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No. 15,695.

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1151. for each 1001. stock, which would give an
interest equal to about 11 per cent. ; but it is
more generally supposed that the tenders will be
somewhere about 1101. for each 100/., which would
return an interest of about 3i per cent. ; there are
some who incline to think that 1071. would be the
more reasonable value per 100/. stock, which would
yield interest at the rate of about 34- per cent. These
calculations exclude minute fractional quantities. It
should seem that with the guarantee proposed, which
renders the stock equally secure with any portion of
the national debt, and at the present low rates of in-
terest with the abundance of unemployed capital,
these debentures should command such a rate as
would equalise them with the Three-and-a-Half per
Cents. Reduced, that is 1151. per 100/. stock.
The bills drawn and to be drawn from Canada on
account of the whole loan, together with the rather
heavy amount periodically drawn by the commissa-
riat of the forces there, will afford, to the extent, a
useful supply of bills on England to the New York
market, where probably a large proportion is and
Will be negotiated. In such case they may have a
favourable effect in raising the exchanges there. The
bills drawn on the Treasury here, on commissariat
account, are stated to have amounted to about
130,000/. in one month a short while ago—probably,
however, covering a quarter's charges.
SUN.—No alteration occurred this afternoon in the
tone of the English market, and business was
dull. Consols were 93i to 94 for the opening, and
944, with the dividend, for Money ; Exchequer Bills
improved to 525. and 545. premium, and India Bonds
were firm at 475. premium ; Bank Stock touched
173 i again ; Reduced Three-and-A-Half per Cents.
were supported at 1001 to 101; and the Three per
Cents. at 94i to 94k.
Speculation in the Foreign Market is very dull
just now, and there is, consequently, not much fluc-
tuation in prices. The news from Spain had a fa-
vourable effect upon the Stock, but did not make it
brisk. The Actives were 18k, and the Three per
Cents., 23+ to /. The interest on the. latter is re-
ported to be entirely made up. Mexican Bonds were
steady at 31, and Brazilian were heavy at 69.
French Three per Cents. were at 79f. 25c.; and the
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. at 52i.
Business in the Share Market was steady to-day,
the rates obtained being generally firm. Bristol and
Exeter were 23i ; Eastern Counties, 14; Edinburgh
and Glasgow, 14 ; Brighton, 14i; Midland Counties,
38 ; North Midland, ; ditto Thirds, 1i ; South
Eastern, 26i ; and ditto Scrip, 1i discount. Great
Western were 251; the New, 14 to 14+; Birming-
ham, 99 to 100; the Quarter, 241; Newcastle and
Darlington Junction, 1+; Northern and Eastern
Scrip, 5:1; ; and Paris and Rouen, 254- to`26-k premium.
Australasian. Bank New Shares were 6; London Joint
Stock, 31; and London and Westminster, 1:1 pre-
mium. Union Bank of London were at par.

THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND.
MEMORIAL OF THE CONVOCATION:
The late: " Convocation " of Non-Intrusion mi •
nisters have forwarded a Memorial for the considera-
tion of Sir Robert Peel and the other Members of the
Government. The following is the most important
portipn of it :
" The memorialists desire again to express their
anxiety that their present appeal, and the measures
they have felt themselves obliged to adopt, may not
be misunderstood. The deliberate conviction to which
they have come—that if they cannot have liberty to
maintain and act upon the principles which they have
avowed, in the position of a church established by
the State, they must relinquish that position, is not
the result of disappointment or irritation, or any want
of a due regard to the important benefits which the
present establishment of the Church confers upon the
people of Scotland. On the contrary,'such .;.1 their
sense of the value of that establishment, such their
apprehension of the many evils likely to result from
its disruption or overthrow, and such, also, their anx-
iety to remain in the discharge of their spiritual duties,
in the preaching of the Gospel, and the oversight of
their parishes, under the shade of that national pro-
tection and favour, which was the happy fruit of the
prayers, the labours, and the sufferings of their fa-
thers,
that they have been willing to make the ut-
most possible concessions with a view to the restora-
tion of harmony; and, were not the principles at issue
vital and fundamental, there is no compromise to
which they would not consent, no sacrifice of feeling
or even of consistency to which they would not sub-
mit, if by any means they might avert a calamity, the
very idea of which they have all along been most re-
luctant to entertain.

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Watches purchased in exchange.

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GRIMSTONE'S EYE SNUFF.—Under the
Patronage of his late Majesty, her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Kent, mid the Lords of the Treasury, is universally
recommended by the Faculty for its efficacy in removing dis-
orders incident to the Eyes and Head.
SIGHT RESTORED!—NERVOUS HEAD-ACHE

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TATTERSALL'S—YESTERDAY.
Some brisk betting on the Derby led to several im-
portant changes in the odds. Passing the favourite and
Murat with the single remark that they were backed for
nearly 100/. each at last week's prices, we may point to
the altered positions of Winesour and Blackdrop ; the
latter was backed heavily at 40 to 1, ltnd in one quarter
at 1,000 to 30 ; this of course operated to the prejudice
of Winesour, against whom 1,000 to 30 was laid
once (a fall of sixteen points), and 30 to 1 afterwards
offered repeatedly. The Progress colt opened at 30 to 1,
and advanced to 25 to 1, taken to 100 L . Aristides was
also in greater favour, first at 33 to 1, taken frequently,
and finally at 28 to 1, taken to nearly 1001. The Oxygen
colt was backed at 50 to 1, to nearly 200 i. And several
other horses for various sums, but in most cases at odds,
agreeing with those last quoted. The list of prices sub-
joined is completed up to the close of the room:—
DERBY.

9 to 2 agst Scott's lot.
20 to 1 agst Dawson's lot—taken
25 to 1 agst Mr. Kent's lot
81 to 1 agst Mr. 131akelock's A British Yeoman—t.
20 to 1 a°st Colonel Peel's Murat—taken
25 to 1 apt Lord Chesterfield's Progress colt—talten
.• 28 to 1 agst Lord Ezlinton's Aristides
33 to 1 apt Mr. Bell's Winesour—taken
A 5 to 1 agst Mr. Bell's Black Drop
35 to 1 agst Sir G. Heathcote's Amorino—taken
40 to 1 agst Colonel Anson's Napier—taken
45 to 1 agst Mr. Griffiths's Neweourt
50 to 1 apt Col. Peel's St. Valentine.
50 to 1 agst Duke of Grafton's Oxygen colt—taken
1000 to 15 agst Lord Westminster's Languish colt—ta.
1000 to 15 agst Mr. Bowes's Cotherstone—taken
1000 to 15 agst Duke of Richmond's Clara colt—taken
1000 to 15 agst Mr. Speed's Everton—taken
1000 to 15 agst Mr. Coleman's Jamal—taken
1000 to 15 agst Mr. Theobald's Humbug—taken
1000 to 15 agst Lord Exeter's Lueettabolv—taken
1000 to 800 on Amorino agst Sirikol—taken
COURSING.
LYTHAM MEETING, DEC. 6 AND 7.—The Great
Clifton Cup (16 dogs), was won by Mr. Easterley's
Holdfast, beating, in the deciding course, Mr. 'Williams's
Pleader ; the Lytham. Puppy Cup .(16 subs.) was won
by Mr. Lendless's SnoWball, beating Mr. Dickenson's
Domino ; the Talbot Stakes (16 dogs) were won by Mr.
Peacock's Humphrey's Clock ; the Fylde Stakes were
won by Mr. King's Fly, and the Warton Stakes by Mr.
Deacon's Fly.

FOOT-RACE ON BLACKHEATH.
BETWEEN MAXFIELD, THE " NORTH STAR," AND
GAZLEY, COMMONLY KNOWN 15 THE " STAR OF
KENT," FOR 251. A-SlDE.—This match, which has
created a great sensation in the sporting circles, came
off yesterday, from the seventh mile-stone, near the
Earl Moira, at the bottom of Shooter's-hill, to the
sixth mile-stone on Blackheath. The hour fixed for
the performance of the match was two o'clock, but
long before the time not less than 5,000 persons had
assembled. At half- past two precisely, the men ap-
peared at the starting-post, accompanied by their
backers, when Mr. Dean, the landlord of the Fish-
mongers' Arms, Lewisham-road, gave the signal for
starting, and both men went off at a topping pace,
which was kept up throughout the distance ; the
" North Star" heading his man by about seven yards,
which he kept up to the end of the race, frequently
turning to his opponent with an invitation to
" come ahead " if he could, and won with perfect
ease. The distance was performed in five minutes
and ten seconds. It was quite apparent that the
winner could have accomplished the distance
in much less time had he been pressed. It was " a
race-horse to an old hunter." The heath was like

liyde-park on a review day. At the close of the
race there could not have been less than 8,000 per-
sons from Greenwich and Woolwich, Deptford, Lee,
Eltham, and all the other points adjacent; and it was
the opinion of the best informed persons that there
never were so many people assembled on Blackheath
theon anyr road,
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coef
of the wet. The equipages were very numerous,
consisting of gigs, phaetons, tax-carts, job carriages,
saddle-horses, &c. The road was kept in admirable
order, and no police were on the spot to mar the
sport. Bets were even at starting, but immediately
after changed to 6 and 8 to 4 on the North Star.
North Star is a fine-looking young man, sft. 10in.,
and Gazley is Mt. Bin. Gazley looked pale, and not
in his usually fine condition. There was a very large
sprinkle of the sporting gentlemen from London, who
returned to town highly delighted with the result of
the sport, having carried off considerable sums won
from the Kentish folks.

" But they feel that the time is zonie when the final
determination of this question can be postponed no
longer, and as they cannot disguise from themselves,
so neither would they deem it right to conceal from
the Government and the country, the inevitable result
of a continued refusal, on the part of the Legislature,
of that indispensable measure of relief which they
think they have a good right to ask, and good
reason to expect. Their situation, in truth, is
most painful and embarrassing. They cannot con-
duct the affairs of the Church in the manner in
which the civil courts have prescribed ; they could
not themselves remain in the communion of a Church
which should agree to regulate her procedure accord-
ing to the principles now held to be involved in the
civil law; nor can they allow others, in the same com-
munion, to do so. But it is well known that a large
minority of the Church's office-bearers are prepared,
in obedience to the civil courts, to cast off her autho •
rity ; and were the Church, while continuing to
claim the advantages secured to her by law, to perse-
vere, as she must in principle do, in maintaining her
discipline over all who, under whatever civil sanction
or compulsion, transgress her orders and violate her
laws, founded, as she believes, on the word of God,
not only would she be exposed to grievous obloquy
and reproach, but a spectacle both painful and scan-
dalous must in all probability be exhibited of two sec-
tions of the same Church striving with one another
in the use of civil pains on the one hand and spiri-
tual censures on the other. Hitherto, notwithstand-
ing the allegations of her enemies to the contrary,
the Church has never felt herself compelled to in-
flict the severities of her discipline on any of her
ministers or members for an act done under the
compulsion of her civil courts, or in obedience to
what has been declared to be the civil law. She has
proceeded against none, excepting the few individuals
who of their own accord, and without any plea of
necessity, have placed themselves in a position of
defiance of authority. Even this, however, has
led to unseemly consequencei“ and after the final
decision of the Supreme Civil Court, affirming the
principles upon which not a few of her office-bearers
have intimated their determination to act, it is plain
that if no legislative relief be conceded, and if the
Church proceed, according to her own views of duty,
against those who transgress her rules, she has no
alternative but to deal forth the censures of ecclesias-

tical power, in a manner that must provoke retalia-
tion, and must necessarily lead to inextricable confu-
sion and disorder. The memorialists are not ashamed
to confess that they shrink from such an exhibition as
would thus be presented before the people of Scot-
land ; and this is one practical consideration, among
others, which has weighed much in determining them
to bring this whole question to a final - issue, and to
retire from their position, as connected with the es-
tablishment, rather than prolong an unseemly contest
with the civil courts, which deny, and with their own
brethren, who set at nought, their jurisdiction
contest which could not fail to be attended with most
disastrous consequences, affecting both the majesty of
law and the higher interests of religion.
"But the memorialists have stated other grounds
on which chiefly they rest their determination, as
matter of Christian duty and sound principle. It has
been with extreme pain that they have felt themselves
compelled to oppose the civil courts in any of the
decisions which they have pronounced. They have
done so only because their consciences required it,
and because they considered that the constitution of
the Church, as established by law, sanctioned and au-
thorised the measures which they adopted. They are
still most decidedly of the same opinion. But as they
claim for the Church no right of resistance to the
civil magistrate, in the exercise of his authority, as
determining the terms on which he will establish the
Church, so they feel that if the Government and
Legislature of the country do not interfere for their
relief from the condition to which they are now re-
duced by the Supreme Civil Court—viz. the condi-
tion of subjection in things spiritual] to civil control
—it is not for them, as servants of that LORD whose
kingdom is not of this world, to vindicate the consti-
tution further ; they can only protest,
.with all solem-
nity, against the wrong which they believe the Church
has sustained, and leave with the rulers of this nation,
and with the nation itself, the responsibility of allow-
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PHINEAS•QUIDDY, BY JOHN POOLE, ESQ, AUTHOR
OF " PAUL PRY."—This is a book that will bear half-
a-dozen perusals. Notwithstanding the high reputa-
tion for wit, humour, and satirical acumen, enjoyed
by Mr. Poole, there is none of his previous produc-
tions that has done more than give a promise of what
he has now accomplished. It is by many degrees
the most true, as well as the most entertaining, of all
his works. A contemporary critic has compared the
principal character in this admirable novel, Phineas
Quiddy himself, to Quilp in "Master Humphrey's
Clock," and has given the preference to the former,
perhaps not without reason, if we look to the moral
effect of a picture of this nature. In fact, Quilp
sinuses and makes us laugh, not at him but with him;
and we never thoroughly dislike the being who does
this, even though he rival the arch fiend himself in
mischief. But the laugh that Phineas Quiddy is per-
petually raising is always et his own expense, and
leaves us at full liberty to hate him as much as we
ought. Moreover, the poetical justice that is done to
him all through his career of " sheer industry," is so
heaped up, as it proceeds, and so overflows the mea-
sure at last, that the picture is as healthy as it is en-
tertaining.—Naval and Military Gazette.
PRINTERS ALMS-HOUSE FUND.—An amatuer vocal
concert in aid of the funds for erecting. alms-houses
for poor and decayed members of the printing profes-
sion, was given last evening in the Theatre of the
Mechanics Institution, Southampton-buildings. It
was well attended, and the manner in which it was
conducted reflects great credit upon all engaged in it,
and, we hope, that with the aid of the public patron-
age being liberally extended to it, the Society will
soon be enabled to attain the object they have in view.

" In conclusion, the memorialists beg leave very
respectfully to remind her Majesty's Government of
the obligation under which States anditheir rulers lie
to Him by whom kings reign and princes decree jus-
tice—whose cause they are bound to espouse, and
whose
tosuppCorliutiroclai
lilt
tihsealfirkeeedtheomir iNnvittehresltylaliield their
h hehasdut.3,
en-
dowed it. The memorialists deeply feel the solemnity
of the question now submitted to the decision of Par-
liament and of the nation ; it being, in theth opinion of
Nith,heetmheermotirliealcisitisu,rehnouthnianlgtoralehsslr tehs
Scot-
land is to be preserved inviolate, accordegi
faith of treaties, or whether. this great kin
,taanblished in
dn qogmu.
teosi question
hot
one
commit, as the memorialists would regard it, the
heinous national offence of
.not only breaking.- the na-
tional faith, but of disowning the authority of Christ
in his own house, and refusing to recognise Ills Church
as a free spiritual society, instituted by Him, and go-
verned by his laws alone.
" The memorialists now leave the whole subject in
the hands of her Majesty's Government, uniting in
most earnest prayers to Almighty God that fie may
direct the counsels of her Majesty to that conclusion
which shall most conduce to the good of the country,
and to His own glory.
" Signed in the name and by the authority of the
assembled ministers,

" THOMAS CHALMERS, D.D.,
" Chairman of the meeting."

CHARGES AGAINST ALDERMAN WOOD.—The Corn-
mittee of Aldermen met again on Saturday, to pur-
sue the inquiry into the charges against Mr. Alderman
Thomas Wood. A letter was read from the Alder-
man, declining to comply with the resolution that he
should furnish the charges against himself, as well as
the answers. He was ready to meet any tangible
charge instantly, and to produce all the affidavits,
papers, and books relating to the Talacre Mine. A
passage implying that the Court of Aldermen had re-
fused to elect him Mayor on account of those charges,
the Chairman warmly denied that any one had made
any charge, or that Mr. Alderman Wood had a right
to ask the reason of each man's vote. As no Alder-
man would assume the post of accuser, and Mr. Alder-
men Wood refused to accuse himself, the Chairman
proposed to apply to the Court of Aldermen for fresh
instructions. Sir Peter Laurie proposed to accept the
offer in the letter of the affidavits. Mr. Alderman
Wood did not see how he could do this, if there was
no charge. None were so closely looked after as soli-
citors. Merchants and others could commit nefarious
acts, and indulge in fraudulent speculations, with im-
punity. Sir Peter Laurie said, if he was Alderman
Wood, he would not stand for forms, but go at once
into the matter, and sell the coat off his back to
trounce the traducers. He moved that the papers be
received. This was, after some discussion, agreed to,
and the papers were ordered to be printed.
BARMOUTIL—The antlers of a large and powerful
elk have been found in the bed of the river Movvd-
deck, at a very low tide. They measure from tip to
tip rather more than eight feet two inches, and art.
attached to the skull so as to indicate their nattr.al
position.—Carnarvon Herald.

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ADELPHI THEATRE.
A new three-act drama, by Mr. Coyne, entifirri
the Merchant and his Clerks, was produced at this
theatre last evening. Mr. Harford (Mr Maynard),
a London merchant, has two clerks, dward
Mapleton (Mr. Lyon), a virtuous clerk, and Hugh
Bramber (Mr. 0. Smith), a vicious one. Now
melo-dramatic virtuous clerks are always very vir-
tuous indeed, and have always the greatest possible
confidence reposed in them in the first act, which they
always forfeit in the second, through no fault of their
own, but through an unfortunate train of (Arnim-
, stances ; and so it is here, for in the first act 41r.
' Harford leaves town for a few days, entrusting
Mapleton with 10,0001. to take care of for him durii,s
his absence-(of course Mr. Harford had no banker)
1
—which 10,0001. on his return can nowhere be found,
and accordingly he accuses Mapleton of the robbery,who
goes mad the instant he hears the accusation. He be-
comes an inmate of Bedlam, and in the third act we
are introduced into the interior of Bedlam : this
scene, in which, in the character of Flitter (Mr.
Wieland), an attempt is made to convert that most
awful of all the visitations of Providence, madness,
into a source of mirth, of burlesque, of broad farce, is
most disgusting. The audience loudly expzi ssed their
disapprobation of it, and we trust the management will
have the good sense to cut out the part of Flitteralto-
gether. A certain Doctor Wilton recommends that
Mapleton shall be taken back to the counting-house,
and everything be put as it was on the night the notes
were lost, and the piece ends with a Marie-Ducange-
like scene. Mapleton enters in a state of somnam-
bulism, goes to the safe, takes certain notes out,
and deposits them under the board of the floor, where
the lost notes ofcourse, are found; he wakes and finds
his innocence acknowledged, while 13ramber, the
vicious clerk, having fixed upon that night to rob his
master's counting-house, is caught in the fact, and de-
livered into the custody of his quondam friend, Mr.
Dognose (Mr. P. Bedford), who, having been high-
wayman, thief, and smasher, finishes his career as a
Bow-street runner. The low comedy of the piece,
which is by far the best part of it, was excellently sup-
ported by Paul Bedford, as the above-named Dognose,
and 'Wright, as Kit Cockles, a linen-draper's appren-
tice, whom Dognose is initiating into genteel society,
and who, havinz run through his money, and married
IBetty Briggs (Mrs.. Grattan), a maid of all
work at a lodging-house, takes, not to the stage, but
to the street, and, in a spangled jacket, as Herr Stick-
ankickinbriphitz, assisted by his lady as Signora Soff-
risky, earns a comfortable living as a juggler and tum-
bler, and, as he himself calls it, as a Professor of
'lan key-Pan k ey. The. piece was announced for repe-
tition every night by Lyon, amidst considerable ap-
plause. The house was, as usual, crowded.

NEW THEATRE, MARYLEBONE.
Last night a new theatre was Opened for the first
time, in Church-Street, Marylebone, in the immediate
vicinity of Portman market. It is a most commodious
building, and is capable of containing between two
thousand and three thousand persons. The interior
is fitted up with great regard to convenience, and
much taste has been displayed in the general decora-
tion of the house ; indeed we consider it to be as ele-
gant and as unique a theatre, for its size, as any within
the metropolis. The doors were scarcely opened be-
fore the house was crowded in every part, and the
audience in the boxes displayed a class of persons
whose attendance gave to the establishment a tone of
respectability which must hereafter have a most be-
neficial effect upon it. Amongst the company that
have been engaged we noticed several names that
speak well for the species of entertainments that will
be furnished to the visitors at this theatre.—Mr. Os-
baldeston, Miss Vincent, Mr. B. Rayner, Mr. T. Lee,
the Irish comedian, Mr. Collins, the vocalist, Mr.
Cobham, &c. &c. &c., are amongst those announced
to make their appearance at an early period ' • in-
deed, Mr. Rayner supported the character of Lu-
bin, in Passion and Repentance, in the course of the
evening. The performance commenced with a grand
historical drama entitled The Saxon Maid; or the
Days of William the Conqueror. It is one of those
pieces in which there are a tyrant Early an unknown
Knight, a lost child, a lovely maid, and all the et
cetera of the regular and well-established romantic
spectacle. It was well sustained by the several per-
sons engaged in it. Mr. Freer, as the Unknown
Knight, drew down unbounded applause from the
gallery. Miss Thornton as a Page, played and sang
with considerable effect. A new farce entitled Tea
with my Aunt, followed. It is an agreeable trifle. The
entertainments concluded with the petite drama of
Love's Frailties, under the name of Passion and Re-
pentance, in which Mr. Rayner- sustained his original
part of Luhin with unabated vigour and success ; but
it would be superfluous at the present day to offer
any comment on his performance of the character, as
it is perfectly well known to every play-goer.. lit
had, however, to contend, with a heroine (Small),
who might have bad a tittle more juvenile appearance.
Is it, however, judicious to bring this gentleman for-
ward only in the last piece, and that at so late an
hour that the attention of the audience is wearied
before he appears ? We think the managers would
best consult their own interests by altering this ar-
rangement.

THE WESTERN LITERARY
INSTITU PION.
_ _

A very interesting lecture " On the Scriptural
History of Sacred Music and the Practice of Psalmody"
was delivered the other evening, by Mr. Netherelipt,
at the Theatre of the Western Literary and Scientific
Institution, Leicester-square. The theatre was crowded
to excess. The lecturer proceeded to observe, that
music being coeval with man, it ought to be made
one of the chief points of his education, and if it were
universally understood, it would be the means of pre-
venting a great deal of wickedness, for, as " Music
bath charms to soothe the savage breast," so might it
be made available in many ways, and more especially
in our prisons. He showed to the satisfaction of his
audience, who testified their approval by frequent
applause, that the great cause of the wretchedness
of the singing in most of our churches was mainly
owing to the " shyness" of the female part of the
congregation, and incompetent teachers of music
to the children, and in the course of his lecture
suggested that every parish should appoint com-
petent persons to teach the congregation, either
eacsteedxpres.;
from
at the church or some other convenient place on par-
ticular evenings. The illustrations of the lecture, ex.
shiivbeitoi nf gv a therivarious
light
devotionalan d shadefee feelings,
werepsalmody, s
the " Twenty-four Psalms and Hymns,"
composed by
the lecturer, and dedicated to the Bishop of London,
and were very ably sung by an choir efficient
to the
accompaniment of the organ.
A short time since a lecture on the " music of
Shakspeare's plays" was delivered e •at this theatre by
Mr. Rimbault, with illustrations,
&c. • and in noticing
these lectures it is but d • • •
()mg justice to say a few
words in favour of the society by whom they are
given, the " St. Martin's Subscription Library"
connection with that founded by Archbishop Tenni-
son), in Castle-street, Leicester-square, and which,.
by the exertions of a few individuals, inhabitants of
the parish, has been rescued from oblivion. By ap-
peals to the inhabitants generally, which were most
liberally responded to, sufficient funds have been raised
to renovate and improve the building, and to form a
subscription library.
The Rev. Sir Henry Dukenfield, Bart., the vicar,
consented to act as President, and, with others,
largely contributed many volumes of modern scienti-
fic, historical, and biographical works, and donations
in money. The library rooms are now well supplied
with newspapers and all the best periodicals, to which
any one resident or employed in the parish can have
access, by paying annually the small subscription of
los. 6d., being less than any other institution of the
kind in the metropolis. The present number of mem-
bers is upwards of 500. The title by which the
round for the erection of the library was held fe,r
the vestry, shows that the library was for the My, of
the public. It is as follows :—" Dr. Thomas Te•ani.,
son having considered that, in the city and libe',•ty of
Westminster, there are great numbers of ministers and
other studious persons ; as also that there is not in the
said precinct any one shop of a stationer fully fur-
nished with books of various learning, nor and noted
librarie except that of St. James (which belongs
to
his Majesty, and is not easy of access); that of Sir
Robert Cotton (which consisteth chiefly of boo's re-
lating to the antiquities of Englar,d), and the -library
of the Dean and Chapter of
St. Peter's Church,
Westminster," &c. The library contains between five
and six thousand volumes upon all subjects, but prin-
pally upon theoltigy and
amongst them are many
valuable manuscripts. The library is deposited in a
new building pear the church.
A

.
_ few evenings since Lord Bridport's keepf,rs, at
Monckton Wylde, were disturbed from thei:e sleep by
hearing noises in the adjoining copses; 0,, going to
the spot, there were no less than eight poachers, seven
of whom had fire-arms, and one of them V, tremendous
bludgeon. A. conflict immediatell,- ensued, and guns
were fired, the report of which '.nought three of the
neighbours, Copp, Collier, and.CSalter to the assistance
of the Richmonds (the garr,ekeepersi, but they were
soon overpowered, and Collier was so dreadfully
beaten on the head, °,,e: as to have been nearly killed.
The elder Richnv,ad, also, was severely wounded ; his
gun
from him, and a large slug was
lo
etemple, near the left eye, which has
edwasg on wrest
',he temple,
theirsince g
beer . extracted. As the poachers left they fired
..ns, several of the shots of which pierced the
legs, i_,,x., of farmer Copp. Collier's wounds have
bec '. dressed, and he is now able to work. Richmond
W.f. A able to recognise one of them, of the name of Bet-
rAdge, who has been committed to Dorchester gaol by
/ J. Ilussey, Esq., of Lyme.—Sherborne Journal.
1 WOOD PAVEMENT.—The street fronting St. Mar-
t tin's Church is now being laid with wood pavement.
There seems to be little doubt that nearly the whole
of the mat thoroughfares of the metropolis will enjoy
the same advantage within the next six months.