The Welshman

N .L ICIJ)O-dFcrrtc!ll anfc Dontrsltc* I LONDON, NOV. 9, 1835. I WE have received the whole of the Paris papers r. of Friday and Saturday. The French Cabi- net has lost one Member in the person of Admiral dc Rigiiv, who died at his house in Paris on Saturday morning. He had been for some time suffering from an acute rheumatism and a dropsy in the chest Before tW accession of thie Duke de Broglie to the Foreign Office, M. de^Rigny officiated as Minister for that department; but having, as is reported, mar- ried within these few months a widow lady unam- bitious of the honour of pres ding at Ministerial le- vees, he was pleased to retain a seat in the Cabinet, without charging himself with the responsibility of a portefuille. His death will, therefore, occasion no change in the constitution of the Administrative Go- vernment, though it diminish the personal influence of several of the members. The last accounts from India mention that an at- tempt had been made to assassinate Major Alves, the British resident at Jeypore. Major Alves, accom- panied by Mr. Blake, the Deputy Resident, Lieute- nant Ludlow, and j Ensign M'Naghten, went to the Mohul to have an interview with the widow of the deceased Rajah. On leaving the Palace, while with- in the court-yard, a man dashed forward and cut Major Alves on the back of the head and felled him to the ground; he then received two more wounds, one on the head and the other on the shoulder. Blake and Ludlow seized the assassin, and, for a time, disarmed and secured him they then put Alves into a palanquin, and cn(I Litd- low mounted their horses and rode to the Mahjie-ke- Bagh in satety, but poor Blake remained behind till he not only saw Alves safe away, but orders wer° given to carry the assassin safe also to the Mahjie-ke- Bagh the consequence was be was surrounded, and the moment he mounted his elephant, spears were thrown at him, and other missile. and he got woun- ded. When he reached the gate he found it was shut, and as there was no possible exit from the city, and his remaining on the elephant certain death, he hit upon the expedient of dismounting with his chuprassie, and taking refuge in a Temple, thinking the sacredness of the place would have saved him but no, there they murdered him and his chuprassie, by name Lutchman Sing. The chuprassie behaved with great fidelity, calling out, murder me, but spare my master,' but mercy was a stranger to these villains' breasts. Blake received 26 wounds about his face, head, and throat. Troops had been order- ed from Nusserabad to Jeypore for the, protection of the British. Madrid Journals to the 1st inst. have been receiv- ed. The Madrid Gazette contains a second Royal Decree on the subject of the levy of 100,000 men to march against the pretender the object of which is regulate the manner in which the first is to be carried into effect. M. Mendizabalhas obtained the support, as far as shall regard moderate measures, of NI. Mar- tinez de la Rosa and his party in both Chambers. Count Toreno has not yet announced what course he intends to follow but the general opinion is, that M. Mendizabal will be able to carry all before him. With respect to the choice of Presidents and Secreta- ries, M. Mendizabal is determined to leave the ques- tion open, so that the Chambers shall he restrict- ed in the choice of their own officer- On the ques- tion of the Address, in answer to the Speech from the Throne,:the Government will try its strength with the Opposition but not before. Subscriptions an- pouring into the Treasury from every quarter. The.Commissioners appointed to draw til) the Report on the Electoral Law have completed their labours. All goes on most prosperously. A letter from Gibraltar states that Mr. Sherwill is the gentleman condemned by the Admiralty Court there, for being concerned in fitting out vessels for the Slave Trade. Together with Mr. Sherwill, the owner of the vessel, the owner of the goods, and the captain, were fined each £10,000. and the supercargo sentenced to fourteen years' transportation. The captain, officers, and crew, were acquitted on the criminal part of the charge, and merely sent out of the garrison, and the goods shipped, on which the criminal charge was founded against Mr. Sherwill, were not confiscated. He entertains strong hopes that the whole of the Admiralty proceedings will be reversed in England, and intends certainly to appeal against the sentence. The Paris Papers of Sunday, the whole of which we have just received, contain no intelligence of im- portance. Mr. Barton, the American Charge d' af- falres, was positively to quit Paris on Thursday, unless certain propositions which he has been instructed to submit to the Duke de Broglie be received by the French Gavel nment. It does not appear that the prospect of a rupture with America has excited any real fears in the French Capital. The Funds conti- nue steady, and there seems to ba an impression on the public mind, that after the election of Mr. Van Buren to the Presidency of the States, the settlement of the question will not be -difficult. This must en- tirely depend on the first steps taken by Congress, which meets in December-two months before the election of the President. Should a non-intervention Act be passed on the opening of the Congress, and the American war-vessels receive orders to make re- prisals on France, the affair may assume a very seri- ous aspect-perhaps lead to a declaration of war be- tween the two countries. A system of mutual repri- sals once adopted, and a war appears inevitable.

A BRITISH SAILOR.—On the 12th of September at dusk, when the Thunderer was cruising in the Medi- terranean, under treble-reeled main and close-reefed fore and mizen topsails, with a heavy sea running, a man fell from the main-yaid into the water. Lieu- tenant Bun bury, of that ship, son of Sir H. Bunburv, of Suffolk, although he Ivd lost his right arm, im- mediately went overboard after him, and succeeded in saving the man. The Captain of the Ttiunderc wrote an account of this gallant and humane action to the Admiral, Sir .1. Rowley, who sent a highly flattering reply, an d said lie would report the cir- cumstance in his despatches to the Admiralty. LINCOLN ELECTION.—BRIBERY.—That a system of gross and shameless bi I bei y was practised by the Tory party in this city at the last election, no unpre- judiced person acquainted with Lincoln has recently attempted to deny and we believe there are but few even of the pai tisans of Colonel Sibthorp himself who have now the temerity to asseit, that the poor free- men have not received a consideration for their votes given to that individual. That the recipients of bribes are to a certain extent culpable, we of course cannot deny but we contend that the unfortunate needy freemen are not so much to blame as their tempters those wealthy hypocrites who style themslves gen- tlemen, who lay their right hands upon their bi easts and talk of their honour—we may be told that our assertion is unfounded, and that we have no grounds for the. statement; but we can make reference to in- dividuals of the highest respectability, whose author- ity we have for telling the people of Lincoln, and, to the disgrace of the majority of the voters for this city at the last election, the people of England also, that Colonel Sibthorp obtained his seat by the most gla- ring acts of bribery and corruption which acts are proved by the evidence of John Plumb, who, on Thursday last, publicly declared, in the presence of a respectable company of individuals, that Mr. George Reynolds (acting as clerk to Mr. Swan, he being the paid agent of Colonel Sibthorp) called at his house, on the 16th of September, 1U5, and then and there paid him, the said John Plumb, the sum of two sov- ereign5, in consideration of the vote he gave to Colonel Sibthorp at the last election.—Lincoln. Gazette. FOX-CHASE EXTRAORDINARY IN THE LONDON Dociie.-For some time past the warehouse-keepers in the London Docks have been at a loss to conceive a reason for the great destruction of their poultry. The feathers and other portions of the birds found at once proved that it was none of the biped species that caused so great havoc. A reward was offered for the apprehension of the rob ber, but without effect. The mvsterv was solved on Thursday by the appearance of a sleek and sly fox, stealing from the f-atern quay, and approaching the north. His appearance certainly at first caused a little terror, thinking it pos- sible that it might have been some wild animal es- caped from a vessel in the dock but his true cha- racter was soon ascertained, and the civ of" A fox, fox burst from many, and the chase was then given. Reynard bounded along at a spanking pace, but at last was obliged to take refuge in No..) vault, where lie was secured by a cellarman named Phillips, who nas ow the animal in his possession. It is impossible to ay how or when the animal made hij first appearance « the dock. On Thursday, a gentleman, named Robinson, Ull- d"rtook, for a wncor of tive hundred pounds, to row from Lor-don-bridue to Erith and back, a distance of about forty miles, in five hours and a half. He also t >ok the odds to a large amount that he would finish the match in five hours. He started at seventeen mi- nutes past six in the morning, and reached Erith in t\yO hours, twenty-four minutes, and..thirty seconds, notwithstanding the wind was rather fresh against him. On return he encountered much danger lrom tne swell bv the various steamers, hut he ultimately accomplished his ta^k in fifteen minutes thirty se- conds under the five hours, thus winning all his bets. IIt rowed throughout in the most spirited manner, and was heartily cheered on his arrival by a number of aentiei vn v. ho had accompanied him in a steam- boat. He afterwards lowed up t'1 Westminster- bridge, to determine a bye bet. Nearly 2,000/ was won and lost by the match, EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF ACCIDENTAL ENTOMB- MENT.—On the morning of Thursday, the Sth ult., part of the roof of the coal works belonging to the Duke de C'oigny, at Kelgramie, Ayrshire, set down, and John Brown, about tiO years of age, was inter- cepted in his egress, and remained in this subterra- neous abode u:\til Saturday last, the 3lst, when he was restored to light and liberty, being thus 2'i days without one morsel of food. When entombed he had with h;m a small portion of tobacco, sufficient for one day's consumption, and two small flasks of lamp oil; some of the latter he attempted to swallow, but was unable to do so, and the only substance he took, besides his tobacco, during the whoie period of his confinement, was a strong chalybeate water within the range of his prison, and which he declared was If very bad indeed." For the first and second week, he moved ubout in his dark and gbomv cell,-an area of about thirty yards, seeking every avenue of escape, out latterly he became so weak as to be unable to reach his only but disagreeable beverage —the water. The feel ing of hunger left the second day —which may be attributed, in some measure, to the astringent quality of the water. When found he was extended on the ground, and lying on his breast, life nearlv extinct, his extremities cold, his voice re- duced almost to a whisper, or childish tr-'ole, and his emaciation so gseat as to make him a complete person- ification of the Anatomie Vivante. His brother la bourers, cautiously, first lubricated hi~. parched mouth with butter, then gave him milk, arrow-root, and sherry, in small spoonfuls, at regular intervals—milk being the first thing he asked .'jr when he was dis- covered. On a former occasion he was entombed in a coal-pit for three days and three nights, and we have also been informed that he once suffered ship- wreck. Hopes had been entertained that by careful and judicious treatment his strength might be gradu- ally regained, and his ultimate recovery secured but his frame had been so completely wasted by want as to be unable to rally its feeble powers, and he sunk into death without any appearance of pain, between the hours of 10 and 11 o'clock of the night of Tues- day, the 3d inst.-Ayr Advertiser. A SYMPATHISING THIEF.—A smartly-dressed fellow called at a house in Charlotte-street, Fitzroy- square, and inquired for the master fwho was con- fined to his bed) stating that he had urgent business with him. The servant conducted him to her master's bed-room, who was so unwell that he could scarcely inquire the stranger's business, who said that his name was Johnson, son of Johnson, of Bond- stree' The invalid did not recollect any one of that name, and requested the intruder to be brief. He leaned over the sick man, and begged of him not to fatigue himself by speaking he would call again in a few days, sincerely hoping to find him better, and then departed. He was scarcely out of the house, when the gentleman missed a very good silk handker- chief from under the pillow, which the impertinent Mr. Johnson had taken with him, vice a watch, which he doubtless expected to find there. NEW HYDROSTATIC ENGINE.—We have had an I opportunity of examining the recent discovery made by the Rev, J. T. Porter, of the Close, of this city, which he has named an hydrostatic engine, and which, I when brought to perfection, will, in all probability, vie with the astonishing power of steam. The principle upon which the engine acts is the well- known law of nature, the pressure of fluids.' The construction of the apparatus is simple, consisting of four cylinders, two of which act as pumps, the other two as working cylinders, each of them having proper pistons. The double acting power (of the model) is put in motion by only 25 ounces of water, assisted by the lever. Sume idea may be formed of the force of the pressure, when we say that with the stroke of one of the cylinders of the piston, an ash bough, an inch and a half in diameter, was broken with the greatest ease. The Rev. Gentleman is very sanguine as to the ultimate success of his discovery, and affirms that a ship, laden with the usual freight, may take a trip to the East indies and back, the engine requiring foi its total supply not more than half a hogshead of spring watel. Frm what we have seen, we have no doubt that Mr. Porter will meet with success. He has our best wishes to that effect, and we beg to call :?iiz! world to this sin g ular the attention of the scientific worid to this singular and valuable discovev. A circumstance connected with it not the least valuable is that, unlike steam not the slightest danger is to be apprehended from any accidental derangement of the macliinery.-Salisbury Journal. PILCHARD FISHERY.—On Monday, the 2d inst., II seans shot at St. Ives, and inclosed about 12,000 hhds. of pilchards. One of the seans split from the immense pressure of the fish inclcsed in it, and lost the whole, said to be 4,000 hhds.—the weather is now favorable for landing them. A prospect of pil- chards at Newquay on Monday, 2d inst., when the seaners were on the alert, but no seans shot. Large bodies of pilchards have also appeared near the Li- zard during the last few days. Three fast sailing vessels have already loaded fish in the port of Pen- zance, and sailed for a market.—Cornwall Gazette.

THE STATES OF VIRGINIA. I Mr. GEORGE ROBINS has announced the sale of lOo.OOO Acres of Land, On the 3rd of December, situate upon the navicrable river, the Elk, in the best part of the States of Virgi- nia. We are unable to find room for the whole of his statement which accompanies the printed detail we cannot, however, refrain from giving a moderated ex- tract, and with a suggestion to our moriied friends to get a particularof the whole, as they will ohtain a great deal of very useful information. In the meantime it may be well to state a most important fact, that a farmer or mechanic whose capital is limited to 300' or 400/ may possess himself at that sale of farms from 500 to 1,000 acres each, and in a country where there are no taxes unincumbered by any public debt, allowed the unshack- led freedom of religious worship, and in the viduity uf a rail-road, which is to quadruple at least the whole value of the Virginian soil. I MR. GEORGE ROBINS'S ADDRESS TO THE CAPITALIST AND ALL THOSE WHO FEEL IH8- POSED TO IMPROVE THEIR CONDITION IN ANOTHER COUNTRY. He takes leave respectfully to make known that he has been so fortunate as to he preferred by the respectable proprietor of a vast territory in the States of Virginia, which will be the subject of the following remarks, to exercise his professional exertions in giving effect to the liberal intentions which the proposed plan has in contemplation. It would, however, be presumptuous in him even to take the slightest credit for the cleverness and perspicacity which mark the fallowing detail he does not claim the distinction of such accurate research as will he found conspicuous throughout: his travels have been confined to Europe, it has not entered into his mind to cross the Atlantic, and therefore lie cannot bring to his aid a practical knowledge of the vast ad- [ vantages that are in view, requiring the master hand" of one profonndiy learned in these affairs; yet Mr. Rohins takes leave to observe, it will be found conspicu- ous in the detail which is to follow. I SUMMARY STATEMENT.—SHORT EXTRACT ONLY. I The natural and social advantages of the state of V ir- sinii, tbe most central, and we may say the most civilized of all the American Union, are now so gene- rally known and acknowledged, that it is useless here to enlarge on the subject. The lands are on the Elk River, near to Kanawlia, and a stupendous undertaking of American Enterprize and Industry has been lately projected for the improvement of the immediate neighbourhood of the Lands now of- fered for sale. The whole capital for an extensive Rail- road has heen subscribed for, one-halt by the Legislature, and an Act of the State passed, and it is confidently expected that in four or if,-e years'time the rtailroad will be completed, uniting the ( i at Rivers of the James, communicating i-itil the Atlantic, to the Great River Kanawha, emptying its waters into the .Mighty Ohio. It must not he overlooked that Timber, which, at great distances from Roads and Navigable Rivers, is an injury or incumbrance to settlers and improvers, is, on the contrary, in the neighbourhood of towns, or on the borders of such communications, where Saw-mills are cheaply constructed and moved by water power, a c n- siderable element in the value of such Lund*. The Lands now offered for sale are on the Banks of Rivers, and near the flourishing Town of Charlestown. STATISTICAL POSITION OF VIRGINIA IN 1834. The State of Virginia abounds with game md deer, which are found in su-h plenty in the western forests as to form a chief article, of fo ;d to the inhabitants aud <u winter provision—with fish, cattle, and pork, and horses which may compete with the most excellent breeds of England. The soil and climate being favourable, tli- pasturage and meadow land is very luxuriant, and remarkably r.ch. In the West particularly the sugar-maple is exceed- ingly abundant. The Western part of Virginia possesses a great many Mineral and Sulphur Springs. The Iron, Lead, S:i'tt, an; ('i),i] Mines. &c. of Virginia are equally rich, pure, aud abundant. The single article of Salt alone renders the whole of North America in a mariner tributary to this State, which realizes a net yearly profit of some Millions of Dollars. The Estate now offered for sale is within In miles of one of the largest Salt-works in the Stale. According to the law massed at Richmond, March 7th, 1833, the law of escheat is repealed ar d abolished; an alien, as well as a citizen of Virginia, may now hold and inherit lands in the commonwealth. Lastly, the Legislature secured the execution of the contemplated Railroad. This mighty work will unite the head waters of J::mes river with those of the great Kamlwha, ami will open an internal c;»mmuriication"from Norfolk, on the Atlantic Ocean, and extending to the Ohio, touching at one end to New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico, by means of the Mississipi lliver, and at the other end to New York, by the (" .j Erie, ab endv made.

P 0 S T 8 C R I 9 T -c7' I ONDON, Wednesday, Nov. 11, 1835. "TE coPy the following from a Morning Contem- v v porary, without vouching for its correctness: —" Falmouth, Nov. 9.—The sloop Elizabeth arrived here last evening from Bilboa, she left thence on the 1st Nov., and brings the intelligence that on the day previous the whole of the British leg-ion, under Ge- neral Evans, left Bilboa and reached Portugalette, and on the following day marched thence for Santan- der, which plnce it was supposed they would make their h?ad quarters for the winter. The precise ob- ject in the movement of the auxiliaries had pot tran- spired. About 5,003 Spnish troops were to remain at Bilboa. The passengers by the above vessel com- municate nothing relative to any recent battle having- taken place between the opposing armies. Provisi- ons were in general plentiful, and the troops repre- sented as being in a state of good discipline.' San.- There is no longer a doubt of the existence of ex- tensive and wide-spreading disaffection in the French army. Sveral secret Associations have been recently discovered, the ramifications of which are said to ex- tend through several regiments. This is the more important, inasmuch as Louis I'hillippe is nearly de- pendent upon the army for the future stability of his throne. On Thursday last Leeds was visited by a heavy Ml of snow, but as it was accompained by a shower of rain its stay was of short duration.-Leeds Intelli- gencer. HOUSE OF LORDS, Nov. lo.-Tili,, ljein, the day to which Parliament stood prorogued, the Lords Com- missioners, Luxl Denman, Viscount Melbourne, and Lord Gienelg, took their seats below the Throne at half-past two o'clock. The Commons having been summoned to the bar, were represented by Mr. Rick- mon and other Officers—Sit John Campbell being the only Member present. The Commission was then read, and the Parliament prorogued till Thurs- day, the 17th of December.

In redemption of the pledge we gave in our last number, we lay before our readers this week the ADDRESS OF THE REFORM ASSOCIATION TO THS REFORMERS OF ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, AND \VALES;" and we sincerely hope that that important and able document will be perused by every person throughout the United Kingdom who feels an inter- est in the all-absorbing Irish Church question, with i the attention it so justly deserves. Much miscon- ception, we are persuaded, prevails upon the subject, even among the sincere friends of Reform, which that part of the press that works the No Popery" cry for the Tory faction labours most assiduously to keep up, and which the complex nature of the ques- tion i\ nders it somewhat difficult to dissipate in the minds of those persons—unfortunately no inconside- rable number—who are more influenced by sound than sense. But we have no fears with respect to the result; for, however numerous and formidable the obstacles that oppose its progress, truth is great, and will prevail." The misrepresentations of the Boytons and O'Sullivans, and other political demagogues, who range through the country under the guise of zealous religionists, but who in truth are either interested in maintaining the abuses of the Irish Church Establishment which they stand for- ward to ad vocate, or so completely under the influ- ence of incurable bigotry that they see every thing through a false and distorted medium, have led to inquiry, and inquiry, as might have been expected, is opening the eyes of the ptrblic, and producing a deep and general conviction that the time is now I come when the crying enormities which have so long existed in Ireland under the name of religion, must I no longer be suffered to disgrace the fair fame of Protestantism, and destroy the peace and prosperity of one of the finest and most important portions of our Empire. Admitting Popery to be every thing that these raving itinerant bigots represent it to be. —Granting them all they contend for when they assert that if it be Christianity at all it is Christianity under a most corrupt and distorted form, benighting the understandings, and enslaving the souls of ita ,1. adherents, ard influenced by bitter and deadly hos- tility to all who dissent from its doctrines and ritua!, —still to maintain, as these politico-religious charla- tans do, that the remedy for this complicated and v deeply-seated evil is to be found in the Established Church of Ireland, as at present constituted, is to f outrage the dictates of common sense, and repudiate the lessons taught by the history of that country for the last three centuries. Let any man look at the facts connected with the establishment of that Church as they are briefly detailed in the address in our last page; and if those facts be correctly given, which ■,