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LONDON:
MONDAY MORNING, JANUARY 8, 1844.

'lf the contest now going on between the
friends. (,f tree trade on the one side, and the
friends of monopoly on the other, were really, as
has been stated, a contest between the parti-
sans of agriculture and those of commerce,
then, we must say, we think, the fa-
vourers of the plough would stand at an
immeasurable disadvantage in comparison
with those who uphold the loom and shuttle. By
their absurd tactics the friends of native agricul-
ture, as they call themselves, are doing their very
best to ruin the cause they espouse. For in-
stances of what we affirm we have not to look
far. Every day furnishes fresh proof of the truth
of what we assert, and the more we see the more
are we inclined to be of SoLomoN's mind, when
lie incredulously inquired " how shall they get
understanding whose talk is of bullocks'!"
At the Boston Agricultural Protection Society's
meeting, on Wednesday last, not a little of this
absurd bucolic humour was evinced. Among
other notable instances of the folly which man-
kind have displayed, may be reckoned the sage
manifesto put forth by this conclave of Lincoln-
shire wiseacres on the occasion referred to. But,
ridiculous as the petition is, there was one feature
of the proceedings even more laughable still, and
that was a repudiation on the part of a Mr.
GEE and a Mr. MILLINGTON, of the Royal Agri-
cultural Society's proceedings, by reason of
Lord SPENCER'S avowal of free trade sentiments.
Probably Messrs. GEE and MILLINGTON con-
sider that the Royal Agricultural Society will
be exceedingly afflicted at the withdrawal of
their distinguished patronage. Perhaps it has
occurred to these gentlemen that the pursuit of
agricultural scithne will have sustained an ir-
reparable blow by being deprived of their most
valuable support. A totally different inference
may—we do not . say will—be derived by others
from this their proceeding.
The attention which Earl SPENCER has uni-
formly devoted to the interests of British agri-
culture is too well. known to need any lengthened
comment. His success in the science to which
be has applied/ his powers, has also been
sufficiently attested ; and the position which he
occupies—that of President of the Agricultural
less a mark of deserved homage to
a di;tinguished farmer, than it is advantageous
to the Society over which his Lordship presides.
If the farmers of England are going to re-
pudiate such friends as Lord SPENCER, then we
say, much good may they derive from their new

acquaintances. Unfortunately there are not
sufficient of the class of intelligent and enter-
' prising landowners to which Lord SPENCER be-
longs. If there were the country would be the
better off. But the farmers of England are
called upon by some of their injudicious coun-
sellors to abandon Lord SPENCER, because his
Lordship advocates principles which would raise
them from their present depths of serfdom and
insolvency, to the independence and comfort
which they ought to enjoy.
There may be many noisy speakers at these
new Protection to Agriculture meetings, whose
pretended devotion to the cause may attract, the
attention which is due to other kind of efforts,
but the interests of British farming will, it may
be relied on, be best promoted when energetic
and practical efforts supersede theoretic and
declamatory oratory.

We hope that the farmers of England will
be too wise to imitate generally the example of
Messrs. GEE and MILLINGTON, but if they
prefer to do as these gentlemen have done, they
may rely upon it they themselves will be the
chief sufferers.

In the police reports it will be seen that a stout
young man, " whose whim it is to be nameless for the
present," was brought up before Mr. Alderman Gams,
on a charge of having exhibited himself in the pub-
lic streets in masquerade ;—that it is to say, in another
person's dress, and, perhaps, property ;—to wit, in a
woman's habiliments, of which he had disrobed him-
self on the stairs of Blackfriars-bridge, on being hard
pressed by the inquisitive pursuit and curiosity of a
police-constable. When thus dismantled of his lady-
hood, he came out a sturdy ploughboy, and (a pheno-
menon which appeared to make a powerful impression
on the worthy Alderman) affected to be deaf and
dumb. This mumchance exhibition he sustained
with creditable fortitude and consistency, till weary of
the quarters which he had been invited to take up in the
Walbrook station-house, and pressed by the uneasy
suggestions of hunger, he articulately demanded of
the turnkey, after a few hours' duresse, " when the
devil they meant to bring him his breakfast ?" The
policeman, struck by this near approach to a miracle,
concluded that no man could he so well calculated to
unravel the mystery as the sitting Alderman at
Guildhall. He took his prisoner, therefore, to the
Justice-room; and lo ! the Magistrate on duty proved
to be no other than Alderman GIBBS. The Alderman,
having a quasi dumb delinquent before him, very
naturally asked him, in the first place, "what he had
to say for himself ?" The lady-ploughboy main-
tained his taciturnity, whilst she looked reproachfully,
as if astonished by such a question from Alderman
GIBBS ; and Alderman GIBBS incontinently remitted
him " to solitary confinement in the Compter until he
should be in the humour once more to resume his
speech ."/
Now really this seems to us to have been all in bad
taste and bad measure. It was in bad taste for Mr.
Alderman GIBBS to be so severe upon the offence of
the ploughboy's double character, and passing him-
self off for a lady. Why, the reporter himself treats
the affair only as one of " masquerading," and the
worthy Alderman ought to know that this sort of
bifrous identity his own wardmote charge upon HIM!
The rate-payers of Walbrook cannot, for their lives,
discover whether he is a trustee (they have absolutely
negatived the question whether he is trusty), or a
perpetual churchwarden ; and, if he be one, or the other,
or both, then—for whom ? Not for them assuredly,
whether as contributors to the parochial funds, or
disbursers of them ; for as to the one, " he makes no
sign ;" and as to the other, he gives no accounts.
That he is an unaccountable agent, he himself seems
to insist ; that he is an unaccountable alderman,
churchwarden, and trustee, no man disputes. Now, a
churchwarden who will give no satisfaction to his own
parishioners in the material questions of the receipts
of money, and the application of rates ; a trustee who
is obstinately recusant, and means to be so till the
advent of some undefined condition of things, as to the
mode in which he has administered his trusts; an
alderman who sets at defiance the applications and re-
monstrances of a large body of his own constituency,
must be, throughout all these unbecoming relations,
himself in very indecorous masquerade. Surely, he
does not mean to say that he is maintaining all
this time his " proper character?" 'Why, then, so
hard upon this " lady-ploughboy" for so absurdly
disguising himself ?

But then the sturdy ploughboy, having doffed his
feminine character, and with it all predisposition to
loquacity, is dumb ! Here is the immedicabile minus
which the Alderman has received, and which he so
roughly resents. What ! a sturdy ploughboy affect
to be dumb ? Not answer plain questions from the
Bench ? The insult was too palpable and personal.
It was playing Alderman GIBBS off upon GIBBS,
Alderman ; and bringing into odium and suspicion
en art which must become contemptible if practised
by obscure pretenders to character. No. Well
enough if general open meetings of inhabitants will
put such irrelevant and trifling interrogatories,
to gowned trustees and treasurers and churchwardens,
as respects the disposal of moneys and the manage-
ment of parochial property and affairs, for the gets
togata to turn round, with more than aldermanic
dignity, and dumb found all complainants by a lofty
reserve, a silence all but unbroken. Well enough
to meetings of select vestrymen, so accurately con-
vened and scrupulously admitted, that parish con-
stables stand by to see that none but the veritable i mper-
s mifications of the select, who are thoroughly known
to them, pass into the vestry-room, where the per-
petual churchwarden must meet, and may pacify
them; but for an unknown vagrant masquerader—
with half his character (the lady's) visibly deposited
in the basket of clothes found upon his arm, and the
other half yet to be accounted for—to dare to be dumb
in the presence of the most frank, open, and ingenuous
of Civic magistrates ! no wonder Alderman GIBBS
resented the indignity, and sent him to the Compter
till he should be in the humour once more to resume
his speech.
It is very strange that the ratepayers of Walbrook
are anxious to know—desiring precisely this sort of
consummation of the Alderman's taciturnity—whither
it is he proposes to go himself ?

The Marquis of WESTMINSTER, it will be observed,
has signalised the commencement of the new year, by
the munificent donation of 500/. to the " Great
Fund" of the Anti-Corn-law League. If there had
been any reasonable doubt before of the Noble Mar-
quis's adhesion to the principles and the object of the
League, this costly evidence of his decided approba-
tion of its views, and his sanction of its course, would
suffice to set that doubt at rest. But his Lordship's
letter, covering this subscription, is a document that
carries the expression of approval to the language of
hearty congratulation. It is a very characteristic
letter. The strong good sense and manly simplicity
which used to distinguish, in years past, the well re-
membered speeches of the Marquis in Parliament, are
conspicuous, here, in every line. The receipt of so re-
markable a communication must form a memorable
feature in the history of the League. The almost
regal income of the Marquis, and the very extensive
influence which his public acts are calculated to ex-
ercise (not only on account of his great wealth, and
his vast landed property, but also because of his ac-
knowledged judgment, experience, and sagacity,
in all questions of domestic economy and legis-
lation), impart a character of almost public
authority, as well as of public interest, to
his denunciation of the corn-law monopoly.
Even the landed interest itself—that portion of it
which still obstinately adheres to the principle of pro-
tection to home-grown corn, and the bungling imbe-
cility of Sir ROBERT PEEL'S "sliding-scale,"—cannot
fail seriously to consider, that if there were really any
substantial benefit to the landowner or farmer in re-
taining such mischievous absurdities on the statute-
book, the Marquis of WESTMINSTER must have all
the reason in the world to uphold them,—at least, so
far as considerations of his own personal advantage
might influence him. Now, we will not put this
view of the question on any principle to be deter-
mined by the greater or the less degree of bias which
interested views might exercise on the opinions of
this particular individual. We shall assume that he
would be as much swayed by a regard " to his own
interest," as it is called, in looking at this matter, as
any other opulent landowner ;—that he would be as
much governed by an universal impulse of
our nature as any of his own tenantry,—
neither more nor less, But it will hardly

be denied to us, that a public man who has, through-
out a long and very able career, developed such
powers as the Noble Marquis has brought to bear in
the House of Lords (we may select for our illustra-
tion, the debates on the Pains and Penalties Bill
against Queen CAROLINE in 1821, especially as to
the exclusion of her MAJESTY'S name from the Li-
turgy ; those on the Repeal of the Test and Corpora-
tion Acts in 1828, and those, again, on the Roman
Catholic Relief Bill in 1829), may be supposed to
form an accurate estimate of the real working of any
fiscal or financial project. Observe how briefly and
distinctly he disposes of the Customs Duty question,
in calculating the effect of losing the amount of reve-
nue now received into the State coffers from the
occasional imports of foreign corn :

" As to the duty—that it is said would be lost to the eoun-
try, if not insisted on—l am satisfied that such would be the
prosperity of all classes from the abolition of this impost, such
the advantage that would accrue to all the moneyed concerns of
the community, that, in a very short time, the general wealth
would be so far augmented that the national revenue would
outrun the amount of any duty that has been proposed, whe-
ther 35., bs. , or Bs."

What Sir ROBERT PEEL'S opinion on this point is,
—the most unpleasant upon which the view of a First
Lord of the Treasury, governed by the or-
dinary feelings of Ministerial leaders, can rest—
it is not for us to anticipate. But we warn
him, notwithstanding the smart array of im-
proved receipts which appears in the financial
statement just published, that the people will not
continue to pay the agricultural taxes to which they
are at present subject, nor the enormous Excise and
Customs taxation which so scandalously increases the
charge of the first necesssaries of life, and of those
other articles of consumption and food which custom
and the care of their health have almost incorporated
into this class of necessaries. From his productive
property and income tax (by which, during the last
year, he has managed to squeeze out of the recesses
of John Bull's exhausted pockets no less than
five millions and a quarter (!) in addition to
assessed and all other taxes), the Premier will
assuredly have to provide for some such coming de -
mands as the repeal of the whole, or the greater por-
tion, of the malt duty; of the duties on tea, sugar,
coffee, &c. And as to the duty on foreign corn, the
" handwriting on the wall " has already shadowed
forth the prediction that it has gone from him. Lord
WESTMINSTER has now expounded the intimation for
him, with a perspicuity calculated to silence the last
efforts of Treasury scepticism.
But, perhaps, our high-spirited and capacious-
minded Premier is solacing himself, still, with some
secret hope that he may yet charm to a grim repose
the now excited and angry vigilance of the over-
burdened people. Haply he trusts to allay the ap-
proaching tempest of their discontent, (whose coming
is announced by muttered "curses—not loud but
deep"—upon the selfish legislation which paralyses
our domestic industry, impoverishes and starves our
native artisans, cramps and depresses our commercial
enterprise, and clogs the healthful action of the na-
tional industry with unnatural restraints and factitious
impediments, and monopolitical checks)—by some
new devices of his " lulling craft." Vain of his suc-
cess in political Mesmerism, he speculates, it may be,
on as quietly casting the high spirit of the British
public into a dreamy torpor and patient inanition,—as
if he were plausibly prosing to Tamworth farmers
about some day " buying them the best bull in all Bir-
mingham," for the amelioration of their stock. Perhaps
he hopes to extend his school of dupes from tythings and
hundreds to counties; from counties to cities; from
cities to the broad limits of the whole United King-
dom. But the days of shadow-catching are over.
He will not tempt the farm labourers of his own
manor, again, to any such amusement, unless they
have previous demonstration and experience of the
fact that he has repealed the giant grievance of the
existing corn-laws. If, however, Sir ROBERT PEEL
will not do us the honour to listen to our assurances,
let him take what comfort he can from the Marquis
of WESTMINSTER. That Noble Lord goes at once to
the cream of the practical question, and extinguishes
tke whole puppet-show delusion of recent landlord
and tenant festivals, with a straightforwardness o
pnrpose, and a simple vigour of expression, that re-
mind us of some of the best hits of COBBETT in his
best time. We have always given, and shall con.
tinue to do so, full credit to the great landowners who
meet, at agricultural dinners, the farmers and graziers
of their vicinity, for the sincerity of the expressions of
good feeling and sympathy which they are in the
habit of addressing, on such occasions, to their tenantry
and fellow-guests. But these interchanges of feeling
and good will, valuable as they are, will never go to
the remedying of our existing distresses, till the incu-
bus of a corn-law monopoly is removed. Until that
he done, landlords—nobles or commoners—must put
up with such stern truths as these

It may be all very well" (writes the Noble Marquis)
"at agricultural meetings, to talk of the advantages of long
leases, of tile draining, &c., and to drink the health of the
labourers; but to what good effect? Long leases are, in cer-
tain districts, and under certain well-known circumstances,
desirable enough ; good draining has long been understood and
pramiscd, where there have been sufficient means, sufficient
enterprise, and a soil requiring it; praise has no doubt been
deservedly lavished upon the farm labourers; but there is
something still to be done much more important to them,
which is, to give them the means of obtaining an independent
livelihood, solid pudding being preferable to empty praise, and
this cannot be effected without the abrogation of these mis-
chievous enactments."

The idle clergy of St. Paul's Cathedral, who are
well paid for writing sermons and performing reli-
gious duties, have lately fallen upon a new plan to
catch the public on Sundays. The whole of the body
of the church is railed off, so that no one can walk in
the magnificent area below the dome or along the
nave and aisles. All must move on like sheep to the
choir. If they attempt to pass they are stopped by
one of the menials, who says, "no thoroughfare." At
another place one of these money-takers, for they
seem to be the individuals appointed by the clergy
to take the twopences for admission on other days, is
seen holding an iron gate half open, ready to allow
the exit of a chorister, or a parson from the interior,
and to close it against any profane layman who may
venture to intrude. This Christian temple is penned
all round like Smithfield, and has more the appearance
of a cattle market than a place for the performance
of Divine worship. Thus, by a conclave
of indolent monks, the public, at whose expense
this splendid building was erected, are prevented
from seeing the monuments for which they have also
paid, and must either be imprisoned to witness the
monotonous ceremonies, or be forced out into the
street. If the clergy did their duty, as in Catholic
countries, the people would he anxious to listen to
their ministrations, and would show reverence to
them and the Church, but they will not be religious
.by compulsion. It is a disgrace to the country, that
one of the finest temples in Christendom should be
used, not for religious purposes, or for cherishing pa-
triotism, but for putting money into the coffers of
the Dean and Chapter.

Madrid journals of the 29th have been received
from which we learn that meetings, both of the Con-
servative and Reform parties, had been held to discuss
the late ordonnance of the QUEEN. A deputation of
the former, consisting of MM. OLIVAN, POSADA,
NOSEDAL, and others, waited upon M. GONZALES
BRAVO, and demanded some explanation of the in-
tentions of the Government, and also some informa-
tion of the programme which it was said they were
to publish. M. GONZALES BRAVO assured the Depu-
tation that it was his intention to govern constitu-
tionally. He said he had prorogued the Cortes
merely for the purpose of hastening some mea-
sures which were important and urgent, and those
more especially which had reference to the pro-
vincial deputations and the organisation of the
National Guard, and he added that three weeks
or a month would be sufficient for these prelimi-
nary labours, and that he would then call toge-
ther the Cortes, and ask for a bill of indemnity.
The answer satisfied the deputatioH, and they retired.
At the meeting of the other party, Senor MADoz
being called to the chair, a proposition was made to
issue a manifesto to the nation. This was judged in-
expedient by the Chairman, and the plan was aban-
doned. A Committee, however, was formed, con-
sisting of CORTINA, AIADoz, and SERRANO, who are
to take legal steps to oppose the despotic acts of the Ge-
vernment. Several of the individuals committed on a
charge of attempting to assassinate NARVAEZ, had
made their escape from prison.
The Three per Cents. were done on the 29th at
25 5-16, at sixty days ; the Four per Cents. at 18 ;
and the Five per Cents. at 20i, for cash.

The accounts from Paris now leave no doubt that
the Government have given up all intentions of pro •
posing a pension for the Duke of NEMOURS as Regent.

The Mc ,tubers of the Chamber of Deputies had been
sounded, and as all the Opposition Members, and a
considerable number of M. GuizoT's friends were
hostile to the measure, it has been considered more
prudent to wait for another session. The Committee
of the Chamber of Peers met on Wednesday, when
the druft of the Address, drawn up by the Duke of
BROG'i,IE, was read and adopted. It was to be
presented to the House on Friday, but the
clisevission will not take place till the Bth
inst. The Presse says the Duke has inserted
a paragraph relative to the pilgrimages to London,
which would probably compel the Marquis DE
DREUX .BREZE, to defend the conduct of his political
friends. If we are to believe the National, the
French Government are afraid of an invasion from
the Duke of BORDEAUX. "We learn," it says,
"from C'any, near St. Valery-en-Caux, that an active
watch is kept up along the coast. The posts are rein-
forced at all the places where a landing can be effected,
and :supplies of arms and ammunition are conveyed
thither. All these precautions, we are assured, are
adopted against not less than an invasion of the Pre-
tend er. The Custom-house officers, gendarmerie, and
cruizers have a great deal to do to calm the terror of
the Government." This is a very improbable story,
for though the Duke of BORDEAUX, who is to
arrive at Brighton this day, might easily make a
voyage to the French coast, we cannot believe that even
BotuasoN folly would lead him to take a step which
would make him a fellow-prisoner at Ham with tha
bright adventurer, Louis NAPOLEON. The follow-
ing article from the Courrier Francais is the only
one worth extracting. M. TRIERS and his party
seem to believe that the KING and his Minister have
been so bittten by Queen VICTORIA that, by and bye,
they will address the Chambers in the , English
language :
" On Tuesday, in the bureaux, M. Thiers demanded an ex-
planation of the meaning of the words cordial understand-
ing' between the Governments of England and France. The
Minister of Foreign Affairs replied, that after having dis-
cussed each question they understood one another. Without
offence to the Ministre acadssicien, this answer is no more
than a jeu de wits. Understanding,' in the sense in which it
is used in the speech from the throne, is very rarely so used in
diplomatic idiom, and more rarely by us in the ordi-
nary expression of our sentiments. But it is the literal
translation of an English word constantly employed in this
acceptation. If, then, M. Thiers, no less an academicien
than M. Guizot, insists upon knowing the difference between
cordial understanding,' and close alliance or friendship,'
he may convince himself without any trouble, or, as we
may say, ' understand each other like thieves at a fair;'
but the expression cordial understanding' is a pure angli-
cism, created, no doubt, during the Royal effusions at Eu,
and applied to the speech from the throne by M. Guisot
with the assent of Al. Villemain. Thus the close alliance
between the two nations, in 1843, has been baptised with a
British name. This is certainly flattering to England. What
would we have ? If we are to believe the English papers, there
can be no safety for France but in a full renewal of her alliance
with England. According to them this was the profound con-
viction of the King of tile French, expressed with emphasis.
In these papers the King is treated more respectfully than be-
fore. Far be it from us to lay the least restriction upon the
homage paid to his courage and political sagacity. How, then,
are all these eulogiums to be divided in halves between the
Throne and the Cabinet? Is the praise addressed to the King
to be only a passport to the praises conferred upon the Ministry,
while the Parliament, the country, all France, in fine, disap-
pears from the vision of those fulsome flatterers on the other
side of the Channel, who thus extol the alliance between the
two nations? Who amongst us will believe in the sincerity of
desire of the English to see their friendship again flourishing ?
They play their part badly by wounding our Just susceptibility,
and though they may have the Ministry on their side, they
will have public opinion against them. Have they nothing to
lose by this?"

BOURSE—PARIS, THURSDAY, JAN. 4.
First Highest Lowest Last
Price. Price. Price. Price.
French Five per Cents. 124 30... 124 40... 124 30 .. 124 35
Threes. B2 70.., 82 85... 82 65.. 82 80
Bank of France. 3200 ...3202 50 —3200 ...3202 50
Laffitte Bank I,ooof 1100 ..1100 —.llOO ...1100
Belgian 8ank..... 707 50... 707 50 .. 705 ... 705
Belgian Fives, 1840 108 108 k ... 108 ... 108 k
Spanish Active
Passive ...... 5h ... ... 5h 51t
Portuguese Fives
Neapolitan
Roman ...... ............ 104 h ... 104 i 104 i ... 104 k
RAILWAY SHARES

St. Germain 72 50... 782 50... 782 50... 782 50
Versailles. R.B 312 50... 312 50.. 312 50... 312 50
L. B l9O ... 195 ... 182 50... 185
Rouen 845 845 ... 840 ... 840

Rouen to Havre......... ... 667 50... 655 ... 667 50
Orleans.
Strasburg to Bale 212 50... 213 75... 212 50... 213 75
Avignon to Marseilles 665 ... 670 ... G 65 ... 670
RAILWAY SHARES, FOR THE ACCOUNT.

Versailles, L. 8.193 190 ... 182 50... 182 5
Rluen

Rouen to Havre......, t6O ... 670 ... 660 670
Orleans . 860 ... 860 855 ... 855
Strasburg to Bale 212 50... 215 ... 212 50... 21.5
Avignon to Marseil:es 670 e ... 670 ... 670 .. 670

BRITISH AND FOREIGN INSTITUTE.—This new
Literary Association opens on the 15th, under the auspices of
his Royal Highness the Prince Albert, and the Presidency of
the Earl of Devon, with a thousand members on its registry,
and the probability of a large accession to its numbers as soon
as town begins to fill with the opening of the two Houses of
Parliament. _ _

he League Fund for Liverpool amounts to 6,0-201.
The nob!e subscription of the Marquis of Westminster, alluded
to elsewhere, seems to have completely paralysed the monopo-
lists—more particularly the so-called friends of the landed in-
terest—in this neighbourhood. —Lz t erpool Journal.
THE LATE CRUEL " MATCH AGAINST TIME." 1
We are informed that Mr. Thomas, the Secretary of the Royal
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, has pre-
ferred informations against
.Burke, the person who drove the
pony to death in a match against time. Summonses have been
issued and served personally on Burke, at Tom Spring's, the
Castle Tavern, Holborn. The case will come before the ma-
gistrates at the Town-hall, Ilitchen, Hertfordshire, on Tuesday
next, the 9th inst.
l
(M.'lAm lEda i3())\yE statesß thatO th
rS TE:; —The Mayor of Boulogne
speech of the King of the French,
which was delivered on the 27th of December, arrived at Bou-
logne aint midnight, was
by
the Dover Railway to London, where itwas thence sent by the packet to Folkestone,
arrived at ten o'clock on the morning of the 28th. It was
printed in the London journals, and copies of them were re-
ceived in Boulogne a long time before the Paris journals which
contained the speech arrived.
CREDITON.— The light sovereign affair here has
almost driven the tradesmen mad. It would not be well for
Sir Robert Peel to come to our market on a Saturday; we
thh.k they would almost be tempted to pelt him to death, with
the precious coin. There is no geeing change anywhere for
the ordinary pu, poses of business.— If estern Times.
The remains of the late Dowager Marchioness of
Clanricarde were interred on Wednesday in Hamble church.
Her Ladyship hail resided in the neighbourhood, at Sydney-
lodge, for above 30 years, and was beloved by all who knew her.
b buyre some person in
the brih. The bullet
DASTARDLY ATTEMPT AT AITiRDER.-011 Monday
morning a gun or pistol was fired in. at the shop-window of ML
Merrick,
11-1-egy'r.oe el ne rd
oNorthf
the Cililuorley T
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itHyalcl
broke a pane of glees in the shop-window, and Jr. Merrick's
man, who was at work in the shop, had his nose cut by the
shattered glass. The bullet fortunately missed him, although
it passed close to his face. Mr. Merrick was in a back-room
at the time, and there can be no doubt that the gun was fired
at the man who was working n,the shol). —Hull Advertiser.
THE SLAVE-TRADE.--STERRA LEONE, SEPT. '23,
1843.—The Brazilian brig Furia, a prize to the Spy, has ar-
rived, with 530 slaves. She is a very fine vessel. Nov. 27.
Two prizes have come up, the Independicia, 199 tons, Brazi-
lian brigantine, taken by the Madagascar, and since con-
demned ; and the Tenerario, Brazilian built, taken by the
Rapid at Bermuda, with '290 slaves. There was a schooner
coming up, taken by the Madagascar. The Senator transport
left this on the 23€1 of November with 130 emigrants, for fri-
iaidad.
THE Fox FRIGATE.—A fine youth, grandson of
Earl Grey, awd son of John C. Balteel, Esq. , Fleet House,
Devon, and Lady Elisabeth Bulteel, died en Sunday morning
at Tarbert ( Lower Shannon), of scarletina, en board the Fox
frigate, to which vessel he was attached as midshipman. There
are several cases of epidemic amongst the crew of the Fox.
The Kerry tenantry of her gallant captain, Sir H. Blackwood,
went through Listowel, on St. Stephen's-day, well mounted,
on their way to Tarbert, to visit their landlord. Sir Henry,
on hearing of their arrival, sent two of his boats to bring them
on board the frigate, where they were plentifully regaled with
substantial fare.
On Saturday an inquest was held before Mr. Baker,
at the Wheat Sheaf or Railwa 'Tavern, Lower Chapman-
street, on the remains of Mr George West, a stone-mason
and. builder, and on hee of t mosl respectable inhabitants of the
parish, aged 63. Four witnesses -were called, but their evi-
dence merely amounted to the fact of the deceased being in his
usual good health at eight o'clock on Thursday evening, his
going from his own house to the o ter shop of Mr. Arno!d, in
Cannon-street-road, and after eatings four or five oysters, he
exclaimed, " Oh ! oh !" and instantly expired.—erdit, died
by the " Visitation of God." The deceased will be a serious
loss to many poor persons in his neighbourhood, to whom he
had been a kind benefactor, and it is asserted that, besides his
contributions to various charities, he had been in the constant
habit of giving away in private charity from 21. to 31. a week.
He was a trustee of Raines's Hundred Pound School, and a
donor to the Licensed Victuallers' Asylum, as well as a liberal
supporter of all the public schools in the neighbourhood.
DEATH OF COUNCILLOR M.LCAULAY.—We regret
to announce the death of this gentleman, which took place on
Friday night, at his house in Windmill-street. He had been
in delicate health for a considerable time past, and for
the last two weeks was confined to his bed. He had been
a member of the Council for the last five years, and for
seven years was a Commissioner of Police, He could
not be properly classed as a member of any of the parties that
divide our municipal politics, but his sympathies for the. poor
could always be calculated on. His exertions to ameliorate
content with. being a
their condition were unceasing ; and not
member of committees formed for their benefit, he administered
frequently frequently to their necessities with his own hands.
I s.f
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rominent member of the Committee for re-le oth t a capacity
unem-
ployed poor, when it was first formed, and
in
their labours •
attended daily in the eneadowsand superintended
but it is not so generally known that he also formed, at his
own risk, and almost at his own expense, a fund for the em-
em-
ployment of destitude females, whom he . employed in the
e
making up of old garments in a house of his own in
Macaulay
square. Since Since the prevalence of the fever, Mr.
was amongst the foremost in striving to allevicte the suffer-
ings of the poorer classes. In particular he had for months
past aroused the attention of the citizens to the condition
of convalescents from the fever, many of whom, when
dismissed from the hospital, were without a home, and
scantily clad. With the view of succouring these for-
lorn objects, Mr. Macaulay collected a great quan-
tity of old clothes, &c., from his fellow-citizens, and it was his
daily employment to distribute these among the recipients of
this charity, according to their respective wants. His death
was caused by typhus fever, which, it is conjectured, was caught
in the course of his visits among' the destitute and diseased
poor.—Ediaury4 Courant.

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