SCOTCH MARRIAGE Last week a marrage was celebrated in the shop in bad taste; but they are perfectly worthy of the four naked figures of of Messrs Griffin and Co, Wilson street, Glasgow, under circumstances slaves, whom the artist has represented as in chains, at the feet of the which appeared not a little extraordinary to Mr Griffin, as an English-barbarian who caused the disarmed Admiral of a foreign nation to be man. The anxious couple, with two witnesses, came into the shop on hanged at the yard-arm of his ship! Is it by such emblems as these that perceiving one of his Majesty's justices of the peace standing at the England would wish to make posterity believe that the only things she counter, and without preface or apology of any sort--requested to be taught the vanquished to feel was spoliation and slavery? Strange married. The justice went through the form in a few seconds. He eulogium for a conqueror!"-"The most remarkable building in Chester inquired if they consented to be man and wife, and on receiving an is the SESSIONS HOUSE and the COUNTY PRISON, united into one group of answer in the affirmative, declared them accordingly to be married persons. buildings. The Prison affords the best possible proof that the English The female was a very genteel and interesting looking young woman are not, as has been asserted, incapable of forming the noblest concep and her lover appeared also to be above the ordinary rank of clan- tions of architecture. Mr. Harrison, of Chester, furnished the plans of destine marriage folks. There were two other gentlemen standing by, this splendid building, which, by its admirable arrangement and noble who were not aware that so important an affair had been going on, until simplicity, does honour to the genins of the Arts." the company had left the premises.-Scotch Times.

EXPENSES OF TRAVELLING IN FRANCE.-At Calais I ended my journey, and there I added up the whole of my expenses, from the time of my quitting Paris on the 5th of October, to the paying of my bill at Calais on the 9th of December, in all 65 days, ten of which I was detained by the bad weather in different towns where I happened to be; and I find the whole sum to be five hundred francs and fourteen sous,-201. 165. 8d. English money. Divided by 65, it makes my daily expenses to have been, of course for my horse as well as myself, about seven francs and fifteen sous, or six shillings and sixpence English money. I went always to the best inns that I could find, and I dined and supped, or break fasted, at the Tables d'Hôtes, where I found other people dining, supping, or breakfasting; and 1 fed my horse sometimes three and sometimes four times a day, as I thought she required it.-J. M. Cobbett's Letters from France. ROYAL VETO.-Two natives of the country talked thus about the Veto:-"Do you know what this Veto is "No."-" Well, it is this: you have your plate full of soup; the King says to you, Spill your. soup, and you must spill it." DIGNITY CONFERRED BY OIL AND SMOKE.-It is remarkable, that as the Kings of Europe have been accustomed to be anointed with oil, as though to raise them to a different order of beings from their fellow-men, some Indian Chiefs have been used, at their inauguration, to have tobacco blown up their nostrils by the priest, while delivering these words," Receive the Spirit of Smoke."-Dyer's Letters on the English Constitution.

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Among the wanders of the present day is an extraordinary lady, who has chosen to walk from Scotland to London, barefoot. She is very lady-like in her manners and dress, and is endowed with all the comforts of life, as to fortune at least. When she arrives at an inn, she changes her walking-dress for fashionable silks and satins.

A HINT TO MOTHERS-All young animals naturally delight to be in the open air; and in perpetual motion: but we signify our disapprotion of this intention of Nature by confining our infants mostly in houses, and swathing them from the time they are born as tightly as possible. This natural instinet appears very strong when we see a child released from its confinement, in the short interval betwixt pulling off its day cloathes, and swathing it again before it is put to sleep. The evident tokens of delight which the little creature shews in recovering the free use of his limbs, and the strong reluctance it discovers to be again remit ted to its bondage, one should think would strike conviction of the cruelty and absurdity of this practice into the most stupid of mankind. Dr Gregory's Comparative View of the Faculties of Man with those of the

Animal World.

· CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE.—It is always instructive, as well as agreeable, to hear the opinions of intelligent foreigners respecting the works of our fellow countrymen. The Baron DUPIN (in his "Commercial Power of Great Britain," just published by Mr. Charles Knight) thus notices several of our public edifices: The interior of the BANK claims our admiration by its vast extent and the variety of buildings and offices which it contains. Here, as in the Villa of Hadrian, one is surprised at finding a faithful imitation of various monuments of antiquity. Thus the principal Cashier's office is a copy of the Temple of the Sun and Moon at Rome; Constantine's Triumphal Arch is re-produced to serve as an entrance to the court on the Lothbury side, which is also remarkable for its sumptuous architecture, imitated from the porticoes of Greece; and yet, close to these beautiful constructions, the lovers of the arts cannot behold without astonishment a variety of whimsical details, of fantastic ornaments, and of forms in the very worst taste."-" The TRINITY HOUSE is not very spacious, but it is distinguished by the elegant simplicity of its architecture. It was built after the plans of Mr. Wyatt." The MONUMENT of NELSON at Liverpool is erected in the centre of the handsome square of the Exchange. This monument is of marble and bronze, and cost above 9,000. On a circular pedestal of native marble the English Hero is seen trampling on a vanquished foe, who is expiring, an idea that seems to belong only to the most barbarous ages. Nelson holds out his sword to receive a last crown from the hands of Victory; at the same instant the figure of Death is placing his withered hand on the heart of the Admiral, to indicate the fatal blow which the warrior received in his last combat. The figure of Nelson is naked, and by no means shown under the most dignified aspect. I cannot but acknowledge that these conceptions appear to me as strange and

LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC WORKMEN.-The Glasgow Mechanics' Magazine notices the formation of a Literary and Scientific Institution among the Workmen of the University Printing Office, Glasgow. The Institution consists at present of 72 members, and is managed by regular office-bearers-a president, secretary, and treasurer, who are chosen by ballot. Ten lectures have already been delivered.-Lecturers: James A. Begg, pressman, President of the Institution. Adam Aitchison, overseer of the press-room. Thomas Orr, corrector of the press. George Brookman, corrector of the press. Malcolm Wright, corrector of the press, Alexander Whitelaw, corrector of the press. Alexander Spears, corrector of the press. Robert B. Townshend, compositor. Daniel M'Donald, pressman. David Mowat, pressman." One of the men (says the Glasgow Mechanics' Magazine) who delivered a lecture on Hydrostatics, a subject which was prescribed to him by his associates in the committee, did not know, when it was proposed to him, what the WORD MEANT! yet he delivered an interesting and respectable lecture, and went through his experiments with very considerable ease and accuracy. This fact, so creditable to the individual himself, we have great pleasure in recording, and we think it may be successfully opposed to any given number of speculative objections on the advantages of encouraging scientific inquiries among the most ignorant of the operatives. The majority of the committee who lectured are intelligent and well informed men, and had, with few exceptions, given more or less attention to philosophical subjects. Most of them had attended several sessions at Anderson's, or the Mechanics' Institution, and were consequently aware of the importance of scientific knowledge; yet they with one voice agree to prepare written lectures, were very great.-The conduct of their in declaring, that the advantages which they derived from being obliged seminary, as well as of the library, is left altogether to the men. No either one way or another. Every thing is confided to their own pruinterference is attempted, and no influence is exerted to sway them deuce, and they repay this confidence by a propriety of demeanour which it is peculiarly pleasing to us to be able to make known."-The Messrs. Duncan (the masters of this Printing-office) are doing all in their power to give effect to the laudable exertions of their men; and their enlightened example will, it is to be hoped, operate beneficially upon their southern brethren.

HUME.-Five days before he died, David Hume wrote the following letter to the Countess de Bouflers :-" Edinburgh, 20th of August 1776.Though I am certainly within a few weeks, dear Madam, and perhaps within a few days of my own death, I could not forbear being struck with the death of the Prince of Conti,-so great a loss in every particular. My reflections carried me immediately to your situation in this melat choly incident. What a difference to you in your whole plan of life! Pray write me some particulars, but in such terms that you need not care, in case of my decease, into whose hands your letter may fall.—My distemper is a diarrhoea, or disorder in my bowels, which has been gradually undermining me these two years, but, within these six months, has been visibly hastening me to my end. I see death approach gradually, without anxiety or regret. I salute you, with great affection and regard, for the last time.

D. H."

FRENCH MANUFACTURERS HEALTH versus Money-Getting.—At å dinner party at Nottingham the other day, at which were several gentlemen lately arrived from France, one of them was asked how the cotton spinning in that country went on? He stated in answer, that the capitalists who had recently established cotton-spinning in France, had procured a person from Mr. Holdsworth's factory near Manchester, to overlook the spinning of finer cotton than they had hitherto spun in the new establishment; and on their learning from him what was the degree of heat required for this purpose, (from 75 to 90 degrees, we believe!) they told him, that nothing could induce the French to work in that heat. The intended superintendant accordingly returned to that country where the wretched workmen have no alternative in such matters. From a Corre spondent.

JEREMY BENTHAM.-The reputation of Bentham as a lawyer does not belong exclusively to England: the Continent thay claim its share; for such a translator as Dumont is in some measure a second inventor, But what is not generally known is, that Bentham, after having applied in his youth the prodigious analytical powers of his mind to demon strations of jurisprudence, increasing in republican ardour at a time of life when the ideas of order naturally predominate over sentiments of liberty, has become in his old age the head, we may almost say the idol, of a political sect.-Letters on England, by A. de Staël.

Theodore, King of Corsica, when waited upon by the chairman of the subscription for his relief, when lodging in a garret in Dean street, Soho, received him under a canopy formed by the unnailed valance of the bed, holding out his hand for the charitable visitor to kiss!

It has lately been discovered, by Mr Rogers's Microscope, that the morbid secretions in the human subject, as the pus of consumption, of cancer, &c., are actually masses of animalculæ.

SHAWL MANUFACTURE. Under this head the Scotsman supplies some curious information respecting the recent advance of our native manus d turers in rivalry with those of the East. It is observed, in introducing the subject, that shawls were originally made in the East Indies, and exhibit a curious example of the high perfection to which some single species of manufacture may be carried in a country where the arts in general are in a rude state. So highly are these India shawls priced in this country, that they fetch a price of 1001. 2001. or even 500l. while. of domestic manufacture can be had for 201. or 30%. But what makes the preference shown to the foreign article still more surprising is, that no small proportion of the India shawls brought! to Britain have been worn by the natives as turbans, girdles, &c. before they were imported. This is no secret among dealers, for the marks of wearing are often manifest to an experienced eye, in the discolouration or roughening of the surface, the attenuation of the fabric in particular places, and now and then in actual rents and holes. Strange as it may seem, therefore, it is literally true, that our wealthy and titled dames are content to array themselves in the cast clothes of our Eastern subjects which vestments, notwithstanding, have no small intrinsic value!"! The fabric of a fine shawl is made either of silk or wool. Silk has gène rally been used here, but the Hindoos use an exquitely fine wool, which the British manufacturers did not know how to procure. In those parts the brightness of the dyes, and the figures formed by the loom as com of the work which have relation to chemical science or to machinery, in pared with their inferior figures-we of course excelled the Hindoos but in the finer shawls, they not only employed a delicate material of which we are ignorant (and which gives an inimitable softness and warmth) but worked the figures by hand according to a secret and ela-e at twopence per day! Great endeavours have been made of late years in this country to emulate the Indian manufacture; and many improve. ments have been made, both in the mode of execution, and in the procuring of better wool but still there was an evident difference in the latter particular. At length (says the Scotsman)" enquiries were set on foot in the East; and specimens of the actual material used in the fabrication of the very finest shawls were brought home, It was found to consist of the undergrowth of wool of the Thibet goat, or the down growing beneath the long rough hairs which form the exterior covering of the animal. But a new difficulty presented itself-this down was so extremely tender that the most expert spinners in England despaired of forming it into a thread of sufficient tenacity to bear the operation of the inexhaustible; and we verily believe, that if it were required to convert spiders' webs into cables, they would find means to accomplish it, An English spinner discovered a process by which he was able to form very delicate yet firm and durable thread out of this soft material. Our manufacturers were then in a condition to unite every possible excellence, in their workmanship. We think we may safely say that this has been attained. Some superiority the Indians have still in their patterns, from to shawls of the tedious process they employ; but this will be confined the very first class. In the others we already equal or surpass them and future improvements will probably leave us little to desire on this Edinhead. Thirty years ago there was not a single shawl burgh (the chief seat now of the fine manufacture) and the number made in Britain was absolutely trifling. At this day, shawls are made to the value of a million sterling annually, at least."

REV. ALEX. FLETCHER.-Bills have been distributed about the streets, and handed into the shops, intimating that the Rev. Alex. Fletcher, of love-making celebrity, is, by Divine permission, to preach to morrere of the Old Church of North Leith, morning and afternoon; and again in no less a place than the George Street Assembly Rooms, on Tuesday, at 11 A. M. and 6 P.M.." when collections will be made before and after service, to assist his congregation in the erection of their New Chapel." The attempt, we must say, bespeaks no small portion of assurance. Of his conduct to the young Lady who was so unfortunate as to attract his attention, there can be but one opinion. It led to his expulsion from the Associate Church, and in the judgment of every impartial person, would have justified a much heavier infliction. Had he acknowledged his error, we should have been the last to allude to it; but it is too evident that the object of his journey hither is to convert the notoriety he has acquired by acts so discreditable, into a means of raising money. Our townsmen may rest assured, that every shilling he receives, he will himself triumphantly refer to as a testimony in favor of his own innocence, and against what he calls the cruelty and persecutions of his enemies.. But the good sense and good feeling of our fellow citizens will disappoint him of the harvest he anticipates. They will leave the knot of credulous fools in London, who stick to the reverend gentleman in spite of common sense and reason, to build a church for themselves.borate method: an Indian will work three or four years on one shawl, Scotsman, Aug. 27.

PROFESSOR ANDERSON.-A very neat portrait of Professor Anderson, the original founder of scientific classes for Mechanics, is published in a supplementary number of the Glasgow Machanics' Magazine, and is accompanied with a memoir. There was a dash of political enthusiasm in the character of this worthy man, which gives his life considerable interest. He invented a field piece, which was treated with neglect by the Board of Ordnance; but being an ardent admirer of the French Revolution, he carried his invention to Paris, where it was received with eagerness, and lauded as "the gift of Science to Liberty." He suggested a plan for circulating the Rights of Man," and other illuminating works, in Germany, by balloons launched in France-published some military essays, in French, for the service of the Republic, and sung Teloom. The practical skill and invention of our artizans are, however, Daim with all his heart when the King swore to the Constitution. He delighted in visiting the shops of artizans, and from the interest he felt in their instruction, opened a class for them in Glasgow College, on Tuesdays and Fridays, which he continued till his death, in 1796. We are glad to perceive that this useful periodical is carried on with undiminished spirit and success: it reflects crédit both on its publishers and

conductors. Scotsman.

ELECTIONEERING SERMON.-At an election for the town of Bradford, Mr Whitbread, and Howard the philanthropist, were opposed to Sir W. Wake, and a Mr Sparrow. A clergyman of the established Church, warm supporter of the patriotic candidates, one Sunday morning, during the heat of the election, took for his text that passage of Matthew's gbe pel, in which the question is proposed by our Lord to his disciples," Are not two Sparrows sold for a farthing?" Whence this encouragement to their perseverance and their faith is deduced: "Fear ye not, therefore, ye are of more value than many Sparrows.”6%)

New River SuppLY. A Constant Reader says, "the Correspondent who has suggested an inaccuracy in the statement contained in the THE PLAGUE OF MICE-At Strasbourg, all land is sold in separate Examiner as to the number of pints of water daily furnished by the New lots of one acre when put up to auction, the popular mode of selling, and River Company, has himself fallen into a mistake. He says, that accorddeposit being paid, the remainder is paid by instalments at such intervals ing to the evidence given before the House of Commons, the yearly as the seller may choose to dictate before the sale. In this way great supply is seventy-eight millions of hogsheads. Now, as a hogshead conruin was the consequence to the needy purchasers of 1817 and 1818, tains 63 gallons, and a gallon eight pints, each hogshead contains 504 who had to pay instalments in 1821 and 22; and, added to this, there pints; which multiplied by 78,000,000, the annual number of hogswas a remarkable visitation upon this particular and devoted little coun- heads, shews the yearly number of pints to be 39,312,000,000; which, try in the latter year, the mice. Several times I have heard natives of divided by 365, shews the daily number of pints to be 107,704,109 -, this province congratulating one another on there being no mice this instead of 92,390,000 pints, as stated by the Correspondent, who is thereseason; and, in speaking of past seasons, mais les souris ! with a sigh that fore 15,314,109 pints per day below the truth."-In reply to the ques I did not sufficiently attend to, or ask the cause of. Mr Schattenmann tion appended to this notice by our Correspondent, we have to say, that told me that the country so swarmed with them in that year, that they we do not think that dishonesty to any extent is practiced in the quarters ate completely, not only all crops of every kind of grain, but even po- alluded to; and that either direction will equally answer the purpose.] tatoes in the fields. That they ate the grain and poisoned the straw, CAMBRIDGE MORALITY.-Every man who has been graduated at Cam and that for the better part of two months, August and September, as bridge knows full well, that one half of the Students are on the average soon as night-time came, the roads were blackened with them, running on the sick-list: and I challenge any one to deny, that the three princiin all directions, eating anything that they came near. They seemed, pal Surgeons of the town have usually, during full term, 70 patients, each he said, to have been showered down, and are, by the poor and ignorant, suffering under the same pestilence: and yet (will it be credited?) a set firmly believed to have been so. In such quantities were they on the of Clergymen, to whom the health and morals of the rising generation roads at night, that people were somewhat afraid to walk after dark; and are entrusted, tolerate the existence of a large village, inhabited by the this continued until a dreadful storm with a shower of rain that lasted vilest prostitutes that disgrace humanity? The footpath to this city of almost a night throughout, came and drowned the whole generation, death is the most broad, level, and easy walk out of the town. On the which seems to have taken no root since. But the effects are still felt score of decency, this subject cannot be exposed in all its details; but I and will be felt yet for a long time. Men comparatively wealthy were repeat my caution to all parents who think highly of the advantages of obliged to borrow money upon their farms, and those who were strug. the University, that the Saloons of Drury Lane and Covent Garden do not gling against the effects of the calamity; to pay their instalments and offer greater facilities for polluting the mind and destroying the conkeep their purchases, were swept away in hundreds and hundreds.stitution, than the Eastern extremity of the town of Cambridge. J. D in the Oriental Herald. J. R. Cobbett's Letters from France:

are respectable, and I shall not disclose where I live. You must excuse me, Sir. [Here the prisoner appeared to suffer the most dreadful mental agony.]-The Officer searched the prisoner, and found on his person a bill for 100%. and a letter addressed to him "William Simpson," urging him to pay certain monies due to the writer. The prisoner was committed to Newgate.

ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, &c. MISERY.-Between the hours of nine and ten on Tuesday evening, as Wilkinson, a constable of Southwark, was passing along High street, his attention was called to a poor woman who was lying groaning on the steps of a tradesman's house. He enquired the cause of her illness. She replied that she was dying for want of assistance. He raised her up, and with the aid of a watchman, conducted her to St George's watch-house, where she was kindly received. The poor creature related a dismal story, saying that she had parted from her husband, and had been driven to seek support by that most destructive of means-prostitution; that latterly her health had been declining, and that ou the preceding night she slept under one of the arched seats of London Bridge, nobody deigning to relieve her. When a bed was procured, she was removed from the watch house, but she died before she reached the place, although it was only a short distance.

BIRTHS.

On Wednesday, at Ballytruckle, in the South-west Liberties of this city, a poor woman, named Duggan, who earns a livelihood by washing, was safely delivered of four children-two of each sex. Two of them were born at six o'clock in the morning, and two at eleven.-Waterford Chronicle.

MARRIED.

On the 30th ult. at Lambeth, Henry Hopley White, of Lincoln's Inn, Esq. barrister-at-law, to Catherine Sarah, third daughter of the late Colonel Dacre. On Wednesday, the Rev. Horace George Cholmondeley, to Mary Elizabeth, daughter of the late Godschall Johnson, Esq. and granddaughter to the late Sir Philip Francis.

On the 1st inst. at Cudham church, in Kent, Mr Thomas Landseer, eldest son of Mr Landseer, of Upper Conway street, Fitzroy square, to Belinda, second daughter of Captain Pocock, of Ashmore House. sister of John Jones, Esq. of Portland place. On Thursday, the Rev. Richard Board, of Westerham, Kent, to Elizabeth,

On Thursday, at St George's, Hanover square, Charles Douglas, youngest son of James Halford, Esq. of Piccadilly, to Emma Matilda, only daughter of the late Richard Sumner, Esq. of Shackleford, Surrey. On the 1st inst. at St Martin's in the Fields, G. W. Pryce, Esq. to Sarah, youngest daughter of the late Rev. Robert Peter, of Trevelis, Cornwall.

On the 25th ult. Mr James Possible, miniature painter, of Broad street, Bath, to Miss Anna Carter, of Trim street, in the same city.

at-law, to Letitia, widow of Major-General Norton Poulett.
On Sunday week, at Brighton, Thomas Lisle Follett, Esq. of Lyme, barrister-

On Thursday, David Martineau, Esq. of Tulse Hill, to Catherine Edgar, daughter of Dr Hyde, of Paris.

street, surgeon, to Anne, eldest daughter of the late Rev. John Sibree, of At Christ's church, Surrey, last week, Mr John Lowe, of Little Charlotte Frome, Somerset.

DIED.

On Monday, at West Wickham, Burton Morice, Esq. one of the Judges of the
Marshalsea Court, and a Commissioner of Bankrupts.
On Tuesday, in Brunswick square, Francis Jones, Esq.
On the 23d ult. in Albemarle street, Lady Elphinstone.

On the 30th ult. at Wye, in Kent, William Scudamore, Esq. in his 79th year. On Wednesday morning, at Ewell, David Wilkinson, Esq. of New Broad street, surgeon. in the 26th year of his age.

On Monday morning, between one and two o'clock, a fire broke out in the premises of Mr Newman, the Sun public house, East Smithfield. The building being principally of wood, the flames raged with the greatest intensity, and shortly reduced the entire, with the singular exception of the bar, to heaps of ruins. Mr and Mrs Newman escaped, and in a state of nudity, the bed being enveloped in flames before they were conscious of their danger. They may indeed be indebted to a child who lay along with them for their safety; it, on perceiving the flames, pinched Mr Newman, who immediately awoke. There was property to a considerable amount in the house, the principal part consisting of Bank-notes. To the agreeable surprise of Mr Newman, on the following day, amongst the ruins, the notes were discovered, partially burnt, together with twelve-quence of injuries he sustained by the accidental driving of his chaise against a watches, a quantity of sovereigns, foreign coins, and trinkets. The escape of a cripple was singular; he fortunately on the previous night, having indulged too freely in his potations, felt himself unable to go up to the garret, his usual place of rest, and therefore took up his abode in the tap-room; had it not been for this, he must have been consumed, for his bodily defects would have prevented the possibility of his escape.

two seals and a dressing case.

On the 1st inst. suddenly, at Kennington, Wm. Webb, Esq. in his 62d year.
On the 30th ult. in Brunswick square, Francis Jones, Esq. solicitor, in conse-

waggon.

BIBLE SOCIETIES.

In the Oriental Herald, a correspondence between the Rev. Mr Adams, Missionary in Calcutta, Professor Ware, of Harward College, Cambridge, United States, and the famous Rammahun Roy, a convert to Christianity, is published. This work every where bears the marks of great care in examining facts, and great candour in drawing inferences. It was first published in the country of which it treats, fearlessly challenging contradiction from those who were on the spot, ready and willing to refute its errors, if they existed. From this correspondence, from these authorities, all Protestants and Biblicals, it appears-First, the three most active and distinguished Missionary Societies have made eleven converts. Secondly, that these eleven converts were of the lowest and most immoral of the country. Thirdly, that the conversion of these eleven converts was more than doubtful, for they were enriched themselves, that they got Forty Thousand Pounds from the Christian public, to circulate the Scriptures in the Oriental dialects. That in their Reports, they mention, that they published the Scriptures in a language which did not exist. Fifthly, that they pocketed the money. From these well attested facts, I draw the following conclusions:-That the Bible Societies deceive the public; that they plunder the public; that money is the motive, that money is the object, that money is the end of all their labours; in a word, that they rob the Christian world.

On Monday night a daring outrage was committed in the house of Mr Ellerbreck, of Castle street, Finsbury square. Mr Ellerbreck, his housekeeper, and his lodgers, were all from home, and about 11 o'clock he returned alone, but had scarcely entered the house, when he was attacked by three men, who beat bin unmercifully, and one of the ruffians making a snatch at his watch, the chain broke, leaving two seals in the villain's hands. The robbers having secured Mr Ellerbreck, locked him in a lower room, while they proceeded to ransack the house; but after being some time thus engaged, they made a precipitate retreat, alarmed it is supposed, by some noise in the lower part of the house. Mr Ellerbreck, in his struggle with the robbers, received a severe cut on the head, and was otherwise severely injured. The only articles carried of were the INQUEST.-Mr Webb, wine-merchant, of Church row, Lambeth, destroyed himself on Wednesday night. He was discovered dead in the stable, with a pistol grasped in his right hand, with which he had termi-bribed with money. Fourthly, the pious Missionaries so nated his existence. It had apparently been discharged through the mouth, the roof of which was completely destroyed, and both jaws were fractured in a frightful manner. Mr Bryant, surgeon, of Kennington, said he had known the deceased for several years, and he attributed the fatal act to a desponding state of mind, caused by the death of two of his sons about six months back-Verdict-Self-destruction, while labouring under a fit of temporary insanity, OUTRAGE. Thursday evening, Webster, the gaoler of Marylebone police office, was attacked and nearly murdered. At the end of Tottenham street, a tall, powerful-looking man came up to him, and saying, "Is your name Webster; don't you belong to the police-office?" Webster answered to the affirmative. The stranger then said, "I have followed you some time, knowing you to be the same." Webster, rather suprised, looked in the man's face, and instantly recognised him to be a desperate smuggler named Adkin, whom he had four years since apprehended on the coast, for smuggling and an attack upon some revenue officers, for which the fellow was sentenced to imprisonment. The moment he found himself recognised, the ruffian said, "I will now be revenged, you d-d informing rascal," and seizing Webster by the throat, dashed him to the earth: Webster, as soon as he could get upon his feet, grasped the fellow's collar, calling out to several persons who had assembled, to assist him; but the ruffian swore that he would kill the first who dared to interfere, and again dashed the unfortunate Webster to the earth, and beat him in a dreadful manner, leaving him on the ground almost lifeless. Although above one hundred persons were assembled, not one interfered in any way, or attempted to secure the miscreant. Webster was removed into a shop by two gentlemen and his wounds being dressed, he recovered his senses, and attended at Marylebone office before Mr Griffiths, who has directed a most active pursuit.,..

But come to Bible-reading England, and contrast the "centre of light" with the "darkness of the surrounding countries." Let us see the influence of Bible-reading in England: "There are amongst us (that is in England) those, not less in darkness and ignorance, than those that are to be found in the Pagodas of China, or who, amidst the deep wilds of Indian forests, sacrifice their children or prostrate themselves before demons.-Jan. 1820, Speech of John Wilkes, Chairman of a Home Missionary Society.-According to your brethren, England is a howling wilderness." The Home Missionary Society (1820) says of Northumberland, Cumberland, Durham, and part of Lancashire, that "darkness covers this part of England, and gross darkness the people.

Here, Sir, is Bible-reading England! Now, either England the gravities of political discussion; but we cannot be re

proached as visionary, while we refer to the practical effects of the theories we are devoted to advocate. America supplies the place of argument. Sophistry may rack its subtle brains -we point to America: the hired abettors of corruption may rail-America is our reply.

is a "moral waste" and "a howling wilderness," or the Bible Society and the Missionaries are the greatest calumniators that ever appeared upon the earth. Take which side you please of this dilemma. If your Societies bear "false witness against their neighbour"-if the Missionaries, if your own brethren, be calumniators, can they be sent by the spirit of truth to preach the truth? How can calumniators be coming of this fair tree-that the word America, which in political missioned by the spirit of truth to teach the Gospel of Jesus Christ? If they be not calumniators, if they be telling the truth, then England, Bible-reading England, England that exports Bibles like wool, England that makes Bibles the ballast for the ships-if the most ignorant, immoral, darkest nation on the earth and the English Clergy, who stripped the poor of their patrimony, and give to their daughters, and their wives, and their sons-the English Clergy, who receive eight millions annually, who take the tenth of the sweat of the poor man's brow the English Clergy are the most indolent, the most ignorant priesthood on the earth, that did not instruct the people. From a Letter in the Dublin Weekly Register.

BUNKER'S HILL MONUMENT.-LA FAYETTE. We have perused some American papers of a late date, (July), with very great pleasure. They contain an account of the ceremonial of laying the foundation stone of a monument on Bunker's Hill, in the presence of General La Fayette, commorative of the battle which was there fought for the cause of American Independence. What a feeling of exultation must have accompanied this act! What a glow of grateful satisfaction must on this occasion have warmed the bosoms of the descendants of those noble fathers who by their own right hands bought, and by their blood sealed the possession thus bequeathed,

"This heritage of heart and hand

And proud distinction from each other land." Well may the American people be proud in the knowledge that their ancestors and themselves, in modern times have first set, and have continued the example of a people successfully establishing and preserving political independence. That country has been the ark of hope, when the deluge of tyranny was sweeping the eastern hemisphere. America has been the palladium of the most holy of causes-of the right of nations to govern themselves! Whatever reverses the destinies of the human race have been exposed to in other quarters, here has Freedom; since first triumphantly asserted, continued on her steady throne, smiling in the calm assurance of her inviolability."

What does not the world owe to America! In the ranks of her patriot militia, Frenchmen were disciplined to wield the arms of victory in Liberty's defence. Her successful example animated the heroes, who in the better times of revolutionary France, repelled and punished their invaders, Since that, and from that impulse, the struggle in various parts has been unceasing-Despotism has had no rest-her sleepless watch, her most active exertions, have not sufficed to quell the flame which has been bursting, ever and anon, in this land or in that. America has been, and is, the watchword for the warriors of liberty. She has been a living appeal from the oppressed to the oppressing: a proof incontrovertible of the advantages of dispensing not only with the chains of the most rigorous despotism, but even with the baubles of a mitigated slavery. There the crown has been the will of the people-the sceptre, the people's decision There, the public ceremonies are the celebration of popular independence; there, the national triumphs are to record the will and power of rational creatures to be free!

This is a theme on which our imagination must be allowed to run riot-on which our pén can scarcely restrain itself within

And here we cannot but observe another fruit of the plantallusion once signified par excellence, the United States, can now no longer be exclusively so applied. South America now vindicates its claim to a place among free nations. America, in the vocabulary of liberty, does not signify one portion of that vast continent, but the whole; the "two vast wings" brood over the extended hemisphere, fostering native powers and nursing native independence.

If ever an epocha deserved a recording monument, it surely was that which witnessed the first resistance to arbitraty power-the first of a series of acts which ended in the consummation of acknowledged independence. Just fifty years since (on the 17th of June 1775), was fought this memorable battle, in which the attempt to subjugate freemen fighting on their own soil for their hearths and homes, was proved hopeless. What followed is well known,-it is written on the enduring page of history. America became free.

The gallant and venerable La Fayette, who for more than half a century, in Europe as in America, has been one of Liberty's most consistent and energetic champions-he whose young hand was with the Americans in their early struggle, was now present to give additional interest to the scene; and to have himself the satisfaction of witnessing the erection of a trophy for that object towards whose accomplishment he had so effectually contributed. The reception this veteran has met with in all the States of America which he has lately visited, has been such as must be most gratifying to him, as well as most honourable to the feelings of the American people. They best prove the value they set on their own independence, in thus honouring the hero who assisted them in establishing it.. We cordially join in the sentiment with which the General concluded his reply to the compliments which accompanied the proposal of his health at the public dinner on this interesting day :-"Bunker Hill, and the holy resistance to oppression which has already enfranchised the American hemisphere--may the next half century Jubilee's toast be-To enfranchised Europe."-Kent Herald." POSTSCRIPT,

MONDAY, SEpt. 5.

In the Moniteur of Friday, which arrived last night, we find a report made to the King of France by his Minister of Marine, detailing the circumstances in which the Royal Ordinance was tendered to the people of Hayti, and describing the manner in which it was received. The utmost caution seems to have been observed to avoid any appearance of treating with the Black Republic as an independent power, and the most effective arrangements to have been made to secure acquiescence without negociation. The Government and the people of Hayti would appear, by this account, to have been as passive in the work of their emancipation, as an ancient Roman slave manumitted by his master. They were in bondage till the arrival of the French fleet-they were French vassals up to the moment when the Royal ordinance was read-they paid homage to their master when receiving the the cap of liberty; and, that nothing might be wanting to complete the slavish resemblance, the manumitting rod was represented by an imposing naval force.

The state of Spain is not a subject on which any speculations can be discreetly hazarded. Bessieres has been shot;