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COURT OF ALDERMEN, LONDON. PETITION AGAINST THE ELECTION OF ALOEI:MAN SALOMONS. Alderman Brown stated that since he had come into court a petition had been put into his hands, on the subject of the late election of an alderman for the ward of Aldgate, by persons who entertained certain objections to the return of Mr. Sheriff Salo mons. He had felt it to be his duty to present the petition; but that act, he wished it to he understood, was no other than a ministerial act, and he offered no opinion whether the election was to he lamented or applauded—whether it was justifiable or unjustifiable. He should be prepared when it might be neces sary for him to act judicially to give his opinion upon the ques tion. There was one consolation about this question. It was a question of character, for a more profound respect, in deed he might almost say veneration, than that which was en tertained for the character of Mr. Salomons by the members of the Court of Aldermen - could not possibly be felt. (Lone( cheers.) In presenting the petition he (Alderman Brown) must be considered as merely discharging a public duty. (Hear, hear.) The following is the petition : "To the right honourable the Lord Mayor and Alder. , men•of the city of London, the humble petition of thd undersigned freemen, inhabitants of the ward of Ald gate, " Sheweth, " That an election having taken place for an alderman of the said ward, which finally closed on the 19th day of November instant, David Salomons, Esq., and sheriff of the said city, was on the following day declaied Alderman of the said ward. "'That by virtue of a certain act of parliament, made and passed in the 9th year of the reign of his late Majesty George the 4th, it is required that a solemn declaration be made oil the true faith of a christian nut to exercise any power, authority, or influence to injure or weaken the protestant church, as by law established. That the said David Salomons, publicly professing himself to be a person of the Jewish persuasion, must be one against whoua the said act was intended to be passed, and can not, in the judgment of your petitioners, conscientiously make or subscribe such declaration, and is therefore ineligible to dis charge the important duties of the office. "Your petitioners, therefore, humbly pray that you will be pleased to take the matter into your serious consideration previously to the admission of the said David Salomons as a member of your honourable court." THE TRUTH-LOVING DANIEL. From the Times. O'CONNELL TO RAPHAEL. O'CONNRLL TO CARLOW. " June IS. " November Et " I enclose yon'the ballot of "My opinion, from the mo this morning. Nothing can be ment the committee was struck, better. wax, that it Teas hopeless to con . " Ever yours faithfully." test the matter farther." Here he wanted to get the Here he wanted to get seve second £lOOO from his poor rat thousand pounds " rint" dupe. from his yet greater dopes. Now, ye members of Brookes's ! deceived. and fallen Whigs of England, " look on this and this," and say ye, who is the " mighty great liar ?" FACT. Nov. 4 23, 1835. THE DUKE OP CEMEKRLAND.— Letters received in London from the continent, on Friday state, that his royal highness the Duke of Cumberland intended visiting London shortly after Christmas. Prince George continues in good bodily health, hut we regret to learn that the young prince's sight still coati nued without any material improvement. EcDOTE OF ki.kcii tIALL, THE LAST KING OF THE BEGGARS. —His residence was in Dublin, whence, like other great men, be made periodical progress to the principal towns in the king dom. He travelled in a donkey chair, and, stopping at the doers, peremptorily demanded the rent by calling out "the tint, the riot," no answer was sufficient to send him away until the rent was handed out, one penny at least. Some time about the year 1780, being rent collecting iu Cork, the resident beggars saw the ruin of their trade in his monopoly, and in a body wait ed upon him at his lodgings, and, like loyal subjects, humbly explained their grievances. Hackball, ascunning, as is bis suc cessor, proposed to meet them on a certain day at the Lough, Where he promised to divide all his receipts in Cork amongst them, as he was now rich enough and could well afford it. The day arrived, anti, trueto t he appointment, the motley crew were in crowds round the Lough, every moment expecting the appear ance of the great man, but, alas for those, who depend on the promises of the great ! Hackball was at the earliest dawn with a heavy purse and a light heart on his way back to Dublin.— Morul.—The modern Hackball may play a like trick to the fools who feed Mtn whenever it suits his convenience.—Cork .fier4l,l. BOAT Leal. AND Sot g r iai DkowNen.—lt becomes ourpain ful duty to record one of the most mournful events that have happened for a longtime on this coast. On Wednesday morn ing the 18th instant, five of the fishing boats from Coldingham, while nut at sea, were overtaken by a violent storm. The crew drew in their nets with all speed, double-reefed their sails, used every. ,precaution which the most experienced seamanship could suggest, and stood for the nearest port. All the boats reaeh e d th e harbours of Eyememth and Burn Louth, with splin tered masts and torn sails, except the Seaflower. She had been observed by her companions in distress out a few yards a-head, struggling with the 'tempest. A wave intercepted the view; they looked again—a solitary ear floated on the waters! 11cr crew consisted hif on able and experienced skipper, and five young men—the flower of the villa g e. The following are the names of the men l os t, v i z . : —P e t er Johnson. skipper, unmar ried, cousin of Ro7,ert and Aleck ; John Wilson, see., left a •John Wilson. jun.. son of the above, left a widow and one child—wife far advanced in pregnancy, David Carmack, Robert Johnson. and Alexander Johnson, brothers, single m en- Re rter'elr Wa rder, OMINOUS DISASTER. —On Thursday last an ominous and se rious disaster occurred in Carrick-on-Suir, which narrowly escaped being attended with f ital consequences. As a carpen ter, named Dann, assisted by three other persons, were in the ac t o f affixing is sign,. with the portrait of the immaculate Dan thereon represented, to the front of a publican's house, the roof ing of the house gave way, when dreadful to relate, the poor . carpenter had one of his lees and a few ribs broken, his body also was otherwise. mutilated. He was instantly conveyed to the hospital, and we are happy to say, is now pronounced out of danger. The other men were partially injured.—Clonmell Adverther. In the stomach of a large eel, taken with a hand-line close to Scattery Island, Lower Shannon, on Tuesday, the 10th inst., was found a coast-guard button, green and greatly corroded. — Corr; paper. FrIEDERICK WILLI ANI 1., KING OP PRU‘SIA.—When the King had inviter] himself as a guest, he had at times t o p a y the reckoning. One of his generals who was noted for his parsi mony, baying declined the royal visit under the plea that he h a d establishment o f his own, his majesty desired him to or der a dinner ~t the Hotel of the King of Portugal. This of course could not be evaded; the king was invited, hut came with twice the number orattends nts the general expected. The very best, however, that. the cellar or kitchen could afford was produced in the greatest abundance, and the King expressed his entire satisfaction. The general sent for the landlord, and inquired the price per head. " One florin without the wine." "Well, then, here is one florin 1 . .1 -myself and another for his Majesty; the other gentlemen. whom did not invite, will pay for themselves." ." That- is clever." cried the King: " thought to take in the general; he hes taken- me in"—upou • which he paid the whole bill.--Fure;gn Quarterly Review. Manta. WANTED to place in a Merchant's intelligent, active YOUTH, age connexions.—Address A. 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Pilot Committee room, Nov. 20th. 1835. A T a MEETING of the PILOT COMMITTE, held I& this 20th November, 1835, It was ordered, — let. That it shall be one of the duties of. th 41 ( 1aster Pilots to take charge of all Outward-bound Vessels u 500 Tuns Bur then, or upwards, and of all Vessels drawin 'ore than 17 feet water, 2d.:—That, for the purpose of carrying this resolution fully into effect, Eleven additional Master Pilots be appointed, but who shall not he Masters of the Boats. 3d.—That the above Resolutions come into operation on the first day of December, 1835. By Order. D. ROWLAND, Secretary. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. SPEECH DELIVERED BY HER MMESTY' THE QUEEN REGENII AT ThE SOLEMN OPENING OF THE GENERAL CCRTES OF THE KINGDOM# ON THE 16111 OP NOVEMBER, 1335. Illustrious Proceres and Procuradores of the Kingdom,, The meeting of the Cortes, which, in concurrence with the government of my august daughter, has to deliberate upon the questions most interesting to the good of the nation, and the state, will ever be gratifying to me; but never more so than now, when a new era arises of recon ciliation and patriotism. My heart is rejoiced beyond measure in contemplating the loyalty and sensibility of the Spanish people, and conceives the well-grounded hope of shortly seeing terminated, by the sacrifices of this great nation, the calamities of civil war. I have the greatest pleasure in expressing to you sentiments which are so agreeable to me, both as the mother of Isabella 11. and as the Queen- Regent of Spain. I have placed my confidence in the ministers, whom I see honoured by that of the nation. If the representatives of the Spanish monarchy, who at this moment surround the throne of my beloved daughter, favour them equally with theirs, - I HOPE, without having recourse to new loans or increase of taxes, to be able not only to put an end to the war with the factious, and meet the extra expenses . of the government, but also to improve the condition of its cre ditors, both -national and foreign, and fix public credit upon - a solid b as i s . _ The sovereigns who signed the treaty of the Quadruple Alliance continue to give me re peated proofs - Of their adhesion to the principles contained in it, assenting to Whatever my government deems favourable to the holy cause which we defend. To this treaty my august daughter is indebted for the ample supply of arms and ammunition furnished in support of the throne by my augus t a lly th e Kin g of Great Britain, and for the permission granted by that government to the English auxiliaries to take arms in its defence. Yaithful to the same confederation, tkl King of the French, my august uncle, has also authorized the removal from the coast of Africa to that of Catalonia of that foreign legion which has already begun to render essen tial service to our just cause. • We have reason to hope for similar results from the assistance of the ten thousand Portuguese, who, according to the convention made with her Alost :Vaithful Majesty, my very beloved cousin, have already commenced their entry into our territory. Their Nlajesties the Emperor of Brazil, the Kings of P)enmark, Sweden, Belgium . , and Greece, the Republic of the Uni ted States of North America, continue with us the perfect union and friendship which they have constantly pro fessed. Our relations with other powers are conformable to the line of policy which those governments still follow, and to the dignity and independence of our nation. •.egotiations have been opened with the States of Spanish imerica, and 1 have thought it conducive to the interests of the nation and of the throne, and befitting the confidence which the Cortes inspire in me, to consult them on a negotiation of such importance and weight, reserving the prerogative of the Crown. The fidelity of the valiant army of my august daughter, fully proved in the alterations of the cruel war in the north; and its con stant adhesion to the national cause, are superior to all praise; it is enough to say that it has worthily sustained the reputation of the panish army. The rewards be stowed upon it, though just and merited, have been, however, inferior to my desires, straitened by circum stances. One alone which fulfils my wishes is the erection of the Hotel of Invalids, an establishment worthy of a beneficent and warlike nation. • The urgent necessity for speedily terminating the civil tt ar will cause an increase beyond the ordinary lithits of the army, already augmented by the addition of foreign auxiliaries, whose valour and excellent discipline inspire the best hopes. The sacrifice will be great, though tem porary,. but the equality with which the enlistment has been made has been approved of by the nation, essentially the friend of justice. The proofs of the enthusiasm and disintereduess which I daily receive from all classes of the Stare, demonstrate that to SpaniardS nothing is ardu oils or difficult When there is a necessity for defending the throne and.the country. I have thought it advisable to give to that part of the nation armed in defence of in ternal order, and mobilized in case of need for active ser vice, the name of the National Guard, which appears to express, with the greatest exactness, the object of this salutary institution. Its regulation requires several mo difications, which will be proposed to you. Many worthy Spaniards, the greater part of those inscribed among the National Guard, have given testimony with their blood of the patriotism which burns in their hearts. I cannot forget such noble sacrifices, and have there fore ordered that the orphans of those who have perished or who may perish, at the hands of the factious victims of their attachment to the cause of their legitimate throne and the liberties of the country, may be educated at the College of the Union, a name which has appear ed to me the.most proper, inasmuch as the epoch of its foundation is also that in which all true Spaniards have . become - reconciled and reunited. Three priijects of law of the most important nature will be presented to your deliberation :—lst. Respecting the elections, which is the basis of all representative go- vernment ; 2d. Upon the liberty of the press, which is its soul (alma) ; and, lastly, upon the responsibility of mi nisters, 'which is its completion, by assuring, and at the same time rendering the inviolability of the monarchy compatible with the rights of the nation. Various useful decrees have been issued by the Secre tary of the Treasury, particularly that which tends to diminish the number of those condemned for violations. of the customs-laws, and it is grateful to my heart to re fer to this, because its object is to alleviate the unfortu nate, and to restore to society many brave hands, with benefit to agriculture and the arts, and no less advan tage to public morality. But it has not been possible yet to form a general plan for the regulation of this vast branch of the public service. I trust you will, au thorise my government to introduce into it such modifi ' cations as may be deemed advantageous, and to place them in a situation to present to a future Cortes a com plete system for the administration of the treasury. As soon as the amount of the revenue, which these modifi cations are producing, and of the whole of the ordinary and extraordinary expenditure, shall be ascertained, the accounts shall be duly laid before you ; but, under the existing circumstances of the nation, it is impossible to present any estimate at this moment. I believe my go vernment worthy of this confidence; but the cortes will trust to them as they see fit. In the judicial order many abuses have, disappeared, and a regular and uniform system has been established for the practioe of the tribunals. You will continue to apply yourselves with zeal and perseverance in the adop tion of new laws relating to and for the government of the clergy, which body, composed of prelates and other individuals full of virtue and intelligence, will not cease their labours until these measures shall be completed.. A project of law for fixing in a decorous manner the lot of the regular clergy will be presented to you. We owe thanks to Divine Providence for the good state of the public health, and for the harvest of this year, which, if not over abundant, is still sufficient. The Cortes will be made acquainted with all that has been done, and all that is meditated, in matters of adminis tration in favour of the people. " To these belong the or ganization of the Ayuntamientos and the Provincial -.l)e -putations, a new regulation of the civic governments, and the municipal and popular character which will be given to the police—the destruction of the obstacles and checks which have hitherto opposed the free transit of persons and goods from one point of the monarchy to another, and, in fine, the improvements made and pro jected in the system of instruction, for the perfection, of which no expense would appear to me excessive. The property of the corporations, the woods, and the public granaries have called for my particular attention. Alaw will be . presented - to you for the!alienation - orthe first, - drawn up in such a manner that, without diminish ing the value of these estates, or prejudicing the towns, the product of their sale may cover the expenses of the system of roads and canals which it is contemplated to establish within a few years, and which being favoura ble to transit and to commerce, will give a value to pro duce, and consequently to estates, the price of which will rise in proportion as they are thus fertilized. Pri vate wealth and that of the state will increase thus in ra pid progression, and the nation a l property, devoted t o the extinction f the national debt, will be sold at its just value : much more if the. public granaries, being pre served for their ancient and beneficent purposes, are made to serve also as the basis of provincial banks, which shall be formed to favour the speculations of industry; and among these the most important in its - consequences, public and private, is the purchase of the national pro perty. The government, convinced that it is never a good administrator of this class of property, proposes, with the concurrence of the cortes, to make an imme diate sale of all that is now in its possession, and of all that, from similar causes, may belong. to it in future. The system of communication, which is of the greatest necessity to Spain in material organization, refers to the convention concluded with her Most Faithful Majesty re specting the navigation of the Douro, which will be ex tended to that of the Tagus, the Minim, and Guadiana. Such are, illustrious Proceres and gentlemen Procure", dores of the kingdom, the important questions which are to be submitted to your deliberations. From the loyalty, patriotism, and wisdom which distinguish you, I hope for the most happy results. A representative government is that which is most conformable to real civilization : my intention is that this nation, so worthy of being free and happy, shall enjoy the liberties which emanate frorn that regime, united with public order—a requisite condition in all human society. This magnanimous people have made, and continue to make, great sacrifices to sustain the throne of my august daughter. My name is associ ated, perhaps by a particular disposition of Heaven, with these generous efforts; and I shall spare neither watch fulness nor sacrifice to obtain for the Spaniards a worthy recompense in the . consolidation of their liberty and their future happiness. LONDON AAW AND POLICE COURTS. COURT OF CHANCERY-MONDAY. IN THE MATTER OF ISAAC. Mr. Girdlestone moved, under the statute of 6 Anne, c. 18 for-an order to - compel John Isaac, of Liverpool, to pi o:luce a woman named Elizabeth Grindley, one of the cestui rine vie in a lease of lends made by. a. gentleman of Lancashire, named Lloyd, to certain persons now represented by the defendant Isaac. The application was supported by affidavits, stating that two of the erstai que vie had been dead fur some time, and that it was believed the third, namely Elizabeth Grindley, was bowels() dead, as Isaac, notwithstanding repoated demands, has refused to produce her, or state where she was to be - found. The application was made on the part of Mrs. Lloyd, the widow of the granter, and the reversioner, under his will, to the lands in question. . Sir C. Pepys having looked into the affidavits, made the order as prayed. COURT OF EXCHEQUER-MONDAY. WANLEY V. SMITH. This was an action upon a bond given by defendant to the overseers of the parish of Alyddleton, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, to indemnify thew from all liability to charge for the maintenance of defendant's illegitimate offspring. The bond was given before birth, and by it defendant bound himself to defray all costs of maintenance, &c., of his child, so that it should not become chargeable to the parish. In the progress of time the child grew up to manhood, married, and, after he had arrived at the age o f twenty-one, became chargeable to the parish. The overseers brought their action upon the bond for £2O costs incurred in maintenance. To the declaration the de fendant pleaded that the pauper, having attained his majority of twenty-one years, the bond was no longer obligatory upon him. To this plea plaintiff demurred. Mr. Henderson now argued in support of the demurrer. The conditions of the bond, he contended, were absolute. The obligor bound himself to save the parish harmless from all costs for the maintenance of his illegitimate offspring, and this obli gation was not limited to any particular period or portion of the life of the pauper. The breach had arisen, and the defendant could not evade reimbursing the parish in the amount of costs to which they had been exposed. The word "child" in legal instruments was not to be taken ltierally. The court considered the plea a good answer to the declara tion., The chargeability of the party, as contemplated by the bond, ceased upon his coming of age. EXPARTE VISCOUNTESS KIRKWALL. Mr. 'Miller applied to the court for a writ of habeas corpus to bring up the body of Viscountess Kirkwall, who had been forcibly carried off under very extraordinary circumstances. The learned gentleman said there were many circumstances ,connected witti the case whichit would not be advisable to inen.- lion in open court. instead, therefore, of reading t)se whole Of t , the lou affidavits upon which he founded his motion he would simply state their substance. The learned gentleman then pro ceedid to state that certain individuals, whose names he would not in that stage of the proceedings mention had procured the arrest of the Viscountess Kirkwall to answer sinister de signs of their own. Her ladyship, knowing there were writs out agaitist her, had been obliged to conceal her place of abode. These debts, he ought to mention, remained unpaid solely be cause the Earl of Orkney, her ladyship's father-in-law, pre vented her front receiving her rents. Two actions had ansen out of these proceedings, and in both he was instructed. While these suits were pending, her ladyship, only a few days ago, was arrested by a sheriff's officer, and carried to a lock-up house. While there she communicated to her attorney her suspicion that Lord Orkney entertained some project against her per sonal liberty, and she instructed him to apply to that court. She had not long been detained at the lock-up house before she was informed that she was at liberty to leave it, her debts having been settled. Upon her descending to the street door she was seized and forced into a carriage, Lord Orkney taking his seat upon the box. The carriage drove off rapidly, notwithstanding the cries of murder and loud supplications for aid uttered by the viscountess. Representations were made at the time that the party were only going to take their prisoner to Whitecross street, but upon inquiry in that quarter no such person was to be found. In fact she had not since been beard of. There were many other circumstances in the case with which he did not think it necessary to trouble the court. He believed he had stated enough to induce the court to grant the writ. He had formerly obtained a writ in a similar case where the parties were the wife and son of a very old man who was in his dotage. Mr. Baron Parke.—ho you know who now detains Lady Kirkwall? Mr. Miller.—lt is supposed she is in Lord Orkney's house, about twenty miles from Loudon. Mr. Baron Parke.—You may have your writ; and let it be made returnable the day after to-morrow. The plaintiff is not supposed to be privy to this transaction ? Mr. Millen—The only person suspected is Lord Orkney. Mr. Baron Parke.—Do you imagine the Earl of Orkney is acting in collusion with the plaintiff? Mr. Millen—We do not. my lord. Rabear granted, returnable_ last day of Term. COURT OF EXCHEQUER.-TCESDA Y. (RECOVERY OF COSTS FOR ATTENDING REVISING BARRISTERS' counT.) SOAMES v. R.kWLINS.—COURT OF REQUESTS.—The particu lars of this case have already appeared in the Morning l'ost of Thursday last, when Mr. Kelly obtained a rule for the Com missioners of the Court of Requests to show cause why a prohi bition should not be issued to stay further proceedings upon an order of the Commissioners, calling upon the defendant to pay an award of compensation to the plaintiff fur loss of time in at tending before the Revising Barristers to defend his right to vote in the election of members of parliament. Mr. Fenn, the bookseller, of Charing-cross, now appeared to show cause on behalf of the Commissioners, of whom he was one. Mr. Kelly, at the request of Lord Abinger, stated the grounds upen which the rule had been obtained. Lord Abinger asked if the reform act centained any provision entitling the plaintiff to costs ? r. Kelly—None at all. " Lord Abiuger objected to Mr. Fenn showing cause, because he had not taken out an office copy of the affidavit, whirls the court required in all such cases. The court could nut make a distinction in favour of Mr. Fenn. Mt. Walker (one of the counnissioners) observed that,„tie the commissioners gave their services gratuitously for the further. ance of justice, they ought not to be put to the expense of taking office copies of affidavits. They were, besides, servants of the crown, and ought, therefore, to be defended by the law officers of the crown. Mr. Kelly said he was willing to waive any objection on that ground. . Mr. Baron Alderson said that the object of the rule was to produce a revenue, so that the public were concerned in their adherence to the rule. Mr. Feint was then allowed to proceed. He stated at length the circumstances that occurred in the Court of Requests. Ti7e defendant was formerly a parish officer, and having been dis charged from that employment he obtained occupation front the conservative committee in objecting to voters. He held in his hand one of his notices. The court intimated to Mr. Fenn that he must confine hint self to the question before the court, as contained in his affidavit. Mr. Fenn said that one of the grounds upon which it was al leged the order of the Court of Requests had been obtained was, by a political bias on the part of the commissioners. Now lie could declare, by virtue of hi s oath, that this allegation was un founded. The commissioners had given the subject their best consideration, and had conscientiously decided upon the merits of the question as they understood them. Mr. Baron Parke—We have nothing to do with politics here. Political considerations had nothing to do with the reasons upon which the rule was granted. Mr Fenn contended that the Reform Act gave power only to object to voters whose names ought not to be on thelist. It gave no power to make objections to persons who had a legal right to vote. He (the plaiiitiff) bad a right to vote, but in consequence of his having been served with a notice of objection by the de fendant, he had attended before the Revising Barristers for three days, and by proving his title to a vote shown that the de fendant's objection had no good foundation. Mr. Baron 'Alderson—ll he was wrong, the case ought to have been tried in another court. Mr. Fenn.—This is a court of conscience to try right and wrong between man and man. Lord Abinger.—lf there was a charge of assault made before you,*you would convert it into a debt? .Mr. Fenn.—The plaintiff has a large family, and his time is very valuable to him. I think that in equity the plaintiff is en titled to his claim, and nothing on earth will induce me to think otherwise. The defendant brought the plaintiff three days be fore the revising barrister, and I think he was entitled to com pensation. Mr. Walker considerid that if they refused to entertain this case, the Court of King's Bench would grant a mandamus to compel them. if a prohibition were issued in this case it would considerably limit the business of the Court of Requests. It was customary with the magistrates, if a person broke a window in the street, to send the party before that court to decide it. Lord Abinger-said that the court were of ()Pinion that the Court of Requests had jurisdiction over nothing but debts, and in deciding on such 'matters they could exercise their jurisdic tion equitably or legally, but beyond it their power did not ex tend. No doubt they had acted through mistake in this case, and though inconvenience might arise from circumscribing the business of the court, it was for parliament, and not for this court, to apply their remedy.—Rule made absolute. COURT OF KING'S BENCH.—TVESDAY • • I CRIMINAL INFORMATION.—REF V. HAYWOOn. Sir'W. Follett (with whom was Mr. Sydney Taylor) said he was instructed to apply to the court, on behalf of Lieut.-Colonel Wile - Menne:if - asset Vairman, for a rule to show cause why a criminal information should not be filed against Mr. Joseph Haywood, for a letter written by Mr. Haywood to Lord Ken. yule. Colonel Fairman stated in his affidavit that he was, and had been for twenty years, a member of the Loyal Orange As sociation, and that the members of it were not bound together by any illegal oaths. Lord Denman asked whether he said that they were bound by any oaths whatever? for if they were, this court could not take Isis construction as to the legality of the oaths. Sir W. Follett replied that the affidavit stated that they were not bound together by any oaths, hut that the professed and real principles and objects of the members of the association were to the utmost of their power and ability to maintain and pre serve the succession of the crown of those realms, as by law es tablished. On the 24th October last a letter was received by Lord Kenyon, at his residence in the country, from Mr. Hay wood, and - that letter had since been shown to other persons, who had identified the handwriting ; that letter was the ground of the present application fur a criminal information ; it pur ported to be addressed to Lord Kenyon, and was to this effect : "October 21, 1835. "My Loyd,—On Sunday.last I received a circular, purport ing to emanate from your lordship, having your lordship's name affixed thereto, as D. G. M. of England and Wales, though in reality I conceive it to be the effusion, of your officious agent, for savours much of his malignant temper and traitorous dis position. It is addressed— . To the true, and loyal Orangemen of England.' Be it so. Then I aver it to be quite adapted to the brethren alluded to in the circular, but who your lordship would now seemingly wish to expose; in doing which your loru ship is perhaps not aware of exposing yourself. The brethr e n who met me at Wakefield are Orangemen, claiming and main taining their civil rights and religious liberties. as secured to them by Kind William 111., Prince of Orange, whose name we bear, cherishing the principles of our creed as publi s h e d b y your direction—viz., hating no one on account of his religious- opi nions. We bear true allegiance to his Majesty, which, I pre sume, is more than yonr pretended brothers do, as I shall here after notice to your lordship; for when I read the sycophant language of the ex-colonel in the circular, it remind s use o f t h e hired menial's mission and conduct on his late tour throughout the country, at one guinea per diem, coach-hire, &c., whom the illustrious, high-principled, and inflexible G. M., (as you term him in the circular.) and yourself eulogised so much for his ser- s vices in supporting he Orange cause. He was sent on a second tour, as appears by the Grand Lodge circular of Feb. 15, 1833, upon the same expenses, with incidentals allowed ; and because I exposed his extravagance and wilful waste at Airdie, in Scot- land, (where he distributed money and wine in the streets,) I have been thwarted by him with all the arrogance he was 'nes ter of. When you last wrote me, your lordship dictated bro therly love and good feeling; 'if so, why send, through the use dium of Your hireling, a circular, and leave the post to pay, when your-lordship might. have franked it as before? But why send one at all? Why threaten us with cancelling our war rants, and expelling us? We tell you again, my lord, as we told you before in a printed circular I drew up at Wakefield, that we had entirely withdrawn ourselves from the Grand Lodge, oa account of your exactions and tyranny, by not only compel liug our principles, but our money, to support it. My lord, this exposition of us, as you term it, is an exposition of yourself, and I have no doubt will soon be found out, to your. lordship's mor tification. Your lordship, in the circular, says nothing about ali the lodges in London having tendered in. their resignations to the Grand Lodge, except 2i6, William Thompson, a man of your own. No, this would not suit your lordship. " Now, my lord, as exposition seems to be the order of the day, I should wish to ask your lordship a few questions on the subject. Did not his R. 1:1. as G. M., and your lordship as D. G. M., know what your missionary, Colonel Fairman, had done on his first tour in 1832? or, rather, did he not act under his R. H's and your lordship's directions? and was he not under those directions instructed to sound the brethren how they would be disposed in the event of the King (William IV.) being de posed, which was not improbable, on account of his sanctioning the reform of parliament? and, if so, it would become the duty of every orangemen to support his R. H., wh would then in all probability be called to the throne. And was he not echoed at Barnsley, when putting these questions, by a bloodhound in the shape of a man calling himself a loyal brother, saying, • he wished every catholic was placed at the mouth of a 36-pounder, and he had the filing of it off, he would blow them to - ?' • " Now, then, my lord, if the diminutive agent did make such an oration, you must know of it; and, if so, I would ask you who ire the true orangemeu of England?" Colonel Fairman stated that he believed the part of the letter speaking of the " traitorous designs" alluded to him. The part of the letter of which Colonel Fairman chiefly complained was that which charged him with having sounded the brethren of the association as to their willingness to support his Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland in the event of his present Majesty being deposed, Lord Kenyon's affidavit stated, that for _fourteen years he had been Deputy Grand Master of the Loyal Orange Institution, and that he never instructed Lieut.- Colonel Fairman, or any other person, to sound the brethren . how they felt disposed, in the event of King William IV. being deposed on account of his sanctioning the reformed government, nor did he instruct the said Lieutenant-Culonel Fairman, or any other person, that, in the event of his Majesty being de posed, it would become the duly of every orangeman to support his Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland, who would then in all probability be called to the throne, as the said Joseph Haywood had falsely insinuated ; nor did he give any. instruc tious or orders to the said Lieutenant-Colonel Fairman, or to .any other person connected with the Loyal Orange Institution, or to any other person whomsoever, than what were consistent with the allegiance and duty of loyal and faithful subjects of his 'Majesty, and the preservation of the succession to the crown of these realms as bylaw established. The affidavit also stated, that during the time his lordship had exercised the office of Deputy Grand Master of the Loyal Orange Institution he never knew, nor suspected, nor did helelieve that any design to alter the succession of the crown, or any disloyal or treasonable de sign was entertained by that body collectively, or by any of its members. . Lord Denman inquired on what day the letter of the defend ant to Lord lieu non bore date ? Sir W. Follett replied ou the 21th of October last. Col. Fairman, in his affidavit, says he never did receive any direc tions, instructions or request, desire or suggestion, from any person or persons whomsoever, to sound the brethren or mem bers of the • Loyal Orange Institution, or any person whatso ever, or to inquire of or ascertain from such brethren or any other person or persons whatsoever, bow they or either of them felt or might feel disposed in the event of our Sovereign Lord tlie King being deposed on account of his sanctioning the re formed government, nor was he instructed by any person that, in the event of his Majesty being deposed, it would become the duty of every orangeman to support his Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland, who would then, in all probability, be called to the throne; nor did he ever receive any instructions or orders from any person connected with the institution that were not strictly consistent with the allegiance and duty of all loyal and faithful subjects of his Majesty, and the preservation of the succession to the crown of these realms, as by law esta: tablished. He further says he never did tell or inform the said Joseph Haywood, or any other person whomsoever, that he had been directed by Lord Kenyon to sound the brethren how they felt disposed, in the event of his Majesty Kin g Willi am lA'. being deposed, which was not improbable, on account of his sanctioning the reformed government; and if so it would then become the duty of every oraugeman to support his Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland, who would then. in all pro bability, be called to the throne; and that he never did, directly or indirectly, sound the brethren or any of them as to how they felt disposed in the event of his Majesty being deposed on ac count of his Majesty sanctioning the reformed government ; nor did he ever address language of the like purport or meaning to the said Joseph Haywood, or any other person ; and that he never did put any questions, either at Barnsley or elsewhere, to that or the like eifect; and that the insinuations to that effect in the libel are wholly untrue, and without foundation. Lord .Demnan asked when Col. Fairman first knew of this letter having been written? Sir W. Follett said that he knew of it shortly after the pub lication 'had taken place. An affidavit could now be prepared to account for the-delay in making the motion. The del;:y arose from the absence from town of Col. Vairmau's solicitor. The application was in time, according to the rules of the court. Lord Denman said that it wa s; - but that as this was an appli cation to their discretion, the court liked to be satisfied as to the circumstances on which that discretion wr.s to be exercised. Rule granted. MELANCHOLY CATASTROPHE, (From the Greenock Adcertixer.) ,ROUT FORTY LIVES LOST, AND CONSIDERABLE PROPERTY DESTROYED AY INUND tTION. On Saturday night, the eastern extremity of this town, and a portion of the adjoining village of Cartsdyke, were the scene of the most awful catastrophe that ever occurred in this part of the country. In consequence of the heavy rains which have fallen so frequently of late, Beath's Darn, or, as it is popularly called, the nVltiu Hill Dam," and which has latterly become the pro perty of the &taws Water Company, burst its banks, and poured its waters down upon the low grounds with a force that swept everything before it. For some time before the flood reached the houses, the noise made b y its approach was heard by numbers, who were utterly unable to conjecture the cause of the sounds which assailedtheir ears :—some supposing them to proceed from a sudden and vio lent gale of wind ; while others conceived them to be caused by the rapid progress of numerous heavy loaded vehicles on some of the distant streets of the town. The real cause, however, was soon apparent; fur, shortly after eleven o'clock, an lin mense body of water cause rushing down Cartsburn, bearing 'with it several huge trees, and having swept away the substan tial bridge over it near Cartsburn House, proceeded along the street of the same name in a solid mass upwards of seven feet deep. Nor was this street the only channel through which the waters found their way to the river; for, breaking down the wall of Mr. M'Farlane s tannery, by the side of Cartsburn, it spread across the tanwork, and burst in the back doors and windows of the houses at the head of Stanners-street, in Carts dyke, while another Mass came round the top, and flowed down the street with scarcely less impetuosity than in Cartsburn-street. The main branch of the torrent, on meeting with obstruction on the north side of Rue-end-street, rolled rapidly to the west ward along that street, as far as to Virginia-street, passing up with great rapidity the various streets on the south side of Rue eud-street. The first appearance ln St. Andrew's-street was very striking. Coming in the direction it did, the inhabitants were impressed with the idea that the sea had burst its bounds, and was about to submerge the town. Almost immediately after, however, this recoiling stream was met by one of the di rect branches of the main torrent, and was driven back with great velocity. That portion of this branch, which could not find vent by Carnock-street, broke down the walls of a coal yard and stable, and rushed across the gardens between Carts burn and St. Andrew's-streets, overthrowing several strong walls in its course. _ To give anything like an adequate idea of the appalling scene, when the torrent was at its height, to those who neither saw it at the time nor have since witnessed its desolating effects, is ab solutely impossible. From the soddenness and overwhehning force of the eruption, it was well calculated, under the most fa vourable circumstances, to strike all who were near it with ter ror; but when the hour at which it occurred,'and the great darkness of the night, are taken into consideration, it Will easily be seen how much its dreadful character was increased. There can be no doubt whatever that these circumstances added ma terially to the amount .of mortality which it has occasioned. Many of its victims were surprised in their beds, and drowned before they could leave their houses ; while the fate of others was, doubtless, accelerated by the means to escape, which, in the confusion-and darkness, they had erroneously adopted. The greatest loss of life occurred in Stainers' -street : this is, no doubt, attributable to the free scope which the torrent had over Mr. M‘Farlane's tan-yard, and the substantial new houses in Arthur-street preventing the water from proceeding directly towards the sea. .• The consequence was that the first intimation many of the inhabitants had of the approaching inundation, was the beating of the waters on the back doors and windows of the ground-floors, and which; aided by the floating timbers they carried on their bosom, soon burst their doors and windows, completely filling every apartment. In one house adjoining the back of •the tan-worit, occupied by Peter Douglas, grocer and shoemaker, were himself, his daughter, about 17 years of age, and his son, a bay about 14 years, the whole of whom, the entire family, were drowned. A neighbour, in the same floor, widow Fergusou, into whose house the water forced its way by the back window which had been broken by a floating cart wheel, had implored the►n to come out; he insisted, however, that their main chance of safety vas to remain where they were. While he was speaking, his window was burst open, and in an instant himself and his family here overwhelmed by the flood. Mrs. Ferguson, who was in the passage speaking to Douglas, was borne by the water into the front street, and perished in the current, which now rushed with resistless velocity. Her daugh ter, about eighteen years of age, from whom the above particu lars were obtained, and who was in bed at the time, was also carried away, and was ultimately picked up alive, floating in the river on a piece of timber near Cartsdyke Quay, by some persons in a boat. John M`Fadzean, a founder, who lodged in the same house, was carried away at the same time and drown ed. In almost every house on the same side of the street like fatal casualties occurred. In one six out of eight persons in the house perished, and next door four out of six lost their lives. Most of them were asleep when the water broke in, and w•e►e • drowned in their beds. When the water burst into the house of William Docherty, which is the first at the head of Stanners-street, both the apart ments were nearly filled to the roof in an instant. He and his wife seized a child each, and rushed to the front door. By this time the back door had been completely broken in, and the cur rent, rushing through the passage into the street, closed the front door against him as he was running out, and held him , jammed in that position till the fl oo d su b s id e d. Hi s w if e nos also pressed against the door with him, and succeeded in pre serving herself and the child. The husband's right arm, which is very severely bruised. was outside the door, while he conti nued holding up the child inside with his left. In the confusion of the moment they forget a child of two and a half years old in bed, and, being utterly unable to relieve it, it was drowned. In the adjoini ng h ouse o f Mrs. M•Gunnion Robt. MiWalter, , an old man, was drowned in his bed. A young man, a lodger, broke the pantie' above the door and leaped out jute the stream, and was carried down the street with resistless fury. On reaching the font of the street, he got hold of the floating body of a horse, anti held by it till he was picked up. On the oppo site side of the street, mu the house of a man named M'Diarmid, himself and two children were drowned. In the next house the whole family were saved in an extraordinary manner. On the water entering the house, the heshand and wife seized two chil dren each, and got on the top of a table. The water still conti nued to rise rapidly every second until it reached within a foot of the roof. The parents vontinued to hold the children as high as they could, till the mother , the water having reached her mouth, exclaimed, "Edward, Edward, all is over!" Happily at this.inoment the water subsided, and gradually descended till they were all enabled to escape. As already stated, one of the first effects of the inundation in Cartsburn-street was the overthrow of the walls of a coal-yard and stable. In the latter its occupant, Matthew Alexander, who was in at the time endeavouring to remove his horse, was, with the animal, buried under the ruins. Another horse was floated out and escaped. The unfortunate man, we understand, has left a family of eight children, all young, and, with his widow, entirely destitute. TAle Overthrow of the stable removed the chief obstruction to the progress of the wateri to the back door of the shop of Mr. M'Lea, grocer and spiritAealer, Cartsburn-street, into which the Mod now milled with unchecked violence. Before this the water had been forcing its way partially by the front door, but 'now it had full scope, and drowned Mrs. APLea and her daughter, a . girl about three years old. Her other children, through the instrumentality of her servant, escaped to the floor above. The property in the shop was entirely destroyed, and about £BO in notes lost from the till. The husband was i❑ a shop belonging to him near Cartsdyke Quay Head at the time, with a son about twelve years old: they both escaped, though the property in the shop cohere they were was partially destroy ed. From the position in which the bodies of Mrs. M'Lea and child were found, it is supposed that at the first rush of the tor rent into the house she had gone to lift the girl from the bed, and was drowned in the act. An elderly woman, named Grace Reid; fdimerly cook to Alex ander Dunlop, Esq., Keppoch, was drowned in a house near the foot of Cartsburn-street. She resided in the house of Chas. Lusk, a cartwright, and was in bed at the time: It is conjec tured that she attempted to rise when the water came in, but had stumbled in the dark and fallen, and, being a very heavy woman, was unable to regain a footin g . Sh e was found drowned immediately in front of the bed. Charles Lusk and his son, the only other inmates, escaped. Mrs. Salmon, an aged woman, who inhabited a bowie adjoin ing, but entering from Carnock-street, was fonnd dead tinder a cart belonging to Mathew Alexander, whose death is mention ed above. The circumstances attending her fate are lot known. In a house in Cartsburn-street, nearly opposite Mr. M'Farlane's tan-yard, th e w if e o f Mr. Colin Paul, plasterer, and one of her children, were drowned. In St. Andrew-street, the casualties were fewer in number than in the other streets we have named. The water in it ne ver rose so high, and none of those who kept their houses have perished. In one instance, however, on the wall of an adjoin ing garden giving way, a man named M'Latchie went out with two children in his arms, and his wife followed with a third— their entire family. The force of the torrent carried the whole off their feet. The man was brought up by a lamp post at the foot of the street, with a force that separated him from his children, who, however, were ultimately rescued, as was the one in the charge of Mrs. M'Latchie. She was less fortunate, being taken out of the water dead. In a house in Rue End -street, situated between the building yards of Messrs. Robert Steele and Co. and Mr. James M'Millan, an elderly man named Stewart, and two of his grand children, were drowned. Mrs. Tulloch, who keeps a grocery shop in Cartsburn-street, • was serving a customer, when she first heard the noise of the •approaching torrent. She ran instantly tot the door, and de scribes the appearance of the flood as resembling a huge white mass of great height. She attempted to . shuttle:l door, but the flood forced its way. She then retreated into •a back room, and got upon the roof of a bed, where she clung tilllhe waters sub sided. So critical was her situation, that while the crown of her head touched the roof, the water rose to her chin. The girl whom she was serving in the shop, when she first heard the noise attempted to gain a similar position, but fell, and was ulti mately picked up among some of the furniture in a state of in.! sensibility, and still remains in great danger. Mr. M'Alpine, an officer of excise who lodged in the house, who had been asleep in . bed, clung for seine time to the side of the window, the frames having been wholly destroyed, but was ultimately carried away. Fortunately, while afloat, •he caught hold of a lamp-iron at the corner of the house, to which he kept a grasp till the water had fallen sufficiently low to enable him to de scend. Mrs. Tulloch's daughter, on the first breach of the water, got out of bed, and attempted to make for the door, but was opposed by her mother, who advised her to go back to her bed, which might perhaps float and save her. Tfte young woman obeyed, and the result justified the soundness of the ad vice, for although the water rose to the height of six or seven feet, she floated securely, without being wet. Mr. Duncan Baxter, grocer and spirit dealer, adjoining Mr. M'Lea's, the death of whose wife and child we have men tioned above, had, with his whole family, a very narrow escape. When the water forced its way into his house, the whole in mates who were at the time out of bed, rushed out by the back door, and gut up stairs to the flat above ; but Mr. and Mrs. Baxter had no sooner reaphed a place of safety, than they found that two of their children were left behind. Mr. Dunning, into whose • house they had gone, and who is a tall powerful man, volunteered to rescue them. He descended accordingly, and, on entering the house, discovered the bed on which the children lay floating on the top of the water, and its , ccupants enjoying a sound sleep quite unconscious of their danger- They joined the rest of the family in safety. Mr. and Mrs. Beith, who occupy a shop and house immedi ately opposite Mr. M'Lea's, effected their escape by a back window, fr om which they got upon an outside stair, which they' scarcely t cached when their house was completely filled with water. One of the houses in Cartsburn-street, which was severely ex posed to danger by this calamity, was Shanks'-land, which is built close to the side of Cartsburn, the centre of the inundation. The ground floor at the southern extremity is occupied by Mr. Beattie', grocer, and his family. The first rush of the water burst in the frait window, and the inhabitants endeavoured to save themselves by getting upon chairs and other pieces of fur niture, which were soon set afloat. Mr. Beattie clung to a sofa with his wife, whose head he with great difficulty kept above water. Fortunately the table at which they had been sitting in a back room, and on which stood a lighted lamp, was also borne aloft so erectly that the light was not extinguished. This enabled him to use the best means of escape, which he ultimately eacted by , a winding stair at the back of the house communicatiug with the floors above, the residents of Which were ready *to assist them. A child belonging to them was first picked up in a state of insensibility, but by using the proper means was completely restored. A young girl, Mr. Beattie's niece, was next got out, but she was so far gone that nearly half an hour elapsed before she manifested any signs of returning animation. Several people escaped by those above them breaking through their floors and pulling them up. The appearance of the channel of the stream is entirely changed. Between Mr. Kennedy's mill and Cartsburn-street, in some places four, six, eight, and ten feet-of soil have been removed, and the bed of the stream altered. Rocks have been carried away front seine places, and in numerous others laid low. Large and tall trees have been torn ap by the roots, and carried to a distance that is almost unaccountable. Huge moulds, some of them weighing two and three tons, were carried( out of the foundry of Messrs. Scott, Sinclair, and Co., and de posited in Cartsburn. Immediately above , the dam of their work there was a very pretty cascade, but the torrent made a clean sweep of the rocks over which the water fell, with the shrubs and trees upon the margin; leaving nothing to indicate that a water-fall had ever been there. 'rite great iron-grating, inteeded to keep large bodies from passing into the dam, al though apparently weighing not less than five tons, was lifted from its place and thrown up on the bank, which is of consider able height. It is impossible to give anything like an adequate idea of the amount of property destroyed, but that it must have been nu amuse will be readily admitted by all who have witnessed the desolate appearance of the streets through which the torrent passed: '1 he ground !loots of the greater number of the houses in Cartsburn and Rue End-streets being occupied as shops, and these having been all flooded to a great depth, the most of their contents have been entirely destroyed. The tan work of Mr. Thomas MParlaue was swept of nearly its whole stock; and in that of Messrs. James Arbuckle and Co, which was not quite so thoroughly cleared, the damage done has been esti mated at £1,50U. 'rhe flint mill of the Clyde Pottery Com pany, which is the nearest to Beath's dam, had one side of the building, including the casing of the water wheel, completely demolished. The wheel itself was covered so completely by trees and brushwood that for some time it was supposed to have shared the same fate, A stout bridge adjoining was carried away, as was one a little lower. Between this and Cartsburn mill a smaller dam was borne away by the weight of the torrent, and added its supplies to the inundation, which now left nothing but bare rocks to mark its progress. The corner of a forge, at tached to Cartsburn mill, was swept away with a large stalk that surmounted it. A horse bought the same day for £3O, and several sheep, pigs, carts, Sec., were also borne down by the flood. The horse was found drowned near Cartsburn-street. A quantity of grain and several bags of flour were likewise car ried off, but some of the latter were deposited by the flood in the mill of Messrs. Lindsay and Graham, which is used for rasping dyewoods. This mill sustained less damage than might have been expected from its situation, and its safety is no doubt at tributable to a large quarry close to the burn on the opposite side, which diverted part of the waters into a new channel, wherein it still flows. It next reached the dam of Messrs. Scott, Sinclair, and Co., of which not a vestige is left, and broke into the moulding shop of their foundry, the heavy contents of which it tumbled about, and, as we have elsewhere stated, seve ral huge moulding boxes of great weight lying outside were borne away into the burn. It will be satisfactory to those in terested, at a distance, to learn that none of the wood in the timber ponds in the neighbourhood has been carried away, which is doubtless owing to the free space there afforded for the flood to dissipate itself into the sea. Great as has been the destruction of both life and property by this deplorable casualty—and the full amount of both it is impossible as yet to ascertaiu—the time within which it was effected was vet y short. The torrent took only ten minutes to rush past Cartsburn grain mill, the people connected with which had a very . narrow escape. In the town, front the various ob structions it met with, it of course took a longer ti me to dissipate. but even there it had fallen comparatively low within about a quarter of an hour or twenty .minutes of its first appearance. We are well aware that those who were in imminent danger incline to believe that its duration was much greater —some even affirming that it continued for upwards of an hour. But besides the truth of the saying that " sad hours seem long," which-would justify us in believing them guilty of unconscious exaggeration, we know, front actual observation, that their statements are incorrect. It was as near as possible a quarter past eleven when the torrent made its first appearance in such a way as to excite alarm, and by a quarter to twelve, although the streets were still covered with water, it was not in such quantities as to endanger life, and was becoming less every minute. As might have been expected, this melancholy catastrophe excited touch sympathy among the, inhabitants of the other portions of the town, and early on Sunday morning the provost, sheriff, and other local authorities arrived upon the spot, where they remained till the day was far advanced. The procurat o r fiscal arrived at six in th e mo rning, and continued the whole day. Every assistance which could be given was afforded to the sufferers, and the Rev. Mr. Menzies, the minister of the parish, intimated to his congregation in the forenoon that at the second service a collection would be made for the relief of their name diate wants. He likewise set on foot a subscription among; the more opulent people of the neighbourhood for the same purpose. A meeting of the town council was held list night, at which measures for giving immediate assistance, in food, clothing, and lodging, to those who had been left destitute, were agreed to and entered upon; and at two o'clock this day a public meeting was held with the same view. Provost Macfie was called to the chair.• He regretted the melancholy occasion which had drawn them together, and stated how touch the magistrates had been indebted to the exertions of the gentlemen whom the casualty had attracted to the _spot, in their endeavour to reliev e th e di s teess of the survivors. He par ticularly alluded to Mr. Steele, whose exertions well merited the eulogy, and concluded by calling upon all who were able,_ to come forward liberally, stating that the subscripti o n li s t had been headed by Sir Michael Shaw Stewart, who had put down two hundred guineas for the Shaws Water Company and one hundred fur himself. This announcement was received with marked approbation. A committee was then named to collect subscriptions, and one, consisting of several members of coun cil, the minister and kirk session of the east parish, and the Rev. Messrs. Moserip and Stark, to relieve the present necessi ties of the destitute. A letter from Mr. Wallace to the provost, depl o ri ng the calamity, was also read. On the motion of Hailli e Stewart, thanks were voted to Sir M. Shaw Stewart for his be nevolence on the occasion, which were given by acclamation. Sir Michael made a short but feeling reply, in the course of which be remarked that he was the more affected by the ea-. lamity from the reflection that the dead and living sufferers were all of the po o re r classes. He moved thanks to the provost for his conduct in the chair, and more particularly for his exer tions, so worthy of a christian magistrate, in reference to the melancholy affair which had brought them together. The pro- Yost made a brief reply, and the subscription paper was sent' round.- and before the meeting broke up between EtPO and MO was subscribed. NOVEM II R 27. 1.5:35. THEATItg-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL, A i r RS. CLARKE most respectfully announces that b et .1.V.1 BENEFIT will fake place ou Monday next, the Oa instant, On which occasion Mr.• KEAN, on his return fru g , Ireland, has kindly offered the aid of his valuable services. Oa will sustain the character of Sir Giles Overteach, in the play of A NEW WAY TO PAY OLD. DEBTS, Positively his only appearance. The grand Mu s i ca l D rama o f BLUE BEARD will be pro duced (for this night only) with all the splendour with whic h , it was revived last season ; and, to give every ssible effect to the Piece, Mr. ATKINS the spirited Pro ietor of the l ac ' logical Gardens, h as i n th e most liberal Liner granted per mission for the stupendous ELEPHAN' tAJAH, belongnig. to that Establishment, to appear in the rocessiou, in the Fi rst Act, bearing Blue Beard under a rich anopy, and also carry ing on his n ec k hit young Conduct , who is ,cons tant at tendance up o n hi m . The rare and docile Animal, the large DROMEDAR Y, which has be en recently added to the Collection of Mr. Atkins, will also join in the Procession, bearing Presents for Fatima. The beautiful and curious- Animal, the LAMA, will 1115° appear; the wh o l e f orm i ng a Pageant of unprecedented attrac tion. First Night of the new Petite Comedy of the CHRISTEN ING, written by J. B. Buckstone, Esq., the Author of the suc cessful Dramas of "Rural Felicity, ' "Nfarried Life," Bze. Tickets to be had of Mrs. Clarke, No. 1, Houghton-stre et, and of Mr. Parker, at the Box-office, where Places will' be taken from Ten till Three. For the BENEFIT of Mr. ANDREWS, /AN WEDNESDAY next, December , the Musical Pill kJ of IVANHOE! A M um/tr. 0 Lro will be Performed o Zeitter and Co.'s New Patent Grand Piano-forte, by Mr. R. drews accomp an i e d by a Full Orchestra, arranged 191 hi s f expressly for t hi s occa sion, and s e l ec t e d from the most teemed works of Ignace Moschelles.—The Fall of Paris. nticipations of Scotland-- Kelvin Grove, Auld Robin Gray, Lord Moira's Strathspey. Recollections of Ireland—Groves of Blarney, Garry Owen, St. Patrick's Day; as performed by the Author, with enthu siastic applause, at the last Birmingham Musical Festival; to conclude with brilliant variations on the Swiss Mr, as com posed by Mr. R. Andrews. Mr. BEAN, of the King's Band, will perform a Fantasia 0. 11 the Trombone, in whi c h h e w ill i n t ro d uce Bi s h o p' s much ad mired Bravura Song "Should he upbraid." A variety of favourite Songs and Comic Glees, by Messrs- Frazer, Horncastle, Benwell, and Andrews. To conclude with CHARLES THE SECOND. Captain Copp Andrews. Tickets to be had of bir. Andrews, 10, Commutation-row Eif Eiberpoot Z-tanZiartl. FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 27,1835' • Some people still maintain that there will be no war between France and America. We are of a different opinion, and so are the ministerial journalists of Pariso General JACKSON has made up his mind to fight, be the result what it may. Cotton bales saved New Orleanson a late Iccasion and perhaps the General calculates that they will save New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Balti more, and the capital in the crisis whi c h is nearly rip e ' We shall see. From the very commencement of the negotiations with France General JACKSON and his party have clearly evinced their intention to make good their claims bf force of arms. That the pre s id en t an d th e v i e ws Of the president are popular in the United States is proved by the result of the elections. He h as d ec id e dly increasea his majority in the House of R e p resen t a ti ves . He has , therefore, the people with hi m; an d if h e d o not lead that people as pretty a dance a s ever was p er f o rmed la the Temple of Folly, or in any barn dedicated to liberty' and recklessness, we very much mistake the character Of the man. He is a republican madman—tierce, proud, ar rogant, and obstinate—furious, positive, and ignorant-- vain, irascible, and pugnacious —upon whom no lesson • will take effect which is not delivered in the shape of a hip-and-thigh, a regularly unmerciful and down right drubbing. We borrow the English language d America in order to make ourselves intelligible. What is meant by drubbing we leave to connoisseurs in dictionaries; and this drubbing the President and his' equals must receive to their hearts' content, before any thing like good manners or an approach to civilizatio n , can be expected in that quarter. But let us view the ease fully in front and in detail-' LOUIS PHILIPPE, commonly called the King of the French' when he was in the infancy—the helpless infancy of regal power, and glad to gain a friend anywhere, at . 'any Sacrifice—agreed that France owed and ought to paY to the l.nited States some twenty-five millions of francs-- a shabby coin, fit emblem of a beggarly country—ia compensation of certain claims set up by the citizens of 'America. LOUIS I'M:LIPPE was at that time a minor in the hands of trustees. He was like a foolish young man arrested by his tailor for a debt which he could not paY without the consent of his guardians. Anxious to avoid exposure he was induced to sign a judgment ; but, a s , every lawyer knows, the judgment was little better than a fraud, and certainly not worth more than the paper e e. which it was written. Louis PIIILIETE could not pay the alleged debt without the consent of his guardians. These were the peers and the Chamber of Deputies of France. They demurred to the contract. They alic i their predecessors had for twenty years refused to ac knowledge the debt. They in fact treated it as an jai"' position--as an usurious claim founded upon false Pre texts—as a fraud concocted by swindlers for the purpose of extorting money. This last we believe tote as oe sr the truth as possible. LOUIS PHILIPPE, however, and his ministers, both being peculiarly situated, consented' to pay the specified number of dollars demanded for the sake of peace. But their consent was a nullity, unle ss ' their draft were countersigned and indorsed by the chain = bers. The chambers refused to acknowledge it. It was' according to their decision, sto Ow bill. It was a Tot DusicomuE acceptance. It was a transaction of which mercantile men have the greatest abhorrence. They re - • solutely declared they would not disgrace themselves by having any concern in it. -General JACKSON, being an utter stranger to the for of commercial and civilized life, ventured. upon the bold experiment of drawing upon the Treasury of Paris for the sectional sum -agreed to be paid by Louis Poi' LIPPE. The draft was presented and dishonoured. The clerks and pOrters of the Treasury laughed heartily at!. the impudence and absurdity of the drawer. And well they might ! Mr. E. SMITH draws upon the Houseles9' fund for twenty pounds. " Nc," says the treasurer of the Houseless, "it may be a good bill, and the money may be due, but until the board vote the money I cannot, pay." Such is Mr. President JACKSON'S case. His bill uP Oll ' France was dishonoured. It was protested ; and various' charges upon its transit, and in the form of agency Lld . commission, were made, whit!) Mister President Was compelled to pay, rather reluctantly, and under a salute of certain guns, morally charged, which, withdut slaugh ter, inflicted a serious wound upon his pride and his re' ' -pntattort—upon his dignity and independence. BUt what does General JacKaix* do in so delicate a dilemma ? He threatens France in along speech. H e admonishes the citizens to arm in defence of his claims- He tells them that their . liberty and the dollars are jive parably mixed up, and that if they do not blow France out of the water they will be doused out of their money France, in fact, is treated, by this seventh-.rate nation, 25 the football of the Americans. She is insulted in ecerY possible way. She is called a cheat and a swindler, and every rogue in the United States is virtually instructed to consider European manners, as illustrated by those of France towards themselves, to be unsound, deceptive' treacherous, and dishonest. That may be the opinion of the empty and pugnaciou s gentleman who is the President of the -United States- He may gain some popularity with his savage citizensia spreading such sentiments. But we enter our protest against them. General JACKSON we take to be a man who, from his habits and education, does not, and cannot , ' comprehend the policy of Europe. His native pride is only exceeded by his ignorance. We take him to be a fair representative of the indigenous arrogance which ig so observable and so ludicrous in the mixed conuounitY of whites and blacks over which he rules. He takes fo r granted, being countenanced in his belief by the curio). ethics of Mr. VAN BUREN, that what the citizens conside r . to be right is right ; and, right or wrong, he threatens to maintain his position at all hazards, even at the dee" rate peril of dismembering and ruining the Commu n.. wealth. With such a man there is no dealing Within the bounds of reason. He does not reflect that there must be 21 ._ least two parties to a contract. If the one can diciale t o the other the contract ceases to be a voluntary act. act in that case resolves itself into fraud or extortion; If France consents to pay a certain sum of money to al