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2nerce INSnrurrolg.
.'1'"1 rday s General Meeting of the Friends and Sep-
ported a of lkia limblotion, which claims brit. object the,
relief and edocatiem of poor Altiesaa-iibe art distant from
t'seir 3wor tawdry, took 'Ace at the Frotimasoue Toren,
Great Queen-street, Lioaalo's lan-Aelde.
At about one o'clock his Royal Mentes. the Dab of
Gloucester look the ("hair, and was supported by Earl
Compton, Right Hos. J. C. Villiers, M.P., Sir Alexander
Johnson, Penton Corbett,, Elsa. M P., Wm. Eva.., Esq.
Rob. Barclay, Easy, Thos. Harrietio, Esq., aid
other persons uS distiuctioe. Mr. Wilberforce, jun. tumid.
ell, and produced a note of apology from his Gabber, who
attributed hi. ran...attendance to the e&ci of imhsposittoo,
eruerediag Pena severe cold.
rbe merlin( was numeemisly attended, and onatiagsr the
company wig noticed many minima of Africa, men and
women, the latter having children is their ems, all of whom
were the happy nbirets of Ibis loatitottimi. His Royal
I.l'.#4ineis the Dake of Gloucester °petted the busier,. in
aoseat speech, iu which he eapotiated spots She object of the
Aurtitiation.
The Seiretermor then. read the Report of the proves, of
the Society duriogdibe last year, which was et a very dotter-
log deem iprion.
It appeared that, through the useiliens of the Satiety's ex.
ertioaa, they had endeavoured as increase• scriptura► anal
other education, so highly neceesory to individuals from
Africa, both male modiensalo, who, were it not for the Insti-
tution. would remain illiterate and distseseed.objects about
the streets of the metropolis. Marty had been taken in a
ninat deplorable condition, as far as regarded their want* its
educruitin and pecuniary means and some who had been
thus relieved attended the meeting fur the purpose of pour.
*raying the happy effects of education on their mind., and
repeated some acriptursal and other piece., with which his
Royal Highness and the meeting seemed highly gratifird,
.awl evinced their.feeling by enthoiasi lc applause.
Earl C01111.70:4 delivered an 'anirnated• and ingenious
speech, expensive of hie high admiration of the tnatillision,
nod its endeavor:re to relieve and educate beings, who usher-
.wise would earl their days in igonnince.and poverty, were it
nut for the establishment of such an histiention.
The Hon. P. C. Villiers, P. Corbett, E.:el. W.
Reams, F.ut. 11. P, Sir A. Juhirson, and other Gentlemen
toiloweil with speeches which were similar in effect, and
'Nett upon the iseieasity of supporting the Institution.
When his Royal Highness quitted the chair a handoonie sub-
ecription was made.
C/El/13,ifff)1:1‘, M keen tg.
The feI:QV/111r: academy!' hose been admitted :
Honorary Movers of dris.—libe Hon. 1.. Noel, of
Tilsit) College; John Hammon, Set. and C. ht. R. Nur.
man, Eq. of St. John's Vollere.
Stacker/ire wf 4frfs.—J. H. at. Linuainore and John Smith,
of St. iolis's College; J. Creswell, of Catharine Heti ; Henry
Trail, of TrinitxColbge.
We have olcasatenl further particulars respecting
t!'e vote of Petitions against the Catholics in
tire Senate.: this aesenils4 is composed of two
Houses—the Regents' end. the Not-Regent.. the
firmer-constituted by Masters of Alt' of less them
live year! standing, Minoru of less Onto two;
Ducti:ro of more titan two years standing may vo a
which they please, but generally do so in the
Upper Rouse, and the rest form the Non-ftegent
we Lower House. On this °carrion all the Doctors
spited in the, latter, and by that means carried the
Petition by is majority of 15, which WWI lat.() Car
tied by a ninjimity of LO in the other, but had it
been lust in the one, that would throw it out alto-
',tether. The Statutes require three days'. tie tier,
Which on this occasion was given for the meeting
on Monday upon the Saturday, when there was no
post,, and consequently the London Members
could not cons down, as they usually have. The
votes were--
iCoa.Reeents
Regents
0:1 Tuesday a numerous meeting of the frewi
holders said inhabitants of this county was held sits
the Market-hill (being adjourned by the Under-
Sheriff, R. Lindsell, Esq. from the Shire-hull), for
the purpose of petitioning fur Reform in Partin;
Meer, and the restoration of the Queen to her righti,
and privileges. The Marquis of 'favistock moved
the resolutions,' nod H. Prytne, Esq. seconded
then). Sir C. opposed them, and moved
an amendment that they. were ill-timed.and inex-
pedieat, whicii Dr. Chefs.. seconded. The Ken
V. FIB Moberly anal Mr. Vordhain, jun. spoke in
favour of universal suffrage and annual Parlia-
ments; .Duaing the.whole of this time great up-
roar at intervals prevailed between the gowstsnien
amid townsmen. Mr. Gunning and the Duke of
Bedford advocated more moderate Reform, which
was received with nu/versa' cheers;; and B. K.
Fordham, Esq. contsadictcd a s'atement that Ire
Ind carried up an address to the Queen from Roys-
ton;. eller which the amendment wan put, when
very few band* were held. asp, and the original re-
solutions were carried by a. large majority. Mr.
Welts moved the Petition, sad Ebenezer Rollick,
Esq. seconded. it, and it. was carried by acclama-
tion, as were thanks to the Duke of Bedford mid
the Manuals of 'favistock, moved by F. K. Eagle,
Esq.
ED/NBURGfi.

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YORESIIIIIE LENT ASSIZIS.
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.a; nit RUH PRIUS tOVRT. •
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THURSDAY. MARCH IS.
otlri iiiIETERIORATKIN OF WATER..
111124011 O. PULLAJI.
was w cape of very great iinpuriaviee to manufaetur-
ets and others, who have works erected upon streams of water,
as well as to the public at large. It was as amino brought
against Mr. Pullen, linen-bleacher, at Biltou, near Harro-
gate, for having thrown Into the stream which passes through
the Plaintiff's gronnds, the refits* of his bleeehtne proem,
and thereby rendering Me water unwholesome and unfit for
the use of his cattle.
K appeared from the evi&enee, which extended to a very
considerable length, that the liminess of bleaching linen
cloth had bees carried oa fur almost 50 years, but nosirjary
was perceived to be done to the water, until the new pro-
ems of bleaching by oxygenated! neurintie acid had been
adopted by Mr. Pullen, in the year 1813; but that sine*
that permit, it was alleged that Ilia water hart become die.
coloured, by the solid and liquid refuse of the retorts, which
had. been thrown sr were suffered to flow istu it, and that
the water had become so bad as sectuasly to injure the
health of the cattle of the Plaintiff. This part of the
case was trot, however, yew clearly merle true in -evi-
dence,. and the strength. of the case on the part of the
Plaintiff lay in the testimotry of Dr. Murray, a. most
respectable physician et Knateatooruogb„ who had iistyeed
several bottles of We water taken out of the sires* at
the 1,3111111 R place of the Plaintiff's cattle, about thirty
yards belew flea e works of the Detoolati!, and who stated as
the result Of his examination, that the water,was unabole-
some, gaol iniet fur the drink of cattle. A InitUt of water
was produced in Court, the appearance of which was very
uninviting, being almost as black ns lnkl its OnitliWa• as
unpkassist as its look. Dr. Murray, after eutritiers'iug the
setutartoe with which the water sons. impregnated, attri-
buted its otherholersontenuse N. the huge quantity of intligesti-
Ede vegetable mailer highly carbonated which it curtained,
net chemically united, but in suspension, and which arose
from the •tieerithle matter deposited by. the yore it the pew
sews of bleaching. It was proved that the water above the
works. of the Defendant was in a pure state. Dr. 3)orrajo
was ewe examined with great ability by Mr. Alderson, abet
evinced its hit (ignitions much elms moral litsowlealge,,,,,but tio
fact was elicited which east any doubt upon the eurrectursa
of the 'widener of this geutlainian.
Mr. Baotionaat, who was leadiug Couusellor the Defeo&
ant, addressed the Jury iu a speech of considerable Circe sad
ingenuity, in which he coulanditel, that the Plaintiff has in(
Cubit to establish the fact, that bra cattle had sustatued tn.
jury, had not made out his ease, and, that the esirletitte of
Dr. Murray 'ruche-to be Nisi out of the eonsiderati .... of the
Jury., because the water which he bail aroolyeest had herr
taken up inure than a year after the netiou was commenced,
and that it could consequently afford can proof of the mete of
the water at the former relied. But, continued Mr.
Bruegbam, even allowing that %tile insuperable difficulty
was removed, allthat DJ. Murray provedwas, a slight in-
crease to anted which must hartiexisted from the time that
the bleaching. works had been first erected, and which fur lie
Wog a period could nut be put duos, whatever injury they
might, have done to the water.
Mr. Justice BAIMItY, ill stating the law to the Jaryraaid,
if the process of bleachiag had continued the came as it ass
twenty years since, the Plaiutiff could not sustain that whin,
because the D. feudist would have a Firths to else the water
as it hail been staid in times past ; but if bp,aay.diffr rent
mode of bleaching, the water was further de.eriutraterl, he
bud a ri.tlit to deuraud reparations fur the itsjory Ire had sof-
Sired. The Plaintiff had • right tie hese tile water in Um
mine state he hod it before the new process am used, and
the qnestiou the Jura would have to consider was this—
Did the new process of bleaching, adopted bathe Llefeuelaut,
Fender the water of this stream less wholesome than it was
berme ? If ON Jury should be satisfied, num the evidence,
that it produced this effect, the Plaiutiff would be entitled to
their verdict. If the evil had out bean increased by Ibis new
Extrema, their verdict mast lee for the Defendant. Hfs Lad-
shin then recapitulated the evidence with great precis
siun, cud puid a handsonie compliment to the chemical skill
nod knowledge of Dr. Murray mud Mr. Allinson, which had
been chiefly elicited in the luminous ansrrre of the worthy
Doctor to the scientific cross-exaniu uation of the latter gentle-
man. His Lordship then left it fur the Jury to say, whether
the refuse thresh tufo the stream, in cutlet quenee of the
chemical mode of blearhieg, hail or had nut resodersd the.
water less fit for the use of cattle, which was We specific evil
uf which the Manua complained. The Jury, alter rewire
fur sonic iilllrifuund a oei diet fur the Plaintiff—Damages, la.
FRIDAY, X ARCM 18.

John Yeodan, aged 20, of !Angell/re, i• the 11'est Riding,
foe maliciously shouting at David Suggitt, with intent to
kill, maim. or wound him.
Magid Suggitt idased that he was head game.kreper to
Lord Hibblesdale, a Iso had the moor. in the parish of Eirsy-
Malltam-dele. As he was goisep along One of the moors,
about five o'clock iu the afternoon of the 24th of Anglia's
be beard the report of a gun, awl made to the sped from
a hectic it proceeded, when lie found two into armed with guns.
They rail off is eliffeieut directions. He followed one of
them completely off the moor. and when withiu Horan yards
of bins, he (she Prisoner) turned routed and presented hi►
gun to him, and deebweel diet if he advanced any /maw
be would shout him. Weimar. told him tu shoot use,.for he
was determined to take him into custody. HE tieser endra•
'unreel to take take his gnu frost htm. It stable person be
said be would have.
Hero the Judge rah!, that the ease need not be further
gone' into. The gamekeeper. had 00 right to lake the.
isosier into custody in the day lime ; if, in ?enlisting his
person from being lakes into custody, the Prisoner haul .hut
the gamekeeper, it would not have anutinsted to want
murder. The keeper ought only to. hove taken she gun. In
the night lime gamekeepers bad a right to appreliesed.per-
suns who were armed.
The Jury, of course, found • verdict of Not Guilty.
MONDAY, MARCO 19.
Benjamin Pede. aged 40; was cusivicted of einherzling
this sum of 31. 9s. 2d. from his master, Mr. Joseph In4hani.
of teeds, merchant.
Oa the 234 of June last, be was sent (as be frequently
had been before) to the Excise Other, to recesivc a draw-
back on a large quantity of soap, which bad bees eased at
Mr. iughain's mill ; be received 231.3 x NI. and returnee'
to Mr. lughate'S book-keeper to settle with hins,"scheir be
paid hlm-10/: 4s. 3d, and said that the suns whirb he had.
received was 191. 14s. 3.1. and the expenses were 10s. lipent
inquiry afterwards at she Excise Olfiee (us, coo., fluent, of
some suspicion`, it was ascertained that lee bad oath. gated
'be sum mentioned in the indirino. set.
After the Jury had returned their verdict. Mr. Ingham;
ILc Prosereetor, from the Magistrates' box, evade
affected, said, " My Lord, although the Prisoner has he.ii
a bad mile in robbing me, I hope you will be merciful to
Man, for the sake of his family ; Le bas eight thildress and •
pregnast w ifs."
His Lorelshipsaid, that he certainly mint(' not comply with'
(list request, as the Prisoner was an unlit perru• to Snug up
his family as a virtuussa manger.
He was imeneeliaterly 'sentenced to be transported beyond'
the seasfur the term of fuortien year..
John Brown we. found guilty of stealing two pieces of
woollen cord, on the 3.1 Ostolser last, from John Horsey, of
Halifax, aid sentesieed to be transported emu years.
Joiner Peoretro, of biortflowrain, near Halifkx, sent
charged with wilfully and tosterionsly cisttitig sisal st.ebbine
with a knife,. Wm. Frauklauel, with hatred tu minder and
wain Lisa.
Mr. JONES Mated the cove to tire Jhry, the circumstances
of 'glitch were as follow :—'flee rriseser and the Pruseconer
ore brothers-in•tair, and live close by mush other at North-
morons—the Prosecutor luring up stairs, and Ow Frowns Anil
the ground fluor. On Friday night, the 17th F. lernsry, they.
had a quartet respecting a hand-saw, belmeging to Ilse Prose-
cute', Mani inn earpeeder. On the following night, *bawl I
I:waiter before 11 o'clock, the PrilaCiner Caine Oat of Isla sea'
Wale, and mantling at his own door, exclaimed to the Prosi-
rotor, '6 1)---us thee, mime this way-1 want thee here-6-111
rip open thy gum to-night?' Frankland went down
stairs, respite the Priaoner, who struck him over the face •
with n kuile, stitch cut his cheek completely through to the
mouth, and opened au artery. The PitAetutor brie% nearly


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choked with the Mood which Abwea Jew* his
throat, and getting very weak, seized bold of the Primmer,
filling epos his knees at the saws time. The Prisoner then
eat his apron, which was posed him, astroder, sad also his
small-clothes, but did rot era his body. The Prosecutor's
wife streamed out, " leak have mercy, fee God's sake, hays
merry !^ upon which the Primmer euclainsed, H—n. bins,
I will show him no mercy ; I will kill hint out." The Pro-
seetactr's wile end daughter west and teemed him from the
malice of the Primmer. The dangiteriadearoured to wrest
the thrift from his hand, but could sot ; the Priestlier defier-
isle that if be had not killed him he would. The females,
however. got hint into his own bowie, to a. moseles• state,
and as they were conveying him there, the Prisoner indicted
three other wowed, on the head, viz. one just shove the tem-
ple, another above the ear, mats third on she back of the
head. A surgeon nay sent for, who fwead is the Proaects-
tos's check the point of the knife with. which Ise had bees
rut. He (the surgeon) was of opiaion, that if no rardieal
tissirtaure kid been called is, the Protiocutur would have
bled to death.
The Prisoner, in. his defeace, said that it was only in self-
deCeore that he had struck the Prosecutor, who had fre-
quently threatened his life.
The Jury, after • *hoot consaltatios„ prommased the fist-
lowing verdict Chaffy of rutting with iotent of doing his
seine gri bodily harm."
His Lordship, in the nan4 impressive manner, parsed son-
Knee of death upon the Prisoner, informing his that the
only favour he could graisa him was to apprise law of his
fair, and to urge him so repentance, as he could nut expect
bunion mercy being extracted towards. him.
The P.i.oucr seemed much affected, and said jest 'wrote
be was taken from the bar, " I hope you. will groat we
mere}, my Lord:" His Lordship malted, *4 lits member, when
you were asked for mercy,. you granted rour:'

SUSSEX ASSIZES,
Mr. Paull a respectable cluthwortes of Coleman-street,.
brought an action of damages against a Mr. Biddle, fur
Moving aorta a* furiously against his wife at Brig Moo as to
knack her slows', render her setuteless,. and produce insanity
while in a stale of pregnaucy The e%pease attending her
illness, 6.c. amounted to upwards of 3001. sod the Jury
'wattled damages io that sosuaut.

iNQUEST
Mt Wedmore, Wedmore, Somersetshire, on obey, four years old,
drowned by falling into a pond; his. parents were 'borstal
work when the svcidesit happened, and laia two bruihere
(She elde►t sot more than moves years of age) ran nearly a
mile to their father, who first took has chit-tont of the we-,
ler ; the cottage was at a distance from. any dwelling. It
will at-orrery be credited that a man ua► worksnt within less
than a quarter of re, mile of the ►fot, anal Omega he heard
Ilse screams of the chthlrew, did not go to their assistance
until a long time after a boy ran and told him of the matter !
He then leisurly went to the spot, looked in, and walked
away witkoist offeeiog the least assistance, aotwittistandisg,
by only kneeling on the edge of the pond, he was within Iwo
feel of the surface of she water, the depth of %shirts did taut
I 'Veld' three und a hail' keg.. Whets exastioed hellfire the
Jury, the wretch arktiowledgtd floe facts a related of
with callous iudiffneate; sad even demanded iiiirsteat
fur his loss of lima is 1 ttes4lirg ! Verdict—Art.l4sta:
Death.
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EXECUTION.
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WINCHESTRR, MARCH 24.

• This morning Anima It lad, who had hems eon% ieted •t
the late Amizes for this county of uttering ire tinged five
pound notes, of the Andover 014 Book, was executed ou the
New Drop, at the top of the geol. Sieseeki•eondewinsilou
his conduct was in every respect becioniug his awful situa-
tion, directing his whole aticiation to the means of °hien.-
, isg future miry, Ihronek the merits of his Redeemer.
A.few days before hie execution he sent a letter to his
Prosecutors, acknowledging his guilt, and entreating their.
forgiveness fur any injury they mey have susteined by him.
Me was about twenty eight years of age, of • fine manly ap.
province, good address, and above six feet in bright. We
um bore its Vockshire.. of respectable coon venous, his father
being a farmer ; vreut to Imisdon, where he commenced life
as a horse.deolor, in which lie failed, and being, as be repre-
sented, of tiro proud • spirit to act as as man when he had
been • master, he heat recourse to miming forged outer, and.
was 10.04111 its town by the appellation of Yorkshire llob
lie left Loudou in company M%4111 I other charmless of
the same sit selipt int) as himself, mad attended Weylall fair,
nese Andover, iii October list, where they commenced a pre.
concerted plan of issuing forged mutes of the Andover Old'
• Batik. Wind. owl several others were taken on the 111101.
Some of his compulsions recant d fur want of proof
them ; het the charges having brew completely established
&colossi him aud three other's, they were committed lo Win.
chester gaol, and capitally cited iried, and had sentence of
death passed on them. Tfie others were reprieved, hot Wind,
hayloft be sci convicted on five separate • Marges of passing
threw base notes, was left to his srulruci.. lie was convicted
or the clearest evidence, col siuritir his trial he conducted
himself in a most•daring sail iostskat manner:
Shortly after eight o'clock the solemn tolling of Ike prison
bell antiousiced Stir isolier% approach, who cline on the
platform omitted. by two javelin WO, and acronipassis•d by
the Chaplain, Ore Under-Stterid, and the uHicere of the mu- r
son, and slier joining iu prayer, the fatal platform 101, acid
the uftliappy calprit was laiontred into eternity without •
struggle.
This bring Ilse first execution that had taken place ea the
New Drop a vast rutiroursc of spectators were s.sestibloi,
I.lltl tie lane neer it beiiig narrow, was noisomely cum dell ;
but its avoid any accidents to the investitures,. precaution bad
been taken to place a strong fence across the 'lane at each
end of the prisms wall, which bloke the pressure of theerowsk
There was ample space aTorded by the adjoining outlets for
a view of at* awful spectacle.
In the situation in which the drop is erected, the (oom
tiros is iti full visa of• all the es isomers, who weir:Aram, out
its their respective courts to wittiest* it; nod if we may judge
tom their 11114311110.1 and oppearaure, it made a great impre•-
sion tan them.—lndeed such au example would be more
like!) to operate ss risiosly on Osumi than on the speetatwo
outside the priories walls; as 01.13 C of them had liven limo-
ciated with him, he had-been Liken to many of Shim, sod
several of them would eusssols•e llownelves only. as brands
saved from the fire, and who but a fr o short slays before
were i11t11111010.4.11 in trembling suspeisses The spectators also
were studded to take their stations to clew the scene ;.and
Ow riot and confusion that used to take place among_ them
were aymdcd ; till was still, boletus sod quiet, highly.
fitting so serious au ouesissou.

A letter,. dated V 3.1 January, has been received
in Glasgow limn one of the sletorle.d radicala who
were taken ill arms Boisnymitir„ It nientiiii
that thry had 'elicited Teneriffe, and that nothing
of consequence had happened. All the party had
got their trolls taken off a few d:.ca before the date
of the letter, winch made their condition more com-
fortable. There is a gentleman on board who is
going oufto settle in the chuntry, and he has pro-,
initial! to do ass much as he can fur the benefit of
those who conduct. themselves with decency and
decorum. lie and a Clergyman are eniployed ill
leaching the felons to read. and ui giving theta reli-
gious instructtou ; but they are but little untitled
!by the greater part.—(Edinburgh Paper.)
We understand that William Al'Alester, Min-
ima Douglas., and Alexander Kerr, 1)&44)1101g to
(alas owe are•to be tried before the Circuit Court,
at Inveraty, cm the 3d of next mouth, for various
ids of theft committed by them its Date and.
Argyllshire.—..l'hey are at present confined at
ItOthrSay.

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FOREIGN TRAbE OF niE COUNT:Rt.
REPORT. rr. •"'".`"
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The Melect Committee appointed to consider of the mean:
of staintainittg and improving the Fisreigo Trade,of the
Country, /sod to report their opinion and ohms:rations
thereepon from time to time to the Huuse ; anal to whom
the Repoli relative to the Titwber Trade, which was runs-
mtesicated from the Lords its the last Sewsioil of Pasha-
inert, and the several Petitions vespertiete the Duties vu
Timber, praised to the Hasse iii the premot Session,
were veverally referrect--have, pursuant to the order of
the nurse, cousideted the maticis to tla•ut ranted
have art cal IN) the foltoc. ing Ropoti :
Tour Committee have deviated from the consent wtllielt
their former Ul port appesiml to prescribe, sud inalead of
proceeding to ex:tmiur some of the horilena that were
stated to prase with considerable weight %spoil the Former
Trade of the country generally, have applied their roast-
derit to that partieuise branch of it whirls embitters the
importation of Thither lions the Northern States of Europe,
and the flritiell Colonies its Nol th America. This they have
dune, as well nu account uf that b,aoch having (as appears
by a Report referred to them) already occupied the •iteistiou
of a Committee of the tither House of Parliament, rp-
voluted for s insiiar porlwse•s, as of the comely they midair-
i stand to prevail among the commercial and shipping inte-
rests, collect:lrd with the trade iu question, anti the meow.
remit lice of a continued auslnuse in Yesinei to the system
which Parham. nt may deem it IN). diens to adopt.. nu the
elepiration of the existing law, which, accioiditig to the latest
extensima of it, will lertninate tau the of March in the
parasol year..
In the imposition of the several duties, at present it, force,
on the importation of limber the cousokratiotiai of the Legis-
lature appears to have been directed to two distinct objects;
fuel, to the piutertion and etictuaragessient of the wood trade
in the Bditistt Atue• Kau Columea; naid, secondly, SW I hit aug-
mentation of the Revenue..

iteierthisc thrut is ibis poise of ties. She first "'tritium
that übriuusly pier.euted was, to the MlllUillsinlef ..f
abet pail of iiirwe duties, if u 1 tiny, the publie Club "night
he suppurett to be cuipututird; a +Mort vet relict to the lose
which ti.p.s.sd the respective duties, and to the
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staurrs.attsudisig the periods at- which they wise impaired,
has beriasutlicieus to satisfy your Vosnorittre on this head..
Although the policy of giving enruftragemeat to the Om%
is trustier from the Iktiists American, Caluiries, may be in-
ferred to have bees previously ristrrt•iuml, Crum the Acts
8 and 4. Aurae, and 5. Geo. 411. by w:irub homilies upon the
export of it we►e granted, it does nut appear to hove bees
ailed opals with touch erect before the year 1809; at that
time tae souse of events had placed- ourrelationa with
the Itiorthrth Stairs (from *haw leiritories our •applies of
timber, as well for tkareetic aa.fur naval purposes, hail bee■
chiefly derived) in a lawmana which. gave ties to a well.
founded spprebeusion, lest the resources in that quitter
uoght euttrely cease to be available for the demauds of this
country.
Under the influence of thie.apprehension, it wesdeesse&
advisable by Partimarat to resort to the hitherto neglect' d
though aliondant supplies to be throat ill unr American Cul.-
[
lies, and by adriprate protest to encoaragr the transport•
oldies* 1110 mart the exigeocy with which n e wcoe ilsreotrne al
10 •ossrapli►le this object,. a virtual rty...taptitobs Irmo duty
was gestated to tire timber Imported from our North Amen.'
ran possessions,. while • large addition was made so that
kvsed ua limber from the North of Europe, brat, by the 49,14
Geo. 411. c. 98, and ia the emoting year by.the 50.1 r, e 77,
by which the duties of the preeediug year were Jumbled,
mishit,' the whole duty on northern timber, including the-
*l mporary duty inyro•ell.iu the same years,for the 'app.., t
a•d during the coat trossuce of the war, amount to W. 141.84.
per toast. Ili's, duties were again augmented by sit addi.
stun of .7.5. per cent. to the perthautent alatica on timber, iu
common with all olio r duties of C 113111.111. fair theeapress
purpose of. assisting the revenue. The whole of these static*
were consolidated by t►e 59th uf the late. limes and stow
amount to al, ss. per load, when imparted iu British ships.
Era* this statenaest it will appear, that of those duties.

(however they may all alike have operated iu the way of prru-•
tratiancto the culonjal timber trail.) a part only ran be said
to have Leers intended fur that purpose; viz. those obit h
were imposed by the Acts passed avowedly wittilbutalijeet of
• giving eueonragement to that trade, aniuumingeo ls.
per load, and which may be ciiimmiled to have led to it■ ex.,
tension by the applieatioa of capital, which, except fur each
indereenseett, would never have lien su invested. With ie.-
speet to the exemption fro.:l- duty in favour of culudial
timber, that ademitsge WSW 01 tc!uslly lemposary, and has
• been since continued hum titist• to ilnte Air limited periodr;
and although the persons cow:creed in the colonial limber •
trade may have had a just expect atom that they should tujoy
for a considerable period the •avantagel aroided throe, as
. we•ll by the ex••mpuott granted as by the ditties imposed by
the 49111 and ilOth of George 11l so for from any expecte-
' thin bring held out that 11. e encouragenstnt so eiveu hail
brace considered hy.Governmeut as permaueid, or ass
iu-
teudej to be iuili Audits, continued to them, that. mutts
teelll to have beeu.studiusdy title's to produce by expltuss-
iiu• • mut lesion of n route-illy iOO/1011, and to impress
• them with die that pitviouely to the expiration
of the sxuuug law, the timber tirole would be It:ought under
consideration of Parliament. with the view of introducing
. au alteration into the scale of die present duties, that shoold
reuder•theiu more equal and more favourable to oar inter.
course with the forint, States witlrwhoni it was carried on.
Yonr Committee are therefore of opinion that Ito, is no,
thing which pre,dtides the consideration of these duties, nor
soy part of them which in strietnecs noisy nut be Open to may
muslifirati ~,,, either in respect to the sate at which they shad:
ointinue, or the mode io which they shall be letied, that Par-
liarneet, tinder a sense of the public anti:rat, may deem it
p•adcit to introduce.
The policy most advatitageons to the country, as fa► as
the mere supply of titular is cone: rued, would. Li, to obtain
it of the best quality, and at the lowest price, without trier.
rare to the quarter from whetter it might he derived; and
the course of your Committee has be. u to iugpirr, find, to
what extent the operation of this policy is isifrisiged by the
system of duties twee in foci.; w the ut xi place, to examine
• bow far the limits imposed 4)11 its operation arc boatmen...l
by ad. quote considerations of rept ; and lastly, to de-
tertniite silic:bec,. by the aituptiun of any and what genera-
none the Juliet might I•e rendered, as far es Chellll2lSiallrell
allowed, mote euusistent with the rigarel tine to air pried-
114e un whirl. NO pone:), ;meet eds, and generally inure mice-.
betel ro the commercial intesesis of the [Toiled Kingdom.
it appears that previously to the Imp staitieu of the dtatits
in 1809-10, the supplies of wood requited fur the consump-
tion Of the country were pit ipally fornishrel by the North-
ern Slates of Em'ope; that soluequeutly io that periud, a
groat and gradually theorising peoportion of its •applies
bad been drawn hum the Ilritish North American Colonies;
that ■t present the use of the timber from the Moth of
Europe, owing to the prise it brats in comparison to
American timber, is iii a greet measure coulkeid to the
litglwr mid node valuable ileseripliun of buildiugs, and to.
purposes for a Inch iiicroused strength in hearing is amts.
wary or. desirable; that fur lets isubstautial baildieg►, and
Gar the inferior ;imposes to which wood ia. applicable,
the American timber and deals have been generally brought
into cuusemption,. and although the rid ;nova America `of
which the quantity it relatively small) is void by several ya-
mmers to be equal in quality to the fir from. the North of
Europe, yet the yellow pine, of which the great importation
consists, is slated, when used iu this country, to be inferior
to it, except fur particular purposes and in patticular situa-
tions, &omits supposed greater liability to dry rot, sad tom-
Iterative deficiency in strt•ugtb and durability. Al the Itilke
time there is remain to believe, from, other evidence, that
much prejudice stibnite oat ibis head, and that in Lanca-
shire, where tete yellow pine has been a !tower time in general
use than in uuy other part of the kitiedorti, as well as is the
netglibutibuoil of Shields, its qualities are coasidered as
more valuable than they are generally esteemed : and there
is repeated testimony, that when seed in America, both in
the coustruction of ships and buildings, it has bees found
to be flee frum the particular defect alluded to, sad of a
didability equal to nutlet the beat timber of Europe.
CT() be continNce.)

•THE TURA' •
CROYDON RACES,
n 60a the Wedoesiisy after the C Msetiag, 152 f..
--see
The Weights of all the fullowiwg Stickers* is April.
The farmers' Stakes of 90gs. rive* by the Earl of Derb#,
H. ekilliffe, Esry. sod the Surrey fax Moon* with a Molt-
seriptiosi of 21p. FrUNS last year, added to a Subseriptiett of
Sts. each, for horses not iiiortinah.bred, behmvaz aa Far-
mers io the Comities of Surrey, Kum, or SINSI49I, and mut-
ing out leer than SO Seiteil a land in either foamy. flint never
won prier 14 the day of uoistisecr. armaffirle the pimperty ulr
the farmer subsea ileme—thn • year ide1e,.0.1.; fiver veer olds'
lOpt. tilb.; her year olds, !Ist. ; •1111 year WM. aid p ds•
1110.; entire horses, 31b. exiled : two-mile hest*.
Mr. Courincy 'a Annette, *acs. old, 14st. set. Mr. Gates'.
Oliver, 4 yresul4, Mss. 416. three el ilea, Otte. h. Re
Thr Serra yi Hanrero Siekes. a SillArropi ion of Itres..-aell,
for horses nut thcirminli by d, Bona fide the property of the-
e tilleasin suliserilriox, that. halm beam hunted •ith the EsO
of Derby's, H. 1.11.1te, Esq.'s, or the Surrey los blessed., nc
the course of the swami's, list. each; entire Itorowslib.i. e'cr
two mile beats. Geidle men rider& Any home having no:.
ewer, so carry hibc if twice, Vb. if three rinses, 10Ib. more
the second horse to receive back his stakes.
A.Sise 'Armlike' of 19gs eaeltrfor horses not tleuronghebred,
that have never started. paid or received fur fen, prier to the
day of Naming,. and have hooted (arise wines nOh fox or
stagehounds, se either of the following comities: Surrey,
Stowell, Kent, Hertfordshire, Essex, Be. Whirr, or Middle-
sex, bolus fide the prupes ty of the Subseriber—famr-rar olds,
1114. Sib.; tivo-year u7d, I Ist. 6112.; ailit and aced, 1311.
retire homes, 31h. extra. Tau-mile heats. The wiener to
pay Sts. for weights, Av.
A Sweepstakew of 15gv. each, Craven weights--two.year
tails, het . 141. b. ; bre e.yesr olds, Sid. ; four year olds. 5.t 9 b.
tive.year olds,. Sal. lib.; sawyear olds, 9ct. &I V.; and aged,.
Oct. 71b. Twit milt,. The winner to be sold for ISOci.
dem:tailed within a ipsurier of an hour, the second horse be-
ing first entitled, he. &c. 'Rho wiuute to pay fee
weights, sea'ta, lac. 64C.
The hors, s to be flawed all for the Sarre, Hunters' Stakes.
The Derby Cup of •Illtlgs.vallie„ the morphia in specie, by
subscriptions of lOgi. each.* fur horses list thorusigls.hvirsol,
chit fleecy &Moil al, paid or rectiied haiku, poor to the dap,
of 'mintier, lona fide the prapeity of the paishannes stib-
in-robing, 19st. each; entire horses, 3.11. i. ratio. Gentlemer
sitters, the Derby Cumin bents.
A. Sweepstake •of SlAgs..eeeh. The honors to he aimed tie
Messrs, 'luttersailh, oo ur before lito Monday Lefuie startisig„
Derby Course heats—twoe yenta old,. Set. 411)..; dine yeas
olds, lOst.; (bar year olds, list ; See year olds, 1 Ist. 91b.;„
sits aud•agml, Mat_ The is ialief to pay rgs fir a eights, &A.:

S. SF4 IT ...rwa oiI.(SS
On Wednesday the trial of Henry M'Conntl;
Owen Callaghan, Malcolm Cameron, and Hugh
Logerty, accused of discharging Itmileci tire-arms
at Ale. John Orr, cotston-spinner at Underwood of
Yaislitv, on the I.6th cf December last, came on
10* hotortc 1
Aided . eiebtkwenesu be, a witnesses were
elnismel* ' fe4411086 sir limits will not rer-
• .. . writ to to desssiiiie VirbAllertbionhliesitim. Most of
1 . ' have, hnisever, been already before
. et
• ' inn bete g emortlndert,
.:
. . trhefSertaLzatszttraw.asulid
3Lirish
jorltalyntaith,rElreossen
bdeitsliailer
414rast
. ' -%I Prisonere. • -
ipe Leta .birSTIOI CLUE then summed up
3videtice, when the Jrlay .retired for :Mout a
4e of nil hour, and returned with • verdict,
liatt kfleCenutell and Cain-von guilty of tl:u
libelled; Callaghan sadilty art and
. , Pail: and
thing the libel us to Lrikty not proven. TI e•
. iort"adjuerited at balf-naat mut! o'clock yesterday
'ruing, cud met *gait, at tag o'clock to pronounce
',trice no the Prisonqa. „!
tLord PITNUAL send, thoi,orime 9f which they.
tre convicted was the isuiptopocious that the bean,
~._ _ . so could possibly eatisettive,. and since be had ,
ti t!ot Bench, a case had Isere., come before him
. lova,
:..., .
..i14.1e...k
argue
cpouubidlicuoittrterrreirspet aye so
snahin:ltihiantptlihe- :
' Ir. c
i • lantißettstios.e.lit be neurotic:id to trantportittion fin.
ty. .n 4 thil they be pferiou•!,, taken beck tit
ly. end centined to the gi,il tell a markst-day".
‘.u•they be token forth !ad whipped publicly
stir the streets by t ' ptib4:e exvcotioner,
-h rtiotence yes pro • 'by the 1.02 D
_ _if . . . .
. CLERIC*. after. a se' It ownowtion..
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