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No. 13,486.

LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, 11ECEAIBER 2, 1835.

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THE LATE MELANCHOLY OCCUR-

RENCE AT HATFIELD HOUSE.

OFFICIAL REPORT.

The following are the particulars of the above melancholy
occurrence, as collected by the Rev. Mr. Poole, chaplain to
the Marquis of Salisbury. They may, ,be relied on as
an authentic statement of facts. Between four and five
o'clock the female attendant of the late lamented lady left
her apartment. The Marchioness was at the time occupied
is writing a note at a table, upon which were three lighted
candles. Whether the flame came in .contact with any part
of her dress, or whether a spark from the fire ignited it,
cannot now be ascertained. Soon after five, the alarm that
the -Dowager Marchioness's chamber was in' flames, was
communicated by the housekeeper to his Lordship, who,
with the Marchioness of Salisbury, were in their private
apartment. They both immediately ran in the direction of
the chamber of their aged relative. On arriving at the foot
of the stairs, the smoke was so dense that Lady Salisbury
could proceed no further. Lord Salisbury rushed along the
pas Sage to his mother's room, and was in the act of entering
it, when he was met, by one of the men servants, who had
succeeded in opening the door, but was immediately driven
back by the smoke and flame. Lord S. pushed past this
domestic, who attempted to hold him back, and with the
utmost intrepidity and determination persisted in making
every effort to rescue her from the flames. Foiled in this
attempt, he ran round to another staircase, but, unhappily,
every effort was in vain, and he was obliged to abandon all
hope of entering the flaming chamber. Lady Salisbury
meanwhile was left in a state of the most anxious sus-
pense, not knowing whether he had succeeded or perished
in the attempt. -The fire soon made rapid progress.
The adjoining apartments became one sheet of flame,
which burst through the windows and the ceiling to the
room above. The wind was blowing towards the house,
and one apartment after another fell before the destructive
element, and the greatest apprehension was felt for the
safety of the whole of the magnificent pile. A party-wall,
of very great thickness, divided the burning ruins from the
chapel, and every effort was direcled to prevent the flames
from finding an ingress to it. The'chapel being placed at
the extremity of the Western wing, adjoining the gallery,
which forms with it a right angle, nothing, humanly speak-
ing, could have saved the remainder of the building, had
the flames ever found an entrance into this wainscotted
apartment. Fortunately the progress of the flames was
checked. Nothing but a mass of blackened smoking ruins
is, however, now to be seen to the South of.the chapel.
This part presents a melancholy contrast to the East wing,
which still remains in all its former massive grandeur. A
deep feeling of horror is connected with the desolate ap-
pearance of the ruins, arising from the certainty that the
remains of her who for more than half a century reigned
mistress here, have found a tomb amidst the ruins of the
palace over which she presided. The scene around the
house during the progress of the fire was terrific. Pictures,
books, furniture, lying about, engines galloping in every
direction, the alarm bell ringing, and lead pouring from the
roof in torrents. The flames were also bursting forth from
every window from the around floor to the roof of the
building. Inquiries meanwhile were eagerly made among
the crowd whether the Dowager Lady Salisbury had been
seen since the fire began, and when it was certainly known
that she had perished, the scene of terror, confusion, and
dismay, was beyond the power of description. It was not
until twelve o'clock that the flames were entirely subdued.
Every Gentleman in the neighbourhood was present, and
his Lordship's numerous tenantry also rendered all the as-
sistance in their power. A deep feeling of sorrow and
gloom now pervades all ranks, who unite in deploring, this
awfully sudden termination to the long protracted life of
one who for so many years had on all occasions proved a
friend, to whom the poorest might appeal in their distress
with the certainty of meeting not only prompt relief, but
with the kindest sympathy.

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Yesterday a Court was held for the despatch of
business, the Lord Mayor havinz expressed his determi-
nation not to al!ow the public to be incommoded by any
delay. _ _ _

ANCIENT VOTE OF THE SILVER CRADLE.

Mr. WIRE rose to give notice of a motion which he
anticipated the Court would allow him to bring on before
any other business was transacted. It was for the ap-
pointment of a Committee to inquire into, and ascertain,
the most advisable course of testifying their satisfaction at
the birth of a son to the Lord Mayor on Saturday last.—
(Laughter and loud cheers.)
Alderman SCHOLEY informed the Court, La a very so-
lemn manner, that it was formerly the practice of the Cor-
poration to vote a silver cradle for the fortunate baby.
-Mr. WIRE rose to move for the appointment of the
Committee, and all the Aldermen, and all the Deputies, and
a member for each Ward were appointed immediately, and
entered with alacrity upon the delightful task.

THE NAVIGATION OF THE THAMES AND PORT OF LONDON.
The following memorial was presented to the Court :
" To the Right' Honourable the Lord Mayor, Aldermen,
and Commons, in Council assembled, the Memorial
• of the Wharfingers, Owners, and Occupiers of pro-
perty on the banks of the Thames, And otherS con-
nected with the Navigation of the Port of London.
" Sheweth—That your memorialists, being principal occu-
piers of foreign, public sufferance, and coasting wharfs, have
seen with alarm a notification of intended railways from Lon-
don to Blackwall, which they conceive, if carried into effect,
must in a great degree divert the trade now carried on at dif-
ferent wharfs by your said memorialists, to a point of commu-
nication five or six miles from the metropolis, and thereby pro.
duce the most injurious consequences to your memorialists, all
of whom are more or less concerned or engaged in water-side
property, or with the shipping connected therewith.
" Your memorialists, therefore, humbly submit that to place
them in a situation fairly to contend with such powerful capi-
talists it is more than ever necessary that a convenient and safe
approach be preserved through the port for the shipping fre-
quenting this port. It is, therefore, with regret your peti-
tioners have been given to understand that the by-law for re-
gulating the port of London, which requires that an unob.
strutted passage through the port should be preserved of the
width of not less than 300 feet, is not to be enforced, but in
lieu thereof a passage of only 250 feet is to be kept open.
" Your memorialists think it necessary, in this petition, to
set forth the great increase of vessels and tonnage employed of
late years in the coasting trade to and from the port of Lon-
don, as that fact must be well known and ascertained by the
Court. Nevertheless, they beg that attention may be called
to that fact ; and also that the principal cause of many of the
accidents that occur in the port, some attended with loss of
life, and others with serious danger, is to be assigned to the
want of sufficient room in the port, and the over-crowded state
at all times of the collier tiers. .

SPAIN.

PRICE 7D.

THE NEW ELECTORAL LAW.

The Madrid journals of the 22d inst. contain the new
ElecEon B:11, as settled by the majority of the Committee,
acceded to by the Government, and read to the Chamber
of Procuradores on the 21st, and of which the following is
an analysis :—" There shall be one Deputy for every 50,000
souls, according to a table annexed to the Bill. Every
Spaniard is to be an elector at twenty-five years of age,
if be possesses the following qualifications :-1. He must
be born within the kingdom, of Spanish parents, or of a
Spanish father, if born abroad.-2. He must be one of the
inhabitants of the province who pay the highest amount
of taxes, at the rate of 100 'for 'each Deputy. This
list of 100 principal tax-payers being formed, there shall
be added to it all those who. pay taxes equal to the
amount of those paid by the lowest upon the first list,
and they also shall be electors.-3. All persons exer-
cising the following professions and employments—
namely, advocates, assessors, fiscal officers, doctors in
medicine, surgeons, and apothecaries in full practice,
doctors in law, licentiates, and registrars of royal courts,
those of the economical societies of the friends of the
country, professors in the sciences, literature, and the
humanities, with the exception of the professors of
foi cign languages and elementary teachers.-4. All
persons enjoying a retired pension or half-pay of any
public employment, amounting to 10,000 rials, or 2,500 f.
—5. Retired officers of the army, navy, or militia.-6.
Officers of the National Guard, of the rank of Captain and
upwards.—The lists of electors are to be made out by
provincial deputations, who are- to consult thereupon the
municipal bodies. These lists arc to be anthrally exposed
to the public in the month of July. All complaints are
to be laid before the provincial deputations, from whom
there is to be an appeal to the Council of State. The
provincial deputations are to divide each province into as
many electoral districts as may be necessary, without being
confined to the administrative or judicial divisions. The
Electoral Assemblies are, in the first instance, to have for
their President the Alcade of the place, and are after-
wards to elect a President, and four Secretaries, as scru-

" Your memorialists, therefore, pray that effective measures
may be adopted by the Court to enforce the present by-laws,
as respects the passage of three-hundred feet, and that they
will be pleased to adopt improved regulations for the security
and convenience of the transit of the shipping."
Mr. TICKNER seconded the motion for referring the peti-
tion to the Navigation Committee. He concurred in its
prayer, and all its allegations. It was of vast importance
to the merchants and traders of London to have the depot
of commerce- as near as possible to the centre of the City.
It was also of importance to the lightermen to have it con-
tinued where it at present was. On the other hand, it
would be vastly serviceable teLthe proprietors of the Black-
wall railways, and the proprietors of the several docks, that
the navigation should be obstructed.—(Hear.) Now, as it
would be most unquestionably of service to the citizens of
London that the depot of commerce should be as close as
possible to that place, he should give his most decided sup-
port to a motion calculated to produce that effect.
Mr. FISHER opposed the motion. He could not see
why 300 feet space should be kept in the river unoccupied,
for a race-course for steamers, which went to the tune of 15
miles an hour.—(Laughter.) He thought the port trade
would be ruined by adopting such a plan. It was notorious
that the attempt to enlarge the space to 300 feet had raised
the price of coal three or four shillings a ton, and the price
of all imported articles in proportion; and yet the former
Chairman of the Navigation Committee had, by his own
authority, directed that so important an alteration should
take place.
Mr. TICKNER admitted that, when the Chairman of the
Navigation Committee, he had issued an order to the har-
•bour-master to enlarge the space.—(Hear, hear.) He had
done so because the necessity was most urgent. An altera-
tion had taken place in the docks, which, combined with
other changes, rendered it necessary to alter the tiering of
the ships. The colliers, instead of being prejudiced, were
much benefitted by the change ; and, although he had
issued the order without meeting the Committee, he had
ventured to do so upon the best advise from the town clerk's
office, and his order was unanimously agreed to afterwards
by the Committee.—(Cheers.)
The memorial Was then referred to the Committee.
Mr. HALE, the Chairman of the City of London School
Committee, presented a petition from certain idhabitants of
the neighbourhood, praying that a stone front should be
erected instead of a brick front, at the expense of the Cor-
poration.
An amendment, that the petition should lie on the table,
was, however, proposed and carried.
A petition was presented from the Churchwardens of the
parishes of Coleman-streeet and St. Sepulchre praying that
the law expenses incurred by the proceeding adopted for
recovering an annual grant of coals to the poor of those
parishes should be defrayed by the Corporation. It stated
that the Corporation had been gainers to the amount of
3,0001. by the oversight as to the application of the pa-
'rishes for the gift to the Chamberlain. The petitioners,
however, sought merely the amount of the solicitor's bills,
viz., 991. 17s.
The Court manifested the greatest willingness to order
the bills to be paid forthwith, but
Mr. LAURENCE submitted that they could not be dis-
charged until, as was established by a by-law of the Court,
they should be sent before the Coal and Corn or Finance
Committee.
The petition was then referred to that Committee.
After some discussion upon the question of the neces-
sity of a better regulated system of keeping the Central
Criminal Courts in a more cleanly condition, it was agreed
that it should be referred to the Committee of City Lands
to consider what additional recompense should be given to
the housekeeper to accomplish the desired object. It is
only 'fair to state that the present allowance to the house-
keeper is extremely scanty.

tators, by a relative
,majority. Each elector is to write,
or Cause his bulletin to be written, containing as many
names as there are to be Deputies for the province, with
an equal number of supplementary names ; and further,
the name of the Commissary for the district. The elec-
tion beinc, concluded, the Commissary of the district is
to proceed' to the capital of the province with the minutes
of the election, and there the votes for the provincial
deputaticn And the Commissaries are to be examined.
To be elected a deputy, the candidate must have a moiety
plus one of the whole number of votes. There is to be
a second ballot for all those who do not obtain this ma-
jority. To. be elected a Deputy, or supplementary De.
puty, on a second ballot, a simple majority of votes over
the other candidates will suffice. The qualifications for
being a Deputy are as follow :—l. To be a free
Spaniard, and of the secular order.-2. To be 25 years
of age.-3. To be the heed of a family, and keep a
domestic establishment.-4. To possess an annual income
of 6,000 rials (1,5001.) or a capital of 240,000 rials
(60,0001.) in landed estate, in Stock in the Spanish Go-
vernment Funds, or placed in commerce or industry ; or to
live honourably and independently by the exercise of the
profession of an advocate, a doctor in medicine, or in law,
or in letters, or to be a professor in the Sciences or Fine
Arts, provided the annual income derived from these pro-
fessions can be estimated at 10,000 rials (2,5001.) or,
finally, be receiving from the Royal Treasury a sum of
14,000 rials (3,5001.) per annum, either as a salary or as a
retired pension. The functions of a Deputy to the Cortes
are gratuitous and voluntary. Every Deputy upon whom
the Government shall confer any employment with a salary
from the State is to be subjected to re-election. The sup-
plementary Deputies are to have the same qualifications as
the Deputies. They are to enter into the exercise of their
functions ; first, in cases where one Deputy. is elected for
several places, and has made his option to sit for one of
of them ; secondly, in case of the decease of the Deputy ;
and, thirdly, in case of his resigning or otherwise vacating
his seat. In consequence of the present state of the Basque
provinces,,they are not to be immediately divided into elec-
toral districts, and the election of Deputies is to take place
in the four capital towns of those provinces in which the
electors are to assemble."

(From the Madrid Gazette.)
" ROYAL ORDERS.
" Her Majesty the Queen Regent, who is intimately
convinced that one of the qualities indispensable in the
clergy is obedience and positive adherence to the legitimate
throne of her august daughter and the system of government
which rules the nation, has seen with displeasure that some
spiritual persons, straying from the path of truth which
moral rectitude points out to them, and allowing themselves
to be guided by fatal and interested prejudices, forget their
most essential duties, and obstinately disown the salutary
and conservative maxims of the society in which they live.
Subject to its laws, since they participate in its beneficial
influence, they ought to recognise the obligation by which
they are bound to inculcate into all minds the love of order
and obedience to all lawful authorities, instead of sowing
discord, whereby evils are produced which afflict the heart
of her Majesty and the hearts of all good Spaniards. They
will find in the sacred Scriptures, if they consult them,
sublime precepts of obedience and meekness to be obeyed,
and of strict responsibility to be feared if, from indifference,
malignity, or ignorance, they should allow peace to be dis-
turbed among the faithful consigned to their care, since they
are the shepherds whose duty it is to watch over the wel-
fare of their flocks.
" The criminal forgetfulness which some ecclesiastics
manifest with respect to these truths, as generally acknow-
ledged, as venerated by the orthodox, learned, and virtuous
portion of the Spanish clergy, imposes on her Majesty the
necessity of adopting measures calculated to meet the evils
which such conduct may inflict on the people, the dupes of
the influence and ascendancy of persons who, abusing their
sacred character, resort to every means their turbulent
spirits can suggest to compromise their victims in the
existing dissensions ; and being in her maternal solicitude
anxious to remove as far as possible the causes of this dis-
order, by affording to the people the opportunity of hearing
the voice of faithful pastors, who without any prepossessions,
and free from fatal prejudices, may present to them examples
of subordination and fidelity to the sacred oath they have
sworn, it is her Majesty's sovereign will that in order to
enable the archbishops, bishops, prelates, chapters, and
ecclesiastical corporations to ascertain with precision the cir-
cumstances and qualifications of the persons to be patronized,
they do not propose, provide, collate, or adjudicate in any
manner whatever to any benefices, curacics, chaplainships,
stewardships, or any ecclesiastical office or preferment de-
pending thereon, unless the parties interested, besides pos-
sessing the qualifications required by the sacred canons and the
laws of these kingdoms, be accredited by certificates from the
respective civil governors of the provinces in which they have
resided, for their good political conduct and decided at-
tachment to the legitimate Government of her Majesty
Donna Isabel 11., manifested by acts so positive and defi-
nite as to have no doubt on the subject. With respect to
those documents her Majesty charges the. civil governors to
proceed with due care and circumspection in 'granting them,
previously hearing the Ayuntamientos and provincial depu-
tations ; it being understood that if this new and indispen-
sable requisite should not in due time be demanded, the
most rigid responsibility will be incurred by her Majesty
granting recourse to all the proceedings within her sovereign
authority against those who may disobey.
" Such are the means whereby her Majesty prop.oses to
avert from her beloved people those serious evils which they
are enduring, and to the discredit, at the same time, of
some ministers of the gospel, who mislead them. Her Ma-
jesty, confiding in your zeal and in your wishes for the feli-
city of the country, trusts that you mill co-operate effi-
ciently in fulfilling this important duty, by dispensing all
your protection to those ecclesiastics who, duly impressed
with the force and sacred nature of the oath they have
sworn to, fulfil it by giving positive proofs of their fidelity
and obedience. . •
" By Royal order I communicate the same to your Ex-
cellency for your inforinatiini, and the punctual execution
thereof.'
" God guard your Excellency many years.
" Madrid, Nov. 23." " ALVARO GOMEZ."

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This day was published, price 6s. cloth boards,
THE NATURALIST'S LIBRARY.
By Sir WILLIAM JARDINE.
Vol. XL, containing--The History of DEER, ANTELOPES,
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CHURTON'S BRITISH POETS.
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Is is with this impression that the present attempt is made to
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and the greatest lights of genius have proved in their own persons,
that there is nothing that tends more immediately to refine, and,
therefore, elevate the human mind than Poetry. •
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HATFIELD, TUESDAY EVENING.
The body of the unfortunate lady who fell a sacrifice
to the fire which has so recently destroyed a consider-
able portion of this magnificent residence, has not. yet
been found. Workmen have been employed during the
Whole day in digging among the ruins, and conveying
away large masses of rubbish ; but as a considerable
quantity still remains to be cleared, it is not probable that
they will arrive at the conclusion of their labours before to-
morrow morning at the earliest. The fire extended to no
less than forty-five apartments, many of which were lofty
and noble rooms, splendidly furnished, adorned with rich oak
carvings of considerable antiquity, marble chimney pieces,
and magnificent decorations of every kind. When the fire
was at its height, the different doors communicating with the
beautiful' old chapel and south front of the building were
hastily bricked up to a considerable thickness ; and to this
precaution, combined with the judicious direction of the dif-
ferent engines, and the indefatigable exertions of the firemen
and others on the spot, the preservation of the remainder of
the habitation can alone be attributed. Its escape, even
with these precautions, appears most miraculous. There
appears every reason to suppose that the ill-fated lady suf-
fered little from burning, and that she was most probably
suffocated by the dense smoke at a very early period of the
fire. She made no reply when the door was opened and
her name pronounced, at which time the smoke would have
rendered any attempt to enter the room certain destruction ;
and it is worthy of notice that a favourite dog, which was in
her dressing-room at the time, did not avail himself of that
opportunity of escape.
The house is, perhaps, the finest remnant of the Eliza-
bethan age extant. The South front, in particular, is the
most beautiful specimen of the picturesque architecture of
the period that can be imagined. The principal suites of
rooms are princely, and worthy the residence of a Monarch.
The cloister, long gallery, banquetting room, and hall, are
magnificent apartments, and though they present at this
moment an appearance very different from that which they
usually bear, and have worn for many years past, they are
not the less interesting on that account. The confusion and
disorder which pervade them—the hurried jumbling toge-
ther of the costly furniture in the anxiety to preserve it
from destruction—rich couches and sofas, handsome mir-
rors, high-backed damask-covered old chairs, and fantastic
cabinets of ancient date, with Turkey carpets, chrystal or-
naments, pictures, and suits of armour, and a thousand other
heterogeneous articles—contrast singularly enough with the
01d heavy chimney-pieces, and oaken pannels which have
worn the same appearance for centuries, and seem to defy
the ravages of time as proudly as that of the edifice which
is now a mass of ruins did but a few days since.

Kairon gnothi—Fugit here.
ABelief in the existence of the fountain of youth,
from which those who bathed in its waters gained a pristine
energy, was among the speculations of the 15th century ; it will,
however, serve as no inapt type of the revivifying powers of art
and medicine. Those who, early victims to a morbid imagination,
have sought fatally to anticipate tho purposes of nature, and hays
consequently lapsed into a state which brings with it weakened ca-
pabilities and clouded hopes, may by timely application to profes-
sional treatment, regain those first, noblest, and best of powers that
have boon compromised by the criminal propensities of " guilty soli-
tude," the progreis of which is marked by the " lymphatioa som-
nia' ofPliny, attended with bodily weakness and oriental apathy.
We may indulge a natural exultation in referring to cur daily cor-
respondence with grateful and convalescent patients, net confined to
our own country, but diffused over the whole world. For twenty-
fi re years has our peculiar treatment in cases of Nervous Debility
proved eminently successful, and we have hitherto resisted the
earnest solicitations of our patients to publish their cases in a public
address the following, however, has been se urgently pressed upon
us by a medical friend, that we have yielded to an importunity suf-
ficiently excusable by the gratitude it evinces
Dear Sirs—My fondest hopes are realized ! Accept my most
neartfelt thanks ; words are inadequate to express my unbounded
ratitude. May you long live to reap the rich reward of your
labours in the treatment of that class of diseaseswhich have hitherto
baffled the skill of your medical brethren.
" Nov. 1832." Your's, most sincerely, L. H."
There arc many disorders of the generative system (which, when
compared with the above, may be termed subsordinate) that are
consequent upon the too free and indiscriminate indulgence of the
passions, exhibiting in some, debility from excess, in ethers, the
relaxing effects of a tropical climate, and in many, indeed in how
many, the various maladies which afflict the student, the misan-
thrope, the gay, the dissipated, and the libertine. In all these
cases our practice, which embraces every grade in society, from the
man of rank to him of the humblest sphere, has been uniformly
successful ; and as secresy belongs to our profession, the most deli-
zate and diffident may apply without fear or hesitation.
MESSRS. GOSS and Co. are to be consulted every day at
their residence ; and Patients in the remotest part of the Country
can be treated successfully on transmitting their report which will
bo immediately answered; these must contain a remittance for
Advice and Medicine, describing minutely the case, which can be
forwarded to any part of the world, however distant. No difficulty
can occur, as the Medicines will be securely packed, and carefully
protected from observation.
GOSS and Co. (M. P. C. Surgeons.)
7, Lancaster Place, Strand, London.
*,,* Just published.,(Twmty-first Edition). Ist. The &GIS
of LIFE, a familiar commentary on the above Diseases. • 2d.
HYGEIANA, addressed exclusively to the Female Sex. 3d. The
SYPHILIST, a treatise on Lucs Venerea, Gonorrhcea,
May be had at 23, Paternoster-row, London ; 12, Calton-street,
Edinburgh ; 86, Trongate, Glasgow ; 72, Grafton-street, Dublin.

USEFUL AND ENTERTAINING KNOWLEDGE.—
The opportunity afforded by Mr. Colburn for obtaining
good works by means of their publication in weekly numbers,
at a trifling cost, has been, as might have been expected,
eagerly embraced by the many. As an evidence of this, we
may state that within ten days after its appearance, Number
I. of Count Las Cases' " Memoirs of Napoleon," was all
sold. To meet the great and increasing demand for this
authentic work, it has been reprinted and stereotyped in a
convenient pocket size, uniformly with the works of Byron
and Scott, so that no disappointment can in future arise.
Like " Colburn's Modern Novelists," it is now re-issuing in
Weekly Shilling Numbers, finely embellished, the first and
second of which have just appeared. The octavo edition
has reached its sixth number. " Bulwer's Disowned" suc-
ceeds " Pelham" in the cheap re-issue of Colburn's Nove-
lists, and, like that novel, is announced to be comprised in
six parts, two of which are already published, with four illus-
trations by linden. Appearing in such a style of beauty,
and at so moderate a price, we doubt not that many thousand
copies will rapidly find their way into circulation.
The accounts from Miramichi are dated the 3d
ult. A company had been formed there with a capital of
100,0001., for the purpose of erecting saw-mills upon the
south-west branch of the river Miramichi, and on the 'rexas
river. The different contracts bad been entered into, and
it was expected that the whole would be ready to work
about the beginning of April next. The general opinion
was, that about 30,000,000 superficial feet of deals and
boards would be cut annually by these mills.
On Monday evening last, about six o'clock, a
cornrick was discovered to be on fire, in the rick-yard of
Mr. John Brown, of Piddington. Nothing has yet trans-
pired to fix suspicion on any individual.—arfird Journal.

GOVERNOR OF THE IRISH SOCIETY.

Mr. WIRE rose to propose that Alderman Wood should
be elected President of the Irish Society. '
Mr. STEVENS seconded the motion.
Mr. TICKNER objected to the appointment of the Alder-
man, from the fact that the Fishmongers' Company, of which
Alderman Wood is Prime Warden, is at variance with the
Irish Society.
Mr. R. L. JONES said that the election could not fall
upon a more eligible person.
Mr. FLETCHER was satisfied that no man could perform
the duties of Governor more to the benefit of all parties
than Alderman Wood.—(Loud cheers.)
After a few words from Mr. C. Pearson, and Mr. R.
Taylor, Alderman Wood was unanimously elected Governor
of the Irish Society.
The Court, after the transation of some business of no
public, interest, broke up.

On Wednesday evening, the 18th Nov., a irl about
seven years of age, the child of Mr. Richard Cook, of Tho-
mas-street, was in the act of snuffing the candle, when part
of the burning wick fell upon her pinafore, which immedi-
ately took fire, and the unfortunate child was burnt in so
shocking a manner as to cause her death, after lingering in
extreme agony till the following Friday morning.—Coventry
Herald.
ROBBERY.— A man aged 60, named John Hen-
nessy, from the neighbourhood of Clonmel, was met on
Sunday night on John's Bridge by a party of ruffians, who
first robbed him of ten shillings, and then threw him over
the bridge into the pill. Fortunately, he was saved from
almost inevitable death by a man named Fitzgerald. Those
daring robbers escaped with their booty.—Waterford
Chronicle. _

LIWN, THE PARRICIDE.—John Linn, who, it may
be recollected, was convicted, about two years ago, at Car-
rickfergus assizes, for the murder of his father (a respect-
able tradesman of Belfast), but was acquitted on the ground
of insanity, and confined accordingly at the Belfast district
lunatic asylum, made his escape from it, on Saturday
morning. Where he has fled to is altogether unknown ;
but, it is supposed probable, that he will endeavour to make
off to America—and, should he do so, it will be a happy
riddance to this part of the country, in which, long pre-
viously to the atrocious and unnatural crime he had imbrued
his hand in, he .was a dread and a terror, by reason of an
innate lawlessness 3nd ferociousness of disposition, which
was termed insanvj but, in point of fact, was nothing
more or less tha.a; •orking of a most ungoverable and
"turbulent temp ar, ited into action by too free a use of
ardent spirits.

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ration the present Condition of the regulars, and cognizant
of the preceding transactions which have taken place in
the departinent under my, charge, and of the representa-
tions of ecclesiastical orders of both sexes, has been pleased
to resolve that the whole matter being considered by a com-
mission composed of individuals of intelligence, known
rectitude, and religious sentiments, a bill should be drawn
up, which shall determine in a suitable manner the future
lot of the regulars. At the same time Her Majesty has
been pleased to appoint your Excellency President of

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" Don Aniceto Alvaro, of the Finance Department ; and
" Don Juan Donoso Cortes, of the Department of Grace
and Justice.
" By Royal older I intimate this to your Excellency for
your information, that you may make arrangements for the
meeting of the individuals above-mentioned to carry into
effect the sovereign resolution, to which end all the docu-
ments relative to the subject shall be furnished from my
depai tment.
" God grant your Excellency many years,
" Madrid, Nov. 20, 1835. ALVARO GOMEZ.
" Senor Don Valentin Ortigosa, Archdeacon , .

" The Queen Regent considering that employments have
been instituted for the public good and service of the nation,
and that before this supreme interest. vanish all those em-
ployments which partake of a private or peculiar character
to the persons employed, and conceiving that an abuse exists
in the license by which a number, and by no means a small
number, of those individuals arc at present absent from
their vocations, under pretext not very legitimate even
when they are not absolutely censurable, though with
the usual permission, has been pleased to resolve that
those licenses which have been granted to or are now en-
joyed by the officers in my department shall terminate, and
that without distinction or exception of class or of the
ground of the licence, they shall without fail present them-
selves to serve in their respective employments at the end
of a month from the publication of this Royal order in the
Madrid Gazette, without requiring any special notice or
direct communication ; it being well understood that that
period being allowed to elapse. without a personal appear-
ance being made, the heads of the respective offices :will
declarei on their responsibility, the places vacant of those
who are behindhand or inattentive to the fulfilment of
,this
regulation, and give notice of the same without the least
delay, to the respective superior officers, in order that
they may proceed to make the usual arrangements for
filling them up.
" By Royal order I communicate: this to you for your in-
formation and punctual fulfilment. as far as relates to you.
God guard you many years.
" Madrid, Nov. 19, 1835.

" MENDIZABAL,"

LETTER FROM TEXAS.
FREEMEN OF TEXAS, TO ARMS ! TO ARMS
" Now's the day, and now's the hour."
" Camp of
.the Volunteers.
" Friday night, 11 o'clock, Oct. 2, 1835.
" Fellow Citizens,—We have prevailed on your fellow
citizen, W. H. Wharton, Esq., to return and communicate
to you the following express ; and also to urge as many
as can by possibility leave their homes to repair to- Gon-
zales immediately, armed and equipped for war even to
the knife. .On the receipt of this intelligence, the volun-
teers immediately resolved to march to Gonzales to aid
their countrymen. We are just now starting, which must
apologise for the brevity of this communication. We refer
you to Mr. Wharton for an explanation of our wishes,
opinions, and intentions, and also for such political infor-
mation as has come into our hands. If Texas will now act
promptly, she will soon be redeemed from that worse than
Egyptiin bondage which now cramps her resources and re-
tards her prosperity."
Here follow the s►gnatures, which are all Anglo-Ameri-
can names.
" P.S. An action took place yesterday at Gonzales, in
which the Mexican Commander and several soldiers were
slain—no loss on the American side."

MEXICO.
The following isthe Decree which was issued by the Mi-

nister of the Interior :
The President pro tempore of the Mexican United
States informs the inhabitants of the Republic that the
general Congress has decreed as follows :
"I. The actual Governors of the different States of
the Union shall continue their duties, till the period shall
have expired for which they arc appointed by the respec-
tive Constitutions of the different States ; but in the exer-
cise of their functions in future they shall be subject to
the general Government of the nation.
"2. The Legislatures shall discontinue the exercise of
their functions ; but before those now in Session shall be
dissolved, and when those in vacation shall have met in
Session, they shall nominate a departmental Junta, com-
posed for the present of five individuals, selected from their
own body or otherwise, to act as a Council for the Go-
. vernor, and in case of vacancy as Governor, to propose to
the general Government three persons whose qualifications
may entitle them to the office ; while in the interval, till
the nomination shall have been made by the national Con-
gress, the duties of Governor shall be exercised by the first

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in order of the Councillors.
"3. In those States where the Legislature shall not
have been convoked within eight days, the Municipal Go-
vernment of the capital shall exercise the above duties so
far as concerns the election of the five Members of the De-
partmental Junta.
"4. All the Judges and Tribunals of the States shall con-
tinue in their present condition 'for the administration of
justice, till the general Government shall have published a
law for the organization of the judiciary department. The
securities of all judicial functionaries, exacted by the
respective Legislatures, will be refused or accepted by the
Supreme Court of the nation.
"5. All the subordinate authorities of the State shall
also continue in the exercise of their respective duties ; and
nominations shall only be made for -such places as arc now
vacant, or shall be vacated. But those authorities and their
offices, With all the revenues and duties of which they have
the administration, shall be under the control of, the
national Government, through the medium of the Gover-
nors of their respective States.
" JOSE MANUEL :MORENO, President.
" JOSE IL MAI,O, Secretary.
" ATENOGENES CASTILLERO, Secretary."
" I have ordered the printing, publication, and circulation
of the above Decree, that it shall have its whole effect.
" MIGUEL BARRAGAN.
" To Don Manuel Diez de Bonilla.
" Palace of the Federal Government, Mexico, Oct. 8,188 b."

•
THE FIRST MOB CASE.
BALTIMORE, _Nov. 6.—The first trial resulting from the
riots in August last took place yesterday in Baltimore City
Court. Joseph Walters, jun., was indicted for an assault
and battery on Charles F. Tensfield, on the night of the
Bth of August last. It appeared in evidence that Mr.
Tensfield, in obedi.ence to a call on the citizens by the
Mayor to aid the civil authorities in preserving the peace
and protecting the property of the citizens, was acting as a
member of a troop of horse voluntarily assembled under
the command of Colonel E. L. Finley—that his horse fell
with him while the troop was passing rapidly along the
street, and in the fall Mr. Tensfield lost his sword. That
before he could rise he was surrounded by a crowd, who
beat him severely, and the traverser, Walters, took up the
sword, and with the naked point presented in a threatening
manner over Tensfield, then lying on the street, asked
whether he should run it through him. He was prevented,
however, by some of the bystanders from wounding Mr. T.
with the sword. The Jury found the traverser guilty, and
the Court sentenced him to pay a fine of 100 dollars, to be
imprisoned six months, and to give security in 500 dollars
to keep the peace.—Baltimore Gazette.
(From the Louisiana Advertiser.
The following has been handed to us by the Committee
of Vigilance of the parish of East Feliciano, for publica•
•
tion
" FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS REWARD.--The above
reward will be given on the delivery to the Committee of
Vigilance for the parish of East Feliciano., La., of the noto-
rious abolitionist, Arthur Tappan, of New York. Papers
opposed to abolition throughout the United States, are re-
quested to give publicity to the above.—Jackson,
Oct. 15, 1835."

Several new windows have been re-opened in the
eastern tower of the Minster at Witnborne, and other parts.
Two large additional galleries are in a state of forwardness.
Nearly the whole of the interior is renovated. When
finished the church will have a very' noble and handsome
appearance.
:11r. James White, of Old Broad-street, has an-
nounced himself as a candidate for the ward of Bassishaw.
He promises his constituents, if they elect him, to uphold
and not to abuse the ancient rites of hospitality.
THE LATE FLOOD AT GOOLE.—On Monday
morning, between eight and nine o'clock, there being a very
high tide at Goole, the extraordinary pressure of water
broke down the piles of a dam at the dock; and immediately
overflowed the whole town, inundating every cellar belong-
ing to the tradesmen and merchants, and also filling the
bond cellars of the extensive warehouses. Tlie damage
done will, it is feared, be found to be very considerable ; but
as. the water had only subsided a few feet when our infer•
mant left Goole, it was impossible to say to what amount.--
Hull Observer. * * * A private letter states that the
powerful flood-gates of the dock were " snapped like a car-
rot," and several stones in the dock walls were forced out
of their places. The water was three feet deep in the
houses, and five feet eight inches in the bond cellars. Three
hundred floating casks of wine were taken out. The breach
was effectually stopped before the return of the tide, but
the damage is estimated at between 8,0001. and ivoow.—
Hull ildvcrti3cr. ,