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SLPT nIEIIII 29, MIS. yffe.4pLwri !inns From the southern moits,.oriiy by n . :todlit of legal rawer ; and were situated as you are, I would do as you hove, Postmasters may lawfully know, in all cases, the contents of zeuspapers, because the law expressly provides that they shall be so put up that they may be readily examined; and if they know those contents to be calculated and designed to produce, and delivered will certainly produce, the commission of' the most aggravated crimes upon the property and persons of their fellow citizens, it eannot be doubted that , it is their duty to detain them, if not even to hand them over to the civil authorities. The post master-general has no legal power to prescribe auy rule for the government of postmasters in such cases, , nor has he ever attempted to do so. They act in each case upon their own re sponsibility, and if they improperly detain or use papers sent to their office for transmission ortelivery, it is at their peril, and on their heads falls the puntihirtent. If it. he justifiable to detain papers passing through the mail, \ for the purpose of preventing or punishing isolated crimes against. individuals, how much more important it is that this re iponsibility should be assumed to prevent insurrections and save communities! If, in time of war, a postmaster shoirldde tect the letter of an enemy or spy passing through the mail, which e if it reached its destination, would expose his country to invasion, and her armies to destruction, ought he not to arrest it? Yet, where is his legal power to du so ? From the specimens I have seen'of•anti-slaver} publications, and the concurrent testimony of every class of citizens, except the abolitionists, they tend directly to produee in the south evils and horrors surpassing those usually resulting from foreign in vasion• or ordinary insurrection. From their revolting pictures , and fervid appeals, addressed to the senses and passions of the 'blacks., they are calculated to fill every family with assassins, and produce, at no very distant day,'an exterminating servile war. So aggravated is the character of those papers, that the aleople of the southern states, with an unanimity never witnessed except in cases of extreme danger, have evinced, in public meetings and by other demonstrations, a determination to seek defence and safety in putting an end to their circulation b' any peens and at any hazard. Lawless power is to be resisted; but power which is exerted in palpable self-defence is not lawless. • That such is the power whose elements are not agitating the south, the united people of that section religiously believe ; and eso long as that Shell be their impression, it will require the array Of armies to carry the mails in safety through their territorieS, it they continue to be used as the instrument of those who are disposed to seek their destruction. . As a measure of great publiC necessity, therefore, you and the other postmasters wto have assumed the responsibility of stepping these inflammatory papers, will, I have no doubt, stand - justified in that step before yiur country and all mankind. But perhaps the legal right of the abolitionists to make use of the public mails in distributing their insurrectionary papers throughout the southern states is not so clear as they seem to imagine. When those states became independent they am .quired a right to prohibit the circulation of such papers within their territories; and their power over the subject of slavery and all its incidents was in no degree diminished by the adoption of the federal constitution. It. is still as un divided and sovereign as it was when they were first eman- . tipated . from the dominion of the King and parliament Of ' Great Britain. In the exercise of that power, some of those states have made the circulation of such papers a capital crime; others have made it a felony punishable by confinement in the penitentiary; and perhaps there is not one among them 'which has not forbidden it under heavy.peualties. If the aboli tionists or their agents were caught in distributing their tracts in Louisiana, they would legally be punishable with death ; if they were apprehended in Georgia, they might legally be sen t to the Penitentiary ; and in each of the slavcholding states they would suffer the penalties of their respective laws. Now, have these people a legal right to do by the mail-cars rieis and postmasters of the United States, acts - , which ,if done by themselves or their agents, would lawfully subject them to the punishment due to felons of the deepest dye ? Are the offi cers of the United States compelled by the constitution and laws • to become the instruments and accomplices of those who design to baffle and make nugatory the constitutional laws of the states —fo fill them ivith sedition, murder, amid insurrection—to over throw those institutions which are recognized and guaranteed by the constitution itself ?" _ •. The Post Master 'General sets out by declaring that according to law the postmaster has no power vested in him " to exclude from the mails any specieS of news papers, magazines, (* . pamphlets," and he further de clares that such a power, so vested would be "fear fell dangerous , !'• • But -having laid down the law in clear terms the Post Master General' proceeds to advise his subordinate officer to assume the dangerous power which he condemns, and violate the law on the ground of expediency. Helens the postmaster that be is justi . lied in opening and destroying . all papers having a ten . dandy to excite insubordination in the southern states, 'and all such papers which if circulated in certain states would subject triCise . - Who - diiseriiinate them to - the :ties of law;. and upon this decision, or rather postoffice opinion, the Deputy Post Masters in all the states have resolved to . act. Now let us see the effect of this law of expediency upon the - rights and privileges of the people. In the firs t PlaCe the Deputy' host Masters are at once constituted ; :the judges of what papers are inflammatory and what are .innoxious—what are legal and what are illegal—wha t favours abolition, or what stimulates slavery. A book seller in New York sends a magazine or pamphlet— Blackwood, for instance, or the Penny Magazine—to a friend in Charleston. The Postmaster at New York or Charleston opens the publication and overhauls its con tents. American postmasters, we . know, are not the - rnostlearned persons in the world. We have never heard . that any of them are celebrated for critical acumen, or as being very brilliant adept's in literature. On the con trary, we are assured that many of these persons have oc casionally some difficulty in deciphering the most legible of plain hands, and are rarely guilty of reading any thing else but the outside, or at the utmost, a two-fingered .peep into the inside of a neighbour's letter. . Suppose then that Blackwood; or the Penny Maga zine, in passing through the office of such critics, should .contain an article on " human rights"—the " doctrine 'of equality"—the " expediency of corporal punish ments"—or, " the slave question calmly considered" — 'would not these learned deputy postmasters deem it their duty to suppress the magazine, return it to whence it came, or consign • it to the flames? -The Post-master ,General tells his subordinates, that although such con duct would be illegal in the eye of the law, yet if he were in their situation, he would act as they have done and turn the books; -This is strange doctrine- in a land of libersy s but being acted upon it will hasten the crisis. The argument of the Post-master General is founded ( Ton the assumption that the post-masters must neces sarily know the contents of every paper' and letter that passes through their respective offices. He says, that if a letter directed by an enemy or spy, in time of war, were to be conveyed to some other enemy, by Means of the state mail, it-might " expose the country to invasion," and that consequently it would be the duty of th e rust -master to " arrest it." This is begging the question altogether, and presupposes powers vested in post masters which they never possessed, and the possession of which he candidly admits would be " fearfully dangerous." It presupposes much more than this. It not only recognises illegal and arbi trary power on the part of the postmasters, but it makes them the judges of the correspondence they are to ,"ar. Test," and presumes that they open and read alt letters. How can a postmaster know the contents of a letter without opening it, or without committing a felony by breaking its seal ? If the government of the United States have the power of indethnifying the postmaster againststhe consequences of such acts, what protection has the correspondence of any merchant or trader in that country ? It will not do to tell us that his search after anti-slavery publications is to be confined to newspapers, Pamphlets, and magazines. Circulars of that character and tendency may be circulated in the form of an ordi nary letter, sealed in the usual manner, the postage paid, :and directed to a man of undoubted r espectability—nay, to a slave-owner himself. In this case has the postmas ter of Charleston the power to break the seal of such a letter? This demands an immediate and categorical answer—aye or no. If the answer be in the negative, then, we beg to ask, how is the circulation of obnoxious circulars to be prevented ? If in the affirmative, then We contend that the postoffice from that moment ceases to be an efficient establishment—its officers become spies --it is a system of police abhorrent to human nature, which violates all the rules of justice by prying into domestic concerns, the credit of individuals, the, secrets 9f trade, the bequests of the old, the settlements of the Young, and the private and most delicate affairs of every Than and woman in the republic. Such is the rule of expediency as laid down by the Postmaster General ! But are the people of America prepared to tolerate 4 -4oti an engine of espionage and oppression ? We shall he sorry to hear that they are, but till we are better in- , formed we shall not believe that, they will submit to such a system even to save the whole of the slave states from confusion and civil war. Far-better : separate the north from the south than be so insulted and degraded. Far better cut the painter at . once than make slaves of the whole mass. Far better for the one section of the citi zens to wash their Lands of the whole thing than be par •ties to tl e infamies and iniquities which a new avid extended slave code is required to protect and perpe tuate. As to the postoflice, all its rigorous enactments, and all its violations of law, cannot prevent the circulation of antislavery documents. If letters are to be opened and examined, merchants will be compelled to adopt some other mode of transmitting their correspondence. The mail carts would consequently very soon carry nothing but their drivers and the government despatches. There venue would decline, and ten thousand magazines, pam phlets, and newspapers would be forced upon the slave population for one which finds its way at present. This madness carries with,it its own cure, namely, the de struction of those who seek protection at the expense of justice. DANIEL, the whig missionary, has, we believe, reached the end of his yarn in Scotland, and is now, we presume, working his passage to a more congenial soil. He ex pended the last pailful of his Irish slops and holy-water upon the bailies and radicals of Paisley, and if he had drowned the former in the foul mess it would have been an act of kindness and mercy to all respectable and intel ligent persons in that part of the world. The poor old vain braggart, in his green cap and his green breeks, has had his hour and his benefit, like any other mountebank on the stage. -He has not been inter rupted—he has not been hooted, hksed, or pelted, as Sir Jo•rfN HoenousE has more than once; and we rejoice to say that hehas escaped " scot free," without being duck ed in a horse-pond or dragged through the delectable stream of the Molendinar burn, pure as his own con science and sweet as a hedge-priest in the dug-days. He has had all the talk to himself, and a mighty torrent of sedition, treason, calumny, and falsehood he has been allowed to utter; but, after all, what harm has the beggar done ? None; except to himself, his employers in .the ministry, and his Masters the monks of May nooth. First, as concerns DANIEL. He has now fairly and ex plicitly shown the people of England and Scotland what he is and what he wants. They have hitherto not had any opportunity of ascertaining or understanding the true nature of the agitator's character. They have hitherto only considered him in the light of an advocate on behalf of the people of Ireland—an interested and hireling advocate, it is true—but still one whom they never suspected of being inimical to the protestant insti tutions of Great Britain. He blustered and whined about the " wrongs of Ireland and the finest peasantry in the world" according to MS' instructions, taking care at the same time never to touch in the remotest degree upon the diseased part of the system, the popish leprosy, the superstitious infection, and the consequent ignorance and depravity whence has sprung all the evils and wrongs of Ireland. He told a tale of misery, invariably guard ing himself against any admission of the fact that he him self fed upon the alms. which, being extorted from the vilest of the poor, produced the misery he pretended to deplore, but which furnished a rich harvest to his idle family. He declaimed upon misgovernment and oppres sion, and the gaping fools who listened to him and heartily sympathised with him never dreamt that he meant more than to obtain for his countrymen a partici pation in all the civil rights, franchises, and immunities of the people of England. They never till now sus pected O'CoNNELL of meditating any designs against the protestant religion of the land, and our constitutional mo- Earchv, as established at the revolution. Had DANIEL continued to talk to fools according to their folly, he might, by flattering their weak ness, and by ministering to their ignorance, have maintained some ascendancy over their passions. But he has been guilty of the unexpected imprudenCe of opening their eyes, and exhibiting his pretensions in a clearer light. He has endeavoured by means of calumny and falsehoodlo prrjuitee the-people against the - Hous - es of Lords. He has flung away the mask, and he has tried hard to persuade the people to throw away the scabbard, and rush headlong into rebelli(7.l atrd destruction. He has denounced our hereditary peerage, and has thus, by inuendo, denounced our hereditary monarch. He has, like a skulking coward, struck at the king through his nobles; and has endeavoured to demolish the temple by undermining its pillars. * Has he succeeded ? No. He has only succeeded in exposing himself. He has only succeeded in turning folly into shame, pity into execra tion, and he goes home to his " beggar's dish," doubly despised by many, and utterly detested by the great ma jority of the people of England and Scotland. We, therefore, for the present, leave him to his reflections. Second, as concerns his employers in the ministry. O'CoNNELL is, or he is not, the chief ally and mainstay of the MELBOURNE administration. We know that but for him and his worthless tail the ministry would have been in a minority even in the House of Commons. We have, therefore, the right to assume that Lord MEL BOURNE and his wretched colleagues are under the deep est obligations to DANlEL—obligations which would not be too amply compensated were they to pay over to him a moiety of their united salaries. Under these circum stances is it not natural to infer that the demagogue went, forth on his infamous mission with their full consent and concurrence? They may not have said do this or do thaOut it is exceedingly probable they did say—you may say and do what yoU please, we shall not Interfere with you, provided you do not directly and by name attack the King. If one-tenth, or even one hundredth part of this were. said, in what a repulsive position would the servants of the King stand ? The proof; perhaps, will come out hereafter, and for that we are content to wait. But assuming that O'CONNELL is not the hired mis sionary of the MELBOURNE administration—that there is no connivance between him, Lord JOTIN RUSSELL, dnd others—that DANIEL and the ministry are quite indepen dent of each other—that his love for them is purely pla tonic, and that it is not reciprocated--assuming all this for the sake of argument, in what better situation are the ministers of the crown placed. If they did not encourage his seditious . and treasonable proceedings, they suffered them, they tolerated them, they did not punish them ! •We give them the benefit of either view of the case. They are guilty of covert encouragement, or they are guilty of tolerating that which was in the highAt degree 'criminal, insulting to the King as the first hereditary peer, and to . every peer of parliament. We care not which plea they put in--they may make their choice. They stand i❑ full view of the people of England as ac cessaries before and after the fact—they were either privy to the conspiracy or they winked at it. Gentlemen, whigS of England, members of the MEL BOURNE administration, you are placed by this heartless agitator who rides over you, who has you in his power and despises you, as he has told you a thousand times— you ate:placed in no enviable position- The intelligentpeo ple of this country now know of what materials yoU are framed--by what principle you are actuated ; and as sure as there is ink in the pen which writes these words you are, as a party—boom - 4W You never can survive the indignation which this profligate incendiary, covered by your official shield, has roused against you. As a party your day is over—your coffin is measured—your grave is dug; and we pray Gob that when your names are forgotten, the evils you have inflicted or would inflict upon your country, may not be avenged upon your children and their possessions. Thirdly, as concerns DANIEL'S masters the monks of Maynooth. The church of Rome has for the last few years been making unexampled but desperate efforts to restore popery in these realms. But it has overlooked one principle which must be strictly regarded in all conspira ties before it is possible to secure anything like lasting success. We allude to the honesty, the fidelity, btit, above all, the prudence of the . agents. A shrewd man, whether in alotAl or bad cause, although hut master of moderate talents, is capable of achieving that which the THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, flashy orator, the intemperate controversialist, the rash and fool-hardy general would spoil and frustrate forever. is-exactly the predicament of the church of Rome at . this moment. To Providence alone we owe the 'happy circumstance that O'CONNELL is the champion and leader of the Romish church in Ireland. His character alone would bring perdition on the best cause ever advocat ed by a human being. He has proclaimed doc trines which must arm against him—perhaps against his guilty church, and so much the better—all the Roman Catholic nobility of Europe. He has thrown his rockets at random, and they have fallen with far more deadly aim upon the • popish priests, and the Roman Catholic families of noble birth, than upon the protestants. The thunder-bolt fired by the Irish JUPITER has struck the walls of Maynooth, and he it is who has laid bare, or caused to be exposed, all the 'mysteries of popery. No man in our day has done so much to injure the cause which he was hired to uphold and extend than DANIEL the mendicant. Every respectable Roman Catho lic must now detest his very name. The Pope must ex- Communicate him forthwith, or the " ould faith" will be speedily extirpated in the sister island. The priests thefn selves must immediately disown and anathematise him, or they will be houseless, penniless, and without a hand to help them. O'CONNELL is tolerably safe—he can'afFord to re tire to Derrynane—and laugh. He has- heaped his bushel and is independent.' But the poor " ould chUrch" and' her priests they will have to pay fur all—and we wish them joy ! THE CENTENARY OF THE REFORMATION. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STAI'D✓[RD. SIR,-It was with the greatest pleasure that I read in your paper of this morning an article reminding all true protestants of the approaching 4th of October, and entreating them to com memorate it both as a day of rejoicing on account of our being released from the darkness and errors of popery, and also as a warning to the jesuitical faction that we are not yet arrived at that pa;s that we will tanielytve up the '"c 4 atisis of triitli," in which our forefathers fought and bled, or coldly look on and without a struggle surrender our venerable establishment on account of the bare outcry that is now raised against it. The church in Ireland is at present the most assailable part of the establishment, and, towards it are all the efforts of the papists, aided by the "base, malignant Whigs," as their ally, or rather master, a few months ago designated them, directed, and the protestants there, disheartened by the coldness with which their calls fur aid and countenance for the last five years have been received, and affrighted by the midnight fires, the threat ened " death's head and cross-bones," and daily murders, are emigrating in great numbers. Let us no longer be silent. Let us show our fellow-protestants that we sympathize in their per secutions, and also that we are determined to succour them. Let there, then, be given out in every church in England—in the United Kingdom—next Sunday a notice, " That on the next Lord's Day there will be a solemn fast to commemorate the anniversary of the day which gave us our first true version of the sacred Scriptures, and a collection made in aid of our des titute and persecuted brethren of Ireland." Let this he done : it will arouse the sleeping protestants of England, give confi dence to the suffering protestants of Ireland, and sound such an alaruin in the ears of the infidel and papistical factions, that their hearts shall quake for very fear of our awakened ire, and the arms that they have sacrikgiously stretched out to seize the ark of the Lord shall be palsied and drop powerless. C. E. S. Liverpool, 22d Sept.. 1835. CELEBRATION BY THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND OF THE THIRD CENTENARY ANNIVERSARY OF THE REFORMATION. The presbytery of Edinburgh on Thursday last unanimously resolved,—"'That sabbath se'nnight, the 4th October next, being the third centenary anniversary of •1 he day on which the printing of the first translation of the entire bible into English was finished, be observed, within the bounds of the presbytery, as •ar-day of thanksgiving, for the poisession,and continuance amongst'us of the entire inspired scriptures in our own lan guage; and that the ministers of the respective churches be instructed to direet"the attention *of their several congregations on that occasion, to the special grounds of such thanksgiving, More particularly as connected with the blessings of the refor illf tioh from popery." 'l'o-morrow, (Wednesday,) the 30th day of September, there will he an extraordinary meeting at Edinburgh of The General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, on urgent business, to which heteafter we may have occasion to advert. This vene rable hotly will immediately enjoin on all congregations, under its spiritual jurisdiction iu Scotland and elsewhere, the ob servance of the 4th October as a day of thanksgiving to the Almighty for their deliverance from the thraldom of the impure and intolerant church of Rome. We trust that protestant con gregations of every denomination will celebrate this important religious festival throughout the British empire. We appre hend that a lamentable ignorance prevails both in Scotland and England respecting the impure doc'rines of popery, and ihe deep degradation, religious, utoral; --- and infeltecttrat, Windt' it requires of its unhappy votaries. Who, but with the mind of a slaVe, debased by foul superstition, could submit to auri cular confession? Many . are the unfortunate persons who have told us in popish 'countries, that they were unacquainted with the vices of the world, that they knew them not even by name, until they ctlntracted, at the confessional, the' pollution front which they never recovered. Equally detestable are many of its othei,rites; yet to this unhallowed superstition would the Melbourne ministry abandon immense districts of the west of Ireland, by the inoliation of nearly a thousand protestant churches in that benighted country. Arduous are the duties of. the teachers of pure religion, who, under all circnnistances, must obey the divine command to preach the gospel. No ap parent want of success must 'abate their zeal. For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west: so shall also the cominct of the son of man be; and these are the words of unerring wisdom. LIVERPOOL POLICE FilloA.Y.—(Before Mr. Alderman jott: Bouitxg and Mr. Alderman HONSP A LL.) • James Skilton made a complaint, that he was walking through Dale-street, on Mouday night, " saying .nothing to nobody,' when he met with Elizabeth Nuttall, one of the Ugliest pieces of mortality that ever seduced the tickle fancy of mankind... lie accompanied the frail lady into a house in Leather-latie, incau tiously exhibited his money, (some six pounds,) put it (lewd on the table • it was suatchedup in a summary manner by another female, Barker, also one of the frail sisterhood, who passed it on to two other women who were on the stairs, and they passed it on completely out of his sight. Ile gave information to the police, who apprehended Nuttall and Barker. The money not found, and the parties were remanded. COMPLAINT BY AN APPRENTICE. An Apprentice, named Vero, stated that he was bound appren tice to Mr. Evans, in May; went one voyage to Virginia in one of his ships, the Grace, Capt. Reid, and complained of short commons and hard work. Part of the work was painting the ship on a Sunday. Complained of the short allowance, and the cook told him he could have no more, as it went below. •On one night, when coming up the channel, had only one hour's _sleep in the twenty-four, and eight at other times. Mr. Yates, attorney for complainant, said that the chief coin-- plaint was the painting on the Sunday. James Laing, a seaman iu the Grace, said that he had seen worse usage in other vessels; but they were well worked both at sea and on shore. 'There was sufficient food allowed on the outward and homeward voyage. Mr. Florsfall said that ill-usage was not yet proved. •- Mr. Yates.—There is the painting on the Sunday. Mr. florsfall.—The witness does not prove it. I should like to know if there was painting on a Sunday. .. Captain Reid said that they did - paint on one Sunday, when it was actually necessary. This only occurred once. He was at this work no inure than one hour. • 'Air. Horsfall.-=-The lad certainly seems not to have been over worked or under-fed. Tile case was then dismissed, the naa.4ist rates considering that the charge had not been proved. \ ern quitted the court breathing indignation against his captain, and vowing he would go to sea with him " never no more.' PICTURE STEA I.ING. Elizabeth Slater' was charged with stealing two pictures from the shop of Mr. Kaye. carver and gilder, Lime-street. • Mr. William Kaye stated that on Thursday the 10th instant. he had put four pictures into the upper end of his shop. On the Saturday following he missed the pictures, gave War:nation to the police, and went . to the puns-office of Mr. Taustall; Sir Thomas's-buildings, where he found one of the pictures, (a head of Christ,) which the prisoner had pledged forts. 61 A:second picture (a water-colour drawing) was discovered at MI'S. Lane's, Sir Thomas's buildings, 'to whom it had been pledged for Is. Cal. . Alfred Tunstall and James Lad, assistants in the pawn nifita r.Tniast and -Mrs.- bane s deposed _to the pawning , by the prisoner in - her own name. E. P. Lloyds, the constable, stated that on apprehending the prisoner,she admitted haying pawned the pictures. The prisoner said she had pawned the pictures, they having been given to her for the purpose by some woman she met in Whitechapel, and she had not seen her since. Committed for the sessions. Mr. Kaye said that he particularly regretted the two missing pictures, as they were not his own property. Mr. Parlour said that every exertion should be made by the police to recover them. COMPLAINT AGAINST A CAPTAIN. Philip Mahoney appeared as complainant against Captain Vaughan, of the Albion, from St. John's, N. 8., and demanded £7 10s. wages. It appeared, from Captain Vaughan's counter statement, that Mahoney had worked out his passage, by con sent of the owner, and had been bound (as was the custom) at the rate of one shilling a-month, and his diet, &c., as appren tice. The articles were accordingly produced, and they bore out the captain's statement. The ease was dismissed, Master Philip Mahoney getting the sum of one shilling for his month's labour, &c. He complained most bitterly that the shilling had been inserted in the articles since he made his complaint. Mr. Ellis.—Then you are not entitled to even the shilling. (A laugh.) TRICKS UPON TRAVELLERS. A very respectable old lady appeared in the witness box, and (the magistrate having left the court) thus addressed Mr. Par- lour:—" Please your worship, I have to ask your advice on a matter which appears to me a personal grievance of a very grievous nature. I came from 'Preston yesterday afternoon— was requested to navel inside the coach 2 -declined, saying that it did not suit my means to go to the extra expense, and was told Oh, never mind, do you go in.' I accordingly did travel inside, and on arriving Liverpool my luggage was stopped at the coach-office for the difference between the inside and • the outside fare. Under these circumstauces I have come here for advice." Mr. Parlour.--It is a common and very disgraceful trick. Where did the coach stop? Complainant.—At the Wellington, I think. Mr.,Parlour.—l am afraid your only remedy will be by an action at law.—Mr. Parlour then sent Lloyd with the com plainant to the coach-office for the purpose of seeing whether they would give up the luggage; if net, to return to him, that he might see what further could be done. The lady departed iu high goad huniour, accompanied by Lloyd. On arriving at the coach-office, and stating the case, the luggage was instantly given up-,the error of charging inside fare having originated at Preston, not at Liverpool. Th&coinplainant, we understand, belongs to Mr. Copeland's corpS dramatique, lately acting at Lancaster and Preston, and now on the move to Dumfries. Mr. Godfrey, who appeared on the Liverpool boards, some time since, is now one of the same company. The old lady, we are told, acted at Liverpool, thirty years ago, under the name of Worrall. YESTERDAY.—(Before Sir THOMAS BRANCKER.) I:013BERY BY AN ERRAND,RO.Y. Robert Dewhurst, a lad in the employ of Messrs. Silver and Hayter, drapers and clothiers, of Lord-street, was charged with stealing a couple' of new striped shirts, the property of his em ployers. It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner offer ed a shirt to pledge with Thomas Higgiuson, a pawnbroker in Paradise-street, and the latter, - suspecting it to be stolen, sent for Captain Roberts, of the watch, who asked him in whose employ he was? This being ascertained, Roberts took the shirt to Messrs. Silver and Hayter, who identified it as their property. —Robertsssuhsequently searched the prisoner's lodg s ings, and there found pawn-tickets for other property belong ing to the complainants.—Thr prisoner was committed for trial. ROBERRY IN ST. JOHN'S MARKET. A man named William Price was charged by John Richards, one of the constables of St. John's Market, with having, in ,the company of others, broken open a hogshead of apples and stolen therefrom a•quantity of the flint. The case against the prisoner was proved, but, .being only a trivial one. the magiss tales committed hint to prison for one mouth, as a rogue and vagabond. ' SUPPOSED LOSS OF A VESSEL AT SEA. The following communication was received at Lloyd's, Lon don, on Friday : "Coast Guard Office, Sept. 24, 1835. Sir,—l herewith transmit, for the information of the Com mittee for the management of the affairs of Lloyd's, a letter from Captain Mayne, R.N., InspectinC Commander at [last, ings, and its enclosure. which was found in a bottle washed on shore at 31, Tower station, on the 21st inst. "W. Dobson, Esq." (Signed) "S. SPA rtSHOTT." "Hastings, Sept. 23, 1835. _ . "Sir,—Herewith I have the honour to - transmit a piece of paper found in a bottle that drifted in on 31, Tower station, on the morning of the 21st inst. It may possibly be the means of determining the fate of some vessel - which at present is un known. (Signed) ~ D. MAYNE." (COPY.)—" Daniel England, John Yeats , in lat. 2.5 deg. 38 min. N., long. 16 deg. 40 min. \V.; heavy gale, blowing front N.B. for three days, and on the thired it increased to a hurri cane, which took all our masts out of her, and washed the cap tain, mate, and seven hands overboard. After labouring 41 great deal, she sprung a leak three streaks below water. p. m . settling down fast." MUNICIPAL BOUNDARY COMMISSIONERS. — WiIIiam Deni son, Esq., and Hall flanitnitts, Esq. are the commissioners ap pointed for determining the boundaries of the divisions of the boroughs of Preston, Lancaster, Clithero, and Leeds. They commenced their labours at Leeds on Thursday week. NORTHAMPTONSHIRE CONSERVATIVE' ASSOCIATION.-- The conservatives of this county celebrated their anniversary by a dinner at the Greyhound Inn, in the city of Peterborough, on Thursday last. Colonel Vaughan officiated as chairman, in the absence of Sir John Trollope, the president of the associa tion. About two hundred members were present. LISCA RD POWDER MAO AziNE.—We understand that a pub lic meeting of the inhabitants of Wallasey, is intended to be held at Egremont Hotel, on Thursday next, to . consider, the propri ety of applying to parliament for an act to remove this highly dangerous . depot, in which application, we think, the authori ties of Liverpool should join, as we are informed the quantity of gunpowder kept there is so great. varying from twenty to forty thousand casks, as to endanger the safety or the town. At Ilounslovr, where an explosion of only twenty barrels lately occurred, the effect was felt for several miles, and considering the number of buildings erecting in the vicinity of the store houses at Liscard, it becomes absolutely necessary this depOt should removed, as a flash of lightning or a spark from a chimney, or many other accidents, may at once make the pro position for considering their removal too late, as the inhabit ants of Liverpool as well as Cheshire would painfully bud.— (Frorre a Correspondent.)--[The awful responsibility incurred from keeping so large a magazine of powder may be conceived when we state that if the depot were to explode, not only the whole of the buildings and property on the Cheshire side would •be destroyed, but that the whole of the clock gates, locks, walls, warehouses, and other buildings on this side, and approximat ing to the river, would share the same fate. In fact, more da mage would be done to property in a few minutes than it would, be possible for all the wealth in Liverpool to restore in twenty :years.—E. L. S. 1 PRINCE GEORGE OF CAMBRT DGE.—On Thursday af'ernoon, he arrived `by the Railway, from Heaton Park, where he had - been to attend the races given by the Earl of Wilton. His ,Royal Highness and suite took up their residence at the King'S ,Arms, and on Friday, about noon, made•his appearance .pion 'Change, accompanied by Alderman Sir Thomas Brancker, (in the absence of the Mayor,) Sir John Tobin, &c. He was received with the most enthusiastic cheers by the merchants :assembled, without distinction of politics, and on entering the newsroom, which was extremely filled, the plaudits were renew ed. After visiting the Town-hall, the Underwriters' Room, and the principal objects of attraction, his Royal Highness returned to Manchester by the two o'clock train. He is a youth of very prepossessing appearance, of light complexion, and tall for his age. which is sixteen, having been born on the 26th of March, 1819. lie was very plainly dressed, and, when in the Exchange rooms, he repeatedly bowed with much grace, in acknowledg ment of the cheers with which he was saluted. ------ - THE SUNDAY TIMES.—Among our advertisments will be found one from the proprietors of this London weekly journal, announcing their intention of printing the next number of that paper on a double . sheet, for the purpose of presenting their readers, gratuitously, with a complete and universal almanack, for the year, ,1836, aucla verbatim copy of the municipal cor porations bill. Judging from the last returns of those who have claimed to vote for Middlesex, there is likely to he an important change in the repreientation of the county at the next general election. It is rumoured that Mr. Hume will have no objection to trans fer his services to the city of Westminster, if the electors of that city are disposed to accept there. • DOVER, SEPT. 23.—0 n Monday the Doke of Wellington paid an unexpected visit to the harbour works, having come from Walmer Castle, where he arrived at midnight on Satur day. His Grace's occasional appearance is very desitab:e, being usually followed by the removal of some obstruction or nuisance which ought not to exist.—Kent ASSAULT BY UNIONISTS. A ruffianly fellow • named Thomas Heed, belonging to the trades' union, was charged with assaulting Patrick Vague un der the following circumstances : —The prosecutor is a coach wheel-maker, and went into a manufactory in tw•hich the de fendant is foreman for the purpose of seeking► employment. Defendant asked the - plaintiff whether he was a ❑nionist, and, on being► answered in the negative, he said that he did Tint be long to the trade,•and that he bad no business to ask for work, as he was nothing better than a black sheep. Complainant being a native of Armagh, in Ireland, and, moreover, unused to the cant terms of trade, felt offended at the defendant's manner, and returned, " That he had as much right to ask for work as any one else." The defendant then, in the presence of the rest of his shopmates, took up the spoke of a gig -wheel and struck com plainant on the arm, the effect of which was, that the arm was broken. Not content with this, defendant knocked him down three times previous to his leaving the manufactory. In answer to a question from the magistrate, complainant said that he was on his way to Altnerica, but having to wait fora remittance from his brother to carry him there, he wished to work in the interim. The assault took place on Thursday evening. The prisoner in his defence said that at the time the complainant called, he (the )prisoner) was in liquor; and by the complainant's saying that he bad received no relief from the trade, (being a tramp,) be supposed he was not a coachwheel maker. Expressing contri tion for what he .had done, the magistrates said he must either satisfy the complainant or submit to the award of the court. The prisoner was willing to settle it, and having conferred with the complainant in an adjoining room, he gave him a couple of sovereigns as quits. The complainant subsequently came into court and informed the magistrates that he was partly satisfied, and holding up his mutilated wing, cried "There's no 'arm in that." Captain William Whittleton, of the brig Garland, appeared to answer a f.immons procured against him by a young man who had shipped with him at Greenock, as steward, and who claimed a balance of £2 15s. for wages; in lieu of which, com plainant stated that the captain only offered him 6s. 6d.. The captain stated, that it was true that the young man had shipped with him as steward, but when be got to sea he found that he was utterly unfit for the office whice he had undertaken. Ile, therefore, called another boy into the cabin to officiate in that capacity, and sent him forward, where he was equally inefficient, as he did not know a single rope in the ship. He now claimed £2los. per month, the wages which he would have received as steward, but he (the captain) was of opinion that he•would be overpaid by 30s. per month, which was what he had offered him. As the name of the complainant Appeared in the articles for £2 10s. per month, the captain was required to produce his wit nesses of the young man's inefficiency. The second mate was then called, who stated that the complainant was no seaman, but he could not say that he was no steward. He was no judge of that point. lie knew that the captain had sent him forward, but he could- not tell what for.. The complainant said that the captain had kicked him-nut of the cabin one morning during breakfast; that he had gone steward in several vessels,.and had always given great satisfaction. Sir Thomas Braucher and Mr Ellis were of opinion that the captain had not produced suf ficient evidence to verify his charge of incapacity against the complainant. COMMISSIONERS OF WATCH.-FRIDAT. Mr. Thornhill was called to the chair. The business hronght before the board consisted of about the ❑sual amount of com plaints against the watch force, some fur overstepping their duty, and others for neglecting to perform that fin• which they are paid by the town. Some small gratuities were given to the more active of the force for thief-taking. A watchman, named M'Cree, an elegant man, with a most imposing pair of whiskers, was reported as being drunk at the time he should have ap peared at muster. He had excused himseif on the plea of in disposition, which was known to be false, as a commissioner stated that he had seen M'Cree, whom he knew by his •" big whiskers," coming the high ding, by driving his corpes about the town in a gig, on the same day that he handed in his certi ficate of sickness, in company With, he supposed, " his friend." When asked by the commissioners what he had to say to the charge, and why he had not told the truth, he acknowledged to being incapac►tated, having taken two tumblers of brandy in the company of "his friend,' and the reason why he •did not give, that as his excuse was, knowing that such an acknowledge ment would get him into a scrape which he was anxious_ to get out of. Three days suspension was granted to M'Cree, to allow sufficient time for him to banish the "evil spirits." A decent-looking Woman preferred a charge against Captain Bradford, of having forcibly broken open her cellar door, by which the lock was broken, at the hour of four o'clock in the morning. She said that on coining home in the evening to her cellar, she found two sheep had taken refuge there, which she ascertained belcnged to a - Mr. Lacy, whose man she informed of the circumstance, and he desired her to let them remain there till the m .ruing. She had also acquainted Captain Brad ford and a watchman, named Allen, who took no notice of the matter at the time, hut afterwards came in pursuit of the "lost sheep," .and had then committed the violence complained of. Captain Bradford and Allen denied the charge, and said they . merely went to bone the "lost muttons," for the purpose of having them consigned to the pin -fold, when she became very saucy and refused to open the door, and it was a very gentle pressure which caused the door to giv,e_way. Mr. Hand laid the watchmen he thought were often too offi cious, and that the practice of entering,people's houses ought to be checked, except where they had reason to suppose the in mates were bad characters. The' eounnissiouers thought that the,woman's refusal to open the dnor had given cause for suspicion, and dismissed the case. A few accounts were afttrwards gone ip . to,py.lthe . weetiug uroke BEAUTIES OF REPUBLICANISM. (Prorri the Aforztredt tbfraht. 4th Septentl,ei, ) Our 14tevt Arnerican papers are almost barren Of "excite= meat t" but they contain a few editorial suggestions of a sedi tious Outracter. A Virginian editor had published the following amiable sug gestion : _ . - The wail to do it.—lnstead of setting about to dissolve the union, let the executive of any of the stave-holding states offer a reward of twenty thousand dollars for the apprehension and delivery of Mr. Arthur Tappan at any place south of the Poto mac—to be.clealt with according to his merits. It is the purse of this insti that keeps the abolitionists and their pres 4 in motion —he is the mime mover in the business of stirring up the blacks to rapine and murder, while he sits in security, and ease in kudson-square. There is a way of reaching hint, and We have pointed it nut.. A New York editor takes his Virginian brother severely to task, as follows : Thus says a Virginian paper. But we can assure them that this is not the way to do it. Arthur Tappan, and Lewis Tap pan; and their associates, haVe their rights as American citi zens, and those rights must be protected. Much as we lament the unhappy course which, in their blind zeal, they have taken, even we ourselves would turn out to defend and protect them from illegal violence. This is a country of LAWS, and the LAWS must be sustained. This would be very laudable, were not the paragraph closed with the subjoined approval of the Virginian gentleman's mur derous intentions:— As for Thompson, the south may have bins as soon as they please. "The laws must be sustained," sayi the'New Yorker, "un less in Mr. Thompson's case." The following remark of the Nem York Journal of CoMMerce considers the great republic as "this land of good laws." Yet these horrible proceedings are openly invoked by no in considerable-portions of people in this land of good laws, and by a considerable number of papers at the south and west. We cordially admit that some of the laws are "good." The following, for instance, is a very "good" law, as we find it stated in the. same number of the Journal of Commerce : The constitution of the United States guarantees to every citizen, "freedom of speech and of the press." The misfortune, however, is, that this "gnarl" law, like almost ever other "good" law of a public kind, is a dead letter. The very same number of the Journal of Commerce proves that there is nut "freedom of speech and of the press." Our con 7 temporary having dune us the honour of quoting one of our mildest articles on the displays of "judgment and will," muti lates the cloning sentence as being by no means adapted to the tastes of Andrew. Jackson's sovereign people. The mutilation is the more worth{ of notice, as the paragraph, as a whole, met our contemporarf's " cordial concurrence:" The mutilated sentence appeared in the Herald thus If such a system is adopted in England, where the laws and the government combine to prevent.and ..suppress piesular,via.- lence, how much more•requi4ite is it in America, where the laws directly recognise the sovereignty of the people, and where the head of the executive proclaims the entire devotion to the "judgment and will" of his own faction. The Journal (~/. Commerce spoils the paralleli6aa of our sen tence, and gives a slight indication either of fear or dishonesty, by striking out all that follows " people." , - The Western Hemisphere, said to be Van Bruen's organ in Ohin, mournfully asks — "How long will it he before Clay and Poindextei will be STRUNG UP BY THE NECK, IN THE PUBLIC HIGHWAY, as gamblers and blacklegs, in the Vicksburg fashion?" We were too hasty in saying that we could not give our readers a dish of excitements. _ 1. The kings of Michigan and the emperors of Ohio are still determined to get up a display on a very grand scale. A speck of war.—A postscript in the Dayton Journal of the 11th inst., states that "orders have been isst:ed by Governor Lucas to the generals of militia throughout the state, to report. to him immediately what number of mounted riflemen and cavalry can be furnished front their respective divisions at a moment's warning ! It is supposed that this force is intended for the disputed territory, to prevent or repel the aggressions of Michigan, or perhaps to invade the territory! Further we learn, that these orders were confidential, and will not appear in the papers until the governor removes the injunction of secrecy. The correctness of this intelligence may he depended on. A gentleman who saw a copy of the orders communicated the contents to us.". 2. "The village of Newhope was quite in a ferment," be cause a black man and a white woman were about to carry into effect " paramount amalgamation." 'clad not the parties cleared out "double quick," they would have expetienced the tender mercies of Judge Lynch. Why is not every yellow gentleman or every yellow lady hanged on the spot, as being a living proof of the horrid crime of "paramount amalgamatio'n ?" 3. On the authority of a- private letter, we learn that the sovereigns of Maine, who are terribly spirited fellows, finding the best of all possible republics too small a 'theatre for their display of "judgment and will," have made an incursion into the British territory of Madawaska, and expelled the British inhabitants by force. If such a thing has' happened, we cal culate that somebody must make apologies, or give us and every other Briton the right of attacking him. with - something more deadly than a pen. 4. - Even the pretty little town of Burlington begins to do something in the sovereign line. A Tumult at Bullington.—We learn from a gentleman who reached the city last evening, from Burlington, that the good people of that place are in a state of considerable excitement. It appears that a coloured man, who is known as a porter, in attendance upon the steam-boats, had rendered himself so ob noxious to a portion of the inhabitants of that place, that they determined to expel him from the city. In pursuance of this intention, a collection of persons assembled before the house of a coloured man, supposing it to be that in which the porter above mentioned resided. They proceeoed to throw stones at the windows, and to manifest other feelings of hostility, when the occupant of the house seized a musket, and tired upon the assailants. One Men received several buckshot is his shoulder, and two others were slightly injured. HEATON PARK RAPES.-CONCLUDED THUI:SDAY. "A7Furse of Fifty Sovereigns, r;iven—ivr" The-Clieh, , '-in lieu -44 the Oldham Purse, added to a Handicap Sweepstakes of 3 sous each. Once round. Mr Wheeldon's hr h Giovanni, aged Mr Sirdefield 1 Mr Dawson's b c Morpeth, 4 yrs Mr Townley's b g Algiers, 5 )rs 1 ord Wilton 3 Mr Hesse:tine's b f Lydia Languish Captain Beecher 4 2 to I agst Algiers, 3 to 1 agst Giovanni, 4 to I agst Morpetb. This was decidedly the best race of the day. The horses gut off in a cluster, and when they got to the distance Alg,iers had a slight lead, four others being annost abreast -of him, Giovanni working hard on the outside, the whole body gniiig at a rattling pace. A short distance from home Mr. Sirdefield got his horse in front, and a beautiful race ensued, Morpeth being beaten with difficulty by about half a length. It was stated that Gio vanni crossed Morpeth; but the stakes were awarded to the former. _ _ _ The Manchester Stakes of 20 sovs each, 10 Imes ft, and 5 sous only if declared by six o'clock the evening before run ning, with DM sovs added by the town. the aide and a half. Four horses to start or the 100 says will not be given. Lord Lichfield names Lady le Gros. 4 yrs.... Lord Wilton 1 Lord R. Grosvenor naines'Whirefoot, 4 yrs.. Capt. 'Beecher 2 Mr Dawson's b c Morpeth, 4 yrs - Mr White 3 Mr Ruthvin's ch c Rush, 4 yrs Mr Osbaldeston 4 • .• • t.,even paw. 2 to I agst Lady le Gros, 5 to 2, against Whitefoot.—Lady le Gros led, Rush second, Morpeth third, and Whitefoot last. When they got to the distance Captain Beecher passed the others, and appeared to be winning easily ; but when within a few yards of home, Lady le Gros came out and won by about a I.ead. This race concluded the sports of the day, which, on the whole, were of the best description. FRIDAY. The weather this day being equally favourahle as on Thurs day, the race-course was attended by as many persons as had been preent on both the two previous days. nod the bill behind the grand stand presented a dense mass of spectators. Prince George again accompanied the Earl and Countess of Wilton to witness the sport, which commenced with the!race for The Claret. Stakes of 20 sovs each, with 50 sovs added by the town and neighbourhood of Bolton, for two sear old colts, Bst Sib; fillies, Bst lib. Three quarters of a mile. A win new nee, before starting, to carry Sibs, twice, 51bs extra, and thrivioner of the Champagne Stakes to carry 70,s extra.— Horses that have been twice beaten allowed 31bs, unless they have run second. Lord Wilton's br fby Mule}7—Bequest Nat 1 Mr Robinson's ch c Whaley, by Langer Cz, twright 2 Mr Houldsworth's b c Luther, by Vanish Mr Houldsworth's ch c Vathek by Sultan Darting 4 Sir T;Stanley's ch f The Maid of Wirral .... Templeruan 0 Mr Tralfard'ib c The Bonny Beau Mr Buckley's b c Sam, by Muley Whitehouse 0 Ten paid. Betting-5 to 4 agst Maid of Wirral, 2to 1 agst Whaley, 10 to 1 iorst the winner. The knowing gentry were completely let into the secret by this event. The Muley filly took the lead at, starting, was never headed, and won in a canter by four lengths. The St.. Leger Stakes of 25 sovs each, 10 sovs forfeit, with 100 sovs added by " The Club," for three year old colts, Bst 71b ; fillies, Bst 31b. Lard Wilton names ch c Hornsea Nat 1 Sir John Gerard names b c Pelops Mr Joseph Scholes's gr c Cavendish Lord Stanley's ch c Amurath Templeman 4 Mr Robinson's br c Stockport Darling 5 Five paid. • llornsea against the field, as a matter of course, everything in the shape of odds being jumped at; 3 to 1 agst Pelops, 4 to 1 agst Amurath, sto I agst Stockport. Amurath took the lead at a rattling pace, closely followed. by Pelops, the grey next, the crack fourth, and Stockport in the place be Maintained through out the race. They ran in this manner to the distance, when Amurath dropped last but one, and Hoinsea took his place in front, which he kept all the way, winning .easily by three lengths A Gold Cup, value 200 soys, given by the town of Manchester, added to a Handicap Sweepstakes of 20 sovs each, 10 sins ft, and 5 sovs only if declared by six o'clock the evening before running, for horses of all denominations, three years old ex cepted. St. Leger Course. The owner of the second horse to receive 21) sees from the stakes. Mr Os;.aldeston names Rush, 4 yrs - Mr Oshaldoston I Lord Chesterfield's; Lady le Gros. 4 yrs Lord Wilton 2 Mc Whe c hlon's Giovanni, aged " Mr >lai rdefield 3 Mr Rubinson's Selen,.s yrs Captain Beecher 4 Catharina, Lustre, Whitefoot, intruder, Golcifringe, Darius, and Vuipes also started, but were not plabed. Twenty-eight paid. This race being the principal one of the meeting a good deal of betting was done. Mr. Oshaide'ston.supported hi no mination in.a spirited manner, - and the highest odds laid air inst him were 3to1; 3 10,1 agst Giov ann i, 4 to l a l Lady te Gros, 4 to 1 agst Catharina.—Catharina took the lead, with Rush at her heels, and the others well up. They kept together until near the di s tance, where Mr. Osbaldestodlet his horse go,. and won with ease by two lengths. Match, 100 soya each,—Once round and a distance. Lord Wilton's Languish, 5 yrs, Bst lit • Nat 1 ' Load A. Conyngham's Algiers, 5 yrs, Ist 711) I ye 2 2 to 1 on Languish, who won easy. A Free Handicap of 5 sovs each, with 25 .sevs added by "The Club," for the beaten horses on Wednesday and Thursday.. ! One Mile. The winner of the St. Leger to carry 41b extra, and of the Manchester Cup, alb extra. Rush, 10st 41b Whitefoot, list 211, C.lptain Beecher 2 Ince, 9st 91b Mr. Burton 3 Luck's All, list 121 b Mr Kent 4 Eighteen .drawn. Rush. nothing the worse for.hii exertions in .the cop race, came out a second time quite fresh, and was backed at evens against the field. ,lle had the race his own way, and won easily. This race concluded the sports of The _meeting, which have been of a first-rate character, and have proved a source of high gratification to the race going people of this and the neighbour ing towns. The usual contingencies of pilling, upsetting gigs and coaches, and breaking of shaft's, occurred in the bustle oc casioned by the attempts to get out of the park; but we have aipt,hearalof any aeriamsacsidentkayi?i occurred, An old lady of Marseille, already twice a witiow, dna ninety-three, about two years loge marriedoa youtFof seventy five. Her course sill not vet run, for he r thitd • huhaud is lately dead, and the old lady, now in her ninety-fifth year, is already on the look out for a fourth course of experimental philosophy: DIiKADFUL ACtIDENT ON THE LONETON ANO BiluitimGltAAt RAIL-no 0.-0.0 Thursday evening, about a . quarter before six o'clock, the following dreadful ac c id en t, &feuded with the loss of two lives. occurred on the lAndon and Birtnirigham - road, near Pritnrose-hill. Four men. named Mark Aruhro,e, William Brooks, Williaui Brown, Heht v Dowell, were en gaged in boring at the bottom of No. 1 shet, a depth of Seventy feel, when the earth, in consequence of not being properly; shored up, suddenly gave Way, and upwards of ten ton weight fell upon the unfortunate fuels aud.bttried them beneath it; .a number of hands were immediately set to work for the purpose of extricating the sufferers. And in the•courde of ntventi , minutes Brown and Dewell were dtig out With but little sign of life re maining, and conveyed without 103 nf time to'Nliddiesex. There is but a very slender chance of their recovery. After the laps; of another quarter of an bonr the labotirers t:ucceedad in finding Ambrose and Brooks. They were both quite: dead. The bodieS were tetnoved to Chalk-farm Tavern, to await a coroner's in quest. The assassin Fiecthi affects to nreseive great tranquillity or mind ; he piays at cards and.. dominoes ; from morn►ng to even ing, and limns snatches of tunes to ►siie away the tine:—Frendt paper. _ • . . .. .. . . Captain Marryatt, pa ssing through Waterloo the other day, was told that the Marquis of Auglesea had just been there, and had visited the spot where his amputated leg had been buried. "Then," said the captain, "there was a family party, and all the members present."—Brighton paper. During 1331 there were imported into Rtissia 300,000 volumes in foreign languages, which is 20,000 more than in 1833. There were published 728 national works, and ,115 trauslatious, ex elusive of 48 periodical louroals. In these publications are not included 113,200 copies of different books .for instruction. In 1831 there were founded 94 -establishments. fir education, in. ! eluding the University of .5 t. \Vladimir, at Kiew. AAtaYeller who has visited the palace of the j'acha at Cairn has given us the following. details: —" We were aumitted intd the Council Chamber, and placed near the l!resident, a lively old Turk, who talked with surprising volubility. The council is composed of a crowd of officers of the government and secre taries, and asSemblei daily. This council is called in Europe a senate, a representative asSemblY,.the Egsptian parliament— but a must singular parliament it is. When the Paeha wishes anything to be done, he oiders it without .consulting his pitiful council, which never has any opinion different to his own. But when he wants money, or when he wi,hes not to grant what he doesnot like to refuse in a direct manner, he displays a high esteem for the authority of this council, and sends petitioners to them, giving secret orders for.their being denied, leaving it to bear the odium of the refusal."--ermen paper. A riiircgmail , a nat ive - of - re ry fers, , Ml e - d -- rtot4trep only 16 rears of age, has just procured it marvel of patience and skill, in the shape of a pair of (.621(M-thread pantaloon - 1 ;i woven without seem, of small dimensions, and iif the most elegant form. The button-holes have been made, and the but tons attached to the pantaloons while on the loom; without the aid of Scissors er needle. The buttons are, of mother-o'-pearl, pieced with f‘eir holes, and it is impossible to discover by what process this ingenious young man has been enabled to overcome these difficulties.—. French paper. Dr. Lardner, in his evidence before the great western rail way bill committee, gives the following instance of carelessness in the railway managers:—" I was desceuding the .slope of in 95 on the Manchester railway with a train of goods; the en gineer let the train run down for a considerable time without the break. and we obtained a velocity that appeared to me to be exceedingly dangerous. I ordered him to apply the break, but the break totally failed; it was burnt. A signal was made tolls by the road ponce to stop, but the train did not stop for a COO siderable distance from the foot of the slope. When we de scended we fund that the wheel of one of the waggons had broken, so that both wheels dragged along the rail during the descent, forming a more powerful break than the common breaks, and notwithstanding this the train went down with the furious velocity of from 40 to 50 miles an hour!" THE SEDITIOUS CAMPAIGN.—What a spectacle does Mr. O'Counell's present career exhibit! That of' an avowed emisary of sedition, going from place to place for the sole purpose of poisoning the public mind ; and the government not only un willing to check his progress, but actually iteknowledgiug him as an ally, if not sanctioning the proceedings ! —Morning ald. A circular has been sent round to the magistrates throughout the kingdom, requesting them to make a return to the commis sioners appointed to inquire into the subject of county rates, of the amount of fees received be clerks under the heads specified, distinguishing the amount paid directly, or in the end reimbursed by the county, from the which is borne by individuals. THE LATE EARL OF OriA.THA Iti.—By the death the Rt. Hen. John Pitt, second Earl of Chatham, the earldnm, viscounty, and barony of Chatham, to which wits attached a parliamentary pension of £4,000 per annum, have become - extinct. His lord ship was a Knight of the Garter, a general in the army, colonel of the 4th Regiment of Foot, and Governcir-General of Giltral-• tar ; as also, an Elder Brother of . Trinity House, a Governor of the Charter Hotise, and High Steward or Colchester. His lordship succeeded to the earldom and to the viscounty of Pitt, of Burton Pyusetic, in the county of Somerset, as second Eat! of Chatham, on the demise of his father (the great statesman) in 1778, and to the barony on the death of his mother, in IBcJ3. He married, in 1783, Mary Elizabeth, second daughter of the first Viscount Sidney, who died in 1821, by whom his lordship bad no issue. He was eldest brother of the flight Hun, Wil liam Pitt, and also of the late Counteas of Stanhope. &c. His lordship was in the Stith year of his age, and was the last sot vivre of the Pitt family. The governorship of Gibraltar, to which is attached a salary of. £3,000 per entente, and the duties of which amount almost to a sinecure, it is asserted, will met be filled up. DUNG A RVAN ELECTION.—Not a doubt can exist that Mr. Galwey will he declared the sitting member for this 'temente There is, quite tudejendently of all other grounds, undue intle euce of priests—intimidation—improper voters—such is ceased to possess the franchise on the death of ,Lord Burlington, and many ether collateral points for the consideration of a committee, a fatal objection to the return itself, in point of law- The 6en eselial closed the election on Monday night, by declaring Mt% Trighlen duly elected. - matt rinderitrese-aircinnetrrocesa*The polling commenced on Friday, and was continued Saturday and Monday. On the latter named day, there were over twenty electors polled in each booth, and, consequently, they could nict be legally closed. On Tuesday ecorning Mr. Oalwey attended at the court-house with his agents and certain impolite" electors, and found the doors closed. He then repaired to the private dwelling house of the Seneschal (who is the returning officer,) and there tendered his voters, when be was informed that the election had terminated the preceding night, and that Mr: O'Loghlen was then declared the sitting member. In continua tion of this it has been ascertained that Mr. O'Loghlen, in his Capacity of member, franked letters, dated " Monday, Septem ber 2!st," although on that. day twenty veters bad polled in each booth, and consequently the election could not have terminated. If these facts be correctly stated—end ,we believe there is not a question that they are so—nut a shadow of doubt can exist al to the illegality of the return.—Dublin Evening Mail.. Oen NEWSPAPERS.—Many people take newspaper!. hot feW preserve them, yet the most interesting reading imaginable is a file of old newspapers. It bringa up the very age, with all its hnstle and every-tiny affairs, and tuatks its genius and its spits: more than the most laboured description of the historian. Who can take a paperalated half a century ago without the thought that almost every name there printed is now cut upon a tomb stone at the head of an epitaph! The doctor (quack or regular) that there adesertised his medicines and their cores has followed the sable trait' of his patients; the merchant, his ahips—coubl let no security on his lif e ; and the actor, who could make others augh or weep, ma now only furnish a scull fur his successors in Hamlet. It is easy to preserve newspapers, and they will repay the trouble ; for like that of wine,- their value increases with their years, and old files have sometimes been sold at priers to startling to mention.—Monthly Maya:isle. Hoax.—During the forenoon of Saturday the 12th instant, and whilst the procession of the royal party front Bishoethorpe to Harewood-house was anxiously expected on the road tie tween York and Tadcaster, a wag arrived in courier haste at a small ion on the above road, called "The Wild Man," being an indecent representation of a male figure in a state of nudity. The landlord having been summoned, was told by the pretended courier that his Grace the Archbishop of York commanded that the sign should either be removed or covered, until their Royal Highnesses had passed by, as his .Grace recollected having seen the sign, and considered it highly improper to remain exposed on such an occasion. After delivering his message the courier departed, leaving the landlord greatly perplexed what steps to take; but after consulting with Mrs. Boniface ' it was agreed that his Grace's commands were not to be slighted. The force of the inn having been mustered, " the naked man" was pre sently clothed in tore horsesTiecta, in which apple' he remained until the royal party had passed by, to the great amusement of the passengers and neighbours. Morosenre OF THE CHURCH OF IZOME.—Th.? British public should be acquainted with the following fact, 'which is now making some noise in the Lisbon fashi o nable world. Cowie San Lot enzo was abirat marring a most beautiful woman here, the sister of Viscount D'Asseca. who was Don Miguel's agent in London, but as his formt r wife.hail been a sister of the lady in question the sanction of the Cathalic church was necessary,: application being made here to the Patriarch and to the Arch bishop of Latedemonia, they both granted it; Ind the intended bridegroom, not heiug satisfied with the consent of what het considered these. liberal and constitutional prelates, applied tat the Pope for his Incising. The Court of Mime, tine' a short delay, has desired Count San Lorenzo to be informed that the sanction he demands cannot be obtained, unless he is wiiiipg to pay the suet of 8,000 crusattos to-the church. inelependeet of 4,W0 crusados more, in order to remove a further objection on account of the future bride having been godmother to one 44 the Count's children by his fernier marriage, thus making 12,(X/0 crowns, or about £1,20. ) , which it appears that the perikee are not willing to pay. So much for the' morality of the Court of Ronne !—Lisbon; Correspondent of the imes. MILKS Coyeenean.—A correspondent informs rte that ;Mies Cuverdale, the first publisher of the noire Bible in English, was buried under the communion table in the parish chinch .4' St. Bartholoinew-hy.the-Exchange, its appears by the register in that church. He was buried the Iteli of February, 1568,-- DEATH OF SIGNOR BeeuNt.—The world through out -Europe will learn with 'egret the nermature death of Signq Beilini, the Italian composer. This event took ,plitic on ibis 234 instant sit Puteau, near Paris, where the deceesed t ea t re tired some time ago fur the purpose of eersuiti'ar his musical la - - hours, and snaking new efforts to reach that first-rate eminence as a couirmer to which his distinguished talents entitled einotai aspire. Signer Betlini was the author many weeks of asteet merit, the hest of it hie!' were his first and his last, — ate and If Puritnni. Tho later composatimt met %%ill, ti aneaese last season which most he still fresh in the memory of 'ail the fretteenters of our Italian Opera, end Which in Psi is, where it was brnught tea last Fehreary, also became a great favourite. Stimulated by se much encouragement, . Signor Beilini 'Ya, sparing no pains to metier himself still more deaervieg ofpeblie favour. - It is sueposed that the great application of mind, which was the necessary•eou -equenee, has accelerated his diesolution. 11e- was on ly•itt his 213th year. Those who were ewes" fiends will no doubt reckon his loss as a &Ale calemita. erajnyed, in an eminent degree, the private esteem .of all n knew him. PoRT OP GLOHCESTEu.—A piece of 1:‘ nd near the docks, sold for ..£2,000 sixteea years ago, realized a few days since 16,000: THE RED LARUENCIW.-11i‘,.DeW laburnum, consideiingthe snort time it has. been introduced here, has got adniission ipto many of our shrubberies-and ple4sure-ground:, to whi:iv it is a great additional ornament, e , pecially when (mixed with tho rich clusters of the white and : the purple lilac) its giareful r , q.l ringlets are blended or contrasted with those of the yelio.* variety, which has so lon teen in such great and genera estimation. A.marriago took /dace last week in the neighbouring .vil!rtice or marybia,the parties in whichwe e re lioth respectalle.cir cumstatiers. 'Their Mori& met in the evening to retehrate .the occasion at the marriage, hut their festivity was ,soon dashed .tir a cause as sadden as it was distressing. •"I'lie spoiler camel , ' The .happy bridegroom was struck .with apoplexy ,-,. and ,et¢ another sun had arisen the union between hint and she vile ...14 an 4.91kr ,ITI4I-41AFRI.veg