the lapse of centuries would not have restored; nay, that out of the very and in another case in bankruptcy, the same attorney's bill amounted to contemplation of such a storehouse of science had proceeded the mortify-3,6621. 8s. 2d. and was taxed at 6027, 11s. 1d, making a reduction of the enormous sum of 3,0591. 17s. 1d.! in both cases being a reduction of 4.4561. 6s. 10d. These cases are on record. By these observations I disclaim any intention of remarking upon the extent of the costs in the case referred to-(of which I know nothing :)-I am aware that litigant parties may carry their proceedings to an extent even beyond that of The Attorney General v. Thielfall," and in which it has been said, that the object of contention is a piece of moorland, 4 feet by 10, upon which the gable end of a cottage stands. Upon that question the Lord Chancellor has remarked, that the land, on an improved rent, taken at 50 years purchase, computed at 41. a year, would be worth only 2007, and perhaps would defray one-tenth of the costs of the suit. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, Southampton buildings, Nov. 4. ing negation; for if ever again there bad arisen an anatomist endued with the talent, and acuteness, and indefatigable application of Mr Hunter, willing so to devote his days and nights, from early youth to hoary age, in toiling after knowledge, he could not have failed to remember the fate of that matchless museum, and whatever might be his zeal for the good of mankind and the honour of his profession, he would, with a breaking heart, turn from a pursuit, which might, indeed, secure to himself an unfading reputation (for, thanks be to Heaven, the good as well as the evil deeds of men live after them," and are not always" interred with their bones," but must inevitably entail indigence on his unprotected family, and dishonour on his ungrateful country, whose fame and whose usefulness he was endeavouring to extend.* Let the pictures of the late President become the possession of North America, or to any other State," pass that bourn from which no picture would e'er return," and if ever a parter with a generous aspiration after the highest dignity of his Art. (Historic Painting), should meditate the devotion of his time and talents exclusively to that noble pursuit, he would be compelled to relinquish the design; he would reflect with a sigh on the fate of Mr West's Gallery; and if he possessed the best solace of his pictorial labours, a wife and children, he would feel that, however he might incline to sacrifice himself to the love of Fame and his profession, yet for their sakes he must suppress his honourable aspiration, and though he cast" many a longing, lingering look behind," abandon in despair the bright but baseless fabric of his hope. Is there, after a consummation so devoutly to be deprecated as that which I have painfully contemplated, amongst the artists of Great Britain, one who could, so dedicating his time and powers, with reason promise himself a better fate? I would not be presumptuous, but I dare take it upon me to affirm, that there is not one so vain of his own pretensions, nor so unjust to the memory and talents of his illustrious predecessor. Alas! Sir, Historic Painting is a maiden, enchantingly beautiful, but too soy to be won by any but a sincere, an ardent, and persevering lover; and in this country at least, the morality of public patronage is much too severe to allow of her being successfully courted, as a mistress, by the Artist who has already a lawful wife whom he feels it his bounden duty to support. And if, enamoured of her charms, he woo the lovely damsel ere he be linked to another, haply by assiduity and steadiness, and all "appliances to boot," he may win her to his wishes; but let him not forget, while his heart beats high with expectation, that her dowry is empty fame that he must be contented to live with her in indigence, and expire in the penury to which he has, in the rashness of inexperience, or with a heated imagination, wilfully devoted himself. There are several other points of coincidence between the two extraordinary men whose genius and productions I have thus commented on, that appear to me worthy of notice; but these, with some few remaining observations on this subject, must, for want of the necessary. leisure, be farther postponed. Meanwhile, I am, Sir, yours, with due respect, Oct. 31, 1825. COURT OF CHANCERY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE EXAMINER. J. H. SIR,-In a case which was discussed in this Court on Wednesday last, on an appeal respecting the legality of a surrender of Copyhold property, the costs are said to amount to upwards of 1,400l. the beneficial interest in the cause being only 5001. On this question I wish to make one remark: The public is aware that every attorney's bill is subject to taxation, and although the bill of costs of a professional man contains charges for fees paid to the officers of the Court, it has been found on taxation, to the prejudice of the attorney, that such charges, though demanded by, and paid to, the officers as fees, were not in fact, by law, either demandable or payable as such. The Commissioners appointed to report as to the duties, salaries and emoluments of officers in courts of justice, made their report in 1816; that report has never been confirmed, notwithstanding which the officers have since demanded and taken of the solicitors what that report recommends; the consequence of this to the profession has been, that, on the taxation of their bills, they have been disallowed such payments, the same being contrary to law. While on this subject, it will not be uninteresting to notice to what an extent an attorney's bill has been reduced on taxation. In a late case in the above Court, an attorney's bill of costs, as made out, amounted to 2.7501. 18s. 5d. and was taxed at 1,3541. 8s. 8d. making a reduction of 1,3961. 9s. 9d.; It is due to the memory of Mr Pitt (who was the Palinurus of the state, vessel) to say, that when he declined recommending the purchase of the Museum of Mr Hunter, we were at the commencement of a war, which he foresaw was likely enough to prove fierce, bloody, and protracted; and that his avowed reason for cautiousness was an unwillingness to incur an avoidable expense. To a government whose annual income amounts to many millions, such a plea is at any time of doubtful validity, when a great national object is to be attained; but if at a period of profound peace, with an ample and even increasing revenue, and when nations, in defiance of the philosophical axiom, grown wiser from experience, are running a race for the meed of liberality in the peaceful arts and sciences, what shall be said of a refusal to expend a few thousands of pounds for the honour of the realm and the gratification of its inhabitants? Will it not be asserted, that either the prosperity of which we boast has no real existence, or that the professed determination to foster the fine arts is a mere empty sound" Voa et præterea nihil " J. H. STATE OF CRIME IN ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND. The Edinburgh Observer contains the state of crime in the Southern and Northern divisions of the Island, during the present year. It is delightful to remark," says the writer," that, to the notorious falling off of crime, during the present year, in this great capital, we may add quite an equal diminution throughout every corner of Scotland. During the Circuit just concluded, the half-yearly Calendar for the whole country, extended only to ninety-nine cases; being six less than, in the preceding one, were furnished by the district of Lanark alone. At one circuit town there was only a single case; at another there were but two; at six others the average was less than ten. At Glasgow alone, the centre of Scottish criminality, which, half a year ago, presented more than a hundred cases, each costing the country the charge of, at least, a dozen witnesses, the falling off has not been less than sixty cases. Throughout the whole circuits the number of capital iudictinents has hardly ever been known so unimportant; and not one charge, we believe, has been followed by & capital conviction." After congratulating the country on this decrease of crime, the writer proceeds to the consideration of England: "Would to God that we could mention England with the same spirit of practical applause!-In the single gaol of Newgate there were, last month, about five hundred criminal prisoners-full five times as many as, in the last circuit (setting bail completely out of question) were contained by every prison in Scotland. Of these miserable creatures, more than four hundred stood for trial for crimes perpetrated in the city of London and Middlesex alone, being an advance of nearly a whole bundred on the list of the same Sessions for the preceding year-an enlargement, for these narrow districts alone, in itself completely equal to the whole catalogue of crime for this country. Of these wretches, too, a full third had been imprisoned for capital offences; all of them for commissions inferring the most predacious and corrupted habits. In Scotland, on the other hand, the great mass of trials was for petty revenue deforcings, or insignificant assaults; all of pretty nearly the same calibre of iniquity, as the endless offences which, in England, come under the summary judgment of the magistrates of police. The last year, in fact, exhibits the most bloated calendar which has afflicted England within the knowledge thousand; almost eight hundred more than in the frightful famine and The whole commitments cannot have been fewer than fifteen seditions of 1819; and nearly two thousand more than in the terrible stagnation of 1821." of man. As the inhabitants of the divisions of the Island are engaged in the same pursuits, and subject to the same fiscal regulations; and as their industry and trade are affected by the same circumstances, the decrease course be traced to peculiarities in their respective institutions. of crime in the one country, and its rapid increase in another, must of man nature is the same in Scotland that it is in England; and if there is of course have a cause, which it ought to be the object of all good men a greater disposition to crime in the latter country, that disposition must to discover, with a view to reformation. " we have but one resource," says the Scotch Journalist. be sought in the horrors of a bloated penal statute book; in the op"The occasion must be sought in the frame of Justice itself. It must pressions of a local Magistracy; in the appalling encouragement of informers; in the terrors of a bloody game code; in the wanton insolence of parish officials; and the consequent depravity of the shrinking victims of their iron scourge. The lash, in fact, has sunk into the very heart of the English people. Their villanies are no more the especial offspring of crowded cities, or bloated manufactories. They fester in the hearts, and scowl under the huts of a once gallant peasantry. In the vast manufacturing district of York, with a population of twelve hug dred thousand souls, the commitments for the past year stand at 641. In the exclusively agricultural circuit of Norfolk, with a population of only a million, the commitments have been computed at 1186. Who shall talk, after this, of the superior ferocity and combinations of our manufac turing classes? Here, with a population nearly a quarter of a million less, the crimes in a farming circuit almost double those of a manufactur ing territory. This may well startle the boldest and most knowing amongst us. In one view, however, we rejoice that there is evidence enough here, that the reviled manufacturers of England are, beyond all comparison, the most quiet, the most virtuous, the most valuable, the best provided, and therefore the most happy of her people. There is, besides, evidence enough here, too fatal and bloody evidence, that there exists a growing curse in the inmost masses and institutions of the ༢ country-a curse, menacing the most desperate consequences, demanding the most instant remedy: polluting our vitals, choking up our prison houses, floating our scaffolds in blood, to an extent more monstrous, even than the horrors of a civil convulsion; a curse, too, however sugared over by bravado or neglect, that, receiving no check, must blast the very sinews and fountains of all our glories, and may one day, and that early, go far to make England as signal for the reprobation, as she now seems to be for the favour, of the God of Nations." BURNING OF WIDOWS. A set of papers, printed for the use of the House of Commons, has been jast distributed, containing copies or extracts of all communications received by the Directors of the East India Company, "relative to the burning of widows on the funeral piles of their husbands," since the 16th June 1824. The papers contain the number burned in 1823, in the Presidencies of Bengal and Bombay. The numbers of women who have been burned to death in the Presi dency of Bengal, in the last four years, for which returns have been made are, for1820 1821 597 1.1822 654 1823 583 575 Saturday, November 5. INSOLVENTS. R. Hughan, Ipswich, tea-dealer. BANKRUPTS. G. Cowper, Oxford street, linen-draper. Solicitor, Mr Farris, Surrey H. Wehnert, Leicester square, tailor. Solicitors, Messrs Richardson and W. Pott, Union street, Southwark, victualler. Solicitor, Mr Glynés, I. Levy, Church street, Minories, silversmith. Solicitor, Mr Isaacs Under the head "Presidency of Bombay" the returns are not systematic, F. Baker, Childs' hill Pottery, Hendon, potter. Solicitor, Mr Branscomb, but there appear to have been sacrificed in 1820 1821 661822 50 1823 47 38 Of the instances of these sacrifices or Suttees in 1823, no less than 340 occurred in the Calcutta division, including Cuttack, and 46 in the very "suburbs of Calcutta ;" and it is remarkable that while in other parts of India the practice seems to diminish, and in some large districts entirely abandoned, it continues quite unchecked in that district where British influence might be expected to be most powerful. It is absurd to attempt to make laws to prevent self-destruction, dictated whether by religious or by any other motives; but the burning of the Hindoo widows is often attended with circumstances which make it any thing but a voluntary sacrifice. The prevailing opinion of the official people in India appears to be, that the Government cannot safely pronounce a direct prohibition of these murders; but this opinion is by no means universal, Mr Harrington, one of the Members of the Council of Bengal, has recorded a minute, in which he details his reasons for adopting "the opinion expressed by the Second Judge of the Court of Nizamut Adawlut (Mr Courtney Smith) that the toleration of the practice of suttees is a reproach to our government," and that the entire and immediate abolition of it would be attended with no sort of danger. Mr Gordon Forbes, Fourth Judge of the Calcutta Court of Circuit, has not only expressed his opinion, that the practice, "if pro hibited by the Government, might be effectually suppressed, without apprehension of any serious obstacles ;" but he states that this opinion prevails among the judicial officers at the stations visited by him. This, too, is in the very focus of the superstition. We think the general view of the facts strengthens the opinion of Mr Harrington and Mr Smith. The practice, though far too extensive to be contemplated with apathy, is too limited in extent to be at all considered national. If the religious sentiment on the subject were very strong, in addition to the grief felt by many widows, it might be expected to produce more victims out of the vast Hindoo population. And certainly the inha bitants of the district of Calcutta, where the practice chiefly reigns (though their peaceable habits should not tempt the Government to trample on their prejudices), are not the part of our Indian subjects mostlikely to resist an order of any kind. Neither would it be necessary to prohibit self-sacrifice; all that would be required would be to prevent other persons from aiding or abetting it from binding the victim, as appears commonly to be done, to the funeral pile-from dragging her back, as it sometimes happens, when she escapes from it. In the Southern Concan the practice is said to have been recently checked, by not allowing the widows to be burned on any other than a grass pile, from which, in the event of their changing their minds, they may readily escape.-Globe and Traveller. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTES. T. Pollard, Brighton, brewer. INSOLVENTS. J. Pollard, Penton row, Walworth, umbrella-maker. Fleet street. S. Green, Kingsland, plumber. Solicitors, Messrs Winter and Williams Bedford row. C. S. Smith, Bishopsgate street, draper. Solicitors, Messrs Cooke and Wright, Furnival's Inn, Holborn. Sir W. Roberts, Bart. Courtlands, Devonshire, banker. Solicitors, Messrs R. Franklin, Wilmot street, Brunswick square, tailor. Solicitor, Mr R. S. Willmott, Paddington street, Marylebone, builder. Solicitors, Messrs Hallet and Henderson, Northumberland street, Marylebone. S. Fenn, Bell street, Edgeware road, flour-dealer. Solicitors, Messrs Hallet and Henderson, Northumberland street, Marylebone. B. Rawlings, Castle street, Leicester square, jeweller. Solicitor, Mr Fawcett, Jewin street, Cripplegate. J. P. Clarke, Gloucester-house, Walworth, schoolmaster. Solicitors, Messrs Winter and Williams, Bedford row. court, Fenchurch street. Tebbutt, Austin friars. G. Binks, Baltham hill, Surrey, dealer. Solicitor, Mr Taylor, Fenn J. Pritchard and J. Burton, Yewsley, brick-makers. Solicitors, Messrs J. Smith, sen. and J. Smith jun. Cateaton street, ware housemen. Solicitors, Messrs Fisher and Spencer, Walbrook buildings, Walbrook. M. Fowler, Birmingham, grocer. Solicitors, Messrs Adlington, Gregory, and Faulkner, Bedford row. J. Bousfield, Manchester, merchant. Solicitors, Messrs Willis, Watson, I THE FUNDS.-There is nothing new to remark, either as to the state of the Home or the Foreign Market, the fluctuations up and down during. the week not exceeding a small fraction. The Share Market for the present is literally without business, and even in feasible speculations, the transfer of shares will for some time be difficult. Exchequer Bills have slightly improved. Saturday-A HO LIDAY at the Bank. THE EXAMINER. LONDON, NOVEMBER 6, 1825. THE principal and indeed only foreign news of general interest received during the week, is the long-expected treaty between Brazil and Portugal, which has arrived, after a very short passage from Rio Janeiro, in the Vibelia transport. It was concluded, by the Devon-Commissioners appointed for the purpose, on the 29th August, exThe three first articles are as pressly under British mediation. follows: P. Higgins, Nottingham, baker. Solicitor, Mr Knowles, New Inn. J. Brunton, Southwick, Durham, ship-builder. Solicitors, Messrs Bell' and Brodrick, Bow Churchyard, Cherpaide, "Art. 1. His Most Faithful Majesty recognizes Brazil to hold the rank of an empire, independent and separate from the kingdoms of Portugal person. and Algarve, and his best beloved and esteemed son, Don Pedro, as | linquished a hopeless struggle with a body of capitalists whose strength Emperor, yielding and transferring, of his own free will, the sovereignty of the said empire to his said son and his legitimate successors, his Most Faithful Majesty only taking and reserving the same title for his own "Art. 2. His Imperial Majesty, as an acknowledgment of respect and affection for his august Father and Lord, Don John VI, agrees that his Most Faithful Majesty in his own person assume the title of Emperor. "Art. 3. His Imperial 'Majesty promises not to accept the proposals of any Portuguese colonies whatever, to unite themselves with Brazil." The remainder of this treaty may be summed up in a few words. The most perfect friendship is to exist between the two nations. All property, personal and moveable, seized on either side, is to be restored. The subjects of each nation are to retain their real estates, and to be regarded on the footing of subjects of the most favoured nations. Mutual recompense and indemnification are to take place for the appropriation of royal property in both countries. All ships and cargoes to be restored, or their owners indemnified. A commission composed of an equal number of Portuguese and Brazilians to be appointed to settle claims and restitution on both sides. An especial Convention to settle the claims of the respective governments. The common civil relations of the Brazilian and Portuguese nations to be re-established, paying reciprocally on all merchandize 15 per cent. the duties on transhipment and re-exportation remaining as heretofore. The exchange of the ratification to be made in the city of Lisbon, within the space of five months, reckoning from the date of the signature of the present treaty. In the signatures to the treaty, the name of Sir CHARLES STUART stands first. is as ten to one compared with their own. When one considers the immense difference in means between the combining power of the masters and that of the workmen, does it not seem monstrous that the law should be invoked to interfere with its penalties against the weaker party? We think however that the present aspect of this question is every way too convincing to allow of any attempt to return to the old system of injustice and injury. an There are two circumstances which call for notice in this treaty, one of commission, the other of omission. Thus the articles which we have given verbatim, seem still to reserve a latent title of sovereignty over Brazil, on the part of John VI a point which, as a mere honorary one, demands little attention, but is of some importance, when unaccompanied with the slightest advertence to arrangement for the royal succession in either country. Brazil is given up to DON PEDRO, his heirs and successors; but DON PEDRO is also heir to the crown of Portugal. This omission leaves future matters very open; but it is so obvious that Brazil must become the predominant country, that the result in the long run is no way problematical.Looking to British mediation in this affair, we perceive some marks of dexterous diplomacy; for undoubtedly, in a commercial point of view, the longer Portugal retains a predominant interest and ascendancy in Brazil, the more decisive will be British influence in both countries. The death of John VI will doubtless some day unriddle the enigmatical part of this agreement, and in the mean time the world can wait. The French papers will most likely be very amusing on this subject. In Spain all is at sea again; the comparatively rational ZEA having been ousted from the cabinet, and a non-amnesty ministry restored, at the head of which is placed the Duke de l'INFANTADO.-So much for the French settlement of that distracted country hitherto. While the present extent of Church property exists in Spain it can never improve; at once propagating ignorance and purchasing it, a bar to all amelioration will be eternally existent; and to remedy the effect, the cause must be swept into annihilation. A letter from Alexandria, dated Aug. 15, says, "The fire ships of the Greeks have at length found their way into the very port of Alexandria. On the evening of the 9th inst. three vessels were observed standing in for the barbour. One bearing Russian colours advanced boldly into that part of the port where the Pacha's fleet was at anchor, and no suspicion was excited until she was actually along side a Turkish frigate. The supposed Russian, when news was brought to him, that the said Russian Pacha was admiring from the windows of his palace the noble entry of the air, and his palace about his ears; he sallied forth and had every gun on was a Greek, and that his fleet was likely in a few minutes to be in the the battery pointed against the Greek. The crew had barely time to lay her alongside the largest frigate, to set fire to the combustibles, and to throw themselves into their boat. In vain was it that the battery sent after them ball after ball; in vain, that a French brig of war gallantly followed the example. The Greek boat gained the other fire ship which was lying to for her at a little distance. The blazing vessel struck consternation into every bosom-not a vessel in the harbour appeared likely to escape destruction. Suddenly the wind sprung up, and provideutially (as it seemed) drifted the fire-ship to the leeward of every vessel in the harbour. the Morea-and five and twenty English vessels to carry cargoes of cotThe Pacha's fleet was preserved for the conveyance of the new army to ton to Liverpool. This was the grandest coup yet attempted by the Greeks; had it succeeded, Ibrahim Pacha would have been left without the reinforcement he so much needs, and Greece, in all probability, would have been saved. Its failure is only to be attributed to circum. stances over which audacity and address have no control." The Americans have at present a squadron in the Mediterranean; and a report is spread that the object of their visit is to take possession of the Isle of Milo, which it is said they have purchased from the Greeks to serve as a naval station for their shipping. Milo, the ancient Melos, is about ten miles long by five broad, and being naturally strong, and baring the advantage of a large and admirable port, it would certainly be a very desirable acquisition to the Americans for the purpose they have in doubt if the jealousy of the European Powers would suffer either the view. We rather doubt the truth of the report however, because we Americans, or any one of their own number, to establish themselves in the Archipelago.-Scotsman. Mr Canning's reply to the Spanish Minister, in justification of our treating with the New American States as independent powers, discloses various facts, which show the bad faith of the Spanish Court, when it affected to listen to proposals of British mediation. Mr Canning refutes triumphantly the sophistical claims of Spain, and shows that her pretensions lead to interminable war with her recent colonies, He alludes to her absurd obstinacy in the cases of the Netherlands and Portugal, and when she compliments us for standing out against the illegitimate governhad herself truckled to that de facto Government, and falsified the docment of Bonaparte, he reminds her, with something like irony, that she trines she now puts forth. The question of an English Minister being appointed to reside at Bobeen the subject of much discussion between the Times newspaper and gota (Colombia), has for some time engaged public attention, and has the Courier-the former stating confidently that the appointment has taken place-the latter denying the fact. Though the statement of the Times was rather premature, and the names given inaccurately, it is subnister to Colombia, with an income of 6,000l. and other emoluments.-Globe NEW GARDEN ACT-In our Paper of Monday, we gave the report of a prosecution under this Act, from which it appeared that three boys were for stealing five apples, valne four-pence. The prosecutor stated, by his indicted by Sir John Gibbon, Bart, of Stanwell-place, near Staines, Counsel, that he did not intend to press for a heavy punishment, nothing desired, and as the lads had already been five weeks in gaol, the extramore than a conviction, which would stamp, these urchins felons, was ordinary moderation of this sentiment will be felt in full force. The grave allegations were clearly proved; a witness was called, who had seen the five apples stolen, and who spoke to the fact of the offenders having been committed to gaol by the Rev. Mr Cowes (in such cases/too much publicity cannot be given to names): but, in summing up, eren the Chairman of the Middlesex Sessions relaxed his accustomed severity, and intimated to the Jury, how serions a thing a conviction for felony would be to young boys. The Jury instantly returned a verdict of Nat proved; but the Jury, empanelled to ascertain the fact, felt that the exGuilty. This is the beauty of our law. Here was an offence clearly ecution of their duty in such a case would be productive of a grievous cruelty, and, in despite of their oaths, they bring in a verdict of acquittal, and are intitled to the praise of bumanity for having done so, It must be coufessed that the law has arrived at an admirable pass, when a breach of their duties on the part of its ministers becomes a virtue, and promotes the ends of justice-Morning Chronicle. The reader will observe with pleasure the manly and judicious conduct of Mr HUME in regard to the Scotch journeymen manufacturers who wished to present him with a piece of plate. The object of this excellent senator being to do equal justice to both master and workmen, he very properly declines receiving a present from the latter, instantially correct. Yesterday Mr Alexander Cockburn was appointed Mithe character of their supporter against the masters, at a moment when they had been making an imprudent, as well as reprehensible, use of the privileges acquired by the repeal of the combination laws. Mr HUME's address on declining the present is as full of sound judgment as of good feeling. We hope it will have a proper effect on those masters who, blinded by early prejudice and selfish irritation, have called for the renewal of the old harsh and mischievous law, because the workmen, since its repeal, have been guilty of a few acts of violence:-as if large bodies of men, ill-treated for centuries, could be expected to use their newly acquired privileges, however just, with all the moderation which long and quiet possession inspires! What after all is the amount of the evil? Nothing surely that can justify the legislature in modifying a permanent system. We have seen the worst of it: the over excitement of the workmen has in a great measure subsided; the attempts at intimidation and disturbance in one or two places have been met, as was proper, by the strong arm of a just law; outrage is no longer heard of; some reasonable combinations have succeeded; and unreasonable ones have been defeated, as they always must be in the long run. We see by the Leeds paper, that even the Bradford combers and weavers, the most resolute of the combiners, who were supported by subscriptions from all parts of the country, have at length yielded to the force of circumstances, and re The failure of Mr Williams has spread a considerable degree of alarm through the great commercial towns. In Birmingham, two considerable failures have taken place, in persons connected with the American trade. In Manchester there have been four failures, two of them for large sums; but in Liverpool, the great seat of the cotton speculations, which are con sidered as the source of these unfortunate events, nothing has yet occurred to give any great shock to commercial confidence. In consequence of the folly of the cotton speculators, New York is supposed to have gained a million sterling, or more, at the expense of Liverpool, Manchester, and London-Scotsman. BAD MONEY.-On Thursday, at the Court of Requests, Castle street, Leicester square, the keeper of an oyster shop in St Martin's lane, was summoned to answer the complaint of a Gentleman for passing a bad shilling, and refusing to change it, though the plaintiff positively declar. ed he had just taken it from him. The Complainant proved his case, and remarked that he was induced to prosecute this inquiry in order to ascertain how far tradesmen were liable to exchange bad money after taken out of the shop. The Court decided that they were liable, and convicted the defendant with costs. The Managers of Covent Garden Theatre (says a Correspondent) should be cautious in whose hands they entrust so momentous a charge as the ringing of the Act-scene bell. The other evening, the audience were disconcerted by the ignorance of some novice, or frolic of a wag in the orchestra, who, the moment the drop fell, rang violently for its rising again, and it was accordingly jerked up with an astonishing fervour,- | emulating the adored Mr Richardson's drop at Bartholomew fair. We could have fancied ourselves present at that intellectual treat, "The Bleeding Nun," on which, in times past, we have doted thrice in one evening, to the absorption of all our "weekly money.' PRINCE LEOPOLD-A Correspondent says, "Not wishing that any solitary act of liberality of H.R. H. Prince Leopold should not be made | known to those from whom he draws his enormous income, I send you the following particulars, the truth of which you may rely on. He was present when the dreadful accident happened at Portsmouth, which was the means of making him precipitately quit the place; after which, feeling no doubt in his generous breast pity towards the relatives of the sufferers, he sent, in the plenitude of his liberality, the enormous sum of 107. to be distributed among them, being all his generosity could bestow upon those who had helped to fill his overgrown coffers." Some friends of general improvement, we hear, are very laudably interesting themselves in the establishment of a Mechanics' Institution for the borough of Southwark. A meeting is expected to be held on the subject in a few days, when the plan will be developed. The Borough and its neighbourhood abound in persons to whom such an Institution would be invaluable. A PIOUS BROKER.-A stockbroker, of very extensive business, who was recently announced as a defaulter at the Foreign Stock Exchange, and who has since absconded, is said to have been mainly indebted for the great increase of his connexions to the following expedient. He became a regular attendant on Sundays at a chapel where the duty was performed by one of the most popular preachers of the day, where he showed remarkable assiduity in presenting books of the hymns, and in pointing out the particular one performed, to those rich elderly ladies who happened to be near him. In all these books, of which he had taken due care to provide himself with a sufficient quantity, were written his uame, profession, and the situation of his office. Of course, when any of these wealthy dowagers fonnd occasion either to buy or to sell stock, the name of the polite Mr - who had been so attentive to them at chapel, was sure to occur to their recollection. So pious a gentleman must be of course trust worthy, and to him, therefore, the care of their transactions in the funds was confided. Many of his clients, we hear, bave since found powerful reasons for repenting of the confidence thus placed. Times. The liberality of the sentiments in the Talisman has been much and deservedly admired. Sir Walter has missed no opportunity of confrontthe Sultan Saladin "every virtue under heaven," constantly giving him the advantage over the redoubted Richard, who seems little better than clown and bully to him. One would think this romantic justice must greatly astound and scandalise Scotch Presbyters and Kirk sessions, with whom the author was already no favourite. Has Sir Walter then forgot his cunning? Or, while he is encountering obloquy in one quarter, is he not currying favour in another, and that the highest? What if this, which seems such a stretch of generosity and "lovely liberalism," should turn out to be the last ruse of desperate servility? In a word, is not all this sudden flush of hoary enthusiasm in favour of Turks and Saracens, trumped up for the occasion, as a diversion to the uncourtly popularity of the Greek cause, and intended to persuade us that these ferocious barbarians have a legitimate title to cut the throats of whom they please, from the superior gracefulness of their persons and amiableness of their man- ' ners? Such a suspicion appears strengthened by the rage and contumely with which Suliotes, Mainotes, and Greeks, are mentioned in the Antiquary. "The base foot-ball player!" MARRIAGE OF THE MARQUIS WELLESLEY WITH MRS PATTERSON.-This marriage took place in Dublin yesterday week, at the lodge in the Phoenix Park. Two ceremonies were performed-one by his Protestant Grace the Lord Primate, the other by his Catholic Grace the Most Reverend Dr Murray, attended by his Catbolic and Apostolic Vicars. The lady was “given away" by the Bishop of Raphoe. Mrs Patterson's sister, Miss Caton, was bridesmaid. Sixty persons were present. An article in the Morning Herald says that this lady is the widow of an American mer-ing the vulgar prejudices against Turks and Infidels, and has ascribed to chant-about 36 years of age-beautiful in appearance, and in manners at once amiable and polished—in short, a desirable woman, independent of the splendid fortune (300,0007.) which she possesses. Her maiden name was Caton, and she is the grand daughter of an Irish Roman Catholic, who left his country on account of the pressure of the penal laws. When her husband died, Mrs Patterson visited the land of her fathers, accompanied by her sister, the widow of the late Sir Fenwick Harvey, the Military Secretary of the Duke of Wellington. «The marriage of the Marquis Wellesley (says the writer) to a Catholic, must tend to strengthen and to enlarge his popularity with that great body. It certainly will be a new scene in the city of Dublin-and to one party, at least, a most gratifying one, to behold the Lady of the Lord Lieutenant going in state procession to Mass."-Mrs Patterson (the writer adds) one day dined at Lord Norbury's when she hinted to his Lordship, in that happy way which women alone know how to take, that it would be a great favour if he would, “for that night only," refrain from cracking his jokes against the Catholics; for, "my Lord," said she," though not a member of the Association, you must know that I am a member of the body." His Lord. ship, after complimenting her on the frankness as well as the fascination of her manner, said he was not surprised that her religion should be Catbolic, for all the world must follow in her train. "I do not," said he, "wish you ill for being a Catholic, and I hope that you will add to the six millions." SHAMEFUL LAW." The Viscount de B (says Grimm, in his Memoirs) a young man of rank, was educated at the Royal Military School, at Paris; be then entered into the service, his first years in which were dis tinguished by a series of knavery and meanness. The most atrocious of his misdeeds was that to which Mademoiselle Camp fell a victim. The young Viscount, when staying at Montauban, became intimate in the amily of this unfortunate lady. He called himself a Protestant, and under hat character married Mademoiselle Camp, according to the rites of the Protestant Church, that is to say, without the interference of the Catholic Priest; he had one child by her, a daughter. After having lived with er publicly, as his wife, for some years, at Montauban, during which he -pent all her fortune, after having, in consequence of his irregularities and debts, been for some time imprisoned at Fort l'Eveque, he quitted his confinement to marry another woman at Paris, according to the established ites, treating his union with Mademoiselle Camp only as an affair of con cubinage. The atrocious code with regard to Protestantism, established by Lewis the Fourteenth at the instigation of the devout Maintenon, to the -ternal shame of France, supported admirably the conduct of young B., which in other civilized countries would have led him to the gallies at east, if not to the scaffold. His marriage with Mademoiselle Camp was leclared null, by a decree of the new Parliament; nay, this body not only iso adjudged damages to a man who was never worth a penny, but, with barbarity wholly unheard of, as if the poor young woman's case was not Iready hard enough, ordered that her child, a little girl, should be taken rom her and educated in a convent." Such was the law of France in 772-Is not such the law of Ireland in 1825? The Quotidienne of Monday says, the Cacique of Poyais is still in Paris, enjoying all the sweets of aristocracy, with his carriage, and serants, and box at the Opera Buffa. A considerable degree of hostility is likely to be manifested towards member of one of the leading Clubs, in consequence of a betrayal of confidential communications.—Morning Paper. THE REV. MR MAYO'S ADDRESS TO HIS PUPILS. Little Boys, To hurrah a great man's a good rule. Little Boys, little Boys, As you hollowed, and cheered, in great style, As you hollowed, and cheered, in great siyle. Little Boys, Little Boys, Is a Mitre for one of our crowns, Is a Metre for one of our Crowns. Little Boys, ALPHA NEWSPAPER CHAT.' On Friday evening, Mr Gliddon re-opened his Divan, to a select party of friends. The room is fitted up with much taste, not to say elegance; combining the comfort and quiet of being in one's own parlour. From the choiceness of the articles furnished, and the gentlemanly deportment of those presiding in the establishment, there can be little doubt that Mr Gliddon will ultimately congratulate himself upon this speculation, of which he was the originator. A DILATORY AUTHOR.-At the time the house was overflowing on the first night's performance of Pizarro, all that was written of the play was actually rehearsing; and, incredible as it may appear, until the end of the fourth act, neither Mrs Siddons, nor, Charles Kemble, nor Barrymore, had all their speeches for the fifth! Mr Sheridan was up stairs in the prompter's room, where he was writing the last part of the play while the earlier parts were acting; and every ten minutes he brought down as mach of the dialogue as he had done, piece-meal, into the green-room, abusing himself and his negligence, and making a thousand winning and soothing apologies for having kept the performers so long in such painful suspense.-Reminiscences of Michael Kelly. FATHER O'LEARY AND COUNSELLOR CURRAN.-One day, after dinner, Curran said to him, "Reverend Father, I wish you were St Peter.""And why, Counsellor, would you wish that I were St Peter?" asked O'Leary," Because, Reverend Father, in that case," said Curran," you would have the keys of heaven, and you could let me in."-" By my honour and conscience, Counsellor," replied the Divine," it would be better for you that I had the keys of the other place, for then I could let you out."-Curran enjoyed the joke, which he admitted had a good deal of justice in it.-Reminiscences of Michael Kelly. Mr Soane gave Mr Belzoni 2,000 guineas for the celebrated Sarcophagus, brought to this country by that most enterprising traveller. It has been mentioned, that the Government afterwards wanted to purchase this valuable piece of antiquity, but that Mr Soane declined selling it. LOVE OF BRUTES.-Plutarch says of those who are fond lap-dogs of and monkies, that the amorous part which is in us, for want of a right object, rather than lie idle, does in a manner forge in the fancy one that is false and frivolous. REMEDY FOR GRIEF.-Bion said pleasantly of the King who plucked off the hair of his head for sorrow," Does this man think that baldness is a remedy for grief?" DRAMATIC SKETCH.-A fat woman trundling into a room on castors in sitting can only lean against her chair-rings on her fingers, and her fat arms strangled with bracelets, which belt them like corded brawn rolling and heaving when she laughs with the rattles in her throat, and a most apoplectic ogle-you wish to draw her out, as you would an opera glass. Sheridan. SOCRATES. No one seems better to have understood the faculties and sentiments of the human mind, or to have exerted them to better effect, than Socrates. As he had been a sculptor in the early part of his life, he was in the habit of saying, "How strange it is that we should take so much pains to fashion an insensible stone into the likeness of ourselves, and so little to prevent ourselves from resembling an insensible stone."He was constantly exhorting others to endeavour to improve their talents and moral character, as he himself had done with so much advantage and comfort to his own mind. But what was the cause of this continual effort in the behalf of others 2 or whence arose that elevation of sentiment, and perfect self-control, which this philosopher possessed? Surely from the belief that his present state of existence was but preparatory to one exalted and eternal. After he had drank the poison, one of his friends, anxious about his funeral, inquired what were his wishes respecting a subject which, to any real philosopher, must appear altogether unimportant. "Bury me," said Socrates," where you please, provided you can catch me; for it seems that I, Socrates, who now reason with you, cannot convince you that when I quit this lifeless body I shall be no longer present."—Abernethy's Lectures. CREED OF THE WAHABEES.-They assert, it is said, the unity of the Deity; they hold him to be immaterial, eternal, and omnipotent; and in their addresses to the Supreme Being, they are fervent and devout. According to them, God has never dictated any written code of laws to men; nor has he made any particular revelation of himself. His existence, they think, is sufficiently manifested in his works. His will cannot be mistaken, since he has implanted the distinct perception of right and wrong in the human mind, together with the conviction that virtue alone can be agreeable to the Author of Nature. HOGARTH'S NEW CARRIAGE,-Hogarth was one of the most absent of men. Soon after he set up his carriage he had occasion to pay a visit to tained by business till a violent shower of rain came on. Being let out the Lord Mayor; when he went the weather was fine, but he was deof the Mansion-house by a different door from that at which he had entered, he immediately began to call for a hackney coach. Not one could be procured, on which Hogarth sallied forth to brave the storm, and açon his own carriage, till Mrs Hogarth, astonished to see him so wet and tually reached his house in Leicester-fields without bestowing a thought hurried, asked him where he had left it.-Iris. THE STOMACH PUMP. Among the highly useful inventions of the age, may be ranked that of the Stomach Pump; the great utility of which has been lately demonstrated in the saving of a number of lives. Mr Weiss, it appears, has the merit of having brought this invention to great perfection. Society has derived many advantages from this gentleman's scientific labours; and his improvemeut of this very useful instrument is not the least valuable of them. over the Sunday Oracle, or Parson's Monitor, which is no less emphatiMR THEODORE HOOK DECOROUS.-That delicate animal who presides cally than justly styled The Smutty Gazette, seems to be grievously offended with the appearance on the stage of women haibed in male attire; and having exhausted all other epithets of disgust and vituperation, bursts forth every now and then with a declaration, that the prac tice is nasty, filthy, and beastly! Now we will venture to affirm, that whatever objections might occur to the minds of persons of either sex against this practice, no man of manly feelings could ever have applied to it the epithets in question. The view of a beautiful woman, with her limbs and person dressed up as a man, could not in any but the most depraved or the most hyper-puritanical minds, have excited those beastly and degrading expressions.-Stamford News, which exists between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and the medi The secret of the success of a large number of works, is the relation ocrity of the ideas of the Public.-The Iris. day last to the Duke of St Albans. The ceremony took place in EdinA Correspondent informs us, that Mrs Coutts was married on Thurs. burgh. The Earl of Lauderdale was present. Morning ChronicleWednesday. [The Edinburgh papers, since received, say nothing of this alleged marriage.] LAST MOMENTS OF THOMAS PAINE.-Mr Morton, one of Mr Paine's executors, gives the following account of the last moments of that extraordinary individual :-" In his 75th year, and but a few months before his death, his mental faculties continued vigorous, and his memory so retentive as to repeat verbatim whole sentences either in prose or yerse, of any thing striking which he had either read or heard's this he always did with great ease and grace.-About six months before his death, after his limbs became so feeble that he could scarcely move, he told me, that he felt the decay of nature fast increasing; adding, that he might pos sibly survive six or even twelve months, but that it could not extend much beyond that, and he feared nothing but being reduced to a bed-n state, incapable of helping himself. In his religious opinions he continued to the last as steadfast and tenacious as any sectarian to his own definition of his creed; he never indeed broached the subject first, butm inquisitive visitors who came to try him on that point, his general answer was to this effect:- My opinions are before the world; all have an opportunity to refute them if they can; I believe them to be unanswerable truths, and that I have done great service to mankind by boldly putting them forth- I do not wish to argue on the subject-I have laboured dis interestedly in the cause of Truth.'-f shook his hand after the use of speech was gone, but while the other organs told me that he sufficiently knew me and appreciated my affection, his eyes glistened with genios under the pangs of death."-The property left by Mr Paine consisted of a farm at New Rochelle, valued at 8,460 dollars, given to him by the State of New York for his political services, and about 1,600 dollars ai money, and debts due to him, making altogether 10,000 dollars, TOLLING OF BELLS.-There are dying as well as dead people in the world, and sick people who will die if they are not encouraged. What must be the effect of this mortal note unceasingly reiterated in their ears! Who would set a whining fellow at a sick man's door, to repeat to him all day long, "Your neighbour's dead-your neighbour's dead?" Be you say," It is to remind the hearty, and not the sick, that we sound; and the few must give way to the many." Good! it delights me to hes you say so; but in this particular instance allow me to think you are mis taken. I differ from a belfry with hesitation. Triple bob-majors, are thing before which it becomes a philosophic enquirer to be modest. But have we not memorandums enough to this good end? Have we not coughs. colds, fevers, plethoras, deaths of all sorts occurring round about us, faces, church-yards, accidents infinite, books, muskets, wars, apothees ries, kings? Is not the whole nation swallowed up in grief when a Mins ter dies? Does not even a royal old lady die now and then? You remind the sick and the dying too forcibly: but you are much mistake if you think the healthy regard your importunity of advice in any other light than that of a considerable nuisance. It would be useful to know! how many deaths are hastened by a bell; at least, how many recovere are retarded. There are sensitive persons, tot otherwise in ill heal? who find it difficult to hear the sound without tears. What most the feel on a sick-bed!--New Monthly Magazine. PRISON DISCIPLINE IN THE NETHERLANDS." The Maison de Force at Ghent is a large building; five courts have been completed for some years, and they are now adding three others. There are many prisoners, both male and female. The building is good, the courts large and airy, and the whole arrangement appears to be excellent. The prisoners are employed in weaving coarse linen cloth, or rather in manufacturing it, as they perform all the previous operations. The cloth is used for the shirts, drawers, pantaloons, and gaiters, of the army; it is said that the institution thus maintains itself. The prisoners are allowed to receive one half of their earnings, which they may spend in prison; the other half is given to them when they are discharged. Persons before trial are confined in a separate place, and are not required to work. Our Men seldom think deeply on subjects on which they have no chola guide told us, that the people here would not endure he tread-mill," LONDON MAGAZINE-Art," Letters from the Contion of of opinion they are fearful of encountering obstacles to their faith i Continent.” [in religion), and so are content with the surface. Sheridan; |