Star.
London, England, 1831-04-01 00:00:00

PANORAMA OF THE BRITISH
EMPIRE.

CHELTENHAM CHRONICLE, MARCH
31.
A MI/11AM. Coloael and Miss Bromley, Colonel Broughton, Colonel
Dick, Lieut. Col. Bence, Lieut. Col. 8. Graves, Major and Mrs.
Sandy. and family. Major Kennedy, Major Snowpaul, Archdeacon
Probyn, Rev. Wm. Sitwell, Rev. Mr. Hamilton, Rev. J. W. Master,
Rev. Mr. Gresley, Rev. W. Trower, Rev. K. and Miss Symonds,
Captain Slade, Captain Hamilton, Captain J. Potter Macqueen, Captain
Mahon, Captain and Mrs. Kean, Captain Eatwell.
ASSEMBLY Roosts.—On the night of the 16th inst. the eve of St.
Patrick, a /stand military, naval, and fancy dress ball took place at this
splendid establishment, under the auspicious patronage of the Rt. Hon.
Lady Henry Murray, Rt. lion. Lady Rollo, Hon. Mrs. Ramsay, Lady
Burdett, Lady Pynn, Mrs. 011ney, Mrs. Colonel Crowder, and Mn.
Massie, assisted by the Friendly Brothers.
POOR RATES....-A correspondent informs us, that he has let an
estate in the county of Wilts, at a rental of 4001. per annum, the poor
rates of which amounted in the year 1830. to 1701. 1 ls. ld. There
cannot be a strooger proof of the increase of pauperism in that part of
the kingdom, than the fact that within the last twenty years, the poor
rates on the same estate only amounted to 481. per annum.
A GOOD Eisstruz—We have much pleasure in stating, that H.
C. Stunt, Esq. of Critchwell.house, Dorset, has appropriated a large
quantity of land to the support of poor families, in small lots of about
an acre to each.

CHELTINHAN, Thursday, March 24.—01 d What 9s 3d to:10s ;
Barley. 46 to Ss 6d ; Oats 4s to 4s 3d ; Beans 55 to 6s ; Beef per lb.
bd to 6d ; Mutton 5d to 6d ; Veal 5d to 6d ; Pork 3d to 6d. Bay,
31 to 31 13s 6d per ton. Price of Bread—Wheaten Ild ; Standard
Wheaten, 10d. Best Butter, I4d to 16d; Eggs, 16 for ls; Potatoes,
9d to Is per peck. Fowls per couple, 3s 6d to 4s ; Chickens do; Ducks•
do 5a 6d to 4s 6d. Rabbits per couple, Is 6d to 2s; Pigeons, each
6d to 9d ; Geese do 4s to 51. _ _

MARRIED.—By the Rev. F. Close, Dennis, Kingdom, Esq. of
Hatherleigh, Devon, to Miss Caroline Kiddell Hock.
DIED.—Mrs. Mitchell.—Same day, Mr. T. Wilkes, of Arle—Mr.
Seth Ritchen—Mrs. Stanton, a teacher of Poonah Painting and Ori.
ental Tinting in this town—Mrs. P. Brune, of St. James's-square—
Mr. J. Melcumber—At Newnham, Mrs. S. Averill, wife of Mr. G.
Averill—At Fairford, Mr. W. Wayne.
PAISLEY ADVERTIZER, MARCH 26.
At a general meeting of corn merchants, and others interested in the
repeal of the existing law of hypothec, in Paisley, James M‘Farlane,
Esq. in the Chair, the meeting unanimously approved of the following
petition to both Hostas of Parliament :
That the House of Lords have lately decided that a landlord, without
any public intimation of rent being due, may, long after grain grown on
his estate has been sold and delivered to a bona fide purchaser, and its
price paid to his tenant, compel that purchaser, either to restore the grain,
or pay its price a second time to him, though his tenant at the time of
purchase may have been perfectly solvent, unless that grain shall have
been brought in bulk to a public market, and there sold.
That the only method by which a purchaser can be protected from
the operation of this rule, is the enactment of a law, that when grain
bought bona fide by sample, shall be actually delivered, and its price
paid, the purchaser's right to the grain shall be declared complete, and
all farther liability for the price at an end. That were sales by sample
in this principle recognised, your petitioners cannot perceive that the
security of landlords, as in sales by bulk, would be at all diminished ;
for, in either case. that security would cease at exactly the same point,
the right of hypothec being good in both, until the grain had been ac-
tually
lodged at its place of destination, end the price paid.
That your petitioners have every wish that the Hypothec of Land-
lords should be preserved, but they cannot see why, in a commercial
country like this, and contrary to every principle of reason and justice,
it should be allotted to interfere so unfairly with the rights of bona fide
purchasers. For, if this law be not altered or ameliorated, all persons
who may purchase Grain from an Agricultural tenant, will, for their
own protection, be compelled to demand production of his landlord's
receipt, or other satisfactory evidence, that they will not be liable in re.
petition of the price ; a measure fraught with the most injurious effects.—
not only fettering and paralysing the sale of farm produce, but reducing
farmers to that degrading position, as must, in the end, be most severely
felt by the landlords themselves.
The subscribers to the public advertisement, from consideration of the
present law of hypothec ovor grain sold by sample, and from the per.
sonal losses many of us have sustained from its operation, have also in-
timated, that in time coining, it, long as the law shall continue in its
present state, we will not pay the price of any grain purchased from
farmers, without being put in possession of satisfactory evidence that
we will not be liable in restoration of the grain, or in any claim for re-
petition of its price, to the landlord.
The new iron gig, the launch of which we noticed a few weeks ago,
began to ply on Monday last. She is fitted up in a very neat and com-
fortable manner. /ler awning at once keeps out rain, and admits
light. When light she draws, exclusive of her keel, only six inches
of water. The weight of her hull, rudder, &c. was about lgewt. so
that when her furnishings are taken into account, it is supposed she
will not exceed 24 or 23cwt. She is on the whole a very neat little
vessel, and rejects much credit both on Messrs. Reid and Hanna, who
built her hull, and on Mr. James Boag of Johnstone, who fitted her
upper works. These gigs now make the passage between Glasgow and
Paisley quite regularly within the hour, and this increased speed ena-
bles then, easily to make an additional trip daily. So much satisfac-
tion are these gigs affording, that the building of another is already
commenced.

STEAM CAlRlAOE•—Considerable disappointment was experienced
in town on Wednesday, in consequence of Mr. Gurney's steam carriage
not being, according to previous exifcctation, exhibited in the Green.
It was, however, run several times round the Barrack Square in the
morning, in presence of a number of scientific gentlemen, several of
whom were hoisted on board, and whirled along at the rate of between
nine and ten miles an hour.

The Duchess de Berri left Edinburgh last week, in consequence, it is
said, of a desire expressed by Government that she should leave Britain.
CAUTION.-A mars of genteel appearance, who speaks English im.
perfectly, and who is supposed to be of the Hebrew race, has been
levying his contributions in town during the early pan of the week.
He pretends to have a rich bale of good* in some of the shipping offices
or carriers' quarters, which he is in want of money to relieve ; but to
show that he has no intention to impose, he pulls out some handker.
chiefs, which he states to be of great value, and which he is willing to
leave in pledge, and, as a farther proof of his honesty, he adds to them
his fine gold watch and seals. Would it be believed that any gudgeon
in these enlightened times would bite at this ? Yet such is the case.
A person in Shettdon took bait on Monday, and advanced six pounds.
It is needless to add, that he never again saw the Jew's face ; but, we
may add, the six pounds are not all lost. The two fine handkerchiefs,
and tt.e gold watch and seals, are expected to bring 16s. and the loss
will then not exceed five guineas. Another attempt was made by ?sloshes
at the West End, but it proved a failure ; the gentleman on whom the
attempt was made, beim, rather (told Jarrant for him. He went down
the river, we understand, on Wednesday last, and it is supposed he in-
tends a cruise in Greenock, but we hope our friends there will keep a
look out for him, and moor him, and his silk handkerchiefs, and his
gold watch, all on quarantine.
GUILT PRODUCES 511seue.—Shortly before the 19th January, a
Hibernian Swain fell in love with a decent, but, it is feared, a ne er
do-west damsel residing in one of the neighbouring villages. He, in.
dustrious and frugal, had made money—she, improvident and waste.
ful, spent all she could get. On the day above.named—by fraud as he
states—by favour as she states—she got possession of the key of his
chest, and the hard-won products of his thrift, consisting of 331.
in notes—three sovereigns—a gold ring or two—a brooch—new
shirts—new neckcloths, &c. &c.—all went at one fell swoop. To
Paisley she came, and in a short time " brawly was she buskit." On
the strength of her personal charms, her finery, and her wealth, she set '
off fur Glasgow to live a life of pleasure. But on the heels of guilt and
pleasure, says the austere moralsst, treads pain and remorse. A touch
on the shoulder by the finger of a police officer, and all her joys fled.
Her money ? spent ; her finery ? soiled; charms ? faded ; reputation ?'
gone ; hopes ? blighted ; fate ? a jail ; prospects ? trial ; sentence ?
judge not.
Rpm DROPEERS.-46 What a fine pearl necklace I ha'e fun' I" said
a girl in Lonewells, as she picked up one, a few paces before a draft
merchant, who was trudging along on ednesday last. " Ane of the
fine ladies will ha'e lost this gaun to the concert." " Half mine 1 "
said he ; she could not say " No." A third party came up, a stranger
to her, of course, who, knowing the value of the necklace, offered a
pound for it. " na." On inspection, it was deemed by all well
worth two guineas. " Who will be the purchaser ?" " gi'e a
pound fur your share," said the numscull, who bad still wit enough to
attempt to gain a shilling of advantages over the fortunate finder.
In he went to a spirit cellar, borrowed a pound, paid off the claim of
the finder, and set off homewards hugging his two guineas worth
and chuckling at his good fortune, and his skill in bargain making.
The census of the population of Perth, ordered by the Magistrates,
with a view of strengthening their claim for a Representative in Parlia.
mein, has been completed. The returns exhibit an increase since 1821,
of 2.225,—the population of Perth being now 21,296, which, added to
that of the Di ;dgentl, 2.160, make a total of 28,453.
PAIBLEY, MARCH 24.--f 'anneal, per peck, l&I to 18d; Ditto,
English, 181 ; Peaseateal, 19d to 18d; Barleymeal, 14d. Quarters
Loaf, 10d. New Cheese, per lb. 5d to Gd ; Old, 711. Potatoes, per
peck, 12d to 14d. Eggs, per dozen, 7d to lid. Fresh Butter, 14d ;
Salt ditto, Ild to 12d. Beef Steak, per lb. Gd to 9d ; Beef, for roast.
log, 6d to 7d ; Beef, for boiling, 4d to Gd. Mutton, per lb. 44 to 7d.
shoulder Hams, per st. 8s to 8s 3d ;Veal ditto, 4s to 9s.
MARRIED.—At East Woodside, John Watkins, Esq. W. S.
Glasgow, to Isabella, daughter of William Clark, Esq.—At Barns
Street, Ayr, Patrick Robertson Reid, Esq. to Ann Elliotson Gardner.
DIED—At Govan, Mr. James Lochead, in the 95th year of his
age.—At Greenock, 19, Rosins, second daughter of Captain Atchd.
Alexander—At Glasgow, Mrs. &chisel Baird, widow of 'the late Dr.
Patrick Cumin, Professor of Oriental Languages--In Buceleuch Place,
Edinburgh, Francis Wilson, Eaq. of Croglin, W. S. Solicitor of Taxes
for Scotland.

TYNE MERCURY, MARCH 29.
In the Tyne Mercury of last week we briefly noticed that a large
meeting of the pitmen or colliers of the Tyne and Wear took place on
I Monday, the 21st inst. on the Newcastle Town Moor. The number as.
sembled has been estimated et from 20 to 24,000 men. The principal
I grievances they complained of were, that they were obliged to remain
three days idle before they received any compensation—that they were
imposed on by being obliged to get goods at shops kept by agents of the
collieries where exorbitant prices were charged, and that their boys
were obliged to work fourteen hours per day in the collieries. They
resolved to publish a statement of their grievances, to send a petition
'to the Lord Chancellor or the House of- Commons, as should be con.
sidered most expedient, in order to obtain redress, and to subscribe
among themselves to send delegates to London to support their petition.
—To resolve to send a petition to the Lord Chancellor, or the House
lof Commons, is absurd : the law at present is sufficient to afford them
relief. But with reference Ito the requiring to be paid for every day
they remain idle, instead of having to remain idle three days as at pre-
sent before they are compensated, is more questionable : it is in effect
asking the coal owners to engage to give them constant work or constant
pay, which is the same thing. This is not reasonable, and can never
be conceded. It would be the utter ruin of the coal owners ; for they
must, in such an event, be paying immense sums for working coals
which they could not dispose of. In either case they will ruin them.
selves and their families, and become houstless wanderers. They talk
of applying to the parish or the magistrates fur relief, if they cannot
get employment on their own terms. Neither the parish nor the ma-
gistrates could give them pecuniary aid. We regret to observe that a
mischievous disposition has manifested itself among some of the pit.
men some of them, it appears, stripped naked and exposed a man on
the highway, at Walker, on Monday last, while another party, at
Bigge's Main, cruelly ill treated a woman. These outrages cannot be
suffered. We do not charge them on the pitmen as a body : let the
guilty only be punished. But such and greater outrages, probably,
may ensue, if an accommodation be not speedily come to between
these men and their employers. If the pitmen do not work in the
coal mines, the keelmen will be thrown out of employment, as
their services will then no longer be required : then the sailors will
follow—and thus the trade and business of fhe port may be com-
pletely deranged.
The intelligence of the reform bill having been rest! a second time
reached this town on Thursday night last, and excited a powerful sen-
sation. The bells of the different churches rang -merry peals on the
occasion.

The joyful intelligence of the second reading of the Reform bill be-
ing carried was received at North Shields, with every demonstration of
I joy., The bells rang to a late hour, and bands of music paraded the
streets playing many loyal and patriotic tunes.
On the evening of the day that the receipt of the news of the majo-
riry on the Reform bill reached South Shields, a large bonfire was
lighted up in the market place, which, amidst the frequent cheetingsof,
a great number of people, was kept blazing till nearly midnight,—a
good old English fashion of expressing their satisfaction and joy.
On Friday, at Hexhatn, after the arrival of the news that the
Reform bill had been read a second time, flags were hoisted on the
church steeple, and the bells rang many a merry peal throughout
the day.
DORNAM CITY ELECTION.—The contest for the city of Durham
concluded on Wednesday, when Mr. Trevor retired from the poll, and
Alt. W. Chaytor, Jun. was declared duly elected, after a struggle the
most severe ever recollected in that city. At the close the numbers
stood thus :—For Mr. Chaytor 495, Mr. Trevor 470—leaving a *ma-
jority of 25 in favour of the popular candidate, independent of three
which were given to Mr. J. C. Chaytor, his brother, for a legal pur.
pose. Mr. Chaytor stood on the broad principle of " the bill,"
whilst Mr. Trevor avowed himself a moderate reformer.

On Thursday morning last, a serious accident happened to the
Union coach, on her way from Newcastle to Edinburgh, as she was
crossing Morpeth Bridge. When coming down to the North end of it,
one of the horses turned restive; and the drag not being on, and the
coach very heavily laden with passengers and luggage, it overturned
with a fearful cra.h, when two of the passengers and the guard were
much hurt. One of the passengers, Mr. Lawson, of the Leazes Cres-
cent, Newcastle, (late of the Old Moor, near Slorpeth,) was so much
bruised internally, that he expired on Sunday evening.
A meeting of the clergy officiating in Warrington and the neigh-
bouring places, was held at Warrington, Winwick, Presscott, Leigh,
anti Wigan, to the number of thirty. An address to the King was
agreed upon, and a petition to the two houses of parliament, praying
that such alterations may be made in the liturgy, canons, and rubrics of
the established church, as the necessity of the case may require.
MARRIED.—Mr. Edward Bell, to Ann Elizabeth, only daughter
of B. Tow, Esq. all of this town.—Mr. George Watson, to Miss
Mary Chisman, of Bishortwearmouth.—The 16th instant, Joseph
Pease, Esq. of Darlington, to Miss Anna, second daughter of the
late Mr. Thomas Bradshaw, of Milecross.kidge, county of Down,
Ireland.

DIED.—At Essington, Sarah, wife of Mr. George Todd, aged
166.—At Carlisle, aged 77, Miss Mary Whirling., daughter of the
late Jeremiah Whirling*, Esq.—At Atcomb, near York, Mr. Thomas
Sotheran, bookseller, in that city.—Mr. Alexander Guthrie, late book-
seller in Edinburgh.
THE DUBLIN PILOT.

In s letter to the Lord Lieutenant, Dr. Richard Grattan suggests the
following plans for the relief of Ireland, beginning with Goldsmith's
mowing

" 11l fares the land to hastening Ills a prey,
Where wealth accumulates and men decay.
Princes and Lords may nourish and may fade,
A breath can make them, as a breath has made.
But a bold peasantry, their country's pride,
When once destroyed, can never be supplied."
First—The total abolition of church and ale cess.
Secondly—The appropriation of the fourth parr of the church pro.
petty, which formerly belonged to the poor, to purposes of local charity
and benevolence, such as parish loan funds, and the relief of the sic
and indigent.
Thirdly—The appropriation, by government, of all church propaty,
with the exception of that which belongs to the poor, for the purpose
of forming a fund for the reasonable payment of the clergy of all de-
nominations, for the building and repairing houses of worship, for edu-
cation, for hospitals and dispensaries—the surplus, if any, to be applied
to the National Loan Fund.
_

Fourthly —The formstion of a National Loan Fund, by the imposi-
tion of a tax, not upon income, but upon actual property of every
description, Increasing in a ratio proportioned to the property of the
individual, so that those who have a larger property shall pay a higher
poundage than those whose property is smaller, the entire produce of
this tax to be expended in Ireland, for the purpose of providing regular
employment for the poor, and encouraging undertakings of useful and
productive labour.
Fifthly—A tax upon all waste and unimproved lands ; the lands to
be sold after a certain time for the payment of the tax, unless the pro.
prietor, or his tenants, shall have expended, and shall continue to ex-
pend, upon their culture an adequate sum, to be estimated according
to a certain fixed principle ; in which rate, such land so improved, or
in the progress ro impotement, shall be altogether free from charge.
Sixthly—Certain measures, to counteract the ruinous effects, to the
labouring classes, of improvement in machinery so as to equalize
in some degree, the competition between die machine and manual
labour.

On Friday upwards of 4,000 men turned up a considerable tract of
land in the Holy Island, in the Upper Shannon, near Scariff. This
species of outrage upon private property has now become quite common
with the peasantry in Clare.—Limerick Chronicle.
In the Dublin Gaselier of last night there are ninety-one notices from
Insolvent Debtors in the city of Cork alone !
Mr. Blake Foster was arrested on Monday last, by two magistrates
and a party of lancets, and committed to Gott bridewelL The charge
against him, we believe, is for having recently attended some meetings
of the peasantry in the open air.—Contraught Journal.
In the list of pensions for loss of emolument hi consequence of
the passing of the act of Union, is the name of "John Leslie Foster."
It is down for 01.55. per annum 1 ! The office held by Mr. Foster, for
which this is a compensation, was ' secretary to the speaker."
The debt of Ireland was, at the close of 1829, 31,626,3901. the
charge of which, according to the finance accounts, was 1,189,3891.
At the commencement of the year 1824, the debt was but 26,340,130.
and the charge 1,008,1251. Hence Ireland had, in the six inter-
vening years, reduced the debt of England, and increased her own,
5,285,7601. by which she inerea.sed the charge on her reverue,
and lessened the charge on the English Revenue of 172,000 pounds
a year.
The duty to the crown on sea.-borne coals 1. utterly abrogated. Since
the Ist of hatch, the revenue has required the captains of coal ships, or
their agents, to subscribe an undertaking, that if the bill now in pro.
ma, foe the repeal of the coal duty, did not pass into a law, they would
be accountable for the amount of the tax, and pay it, if demanded.
This is no longer the case. Coals are now imported, as far as concerns
the duty to the Crown, wholly free of interference on the part of the
revenue, and the consumer is consequently entitled to an abatement in
price equal to the duty of Is. 74. per ton. The local duty to the Wide.
street Commissioners, amounting to lld. per ton is, however, still col-
lected, and for the sake of this insignificant exaction, (from hich coals
for manufacturers' use are free), the charge of sixpence per ton to the
revenue officers—the meters—is enforced against all coals. for whatever
purpose they may be Intended.
MARRlED.—Patrick Whelan, Esq. of the Equity of Exchequer,
to Mrs. Jane Murray, relict of the late Hugh Murray, EN.—Major
Edward 0. Taylor, 13th Light Dragoons, to Anne, only daughter of
of the late Thomas Young, of Mountlialh—J. Allen, Req. of bustace-
street, to iliss Anne Maria Martin, of Great George's street.—At
Mountmellick, Edward Bimmonds. Req. to Catherine Jane. second
daughter of the late Joseph Cooper, Eau—Robert Wybeants, Esq. of
Rutland. square, Dublin, to Emily, second daughter, of W. C. 'beeli-
nes), Esq. of Exeter.
DIED.—In Galway, Mary Anne, wife of Dennis Rowe. Daly,
Esq.—ln Cork, Mrs. Hayes, with of Captain Hares.—At Rosktield,
near Adore. James Ni:4ll, Reg— A t Tullamore, hi*, widow of the
late Captain Richard Pilkington.—ln Aungier-street, J. Charters, Rsq.