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

DUMFRIES COURIER, JUNE 7.

WeirrEiravEw.—On Monday, in pursuance of a notice
giver. by a handbill issued by the aggrieved party, a public
meeting was held at the Black Lion, "to consider the pro-
priety of presenting a memorial to the Lord Chancellor and
the Lord Lieutenant of the county, praying for a more effi-
cient magistracy for the towns. Mr. Isaac Litiledale was
in the cbair, who briefly opened the proceedings; and the
subject of the disturbances was afterwards discussed by Mr.
Hartley, Mr. George Harrison, Captain Robertson Walker,
Mr. Milham Hartley, Mr. Hoston, Mr. John Gibson, Mr.
R. Barker, ten. and Mr. IL Barker, jun. The topics of this
discussion are all included in the resolutions.

That this meeting views, with the highest Indignation, the
proceedings which took place In the town on Saturday last,
when a party of gentlemen peaceably assembled at the Black
Lion, to celebrate the King's birth-day. was stacked by an
infuriated mob, cousisting wholly or principally of colliers
and other workmen in the employment of the Earl of Lens-
dale. excited by a quantity of ale and spirits, previously dis.
tributed to them, and encouraged by a display of yellow
flags, the drums and fifes of the Cumberland militia, by
whom the doors and windows of the house were demolished,
and several of the party considerably injured.
That all the Magistrates acting for the town and neigh-
bourhood being the decided partizans of one political party
(one of them being the person by whom the ale was given
to the mob, and another having been seen driving through
the midst of them with a lady, who encouraged thus; by the
waving of a yellow handkerchief), neither protection nor
justice can be expected by those of the inhabitants who enter.
lain different political opinions.
That although the rioting and disturbance In the town
continued several hours, yet no effort was made by any of
the magisttates to suppress it, nor have any measures been
since adopted by them to discover and punish the offenders.
That it is absolutely necessary for the preservation of the
peace of the town, and the protection of the persons and pro-
perty of the respectable inhabitants, that some independent
gentlemen, of character and property in the town and neigh.
bourhood, should be appointed to the magistracy.
Scorca ERPRESENTATION.—The elections are et last
concluded, except for Orkney, where the return of Mr.
Trail, the former member, and a friend to reform, is certain.
The result is, that the boroughs return eleven reformers, and
four anti-reformers; and the counties (including Orkney),
thirteen reformers, and seventeen anti-reformers. From the
counties and boroughs. together, Scotland sends to the House
of Commons twenty.fvur members who will support the
ministerial bill, and 21 who will oppose it.
THE Caors.--We conversed yesterday with a distin.
guished agriculturist, while on his way home from what
Cobhett calls a "Rural Ride," in the comae of which he vi-
sited Mid-Lothian, Stirlingshire, with its Case of Falkirk,
Perthshire, with its Carse of Oowrie,and all the intermediate
counties, as far as Inverness. Wherever he went his atten.
tion was directed to the progress of the crops, and the state
of agricnlture within the district, and we rejoice to find that
his report, considering the late drought, is fully as favour.
able as could have been expected.
door. blattxcv.—We received on Wednesday last a
letter from Liverpool, of which the following is a copy :
I beg leave to advise for insertion in your Paper, and for
the information of the farmers in your neighbourhood, that
black-faced tail wool is rather dull of sale at 7s to 7s 3d per
stone of 24 lbs. Parcels of laid cheviot base sold at 12s per
stone, and Leicester fleeces at 8d or 9d per lb."
GLasaow, J vex I.—Oats have been in good demand ;
and have advanced is. per boll. Other kinds of grain steady.
Wheat, British, old, per 2401ba .. 34s to 36s
Do. new, a boll .. 28s to 31s
Canada, free als to 33s

Irish .. .. ... 28s to 31s
Oats, Irish of 26111;s .. ... 21s to 234

Britisvh, do. ...
... .. 245 to 245

We accidentally met the other day, in an ex-
ceedingly ancient manuscript bundle of papers, deposited in
the British 'Museum, the following curious epitaph, said to
be inscribed on a plain marble stone, in memory of an eccen-
tric being who filled the office of postmaster to the town of
Salswedel, in the parish church of which place he was
buried :—" Traveller ! hurry not, as if you were going post
haste—in the mat rapid journey you must stop at the post.
house ! Here repose the bones of Mathias Schuhen, the
most humble and most faithful postmaster for upwards of 25
years, of his Majesty, Frederick King of Prussia. He ar-
rived 1655 ; by holy baptism he was marked on the post.
map for the celestial land of Canaan. He afterwards tra-
velled
with distinction in life's pilgrimage, by walking
courses in the schools and universities. He carefully per.
formed his duties u a Christian, and when the put of mis-
fortune came he behaved according to the letter of divine
consolation. His body, however, ultimately being enfeebled
he waa prepared to attend the signal given by the post of
death, when his soul set off on her pleasing journey for Para-
dise, the 2d of June, 1711, and his body afterwards was
committed to this silent tomb. Reader, in thy pilgrimage
be mindful of the prophetic post of death !".

SCIVTILLA.

ON THE VIEW FROM ST. LEONARD'S.
The following is an extract froth the beautiful poem of
Mr. Conophell, in the Aftfropolilas Magazine:

Yet, potent Sea!
How placidly thy moist lips speak e'en now
Along yon sparkling shingles. Who can be
So fanciless as to feel no gratitude
That power and grandeur can be so serene,
Soothing the home-bound navy's peaceful way,
And rocking even the fisher's little bark
As gently as a mother rocks her child !
The inhabitants of other worlds behold
Our orb more lucid for thy spacious share
On earth's rotundity; and Is he not
A blind worm in the dust, great Deep, the man
Who sees not, or, when seeing, has no joy
In thy magnificence ! What though thou art
Unconscious and material, thou canst reach
The inmost immaterial mind's recess,
And with thy tints and motion stir its chords
To music, like the light on Memnon's lyre!
The Spirit of the Universe in thee
Is visible; thou haat in thee the lifs—
The eternal, graceful, and majestic life—
Of nature, and the natural human heart
Is therefore bound to thee with holy love.
Earth has her gorgeous towns ; the earth.circling sea
Has spires and mansions more amusive still_
Men's volant homes that measure liquid space
On wheel or wing. The chariot of the land,
With pain'd and panting steeds, and clouds of dust,
Has no sight.gladdening motion like these fair
Carteret', with the foam beneath their bows.
Whose streaming ensigns charm the waves by day.
Whose carols and whose watch.bells cheer the night,
Moor'd as they cast the shadows of their masts
In long array, or hither flit and yond
Mysteriously, with glow and crossing lights,
Like spirits on the darkness of the deep.

In the recently published volume of the Life and
Correspondence of Pr. Isaac Desire. we find the following
passage in a letter from his wife to him, whilst he resided
at Rome, where he had been away from his family a consi.
derable time Our four children hears present there
dutty to you. John very much desires to see his father, for
he says he is gm to far as he thinke he knee not the way
bak, or eta he wants a hors."

es E OF A RED-HOT POKER.—During the
aattack made List week at Whitehaven by the colliers in
Lord Lonsdale's mines on the Refunners, while celebrating
his Majesty's birth-day, the gentlemen of the assailed party
did considerable execution among the assailants by coming
out into the street armed with red-hot pokers, which they.
remembering the example of Baillic Nicol Jamie, had pre-
pared within doors tor the purpose.
At the Essex anti-reform dinner, the Chairman,
after a eulogy upon the exertions of the clergy in the cause,
gave as a toast the health of " the Bishop of London and
the Clergy of the diocese ;" upon which the professional
singers—no doubt by previous arrangement—struck up the
celebrated glee of With a jolly full bottle," thereby casting,
as we think, an indecent slur upon a body of men, who in-
herit none of the vices of the monks of oh!. The Essex
Clergy, we think, may say, " save us from our friends."
The Albanese, like the modern Romans, pursue
their avocations out of doors ; even the attentions of courtship
arc carried on with amusing publicity at the house door ;
nr the Zitella, leaning out of a first-floor window, listen,
complacently to the loud and passionate pleadings of her
enamorato in the street below.

As UNWELCOME GUEST.—The Emperor of
Brasil has left his South American dominions for the pur-
pose, as some of the papers state, of commencing an attack
upon Portugal. The vessel in which his Majesty has sailed
is appropriately enough, named the Wasp. We have no
doubt if the king of Brazil's destination be, as above ru.
moulted, that the Wasp, u far as Don Miguel is concerned,
will not prove to be without " a sling in its tail !"
The celebrated Mary Campbell and her husband
have arrived in London, and are now residing with the Rev.
Edward Irving. This lady has, it seems, the gift of pro.
phecy and tongues ; but, unfortunately, neither she herself,
nor any one else, can interpret or understand the languages
which she speaks; the reason of which is said to be, that the
gift of tongues has been given, but not as yet the gift of it.
terpretation. We are of opinion that another gift is much
wanted in the same quarter, that is, the very rare gift of
common sense. Be this uit may, Mary Campbell and her
husband, as well as the rest of the prophets, are of opinion,
that they have a commission to preach the gospel to a certain
people, as yet unknown, who speak the language with which
they are miraculously gifted. They say they are now wait-
ing tor direction from the Loan on the subject, and are
therefore on their travels in quest of the unknown peeple.
One question we wish them to answer. Was ever a person
endowed with the gift of tongues, unable to understand
himself ?

MARRIAGE AT HUAIIINE.—A marriage has
just been solemnized here. Mr. Barff ofliciated as Minis.
ter. The bridegroom and bride were of respectable rank,
and several persons attended to witness the ceremony. This
commenced with reading a portion of Scripture from St.
Matthew's Gospel, concerning marriage. The young cou-
ple, who had first taken their seats on a bench in front of
the pulpit, the woman on the left hand of her intended
husband now stood up. The bridegroom was then directed
to take the bride's right hand in his own, and ar.swer the
question " Wilt thou take this woman to be thy wife, and
be faithful to her till death ?" Having replied "I will,"
the converse of the question was put to the bride, she, at
the same time, taking his right hand in hers, and answer-
irg "1 will." The missionary then told the congregation
that these two persona wore man and wife. A charge on
their mutual duties was addressed to them, and the cere-
mony wan concluded with prayer. The names of the par-
ties, with those of two witnesses, were then registered In a
book kept for that purpose. In all the island marriages
are performed in this simple manner, the bans having been
once previously published in the congregation to which the
families belong. When we came out of chapel we saw the
provision made for the wedding dinner. It consisted of a
large hog baked whole ; about GO baskets of bread-fruit and
cocoa nuts; many fishes of different kinds; unifies
(wooden dishes) containing papoi, a kind of pudding, and
other delicacies. The feast was laid out under an exten-
sive shed. Several hundred guests had been invited, and
it was expected that all the provisions would be consumed.
—Titernsann and Benneles Travels.
Tara CHEROKEE INDIANS. —The progress in
civilisation made by these people is altogether unexampled.
in site history of nations. The bulk of the people live in
=tive ease—many of them even hi high style. They
land, build houses and boats, and project improve.
ments. The education of the children is particularly at-
tended to, and religious instruction is gradually spreading
amongst them. The young Cherokees Instructed in the
Missionary Schools can write and read with facility ; a great
number of families are occupied with the manufacture et
wool and cotton for their own use, and also for exchange:
the wheel and loom are to be found ID almost every house,
and specimens of their work will bear comparison with the
best of the kind. The roads are attended to, and in good
condition, and one may travel in a carriage through all parts
of the country. They have abandoned their nomadic life
for domestic habits—they have exchanged the tomahawk and
ti.e carbine for the plouk,h, the hoe, and the loom. All these
advances in civilisation, which are extracted from the Couri, r
of the United States, are the more remarkable, because it was
thought that these sons of the forest could never be brought
to relinquish their natural inclinations.

. BIRTHS.
The 10th inst. at R. Knight's, Esq. Grosvenor.squart.
Mrs. Bolton King, of a son—At Camperdown, Ross.shm.
on the 4th inst. the lady of A. Duncan, Esq. /ombaS
dial establishment, of a son.

DIED.
At his residence, Blackwell, on the 9th inst. H. Frost.
Esq. of the East India Company's home establishment, aged
42—The 9th inst. aged 62, Jane, wife of 111 r. B. Capper. ot
Canterbury-place, Lambeth—The 9th instant, at his house
in Union-street, Southwark, W. Palmer, Esq. surgeon, 11
the 49th year of his age.

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