The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-10-09 00:00:00

EDINNUROR COUNTY MEETING.
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The Michaelmas Head Court of Freeholders, Commishiters of
Supply, and Justices of the Peace, for the County of Ldiaburgh,
was held in the County Hall. on Tuesday.
Sir GEORGE CLERK, 31. P. in the Chair.
Mr. G. CRAIG moved, that a committee be appointed to watch
over any alterations that may he proposed on the present Gate of
the corn laws, in the eneuilig Session of Parliament, and to Kinn.
In moving the appointment of the Committee, Mr. Craig remsiked,
that the intermit of the community were inseparable, and it was
worse than idle to talk of the interests of the commercial part of
the country being %generate and distinct from the agriculturaL It
was for the general interests of the counuy at Inge, am individual
aivanugr, that hen oved the appointment of the awnmittee.
Sir U. CLE ate thought that premature discussion, on a question
of so great moment as the Corn Laws, ought to be deprecated, as
the matter would soon come before Parliament. He, however,
had ao objection for the appointment of a Committee to watch the
measure referred to ; but he was of opinion they !should keep their
proceedings separate from any other body.
The Lomb REGISTER hoped that the meeting, proposed by his
friend Sir John Sinclair to meet some time this month, on the
Corn Laws, would not be countenanced by the gentlemen of this
county, as it would be premature to dill/MIN and judge on these
Laws before they had nrdergone a patient investigation by Parlia-
ment, which would be the case soon after Christman.
After a short discussion, the motion was agreed to, and, as we
understand, the following gentlemen were appointed to form said
4 ommittee, viz =S r Jon Hope, sir John Dalrymple, Mr. Ward.
law Ramsay, Mr. Aitchison, Mr. Dundee of Ammon, and Mr.
(Donn Craig.

Mr. Liston has concluded his engagement with Mr. De
Camp, the Chester manager. lie has played there to over-
flawing houses, although the prices of admission were con-
siderably advanced. On Saturday he played Paul Pry,
with the Liverpool company, at Manchester, and on Mon-
day he performs at Liverpool, where he is engaged for five
nights, on very high terms. The proprietors of the Liver-
pool theatre have granted a new lease to Mr. Lewis, who,
it is said, is making ample arrangements for novelty and
►ariety.

OVERLAND ARCTIC EXPEDITION.—We have just read
a letter from 1)r. Richardson to Dr. Graham, Profeseer cf
Botany, accompanying 27 packages of seeds, many of them
new species, and several packages suspected to belong to
new genera. We have much pleasure in publishing the
following extract:—Ellin. Courant.
Fort Franklin, Great Bear Lake, Nov. 1825.
We had a quick passage from Liverpool to New York, and from
thence we have journeyed with little Teat and much expedition to
this quarter: Captain Franklin reached the Arctic Sea curtly six
months from the day he sailed from England, mad I hare been.
nearly within sight of the Copper 3'ountaing, a distxnee which we
attained in the last journey oily in the third summer. Having
been so fortunate as to eißct so much in nee season, and with our
sea stores unimpaired, our prospects are flattering, oral we hope, in
the course of next summer, to make the world melt tainted a ith a
larger portion of the northern shores of this confines it than they at
present know. We have travelled, however, too quickly for the
purposes of natural history, and since we have ente red the line ,f
country we formerly travelled through I have not ad, led more than
fifty species of plants to my list. Drummond (late o f Forfar), who
is in a more fertile country, will, I hope, produce a t retry complete
Fin, aof that quarter. He is most zealous, and for two summers
will direct his attention solely to that end. Although this season
has been retnarkably fine, and the fall unusually I ate, vegetation
ceased with us in the end of August, and we h Ire still eight
months of winter to come. In the remaining two months of the
year all our collections must be made.

Extract of a letter from Captain —, of the schooner
Anna, to his sister in Aberdeen, dated Bata via, May 24,
1826:

" I arrived here on the 20th from Singapore, safe and nearly
saund ; and must give you some account from my wn hand of one
of the most treacherous and horrid scenes that I eve, witnessed.
I trust Providence, which protected me, will steer me clear of such
a sight again. At Singapore I agreed to take to Batavia seven
Malay Ifsjis. or Priests; I had also three Euro Kean passenger..
The former behaved very quietly until the night of the 2d May
(the third from Singapore). %Fe were then 25 t ides off the cot
end of Singapore, standing in for the land, with a light breeze, all
hands asleep but myself, the man at the helm, an, I one looking out
fbrward. At half-past nine p.m. while standing dose by the man
at the helm, I observed two of the Malays running aft towards me,
furiously uttering something in Javanese; ins antly suspecting
their intention, I went forward to meet them. 'he chief made a
blow or thrust at me with a krease, which I rt ceived on my left
wrist, and knocked him down with my right hand.: the second one
stabbed me in the left hip. In endeavouring n r reach the cabin,
I fell, when a scuffle :nsued, in which I received F /vend tots on my
left arm and hand ; but got clear of them both, at id got down to the
cabin, followed by them. I instantly armed mys ill with a cutlass;
a bloody scene now took place, too horrible to de' tribe; wounds on
both aides were received. One of the Europe& 1 passengers soon
came to my assistance; the mate and another of them alao got into
the cabin, the former wounded in the bead and t sack. In snort, in
three or four minutes all five of us were wounded. more or Tess, but
in possession of the cabin and arm., and their CI ief a corpse beside
ur. They now commenced throwin down iron bolts, handspikes,
and every thing they could get bolt, of, which broke our lamp in
pieces, and left us in the dark. The crew to dt to the rigging ;
three of then, were stabbed. We were some ti me in getting our
pistols loaded in the confusion ; but, to cut this horrid story short,
four of them were killed. and the other three wee e driven overboard
wounded, after having had possession of the pot Is two hours and a
half. At the end of this, I 'rot completely don eop from the loss
of blood. M y boy succeeded in atoming the bl ending; but I was
rather in a low elate for some days. Thank Coc d. my wounds are
now nearly all well ; my left hand may come rou rol, but it is doubt-
ful. as the sinews are nearly all cut. Aberdeen Journe.
Bony-STEA LING EXTRAORDINARY, —'rile inhabitants
of Featherstone-street, City-road, were thrown i rite a state of con-
sternation a few da)s since, by the discovery that a corpse had been
stolen from a dwelling-house in their neighbour! tool. The follow-
ing were the circumstances attending this eat raor.linary transac-
tion :—An elderly female named Weeks, who occupied an upper
apartment in a lodging-house in Featherston,-court, had l&tely.
been attacked by some distemper, which baffled the utmost skill of
her medical attendant, and she died. A stron ; desire was roam-
fested by some members of the faculty to (met) and examine the
body of the deceased, whose relatives, hoireve !, refused their con-
sent to such a proceeding. An old woman, a 'super of St. Luke's
parish, lodged in the same room with the deceased, and the only
other lodger in the house at that time was a young woman who cc-
copied a room underneath that in which the corpse was laid out
previously to interment. On Wednesday evening, between seem
and eight, a respectable-looking man called and inquired for some
person who had formerly been a lodger in the house, and in tweet
to make amends for the trouble lie had occasioned, lie invited the
old lady and the young one to a neighbouring ptiblic-house, to take
a comfortable drop. By the interesting conversations of the stranger
and his (clam's. and the introduction of drop after drop of gin, she
was beguiled of a considerable portion of her time, but she at length
returned home, and then, to her utter dismay, discovered that the
fascinating stranger, taking advantage of her absence, had con-
, trived to carry off the body of her deceased friend, unobserved by
any human being, leaving the empty coffin anti the shroud in the
room. The afFair soon became generally known, and excited a great
sensation among the neighbours, sonic of whom have determined
on subscribing to offer a reward for the discovery of the barefaced
esurrection is ;a.

EXTRACT FROM THE DUBLIN EVENING MAIL.--
" Proclamation, by authority, has been made throughout
England, and is now making through Ireland, that the
Lottery to be drawn on Wednesday, the 18th inst., is the
last that will be drawn in the United Kingdom."