The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-09-25 00:00:00

~' '~ NEWTON-BAZAAR. UNDf.II THE PATRONAGE OF The Hon. Lady ELEANOR HOPWOOD. Lady MOSLEY. • The Hon.. Mrs. BOOTLE WILBRAHAM. Mrs. HOItNBV. Miss P. HORN BY. Mrs. J. HEATH LEIGH. Mrs. LYON. Mrs. RIDGWAY, Ridgemont. Mrs. SCARISBRICK. A BAZAAR for the Sale of useful and ornamental Articles will be held (by nermission) in the CONSERVATIVE' HALL, at NEWTON, on THURSDAY, the 22d day of October next, the proceeds of which will be applied in aid of the Funds for rebuilding the Parochial Chapel of Newtoil. The Doors to be opened at EleYen o'clock:—Admittanee, One Shilling. Contributions are earnestly solicited from all Friends to the object in favour of which the proceeds of the Bazaar are in tended to be applied, and it is respectfully requested that all such Contributions may be forwarded to the Rev. PETER LEGH, Parsonage. Newton. 11th September, 1835. rrHE Partnership lately subsisting b e tween ROBERT, JOSEPH, and WILTON RUSSELL, ship-builders, chain cable manufacturers, and anchorsmiths, being dissolved, (so Jar as relates to the said Joseph Russell Illy, whose connexion with the concern ceased ion the let of June IOC) it is respectfully requested, that all debts owing to the Vte firm maybe when'due, to the said ROBE(tT RUSSELL who is duly authorised to receive the same, and who will discharge any demands upon the late firm which may be outstanding. ROBERT RUSSELL grateful for past favours, begs to in form his numerous kind Friends, that, on the same Premises he has occupied for upwards of twenty-two years, the business will be carried on as heretofore, by himself and Sons, under the firm of ROBERT RUSSELL and SONS. Northeast end Queen's Dock, Liverpool, 21st September, 1835. THE late concern of KAYE and WaysoN ving been dis solved, JOHN ABBOTT KAYE b s to inform his Friends and the Public, that, pursuamt to an rder of the Court of Chancery, he has purchased and entere into possession of, the leasehold interest of the late conce in the Brewery,. in Couaus-street, where he now carries on t . business on his own account, and trusts by zealous attention to the interest of his customers, to merit a full share of publie,support. The affairs of the late concern.are being wound up by Mr. Harmood Banner, the receiver appointed by the Court of Chan cery. emus-street, 24th Sept. 18.35. Uinta. WANTED, immediately, a good DW LLING-HOUSE, at a Moderate Rent, in a respe . le and airy situation, consisting of Two or Three Public oms and not less than Five Bedrooms, Bath, &c. If Stable, and Coach House, the more desirable.—Address Z. Z., at the Standard-office. TO APOTHECARIES AND DRUGGISTS. WANTED, the SITUATION of DISPENSING AS sisTANT to an A POTHECAII4 or DRUGGIST, by a Young Man who has already serve an Apprenticeship of Three Years to an Apothecary an tended One Course of Lectures in a Scotch University. The object of the Advertiser is to tain IMPROVEMENT in the Compound of Medicine. Salary is a secondary considera tion. The most satisfactory testimonials as to character, Ste., will be given. Apply (by letter, post-paid,) to Mr. NEIr.L, No. I, Oxford street Last. A N APPRENTICE wanted bv a IRGEON in extensive AL practice, and Surgeon to a 'Di; nsary a few miles from Liverpool, who will live with the Ffinkly, and have facilities for obtaining a practical knowledge of the profession which few can offer.—Apply (if by letter, post-paid) to Mr. DOKE, 31, Lord street, Liverpool, or to Mr..l. T. L.tran, Surgeon, Wootton. . I ADVANTAGEOUS 0 ' NING. THE Advertiser, who is concerns in a profitable Manu i facturing Business, wishes t rut a CONNEXION with any respectable Person who c dvance £2OOO to 1.:3000. The Business has been established about six years. For further particulars apply to A. Z., at the *Standard -office. it y‘ ELECTION FOR SOUTH LA N SHIRE. WE, JOHN BESWICKE ORE ', WOOD, PETER V HEYWOOD, BENNETT I SKYNS ABRA HALL, and WILLIAM BLANSHA It D, Barristers-at-Law, having been duly nominated and appointed for the Southern Division of the County of Lancaster, to revise the Lists of Voters in the Election of Knights of the Shire, Hereby yine Notice, That we shall make a Circuit of the said Division, and sold Courts for that Division, at the following tithes and places, namely : At the Sewsions-house, in LIVERPOOL, on Tuesday, the 15th of September. At the King's Arms Inn, OPMSKIRK, on Thursday, the 17th of September. At the Moot-hall, WIGAN, on Saturday, the 19th of Sep tember. At the Town-hall, MANCHESTER, on Monday, the 21st of September. At the Wellington Hotel, ROC HDA on Wednesday, the 3l or September. At the Leigh Hotel, NEWTON, on Friday, the 25th of September, atTen o'clock in the Morning of each day. And we do appoint the said Town of LIVERPOOL for revising the Lists relating to the following Parishes, Town ships, and Places, namely:— Aintree Allerton Bootle.cum-Linacre Childwall Cronton Crosby Great Crosby Little Croxteth Park Ditton Eccleston Everton Fazakerley Gurston Hale Halewood Kirkdale And we do appoint the said vising the Lists 'elating to the ' and Places, namely : Alicar Aughton Ilickerstaffe Birkdale Burecough Down Holland Formby Haitian Ince Blundell Kirkby Lathoui Lunt Mid we do appoint the said t Lists relating to the following namely ; Anlezarke Aepull Billinge Chapel End Billinge Higher End Blackrod Da!ton Haigh Heaton Hindley Harwich And we do appoint the said IA vising the Lists relating to the and Places, namely : Ainsworth Akrington Aidwick Ashton-under-Line Barton-upon-Irwell I Blakeler Bradford and 13eswick Broughton Burnage Chadderton Cheetham Chorlton-upon-Medlock Choi-lion-with-Hardy Clifton C rumpsall Denton Didsbury Droylsden Failsworth Farnworth Flixton Gorton Harpurhey Houghton Heaton Great Heaton Little And we do appoint the said ing the Lists relating to the and Places, namely : Ainsworth Birtle-cutn-Bamford Blatchinworth and Calder brook Bury Butterworth Castleton Crompton Elton Heap Hopwood And we do appoint the said the Lists relating to the folio Places, namely : Abram Ashton-in-Mackerfield Astley Atherton Bedford Bold Bolton Great Bolton Little Bradshaw Breightmet Burtonwoud Cuerdley Culcheth Edgeworth Entwistle Golborn Havdock Hailiwell Harwood llulton Little Hutton Middle Hutton Over Houghton, Middleton, and Ayrbury Kenyon And we hereby give Notice, that if any Parish, Township, or Place, within the said Division, shall have been omitted to be named in the above Lists, that then the Overseers or Guardians of the Poor of such place shall attend at which ever of the above mentioned Towns shall be nearest to such place. And all Overseers of the Poor and others, having any thing to do at the said several Courts, are hereby required to attend the same at the said Several times respectively. J. B. GREENWOOD, P. 11 F.Y WOOD, B. H. ABRAHALL, W. BLANSHARD. Knowsley liuytott and Ruby Litherland Lives pool Orrell and Ford Preicet Speke Thornton Tarbock Toxteth Park Walton-ou-the-Hill Wavertree West Derby Whiston Wootton Little Wootton Much town of ORMSKIRK for ro rullowing Parishes, Townships, Lydinte Maghull bletling Netherton North Meuls °rind:irk Itainford Scarishriek Sefton Simonswood Skelmeradale .mrn of WIGAN for revising the Parishes, Townships, and Places, Inee-in-ltdaelterfield Orrell Pemberton Rivington Tyldesley-with-Shaekerley Upholland West Leigh Wigan Winstanley woof MANCHESTER for re followiug Parishes, Townships, Heaton Norsis Hulme Kearsley Levenshultuo Lever Darcy Lever Great Lever Little Manchester Moss Side Moston Newton Oldham Openshaw • Pendletiury Pendleton l'ilkingtou Prestwich Radcliffe Reddish Rusholme Salford Stretford Tonge Urmston Withington Worsley avn of R,OCHDALE, for rev's. diming - Parishes, Tuwnsllips Middleton Pilswoi th ltuyton Spotland ' Todmorden and Walsilen Tottington Higher End Tottington Lower End Thornham Walinsley and Shuttleworth Wardleworth Wuerdale and Wardle .own of NEWTON for revisini ring Parishes, Townships, am Lawton Longworth Lostock Newton Parr Peuketh Pennington Poulton-with-I~ernhead Quarlton Rainhill ixton-with-Glazebrook liumworth Sankey Great Sharpies Southwurth-with-Croft Sutton Tungue-with-Haulgia Turton Warrington West lloughtoa Wanks, \Viudle , ; Winwick-with-Hultne Woolston-with-Nlartinscroft Lberpeet, Sept. 1, 1835. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. SPAIN: (Private Correspondence of the . Morning Pot. Burma, Saar. 14.—At an early hour on the morning of the 11th, orders were given to Espeleta and Espartero's divisions to i,ross the upper bridge and proc'end towards Orduna, where it had been determined to establish the head-quarters of the Queen's army, instead' of Burgos. The troops went out in rather a disorderly manner, never dreaming that they had an enemy so near at hand and advanta g eously posted. The van• guard passed the bridge, when the Carlists opened their fire: and 14 of the Queen's men were actually stretched upon the ground befpre the marching column was ready to return the volleys pouring down upon them. The Carlists then drew back, and the. column moved forward along the main road leading to Miravalles, when, ou reaching the vicinity of Arri gorriaga, the Carlists came down from the heights, and again attacked the Qtreen ° 3 troops. Flank companies were sent out to remove this obstacle, but at the same moment the six bat talions placed in ambush fell upon the rear of the Queen's troops and the engagement became general and animated: The Carlists fought with skill and gallantry, and had it not been for the coolness of the 14th Light Infantry they would have taken the bridge, and by this means cut off the retreat of the Queen's' men, who were compelled to fall back in a state of disorder. With the close pursuit, so great was the confusion which pre vailed that the battalions of Toro and Cuenca actually threw themselves from the banks into the river and numbers were drowned. As soon as it was ascertained that the divisions were engaged and hotly pressed, the 7th, 6th, 12th, and 2d British went out with all haste, and short 4 afterwards thf 3d, with the whole Spanish garrison, and a few light field pieces. • Forming on both sides of the river, they protected the passage towards the bridge. The Carlists advanced with great intrepidity, and having over come the troops which were upon the road, they attacked the bridge and took it. The 3d British then advanced and dis lodged them at the point of the bayonet: Soon afterwards the Queen's troops returned to Bilboa, the 3d British keeping the bridge till all was safe, and entering with the 7th. This defeat was owing to the incapacity of the Queen's offi cers : at the same time it proves that the Carlists are not to be trifled with. Sty many precautions are used to conceal our loss that it is impossible to state it with anything like accuracy. It is, however, supposed to amount to frOU, in killed, wounded, drowned, and prisoners. The latter, it is said, reach 150, be sides the capture of 1,200 muskets. The British were only par tially engaged,but they had forty hors de combat. Espartero is among the wounded. The Carlists were commanded by Gene neral MoiLeuo, and Don Carlos was also nn the ground. Some few Carlists were taken by the column, it is said 2G. The Bri tish, as usual, made a gallant charge when they attacked the bridge, but its possession was no longer valuable to the Carlists. They had 'gained their object, and had driven back the Queen's ' troops. Although the river is open for the British, there is no security fur any one else ; but the town is equally as much blockaded as ever in the upper part, and the troops cannot move either towards Miravalles or Durango. The question, therefore, is, will Cordova come down to their relief? SePr.ls, Seven A.M.—Since mine of the 12th the weather has been so bad that things have remained in statu quo here, but the Carlists are to be seen in still greater force than before at the Puente Nuevo, and it is supposed that they have cut up the roads in different places round that position. It is also sup posed that Don Carlos is with them, but nothing is known be yond what we can see. The weather is now holding up, and we may expect that before night something will he attempted by the large joint forces here; if not, what will England think of such a large body.of men to be shut up within our walls by a body of .‘ sans culottes" (as they are called); and without cannon? More men and money are a sine qua 11071, and even then . ,* • Our loss (Cimistinos) the other day I fear was much nearer 500 t ha n 350. - • (Private Correspondence of the Morning Herald.) YEAR, Sept. 11—Lam in hourly expectation of receiving the official bulletin of the affair of the 11th, near Bilboa. The fol lowing letter from the head-quarters of Don Carlos, will, how ever, make you acquainted with the principal, facts. In this instance, although the Christinos may again talk of a I recon naissance," or " an excursion to give a morning's airing . to the English," they cannot get over the 500 prisor.ers, Queenites and English, now in the hands of the Carlists. To-morrow you will receive some interesting matter collected during a three day's perambulation : Head-quarters of Don Carlos, Zamora, two leagues from. Bilboa, Sept. 13. " The battle of Arrigorriaga has been more glorious for the . arms of-his majesty than was at the first moment believed; for, Irons accounts received from Bilboa, it appears that 1200 of the wounded were brought into that city. The loss of the enemy in killed is 600 men, of which 300 were drowned near the New Bridge." The number of prisoners that hare . fallen into our hands up to yesterday amounts to 500, and hourly deserters are presenting themselves. We have also taken a great many muskets and other military equipments. the Queenites ves -terday presented themselves on the public walk near Bilboa and at Begona ; but at the presence of our guerillas tliey quickly retreated back into the town. To-day we are told they project a sortie, in order to break our lines, and, if pos sible, effect a junction with Cordova, who is anxious to be rein forced by Espartero. "Don Carlos left Urgarte yesterday. He is in good health and high spirits." It is reported that the Carlists have driven the Queenites from Guetaria, and taken possession of that fortified sea-port. The garrison, composed of brave Urbanos, HAVE FLED To FRANCS There is no truth, so I am assured, in the report that the Carlists shot the prisoners made on the 11th. '1 hey are well treated and well guarded. Our Bayonne letter, of the 17th instant, states that Colonel Yriarte had marched towards Tafalla, on the 12th, with a column of 1500 men, to meet the convoy, escorted by Brigadier Aldaina, and had safely brought it into Puente la Reyna on the 13th. Our correspondent gives the following account of the battle of the 11th, before Biloa :—.'Espartero left that city on the 11th, with a large column, by the Vittoria road. He had proceeded only a short distance, when about 10 o'clock in the morning; he tell in with the Carlists.• After opposing a long resistance, the Christinos were; et last, obliged to retreat, which movement was protected by General Mirasol, who had sallied out of Bilboa with 2000 men and two pieCes 01 artillery. On reaching the new bridge considerable confusion took place in the Clui'stino ranks; and the Carlists, who occupied the neigh bouring heights, kept up a deadly fire upon them as they re treated; The retreating column lost, before it entered Bilhoa, 500 killed, wounded, taken; or drcwned, independently of UK) wounded they brought,.with them into that city. ' TRIPOLI. From the London Gazene, Sept. 22.—Downing-stree, :buy. 7. Mr. Warrington, his Majesty's agent and cousui-general at Tripoli, has transmitted to Lord Gleuelg, his Majesty's princi pal secretary of state for the colonial department, an official note, of which the follewing is a translat►on, which has been addressed to Mr. Warring,ton by his Excellency Esseit Musta plia Nedgib (Translation.) Esseit Mustapha Nedgib, by the Grace of God, Facha Vizier of the Sublime Ottoman Porte, Lieutenant-General of Tripoli and its Dependencies, to Hamner Warrington, his Britatinic Majesty's Consul-General at Tripoli. Sir—During the troubles which have for three years past de solated this country, there has arisen.a ruinous abuse, which no government can tolerate, that of embarking and landing mer chandise and other articles at other places than the established ports. This illicit commerce, besides causing the greatest in jury to the revenue, is extremely prejudicial to lawful com merce and to the tranquillity of the country. We, therefore, inform you, sir, that we have given the necessary orders to se veral of our vessels to be ready to cruise on the coast; and you will accordingly have the goodness to inform those of your countrymen, and all others whom it may concern, that hence forth all coasting traffic is expressly forbidden, and that no com mercial intercourse will be allowed at any other places than the ports of Tripoli, Bengasi, and Derna; and consequently, that from the Ist September, 1835, all vessels, boats, or craft, &c., which may be found in the prohibited places, will be seized, it being declared that the whole of this coast is, from this moment, to be regarded as in a state of blockade, excepting only the three ports above mentioned. We salute you, &c., Given at our Palace, the August, 1&35. Written by order of his Highness, (Signed) RUSTEAI HEY, Secretary, &c. "CURIOSITIES OF LITERATURE." ( From the Dublin Mail.) These priests of Erris are grand fellows in their way—whether as orators, poets, or prosers—for they are at all in the ring— they are unrivalled since the days of the ancient Scalds. There is no need of multiplying instances of their ability ; for the last is the best; and as it is in honour of Lord Mulgrave, we have a double pleasure in recording it—firstly, as a proof of native genius; and, secondly, as an offering suitable to the most novel urritingest—most poetico-prosaicalest Lord Lieutenant that ever graced the viceregal throne. The following are the two ver sions—one in prose—the other in poetry—of the concluding pa ragraph of the address from the priests and people of Erris to his excellency the Earl of Mulgrave. We cannot but admire the reason for not presenting his excellency with triumphal arches and green boughs. It reminds us agreeably of a passage in the Critic—the work of an Irishman, by the bye, and a sound patriot - "The Spanish fleet I eansiot Because the Spanish fleet—'tis not in sight." But we delay our readers. Here is the prose : " We cannot strew green boughs in your path, for none grow here; nor welcome you with triumphal arches, for we are ex ceedingly poor people. But for boughs you will get our obe-• dience; for arches our loyalty; and for a testimony to your ex alted virtues the warmest affections of our hearts, with a truly Irish Cead mile failthe to such hospitality as our country can afford." The poetry is still better. Here it is !-- We cannot strew green boughs on your path, For the d— a bough poor Erris hatb— Nor welcome you with triumphal arches, For we're as poor as Job in the article of larches. But for bows we'll make an obedient scrape, And for arches we'll give you our loyalty chape. The warmth of our loving hearts will scald you, Aud von may take off yourself with a Cead male fisilthe. And not having a potato to put on our boards, You're welcome to such hospitality as our country affords. And this is the truly Irish welcome to your exalted virtues, Which any man in your station for love or money can purchase. A BEGGAR ON HORSEBACK. -At Arrah, my companions pointed to a small tope, which they told me had been for many years the abode of alaveer, whose story was somewhat roman tic. The former proprietor, in a promenade, stumbled over a strange unsightly object, which lay huddled up under a tree. On questioning this unfortunate' remnant of humanity, the Miserable wretch told him that he for a long time had not had any other shelter than that which the boughs of the trees afforded, or any food excepting the wild roots and berries of the wood. The early part of his life had been spent with credit in the corn-. pany's military service, but, mhappilv„ smitten with a loath some disease, ou procuring his discharge, his wife and family refused to receive him, and he was compelled to wander from his fellow men, who abjured .rxxipanionshi ß with a leper. He, however, met with a benefactor in the persdn - of Mr. who built him a commodious hut, and gave him a count' y pony, which had free liberty to graze on the adjacent pastures. The state of the poor leper's feet rendered some conveyance neces sary, and be had, in consequence of the various comforts lavished upon him by his kind protector, becotna sufficiently attached to life to make am effort to preserve it. Accordinglv,.mounted on his pony, he took his daily rounds through the village, and those who had shunned him while lying deserted on the bare earth, now that he had shaken off a portion of his wretchedness, and basked under the favour of a great man, crowded around him with gifts, and in ail probability be died a rich man.—Scmes and Characteristics of Hindostan, by Emma &Lott, - • THE LIVVRPOOL STANDARD. is not invited; I.elishes port wine; laughs at it as a good joke; stays in London all the year. 40. Spasmodic; camphor julap ; a little more rouge ; fan cies herself i n l ove w i t h a capta i n i n th e g ua r ds; lets him know it--he not susceptible—she uncommonly angry; makes up a horrid story about him and some poor innocent girl of her acoaintance; they are eternally separated • by her means—she happy. 41. Takes to Wearing "a front;" port wine gets more po pular avows a resolution never to marry; who would sacrifice her liberty? —quit e sure she has seen enough of that sort of thing; uniph! 42. Turns moralist; is shocked .at the vices of the world; establishes a school out of the produce of a fancy fair;, sub scribes; consults wits the rector—excellent man; he endea vours to dissuade her from an extravagant course of proceed ing which she has adopted; her regard turns to hate, and she puts herself under the spiritual guidance of a ranter. 43. Learns the Unknown 'longues, and likes 'them; sees ' none of her old friends ; continues during the whole season enveloped in her new doctrines. Iler page having out-grown his green inexpressibles, is dismissed at the desire of her new pastor. 44. Renounces the Ola Otj Born school of piety, and gets a pug and poodle; meets the refused when she•was two and twenty; he grown plump and jolly, driving his wife and two ,e•reat healthy-l oo ki n g boys nearly men, and two lovely girls nearly women; recollects him; he does not remember her; wishes the family at Old Nick; conies home, and pinchei her poodle's ears. 45. lirturns to cards at the dowager's parties, and smells to snuff if offered to her. 46. Iler aunt dies. 47. Lives upon her relations; but, by the end of the sea son, feels assured that she must do something else next year. 48. Goes into the country and selects, a cousin, plain and poor; proposes they should live together — scheme succeeds. 49.. Retires to Cheltenham ; .house in a row near the prome nade ; 'subscribes to every thing; takes snuff and carries a box; all in fun; goes out to tea in a fly; plays whist; loses; comes back-at eleven, camphor julep, and to bed; butnot to sleep. 50. Finds all efforts to be comfortable, unavailing; vents all her spleen upon her unhappy cousin, and lavishes all her affec tions upon a Tabby cat; a great fat useless Tommy, with a blue ribband and a bell round its neck. And there, so far as I have traced it., ends my Spinster's progress up to fifty. LONDON POLICE REPORT. A Monger; A THEN lAN.—David Morrison, a " wee mannie" in a pair of klig,hlatiti " breeks," and without a shirt, was brought before Mr. Chambers, at the Marborough-street Police office, on Monday, charged by the police with ,having been found in Leice - ster-square, at " ae wee short hour ayont the twal," lying . on his back, snoring lustilyfroin the effects of pro longed potations of " barley bree." Mr. Chambers.—flow came you to get drunk, Mr. Mor rison ? _ _ . Davie.—l dinna think I was just preceesely what ye wad ca' drunk; but there's na doot I was a wee bittie the waur o' liquor. . . Mr. Chambers.—Was it whiskey you got drunk upon? Davie.—Whishky ? N a , na. It's no verra often a puir boddy like mysel gets ony thing stronger than pump water, or may be sina' beer. Mr. Chambers.—lt was not small hee'r that made you drunk. Where did you get the liquor from ? Davie.—The truth o' the mattet is this. Pin just the noo frae Edinbro, ye ken, and I seed twa Glasgy lads what pied me a drink u' yil wi' a taste o' rum, and that Bard me tak a sleep on the street stanes. Mr. Chambers.—What brought you from Scotland ? Davie.—l'm no' versa weel, and as my doctor tauld me a change air wad do me good 1 jist th.oc - ht I wad tak a walk here; but fear o' - death. I'm gaun back again to Auld Reekie as soon's I get out o' my trouble. Mr. Chambers.—What have you done with your shirt? Davie.—l ha'e gotten it safe in my parcel here. Mr. Chambers.—Well, and why don't you wear it? Davie,—,Eh, man! , D'ye no' ken that's jist the verra way to dirt the linen and gar it wear out? Mr. Chambers.—Well, Mr. Morrison, I promise you if, on your next visit, you are brought before me again -I won't allow you to go without fining you or making you put in bail.: I'll 'discharge you this time. The '. Modern Athenian" shouldered his bundle and walked away, apparently well pleased at the•issue of the interview. • NEW SOUTH WALES. DREADFUL SHIPWRECK.—ONE HUNDRED, AND THIRTY LIVES Lost.—Advices from Hobart Town yesterday furnish the following account of the loss of the George 111., convict ship,, on a reef in the mouth of the river Derwent, which is not laid down in the chart. The following is the return of the persons on board the vessel : Embarked at Woolwich. —Prisoners, 220; 29 soldiers, three officers, 32; crew, officers included, 32; eight women and 14 children, 22; born en the voyage. 2.—Total embarked, 308. Died at sea, one woman, three children, and 12 prisOners, 16. Total wrecked, 292. Saved from the wreck.—All the guard, 32; 6 women and 11 children, 17 ; crew, 30 ; prisosiers, 81.—Total saved, 160. Pe rished, 132. Upon the captain and officers arriving at Hobart Town a board was formed to inquire into the particulars of the catastro phe. According to Oaptain Maxey's (the commander of the George the Third) statement the ship made land at about eleven a.m. ou Sunday, the 12th of April. He- was furnished with the charts published by authority of the Admiralty, according to the directions of which he considered the passage safe ; and, adopting the usual precaution of sounding with the deep sea lead, pro ceeded between the two reefs laid down, the soundings giving half seven fathoms right through. After passing the breakers Captain Maxev took the officers and passengers into the cabin, showed them tile position of the ship, and all were satisfied they were beyond the reach of danger, and might either anchor or proceed. The ship accordingly proceeded, at the rate of one -and a-half to two knots an hour, under double-reefed topsails, and the foresail brailed up, all ready for coming to anchor, if it became dark, and, after su proceeding for about a quarter of an hour, the man at the head saug out quarter less four. The cap taiu instantly cried out to the man at the helm hard-a-port, but before the man sounding could get another cast of the lead the ship struck, but not violently at first. The cutter was lowered, and the third officer, Mr. Field, went in her and sounded round the ship. Abreast the starboard gangway he found two-and-a lialf-Nthoms ; a-head, two fathoms . ;_ and astern, about four boats' length, four-and-a-half fathoms. No breakers were then seen, but a swell soon came on and commenced breaking, and the ship then began striking violently, throwing every one off their feet; and, after a very short time, about the fifth shock, the mainmast went over on the starboard side, carrying the mizentopmast with it, and draggingdown the weathertoolwarks close to the covering boards. At this time the boatswain and officers were trying to get the longboat out, and the mainmast being gone the lee-bul warks were obliged to be cut away to launch her ; at the same time they were lowering the gig, when the rolling of the ship caused the man holding the stern-tackle to leave his hold, when the gig stove her quarter and was swamped- The cutter was immediately ordered round to pick the men from out of the water, and the third mate was then ordered to bring the cutter alongside, when he could not, as she was so full she could hold no more. The officer was then directed to look out for the first landing place, and to return immediately with any aid lie could obtain. At this time the foremast went overboard, and a heavy sea striking the ship the longboat floated on deck, and all the inaindeek was under water, which was within a quirter. of an hour after the vessel struck. The people at length succeeded in floating the longboat and got her clear of the wreck, having the the captain and forty men on board, and proceeded to find a landing-place; but the sea was so rough, and the surf so great, that this occupied some time, until at last the entrance to a bay was found ; at the bottom of which a landing was effected. The captain, leaving thirty-six men on bilOrP, returned with the re maining four to the wreck at about two o'clock; but,, owing to the weather, could not reach her until six. On arriving at the ship, the women, children; and invalids were first taken out, and then as many of the prisoners and guaid as the boat would Carry, and these were fancied at eight, Major Ryan, Captain Minton, and the doctor of the 50th regiment being of the party. The captain then returned to the wreck, but before he reached it saw a schooner speak them, upon which the captain took' all that rtmained alive upon the wreck and put them on board the schooner, and proceeded to re-embark all that had been pre• viously landed, which was done with the exception of the surgeon of the 50th regiment, who had strayed, and for whom a hoot's crew of eight men was left. On reviewing all that were saved out of the '291 souls ou hoard the captain found that only 160 had been pressived. Of the 134 lost 128 were prisoners. Th e cal duct of the prisoners is said to have been remarkably good. The evidence of Di. \Vise, the surgeon-superintendent - of the vessel, in a great m'cisitie * Cotroborjed that of the captain. lie states, however, that theie was dreadful and increasing ickness on board, which he attributes to the new system of provisioning, of which this was the first attempt. • lie accounts for the loss as follows : —On time 'sick list, and unable to help themselves, 51 ; washed away and,died from cold, 30; drowned below in the ship ere the doctor quitted her, 39. Lieutenant Minton, in his evidence, states that when the con victs had forced the barricades, and were beginning to make their appearance on deck, three shots mere fired by the guard at them, and he understood one convict had been killed. Other evidence adduced implied that the firing was an act of absolute necessity, upon which the lives of all depended, and that the guard behaved with the utmost forbearance. The con duct of Dr. Wise is spoken of in high terms of eulogium by all Parties. THE SPINSTER'S PROGRESS. (From the John Bull.) The following has been sent to us—whether it be original or not, we cannot pretend to say. It is droll in its way, and though a little overstrained, is nut the worse for the dash of caricature which distinguishes it. It takes in five-and-thirty years of the life of a spinster. At 15. Dimpled cheeks, sparkling eyes, coral lips, and ivory t e eth—a sylph in figure. All anxiety for coming out — look ' s about her with an arch yet timid expression, and blushes amazingly upon. the slightest 'provocation. 16. Bolder and plumper; draws, sings, plays the harp, dines at table when there are small parties; gets fond of plays, to which she goes in a private box; dreams of a hero—hates her governess—is devoted to poetry. 17. Having no mother who values herself on her youth, is presented by an aunt—first terrified, then charmed. Comes out —Almack's—Opera—begins to flirt—selects the most agreeable but most objectionable roan in the room as the object of her affections—he, eminently pleasant, but dreadfully poor; talks of love in a cottage, and a casement window all over woodbine. 18. Discards• the sighing swain, and fancies herself despe rately devoted to a Lancer, who has amused himself by praising her perfections. Delights in fetes and dejeuners—dances her self into half a consumption. Becomes an intimate friend of Henry's sisters. - • 19. Votes Henry stupid; too fohd of himself to care for her —talks a little louder than the year before; takes care to show that she understands the best concealed bon-mots of the French play; shows off her bright eyes, and becomes the centre of four satellites who flicker round her. 20. Begins to wonder why none of the sighers propose; gets a little peevish; becomes a politician; rallies the whigs, avows toryism—all women arc tortes, except two or three who may be anything; gets praised beyond meatire by her party; discards Italian music, and sings party songs—called charming, de lightful, and "so natural.' - ' 21. Enraptured with her new system ; pursues it with re doubled ardour; takes to riding constantly on horseback ; can ters every day half way to the House of Lords with the dear earl, through St. James' s Park, by the side of her uncle; makes up parties and excursions; becomes a comet instead of a star, and changes her satellites for a tail, by which she is followed as regularly as the great agitator is. Sees her name in the papers as the proposer of pia cos, and the patroness of fancy fairs: 22. Pursues the same course; autumn comes; country house; large party o ti ng wen ; .1u 'la...position.; ciAkstaiWakbouvieb — tion ; sociability in the evening; sportive gambols; snug sup pers; an offer—which, being made by the only dandy sheAtd not care about in the melee, she refuses. 23. Regrets it; tries to get him back; he won't come, but marries a rich grocer's widow for her money. Takes to flirting desperately ;..dresses fantastically; tries a new style of singing; affects a taste; lives with the italians, calls them divine and charming; gets her uncle to give suppers. 24. Thinks she has been too forward; retires, and becomes melancholy; affects sentiment, and writes verses in an annual makes acquaintance with the scavans, and the autho rs an d authoresses; wonders she is nut married. 25. Goes abroad % , ith her uncle and a delightful family; so kind and so charming ; stays the year there. 26. Comes home full of new airs and graces ; more surprised thati ever that she is still single, and begins to fancy she could live very comfortable, if not in a cottage, at least upon a very moderate scale. 27. Thinks the conversation of rational men infinitely prefer able to flirting. 22. Looks at matrimony as desirable in the way of an esta blishment, in case of the death of her uncle; leaves off dan c i ng generally; talks of getting old. aged; 29. surprised San thats tein men ;st do not illineff laugh ective' still talks of ge tti ng as they did, when she said so a year or two before. 30. Begins to enquire when a spinster becomes an old maid. 31. Dresses more fantastically than ever; rouges a little: country house not so agreeable as it used to be; goes every where in town; becomes good-natured to )uuug girls, an d j o i ns in acting charades and dumb provers. 32. Hates balls, or, if she goes to them , likes to sit still and talk to middle-aged gentlemen. 33. Wonders why men of sense prefer flirting with girls to the enjoyment of rational conversation with sensible women. 34. Uncle dies; break up of establishment; remains with her aunt; feels old enough to go about without a chaperon. 35. Takes to cards, where they are played; gives up harp, piano, and singing; beaten out of the field by her juniors. 36. Quarrels with her cousin, who is just married to the prize marquis of the season ; goes into Wales on a visit to a distant relation. 37. Returns to London; tries society; fancies herself ne glected, and " never goes out;" makes up little tea-parties at her aunt's; very pleasant to every body else, but never satis factory to herself. 18. Feels delight in. recounting all the unhappy marriages she can recollect; takes a bay out of an orphan school, dresses him up in a .green jacket with three rows or sugar-leaf buttons, and calls him a page; patronizes a poet. -. 39. Gets fractious; resolves upon making the best of it; turns gourmand; goes to every dinner to which she either is or THE MANAGER IN DISTRESS. A NEW COMEDY NOW ACTING IN ALL THE THkATRES OF FRANCE. Scene--A1 the chief place in the department of Eu.—The . ; Cabinet of the Prefet. (Enter the Prefet and the Manager Of the Theatre.) Prefet.—lf I have summoned you here, it is, sir, as you ought to know, in execution of the new law which gives to the prefer in every department the right of censorship —the preventive in spection, I should say—upon the repertory of the theatre, a right reserved in Paris for the minister of the interior, (draw ing himself majestically.) You will conceive, sir, that I repre sent here the minister. . Manager.—Allow me, Mr. Prefet, to say one word. The law in question, for which I profeiss all the respect it merits, es tablishes the censure only so far as concerns new pieces, and does not apply to pieces that have been already played. Prefet.—l represent the minister now, sir; it is the minister who made the law, and he has a right to enlarge it. This• is ' perfectly logical. Besides, fear nothing; we love the dramatic' art, and will protect you. Let us see, sir, what you mean to perform this week.' We must have no seditious pieces; take care, I have the theatre by heart. Manager.—You will see, M. Prefet, that our repertory of tragedy, of comedy, of tragic comedy, of opera, of comic . opera, of vaudeville, and melodrama, is of the most perfectiunocence. Here is a notice all along, - first, for to-morrow, (Sunday,) the Merope of Voltaire. Prefet.—Merope! Is this what you call innocent? An usurper, whom they have dared to represent— s a usurper!—that young Egyste—a member of a fallen family, who comes to re cover his rights, and is allowed to succeed; and then such verses as this— " Is he of any other party but that of your kings?" And so you would wish to play a piece eminently Carlisle! Well, as - I love liberty to madness, I permit you to play Merope; but I a arn you that if there should be the least noise I shall close your theatre, and that the Procureur du Itoi will invite you to pay him a fine of 50,000 francs. Manager.—illy receipts for three months! Just Heaven ! I would rather give up Merope. I meant to give, with the tra gedy, a certain comedy of Delaiuval, ( l'Ecle des Bourgeois,) the School for Citizens- Prefet.—ln which figures M. Pot de Via; is it not so ? ,Alanager.—Precisely ; a roguish intendant. Piefet.--I do not see that. He made some small profit, that is all. This name, Pet de Vin, is an unworthy illusion. If 'De lainval were not dead we should send him to Sinamari. The author not being forthcoming, I confiscate the piece. Manager.—But . Mr. Prefet - Prefet.—lu the name of liberty, not one word. Let us see the rest. . Managen—The Impossible Marriage, (la Marriage lmpossi ' )an inoffensive vaudeville, if ever there was one. Prefet.—lnoffensive !—a piece of raillery so directly levelled against a young hero who—sir, your Marriage Impossible must not be played. Manager.—Yfia astonish me, Mister Prefet. Yon will Surely permit the New Lord cif the Village? (Nouveau Seigneur de Village.) Prefet.—That you may have it - sung in a full theatre — "'You are not in your place." I An incitement to overturn the government, a crime punished by transportation. Every otie is in bis place in France, sir— and then a valet who puts on the clothes and assumes the qua lity of his master. Infamous work! See further. Manager.—The . honest Malefactor, (L' Honnette Criminal,) . by Feueuillet de Faihair, a philosophical and sentimental drama. Prefet.—That tends to show. that scoundrels are not always destined for. the gallows. The hue and cry to your Ronnette Criminal. What else: Manager.—My whole repertory will share the same 'fate. The Cid has been ulreadv censured under Cardinal Richelieu. Prefet.—That is'no reason. If it were not for the affairs of Spain we might tolerate the Cid. But that hemistiche—Naea reue' Appear, (Parraissez Navarrois,) is an evident appeal in favour of Don Carlos. Postpone the Cid Until the triumph of Queen Christina. Manager.—l give it up for good. Prefet„—Well, proceed. Manager.—" Junot, or the Beaten pay the. Penalty," (Junot, on les battus paient 'amende,) an old piece of Dorvigny. I hope that this at least is totally unobjectionable. Prefet.—What that ?—Such an excitement to hatred against power and against the law of the press! That the defeated should pay the pet - Catty, "that is good, very good; but this does not say So. To the next, sir, to rho next. Manager.—The Pleaders, ( Les Plaideurs.) Prefet.—How? Another attack upon the paternal law of Monseigneur Persil—anothei allusion to the proceedings against the press—a monstrous personification of our supreme Justice in. the character and name of Master Perrin Dandin, who would bring everybody to trial. Pass on, pass on. Managers—Ali, hold, Master Prefet! Here is a work to which no suspicion can attach ( Latude.) Prefet.—After the two escapes of the prisoners of Sainte Pelagic ?—a .—a provocation full of derision against the court—the most clear-sighted add the most honest of policies—a crying outrage against its virtuous chief—l prohibit Latude. Is this the whole of your stock ? Manager.—Nearly, sir ; have pity on me. If now you pro hibit The Dumb Girl of Portici, (La Muette de Portici,)—a piece corresponding in circumstances with the three days!— this work of glorious recollections, a sample of resistance of all official representation in the last six months of 1830. Prefet.—This was very good then ; at present it is quite the reverse. Masaniello was an anarchist who deserved to be brought before the Court of Peers between two Bens d'armes —I suspend the Muette. What else l Manager.—Alas! lam come to the end of my repertory. I go now to close my theatre. Already three-fourths ruined within these five years, the censure finishes me. Nothing re mains for ine now but to throw myself into the river. Prefet:—Go, sir, liberty does not prevent it.—La Mode. BALLAD. BY HENRY ALFORD. The Baron is back from his hawking come, At the close of the summer's day : But the spots of red blood danced over his eyes That he might not see the nlay-- 7 And the heavy deep bells were tolling. The Baron is back to his banquet come, And hath sat him down to dine; But his thoughts they ra❑ on the red red blood That he might not taste the wine— And the heavy deep hells were tolling. Now where were ye, sister, when I rode by ? For ye were not in your bower:— Oh I was chasing 'a bright butterfly That flew from flower to flower— Where the summer rose-buds were blowing. And where were ye, _sister, when I rode hack ? For ye were not i❑ your hall:— Oh I was watching the large sun set From off the castle wan-- When the yellow wall-flowers were closing. whole:were. ye, siater,--at mid of night? V - o'r ye were not laid asleep: Oh I looked for love of the pale round moon In the moat so still and deep— When the loud night-birds were singing. The Baron looked over the castle trees At the turning of the sun; And the Lady wailed and tossed' her hands As she would never have dune— For her own true-love she's weeping. The Baron looked over the dim churchyard As the moon was oit the wane; And that Lady lay by a new -turned grave, She never may rise again— With her own true-love she's sleeping. Now up, thou Baron of Taunton tower, To the holy cloister flee ; For thou bast slain the truest pair In all the West countree. And the heavy deep bells are tolling. THE CHARACTER OF OTHELLo.—Othello must not be con ceived as a negro, but as a high and chivalrous Moorish chief. Shakspeare learned the character from the Spanish poetry, which was prevalent in Eng And in his time. Jealousy dues not strike me as the point in his passion. I take it to he rather an agony, that the creature whom he had believed angelic, with whom he had garnered up his heart, and whom lie could not help still loving, should be proved impure and worthless. It was the struggle not to love her. It was a moral indignation and regret that virtue should so fall. "But yet the pity of it, layo—O, layo, the pity of it, logo!" In addition to this, his honour was concerned. logo would not have succeeded but by hinting that his honour was compromised. There is no ferocity in Othello— his mind is majestic and composed. He deliberately deter mines to die; and speaks his last speech with a view of show ing his attachment to the Venetian state, though it had super seded him. I repeat that Ido not think there is any jealousy, properly so called, in the character of Othello. There is no pre disposition to suspicion, which I take to be au essential term'in the definition of the word. Dc:sdeiriona very truly told Emilia that he was not jealous—that is, of a jealous habit; and he says so as truly of himself. lago's suggestions, you see, are quite new to him. They do not correspond with anything of a like nature previously in his mind. It Desdemona 'had in fact been guilty no one would have thought of calling Othello's conduct that of a jealous man. lie you'd not act otherwise than he did with the sights he had; whereas, jealousy can never be strictly right. See how utterly unlike Othello is to Leotttes iu the Win ter's irale, or even to Leonatus,. in Cynil,eline. The. jealousy of the first proceeds from an evident trifle, and something like hatred is mingled with it ; and the conduct of Ler•natns in ae ecptieg the wager, and exposing his wife to the trial, denotes a jealous temper already formed.—Cult-ridge's Table Talk. THE MAURITIUS TO TIE !EDITOR' OF TU GLASGOW coultinn SlR,—Allow me, through your columns so frequently the ad vocate of the cause of the unjustly calumniated, persecuted, and oppressed, to notice, as shortly as I can, the infanious and the false accusations which have lately been so boldly and so pub licly brought forward against the colony of the Mauritius, of &illegal importation of slaves to the extent of 20,000, 40,000, and by the more hardy even 50,000, as has been advanced in various publications. The polluted and mischievous sources from whence the - se statements emanate are so well known that lam astonished that any thinking man can give credence to them for a moment. Mr. Jeremie, and Mr. George Stephen, the solicitor for the Anti-Slavery Society, are so well known in the history of the colonial controversy, that it requires merely to point them out as the chief circulators of such statements, ,, to have them scouted and disbelieved. To their,false'statements, and the exaggerations arising from, these, I shall oppose simple and official facts, which I defy; either of them, or any one of their numerous dupes and cham pious, to contradict or deny. The slave trade was abolished by Great Britain on the Ist of January; ,The island of Mauritius, and its dependencies, were captured by Great Britain in • January, 1811, till which period the slave trade was not uulaWful in them. According to Sir Robert Farquhar's despatch—" Mauritius, Jan: 80,'1811;" to Lord Liverpool, (see par. pap. 295 of 18260 the island of Mauritius contained, in 1809, 60,000 slaves, from 7 to 60 years of age ; and forlBll, according to his despatch, " 28th July, 1812," 59,734, within the same limits as to age, exclUsive of the population of the Sychelles, and its other dependencies, then ex ceeding 6000. According to the report of the Commissioners.uf Inquiry into the Receipt and Expenditure of Colonial Revenue, (par. pap: No. 194 of 1826, p. 20,) the slave population of the Mauritius, between 7 cud 60 years of age, and exclusive of the Sychelles, stood, by the tax-rt;lls, as under, viz. : 1811 . * 61,918 1812 60,817 1813 61,365 1814 • ...62,927 ' 1815 62,927, &c. The number of the births in the seven years preeeditag Vl ceeded 13,000. -A. return which I have for 1827, when the re gistration was more perfect, gives for the Mauritius and its' de pendencies 75,78/ In this important return the ages are dis tinguished for distinct periods. There stood as follows : Under 6 years of age Above 60 1661 Together This, in the same ratio, would bring the total number in the Mauritius, by Baron Unienville, colonial archievest, the number of slaves taxable in the Mauritius, (I select from his list ex teisding from 1767 till 1826,) was, in the undermentioned years, as follows :-- , Number. Imported. Births. Deaths. 1809....67,310 1100 2039 2243 1810....68,177 600 2065 2272 1811.-68,556 None. 2077 2285 1812....67,677 None. 2050 2255 1813....67,336 None. 2040 2241 1814.-66,791 None. 2024 2226 1815—.66,406 None. 2012 2213 1816....66,123 None. 2003 2204 In 1812, 863 were imported under license from Governoi Far quhar, from Tamatave, Madagascar, as legal private property, upon the abandonment of that settlement, previously belonging to the government of the Mauritius. In 1816, after the registration law came into operation, the number rose to near 80,000, because every slave, of whatever age, was included; and because the law, at first not being well understood, and carrying confiscation of property for not regis tering, the number was raised beyond the real number by differ ent persons having iuterest in the same slaves—each registering, these separately, as was also done in the West Indies at the commencement of the registration laws, but which subsequent registrations, and a clear exposition of the law, corrected and put right. In 1811, then, there must have been in the Mauritius and its dependencies, slaves, of all ages, to a number exceeding 77,000; and yet, with this fact before him, General Hall, the original author of all these fabrications, dared to assert that (see letter to Lord Bathurst, 28th May, and June 16th, 18100 there were in the Mauritius 40,000 more slaves than were registered,, (th e number returned that year was 80,015,) meaning thereby to in sinuate that so many had been illegally imported. The number, however, as we have seen, was, and must have been, above the number previously stated, becaus9 it was well known that at that time many slaves were omitted to be returned, in order to' evade the heavy poll-tax that was levied upon them ; and the law at the period mentioned was not severe upon delinquents. The number of slaves iu the Mauritius and Svchelles, being then, in 1811, say 78,000, the number on the Ist of August, 1831, or rather Ist of February, 1835, is, according to the official re turn received by the Slave Compeusation Commissioners, 68,613 —a decrease of 9000, sufficiently accounted for (ruin the disparity of the sexes, which was always great in that island—the number carried off by the small pox and cholera in 1817, &c.,—the con siderable nuither freely emancipated, by government and by private individuals, since the former period, and about 3000, which, according to Lord Glenelg and Lord Rippon, in the House of Lords, were wrested from them, and set free, under seizures, on account of suspicion of illegal importation. That some attempts were made to smuggle slaves into the Mauritius in 1816 and 1818, is,.l believe, true; but in looking over the parliamentary returns connected with these subjects, I cannot find a greater number even supposed to be illegally im peded, and these almost all seized either at the time of the at tempt, or shortly after it, than about 700. If any more were introduced, the numbers were so small, (it was quite impossible there could be many, because the way they are stated to have been introduced was by one and two at a time, in vessels trading to Madagascar,) and they are so mixed with the rest of the slave population that they could not be discovered even after recourse had been bad to the most arbitrary and inquisitorial proceedings 'and acts—acts: which the British government were obliged to check and to condemn, and which even Judge Smith refused to sanction or participate in. The colony of the Mauritius, more over, was the port where all the slaves, captured in the Indian Ocean, were taken to and liberated ; and I find from official returns that the whole captured from IEIIS to 1826, whether French or English, were, British 1260, French 790, all of whom were apprenticed as the law directed ; and from the same official sources I learn that the number of Apprentices on the 21st Dec., 1828, was 4674 Children of ditto 362 Apprentices whose time was out Do. refused to return to their masters Do, discharged by do. 6 Thus both the number captured and condemned, and appren tices, are fully and fairly accounted for, and thus all the hideous and vindictive accusations against the Mauritius fall to the ground. The inhabitants, in answer to these changes, told, the govern. meat to punish, and that they never screened or would screen the guilty, but not to punish a whole people for partial and fic titious crimes. The authors of these fabrications are well known. I hold in my hands receipts from some of the loudest of the accusers, for the hire of the apprenticed Africans, which they hired out contrary to law, and pocketed the money; and hired them, too, as their own receipts express it, as their own staves! The profligate hypocrites ! ' The history of feremie's hatred against the Mauritius is as well known as General Hall's. Both 'shOuld remain silent. Jeremie was sent out by a domineering faction to do that in the Mauritius which neither law, justice, truth, nor honour could warrant being done. Strange as he might think it, I could tell him, were it now of any use to do so, the most secret part of the work he was sent to do. He fail.ed. The blow' recoiled upon the heads of its authors, notwithstanding that influence which procured the keeping in thit country, fur upwards of eight months, the order in council of 1831, for all the crown colonies, and after it had been duly proclaimed in Demerara and Trini dad, that he might have time to begin his operatious—kept back till a question put in the House of Commons late in 1832 brought out the acknowledgment of the disgraceful fart. Jeremie, I repeat, failed in the intended and projected sweep over the Mauritius; and then the colonial office, to screen itself from odium, threw him and others overboard; and he now, ' to make peace with government, is ready, or has, as I have been intormed, left others in the lurch, and whom be had in volved in his fall. It may be well for Jeremie and some others to expose the conduct of the colonial office. In that' uarter, they may take their range and their will ; but what have the unfor tunate people of the Mauritius to do with these squabbles? Why should they suffer where others only are to blame—they who were actually the victims destined to the sacrifice ? Jere mie is wrong to attempt to injure, calumniate, and defame the inhabitants of the Mauritius at the expense of truth and justice —a population which, as a conquered, ceded, and . retained ' British colonial possession, is entitled to the same protection and privileges which every other British colonial possession re ceives, and is entitled to receive. Jeremie must remain silent. Ilis bitter malignity has returned on his own head. He returns to the Mauritius no more. The shade of the injured General Stewart bids him betake himself to straightforward courses — bids him beware! He is a man whom every British colonist ought to despise and to scorn—their bitterest foe! I have no ambition to appear before the public, but you are welcome to give my name to whoever may require it.—lam, &c., Glasgow, 17th September, 1835. Tau . ' H. Some of our. .contemporaries hare indulged in.much minute criticism about the proprietv.of selecting, for the celebration, of the third cenienary of the rabrmation, the year in which Covei dale completed abroad the first English edition of the entire Scriptures, because the Bible did not for centuries after Wards acquire that free circulation contemplated by its.tranalation into the vernacular tongue. This is like quarrelling with parents for keeping the birthday of their first-born son, instead of wait ing for the opportunity of commemorating with suitable honours the period when he shall come of age. Cloverdale's translation was the foundation and chief corner-stone of the glorious edifice of our protestant civil and religious liberties. More too was accomplished at the time than the objectors are willing to allow. The prinCiple of the right of the laity to possess and peruse the sacred volume was publicly recognised. Fur it seems probable from the dedication itself, that the translation was permitted to be read by the people. At all events that permission very speedily received the royal sanction. Fulke relates, that when Coverdale's translation was finished, and presented to 'Henry, he gave it to Bishop Gardiner and others to examine;, who kept it so long, that at last the King had to call fur it himself. "When they delivered the book, he demanded their opinion of the translation. They answered, that there were many faults in it. Well,' said the King, 'but are there any heresies men tioned in it ? replied, 'There were no heresies they could find.' If there be no heresies,' said Henry, 'then in God's name, let it go abroad among our people.' It is matter of his tory also, that in the following year, 1536, a royal injunction was issued to the clergy to provide in every parish church in England, a look of the whole Bible, both in Laten and also in English, and lay the same in the quire for eeerye man that will loke and reade thereon."—Watchman. ARTESION Wxu.s.—Much light has been thrown of late years on the theory of springs,_ by the boring of what are called by the French "Artesian Wells, ' because the method has long been known and practised in Artois; and it is now demonstrated, that there are sheets, and in some places, currents of fresh water at:various depths in the. ea r th. The instrument employed in excavating these wells is a large auger, and the cavity buract is usually from three to four incites in diameter. If a hard rock is met with, it is first triturated by an iron rod, and the materials being thus reduced to small fragments or powder, are readily extracted. To hinder the sides of the well front falling.in i as also to prevent the spreading of the ascending water into the surrounding soil, a jointed pipe is introduced, formed of wood in Artois, but in other countries more commonly of metal. It frequently happens that, after passing through hundreds of feet of retentive soils, a water bearing stratum is at length pierced,, when the fluid immediately ascends to the surface and flows over. The first rush of th,i water op the tube is often violent, so that for a time the water playsiike a fountain, and then sinking, con tinues to flow over tranquilly, or sometimes remains stationary at a certain depth below the orifice of the well. Th,s, spouting of the water in the first instance is probably owing to the disen gagement of air and carbonic acid gas, for both of these have been seen up with the water.—Lyell's Geology. The North Salopian Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry, under the command of Sir Rowland Hill, Bart., will assemble, for Permanent duty, on the 29th instant,- at Whitcharch.—The South Salopian regiment, under toe command of the Viscount will assemble, in Shrewsbnry, on the same day. SEPTEMBER 25,. 1815 THE LETTER-PRESS PRINTERS OF GLASGOW. The &Offish Guardian of Tuesday contains the following reso lutions, Which we transcribe as being highly creditable to the good sense and public spirit displayed by the majority of the .printers of Glasgow:— '• We, the undersigned, being operative letter-press printers in Glasgow, have resolved, through a committee of our number, 'to enter our dissent from the principles involved in a certain address, made public as the Address of the Letter-press Printers of Glasgow to Daniel O'Connell, Esq., M.P.,' for which pur pose we agree to the following resolutions : " First—We dissent in Coto to the principle of workmen, as in dividual bodies, assembling together for political purposes, the more especially when these meetir.gs are held for the express purpose of moving addresses and passing resolutions, the ob jects of which are to subvert the present. constitution of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. "Secondly—The letter-press printers of Glasgow not being an incorporated body, or bound together by any legal form, cannot be represented, even by a majority of their number, and that, therefore, we, the undersigned, beg the public to understand that the address presented to Daniel O'Connell, Esq., M.P., in the Green, on Monday, the 21st current, (which address was voted for by 52, at a meeting held in Mr. Heugh's Session house, on Wednesday evening last,) and purporting to be the address of the letter-press printers of Glasgow, is not the address - of the majority of that body. • " Thirdly—We agree to publish the above resolutions in the following Glasgow newspapers, viz., Herald, Liberator, and Scottish Guardian. (Signed) • `.° WM. WOTHERSPOON,) "JOHN VEITuH, ,`! - GRuRGE BROWN, -31 embers of Committee. " JOHN SUTER, "JOHN BIRD. Hire follows a list of-upward) of 70 names, whose sigraturo may be seen by applyine to the committee.) " Glavoiv, Sept. 22d, 1835." THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL. MIL VANDEN HOFF respec "Ily announces to his Friends and the Public, tha is EN Eli IT, and LAST APPEARANCE this season, will t place THIS EVENING, the 25th instant, on which occasion e will appear in the character which first introduced him to a Liverpool audience,— ROLLA, In the Tragedy of PIZARRO. Favourite Dance by Mr. GILBERT and Miss BALLIN, being positively their last appearance this season. 71, Duke-street. Vie lithcrpool ,StanZiatt. FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEABER 25. 1835. It has been intimated that the commissioners for carry ing into furce the provisions of the new poor law bill have exercised considerable influence with his majesty's ministers in inducing them to consent to the enlistment of British-subjects to serve in the army of the Queen of SPAIN. Their argument is said to have been as follows. "England, Scotland, and Ireland have, at the present moment, too many thieves, idlers, and young men who lead a debauched life, and obtain a precarious subsist ence. It is, therefore, the duty of the government to encourage their enlistment, and their consequent deport ation to a country, where if they steal they may live and where if they wander forth or fight they are sure to be ihot. In either case they will cease to be burthens upon the poor rates. Such is the utilitarian argument, which has been re ported to us, as having been addressed by the commis sioners to the government. We cannot vouch for its truth; but looking at what has occurred, we are inclined to believe that if abstractedly this was not their motive, the practical effect of the enlistment is strictly in accord ance with their principles. Generous and humane com missioners, we salute you I We perceive by a Glasgow paper, and a liberal paper too, that robberies have been less frequent in that city since the Scotch brigade sailed for Bilboa, In Liverpool. we can testify, that, fewer handkerchiefs, snuff:boxes, and purses containing money, have been picked In our • streets, since the first division of Spanish patriots was hulked up in the old ship called the General Brown. Four or five thousand thieves do a deal great of mischief in a free country. None of - these thinks he does it good week's work unless he can draw upon some fence' . or pawnbroker for three or four pounds every Saturday night. At this rate, the public sustains a loss of at least £12,000 per week, or £624,000 per annum. "rt.! thieves, however, to the number mentioned, being re moved to Spain, we congratulate the middle classes, and the shopkeepers in particular, upon the result ! The most agreeable part of the speculation, of which the commissioners have so much reason to be proud, is, that there is little or . no chance of these fellows returning to act professionally in Great Britain. Our hearty thanks are due to Don CARLOS for executing the designs of the poor law commissioners with such dutiful and untiring zeal. He is, after all, the best and most efficient ally-of England. His guns are of unerring aim—his scouts upon a sleepless watch—his victims are our ragamuffins. All honour to thee, King of Spain, that shall be ! Fire away at the brave patriots ! If you allow even one of thein to return, we will not forgive you! Lord of Spain! Consider the state of our poor laws. We cannot afford to maintain the idle vagabonds that have volunteered to support Donna ISABELLA. You must, therefore, provide for them in some way or other. At the bridge above Bilboa-you have nobly done your duty —you have evincdd the purest philanthropy ! But while we give praise to him to whom it is due Iva have to implore Don CARLOS to. spare Colonel Evans. He will be pleased to. recollect that the colonel is the re presentative of our ancient city of Westminster, and that his constituents would be plunged into almost suicida grief if a bullet from a long rifle should cut him off in the march of glory. Such a soldier is not born every day, and as a fighting man the House of Commons cannot well do without him. Spare Colonel EVANS then by all means, but shoot and bayonet his followers as quickly as possible, 'and rely upon the gratitude of his Majesty's commissioners for the poor laws ! • it is rather amusing to see the conflicting opinions and the different &cisions of the revising barristers under the reform bill. In one place trustees of a certain class are admitted—in another place they are rejected. In the Court of Revision for South Lancashire, which sat in Li verpool last week, a dissenting preacher was admitted to the roll on the ground that he had an interest for life in the pew rents of his chapel, while a clergyman of the Church of England was rejected, although his claim was precisely thesame as the other. The reverend gentle man thus rejected was, we think, very hardly dealt by, the act-of parliament under which he holds iris living giving him, in the most direct terms, a life interest of se veral' hundred pounds per annum in all the pews of his church: The unkindest and cruellest part of the whole proceeding w--the objectors to -the reverend gentle man's vote were his own political friends I In Liverpool it has been riled that a man can he exa mined by the objector as to . the fact of his being an alien, the onus probandi being upon the challenged party to prove the contrary. In London, on the other barrister of the name of CRAIG , has ruled the very xe, verse. He has decided that the onus probandi falls upon. the objector, who must prove that the claimant is an alien. This is sad work! With respect to aliens we cannot see how there should be any difficulty whatever. In our opinion the Liverpool barrister was decidedly right and the London one as clearly wrong. The reform act, the municipal act, and the last passed act in reference to aliens, are so plain on this subject that he who runs may read. It is in the reform and municipal bill enacted that no person who is not of full age, who is a pauper, or an alien, can be admitted to the roll as a voter for members of parliament or municipal functionaries. Let us suppose then that a person is objected to on the ground that he is a minor. The parish register is produced, but that is not always good evidence, particularly in reference to a ques tion of a few days; and, consequently, the..hurden of proving that lie is of `• full age" devolves upon himself. The affirmative is easily settled—the negative is not so susceptible of proof. Suppose, also, that a claimant is "objected to on the ground that he does not hold the pro perty or the qualification upon which he claims. He is called upon to produce his title deeds; but this is an ar bitrary and even shameful stretch of the power vested in objectors by the act of parliament. It is enough for all the purposes of the bill, and the ends of justice, that the claimant be placed in the witness box and examined upon oath as to the validity of his claim. If he should perjure himself he knows,the consequences. Is an alien to be treated with more reserve than a Bri tish born subject ? General notoriety . is sufficient in this matter. If A. B. be objected to that he is an alien, hu# S 1 .......,