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London, England, 1831-06-11 00:00:00

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PLYMOUTH AND DEVONPORT JOURNAL,
JUNE 7.

The question which has so long been in dispute as to the
right of electing the aldermen of this borough, via. whether
it be exclusively in the aldermen themselves, or in the com-
monalty or freemen at large. is now likely to be determined,
as on Tuesday, the 31st May last, Mr. Sergeant Merewe.
thee. moved for and obtained a rule, calling upon Messrs.
John Smith, Richard Freeman, and Wm. Henry Hawker,
to show cause why an icformation in the nature of a quo
warranto should not be filed against them, to show by what
authority they claim to be aldermen of the borough, ou the
ground that they were elected by the aldermen only, and not
by the mayor and commonalty.

PORTUGUESE EMIGRANTS.--We regret to state that
the Funds for the relief of these unfortunate sufferers are
nearly exhausted, and that the Committee have found it ne-
cessary to make an appeal to the public in their behalf. We
trust that, for the sake of the national honour (and even for
the sake of the precedent the circumstance will establish) we
shall not inflict on ourselves the degradation of allowing
them to be thrown on the Poor Rates.

Through the kindness of the Overseen of the Poor, we
are enabled to lay before our readers the following General
Statement relative to the Population of this Town.
RETURNS FOR 1831.
St. Andrew's. Charles.
nousEs Inhabited - - 2,084 4387
Uninhabited - 188 115
Building . - 223 91
FAItILIES _ - - • • 4,390 2 829
_ -$

Employed in Agriculture 103 70
In Trade, Manufacture, &c. 1,800 1,077
AU other Families - 2,423 1,682
ItmtszTAwrs - - - . 18,819 12,179
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8,189

Females - - . 10,710 6,870
AI ar.ts upwards of 20 years . . 4,160 2,763
The total population of this town is therefore 31,088 in.
habitants, being in ten years an increase of 10,000 persons.

We have been ramped Oh the fa/lowing statement of
the Population Returns for the Parish of Stoke.Damerel.
Inhabited Houses - - - 3,194
FamUies . . - - 8,312
Houses building - - " 120
Houses uninhabited - - 90
empi?yed '

Families in Agriculture - 83
Do. employed in Trade, Manufactures, &c. 3,486
All other Families -
- 4,764
FMalesemaFemales. • . - 16,817
- 19,408
It thus appears that the number of inhabitants in this
parish in 36,08.., and the increase since the census of 1821
is only about 2,000.
AFFRAY WITH SISUGGLERS.-011 Tuesday morning
• last, Mr. Feet, Chief Officer of the Preventive Station at
Cawsand, lodged In the Customs Warehouse at this port 46
kegs of brandy and graves, which were captured in the pre-
sence of a party of smugglers at half.past 11 o'clock on the
previous night at Sheviock. The force of the smugglers was
apparently about 30, but in consequence of the hour this
could not be exactly ascertained, nor their persons identified.
31r. Foot and four men called on them to surrender the kegs,
and alternately employed persuasion and threats to prevail
on them to do so, but die smugglers set them at defiance,
challenged Mr. Foot and his men, and swore vengeance on
them if they made any attempt at capture. They were
armed with bludgeons. and on Mr. Foot's proceeding to seise
the kegs they made a sharp resistance. Mr. Foot, his son,
and his three men (a fifth being left in charge of the boat)
then fired several times on them, and it is probable from the
number of shuts that several smugglers must have been
wounded ; one, Mr. Foot apprehends. must have been killed,
as it appeared to him that the ball entered his mouth, and he
dropped.
CASTLE OF URETER, JUNE 3.—The time of the Bench
was occupied upwards of three hours this day in investi.
gating a charge. instituted by the Excise, against 111 r. E. S.
Bore, maltstsr, of St. Thomas. It appeared from the evi.
dence of the Excise officers, that a cistern, containing
93 o.loths bushels of grain, is the process of maltirg, had
been turned out into a couch. On examination of therbzleez
in the couch, it appeared to have been illegally compe
Having this suspicion, the officers returned the barley, after
which, again measuring it, they found it to produce 101
bushels 0 10ths, being six per cent. of an increase upon the
quantity anticipated by the law.
Orders have been issued from the Home Department to
the overseers of the poor in (heat Britain and Ireland, to
make returns of the number of houses, or houses and land
held together, in their respective parishes, rated to the poor
rate at 101. and epwards, stating whether the rate is made
on the full rack rent, or on what portion of it." The num.
bet of houses in the parish of St. Andrew, rated as above,
is 1398, and in that of Charles 1039. The rate on houses
is made on cite half. and on lands at three.fourdis the rack
rent or annual value.

We regret to say that Major W. 11. Snowe. of the Royal
Marines, was thrown from his horse, when attending the
Review at Chadian', on the King's birth-day, and received
such serious injury hat lie died at 6 o'clock, on Thursday
morning last.
An inquest was held on Tuesday last, by Mr. Robins,
in the absence of 111 r. Squire, tht" Cowrie' fur the Borough,
ou view of the body of Lieut. James Alexander Philipps,
R.N. It appeared that on Sunday morning last, the de-
ceased, who was Meson of Capt. Philips, R.N. residing at
Ton• House, near this town, left his falhet's residence early
in the morning for the purpose of bathing, and that in the
act of swimming, on his return towards the shore, he sud-
denly became exhausted and sunk to rise no more, but as a
lifeless corpse.
A steam vessel has been laid down at Chatham, to be
named the Pheenix ; she will be propelled by a steam-engine
of no less than two hundred and fifty horse power. The
length of her dcck will be one hundred and thirty seven feet,
and her breadth thirty-two feet ; and she is intended to
throw shells of ten inches in diameter.

PARTICULARS OF THE MURDER OF CAPTAIN Lo•
OAK, BY THE NATIVES AT 111011ETON Bay.—(From
the Sydney Casette, November 18,1830.—Captain Logan,
of the 57th regiment, Commandant of Moreton Bay, had
for sonic time been diligently employed in surveying that
part of the territory, and executing a chart for the public
service. His labours baring been nearly compleied, he left
the settlement on the 18th ultimo to make his final survey,
and which, alas, proved to be final in the most awful sense
of the word. He was accompanied by a boat's crew and one
private servant. On the morning of the fatal day, v. hen they
had reached about 70 miles from the coast, a group of natives
made their appearance, and manifested an unfriendly feeling
towards the party ; in the afternoon, however, the lamented
Commandant ordered his horse, saying lie should take a
solitary ride, and return to the encampment in time for
dinner. The party respectfully remonstrated with him
against venturing alone, the natives having shown so menac-
ing a disposition in the morning ; he laughed, anti said lie
had often encountered them in the bush, and ha l more than
once frightened them by presenting an empty bottle instead
of a pistol. Full of spirita, and a stranger to fear, he rode
oaf—never to return. The afternoon wore away, the
shades of evening came on, the darkness of the night set in—
but no appearance of the Commandant. After a night of the
strongest anxiety and alarm, the party proceeded at day-
break in quest of their unfortunate master ; but having
spent the whole day in fruitless search, they hastened bade
to the settlement, and reported the mysterious circum-
stance. Not a moment was lust. Capt. Clunie instantly
dispatched several parties in the direction moat likely to
lead to the desired discovery, with orders to scour the bush
with the utmost minuteness. 011 the fifth day one of these
parties descried a saddle hanging from the branch, of a tree,
the stirrup leathers of which had been cut away. It proved
to be the nne on which the Commandant had travelled ;
and on examining the earth, it was discovered that the sad-
dle had been trailed along, leaving marks of its course upon
the surface' fhese maths they proceeded to trace. and in a
short time found the Captain's waistcoat, much stained with
blood, and his pocket compass anti other instruments seat-
tered abou' and much broken. Pursuing the marks, they
at length came to the lifeless body of the horse, and a little
further on discovered the mangled remains of the murdered
Commandant, loosely covered with leaves and earth, the
feet protruding and woefully mangled by the native dogs.
PLYKOUUTH COIN RETURN, JUNE 7. Average—
Wheat, 74s 7d ; Barley, 31s lid; Oats. 29s 541.
Currency—Wheat, 62s to 765. Barley, 39s to 37. Oats,
21s to 32s 9d.

The sales of English wheat during this and the preceding
week, have been so extremely limited, they preeludz us of-
fering any comment on the state of the markets for such
description ; but in foreign the transactions have been more
extensive than for many years past, at prices more favour.
able to the factors than we last reported. In Barley there
was little doing—the malting season, from the warm state of
the weathei, is generally closed. The quantity of oats dis.
posed of was to consumers in moderate quantities, for home.
diate consumption.
MARRIED.—Mr. J. Richards, surgeon, of Looe, to
Miss Rogers, daughter of P. Rogers, Esq.—R. Marshall,
Esq. M.D. Surgeon, R.N. to Satoh, eldest daughter of D.
Major, Esq. of Hythe.--At Southampton. G. Irving Scott.
Esq. to Louisa Jane, third daughter of Vice-Admiral Scott.
—Joseph Sanders, Esq. to Emily Mary, only daughter of
Capt. F. Stanfield, R.N.
DIED.—Mr. Atkins, schoolmaster, Market.street, Stone.
house, aged 37.—At East Emrna.place, Stonehouse, Charles
Isbell, Esq. surgeon.—At Paton, Capt. Pellowe, Royal
Navy, 67.—[n London. Mr. C. S. Gilbert, formerly of De-
vonport, and author of " Gilbert's History of Cornwall."—
Mr.
lackay, late Master's Assistant of H.M.S. Windsor
Castle.—At Coates, Sussex, Lieut. T. King, R.N.—ln Ox.
ford place, Jane, wife of the Rev. Edward Beauchamp, St.
John, A.M.

BLACKBURN GAZETTE, JUNE 8.
OLDHAM SPorxEns.—Symptoms of dissatisfaction be.
twist the master spinners and their workmen, are every week
becoming more apparent. One master gave notice of a re-
duction of his prices a fortnight before Whitsuntide, and on
Saturday last the hands, 110:01 ding to previous arrangement,
informed him that his terms would be acceded to. On
Monday they went to work as usual, and continued until
the dinner hour; after which, they sent him word that they
could not return to their employment at his prices, and the
whole of them have since remained out of work. If a re-
duction of prices should become prevalent, we fear a general
turn-out may be expected.
TIE LATE Mu. ASHTON OF HYDE. The Magis-
trates, Capt. Clarke, Mr. Brierley, and Mr. Wright, have
been engaged the whole of the week on the examination of
Thorou Trotter, the tailor, who was accused by the convict
Jones, of bertha murdered the late Mr. Thomas Ashton,
of Hyde. The examinations were strictly private, so much
so that the legal adviser of the accused, Mr. John Stanfield,
was refused admission. The lad Jones, in his subsequent
examination, implicated two other persona named Barnes
and Smith, who it was satisfactorily proved were at other
places at the time the murder was committed. Trotter ap-
peared to be much more composed in his mind at ever y sub-
segment examination, and every exertion was made by hiq

sttainey to furnish evidence an alibi, which, be Waal**
sacmded In doing, to the satisfaction of the magistrates,
and the injured man was discharged.
MONIIMENt TO TIM MaairOaT OT LATE R 0621
HALT Laloll9 11411...-011 Thursday noon, a OUOtaralla and
highly respectable meeting of the friends of the late Mr.
Leigh was held in the Court House, Leeds, " to consider
the propriety of erecting to his memory a monumental re.
cord of the high estimation in which he was held," when
the Rev. Richard Fawcett, M.A. Vicar, was called to the
chair. A series of resolutions was passed, a committee ap-
pointed for carrying them into effect, and a subscription
was entered into.

ENGINES WI TIM RAIL-ROAD.—A new engine was
started on the rail-way on Wednesday last, called the
" Phenix," which took twelve s with it, containing
upwards of three hundred persmctisirortinarat one period went at
the rate of about eighteen miles an hour. It was made at
Messrs. Crook and Dean's foundry, in Little Bolton, and
Is extremely simple in its construction. On Thursday, a
new engine called the " Union," made at the Union Foun-
dry, by Messrs. Hick and Bothwell, was also tried, and
took a party of gentlemen to Newton races. It Is con-
structed upon a very much improved principle, especially as
regards the arrangement of the boiler and steam reservoir.
On Saturday week, the Mayor received a letter from Lord
Melbourne, the Secretary of State for the Home Department,
expressing his Lordship's extreme dissatisfaction with the
accounts which had been forwarded to him of the extraordi-
nary transactions in question, and insisting upon having a
more full and complete account of them immediately for-
warded to the Home-Office.--The ringleader of the mob has
since been apprehended ; and underwent an examination on
Monday, when he was committed to Lancaster Castle for
trial. About 30 of the rioters are now in custody; and the
town is perfectly quiet.
POPULATION OP BLACKBURN.-13,005 males; 14,086
females ; 4,594 houses, inhabited by 5020 families; 5 houses
now building ; 208 houses uninhabited. The increase of
population during the hat ten years is 5151.
'fha present population of Great Bolton is 28,425, and of
Little Bolton, 12,860, being an increase of inhabitants in the
two townships since the census of 1021, of 10,000.
POPULATION or STOCYPORT.—The Census for this
township has been taken, and the increase over that of 1821
is much less than has been looked for. The increase in ten
years being only 3723. The returns are, males 12,223;
females 13,216 ; total 25,449.

BLACKBURN MARKET, JUNE I.
Flour, fine, per pack 2401bs ..43s Od to 44s Od
Do. superior, ditto 46 0 to 47 0
Do. per liana of 1961b5..
Oatmeal, per load .... ...... ......35 0 to 37 0
Potatoes, per 10ad.... 7 0 to 8 0
Fresh Butter
Firkin ditto
PRESTON MARLIT.

Oats, per bushel of 451bs :11 Od to 4s Od
Wheat, per windle of 220 lbs Od to 33s Od
Flour, fine, per pack of 240 lb. .. 401 Od to ZlOs Od
Ditto seconds do. ... 30s Od to 32s Od
Oatmeal, per load of 240 lbs ... 38s Od to 41s Od
Potatoes, per load tie Od to 5s 6d
MARRIED.—J. Cheetham, Esq. of Staly-bridge, to
Miss Emma Reyner, daughter of the late Reyner, Esq.
of Bank Top, Asliton.under-Lyne.—Mr. Baldwin, to Isa-
bella, only daughter of the late 51r. Hargreaves, of Primit
Bridge, near Colne.—Mr. Richard J. Masher, -of Liver.
pool, merchant, to Miss Mary Ann Constantine.—At Snaith,
Thomas Bradley, Esq. Mayor of Richmond, to Mist More-
house, of Stoney Bank, near Huddersfield.
DlED—Harriett, youngest daughter of the late G. A.
Lee, Esq. aged 22, of Manchester.--At Mount Pleasant,
near Liverpool, Roger Anderton, Esq. 74 —At Hallam
Tower, Sarah, wife of George Smith Wilson, Esq. 40.
On Monday last, aged 80, Mr. George Pickup, of Rawten.
stall, ner.r Haslingden, only brother of the late Mr. Robert
Pickup, of this town.—GB, John Bateson, Esq. Bailiff of
Clitheroe-65, Mr.. Dunderdale. of Grimsargh-84, J.
Birley, Esq. of Kirkhain.— At Kirkham, 54, Mr. Pater.
son, of Walton.