Star.
London, England, 1831-07-09 00:00:00

PANORAMA OF THE BRITISH

EMPIRE.

LEIC'ESTER CHRONICLE.
Puff paragraphs are making the round of the Papers at
this time in recommend:4ton of emigration schemes, origi-
nating in the l'otorit r and other ministerial Ludo') Papers;
hut the letters received from hundreds, who formerly have
been caught by these halo, prevent their taking In the mid-
land counties. They resemble the seducing squibs of re-
cruiting perjeanta.
Tuteuttir, RESEWED SZARCR TOR C01N0....-0/1
Monday afternoon, under the authority of the crown,
search was recommenced. Up to Tuesday evening,
' the quantity discovered was estimated at not more than
900. These were deposited u they were found, in a
kind of save-all under the orals of lord John Vernon, and

R. J. HarpuZ Esq. During the whole of Tuesday, the
bridge was crowded with people. No spirit of opposition
was evinced on the part of the former searchers. A troop of
hussars pasted through Derby on Sunday, on their route to
Tutbury. and are now stationed there. The search will con-
done till the crown authorities are satisfied no further disco-
veries can be made.
CORPORATE Pa OPtarr But...—Mr. Evans's bill on this
subject provides against the waste and dissipation of cor-
porate funds on elections of members of parliament. It
enacts that monies on personal property belonging to mu-
nicipal corporations, are not to be applied in or towards
parliamentary elections, and all bonds, &c. for securing
the same are to be deemed and held void. All payments,
&c. made for the purpose of inducing any person to exert
himself in parliamentary elections at • future time, to be
considered as expenses within the meaning of this act.
Conveyances or other dispositions of real property, for the
purpose of satisfying or secuting any expenses hereby
prohibited, to be deemed and held void. All votes and
other proceedings of corporations contrary to this act, to
be void. Corporate officers or others making any payment
contrary to this act, to make good and repay the amount or
value of money or personal property so misapplied. Any
number of freemen. burgesses, or corporator, are empowered
to bring actions fur all violations of this act, in the name of
the general body of the corporation ; and all mcmbrs of such
corporations who shall act contrary to the provisions of the
act, to be guilty of a misdemeanoar. and to he for ever
disabled from holding any office in such corporation. The
act only ex ends to England and Wales • but the abuses
here complained of ate as general in Ireland. and require
check as much.

The public schools in this town, to afford instruction to
the whole, or the greater part, of the children of the poor,
are St. Margaret's, St. Martin's, St. Mary's, St. George's.
the National, and Newton's, and the number of children
educated in them according to the Report of the National
Society for 1830, is as follows :—St. Ilargaret's, 110 boys,
50 girls; st. Slartin's, 150 boys, 80 girls; St. Mary's. 80
buys, 40 girls ; St. George's, 94 boys, 113 girls ; the Na-
tional, 284 buys, 102 girls; and Newton's may be esti.
mated at 100. Total 1203. The above schools are well
tilled, and many applicants are dismissed from want of &geom.
mudation. Tile population of the town, according to tie
census just concluded, may be reckoned in round numbers at
40,000. Is it reasonable to suppose, that in a place where
the poor form so great a proportion in the popolatioa as they
do in Leicester, that 1203 is the total number, or even the
greater part of the children, between the ages of seven and
tourtten, requiring education? 1 think it will be manifest
that six schools are very insufficient foe this purpose. The
system of religious instruction pursued, too, in these schools,
is exclusive. The children are taught the Catechism and
Tenets of the Church of England, and whether the offspring
of Dissenters or not, are required to go to church on the
Sabbath day.
At the Quarter County Sessions the following rural crime,
and severe us/tenet, is mottled :—Thomas Clark was in-
dicted for mil:king a cow at pasture, on the 2011 i of May last,
the_posperty 31f. T. Daniell The prosecutor, who lives
at &My, said that in consequence of having some suspicion
that his cows were milked, he and his son went to watch
under a hedge, on the evening of the lath of May. After a
short time the poisoner cause and milked a cow, and on his
return hem he delivered him into the hands of the con-
stabL' with a vessel containing about three pints of milk,
which he took from . John Darnell, son of the last
witness, corroborated this statement. The jury returned a
verdict of guilty, sod the prisouer was sentenced to three
months' bard labour.
Co a OWE11:11_ ISQUEsTI7-On Tuesday the 98th ult. as

inquest was held at Lyddington, before C. Hall, Rs+ one
of the Coroners for Rutland, on view of the body of Elisa-
beth Baldwin, aged 22, who, in a fit of despondency, occa-
sioned by unrequited attachment, with lora of service, de-
stroyed herself by taking poison, sad a verdict of Fels*.
Ise was recorded. The fate of this young woman excited a
strung interest In the neighbourhood, from the circumstance
of the mother of the unfaithful lover having procured for
the deceased the faithful potion (arsenic,) and whose after
conduct is supposed to have powerfully contributed to the
melancholy catastrophe.
About six o'clock on Tuesday evening, three men named
Smith, iVilliamson, and Slack, escaped from the Borough
Gaol. They had contrived to make an aperture in the wall
of the water-closet by means of some sharp instrument, suf-
ficiently large to admit a man's body, through which they
passed into the yard of Mr. Attetbury, cabinet-maker,
High-street, and got clear off before they were missed from
gaol.
On Wednesday, 21r. Riley, lace-maker, Loughborough,
breaking a hen's egg, found it to contain one of the waver
reptiles. commonly called a bull-head, the remainder of the
egg heong filled with spawn.
Wheat. 71s lld ; Rye, fits; Barley, 38s; Oats, 31s 6d ;
Beans. 445; Peas, 211%; Fine Flour, 644; Standard Wheaten,
62s to ; Household, 49. to 601; Quart= Loaf,
wheaten, 19d ; ditto, household, 94.
FELIX FARLEY'S BRISTOL JOURNAL.
BRISTOL COLLEGE EXAMINATION.OII NOM

Tuesday, and Wednesday last, the whole of the students un-
derwent a private examination, conducted on the Cambridge
plan, by written translations and answers to queetions in the
suhjec.* with which they had been occupied since the opening
et the College in January last. On Thursday, those who had
most distinguished themselves were publicly examined vies
race, by the Rev. W. I). Conybeare, the %leiter ; the Prin-
cipal and Vice-Principal, and the Head Marilee of the Junior
Department 4 some of the papers also which they had
written during the preceding day. were banded round to the
enmpany in their uncorrected state. The Theological and
Classical part of the public examination consisted in constru-
ing passages tram the Greek Testanient Pinder, !Bitchy.
lus, Plato, Atistortanes. Thucydides and Juvenal, and an-
'acting questions in them of precisely the same kind as are
usually proposed at the Universities. A junior student was
also examined in the blemorabilia of Ximophon. Some of
the subjects, viz. 'radius. Horace, Virgil's Georgics, So-
pbocles, Euripides, and Xenophon's Atiabasis' were nesse-
eerily passed over for want of time. Two of the students
were examined in Mathematics', one in plane and solid Geo-
metry, Algebra, Trigosaametry, the Differential and Integral
Calculus', and Mechanics, the other in place Geometry and
Algebia. Three were examined in Locke. One of the stu-
dans recited an excellent poem, which be had composed on
Belshazaar's feast ; another a translation into Greek lambics
of Hamlet's Soliloquy on Death.
A revision of die Bath and Bedminster District Corm
mittens or that ancient and excellent Society for Promoting
Christian Knowledge having been deemed expedient, a pub.
lie meeting of its members was held at %intim on Tues.
day last. The Report was read, by which it appeared that
the number of Bibles distributed by the Society in the
year ending April, 1830, amounted to—Bibles, 80.8481
Testaments, 60.818; Prayer Books, 148,212 ; Paaltent,
13.582, which, with the other books and tracts dispersed
by the Society, formed a total of 14114680. The distribu-
tion of the Bath Committee for the year ending April. 1831,
was—Ball s. 8111; Testaments, 1182; Prayer Books, 2,358,
and other books. to the total amount of NAM.
It was that clever wag, Brinsley Sheridan, who said of the
Ministers who lost him his snug birth of Treasurer of the
Navy, that the %Vidor,' always contrived to run their heads
against a vial. If such was their conduct in his day, what
could he bate said of the ingenuity of the present luckless
race, also out only perform the same feat, but themselves
build the wall expressly fin the purpose of running against it.
AIItkIVXD AT IVATT'S Singh. HOTWELLII.—Lady
George, Col. O'Grady, M.P. and Lady, Lleut..CoL Dwyer,
Captain and Mts. and Miss King, Captains Hill and John-
son, Lieut. Kclstionstone. kev. Dr. Austen, Rev. Mr. C.
Morgan and &Indy, Rev. Mr. Thomas, Mr. and Mrs. Alder;
111esers. 2 Williams, Stewart, Alder, Beamish, Shawe. R.
O'Grady, Grubb, Dillon, & N. Ward and two aces, Deane,
Phew, Macdonald, C. tie Lingle ; Mistresses Burly,
Crawford. Gibbon; Misses 2 Williams, Stewart, 2 Craw-
ford, 3 Gibbon.
MARRIED.—The Rev. Wm. Day, vicar of. that pariah,
to Nliss Jones, of Stapletou.—John Ley, Req. of Newton'
' Abbot, to Charlotte, only daughter of the late George
Catania, Bag. of blanaton.-- The Rev. Thomas Butler, of

Shrewsbury. to Fanny. third daughter of the late Philip J.
Woreeley.--At Uphill. Major Willies' Godley. to Mary
Anne. eldest daughter of Henry H Req. of Wells.
DIED—Mrs. „loan Harris, aged e.
81—lo Trinity-street,
M. Felix, Raj. M. D. aged 77.
MA NCNESTER TIMES. _

Since the opening of the branch of the Liverpool and Man-
chester Railway front Bolton, on the 13th inst. there have
been conveyed 1,546 passengers. The average receipts are
10,0001. per annum, and the effect is, that every stage coach
has ceased to run between Bolton and Liverpool. On Tues.
slAir week the number of passengers to Liverpool was 136.
patent has lately been taken out by Mr. Grime, en.
gYaver, of Bury, for an improvement on railroads, which is
likely to become of considerable public advantage, more
especially during the winter months. The object of the
patentee is to clear the rails from snow, hail, ice, or even
moisture. by constructing the rails hollow, and passing
steam, heated air, gas. or hot water through thtm, along
the whole length of road; keeping them of such a tem-
perature as to cause the snow, hail, &c. which may fall
on them, to melt, and run of in a liquid state, and any
moisture which would otherwise remain on their surface,
to evaporate. By this means, those obstructions to
the progress of the locomotive engines during the wintry
months will be removed; and in wet weather, during any
part of the year, the moisture on the rails (which from the
diminished traction, renders it difficult to propel heavily
laden carriages,) will be speedily evaporated, at a triffng
expenditure of fuel. To prove the practicability of the plan
• series of experiments (instituted by the patentee. under
the superintendence of Mr. Todd, an experienced civil en-
gineer, of 31anchester,) have been performed at Bury,
with iron pipes, varying in length, from 300 to 1100 yards,
and laid in a continuous line on the Bury and Manchester
road. One end of the line was attached to • small high
pressure steam boiler, belonging to Wood, cotton ma-
nufacturer, of ltedvales, from which the steam and hot
water necessary for completing the experiments were sup.
plied. The first trial was made with the steam at a pressure
of 35 lbs on the square inch, and with 300 yards of pipes;
at the farther exttentity of which (after heating the pipes)
the steam issued at a temperature of 210 degrees ; atmos-
phere 60 degrees. it pipe was then inserted in the boiler.
its lower extremity immersed in the water, and reaching
within a few inches of the bottom, and the other connected
with the line of pipes on the road, lengthened to half a mile.
The safety valve being weighted in 40 lbs no the square inch,
the pressure of the steam on its surface forced the water witty
considerable velocity along the whole line, front the extremity
of which it issued at a temperature of 150 degrees ; atmos-
phere as before. The line being extended to 1100 yards,
with the same pressure on the boiler, and the same atmos-
pheric temperature, the water was delivered at the farther
extremity at 100 degrees. The pipes being laid on the sur.
face of the road partook of its inequalities as well as of the
curves in the line : had not this been the case, and had they
extended in a right and level line, a much less pressure
would have effected the same results.

The Oldham Spinners' Turn-nut is becoming more ge-
neral, and in addition to the mills stated to be out last week.
those of Messrs. Radcliffe, ()reeves, and Mrs. Broadbent
and Sons, and Lees and Harrison's, have since turned out
against the proposed reduction of their wages. The number
of spinners now on the strike cannot be less than duce hun-
dred,
who must derive tl•eir support from the operatives still
at work, whose extra contributions to the union will greatly
curtail their earnings, and add to the general distress of the
trade. From one thousand to fifteen hundred hands are
already out of work, in consequence of their employment
being dependant on that of the spinners. l'be general trade
and business of the town is very much diininisb..ll by the
repeated collisions between the employers and employed,
and if some legislative measures be not speedily adopted, to
prevent the disastrous reductions of the laLourer's pittance
for his toil. the coca queucee will be ultimately fatal to aIL
The condition of the hand-loom weavers is deplorable and
distressed in the extreme, and a type of what the tuturc con-
dition of the other classes will be, if reduction upon reduce.
Lion.-ace in the weavers' case, has brought them to their
present condition—is to be taken from their already made.

quote wages.
The collier; who turned out last week at Rocker, against
some new hands, have resumed their work. Those at Hunt
Lane are still out. A number of new bands &Hived on Suns
day, in addition to those already engaged at the colliery.
No symptom of disturbance has hitherto been manifested.
Corps of military, horse and foot. are stationed in the town.
We have much pleasure in stating, that the locomotive
engine, the St. Rollos. belonging to the Garokirk and Glass
gow Railway Company, made a first or trial trip along the
whole line on Saturday. It went at great speed strums
many pans of the road ; and, upon the whole, performed
very much to the satisfaction of those who accompanied it.
NaTiraaL Cuamerry.—There is now in the garden of
Mr. Sharpies, of Harwich, a wasp's neat in a gooseberry
tree; it is in the form of a balloon, and has the appearance,
at a distance, of being covered with cloth. A sentinel wasp
is constantly on duty, at the entrance of the nest, who care-
fully teas:thee all corners. Then ate also three or four
other wasps on the top of the nests, who regularly take their
turn of duty. Some hundreds of spectatorshave called upon
Mr. Sharpies, to inspect this curiosity.
The following is a traveller's account of his exclusionist
the Rail Road :—We then took our places in the second
class coaches as they are called, though they are mushroom
like a large Newcastle coal waggon, with low sides
seats; and some of than having no doors and very /ow an
the sides, appear far from safe. Indeed. en this account,
our wonder is that there have not been many more accidents
than are recorded. It Wenn tome desirable that the waggons
sissuld be deeper to prevent persons who stand up, which is
very common front various motives, from being jerked eat.
It alto occurred to me. that the doors of all the osseliss
should be fastened by Nome sort of a spring-lawn. so as to
provost eat:molly their flying open or being improperly fast.
sued. The smoke and steam of the engine were generally
offessive, Wag mostly in a straight line over the passengers
hendiebsentil Sthasionally the iron tube vomited forth in its
Wits and pieces as large as up to the size of a
W Men.. by which several gentlemen in the second
wipe (sham twelve yards off the engine) suffered in
liernag their clothes burnt through: the writer had his
swisosst burnt in this way a hole of 1-inch by j-inch. I
should thine to remedy this. the first four or five coaches
should be covered at the top, and the that in the front,
otherwise, the last coaches are far the best. In all of them,
but especially in Most Dearest to the engine. the nurse Huai
the short stuttering of the steam is not pleasan.., and
which the rumbling of the wheels ut the coach not a little
increases. Fut the &slims up of passengers on the road,
the carriages am irequently interrupted, which to some
might not be agreeable, but to nit who was not in a hurry,
of no moment. This I untiersistid Cu not the case in
the first dais coaches, which must be decidedly the best,
and much to be preferred by all who do not mind the
extra w siding. On the whole, to men of business, the dis-
patch of either clams of coaches mum be very acceptable ; the
first going in an hour and a halt; and the second in two
hours. But, to people on journeys of health or pleasure,
not of so much mumente The price, at least on the second
class, say as. appeared to me too much, end I have eel),
little doubt that well managed and well ed coaches at is.
lid. or hr. outside, on the tatter road would obtain support.
I am nut sure. sheibsr I ought to say that I thought the
persons who attended the coaches did not appear to me very
intelligent or respectable. but l may be mistaken.
us Niw Buss BHA.—Has a bishop nothing better
to du than meddle with public houses? 'I he Bishops of
Bath and Wells (a very watery title) complains of the
new beer bill. " hurry third or fourth house in some
of douse towns" he attys. " is a beer shop, and the
greatest excesses are in consequence committed." There
can be nu such cmisequences. '1 be more situps the less
chance of rzcass4 s If every shop were a beer
shop, every man would be his us u cuatonier, and drink
his loser solitary and quiet in his own house. The
more situps tittle ate. me more the drinkera are di.
vided, and the excitement attending large tympanic*
is lessened. Lad Alluniesbury was for giving mag strums
cootroul of the houses. Aye. aye. the sweets of licensing
are out forgotten. Justice Greedy would be at his old trade
again. Lord Melbourn very tooltslrly observed, that in the
opinion ut the country generally, the bill had been perni-
cious. Fur the country generally, reed the cuoutry gentles
men; sad the remark is doubtless true. The squires are it
course dissatisfied with a trade that takes justice joubing out
of their hands. Consult attorneys shout law rowel ; the
proprietors of the noes (as Lord Althorp actually did),
about newspaper monopoly, and the stamp duties that create
it; smugglers about customs; and country gentlemen about
beer hills.
Sat t: IiDAT, June 2b.— I !relate large Import of grain and
flour front Imeign pans, with the fine prospect of tine home
crops, have great weight on the minds of the purchasers, as
all markets are reported on the decline ; in this the business
has been exceedingly light during the potent week, and
must articles in the corn trade have been offered oo lower
terms. We had a fair attenthuice of millers and dealers—
(but the Conner want very little wheat, the mills being not
o-e third employed) the show of samples was mot large;

COVENT-GARDEN NIARKET-THIS DAY.

his market was well attended this morning, and plea,
fully supplied with fruits and vegefabka. In the wbolmill
pastime 'market there was a plentiful supply of new potato
—fur old une• there is no demand, and they may be bootik'
at almost any price.

PRICES.
Peaches. lOs to 30% per &stn. Melons, Is to 2s plc.
Nectarines, lOst to 30s per dozen. Peas, Is to 2s per do
sieve. Cherries, 6d to is per ib. Strawberries, 6d Is
Is 6tl per prude. Raspbetries, 6d to IA pines, 61
12s per pound. Grapes, 2s 6d to 6s. Cescambamoddid
Is 4d per brave. Mushrooms, 2s 64 to 3 per wadi Ido
ker. Walnuts for pickling, 2% per hundred. Igoe 1'
Is per quaritru. *Gad Beans, 9d to Isld per Whigs
New Potatoes. Id to 3d per pound. Turnips, 3d Is dd
per bunch. l:strots, 4d to Ild. Cabbages, is to Is 6d PI
dozen. Cauliflowers, Is 6d to 4s per dozen. Horse Ito
dish. 4s to rls per bundle. Old Potatoes, is 6d to 34 U
per cwt.. Celery, Is to 2. per bundle. Lettuces, Is Id 31
per score Onions. 2d to 441 per bunch. Changer, 4s to 111
per 100. brims'', 4s to 10.. Altnoods, 76 per
Spanisb Nuts, 6s.

COUNTRY MARKETS.
Ussatass —Wheat per load (40 bushels) 14!. to 201. O'
Barley per qr. Ui to 555. Oats gas to &Ss. hero is
to 475. Pass sto —IL

Hamm. Hsaarsveao--Wltsat per t 0.4 (eve bustle.) 41
to 465. Beans 56s to vvs. Peas 26s to stk. Barley, Id
quarter, 32s to 36.. Oat% sith, to 32s
Hostroso— Wheat per gr. ats to 72.. Barley 301040
Oats 26s to 35$ Best's 561 to 445. Pees 38. to 4431.

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