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London, England, 1831-07-26 00:00:00

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Letter lathe Ri. Al Hon. Viscount Pcs!merstusa 6n the
Alfainrf Ptlend.—By NIONTAOVr. GORE, r.m. Is. cd.
At the Congress of Vienna, says Mr. Gore, the
nmbitious views of tire noi•thern autocrat were
strongly, thorgh ineffectually opposed by the other
great powers. And here let me in passing do jus-
tice to the conduct of the British minister at that
congrecs, Lord Castlereagh, who maintained the
cause of Polish independence with a zeal worthy
of the representative of a free people, and enforced
his views with no common energy and power. Ho
declared it to bt• " the wish of England to see
s•.me independent power established in Poland, as
a septuation between time three great powers of
Europe :" and the Prince Telleyrand remarked,
that " of all the questions to be discussed at the
comr:ess, he considered the affairs of Poland as
incomparably the most important to the interests of
Europe ; if there be any chance that that nation,
co worthy of regard for its antiquity, its valour, Ps
eris rortnnes, and the services which it has formerly
7 endered to Europe. might he restored to complete
;,.(:#l.,:ndence." The courts of Austria and Prussia
ressed themselves in similar terms; and the
Prince Metternich declared, that Austria would
sacrifice some of her own territory, if by so doing
the freedom of Poland could be ensured.
Let us then hear no jests about " Polish inde-
pendence," as if it were some poetical fancy, or
idle dream ; for here we have the recorded opiuions
of three statesmen, who have not been accounted
too fond of liberty, but whose talents, discernment,
and acuteness, none can question, that the affairs
of Poland were matters of the highest importance,
and that its independence would be highly condu-
cive to the maintenance of general tranquillity.
Their arguments, however, had no weight with
the Russian Emperor, who insisted on the annexa-
tion of the Duchy of Warsaw to his empire ; And
to this the allies reluctantly assented ; but upon
terms to which I now beg to direct especial at-
tention.

The terms insisted on by the allies were, that
Poland should hare separate national institutions,
independent of Russia.
Lord Castlereagh expressly declared, that " on
these conditions only, his Royal Highness the
Prince Regent would no longer have to fear that
any danger to the liberty of Europe would re-
sult from the union of Poland to the Russian
empire."
His lordship further requested. the allies " not
to leave Vienna till they pledged themselves that
the Poles in their respective dominions, under
whatever form of government they might think
proper to place them, should still be treated as
Poles." To this they agreed ; and the Emperor
of Austria in particular declared, " that he ap-
proved of the national institutions which it was
the intention of the Russian Emperor to grant to
the Polish nation." The words of the article in
virtue of which the duchy of Warsaw was annexed
to Russia were these:

" The duchy of Warsaw, with the exceptii
of those provinces and districts which are other
wise disposed of by the following articles, is
united to Russia. It shall be irrevocably bcund
to the Russian empire BY ITS CONSTITUTION,
to be enjoyed by his Majesty the Emperor of all
the Russias, his heirs and successors for ever."
It will be seen, therefore, that although the allied
powers consented to Russia taking possession of the
duchy of Warsaw, they did so on the express un-
derstanding that the separate institutions and con-
stitution of Poland were to be preserved entire ;
and that the Emperor of Russia should hold the
duchy of Warsaw annexed to his ether territories,
and bound to the Russian empire by its constitu-
tion. The allies, therefore, became guarantees
for the preservation to the Poles of their institu-
tions ; and the duchy of Warsaw being annexed
to Russia by the constitution, the annexation was
of course void, if the constitution was not pre-
served. The Emperor of Rursia himself said, in
a letter to Count Ostrowski, President of the Po-
lish Senate: " It is with peculiar satisfaction that
I announce to you, that the destiny of your coun-
try is about to be fixed, with the concurrence of
all the powers assembled at the Congress of Vienna.
The kingdom of Poland shall be united to the em-
pre of Russia by the bond of its om it constitution,
en which 1 am desirous of founding tie happiness
of the country."
We here have, under the hand and seal of his
Russian majesty, a distinct admission of two im-
portant points : first, that whatever measures were
taken with respect to Poland, it was with the con-
currence of all the powers ; and, secondly, that
Poland was united to Russia by the bond of its
own constitution ; in other words, that the title of
the Emperor of Russia to Poland depended on the
maintenance of the Polish constitution ; and on
this ground, and this alone, did the other powers
concur in the measure.

According to the constitution, the existing sta-
tutes of the Duchy were to be preserved in almost
every instance. A native of the country was to
be lieutenant of the kingdom, except some prince
of the blood was appointed viceroy : no person was
to be arrested but according to certain legal forms :
no man was to be imprisoned without being ac-
quainted with the grounds of Lis imprisonment, and
every person was to be brought before the judges
within three days of the date of his imprisonment.
No alteration was to be made in taxes, nor even
any civil or criminal laws to be passed without the
consent of the General Diet.

Stich were some of the leading features of the
Polish constitution, and there is not one of them
which was not...flagrantly violated. Scarcely was
the wax cold with which the treaty had been
sealed, when it was broken in tl:e most uoscru-
puka; manner; and the plighted faith of the
emperor, the sancity of sacred promises, and the
guarantee of the great powers of Europe, proved
but weak and feeble barriers against the encroach-
ments of ambition.

The Grand Duke Constantine was appointed to
the command of the Polish army, and immediately
commenced a system of measures, than which,
nothing more tyrannical or more absurd has been
recorded in history. So far were the existing
statutei of the Diet from being preserved, that
they were treated with the greatest contempt and
disregard; and a death-blow was given to the
power of the Diet itself by the resolution of the
Grand Duke, that the budget of the army should
be decided by himself, without controul from the
civil government. It was expressly provided by
the constitution, that no financial measures what-11
over should be resolved on, without the consent of

the Diet; vet in the very teeth of this provision,
the Grand Duke dared to arrogate to himself the
right, the uncontrolled right, of regulating the
budget of the army.
The articles that related to personal liberty
were treated with similar disregard ; citizens of
rank; of character, and unblemished reputation,,
were imprisoned without any cause being as,
signed, and were punished without trial; in many
instances were they doomed to pass years in
dungeons, untried, unp;tied, and unheard. Such
monstrous, such iniquitous proceedings, tatty well
startle the reader of these pages ; and for the
sake of humanity, for the honour of the Russian
government, would to Con that they were un-
founded. But the details are too clear and too
explicit to leave any doubt on the subject.—
" In the fortress of Zamosc twelve state prisoners
were found, some of whom had been incarcerated
for six years without haying undergone a trial, and
whose names were only known to the commander
of the castle. In the 'dungeons of Haricnanski, in
Warsaw, was found a victim of the Russian police,
who had been kept in solitary confinement for tea
yea's, and whose fate was entirely unknown to his
friends and relatives. Respectable inhabitants of
Warsaw were often taken and flogged before the
Grand Duke, without the formality of a bird, or
the specification of a charge. Some were even,
in the same unlawful manner, made to break
stones or wheel barrows in the streets or high-
ways, like galley slaves. Persons of rank were
frequently taken from their homes, immured in
prison, and dismissed after several weeks incar-
ceration, without knowing what alleged offence had
provoked such a wanton exercise of power. State
offenders were carried out of the country to Rus-
sian prisons, and attempts were made to give
them a journey to Siberia, which were only pre-
vented by the threat of suicide on the part of the
victims.'
Where is the callous sophist ? where the cold-
blooded Jesuit, that will dare to stand forward
as the apologist for these infamous, these inhuman
proceedings? Here we see the most sacred pro-
mises broken ; the laws of honour disregarded ; all
ties human or divine alike scoffed at ; and innocent
men denied that justice to which the most guilty
are entitled, and condemned to punishments
Iwhich none but the most criminal should have
endured.
Poland has done no more than what England
would have done under the same circumstances.
She saw her tights disregarded, her liberties
trampled on, her laws violated, and therefore she
arose to vengeance. The sword of her warriors
leapt from its scabbard, bat not till the sceptre of
justice had departed from her rulers.
The constitution had declared, " the liberty of
the press is guaranteed, the law will regulate the
means of repressing its abuses." This article was
treated with the same contempt as the others, and
was never regarded. The voice of truth was
never heard, the progress of improvement was
stopped, and under the despotic sway of a mili-
tary chieftain, no opinions were allowed to be
promulgated, but such as met the sanction of the
absolute dictator.
After such conduct on the part of Russia, when
not merely the faith of treaties, but the common
principles of humanity, had been so disregarded ;
when all the ties that unite man to man, and
bind nation to nation, had been thus scoffingly
outraged ; I ask not whether the Polish revolution
was justifiable, but whether the Poles would not
have been unworthy of being called men, whether
they would not have merited the treatment they
experienced at the hands of their ruthless masters,
if they had not availed themselves of the first op-
portunity to resist their oppressors?
In an ill-starred hour for his own fame and in-
terests, the Emperor Nicholas resolved on march-
ing the Polish army to crush the opening pros-
pects of freemen in other kingdoms; and required
flora the already impoverished country an addi-
tional contribution of 42,000,000 florins. The order
for this contribution reached Warsaw on the 27th
of Nov. on the 29th resistance was determined on ;
and on the 30th Warsaw was free !
And who were the men, who in that critical
juncture took the lead of affairs ? No adventurers
of fortune; no tractors in popular commotion; no
obscure or unknown individuals ; but the princes
of the land, and statesmen and generals of unques-
tioned integrity and talent.
" They were Prince Adam Czartorinski, the first
nobleman in Poland, and allied to royal families;
Prince Michel Radzivil, a man of admirable cha-
racter and extensive possessions ; Gen. Clopicki,
so distinguished in the Polish legion ; Gen. Pac ;
the Castellan Rochonoe Ai, and the first name in
Polish literature, M. Nieunceo icz.
" The fame thus kindled in the capital speedily
extended to the provinces—and the whole of Po-
land, in the eloquent language of Milton, " roused
herself like a strong man after sleep, and shook
her invincible locks—while the whole noise of
timorous and flocking birds, with those also that
love the twilight, fluttered about, amazed at what
she meant."
Aptly does this language describe the conduct of
Poland and the demeanour of her oppressors. She
indeed, " as a noble and puissant nation," arose
and smote her despots—but they, fearful to strike
in return, were palsied with amazement, hovered
for a short time over the prey they were reluctant
to quit. and then retired precipitately.
What was the conduct of the Emperor Nicholas
when the news of this revolution reached him ?
In what way did he treat this n.anifestation of the
will of a whole people, beaded by their princes ?
Did by inquire into the came of these events ?
Did he offer to concur with the moderate wishes'
of the Polish Deputies, who demanded the fulfil-
ment of his own sworn promises ? No Ihe
spurned their deputies, he scoffed at their propo-
sals ; and as if it were not enough to outrage the
laws of man, he dared to blaspheme Heaven. Im-
piously he dared to invoke the blessings of a God
ofjustice and of mercy on his savage and barbarian
measures; and his fit agent, Diebitsch, coupled
appeals to heaven with " the Russian cannon."
But the question, the important question for
England and the rest of Europe, is this ;—shall
this contest be allowed to continue? Shall this
brave nation be allowed to be immolated at the
shrine of Russian ambition; for we must not for-
get how unequal is the contest ; and that, however
brilliant are the present successes of Poland, she
can hardly hope to succeed single- handed? Shall
future history say, that France, that England,
admired indeed the valour, sympathized with the
sufferings, but held out no succouring band to

Poland ? Shall it be said that at the Congress of
Vienna, the English minister insisted on the main-
tenance of the national institutions of Poland; that
he declared his master, the Prince Regent, insisted
on their fulfilment; and yet, that when those insti-
tutions had been in every instance violated and
disregarded, the British Government, with folded
arms, witnessed the desolation of Poland?
Noble and heroic people ! May your success
be as decisive as your exertions are glorious ; and
may the final triumph of your arms be equal to the
justice of your cause !

PANORAMA OF THE BRITISH
EMPIRE.

MANCHESTFRAIX7VALFORD, July 23.
REPRESENTATION or Sm.roers.—Believing that Mr.
Brotherton is to the full as zealous a reformer as Mr. Tho-
mas Hopkins,—believing that there is no one object to which
Mr. Hopkins has pledged himself, in his edema, in the
forwarding of which Mr. Brotherton would not most cheer-
fully concur.—believing that Mr. Brotherton would make a
better member titan Mr. Thomas Hopkins, inasmuch as he
unites pater talent to greater modesty than Mr. Thomas
Hopkins has the good fortune to possess,—it has been a
matter of much regret to vs, that the address of Mr. Bro-
I dieresis should have been coached in terms so general, as to
I give Mr. Tigsmas Hopkins an opportunity of placing him-
self for a fuoutent in advantageous contrast with him before
'the town, by a specific pledee to measures, which he knows
Mr. Brotherton rill pledge himself to support as cheerfully
es he; and perhaps without the saving clause of " due eau.
don and suitable preparation," which may mean any degree
of doubt, and any taut of delay.
It has been determined to put Mr. Cobbctt in nomination
fee Manchester; already an active canvas' on his Welt r{
commenced ; and nobody can doubt that IN success bus NEI
most cordial wishes. The shopkeepers are deeply intmeNoil
in the question, and we entreat their serious attention to thel
arguments which we have to urge on Mr. Cobbett's behalL
The Liverpool and Birmingham railway company having
decided not to proceed with their bill during the present era.
sion of parliament the bill has been withdrawn by an order
of the Hoarse of dotumons.
At the late Knotsfonl quarter sessions, the foretnan of drel
grand jury stated to the court that it was the opinion of him-
self and fellows, that " the retail beer act was the greatest
scourge that had ever been inflicted upon the country, and
that a gteat number of the cases which bad come before
them originated in houses opened under its sanction !"
Szerono 31 insustates Seseroes.—Eighteen collkoe
who were engegtsl in the riots committed on the 19th of
Illay,at Mr. Andrew Knowles' collieries at Pcndlebury, and
had been held to bad for that offence by Mr. Forster, in to
sureties of 201. each, for their appearance at the seasions.ap-
pemed in court to answer an indictment perferred against
teem for erectly abasing two men whom Mr. Knowles had
employed in the room of the tarn-out colliers, and for riot-
ing on the occasion referred to. Mr. Couttenay and Mr.
Armstrong conducted die prosecution, and Dr. Brown ap-
peared for the defendants. The evidence was gone through
at considerable length, wherein it was proved that the de.
fendants were the riegleatlers of a mob of 200 or 300 per-
sons, who had not only brought the weir (the new hands)
from out of the pit where they were at work, but bad
afterwards beat them in a most cruel and unmanly man.
ner. One of the defendants, named Wm. Hutchinson, was
proved to be the worst, fm he not only inhumanly beat
one of the men, but stamped upon him after he had
knocked him down. The jury returned a verdict of Guilty
against all the defendants. They were then put into the
dock, and the Chairman, after addressing them on the enor-
mity of the offence of which they had been convicted, sen-
tenced William Hutchinson, James Greenhalgh, William
Crabtree, William Boardman, Roger Christie, James
Christie, William Heatheote, Robert Harris, and John
Madam ;each to two years imprisonment in Lancaster
Castle; and Thomas Wilson, James Halliday, Thomas
Halliday, John Hall, John Thomson, Moses Lord, Willm.
Hardman, James Hall, and John Thomson, each to twelve'
months' imprisonment in the same place.
We understand the circulation of the Bank of England
has never been smaller than it is at present. They are still
selling exchequer bills; gold is leaving the country, and
there is a profit to be realised by the exportation.-"Wles
does not see the coming panic?
Imam Row.—Seven men and a woman, natives of the
sister Isle, were brought up at the New Bailey on Monday,
with fighting and rioting in the neighbourhood of
charged
Bridge and Newtown, on Sunday morningiast,
when the peaceable inhabitants of that district were Is
places of worship.—lt was stated in evidence, that se
402 persons were assembled on this occasion, and that mil
of them were armed with bludgeons, legs of chairs, stenos,
and brickbats, and that a woman was severely hurt in the
leg by a brick The prisoners were proved to have been
active la the affray, and the woman, it appeared, particu-
larly distinguished herself, in supplying the others with
atones, bricks, and other dangerous missiles.
Tax Rev. UOPERT TAYLOR.—A public meeting was
held on Bolton Moor, on Monday evening, to petition par-
liament for a fitil remission of the sentence lately passed upon
the Rev. Robert Taylor. The weather was very %infamy.
able, and not more than 200 persons were present. Meet
8 o'clock, Walter O'Carrnll, a Roman Catholic, was called,
to the chair. The meeting was addressed by the chairman,
Mama. Witherington, Aston, Dawson, Thomason, C. Both-
well, Hamilton, and Harlin. The speakers dwelt principally
upon the injustice and impolicy of prosecutions for religious
opinions, and the treatment of Taylor since his conviction,
was stigmatised as equalling in atrocity the worst days of
the inquisition. A number of resolutions were passed, end
it was agreed to forward a petition founded upon them VP
Mr. Hume, for presentation to the House of Commons, sad
to solicit Messrs. O'Connell, liuut, Hothouse, and J. Wood,'
to support the same. The proceedings were conducted is
l
the most orderly manner, anti the speeches were of a tem-
perate character.
MANCHESTER Jute 16.—1 n the course of the
week there has been a fair business transacted with trm2
lees, who have been selecting the finest samples of hos*
wheat, and as the weather has been showery, we have
rieneed a gradual rise of 6d per bushel in that article.graet;
have likewise commanded higher rates. and flour was more
esteemed, even at an advance of Is to 2s per sack. We had
a fair attendance of millers and dealers on our market to-
day. The show of samples not so large as of late. Prime
English and foreign wheat sold freely this morning at 6d per
bushel above last Saturday's rates. Grinding barley as last
noted. Oats are decidedly 2d per 431bs higher than this day-
week. Boiling pease nominal. For beans there is a good
demand at the quotation subjoined. The demand for malt
remains limited, although some maltsters are offering on
lower terms. English and American flour are each Is to 21
deater. Oatmeal is rather better sold.
Waxarrain, JULY 20.—We had a good show of stock
at market today, particularly beasts, with a good attend-
ance of buyers, yet there was a decline in the price of beef.
Mutton, bd to &I per lb ; Beef, bs 6d to Gs per stone.—
Bolle-s, 600 ; Sheep, moo.
LIVERPOOL, JULY 22—We have not to notice any
change in the cotton market this week. Our last quotations
have been maintained. The Bengali have been taken for
export, and about 1.000 Bowed and Orleans on speculation.
The imports are—Stained Sea Island, 0243 ; Alabama',
1744; Bengal, 867—Total, 17,104.
MANCHESTER TIMES, July 23.
TosPEasttei SectETT..— On Wednesday evening, a
meeting was held in the parish church school, Bolton, un-
der the sanction and patronage of the vicar, for the purpose
of establishing a temperance society for this town and
neighheurbood. About one hundred persons, ebietly of the
higher and middle classes attended. We also observed a
few ladies in the company. The vicar, who was um'.
meanly called to the chair, briefly stated the object for
which they were called together; after which John Mackay
Wilson addressed the meeting at great length; he pointed
out in a forcible and eloquent manner, the dreadful evils
arising from intempenwee and the u'c of ardent spirits; he
also satisfactorily combatted the plausible objections of the
admirers of a social glass. and slimed that all drunkards
were once temperate; he ridiculed ths idea that ardent spi.
rita taken even to moderation were osonnely to produce fie-
snipe mirth and hilarity. The spoiler then refuted the
really received notion that dm b inspiration in the
bawl, and proved that our cost 1111kbelial pas bed pro-
duced thosr works which asw , names
when under a far different thit efedinced
by ardent spirits or int
In coccquascs of the Iwitll et Shosipm_al dop Mahn
seemed detennhsed on ineskinganivir MEW NOW
are daily engaging fresh hands the,
country toSvirnitso, on their Et rWirfils pro.
vided with I s near the pit, in out- sad other
buildings II up for their impels& A of those
men from the seighbouthcod of Asboosi, bow been for some

weeropsst, regularly escorted by the misters on horseback
to from their homes, on the Saturday and Sun-
day evenings, in a coach. and on parsing through the
Itown to and from the Hunt Clough Colliery on these
occasions, they have frequently been annoyed by the
working elapses on the road. On Sunday last, as they were
returning to their work as usual in the coach, attended by
some of the masters on horseback, they were assailed in
their progress by a crowd of persons going down West-
street, who saluted them with stones and the jingling of
pans, &c. The spectators were very soon increased to thou-
sands, who surrounded the party. In this situation they
were pelted with missiles, the the military. consisting of
horse and foot, with a magistrate, utived. Several persons
were run over by the horses ; a lad named Wood, and a girl,
were dangerously bun; the military conducted the masters
with their men in safety to the colliery, (where the men
were lodged in their usual manner, under the care of the
civil powers), and then proceeded on the road towards Mid.
dleton, followed by the people, for the purpose, it is said,
of escorting some new hand. who were coming in that direc-
tion to the collieries. They returned to the town about
dusk, attended by thousands of people, who peaceably dis-
persed to their homes.
The number of Christian congregations who dissent from
the establishment, is 6,500. In London and Middlesex
there are about 270 congregations not connected with the es-
tablishment. In Wales there are 1,059 episcopal churches
and chapels, and about 1.000 churches of other denomina-
tions. There are probably in England, Scotland, and Ire-
land, not including the Doman Catholics, not less than eight
thousand congregations of dissenters, which build their own
places of worship; which sustain their own ministers,
and support their own colleges, to the number of nearly

twenty.
It has been ascertained that there are in the kingdom up-
wards of 10,000 Sunday schools, containing 1;500,000 scho-
lars, under the superintendence of 10,000 conductors and
teachers, whose services arc given gratuitously. All thh has
been accomplished since their establishment, 50 years ago.
It is supposed that there are about 30,000 children taught'
in the schools in this town, and that there are yet from
20,000 to 30,000 children, the proper objects of these bene
volent institutions, who are at this moment allowed to
grow up without restraint, in ignorance and vice, which
lit is the interest of the !public at large to restrain and

educate.
Mr. Detro'ier last week delivered a lecture in Hudders-
field on the instruction of the people in moral and political
duties. The sum of 51. was cleared by the lecture, and ge-
nerously paid over to the family of the teacher of the infant
school in that place, who died very suddenly a few weeks
ago. We understand that 31r. Detrosler will deliver, anticr
very effective patronage, a similar lecture in this town.
(In the 12th inst. the roof of Woodcburch, near Dews.
bury, suddenly fell, and buried the nave, pulpit, peas, &c.
in the ruins Time had impaired the roof, and some men
had gone up to examine and restore it; but just as they com-
menced removing the slates, the whole roof fell in with an
astounding crash, but we are happy to state that no perbons
sustained injury. The walls are so shaken by the concussion
that they must be taken down.
EXHIBITION OF FRUITS, Exc.—The Manchester 80.
tanical and Horticultural Society, for the exhibition of
fruits, vegetables, and exotic plants, held their second exhi-
bition on Monday last, and fully realised the expectations
which the excellence of their first meeting had given rise to.
The specimens of fruit were very fine, particularly the
Ellsent by T. J. Trafford, Esq. the pines by It. Potter,
.etlf Smedley, and the peaches and nectarines by his grace
the Duke of D.monshire, the latter especially were deemed
particularly fine, not only on account of their sire and beauty,
but because upwards of forty dozen of the peaches had been
gathered from one treee, and thirty-three and a half dozen
of the nectarines from another. Many of the plants also
were splendid specimens, amongst which a gkwiosa supaba,
which is not without difficulty bloomed in perfection, a cal.
=lark bicolor, and many of the ericas and geraniums were

very conspicuous.
The turnout of Messrs. Ciott's weavers still continues,
without the slightest indication, either from masters or men,
of its termination.—Leeds
We hear (says the Leeds !Wallower) that an eminent
mercantile house at Hull has suspended payment.
DEsTancTivz Flax.—Last night (Wednesday) soon
after ten o'clock, a new factory belonging to Mr. T. Fern-
ley, jun. called ', the Weir Mill," was completely destroyed
by tire, and of all the modern and valuable machinery
which it contained not a vestige was rescued from the de-
structive element. The fire originated in the boiler-house,
by the rising of sparks from the boiler fire, and igniting with
Nome " pain" or hemp which washung there to dry, It
communicated with the blowing room above, and, after-
wards by a short wooden gallery, to the factory, by which
there is a connection. Immediately after the alarm was
given, the engines were on the spot ; but notwithstanding
the efforts of the firemen, so rapid was the conflagration,
and so overpowering the beat, that, after an unavailing la-
bour of nearly an hour, it was deemed prudent to direct their
attention to the adjoining premises of Messrs. Marsland
and Son, printers, which were, by that time, placed in the
greatest imminent danger, and only by the well-directed ex-
ertions of the firemen was that property miraculously pre-
served ; though had the wind blown from the west instead of
the south-east, not all the efforts of man could have saved
it. By half past eleven all the flans were consumed; and
by twelve the west-front wall, six stories in height and forty
yards long, fell with a tremendous crash into the river. The
property was only in part insutad, and the loss to Mr. Fern
cannot be less titan 12,0001. that to the fire office (the
mix) a respectable agent for which was on the spot the
whole of the night, will be about 6,0001. The scene which
ibis mans of fire exhibited for about two hours, beggars all
description, and the desolation which the light of day
brought to view with it, is beyond the power of our pen
sufficiently to illustrate; added to which from 260 to 300
men, women, and children, have been deprived of the means
of providing for their livelihood.
The above is front the Stockport paper, but we have been
informed that the burning down of the factory is mainly at-
tributable to the bad state of the fire-engines. On the arrival
of the engines, OW of them was not in a state for working,
being minus the jet pipe; another had a bursted pipe; and
the conductor of the engines was out of town.
Mr. Alarshall Williams, in a letter to Mr. Prentice the
editor, says that the reforms wanted are—universal suffrage,
vote by ballot, and one-year parliaments ; the reduction of
all useless places at home and abroad; the cancelling of all
pensions; the total reduction of the standing army; the
cancelling or sponging out of the national debt, contracted
to support an unjust, unnecessary war, at a scandalously
usurious tate of interest—the value of the paper advanced
for the national debt was about forty-right pounds ID gold
for each hundred pounds of debt contracted, and the nation
have repaid site sum advanced in the excess of legal interest,
and in equity the debt may be considered as paid. Reforms
in .he administration of the laws—all the trumpery of the
hierarchy—pluralities and tithes must cease ! These reforms
must be speedily obtained, and your representatives must be
bound by an oath to effect them in the first session of par-
liament.

—itinErrzcn, Jut: 23.—The supply of fresh wheat at
our market is very small, and has been taken off readily at
an advance of Is to 21 per quarter. The weather continuing
unsettled, we have more life in granary samples, the best of
which have obtained a similar improvement, but inferior
sorts are still neglected. Marling oats and shelling fully
support last week's rates, with a fair demand. Beans and
other articles remain steady. Wheat, per quarter, 601bs per
bushel, Norfolk and Suffolk, red, s 640 to 70s. Ditto,
white, 60. 66s to 745. Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, red,
57s 6ds to 675. Ditto, white, 580 64s to 70s. Foreign,
red, 62s 60s to 70s. Ditto, white, Sds 651 to 725.
MARRIED.-111r. Wm. Townley, eldest son of the
Rev. James Townley, D. D. to Eliza, eldest daughter of
Barnabas Madden, Esq.—At Bolton, Mr. Richard Cooper,
druggist, of Bolton. to Eliza, eldest daughter of Thomas
Timaites, Esq. of Sharples...—At Glossop, Mr. Thos. Slack,
surgeon, to Anne, daughter of John Kershaw, Esq. Glos•
sop dale.
DIED.—On the 16th instant, after a long and painful
illness, Elisabeth Brook Boyle, 26, only daughter of Mr.
John Hoyle, late of Stockport—ln MaskeU-street, 22,
Elisabeth, daughter of the late Mr. John Heywood.

A considerable bet was decided on Wednesday,
at Steventon, on which occasion the following
extraordinary feat was performed :—Joseph Smal-
bone, a blacksmith, carried, at once, three sacks
of wheat, each weighing 12 score, and Alder, the
fiddler, rode on the top, playing his violin, the
distance of ten yards. Benjamin Belcher, landlord
of the Crown, carried two sacks and the fiddler.
Smalbone's load could be very little short of nine
hundred pounds. The bet was that the two should
carry half.a load of wheat. on their backs at the
same tinie. Chmick.