The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-09-11 00:00:00

stpirtmEßE. 11, p=36. j -c,-„, • . gix shilling; per hundred; and vast numbers fist tift tn - are distribnted gratis, and sent thlough the post -44, (the post char've being low), to all the towns, ?illage , , and plantations of the !tenth.' Another but • rnal ler publicati on ,7ill us t ra t e d in a similar manner, and / • ntit led the Slave's Frie n d, is sold for five pence per , d° ze . tit and a l so mos t extens i ve l y and. zealously circa= jat i ed • Two paper s , o ne called kuman Rights, and the t le " The Emancipator, the latter of a large size,. have . peen established ; they are sold cheap, and distri- Out.a. in large quantities That these publications will work • Pnisell 'ef to the slave owners cannot for a moment be A mO4l ' t ad. That they are popular, and that slavery is held in abhorrence in the New England provinces, is admitted hp t, those who d e n ou n c e them as pernicious. The New ork Morning Courier declares, that the conscientious Part he has taken in support of the southern planters has be en tbost prejudicial to his interests. But let us give own words : We quote from his paper of the 19th of A ugur it: th "r h, L at- Portion of our readers who are in,, any way familiar kl O subject, are well aware that we have stood almost t , " comba.ing the madmen whose infamous conduct is but t1 i ° 10 , 6 %, n Producing the consequences we'predictetl—they know 11 41 consequence of our defence of the rights of the Haigh, have •ber•n slandered and v ersevuted by many of the very 4' l " which now espouse our cause 7 -they know that in this ~ warfare against fanaticism, ire havt hundreds and hun ti:_ii`9l subscribers 'without its having a n other effect upon us tielto increase our zeal in that.cause which haw now , empha guY becom e a question of a union or disunion of the States.' T his candid admission tells far more against slavery "atoany thing that the anti-slavery society can do, for it proves to detnonstratiott °that the feeling against it 111 • gaining • - th • ground, and that its advocates are losing Atr forme r friends. This being:the case, how can the Planters withstand the overwhelming moral force which is bearing down upon them ? snt what are the Charleston people doing ? The ani ,° tolll - enquirer will ascertain this most satisfactorily from e Pages of the Neu' Fork .Daily. , vicluertiscr_of" the 15th ' August. • • . We published on Wednesday a-letter-from the head of th . at 87art maul, addressed to the denuty-postmaster at Charleston,. ath Carolina, in which, after acknowledging that he had `no e ga authority to exclude newspapers n the mail, nor to tiD'uhibit their - delivery on account. of -their character or ten he ()m e goes . on to say, that by no act, or direction of mine, „; . a or private, could I be induced' to aid, knowingly, in ' t V 7 ltlg circulation to papers of this description [the publica (qvune' F the anti-slavery society) .directly or iu'directly. We in al? obligation to thilaws, but a higher one to the community I, ‘ „ a u e l "ch we live, and if the former' he perverted •to destroy the j•v patriotism to disregard chem. Entertaining these 0 2, 1 cannot sandier' and will not condemn the step you hare Q i n' That step was a determination on the part of the eston postmaster nut to deliver newspapers, and other rele s in the mail, to whom they were addressed, which 811 ° , 11 , 1 consider •of an inflammatory character. The post iza,s,ter-general and all his deputies, are under the solemn obli -1;`")138 of an oath toobserve and execute the laws respecting th e_m bu s i ness. B ut t h e po s tmast e r at Ch ar l est on iinagines n.a al certain publications, legally transported in the mails, are t he calls of an incendiary character, and he refuses, not standing the requisitions of the laws, and the obligations ap his alb, to deliver them to those to whom they are directed; er, the postmaster-general, in whose hands, and under whose I 'troul the department is plaised, though he does not think positivPly to sanction this. determination, d elf refuse to. condemn this conduct on the part s of t his ePtity.• the res e lUti o n of the postmaster of Charleston, dic tated by the slave owners. of that town and its vicinity, c not an act of madness, setting die law of the Union at defi ance, a nd recogn i s i ng a s la ve - co d e as the law of th e United States, there is no meaning in the American ll ngtlage. The law, according to this subordinate ,s °L °N,—this teller of cents in a snuff shop, perhaps,— the law is to be maintained or violated precisely as it ill aY suit the convenience or interest of the raisers and ' d ealers in human flesh. He assumes the right of being a B°ll of censor for the whole of the southern states. He 1 8 to decide what papers should, and what papers shonl4 l !nt, be delivered to the persons to whom they are ad- Attessed. .The slave.owners documents or papers i‘ w hich' relate. to emancipation incendiary publications. "f these, the wise postman Of CharlestOn, who most I)t thably.is a person. iVlict earl Hardly road, is to be the I li dg'e• He is to decide what is incendiary and what is ", of the papers which tome to his oil or snuff shop by Post. Re, wortliV man, is to decide how. far patriotism . should trample upnn law, and how far the constitutional and acknowledged rights of a free people should bt made sl Ahservient to the interest of the tg Man stealers" and Blare dealers" of the Carolinas. This isa beautiful state -of things, ..We give2W4sit 140TON'S ghost great credit for the blessings which its 'fluter conferred. A pOst-Master at Charleston claims the . right.to decide upon, the nature - of all epistolary cor r expOnetice;'and ,preSent or destroy all printed or "%her ticurrients which come into his possession, as the s ervant of the republic, just as he, thinks fit. Talk of Siberia indeed! This is despotism - of a far more, kion: strous kind. It is tyrahny in the handsnf a boor—power t!) do wrong given . to a retailer of tallow candles—sixteen i n the pound. Suppose lie assumes the power to open a "aled letter which he guesses contains an anti-slavery tract, and that, instead of a printed book with wood cuts 'showing how children are stolen, and females are slicked, finds a commercial and confidential letter containing, b ills and bank notes. Are these incendiary . ? They f l ay be so, according to circumstances, and the wants Of "le postmaster; but what would the merchant say when he found the seal broken, his letter opened, his secrets r ead, and his bank notes counted, though not stolen ? lie would, of course, be extremely indignant, and be would take care that for the future none .of his communi cations or remittances should be carried by. the same co nveyance. These are natural consequences • and vet the people flr Charleston are so frantic and mad as to imagine that l f they can stop the transmission of tracts hr the mail . • they Will be able to exclude from their section what they c allincendiary publications ! They may as well think of stopping the. winds of heaven, or the light of the sun. If the . mail be interdicted from carrying the obnoxious s ilarcels—;.if the postmaster interfere to s u ppres s th em __ "ole- other and perhaps better mode of transit will be found. They are fighting against moral impressioni.— they are contending against religious principl*s—they .are making war against'deep-rooted prejudices, long nurtured, long subdued, but now bursting forth like a 'torrent. They may combat them for a time—they may . Plake . their land one vast solitude—they may, it the 'cause of presumed right,steep their hands in innocent •Ploori, us they have already 'done; bht they may depend 1 . 3 1)on it that sooner of later they will have to pay dearly for their folly and their injustice. It w;11 perhaps be asked, why are we, who hie been r . "for many years the advoCateS of the West India plants, 'now the enemies of riveii in . the United States of 'America_? We answer briefly—wE HAvn A "COUNTRY-a ilornekthat we love—interests which it is our duty tnup holtl. We care nothing for America. We know no other law) than England, and we are opposed to every kind of !Valley vvbich is not calculated to benefit England. Slit -very is abolished in the West India dependencies of the :British monarch ; and being so, it must also, on a principle . 4f equity „and fairness, be abolished everywhere else, ( "therwise,our countrymen will be unable to compete with for e igners .the markets of the world. That la the ground we take- We here, disdain to offer an argument 4 1Pontite abgtract question. The parliament of England have suppressed slavery—the people of Epgland have, te n certain eater% paid for the suppression of slavery—and therefore it is.cur•duty, as it is clearly our national policy, to insist, and do ottr utmost to accomplish, the abolition . of slavery in every pact of the world. But more of this hereafter. The following, -which re borrow from an able London Contemporary, has reference te so important an event that ' 4 'e cannot resist giving it the benefit of our circulation. 'We have before, more than once, called the attention of our readers to the subject. It is one in which they are all most deeply interested, and we are confident that when the serioua and reflecting portion of them call to mind the blessings which their forefathers achieved; the rich legocy.they left them, the solemn injunctions'.they imposed, and the ,dying prayer they made that what they had under DIV 1,11; PUOVIIiENC43 Obtained for themselves should he preserved and handed down undefiled and un adulterated to theirsernotest posterity—when all this is borne in mind, and when the martyr's hymn recalls to feeling theinartyr's -duty, and the obligations it imposes Upon his descendants—when ail this is recollected, sure we are th a t th ere i s mo t an base and conscientious pro teitont iu the tbtec kingdms who wilt notpold to our anxious .request, and do grace to the time-honoured cen tenary of his religion. 'We select-What follows, because it is written in a strain of filial piety and natural patri otism beyond any thing out humble pen' Tan make any pretension to The German papers give an interesting account of the cele bration of the protestant jubilee at Geneva. This reminds us that we have approached, within less than a month, of the day fixed by common consent for a like thanksgiving celebration of the same blessing to our country. It is, therefore, not an hour too. soon to :think seriously of the manner of that celebration. The 4th of October will; providentially, fall upon the Sabbath day. The more solemn essentials for a grateful commemora tion of the mast precious blessing ever Conferred upon a people are, therefore, already prepared. We trust that no man who calls himself a church of England protestant, or a protestant of any congregation, not merely political, factious, and an affair of trade—we trust, in a word, that no religious protestant will be absent from his proper place of worship upon the glorious anni versary; and we have fail confidence in the religious clergy of all denominations, that they will concur with us in urging the peremptory duty of such attendance upon every occasion that shall intervene before the 4th of Ok tober, and that they will be prepared upon that great . day to remind their hearers.of the debt of gratitude due to the Giver of all Good for the purifica tion of his church from foul, anti-social, and in many respects worse than pagan abomination. These are hard words, but they speak the truth, and we are not afraid to use them. History tells what popery has been in its tyrannical, sanguinary, per jured, and impure practices; and the . experience of the day ve7 rifles all that history has told, and proves popery to be incorri ble. We speak thus boldly, because we think that the truth is the only justification for the event to be celebrated. If popery is not what we have described, then was the reformation an act of capricious despotism, as papists stigmatise it. We hope that no clergyman will so far betray his high duty, so dishonour the memory of his martyred predecessors, as to mince the abominal, tions of popery. The Standard of Wednesday asks the following ques tion, which we consider'worthy ,of being repeated in our columns. Similar questions are frequently asked at Bow wreet in reference to swindlers, but no answer is ever re - 'battled by their friends. In this case we expect that the " seven millions" in Ireland, and the " seventy thou sand" in Liverpool, will be equally silent " The prorogation of parliament will take place to-morrow. Before the session closes we must put one question, which 3ve hope to hear repeated in the House of Commons. Why have Messrs. O'Connell and Ruthven been permitted to usurp, by a manifest fraud, the seats of Messrs. West and Hamilton,.dtiring several months after it has been ascertained that Messrs. O'Connell and Ruthven are behind their competitors upon the poll by more than four or five hundred legal votes ? The ho nest majority of the House of Commons have been loading the gaols with people, constructively implicated in smuggling usurp ers into parliament. But this honest majority can see no harm in Messrs. O'Connell and Ruthven occupying through a whole session seats to which they have no more title than any two of the lowest blackguards of their country and class to be found in St. Giles's." GIL BLAS ILLUSTRATED ; OR, CORPORATION ROBBERY MADE EASY. lAll our readers, we presume, have read the inimitable novel of Gil Blas, of which an impudent rogue of a Frenchman, called Le Sage, claimed to be the author, but which h e no more wrote than Dr. Bowring did Pa radise Lost, or Lei;;lto Hunto Tasso's Jerusalem Deli vexed: The style, in cident,..and humour of Gil Blatate purely Sp an i s h , so much so that no Frenchman could have. conceived or imitated them. The truth we believe to be that Le Sage, during the time he resided iti Spain in some subordinate diplomatic capacity, procured, or, per haps, stole the M.S. from some Spanish monastery, where it had remained unpublishei on account of the nature of its satire. Hacarried it with him to France, and pub lished it as his n*n. • Hosever,That is not our present business. The au thor of Gil Bias, whoever he was, has written for all time, and we purpose tabling his light artillery to bea r upon Lord Brougham; Lord John ussell, and the cor poration commissioners.. Tn the first chapter of the sixth hook of the hero of ,Santillane we are made acquainted with a piece of swindling in which a good-natured lord, called Don Rapha e l. Gil Bias himself, and a sort of Bk.' mingharn patriot, named Ambrose de Lamela, enact a prominent part. . These three had come into contact by accident, and they were all suffering under untoward cir cumstances. They were reduced to their last crust, and did not know how they could, by honest or other means, obtain breadand wine, the officers of justice being iii pursuit of them. •In passing through the country in this distressed condition, they bled them to a wood to repose fOi the 'ffigh', - aivi 'dream of a supper they had not en joyed. At length Ambrose volunteered to go ip disguiSo to the nearest town for the purpose of procuring supplies. He returned 'Oen with prpvisiois ; but what struck his 3Quipanions wjth.surne surprise was a large bundle;. evi dently of clothes, which - Ambrose had brought along with him. On inquiring wh a t h e mean t t o d o w ith so mu ch dress, *Ambrose raid the following story • • • " Having furnished myself with bread,' added he, ' I went into a cook's shop, where I ordered six partridges, as many pal lets and young rabbits to he put to the tire; anu while they were doing, a titan came into the shop in a rage, and, complaining loudly of the behaviour of a merchant iu town, said to the cook, By St. J. 1 0! • Samuel Simonis the most ridiculous merchant in Xelva; he has affronted me in open shop; the covetous wretch would not giVe me credit'for six ells of cloth, though he knows very well that I am a responsible tradesman, and that. he can lose nothing by me. Is he not a strange animal? He sells willingly on credit to people of quality, and had rather venture with them, than oblige au honest citizen without any risk. Was there ever such madness? Llanined Jew! Would he were taken in! My wish will be one day accomplished. There are merchants enough or my opinion.' The fact is Ambrose had contrived a scheme for rob bing this Samuel Simon. He had set his heart upon the goods of this rich tradesman. Like Lord John Russell in the matter of the corporations, he saw that Simon was a prosperous man, and he longed to appropriate to him self and his dear friends a portion of his superfluOus wealth. It was deemed prudent, however, to do this un der the apparent sanction of the law. But he first cau tiously surveyed his premises. Hear Gil Bias : " I lent an attentive ear to all the discourse of the tradesman, and did not fail, when l came out of the cook's shop to inquire for Samuel Simon's house. A person showed it to me. I sur veyed his shop, examined everything; and my iinagination, ready at call, sketched out a stratagem which I digested, and whiCh appeared worthy of the valet of signor Gil Bias. I went to a broker's, where 1 bought these clothes ; one suit for acting an inquisitor, another to represent a scrivener, and' the third for playing the part of an alguazil." Having found that Simon thq tradesman, like a rich corporation, had something worth taking, the plan of pillage was matured. The three reformers put on dresses suitable to the parts they intended to play. The chapter proceeds : "Ambrose put on the "long gown and cloak which gave him all the air of a conimissioner of the holy office- (How like Joe Parks or Ur. Commissioner Blackburne!) Don Raphael and• I dressed onrselvei likewise so as to bear a pretty good resem blance to a secretary Or alguazil. (This will do for Rushton or any of the inferior commissioners.) We employed a good . deal of time in disguising ourselves, and it was past two o'clock . _ in the afternoon.when we quitted the wood. (For wood read desks in obscure attics in London.) It is true, indeed, we were in no hurry ; we, therefore, went at a slow pace, (how like the commissioners again !) and stopping at the city gate waited there till night." The commissitm:. then opens. Private information is first obtained from the Tom Boltons, William RathbOnes, and other pAbliCiiiS and sinners of Spain. They seardh . . - secretly for evidence before they begin to exaMin-e their .• prime witnesses in public. Gil Bias thus graphically d - scribes the opening of tile commission : Ai soon as it was dark, we left our horses in this PlaCe to the care of Don Alphonso, who was very glad that he had no other part to - pefform. Don Raphael, Ambrose, and I, went immediately into a-publicau's in the neighbourhood; and Mr, Inquisitor going foremost, said to the landlord with great gra vity, Master, I want to talk with you in private.' I'he land lord carried us into a parlour, where Lamela finding him alone will us, said, lam commissary of the holy office, come ; hither upon a very important affair.' At these words the publican grew pale, and replied with a faltering voice, that he hoped he had given no cause of =eomplaipt to the holy inquisition. There. fore,' replied Ambrose, 'it has no intention to give yon any trouble. God fotbid that, too prompt to punish, it should confound innocence with guilt, it is severe, hut always just: in a word, a man must deserve its chastisements before he feels them.. It 'was not you who brought me to Xelva, but a certain merchant called Samuel Simon, of whom we have received a very but re pelt it is said that he is still a jew, aria embraced chris:ianitv through motive's purely carnal. I order you, therefore, in the name of the holy office, to tell me what you kat* , of that man. Beware of excusing hini, on account of his being your neighbour, and perhaps your friend; for I declare, if I perceive in your evi dence the least resove, you yourself are a lost man. Come, secre tary,' added he, turning to Raphael, 'do your duty.' Mr. Secretary, who already had hic paper and inkhorn in his hand, sat down at a table, and prepa re d with th e mos t ser i ous air in th e world to write the deposition of the landlo r d, w h o , on his part, prot e st e d that he would not betray the truth. Well, then,' said the commissary inquisitor to him • let us begin : an swer only to my questions : I ask no more, Do you see Sa muel Simon frequent the church?' It is what I have not ob served,' said the publican ; I don't remember to have. seen him at church.' Good !' cried the 'inquisitor ' write, that he is never seen at church." I don't say so, Mr. Commissary,' re plied the landlord ; " I only say, that I never saw him there: he may be in the same church with me, though I don't perceive him.'" Friend,' said Lamela, youforyet that you must not, in your examination, excuse Samuel Simon. I have told you the consequences o f it. You must mention only these things that are against him, and not• one word •in his futour.' If that be the vase, Signor Licentiate,' resumed the landlord, you can't reap_ much from my deposition ; 1 am not acquainted with the mer chant in question; therefore can say nett her good nor ill of.hins ; but if you want to know how be lives in his own family, I will go and call Gaspard his apprentice, whom you may intetrogate : he conv here sometimes, to make Teeny with his friends; and such a tongue! he will discover the whole life and conversation of his nsa,ster, and, I warrant it, find employment enough fur )(tor se cretary,' " . . , . The honourable commissioners having obtained a cane to ovidencv likely to answer their putp6se, do not lose THE LiVEIOOOI, STANDAiIa moment in availing themselves of it.., The silly lad with, "such a tongue!" is just what the commissioners want; - Gaipsrd is viite.a,..gsibentouche, like the brain lemand chattering jackdaws who assertible - in Clayton - . square; and he believes all that is told him ; believes only on one side ; and tells most volubly much more than he either has been told or believes. Gaspard of Xelva is the " Bot Smith" of Liverpool, who thinks no thing of swallowing a sea serpent. 'This Gaspard is brought before the holy inquisitor, and examined by Mr. Commissioner Lamela as fol- Welcome, child,' said Lamela to him; 'phi tea in me an inquisitor, nominated by the holy office to take informations against Samuel Simon, who is accused ofjudaisin, (or toryism.) Yeti live with him, and of consequence are witness to the great est part of his behaviour. I believe it is unnecessary to adver tise you of the obligation you are under to declare all that .you know, of him, when I order you - to do so, in the name of the holy iijquisition.' 'Signor Licentiate,' replied the young . man, 1 sin very ready to satisfy you on that head, without being com manded in the name of the holy office. If my master was to take me for his text, I am persuaded that he would not spare we; twill therefore deal as plainly with him, and tell you, in the first place, that he is a close hunks, whose true sentiments it is.imvissible to ; one who affects all the exteriors of. a [ply man, but has not one scruple of virtue at bottom. He goes every evening to the house of a little abigail.' 'I, am glad to hear that,' said Ambrose, interrupting him, ' and I see, by whist you say,'that he is a tnnn of bad morals; but answer precisely to the questions lam going to ask. I ant particularly enjoined to know what are his sentiments with respect to religion. Tell' me, do you eat pork in your house ?" I don't think,' re plied Gaspard, • that we have eat of it twice during the whole year that I have lived with him.' Very well,' resumed master inquisitor: write, secretary, that pink is never eaten in the house of Samuel Simon. Rut to make amends for that,' con iinued he, yott doubtless eat lamb sometimes.' Yes, soine ! times,' replied the apprentice; 'we bad some, fer example, last Easter." A lucky epocha !' cried the commissary: 'write, se cretary, that Simon keeps the passover ! This goes on excellently Well, and, methinks, we have received good intelligence.' " Besides,' you must tell me, friend,' added Lamela, cif yon Lhave never seen your master caress little children.' A. thou sand times,' replied Gaspard; when he sees little boys pass by his shop, if they are at all handsome, he stops and fondles them. ' Write, master secretary,' said the inquisitor, interrupting him, ' that Samna Simon is violently suspected of decoying christian children into his house in order to cut their ihroats. A fine prose lyre indeed! Oho! , Mr. Simon, you shall have to do with the holy office, take my word for it: you must not imagine that you Will be 'allowed to snake your barbarous sacrifices with impunitg. Courage! zealous Gaspard,' said he to the apprentice, 'declare elk that you.know 011ie matter; and give us to understand that this false catholic is more attaehed than ever to the Jewish cue toms and eeremonies. Does not he spend one day .of the week. in total i naction ?" No, - answered Gaspard, I have not ob served that : I only perceive that on some days he shuts him self up in his closet, whe r e b e rema i ns a long time.' Ah ! ha!' cried the commissary, ` he keeps the Sabbath, as sure as lam an inquisitor. Mark, secretary, mark that he religiously observes the fast of the.Subbath. Ah! the abominable 'wretch!, I have only one thing snore to ask. Does not he speak,also of Jerusalem ?' ' Very often,' replied the young man, 'he relates to us the his-, tory of the Jews, and in what manner the temple of Jerusalem was destroyed.' Right !' said Ambrose. ' Master secretary, let not this piece of intelligence escape you.; write in large cha raeters,•that Samuel Simon breathes nothing but the restmation tf the templet; and that he meditates night and day the re-establish ment of his nation. Ido not want . to know any more; therefore it is needloes to ask any other questions; what the trusty Gas pard has deposed is enough to bring a whole synagegue to the stake.' The evidence against Simon and the corporations is now nearly perfect. Simon eats lamb at Easter 7 .—he_ is clearly guilty ; mayors g i ve di nners — t h at i s , b r ib ery . and corruption !. The commissioners are noviprimed. They. have made out a case, according to their instructions, these tieing, that the witnesses were to tell all they knew against the accused, but to say nothing in their favour. Ambrose niisliton and others acted up , to these instruc tions;. Commissioner Wilkicson confesses that lie had a model of a whig.corporation laid before him, by which he was to be guided in his inquiry. But let the case proceed. Simon the merchant, as he is called, like the nierchant corporation of Liverpool, was doomed at the first blush, and condemned upon evidence about which there could he no mistake. Lord John, the holy. inquisiter,.had booked the- boroughs as effectually, before the commencement of the investigation, as Am brose de Lamela had .boOked Samuel Simon. The scheme of fraud and robbery, therefore, goes on swim mingly. The barrative runs tits:— " Master commissary of the holy office having interrogated the apprentice in this manner, told him he might retire: but ordered him, in the name of the holy inquisition, to conceal from lite master every tittle of what had passed. Gaspard, having pro mised to obey, took his leave; and we did not tarry long atter he went out, but leaving the public-house as gravely as we had entered, went and knocked at the door of Samuel Simon, who opened it with his own hand ; and if he was astonished to see three such figures as we were, be was much more so when La mela, being spokesman, said to him, with an imperious tone, Mr. Samuel, I command you, in the name of the holy inqui sition, of which I have the honour to be commissary, to deliver into my hand,, this instant, the key of your closet; I want to, see ita.cannot find somethirig.tojiNtify the informatio n w hi c h 'has .'beenpresented to us against you.' • "The merchant, Confounded at these words, reeled two steps backwards as if he had received a blow on the stomach. 'Far 'from suspecting us of any trick, he believed implicitly that some secret enemy wanted to subject him to the suspicion of the holy office; perhaps, 'loo, knoicing himself to be no good catholic, he had cause to be afraid of an information. Be that as it• will, I never saw a, man more disconcerted : he obeyed without resist-. ance, and opened his closet with alt the respect that a man couhi show who is in terror of the iuluisitinn. At least,' said Am, brdse, while he went in, tarleast you receive the orders c!t. The holy office without contumacy. But,' added he, retire into ann_ they room, and leave 'me at liberty to perform my function.' Sarianel w ds as obedient to this order as to the first: he remained itihis shop, while we three entered his closet, and began to search fur his cash, which we easily linind ; for it was in au open•coffer, and in much greater quantity than. we could carry off, Consist ing of a great number of bags piled upon one another; but the whole in silver. We should hare liked gold better : (oh, Joe rkes I) but things being as they•were, we were fain to accoin modate ourselves to necessity, and fill our pocketi with ducats. We stuffed our breeches with them, and crammed them into every other part. which we judged proper to conceal them. In shod, we were heavy laden,uhough our cargo did not appear; and this was owing to the address of Ambrose and Don lta• phael, who, by their behaviour on this occasion, let me see that there is nothing like a man being master of his trade. " After having done our business so successfully, we came out of the closet, and, for a reason that the reader wilt easily guei s . master inquisiter took out his .padlock, and fixed it to the- door , with his pwn hand, then applying the seal, said to Simon; 'Mas ter Samuel, I Forbid you, in the name of the holy.inquisition, to ' touch this padlock, as well as the seal, which you are bound to respect, since it is the true seal of the holy office. I wiltreturn at the same hour to-morrow, in orner to take it off, and bring farther orders for you.' So saving, he made him open the street, do"r, through which we joyftilly past one after another. When we had gone about fifty yaids, we vegan to walk with such speed and nimbleness, that we scarce touched the - ground, notwith standing the burdens which we carried. We soon got out of town, and, remounting our horses, pushed towards •Segorba, giving thanks to the god Mercury for such a harpy event. Perhaps Lord 'John Russell, as well as our readers, may be inte rested to learp the fete of Mr. Commissioner' vvhat Ambrose and his colleagues; in that case we refer them to the 4th volume, chapter xi v., where they will find folloWs " I set out for Toledo, where, when I arrived. I alighted at an inn near the castle. Scarce ha:l I set my foot to the ground, when the landlord, taking me, doubtless, for some country gentleman, said to me, Signor Cavalier, I suppose you 'are come to town to see the august ceremony of the auto dale (the act of faith) which is to be performed to-morrow.' I answered in the affirmative, thinking it more prudent to let him believe that, than to give him an opportunity of questioning MC about my coming to Toledo. You will see,' he resumed, One of the finest proceissions that ever happened :there there are (I am told) more than a hundred prisoners, among whom they•reckon ten who are to be bitint:' "Next morning,,indeed, before sun-rise, I heard all the bells of the city tolling; and this melancholy sound was to advertise the people that they were going to begin the auto da fe. Curi • otts to see this seretinnity, I put on my clothes in a hurry, and repaired to the inquisition. All along the streetsthrough which the procession was to pass, scaffolds were elected, upon one of • which I hired a place. In a little time I perceived the Domini cans, who walked foremost, preceded by the banners of the in quisition. These good .fathers were immediately followed by the wretched viethus.which were to be sacriff4d that day by the holy Office . .. These .miserable creatures walkl4. one after ano ther with their heads and feet bare, each having a wax taper in his hand, and a godfather by hilt side. Some had large scape. lailes :of. yellow 'dot garnished with St. Andrew's crosses points red, and 'called sanhenito: others wore'carbehatc which • ore high paper caps &ado in the shape of a sugar-loaf, and co.:: , vered with flames and diabolical figures. As I looked attentively at these unfortunate people with, a compassion which I took Care to conceal, that I might not suf., fee for. it. I thought I recollected among thole who had their heads adorned with carochas, the reverend father Hilary, and his companion brother Ambrose. They passed so near ma that I could not be Mistaken. ' What do I see !' said lto my self; 'heaven , wearied with the diso r d er ly li ve s of 'these wretches, bath delivered them at last to the justice of the in quisition !' po saying. I felt myself seized with horror; I trembled from head to foot, and my spirits were so disordered, that I had almost swooned. The c o nne x i on w hi c h I once had with these rogues, the adventure of Xelva, in short, all the circumstances of my correspondence with them presentel themselves that moment to my fancy; and I thought I could •never. be thankful enough to God, for having preserved me from the scapulary and the carochas." The upshot, it will be seen, was, that the worthy com missioner was burnt. Let Lord John, Joe Parkes, and Roaring Rushton and others take warning in time ! We do not burn people in this 4 country at present, but we have not ceased to use the gallows occasionally, and who knows what popish ascendancy may revive in England as well as Ireland. PsurCRY.—ANNI2: RoowsY.—This miserable and deluded wretch who was made the tool of some wicked men, to swear away the lives of three innocent men, is now the subject of im peachment, On Thursday last informations were presented to the Bench at Bagettalstown, by Mr. Barrett, the able agent of the accused parties, Wyne, Styles, and Sly, against this wo man, for wilful and corrupt perjury—We have the satisfaction to state that the case will undergo judicial inquiry at the next assises.—Thiblin EiTning Mail. EXTRAORDINARY WAGER FOR FIVE HUNDRED GUINEAS.* Yesterday afternoon a vast assemblage of persons took place in Chiswell-street, Finsbury-square, and the neighbourhood, in consequence of a very singular feat being performed by Mr Alexander, proprietor of a repository for the sale of hoises Chiswell-street, who had undertaken , for a bet of five hundred guineas, to drive the Wells mail ?Mind the extensive premises of the late Mr. Lackington; &il:Alter, of Finsbury-place. The wager was made by some high sporting characters, and odds were against the accomplishment Of the feat. After the horses were harnessed the mail went first round Finsbury-square, and then entered the folding doors at a gentle trot, end thrice cir-' cumnavigated the library, keeping within the pillars under the . galleries. On Mr, Alexand er . driving' out. after succeeding in, the undertaking, he was loudly cheered: Du rin'it the lifetime of . Mr. Lackington, abrnat forty-two years back, a similar feat was', attempted, but in that instance was attended with failittediltiti the unskilftilness of tin driver:—benders p'atytte., LONDON LATEST NEWS. City, Wedneiday Evening, Ilay;past Seven o'clock The persevering'firmness of the lords has been a source of the utmost satisfaction to our capitalists, many of whom had'te mained in town awaiting with some anxiety the result of ".the collision," which has terminated much. like Mr..l - lame's stop ping the supplies, and has proved a bottle of smoke. Oar Con sols closed very firmly this afternoon at 90i for money, and 901 for the account. Money continues scarce here for coin mercial purposes, and discounts are by no means easy; this has caused a depression in our Exchequer Bills, which fell to 15 pm., but have since rallied to 17 to 19, and India Bonds fell as low as par; buthave since rallied to 3 to 5 pm. In our foreign market there has been a complete panic in Spanish securities, which, from 424, have been done as low as 37; and the Scrip - has been similarly depreciated. The causes of this may in a great measure be attributed to Messrs. Ricardo .and Co., the contractors of the loan, having refused to' accept bills drawn by the Spanish treaStray upon them to the amount of £90,000. This refusal has been the result of Messrs. Ricardes funds on hand being only sufficient for the dividends, AL Men-1 dixabel, prior tc ► his departure for Madrid, having authorised the', Contractors to, - furnish the necessary payments for forwarding the mercenaries hired here for the Spanish expedition. Of this the treasnry was not aware when these bills were drawa, and the refusal: of the Messrs. Ridardei to accept gave much. alaim to thebendholders. M. Carbonell, however, who is the. Portuguect;and Spanish finance agent here, subsequently ac cepted £30,000 of the bills, and put some additional firmness' in the market towards the close. yesterday, which,however, was not maintained this morning, Spanish Bonds falling" to 374. The market closed considerably firmer than this, the last price being at 39 for the Bonds, and 24 dis. for the Scrip. At the early part of the day, a considerable depreciation took place in the. Portuguese Bonds, and the 5 per cents. fell to 81. It has since been current that letters from Lisbon are in town, of as late a date as the 2d instant, and that the lever of the intelli gence is favourable. The closing quotation of the Bends was 87, and the a per cents left of at 56. There is Rome .degree of heaviness in the Republican bonds, the Colombian closing at 3O to 31; Chilien at 39 to 40, and Mexican at 35 to 36; Reruvian bonds are 26 to 29. In the northern bonds there is nothing doing worthy of report. Commercial letters were received this Morning from Con •-stantinepte:to the 20th of Poign!;t.. Strong northerly winds had prevailed there for a long trtnei.--The Delo*, from tiVerpnoti was on shore at Barbero.l'oint; but with the assistance of three or four other vessels, and a prontise of Captain Martin of the Volege frigate, she was expected to be got off uithout injury, being on a sand bank. By advises from Para,we learn that the unw authorities there bad been installed on the 26th of June without :thy opposition, and all was quiet in that place, but commeice remained in a very stagnant state. 4lvEnpoor, POLICE. • TuEsnay.—(Before Sir JOHN A male an female of decent appearance, and both posses - ing tolerably handsome persons, were placed at the bar, charged by the officers of the nightly watch with having op the preceding night, created a diSturbance in the streets, and thereby obstlitete7l the thbfotighfare, &e. &c. It appeared in the course-of the evidence, that the prisoners had been married to each other just. one week, and that they had already (vet on the very threshold of the honeymoon) made .a public exhibition of toeir great affection for each other by having a fight in the public street. They had both, it seems , heeu slightly intoxicated at the time. They did-not offer one word in extenuation of their disgraceful Conduct, but stood sheepishly regarding the court, as if heartily ashamed of the situation into which their ton free indulgence in liquor had brought them. The magistrate ordered that they should find bail for their future good behaviour. • Elizabeth Magee, Barthohunew Flynn, and Anii Flynn, were brought before the magistrate, in custody of watchman No. 51, having been given into his charge, on the preeeding night, by Bernard Magee. 'The latter stated, that (be first-named prisoner was his wife, and 'that. the other two were his step-children, whom he had maintained ever since they were two.' three years old. Against Ann Flynn he said lie had nothing to say, but the conduct of his step-son, he said, was so exceedingly violent that he was in continual fear of his lite. On the preceding night, he said flat the latter, in conjunction with his wife, had threatened to murder him, and from the violent assault which they had commenced upon him, he believes they would have put their threat in execution, had not the watchman opportunely arrived and rescued him. Watchman No. 34, said, that as he was pegging along Vernon -street, on his rounds, he had heard horrible screams proceeding from the house of the complainant, and upon going to see what was the matter, he found the pri soner, Bartholomew Flynn, stauding above Magee, whom he had thrown on the ground, and whose throat he grasped firmly with one band, while with the other he wes beating him, in which operation he was assisted by his mother. The magistrate ordered that Flynn should find hail to keep the peace. From. Mrs. Magee a promise was exacted, that she should for the foture behave better 'to her husband, and after a reprimand she and her daughter were discharged. Two individuals, who were at first stated to be man and wife, but who afterwards turned out to h ave assumed merely the titles of that respectable relation, were placed at the bar (Attie police court, on Tuesday, charged by the keeper of a lodg.ing-house with having robbed him. Complainant stated that the prisoner had taken a room in his house on the 13th of August last, iu which he and the female prisoner had lived together until a_few days ago, he the complainant) believing that they 'were a .married pair. his he had however aseertained was not the fact. Having imbibed some suspicions, 'h' went into the room and examined the bed, when he discovered several articles of covering had been removed therefrom, upon which he immedi ately sent for a police officer, and had the' prishilere* taken tot Bridewell. .An assistant to Mr. Mosses, pawnbroker, proved that the articles had been pledged with him by the fe ma l e pri soner f or six shillings and sixpence. The prisoners did not say anything in their defence, and were committed for trial et the. Borough Sessiene. • . An individual, named John Stevenson, who stated that he • kept ad eating-house, appeared before the magistrates on Tues. .day, to substantiate a complaint against a well-dressed lad, whom tie charged with having assaulted him and damaged.his property. The cJinplainant stated, that at about five o'clock on the ore- . Ceding day he bad been called into the house, where he found the prisoner throwing the table utensils about the room, pulling off. the table-cloths, overturning the chairs, and breaking, crockery, &c., in all directions. When he (complainant) had. remonstrated with him on the bnpropriety of his cond uc t, a n d requested payment of the damage, - the..prisoner threw a fork at him, assaulted him, and behaved more outrageously than ever. Having seized a knife he endeavoured to ru sh - at complainant with it, but the wife of the latter interposed, and endeavoured to deprive him of the weapon, in which effort her hand wa s severe ly cut .. An old man, named Williaikßry an , w h o s t ate d t h at h e was 7fi years of age, corroborated the above testimony, averring that t.l4e prisoner had not ,had respect even for him, old as he was, but had rushed at hirn and overturned him as be sat quietly on a *tool; and that iu fact, the conduct of the prisoner was more like that of a madman than a rational person. The pri sober, with the most unblushing effrontery, said that he was so drunk that he• did not know what he was doing; but that the esiMplainant had kept his hat for the damage, And he-did not know, wbat more he could require. Alderman Sir Thomas Brancker said that such conduct in one of his years was most disgraceful. As for his -plea of drunkenness, it ens a great aggravation of his offence. The complainant stated that the damage done by the prisoner amounted to 18s. Sir John Tobin, the presiding magistrate, fined the prisoner Vs. and costs, and ordered him to pay the amount of daintigettione to the complainant's property; the whole sum amounted to £3 10 F . In default of payment, the prisoner was to be committed to the I House of Correction for three months. WxoNmsnar.—(Before,Sir Joins Toni,r.) Si.3I3;IONS FOR WAGRS.—A boy 'mimed Richard Thornhill appeared before Alderman Sir John Tobin; in ouppert of a sew. mons for wages, which be had caused to be issued against.a per son named Hewson, a master of a . vessel. The complainant stated that he had engaged with the defend an t a t Liverpool to re to Glasgow and back again, for which, it was verb Ally agreed, he.. sl?ould receive half a seaman's wages. Captain Hewson said that he was in the employ of Messrs. M'Cracken, Jamieson, and Co. merchants, of this town, by who:o he had been ordered to take a certain small vessel to Glasgow and back to Liv'erpool.. He had engaged the complainant to go with him, agreeing to board him during the period that he should r emain with him, and to give him one pound for the whole run. He had advanced the complainant ten shillings whew in Liverpool, and ten sbillings in Glasgow, at which latter 'place he had paid hiiu board-wages.. The run occupied twenty-one days, and he (the captain) conceived that Ire -had fulfilled his agreement. The boy acknoiledged that he had received one pound, and .said, in reply to a question from the magistrate, that he had not sigsed any agreement. Alderman ,Sir John 'Tobin was of upinion that the coniplainaut had been sufficieutly- remunerated,; he, there fore dismissed the case. flrKaTaanAY.—(Before HORSEA ea r !' A. GENT LEM AN LY Ass utT.—An athletic raddy - -lacedanetent Bhton, named Griffiths' Williams, exhibitit)g a pair of Taney coloured eyes, consequent upon diver, blows inflicted by Mr. Paddy M'Alister, the culprit standing in the dock,' appeared in the witness-box against the said Paddy. Mr. Griffith Williams, having bobbed his head reverentially to the bench, held up a switch of iron about an inch thick, and said. " Last night I was in mine ped, snorin' as pleasantly as possible, and thinking of nothing in the 'versal worlt bot my ,treams, when I was suddenly 'woke by a hammering on my head with this poker, and it was this gentleman (pointing to Paddy M'Alister) scot did it. The Maine.—Your face 'does not bear the appearance o gentlemanly treatment. Complainant.—True, your worship, I didn't think it was a gentleman at first. The Mavoe.—Did you think it was a lady? Complainant.—Not exactly; I thought, may be, it was the nightmare. (Laughter.) Stinttieworth.—Flow do you know it wasthe prisioner who struck you? Prisoner.—Becos my wife found the poker 'on the stairs. (Laughter.)' This evidence not being precisely conclusive against the prisoner; Mt. Griffith Williams's better half was called to sub stantiate the charge, and, being the more eloquent of the two in deelamatioo, stated the case more fully The facts is," said she, "these here: my husband was in bed, and I hears it tre mendous row in the bed-room; I runs up stairs. and, on my road s , meets with Mrs. l'Sl'Alister, the prisoner's wife, who's an Irishman as well as her husband, and says I, 'What''. the row ?' ' Nothing,' says she, only Pat says he'll have your husband's Welsh' life.' Will he ?' says 1; ' we'll see about that, an IriSh vagabone,' on which Mrs. hl'Alister says, ' Dont' be alarmed or at all flustrated, my dear, for he doesn't intend to kill you.' Well, your worship, on that I goes' into the bed room and finds Paddy there murdering my husband with all his might, with his fisseses; I run back again for assistance, and tumbles over the poker, which he had thrown away." Other witnesses displayed equal oratory in corroboration of Mrs. M'Alister's statement. The prisoner, in his defence, said it was only a bit of a' pleasant rowing, in which the *omen were concerned. The women, said be. all came into the room and asked me to fight Griffith, and, the drink being in, of coorse I did. He was ordered to find bail. THE MOUNTAIN AND THE Mute.—An flttOrDry /TOW to the magistrates for the postponement of a case of assault until this day, in consequence of a principal witness refusing to attend, The attorney stated' that the charge was one of a seri ous nature, and had been aggravated that morning by the de fendant' throwing a dead mouse into the plaintiff's shop.—The app,lication was granted. There were few cases before the magistr:ti-sto-day, and none pory,..ssit*lsluch ititete;t,' • . : - Y ;r- ~~ . a~-'7~~'L'.i'S-rte.:.-4~v ~'-G'"~r-'+' ~-~'C~%J."'~~' YORIt MUSICAL FESTIVAL. The tinkle of the festival has fairly set in. The streets are crowded, and every moment travelling carriages are dashiiig up to the principal hotels. At an early: hour this morning Nhinday},the, ,rxiembers of the corporation were snaking pre parations for prOceeding to BiShOpthorpe,to Present the address to the Duchess of Kent; at ten o'clock the procession set out, ' headed. by -rt band of music, the Lord Mayor, Sheriffs, and Common Criuncilinen, dressed in their robes of offlee. deputation proceeded by water, and on arriving at the palace was most graciously received, as was also the deputation With the address azreed upon at a meeting of the inhabitants a few days ago, The Lord Mayor then read an address from the in haoitants of -the city of York, expressive of their Profound respect and cordial affection towards their royal highnesses and to the•illustrious members of the royal fa m ily. It simnel-ad dress was read by the Recorder 'from the:corporation of Yo r k. To each the DuchesS of Kent a nd the Princess Victoria listened with very marked attention, and in her replies the duch ess ex pressed, on behalf of herse lf and the princess, their sincere gra tification at the reception they had experienced in their visit to , the city of York, LO AL NEWS: Scnoot. ron Tit? BListn.—Our reader s will perceive, by sin advertisement in this day's STANDARD, that a sermon will be preached on Sunday nest, at St. Mary's Chapel, by the Rev. R. Parkinson, Fellow of the Collegiate Church, Manchester, after which a collection will be made in aid of the funds of that most excellent charity the School for the Blind. It would be a work of supererogation to enlarge upon •the usefulness of this in s ti tu tion, or to enforce its claims upon the sympathy of those who are blessed with the power of judging from occular demon stration,- or of those who have witnessed the happiness. au con tentment which appears to reign among the inmates of the school while receiving useful instruction, which, to a' certain extent, may be said to supply the loss of sight. BAZAAR AT NEwroN-IN-THE-Wit,Lows,--We understand that a bazaar is to be held at Newton, on Thursday. the 22d of 'October nest. in aid of the funds required for the completion of , the new church: It is proposed to be held in the new Conserva tive Flail, which has been liberally lent for this purpose by the association. It is most respectably patronised by the Ladies, and appears to be exciting great interest in the neighbourhood; and from the facilities afforded by the railways in getting to and from the piece. We hear it is likely to be most nuinetously and respectably attended. iNsOLVENTDMESTORS ' CoURT.—NDETHEftNeocurr.—T . I3. Rowell, Esq., one of the commissioners of this court, will sit at Lancaster an Tuesday, Nov. &1 Preston, onTuestisy„ Nov. 10th;• and at Liverpool on Tuesday, Nov. 16th. THE PORTS OF WATERVDED AND WHITEHAVEN.--AD Order in ',muck Has been recently promulgated, ttectaring that these Yenpe:Nively, "are.titatni proper places for tlie irapotia ;ion isf goodS, from places within the .limits of the East tent, * Company's chart er .' , They are' not, however,' deemeal .!.fitano proper places" for the importation of tea until ai),r,, the 1,,t; ti July, TH BißmlNGuArti ruE.--Mr. Raymond, of the Liver 'Theatre, has, accepted an engagement at th e Th ea t r e R oya l , .Birntingtiani, which Vii;l to npeued ou Monday nett tinder the management of Mr. Armistead, of the Amphitheatre. Mr. Raymmid will sustain hiS old characters in the Irish Valet and the Ilieindbles. . U1:8 Cifuncti.—We arellappy to hear, that divine service is now perforated in. this chtirch, by the Rev. J. H. Staf ford, A.8., - incumbent minister, erv'ery Thursday evening-, com mencing at seven o'cloct. Several members of the. congrega tion solicited this arlititumal service from Mr. Stafford, who very promptly net their views in this respect. There has lately been x school attached to this church. The children of the congre gatiotrare also catechised every Sunday afternoon, agreeably to the 59th cation. It inay .now be declared, that the `religious insthiction of the poor and their children, within St. Paul's die trict, is reasonably provided tor—at least as far as circumstances will admit, under the immediate auspices of the minister, church wardens, and congregation of that church ;• and we sincerely. hope that the School connected with St. Paul's may meet with. that support from the public which it deserves. Mr. Stafford is also very attentive in vis►ting the sick of his congregation and district. We feel convinced, that if the laudable example set at this church be followed by every other church connected with oaf- established religion, the protestant religion, happily esta blished in this country, would become more generaity the re ligion of the people.-4'rom a correpondent. ORRAT PROTESTANT MEETING AT WORCESTER.-011 Mon day a meeting was held in the town of Worcester, the leading object of which was the formation of a protestant association for disseminating a knowledge of the great principles and practices of popery, tin(' promoting the great principles of protestantism as maintaine4 by the untied established 'church of England and . Ireland. Long before the hour appointed for opening the pro ceedings every avenue to the room was blocked up brpersons of the most respectable station 'in life, who were 'toitily endea vouring to procure either seats or admission. Richard Spooner, Ksq., as called to the chair, and, having opened the business of the day, was followed by the Rev. Mortimer O'Sullivan, who delivered a masterly and eloquent address explanatory of the degrading influence of popery on the human mind. Sir M. Blakiston moved a resolution, that a protestant associatiou be established in Worcester, which, together with &ape other ne cessary resolutions, were carried unanimously. THE EARL OF ABERDEEN.—Th is patriotic nobleman, accom plished scholar, and high-minded gentleman has addressed a letter to thessecretary of the members of the church of Scotland residing within the borough Of Liverpool, who signed...the peti tion to the House of Lords, which appeared in the STANDARD of the 4th instant, acquainting them that it has been presented by him to their lordships. The petitioners prayed that the amendment introduced,by the House of Lords into the bill for reforming the municipal corporations of England and:Wiles, limiting the church patronage in said boroughs to members of the church of England, might be preserved, because the want of a similar clause in the Scottish municipal corporation reform acts had occasioned. much annoyance and disquietude to the memorable church of their forefathers and of their affections, as well as great detriment in Scotland to the Cause of pure and Undefiled religion. • RESPITR.—John Tarblick, the condenined.crindh al convicted at the late assizes of an offence at Manchester, has been respited during his majesty's pleasure. It i s ex p ec t e d t hat t h e cu l pr i t, with OK other two respited, will be transported for life. IMPORTATION OP NEGRO CONVICTS.—The Corsair arrived here yesterday from Barbados, having on board sixteen black convicts under sentence of transportation to New South Wales. The vessel was consigned to Messrs. T. and A. Murray, bat no particulars of the crimes perpetrated by the convicts have trans pired. It is supposed that they are plincipally condemned for robberies committed in the colony. GemegaHy convicts from the British settlements are taken direct to London in • order to be reshipped for the Australian colony. a • , CAUTION TO KEEPERS O F BEER-SHOPS.—QuveraA proprietors of beer-shops were on Tuesday summoned before the magistrates charged, on information from the officers of police, With having had disorderly company in their houses at improper hours, with having refused to admit the constables when required, &c. They were each lined in the penalty of £2 and costs. PocKEt-elexiNG.—Ou Tuesday a boy about nine years of age, named John Carney, was placed at the bar of the police court. having been brougnt up in custody of ThOmas Dunn, the watchman for Roe-street. Dunn stated - that he was passinglhe gate of the market on the preceding night, when he saw the prisoner following a gentleman, whose handkerchief he shortly after extracted from kris pocket. lie (Dunn) immediately seized the young thief ant conveyed him to I3ridewell. The gentle man from whom the handkerchief bad been imrloinett (Mr. Sudlow) appeared in court and identified his property. A.ider man Sir John Tobin committed the prisoner to take his trial at the borough sessions. AN IstPunaNT TlijCP.—An ill-looking fellow named John 111"Gowan teas on Tuesday brought up in custody of police officer Spurr, into whose charge he had been given by a decent looking . young female, who charged hi m w i t h h av i ng sto l en a breast-pin from her. Complitinant stated that she was standing quietly in the street, when the prisoner deliberately walked up to her, and, taking hold of her hand, he very coolly took the pin out of her shawl, and walked off with it. She followed, and begged of him to return it ; but the prisoner, instead of comply ing with her vary reasonable request, poured upon her a torrent 01 abusive language. The prisoner declined saytng anything in his defence. The complainant declared th a t s h e did Rot wish to prosecute now that the trinket was restored to her by the constable; and the magistrates, remarking the trifling value of the article, gave the prisoner a severe rept round, and discharged him. T.I.Y PAWKING.—A female, who makes hrr living as a sempstress, was on Tuesday placed before A.lderman Sir John 'robin, charged with having pawned certain shirts, value which had been given to her to make. The prisoner said that she had, received an order fore pair of stays, and had merely pledged the materials for the shirts to enable her to purchase those for the stays, but when; she had finished the latter, they had been returned upon her hands. A witness who was in the cotrrt proved the correctness of this statement. The complain ant said that she merely wished to have the shirts returned to her,•and she would, be amply satisfied. Sir John Tobin said that under the circuinsta Lees he should be loath t,, ronamit the prisoner. He would remand her till the following day, and in the meantime he hoped she would be able to make arrange ments for the release of the articles. . A RE'FRACTORY CairrEa.--Alderman Case appeared at the police-court on Tuesday as complainant against a carter for misconduct. Alderman Case stated that he was riding along Pembroke-place, when he saw the defendant at a distance of about ten yards :u advance of his horses, the.latter and the cast being in such a position that a coach which overtook them had the greatest difficulty in passing. .Islse(Aldertnan Case) went to tba carter, and told him that- he ought to tia„,at his horses' neede, and that there was not room for other vehicles to pass. •The defendant, instead of at once returning to'his duty, became ill-tempered on the subject, upon which he (Alderman case) told hint - that he should on his.view convit•Vbiin its the penalty • o f los. The complainant was summoned to chow'cause, if he could; why he should not be sO convicted. 1114 carter acknow ledged his error, and requested Alderman Cas'e to forgive_ him. The worthy alderman expressed hit willingness to comply with this request if he had the power, but the matter teas not now in his hands. Mr. Shuttleworth remarked that the conviction had already taken place. Alderman Sir John Tobin miti‘ated the penalty from /Os. to ss. without costs; • CRURCII-EATE.--AYLESEUR 1, SEPT. 7.—On Friday last the churchwardens of St. Mary's, Aylesbury, in vestry, proposed a church rate of sixpence in the pound, of which upwards of tour pence in the pound was to be devoted to the payment of a debt due far the repairs of the church, and the o th er tw o penc e in th e pound for the necessary service of the church. This the dis senters opposed, and proposed a rate of only fourpence (advised, it is said, by Wilks, M.P. fur Boston.) The show of hands (the great ttnquitlitiell) being pronounced in favour of the fourpence rate, a poll was demanded, and, on this motion, the votes on Friday evening were, for the fourpence in the pound, 57; far the church rate of sixpence in the pound, 52. The.poll then adjourned till ten. o'clock on Monday. On this day the true friends of the church were not wanting, and came it. such nun" - hers to the poll that the dissenters, finding how much they weNt going to leeward, silently allowed th e p o ll t o c o nclude as fol lows, at four o'clock on Monday after noon : —Church, (6:1. rate.) 155,—Dissent. (4d. rate,) 81,—Majority fore the Chdrch, 74: 1 need not add that the respectable portion of the town is highly delighted, and that you may henceforward include Aylesbuty amongst those towns of England which may rant amongst the supporters of the church and the throne. EFFECTS OP THE DROUGHT.—The navigation of the Upper Scheldt is wholly interrupted in consequence of the continued drought: More than 41X) boats laden with chalk are stopped be tween Touruay and Ghent. There have lately been found se veral very curious objects in the bed of the Dendre, the water of which was drawn off. On a great extent of the bed of the river near Grauimont there have been taken out of the water, at the depth of several feet,/e4onsiderable quantity of bones, cows' horns,.s'oute Roman coins, several rare articles of gold, silver, topper, andiron . The sale of the bones alone produced I,Boof, iirussels paper, 8 I "E, • THE O'CONNELL Ts terra.—The amount tit this tax tel. lasi Year was £13:154, a 4 testified by the signature of Petri,* Vineent Fitzpatrick, secretary : a moderate purchase. for.itnith stock-indriate, of patriotism. , The details are given With tippto rant acceritli and we are enabled frem ttiern tis 6)40! 01)6 the paymasters of Mr. O'Connell are, and consequently Whuse es, pedal service tie is•engaged The itenis. teceipt ate giveti alphabetieatly, We have been at the trouble of analytitig the two first letters', A.. 8., and , we tied to one hunt/red items t;if hon. tributors, there are ninety-six Homan cathe:ic, prieetti,`•twii Boman catholic' bishops, and one Roman catholic named as the collectors or tax-gutherers. Had we leitinte ti. go through the alphabet in-the same manner, we: care' certaln result would be similar. So that there can beno doubt that Mr, Daniel O'Connell is the paid agent of the Roman catholic priesthood of Ireland. A REMEDY FOl't GRIEP.—T6 Marshal de Moncliy maintain. ed that the flesh of pigeons possessed.e consuling virtue. When ever this nobleman lost a friend or relation, he said to his Cook, "Let me have roast pigeons for dinner to day.. I have tilwti % s remarked," he added " that after having 'eaten two pigeons I ruse from the table much le. sorro w f u l, • . , It is not so much the being exempt from faulta; as the'haviag overcome them, that is an advantage to us: it being with the follies of the Mind as with the weeds of a field, which, if destroy ed and , consunied upon the place where they grow, enriCh and improve iit snore than if none had ever sprung SPECIMEN OP THE "MIXED STYI.E."—In the church-yard of Deskford, near Cohen, in Banffshire, is the following epitaph : -- " Hic jacee Johannes Audersoo, Aberdoniensis, • Who built this_churehlard dyke at his own expenses." . ANECDOTE OF LORD EXiiOUTH'S EA DARING.— Active beyond his companions, Mr. Pellew did 'the ship's duty with a smartness which unne.iif them could equal; and as every one takes pleasure where he excels, Ile had soon become a thorough seaman.. At the same time, the buoyancy of youth, and a nit.; tilrally playftil diNposition, him continually into teats of more than common daring. .In the spring of 1775, General Burgoyne took his passage to America in the Blonde, and when he came alongside, the yards were manned to receive him.. Looking up, he was surprised to see a inhishipman on the yard arm standing on his head., Captain Pownoll, i tsho was at hi s side, soon quieted his apprehenSions,,by assuring hint that it was only one of the usuat frolics of young Pellets, and that the general' might make himself quite at ease fdr hii Safety, for that if he should fall, he would only go under the ship's bottom and romp hp on the other side.• sWhat on this occasion was prohably spoken but in jest, was. afterwards'. more than real ized; for he actually sprang from the fore-yard of the Blonde, while she was going fast through the water, and saved a man who had fallen Overboard. Captain Pownoll,reproached hini for his rashness, but he shed tears when he spike of it to the of ficers, and declared that ViAlew was a noble fellow. —Fr om Ost ler's Life of Lotd Elinduth. DEATH pp Ma. TIENRY.--Died at his holm, - 11, Great Or mon :-.street, on lit of Septdmber instant, Mr. Henry, who fil tett with great reputation Several important judicials, situations io our colonies. Mr. Henry experienced the first shock of a par nitsis on the 28th of February last, and•slness that: tittle was a itofyCottOned to bed. He was known. to a very extensive cir de 'Of friend's, and vest raMerallV beloved a. 4 Anatpright bon , curable man, of tha kindest and most humane dispoaition. He • was the tivst English President of Demerara,..lnl€43, and was the (irk Supreme Judge of the lonian Islands after, thei r occu pation by,the English, and framed the prneesiiire . for their.new. constitution. Ile revised the Roman judicial Preeedure tin hie journey homewards . at the desire of Cardinal Otinsalvii; in 1819: He was next one of the counsel to Queen Caroline, and froyni his great knowledge of the Italian fungnage, character, and customs, sent as a corninissionerto Italy on behalf of her - jesty, by appointment of Lord Castlereagh. Having, from his quickness and tact ' always given grea t sat i s f ac ti on i n all em ployments which he filled, he was afterwards sent, in It •t. its senior of the commissions forlegal inquiry in the'West He was the author of many wanks on legal subjects, and, even a few days before t he stroke which caused his death, had puldiebett a pamphlet which went through three editions. Ile has left widow and several children. The sons iliac mostly grown ut‘i and having been carefully educated are all, we believe, tilling ans . plovments with credit. At r. Henry has not left behind jiim a single enemy; he was incapable of being nujuai to any haiku being. THE SPANINit MERCE:VATIIES.—The agetitg of the ePanislii Government still continue to raise recruits in Glasgow, Edin burgh, Paisly, and surrounding towns, anti parties of them core. ; time to arrive here daily, and are immediately traushipped on ; board the brig Crown, moored at the Tail of the Bank, to await being dispatched to Spain by steamers. Every exertion is used tit induce young men to enter the service, and Ihey receive every encouragement from the cfficeris of the Commissariat depart - - ment. Whenever a recruit goes on board the Crown, he is ta ken on the quarterdeck, and receives a glass of whisky, and im mediately after a pound loaf 9nd half a pound of biscuit, with a large cut of the best beef or mutton, as much soup 0,1 he can use, and a jug. - of porter. Such is the daily allotsantT of each man, Which (speaking from the enternal appearance of Many of them) must be a material improvement upon their precious fare. However,as many of them enlist in the course of drunken frolics, or after quarrels Frith their friends or masters, they take frequent opportunities of deserting; and notwithstanding the attention of the officers on board, and the crew of the guard-boat, there id scarcely a day but some of them effect their escape by the boats that go out to visit the ship in the evenings. On Tuesday night; a Glasgow lad, who could not. succeed in getting away by an y of the boats, resolved on dropping into the sea and swimmin g ashore. Some female friends, with whom arrangements had been made, were waiting for him on the beach, and having giv-, en the necessary signals, he d rept overboard unperceived, acct had nearly reached the land when his escape was discovered. The guard-boat set out after him immediately ; but ere it was more than a mile front the ship, the Ind had landed among the rocks near the Powder-house, and was supplied with clothes by his friends ; and, thOugh mot ti exhausted, after swimming two miles, he ran along the r o ad t o w ar d s t hit Bay of Quick. When the guard-boat landed, the women laid hold of the crew. and detained them, so that the lad had stifficii.qittime to be nut of their sight. Ile concealed himself in scene Of the houses in the Bay of Quick, and effectually escaped. Scenes of this kind wen , frequent in this neighbourhood . during time of-impressment ; hut to the Younger portion of the inhabitants they fortunately -have ali the zest of novelty.-3reenuck Advertiser. The writ for Dungarynn hhs been mnvel f6r, Mn D'i,nea; len may, therefore; be considered--that-re *tomtit! to write the sentence—Attornev-General for Ireland. The Bight Honourable - Michael O'Logiilen his Majesty's Attorney-Gene• ral ! &ening Mail. Tux BUMS AT .Dovnn.—A curious scene °centred at Dover on Monday-last, where certain affectionate friends of I.apdrte'fs were anxiously waiting, not to take leave of , him. but to take care of him. However, the wily Frenchman got reent, Owl the bounds of. Chancery-lithe ware all at fault; and, remainine too long on board the packet, two of them were-actindly broughp Boulogne against their will. Ttra MincHANT SRA - 11EN'S ACT.---On,e,Feetinn in the Treir. , chant seatneii's act gives power to decidesinninerily in cases of coininoii assaults committed at ten , pfd inflict penallie# lSiii ex ceeding £5 in each case. The fine is to be paid over to the: Merchant Seamen's Hospital, if the ship is in the port td LOn don. 'Another section gives any magistrate power to order the restoration of seamen's clothes, hammocks, eheel,. tools, detained by any publican or lodging-house keeper rot a pre, tended debt. The Thames police magistrates enforced this pro., vision last week, by ordering a ".crimp" or sailors' loiliting hotise keeper to restore the clothes and bedding of two sailora which he had detained, after extorting £l4 12s, Of thew foe seven days' hoard and lodging. • THE BISHOP OP LONDON IN IIOI,I.AND.—On Sllndali 11PIti the Lord - Bishopof London, whose arrival has been au aeunced, will preach a sermon in the episcopal chard; of Rotterdam, and on the following day confirm the new meinbera of that church. . 1 • _, Mr. - Justice Perri n ' s p a t en t was settled on Wtsities'ar• J ' h e expenses of the stamping was L'2oo.—Dulrlin Paper. Sir.Cbarlee Wetherell, Temporal Chadeellor of the eounty Palatine of Durham, arrived at the Castle, in this city, on Wed nesday last, about noon, and was greeted with s everal p ea l s . from the bells of the cathedral. At the Chancery sittings„ yes terday, where Sir Cherie/ presided for the first tune, the court: was excessively—and certainly ver7 unusually—crowdvf. , The causes disposed of were altogetberjleveid of public in ( ereii,and. it is, therefore, evident that Sir Charles was the grand object of attraction. We are happy to add, that, although All partiea seemed anxious to give the learned knight a hearty weleorne„ there was no disposition, as at Bristol, to celebratejvie viiit making bonfires of the bishop's palace and the htiuses of the principal inhabitants.-e Durham Adrertiset. St.Avs: TaAnu.—Extract of a letter fresh the agent for Lloyd's, dated Fernando Po, Clarence, June '22, 1835 :—" The Forrester, Lieutenant Mauls, has just arrived. She has cap tured a schooner with IE4 - cloves, Lieutenant .Mauls reports that he hoarded a polacco brig, with e ight guns and forty-nine men, about forty mike front Fernando Po, and strongly su s. pected to be going to. Old Calabar--for slaving, of course:" THE DUCHESS or KENT AND. THE PRINCESS VICTORIA.— These illustrious personages will he pfesent at the l'ork miseical festival, and will be the guests of the Archbishop of York. The sleeping apartments of the Duchess of Keat and the Princess Victoria at Bishopthorpe, in Yorkshire, are fit6(llip moat mag nificently., , The state beds are particulaily elegant. That for the Priocess- Victoria is white velvet,' and the one fir the Duchess-of Kent of blue .velvet. The pilletve and holsters are of the. finest materials, and f r i n g e d with'Valeucieuites lace, With everything to correspond. • ' KALlscit, ACG. 22.—The etnperer, who arrived here' rm ti's 19th, reviewet on the 20th the Curds and -Cossacks.. Don Cos sacks, Georgians, and Circassiaus. 'These' troops, about cavalry, performed many evolutions - add sham- fights,. , whir It presented the most picturesque military, speetacle that.Europo has seen - since the middle ages. Coneeire• the say-coloured costume at 800 Curd horsemen, mingled win,' the richly stressed Cossacks and Georgians, and among -them ;the shibing r helmets and coals of m; it of 50 Citcasitau'prtnnes, with,e.con, stela firing of muskets and pistols, atia dra.i•hed "Allah" and " Hurrah," end yeu wi'l have a•faint ielee t 1 1 ,) scene. The image of war was complete. iii the roome*t Ohert the' Curds, in two parties of 4(X) each..ritieled each other, and so seriensle contended for the stetiderd taken at Frzetoun y that 20 generals and aides-de-01h p, id Vain sndenveutcd to separate them, and et leng!h" their .ItioneVeh him s elf, th e i r i padiihah, was obliged to ride n among theni, end to pacify and separate the cooloa 41 • litj vitro already bed several woritobei. These inhabitants of the frontiers el the eaipire row 1 4 1144 their sovereign for the first time, who called out and terrmanded several khans and princes. The most indifferent spectator ca a never forget the enthusiasm that sparkled in their eyes when !he emperor, accompanied by only two hide s .d e „ bum , rut himself at their head; nud Fed several attacks. - Yesteroav there was a grand-parade of the whole warps of Geneu'd eel., and of the cavalry of the guard. 'I lie euiperer, in v, hosa brilliant and numerous suite were the Duke of Nassau and Prince Frederick of the Netherlands, havin g sidd,t, alone; lb, five lines, amidst the continued acclamation's of the troops, lie cave orders to present arms, and then mitring to the prim..., their victorious commander, embraced hifn in the front of the army, which loudly eheered him. The troops then defiled before the emperor in the most beautiful order. Mr, majesty remained on the g)nnio from eight to ono o'clock.. Among the diAitvgtlisbed persilis present were (lever& Peron Krluz, C, , unt Witt, and tie otoperor' N plivsieian, Peron Wylie. .Pritice Frederic left us this eVenio;e. Ills Majesty will stop about eight days.--=ficiinhur g h paper. • - . . META rt-IY:.•ICS.-A Scotch blacksmith give the fpl!nairg df' finition ortnetaphps.irs.:—•.T w a fault dist:ntin thhirtth'er : that's listenin diana ken chat he that's Teykivi treaue : and I , e thrit's speakin disna ken what he mists hithia—that's meta. physics. IMPORTAN T TO MAI:INFRA.—The folloWing eommunicriG,tn is from Mr. John El. Robertson, late commander of the barques Minerva, of Alloa :—' When bound from Sydney to Manilla. on the 10th September`. 1t3;3 , 1, at two o'clock a.m., the vretel on a coral rock (not laid down lo any of the English hearing from point St. Jago, island of - Laconia, one' the E.S.E.4E-, four or five miles distant. Within half a mile of the rock there are 17 fathoms": Point St. Jago': lies in about 13 deg. 41 min. north latitude, h 0 deg. 21 minutes: cast longitude. Some )ears ago an American ship was torily wrecked upon the wan reckp,