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M EI, A NCIIO LY CAT AS T HOP HE. (From the Ayr Observer.) On Sabbath night, the wind began to blow a strong gale from the north west, and on Monday morning there was a heavy sea on Ayr bar with high wind, when the Nancy of Saltcoats, Captain Shearer, appeared in the bay, making direct for the harbour, about eleven o'clock. Soon after the brig was descried, two pilot boats put ofl for the purpose of conducting her safely into the haven. One of these boats belonged to Henry French, and was manned by four men, viz. the owner, James Murphy, Hugh Kelly, and Patrick Harvey; the other boat con- tained Daniel and John Hunter, William Gibson, Dugald M'Millan, and William Hamilton. As the brig Was sailing at a very rapid rate, she had nearly reached the pier head before either of the pilot boats approached her, when both boats put about with the view of funning alongside and boarding her, but in the anxiety to secure the fare, French's boat came right athwart the bows of the brig just as bhp. reached the pier liead, when Captain Sheerer directed the helm to be put hard down in or- der to avoid coming in contact with the devoted boat the order was promptly obeyed, the vessel shifted her course, but the heavy surge thrown off her larboard bow struck the boat and filled her, when she instantly capsized, and the four men were left at the mercy of the waves. At this time the other boat was within one hundred yards ahead, waiting for the brig, and the i istant the accident occurred, Captain Shearer called to Hunter and his companiolls not to mind offering any assistance to his vessel, but to put about, for God's sake, and save the drowning men who were struggling for life only a short distance behind them. The reply from Hunter's boat, whatever it was, could not be heard some one on board was observed to hold up his hand, and she continued her course up the harbour. The acci- dent was observed from the shore by a number of sea- faring people and others, who ran along the side of the river, alternately menacing and imploring Hunter and his mates to return and save the poor fellows, or, at least, to make an effort to do so. But no attention was paid to (heir entreaties, and the boat's crew eventually went on board the brig after she attained comparatively smooth water. Great indigna- tion was felt and loudly expressed by the public that not even an attempt was made by those in Hunter's boat to rescue French and his companions from their dreadful situation but as an investigation has very pro- perly been instituted by Air. Hurdoch, the Procurator Fiscal, we decline going into details in this place. We may slate, however, that it was alleged by Hurter's boat's crew that she was half full of water, and incapable of rendering any assistance. The people on shore (as they have always shown themselves on former occasions.) were most active in their endeavours to aid the unfortu nate men. Some ran towards the harbour to procure a boat to be rowed to their assistance otherit hastened to fetch ropes to be thrown to them, should they be washed towards the pier, and some remained to cheer them up in their struggles against the waves, until relief could be obtained. The whole four continued to support them- selves above water for some lime, but as the swell was heavy and the breakers followed each other in rapid suc- cession, completely covering the victims, two of them —French (who had a wooden leg) and Murphy—disap. peared in about five minutes from the time the accident took place, and were unfortunately drowned. Another of the poor fellows, Patrick Harvey, a native oflrtlsnd, swam towards the south pierhead. and being an expert swimmer, kept himself up for nearly twelve! minutes, till a line was procured and the end of it thrown to him, which he made fast round his arm, and he was landed at the stairs, but received a severe contusion on his head by being dashed against the wall; however, he speedilv rallied, and was soon able to walk home. The fourth' individual, Hugh Kelly, was driven by the surge towards the north side of the river, and having hold of either one or two oSrs, he was able to keep his head pretty well above water, but the force of the great body of fresh water carried him out of the harbour, and round the pier-head, towards the north beach, where the breakers momentarily threatened to dasn tne oars from his relaxed grasp. Meantime some spirited seamen manned a boat belonging to the brig Ellen, with which they hastened to his aid, and as he had drifted by this time near the back of the wall, they resorted to the novel expedient of launching the boat over the wall, an operation which the high tide greatly facilitated; she was then tracked alongside of the wall by a part of her crew, till nearly opposite the exhausted swimmer, when she was rowed to the spot, and happily rescued him from the very gates of death. The two unfortunate men who were drowned had both served their country in a warlike capa- city, and were in the receipt of merited pensions, the necessary papers for drawing which were to have been signed and despatched by them yesterday morning, when they were so unexpectedly summoned to their last ac- count. Neither of them were married, but we have been informed that French supported his aged father and mother, by his labour as a pilot, and from the profits of a small public house which he lately opened on the south qUJY; his boily has not yet been found, but that of Murphy was picked up yesterday near the gas works, on the sauth beach, between two and three o'clock.
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MERTHYR TYDVIL, SATURDAY, July 13, 1833. Having recorded the opinion which we entertained in favour of the principle of the Local Courts Bill, we shall hardly be accused of unfairness in reite- rating some of our objections to many of the provi- sions of Lord BROUGHAM'S Bill under that ti le, which, in fact, is rather an enactment intended, like the India measure of that child and champion of Whiggery Mr. Fox, to perpetuate by the means of an irresistible command of patronage, the tyranny of the Whigs and Lord BROUGHAM over the KING and the people, than to afford increased facilities for the prompt and cheap administration of justice. Lord BROUGHAM indeed, in moving the third reading on Tuesday last, most loftily repudiated the imputation in the house, as in the journals devoted to his interest he or his partisans had before done with unslackened toil far days and weeks together. Nay more, both in the Lords and in the press we were reminded with untiring diligence of his noble and disinterested abjuration of all patronage in the case of the Bank. ruptcy Bill. The argument we will not deny is something worth, but as in all cases where more than the tiuili is sought to be proved, it becomes greatly damaged by the amount of absurd preten- I sion sought to be engrafted on it. If the LORDCHAN- CELLOR transferred for the moment to others the power and patronage vested by a Jaw of his own proposing in himself, it by no means follows that he intends for the future to pursue the same course of action. The present Commissioners and Official Assignees of Bankrupts are, or will be, in the habit of dying off in certain yearly proportions, and who in such case but the CHANCELLOR himself has the faculty of naming their successors, pro- ir-otilig his own creatures, and exercising to his own profit the means placed in his hands of a most extensive and debauching influence? Lord BROUGHAM excels in giving a nick-name, and accordingly, by a singular perversion of fact, lie denominates his Local Courts Bill the Poor J Man s Bill. He might with equal propriety term the Court over which he presides himself, a Court for the despatch of business; in the face of the no. torious fact that scarcely a motion can be got off the paper, because his Lordship's secretary, how- ever well qualified to affirm, or prepare for affirma- tion, appeals from the Vice Chancellor and the Master of the Rolls, is not yet presumptuous enough to undertake a decision upon an original case, and hi? employer seems little inclined and al- most as little qualified to assist him. It is surely a piece of ridicule to hold up that as a Poor Man's Bill for which he is called upon to assist in paying something Jess than 150,0001. a year; it is in fact about as preposterous as to say that his Lordship is, par excellence, the suitor's especial friend, because he costs the country and puts into his own pocket about ten tlWUSLlIlÙ puulILis a yeiii more than any other Judge in the land. Had no arriere pensee really lurked in the Chan- cellor's mind, the Local Courts fiill with some re- striction as to the extent of its jurisdiction might have been advantageously carried through. tIll House of Peers. But the jobbing part appears to have been precisely that which in his mind consti- tuted the very lifeblood of the Act, and so rather than u-lieve the poor suitor and the country of <1 e rievous tax, in the shape of interminable salaries 0 2,0001. and 1,5001. a-year to a little world of Whig retainers, lie scrupled not to sacrifice all the re t'h sound portion of the measure. We maintain that n<> necessity was demonstrated for the creation of a single new judge or functionary for the practical purposes of the bill, but that all or the greater por- tion of the machinery for insuring its beneficial ap- plication and carrying it fairly into effect, already exists in almost every town of any consequence in the kingdom. No reason has been advanced that we know of why the Assessors of the County Courts, of the Courts of Conscience, of the Wapen- take, and various other logal jurisdictions in actual existence, should not be adequate to the. performance of an additional duty and sinuiar though more ex- tensive functions. And be it remembered that ti e salaries of these inferior judges, labouring as tlley do at present throng]) very considerable business, rarely exceed 4001. per annum, whilst Lord BROUGHAM would remunerate less labour with fourfold the recompense. Although far from think- ing that a saving in the fair consideration for talent and integrity would be a real economy, yet in a matter of experiment, as the Local Courts Bill was designed to be, it would surely not have been a wise policy to launch it in the very outset with a magnificent establishment, when it might have been at so little cost adjusted to the jus- ticiary apparatus actually at work, and its effiei- ciency thus proved without risk and at small ex- pense. We feel as much as any men the disappointment which sundry Poor Laws and Factory Commis- sioners must experience at the procrastination of their hopes and postponement of the lucrative re- wards for their obsequious exertions to serve their patrons, but still we must protest against the country being saddled with a few scores of useless places solely on their account.
LANE:OUS GLI;ANINGS
LANE:OUS GLI;ANINGS T TIIORL-I]IC.SON.-Thorlaksoii, the Poet of Ice- ^'s n'at"i'las lra,,s!a|fd Milton's Paradi.se Lost into Ujs cu'V,i 'a,,guage, inhabits a poor hut at Baegisa. a"i 'ls scariely b'x fest '°ng and f°ur ^e(;t contains only his bed ami the table on ln0st !e w>"ites his verges. Its situation, however, is Hiom).'>iCll,resiil,ci being sealed between three high w|a"i'S,-a 's as '*■ were surrounded by torrents, "utn 'nC0lne's sa'd not to exceed per an- Oil n" "eshotild imagine that seal's flesh and train ..Fnlust ftirrn staple articles of his daily bill of fate P«per. l,Ur "ill for better defining the crime of ^Ses aiU* ^or aboli8hinS capital punishment in tatj °t, letter stealing and returning from transpor- pers that after its passing into a law, no t|)Q n '"dieted for burglary shall be deemed guilty of '"to *iKle un'ess having entered with the whole body t0 L e dwelling house where burglary may be said Pfcrtj4*6 been committed, and unless the offending inj. es shall have been armed with some offensive ^av-u,116nt- No person to be considered guilty unless jj)9 "8 entered the dwelling Jiouse wherein the crime or 1 e heen committed J. ^ug the hours of repose, ther'aVlH° previously entered, shall have broken out l0 ,e°' during the hours of repose. Hours of repose j> e deemed from ten at night to six in the morning. would have been guilty under the old Su. u' n«t mider the provisions of the new, to be The60' to the punishment provided by the latter. f16W a'so» af<er reciting the portion of the |ei. Geo. Ill, which for the crime of stealing any Se er 0r contents of letter entrusted to the care of a deai?nt l^e ^ost °fRce, awarded the punishment of lr»n ,°f Geo. IV., which made returning from Sai punishable in like manner, repeals the e_ portions of these acts and fur such offences it cts, that every person convicted of either of those shalii at the discretion of the court, be trans- o/h8 or 'e' or for a term not less than seven years, be imprisoned for a term not exceeding four years. ftiieaW £ .ER THE ^OET-'r~Cowper,s schoolboy days were was sent> 11 seems, to a lar»e school in HP«- Hertford, under the care of iDr. Pitman. \»,;4.i_e.^ b°y about fifteen years of aee persecuted him jji ?e niost unrelenting barbarity, and never seemed treat6 e^(:ePt when he was tormenting him. The savage Der* »en'' imPressedsuch a dread of this boy upon Cow- [!: ,8 te"der mind, that he was afraid to lift up his eyes b«nler, *-han the little tyrant's knees, and knew him dre 61 ^'S S^oe buckles than by any other part of his in nf' ^ne ^a^r' as Cowper was sitting alone on a bench Coll ?chool, melancholy and ready to weep at the re- in e<ion of what he had already suffered, and expect- Wo a t^l-e same time his tormentor every moment, these be 1 r 01 the Psalmist came into his mind-" I will not pli a, ra'd of what man can do unto me." This he ap- bri u t0 ^'s ovvn case» and immediately perceived a skness and a cheerfulness of spirit which he had anIeJ be^ore experienced, and took several paces up down the room with joyful alacrity. In this little bc 1 we trace the first manifestation of Cowper's hvi»- aF ma'ady, and of the remedy best suited for its c,t'gation. It was undoubtedly his own timidity of jnaracter which made this Nero of the school exercise t Particular on him his art of tormenting. Probably hii j°.y'3 conduct, after all, impressed itself upon his tiv 'n a manner entirely disproportioned to its rela- e Cruelty. This is a state with which insanity com- jmnces, and in which, says Dr. Abercrombie, these false Pressions fail to be corrected by the judgment com- ,L.r'ng them with other impressions, or with external things .-(Fraser's Magazine.) I,COURT JOCULARITY IN COI.D WEATHER. — King w?»ry H lived on terms of familiarity and merriment lh his great officers of state. On a cold and stormy \vitk as- was 'ding through the streets of London, 'h his Chancellor, Thomas h. Becket, afterwards chbishop of Canterbury, the King saw coming tJyardsthem a poor old man, in a thin coat, worn to th S" W°u'd it not be a great charity," said he to ,.e Chancellor, to give this naked wretch, who is so edy and infirm, a good warm cloak ?'* Certainly," jSWered the Minister; "and you do the duty of a s in turning your eyes and thoughts to such sub- cts." vVhile they were thus talking, the man came Cl arer; the King asked him if he wished to have a good j^k, and, turning to the Chancellor, said, You shall suhC mer't ot ^-h'8 g°°d deed of charity then ddenly laying hold of a fine new scarlet cloak, lined 'th fur> whic(i Becket had on, he tried to pull it from ^111; and, after a struggle, in which they had both early fallen from their horses, the King prevailed, the BO°J 1118111 t*ie cloak, and the courtiers laughed, like & °a courtiers, at the pleasantry of the King.—1 Little- °s Life of Henry II.)
Proposed REDUCED scale OF…
Proposed REDUCED scale OF letter POSTAGE IN GRKAT BRITAIN. Were the inland postage rates of Great Britain re- cced even to a level with those of Ireland, there would g an increase of business and revenue. But on a fairer th* of inland postage throughout the United Kingdom, comfort of the people, and the greater degree of J^'al feeling kept up, wsuld be combined with an aug- fcnted revenue. How many persons of the middle and j~°°rer classes hesitate to write to their friends and ac- v>aintances on account of the heavy postages ? The 'owing scale might with advantage be adopted. RESENT INLAND SCALE TRorOSED INLAND SCALE Or POSTAGE FOR LET- OF POSTAGE FOR LET- TIE ]t TERS. P 'thin the metropolis 2d. Wi bin the metropolis Id. °*>ntry post round Country post round ^London 3 London 2 Cl01 exceeding 15 miles 4 Not exceeding 20 miles 3 v.pt exceeding 20 ditto 5 Ditto 30 ditto 30 ditto C Ditto 50 ditto t iylto 50 ditto 7 Ditto 60 di to 4J ly"t° 80 ditto 8 Ditto 10 ditto 5 )tto 120 ditto 9 Ditto 80ditio 5^ ^o 170 ditto 10 Ditto lOOditto 6 230 ditto 11 Ditto 200 ditto 64 «'° 300 ditto 12 Ditto 300 ditto 7 M'oon in proportion, the and d. for every 50 mileHx- rOstage increasing progres- ceeding 300, or 1 d. for 2& Id. for every letter 011 miles, exceeding a distance excess of distance of 300 miles. miles. The n umber of letters despatched daily from the post j, .Ce in London does not average more than 40,000, and tt'i, froill a poptilat;on of. upwards of a million and a half the city and surrounding country.— From Martin's Nation of the British Empire Art. Post Office.
ftor4 TUESDAY'S LONDON GAZETTE
ftor4 TUESDAY'S LONDON GAZETTE f1 ^•amissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the county of Norfolk. The Hon. Thomas De Grey and the Hon. Edward e'*)on Harborl to be Deputy Lieutenants. Commission nigned by the l.ord Lieutenant of the county of Southampton. George Haines Jones, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant. DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY. ^vieorge Atkin Mills, Market place, Newark upon and Long row, Nottingham, grocer—July 5. fc. aiimei Stockton, Long yard, Lamb's Conduit street, ne merchant—July 8. BANKRUPTS to surrender in Bcsinghall Street. ohn Bevil, Harleyford place, Kennington common, ctioneer. John Wright, Chancery lane, law bookseller. TK to surrender in the Country, j homas Bridgwood, Follry lane end, Potteries, Staf- Jshire, clay merchant. on. °^n and Richard Barnes, Preston, Lancashire, C0J» merchants. ohn Bolton, Preston, Lancashire, coal merchant. rj,VMarriott, jun. Mapperley, Nottinghamshire, brewer. hoinas Broadhurst, Stockport, Cheshire, builder. DIVIDENDS in BASING HALL STREET. 27 Sanderson, Geirard's Cross, Bucks, victualler, July half past 11. F. Preston, St. George's place, j^over square, and Sloane street, Chelsea, confectioner, ^0, at 10. II. C. Curlewis, Hanover street, Han- «orf^9uare' 'ailor, July 31, at 10. Bourchier and Bon- jj ^xford street, tallow chandlers, Aug. 1, at 10. B. ^as>tinSs, '^sex, lime burner, July 31, at 10. «jj* *• Godfrey, VT. Herton Mill, Bucks, miller, July Aj Garbett, late of Birmingham, merchant, & 1, at 11. B DIVIDENDS in the COUNTRY. ^Ou Leeds, flax spinner, Aug. 1, at 11, at the dy rthouse, Leeds. S. S. Hargill, Newlay, near Leeds, at 11,'at the Commercial buildings, Leeds. 1 j hite, Great Bridge, Staffordshire, grocer, Aug. 5, at i Radenhurst's Royal Hotel, Birmingham. W. W. llOt., Barton Turn, Staffordshire, brewer, Aug. 6, at the George Inn, Lichfield. J. Watson, Liverpool, h0o|Ch?nt. July 31, at 12,at the office of Mr. Lowe, Liver- iee • Howells, Monythusloyne,Monmouthshire, shop« *ll(j p'\Aug. 2. at 12, at the office of Messrs. Prothero iu, Newpoit, Monmouthshire. P. Valentine, St* |jdt>ca4hire, hardwareman, Aug. 1, at 3, at the Wy »/nn5 Manchester. R. Roberts, Birmingham, k°iei L at Radenhurst's New Royal ^«r»nint{ham. R. Church, Liverpool, coach pro- pool f' at 12, at the Clarendon Roomj, Liver- the Lodge, Poole, ironmonger, July 31, at 1, at ondon Tavern Inn. Poole. CERTIFICATES-JULY 30. QfuJ. Ierce, Liverpool, oil and colour manufacturer. H. C, p:t.r' Liverpool, oil and colour manufacturer. J. and Si. orcester, goldsmiths. T. Arber, Horseferry ^t, Monkhousj, Bag.iigge Wells ToVvirn, ctas, tavern keeper.
ANNA B ROD IE AND CO. e.
ANNA B ROD IE AND CO. e. (From Cobbett's Register.) A London jury has determined that this set is not t< continue to pour out libels upon me; and that I an) not to be called "an uncertificated bankrupt" with impunity. A hundred pounds damages and the costs will make this crew remember that there is some limit to their right ol assailing me, at any rute. I said, when I brought thi- action, that I did it for the honour of my constituents, and not on account of myself. The people of this papel ought to have been punished long ago, for their atrocious publications relative to Thomas Goodman and the mer who were punished on account of the fires and then is a fellow in AVales whom I will punish if hi do not retract what he has said upon the subject. Th, thing to which I allude is called the Mertityi Tidvil Guai-dian," printed and published by Willian, Mallalieu. The public may recollect, that I some limt ago presented a petition from the working men of MERTHYR TYDVIL and, because the men thought proper to send their petition to me and not to Mr. GUEST, they are threatened with starvation, and I am libelled in the following atrocious manner, the public being told, through this vile paper, that not a few of the misguided men who suffered the penalty of thi law, during the agricultural disturbances, acknow- ledged, that their first incentive to unlawful proceed- ings, was, Mr. COBBETT'S writings, or Mr. COBBETTV lecture." I verily believe, that the poor creature who publishes this is not the real author of it. I pub- lish it that my readers may hold both author and pub- lisher in detestation; and this is not all that I wilj do to the publisher, in whose pappr this appeared on the 29th of June, leaving him in the meanwhile to the contempt and detestation of his townsmen.
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HINTS TO EMIGRANTS. THE EAGERNESS OF ENTERPRISE.—It will be recollected that Sir Home Popham turned the heads 01 British merchants and manufacturers by his glowing description of the immense channel opened to British enterprise in the new American States. Articles of a]) kinds were shipped in abundance, feather beds, blankets, and warming pans, carpe's, hearth lugs, stove grates, fenders and fire irons, for houses without chimneys nl> sorts of cooking utensils, gardening tools, &c. &c. &c.. the greater part of which was a total loss, as no use could be made of them but the brass sauce- pans were of so brilliant a colour, that then was an immense demand for them, and common cutlery was also sold 10 advantage; but the misfortune was, that in a country abounding with the preciou metals, the natives could not find enough to pay for thei. purchases, but in lieu of money they offered gold dust, which was of course readily accepted, and the super- cargoes were overjoyed at the bargains they had been enabled to make but, alas on sending the gold dust to the London assay'ers, it was discovered to be neither more nor less than filings of the brass saucep:tns This might have been an useful lesson to commercial adventurers, but it is written that a man shall laugh at another's follies and even get into greater himself. The exportations to New South Wales, Van Diemen's Land, Swan River, &c afford a melancholy, and at the same time a ludicrous proof of the fact. To Swan River an immense number of upright pianofortes were shipped, when there were no houses to receive them. As pianos they were useless and found no purchasers, until one ot the settlers more fertile in expedients than the re,t, took out the strings and converted the case into a cupboard this was regarded as a happy idea, and all the pianos p i,Y I were soon converted itito useful and ornamental pieces of furniture as cupboards, wardrobes and book cases. Qaery-L-YVhether Shakspeare's observations on the man that has not music in his soul be applicable to the pianoforte destroyers of Swan River ? Be it as it may, it would be well for an exporter not to fancy ihejwants of another country to resemble those of his own, and before he rushes on ruin, be at the trouble to inquire whether what he proposes to send can find a market, or be usefully employed. This precaution will avert many mischiefs and disappointments to emigrants.
--THE LATEST LONDON!
THE LATEST LONDON INTELLIGENCE. (From the London Guardian of yesterday, Friday.) The ministerial paper, the Journal de Paris, an. nounces that it is not the intention of the French govern- ment to grant an amnesty for political t'itences on occasion jf the anniversary of the revolution of July. The representatives of Naples and Sardinia are stated to have communicated to the French Foreign Minister the protest of their respective Courts, against the abolition in Spain of that portion of the salic law which excludes females from the throne. It is added that M. de Broglie, in acknowledging the receipt of the protests, observed that lie received them merely as documents communicated for the information of his government. The Gazelle of Augsburg states that the King of Prussia, attended by his Minister for Foreign Affairs, will leave Berlin for the Baths of Toeplitz on the 15thinst. According to the Nuremberg Correspondent, a report was prevalent at Berlin that the Emperor of Russia would assist at the grand manoeuvres which are to take place near Magdeburg, and which, it is said, will last four weeks. The French funds experienced a slight depression on Tuesday, in consequence of reports circulated respecting die intentions of the republicans to make a move on the occasion of the anniversary of theglol-ious days. Some arresis had taken piacejin Paris. The fact is, the police has h:td nothing to do for some time past, and is endea- vouting to find an opportunity for excrcising its agents. FRENCH FUNDS, JULY 9. Five per Cents lOlf 20c Bank §tock —f—c Pour per Cents 94f 50c Rente de Naples 92f —c Three per Cents 77f 30c Rente de I'Etat Roniain National Loan —f— c liente d'Espagne 154 Three per Cents 77f 30c Reiite (le I'Etat Roiziaii, gl a N a i i oiial l,oin -I' c i liente d'Espagne 154 Exchange on London—One Month, Paper, 25) 63c Manev, 25f 69c; Three Mon'hs, Paper, 25f 53c Money, '45f 50c, —Court AuthenliQue. 5f 50e.-C()Il1'.f AuthenliQlle, FLANDERS MAIL. BRUSSELS, JULY 9. By a decree of the Gth inst. the King auihorizes the es- tablishment of barracks for 800 men in the town of HaSSelt, in order to relieve the inhabitants fir as possible from the burden caused by having soldiers quartered on them. During the last ten days a great number of Swiss and Germalls returning from the Dutch service have passed through Arlon. Everything announces that most important negotia- tions will shortly be opened at London. The departure of Baron Verstolk de Soelen, Minister fcr Foreign Affdirs and depository of the most secret thoughts of King William, seems to announce that the Cabinet of the Hague is pre- p*ring for a decisive struggle with us in the conference. Under these circumstances, we (i.e. the Courrier Uelge) think that our Ministry would be guilty of a hlamable neglect of the interests of the country ifit did not prepare to combat with advantage the diplomacy of Holland. Though differing from M. Van de Weyer, we have always acknowledged his talents and address but those qualities cannot supply the place of positive knowledge, ■vhicli M. Van de Weyer unhappily wants. The Courier Beige states that it has received from a respectable source the following particulars of the propo. sals to be made by M. Verstolk de Soelen First, King William requires that Belgium sheuld immediately take upon itself 10 millions of florins, in. stead of 8,600,000, in the divisioa of the debt. His chief ground for this demand is. that the first division is not admissible, since the additional expense was caused to Holland during the three years that the separation has al. ready continued, of which expenses lie pretends that Belgium is the piincipal cause. An additional reason which he alleges, and which it seems to be expected at the Hague by the Three Northern Powers, is, that if Belgium does not take on itself twelve millions, it w 11 be impossible for Holland to avoid bankruptcy. Now King William pretends that it is the interest of Europe to avoid such a catastrophe, and that as Belgium is to serve chiefly for the arrangement of the interests of Eu. rope, it is but just that it should bear the burden which is to save Europe from a great financial commotion. The second proposal is to establish a toll on the Scheldt, and a transit duty on everything going to Germany by the inland waters of Holland, but reserving to the Belgians the favour that all their merchandise passing by those two routes under Dutch colours shall enjoy a reduction of ten per cent. on the gross duty. The third point of the instructions of M. Verstolk is to show to the Conference that it cannot interfere in the question of Luxemburg without trespassing on the rights of the German Confederation, and that this question must therefore be reserved. It follows that the question of Limburg. which is connected with that of Luxemburg, must be also reserved. The instructions of M. Versolk say nothing of the recognition of Belgium. The treaty to be concluded between Holland and the Conference is to be made so that the Five Powers would stipulate for Belgium in the same manner as France and England have done in the treaty of the 21 st of May. We leave it to the public to reflect on what we h <ve just stated, and to consider into what a labyrinth of nego- tiations and endless delays the ministry would have led us had not the Chamber in its address in answer to the speech from the Throne repaired in some measure the blunder committed in the implicit acceptance of the treaty of the 21st of May.—.Brussels Papers, July 9.
AGRICULTURE, COMMERCE, LONDON,…
AGRICULTURE, COMMERCE, LONDON, AND LIVERPOOL MARKETS. LONDON CORN EXCHANGE, JULY 10. Our present week's supplies have been 3,880 sacks or flour; 2,920 quarters of English, 150 quarters of Irish, and 800 quarters of foreign wheat; 1,010 quarters ot English and (j50 quarters of foreign barley 4,740 quar- ters of English and 4,620 quarters of Irish oats 2,4(J0 quarters of malt. This day's market exhibited a good display of samples, and was, for that of a Wednesday moderately well attended by buyers; but trade, which appeared to be chiefly confined to horse corn (i. e. oats and beans), w.Ls, generally speaking, dull, at but little if any, variation from Monday's prices. MONDAY'S TRICES. Wheat, Essex Red 48s a 65s White 3bs a 40. Fife a 60s Boilers 42s a —s a —s Beans, Small 36s a 35 WW" Ms a 58s Ticks. 31 s a fine 68< a 6fi< Harrow 34a a 36, Superfine 62s a 64s Oats, Feed 16. a 17, ^t,iv —a a —9 Fine 18t; a 19, Rye a 3ts Poland 18s a 19, all,ley a 32a Fine 20. II. 22. Alalt a 58i Putatoe a 'J3 Fine. 60s a 62s Fine. 23s a 21s Peas. Hog a 33a B rau. 91 il 10 Mapte. 35s a 3QS Pollard,fiia». ••• 16:; a IS: LONDON COAL MARKET, JULY 8. Price of Coal per ton at the close of business. Adairs, 13s 3d—Beaumont, 12s 6d-liolywell, 13s 3d Newbuin, 13s 3d-Tanfield, 15s-Townley, 13s — West Hartley, 13s 6d—Wylam, 14s 3d-Lambtoll, 13s 3d-Silke8tone, Field and Co. 13s. Wall's End Bell and Brown, 13s 9J—Bewicke and Co. 14s 9d—Brown's, 13s 3d—Clark and Co. 12s 9d-Gosforth, 14s 9d Hea- ton, 14s 9d_Hilda, I3s Gd- Killing worth, 13s (id—New- march, ]38 6d—Perkins, 13s 3d—Liddell's, 14s 3d— Hetton, 15i 3d to 15s 6d-Lambton. lbs—Russell's Htt- ton,15s3d—Stewart's, 15s 3d to 15s Gd—Adelaide, 1,1, —Tees, 14s 3d to 14s Gd-Selby, Its Cd..—Ships ar- rived, 67. JULY 10. Adair's, 13s-Beaumont, 12s GI-Chester, Its-Ilo- lywell, 13s 3d— Orde's RedheuRh, Us 6d—Pontop Windsor, 12s Gd—Shipcote, Its 6J-Tanfield, 14s 61! to 15s_Townley, 13s—West Hartley, 13s Gd—Willing- ton, 13s Gd—Wylam, 14s 3d-Lambton Primrose, 13, —Culm, James and Aubrey, 17s 6J—Hartley, Hs- Silkestoneand Co. 13s—Tanfield, 14s Gd.. Walls End Blake, 13s 3d-Clark and Co. 12s 9d—Gosforth 14s Gd —.Heaton, 14s 3d—Hilda, 13s 3d—-Hotspur 13s 6d — Killingworth, 13s Newmarch, 13S—Northumberland, 13s—Hiddell's, 14s-Lainbton, 16s-RusselI's Hetton, 15s 3d—Stewart's, 159 to 15s 3d-Adelaide, 13s 6d— Butterknowl, 14s-Tces, 14s Gd.—Ships arrived, 67.
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LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE, July 9 Since Tuesday last the imports of wheat, oats, flour and oat- meal from Ireland have been fo a fair extent, and dur- ing the past week the demand for every article in the corn trade, here and in our country markets, has been limited, though pretty steady, at fully the prices last noted-particubrly for superior qualities, which have a little exceeded last quotations some small parcels of Irish white wheat have reached 9s 3d, and of red 711 lId per 701b, and of favourite marks of sweet flour 44s per 2801b., but the qualities fully equalled the finest Bri- tish, and the quantities of such are so small that weilo not feel justified in stating such prices in our general quo- tations we have had a further arrival ot about 2000 quarters of red wheat from Canada in good order, and of very good quality, which has found sales very slowly at 8s 4d to 8s 5d per 701bs, and some flour frcm thence has beeii sold at 34s per barrel. LIVERPOOL CoTTON MARKET, July 9 WE have had a very extensive demand for cotton today at very extreme prices chiefly in American descriptiuus at Bid a 9id per lb.
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THti REVENUE. ————— Abstract of the Net Produce of the Revenue of Great Britain, in the Quarters and Years ended 5th July, 1832, and 5-h July, 1833, showing the Increase or De' crease on each head thereof. Quarters ended July 5.. J832. 1833. llncreiisejDecreas. CUSTOMS. £ £ £ Consolidated Duties 2,401,2/6 2,3i)"iC3b Sngnr Duty applicable toConsotidatedFund Sugar Duty applicable to Supplies 1,1!4,293 1,265 3 >4 Total Customs. 3.515.5(5 i 3,663,00? 14773s Excise 3.338,325 3,201,855 183,749 Stamps 1,615,24,' 1,657,810 42,567 Taxes 1 931.510 1,921,665 r"84'i Post Office 301,000 315.001> 41,000 J Miscellaneous 8,581 9,216 63) Total Ordinary nue 10,/GO,228 10,601,277 Imprest and other Mo- nies, including Re. payments of Ad- vances for Public Works 8G,766 46,465 40.300 Total Income 10,852,993 !0 8(7,74' 231,631 236 885 236,885 The amount applied to the Consolidated Fund 3.856,29 3 5,720,59rj To payoff Exchequer Hills charged 011 the Sugar Duty 1, 1 i 4,293 1,2(15,36-4 As pirt of the Ways and Means of the Yj»ar 5,882,40i 10,852,993 10,847,742 Deduct Increase 231634 Decrease on Quarter. 5 251 Yeais ended fith July r 1832 1833. Increas. Decrea. £ £ e Customs 14 844,911 15,033,697 818,77c Excise 14,658,71C 14,439,83 2 8,830 Stamps (;)515,072 6,475,835 119'J.H7 Taxes 4,905,^41 4,9i>l.f;10 85,069 Post Office 1,316,000 1,362,000 16,000 Miscellaneous 52,319 69,824 17,505 Total Ordinary Reve- nue 42,402,959 43,002,192 Imprest and other IIIo. nies, including Re. payments of Ad. vances for Public Works 309,006 279,471i 29,530 Total Income 42,711,965 937,350 367,647 The amount applied to the Consolidated Fund 22.96C,841 27,709,500 To pay oft Exchequei Bills charged on the Sugar Duty 2,842,914 3,171,892 As part of the Wayp and Means of tht Year 16,902,210 12,400,186 42,711,965 43,281,668 Defluct De rease 367.647 Increase on the Yeir, 509,70?
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__+- L ONI) ON MONE Y MAR KE 1\ ♦ CITY. THURSDAY EVENING. An opinion prevails that Don Miguel, on receiving the intelligence of his brother's expedition having landed in the Algarves, will immediately make a grand attack on Oporto before he dispatches a reinforcement to Lisbon. Consols have been, during the morning, at 90! to t for the Account, with-little or nothine doing. The Dutch Funds come considerably higher by the mail, 49J. Five per cents, 92. In the Foreign market Portuguese Scrip experienced a fall, and was done at 2 discount at present it is li to 2.
PRICES OF SHARES—Thursday
PRICES OF SHARES—Thursday Per Share. Per Sbnr*. An^Io Mexican 12^ Del Monte 35 £ United ditto 12 llrazilian <51 Colombian 9 Bolanos 140 United ditto 12 llrazilian <51 Colombian 9 Bolanos 140 L OND ON PRICES OF S TO CA. |Friday.| Satur Mon, iTnes. Wed. Tlinrs • SpcrCent.Cons. 88] J 88i 88j | 88J } 8S| Cons, for Acot. 90 9(>1 I 90j j |90,j g 9)<i x 90 £ ■1 per Cent. Re.i. 88* 88| 9 89| | 89J j 89 £ 4 891 .54 perCent. Red. 951 95J 6 96< 4 96| J 86J J 96J New3jperCent 95$95$i 95 £ 4 percent., 1820 lt)2< 102j i 102$ £ !02jf J 102J £ 103 Bank Stock !203 4 207s 8J 207 8 2 71 Si 2t)72 Si.2(19 Bank Stock !203 4 207s 8J 207 8 2074 8J 2o7j 8J 209 Long Annuities lt7J 174 174 174 '74 Excheouer Bilis!50 52 53 55 52 5t 54 55 56 57 57 53 India Jor-ds. 29 31 31 33 32 34 32 34 33 35 33 35 Belgian !91 j 92 93 93 i 934 S 93, 4 93i Brazilian Bonds'67i 6/ i 68 68; 9 08} J 69 Chilian Bonds.. |25j 20* 26 2/ 2526 -5 26 25 26 26 Colombian, 1824123^ 4 23j 4± 22^ 3^ 23 j 23 £ j 23 { i)anish Bonds.. |73i 74 73; 74 73i 4^ 73f 44 73 j 41 74 U(itch2iperCent 49^ 48| 49j j 49j j 43^ j 4ql Prenoh5perCent Ditto 3 per Cent Greek5 per Cent [38 40 38 40 38 40 38 40 38 40 40 Uexican6perCt. 37 ? 374 i i 37 4 3- 3_. Portuguese OO5 1 604 58 9 60j 1 go j gQ, Ditto Scrip ,.|24 2 dis 24 »'. 3 "i •"» Jl j dls U .^js ttussia'i lionds.iU'5 104i 54 j05 Spanish Bonds.|l9 19 4 1 '9 JSJ JG JG
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We insert elsewhere an article from COBBETT'^ Register bearing reference to ourselves, in which that great master of a certain species of dialectics favours us with sundry warnings for our good beha- viour, and most loft v- menaces of visiting his wrath upon us in default with an unsparing hand. The easy impudence of the old gentleman's manner and style of address provokes any feeling but anger on our part; and we have besides been so well satisfied with bis conduct on certain great questions discussed in Parliament, interesting to the public at large, that we really do regret the severity of some of the remarks in the article wherein we brought his name forward. They were penned in a feeliug of irrita- tion at the slight offered to Mr. GUEST by our townsmen. Let him not however presume for a moment to imagine that we value his threats a rope's end. The Provincial Press is generally and justly perhaps censured for its timidity and weakness but we will satisfy all those, and Mr. COBBETT himself, with due speed that there is no lack of courage with us, whenever we are attacked or dared. Mr. COB- BETT'S family form, we hear, a snug law party, one son being a solicitor and another a barrister; and this may have been among the reasons why he brought some forty or fifty actions on a late occa- sion for one unlucky paragraph of a libel. We notwithstanding care little for the family trio, and will take some pains to satisfy him whenever he carries his threats into execution, that the GAZETTE and GUARDIAN will not quail before the Register, and that juries will not be found in our case to assess his damaged character at one hundred pence—much less pounds.
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The news from the Continent during the last week is not very important. The French Papers are full of airy nothings and dreams of the future, to disguise the barrenness of the present. Marshal Soult is gone to the baths of Mont d'Or, and the portfolio of the Minister at War is given, par ititeriin, to General Sebastiani. A few years since, Soult insulted Sebastiani grossly. The General replied tile insults of a Jesuit are beneath contempf." Recollect, sir," said Soult, that I am a Marshal of France, and wear a sword." "A torch you mean," responded Sebastiani, and turned on his heel with a look of ineffable contempt. This sting- ing insult arose from Soult having borne a torch at a procession of the Jesuits of Amiens. From Portugal we have accounts of the progress of the Pedrists. If we are to credit their report. they found 30 pieces of cannon, and, mirabtie dlctu five thousand pounds in the military chest This assertion in itself, invented, no doubt, to cheer the hearts of Don Pedro's unpaid troops, is a sufficient proof that no reliance whatever is to be placed in the Pedrist account. The exhausted exchequer of both the brothers is so complete, that 5,0001. are not to be found in any military chest, nor even in their respective treasuries. King Otho seems already to be tired of Greece and royalty he wants amusement like other boys of 18; and though Munich is oneofthe dullest courts in Europe, yet it is gaiety itself compared with Nauplia. It would appear that all differences be- tween the Grand Seignior and the Pacha of Egypt are arranged sati!factorily;" that is, tbe Sultan is satisfied to lose Egypt, and Mehemet Ali, not being able to obtain more, is satisfied to accept it. Kacli party only waiting for an opportunity of increasing h s tsutisfactioa by the destruction of his adversary. In the mean time the Russian squadron seems in no haste to leave the Bosphorus, and the Sultan seems to prefer the hug of the bear to the roaring of the lion or the crowing of the cock. There is no accounting" for tastes, but certain it is, that at Constantinople, England and France only play second fiddle. The Belgian question remains in as embarrassed a state asever; Holland insists that Belgium shall pay a just proportion of the joint debt of Holland and Belgium. This the latter refuses, foreseeing that being "the chick and child" of Paluierston and Talley- rand, she ought to pay notliing-iio, not even the ex- penses incurred by the Frsnch in expelling Chasse from the citadel of Antwerp. It is a fine thing to be a pensioner of England and son-in-law to a citizen King. Leopold's nncle and father-in-laiv cannot do less than keep their nephew and son-in. law from the parish. Another bone of contention ts Luxembourg and Limberg. The Duchy of Luxembourg forms an in- tegral portion of the Germanic Confederation as ■■KADAABRMBNIBMNHHNNAANABMM settled by the treaty of Vienna, and William is a member of that Confederation as Grand Duke of Luxembourg. This point will never be given up by the Confederation, of which the Emperor of Austria and the King of Prussia are really the chiefs, and of their feeling towards Belgium there can be no doubt. They will not even acknowledge poor Leopold for a King. Nicholas, too, treats his royalty with contempt. This is too bad, after the liigh protection of Russia, by whose influence he supplanted the Prince of Orange and married the Princess Charlotte. On the whole, tho Belgian monarchy is in a very tottering condition even Lord Palmerston wishes he had never had anything 10 do with it, but let the broad boltoms fight their own battles and what is still "worse for the new King is, that his subjects cordially detest him. The news from Piedmont proves that the Sardi- nian monarch, whose bigotry is carried to the most culpable excess, is thinning his population by san- guinary executions; it suffices to be accused, to be found guilty. The Pope too is obliged to have re- course to the secular arm to maintain his infalli- riility, while the King of Naples is inspired by macaroni with the idea that all Europe will ann t. e. ro to support his very distant claim to the throne ot Spain. He forgets that Europe cares not one jot about the matter; and that it is perfectly itidifferent whether the sceptre of Spain be wielded by a petti- coat or a pair of breeches indeed, from the wisdom displayed by the late and present Kings of Spain, we would say, by all means try a petticoat. The late Queen of Charles IV exclaimed one day when exiled at Rome by her belaved son Ferdinand, If this petticoat (shaking it) were a pair of breeches, and this fan a sword, Charles should have been long since re-established on the throne of Spain-"
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MORE WHIG JOBBFRY.-Tlie government has given notice to the Commissioners of Stamps, that they may retire-on pensions a new constitution, as it is called, is about to be made, which will include their own friends, while the country is paying the efficient but pensioned Commissioners. Alr. Mitford, the Chair- man, whose salary for active service was 1,6nO:. per annum, retires in the full vigour of health upon a pension of one thousand four hundred a year the other Com- missioners making their bows, and being paid in equal proportions for retiring, all of them not only being able but willing to retain their places, and fulfil all the duties of them. in addition to tnis arrangement, it ought to be understood] that the new board which is funning will contain an additional Commissioner, and that when thtse new Commissioners are appointed, such as do not choose to pay the ordinary fees usual upon such appointments, they are relieved from the charge by a Treasury minute, so that they may step into the warm shoes of their living predecessors without the smallest drawback. It ought to be known, that the government has already ftled up every office connected with the new West India measure, although the bill has not passed and that such is the urgency with which they are endea- vouring to secure as much as they can before they go, that the letters offering these situations, certain a request to the parties addressed to sefid immediate ansivers. And this activity for patronage is not confined to the better sort of things—every Custom-house oiffcer's place, idewaiter's place, clerk's place, messenger's place, is being settled and filled up at all risks and sacrifices. These are signs of the times, and proofs of Whig mode- ration-but, above all, they are symptoms of an ap- proaching retirement of the government itself.-Arew- castle Journal. One of the Emperor Napoleon's literary censors, examining a novel in which was the expressicn, Love, that tyrant of hearts," wrote in the margin, Suppress the word t!ll ant, which has been too mush abused since the revolution." The censors of the Citiz n- King appear to be equally sensitive. At the Theatre dell Varietes a piece has been produced under the title of Le Marriage par ordre. It was originally called Le Prince et le Cocher (The Prince and Coachman), but the police insisted on the title being changed, on account of the last word." This may appearjenigmatical to our readers who are not aware that Louis Philippe's father assumed, during the revolution, the name of Egalite, being, as he declared, the son of a coachman, and consequently one of the people." SCIENTIFIC CONGRESS AT CAFN.-The Scientific Congress about to be held at Cayn, between the 20 h and 26th inst.. will be both numerous and interesting. The Academies of Science at Nautes, Poitiers, and other towns have resolved to send de- putations. The Geotogicat Society of France will be represented by ten of its members from Paris; and upwards of fifteen antiquaries, chemists, and men of literature frem Rouen, have announced their intention to be present. According to the acceptances of invi- tations received by the 1st inst., there is every reason to believe that upwards of 80 Frenchmen of science will attend. This was the number assembled at Cam- bridge. Besides several from England, it is expend at Caen that some learned men will come from Ger- many. The Congress will be divided into six sections, namely, Geology, Mineralogy, Physics, Chemistry, and Agriculture Natural History, Literature and Philology Archaiology and History, and the Medi- cal Sciences. Germany first gave the example of these grand meetings of the lovers of the sciences and the arts, who come together in order to discuss their several views and acquirements, and give a better direction to their inquiries and researches. The Congresses at Berlin inl828 andl382, produced results which it is important to procure for France, and which have hitherto been wanting—namely, stimulation. unity, and mutual communication. Caen has been appropriately chosen as the place of meeting, as possessing many most interesting remains of anti- quity, and enclosing several great scientificestablish- ments, and having been amongst the earliest promoters of the study of letters and the sciences. A detailed report of the proceedings of the Assembly will be published. A few days since, a most excellent and exem- plary clergyman in this neighbourhood, (says the Devizes Gazette,) was performing the last sd dut es over the body of a poor mlln, when, at the moment the Coffin was about to be lowered, it was discovered that the grave was neither wide or long enough for its admission. The sexton set abi>ut the necessary work, but being rather feeble, and very clumsy, the clergyman, with a kindness of heart which greatly soothed the feelings of the mourners, walked into the church, and having di vested himself of his surplice, returned, took the spfde from the sexton, and within a very 'ew minutes (which otherwise would not have been done in half an hour,) sufficiently enlarged the grave for the required purpose. The reverend gentleman then again put on the surplice, and finished the mournful obsequies in the most impressive manner.-Bath Joui-nal. A MAN LOST IN THE STORM.—During the hurricane which occurred two weeks ago, and which made such havoc on the coast among the shipping, as well as among the woods, orchards, gar ens, &c. more inland, a poor labouring man, of the name of George Hodgson, more than 70 years of age, perished on Cartmel Fell. On the Tuesday-a very wet and stormy day —he was employed by Alr. William Birkett, of Hoilge bill, to drive some cattle to this town, and return with a few sheep. This he accomplished, and arrived at Hodge hill about eleven o'clock at night, drenched with rain, and storm stricken. Mr. Birkett pressed him to remain all night, and take shelter from the unruly blast but as his cottage lay at the distance of little more than a mile across the fell, he said he could reach hdme well enough bit he was never destined to see his humble caitage more. Mr. Birkett gave him a glass of whisky, wished him well at home, and they parted. The old IlIan took the fell, and had for a while breasted the fury of the blast, but had at length sunk under it, as about eleven o'clock next day he was found dead, having accomplished hut half the distance, by Mr. Birkett, on the fell-" Stretcher out and bleaching in the northern blast," with his staff, the prop of declining years, lying near him.-ll mdal Gazelle. Yesterday afternoon between three and four a violent storm, accompanied with a heavy rain and much hail, passed over Brussels. Though the h.1I1 :.tones were not very large, there is reason to apprehend that rnuch da- mage has been done in the country. The lower parts of the city were inundated by the deluge of rain, tind the pavement of the streets that are on a dedivity was torn up in several places; a sentry-box was carried away to a considerable distance two children were in danger of perishing but were saved, onespt them hv a Newfoundland dog several places were struck by lightning, among others the wall between the city and the suburbs, near the Hal gate, of which from 50 to 60 ftet were thrown down.—Brussels Paper, July 6.