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London, England, 1835-10-24 00:00:00

forced to dine in another apartment, and join their friends
after dinner. W. Pirie, Esq., was in the Chair. We
regret that our limits preclude us from giving the sensible
and spirited speeches delivered on the occasion. Mr.
Crawford's address extended to great length, and was emi-
nently distinguished by truth, power, and eloquence.
There are three candidates in the field for the Ame-
rican Presidential Chair—Mr. Van toren, Mr. Hugh L.

White (the Judge), of Irish descent, and Mr. Webster.
The probability is, that the democratical party will succeed
in electing the first-named gentleman, who is at present
Vice-President of the Union, and a very intimate friend of
Gen. Jackson.

SCARBOROUGH MUSEUM.--The visitors of Scar-
borough were gratified last week by the opening of ano-
ther ancient British cairn or tumulus. This was situated
by the side of the high road from Filey, within a mile and
a half of Scarborough, and contained the skeleton of a
man, an urn with ashes, and a drinking-cup, also of .clay,
both figured on the outside, a flint head of an arrow, and
a hammer of vvhinstone. The body was crushed into a

very small space, so that the knees nearly touched the chin.
Mr. Gage, Vice-President of the Antiquarian Society,
superintended the opening of the tumulus, and the Rev.
Dr. Markham took a sketch of the appearance of the re-
mains as they lay, Dr. Murray and Mr. Dunn pointing
out the position and names of the bones as they were suc-
cessively developed. The bones were so brittle as to fall
to pieces immediately that they were exposed to the air
and touched.—Hull Observer.

WORCESTERSHIRE AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIA-
TION.-A general meeting of this Society was held on Sa-
turday last, at the Crown Inn, Worcester, at which Sir A.
Lechmere presided. The object
,of the meeting was to
take into consideration the propriety of addressing his Ma-
jesty relative to the present depressed state of the landed
interest ; with which view resolutions had been prepared,
tracing one of the principal causes of agricultural distress
to the withdrawal of one and two pound notes. Upon
these resolutions being submitted for adoption, considerable
discussion took place, the principal speakers being Mr.
Spooner, Mr. Robinson, M.P., and Captain Winnington,
M.P. The former gentleman warmly contended that agri-
cultural distress and the cramping of the currency were in-
timately connected, as cause and effect ; and the two latter
gentlemen maintained that the two subjects had no neces-
sary alliance, and that each ought to be considered upon its
respective merits. Eventually, the original resolutions, as
proposed by Mr. Spooner, were carried by a majority of

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five to one.
RESTORATION OF TYE TOMB AND MONU-
MENT OF SHAKSPEARE AT STRATFORD-ON-AVON.-Ad-

ditional donations have been received during the last week
by N. L. Torre, Esq., in aid of this undertaking, from the
Earls of Eldon and Stamford, Lords Ward, Lyndhurst,

and Brougham. It speaks highly in favour of this laudable
project, that among other distinguished personages now
enrolled in the list of subscribers, the three exalted indi-

viduals who have successively filled the high station of Lord
Chancellor of England are likewise of the number ; and it

is a curious coincidence that their respective communica-
tions should have reached Mr. Torre nearly on the same
day.—Leamington Spa Courier.
The Tories have regularly got to work here, in con-
sequence of the passing of the. Municipal Bill. The walls
arc placarded from one end of the town to the other with
large bills, containing long columns of the names of persons
inviting gentlemen to offer themselves as Town Councillors.
Among the candidates selected by the Liberal party are not
only Churchmen, but also individuals of every dissenting
denomination in the town, while our political opponents'
list contains nothing but High Church names.—Kent
Herald.

THE LINCOLN CONSERVATIVE AND GUARDIAN
SOCIETY.—There is a society in Lincoln of the above title.
It pretends to be of the nature of a benefit club ; but in
this respect it reminds us of the celebrated " Christian"
society of Shoreham, the real object being bribery. Thurs-
day week was a grand field day for this society, at Harry
Cotton's, at the Bull's Head. Upwards of 100, we be-
lieve, attended ; and they proceeded to their " guardian"
and " conservative' purposes. But what do our readers
think those purposes were ? The support of our holy
church ? Homage to our " amiable" Queen ? Not so—
but obscenity so gross, and filthiness so abominable, that
Harry, rho is not over nice as to these matters, could not
and would not allow a single female to approach.—Lincoln
Gazette.

PELHAM, IN SHILLING 'NUMBERS.—We are
rejoiced to find that the project of disseminating among all
classes the entertaining knowledge with which the produc-
tions of our first modern Novelists abound, has been at-

tended with the most triumphant success. Mr. Bulwer's
racy production, " Pelham," is the work selected to take
precedence in Mr. Colburn's cheap new " Library of En-
tertainment,' the third number of which now lies before us.
To obtain this celebrated performance, entire in only six
numbers, at the price of one shilling each, and finely em-
bellished, certainly leaves nothing to be desired. We
wonder not at the popularity of good works of fiction, be-
cause they exhibit so extensive a knowledge of human na-
ture. The actual experience derived from such a delight-
ful source unquestionably renders the young better fitted
for their pilgrimage through life. Hence it is that books
of this description may be read again and again with profit
and advantage.
The late Charles Mathews had a great objection to
being called, as he frequently was by the critics out of com-
pliment, "the greatest of living mimics.", It was literally
poison to his ear (says a writer in the Court Magazine),
and threw his faculties and feelings into a state of morbid
excitement and disorder, which any other. species of criti-
cism, however severe, never called forth.
MORNING WALKS.-,--TO a person in full vigour a
good walk in the country before breakfast may be highly
beneficial and exhilarating, while to an invalid or delicate
person it will prove more detrimental than useful, and will
induce a sense of weariness which will spoil the pleasure of
the whole day. Many are deceived by the current practi-
cal praises of the freshness of the morning, and hurt them-
selves in summer by seeking health in untimely promenades.
—Comb's Physiology.
PARISH OF LAMBETH.—Yesterday a very nu-
merous meeting of the inhabitants of this extensive parish
was held for the purpose of entering into a contract for the
maintaining, clothing, and employing the poor. A great
number of the most influential parishioners were present ;

and the parish officers made a statement of an interview
with the Poor-law Commissioners, in' which those gentle-
men refused to sanction a contract similar to the one now
about to expire, as they considered it by far too lavish, and
desired that any future contract should approach nearer to
the scale of diet observed in the parish of St. George, Ha-
nover-square, where the total weekly cost for maintaining
an able bodied pauper amounted only to ls. 3id. a week.
An animated discussion followed this statement, in which
the speakers expressed in the strongest terms their objec-
tion to such a reduction in the food of the poor as that
proposed by the Commissioners, which they considered but
an attempt to drive the poor from the workhouse by a sys-
tem of starvation. A number of resolutions were pro-
posed in this spirit, but not passed, the following only be-
ing adopted :—" That it be referred to the parish-officers
to make such arrangements as they may think expedient
for maintaining, clothing, and employing the poor for the
next six months."
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Mr. Thomas Barks, a young gentleman who arrived
on Thursday from Nottingham, while listening to the band
playine, in the Court=yard of St. James's Palace yesterday
was robbed of his pocket-book, containing Bank-notes to the
amount of 1401. He suspects that two men of gentlemanly
Appearance, who contrived to engage him in close conversa-
tion, were the pickpockets.
Considerable sensation has been excited by the
sudden flight of a surveyor lately residing at Holbeach, and
who was steward of the Bethlehem Hospital estates in the
neighbourhood : a Court of Inquiry was held at Wainfleet
on Thursday, which was very numerously attended, and it
is reported that the delinquent's embezzlements amounted to
little short of 20,0001. in addition to several forgeries which
have been discovered. It is conjectured that he has pro-
ceeded ro France, to join Mr. Hudson, who lately absconded
with a large sum belonging to the same hospital.—Boston
Herald.

PATIENCE OF A DOG.—The whole of last week
a terrier dog was observed near the spout of a house at
Gravesend, which he never left, day nor night, for eight
days, living only on the food thrown to him by casual pas-
sengers. It appears that he chased a rat, which escaped
up the spout, and this occasioned him to watch at the place
for so long a time, until it was resolved to saw the spout,
take it down, and drive the rat out, which the dog instantly
killed, and then returned home.
The Memorial de la Dordogne states that the
prosperity of the manufactories at Lyons at this moment is
unexampled. The orders from America are so large that
it
will be difficult to execute them, and wages are exces-
sively high. The riband trade at St. Etienne is also in a
very flourishing condition. • ,
NEWLY-DISCOVERED COPPER MINES.—We learn
from an intelligent correspondent that there has lately been
dis'overed on the property of Lord Dinorben, in the parish
of Llanwenllwofo, Anglesea, and in the immediate neigh-
bourhood of the Parys and Mona Mines, a very rich vein
of copper, It is in many parts almost in a pure state, and
much purer than even the copper coinage of 1791 ; conse-
quently, a question will arise for the consideration of geo-
logists and others who feel pleasure in investigdting these
matters, whether the secondary stratum in which it is found
must not at some remote period have been acted upon by
great and powerful heat, so as to dislodge the ore from the
stone, and run it in a state of fusion into the form in
which it is new found. The discovery is very seasonable,
as the Parys and Mona mines, which have so long been a