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gon e tsdel• nchl o II rea r ' the p r at 100,°1 1 03 ; lied ,atirelidt to 6 7, k It" e ww gb That of tion by t s !e ln e `re DY bel; cutter c. 19. f ailee B aceD i w dad Ki fr o e o f ti.- re t er ote' t Pr ornl the nand to nistil' ii Welt fat ,te be r uz itas been nam e d G ran d Major Do mo but what is niche p i ll, Portant than all, as regards the progress of Political regene ,?ticirt Art Spain, is, tha.t the, decree for the assembling of the l'ertes has been already signed by the King ; the necessary by the for completing the elections would oe gone through the middle of January. The King has, further, appointed Council of State, to consist of fouiteen members over ,Z tell he will himself preside, and through which are to lie sub- Ctted to the C or t e s the different measures of ieforni meditated the Spanish Government; among which are to be numbered „ consolidation of the whole public debt, a revision of the i ainal code, and some new arrangements with respect to lurchproperty, Couut Willie. has been appointed Minister, the Interior. DOMESTW IB.TTELLIGEDTC=. DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT. °4 Monday last was published the London Gazette Extra ordiaary,. containing the King's proclamation for dissolving ta e 'Parliament and calling another ; and some orders in Conn tit relati ve t o th e E m b ar g o on Dutch Vessels, The following is a Copy of the Royal Proclamation : MONDAY, Dec. 3. BY THE KINO.--A 'PROCLAMATION - DISSOLVING THE PRESIZNT .PARLIAMIINT, AND DECLARING THU CALLING OF ANOTIICII. WILLIAM, Ti. Whereas we have thought fit, by and with the advice of our Privy to dissolve this present Parliament, which stands prorogued ' Tuesday, the 11th day of this instant, December ; we do for that elul Publish this our Royal proclamation, and do hereby dissolve the 'aid Parliament accordingly ; and the Lords Spiritual and Terriporal, ' 41 4 the Knights, Citizens, and Burgesses, and the Commissioners for ! h ires and burghs, of the House of Commons, are discharged from th eir meeting and attendance on the said Tuesday, the 11th day of De cember neat : and we, being des';•ous and resolved, as soon as may to meet our people, and to have their advice in Parliament, do her eby make known to all our loving subjects our Royal will and plea eure to call a new Parliament ; and do hereby further declare; that' lath the advice of our Privy Council, we have given orders to our 'hancellor of that part of our United Kingdom called Great Britain, and our Chancellor of Ireland, that they du respectively, upon notice ;"reof, forthwith issue out writs in due form, and according to law, :t Calling a. new Parliament : and we do hereby also, by this our n'al proclamation, under our Great Seal of oar United Kingdom; ~.r ee lOire writs forthwith to he issued accordingly 'by our said Chancel -71 respectively for causing the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and L -° rArnons who are to serve in the said Parliament to he duly re ned to, and give their attendance in, our said Parliament ; which "t 8 are to be returnable on Tuesday, the 29th day of January next. ' dive n at our Court, at St. James's, this 31 day of Deciluber, 1032, 444 in the third year of our reign. God save the King. Theo follows a Proclamation directing the election of Sixteen . iepresentative Peers of Scotland, to take place at Holyrood `louse, on Monday, tile 14th day of January next. t ,The following are the Orders in Council :—December 3.—lt is day ordered by His Majesty in Council, that His Majesty's Or aer in Council of the 6th of November last, directing that no ships or r"s sels belonging to any of His Majesty's subjects he perinittA to "ti ter and clear out of any of the ports within the dominions of the 1,1 ,; of the Netherlands until further orders, shall not extend, or be trued to extend, to prevent any ship or vessel belonging to His is subjects from entering and clearing out for any ports or [ l : 4 M ces in the possession of, or belonging to, Ills Majesty the King of In Netherlands in the East or West Indies, or in Africa or America, ) It th at a ll suc h ships and vessels shall be permitted to enter and clear y r " for the ports and places aforesaid. as they might have done before (late of the said Order." becEwMßsrt 3.—lt is this day ordered by His Majesty in Council, 1,, t all vessels under Dutch colours, having cargoes on board consist of perishable articles, and which shall have been, or hereafter r tY be, detained after the embargo laid by His Majesty's Or in,- Council of the 6th November last, or that have been, or may ,„ t 'reafter be, sent in by any of His Majesty's ships of war in pursu -'ee of such Order, be forthwith released, and that all such vessels t t, tli their cargoes, consisting of perishable articles as aforesaid, shall Permitted to proceed on their respective voyages," koeicenE OPORTO.-The following communication has V een received by Messrs. Quarles, Harris, and Sons, in reply t) a letter from them to Lord Palmerston, requesting to be in- Poled whether his Majesty's government recognized, or inten "d to recognize, the iand blockade establised by the officer l 'oltin tan ding Don Miguel's army, as affecting British merchant \., ssei s in ballast, or not having on board provisions or muni ' 444 ns of war " Foreign Office, Nov. 29, 1832. Gentlemen,--1 am desiredby Viscount Palmerston to acknowledge t he receipt of your letter of this day's date, and to state to you, in re . Ply, that a communication has been received from his Majesty's con -541 at Oporto, by .which it appears that the general commanding the I°t ees of Don Miguel has announced his determination to resist, by l'ne los of land batteries which he has erected, the passage of all foreign rr 'e'ellant vessels into or out of the Douro ; but Lard Palmerston has 4t Present no means of judging whether this measure will prove to be 515 effectual blockade, or, if so, what will be its probable duration. (Signed) " GEORGE SURE. '` Meisrs, Quarles, Harris, and Son." OFFICIAL MOVEMENTS.—Mr. Kennedy, the newly-appointed lord of the Treasury, in the place of Lord Nugent, continues 1.0 perform the functions of Clerk of the Ordnance, in which he tkiceeeded Mr. Tennyson, but it is understood that the Hon. ,ientleinan. will shortly resign the situation, and that Colonel kla.b er ly the present General -Surveyor of the Ordnance, is to he his successor. We have not heard whether Col. Maberly's P, resent appointment is lo be filled up, or whether it is in eon 'etteplation to consolidate the two offices, Col. Maberly dis charging the duties of both.--2litas. l'oliTsmourn, Dec. I.—We are confidently told that a differ • Qnce of no trifling consideration has already arisen between the l 'rench and English governments on the subject of the Dutch the occupation of the city of Antwerp is absolutely for , L . t iclucit by . England, and the very mention of such a necessity ~l'asoccasioned a threat, that our ships will instantly be with `4rawn from the blockade. Indeed, it is asserted, that the ships are already ordered to Spithead, and that the French squadron •i 3 to retail to Cherbourg.—Rompshire Teleyraph. A.ceinENTs DURING THE THUNDER STORM.—On Sunday the ketropolis was visited with the rare phenomenon at this season cif te year of a severe storm of thunder' and lihtning accom- Dan h ied with a gale of wind of extraordinary violengce. In Black -I:riars-road umbrellas, bonnets, and hats were seen flying about SIC all directions. The lightning was very vivid,- and soon after commencement of the storm, the Jubilee, a Gravesend sail 'ag vessel, was coming up the river, in Black Wall Reach, • wfien the electric fluid struck the mast, shivered it to pieces, and s c arried the whole, and a great portion of the bulwarks, away. sail was also torn to ribands. Fortunately, the passengers 'ere below and no one was hurt. The vessel was instantly put ashor e . 'the lightning also struck the chimney-pots on the • a ,ta, tion-house in Green Bank, Wapping, and forced them upon adjoining premises -belonging . to the workhouse, and broke r ' t everal panes of glass. In the nghourhood o'fStepney several t ees were blown down, and others torn up by the roots. A s mall unoccupied house in Bromley was struck by lightning a nd much injured. The storm was severely felt in Greenwich a nd Deptford, and much damage was done.— Times. CONSERVATIVES AND REFORMERS SRETCIIED.—Mr. Wode ruse, his Majesty's Lord Lieutenant for the county of Nor rlk, has favoured us with the following just remarks :—A • 'Oieservatice.—" it is our duty to stand to the last in resistance • against any further eitertrachments upon that happy constitntion Which was once our glory and our pride. There is another I mportant principle in which we are conservatives, and 1 trust tb as time is not far distant when any gentleman—any man Who Q as any thing to lose, will join with us. We are united 'for the Preservation of property against a set of robbers and plunder ;rB. A Reformer.— 'What is the composition of many a re 4nrnaer ? Every thing that is desperate and bad. If there is , Il eh a person as an atheist, he is a reformer; every deistis teforrner every man who is a bankrupt in fortune and eharac ,er is a reformer;—every one us soon as he becomes an•oulcast ° f society immedately declares himself a zealous unflinching 17 -Lehner. A oe zealous reformer never lived than Tons e e ine. I believ m e r Mr. Nockolds, the incendiary, was also a tided reformer."—Old England. to INcEromAßism.—We do not like this word, on a principle•of t4ste, but it has crept into the newspapers, and we use •it for• t e sake of its conventional convenience. We regret to huve t° record the returning spirit of rural insurrection; but AV,3 'list that active means will be resorted to for its speedy sup-- teSsion. On Thursday se'nuight, a stack of straw, the pro •‘Tzee of 45 acres of a large wheat crop, the property of Sir. illiain Dow, in the parish .of Elm, artirisbeach, was entireiy had Stacks of oats, baltmg,ing to Mr. Retinas, h ad been previously burned.--Three stacks of barley, the pro ' r"Y of Mr. Steady, of the Harewood Arms, Ilaretrocid, were '"?nstiined on Friday se'nnight; the perpetrator of this out-- Oge was a discharged servant, who has since been appre ?puled, and has confesSed his guilt.—A hayrick, belonging to Counsell, of Lama - tack, near Blackburn, was burned to "S on the same night, and, although a reward of 'l.-:100 has offered for theaUfender, no dine to his discovery has been ; e t obtained.—On Saturday morning, a cottage on the turnpike 44/44(.1 between Evesham and Norton, was set on fire, and'lle °Yed. The incendiaries are not . yet discovexed.—A THE lAVEIZPOO GENERAL ELECTION-ISSUZNG OF THE WRIT. The Ilea= Bill does net alter the old law of elections, ex cept in such eases where there is some SPECIAL, ENACTMENT on the subject. All returning officers and - candidates should bear this in mind. Whenever a new Parliament is called. "there must be forty days between - the te.,te (or issuing) and the return of the writ of summons. Aathough the 7th and Bth of William and Mary mentions 40 days, yet, in practice 50 days intervene, in consequence of the 22nd article. of the treaty of union with Scotland,—under which Queen Anne was limited in the power of calling the first Par liament after the union, to a period or not less than .50 days from the date of the prO,;laination for assembling it. The nets Parliament, therefore, under the Refozin Bin, cannot meet until the last week in nuary next, The writs, when issued, are carried by the messenger of the Great Seal to the teneral Postoffice, and there delivered to the poSt-master or to his deputy. The deputy is to give an ac knowledgement in writing, expressing the time of delivery. The writs are to be despatched free of postage, by the first post, after they are received, under covers to the sneriffs and returning officers to whom they are directed,—accompanied' with proper directions to the post-master of the town (or nearest to the town where the returning officer shall hold his office) requiring ,him forthwith to carry such writs to such office,—and to deliver them to such officer or his deputy,—who is to give an acknowledgment of the receipt of the writ. In counties, the sheriff, on receiving the writs, should en dorse thereon the day Of receiving them, and give a receipt to the person delivering them to him, specifying the day and hour of delivery. And within two days from such receipt, the sheriff must cause proclamation to be made of a special county court to be hoiden for the purposes of the election of knights of the shire, &c. This special court must be . holden on a day fixed;—not later from the day of making such proclamation than the sixteenth day, nor sooner than Ithe tenth day. In counting these days, one day is to be reckoned inclusive, and the other exclusive. But before we proceed with the duties , of sheriffs and. other officers in counties, we shall point out the duties of the returning officers in cities, boroughs, and towns, — reserving our observations on county elections until 00-next. When the sheriff of. the county, - &c. shall have received the writ., endorsed it, and given a receipt for it, lie must forthwith make out the precepts; and, within three days after, cause them to be delivered to the proper returning officers of the boroughs and towns within his .jurisdiction. All this should be done, as it was formerly - done, at the office of the under sheriff. It is . the practice to direct or address the precept to the re turning officer. But it may be delivered, provided it be made out rightly, without addressing it to the officer by name. There is no magic in Parliamentary law more than in any other law, and toms must yield to substance. Therefore a second precept may be sent to the returning officer of the borough, if any Mistake shall have been made in the first. If the sheriff detiver the precept to any person, but the pro per officer of the city, town, or borough, entitled to return members, he is liable to be punished by the house. . The returning officer is to endorse upon the precept the day of the receipt thereof, in the presence of the party who deli vered it to him. The returning officer is forthwith to cause public notice to be given of the time and place of election, and to proceed to the erection within the space of eight days next atter his receipt of the precept, and to give four (lays notice at least of the (lay appointed for the election. It does not appear to have been determined whether Sunday is a proper or legal day, on which the notice of election might be given. But the authorities incline to the affirmative. (see Wordsworth's valuable book on Elections, p. 101 , 102 ,) The question was raised in the Bridport case, in which a petition was presented, founded upon the objection that the notice had, been given on a Sunday. But the petition not having been heard in the first session, it was not renewed. " I have, ' says the reporter, "particular reasons to think that the petitioners earnestly wished to prosecute the petition; I therefore con clude that their dropping it must have been owing to legal advice. It seems to me that the law authorises any ministerial. acts of this kind, done upon a Sunday; indeed, on account of the greater notoriety attending notices on a Sunday, many acts, merely secular, are required by law to be notified on a Sunday, and in the church. Till 29 Car. 11. it was lawful to make arrests and serve judicial processes on a Sunday. In the case of Clarkenwell (Bott 11) it was held, that an appoint ment of overseers of the poor on a Sunday was legal." In borough elections, the notice of election must be a four days' notice at least. If this direction of 7 and 8 Wm. 111. c. .25, be not complied with, it forms a sufficient cause for avoiding the election, notwithstanding the agreement of the parties. The place of the election must be that which has been sanc tioned by usage. The same practice as to the providing of polling booths, and the appointment of poll clerks, prevails in cities and boroughs,—as in counties, and cities, and towns being counties. The returning officer must provide places, and appoint com missioners for administering oaths, if required by any of the candidates, three days before the election. Also an authenticated copy of the register of voters must be provided for every polling booth of every district in which a city, borough, or town may be divided , for the convenience of voting. By the 67th sec. of the Reform act, at every contested elec tion for every city or borough in England, the poll is directed to commence on the day fixed for the election, or on the day next following, or at the latest on the third day (unless any of the said days should be Saturday or Sunday,) .and then on the Monday following. The partibular day for the commencement of the poll is to be fixed by the returning officer; such polling to continue for two days only; such two days being successive days—that is to say, for seven hours on the first (lay of polling, and for eight hours on the second day of polling. The poll is, on no account, to be kept open later than four o'clock of the afternoon of the second day. Where the booths are situated at different places of a town, city, or borough, the returning officer is to appoint a deputy to preside at each place. The several poll books, taken at the several booths by the deputies and clerks, are to be delivered sealed to the returning officer at the close of the election, — who is directed to keep them unopened until the following day,—when he is openly to break the seals of the several. books; to cast up the number of votes as they appear upon them, and openly to declare the state of the poll. He is then to make proclamathin of the member or members chosen,-- not later than two o'clock of the afternoon of the third day. There is a provision, however, of a very important kind in this clause, viz. that the returning officer may, if he thinks fit, de clare the final state of the poll, and proceed to make the return immediately after the poll shall have been lawfully closed. By the "roth sec. the returning officers are enapowered to close the poll before the expiration of the time fixed, iu any case where it might have been lawfully closed before the' passing of the Reform act. Where the proceedings are interrupted by riot or:violence, the returning officer is not for such cause finally to close the poll, but to adjourn the poll until the interruption or obstruc tion shall cease,—and the day of adjournment, on account of such riot and obstruction, is not to be deemed one of the days of election. Candidates, or persons proposing candidates without their consent, are to be at the expense of booths; and the ex penses are limited for the principal booth at a sum not exceed ing £4O, and for any district booth not exceeding £25. The depdties appointed by the sheriff are to receive two guineas per clot, and the clerks one guinea, to be paid by the candidates. }limes may be hired for polling instead of booths, and cer tified copies of the register of voters are to be delivered by the sheriff to each booth before the day of election. At the time of erection no inquiry is to be made except the three (blowing As to the identity of the voter.-2. As to the continuance of his qualification.-3. Whether he has voted before at the same election.L-Bell's 11r.tur1oN LAW.—It is important that the following provi sions of the 7 and 8 Geo. IV. 1827, c. 37, -should be generally know n : B y -sect ion I.—lf any person, shall, either during an election, or within six calendar months previous to an election, or Within fourteen days - after the, completion thereof, be employed as counsel, - agent„ at torney, poll-clerk, or in any other capacity, for the purposes of such election, and shall at any time, either before, during, or after the elec tion, take from a candidate, or from any other person whatever (for or in consideration of or in reference to such emoloyment) any sum of money, retaining fee, affice,.place, or employinint, or proirdse or secu rity for a sum of money, Bre„ such person to be deemed incapable of votnig and his vote (if given) to be utterly void. Sec:2 add 3.—No person to be hereafter elected to serve in Parlia mett ?hall, (after the test of the writ of summons, or after the place becomes - vacant iu time of Parliament, before his election,) by himself or agent, directly or indirectly, give or allow to any personh avi ng a vot6 - at the election, Or to any, inhabitant of the city or place, any cockade, *ribbon, or, other mark of distinction; under a penalty of XlO • fr , each offence. Sec. s.—No person having a right. o vote at an election shall he corn.. pelled.to serve as a special constable. at or during the election, and shall not he liable to any fine, penalty, or imprisonment, for refusing .so to act as special constable. • 'The only two pluralists in the county of Durham are, the Rector of Chester-le-street, patron, the Lord Durham; and he of'Darlington, patron, the Marquess of CleNeland. So much 'for Rdona inthetkurch by the Whigs. _, STA NDAR,I). BENEFIT SOCIETIES.—Mr. Tidd Pratt has printed, for the use of Benefit and Friendly Socities, to enable them to frame their contributions and payments upon sound principles, a series of ".tables, for providing relief in sickness and old age, for payments at death, and endowments for children," which have been computed by. Mr. Finlaison P actuary of the national debt. These tables, which are published all but gratuitously, (the price only 3d.) will afford a very useful guide to these excellent institutions. The author's observations at the end are worth attending to, particularly that which shows that the payment of 3d. per month, the usual amount of what is termed spending-money, by a member aged 38, would secure £6 at his death to his widow and family. Tabt ifnvrtsH FEELING.—A right jolly Jack Tar, a fore mast man of the Castor frigate, was brought before Mr, Conant the other day for` damning the tri-colour, and assaulting two police constables named 'arra and Truemaii. It appeared from the statement of the officers, that the defendant, as he was standing against the railings of a nobleman's house in Piccadilly, was railing against the conduct of the present ministry in suffering the nifty tri-coloured flag to fly alongside of the union jack. 'The police ordered him to go on, and being intoxicated, he 'refusea. They laid hold of him when he immediately struck them both very violently, and added with au oath it was just the way he should like to serve the ministry. Mr. Dyer, considering . that the constables in the performance of their duty had a right to be protected, fined him 15s. for each assault, and in default committed him to hard labour for three months.—On the worthy magistrates taking their seats on the bench on Wednesday morning, a messenger waited upon them with the following letter:— " Lloyd's Subscription Room, Nov. 28, 1832. " To the Magistrates at the Poliiv Office, Marlborough-street. " Gentlemen,--Commiserating the situatiou of the rough Jack Tar, James Brown, committed by your worships to the 'House of Cor rection for a too strong ebullition of British feeling when in liquor, a few individuals beg leave to forward the same for his relief. We re spectfully beg your worships will have him again before you, and, after reading lum a lecture on intemperance, whatever may remain :trier paying the fine, be so kind as to hand over to him." Two sovereigns were enclosed in the letter. Mr. Dyer im mediately ordered Wilks, the gaoler, to proceed to the House of Correction and bring the sailor up again. On his arrival the worthy magistrate said that he hoped, now the effects of the liquor had subsided, he regretted that he had assaulted the officers. Some gentlemen had very kindly enclosed the fine for him in order that he might be liberated. They had even done more for him; they had ordered a few shillings also to be given to him. He was now discharged, and he hoped he felt grateful to the gentlemen for their kindness. Probably the poor fellow would have turned his quid, but that, unfortu nately, he had no quid to turn; and on leaving the dock he hummed the beautiful lines of Dibdin:— " There's a sweet smiling cherub that sits up aloft To keep watch for the life of poor Jack." We are most happy to add that various subscriptions were made in different societies in various parts of London for the purpose of effecting the poor fellow's liberation. It is all mighty grand to fine a man for defending . himself against a constable; but why should the constable interfere, or what good does the magistracy anticipate by putting down the spirit of our seamen, of which the country has been from time im memorial so proud? The constables never interfere to prevent the most treasonable songs against the King and Queen of England being bellowed about the streets—on the contrary, when spoken to, they said they had no orders—and here, be cause a true Englishman denounces a ministry, as every Eng lishman has a right to do, for doing what no Englishman has a right to do, he is dragged to gaol.—Same!—John On Wednesday a splendid meeting took place at Glasgow, attended by five hundred of the principal merchants, manufac turers, and traders. An attempt was made by a despicable knot of the Whig retainers to defeat the obj ect of the meeting., but the resolutions against the war were triumphantly carried. MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT. — We regret to state that two stu dents of Oxford University, lost their lives on Thursday morn ing, by theupsetting of a boat on the river Thames. Mr. Gra ham, of Trinity, and Mr. Surtees, of Exeter, both undergradu ates, are the unfortunate sufferers; a third, who was in company with them, was saved with great difficulty. STOCKTON R AILWAY.—COURT OF KING'S BENCH, MONDAY. —ln the case of Rex. v. Pease and others.—Mr. Justice Park delivered the judgment of the court in this case. It was an action for a nuisance, for employing locomotive steam-engines on the Darlington and Stockton Railway, between the latter place and Yarm, by which means horses on the highway were frightened, to the great injury of persons passing along the road. The defendants justified, under an act of Parliament, and the court was of opinion that the justification was well founded, and that the legislature might have intended that the smaller inconvenience should be submitted to for the greater good. Judgment for defendants. - - - - - - COLONIAL ADMINISTRATION.-We understand that his Ma jesty's ship Jupiter, with Mr. Jeremie, and the 9th regiment of Infantry, sailed from Cork, on the 28th ult., for the Mauritius. It is apprehended by those, however, who were well acquainted with the settlement, that this force will be fouud totally insuffi cient to even effect a landing for Mr. Jeremie, as the organised white militia of the island amounts to 8,000 men, and there was a population of whites and tree blacks to the number of up wards of 38,000, all most exasperated against the new-func tionary. The slaves, who are represented as most devoted to their masters, amount to full 90,0110.—Standard. Pn'isoN BREAKING.—On Tuesday night se'nnight two pri soners named Henry Johnson, committed for horse stealing and William Danse, committed for burglariously entering the house of the Rev. J. H. Barber, and stealing a• quantity of I plate, &c. made their escape from Huntingdon gaol. After they had been locked up for the night they contrived to force thecloorsof thbir cells and of a passage leading to the roof of the ward, from which they descended by blankets fastened 'together, with which they also climbed the boundary wall. They had nothing on but the prison shirts, marked "H. C. G." . and Johnson carried off a heavy iron, rivetted upon the right leg.—A few days since three prisoners escaped from Lincoln gaol. EFFECTS OF THE WAR WITH HOLLAND.—Of all places, the ports of the Tyne and Wear have the greatest reason to depre cate a quarrel with Holland. From the ports on these rivers alone, during the present year, not less than 500 vessels have been employed in carrying coals to the Dutch ports, to say nothing of the valuable cargoes of other articles of our produce and manufactures which are constantly being shipped. The vessels thus' employed, be it remembered, are nearly all Eng lish, the Dutch not forming a fortieth part of the whole ton nage, while the capital employed is all British capital, and the wages of the seat - urn, and profits of the merchants are alike expended in our own country. And all this is suspended, the ships laid idle, and the seamen unemployed by the an-English policy of the Grey government.—lorkshire Gazette. LANDEn' s Ex.' l ITION TO AFRICA. — ShouId the expedition il succeed, it. is intent Ito form a settlement at Patashie, a large and beautiful islant in the Niger, one day's journey below Boussa. It helom..7s to the King of Wowwow, who has fre quently expressed his earnest wishes that our countrymen would come and trade with his people. From him our adventurers would receive encouragement and indulgence. From its cen tral situation and natural advantages, Patashie would afford every facility for trading . ; the natives are hospitable and oblig ing, and all the necessaries of life are in great abundance. In the course of time, this delightful island may become a central market for the sale of British manufactures; and the native African trader, from Bornou on the one side, and Timbuctoo on the other, may hereafter resort to it to supply their respective countries with the cottons of Manchester and the cutlery of Sheffield. Mr. Lauder has been supplied, by the Secretary of state for the Colonial Department, with a variety of presents for the rulers of the Nilo, or Brass River, to repay them for the losses they incurredl in procuring his brother's freedom and his own, when they were made prisoners in the Eboe country. It will be remembered, that, though they were conducted to a Bri tish vessel by the natives, on the promise of immediate reward, they were not only refused an advance of the promised ransom, but subjected to treatment more unfeeling than that which they had experienced among the uncivilized natives of Africa. It is not generally known, that those portions of the Landers' journals which were supposed to have been lost in the Niger, when they were captured by the natives, are still in existence. A shorttime since they were offered for sale, by King Boy, to the master of a Liverpool vessel, at the Bonny River, but the purchase was refused on account of the extravagant price de manded for them. Fortunately, Mr. Lander will now be ena bled, from the gifts he has it in his power to present, to redeem his own property, and thus make his late narrative more com plete. Before his departure from England, the First Lord of the Admiralty honoured him with several interviews, and, amongst other favours, furnished him with letters to the com manders of his Majesty's vessels on the African station, request in q them to forward his designs to the utmost of their ability, and to render every assistance to the interesting expedition of which lie has the command.—The Saturday Magazine. A MAN hotilti guard, in hi s youth, against sensuality ; in his manhood, against faction; and in his old age against covet ousness.—Clihiese• ltfaxim. ENtilil.—There is no saying shocks me so much, as that which I hear very often, that a man does not know how to pass his time. It wouldhave.- - been but ill spoken• by Methusalem, in the nine hundred aid sixty-ninth year of his life.—Colvley. "riA',ll.77iZw" 7 ' 77" A LE.TTEP. UP Da. BURNEY, in his memoirs just .published by his daughter, Madame d'Arblay, wiitten from Dover,-rout tains the following:—" On Friday, I visited with them Lady Grey, wife of the Commander-in-Chief, sit - the Barham Down Camp. I like Lady Grey extremely, notwithstanding is mother of the vehement 1 3 arliamentary democrat, Mr. Grey, who is as pleasing, they pretend, as he is violent, which makes him doubly dangerous. She is, indeed, a charming woman, and by every body honoured and admired; and as she is aunt to oar ardent friend Spotty, the Dean of Winchester's daughter; I was sure to be much flattered and feted by all her fancily , Sir Charles's mother, old Mrs. Grey, now eighty-five, is a grc•at and scientific reader and stuffier ; and is even 'yet in corm , - spondenee with Sir Charles Blagden; who communicates to her all the new philosophical niscoveries made throughout Europe. What a distinguished race ! The democrat himself —but for his democracy—strikingly at their head.! Mrs. Grey took to me mightily, and would hardly let• me speak to ati'v. body else. Saturday we visited Mr. and Lady MaryChntehili; oar close neighbours here, and Acquaintance of ainue . ci fifty years' standing or more. Next day, after church, I went with Miss Crewe and Canning—l serving for chaperon—to visit the Shakspeare :Cliff, which is a mile and mote beynnil the town; and a most fatiguing clamber to it I found ! We took differentroads, -pis our eye pointed out the easiest .paths;. and, in so doing, on my being all at once missed, Canailigauct Miss Crewe were so frightened 'you can't .think !' as alis Larolles would say. They concluded I had tumbled headlong down the cliff! It has furnished a story to every - one we liave seen ever since; and that arch clever reg Ale, Canning, makes ample use of it, at Walmer Castle and elsewhere. 9 - s.the; any news ?', if, he be asked, his ready answer is, 'only Dr. Burney is lost again!' " HAPPINESS.-It is a happy world after all.—The air, the earth, the water, teem with delighted existence. Ina sprint,: noon, or a summer evening, on whichever side 1 turn my eves. i myriads of happy beings crowd upon my view. "The n;geei youth are on the winF." Swarms, of new-born flies arc trying their pinions in the att. Their sportive - motions, ivatiton mazes, their gratuitous activity, their continual change ofplace without use' or purpose, testify their . joy, end the exultation_ which they' feel in their latoly-cliseovoted faculties. A bee amongst the flowers in spring, 'is one of the most cheerful ob jects that can be looked upon. Its life appearslo be all enjoy ment ; so busy and so pleased; yet it is only. a. 41acinien_ofiasecL life, with which, by reason of the animal being halt' domesti cated, we happen to be much better acquainted than we ate with that of many others. Other species are running about, with an alacrity in their motions, which carries with it every mark of pleasure. Large 'patches-of .grainid are ecanetiraei half covered with these brisk and sprightty natures. If we look to what the waters produce, shoals of the 'fry of tish - frequentthe margins 'of rivers, of lakes, and of the sea itself. These are so happy, that they know not whatto -do with themselves. Their attitudes, their vivacity, their leaps • out of the water, their frolics in it (which I have noticed a thousand times with equal attention and amusement), all conduce to show their•ex cessof_spirits, and are .simply the effects of that excess. Walk ing by the, sea-side, in a catm evening, upon a sandy shore„ana with an ebbing tide, I have frequently remarked the appearanc., of a; dark 'cloud, or rather, very thick mist, hanging over the edge of the water, to the height, perhaps, of half a yard, and of the breadth. of two or three yards, stretching along the coast as far as the eye, could reach, and always returning with the water. When this cloud came to 'be examined, it proved to be nothing else than so much space, filled With young shrimps, in the act of bounding into the air - front the shallow margin of the water, or from the wet sand. If any motion of - a mate animal could expess delight it was this: if they had meant to make signs •of their happiness they could not have done it more inte;- ligiUly. Suppose then, what I have no dotibt of, each indivi dual of this number to be in a state of positiVe enjoyment; what a sum, collectively, of gratification and - pleasure. have we here before our .view.—Patel. THE EAGLE'S AERIE.—On reaching the bottom of the rock, in whose face the aerie stands, we discovered that the old birds were absent, and as the nest was formed in a deep fissure, we could not ascertain its situation exactly. But that the eagles:' dwelling was above us was evident enough: the base of the cliff was strewn with bones and feathers, and the accumulation of both was extraordinary. The bones of rabbits, hares, and domestic fowls, were most numerous, but those of smaller game, and various sorts of fish, were visible among the heap. Many attempts are annually made to destroy this predatory family. It is impossible to rob the nest. Situated two hundred feet above tho haco of the rock, it is of mitac unappraachabl e from below, and as the cliffs beetle over it frightfully; to assail it from above would be a hazardous essay. An enterprising peasant some years since, was let down by a rope and basket,— but he was fi e rcely attacked by the old birds, and the basket nearly overturned: Fortunately the cord was strong, and had sufficient length to allow his being lowered rapidly, or he would have undoubtedly sustained some bodily injury from the wings and talons of those enraged and savage birds. The Rillowiug interesting anecdote is well authenticated. " Two eagleson the wildest part of a neighbouring county, had for some time depredated on the neighbourhood, and bore away lambs, kids, &c. for the sustenance of their young. Some peasants deter mined, if possible, to obtain the young birds, and ascended the mountains, but found that the nest was in a part of the perpen dicular rock, near one hundred feet below the summit, and about three hundred above the sea, which, with terrific appear ances, dashed against its base. They had provided themselves with ropes, and a lad, armed with a cimeter, was by this means lowered by the rest. He arrived in safety at the nest, where, as he expected, he was attacked with infinite fury by one of the old eagles, at which he made a stoke with•his sword, that nearly cut asunder the rope by which he was suspended. For tunately one strand of it remained. He described his state to his comrades, waiting in horrible expectation that the division of the_cord would precipitate him to the bottom ; but though he might have been to die by a rope, it was not in this manner; he was cautiously and safely hauled up, when it was found that his hair, which a quarter of an hour before had been of a dark auburn, had in that short period become perfectly white !" The village of Dugurth suffers heavily from its unfortunate proximity to the aerie. When the wind blows from a favourable point, the eagle in the grey of the morning sweeps through the cabins, and never fails carrying off sonic prey. To black-fowls eagles appear particularly attached, and the villagers avoid as much as possible rearing - birds of that colour. A few days before, as one of the coast-guard, alarmed by the cries of a boy, rushed from the watch-house; the eagle had taken up a hen, and, as he passed within a few yards, the man flung his cap at him. The eagle dropped the bird, it was quite dead, however, the talons having shattered the back bone. They villagers say (with what truth I know not) that turkeys are never taken.—Wild Sports of the West of Ireland. CULTIVATION OF THE VINE TN IRE L NM—Those wbo have wit nessed the severe exertions of the peasantry in the South of Ire land to improve their grounds will be sensible of the value of in troducing among them the cultivation of plants which might give them much higher returns than they now receive—such for instance at the vine. Vineyards have given a gross . return of many thousands pounds per acre, when high flavoured wine was produced. Without being so sanguine as to expect to raise wine immediately, the sale of fruit alone might produce man times the amount of the ordinary crops in the mountains of Cork or Kerry, and that on grounds steep and strong as to be scarcely fit for corn or potatoes, especially where the vicinity of water carriage offers a cheap conveyance to market. The gentlemen should introduce the cultivation of the vine. Grapes have ripened in the open air with Mr. Kenny, and afterwards with Mr. Tuckey at Bantry. They were of various kinds, and were trained on a blackened wall in the open air; also with the late Mrs. Taylor, in the front of her house to the east of Bant ry; with Mr. Hutchins, at Ardnagashall; on the terrace, at the bishop's palace at Waterford; on the rocks at Mucruss, as I was informed many years ago. -In-the King's garden at Hampton Court, the black Hamburg -vine bore fruit many years without any assistance from fuel. In one year it pro cluced half a ton of grapes. The same kind of vine produced coloured grapes in the College Botanic Garden; Balrs-bridge, this year. A gentleman near Portsmouth made a hogshead of wine of his own , grapes latelv:—That grapes can heripened in the South of England and' Ireland need not be questioned ; the only point to he determined is i . whether their ripening can be made so certain as to' yield a safe profit to industry. The papers mention that a single vine produced this year at 'Ken dal two thousand and seventy bunches of grapes. Grapes often ripen in the neighbourhood of Dublin, on the walls in the open air; but that part of Ireland that I would select for the cultivation of grapes is the south of the line running through Waterford, Clonmel, and Tralee. The best situations are sheltered recesses, opening to the south east. The fittest varieties for Ireland are the Black Hamburg, the Sweet Water, and the Miller grape : these, Mr. M`Kay, Curator of the Col lege Botanic Garden, thinks can be best depended upon. We may add to these, by the recommendation of the gentlemen in the employment of the Horticulturl SoCiety at Chiswick, the Cambridge Botanic Garden grape, the Black Lombardy, and the White Muscadine might also be tried. As ,Paris- is near the northern boundary of the grape country, the varieties prized there deserve attention, such as the Madeline, also the Chaselin and Charpensier. The difference of the climate in the north and south of Ireland is much greater than is general ly supposed —Dublin Penny Journal. •