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insecure, and that the law is insufficient to afford them adequate protection, is too palpably true to be denied. But will the mere strengthening the laws effect any alteration in the state of the country? Will it tranquillize and render property and life more secure? These are serious inquiries; and we think that Parliament ought to pause be fore sanctioning so gross a constitutional breach as is contemplated by the proposed enactment, and inquire whether the detailed outrages are the effect of the penal code being too mild; and whether the assimilating that penal code to the complexion of the laws of Draco-to write it in bloodis the proper method for repressing them.

The Irish members deny the truth of the statements made by Earl Grey, namely, "That it is impossible to administer the law as it stands." They declare that, on the contrary, there has been no difficulty experienced in procuring the attendance of Jurymen or witnesses, and that, in nearly all cases of Government prosecutions, convictions were obtained. This is a statement easy of proof; and, unless it is proved by inquiry, that justice cannot be administered in Ireland, we cannot conceive how the reformed House of Commons can possibly think of intrusting to any government, however liberal, such powers as are now sought by Lord Grey's Government. Under all circumstances, inquiry ought to precede coercion; and we trust the proposed measure will never pass the House of Commons, unless the necessity is made more apparent than by the dictum of the Ministry.

(From the Hull Rockingham.)

Lord Grey's bill has been the source of great pain to us, from which our only relief thus far has been the hope, that its provisions will not require to be put into execution. We have given, in another place, as copious an abstract of his reasons for thinking measures so harsh, and, as he justly says, unconstitutional, necessary. Most assuredly, the state of things in Ireland is dreadful, and must by some means be rectified. Looking at the class of persons principally engaged in the violation of law, and the wanton destruction of life and property, we fear that only severity will be efficient. Mr. O'Connell himself must think so, inasmuch as he has found that his advice has not been attended to. The disturbances and outrages on record assume in our eyes an aspect in no respect religious or political. The parties thus far implicated appear to have no definite object but the gratification of revenge, excited by the conduct of innocent individuals, who have not acted as they thought proper to dictate. Some of them are ignorant in the extreme-others most profligate in their morals. By daily and nightly associating with each other, and pursuing their career with comparative impunity, they are mutually encouraged to pursue their course. To the everlasting disgrace of all past rulers in Ireland, they are uninstructed and devoid of moral principle, no more hesitating to destroy life, or set fire to houses, than to eat their daily meals. The question with us is, can persons of this description be restrained by any thing but main force; and, having committed the crimes they have done, ought they to be left unpunished? Few persons will be disposed to say Yes to either part of the query. Then, had Lord Grey any alternative, but to ask for extra power. It is quite clear, that there is no chance for the regular and due enforcement of the law. Offenders cannot be brought to justice by it. A vigour beyond the law must therefore be exercised. Some thing must be done to prove that the law shall be obeyed. That something proposed by his Majesty is-1st, The revival of the Proclamation or Insurrection Act, as it is called; that is, the power of suspending the ordinary law in the disturbed districts. 2d, The introduction and organization of courts-martial, to supercede the ordinary tribunals of justice, and to try offenders in the proclaimed counties. 3d, The limited suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act; that is, the application of it to such persons as are detained in custody, under the Insurrection Act. And, 4th, The authority of the lord-lieutenant to suppress all meetings, deemed by him to be dangerous to the public safety, an inconsistent with the administration of law. We shudder at the recital.

(From the Bath Journal.) We have one question to decide. Are the people of br. land naturally turbulent-factious without a cause? is the disturbance the effect of Political grievances, agan which they justly complain? If the former, then a vernment justified in repressing the insurrection by faz arms; but if the latter, then they have only to rea the grievance. To repress the opposition of the pest without this, destroys the slightest shade of difference in twixt the English Government and pure despotism.

But Earl Grey says his measure is to protect the pear able against lawless ruffians. Who are the lawless rufus Are they the majority of the people of Ireland? He w find the majority of Ireland against his measure.

Earl Grey expresses a wish to remove the present gi. vances of Ireland, which cannot be done until the country be restored to tranquillity! And during the tranquilly et an English encampment, when the press is under fettins and the people tongue-tied, we suppose he will be enabled to ascertain the causes of the grievances, and remove them. The Tories, by the Act of Emancipation, evinced fat wisdom. Right the Government, Earl Grey, first, and the set about righting the people. This is conformable to laws of order. But to repress outcries against admitad wrongs, under the pretext of suppressing the incendunu of that portion of the community who take advantage such a crisis to perpetrate their diabolical intentions, wid out first of all removing such wrongs, is equal to any de potism on record.

There is a limit to human endurance; if that be not reached in Ireland already, it most assuredly will be, if the intended measure of Government be persevered in. Under a Tory administration, the people of Ireland have sufferei oppression on oppression, and wrong on wrong. Let Eng. lishmen not say they have impatiently suffered them. Heaven grant they may never experience the like. Let us hope that a British House of Commons will prevent Whig inconsistency, the disgrace of that climax of misrule, what may plunge the country into rebellion.

(From the Monmouth Merlin.)

The enactments (of the Irish Coercive Bill) are in the same spirit of restrictive force, the same relentless code of organized oppression. We have read them with feeliagy which, we think, actuate all friends of the protection of human life, of social happiness, and civil liberty. All ot confidence in the integrity of Ministers, and the hitherto proud and honourable consistency of the venerable Chief of the Government, mitigate not the animosity with which we regard this Russian power which is about to be given to the executive, calculated as it is to Polandise Ireland.

Lord Grey gave the House no documentary evidente: le merely spoke from what had been transmitted to him; m when we consider the unblushing fallacies which gain daily admittance into the columns of the intolerant press, when we consider the atrocious falsehoods which are continually propagated against the Irish people, we can easily suppor, that corrupt and interested persons that moral inordia» ries, may have too successfully played their recreant part, in inducing the Premier to adopt measures from which there might be ample scope for the exercise of their vindic tive passions.

Those who are acquainted with the page of Irish history, are aware, how oft petty tyrants have brought on a state of things, wherein they have with inhumanity revelled in plunder, confiscation, and murder.

Lord Brougham supported the Premier; and his prio cipal ground of support, was his confidence in the nobleman, to whom those mighty powers are to be intrusted; but surely this argument is unworthy the master-mind of the Chancellor. To what does it amount? Despotion may be tolerated, nay supported, because the despot hapu pens to be humane-more of a Titus than a Caligula or A Nicholas; but, supposing Lord Anglesea to be all his panegyrists declare, has he the eyes of an Argus-the hands of a Briareus?has he the powers of ubiquity?—can he watch the arts--can he arrest the arm of every minion of the law. who, clothed with a "little brief authority," may trample on the poor man's neck, and scoff at his groans.

FOSTSCRIPT.

SCHOOL MASTER OFFICE, Friday Evening. atters are hastening to a crisis with Earl Grey's Goment. We trust this crisis may issue in strengthening purifying it, by the absence of the obnoxious Stanley, the respectable, but most inefficient Lord Althorp. The don papers of Wednesday hang out National Colours. y have struck the Ministerial or Whig Flag. The rier is yet louder than the Times, whose thunder we › below. By to-morrow, we expect to see some of the tch journals discovering that the measure of coercing and, and setting off a most unconstitutional stretch of ver by a mockery of Church Reform, is not quite so deving of laudation as they at first imagined.

(From the Times.)

they have given their country such provocation-we grieve because we have earnestly, fervently, supported them,-let them, then, resign. Their country depends not on them. England is rich in intelligence and public virtue. Whoever lightened, must play an enlightened part. He must rule for takes the high office in these days, if he be not himself enthe nation, and according to the nation.

(From the Morning Chronicle.)'

A question was last night put by Colonel Tyrell to Mr Stanley, on the subject of Poor Laws for Freland. The answered, "That his Majesty's Government were not at this right honourable gentleman, after a good deal of prefacing, moment prepared to bring in a measure for giving Poor Laws to Ireland." It is time they were prepared. Mr O'Connell protested against his being declared not favourable to Poor Laws. He would consent that measures of relief should be passed for the sick, for the lame, for the wounded, for the insane, but not for those who were idle; and he would consent to the application of the revenues of the ten cashiered Bishops to the poor. We should like to know what subject Ministers deem of more importance to wards the tranquillization of Ireland than a Poor Law. All the measures they propose are mere trifles when compared with it. But the Protestant landholders, while they have no doubt as to keeping up a rich Protestant Church, have doubts as to keeping the poor from starving.

DESTRUCTION OF HUMAN LIFE BY CHOLERA.-The disease called spasmodic cholera, appears to have been unkown previous to 1817, when it appeared in' India. Since that time, till near the end of 1832—a period of about fifteen years-there have been, throughout the world, as near as can be estimated, one hundred millions of cases. Of these, fully one half, at the very least, must have died; which gives a mortality, from this single dis three millions, three hundred and thirty-three thousand ease, of fifty millions in the above period, or upwards of annually. In India, alone, the mortality has exceeded eighteen millions. These calculations have been made by Jonnes, the celebrated French Physician; and it is estimated that they are rather under than above the truth.

CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE.

PATRONAGE.-The Duke of Portland has, much to his honour, given the congregation of the Laigh-kirk, Kilmarnock, the choice of a colleague to their venerable pastor, Dr. McKinlay.

fr O'Connell reproached Mr Stanley with a design to ster up, through this bill, the continuance of the tithe em in Ireland. Mr Macdonnell pronounces broadly tthis embryo "Church Reform was a complete mockery." w, having already warned Mr Stanley against the mad. 3 of making his coercive bill an auxiliary to the restora(for it is at present dead and gone) of the tithe system, lo we adjure Ministers, oue and all, not to sanction Mr cdonnell's sarcasm, that their church reform is a ockery." The country will not endure on such a subto be mocked. If the church reform-the foremost of conciliatory measures, because first dragged by circumnces into action-be not a grave, a solid, and an abunat measure, one which may afford an earnest of the zeal 1 probity of Ministers in all that concerns reform of every her kind, we do not scruple to tell them that their "Supssion Bill” must break down; and whether LordAlthorp and colleagues have been serious or not in his threat or prosc,(whichsoever it was to be deemed) to the Members of e House of Commons who met his Lordship yesterday,— hether, we say, the Cabinet be serious or not, whether dunteers or not, in the declaration, that by the Coercive ll they will stand or fall,we tell them that they ill break down with their measure, unless the spirit of at measure be redeemed by a large and superb rerm of all tangible grievances in Church and State,~ wy, we go further, we take the liberty of assuring that oble Lord, with the respect which all men feel for is unassuming sincerity and honour, but with that indeSCOTCH CHURCH, MANCHESTER. We have the satisendence which becomes the free press of a free country, and faction to announce, that the elegant edifice lately erected ith that jealous watchfulness over the dignity of Parlia- in St. Peter's Square, for a place of worship in connexion ent, which: we trust will never sleep in the hearts of Eng-with the Church of Scotland, was opened on Sunday, the shmen,we do assure Lord Althorp that the tone emloyed by him towards the Members of the House of Comons yesterday, on the subject of modifying the obnoxious lauses of this bill, was by no means indicative of his undertanding what was due to the character of that assembly which e bad himself contributed to elevate, from a band of hired laves, to a Senate representing the most enlightened nation n the universe. His Lordship, we repeat, cannot compreend the greatness and majesty of a reformed Parliament; and, in the confidence that there is no party to succeed his own in power, he flatly refuses to purge the bill of its impurities, and announces his preference for the alternative of resigning. Such a threat, we once more affirm, is out of keeping with the name and habits of Lord Althorp. It is more; it is a mistake of his position, and of that of his colleagues. The bill, unmodified, they ought not to carry; this bill, unmodified, this dragooning bill-this housebreaking, revolting bill-they will not carry while any respect for British law and liberty inspires the representatives of the British people. Let them, then, we grieve that

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His Grace the Duke of Argyll has been pleased to present the Reverend Donald Campbell, preacher of the gospel, to the parish of Southend, in the Presbytery of Kintyre,

17th, by Dr. Muir of this city.

The Rev. Dr. Stirling, minister of Craigie, is to be proposed as moderator of the next General Assembly.

The Presbytery of Dunfermline, at their meeting on Wednesday last, unanimously agreed to petition the House of Commons on the subject of the prevailing desecration of the Lord's Day. Petitions have been sent from different parts of Scotland upon this subject.

A Voluntary Church Association has been formed in Dunfermline, upon principles similar to those adopted by such societies throughout the country.

On Wednesday, the 6th instant, the United Associate Congregations of Original Seceders of Crieff and Dunning, moderated a call in favour of the Rev. Cunningham Acheson, preacher of the gospel. The call was harmonious.

The King has been pleased to present the Rev. Simon E. Maclauchlan to the church and parish of Snizort, in the isle and presbytery of Sky, vacant by the death of the Rev. Malcolm Macleod.

On Wednesday, the 13th current, Mr. Peter M'Arthur was ordained to the pastoral charge of the Associate Burgher congregation of Blairgowrie.

The Rev. Henry Wilkes of Glasgow, (late of Canada,) | has accepted an invitation to the pastoral office, from the Congregational or Independent Church, in Albany Street Chapel, Edinburgh.

On Tuesday, the 19th inst., the Relief Church, Fort William, gave a very harmonious call to Mr George Walker, preacher of the gospel, to be their minister. The Rev. John McGregor, of Stranraer, preached and presided on the

occasion.

A third ke must have met the same dreadful fate. 1 fered at the entrance of Pittenweem harbour, where fou the crew met a watery grave. A good many have fun. shelter at Cocklemill Burn, and a number more anve moored in the harbour here; but we lament to state many are yet amissing, and it is much to be feared the not at all safe. Several of the men lost have left w and families. What renders these accidents more dans ing is, that there was every prospect of a good herring 4 several boats having caught to-day from three ta ei crans.-Fife Herald.

ARBROATH.-The Rev. Robert Lee, A.M., from Tweed-ing,
mouth, was unanimously chosen minister of the Chapel of
Ease, St Vigeans, vacant by the translation of the Rev.
Jame M'Culloch to Kelso.

On Wednesday the 20th inst., there was a meeting, in the Library of the House of Commons, of Scotch members, between forty and fifty in number, (being all in town,) to consider the subject of Church Patronage in Scotland; Mr. Sinclair the member for Caithness, in the chair. Mr. Sinclair made a neat address on the object of the meeting, and proposed the appointment of a select committee to be moved for. Mr. Horatio Ross seconded the motion, and politely gave up the lead to Mr. Sinclair. Mr. Andrew Johnstone asked the Lord Advocate whether or no the Government proposed to deal with the subject. The Lord Advocate said, that Government were aware of the evils complained of; that the subject had lately occupied their attention; and that they had a measure in contemplation, but perhaps not legislative, in reference to their own patronages, which might set a good example to others, and which might be promulgated in a few weeks.

Early on the same morning, three Newhaven pilboarded a sloop belonging to Perth, supposed to be the liam and Mary, laden with coals, about three miles nort from Newhaven, which they found deserted by the crew. A is conjectured that she had been run down during the nigh and that the crew had escaped on board the other re The pilots applied the pumps, but finding it imposible u keep her afloat, left her, when she almost immediately wr

down. The crew have since been found.

Several melancholy accidents occurred on Friday s'a night, at Dr. Wardlaw's Chapel, Glasgow, in conseque of the pressure for admittance to the discussion ben. Que man, và biết của Messrs. Borthwick and Thomson. tempting to step from the railing, on the west side of f church, to one of the windows, missed his footing, and 6-5 down to the area below, by which one of his legs was bre ken, and various injuries inflicted on other parts of he body. He was carried to the Royal Infirmary, where le is doing well.---Another individual fell from a window an! cut his head severely; and several persons were thrown down and trampled on in the pressure into the church. One individual lost a large portion of his nose.

[This Mr. Borthwick is a tramping orator, who, in Edin.

The Edinburgh CLERGY.-At a late meeting of the Town Council, a memorial was read from the ministers of Edinburgh, setting forth the distress they experienced from the non-collection of the annuity tax. From the docu-burgh and Glasgow, has been advocating slavery, at whow ment, it appeared that the inhabitants were at the present time upwards of L.7000 in arrears; and that, for the last half year, the ministers had not received more than L.173

each from this tax; and that fifteen of them had been compelled, though with great reluctance, to borrow, on their own personal security, the sum of 1.1500 for the immediate maintenance of their families. The memorialists concluded by praying, that the Town Council would take their case into consideration.

The Lord Provost observed, that this was a lamentable state of the matter, and he should move that a committee be appointed to devise measures with the clergymen for the

collection of the arrears.

On the motion of the Lord Provost, Bailie Patterson, Bailie Child, Dean of Guild Smith, old Bailie Adam Anderson, and the Convener, were appointed a committee on this subject.

IRISH CHURCH REFORM.The Irish Church Reform Bill satisfies the Irish, so far as it goes. The only immediate saving to the public will be the L.80,000 of Church Cess; for the two millions and a half, or three millions arising from the sales of bishop's leases may not easily be realised. The whole revenues of the Irish Church, which are stated by Lord Althorp at only L.800,000, L.200,000 less than is alleged, are, we suspect, to be retained by the sinecure Church, notwithstanding the reduction of ten bishoprics; and little benefit we should therefore imagine will be derived from the measure. The revenues of the church will be somewhat more equally divided among its clergy, which is so far an important measure, but the equalization is not

carried a sufficient length.

ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES.

LOSS OF FISHING BOATS AND THIER CREWS.-Elie, 20th February. A boat, keel up, came ashore on the beach here this morning. She proves to be a herring boat belong. ing to Pittenweem, which had swamped during the violent gale of this morning; her crew, five in number, all drowned. Another in the same melancholy condition passed our harbour in the course of the forenoon, the crew of which

instigation we cannot tell; or rather, as slavery will ta longer go down, what he calls gradual emancipstion. From the newspaper reports his arguments appear of the most hacknied kind; his eloquence turgid bombast.]

SHOCKING ATTEMPT AT MURDER, AND PERFETRATION OF SUICIDE. The peaceful parish of Kirkcolm has been thrown into a state of horror and dismay, by a maniacal attempt at the murder of a young woman, and the mcide of the person who attempted the murder. The cir cumstances are briefly these: A young man of the name of Beattie, who kept the shop in the village of Kirkeln, became enamoured of a daughter of one of his neighbours, of the name of Tonnach, and was beloved by the young woman in return. They were to have been proclaimed in the church on Sunday week; but circumstances lap | pened which delayed the ceremony, and in the meantime, the "green-eyed monster," jealousy, took possession of the soul of Beattie, and led him to contemplate the dreadful act he afterwards committed. Beattie's shop, and the house of Mr. Tonnach, (the young woman's father) were joined to each other, and on Tuesday morning the gui Tonnach had occasion to go for some peats, which were lying at the back of the house, the access to which was by a back door; and as she was passing Beattie's window a shot was fired through the glass, which lodged in the left shoulder and part of the head. The girl immediately fell, and it is understood that Beattie commenced leading the gun immediately again; for in the course of three minutes, another report was heard-the neighbours wer alarmed, and found the girl bleeding profusely from the wounds in her shoulder and neck. She was converd into her father's house, and Beattie's window being *covered to be shattered, the door, which was bolted in was burst open, and Beattie was discovered sitting on the ground, with his back to a chair, and his face horribly disfigured. He opened his eyes upon the entrance of de neighbours, gave a heavy groan, and expired. Bead him, upon a table, were lying an open razor, and a Be open at the third chapter of Isaiah. The infatuated m it appears, after having reloaded the gun, had, in case the shot should not be sent off, provided a razor, so as t

make his destruction sure. The shot entered under the eft jaw, and came out behind the left ear, and eventually Hodged in the ceiling of the house. The young woman is still living, and hopes are entertained of her recovery.

TRADE.

THE WOOL AND WOOLLEN TRADES.-These trades, so intmately connected together, are in a state of much activity, and we hope, of prosperity, though the manufacturers are compelled to put up with a low rate of profit. The work-people in the woollen districts of Yorkshire are generally well employed; the mills are in pretty full work, and the domestic manufacturers have been selling as many goods as they make, as is proved by the state of the Leeds and Huddersfield Clothhalls. Within the last two or three months a considerable advance has taken place in the price of the raw material. English wools have risen about 10 per cent., and the finer quaLow lities have also experienced some advance, though not to the same extent. Foreign wools have risen from 10 to 15 per cent. The cotton trade in Lancashire is exceedingly brisk.

PROVISION MARKETS.

EDINBURGH, Feb. 20.-Beef, per lb. 3d. to 6d., Mutton, 5d. to 7d., Veal, 8d. to 1s., Pork, 4d. to 6d., Lamb, per qr. 10s to 15s., Tallow, per cwt. 38s. to 40s., Hides, per stone, 5s. 6d. to 6s., Calf skins, per lb 6d to 6'd, Sheep skins, 2s. 6d. to 5s. Lamb skins, 9d. Quartern Loaf, &d to 9d, Potatoes, per peck, 4d., Fresh butter, per lb. 10d. to Is., Salt do. per cwt. 70s. to 30s, Do. do. per lb. 9d. to 10d., Cheese, Dunlop, 42s. to 52s., Common, 42s., Eggs, per dozen, 8d. EDINBURGH CORN MARKET, Feb. 27.-We had a large supply of all kinds of grain to-day, and sales heavy, particularly for peas and beans. One parcel of barley, weighing 57 lb. per bushel, nett measure, brought 35.; and oats for seed sold at 23. 44. per quarter; beans for seed also brought 31s. Wheat 450 qrs., best 60s., current 48s. to 56.; barley, 202 quarters best 35s., current 28s. to 33%. ; oats, 356 quarters, best 23%. 4. current 17s. to 20s.; peas and beans, 58 quarters, best 31s., current 279 to 29s. Wheat, first 60s., second 52s., third 44s. ; barley, first 35s., second 32s., third 25s.; Oats, first 23s. 4d., second 20%, third 14s. ; peas, first 31s.. second 28s., third 25s. ; beans, first 31s., Recond 28%, third 25. Average of wheat, L2, 118.104d.; do. harley, L. 1, 8s. 24d.; do. oats, 19s. 4d.; do. pease and beans, L., Ss. 2d.

CATTLE MARKET.-This morning there was a full supply of beasts; and there being still a very great demand, they supported last week's prices. The best quality sold at from 7s. 6d. to Ss. 3d. per Dutch stone, to sink the offal; inferior cattle, of which there were a great number, brought from 6s. to 6s. 6d. per do., and all sold off-Sheep sold from 1s. 6d. to 29. ahend higher than last market day, and were all sold off early. GLASGOW.BAZAAR, Feb. 20. In the Bazaar to-day there was about 500 stones of cheese; best sold at 93. 6d. to 10s., and ordinary 8s. 6d. to 6s a-stone. Fresh butter 60 stone, 11d. to 12d. per lb. Salt ditto, 40; which sold from 7d. to 8d. per imperial lb. Fresh Pork from 6s. to 6s. 6d. a stone Hens sold from 3s. to 4s. a couple. Turkeys from 6s. 6d. to 78. per do. Eggs 6d. 7d, and 8d. a dozen.

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house, in Woburn Place, in his sixty-ninth year. As a
public man, few have left behind them a more unsullied
character than Mr. Waithman. As a Common Council-
man, Alderman, and lastly as a Member of the House of
Commons, his conduct, though occasionally betokening
some waywardness and want of discernment, was uniformly
their regard for his worth by the honourable station to
manly and independent. The citizens of London proved
which they raised him on the poll at the last election. It
is proposed that a monument should be erected to his me-
mory by public subscription.
SUDDEN DEATH.-The Rev. James Keith, minister of
the United Associate Congregation at Fala, officiated in his
usual health on Sunday, the 17th, and was a corpse on
Wednesday. The cause of his death, we understand, was
wards of forty years pastor of the congregation which now
the bursting of a blood vessel. Mr. Keith has been up-
mourns his loss.

Earl Fitzwilliam died at a very advanced age, at the seat of his son, Lord Milton, near Peterborough. He is

I succeeded by Lord Milton, who is thus one of the Peers.
At his residence, Bedford Cottage, near this town, John
O'Keefe, the dramatic author. In 1828, his health ap-
peared declining, and ever having had a strong predilection
reaching, by easy stages, Sidmouth, or the neighbourhood of
for Devonshire, he removed westward for the purpose of
Exeter; but, on arriving at Southampton, it became ap-
parent that a journey of 30 miles was a sufficient trial of his
strength. Here he took up his abode, and here he remained
till the day of his death. His in-door amusements con-
sisted of hearing the daily and weekly newspapers, maga-
zines, and other publications; and, during the last thirteen
years, the whole of Sir W. Scott's novels, read to him,
with the exception of four or five of the latter. On the
mention of his own Cowslip, in "the Agreeable Surprise,"
smiled silently, and was gratified; but when spoken of by
which occurs twice in the "Tales of My Landlord," he
name in "St. Ronan's Well," he looked evidently black and
displeased. The words are," from Shakspeare to O'Keefe."
"Ha!" he said, "the top and bottom of the ladder; he
might have shoved me a few sticks higher." O'Keefe was
86 years old.

The once celebrated singer, Elizabeth Mara, (whose maiden name was Schemling, of Cassel,) died at Reyal, on Jan. 20, in the 84th year of her age.

Lord Exmouth, Vice-Admiral of England, in the 67th year LORD EXMOUTH.-We have to announce the death of of his age, at his house at Teignmouth. His relation, the Rev. Edward Pellew, Dean of Norwich, had only arrived in time to take his sorrowing stand by the death-bed on which the most honoured hero of the British Navy, and a man the most amiable in all the social endearments of domestic life, was closing his last scene. His Lordship had been for a considerable time suffering under severe illness; in the first stage of which he became quite delirious, and was wholly engrossed with the idea that he was then engaged in fighting the Dutch fleet.

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At the Manse of Jedburgh, on tne 23d ultimo, Mrs Purves, of a son.
On the 27th ultimo, Mrs Rose, 96, George Street, of a son.

On the 29th ultimo, at 3, Regent Terrace, Mrs Marshall, of a son.
On the 24th ultimo, at Clapham Common, the Lady of Mark S.
Stewart, Esq. of a daughter.

At Rockville, East Lothian, on the 24th ultimo, the lady of Captain Bruce, R.N., of a son.

At 43, George Square, on the 24th ultimo, Mrs Mackenzie, of a daughter.

At Coates Crescent, on the 26th ultimo, Mrs Graham Spiers, of a daughter.

At the Manse of Newtyle, on the 23d ultimo, Mrs Moon, of a son. On the 9th ultimo, at Slough, the lady of Sir John Herschel, K, H., of a son.

At Richmond Lodge, Portobello, on the 7th instant, Mrs M. Stenhouse, of a son,

At 39, London Street, on the 2d instant, Mrs Andrew S cott,

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At the Manse of Kirkliston, on the 1st instant, Mrs Tait, of a daughter.

At 10, Warriston Crescent, on the 2d instant, Mrs Colonel Bogle, o a daughter.

At 9, Fettes Row, on the 2d inst., Mrs Marshall, of a son

At 18, St James' Square, on the 17th ult., William Mackentie, Lee, late of Calcutta.

At her house, 33, Abercromby Place, on the 29th ultimo, Mis'>

At 9, Warriston Crescent, on the 9th instant, the Lady of Captain das. Robert Campbell, 46th regiment, of a son.

At Outerston, on the 12th instant, Mrs Hunter of a son,

At Kiublethmont, on the 14th instant, Lady Jane Lindsay Carnegie,

of a son.

At Leith, on the 13th instant, Mrs. William Dudgeon, of a daugh

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At Wester Pitscottie, on the 21st ultimo, by the Reverend Dr Buist, St Andrews, James Kidd, Esq. Kinross, to Margaret, eldest daughter of the late Robert Tod, Esq.

At Glasgow, on the 28th Jan., Mr Hugh William Patrick, merchant, Glasgow, to Jane, eldest daughter of the late Mr John Ranken, merchant, Glasgow.

At Glasgow, on the 29th Jan., John Stewart, Esq. of Gabrochill, writer in Glasgow, to Elizabeth, daughter of the late Richard Morris, Esq., merchant Glasgow.

At Carron, upon the 5th instant, by the Rev. Mr Bonar, Mr James Campbell, Carron, to Mary, eldest daughter of Mr John Carmichael, Carron.

At 23, Howard Place, on the 27th ultimo, in his 18th year, Bruce, eldest son of Major George Dods, late of the 1st foot, er r» regiment.

On the 31st ult. at 1, Melville Street, Susan Anne, eldest dang of John Tait, Esq. advocate, aged six years.

At 15, St Ann Street, Stockbridge, on the 231 ult. the Rev. WI M Gregor Stirling, minister of Port of Monteith.

At Linlithgow, on the 27th ult. Miss Agnes Sim.

At Daviot House, on the morning of Friday, the 25th ultime, un !. 78th year, the Hon Angus Mackintosh of Mackintosh, 25th chit that ilk, and 20th chief and Captain of Clan Chattan.

At Kilmarnock, on the 27th ultimo, Mr Joseph Barfoot, of Land", aged 62.

At the Manse of Garvald, on the 24th ult. Margaret Hay, wife of the Rev. Dr Sangster, minister of Garvald.

At Muswell Hill, near London, on the 31st ult. Agnes, wife of muel R. Block, Esq.

At 9, Hill Place, on the 3d February, Mary, only daughter of Y James Cruickshank. surgeon, aged eighteen months.

At the Manse of Bower, Caithness, on the 31st ultimo, aged and nine months, Anna Maria, eldest daughter of the Rev. W Smith, greatly beloved for her mild and affectionate disposition deeply regretted by her friends and by all who knew her.

On the 14th ultimo, in Albemarle Street, London, Anne, wed Evan Macpherson, aged 83,

At Croydon, Surrey, on the 21st ultimo, John Dingwall, La Brucklay.

Here, on the 1st curt. Mr George Stillie, bookseller. At Hailes House, near Edinburgh, Marguerite Adelaide Le S mand, wife of Henry Richards, Esq. solicitor of stamps.

At Fisherrow, on the 26th ultimo, Lieutenant James Brownlee, of the royal artillery drivers.

On the 29th dt., at the Manse of Prestonpans, the Rev. Dr P rose, minister of that parish, in the 75th year of his age and 46th ministry.

On the 1st current, at Raebank, Selkirk, Margaret Robina W

At Kirkaldy, on the 5th instant, the Rev. Thomas Smith Goldie, minister of Coldstream, to Jane Gilloch, eldest daughter of Daniel Mor-only daughter of the late William Wemyss, Esq. WS, aged 6. gan, Esq. Kirkaldy.

At Clarence Street, on the 30th ultimo, by the Rev. Henry Grey, the Rev. William G. Crosbie, of Parton, to Jane, daughter of the late Rev. James Rae, minister of the same parish.

At Bonnington House, on the 31st ultimo, Charles John Robinson, Esq. surgeon, Paris, to Janette, second daughter of the late Matthew Wilkie, Esq. of Bonnington.

At Tannadice House, on the 31st ult. David William Balfour, Esq., son of Lieutenant-Colonel Balfour, 82d regiment, to Mary, daughter of Charles Ogilvy, Esq. of Tannadice.

At Morris Place, Glasgow, on the 28th ult. John Stewart, Esq. of Gabrochill, writer, Glasgow, to Elizabeth, daughter of the late Richard Morris, Esq. Merchant, Glasgow.

On the 7th instant, Captain J. R. Hay, younger of Seggieden, to Margaret Lothian Douglas, second daughter of the late Colonel Inglis. On the 14th instant, Mr Alexander Bain, West Bow, to Miss Adam. son, daughter of the late Mr Andrew Adamson, Lawnmarket.

Here, on the 11th instant, Mr William Mackenzie, late merchant, Thurso, to Jessie, third daughter of the late George Douglas, Esq. Sheriff-Clerk for the county of Caithness.

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At Hillend, on the 12th instant, by the Rev. Dr Fleming, Jamef Christie, Esq., of the Madras Army, to Martha, youngest daughter o the late James Reoch, Esq, of West Camber.

At St Margaret's Church, Westminster, on the 12th instant, Richard Sanderson, Esq., of Belgrave Square, M.P., to Charlotte Matilda Manners Sutton, eldest daughter of the Right Honourable Charles Manners Sutton, the Speaker of the House of Commons.

At St Lucia, on the 29th December last, George Birrell, Esq of the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple, provincial Chief Justice of the Royal Court, and senior member of his Majesty's Legislative Coun. cil of that island, to Lucy, eldest daughter of the Hon. Charles Chipchase, member of his Majesty's Council and Comptroller of the Customs in that island.

At her father's house, on the 14th instant, John Duncan, Esq., H.E.L.C.S., to Margaret, eldest surviving daughter of Mr James Mit chell, Spittal.

At St George's Church East, London, on the 30th ult., H. S. Foljambe, Esq. of Retford, Nottinghamshire, to Helen, daughter of Mr Donald Coutts, Oakwood Cottage, Ballater, Aberdeen.

At 7, Hunter Square, on the 15th inst., by the Rev. Dr Macknight, Mr William Mackintosh, painter, to Johan, eldest daughter of Mr Alex. Black, surgeon, Edinburgh.

DEATHS.

At her house, 63 George Street, on the 19th ultimo, Mrs Janet Sinclair, relict of the Honourable William Bailie of Polkemmet, one of the Senators of the College of Justice, and sister of the Right Honourable Sir John Sinclair of Ulbster Bart.

At No. 19, Young Street, on the 15th current, Mr John Wardlaw, bookseller, to Mary, eldest daughter of Archibald Smith, Esq., accoutant. On the 18th ultimo, in Pilrig Street, aged 26, Charles Richardson, fourth son of William Glen Richardson Johnston, Esq., of the Crescent, Perth.

On the 25th ultimo, at 12, Abercromby Place, Edinburgh, Miss Campbell, daughter of the late James Campbell, Esq., of Blyths

wood.

On the 25th ultimo, Mrs Margaret Ramsay, wife of Thomas Ramsay, Esq. 133, Prince's Street.

At Bristo Port, on the 25th ultimo, Andrew Hunter, jun.

At Inveresk; on the 21st ultimo, Mary Hughes, spouse of Mr Tho. mas Hughes, aged 55.

At Dundee, on the 24th ultimo, Alexander Pitcairn, Esq. of Pratis. On the 21st ultimo, at Ardchattan Priory, Argyllshire, Mrs. Clarke, widow of the late Andrew Clarke, of Comrie, Esq.

At Glasgow, on 29th ultimo, of typhus fever, Mr James Smyth, surgeon, Argyll Street.

At Balcaskie, on the 31st ult., Mrs Anstruther, widow of the Brigadier-General Robert Anstruther.

At 11, Howe Street, on the 10th instant, John Thorlar, Es S.S.C.

At 28, Great King Street, on the morning of the 6th instant, Barbara Chieslie, relic of the deceased William Forbes, Es; ad the afternoon of the same day, Miss Ann Chieslie, both dange the late Rev. John Chieslie, minister of Corstorphine.

At her house, St Cuthbert's Glebe, on the 4th current, Mis Imbela Duncan.

At 39, Lauriston Place, on the 11th current, Marshall, son of Mr Thomas Clapperton, aged 14 months.

At Lanark, on the 26th ultimo, Mary, eldest daughter of Mr Ja Buchanan, of the Clydesdale Hotel,

At Leith, on the 29th ultimo, Catherine Schaw, wife of Bat Mathie, baker.

At Bowerhouses, on the 25th ult. Miss Murray.

At Selkirk, on the 1st instant, Mrs Dr Rutherford of Middle
At 10, George Street, on the 10th instant, Dr. Alexander Tormat

surgeon.

At Edinburgh, on the 10th curt, Master William Thornson H man of Mansfield, son of the late William Thomson Honyman, Lo dvocate.

Here, on the 17th instant, the Rev. Alexander Lang, reter of the

Circus Place School.

At Lanark, on the 20th inst., suddenly, and in the prime of the Mr
John Cree, third son of John Cree, Esq., Dean of Guild.
Near Thankerton, about midnight, between the 19th and 20th
on his return from Peebles, where he had been doing duty, Mr D
M'Lady, Supervisor of Excise, Lanark.

A more meritorious for
never bore his Majesty's commission, a more universally belove
tleman never mingled in society. He left home on Monday
in his usual state of health, which for some time had been delitate
was found on the road almost liteless. It is thought he had been ca
by a fatal shock of paralyis, while on horseback. He was a re
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Here, on the 13th instant, Thomas Learmonth, youngest son of t% Right Hon, the Lord Provost.

At her house, 36, Castle Street, Miss Eleanora Robertson, adest daughter of the deceased Patrick Robertson, Esq.

At her house, 29, South Frederick Street, on the 10th instant, s

M. Patton.

At his mother's house, 41, George Street, on the 13th inst., Chambers, bookseller, 48, Hanover Street, aged 25, much regrets all who knew him.

At 30, St James' Square, Edinburgh, on the 15th current, Mr Aitken, late editor of Constable's Miscellany, &c., much and v regretted.

At Easterhouse, Lanarkshire, on the 14th current, Mrs Mary Nữ wife of David Paton, Esq. architect, Edinburgh.

At Kirkcudbright, on the 6th curt, Mrs Alison Emith, relict aff John Baird, of the Customs there.

At Madeira, on the 9th ult, Mrs Maitland Margill of Rankell At his residence, Bedford Cottage, near Hants, John O'Kek dramatic author.

At Brighton, the Honourable Sir Charles Leslie, Bart, eki of the late sir Lucas Pepys and Elizabeth Jane, Countess of Rete

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