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"eY Goose
Wool
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. 0 4
.................. 1 6 White ditto
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.Beddingan
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tbesper tntlPerfectfinahZ,facta,
at a opnsiderable reductionfor price,
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The Public are
ra,,pe.,,
~ ian credit shops can buy
Tr -,,tulY eahtioned against a number of unprincipled
Mock Auctions, where
(ii:iit:lni.en, who are connected with
Putpo 'I the management of Touters employedrce for that
i than the
than ''', are sold at 50 per cent. higher in
price
of two things
hisst elPetisive shop could sell them at.
rit,l•l,,,trallY occur to people of discernmOennet, who chance
"Olezi - "'ek Auctions, either that they. are purchasing
tltili,?°4s, or that they are the laughing stock and. dupes
ithoi;;lrel,inga that surround them, each of whom is paid,
Nit! ," e4ieulating auctioneer's expence, cartage, porterage,
' 'e• nearly One pound per day for his attendance.
'tit' at Cost Price to Purchasers of Feathers.
pi, 'et's, perfectly free '
,aittb 4:. 8.
bom allkie Goose,
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t„ h'riel2ielt ...... 3 0
0ve1771 and
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tim't MAIL COACH-OFFICE, LAD-LANE.
following ROYAL MAILS (lepari
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at Seven) :—.
4U'nPto - l'')4ET-ER through Devizes, Taunton, and
lillgii,',l! '
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Nils brit'd and Coventry.
c;Aitti.„ , thro,,,ho„gh and Chippenham.
..t..e to niarmor
t'xtatng.p and EDINBURGH, through Chorley and
1,,,..'r -1:1, through Salisbury,
'A Ilifi-, Blandford, and Dor-
11I.VeTli and PLYMOUTH ROYAL MAIL.
tat, "EAD, through Wolverhampton, Shrewsbury,
t.IV4)".
11ANi.,-.it'ODL, through Newcastle and Cengleton.
414',11ESTER, through Derby and Alacclesfield.
ko-tp.."llD HAVEN, through Carmarthen and Haver-
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f i "ICH MAIL, via Colchester and Ipswich.
(''llu'vlag POST COACREg start regularly at the
, time specified :-...
S'vev,„- MORNING POST COACHES.
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htt'sk,:, through Bury and Scole, at Half-past Six.
--....„1-P4l,s_4land Dcrby, through Leicester, at Half-past
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Grey Goose, bound 2 10
Grey Goose bordered 2 15
Hudson Bay.
Poultry 1 6
Ditto, best quality 1 10

'and fit for immediate use.
Palliasses in the greatest
vai iety of quality and
size, from... ..10s. to 18s.
made on the Premises.

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Full-sire Eliptic 1 10
• 'rent, of the
beet quality 1 5
Bamboo, from 1/. 6s. to 1 10
French, from 1/.155. tot 2
Cottage 1 8
from -35 e. to 3/. Four-post,
10s.

Several Members thought this reference unne.
cessary.

The LORD MAYOR decided that, according to the
standing order of the Court, the report must be
referred to the Finance Committee, unless the
standing order should be suspended.
This was accordingly moved.
Mr. OLDHAM opposed the motion.
Mr. STEVENS, Mr. JONES, and Mr. TAYLOR' sup:-
ported it.
After a few words from Mr. HICK and Mr. GAL-
LOWAY, the standing order was directed to be sus-
pended.
It was then moved, that the report of the Com-
mittee be agreed to.
Mr. HICK contended, that the street leading to the
market would be wide enough at 30 feet. (The
Committee had recommended 4n foot tvidtk)

ovveral Members contended, that 40 feet width
would be requisite ; that the Corporation had pur-
chased ground enough to allow of 40 feet width, and
that having the room to spare, it ought to be used.
It was then moved as an amendment, that the street.
should be 30 feet wide instead of 40,,but the amend-
ment was negatived, and the original motion agreed
to, and referred back to the committee for execution.

BLACKFRIARS 'BRIDGE.
Mr. SAUNDERS brought up .a report from the
Committee for General Purposes, stating, that hav-
ing taken the present dilapidated state of Blackfriars-
bridge into consideration, the Committee recom-
mended that notices should be served, of an intend-
ed application to Parliament next session, for a bill
to raise the sums necessary for the repairs 'of the
said bridge.
Alderman-LucAs said, that such was the very
dilapidated. state of the pillars of the bridge; that
many persons quite competent to form an opinion
had deelared, that should the approaching winter
prove severe, some of the pillars at the ends of the
piers would come down. . .
Mr: JONES said that even if the pillars alluded to
should come down, the bridge would be es firm as
before. lie thought the present was not the time
for fresh -repairs, when the city was already engaged
in such expensive works;- , •
It was then agreed that the report do lie on the
table.

A report from the Committee of General Pur-
poses, recommending the termination of a suit in
Chancery relative to cars and carts, was brought up
and agreed to.
The' motion respecting the expediency of opening
the Sheriffs' Court to a greater number of attorneys
Was postponed to next Court.—Adjourned.

LAUNCH OF THE LADY 40WENA.—ThiS
fine vessel, of 400 tons burden; for the Charleston trade,
was launched yesterday forenoon froin the yard of Messrs.
J. and R.'Fisher, -at the Queen's-dock, Graving-:dock: The
apectaCle was not so numerously attended as is" usual on
similar occasions, owing to the election for Mayor, which
gave more lucrative employment to many of the freemen.
Several hundreds of persons, however, were present,
amongst whom Were many ladies and gentlemen of respec-
tability.
Exactly at ten minutes before 12, the supports
being removed, the vessel glided majestically into the water,
amidst the cheers of the spectators and those on hoard; and
Mr. Lodge, jun., the eon of the proprietor, at the same
moment performed the ceremony of christening, by dashing
a bottle of wine against the bow. Not the slightest acci-
dent occurred, except it should be called 'such, that at the
entrance of the Queen's-dock Ale bow of the vessel came in
contact with the mast of a flat, and became entangled in
the rigging. The concession tvas i riot violent, and the flat
was soon disengaged, we believe without injury. The
Lady Rowena is to be fitted up in excellent style for pas-
sengers she has eight' births iu her cabin, six of which
e double births, and two for families. Captain Pease is
the commander, and she is expected to be ready for sea by
the middle of next month.—Liverpool Advertiser.
The Journal des Debats contains a letter
from St. Petershurgh, which states, that the Councillor
of State, Langsdorff, now in Brazil, has written to a friend
in Germany an account of his travels in some of the pro-
vinces of that empire hitherto least known. He embarked
on the river Tiuta, which bore for the first time the Rus-
sian flag. In the course of their journey through the pro_
vince of St. Pauli they observed scenes and objects perfectly
new—viviparous animals, birds, boas,, fish, magnificent ca..
taracts, &c. After a voyage of six weeks, they entered
the majestic Parana, a river full of isles, and in some parts
nearly a league in width. From the Parana they entered
the rapid Rio Pardo, and they penetrated nearly to its
source in the mountains of Camapuam. The place where
it begins to be navigable is about 701) feet above the sur-
face of the Parana. From the small river of Camapuam
they entered successively the &whim, the Tacuari, and,the
river of Paraguay. The latter celebrated stream flows
gently, covered with leaves, roots of trees, and putrid fish.
Crocodiles of a musky odour, with a red argillaeeous earth,
and a disgusting yellow foam, were observed in it. Its
water is scarcely drinkable. The heat of the atmosphere
was commonly from 26 t 0,29 degrees
(of Reaumur) in the
shade; and that of the water of the river
.24; degrees. Mr.
Langsdorff proposed to spend a year in the province re .1
Cuyaba, and to return by the diamond district, the Rio
Negro, Rio Arinos, and Tapajoz, and to continue his voy-
age on the great ricer of tb halms,

LISBON, OCT. 13.—The decree of the appointment of
Don Miguel' to the Regency is arrived at last, not, how-
ever, as it was expected, by the Portuguese brig of war
Constantia, thai. was lying at Rio Janeiro, but merely by
the merchant ship, Canoes, which arrived here on the Bth
initant, as you will observe by the, Gazette. of the 10th,
in which is also contained the above curious decree. On
perusing it, one is struck by its singular conciseness no less
than by the' extraordinary facts which it gives to be under-
stood. Ist, Don Pedro does not mention once the name
of the Princess Regent, but considers the state unsafe and
insecure ; for which motive, as well as for many other
very important ones which he does not choose to mention;
(very likely for decency's sake), he considers that the best
means of putting the State in the requisite safety and. se-.
curity, according to the supreme law of all sovereigns, is
to trust its government to the intelligence, activity, and
firmness of character of his brother Don Miguel ; con-
sequently, neither intelligence, activity, nor firmness of
character have been shown in the government of the Prin-
cess--a most melancholy truth ! 2dIY, Don Miguel is ap-
pointed to govern and rule these kingdoms of Portugal and
Algarves according to the powers ascribed to the King in ,
the Charter, and in conformity to the same constitutional
Charter ; but in what character ? In that of the King's
Lieutenant, which means his substitute, for which no
provision is made in the saidicharter, where a regent or a
regency is only mentioned. It ia therefore evident that
Don Pedro does not yet consider the conditions of his ab-
dication as fulfilled, and that in what respects his rights
he does not consider himself hound by the Charter, which
is an odd 'anomaly. It is true, that in appointing his
brother, who had not attained then the ageuf 25 years,
• prescribed by the Charter, Don Pedro refers to the su-
preme law of , the safety and security of the State ; but
why did he not add in his decree, that this law of neces-
sity was to prevail only until Don Miguel attained his 25th
year? If it is to keep him in check, reserving to himself
the power Of withdrawing from him the lieutenancy in
case of his not governing with intelligence, activity, and
firmness of character, according to the. Charter, Don Pedro
must be thanked for it ; for a trial, and a long one too,
of Don Miguel's moderate and liberal system of govern-
ing, at the same time that he is under the influence of the
old revengeful Queen, his mother, ought to be made, be-
fore this unhappy natioa is completely delivered over to
him alone. I say alone, because, after having governed
the kingdom for several years as an independent ruler, is it
likely that the young Queen Mary, should he hereafter
marry her, will ever get the reins of government out of
his hands ? However, what has transpired of Don Ali-
guel's acceptance of his brother's conditional and restricted
commission with respect to his governing according to the
Charter, as well as of the guarantee of the great Powers
to which the Emperor Don Pedro has confided this mate-
rial point, and, on the other band, the improvement which
Don Miguel's mind and behaviour must have, undergone
in the highly polished Court of Vienna, have very much
diminished here the repugnancy that existed against him,
and much more so since the persecution of all liberal wri-
ters, and of the Constitutionalists in general, by the worm-
like Santarem, and the monstrous Bastos ; for, whatever
may have been the irsinuating advice of Prince Metternich
to the young Prince 'against the Liberals, they certainly
cannot be averse than the conduct which has been prac-
tised lately here in order to crush patriotism, and' to dig-
nify vice and abjectness. Indeed, Don Miguel ought to
thank his sister, and all her perverse advisers, for furnishing
him.with so favourable an opportunity of making himself
respected and cherished by the great majority of the nation,.
which will be for him the easiest task, if he wishes ear-
nestly to undertake it. Let him, like Don Pedro, be active
in promoting justice equally with: all parties; let him be
inflexible with 'the empires Of the State aild in the punish-
ment of crimes, after having made a selection of respecta-
ble and upright Judges of whatever political sentiments
they may be; let him be strict, just, and severe with the
army, and turn it into an honourable profession, instead of
what it is and has been since the absence of foreign com-
manders—a most demoralized band of Janissaries ; let him,
above all, keep away from bins his former disgraceful
friends of bull-baiting memory, and select a clever and ho-
nourable Ministry among the moderate men of both politi-
math opinions ; and after this selection, let him visit the
whole kingdom, manifesting everywhere his candid but
firm and dutiful sentiments of respect for the laws and pre-
scriptions ; let him observe, by means of his own judg-
ment and experience, the wretched and' miserable differ-
ence that exists between this delightful country, and those
much less favoured by nature, which he has inhabited of
late years, in order to apply the remedies which humanity,
justice, and self-interest call for, and which the powerful
assistance of the Cortes has established by the Charter, and
he will be blessed and upheld, next to Don Pedro, as the
saviour and protector of his degraded and unhappy country.
Yeaterday was the Emperor Don Pedro's birth-day, and
every one expected that the city would be allowed to ills-
inMate, as there is_ a severe prohibition to do so unless it
is ordered, as well as to give rivas to any person, sinless
directed by a civil or military authority ! The whole town
was therefore last night in perfect darkness, with only the
exception of the front of the little Brazilian Consul's house;
where three transparent allegories were exhibited.
Before the arrival of Don Pedro's decree about Don Mi-
guel, Government thought of convoking the Cortes for
the arrival of the Prince, and felt sadly the want 'of an
official' docunient to take that very wise step ; but now
they have got the document, Ministers appear indifferent
on the subject. I wonder whether it is for the same reason
that this city was not allowed to be illuminated yesterday.
Some of the Spanish gentlemen imprisoned on account
of the desertion of, the Spanish soldiers have been set at
liberty, whilst the others are to be shipped off either to
England or to France.
This unhappy country is too probably about to become
the theatre of great events, perhaps of disastrous ones. If
any evidence were wanting of the imbecility of its Admi-
nistration, or rather of the late Administrations which
have been called into activity since the publication of the
Charter, it would be abundantly supplied by their own
acts and measures. The very first we examine will dis-
close such a state of affairs as could 'only exist in the ab-
sence of any efficient Government. The people feel justly
alarnied for their lives and liberties, and say in general,
If the present Government regards the Charter so little,
and manifests such contempt for the institutions, what
have we to expect when Don Miguel comes ? Exile or
death is the fate which seems to hang over us."
The publication of the enclosed decree in 'Wednesday's
Gazette has produced a general consternation, and Don
Pedro has lost a great portion of his influence by this im-
politic step; his enemies took immediate advantage of it,
and I doubt not he will soon see his error and repent, when
perhaps his repentance will be as much too late as that o
England.

In the provinces, the spirit of the people is in a state
of fermentation in favour of Don Miguel, and it will not
be astonishing if something should happen before his arrival. •
The intrigues continue; and the party of the Cama-
rilla has been joined by some of the judges who are;to pass
sentence upon the persons now in prison. One of its
most recent adherents is a dezembargador, known by the
nick-name of Tim Tim, a man who has served all parties,
and whose .life has been marked by tle practice of many
disgraceful actions.
The Infanta went last night to the theatre of San
Carlos, and was received with mournful silence. A strik-
ing contrast to the manner in which she was received
last year !
'Amis., OC T T itehe InfantedeereeofDtohn Miguel the 3d
July, by
which the King appoints
Lieu-
tenant, instead of coming on us with threatening aspect,
and portending dire events, is hailed' as a propitioaa star by
the whole of the liberal party, which forms three-fourths
of the nation. This party, which has made so many .and
such great sacrifices in the maintenance of the principles
of the legitimacy, and which has at last put a stop to re-
action in Portugal, sees with pleasure the unpopularity into
which the infanta has fallen—an unpopularity which she
merits on account of her character and of the insulting and
vexatious caprice which she has so notoriously displayed.

IMPORTANT DISCOVERY--Captain English
of the Royal Engineers, has applied the compact limestone
found near Lisburn to the purposes of Lithography, and
the discovery bids fair to supersede the use of the Bavarian
stones. —Freeman's Journal.

On Tuesday morning a poor man at Rathro-
flan, while engaged making a basket in a garden, threw up
some blood, after which he went into his cabin, and died in
a few seconds.--Dublin Morning Register.

A happy boy was Thomas Stokes, the black-
smith's son, of Upton Lea, last May morning; he
was to go to B— Fair with his eldest brother
William, and his cousin Fanny, and he never closed
his eyes all night for thinking of the pleasure he
should enjoy on the morrow. " Thomas,", for short-
ness called " Tom," was a lively, merry boy of nine
years old, rising ten, the horse-dealers say, and had
as
never been at a Fair in his life; so that his sleepless-
, ness.as well as the frequent soliloquies of triumphant
ho hol (his usual exclamation when highly pleased)
and the perpetual course of broad smiles in which
his delight had been vented for a week before,.were
nothing remarkable. His companions were as wake-
ful and happy as himself. Now that might be ac-
counted for in his cousin's case, since it was also her
first Fair;
,for Fanny, a pretty dark-eyed lass of
eighteen, was a Londoner, and, till she arrived that
' winter on a visit to her aunt, had never been out of
the sound of Bow-bells; but why William, a young
blacksmith of one-and-twenty, to whom Fairs were
almost as familiar,a.shorse7shoes, why he should .lose
his sleep on the occasion, is less easy to diseover--.-
perhaps from sympathy.:
ThroughTom's•impatienee the party were early
astir : indeed, he had roused the whole house long
before daybreak ; and betimes in the forenoon they
sate forth on their progress; Tom in a state of spi-
rits that caused him to say Ho ho ! every minute,
and much endangered the new hat that lie was toss-
ing in the air; William and Fanny,with a more.con-
centrated and a far• quieter joy. One should not see
a finer young couple : he, decked in his Sunday at-
tire, tall, sturdy, and muscular, with a fine open
countenance, and an air of rustic gallantry that be-
came him well; she pretty and modest, with a look
of gentility about her plain dark gown and cottage
bonnet, and the little straw basket that she carried
in her hand, which even more than her ignorance of
tree, and bird, and leaf, and flower, proclaimed her
town breeding,—although that ignorance was such,
that Tom declared that on her first arrival at Upton
Lea, she did not know an oak from an elm, or a
sparrow from a blackbird. Tom himself had yet to
learn poor Fanny's excuses, how much oaks and elms
resemble each other in the London air, and how
very closely in colour, though not in size, a city spar-
row approaches to a blackbird.
Their way led through pleasant footpaths; every
bank covered with cowslips and blue-bells, and over-
hung with the budding hawthorn, and the tasselled
hazel ; now between orchards, whose trees, one
flush of blossom, rose from amidst beds of daffodils,
with their dark waving spear-like leaves and golden
flowers ; now along fields, newly sown with barley,
where the doves and wood-pigeons—pretty inno-
cent thieves, were casting a glancing shadow on
the ground as they flew from furrow to furrow,
picking up the freshly planted grain and now be-
tween close lanes peopled with nightingales; until
at last they emerged into the gay high road, where
their little party fell into the flood of people pouring
on to the Fair, much after' the manner in which a
tributary brooklet is lost in the waters of some

mighty stream.
'• A. mingled stream in good :tooth it was—a most
'motley procession I Country folks in all varieties,
from the pink-ribboned maiden,. the belle of her
parish, tripping along so merrily, to the sober and
demure village matron, who walked beside her with
a slow lagging pace, as if tired already,—from the
gay Lothario of the hamlet; with his clean sMock-
froek, and his hat on one side, who strutted along,
ogling the lass in the pink ribbons; to the "grave
and reverend signor," the patriarch of the peasantry,
with: his'straight wltite hair, and his well-preserved
Wedding suit, who hobbled stoopingly on, charged
With two great-grandchildren-7a sprightly girl of
six lagging him forward, a lumpish boy of three
'dragging him back.
Children were there of all conditions, from
'" mamma's darlings" in the coronet carriage—the
little lords and ladies; to whom a fair was, as yet,
only a "name of power"—down to the brown
gipsey urchins strapped on their mother's back, to
whom it was t familiar sight—no end to the chil-
dren !—no end to the grown people !—no end to
the vehicles ! Carts crammed as full as they could
be stowed; gigs with one, two, three, and four in-
side passengers; waggons laden with men instead of
corn ; droves of pigs ; flocks of sheep ; herds of
cattle; strings of horses ; with their several drovers
and drivers of all kinds and countries—English,
Irish, Welch, and Scotch—all bound to the Fair.
Here an Italian boy with his tray of images ; there
a Savoyard with her hurdy-gurdy ; and lastly, strug-
gling through the midst of the throng, that painful
minister of pleasure, an itinerant shewman, with his
poor box of puppets and his tawdry wife, pushing,
and toiling, and straining every 'nerve for fear of
being too late. No end' to the people !—no end to
the din ! The turnpikeman opened his gate and
shut his ears in despairing resignation. Never was
known so full a May Fair.
And amongst the thousands assembled in the
market-place at B—, it would have been difficult
to . fitid a happier group than our young cousins.
Tom, to be sure, had been conscious of a little ne-
glect on the part of his companions. The lectures
on ornithology, with which ehemin faisant he had
thought fit to favour Fanny (children do dearly
love to teach grown, people, and all country boys
are learned in birds), had been rather thrown
away on that fair - damsel. William and she
had Walked arm-in-arm ; and when he tried to
join them on one side, he found himself cast off,
—when on the other, let go. Poor Tom was,
evidently, de trop in the party. However, he
bore the affront like a philosopher, and soon forgot
his grievances in the solid luxuries of tarts and gin-
gerbread; in the pleasant business of purchasing and
'receiving petty presents; in the clatter, the bustle,
and the merriment of the Fair. Amidst all his de-
light, hOwever,he could not but feel a little curiosity,•
when William having lured him to a stall, and fixed
him there in the interesting occupation of selecting
a cricket-ball, persuaded Fanny to go under his
bouring shops. Tom
escort to make some p's attention to his own un-
rivate purchases at the neigh-
portant bargain was sadly distracted by watching
his companions as they proceeded from the linen-
draper's to the jeweller's, and from the jeweller's to
the pastry-cook's ; looking, the whilst, the one proud
and happy, the other shy and ashamed. Tom could
not tell what to make of it, and chose, in his per-
plexity, the
very worst ball that Was .offered to
him ; but as he had seen their several parcels snugly
deposited is the straw basket, he fancied that the
secret lay there, and, on their rejoining him, having
vainly offered to carry the basket, he summoned
courage to ask, point blank, what it contained ; at
‘vhichquestion, Fanny blushed, and William laughed ;
and on a repetition of the inquiry, answered with an
arch smile—" Fanny's ,fairings." Nov as Fanny
had before purchased toys, and cakes, and such like
trifles for the whole family, this reply, and the air
with which it was delivered; served rather to stimu-
late than to repress the vague suspicions that Were
floating in the boy's brain. A crowd, however, is
no place for impertinent curiosity. Loneliness and
ennui are necessary to the growth of that weed. If
there had been a fair in Blue-beard's castle, his wives
would have kept their heads on their shoulders; the
blue chamber and the diamond key would have
tempted in vain. So Tom betook himself to the en-