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London, England, 1825-08-24 00:00:00

E.4ST INDIA SHIPPING.

ARRIVALS AT THE CAPE.—nis Majesty's corvette York, from
Natal. the 'At June. and the Canton packet, from Boston, bound to
the Mauritius, the 3d June.

SAILED TAO3f TUE CAPE.—The Borneo, Ross, for SumErs,
the IA June.

SHIP sroiEN WITIL—The Hannah. Shepherd, from London
to Bombay, on the 23th July, in lat. 37, long. 14.

AG INTELLIGENCE.

CUSTOM-HOUSE. Arc rsT
SNIPS ENTERED INWARDS.—The Robert EdISSIIIS. Slier.
bourne, from Virginia; Hector, Fentell, from Gambia Carleby ;
Eliza, Blake., and Johannes and Wilhelmina, Movenkind, from
Rotterdam; Trot Awls, Schut. from Antwerp ; Johanne, Hee-
koff, front Copenhagen; Belfast, Roberts, from Dunkirk; Ann
and Sarah, Rutherford, front Cadiz; Auspicious, Fox, from Lis-
bon ; Sedulous. Potts, from Archangel; Choice, Wheatley, fonts
St. Domingo; Good Hoop, Bent', from Antwerp; Fame, &Oakley..
from Pillau ; Anna Dorothea, Davieds, (roan Rostock ; Arno,
Bruce. from Memel • Elks, Steel, from ditto ; Satisfaction. Kreeit.
•
from Dannic ; Staffette, Mannonscky, from ditto; Clementine,
Wide: from ditto; Drey Geshuiater, Fink, from ditto; Friedericli
Wilhelm; Schultz, froze ditto; Ida, Schauer, from ditto; Mary
Ann, Holmes, from ditto; Sophia. Gramith, from Memel; Er.
wartung.Kenokel, from Villas': Apollo.; Pust, from Stettin ; Ida,„
Kohn, from ditto; Vrouw Dieuirke, Dykstraw, from Worcum z
Trois Freres, Rieke, from Brussels ; Crown, Banks, for Quebec;
Triton. Cock, fr.= Skonirick ; Conferenceraad Classen , Suntle„
from ditto; Doris. Nielson, from Fredirickshall ; Horatio, Chris-
tie, from Drintzic ; Geertruida„ Zenenburg, from Rotterdam;
Union. 1111,1tcliell, from Dantzic ; Ratcliff, Hathaway, from SoColi
Seas; William Wilberforce, White, from St. Domingo; Wind_
lust, Engleman. from Antwerp; Rose, Ellis, from Rotterdam;
Jantina Margaretha. Van Greven, from ditto: Beatrix Elizabeth.
Mel, from ditto; Fame, Fox, from St. Petersburgla ; Mario,
Wakefield, from Archangel; Hector, Mitchell. from Riga;.
Emanuel, Olsen, from Sundsvall; Albion, Hall, from Cadiz;
David Lyon, Berry. from Jamaica ; Donna Paula, Gerrazio, from
Oporto; Sesostris; Drake, from St. Peteraburgh ; Beaufort, Saint_
h 11:, from Jamaica; Jean, Inner, from Quebec and Montreal;
Vittoria; Brown, tram Quebec ; Edlington. Blakey, front Memel;.
Mentor, Damstrey, from ditto; Sophia, Bergmann, from ditto;
Scandia, Stramwitz, from ditto; Amelia, Hockendorff, front Dant-
zic ; Good Intent. BrnrF, from Ostend; Seven Brothers, Fenwick,
front Shediac, N.B. ; n ooditield, Cockerill, from Dantzic ; Union,
Strange, from Quebc ; Fleetwood, Burk, from Jamaica ; Laurel,
Dunlop, front Cape llaytien; Maria Levine, Schipman, from Rot-
terdlin ; Hope, Nicholas, from Waterford.
SIIIPS ENTERED OUTWARDS.—The Jean Stewart. Hacker-
zie. for Hayti; Dew Drop, Woken, fur St. Petensburgla ;
Prince Saxe Coburg, Ladd, for Rotterdam; Bee, Nicholas, ;Ur
Han burgh.
CI EARED OUTWARDS FINALLY AT GRAVESEND.—That
King of the Notherlands. Slater, for Rotterdam ; Sprightly Lir-
, ingstnn, for Elsinore and Riga; William kl•Cillivray, Straldart„
for Quebec and Montreal; Caspian, Dorward, for Elsinore end/
St. Petersburgh ; Utica, Arndt, for Stettin ; Julie, Preager,
Calais; Blues, Blues, for Carthagens in Colombia; Euphrosyne,..!
Hutchinson, for St. John's, • Addison, Browne. for
nore and St. Petersburgh ; Regent N.B.Vacket, Collings, for Valencia;
De Jonge Vrouw Rebecca Mary. Wilcock. for Cape Coast Castle;
Ceres, Higgins, for F.lsittore and Riga ; Donne Castle, Ham for
Hamburg!' ; King George Packet, Hart, for Rotterdam; Prince
, of Waterloo, Mailer, for Ostend.

CLEARING OITTWANDIL—Prince Frederic, Atherden, for Rot•
tertian' ;!grave, Garbutt, for Malta, Corfu, and Alexandria ;
Minerva, Harvey, for Bilboa ; Henry and Harriet; Santee., for
S:. Johns, N.D.

FROST LLOYD'S LIST.

FALMOUTH. Amt. 21.—Arrived the Betsey, Leadbitter, fr,art
St. Peteraburgh; and the Sarah, Booster, from London.

PLYMOUTM Arc, 21.—Arrived the Speculation, —, front
Memel; and Cygnet, Hill, from St. Petersburgh. Sail,t the
Dickens, Proctor, for Gibraltar.

PORTSMOUTH, Avo. 22.—Arrived the Ottawa, Douglas, front
the Downs, for Quebec; and his Majesty's cutters Camelion art
Tartar, from a cruise.

DEAr., A un. 22.—Arrived, and sailed for the River, the Sep..
pings, Hearn. from Jamaica ; the Ladv of the Lake. Gray, front
St. John's, New Brunswick. Passed through, the William.
M•G:lvray, Stoddart, for Montreal ; Ruby, Haswell, for Alicant
Elizabeth S.ewart, tor the South Seat.

fi R AV ESTSID, AUGUST 22.—Arrived Sornersetshite, Roes, from
Jamaica: Ceres,—, from Marseilles; Lady of the Lake. Gray.
from St. John's, N. B. ; Coriolanus, Arman, from Sierra Leone ;.•
Lovely Ann, Chaplin, from Leghorn; and about SO sail fron the
Baltic. Sailed Wellington, Evans, for Madras, and Watcrlco.
Shepherd, for Hambutgh.

Ilanwtcti. Auctusr 22.—The Jean and Mary, Garner, from
Selby to London, has been assisted in here, having been on shore
on the Sandford.
BnISTOL, A uo. 22.—Arrived the Pheasant, Barnes, from St_
Petersburgh ; Mariner, Woolacott, from Masa ; Severn, Clax-
ton, from Nevis. Sailed the St. Vincent, Green ; General Wolk,.
Stanworth ; Eliza, Hudson, for Quebec; Mary, Jackson, fur Sr.
Pctersburgh; Margaret, Partridge, for Newfoundland; New Vo-
lunteer, Steuart, for Demerara; John and Robert, Jones, for N: PI
York L'Achille, Mordant, for Bordeaux • James, Walton, for
Aliramichi; Latona, Patterson, for Riga; Dino, Stark, for Malta;
Aid, Palmer, for New Brunswick. The Hercules, Griffiths, has
arrived at Honduras ; Rachel, Adams. in the river St. Lawrence.
LtvEavoor., Auo. 21.—Arrived the George Bentinck, li.c-
kennay, from Quebec ; Sarah Sheaf, Brogden, and It'illiam,
from New York • Agnes, Johnson, from Antigua; Elizabeth, At-
kinson. from Richebucto.l
Gagrxoce, Auo. 20.—The brig Brilliant, of London, Pat.
terson, from Odessa, in entering Holy Loch nn Thursday, took
the ground at the Cairn Point: sho was got off last night without
damage, after discharging part of her cargo into a lighter.
BELrasv, Auo. 17.—The Taperheden, Gullengrandt, from
Carlscrona to Carthagena de 'Colombia, appesra to make water in
the starboard aide, immediately under the fore chains. It isrup.
posed the necessary repairs can be done where she now lies ;i.t
Carrick Roads), when she is sufficiently lightened.
LIMERICK, AUGUST 20.—The Eliza, Duncan, sailed fom
hence for Glasgow about the 31st of 3lay, and has not since leea.
heard of. .

Cuinwegst, Avo. 18--The Praterity, Petersen, from St. Pc-
tersttargh, got on shore at Newark 16th inst. and was forsaken by
the ere*. She was brought up, full of water, by two ti,hermen.
The Alfred., Gordon, from Trinidad. arrived in the Clyde, on
the 27th ult. lat. 37, long. 46, fell in with the schooner Christiana,
of Philadelphia. abandoned, dismasted, and full of water.
The Olney, Starers, was at Pails on the 12th Janiary, with :too
barrels of oil.
The Alfred. Gordon, from Trinidad, arrived in the Clyde, fell in
with, on the 27th ult. in lat. ,7, long. 46, the Christiana, of Plat:—
delphis, abandoned, dismasted, and full of water.

SHOCKING OCCURILNCE.—On Friday, thel2th instant.
as a labouring man was walking in Tawney Wood, about
twenty yards from the footpath leading from Uky to
Nymphs&ltl, he observed a person lying on his back, and.
when he came up to him, found he was dead. From the
Isueostreisisgteenderoalflya.uwjssetomoryikanliilitgenrstlhEmienitltsikslil,viuiPiiitrsw.ckc of • 1
state of the body, lie must 'have been in that situation scut,-
weeks! His height was about five feet five inches, dark
brown hair, and had a wound on his right leg ; had on a
brown coat, blue waistcoat, drab fustian trousers, black silk ,
handkerchief, a white apron round his waist, and a black
articles,
chip hat, with crape round it. A bundle lay very near tha
withboh 1 Is y
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containedo I,if l
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,aawnntd: orsol r flannel
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‘Votton-nitleredge, July 4; the name, William Lake
gsutcooh
ton fancy trade ; and from part of a letter found new-
lAiiitni ,iliitquise,tsuwpiaiossettalklei,en had been
list,
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.tillem body,
remains and
werea verdict
afterwardsrc
shears,
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ttntlecnedenotly" - lootind
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in the church-yard at Uley, with the usual gl. intent (I
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Beakitoeli..49i 31
Onto Acct. no;
3 pee Cent. Red. 801
3 per Cent. Cone. 89/ j
Ditto Acct. Mil j
per Cent. 98j
3 per Cent. Red. 931 1
ew 4 per Cent. 103}
lack& Bondi 43 44 pm

PRICES (IF FORERUN
Akfistras Bonds (10 Gu. per E
St.)
itlrsuiliu Bonds 701
Ihsto Aect.
Ditto Scrip (1823) dis
iw. Acct. 3 dis
Bona Ayres Bonds 90; 90 ,
1.4/minbian Bonds 83
Ditto Ant.
Diem Rends (1824) 84 34
Ditto Ace. 83j
&each Reines 3 per Ct.102f.50t.
Exchange 23t. 10c.
Danish Bonds .1004
Ditto Scril A 18251 44 dis
Liao As*. 41 al

COURSE OF EXCII
Amsterdam C. F. 12 .6
Ditto at sight II 111
Rotterdam ...........2 U. 12 6
Aletwerp 12 II
liambargh 2 U. 36 10
.11tona 2i U. 36 II
Parts, 3 dare' sigh t 25 26
Ditto 2 U. 25 51
Bordeaux ., *5 50
Berlin 7 0
Frank. on 3lain Ex. 51,151

_ ....._.
Petersbureh, rble. 3 Us.
Vienna, effective 3.2 31. 9 87
Trieste ditto 987
Madrid 37
Cadiz
Saban
Barcelona. ,76
Needle -4. 38i
liibraltar Si

sazi-c ELL ANrou 1.
A Delo-Mexican Mint 25 5
Australian
2111t'..h Iron Company lOO 20
t.AI Rock and Patent Salt 50 5
pollmbian Agricul. Company 100 A
Devon Ifaytor Granite . SO 2
General Steam Navigation lOO 5
Imperial Plate Glass lOO 2
Isozdon. Gib., & 01:1101 Steam 100 1
Lond.Gold and Silver Refining 250 5
Mew Corn Exchange 3O 3
Pearl Fishery (Yellow)
Peruvian
Provincial Bank of Ireland lOO 10

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After Which GORDON TIIE GYPSEY.
Gordon the Gypoey, Nr.T.P. Cooke.

TOCKS YESTERDAY.
Jodi' Stock
• Ditto Aect.
Long Asia. 22i 5.16
South Sea Stock 1011
Bills,lid.l,ooo/.16 1916 pro
Ditto, Sea 18 21 pm
Ditto, Small 20 18 22 pos
Lottery Tickets, 191. 19s.

STOCKS YESTERDAY.
1 Greek Bonds 41 1 1
Ditto Scrip Acct. 121 1 1 dis
Ditto Acet. in 4 i di,.
Guadalsjura Coin. Bonds 611
31exican Bonds
Ditto Scrip (1023) 4 die
Ditto Acct. 01 4 dia
Peruvian Bonds
Div° Acct. 73 1
?mai= Bonds
Ditto Bonds 08221
839100 j
Russian Bonds (um so ) lty 7
Ditto Acct. 971
Spanish Cons. 221 I 4
Ditto Acct. 221 I
Ditto Cons. (1623) 174

NOE YESTERDAY.
Leghorn. 491

Venice 27
Malta 2
Naples 4O
Palermo per oz. 122
Lisbon 51
Oporto 511
Rio Janeiro ag
Dallis 32
Dublin 94

suttiox, rcit oz.
i. s. d,
Portugal Goldin coin 0 0 0
Foreign Gold to bars 3 17 lei
New Doubloons. 0 0, ft
New Dollars CM
Silver in bars, stand 0 5 I

PRICES OF SHARES YESTERDAY.
MINES.
share. Paid. Premium per Share.
Anglo-Mexican £lOO 35 67j 05
Ariglo-Chilian „f 100 3 2
Castello& EspiritoSanto Bruit lOU 6 7i 8 7iBlhilf
CJrnwall anti Devonshire
Consolidated Copper and Tin 4O 2 j j
Rquitable 25 2 lt
General Mining Association lOO 6 8
Hayti
Potosi, La Pas, and Peruvian 50 5 5j 6
]teal Irish 25 1 9-16
Ro76l9annary&Brit.slin.As — 5 2 dia
Welsh Iron and Coal 25 10 21 23 21
•ISURANCIL coatraetts.
Mance British and Foreign lOO 10 41

31 1 dis
9i
6
1 dis
21 2;f i
6 3
2
6
1
11 14 13
I dis
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HAYMARKET THEATRE..
This Evening. WEDNESDAY', August U. will he performed
YOUTH, LOVE, AND FOLLY.
Heron de Briancourt. lir. Williams; Florimond, Mr. Vining; Antoine,
51r. Wikluson. Arluette, Mrs. ilumby.
After which,
ttosr.s AND THORNS:
Or, TWO HOUSES UNDER ONE ROOF.
Principal Characters—Meseta. Liston, W. Fatten, Vining, and liar.
ley. filesdamee T. 11111, Gibb 4. and Miss P. Glover.

To conclude with
TIIF: CRITIC; or. A TRAORDY REHEARSED.
Puff. Mr. Harley; Sir Fretful Plagiary, Mr. W. Ewen.

ENGLISIt OPERA HOUSE.
This Evenlns, WEDNESDAY. August 24, will he performed (for the
9th time in this country). a Grand Opera. called
T.%1111A14E, THE TARTAR CHILE.
The Prinelpar Characters by Mews. H Phillips, J. 0. Atkins, Per
Braham, Denman, Thorne. and J. Bland; Wawa Paton. GOIP
arr, and SoJen: and Miss Hamilton.

THE ROYAL GARDENS, VAUXHALL, WILL CLOSE NEXT
WEEK.

UNDER THE ESPECIAL PATNONAGE OF HIS MAJESTY.

ROYAL GARDENS, VAUXHALL.

11 LC XVENING. N EDNESDAY. 'August 14. the Gardens will
be open wit► a SlLlCCeallon of varied Amusements, from Vlett
Weluelt till Twelve, including the NEW SALLE V. the WUNDER'. I.
V VoLUTIONS of the celebrated ROPE. DANCER (Mr. W11.1.40N).
Art. &c. To conclude with a magnificent display of FIRE.% olt KS,
and WONDROUS ASCENT by the YOUNG AMERICAN. which will
Irstire a continuance of the universal acclamation and delight with
which they are nightly honoured.
Doors open at Seven o'Clock.—Admission 3s. dd.

Wne DIUTISIII Pass, commenced publishing yesterday morning
at live o'clock.

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, AUG CST SA, 1825.

The Paris Papers which arrived last night contain no
news, foreign or domestic. The capture of IBRAHIM
Tacna, though confidently announced in the German
Papers, and mentioned in several private letters that
reached town yesterday, is yet without official or authentic
confirmation. The Etoile is suspiciously vehement in its
defence of the sincerity of French neutrality in the Levant.:l
itrhether the French Government has given its sanction to
the proceedings of its officers in that quarter, we cannot of
cJurse know, unless it was disposed to avow the fact ; but
it appears certain that the Amaranthe, and other vessels
of the French navy, have been rendering every assistance
to the Egyptian expedition in the Morea, as much as if
they were the property of Metixacer Att himself. The
t!ortstitutionnel states, that the Lord High Commissioner
cf the lonian Islands has had a wery serious conference
with the Austrian Naval Commander at Corfu, in conse-
quence of the latter having violated his neutrality, by
preventing the Greek fleet from taking advantage of a
favourable opportunity to attack the Turkish. It was re-
ported even that some shots had been exchanged between
the English and Austrian vessels. This statement, how-
wore is wholly denied by the Efate.
[From the Eioik, dated Monday.'

PARIS, Auo. 21.

The Greek ;aortal Tke Friend of the Lows, of 20th June, pub.
a letter freltn General Roche to the members of the Executive
Council of the Pravistunal Government of Greece, and an answer
I OM the Secretary, General Maurocoedato. The General calls on
the Government to contradict what the Hydra journal had said
against the Captain of a French schooner, who was reproached with
having behaved in a manner as favourable to the fleet of the ene-
mies of Greece, as contrary to the neutrality declared by France.

Maurocordato answers, that the General's letter shall be inserted
in the Hydra journal, and declares that the news published in that
journal is neither official nor communicated by the Government.
Ife adds that the Greek Government is persuaded, even should there
be Any well founded suspicions against the Captain of theAmeranthe,
. .

•
of baring conveyed money belonging to Ibrahim Pacha, that it la
impossible the French Id iilistry could aver have given such a immix
-
son. ft is with the same conviction, adds! Alaumcordato, that I,

e•preat, on the part of my Government, the gratitude due to the
humane sentiments which animate the French nation towards
rreette.

While she Secretary General of the Greek Government expresses
himself in this manner, at Napoli di Romania, the Colutiist imrnel
insults at 'Paris the French Government, and dares to suspect it nf,
having violated the neutrality which it has officially declared. We
rein the rolnitatisonel to the circular of (loners! Ouilleininnt,
t, all oar (knells in the Levant. tt will then _see what waa in
these circumstances the language of France.
The Tbeiniatocles, a verchant teed, which arrived at Cad it, had
Jar a figure-head a butt of Bonaparte, which was extremely like
It was also adored with • large !tannin( eagle, attached to two
crams, surmounted by a garland and bordered with little eagle:, and
—ores the inscription " I.e biros du 816c1e."
lie-Imperial Guard and a detachmert of

ierantry is the Sanitary service, all soldiers and sailors, would I
probably have destroyed the insignia bad not the brig suddenly
departed.
It is false, that, as the ConHilutiognel says to-day, some shots
hive been exchanged betneen an English vessel and an Austrian.
The Lord High Commissioner, it is true, has been on board the
Austrian Commander's vessel, bat the departure of the English
vessels from Corfu was occasioned by an Algerine frigate.

The new Catholic Association, we learn from the Dublin
papers, has adjourned to the beginning of November.
The proceedings of this body hitherto have been so in-
sipid and tiresome that we may regard the adjournment as
an expedient on the part of the proprietors to save it from
immediate dissolution. Several new Members were ad-
mitted at this Meeting; a circumstance at which an ex-
essive degree of joy was manifested. LAWLESS, who was
scornfully rejected from the last Catholic Deputation, de-
clared that "the addition of these names would be a
tolerable reply to those journalists in England who assailed
the Catholic Association." We doubt very much whether
this reply be considered in any respect " tolerable." It
was to be expected that the Members of the suppressed
Association would, for the most part, join the new club.
Men do not like to acknowledge that they have been
wrong, and the Members of the former Association must
tacitly have made this painful admission, if they had re-
frained from enrolling their names in the present Society,
which was intended to be a continuation of its offensive
and mischievous predecessor, in its worst shape. The de-
sign of its founders has, however, been entirely abortive. ,
The Meetings of the new Association have been consumed
in idle and insignificant debates ; and with all die aid of
the Catholic Press, magnifying it through their reports,
land endeavouring in vain ,to raise it into importance, in
their commentaries, it has attracted no public attention.
, A stronger proof of the disregard and contempt in which it
is held by those in whose behalf it assumes to act, cannot
be given than in a suggestion of Mr. Laws ess, which
was discussed last Saturday. This propositition was,
" that in future, their petitions should not be
called Catholic." The reason on which it was
grounded is worthy of notice. Mr. LAWLESS declared
that " be could inform the Meeting, on the autho-1
city of a most influential man in England, and who was
besides at the head of the sect called Unitarians, that
100,000 of that persuasion was ready to join them in their,
petitions to Parliament." So then Mr. LAWLESS would
have the Catholic Association renounce its very name in
order that it might ally .itself with the "100,000 Uni-
tarians, who are ready to join the Catholics in petitioning
Parliament." This would, forsooth, be a notable ter.
mination of an assembly comprising what is termed
by its members the " Hierarchy of Ireland."—
Yet, this wild and desperate suggestion was gravely de-1
bated, and finally not rejected but suspended, in order that
it may be submitted to the sense of the next Aggregate
Meeting! It would be an edifying spectacle to behold
the Roman Catholic Bishops of Ireland giving the fraternal
embrace to the " head of the sect of Unitarians," with his
100,000 followers. But what object can there be in com-
mon between the Roman Catholics of Ireland and the'
Unitarians of England ? We should have thought the
former would have shrunk with alarm from a
proposition directly tending to identify them with the pro-
fessors of the Unitarian heresy ; but it seems as if in this
case the end would sanctify the means. Both these parties
regard,the Established Church as their enemy, and they
would combine to overthrow it. This can be the sole ob-
ject to which their union could be applied. The New Ca-
tholic Association has not existed altogether to no pur-
pose, if it has only made us acquainted with the fact that
the leathers of the Irish Catholics have deliberated on the
expediency of forming an alliance with the English Uni.
I+arians for the attainment of the objects, whatever they
may be, which they have in common.

The accusations which have recently been brought
against St. George's Hospital, for the culpable and inju-
dicious treatment of its patients, have very strongly ar-
rested the public attention ; we trust they will be followed
up by that thorough investigation on the part of the
Governors which such discreditable publicity calls fur.
The case brought forward a few weeks since by Mr.
BAILEY was one of very considerable interest, and the
public were by no means satisfied with the manner in
which it was disposed of. This unfavourable impression
was not likely to be allayed by the evidence given on the
Inquest taken on the body of Wm. TAY Loa, which ap-
peared in the public prints of yesterday. The Jury re-
probated, and very deservedly, the inhuman conduct of the
nurse Armstrong, and of the man Allen; and finally
agreed that the Coroner should lay a representation of
the case before the Board, which they felt satisfied would
lead to their dismissal. We hope their anticipated result
will follow, and that this will not add one more to the
many cases of a similar nature which, after being slurred
over with a formal investigation, have been suffered to die
away and be forgotten. Whatever tends to destroy the
confidence of the public in the interior management of
those Institutions which the public charity supports, is a
serious evil, and nothing can tend more effectually to
this end than the impression which some late Inquests on
the bodies of hospital patients has very generally created,
that the benevolent object of these Charitable Institutions
are perverted by neglect or improper management on the
part of the physicians, and by the cruelty or careless-
ness of tile nurses, to whom the care of the sufferers
is entrusted. In every hospital the kindness of the
attendants is of the very last importance towards
accelerating the recovery of those under their care. If un-
feeling nurses are appointed to the various offices allotted
to them in these chambers of death—for such are the
wards of an hospital—all the purposes of such an establish-
ment are frustrated, and the generous contributions which
uphold it are worse than thrown away. The Governors
cennot have their eye over this class of attendants—the
very nature of their duties place them out of the reach of
observation. It becomes, from this circumstance, indis-
pensable that only such persons should be appointed to
such offices, whose natural disposition is patient and hu-
mane, and who from principle are a law unto themselves.
In by far too many instances, we fear, those situations are
filled without much previous care as to the fitness of the
persons appointed to them. We earnestly hope that the
facts which the late inquests have disclosed, may put the
Governors of these establishments on the alert ; it is a duty
which the public have a right to expect should be much
better discharged than it appears to be. Our pnbhc hos-
pitals are supported at a very heavy expense, and they
incur a deep responsibility who assume the office of super-
intendants without felfillinz, as they ought, the trust that
Is reposed in them.

The shopmen, or as they tidiculously and aretedly
style themselves, the " assistant linen-drapers, haber-
dashers, silk-mereers, hosiers, and glovers," held another
meeting last night, of which a report will be found in
another column. This attempt to curtail the hours of
business in retail shops has ended, according to the fashion
of the day, in the establishment of a Society, with little
ss than 100 " rules and orders" for its government.',

Theysre prefaced with a " Declaration;" in ahichll
the "assistants" set forth, in becoming gravity of form
and language, the sufferings under which they labour,
and the benefits which, if they can, they are resolved
to enjoy. As a matter of curiosity, our readers will
feel amused in looking it over. On reflection, perhaps it
will be found to deserve serious consideration :
DECLARATION. '

Whereas it bas 'become customary for Linen Drapers, Haber-
dashers, Silk Mercers, Hosiers, &c. to keep their shops open until
very late hours in the evening, and to detain their assistants for very
unreasonable periods of time after other trades have closed the busi.
ness of the day ; and whereas such detention is injurious to health,
and inimical to all mental progress, it has been resolved to establish
a society for the purposes hereinafter mentioned.

For better regulating their employment, and for the purpose of
obtaining some time for recreation and mental improvement, the
Members of this Society agree as follows :
Under the head of "Trade Regulations," we have the
following rules:—

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