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JU LA 7, 1•;35. • ...M..* ••••••• la.e:•1•0.11. ;„ ,~,+aN+»~.rrMi`?~*~~xu"-~'rw«.tawic~nro. ~~~ liberty, and in the indulgence of vicious habits, he will perish by - his own hands, nut a snicide, but the v . ictitu of British folly. The subjoined extracts will, we feat, be read with painful interest : . (From the Lc iniptan Chronicle, 25th May.) The mail which was forwarded by the steamer yesterday will convey to Great Britain the memorial and the evidence of the Jamaica planters relative to the inefficient operation of the new system. It will assure those who have been deceived, that the proprietors here are a plundered and persecuted body—that they have been robbed of the fruits of their own industry, and denied the right of stimulating labour—that they are burdened with an expensive police, and taxed with a supine and vicious popula tion, who lumber the land they refuse to till;—and that far trout improvement, order, and Morality springing from the po pular boon; idleness, disorder, and licentiousness have been the manifest result. The capitalists of the island are the victims of a witherin g cliOiganization ;--they are robbed, insulted, and oppressed. Crimes of the most atrocious .- character have, since the : latof August, been perpetrated by negroes, who have inva riably escap e with impunity,* and it would appear, that the police instituted has instructions to hunt out white and protect &lack nffenders ! Without a thorough reformation of this cor rupt aud.demoralizing system, nothing can be done to develope the. resources . of the laud, rich in uncultivated treasures, and which, with ty7 proper attention, might become a blessing to the cou at large, and now only requiring the hand of the willing agricu turist to bring them forth. We must have a just polity established amongst us, calculated to restrain the savage and unbridled license of the negro population—to teach them due obedience to the law, and convince them that guilt cannot es cape with impunity. The inhabitants of this fine colony require only fair play and justice to make them the most industrious, l'eaoeable, and thriving petiole in the British dominions , but whilst they con ti nue t o be thwarted the perverse and preju diced, faction, whose plottium and interference excite misery and confusion wherever.tltey, prevail, this unfortunate colony, like unhappy Ireland, w ill he the prey of demagogues, and the victim of servile war and official spoliation. ( From the Jamaica Herald 19th May.) We again allude to the Observili* Lord Abet leen, that `the sy s te m wor k s we ll i n t h e co l on i , and that there will be an av e r age cro p o f sugar. ' Lord AberTein is much mistaken— he is misinformed. We asserted lately, that his Excellency Lord .Sligo.is. anxious for favourable reports from stipendiaries. We did not mean that he is improperly anxious, ol that he re quired false reports; he is very naturally and vely laudably anxious fur good accounts—and he would be highly culpable were he not so. His anxiety stimulates the special magistrates, end they stimulate the negioes; as for the poor _planters, the , tewil W drives the m —th e y want no further stimulus. e trust that in our ne:tt session of the bon, house some member will move for a return of ingar estates - thrOwn up within the last one, two, and three yea r s— an d a l so f or a return of all levies under writs of the collecting constables during the same period. Facts are the stuff to teas - on on—and when Lord Sligo and Lord Aber deen see a statement of these facts, they will be able to com pare n o t es correc tl y, an d t h e y ma y use with propriety the words eit - the great cardinal ' Well, we shall then know more; and Buckin g ha m s h a ll l esse n his big look.' The negroes are eman- Ciliated, and we have sixty-one stipendiary magistrates, and a pretty considerable police force to set them an example of in ditstry. These are nice dears; it was intended that they should cultivate the earth: but they only eat of the fruits thereof, and drink thereof, and crawl about the surface thereof in a most inglorious fashion. An average crop of sugar!—an extra crop of pol ice — an d s i xty - one st i pen di ar i es to do that duty for which the local magistrates are as unfitted by the times as Lord 11u1- grave himself ! For our own part, we say that there never was political measure conceived or executed in such profound ignorance, and with so utter a disregard to reason, justice, add experience,.as_ this measure of changing the title of the black peasantry from slaves to apprentices It is in vain to say the people of E ng l an d did i t. Th e peop l e o f E ng l an d were spirited up by preachers, impostors, knaves, needy sycophants, and ignorant fanatics, to perpetrate, under the name of humanity, the gross e st ac t o f ruffian dishonesty ever perpetrated by man. The people of England were the criminals in the first instance --they established s l avery — t h ey f attene d on the fruits of it— and they abolished it at the expense of their own victims—but they would'not have suffered to he done this last injustice, if fanaticism had not blinded their reason and hardened their .bearts. Ti.at the abolition should take place we admit—slavery never should have existed; but the criminal should pay the for feit of the l aw . Th e victims should have been indemnified." • ( From the Jamaica Despatch of the 25th May.) We are enabled fur once to show that the Marquis of Sligo appears to be in earnest with regard to the mod e of obtainin g information respecting the working of the new system. Had fiis lordship commenced in this straightforward, honest course, every man in the island would have voluntarily furnished his excellency with every information; but as the sole object of hi s inquiries did not appear to extend beyond the present crop; which was by no means a fair mole of arriving at the truth, every reluctance was exhibited to gratify the governor with ; 14 good accounts," for the purpose of bolstering up the whig ls:governmont of the colonies. The following questions were submitted by one of the sti pendiaries of St. George to a proprietor of that parish, and we ”r no doubt they will be answered in a spirit of fairness. he eleventh question will elecit the truth, viz. that the prepa -rations for next year's crop are not as forward as usual at the same period of the year—but farther, that in some cases no pre paranoias whatever have been made, and that in consequence 'much cane land must be thrown out of cultivation : QI.:ESTMISS PROPOSED nv THE STIPENDIARY MAGI3TRATE ' ST. GEOLIBE, BY OIIDKII OF HIS EXCELLENCY THE GO- V.ERNoR. (Circular.) 1. now much simar did von make from Ist August, 1833, 'to Ist April, 1834? 2. How much did . you make fioin it August, 1831, to Ist April, 1835 ? 3. How munch did you make from Ist April to Ist August, 4. How much do you expect to make from I st April to I st August, 18 . 35? 5. How dO you 'aCeniint . fUr the differece• if any? Do pour peOple wink on the eight or nine • hours a day 4ystem? • If .sO, hwv many hours? . J. 'flo,you. pay them in money, time, or allowailee? 10.' At *hat rate do you pay them ? 11. Are the preparations for next year's crop as fOrtcar d a usual at this period of the year? • • Belle Vue, April 23, 1836. - - (From the Jamaica Derpateh, 18th May.) A case Of unparalleled oppression on the part of Mr. special magistrate BoUrne, took'place on the 14th instant. A Noting maw of respectability, who is a book-keeper on Clifton Mount Plintition, in St. Andrew's, had some misunderstanding with one of the apprentices on that property; words ensued, and blows followed. The apprentice applied to Mr. Bourne, who issued his warrant against the young gentleman, with orders to hare him committed to the house of correction. On the warrant (of which the following is a copy) being served, substantial hail was offered for the young man's appearance at the quarter "'ions, but refused by orderof Mr. Bourne, who would not be satisfied unleSs he had the satisfaction of sending a man of far greater respectability than himself like a common vagrant to the house of correction. About 12 o'clock at night, the serge ant of police, in pursuance of bis orders, took his prisoner to the residence of the stipendiary, who began to think seriously of the situation in which he had involved himself; and in conse quence offered to take the bail of two of his own black servants, provided the party in custody would ask them to become his taindsinen. The prisoner declined to ask any favours from Mr. Bourne's black menials, observint the same time— " Good b a il was offered to you, and Novti refused it; 1 am now read, to o b ey t h e warrant issued i n t he name o f hi s ma j es ty." He was.accordingly committed to the house of. correctiou at _a Ifway-tiee ; and as a refinement on special justice, the kee per was restrained froM taking bail for two days after his trrunittal. !s.r. Bourne If this is not tyranny, we know not what is; and in J ain • will find to his cost that there are other tribunals aicis to appeal to, without being under the necessity of submitting quietly to the injustice of wickedly-disposed spe cial magistrates. The conduct of Mr. Bourne is so inconsistent, and so much at variance with common sense, that in common charity we are willing to make some allowance for conduct et+hch must be the effect of Madam Luna's influence, or some other approximating cause. But while he remains in a respon sible situation, he must he held accountable for his actions • and it is hoped the voting uentlei n a n s o infamously treated will redress at the Vends of a jury of his countrymen : JAMAICA, ss, Stephen • Bourne, Esq., one of the justices of our lord the King, assigned to keep the peace within the said island, and holding special commission in order to cony into effect the laws for the abolition of slavery; to the serjeant of police and his assistants; to my constable, Prince Walls, all in the parish of St. Andrew's, in the said island; and to the keeper of the house of correction at Halfway Tree, in the parish of St. An drew's, in the island of Jamaica. These are. to. command you, the said sedeant of police and the said constable, forthwith to convey and deliver into the custody of this said: keeper of the said house of correction the hotly of Daniel M!Leen, charged upon the oath of William Hamilton, Of eliftnn Mount, in the said parish of St. Andrew's, with linv irllasSaulted hint in a cruel and violent manner on the night of Wednesday, the 3d instant; and You, the said keeper, are hereby required to receive the said Daniel M`Lean into your • ~ u stria, in the said house of correction, and him there safely keep . until, he shall be thein'e delivered by due course of law, litirein . fail voiii bat. • (liven rinsieriny ban' rind seal the 14th Ilasi of Mtry*."in.the fifth Near of the reign of his said Majesty. William the Fourth. (Signed) STEPHEN BOURNE (Seal.) ' 'case the prisoner should offer von good and suf ficient h a il f or his appearance at th e Crown (Ace on Saturday, the 16th instant, y o u are hereby authoriz e d t o receive the s a m e, and t o di sc h arge the prisoner. The Montreal Herald of the 12th of June contains an able article on the conduct, the pretensions, -and the venality of a person called JOHN ARTHUR ROEBUCK, It is by far too long for our present number, but we shall endeavour to indulge the reader with a perusal of it on Friday. The champions of liberty and hereditary rights have sailed from the Isle of Dogs; in other words, seven hundred ragged and unprincipled mercenaries have em bkrked foe the shores of Spain, there to vindicate the claims of ISABELLA, daughter of FERDINAND,' the be loved !" ItiS a singular coincidence that the whi g s of tngland Should take so deep an interest in the reputed daughter of a man whom they ridiculed, libelled, and held up to detestation while he lived. He who, while be was in duress, embroidered flowers for a petticoat dedica ted to the Virgin MARY, was the peculiar object of their a noers and their' invectives. He was considered by the. whigs as a bigotted idiot, unworthy to govern in any ci vilized country. The mean and moneploving tyrant who held FERDINAND in bondage, and for some time de prived hi m o f . hi s crown , was th e object of their un h.nunded admiration. BONAPARTE was the ido l of all the infidel s , levellers, and other scoundrels of thi s coun try. How often have we heard a violent jacnbin, who admired th e pr i nc i ples pro f esse d by F o x, and embodied in the whig toasts of the dav, pray that the British army •F • o r the t ru th o f t hi s statement we Flues l to the escape of incendiaries and mur d erers. ( t hi eves we put cut of the question.) man who sttangled his overseer for a mere reprimand, Vieth to negli gence, has never b een b roug ht t o justice. •,- - in Spain and Portugal might be driven into the sea by the generals of BAPARTE! How often have vie heard them drink confusion to Sir ARTHUR WELLESIth and his invading horde! It is some consolation to reflect that many of the traitors and hoary liberals of that day now sleep in unknown graves. Fulfilling the words of Sir WALTER, theyi Doubly dying, have gave down . To the vile earth from whence they sprung, Unwept, unhonoured, and unsung — there to lie and rot and be forgotten. NAPOLEON perished—they have disappeared ; he died on a blasted rock ; they, or at least a large portion of them, in gaol or in a penal settlement. We admit there are a few sur vivors—a few miserable old fools, who write dotard pa- ragraphs in newspapers—poor pantaloons slavering over their gaping coffins- - disappointed hacks drawing cord bound and broken down jingles, running upon ungreasec axletrees and creaking wheels—there are a few such rem nants of the admirers of the French revolution who claim our pity ; but bad as the times are, public sentiment has undergone a change for the better. The old whig party has almost entirely sunk into oblivion. There cannot be more than thirty or forty persons in either house of parliament who acknowledge or profess the principles of .the whigs who made the Prince of WALES their victim, and who rested their popularity upon their affected re. verence for the constitution, and.their avowed regard for the principles recognised at the revolution of 1688. No, our modern whigs have thrown off all disguise. They aim at republicanism and popery. They are friendly to the one for the sake of popularity ; they advocate the other for the sake of place. In England they are re formers, in ScOtland they are renovators, in Ireland they are restorers. The country is therefore divided into two great parties—the conservatives and the destructives. The old principles of the. R.USSELLS, CAVENDISHES, GROV,ILLES„ PETTXS., FOXES, HOWARDS, WINDHAMS, and such names, are entirely abandoned ; and the sen timents which the - modern whigs now inculcate are di rected against the church and the monarchy itself with as much unrelenting and inveterate malignity as was evinced by the roundheads in the days o f CHARLES the FIRST. _ _ The old whigs were the open enemies of popery. — They were honest in their enmity to that debasing super stition ; because experience taught them that it nGt only was repulsive to national liberty, but that it made, for the sake of rapine, and imposition, for the sake of penances and fees, bribes against purgatory, and purchases of re deemable securities against hell and crime, the people subSerVient to the priest, and taught them to disregard the mandates of the civil magistrate. The old whigs did not love popularity so much as they hated popery. Per haps their popularity and their hatred were reluctantly derived from the same origin ; but this it would be illi beral and unreasonable to assume. All we know for cer tainty is that the whigs are now nearer republicanism than ever the tories, in their highest days, were near ab solutism. Popery is pure despotism, and the whigs pro fessing liberal opinions are wedded to popery. Popery in all countries is tyranny. It is so in the United States of America—it is so in Canada--it is so in Ireland, as in Por tugal, and Spain—and we may rest assured that whatever liberal form it assumes, it is assumed to advance its de vastating and demoralising influence, and reduce the mass of mankind to a hopeless and helpless state of slavery. But we have dwelt too long on this. The interfer , ence of the O'CONNELL and MELBOURNE administration in the affairs of Spain and in behalf of FERDINAND the furnishes a clue to the contemplated measures of Lord JOHN RUSSELL, and the degrading conditions im posed upon him by O'CONNELL, the representative and the slave of the priests of Ireland. It will take some time to unravel the mysteries of this unhallowed combi nation so as to make them intelligible to the people ge nerally. It would therefore be wrong to anticipate con viction by any discl \ osures which might be deemed unpa latable. All that we have to urge is that our readers' will b good enough to keep their eyes open to the march of events. Let them, if they please, consider the events which have or may occur in Spain as mere contentions, and political movements. It will be our business, by and Asy7-tersturvr-rhartfrry-fivs of -a-religions: siaaracter. - Ati this will be made apparent in the sequel. In the mean time let. us consilh4r the circumstances un der which this fraudulent and dishonourable war has com menced; and, judging by its dishonour and the baseness of its promoters, let us ponder gravely and deliberately upon the effects of its operation on the peace of Europe. First, then, England has de facto interfered by force of arms in the Spanish quarrel. The ministerial journals within the last few days have boasted that the Queen's troops in Bilboa had received essential succour from a nu,.iber of sailors and marines landed from one of his *Majesty's ships of war. It will not do to tell us that the government of England has only taken a permissive part in the war in favour of British subjects. Lord MEL BOURNE has confessed that money and arms have been supplied, end that the guarantee for . their repayment is the honour of the Spanish government. To disguise the •Inatter is both mean and dishonourable. If the King of . England be bound by treaty to support ISABELLA, let his Majesty be advised to do so openly, courageously, in the face of the world, and in the name and with the consent of his two houses of parliament. If not bound, then is the present interference not only unjust, it is an insult to the name, the pride, the fame, the honour, and people of England. On the other hand, France, too, has interfered. The Prefect of the Seine, at Paris, has issued his proclamation ;in favour of this mercenary war. The King . of BELGIUM has refused, for reasons which perhaps the King of Hot- LAND and the King of PRUSSIA could explain. But be this as it niay, we have England and France fairly com promised, and fully identified with the war in favour of ISABELLA. Now comes the question :—Are these the only powers who are to be suffered to interpose by means of their mercenary subjects ? Are we to believe that the sove reigns of Austria, Russia, Prussia, and Holland are 'totally uninterested in this contest ? May they not deem Don CARLOS the more legitimate claimant, and deeming so, may they not concern themselves in his favour ? It is true that, situated as Spain is, they are not likely to fit out an armament, guarded as the coasts are by Eng lish and Fiencli ships. But surely they will be permit ted to act upon the example set them by the governments of London and' Paris. The throne of Belgium is not founded upon the rock of ages. LEOPOLD yet wears a questionable crown. He is not vet recognized by Dutch King, whose territories have been wrested from him by usurpation and the force of French arms. It is quite possible, therefore, that the; northern potentates may reconsider this question, and do for the legitimate ,King of the Netherlands what England and France are 'doing for the unrecognized legitimate Queen of Spain. But, View the question which way we may, it is beset with difficulties so great, that it would not astonish us if they were to, lead to a European war. Spain is not a paltry country,hardly better than a province, as Portugal is. It is of mighty import who is King of Spain. It is of vast consideration to know whether Spain is to be revolutionized as• France has been, and a new democracy armed against the settled monarchies of Europe. Lo . rd DURHAM will, of course, be instructed to reconcile the Emperor NICHOLAS to the interference; hut we suspect t he amiable earl will arrive when it is too late. We have been favoured with the following extract of a letter received here yesterday, and brought by his Majes ty's ship Melville, which has arrived at Portsmouth from Bombay. The letter is dated Bombay, 17th March, 1835 : • "To-day several rupees advance on our highest quotations are demanded, or rather have hewn refused, and, we are led to believe that very high prices were paying, and bast accounts from the northward in consequence of the vex V great injury done to the crops by the frost. It is said whole fields have been , totally destroyed in one night, and if this turns out true our' prOspecis must charge very much, as the previous accounts from the Dbollera, Oita. and Altingro:c districts were such as to lead us to look for an etevilent crop from these quarters." The official returns of the revenue for the quarter and year ended on the 4th instant, have been published. They exhibit a decrease on the quarter of 4656,407, and on the year decrease of 41,758,886 , This is not THE .I.4IVF.RPOOL ST,A.NrAftp. .t:ery . flattering whole Some state - olthirig4. Hrid the decrease been confined to the taxes we should have been less surprised; but when we find a decrease in the Ex cise exceeding the increase in the Customs, .and when we observe 'a decrease in the stamps, with a very trifling increase in the Postafice, we cannot help suspecting that there is•something Seriously wrong in our pecuniary af fairs. But where is Lord AL-racer—we mean the late Lord ALTRORP ? Di he not promise us an immense increase from the tea duties, and a flourishing excess of revenue Over expenditure about this time of the year ? We wish the noble lord, if he be alive, would do us the favour to explain why all his golden dreams, and wise calculations, have not btn realized. Out of a revenue tumbling down at this rate how is Mt. SPRING RICE to manage to make the two ends of the year meet, and fulfil all his eery onerous engagements ? He has twenty millions to provide for the West India compensation fund, and we find by the Jimaiea papers that the poor colonists ex pect that the iponey will be voted before the end of the present month. They are most cruelly deceived! We shall be delightfully disappointed if it be voted at all by his Majesty's present ministers. But if voted to-mor row, out of what fund is the money to come? Twenty millions more of exchequer bills would reduce that arti cle below par, and make it a drug in the market. And, besides, the twenty millions would absorb at least £750,000 per annum of the national income. This alone would raise the expenditure considerably above the gross revenue. In addition to this we have the legion of com missioners to pay, the aid to Queen ISABELLA to advance, a new ambassador for Russia to fit out, and several other items of no mean importance in the scale of figuVes. Where is all this to be raised without the assistance of fresh taxes ? We wait a reply with exemplary patience, if not with cool indifference. POLICY OF THE WHIG MINISTRY. (From a Correspondent.) While in opposition, upcn no theme were the whigs more lavish of their eloquence than in declaiming against the. exercise of corrupt patronage. For their alleged delinquency on this point the tories were assailed by these burning patriots with unmitigable rancour. Upon their accession to office a system of unparalleled pnrity was confidently anticipated. But no saoner were these disinterested personages comfortably squatted on the treasury benches than they adopted, in all its nauseating pruriency, a system of infamous nepotism and dishonest influence. Amidst their vacillation of conduct, and des titution of everything resembling fixed political princi ple, the cui bono of their own party, the aggrandisement of their own connexions, the promotion to lucrative ap pointments of their own numerous dependents, irrespec tively of any meritorious qualifications, were objects upon which they had the most perfect understanding, and which . they pursued with the most exemplary co-opera tion. Whatever heartburnings and dissensions em broiled their cabinet meetings, on this point they acted with the utmost identity of feeling and purpose,—that they should render their tenure of office as secure and as durable as possible, by diffusing the good things in their gift to a large retinue of famishing serfs, upon whose most ,sweet voices - they might calculate in return. So numerous, however, did their lackland hangers-on piove, that they had to torture their ingenuity in order to fur nish them with the means of eating their crusts at the expence of the public; Hence it became necessary to have recourse to the modest expedient of creating for their benefit a number of lucrative appointments. The following statement will show to what an extent they carried this system of securing adherents to their crooked policy. During one short year of their blunderipg, ex pensive misgovernment, they actually promoted to offi cial situations—places to which they gave existence — four hundred and twenty-five cringing sycophants and briefless expectants, according to the subjoined scale of renumeration for the principal of them : Offices of £3000....and under.... £6OOO .... 1 2000 10(A) / • _ 600 . 400 200 . It may be worth while to notice in detail the working of this system of extended patronage. This must be done briefly, as it would be almost an endless task to pursue it through all its ramifications. Luckless barristers—innocent of a knowledge of their profession—seem to have been the most favoured objects of whig philanthropy. Wi tness their employment for determining the boundaries under the reform bill—for revising the lists of voters—for inquiring into the 'state of municipal corporations—for administering the tyran- . nical and degrading poor-law amendment act, &c. &c. Here is jobbing in all its rank and poisonous exuberance ! Abuse the boroughmongers !—let the whigs contemplate with anything but burning shame—if they can—their own commissioner-mongering. If the people of Eng land should tolerate the ascendancy of these miserable imbeciles much longer—which they will not —we may expect to see batches of commissioners sent off, as in the notable case of Canada, to supersede our consuls, lieute nant-governors, governors-general, ambassadors, &e., in every quarter of the globe. Among the minor officials called into being by the whig ministry, with a view of securing their suffrages at the expense of the public, we may advert to the in spectors of weights and measures appointed under Lord EBRINGTOti'S act. These situations were intended to be lucrative ones, though the machinery of the bill has not proved in all cases profitable. Assuming, however, that 3,000 inspectors (an insufficient number) were appointed for the kingdom, and that the emoluments averaged £4O, there would be a sum of £120,000 imposed as a direct tax upon the people. This statement will appear on investi gation to be considerably below the mark. Ye mock reformers! would you submit to this enormous imposi tion under the head of excise, customs, stamps, or any other ordinary mode of taxation ? And, after all, is this paid - for effectual protection against fraudulent practices? Notoriously not. This is the mode in which, under false pretences, the wily whip insinuate their hands into your pockets for the advantage of their satellites. Allow me, in conclusion, to draw the attention of your readers to another tax upon the public—the pensive, gullible politic, at whom the whigs laugh, in theirilleeves. This is literally a tax of the most obnoxious character — a poll-tax, I allude to the shilling paid by every regis tered voter under the reform act. Taking the qualified constituency at one million, which it will amount to if we allow for the circumstance that many individuals are entitled to vote several times, both in different tc,wns • and separate counties, we shall find a sum 'of £500,000 pro duced from this source. For.whose benefit ? For what Ultimate purpose? Radicals of Liverpool I look at this imposition, inflicted by your sweet friends, the immacu late whigs, and then belch forth your filthy tirades against the pension list. It has been all along the policy of the whig ministry to invest the people with as much power and influence as possible with the view of perpettlating their own as cendancy. Did I say the people ? I retract the word: —not the people—the educa►ed, intelligent, industrious, honeSt, and plain-dealing people—who have English hearts, English pride, English independence, and who love the comforts of an English home, but the swinish, characterless multitude, who herd together around gin palaces and similar resorts. These form the movement party, whose insatiate craving they sedulously endeavour to gratify. A signal proof of their wish to throw every thing into their hands in matters of local interest is af forded in the provision which the bill now before the House of Commons makes for granting publicans' licenses. •Admirable sagacity I Let the brewers, wine and spirit dealers, &c., who expect to get into corporate councils, license theinselves and their relatives to the third and fourth generations. Enough. But the people are begin ning to awake from their torpor; the startling cry of " Beware the bear!" is already heard, and the un principled Whigs will soon be driven to their dens of infamy; to pine in inglorious obscurity. LONDON LATEST NEWS. City, Saturday Evening, llUff-past Seven o'claik: The fact that the quarterly dividends will be in the course of payment in the ensuing week has occasioned a renewal bf speculative business on the stock exchange to a greater extent 'than has been known for some time past. The improvement in consols for the account has been from 9ti to 92k. The heavy stocks have also improved half per cent. The prem. on exchequer bills has advanced from 25 tct 31, and on India bonds from sto Bank stock has rallied from 216 to 2161. Prices of the Eniliilflunds at four o'clock?;,—Bank stock, 2161; red. 3 per cents., 91f ; consols, shut ; 31 per cents; red., 991; new 31,per cents., shut; long annuities, leq; India stock, shut; India bonds, I() prm.; Exchequer bills, 32 prm.; consols for account, 921. . In the foreign market, the half-monthly account was settled on Tuesday last. The speculative business entered into within the previous fortnight having been upon a limited scale, it passed off without any novelty. The foreign securities are higher to-day. Portuguese bonds have advanced from 871 to 89; but the three per cents., after touching 581, left off 571 ex. dividend. Spanish stock has risen 1 per cent. in the course of the day, namely, from 451 to 461, and the scrip from 131 to 121 dis: The northern securities are also rather higher, Russian bonds leaving off at 109. Colombia bonds have advanced from 361 to 37; but fur Chi lian, Peruvian,. and Mexican bonds there is no demand what- The foreign funds closed as follows :—Belgian, 99; Brazi lian, 831; Colombian, 37; Portuguese, 831; Portuguese (new), 89; Ditto 3 per cents., 57E ex. div.; Russian, 109; Spanish, 491; Ditto scrip, 121 die. ; Dutch 21 per cents., 55 ex. div. SHAIIES.—AIten, 101; Bolanos, 1271; Unrecognised Real Del Monte, 21; Canada, 35. CONSERVATIVE ASSOCIATIONS. TO THE EIiTOR OP THE LIPERPOOL STAND-Ina SIR,—In the present eventful times, times, allow me to say, in which almost any project which savours of a revolutionary, or, which is equally dangerous, of a republican character, is ap plauded and spread abroad by a portion of the press who daily ‘tontradict their own assertions, who daily send-forth for the per usal of the world sentiments of a most dangirens . and turbulent. character, and who are daily perverting plain truth, and in its stead propagating doctrines the tendency of which I almost shudder to think of;—in these times, I think the heart, hand, and powers, however humble',,nt,. : e.very one who wishes well for his country, ought to be called into-vig. , rws and unremitted ex ertion. Anti allow me, sir, to suggest how these exertions may, in my humble opinion, be exerted to the ultimate good of our common country and to the welfare of our institutions, which all allow to be so truly dear to every true-hearted Englishman. I hold, sir, first, that to preserve inviolate the union as it at present exists between the church and state is an important and a very responsible duty of those in whose hands rests the high duty of sending up to the legislative assembly their repre sentatives, and, through their representatives, their voices and opinions upon all matters of public policy. And I here become involved in the question, " How are the people, the wealthy, respectable, middling, and operative classes of society, to have their opinions fairly represented in the House of Commons?". I would answer, by having their right to vote for their represen tatives fairly protected, and by being regularly placed in the po sition of an elector entitled to vote. Then, sir, you inquire; " and how will you accomplish this ?" Why, by having societies formed for the express purpose of casting a watchful eye to the registration of voters at the proper season. By this one object having been too long neglected, I feel convinced that the con servative party in the Rouse of Commons is very much weake r than it otherwise would have been. And now, for a few reasons why electors in the middling and operative classes do not register, and vote, and uphold con servative principles as much as they will, I hope, ere long do:— First, then, sir, I should say that one principal reason why con servatism is, as yet, so little professed, and far less understood by the middliug classes of society is, that in all their resorts they find themselves, as it were, almost compelled to read no thing else but radical and whig papers—they find few, it may be very few, opportunities of reading papers which advocate op posite principles, and so they only know half of any subject they only read one side of the question, and are therefore led away by the specious arguments and cunningly devised tales of the whig-radical press; but, sir, when this description of electors have met with newspapers of both whig and tory opi nions, we have hitherto found that they have been induced to act upon the conservative side, and we find already an opera tive conservative association in existence, which will, I iu cerely hope, spread its principles far and wide, to the dispell ing of the errors which at present so lamentably bind our operative fellow electors in political error, to the great danger of our country. And for the other reason which I would give on this question, allow me to refer you, with sincere pleasure, to the fellowing, extract from Illairboood's Majazitte. It says, respecting the advantage to be derived from placing conserva tive newspapers in public-houses, taverns, and places where the I .lipertitere and mechanic classes resort, that -•' some part seethe funds of every conservative association should be devoted to the purchase of the ablest journals and periodicals of the day, with a view to their diffusion, at an under price, among the per sons of an inferior grade, whom it is practicable to win over to safe and constitutional principles. By so doing, a double oh eject is gained. Talent is encouraged to devote itself to sech undertakings, and numbers who never otherwise would get a glimpse of the truth have the means of illuminating their minds afforded them. Gratuitous distribution should be avoided ; it is in general considered as an insult, and seldom produces ally lasting consequences. It is the diffusion of able conservative journals, or works' of sterling ability in circulating libraries, mechanics' institutions, &c., at a rate considerably below the selling price, that is most likely to he efficacious; and, in making the seleCtion, let them avoid the common error of sup posing that the working classes can understand nothing but works, lace meridiana clariores, expressly intended for their illu mination. There never was a greater mistake; they should be addressed by the same arguments as are deemed fit for their su periors, and, if they can only be got to read them, truth, in the end, will work its way in the humblest class as well as in the most elevated." Let all the conservatives bear their part, and I am certain that the suggestions which 'I. have just quoted will be productive of great and very extensive good. We are now living in times when the conservation of our in• stitut:ons, of our king, of the lords, and of our long-established monarchy claims the attention, great and vigorous, of every in dividual who has time and a heart to devote to his country's cause. We already find that conservative principles are making great, yea, very great, 'progress amongst the middlin g andoperative classes. May they ever spread, and may the time be close at hand when our opponents shall eat their own words again, and contradict their own assertion, when they said that the tories had had their wished-for trial, and had been found wanting, and were expelled from the councils ofthe state, never to return ! That short period—those tour short months more for the conservative cause than had been accomplished fur years before. Allow me to ask the favour of your inserting these remarks in your next, and believe me ever yours, &e., ARGUS. Everton, 4th July, 1835. THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. It will be seen, by a reference to our advertising columns, that the proprietor of these gardens, undeterred by the serious loss he sustained by his galas in the month of May, in conse quence of the boisterous state of the weather, has announced another fancy fair for Monday next, to be followed by an exhi bition of fire works on the evening of that day. Should the weather be favourable—and we hope it will be—from the pre parations now making, the evening's entertainment will be a very delikhtful one. The daily attendance of visiters at the gardens since the weather became a little settled has been very good. The aiti „trials are all in excellent condition. The male and female *ylghaus, lately purchased by Mr. Atkins, and their. colt, have iattracted a great deal of notice, together with a serpent of the boa-constrictor species,. supposed to be the largest ever seen in England. The length of this serpent is twenty feet, and the eircutuferance of its body is from sixteen to eighteen. inches. Among the presents' lately received are—a female puma, from Win. M`Cracken, Esq., Rodney-street; a golden eagle, an oppossum, and a pair of American partridges, from Mrs. Paces, Great George-street ; three summer ducks , from Thomas Dickson, Esq.; a zibet, front Mr. Swart, chief (neer of the Bland; a pair of Indian doves, from Captain Frazer, of the ship Planter; a Dourconcouti monkey, from Captain Harris. of the ship Wilberforce; a female partridge and two doves, from Mrs. Lawrence, Gloucester-street; a Buenos Ayres sheep, from Mr. P. Lawrence, Tranmere Hotel; an Indian monkey and hawk, from Mr. Mahomet, of the ship Bland; a pair of American goats, from Captain Poole, of the ship . Denison ; an iguana, front Mr. Risien, of the ship Parker; a tiger-cat, from Captain Thompson, of the barque Ceres; a caracara. fro in Captain Coaker, of the brigantine I3etsey Hall; a green par - rot, from Mr. Samuel Wilson, ltcushaw-street; from Mastet - William Clarke, Upper Pitt-street, a grey parrot; front Miss Parker, Duke-street, an American dove; from J. Mellor, Esq. Shaw-street, a Peruvian fox. PRESENT OF PLATE TO RICHARD DAWSON, ESQ. The friends of this indefatigable and uncompromising sup porter of the good old cause, " church, king, and constitution," to mark their sense of his services to that cause, have pur chased a service of plate, which was exhibited yesterday at the King's Arms Hotel, Castle street. The articles consist of two massive ice pails, four covered dishes, six salt stands and spoons, a soup ladle, .two gravy spoons, one dozen and a half dessert spoons, and one dozen and .a half of dessert knives and forks. On one side of the ice pads and dish covers, Mr. Dawson's family arms are beauti fully engraved, and on the opposite side is the following in scription : " PRESENTItn TO RICHARD DAWSON, ESQ., By his fellow-townsmen, in testimony of the zeal and ability he displayed in promoting the return to Parliament Of LORD FRANCIS IGERToN, and TIIN HONOUR krILE It. BOOTLE WILBRAHAM, For South Lancashire, in January, 1835; Whereby not only the then existing administration of the Right Honourable Sir Robert Peel, Baronet was powerfully aided, but the great cause of tie church, the peerage, and the throne nnterially strengthened." Mr. Damian hal our best wishes that be may long live to enjoy the use qf this splendid prescut, honourable alike to him self and to those who lisive sd justly appreciate, hie services. BOROUGH SESSIONS. Yesterday the Midsummer Quarter Sessions commenced in the New Court-house, South Chapel-street, before James As pinall Esq., Mayor, James Clarke, Esq.. Recorder, Ambrose Lace and James - Pownall, Esqrsi., bailiffs, Sir Taos. Brancker, and Peter Bourne, Esq. The calendar contained the names of 122 prisoners charged with felony. The usual formalities having lieen gone through, the follow ing gentlemen were sworn upon the grand inquest :—James Crickibott, Esq., foreman; Thos. P. Ackers, P. W. Brancker, Thos. Bold, Richard Butler, Chas. Booth, lt. C. Dawson, Get. Drinkwater, George C. Duncan, Richard Griffith, Edward Gibbon, Francis Haywood, John Houghton, Thomas Irlam, John Audley Gee, Was. Mather, Edward Daniel Maddock, T. W. Molyneux, W. Neveu, and J•din Shand, Esqrs. [The charge of the learned Recorder, owing to an accident whlth we do not choose at present to explain, must be altoge ther omitted.] . STEALING Yowts.—John Lawler, a young man aged 17,em ployed about the markets, was indicted for having stolen eight dead fowls, the property of John M'Keonn. Mary M'Keoun stated that she is the wife of John M'Keoun, a poulterer in St. John's Market. On the Bth of May witness purchased some fowls ready plucked, and hUng them on the standing. At nine o'clock the same night saw them safe, and on the following morning, on going into the market, she missed them. Did not sell any of the fowls. Prisoner (to the prosecutor.)—Did you see me take the fowls? Wituess.—No; but you were the first person in the market. Margaret Griffiths, a woman in the employ of another poul terer, stated that she sold the fowls to the last witness. She had known the prisoner about four years, ana spoke to him on Friday night, the Bth of May, at a quarter past eight. Prisoner followed the occupation of a fowl-dealer. Could swear to the fowls stolen, and saw them before the magistrates. Isaac Westgat, a market-looker, sail that he heard Mrs. M'Keoun had been robbed of sonic fowls, and from information he received he went to the public•house of Mr. Thompson, in Deane-street, when some fowls were put into his possession. Saw the prisoner near the house, and took him into the`public house, when Mr. Thompson said that the prisoner was the per son who brought the fowls to his house. Prisoner, in reply to a question from the witness, said that he purchased the fowls from a man who came front Newry. Witness took the fowls to Mr. Graham's office in the market, and Mary M . Keouu identi fied them. Mary Griffiths, who was recalled by the Recorder. sail that she saw the fowls at Mr. Graham's office, and identified them. , As the case did nut appear clear against the prisoner, he was acquitted. ROBBING A Sa trort.--Two women named Catherine Johnson & Jane Montgomery, were indicted fur stealing a watchand chain, the property of Christian Lawson, a mariner. It appeared fr the evidence of the prosecutor, that on the evening of tae Mt) of May last he wa.sproceedinz:4lQng,LlTßlCvstroo he tell in with the prisoner Montgomery, whom lie was induced - 17i accompany to a disorderly house, where she and-the prisoner Johnson contrived to rob hiin of the property named in the in, dictment, which they pledged with Byford. a pawnbroker. The prisoner:: were found guilty, and sentenced to six month's im prisenmeut each. ROBBING A CAR Int.7.li.—An elderly man, named Pritcharl, was indicted for having stolen a i'eal box, containing six: y books, and six snaps, the property of James S. Tenge and whi ther, carriers. •It appeared from the evidence that, in March last, the property stolen was received by the prosecutors &Tsui Messrs. Darton and Sons, booksellers, London, directed to Mr. Lee, bookseller, of Duncan-street, St. George-square. It was sent by the carter to be delivered; anu whilst he was absent a few minutes from his cart, near St. George-square, it was stolen. Information was given to the police, tiesether with a descrip tion of the property, and Roberts, au officer, discovered a por tion of it pledged with a pawnbroker in Park-lane. A clue was then obtained to the thief, who was apprehended and identified by the pawnbrokers as the person who pledged them in. the name of Geo. Hughes. The prisoner was found Guilty, and sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment in Lancaster Castle. 'Weimar BY A Still.VANT.—.Margaret Ann Carr, a domestic servant, recently in the service of Mr. James Wells, a fruiterer, in the market, was indicted for stealing a silk ehawi, a blanket, two aprons, and other articles, the property of her master. The prisoner, it appeared, entered the prosecutor's service on t he 19th Of May last, and had not beets three days before she de camped with the articles named. Two days subsequently she returned in a state of intoxication, when a constaule was sent j fur, and upon her was found tickets of the property, pledged with a Mr. Wright, a pawnbroker. She was found Gutty, and sentenced to six months imprisonment in the Preston House of Correction. From questions put by the Recorder to the pro secutor, it appeared that he had not been sufficiently minute in inviring into the prisoner's character prim to taking her lilts his service. JUVENILE TIIIEVES.—TWO girls, named Sarah Anne Burke, and Mary Hayes, one twelve years old, and the other thirteen, who have twice before been convicted of felony, were indicted for stealing two gowns, and a quantity of other wearing apparel, the property of John Green. The prosecutor, who lives in Great Howard-street, on the evening of the 28th of April left his house with his wife, leaving the windows and doors secure. After an absence of an hour the wife returned, and found that a pane in the window had been broken, and the fastening undone. One of the prisoners was I coming out of the door, and the other was in the house. On examining the premises, it appeared that the boxes and drawers had been emptied of their contents, and property to the amount of £4 or £5 packed up ready to carry away. (unity—sentence I seven years' transportation each. Disc H A 12GE OF A CONSTABl.R.—JohnDerricks was found guilty ' of stealing 50 lbs. of ropes from the ship Comet, the property of Marcel , . When asked by the Recorder if lie had any per son to speak as to his character, Butler, a police-officer, stepped into the witness-box, and said that he had known the prisoner seven years, and never knew any thing wrong of him. One of the jailers was then asked by the Mayor if he knew any thing of the prisoner, and he stated that he had several times been committed by the magistrates; awl it farther appeared that the prisoner had been no fewer that eleven times before the magis trates fur offences committed near the docks. The Mayor said it was. evident that Butler had been telling a deliberate false hood, and he should make an example of him by immediately discharging him. The following were the sentences:—William Owens, one rear's imprisonment in Preston House of Correction; Andrew M'Andruse, transported for life; rencee - Boyers,tvalve mouths in Lancaster Castle, K. Davies, twelve months in -- Lancaster I Castle; John Gillig in and John Jones, to be twice whipped and imprisoned twelve months in Lancaster Castle; Robert Rogers, four months' imprisonment; Mary Pendleton,_four months' imprisonment; John Whitten, fourteen years' trans portation; George Clarke, eighteen months in Lancaster Cas tle • Catherine Johnson, six months' imprismumeut ; Hugh Mkinley, one month; Mary Lee, twelve months in Lancaster Castle; Strati Williams, six months' imprisonment; and Mar tin Cunlitle, six months' imprisonment. LIVEIiPOOL POLICE. FRlDAY.—(Before the MAYOR and Sir THOMAS BRA NCKER.) OVERCHARGE AND FURIOUS DRIVING: CAUTION TO Mtn , - ERs.—A you'll: gentleman, named Foote, summoned a driver of one of Mr. Davis's cars for overcharge. The complainant stated, that he had hired the car in Clayton-square, and defend ant had driven him down to the Clarence Dock, where he was to embark by the steam-boat for Glasgow. When he was set dcwu the driver demanded six shillings as his fare ; but; upon Mr. Foote objecting to this, he agreed to take five shillings. Mr. Foote still complained of overcharge, but, taking a quantity of silver from his pocket, he told the driver to take the proper fare from it. The defendant took fas., and hugged himself on his security, not dreaming that Mr. Foote intended to return to Liverpool immediately. The latter, however, on his arrival, very properly summoned the driver before the magistrates, who ordered him to return the overcharge, and to pay a fine of ss. and costs.—Mr. Thornely. car-proprietor, was summoned, on ,information from Police-officer Lloyd, for driving his car fu riously along Dale -street, on the afternoon of Monday last. Lloyd stated that the horse was galloping' so swiftly as to have created much apprehension of danger among the passengers in that crowded thoroughfare. Mr. fhornely alleged, that the horse alluded to was of such high mettle that he could not use a whip to him, and that if he heard another horse in his rear he could not be restrained. On the day in question the animal had been startled and darted off, when, the leathern curb which he used having unfortunately broken, it was with much dif f iculty that he regained command over him. Sir T. Brancker said such an excuse would have been hut a poor consolation to any .party who might be injured by contact with the horse and ve hicle during its rapid pace. lie had nu right to make use of such an animal; if he had run over a child in his career, the apology of his horse being vicious would not have sufficed. Mr. Ellis remarked, that, in case of such an accident, the defendant would have been pronounced guilty of manslaughter. Sir 'lhoinas Brancker fined the defendant ss. and costs. SATURDAY.—( Before the Matron and Sir T. BRANCKER.) FELONY.—Two prisoners,'a boy about 14 years old and a girl about 12, named John Campbell and B trb;iry Leary, were on Saturday placed at the bar, on a charge of felony. William Wood, a blacksmith, stated, that he had risen that morning at five o'clock; he bad .passed through the front door of his house and locked it after bins. lie then opened the front window and put the key inside for his wife, closing the sash after hint. Charlotte Wood, his wife, deposed, that she got up at half-past Live, and, upon going down stairs, she was alarmed at seeing the parlour window open. She immediately suspected that thieves had been in the house. On examination her fears proved to be tots well founded, for she found that a quantity of wearing apparel, blankets, &c. had been stolen from the kitchen, where she had left them the previous evening. Joseph Evans, fore , man with Mr. Gregory, pawnbroker. Jamaica-street, proved that the lemile prisoner had pawned two of the shirts with hint 'that morning at half-past seven o'clock. Henry Morley, the police-officer, who had taken Campbell into -custody, produced the remaining shirt, which had been found on his person when he made him prisoner. The articles were identified by Mr. and• Mrs. \Vood as their property, and the prisoners were coins nutted for trial. • SmuGGLING Tosscco,—A man named .Smith, a nitive of Hamburgh, was charged by the officers of customs With having attempted to smuggle, from the American ship Henry Lea, from New Orleans, 178 1 bs. of manufactured tobacco. -Robert Price, the master of the above vessel, proved that the prisoner had shiPped with him at New Orleans and had sailed \Nit!' him to Liverpool, in the capacity of a seaman. The Henry Lee arrived in Liverpool on the '2oth of June last. Bartlett France, another seaman belonging to the same vessel, proved that he had, during the voyage, heard the prisoner and Is namesake of his, called George Smith. conversing together about a quantity of tobacco which they had concealed on board the vessel in a false scuttle. Nicholas Gill, a boy belonging to the vessel, -knew both the Smiths, and had frequently heard them talking together about their tobacco, which they saicl they intended to make sale of in Liverpool. After their arrival in Liverpool, he had during the night, heard three of the men moving something to the next vessel, which he concluded was the tobacco. The prisoner was one of the three. • They were alarmed at some. thing which occurred on deck, and retu r ned to their berths, and shammed sleep. Watkins, the tide-waiter, deposed, that he was going ou shore to get his books examined, when he sa..v ma n on b oard the Henry Lee standiug Roping sonic tobacco. The mau ran away as he advanced, and he seized the tobacco. and delivered it to his superior officer, Mr. Pritchard. Mr. Edwards, Mr. Pritchard, and John Daniels, all of the customs, deposed to haviag gone on board the Henry Lee, and these discovered a false scuttle containing a quantity of manufactured tobacco, which, together with that which bald been previously taken out of it, weighed 12t3lbs. The false scuttle was immedi ately formed between the berths of the prisoner and his secant pike. They also discovered, bidden beneath some articles in the longboat, two parcels containing 52 lbs. of t o bacco, making altogether 1781bs. Mr. Shuttleworth said, that the law did not now inflict any penalty for an offence of this nature, the P - unishmeat being six months' imprisonment, whic h the nia- gistrates had no power to mitigate. As the law lately stood, snuggling from a vessel was punished by the infliction of a fine of ,f:.100, the party to be imprisoned till it was Fail The alter atiou of ibis to imptisonment for six months, without the power of mitigation, was intended as an amelioration, but its action will be found, in the majority of instances, to be of a contrary nature._ ludividuals who were unable to pay the heavy penalty were formerly diecharged, upon petitioning the board, after an imprisonment of from one to two mouths.. They were scarcely ever suffered to remain in Confinement longer than the last mentiened periled, unless the offence wits of a peculiarly aggra vated nature, LGC,4L NEWS. \V sr DE;llll%—:•The rate-payers of this towußhip held J public meeting, on Friday, un.ter the al and 4th William IV.; cap: 9.), for the purpose of determining whether the provisioni of that act ('• for watchit%; and lighting parishes ra England and. Wales "I Anal , ' be adopted and carrieot into effect in parts of the township, viz., Fairclough-lane, or part thereof, Mount Ver non-ttreet, or part thereof, Hall-lane, or part thereat . ; Bouns, wick-road, Brunswick-view Erikiike-st, eet, Chapel-piace. Prosc pect-street, Moira-street, Ep firth-street, Cod ri , :gton-st reet; Shepherd-street, Moss-stre e t, Boundary-place, Presootstreet„ Chilci wall-street, Low-hill, W o Od- s tr ee t, Phytbian-street; Glonceiter-place, Newsham-street, Walker-street, Matsileii street, Lower and Upper Kensin g t on , t o Keiisiugton gate. It was agreed, (on the motion of Mr. James seconded by Mr. Thomas Langsdale,) that; in these places, the provisionsof the act should be adopted and acted upon. Messrs. Francis Grundy, William Kershaw, Samuel Gatti, Samuel Sandys Cleminson, Thomas L a e g sd a te, John Shepherd. Samuel Watkinso.n, James Homer, Thomas Smith, Jauies Whitehead; Thomat Clare, anti John Wilson Carter, were elected inspectors for the purposes of carrying this said act into effect, and were . empowered to raise the sum of £350 for the ensuing year upon - the full and fair annual value of the properti, included in the the places above mentioned. The book was then Sighed by the chairman (Mr. James Homer) and a majority of the meeting; • and the busitiett of the day terminated. SACRILEGE.—On Thursday night a thief effected an entrancti into Great Georgtstreet Chapel, by means of a window which. had not been properly seek reu. He had previously attempted to make his way through the vestry-door, but, being only tt bungler in the profession, he failed. On entering he seems to have lighted a candle, but, being tempted by seven bottles of wiue kept for ga f.Tamental purposes; he appears to have partially forgotten the object of his visit, and indulged himself in the consumption of the contents of two bottles. These, in all ro bahility him, for he attempted the cupboard in which plate to the amount of £5O was kept, hut did not succeed in opening it. A little before six o'clock he decamped, taking the remainder of the wine with him, but in attempting to get over the wall, he deliberately sat down on the steps of the adjoining door, and excited the pit y of the woman of the house by his unpleasant appearance. Although, iu addition to the regular watchmen, two of whom pass the chapel, there were two sewer watchmen opposite the place all night, none of them ever heard any noise or saw any light. Thomas Smith, a man whit received sentence of trtinstiOrtaz Lion at Lancaster, in March, 1522, for burglary, hat lately met with his death in an oricounter with some taish-fighters, in Vati Diemen's Land. He was one of three persons who ventured on the service, for which a reward of was to be paid in case of a successful result. The capture wis made, lout Smith, un fortuuately, was killed. The antharities here have received a ..natikation to.the effect thati ha legalsuccessor of the deceatti Thomas - Smith is entitled to his share of the reward, amounting to £33 6s. Bd. His relations are supposed to be residents of thin t,sv n. ST. MICHAEL'S SCNDAT SCHOOLS.—The children instructed in this useful establishwent by the gratnitotis exertions of mem.; hers of the congregation, assembled to the number of one hundred and sixty, nn Friday last, under the superintendence of their teachers, and proceeded to the bock Ferry, where arrangements had been previously made with Mrs. Lee for as a treat of tea and entice, with the accompaniments. A more happy party has seldom been assembled, and it is doing hare justice to Mrs. Lee to say that not only the stipulated refresh: ►vents we; e forthcoming and in abundance, hut also a supply of strawberries and °tiler good things, which probably many of the 'party then partook of for the first time. Three cheers marked the gratitude of the little revellers, and as they all reached home (young as many of them were) without accident, it is to be hoped the contributors to the treat will have no cause to regret their considerate kindness. Cuutten V6Mry was lately held in Falmouth felt the purpose of making a church rate. As but very few church = men were present, an amendment. poStiaming the consideration of the question for one year, was put and carried. The church wardens, considering the amendment as a tefusal to make a anti consideiing also that they were bound to act in ohedi n rate, and to the pro V i s ions o f t h e l aw Which requires them U. raise e the necessary supplies for the due observance of public worship,. immediately proceeded to make a rate without the consent of the vestry, which rate they are collecting. We suspect it will turn out that vestries have neither the poi.ser to levy or refuse to make church rates. If unfairly levied, or if, when collected, they are illegally expen led, the iemedv is in the hand of any parishioner who may be aggrieved or is disposed to interfere. Oc.nnsNi ELECTION.—The nomination of candidates tit itlE; ceed the - late Air. Cobbett as member for this borough took place on Friday. The candidat es p ro p ose d were , F e argus O'Ctilitior ' John lorded Cubbett, one of Mr. COlibett's ,gonsi and John Frederick Lees, Esq.. a gentleman of the neighliour h"Ood. The Manchester Chronicle says, "unless there should be an unprincipled coalition between the red-hot dissenting level le'i's who support 91r. O'Connor and the more moderate avl re spectable class which adheres to Mr. Colibett, the conservative candidate, Mr. Lees, will, in all probability, be returned. ST. MARY'S CHAPEI..—This chapel, better known as the blind church, was reopened on Sunday Morning. During the time it has been closed the whole of the ulterior of the building has been newly plastered, painted, and ornamented, and now ptesents a Very beautiful appearance. The architecture of the chancel, and all the ornaments of the ceiling, are in perfect keeping with the lonic cohimns which support the roof; and, as a whole, produces a very fine effect. The pitture of Christ healing the blind has been cleaned, and replaced in its old situation, in a newly gilt frame. Another picture, however, it wanted fur the corresponding end of the opposite aisle, whiCh ; we presume, might be procured without much difficulty, con sidering the oppulence of the congregation. Fitts POLICE —Last evening an examination of the firemen; in the routine of business, under the direction Of Mr. Whitty; took place at the station, Temple-court, in the presence of several of the commissioners of watch, and of Mr, Leyland, and others representing the interests of the fire (AMTS. The whole of the force went through their evolutions to the great admiration of all present. ()wing to the execjent arrange ment of the hose on a cylinder placed at the top ht the engine, the latter was brought into play in the short space of two minutes and a half. A trial was then made on the ordinary principle of screwing the hose by peaceracal, Which occupied fire minutes and forty seconds.. WORK FOR THE .1(.11i3i,. - s.- - - - -TheiT are'at present no lest than seven hundred prisoners in the Kirkdale House of Correction, many of them rec , ta comthittals to the assizeS. Yesterday a man was committed from Manchester, by J. F. Poster, Esq., on a charge of murder. The deed, we understand, was perpe trated many years ago. Their Majesties, we are gratified to state, retni.Cit in terrupted good health. On Wednesday the King came to town, and held his weekly levee, which was numerouslc attended. It is expected that Its Mejesty will be present at the grand re view of the hou3ehold troops, on Friday next, in hyde-park. - London paper. 081 run It Y.—We regret to state the death of thc Rev; Chat lee Wilcox, Wesleyan missionary. This gentleman was in perfect health on Saturday last, and on the afternoon of that day he went, as was his custom, into the liver near his residence hi Clarendon to bathe. Having exceeded his usual time, appre hensions were entertained of his safety. and, on sonic of his friends going to the river, his clothes were found on the hank, but he was not to be seen. Search was instautty but fruitlessly made, anti it was not until the ululating of the sueceding day his body was discovered at a little distance from the part of the river where he etnerell. It is 6i . ipposed he was seized with cramp or apoplexy while iii the water, and, being consequently unable to help himself, he was suffecated. Thus was a useful and exemplary young man mysteriously removed from time into eternity in the 25th year of Iris ago, deeply and sincerely regretted. Mr. Wilcox was on the eve or embarkation for England. having been in this island about four years, during which time he had. by his mild and cuneihatory manners and consistent depot talent as a chtistian minister, secured the esteem of all who knew hint.—Jamaica Advertiser, 19th M. The Ex-Lord Chauceilor ha s taken to dressing 'himself to the best advantage: the shaggy great-coat and slouching hat have given place to dazzling waistcoats and plaid pantaloons, not to speak of a massive gold chain which he wears "around his neck." This last ornament has secured for his lordship a nick name—he is now called the Chain Peer. THE LION'S STRENGTH.—WeII authenticated accounts prove that a lion will carry off an ox or a horse with nearly 'as great ease as a fox will do a goose. A young lion has been known to carry a good sized horse a mile from the spot where he killed it, and all instance occurred in the Snewberg where a lion carried of a two-year-old heifer. GENERAL ULECTION.—We learn from good authority, that preparations are making in this and the adjoining counties sor the next general election. It is the opinion of several members o f parliament, connected with the midland districts, that a ditsso lution will take place in the letteepart of the present year.- Con servatives, look to the registration !—llirrningtuirn Advertiser. A GENTLEWOM A N.—l cannot forbear painting out to you, my dearest child, the great advantages that will result from a tem perate conduct, and sweetness of manner, to all people, on all occasions. Never forget that you aro a gentlewoman ; and all your words and actions should mark sou gentle. I never heard . yaur mother, your dear, good mother, say a harsh or hasty thing . to any person in my life. Endeavour to imitate her. I am quick and hasty in my temper; but, my darling, it is a misfor tune which, not having been sufficiently restiaieed in my youth, has caused me inexpressible pain. - It has given me mare trona ble to subdue this impetuosity, than anythiug I ever undertook. —Lord Gollingprood's Letter to his Dauyhier. Z":;PANI A RDS, ASCENTI-TO HEAVEN_!"---TbiS was the benedic tion pronounced by the catholic priest, Varella, upon the Spanish pirates as they were about to ascend the tartlet leadieg to the platform which was to launch them .into etereit:t. Pit aces, murderers, and suicides, ascend •to heaven ! ou• committed piracy and plundered the brig Mexican.- ' You intruded to murder the whole crew, and supposed you had done so, by. fastening them down in the hold and then patine fire :o the essel ; and no longer ago than last night and this morning. yeti have at tempted to commit murder .unan yourseiveS. Ascend to Heaven, glorious company t We he , elu arm from a first-rate retied on, and veho had it a d u i r t e li c o t r mity, whlic'ehrems,aiyhattiewilite"nti!tnivYia was ordered on board of the Mexican, he asked De- Soto ‘. if the crew were to be despatched.." D e Soto replied--"Nis; do not touch a hair of their heads—fer heinan hle is sweet." To this Garcia simply replied Dead cats mew." Perez also said that Monte.: negro refused to giant) beard the Meaiean till Captain Gibert threatened to shoot hiab—Neie I ork Journal of Commerce, June 15, Ina. fhese 'pirates were executed fur robbing the brig Mexican of 29,000 dollars and tl ft"r ds attempting 'to destroy the'erew and ail evidence of aheir crime by setting lire to the vessel.] DIARO.t'C,tt, ATTeMPT TO 'NI utunn.—Mr: La.l. a resident at Birtninahaia• lately received a tin box, containing three pounds and a half of gunpowder, of great strength, and other combustible materials so placed as to cause the exidosion of the whole on opening the box in the ordinary way. NS, ith the gunpowder a quantity of hard peas were packed. The box had been packed tie as a parcel, and left at an inn, from whence it reached the hands of Mri Lad. Ott removing the blue paper c over pasted ruund the canister a piece of uetsspaper was totted, winch proved to have been part of a Leeds Intell;yenver. of the sth July, 1.832. A man el the name of Mountfurd was appre hended tin suspicion, and ;titer t exeminations has been emu !flitted to take his trial at the ensuing essizes for the county Stafford. A manufacturer of fire-works stated, that the hnx sent to Mr. Lad was admiralny c onstioried for the purp'ose for which it was intended, and tli,it the Waterloo-bang-ups were so placed, that an explosion, on opening the box, was almost inevitable.—( Abridged frutn the Gloucetershire Chconicle.) AyIISHIRE F.LEcTitir:,—The county of Ayr has returned the Whig-radical canditiate. numbers on polled Upon this occasion were-- , •' For Captain Dun10p,.... ..... 4J 1428 For Sir John Cathcart . Majority for the whig-ratlicali 606 Contrasted with the remit (1 the last contest which took pind in Ayrshire, in 1831. the above numbers exl►ibit a decided re-: action in favour of conscrvatiye principle& On that occasion there vuted For Mr. Oswald 2152 For Colonel Blair - 3.24 Majority for the whig-radical —Edin.burgh Eeening Pod.