to the place, adu,d quite astonished at the sight he beheld. The name of tile,' 4 o` man is John or Thomas Bickerton, between seventy and a ll ot * years of age, and he appeared to be. dying in a state of Ide r eri imbecility. He frequently called out for Wise, who volunte e o te, to attend upon him, to get him change for a ten pound „be and seemed as if in a state of unconsciousness. Shocked et , 0 0 sight, the inspector, after giving directions that every ` e t' should be taken of him, hurried to the house of one of-the, ° btr seers of the parish, but was told that the case was not °t at district; he then went to a second overseer, but he was O i se home; he was gone to the workhouse. He then went to re , workhouse, and was informed that there was no oversee r p e r' sent. Mr. Banister then left word that as soon as any e d it seer arrived to inform him at the station house, as hewisbeio speak to him. No person, however, came to the station be o itll and the inspectorfinding the difficulty he had to contend e a it in his individual capaqity in . procuring assistance, conside r ' d if• his duty to communicate the circumstance to the sitting toss trite. te f Mr. Gregorie, on hearing the statement, gave immedid o rections to - Woodberry, one of the officers of establis o o , to go instantly to the parochial authorities, and inform th e Ater the wretched state of the dying man, and, added the mayis' "if they will not remove him to some place of comfort, must." Woodberii. immediately left the office to obey his instruct ie ° " - 1: 1 ft Between one and two o'clock on Monday afternoon , iit tlt, the various reports that were flying about, our reporter sy c h co a Bickerton's hovel in the Vauxhall-road ; the neighbou r . 00, appeared to be in a state of great excitement, and the pla c pe, surrounded by a mob of persons. To describe this lO C - bol l ' place is almost impossible. The hovel appeared to be ' l o re , half finished; there were three rooms in the wretched no windows, and doors without either locks or hinges; ro ori lower room without any flooring, covered with loose dust ,,, d tar, and old bricks.. Our reporter immediately ingul c ett . Wise if the old man had been removed by the parochial 0 ' 0 .6 His reply was, "There is no occasion now, sir, the poa„r, o 1; 1 ture died about hour ago, there, on that blanket on the n o r at the same time pointing to the place where lay the era ae ;l:l ll ' frame of an old man, the bones nearly protruding the., 0' Wise had wrapped him up in the blankets, and placed It.° s iso one side of the room. The only article of furniture we sa'oict a chair, which had been le.nt him by a neighbour. W is ;ta that about half au hour after the poor creature had ex! '' n ose' cot arrived from the overseers to convey him to the wori hola From the inquiries we made, we'understand that the parir s e, cers hadlieen iliforine7l of this poor man's ease some da,:,! tv l o ' He has been lying in the same dreadful state of imbec oi some days, without a friend or acquaintance to come nea r ve n d Without any covering, on the bare boards, and had it 11(1, for the interference of some casual passengers, who in ° le, the police of the circumstance, the whole affair would have see hushed up, and the unfortunate deceased would have he el' A 0' to the dissecting- t. room. t Bickerton firs made his appearance in the nejghbo ut i` the Vauxhall-road about six years ago ; lie lived in th e so de penurious manner possible, not allowing himself even the„.oo, mon necessaries of life. He was always about from lu th eill; till night, picking up bones, pieces of glass, rooting abau no tic t ; of rubbish, and picking up anything of the slightest, t, v o, which he used to sell to the marine store dealers. l e o , V II , withstanding this sort of avocation, he always appeare d n etrc very superior sort of man, and a man of education. The tou t bouts never could imagine who or what he was, until ao„. i . t oc A years ago, he bought a freehold property, as we were ito!',, for which he paid £3BO. The hovel in which be died tv' d, oP_,, of the same. He is" said to be most respectably connecterocei, that he had a brother living at Oxford in affluent circutu s ;eves and that another brother lives in London. It appears, Nor that he had received a most liberal education, and that i'liboaq his degrees at Oxford. The rumours abroad in the neillt.s th lt hood are various. From one person we heard that he r, ( llc brother of a gentleman of rank and title, and that be ' ro i " the world, as a recluse, through unjust treament. e s err' the close of the office Mr. Banister, wi l l a li e iff e b ; himself in such a praiseworthy manner to alleviate Y e t bat" ings of Bickerton, entered, and informed Mr. Gregotl e had expired. LOVE LETTER EXTRAORDINARY.- - The followint. i 5 I , l y 9' copy of a " love-letter" lately sent to "Mr. W. M., pos bo " Deer William,—the most amiable of your sex, wer tol ble for the powers of utterance to reveal the fonSenletic.,d chot pervades my sole, the great anksity of g l o ing hoapes ;',0 5 het fears rules my breast by turns. You need no other somoie.oot this peeper to Evince you of the purity and ardor the 'J o t!), 'kindled in my Breast—vour but y fills mc with wunOef.th 06,00 understanding with ravishment and your goodnessin 'ot tion. Suffer me lovely anther of my feate to breath ; or)/ murmurs my passion to your air, and to beer theyl;feeblee consoling tong, and to banish or ever the most intooi pence from the busom of your inraptund friend. ?I Wi ll present from your deer, and afectshonate lover.--J),Pe h art , 07 the very thouts of yourleaving Coulboy breakes ri oli e r:e" grass is green, the rose is red, the vilets blue, there. love so sweet as you, if you love me, as well as IlOWeja'atte. „ thing but death-will part you and 1--tiue" iiry 100 • Stewart' i De.ipatch.